12-14-2016 (Wednesday)

Maxie offers to throw a baby shower for Sam, who is suddenly in her THIRD trimester.  I thought last month, she was barely out of her first.  Sam tells Maxie she doesn’t need to do that; Maxie insists.  She picks up the envelope when it falls out of Sam’s purse and is extremely curious when Sam tells her it reveals whether their baby is a girl or a boy, but despite her pleading, Sam refuses to open it.  

As Carly and Sonny hang ornaments on the Christmas tree, Nelle stares at them with distain.  Carly gets a phone call; she asks them to hold on and questions Sonny about the recommendation he wrote for Nelle to get a job in Atlanta.  Nelle covers for Sonny, saying he just heard her saying she wanted to teach again one day as she was reading to Avery; he did it to be nice, to thank her for how much she’s helped them.  She tells Carly she isn’t taking the job though; she feels like she is home.  Carly thanks Sonny for doing that for Nelle, trying to help her; he tells her he would do anything for her.  

Ava brings Julian home from the hospital; Alexis shows up for her ‘caretaker’ duty.  Ava stupidly offers Julian a Bloody Mary to celebrate his release from the hospital… Alexis tells her that’s fine, if she is trying to put him into a coma.  She says she is going to give them some private time, and steps out into the hallway, glancing at the pitcher of Bloody Mary on her way out.  She reaches in her purse and pours another bottle of vodka into her coffee again, all the while, telling herself if she doesn’t do this, she will lose her law license.  As Alexis sips her spiked-coffee, she recalls driving over Julian, getting out and seeing him lying on the ground, bloody; she tells herself she just has to get through this.  Ava tells him to quit lying to himself, when he tells her Alexis did not do this on purpose; she begs him to tell her what is really going on.  He passes out from his medication, I guess.  Alexis considers dumping the rest of her drink out, but doesn’t; she goes back in.  Ava tells her, she knows the truth; Alexis acts like she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.  Ava says Julian told her; he wakes up.  He orders them to stop arguing, but they continue, slightly more civil; Alexis excuses herself to go to the pharmacy.  Ava reaches out and grabs her arm; several mini-bottles of vodka fall out of her purse onto the floor.   Ava realizes that Alexis was drunk when she ran her brother over; she threatens to report this to the cops.  

Dante and Lulu wait to hear the final results of the most recent DNA test being done on Charlotte.  Griffin comes back with the results, saying they have been double-checked by two different teams; both got the same result.  Charlotte is, indeed, Lulu’s daughter, fathered by the man who killed her brother!  Dante tells her that they need to get busy; they have to prepare for a custody battle.  He is taking this surprisingly well.  Lulu asks Dante if he is really okay with all this; their discussions are not hypothetical anymore – the embryo did survive, Charlotte is here; she asks him if he can really love her as a father, knowing Valentin was her biological dad.  He says he can love any child that is part of her. 

Carly then interrupts a conversation between Jason and Curtis, at a table in the Metro Court, where they are having coffee.  They are discussing the tools they found in the bag they dug out of the garbage; there were no fingerprints on any of the items, whatsoever.  Jason gets an idea; maybe they can get some information off the bag, itself.  The address of the restaurant is printed on the bottom of the bag.  When they check it out, however, they find a pawn shop where the restaurant used to be; they ask the owner if he knows the men they have pictures of.  He doesn’t notice anything familiar.  Jason shows him the tools; the shop owner doesn’t recognize those either… but he recognizes the bag.  He says he gives those out all the time; there were boxes of them in the back room when he took over the space.  He adds that he hasn’t sold tools like that in a long time though and apologizes for not being of more help.  Curtis asks to see a pocket watch, as Jason wanders off a bit; He sees something, and says it might be of help to them.  It is a tool kit with one missing tool; wire cutters, which fit perfectly into the empty slot.  He acts oblivious; Jason tells him these tools are link to the deaths of two of his friends and unless he wants to be linked to them, he should tell Jason everything he knows.