Wednesday, September 19, 2018 (S56E117): Hello Griffin

Kiki is happy to see Griffin at the hospital; he is all dressed up in a suit.  She asks if he is back; he says no… he had a meeting with the review board.  He says someone just ripped away the last thing he had left in this world; Kiki looks concerned.  He’s been barred from receiving sacraments at Mass; he can still go, but he can’t participate in the rituals… Kiki asks why.  He says he isn’t really still supposed to be living in a community where they know him as a priest.  She asks how they found out; he says someone called the Monsignor and reported him.  Kiki thinks she knows who that someone is.  She tells him she is sure it’s her mother and apologizes; he tells her not to put this on herself.  He says she cannot take his faith; he can perform rituals on his own.  Kiki says she won’t get away with this.

Maxie runs into Nina; Nina says she wants to know what happened in that elevator with Peter.  Lulu tells Peter this story needs to be considerate, and not something like the Invader would have run before; she says what happened, happened in our community.  He says he will reach out to the public and let them know they will be approaching this topic thoughtfully; Lulu thinks he may have ulterior motives when he wants to meet with Maxie’s mother.  He denies it; still she says the last thing Maxie’s family needs is him barging in on it, especially with things as confusing as they are – he questions how things are confusing.  She says Maxie is just starting to climb out of the hole he helped her make, and if he cares about her, he will stay as far away from her as possible.

Curtis meets with Julian; he tells him that there is a superficial resemblance between Nina and this Sasha Gilmore.  He says she has agreed to cooperate with their investigation.  Ava offers to help Julian with his renovations; her first suggestion is to do something with his clientele (as she shrugs her head toward Nina and Maxie.  Nina asks Maxie if she is clear about her feelings for Peter; Maxie says her feelings for him are complicated.  He was there for her after Nathan’s death… just there, with no expectations; she says he was kind and generous and she came to rely on him.  The truth devastated her, and she admits that she is angry because of it, but says, “he was just trying to escape his father.”  Nina says she understands; …  Julian tells Ava that he is proudly no longer serving Corinthos coffee; Ava says Sonny can’t be happy about that.  She asks why he is being so understanding; Julian hesitates to answer.  Alexis walks in and says she would also like to know the answer to that question.  She then asks Julian if he had anything to do with the body found in the basement; he laughs, saying it was a skeleton, which had been there for decades.  She then tells him she doesn’t like the idea of her daughter working there, not to mention that she was there during the explosion.

Carly hears Michael on the phone and asks if he is moving to Chicago; he says no, he is sending one of his VP’s to open the office.  She sighs with relief; he asks why.  She worries about the letter from Nelle, she tells him; he says Nelle can’t affect him anymore.  He says he isn’t okay, and doesn’t know when he will be, but he needs to deal with his grief his own way, in his own time.  She asks if he is seeing someone, like Dr. Collins; he says he doesn’t need to.  She tells him then he needs to lean on his family.  Lucas arrives with little “Wiley.”