Thursday, November 8, 2018 (S56E152): What’s Your Motivation?

As Sam and Jason investigate the rooms at Ferncliff, they discover Nelle… singing to a rolled up blanket, “rock-a-bye baby” and rocking back and forth on the floor.  Sam wonders if she is just faking it to stay out of prison, or if she is trying to re-live Carly’s life; she tells her Carly was a much better actor.  Curtis tells the head nurse that she first thing she should have done was called the State Agency to verify his service.  She apologizes and says she will do that right away; Sam is obviously covering the State Agency phone line.  He checks out; Sam texts him to come ASAP to where they are.  She tells Nelle that they know she’s acting, and asks who told her this was a way out – she stands up, throws the blanket down, and starts ranting about what she is going to do to Carly when she gets out of there… she stops when Curtis walks in with the head nurse.  Sam tells the nurse that they know she is faking; Nelle says they are lying… she tells her, “I am crazy, I’m supposed to be here.”  The nurse says, “catch 22… if you know you are crazy, you’re not.”

Sonny agrees to drive with Margaux to confront her mother; before they get there he asks her if she is sure she wants to hear her mother say those words… he knocks on the woman’s door, wearing a wire.  He doesn’t actually introduce himself; he just says they have some one in common, Joe Scully.  She tries to deny really knowing Joe, until Sonny tells her his name; she gets nervous and asks him to leave.  He tells her he needs to know why her husband was killed; he asks for a drink… she pours him one.  He starts reminiscing; he says he remembers seeing her there with Joe, thought she was his girlfriend, but didn’t know she was married to his lawyer.  She asks what he wants; he says he wants her to admit that she wanted Joe dead.  She denies it; he tells her he has proof.  He claims to have the letters from her dresser drawer; she goes to look for them.  She finds them and says, “they are right here.”  He laughs and says of course they are; “where else would they be?”  She says she is going to burn them right now, like she should have years ago.  Margaux hears all of this; she goes in to confront her mother.

Carly wonders why Joslyn got all showered and dressed up for Cameron to come over and study, instead of staying in her sweats.  She said she was stinky and she wasn’t going to do that to Cameron.  She asks why it matters and Carly says it doesn’t, unless this isn’t about Cam and more about her reaction to Oscar dumping her.  Kim comes to work to see Oscar; she tells him Drew told her he turned down a trip to Florida.  He says yeah, because he wants to control his own destination.  She decides to go talk to Joslyn; she asks Carly if she can, but Carly says she doesn’t want to let her.  She says she doesn’t need this to be any harder on Jos; Joslyn opens up to Cam for the first time about her father, Jax and he asks why she has never talked about him before.  She says, it makes her miss him; she just tries to keep her “two lives separate.”  Cam impresses her with his knowledge of astrology, as he starts with Polaris, the North Star.  He explains that the other stars all seem to turn around it, but it won’t move.  Jos gives Cameron a keychain with his zodiac sign on it; he says it will inspire him not to lose his keys anymore.  He says something snarky and she tries to take it back from him; they playfully, tussle and burst through the door.  Joslyn stops when she sees Kim; she says hi.

This mysterious girl at Charlie’s, who gave Oscar a place to live, talks to Kristina about living her life free and out in the open; Kristina tells her it was really nice of her to do that for Oscar.  Oscar gets a headache; he sits down.  Julian panics and texts Kim; she tells Carly she has to go.  The girl offers to help; Julian asks if she’s a doctor.  She says, “no, but that doesn’t mean I can’t help.”  She rubs her hands and puts them on each side of Oscar’s head; she gently rubs his temples and tells him to breathe slow and deep.  After a few minutes, his headache subsides; he asks how she did that and she tells him she didn’t… she says, “you did” and smiles.  Kim comes in to see he is okay; he hops up and goes back to work.  She asks if, since she knows who they are now, Kristina would like to come meet her people.  She tells her she could even stay there with them too if she wants too; Kristina says she couldn’t pay… the girl told her if she can carry the trash out, she qualifies.  She gives her a book called “Every Day is a New Dawn.”