10-25-2017 (Wednesday) I Know It's You

Michael comes to see Nelle at Crimson; he hears her on the phone and says she has a gift of being “all things to all people.”  She questions what he means by that; he says she was so convincing, as “noble and selfless” as Jos’ kidney donor, “cheerful and efficient” as Carly’s assistant, “kind and sympathetic” when she found out Morgan died… all the while, setting up his father.  She asks why he’s bringing all this up now; he brings up the mental hospital.  She says she didn’t want to be judged; he reminds her that his brother and father had/have a mental illness.  She says she didn’t have a mental illness; she had “a breakdown.”  She tells him he wouldn’t understand; he tells her to try him.  She says she just crashed after she ran as fast as she could, as long as she could, trying to get away from her dad.  Michael apologizes; she asks him to quit looking into her life for dirt.  He says he was trying to prove her innocence; she says that’s not how it feels, asking him how he would feel if she went digging into his life.  He admits there may be some things she still doesn’t know about him; he hasn’t made a full disclosure yet either.

Nina is resting in the sauna; Maxie comes in to talk to her about coming back to Crimson.  She has a list of demands printed out and tells Nina about the idea she has come up with for the big story in the next issue of the magazine.  Nina agrees to hire Maxie back, telling her she was already going to; Michael is at the office when Nina gets back to work.  He thanks her for getting the tickets to the play for them; Nina tells him she did no such thing.  Michael gets a text from his mother, asking if he is moving in with Nelle, saying “she implied that you were.”

Ava searches for pictures of Jason Morgan online, comparing them to Franco’s sketch; Griffin comes to pick her up for dinner and she tells him it slipped her mind.  He says they could just order in and eat there; she thinks he wants to avoid being seen in public with her.  She tells him she is busy anyway; they start talking about Jason Morgan… she shows Griffin the sketch and the online photos.  She says, “he is Jason Morgan, too.”  ‘Jason’ and Sam tell Danny they have something to talk to him and Scout about; they tell him things are changing for their family.  They tell him about the purchase of the media company; he says it sounds cool.  They get ready for the launch party; Sam puts on the dress Maxie brought her.  Sam asks ‘Jason’ if he is ready for this; he says he is.

Sonny can’t believe his eyes; he asks Jason who the hell he is… he tells Sonny, “it’s me.”  They are still pointing guns at each other; Sonny tells him someone else has been saying they are him for the past two years.  Jason tells Sonny it doesn’t seem like he’s been gone for five years; to him, it felt like three to five months, tops.  He describes his stay in Russia, says he was kept drugged all the time, but eventually started pulling himself out of it.  Then Ava showed up; he describes his escape with her help, and his meeting with the priest, and the trip home… trying to contact him, etc.  He tells him when he went to see Sam, he didn’t know at first, that she thinks the man she is married to is him; he understands now.  He says they were talking about their wedding day; he heard in her voice how much she loves him – he says he figured it all out, when he heard Jason Morgan bought the media company from her brother.

Sonny fills Jason in on this new Jason’s coming to town; lack of memory, then recall... he says they did a DNA test, scans that reconstructed his face before the accident.  He says, "it was you!"  Jason insists that he is Jason Morgan and asks Sonny if he doesn’t know that, calling him his “best friend” and “brother.”  He begs Sonny to tell him that he knows him; Sonny says he doesn’t know what to believe.  He says he’s been calling this guy Jason for the past year and a half; Jason reminds Sonny he went to work for him in 1996, says he taught him everything he knows about this business and most of what he knows abut life.  He says he would have never turned his back on him and bought a media company or anything; Sonny tells him he knows it’s him, reaches out for his hand and hugs him.