12-28-2016 (Wednesday)

Maxie practices her wedding vows; she sneezes.  Lulu arrives with supplies; lotion-soft tissues and cold medicine.  Maxie says she’s a god-send; Lulu says nothing will stop her from getting married today.  Maxie sneezes again.  Felicia suggests maybe they should postpone the wedding date, but Maxie insists they have to get married on this date.  Robin steps in the doorway and says it’s a good thing there’s a doctor in the house; everyone is glad to see her, of course.  Felicia asks Maxie if she is nervous about marrying Nathan; she says not in the slightest.  She has never been so sure about anything in her life.  Dante finds Nathan sitting on the couch; he asks if he’s okay.  Nathan says he just hasn’t been sleeping very well; he says it must have caught up with him.  Dante sits down by him; Nathan says he has this sense that something big, something bad is going to happen to keep him and Maxie from getting married today.  Max shows up and offers a toast; he tells Nathan that it is an honor to welcome him into their family.  Dante and Nathan lose the wedding rings; they are on their hands and knees looking all over the floor for them.  Thankfully, they find them.  

Ava comes back to town from seeing her mother; she invites Kiki to spend New Year’s Eve with her.  Kiki says she already has plans.  She hugs her mother and says she loves her; Ava says it sounds like she’s never going to see her again.  They laugh; Ava leaves.  Kiki calls someone to confirm that she is “ready to go.  ”Dillon tells his mom that he is going to Los Angeles today; feeling out jobs, he says.  He wants to get back to directing; she asks about his current job.  He says he didn’t go to school to be a fashion photographer; he has stories he wants to tell.  Tracy doesn’t buy it; she says he is just trying to avoid Kiki Jerome.  She guesses he will be back soon and leaves; he says, “bye.”  He boards a bus to Los Angeles to find Kiki on it; the seat next to her is the only empty one.  He sits down and apologizes to her; he says he can get off at the next stop so he’s not bothering her.  She says he really doesn’t have to; it’s a good thing too because the driver announces that the first stop is five hours away.  

Hayden wakes up; she calls out to Finn, saying, “you’re still here” and he smiles, and says, “so are you.”  She congratulates him on developing the cure; she asks if he took a dose too… if he is also cured.  He evades the question; she tells him his dead wife would be very proud.  Tracy comes in and tells Finn he is a “little ripe.”  He says he’ll go take a shower; he steps out into the hallway and starts sweating and breathing heavy.  He has obviously not gotten his dose of the medicine made yet.  He comes back from showering, feeling much better; Tracy tells him that she and Monica have talked and they agree he is an asset to the hospital.  He has his job back.  Finn and Hayden kiss; she says she thinks 2017 is going to be a good year.

Nelle holds that silver rattle, asking, “are you ever sorry Caroline?”  Then she says, “you will be.”  Carly knocks on the door; Nelle puts the rattle back and puts the box away.  It’s Carly.  Carly says she wants to talk to Nelle about Sonny; Nelle looks a little nervous.  She tells her that she knew the second she saw the gloves that they were from her… Sonny always gets her jewelry, except the one time he got her a car.  Nelle’s timer goes off; she says it’s just time to take her blood pressure medication – a side effect of having only one kidney.  Carly tells her again how grateful they are to her and hugs her goodbye.  She heads back to Sonny’s, where Michael admits to his dad that he kind of likes Nelle; he is thinking about asking her about for New Years.  Bobbie overhears and offers her opinion of Nelle and Michael dating; after Michael leaves, she asks Sonny if he has “misgivings” about Nelle.  He denies having any problem with Nelle.  

Carly arrives; she and Sonny sit down and the couch and start reminiscing about that being the last place they saw Morgan alive… they talk about all the “what ifs” and then Sonny reassures Carly that they will make sure Avery remembers him and how special he was to all of them.  They snuggle; Bobbie comes back in, saying she hates to interrupt.  She brings in tissues and tells them that she needs to go; they hug goodbye.  When she steps out of the door, Bobbie looks in her hand; she has two pills in it.  Carly tells Sonny that she needs to go; Sonny says, first, he did get her a little something – it just arrived yesterday.  It’s a pressed flower, from the church where they first got married, framed in glass.  They both admit that they have no regrets.  Nelle looks at the rattle again and wonders if Carly would even remember it; she says she probably just tossed it side, like so many other things in her life.  

Nina tells Lulu that she is bringing Valentin as her guess to the wedding tonight; Lulu gets extremely upset and tells her to uninvited him.  She gets really pissed off when Nina brings up Charlotte and says Lulu doesn’t deserve her; Lulu tells Nina that her daughter is not some consolation prize for the fact that Nina can’t have a daughter.  Maxie and Robin break up the argument and take Nina away, telling Lulu she is on Maid of Honor duty.; it's her job to keep Maxie calm.  She goes back in to find that Maxie has taken a cold pill and it has knocked her completely out; she won’t wake up.