Wednesday, August 1, 2018 (S56E): It’s Your Fault

Brad tells Lucas he is going to run to the hospital for a while; he says, he had his time with their baby and Lucas deserves his.  Nelle tells Michael that it is his fault their baby is dead; he is in shock, holding this still newborn infant.  Elizabeth tells him they need to go to a cubicle, where he can have all the time he needs to say goodbye; he refuses… he takes off with the baby and tells her to leave them alone.  Brad hides around the corner, looking guilty.  He goes in to talk to Nelle, who has been taken to a room; he tells her he isn’t sure he can do this.  She tells him he has to; Ava sees Nelle talking to Brad, holding his hand.  She interrupts.

Jason brings Jos to see Carly; Jos tells her mom she is so sorry for her testimony.  Her mom tells her there are some things she needs to know about Nelle; Jos is stunned.  She can’t believe she fell for Nelle’s lies; they talk about what might happen with the baby – Carly says it will be born behind bars, and Michael will be a single parent.  Michael sits in the chapel with his dead son still in his arms; Sonny comes in and sits down beside him.  Michael blames himself; he says he is the one who set Nelle up and kept driving when she asked him to stop… he is the reason his son is dead, he tells his father.

Lulu talks to Chase at Charlie’s bar; Chase blames himself somehow.  He tells Lulu how he ‘just knew’ the baby was dead when he saw it in Nelle’s arms – it was “so, so still” he tells her.  Kiki and Griffin talk on the other side of the bar; Kiki tells him she isn’t drinking tonight.  She doesn’t want to get drunk and let anything slip; she tells Griffin her mother can’t find out… she gets angry, and then she gets even.  She says, “she would take us both down.”  Brad leaves Nelle’s room, and Nelle tells Ava they need to settle a few things; she says she has been arrested.  Ava asks what she plans to tell the cops; Nelle says she won’t say anything about her being her accomplice, but only because she would have to admit that Carly didn’t push her down the stairs and she won’t give her that satisfaction.  Ava goes back to the bar and apologizes to Griffin and Kiki for leaving them like that; Griffin says it’s okay, telling Ava Nelle is lucky to have a good friend like her, to stick by her side.  Ava tells them that Nelle lost the baby; Kiki goes to call Michael.  Nelle laughs to herself about how Michael and his family will never see her child, or know where he is, even though he’ll be right under their noses.  Elizabeth comes into the chapel; Michael hands her the baby and turns to his father… he hugs him and cries.