10-19-2016 (Wednesday)

Sonny sits on the floor, in a daze; a little boy runs by, laughing – he laughs and says, “come find me daddy.”  Sonny wakes up with a start; Nell offers him a glass of water.  She asks if he’s okay; she shares a story of losing a friend to a drunk driver (feeling responsible because she chose to stay at the party and her friend went home with someone else, who had been drinking).  Sonny appreciates the effort to connect; he shares his ‘dream’ with her and thanks her for being there.  She reminds him that there are a lot of other people that care about him and says she is sorry for his loss.  Griffin pulls away from Claudette; he tells her he can’t do this.  She tells him to quit fighting his feelings; she asks him to run away with her.  He refuses, saying he is devoted to his calling.  

Tracy questions Finn’s sanity; she says even care from the hacks at Mercy Hospital is better than nothing.  He tells her he will be fine.  Hayden leaves with Evan, having changed her mind about being alone with him after seeing Finn in such bad shape; Finn wonders where she is going with the man.  Hayden and Evan go to his hotel room; she asks him for a drink first, when he starts groping her.  She insists he join her; he gulps a mini bottle – she barely sips on hers.  Tracy makes Finn think about whether he wants to go chasing after Hayden or not; she leaves him to decide.  Finn goes a looks at the receipt on the table to get the room number; 602… he listens, and then bursts through the door.  He sees Hayden leaning over Even, half undressed on the floor; she says she’s glad he came.  She asks Finn to help her get the man on the bed, so he thinks they “did the deed” (so he won’t cancel the check) as she hands the ‘donation’ to Finn.  Although Finn is repulsed by the idea, he does help her get him on the bed – and she “sets the stage”, by putting a condom on the unconscious man.  Finn questions why she would go to such great lengths for him; Hayden wants him to tell her why he came up there.  She asks why it matters to him; then answers the question for him, before passing out in his arms.  

Nathan still questions the test; Maxie gets upset that he won’t accept this result, since she knows for a fact it was Charlotte’s DNA.  Nathan wonders who’s lock of hair Claudette had given them originally; his mother (Olbrecht) talks to Ava at the bar – that’s probably a hint.  Olbrecht is talking about Morgan, and the fact that his treatment obviously wasn’t working properly; Ava has flashbacks again, of switching out his medication.   Olbrecht says that the bomb may have taken his life, but it was the improper treatment that killed him.  Carly should sue for access to Morgan’s medical records, she says; if they find neglect on the doctor’s part, she adds, Sonny will make sure he pays.  Ava gets nervous; she makes a call to someone, telling them where her Will is, “just in case”… she has to go do something, she says, and there’s a chance she may not come out of it alive.  She goes to Sonny’s; she tells him she is sorry about Morgan.  

Sonny tells Ava he doesn’t want her pity; she offers to take Avery for the time being, which offer Sonny refuses.  She then asks where Carly is; Sonny says it’s none of her business.  Ava asks if Carly left him; she says he can’t make it through this without her – for Avery’s sake, she says, he needs to hold onto Carly.  She begs him to do whatever he can to get her back, adding it’s what Morgan would have wanted.  

Griffin questions why she would want to leave her daughter; she says she isn’t safe with her – but she is with her father.  Just at that moment, Nathan walks in to the gym; he says, “only I’m not her father, am I?”  He suggests Griffin is.  Nathan tells Claudette he figured out that the hair was his mother’s (a scene plays, as Claudette’s memory, of taking hair from his mother’s brush); she admits that it’s true, and says she is sorry.  She tells Griffin he is Charlotte’s father.  Nathan asks Claudette why… why make him think the girl was his.  She says she wanted him to protect Charlotte, she thought it was best; she insists she is sorry, then asks Griffin if he wants to go meet his child.  Maxie calls Olbrecht to come baby-sit, telling her that Nathan had to go somewhere, and now she does to.  She tells her not to get too attached to that darling little girl, and let’s her know that she is not Nathan’s daughter – Claudette lied, again.  Olbrecht says she will make Claudette regret the day she was born; Maxie says that sounds great, but she needs her to wait, with Charlotte, until she gets back.  Maxie does to Claudette’s hotel room, and lets herself in; unfortunately, somebody else is there.  A man, dressed in leather, grabs her.