06-16-2017 (Friday) Another Soldier of Helena

Laura tells Lulu she thinks she and Spencer need to move out; she says Charlotte needs her own room.  Lulu tells her  mom she is fine right where she is; Spencer comes in the door and complains this living arrangement needs to change.  Lulu asks what Rocco did; Spencer says Rocco is fine… it’s “her.”  They ask Dante what happened on their walk; he says really nothing happened.  Spencer continues with the attitude; Laura asks him what is up.  He reminds her that Charlotte and her father took his house, are riding his horses, etc.; Laura tells him that’s enough.  He says it, indeed, is; he asks if she has already forgotten about his father.  Kevin shows up and is happy to see Laura there; he asks her if she wants to go with him since he now has the afternoon free.  Spencer says he wants to go; everyone else agrees he should.

They take a walk in the park; he sees a pretzel cart and asks for one.  Laura tells him he can have one, but makes him promise to apologize to Charlotte when he gets home.  He says he will, but he won’t enjoy it; duly noted, Laura acknowledges.  She and Kevin sit down on the bench; she tells him she knows that she has been spoiling him, adding his whole family has done it all of his life.  She says she feels bad about intruding on her daughter, and tells Kevin it’s time she and Spencer get a place of their own; he suggests his place.  She says she doesn’t want him to feel like he has to rescue her; he says if that’s what it seems like, he is doing something wrong.  He tells her that he wants to wake up next to her every morning; she argues that he might get annoyed by her and asks if he isn’t scared… he says no.  He tells her his feelings for her are real and permanent, threatening to dig out his Santa suit to convince her; she laughs.

Amy is upset that Nathan was listening on her conversation; he says he just wants to help.  She finally agrees to confide in Nathan and tells him about how great her older brothers was (is, she says)… She tells him he was her “Man Landers,” always offering his advice when she had troubles; she tells him after he got home from Afghanistan, things changed.  She tells Nathan, her mom had to put him in a group home eventually because they couldn’t take care of him anymore.  She tells Nathan she started the column as a “hobby” – then her mom died – she reveals that her dad was never in the picture, and it was up to her then to pay the bills to keep Chet taken care of.  She says she decided to monazite her blog and then people started asking questions and wanting to know what Man Landers looked like; she admits that taking his picture and posting it online was an impulse and apologizes again.  She gets up to leave and drops her folder; Nathan is shocked to see all of Chet’s medical bills.  She makes Nathan promise not to say anything to anybody about all of this; he promises.  Even Maxi, he says; she tells him goodbye and starts to walk away, but he tells her to wait.  He asks what he needs to wear for the interview; she says she didn’t confide in him to guilt him into doing it… he tells her he knows, adding friends help each other and that’s what they are – friends.  She hugs him.

Jake asks his mom what she is still worried about; she tries to cover, claiming everything is fine.  Jason pushes the man off of him and down to the floor; he asks, since Helena is dead, who the hell he is working for.  Hayden comes running into the exam room, darts through and into the bathroom; she comes out and apologizes for them having to hear that.  Liz tells Jake to go play with her phone; Hayden confesses that she is pregnant.  Sam talks to Kevin about her concerns; she says she can’t wrap her head around the two years of Jason’s life that are just missing.  The man gets the upper hand on Jason, and pins him down by the throat; he tells her that he used to treat Jason “way back when, after his car accident” and says he is the most resistant patient he ever had.  He says Jason wanted to remain in control; they discuss how Helena controlling him went against his very nature.  Jason manages to get his legs up around the man’s throat, pulling him off; the man tells him he had no choice but to work for Helena…”any more than you did when you were working for her.”

As Jason holds him over the edge of the balcony, the police arrive; they almost arrest Jason too, but Sam explains that he was defending them.  The police officer asks Jason to come down the station and give a statement; Jason tells Liz that he doesn’t believe Helena can hurt them again.  Liz asks Hayden if she will watch Jake for a minute; she says sure and takes him to the vending machine.  Jason tells Elizabeth that Costa is in custody now; she asks if they are sure he isn’t answering to anyone else.  Jason tells her that he says he wasn’t and he believes him; he says whatever Helena did to him, she did to this guy also.  He was just carrying out orders; as they talk, Sam looks over at Jason and sees blood all over his forehead.  Jason notices the strange look on Sam’s face and walks over the stairs where she is sitting and asks if she is alright; she tells him, “no, I don’t think I am.”