01-11-2017 (Wednesday)

Nathan and Maxie walk into a motel room in Canada; they discuss their visit with Claudette’s mother and how little help it was.  Nathan tells her that he wants to buy a house when they do get married; he wants room to expand their family.  She thinks that’s a wonderful idea.  They joke about how they are going to decorate it.  A knock comes on the motel door; it’s the local police.  He tells Nathan that after they got done talking with him, they reviewed an old apparent suicide case from back in December; turns out, fingerprints match… it was Claudette.  Nathan is shocked; he didn’t think Claudette would kill herself.  Now they discuss the fact that they need to go back and tell Charlotte that Claudette is dead.  The man steps outside of the motel room and calls Valentin; he tells him that he did exactly what he told him to do.  Valentin thanks him for his assistance.  

Nina and Valentin tell Charlotte that they got married; she doesn’t seem happy at first, but then says it sounds wonderful to have Nina living with them.  She gets up and hugs Nina; Valentin tells her that they forgot one thing at the wedding and since she wasn’t there with them, he wanted her to witness it.  He pulls out a set of wedding rings; he asks Charlotte if she would hand them to each of them.  He puts on Nina’s, saying “this is my promise.”  Nina puts his on, saying “with this ring, I thee wed.”  Charlotte says “yea!”  Maxie and Nathan lay down for the night; they decide that they will call Griffin and go tell Claudette’s mom in the morning.  

Kiki welcomes Franco home and tells him that she and Dillon have decided to get back together; she shows him the note she left for him, saying goodbye.  She explains how she and Dillon found each other on the bus and decided to come back together.  He eats some of their Chinese take-out leftovers and tells her he is happy for her; she deserves to be happy.  She agrees, saying she believes Morgan would have wanted that.  She then asks what’s up with him; he tells her about Tom Baker being murdered and him being the suspected murderer.  He than tells her that he thinks he knows who really did it; then he says, the more the thinks about it, he can’t tell the police what he knows.  Kiki is confused.  She asks why; she says the lady was probably defending herself from Tom so she probably won’t be arrested.  Franco says he can’t take that chance; he can’t turn this woman in, even if it means he loses Elizabeth.  He tells Kiki she cannot tell anyone this; she says she won’t.  Then she tells him that Elizabeth stopped by earlier today; she tells him he still has a good chance with Elizabeth and suggests maybe he change his mind.  

Jason and Sam discuss the case; he tells her the office was tossed before they got there.  He shows her the picture he found; she finds something familiar about the face as well… she thinks maybe it is Julian, as a kid.  They try to figure out why this woman would have a picture of Julian as a kid, or any connection to Julian.  Sam tells him that when she accused Ava, she couldn’t stop laughing.  Nelle asks Sonny what he means by “a new understanding.”  He asks if she changed her mind about not saying anything to Carly about them sleeping together; he questions why she said she was dating a married man.  She swears she didn’t… Carly misunderstood.  She says Carly was dropping hints about her and Michael; she told a little white lie to get her to back off.  He says it made Carly more curious.  Sonny chews Nelle out; she says none of this is her fault.  He says it never is; Jason and Sam walk in to talk to Sonny.  

Nelle excuses herself; Jason tells Sam what they discovered.  Sonny is surprised when he tells them a woman may be responsible for planting the bomb.  He asks if they have any ideas who it is; Jason says only that she may have a tie to Julian.  Sonny agrees the picture could be Julian as a kid, and thinks the woman could just be acting as a smoke-screen, to cover for Julian.  Sam excuses herself to go to the restroom because the baby is kicking her bladder; Jason asks Sonny why the conversation between he and Nelle looked so intense.  Sonny swears everything is fine; Jason says he can tell him if he’s in trouble.  Sonny tells Jason he just doesn’t think Nelle is as innocent as she appears to be.  

Julian tries to calm Alexis down; she sits down and tells him she is ready to talk about it.  He asks if she talked to anybody; she says “Jean, the owner” and Julian gets a look concern of his face.  He asks her if the guy told anybody; she says no… she doesn’t think the guy cared whether she killed Tom or not.  He covered for her, she says, that’s all.  He begins to press her for more information on anyone else that might have seen her; she begins to hallucinate.  Tom is standing behind Julian now; she talks to him.  Julian is concerned.  Tom Baker tells Alexis that everyone is going to find out what she did; he says he is the only one who knows the truth – who she really is.  Alexis sees a bloody knife in her hand now; she looks at Julian in confusion.  She tells him this is all her fault; he’s the reason she was in that bar.  If it wasn’t for him, she says, she never would have crossed paths with Tom Baker.  Julian says he will take care of her; she says he hurt her.  She says he’s not going to take care of her, and she starts panicing; she screams she needs air and she wants a drink.  He reaches out and she lets him hug her; she cries, “I need help.”