08-16-2017 (Wednesday) Who Believes in Miracles?

Griffin takes off his shirt as Ava stands in the doorway, watching.  She touches him cautiously; Griffin tells her she’s a miracle worker, after she gently puts the ointment on his bee sting.  She asks him what it’s like to be perfect, not to be tempted… he looks at her and says, who says I haven’t been tempted?  He then tells her about Claudette; how thinking Charlotte was his daughter made him think something good had come from his fall from grace.  Ava thanks him for letting her see this side of him.  She says it’s nice to know he is human at all; he laughs.  He tells her it is not a sin to want to love and be loved, wanting the touch of another human being.  She laughs and says she’s getting tired, politely excusing him; he accepts as long as she gives him the chance for another outing, minus the bees.  He thanks her for going out with him; she says it was nice and they awkwardly look at each other.  He leaves and she takes a deep breath as she closes the door; she pours herself a drink.  After a while, she gets up to pour herself another; she pulls back the covering from the mirror and is shocked to see her face without a flaw.  As she stares at it, Griffin walks up behind her; she asks how this could be.  He says miracles really do happen; she turns around and they kiss.  She drops her glass, and wakes up; she walks to the mirror and looks at herself, still wearing her mask.  Valentin calls to see if she changed her mind about his offer, saying they can work miracles; she tells him she doesn’t believe in miracles.  She takes out his card and starts to tear it, but stops.

Kristina talks to Parker; they each ask why they came back; they laugh.  Kristina says her mom doesn’t control her, regardless of what she may think; Parker says she didn’t think she’d be there – honestly, she tells Kristina, she thought she would off somewhere, far away from her parents - off seeing the world.  Kristina tells her she decided to go to Port Charles’ Business School; Parker says she’s proud of her.  Kristina asks what happened with her wife; Parker tells her, she didn’t want to leave her patients.  Their marriage is over, she says.  Kristina asks what happened; the conversation turns to their encounter.  Parker feels she took advantage of her, but Kristina says she didn’t.  Parker admits through all of this, she discovered something about herself.  She says, part of her felt brave for following her heart; like one of those flawed heroines in her syllabus.  She promises not to get in Kristina’s way, saying she hurt her once and doesn’t want to see her unhappy again; she says she is going to go, but Kristina asks her not to.  She brings up Morgan, saying losing him taught her not to waste time; she tells Parker she was glad to see her today and Parker admits she was glad to see Kristina too.  Still, she leaves.

Finn desperately looks for Hayden… Curtis tells him to let her go, for now.  Finn lets it be known that he is not going to let her get halfway around the word.  Curtis insists she is gone until she decides to come back, pointing out that Port Charles has an International Airport, gateway into Canada, and an Interstate onramp leading to anywhere in the United States.  Finn gets angry at Curtis and says maybe it would have been better if Monica had filed charges; he says he just wants her found and maybe the police could do that.  Curtis accuses him of being ready to use again; Finn says he isn’t going to do that.  He tells him about their last encounter, as he holds Hayden’s wedding ring.  Curtis says, when you find out what people are capable of, it shakes your foundation; Finn can’t believe she didn’t trust him, thinking stealing money from the hospital was a better solution.  Finn says he NEEDS to find her, to make sure she’s okay; he wants to tell her that he is as much to blame for this as she is.  He tells Curtis, when he was detoxing he had told Hayden she couldn’t be trusted; he questions why she would have any faith in him.  He says she stayed by his side during all that, and he couldn’t return the loyalty, so this is all his fault.  Jared walks in and Finn grabs him by the shirt; he asks where she is.  Jared says he wishes he knew, and calls her a lying a bitch.  Finn starts to grab him again; Curtis stops him.  He says, “your hands are for healing… mine are not” and he punches Jared, hard.  They sit him up; he continues to demean Rachel/Hayden, saying she ran off on both of them.  They shove him out the door; Finn tells Curtis he can’t just let her go and not even look for her.  Curtis reminds Finn that the girl knows how to disappear; Finn reminds him that she was still found.  He hints, that someone who knows the way her mind works, could probably find her, Curtis gets the hint.

Liz calls Naomi, looking for Hayden, trying not to concern her; she bumps into Franco in front of Kelley’s diner.  They kiss; she tells him she has to get back to work.  He says he is going to call the hospital and tell them she’s sick, so he can take her home and put her to bed;-)… she insists she has to get back to work, but tells him to come by the house afterward and she will make it up to him.  Olbrecht comes in and mocks them, saying it “warms the heart”… Liz asks how she would know, seeing as she doesn’t have one.  They joke a little, kiss again and Liz excuses herself; Franco tells Olbrecht he is glad to see her.  But the conversation turns not so friendly when Olbrecht starts bad-mouthing Hayden, thinking she is being hauled off to jail.  Olbrecht gloats when he tells her that she ran off before her wedding to Finn; she laughs about how heartbroken Finn must be.  Franco asks her, sincerely, if she knows anything that would help Liz find her sister, to tell him.  She says, after what that “bean counting hob goblin” and her fiancé did to her, they more than deserve whatever is coming.  She leaves.  Franco goes to see Elizabeth and asks her if she has tried looking in jail for Hayden; he asks Liz why Leisel would be so convinced that Hayden was arrested… Liz realizes, she was in on it.