07-11-2017 (Tuesday) Here's the Deal

Nathan goes to see his mother, who is now in jail; she demands he let her out.  He says he can’t, asking why she didn’t call him.  She claims she is a victim, extenuating circumstances, she says; he says he will see what he can do for her, after he goes over the details of the case.  Elizabeth asks Hayden if it is true that Olbrecht was arrested for tampering with Finn’s drug test; Hayden says she isn’t at liberty to say but shakes her head yes.  Liz says Franco will be bummed; he is friends with Olbrecht.  She says he is in  Manhattan, trying to clear up his assets being frozen pending the lawsuit; he’ s hoping to reclaim a large catalogue of his work and some large bank accounts.  He says Olbrecht has actually been a good friend to him.  They sit down at a table together; Hayden feels a sharp, but dull, pain.  Liz takes her to the hospital.  It turns out to be gas and Hayden is very embarrassed by the whole episode.  Finn comes into the station to see Nathan; Nathan says he wants to discuss the case against his mother.  Finn agrees to “an alternative solution.”  He says she won’t like it though; Nathan says anything is better than prison.  He takes Finn to see his mother; Finn tells her the first condition is that she resign from General Hospital immediately.  He says she also has to publicly admit that she tampered with the records; he says everyone has to know that he was clean, because he doesn’t want his record to reflect badly on the hospital.

Dante tells Lulu that Valentin is out of prison; she asks how, and why.  He says he doesn’t know.  Nina wakes up and hugs him.  She asks what he is doing there.  Anna and Andre run into each other at the Floating Rib; she smiles, and says, “about last night.”  He says, “yes, about that… how do you feel?”  She smiles.  He says he’s glad they stopped; she awkwardly agrees, adding that she wants them to be friends still.  She gets a call from Dante, who tells her about Valentin.  He says an agent took him and threw him in a van, said he thought he was going to be shot; he was told by WSB superiors that they were dropping the charges and he was free to go.  He tells her he is free to be with his wife and daughter; Nina stands up and says he doesn’t have a wife anymore.  He asks her why she is there then.Nathan talks to Nina about his mother.  In her own unique demented way, he says, she loves him; Nina tells him he is a great guy and wants to help everyone, and that’s why everyone loves him.  She tells him she still loves Valentin.  Anna tries to explain to Dante and Lulu that the WSB wants to avoid publicity that would … don’t want to draw attention to a weapon developed in a previous administration, not in line with the bureau’s current goals and methods.   With her sister at large and Helena dead, there are no witnesses, she explains; the rest of the evidence is circumstantial.  Dante and Lulu can’t believe they just let him go; Valentin appears from behind the curtains.  Charlotte runs to him; Lulu covers her mouth.  He tells Charlotte some people made a mistake and they had to make it right, but he never has to go where he was again.  Lulu takes Charlotte to get a drink of juice while Anna and Dante talk to Valentine; Dante asks to see his papers.  He shows them, then tells Dante he is there to collect his daughter.  Dante says that’s not going to happen.

Hayden scoffs at Elizabeth, saying only her dignity is hurting now; Andre congratulates her on the pregnancy.  She tells him she isn’t sure about being a mother; she says she freaked out at the littlest thing… he advises her to lay off the spicy foods for a little while.  She laughs and says she will; then wonders what kind of mom she is going to be.  He says she sounds like a very normal mother to be; nothing more, nothing less.Olbrecht gripes about all she’s done to get where she was.  She says she had everything in order, until he came and messed everything up; he says he came to treat on patient, Tracy Quartermaine.  If she hadn’t tried to interfere he would have done his job and been on his way; he tells her he actually owes her spite and anger the life he has now.  He tells her to write the apology and tender her resignation; she says she’ll never get another job anywhere.  He says that’s what she had planned for him; she says he deserved it.  He chuckles, and suggests she go along with the deal or end up seeing her son from behind Plexiglas in a prison somewhere.  She agrees it may be the best way to go and says she’ll consider it; he tells her he’ll be in touch.  Valentine tells Charlotte to go home with Lulu and says he will talk to her again tomorrow.

Hayden meets Finn at the Floating Rib and asks if she will take the deal; he says he thinks she will.  Nathan talks to his mother, who mocks the deal; he tells her he knows it’s a lot, but it’s better than prison.  He leaves.  She says (to herself) she will be free to go wherever she wants to do whatever she pleases, to whomever she pleases; she says Finn took away the most important thing in her life, so she has to take the most important thing in his life now.  Finn and Hayden are shown, laughing and kissing, at the Floating Rib; haunting music plays.  Nathan tells his sister she has to send him packing every time she sees him or accidentally bumps into him; if not, he says, they both know what will happen.  Valentin asks Anna to join him for a drink; they toast to the bureau , for making the right call.  He tells her she left him vulnerable to Alex, etc., etc., like falling dominos, he says… he wouldn’t have his daughter if it weren’t for her.  He thanks her; she tells him he has a chance now to build a new and better life and tells him not to blow it.  If he does, she says, she will be waiting.