10-04-2016 (Tuesday)

Carly confronts Sonny as soon as he walks in the door; she asks him if was lying to her by omission.  He repeats his promise that if anything happened to Julian, it would not by his hands; she tells him there is a difference between speaking the literal truth and being honest.  Morgan comes home, looking angry; obviously, he lost big at the poker game again.  Carly asks why he smells like smoke; his answer is abrupt, “because guys smoke” as he insists, at the same time that he, himself, didn’t smoke.  He goes to take a shower; he comes down with an entirely different attitude, perceptibly off his meds.  Carly and Sonny confront him; he gets extremely angry that they don’t believe he’s been taking them, when he has and he leaves.  Carly is worried; Sonny says they need to give him some time to himself.  Carly calls Morgan’s doctor, who can’t tell her much because of doctor-patient confidentiality; but he assures her Morgan has been making all of his appointments.  They discuss how this is even harder for him than it was for Sonny to overcome; Sonny assures her Morgan will have a happy, healthy life.  

Morgan goes to see Kiki; gets pissed that she was on the phone leaving a message for Dillon, and then tells her that got kicked out of school already.  He gets pissed at her reaction, even though she remained very calm and was trying to be reassuring; he storms out, saying he doesn’t want her pity.  Michael stops by the Metro Court, where Nelle just scored tickets to a concert for Joslyn’s birthday; Michael says Jos will be thrilled.  He is obviously distraught; he tells them about Paul being the one who killed Sabrina.  They are stunned.  He determines that he is going to get justice for Sabrina; Nelle calls Sonny, as Michael leaves.  

Ava finds Scotty sitting at the bar, drinking tomato juice; he obviously has a hangover.  She is pissed; he was supposed to pick her up this morning to go to the Police Station, to announce his representation of Paul.  They make their way to the PD and visit Paul, now behind bars.  Scotty tells him he is his new attorney, bragging about getting Julian off; Paul says he doesn’t need him – he already has an attorney.  Scotty gets pissy and tells Paul to enjoy the prison cuisine; Ava tells Scott to go wait upstairs for her; Paul tells Ava he knows a bribe when he sees one and asks what she really wants.  She tells him she wants the flashdrive that recorded her killing Connie Falconari; he plays with her and she turns to begging, for her girls’ sake.  He calls her girls “convenient.”  Paul tells Ava that he is almost relieved being behind bars; he deserves to be punished or what he did.  He says it’s probably the best thing that could have happened, and might be the same for her too.  She begs him not to reveal her secret, but when Jordan comes in to tell him his arraignment has been scheduled; he says there is something he needs to tell the Commissioner.  

Claudette accidently meets up with Griffin at the diner – she is there to get their biscuits and gravy; he agrees they are the best and asks her to sit down.  He wants to hear about this man she was running from; the whole story.  So she tells them how she and Valentene met; and how intimidating he became, and about his threats to kill her and her daughter if she ever left him.  She talks about being on the run with her daughter, knowing the whole time that she was Nathan’s child; wishing she was Griffin’s… or so she says.  Nina calls Curtis to meet her again; she has a new idea about adopting a baby… she wants to adopt one from another country.  She asks Curtis to broker the deal; he refuses – she gets mad and tells him she doesn’t need him, because she is creative.  She leaves.  She goes to Nathan and Maxie’s apartment, where she catches them just about to head into the bedroom to have sex; Nathan just finished telling Maxie how much he loves her, because she has been so kind and understanding about this whole “Claudette thing.”  Nina insists they need to get started on their wedding planning; creative ideas are flowing through her head today.  

Curtis goes to the PD to see Jordan, who just got done berating Paul (angry that he was the killer, pretending to help); Curtis gives her a lottery ticket, reminding her of a tradition they had when they were partners; when won had a victory or win, the other bought them a lottery ticket.  They discuss their frustration with Paul being the killer and right under their noses the whole time…she tells him he did some good police work; he asks if she might him back on the force.  She reminds him what got him fired; he blew a case when they were on surveillance, and she turned him in.  He had hoped that she would regret that decision, but she tells him she doesn’t.  She tries to explain that she turned him in for his own good.  Maxie and Nathan fill Nina in on the Charlotte news; she seems stunned that Nathan has a child.  Then when the discussion of where this child might live comes up (and Maxie isn’t so keen on the thought of the girl coming to live with her and Nathan); Nina offers another solution.  She says, “I’ll take her.”