Monday, September 10, 2018 (S56E110): The Letter

Michael receives a letter from Nelle; Carly tells him he should just throw it away, but he says he feels he should read it first.  He tells Carly that no matter how much he hates her for what she did, they both lost their baby; Brad happens to step into the door just in time to hear that.  He looks like he feels guilty as he looks down at the baby.  They see him and say hello; he gets even more uncomfortable when Michael tells him he got a letter from Nelle.  He says he agrees with Carly, adding, “you can’t believe anything she says.”  Carly gets angry when she reads that Nelle is forgiving Michael; she says, “it’s classic Nelle.”  She is concerned that Michael still blames himself and tells him he can’t buy into any of this.  He asks his mom to leave him alone for a bit; he hugs her.  He ponders over Nelle’s statement that she hopes “being close to Brad and Lucas’ little boy makes [him] feel better.” 

As Jason and Sonny talk about the murder from all those years ago, we see Mike sneaking down into the basement at Charlie’s; he takes a pipe wrench and bashes a pipe until it breaks – gas starts pouring out.  He wanders back upstairs, where he is surprised to see Kristina; he tells her she needs to leave, right now.  She asks what’s going on; we see the basement pipe again and hear the gas leaking.  He tells her he can’t tell her; he says her dad won’t be happy to see her there – “he hates this place,” he says.  Sonny tells Jason he should have listened to his father back then; he says, he tried to warn him Scully was nothing but trouble.  He’s surprised to get Kristina’s call; she offers to drive him home but Sonny says he’ll come get him.

Nina wonders if her baby lived; Maxie tries to caution her not to get carried away with this fantasy.  She says her mother could be pulling one last scam; she asks Nina to go out to dinner and a movie with her.  She says she’ll meet her at the elevator; she has to “wrap something up.”  Valentin meets with Curtis at the Metro Court; he tells her Madeline paid for a nurse to take care of Nina and a doctor to deliver the baby.  Curtis says it would help to talk to Madeline; Valentin tells him that she is dead.  Curtis decides he needs to trace the payment made to Carter for the adoption; he leaves.  Nina and Maxie come in; Maxie isn’t happy to see Valentin there.  Curtis comes back and tells Valentin that “the Jackal” has already found a money transfer.  Julian begins to smell the gas and does down to check the basement; Mike starts telling Kristina they shouldn’t be here… he says “no one is supposed to be here.”  He thought it was the middle of the night; he says, “this isn’t right – none of this is right.”

Julian makes a call to 911; he says the valve looks like it’s been tampered with.  Kristina hears that and runs back in to find the wrench she saw her grandfather with; Sonny gets there.  Mike tells him, “I wanted to fix it for you son; I wanted to help.”  Sonny asks him what he is doing there; Julian asks Jason if his boss knows anything about the sabotage.  Kristina trips and falls, knocking herself unconscious; the wrench skids across the floor.  When Mike says Kristina went back in there, Jason goes in after her; as he is carrying her to the door, she says, “wait.”  Outside, we hear an explosion.