10-26-2016 (Wednesday)

Julian attempts to talk to Alexis but Alexis tells him Morgan is dead because of him; she adds, it should have been you.  She tells him everyone knows he is a murderer; he says he didn’t kill Morgan, and she says he just as well have.  Julian blames Carly and Sonny for lousy parenting, saying they are lucky he was the only casualty and calls Morgan a misbegotten runt; Carly comes in behind him at that moment, pulls him backward and punches right in the face.  Awesome.  She grabs a bottle and dares him to come after her, telling him everyone wanted him dead; she tells him to leave Port Charles and throws the bottle at him as he is walking out the door.  

Nelle finds Michael on the bridge; he says it’s a good place to think.  She heads on her way and he asks her to stay; he shows her an old keyring of Morgan’s, a penguin, telling her Morgan loved penguins because they are loyal.  The dad and mother stay together for a lifetime, sticking by each other no matter what… she asks Michael what Morgan would think about nobody sticking by his father.  Michael asks how badly off his father is.  She tells him is drinking all the time and he is slow to respond; he’s is only focused when he is with Avery.  Nelle tells Michael that she isn’t sure his father will make it, if he is left alone to grieve about Morgan.  

Jason shows up at the Floating Rib just in time to pull Sonny’s hands off of Scotty’s throat.  Scotty asks him if the dreams have started yet, mentioning that his daughter, Karen still comes to him; he tells Sonny he will dream about the child he murdered.  After Sonny leaves, Ava tells Scotty he is welcome, letting him know she was the one who texted Jason.  Scotty says he is going to call the police, but Ava talks him out of it, saying they’ll have to bring up everything about the evening and she is worried Sonny will begin to piece it all together – he visits to see Avery, being in Morgan’s room – and she worries he will then kill her.  At home, Sonny reviews the events of that night with Jason; he tells him never in a million years would he have ordered a car bomb (probably since that is how his first wife died) – he also brings up the fact that he had to contract the hit out, because the man he trusted (Jason) refused to do the job.  Jason asks if he is blaming him for Morgan’s death now.  Sonny tells him he doesn’t want to have this conversation right now; Jason insists on staying.  Then Sonny tells him, he couldn’t have eliminated Julian like ‘that’… and none of this would have happened.  He says he used to be someone he could count on, but he can’t count on him anymore.  Jason offers to find out what happened; Sonny says it won’t help, Carly’s gone, his sons are gone, he’s got nothing left.  Jason says he’s still there; Sonny says he lost him a long time ago.  Carly pours Alexis another drink, and pours one for herself (drinking it rather quickly); Alexis tries to console her.  

Curtis comes into the station to see Jordan; he asks if there is any progress on the hospital case and she tells him yes.  Then she tells him she wants him to stay out of her investigation against Sonny; he tells her he isn’t beholden to her, this is his job and she needs to stay out of it, adding he’s interfering with her investigation.  She asks if he’s beholden to TJ; she warns him when she goes after Sonny, she may have to go after him too.  Then all of the sudden, she realizes he isn’t working for Sonny; he’s working for Julian.  She starts screaming at him, but he cuts her off, letting her know that Julian has lost faith in the PCPD and that’s why he is in this investigation.  He tells her he will give her whatever information he finds when his client approves the release of the information; he says she probably hates him because he’s better than her whole department and continues egging her on.  He says he thinks she’s threatened by him; she laughs, she gets a phone call, and then she tells him that he needs to go.  

Maxie bursts into Charlotte’s room, asking where she is; Griffin tells her that she knocked him out and left.  He says they figured out that Maxie had been kidnapped and Anna says she must have figured she was next.  They discuss Valentene, figuring he is the one who paid the man who grabbed Maxie; Anna says she is afraid this may just be the beginning of trouble for Claudette and Charlotte.  Nathan says he will make sure they are okay, and Griffin tells him he doesn’t have to… they are his responsibility.  Nathan reminds him that it is his job to protect and serve, and that’s what he is going to do, adding that even though she isn’t his daughter, that little girl is innocent in all this.  They go have lunch, but Maxie is having a hard time eating; she is worried about Charlotte, and, strangely, about Claudette – she says that guy is going to go after Claudette, they way he went after her, and even though she doesn’t like her, she doesn’t want her harmed.  That’s nice.

Michael tells Nelle he’s not sure he can ever forgive his father; Nelle says he doesn’t have to forgive him, he just needs to be there for him.  Then she says she hopes she didn’t overstep; Michael asks her if maybe she could go stay at the house for the night to look after Avery, until he make other arrangements for her.  Sonny tells Jason he’s been distant since he got his memory back, it’s not the same and he’s on his own now; Jason tells him he is still there, but Sonny tells him he doesn’t want him there, saying every time he looks at him he just remembers what he’s lost.  He tells him to get out of there, and Jason goes.  Nathan gets news that Claudette’s plane landed, but she wasn’t on it.  Ava gets a phone call from Nikolas?  Michael goes to see his mother, thanks to a phone call from Alexis.  Jason comes home to find Curtis snooping around, and Sonny takes a stroll on the bridge as he recalls Morgan storming out of the house, telling Carly he is dead, her anger; he pulls out a pistol and apologizes to Morgan.