12-09-2016 (Friday)

Jason is upset with Curtis, until he sees the additional footage from the drug store across the street.  They see a supposedly homeless man disappear behind the van and then reappear with a plastic bag, which he throws away; they decide they need to find this man and that bag.  They go dumpster-diving and after some digging and a rat frightening Curtis, they find what appears to be the bag in the video.  Ava asks if Julian has picked out a nurse yet; he tells her he has someone in mind.  Alexis wonders how she is going to get away with complying with Julian’s demand to be his caretaker and not letting her daughters know she is even talking to him; she pours another small bottle of vodka into her morning cup of coffee.  

As Julian is getting ready to tell Ava who he has chosen, Alexis walks in the door – she is smiling discretely.  She takes the confidentiality forms to Griffin and tells him she needs to know everything about his needed care through recovery.  He asks her how she could possibly be willing to take care of the man who tried to kill her.  She asks if he is still a priest and can keep a confidence.  Ava asks her brother why he would possibly want Alexis to take care of him; then she figures it all out… she realizes that Alexis must have been the one who did this to him and he is blackmailing her into caring for him.  Alexis tells Griffin she is hoping she can keep this from her girls because she’s not sure how to explain it to them.  She makes up a story about deciding to forgive Julian; Griffin doesn’t quite buy it.  

The obstetrician tells Valentin that the file clearly shows that Claudette was not this child’s mother; Valentin says he will have to clean this up fast.   The doctor lets the girls know that all they have to do is wait patiently and they can avoid dealing with the legal system – he locks the door again.  Maxie says they have to start making weapons.  He comes back in to get them and tells them they are free to leave the exam room, instructing them to put the instruments down.  He says they won’t be needing them; they walk out to find Valentin standing there.  Lulu slaps him across the face.  

He admits to being less than forthcoming, and offers to tell her something she really should know.  But just then Dante and Nathan barge in the door; Valentin says they all need to know this… he admits that he and Lulu are Charlotte’s parents.  Nelle comes over to Sonny’s to get her necklace; he asks her to sit down.  He tells her that he has gotten her a better job, with better pay, back in her home town again – she gets mad at him, and tells him that she doesn’t want to go back there.  She says she has no family, no one to go back to; she has a built a life here and come to care about people here and she does not want to leave.  She begs him not to send her away.  He agrees and they promise not to say anything to Carly about their secret; she records this conversation too.  Jason comes over to tell Sonny what he found out, and is surprised to see Nelle there; he asks Sonny what’s going on.