Tuesday, January 22, 2019 (S56E199): The Catacombs *Oscar and Jos are stuck in the catacombs; Alexis gets to know Shilo

Everyone is looking for Jos and Oscar; Carly breaks the news to Sam and Jason about Lulu being stabbed in her office.  They discuss where the kids might have entered the catacombs; Sam says she knows a way in that Jos might know about too.  They head that way.  Oscar, having passed out for a while, wakes up.  Jos tells him she has tried the cell phone, but there is no service where they are.  Oscar wants to try to climb out, but Jos worries he might have another seizure and fall; he suggests she go for help then.  Jos argues that she doesn’t want to leave him, but he insists.  As she scurries up the wooden ladder, telling him he better not die on her while she’s gone, a rung pulls loose and she falls to the ground.  She gets up and says she will try again, but now Oscar doesn’t want her to go; suddenly they hear Carly.  She tells them they will get her out; Chase calls in to report that Carly, Drew, Sam and Jason are “no longer on the scene."  Drew and Jason climb down; the floor moves when Jason steps on it.  Drew helps Oscar up the ladder first, then Jason offers to help Jos… Drew takes Oscar to the hospital.  Jos gets up; she thanks Jason for rescuing him.  He says all he did was give her a boost; the ladder breaks and he falls.

Brad shows up at Charlie’s; Julian holds Wiley.  Lucas walks in with Michael; he asks Brad what’s going on here.  Lucas asks Michael to hold Wiley for a minute and says he and Brad need to talk; Julian asks Michael how he got the privilege of time with Wiley.  Michael says he didn’t hold a knife to anyone's throat; Julian tries to bash Sonny but Michael tells him he doesn’t think they should be talking.  Willow comes in and sees Michael; he introduces her to his godson, Wiley.  Lucas asks Brad what he is thinking; he says he has considered letting Julian into his life again, but not to be involved with Wiley.  He reminds Brad that they promised the birth mother; Brad says she lost her rights after the window closed… they owe her nothing.  Lucas says he still wants to respect her wishes.  Michael offers to let Willow shake Wiley’s hand.  She tells him she needs to go grade papers.

Alexis confronts Shilo; she tells him that she has heard a lot about him.  He invites her to sit down with him; she asks if he knew Sam was Kristina’s sister before inviting Kristina to live with them.  He says he did not.  She asks him to tell her his story, from the beginning; he tells her about being a teenager, receiving a letter from his dad about marrying some young woman named “Cheryl.”  He says they were only married for about six months before she cleaned out his bank account and disappeared; Alexis says he must despise Sam for that… he says, on the contrary, she saved his life.  He tells her how he ended up in the military and in the gun fight, where Drew saved him… he says it was Sam that put him on that path.  He says it was a transformational experience for him, forcing him to re-evaluate his life and decide what to do with the new one he’d been given.  He swears it was Sam who put all the pieces together; he says it seems, they all just fell into place, where they should.  She thanks him for his time; he says it was the most painless cross-examination he’s ever had.