10-18-2016 (Tuesday)

Claudette comes to visit with Charlotte, just as Nathan and Maxie are getting ready to get intimate; he has a nice, romantic dinner cooking for Maxie.  Claudette tells them that she has been thinking they need to get to know Charlotte; she asks Nathan how he would like to watch their daughter tonight.  Feeling forced into it, Maxie and Nathan agree.  The smoke alarm goes off; Nathan’s dinner is burning.  Maxie seems a little miffed about the “accidental babysitting” that interrupted ‘dinner’; Nathan is a little miffed when he sees an envelope from the DNA Testing Center.  

Anna is angrily working out with Griffin; he tells her she needs to pull it back a bit.  She tells him that she is upset because she didn’t do enough to keep Julian off the streets; she tells Griffin that Morgan is dead, caught in a hit meant for Julian.  She feels responsible.  She goes on to tell him that she has just made mistake, after mistake; he tells her there is plenty of blame to go around.  He gets up and starts punching the bag, bare-fisted.  Tracy talks to Finn about the possibility of purchasing General Hospital herself; Finn is coughing.  Tracy asks how he is; Hayden appears and says she was wondering the same thing.  

Tracy agrees to give them a minute; Finn tells Hayden his ‘breakthrough’ was a bust – the trial was failure.  She questions where he is working now that the hospital lab is closed; he says his hotel room is the closest thing he has to a lab right now.  She tells him running clinical trials on himself is risky; he tells her he has no other choice.  She asks him to be careful, just as a young man named Evan comes in to have a drink with her; he seems like a rich douche, and Finn seems to agree.  Hayden is trying to get a medical funding grant for Finn; the ass says he will talk to his father about it, but he want's Hayden to sleep with him in return.  Hayden throws a cup of water in his face.  Tracy fills Finn in on the board’s decision to sell the hospital for a condo conversion; then tells him they will find another way.  Anna meets Andre at the bar; she tells him that she has a job offer, in Jeniva.  He asks if she is considering taking it.  Anna confesses that she doesn’t really feel like she has a real purpose, here, anymore – but she doesn’t really want a life somewhere else that isn’t really hers.  He asks her why there isn’t a third option; he says the Anna he knows was resourceful enough to come up with something else.  Anna calls the bureau and tells them that she will come back to work for them, but not in that position – she has something else in mind.  

Claudette finds Griffin still at the gym; she tells him that she is planning on leaving Charlotte with Nathan.  She says she will be safe that way; she touches his chest, and tells him that she knows she is not a good person – she was only good when she was with him.  He says he can’t save her soul; he’s not sure he can save anyone anymore.  She says, “then let me save yours” and they kiss.  Okay.  Franco tells Elizabeth that he may have a way to make sure that GH reopens so she won’t have to move away.  Liz admits that this makes her a little nervous; Franco assures her she doesn’t need to be nervous – but he says he has to go do something.  He tells her to wait at the table where they are having drinks (at the Metro Court); she says she will meet him at Kelly’s in a little while, instead.  Liz runs into Laura on the way, and asks how Spencer is doing; Laura says he is doing well (better than her).  Liz then asks how Dante and Lulu and dealing with Morgan’s death; Laura says they are having a hard time with it.  Laura tells Elizabeth that she has decided to sell Wyndemere; then they talk about Hayden.  

Franco goes to see his mother again; he accuses her of having something to do with the murder attempts on Bobbi and Lucas.  After some denial, she finally caves and admits that she tried to inject Bobbi, but then Lucas came in and she injected him instead.  She tells him that she cannot come clean, though…not for Elizabeth.  He leaves.  Laura asks Liz about Franco, and she confesses her feelings.  Just as Franco rounds the corner, Laura asks Elizabeth if she is actually ‘in love’ with him; before she answers, Laura’s phone goes off.  He says he has the answer and shows her a recording on his phone; his mother’s confession.  Nathan crumples the envelope up and throws it, telling Maxie it was not right of her to do a test without telling him; he says he doesn’t want to know this way – he will do a test in his own time.  Maxie picks up the envelope, saying she is not going to let it go; she opens it.  This test says Nathan is NOT Charlotte’s father.