Thursday, June 14, 2018 (S56E52): Innocent Jokes

Dr. Bensch walks in, as Kiki stands in the locker room; he tells her he just heard about the article, and calls it disturbing.  He more or less threatens her, then tells her he’s “available” if she needs someone to talk to.  He stops her from leaving, putting his arm up in front of her; she admits that she’s the one who filed the complaint and that the article is about him.  He asks if she wants to cost him his career, calling them “mixed signals.”  She says someone has to hold him accountable, and tells him she is exploring her legal options, and says those rumors he’s worried about are the least of his problems.  He says he just “got the wrong message.”  He calls his proposition an “innocent joke.”

She tells him his behavior was inappropriate and he is delusional.  He tells her no one is going to trust her now, or want to be alone in a room with her.  Griffin comes in and finds him harassing Kiki, and he throws him up against a locker and almost punches him.  He tells him he will lose his license; Bensch smiles and says, “we’ll see.”  Kiki gets mad at Griffin for interfering; he tells her he knows Bensch is the man in the article.  She tells him it’s been going on for a while, just talk at first… only last week, did he proposition her.  Griffin says she should have come to him; she says she can’t ask him for anything after what happened between them.  She thanks him and tells him he is a good friend, but he is the last place she can go for help.  Dr. Bensch smirks, as he lurks in the hallway, staring at a picture on his phone, of Kiki hugging Griffin.

Jason goes to Ferncliff and applies for a job, as a janitor; the head nurse tells him it isn’t easy working with the criminally mentally ill.  Jason says, “a mess is a mess, no matter where it is… and it’s my job to clean it up.”  Great answer.  She offers to take him on a tour of the facility; from her bed, in a drugged stupor, Carly hears him talking.  Carly sees them outside of her door and gets up; the Chief Orderly comes by (the big man, who was watching Carly); his name is Rupert.  The nurse suggests Rupert “up” Carly’s meds, since she is standing.  The head nurse tells Jason he is to notify the staff immediately, “if a situation should arise.”  She shows him the “dayroom” next and tells him he can start later today.  Kevin comes in to see Carly; she questions if he is really there… he questions how many meds they have her on.

Sam and Curtis try to figure out where Peter might have headed; Sam makes a call, pretending to be Nina Reeves.  She says she needs some information on her husband’s account.  When Nina texts to tell them he is headed back, they decide to stay and confront Valentin.  He swears he hasn’t seen Peter; Sam questions a charter he made the same night Peter disappeared.  Valentin admits he is holding something back; he says Peter chartered the plane, in his name, and says they can get a copy of the flight manifest.  Sam says they will; Curtis says he is lying through his teeth.  They deduce that Peter never even left town; Valentin wonders where he is.

Elizabeth tells Franco that it was pointless to contact her sister; she says, just as she figured, she is too busy to flight out for a wedding.  Franco questions why Liz hadn’t told her sister yet; Liz hesitates to answer.  Franco asks her what’s going on; she tells him that they are just not a close family… her sister and her parents live to work.  She says she has all the family she needs, there; if she thought they would come, she would invite them.  She tells Franco, next to having her kids, exchanging vows with him will be the most important moment in her life; she thanks him for trying to make things work with her family.  He kisses her goodbye, then calls Sarah; he asks if she can put him in touch with her parents. Alexis talks to Kevin about the watch her father gave her mom, which Valentin just bestowed upon her.

Kevin asks why she thinks Valentin did it; possibly to provoke a reaction of some kind from her.  She says she doesn’t know; she just accepted it because she doesn’t have anything of her mother’s.  She describes the picture as being “just a moment in her life” and having so few memories of her, she says, it was special to her.  She says her mother essentially sacrificed her life for a sociopath, who was married to a sociopath, and together, they spent their lives trying to “out-evil each other,” adding that it’s a wonder she is as sane as she is.  Kevin explains to her that the cause is not necessarily one thing; he says it is layers, which flips Alexis out because she just wants a quick fix.  He says they need to work together until she can confront the person or persons at the root of her issue; she questions, whom she would confront, as her parents are both dead.  He suggests she start with Julian.  She goes home and puts her mother’s watch on; the show ends, with her staring into the mirror, with her arm across her chest.