Wednesday, May 23, 2018 (S56E36): The Secret's Out

Peter is brought in, in handcuffs; Anna tells Finn, she never saw it coming.  Finn says no one else saw it either.  Robert claims jurisdiction; Chase questions him; Sam volunteers to provide all the information she knows.  She mentions the legal papers he signed with Aurora, using his fake name; she says she is willing to press forgery charges.  They mention the charges that could be filed on Jason’s kidnapping; Peter/ Heinrik says he actually saved Jason’s life.  He says his father told him to kill Jason, but he kept him alive.  Jason tells his side of the story… Peter claims not to be feeling well and is taken to GH for medical attention.

Sam realizes Peter is just trying to get close to Maxie.  Nina is still at the hospital with Maxie…she is hesitant to tell Maxie what she knows about Peter.  She leaves without doing so.  She says she’s tired and needs to go; Maxie says okay.  Anna confesses her entire story to Finn; she tells him that’s why she pushed him away… he is very understanding.  She says she compromised herself, ended up pregnant and trashed her career before it even got started.  She tells him she gave the baby away and he was supposed to go to a loving couple, but some other couple took the baby and gave him to Faison.  Finn asks if Faison ever knew she was Peter’s mother; she says he never knew… it was the one gift she could give her son.  He realizes now, he says, why she did the things she did; she feels guilty for not keeping track of her child, saying maybe his life could have been different.  Robert calls Anna, asking for her statement; he tells her Peter is at the hospital… she tells him she will be there soon.

Valentin is released on a technicality and goes to pick up Charlotte from Lulu’s; Lulu tells him she is sleeping and he can leave.  He does, as he makes a comment about her “new pen pal” and Dante asks what he means by that.  Lulu admits that she was writing to Heinrik and confiding in Peter August; he congratulates, sarcastically.  Nina goes home; she tells Valentin she is only there to pack.  He tells her he needs to tell her Peter’s story; he says parts may sound familiar to her.  They sit down and he begins; he mentions seeing Faison mistreat the boy and took him out for pizza one night, beginning a life-long friendship.  He says he saw him trying to escape his father’s shadow, then they got separated until he reached out again, as Peter August.  He says that’s why he protected his secret, because he owed him.  Anna knocks on the door demanding to speak to Valentin; she tells him that he finally got what he wanted – her son almost shot her tonight.  She tells Nina what she doesn’t know about Peter… that Valentin took him and gave him to Faison.  He admits to threatening the adoptive family until they gave him the baby because she didn’t want him.  She tells him to go to hell; he says he is already there.

Maxie is shocked when she sees Peter come into the hospital in handcuffs; he asks for a moment to talk to her and Chase allows it… he confesses to Maxie that he is Heinrik Faison.  She gasps, “no” and begins to cry.  Griffin takes Kiki home; she tells him she wants to drink some more champagne… she asks if he dances.  She recalls being a girl, and says every independent woman remembers watching Cinderela and Beauty and the Best… wishing she could dance at a Ball like that.  She says even the dreams that come true can disappoint you sometimes.  She offers him some champagne, straight from the bottle… he says it’s a first for him.  They get a little tipsy and Kiki talks him into dancing with her; they laugh, stop dancing, and begin to kiss (I was in disbelief that Griffin would do that).  Scenes flash of them in bed; wow.

Sam sees Drew at the hospital; she tells him that Peter paid Faison’s bank manager to leave letters at a drop, and one of them had a flashdrive to his memory in it.  She says if they can find it, they could find a way to restore his memory; he says he doesn’t want to rely on anything Peter has and leaves.  Sam tells Jason, she still wants that flashdrive.  Lulu sits with her computer on her lap, crying; Valentin sits with a drink in hand, watching as Nina rolls her bags out the door.