01-25-2017 (Wednesday)

The waitresses run to Jason, one tells the other to call 911; Tracy comes into the dining room.  She manages to wake Jason up, sort of; she asks how long he’s been sick.  He says he’s not; she tells him he is burning up.  She says she is going to call Sam but he tells her not to call.  They get him to the hospital and get his fever down; when he really wakes up, he finds Julian sitting by his bed.  Julian tells him that this person he and Curtis are investigating is very dangerous and if he keeps it up, Sam and her unborn child might be at risk.  He demands to know why this person wants Sonny dead.  Julian won’t tell Jason who it is; he just says that all of their lives, including his, may depend upon Jason doing the right thing.  

Curtis and Jordan move to the bed; they continue kissing and get in position to have sex.  Jordan puts a halt to things though; she says one minute they are playing cards and the next they are going at it for no reason.  He says there is a reason and she knows it; he brings up a moment between them in the interrogation room.  She admits that she felt something for him that day.  She also says it doesn’t matter because she is with Andre; Curtis mocks her relationship with Andre.  She tells him he needs to get over himself.  They get into an argument; she claims her attraction to him is only physical, but it means nothing going forward.  She kicks him out of her room all bitchy-like now, and tells him that they are there on business; he wishes her luck in her relationship with Andre and leaves.  

Sam asks Elizabeth what’s going on; she says she is willing to help.  Liz questions what has changed; she figures out that Sam talked to her mom – she asks what her mom said.  Sam doesn’t tell her; she simply asks if Elizabeth wants her help or not.  Liz begs her to please keep an open mind about Franco during this investigation; Sam brings up the ‘fake rape video’ Franco made Jason watch.  Liz says she feels the same way about Tom Baker; they both agree they just want to get to the truth here, so they sit down to talk.  Franco is struggling to crawl across the floor to shove a note under the door; he is trying to stay warm using bubble wrap?  He tries to open some more boxes, and gets frustrated when he just finds Tupperware and trophies.  He passes out. 

Kiki goes to talk to Dillon.  She shows him Franco’s phone, which is now out of the bag and kind of wrapped in the bloody handkerchief; she says she needs to get the data off of it.  He asks how long it was in the water; she says she doesn’t know.  He doesn’t make her any promises but tells her he will take a shot.  They go to a storage unit, to use a dehydration machine.  This unit happens to be directly across from the unit that Franco is locked in – he groans at one point, and they hear it, but they don’t hear any other sound so they think nothing of it.  They find his note on the ground, but only because they were looking for something to write instructions on for rebooting the phone once they get it dried out.  Liz calls and they tell her they will be right there; Franco wakes up, trying to make more noise, but just a little too late.  They are gone.  He starts looking through boxes again and finds another trophy; this one, he recognizes.  But from where? 

Alexis insists that Julian be honest with her; she asks how he “took care of the situation” with Tom Baker and what happened to Franco.  She assumes some scenarios and then asks him again; he says he doesn’t know where Franco is.  She questions how she can tell he is telling the truth; he says she can’t.  Alexis presses Julian for an answer; he tells her that she is right to suspect that he did something to Franco, but still denies having done anything to him.  He tells her that he has always put her welfare first, despite how it may have seemed and his conscience is clear, even though he can’t prove it to her.  He says he has to go take care of something and asks her not to go get a drink; she gets mad and says she’s not going to drink.  He tells her not to inquire too much about Franco because her inquiries may require an explanation; he tells her again they will fix this.  Diane brings over paperwork for Alexis’ approval; she also brings a bottle of wine for celebration once she gets reinstated to the bar.  Alexis tells her she really doesn’t think she will ever practice law again; Diane gives her a pep talk, gets up to go present her case and says she will be back to pop that bottle open with her.  Alexis stares at the bottle, longingly.  After Diane leaves, Alexis puts the bottle away in the cabinet; she immediately turns around and gets it back out and starts opening it.