11-17-2016 (Thursday)

Jax comes back to the bar the next morning, after realizing he forgot his credit card.  The bartender tells him that he was sorry to see he wasn’t the one to ‘seal the deal’ with his lady-friend last night… he tells him someone else got lucky instead.  Jax shows him a picture on his phone and the bartender says that was her; he tells him he heard them mention something about a motel across the street.  Alexis wakes up, half naked, on a bed she doesn’t recognize; the shower is running in the bathroom… and the carpet in front of the bathroom door is wet.  Alexis has flashbacks of the evening (sitting at the table with this man, drinking one drink after another, laughing, him complimenting her, her falling for it); she quickly starts getting dressed to sneak out, but then she decides she needs to go to the bathroom, I guess;.  She asks the man how long he’s going to be in there and gets no response, which is when she steps onto the wet carpet – she asks if he’s alright and decides to open the door when he still doesn’t answer.  Oddly, no one is in there.  She wonders what the hell happened.  She thinks again; she remembers the man bringing up Franco – she laughed and more or less tells the guy she knows Franco.  When he asks if she has anything to do with him, she laughs again and doesn’t give him a straight answer – he freaks and decides not to mess with her; she didn’t sleep with him.  So what?  

There comes a knock at the door.  It’s the motel manager; he’s pissed she left the water on all night (it leaked somewhere) and he goes into the bathroom ro check… Jax shows up at the door.  He tells her he didn’t buy her excuse of wanting to stay to get some work and phone calls done; she just wanted to be alone to “tie one on.”  He tells her he heard she met someone too, to which she smirks; the manager comes out complaining about how she flooded the whole damn bathroom and will have to pay for it.  Jax pulls out his phone to call the girls; Alexis cannot believe he is going to “tattle” on her.  She gets angry and tells him she doesn’t need an intervention, nor does she need his judgment.  So she had too much to drink last night, and talked to a stranger, declaring she did not have a one-nighter, however, making the point that none of it is his business.  He thinks that her family should know about it, he tells her, because he sees a bigger problem here.  To persuade him to drop it, she says maybe Joslyn’s family should know about his little investment in that kidney; he is stunned, says he told her that in confidence, and she retaliates with the fact that she needs likewise confidence; she asks if he is going to call her daughters, or if she is going to call Carly.  Jax agrees not to call the girls, but begs Alexis to pull herself together for everyone that loves her.  

Carly tells Nelle that she went to see Sonny last night; Michael comes in and asks Nelle if she has been studying… they fill Carly in on their Chess game and upcoming rematch.  Carly says she needs to talk to Michael and they sit down at a table; she tells him she is glad to see that he and Nelle are becoming friends.  They discuss the friendship and the possibility that it always could become more.  Meanwhile, Nelle is behind the bar, getting into Carly’s purse; she finds a bundle of money and sticks it in her purse, just as Bobbi walks up and asks if she found anything interesting.  Haha… it’s the cash from last night’s bar receipts; Carly gave her specific instructions to take it and deposit it for her.  Bobbi is still suspicious of her.  

Michael tells Nelle he notices a change from when she first came there (not nearly as defensive, he insinuates), as they laugh about Bobbi’s suspicion.  Carly asks Bobbi what it is she doesn’t like about Nelle; she can’t tell her, because she doesn’t know, but she insists there is something about her she doesn’t trust.  Then she tells Carly Monica wants her to come back to work at GH, wanting some familiar faces there after re-opening.  As Nelle gets on the elevator to go make the deposit, she says to herself (smiling), “that went well.”  

Anna and Griffin prepare to go to court; Valentin comes into the diner where they are having lunch with Charlotte.  He takes Charlotte aside and talks to her, then tells her goodbye in French along with an un-translated message, and tells Griffin and Anna he will see them in court.  They meet in a mediation room, where a judge enters… she welcomes Commissioner Devane, and recognizes the other two parties, then explains that her decision will be binding and they proceed.  Anna shows that they do not dispute Mr. Cassidine’s parentage, only his fitness; she begins to present her case.  The judge asks where the mother is, and Anna tells her she boarded a plane for Calgary, but when the plane landed, she was not on it; everyone looks at Valentin.  Anna continues; she provides the entire history of Valentin’s actions in the past year (the judge is definitely troubled); Valentin then presents his evidence, his dismissal of charges from the Greek court, Affidavits about what a liar Claudette is, etc.  The judge says she needs to hear from the child herself at the juncture; she tells Anna her testimony is essential. 

Elizabeth is not happy with Franco; she reminds him that what he did was trespassing.  When Franco tells her that he got the message across and Tom Baker basically begged for his life, she gets even more upset.  She tells Franco she didn’t want him to do that.  He promises never to lie to her again, declaring his love for her; she hugs him and tells him they are good.  He asks her out to dinner; she tells him she has to go get donuts.  On her way to the diner, she runs into Tom Baker.