11-09-2016 (Wednesday)

Carly prays, and apologizes for not ever having made a habit of going to church… Sonny is religious, she notes, hoping (I suppose) that makes up for her lack of spiritual attention.  They are preparing for Morgan’s memorial service tomorrow.  Sonny shows up at the church.  They attempt to talk; Sonny is making obvious references to the fact that he is considering suicide.  Carly asks what he means when he says, “they’ll understand.”  He just rambles on about how he tried to make things right; Griffin comes in and tells Carly that he overheard Sonny canceling whatever he had set in motion – Carly says she knows that, but it was too late because Morgan’s dead.  Griffin and Sonny have a good conversation in the chapel; Sonny invites Griffin to come to Morgan’s service tomorrow and Griffin accepts the invitation.  As Sonny gets up and leaves, he asks Griffin to look after his family for him afterwards; Griffin looks a little concerned.  

Michael reads an old letter from Morgan to Nelle; he was in the academy, writing to Michael because he missed him.  He tells Nelle it was his fault Morgan was in the military academy; he says it was there he picked up his attitude.  He mentions how he hated being called Mikey, but now would love to hear it.  They talk about whether he will ever be able to forgive his dad again or not; he seems to make Nelle slightly uncomfortable.  Carly talks to Nelle, feeling somewhat badly about leaving Sonny to grieve alone; Nelle tries to comfort her.  Jax shows up; Nelle definitely looks nervous when she looks at Jax, especially when Carly tells him she lives there now.  

Alexis gets Danny out of the kitchen, thankfully unharmed, and they run outside to escape the smoke.  She tells him to count to 20 and if she isn’t back out, to run to the neighbor’s house; she goes in and sprays the extinguisher in the oven to put the cookies that are on fire (although it doesn’t show us this).  She comes back out as Danny counts number 18… he hugs her.  They are safe; she puts Danny to bed and Laura shows up.  Alexis tells Laura that although the document Valentin forced Nikolas to sign was not valid because it was not notarized, the second document he brought, claiming the change in Mikos’ Will, was valid.  Laura is upset, saying Nikolas died for nothing; she asks if she can have a glass of wine from the bottle she sees sitting on Alexis’ counter; Alexis declines joining her, saying one glass is her limit.  

Nathan prepares another dinner for Maxie to make up for the Claudette/Charlotte fiasco; no more interruptions, he says.  Someone knocks on the door.  It’s a certified letter from Claudette’s mom.  In French, which Nathan translates for Maxie, the mother writes that she hasn’t heard from Claudette in three days – she explains that Claudette calls her every day, always telling her if she ever doesn’t hear from her, she should contact Nathan.  Nathan says something must have happened to Claudette then.  Valentine happens to meet Nina at the bar…he is glad to see her, she, not so much, him.  She sees the picture of Charlotte (as a baby) on his phone; he tells her she is his daughter.  She doesn’t understand, until he explains the whole story; she tells him she thought for a while that Charlotte was her niece.  By the end of the conversation, he convinces her to sit back down for another drink; she is smiling with intrigue.  

Finn frantically tries to wash the bacteria off of Hayden’s hands, but becomes increasingly worried when he notices the paper cut on her fingertip.  He scrubs her hands and uses every disinfectant he can find, then gives her pills to fight the bacteria; Hayden tells him to quit fussing over her and clean up the mess.  While he is focused on the mess, Hayden slips out; at home, she gets very weak, starts stumbling and collapses to the floor.