08-30-2016 (Tuesday)

When another patient dies, as Andre is counseling them, the hospital is put back on high alert; Andre is momentarily a suspect.  Maxie is so upset over Nathan getting stranded with Claudette, and his inability to be able to tell her that he has absolutely no feelings for Claudette and his reaction to seeing Griffin and Claudette kissing, she has moved back in with Felicia and Mac; as she pulls all of her pictures off of her ‘dream board’, getting ready to burn them, Felicia tells her to stop.  She tells her mom she cannot get over the way Nathan went after Griffin; it was obvious that he is still in love with her.  Felicia tells her she has a hold on Nathan; when Maxie replies, “so does Claudette,” Felicia says, “then break it.”  Nathan talks to his sister; she tells him, she understands how Maxie feels, even though he didn’t “do the act.”  She tells him he has do something to convince Maxie that he is through with Claudette for good; he goes to meet Maxie, and brings his old wedding ring, making the grand gesture of throwing it out the door into the darkness.  It works; Maxie tells him that white gold ring didn’t suit him anyways; he needs a ‘titanium’ one.  The wedding is back on.  

Ava remembers being in bed with Paul as he put his shirt back on; she made note of the cufflinks.  The scene flashes back to the stairwell; as the hospital lights go out, for unknown reasons, Liz drops her keys, bends down to pick them up, and Paul shoves her down the staircase.  As Hayden tries to leave the hospital, finding the elevator out of order, and taking the staircase, she happens upon Elizabeth.  She just stands there, looking down at her; Franco comes looking for Elizabeth.  Hayden calls out to him, still just standing on the stairs.  Liz wakes up for a few seconds and then passes out again; Franco tells Hayden to go get help.  She runs into Paul in the hallway; he pretends to be surprised to hear that Liz is hurt.  Hayden gets back to Monica and Finn, who just found out why the power went out (the box has been tampered with; wires pulled out), and tells them Elizabeth is hurt and needs help.  Monica can’t find Monroe; she calls for an emergency response team.  

Claudette catches Griffin in the locker room, coming out of the shower; she holds his underwear hostage to tease him.  She tells him they have to talk about the way he kissed her; she says it proved that she isn’t far from his thoughts… that he still loves her.  He tells her when he looks at her, all he feels is the bullet tearing through his flesh and the scar it left behind.  As Elizabeth is tended to by the doctors, Paul tells Hayden he needs to talk to her; meanwhile Ava is searching through his room, looking for the cufflink.  She finds a small medicine bag behind the nightstand; it has syringes and vials of Derisifol inside of it.  As Maxie and Nina talk in front of Perks, they each get a text message giving them the good news; they hug, saying they are going to be related.  As Monica looks for another member of the staff, Paul stalks her from behind, with a syringe in hand.