03-01-2017 (Wednesday) Sam and Scout are Safe

Olivia gets a call from her man on the board; he tells her that the staff managed to save the hospital.  She is pissed; she grabs a knife and tells Julian she blames him.  She says she wants to gut him like a fish, then throws the knife down and says she has to stay on track though; Julian asks her what he can do to help.  She tells him it is not the building she was wanting, it’s “what lies beneath.”  Curtis comes into Jordan’s office; Alexis is right behind.  They tell Jordan that the person responsible for killing Morgan is Julian’s older sister; she is stunned.  Alexis explains that Sam is missing; and tells Jordan how she knows “Liv,” who has been masquerading as her AA sponsor.   Jordan tells Alexis to call Liv; they say she may not realize they are on to her… Olivia sees Alexis call and immediately figures she has found her out.  She doesn’t answer; Alexis leaves a voicemail and calls right back.  Liv decides to answer; Alexis tells her she needs her help.  Liv tells her she can’t meet her right now and suggests she find a meeting; she hangs up and tells Julian that she is on to them.  Alexis said she was in front of a liquor store, but there was no traffic, no noise; the police manage to track the call and head to Olivia’s apartment.  She and Julian are gone.

Elizabeth gets called back into work; Monica explains that they saved the hospital.  Franco drives her in and asks when he starts; Monica tells him probably never.  She explains that this is a purely financial decision; nothing personal… the hospital simply doesn’t have the funds to keep luxuries like art therapy going right now.  She tells Franco there is a list of other jobs that are still available; he decides to apply for one emptying bed pans, telling Liz all he wants is to be near her.  

Jason tells Sam that the baby is fine; Sam is looking over his shoulder, and faints.  She comes to after a few minutes, but tells him she just wants to go to sleep; she tells him to take the baby and get to the hospital.  He says he is not going to leave her; he makes her hold the baby and he picks them both up.  He is determined to carry them out of there.  He makes it up the wall and onto the bridge; he can hear the ambulance coming.  They get Sam and ‘Scout’ to the hospital in time; Jason wants to stay with Sam as they wheel her off, but they tell him no.  Franco tries to talk to Jason; Jason grabs him and tells him to stay out of his way.

Nelle finds Michael at the hospital and tells him that she has done a horrible thing; he tells her whatever it is they can fix it.  She says, no, “they” can’t.  Monica interrupts and congratulates him on the wonderful thing he did; Nelle inquires as to what that’s about.  He tells her how he stalled the meeting; said he’s never tap-danced like that in his life.  She says he is a wonderful person; he says so is she.  She says she’s not, and that’s why she has to go away.  She makes up a story about her friend being sick back in Atlanta, and says she’s been a horrible friend; she says she has to go be with her friend.  Michael insists on escorting her to Atlanta and says they can take the company jet; she agrees to let him but says they have to hurry.  

Carly tells Sonny to look her in the face and tell her that he slept with Nelle; she then asks why and he does his best to explain it to her.  Carly plays him the recording and he realizes Nelle was setting him up all along; he points out to Carly that means she was setting them both up.  He apologizes, saying he played right into her hands.  He points out that the flowers, with his initial on the card, could not have come from him because he isn’t that stupid.  He tells Carly that he had questioned Nelle about this mystery man of hers, and reminds Carly of the day she sent Nelle up to the room for the tax information and tells her she planted a bra in the bed.  Carly tells Sonny she believes him.  She then gets angry at him for “letting” her depend on Nelle, letting her trust Nelle, and asks why she didn’t tell him right when it happened.  She tells Sonny to leave her the hell alone and starts storming out the door; she opens it to find Nelle and Michael standing there, about to come in.

02-28-2017 (Tuesday)

Tracy and Michael are devastated; they can’t believe they lost the vote.  Olbrecht shakes hands with the developers and tells them she’s glad she could be of help.  Tracy asks Olbrecht what she got for her vote; Olbrecht claims no one bought her vote.  Tracy doesn’t believe it; she tells Hayden and Monica that they lost the vote.  Finn overhears and asks if they can stall for fifteen minutes before certifying the vote; they say they will do what they can.  He leaves in a hurry; Hayden, Tracy and Michael put on a good act; they point out that Hayden used only worst case scenarios for projections.  Tracy says she can’t certify the vote without hearing the other analysts projections; Michael presents much more optimistic numbers.  Just then Finn comes in and asks if another donation would help seal the deal; he tells them he has sold his patent and offers the entire check, as a gift to the hospital.  

Olivia tells her brother that she is getting her revenge for him shooting her; she says she is no longer a push over.  She chews him out for his stupidity in the past, for killing Duke, mainly, and says she doesn’t think he can be saved.  Jason stands on the bridge, calling out to Sam; he cannot see her, I guess because it’s dark (although it doesn’t look dark from where she is).  She can’t find the strength to call out to him; she has another contraction and falls backwards, passing out again.  The moon shines between an opening in the clouds – a full moon – and lights up the exact spot where Sam lay.  Jason sees her; he slides down the wall.  She tells him she figured out her mother’s sponsor was not who she said she was; Sam is in full-blown labor now and Jason is delivering their baby.  Scout is born, but she is not breathing; Jason begins giving her breaths [thank god he didn’t start pumping on her chest].

Nelle starts to leave the office, with the flash drive in hand, and runs in to Bobbie, who was just about to knock on the door.  Bobbie gloats and tells Nelle she should pack her bags and catch the next bus out of town; she says, “your game is over.”  Carly listens to the entire audio file; and recalls moments of their separation; then she remembers their conversations through their attempts to get back together.  Next Carly recalls all of her interactions with Nelle, and conversations about Nelle’s “boyfriend” – things Nelle said seem to start making sense now.  She starts to walk out the door; Sonny is standing there.  Carly pretends not to know anything; she says she is there for business reasons.  Nelle tries to convince Bobbie that she truly cares about the family and only wants the best for them; Bobbie asks if that is true, why did she sleep with Sonny.  Nelle is stunned.  Bobbie tells her she knows everything, laying it all out on the line – she then tells Nelle that Carly knows now too.  Bobbie does her best to make Nelle feel horrible, pointing out all the people she has hurt, all the things she has done, and tells Nelle to get out of there and go back to whatever swamp she crawled out of.  Bobbie calls Carly and tells her that she found Nelle in her office and she confronted her with everything; she apologizes, but says she thinks they’ve heard the last of her.  

Carly tells Sonny that she has figured it out; why he wants to renew their wedding vows.  Sonny looks worried.  Carly questions why he would show up there at Nelle’s; Sonny gets even more uncomfortable.  She asks if it offends him that she is asking… then adds that it sure offends her that he has been screwing Nelle this whole time.  Guilt washes over Sonny’s face; Carly is pissed.

02-27-2017 (Monday) The Resurrection of Olivia Jerome

Sonny and Carly are beaming after their night together; Carly tells him that she is going home – to pack and tell Joslyn that they are moving back in there.  Sonny starts to tell Carly about that night, around Thanksgiving, when he thought it was all over; he tells her that he thought she was with Jax and…Carly kisses him and tells him it’s okay.  He tells Carly that he wants to renew their wedding vows.  Bobbie calls Carly and tells her that she has something important to tell her; she wants Carly to meet her to talk.  Sonny asks Griffin to perform the renewal ceremony; Griffin asks if the desire to renew their vows has anything to do with the woman he was with.  

Finn meets with a potential purchaser for his cure; he says no, because he doesn’t know how they are going to use it.  The man pushes a check across the table; Finn looks at it and seems to be impressed, but then tears it in half.  The man shakes his head; then hands Finn a card and tells him to call if he ever changes his mind.  Tracy and Monica wait anxiously; Monica asks if they have enough votes.  Tracy says they will, if Laura makes it there on time.  The meeting starts; Hayden gives her presentation.  She tries to drag it out, but the board gets frustrated and decides to take the vote; it is deadlocked, four in favor of the Quartermaines and four in favor of the developers.  Olbrecht walks up and says that she can break the tie; she is an alternate for a missing board member.  She votes with the members for the developers.  

Jason meets with Alexis and tells her about Olivia Jerome; she is freaked out, saying no, no, no… she’s my sponsor.  She recalls Julian’s meeting with her and how awkward it seemed; no wonder.  They suddenly realize, she probably did something to Sam.  Jason goes to look for her.  Sam still lies at the bottom of the spillway, half conscious; sirens blare in the background.  Sam tries to call out; the sirens slowly get quieter as they head another direction.  Julian is handcuffed to a radiator with a bag over his head; he demands to know what Olivia did with his daughter.  She says Sam attacked her on the bridge and she accidentally fell off; he is pissed that she just left her there.  Sam has a contraction; she is on her knees now.  She begs Scout to hang on until they can get to a hospital.  She tries to climb again, but has another, strong contraction; she says they are coming too fast.  Julian pulls up and calls for Sam; Jason is on the bridge calling for her.  Sam can’t call out to him for some reason; she tries, but has another contraction.

Nelle deletes the file on her computer and throws her flash copy of the recording of Sonny in the garbage can by her desk; she heads to the office to retrieve the envelope she mailed, trying to take back what she has done.  She searches desperately for the envelope and finally finds it, on the floor.  At the café, Bobbie tells Carly that Nelle’s “boyfriend” is Sonny; Carly is confused.  She says Bobbie must have misunderstood something; Sonny would never do that.  She says she’ll prove it; she goes to Nelle’s room.  She sees the “Sonny Audio File Deleted” message on Nelle’s computer.  Griffin convinces Sonny that he needs to be the one to tell Carly; Nelle goes to retrieve the envelope she mailed yesterday.  Carly finds the spare drive in Nelle’s garbage and plays it; she hears Sonny say that under no circumstances can Carly know [they] had sex.  She gasps.

02-24-2017 (Friday) The Empty Crypt

Curtis and Jason break into Olivia Jerome’s crypt; they pull back the stone lid and find the box empty.  Jason realizes Olivia Jerome was never dead!  Hayden is still looking for Finn; he talks to Roxy, telling her he has eight texts from Hayden and has a lot of explaining to do.  She finds him in his room; says she called the desk clerk and they told her he got in last night.  She searches his room, while she chews him out; she finds his pouch in the fridge and asks why he is still taking Zen-zen.  He admits it’s been hard to stop; she says she is going to get him help. He asks her to give him three days; if he can’t quit by then, he says he will go to rehab.  Hayden says she can’t watch him shoot up again; he tells her that he needs her more than anything in the world.  He tells her he loves her.  She thinks he’s just saying it to get her to back off; she says she isn’t going to fall for it and heads for the door.  She tells him to text, if he survives.

Anna wakes up in the hospital; she complains to Robin about the staff coming in and out so often, saying it makes it hard to rest.  For some reason, Robin decides to ask the guard outside her door to take a walk with her – and at the same time, Olivia Jerome steps off the elevator.  She uses a fake accent to ask the desk clerk a question; then hears him telling someone on the phone, Anna’s room number.  She pulls out a knife as she enters Anna’s room; before she steps all the way in, she hears Robin and the guard coming back.  The guard tells Robin to get him an update on her condition and he’ll try to get the desk Sergeant to agree to keep her here.  Robin announces to her mom that she is pregnant again.  Olivia says, to herself, that she will kill Anna eventually; mental health depends on setting goals, she says.

Nina and Valentin are having dinner at the Floating Rib; Dante comes by the table and says he needs to talk to them about the break in.  Valentin says he didn’t file a complaint; Nina says she did.  He gets angry with her for not talking to him about this first; she accuses him of having feelings for Anna.  He tells Dante they want to drop the charges, then goes to see Anna and tells her she owes him more than she knows.  Alexis finds Laura waiting for Lulu to join her at a table, at the Floating Rib…she wants to make amends.  Laura tells her she doesn’t think she qualifies as someone Alexis hurt; Alexis explains that she was drinking while handling the estate and although everything was valid, she apologizes for not providing competent representation.  Alexis leaves, and Regg happens by her table ‘accidentally’ knocking her purse off onto the floor; he apologizes, and Laura says it’s fine.  As she’s picking everything up, he pours something from a little vial into her coffee; he makes sure she drinks it before taking off.  Rudg calls Olivia and says he has an update; Laura starts to feel the effects of whatever Rudg put in her coffee.  She passes out cold as soon as she parks; Olivia instructs Rudg to take her for a nice, long ride.

Sam wakes up at the bottom of the spillway; she seems pretty hurt, but coherent… she talks to her baby, and is relieved when she feels it move.  She starts to climb up the slanted wall, but falls when she is halfway up, sliding back down to the bottom, holding her stomach in pain.  Sam tells the baby not to worry; she says ‘daddy’ is going to come for them real soon.  She passes out.

02-23-2017 (Thursday) Quests

Julian’s inside man on the hospital board calls him for a meeting at an out-of-the-way café; he tells him that the Quartermaines have pooled all their money and put another offer on the table.  Julian says he will up his offer; the man says he thinks it’s beyond numbers now…it’s become a community issue.  He tells him to be prepared that vote may go the other way; Julian grabs him and says that’s not acceptable.  The man says it’s just business, not life or death; Julian says, where he’s from, it is and warns the man to remember that.  The man walks away, looking frightened, but says he doesn’t know what he can do so far as other board members go.

Anna appears to be packing her bag, still dressed in her hospital gown; Valentine walks in her room.  She takes a step back; she tells her that she learned she had ordered his assassination, but says she doesn’t have any recollection of giving an order like that.  She says she needs answers and begs him to tell her what she doesn’t remember.  Robin breaks the news about her mother to Jason; she asks what his text was about.  He says, “Olivia Jerome.”  Liv holds Sam at gunpoint and introduces herself to Sam as her “father’s dead sister” – her Aunt Olivia.  She tells Sam they don’t want anything happening to the baby, warning her not to move; she plans to hold Sam hostage until she deals with Julian.  Robin questions why Jason wants to know about a dead woman; he explains.  She tells him Olivia Jerome was crazy and dangerous and hated her mother with a passion; she recounts her parents history with this woman, describing it as psychopathic.  She reveals that Olivia caused the miscarriage of her mom and Duke’s baby, adding that she knew, even as a child that it wasn’t an accident and no one was safe from that woman.  Jason questions Olivia’s desire for revenge; Robin comments that she is surprised she did rise up from the dead to kill Julian herself.  Nina talks to Curtis at the bar, describing her wedding evening (mentioning the break-in at their house last night), while Anna still pleads with Valentin, asking what he has wanted all along.  

Robin comes into the room and tells Valentin to get away from her mother; Nina tells Curtis about their interactions with Anna and says she is practically stalking them, adding it’s like she’s obsessed with him.  Curtis doesn’t buy it; he says maybe Valentin is not telling Nina everything.  As Olivia holds the gun on Sam, she recollects and narrates her family history to Sam, she begins to cry; Sam says she understands, but Liv says she can’t understand and becomes even more frustrated about the unfairness of everything.  She tells Sam, unless she wants to be collateral damage, she should get in the car; she begins to walk and has a contraction (or appears to); then lunges at Olivia, knocking the gun out of her hand.  She slaps her and calls her pathetic and starts to walk away again; Olivia grabs her and pushes her backwards over the chain.  Sam falls and lands on the metal wall, rolling the rest of the way down its slant and hits the icy ground, out cold.

Hayden talks with Griffin and determines that Finn is still taking Zen-zen; he talks to Roxy after shooting up again, and says he is going to get off the junk as soon as he’s done recovering.  Minutes later, Finn trembles as he is feeding Roxy; he determines that he has built up a tolerance and decides to inject another does.  “Just this once,” he tells Roxy.  Hayden leaves the hospital to try to find him.  She knocks on his hotel room door, but gets no response; she walks away as the camera pans to inside the room, where Finn lay on his back, passed out cold.  

Griffin tells Anna that she is not due to be released tonight, they need to watch her reaction to the medication and she needs to be extra careful not to get hurt now.  She gets upset about her career being over and Robin reminds her that she and her children still need her around; Anna agrees to stay overnight.  A police officer comes in and says he has to place Anna under arrest for breaking and entering. Valentin tells Nina that he won’t let anything or anyone intrude on the beautiful future they are building together; they toast to their future.