07-12-2017 (Wednesday) Code Word: Fireflies

Kevin and Laura have lunch; Spencer practices for his play; she says it’s a depressing play.  He says if she thinks that, she has missed the whole point of the play; he tells Jos there is no nobler mission than to avenge one’s father.  Laura frets about Spencer’s obsession with reclaiming his birthright; Oscar shows up at Lila’s Kids, while Jos is talking to Spencer.  Laura tells Kevin the anniversary of Nikolas’ death is coming up; he tells her at least Valentin is nowhere around.  Julian comes in and tells him he is wrong; he says Valentin is right here in Port Charles.  Oscar and Jos go to get something to drink.  As Spencer continues to practice his lines, Valentin applauds.  He sits down and tells Spencer he has brought him a peace offering and holds out a ring; says it was his grandfather’s.  He wants to pass it on to Spencer; Spencer’s response is to tell him that if he thinks the ring will make them even, he is “dead wrong.”  Joslyn asks Oscar to go a little easier on Spencer next time, explaining about how his mother died when he was a baby and then his dad last year; Oscar tells Jos she has a very dramatic family.  Spencer gives the ring back to Valentin when Laura and Kevin come to get him; he tells Valentin he doesn’t need the luck and says he can see if it still works when he buries him with it.

Bobbie asks about the wedding; Carly tells her Michael brought Nelle.  Sonny comes to visit Jason; tells him they missed him at the wedding, he is happy for Olivia, Ned’s a good guy.  He tells Jason he wants to talk a little business and sits down; Sam hears him over her shoulder… he whispers, “look at that, me and Jason doing business just like old times.”  She gets rattled and tells Jason she has plans and needs him to stay with the kids; she walks out the door.  He is concerned.  Sam goes to see Julian.  She tells him that Sonny claims he is done with the business and going legit; he says he doesn’t care.  She says that he should care, if he wants a relationship with his grandkids.  She tells him she wants to make sure that Jason doesn’t get involved with him again; he tells her the only guaranteed solution is to “get rid of Sonny.”  Sam laughs at her father, saying the only way to deal with Sonny can’t be for him to die; she remembers a prior vision of Sonny practically daring her to try to kill him.  She says, “I need to finish what I started.”  Julian asks if she’s okay; she tells him obviously not, since she came to him for help.

Sonny tells Jason that he wants to open a legit business; completely legitimate, he says, and he needs a partner.  It’s a building that he wants to turn into office spaces to rent out; Jason tells Sonny he can’t risk the appearance that him working with Sonny again would look like a front, and would appear like he is back in the business; he turns down his offer to be his partner.  Jason apologizes to Sonny for turning him down and wishes him luck getting out; he confirms that they are still “okay.”  Sonny says he is going to go talk to Michael to see if he is interested in a joint venture; Jason says that’s a good idea and tells him he thinks they can make it work.  Carly complains to her mother about Michael dating Nelle; Bobbie tells her where there is one secret, there is more.  Carly smiles; Bobbie calls an investigator friend of hers.  Jason goes home and tells Sam that he is not getting into Sonny’s business again; Scout starts to cry and Jason heads upstairs to get her.

Nina comes into her office at Crimson to find Julian sitting there; he compliments her on how well the magazine is doing.  He says he’s back at work.  She tells him he better get busy then because his non-Crimson numbers aren’t doing very good; his investors are going to lose confidence and he’ll be looking at a hostile takeover, she tells him.  He leaves and she sees Valentin, who has just arrived; he wants to advertise his new non-profit, for “washed up race horses that would otherwise be destroyed… the Nina Reeves Horse Rescue.”  Spencer is rude to him at first, but Oscar handles it like a gentleman.  Spencer tells him he is living Hamlet’s story; Jos says he may want to reconsider that since Hamlet kills himself… Spencer says Hamlet did it wrong; he won’t.  Nelle asks Nina if she is happy Valentin is back; she denies any emotion and says she couldn’t care less what he does or doesn’t do.  Nina tells Nelle about the gesture Valentine made, setting up the non-profit; Nelle tells her it is obvious she still loves him.  Nelle asks Nina what it would take for her to take Valentin back again.  She says she would have to know that a future with her and Charlotte is more important to him than the demons of his past.  Oscar and Jos make a pact to try to stop talking so much about their parents; they devise a code word, “fireflies.”  Sonny approaches and asks Jos if he can talk to her; she says no.  He insists, saying it’s good news; Oscar stands up and tells Sonny to leave Jos alone, or, he says, they are going to have a problem.