08-11-2017 (Friday) The Last Lie

As much as Alexis tries to avoid pointing the finger at Julian, she has to admit that the night on the bridge could have possibly been avoided if the defendant had told her the truth.  She says, “that is an accurate description.”  Scotty gets up and asks Alexis to explain the details of that night, and why she is here to tell about it today; she explains Julian’s intentional betrayal of Olivia’s orders to shoot her, shooting the handcuffs off instead so she could get away.  They discuss the fact that he was presumed dead for some time; Scotty asks if she would say Julian put his life on the line to save her, and she says yes, calling it “true heroism.”  Scotty asks her to read the letter Julian wrote before their confrontation with “Liv” – it takes some time.  She admits she understands now that Julian was just doing everything he could to protect his family.  Scotty asks if that means she has forgiven him; she says, “no I haven’t.”  The trial recesses; Julian asks Alexis if she could ever see herself forgiving him.  She says she can only see herself living one day at a time and leaves.

Carly gives Sonny a hard time about getting shot again; she smiles and says, she knows he wouldn’t keep any more secrets from her.  He reflects on Sam and his conversation with her; Jason comes in to see Sam.  Sam tells Jason she shot Sonny; he tells her she was sick, but still she feels regret.  He tells her nobody else needs to know want there’s nothing to worry about; she says, “there is for me.”  She says she can’t have this on her conscience for the rest of her life.  Jason promises her everything is going to work out, saying their version of what happened is already in motion; her coming forward would hurt more people than just her.  Carly gives Sonny a hard time about doing his physical therapy; she says she is tired of being in that hospital.  She tells him the most important thing from her on out is to be honest with each other, obviously sensing that he seems to be hiding something.  He tells her he just doesn’t remember anything more; she says okay.  Jason comes in; she goes to see about Sonny’s discharge.  Sonny asks how Sam is; Jason tells him she’s feeling guilty.  Sonny insists they stick to their story; Sam sees Carly out in the hall and says she needs to talk to her.

Nathan tells Dante about his most recent call to the park, where he had to bust his in-laws for indecent exposure.  Dante makes light of this Ask Man Landers being responsible for giving bad advice; they then talk about the shell casing found at the site where Sonny was discovered.  They notice something strange about the ballistics report on the shell pulled from his bulletproof vest; Dante says they have an interview to conduct.  They go to see Sonny; he tells them he wants  Jason to stay.  They ask for more details about that night; he tells them what he claims to remember, Garvey shooting him in the bulletproof vest.  Dante questions if anyone else was there; he tells Sonny the bullet from his vest came from a different gun than the one in his leg.  Sonny says he can’t tell them anything; Dante scratches his head, and thanks him for his time.  They leave.  Sonny tells Jason that’s not the end of it; not by a long shot, he says.

Sam tells Carly that she was seeing things that weren’t there, and admits being afraid of losing Jason; Carly tells her that’s not crazy, they’ve lost him before.  Sam goes on, telling Carly she had said things and done things that she wishes she could take back; she tells her about “going off” on him, accusing him of trying to take Jason away from her and the kids.  She tells her, she really believed it was true and had to do something about it; before she can say anything further, Jason finds them and takes Sam back to her room.  Carly tells Sonny Sam seemed really torn up about something she did; she asks if he hass any idea what it was.  He doesn’t answer.  Dante tells Nathan, he thinks his dad is not telling them something because he knows who it was and wants to take care of it himself; they fear he is going to start an all out drug war.

Finn questions what the phone call was about, and why she gave them the name Rachel Berlin; he asks her what she has done.  Hayden tries to blow it off, and avoids answering his questions until she blurts out, “this time was different because I was going to pay it back.”  She explains to Finn, she was trying to buy their freedom… from her ex-husband.  He questions if this was the guy that introduced himself as ‘Adam’ the other day; she admits, yes, then tells him about the young girl she hit four years ago and how Jared covered for her.  Finn understands, but questions why she couldn’t tell him this the minute Jared came to town; he tells her he should have been the one person in the world she could trust.  She says he is, but she convinced herself that she did it for him; she says she was afraid if he found out the truth, he would go back to doing drugs.  He asks if she has that little faith in his recovery; he says it would have taken some time to get through it but he would have understood.  She says maybe it was just easier for her to use that excuse, because she’s a coward; she brings up his ex-wife and what a saint she was.  He admits he loved Reko and says he has accepted her loss because he loves Hayden now; he says he doesn’t know what to do with the fact that she didn’t trust him, though.  He tells her for better or for worse; he tells her they need to not just say the right things, but to live with them and honor them.  She says, “good luck with that” telling him to let her know when he figures that out and walks out of the room – I’m confused, it sounded (to me) like he was forgiving her.  He is left standing there, shaking his head.