Monday, August 6, 2018 (S56E89): Nelle is In Custody

Ava talks to her brother Julian; she asks him to do a favor for her.  He asks her what’s in the bag; she shows him the baby blanket.  He agrees to take it with him to visit Leo, and he puts it in Michael’s baby’s dresser drawer.  They hope someone will realize what it is and that it will help to free Carly; Julian wonders why Ava is suddenly trying to help Carly, but does her bidding.  She tells him she feels horribly about Michael losing his baby; even though she doesn’t care for him, she says, “nobody deserves that.”  Michael sees Lucas and Brad walking through the hospital lobby; he stops to talk to them and Lucas introduces Wiley to Michael as his cousin (Michael is Lucas’ nephew by marriage).  Michael asks to hold the baby; he notices something about him but blows it off.  He tells them they are so lucky; Brad acknowledges that they sure are.  The guilt shows all over his face; Lucas asks what’s wrong.  Brad tells him he just wants to get home and spend some time with their son.

Carly is having second thoughts about going to Canada; Jason thinks there may be another way.  Sam tells him she hopes so, because she “needs him” even if she can’t define how; Sonny is afraid Jason’s plan is too dangerous.  Carly says she wants to try; it could be a matter of hours versus weeks or months.  

Margeaux runs into Drew at Charlie's; he tells her he wants to “clear the air.”  He tells her he knows Curtis was kind of acting like a “wing man” the other night; he lets her know that he “isn’t looking.”  She tells him she isn’t looking either, but leaves her number with him, just in case he “threw away the one” she gave him when she spilled mustard on him the other day.  She goes to the docks and says “okay I’m here”… Jason steps out of the shadows.  He thanks her for meeting him.

Nelle tries to talk her way out of her predicament, by telling Jordan her confession was coerced; she says she would have said anything to get Michael to stop the car before it crashed.  Jordan asks her how she knew it was going to crash; Nelle denies having anything to do with rigging the car… but Jordan plays the recordings of her ‘hiring’ Chase to case the car to crash after fifteen miles.  Chase tells Sonny he is sorry for what happened to his grandchild, and says that he knows its all his fault.

Friday, August 3, 2018 (S56E88): Finn Taken

Jordan calls Robert to tell him that Peter August is being discharged and can be released into his custody.  She sees Michael and asks if he can tell her where to find his mother and Jason; he tells her he knows nothing… he says he was busy last night, with his baby dying.  Finn tells Anna he is headed her way, although he doesn’t really know where she is; along the way, he gets abducted.  Someone puts a bag over his head, ties his hands and throws him in a small cell.  Lulu comes to see Peter in the hospital; she makes fun of the fact that he is going to prison, but says she is glad to see he is recovering.  She says she is pissed that he set her up, and that she played right into his hands.  Nina tells Maxie that Leisel broke out of custody and caused an accident with Michael and Nelle; Maxie is saddened to learn about the death of Michael’s baby.

On a more positive note, she tells Maxie, Lucas and Brad got their baby; that makes Maxie smile.  She tells Nina, she really “buried the lead.”  Lulu calls both Maxie and Nina to meet with her; she wants their approval on her last piece about Faison, and Peter.  Maxie tells her it humanizes him; she tells Lulu she’s a great writer… Nina agrees.  She says she is looking forward to the story coming to an end.

Jos tells Nelle “this is just between us” after she demands to know where Nelle thinks she is going; she says she saw her sneaking out of her room and decided to follow her.  Nelle tries to walk away and Jos grabs her; Nelle pushes Jos down to the ground, cutting her forehead.  Jos gets up and goes back after Nelle; she punches her and then slams her up against the wall a few times, telling her not to ever mess with her family again.  Jordan shows up and tells Jos “that’s enough.”  She asks what happened; Jos says, “she tried to get away and I stopped her.”Jos sees Michael at the police station; he thanks her for helping.  She says she had to do something; he says he knows the feeling.

When Robert comes to get Peter, Peter tells him locking him up would be counterproductive; he says he has information “on the others… (the ones that came before Jason) patients 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.”  Brad and Lucas are called to the station; Jordan has some questions for Brad, about Nelle.  He’s nervous, especially when he sees Michael there; Michael stops and stares at the baby in Brad’s arms.

Thursday, August 2, 2018 (S56E): We’ll Get Through This

Sonny asks Michael if he is ready to go; Michael says no… he needs some answers first.Kim comes in to tell Nelle that she is being discharged; Nelle asks if she can find a reason to keep her there longer, because as soon as they release her, she is going to jail.  Kim brings Michael into the room and says she has the coroner’s report on their baby; he lists the death as “unexplained.”  Nelle gets angry and insists it was the crash that killed their son; Kim says, they checked for that.  The baby didn’t suffer any injuries from the crash; Nelle says she doesn’t believe her and continues blaming Michael.  Kim says no one is to blame.

Curtis and Sam dress up as investigators for a mental health association and go to Ferncliff; they first say they want to know some things about the Carly Corinthos escape, but then tell Mary Pat this facility has been granted some “innovative” award.  They just want to make sure everything was by the books in the Corinthos case; she obliges.  Sam gets the supposed consent form; Jason says he hopes it’s enough, together with Nelle’s arrest, to get the D.A. to back off of Carly’s charges.  Chase comes back to see Nelle, but finds her bed empty; he checks the bathroom.  The guard says he just “got called away for a minute” – Nelle is on the run.  Michael shows up at the safe house; he hugs his mother.  She tells him Jos went to see him at the hospital; Jos catches Nelle walking the back halls, grabs her arm and asks where she thinks she’s going.

Wednesday, August 1, 2018 (S56E): It’s Your Fault

Brad tells Lucas he is going to run to the hospital for a while; he says, he had his time with their baby and Lucas deserves his.  Nelle tells Michael that it is his fault their baby is dead; he is in shock, holding this still newborn infant.  Elizabeth tells him they need to go to a cubicle, where he can have all the time he needs to say goodbye; he refuses… he takes off with the baby and tells her to leave them alone.  Brad hides around the corner, looking guilty.  He goes in to talk to Nelle, who has been taken to a room; he tells her he isn’t sure he can do this.  She tells him he has to; Ava sees Nelle talking to Brad, holding his hand.  She interrupts.

Jason brings Jos to see Carly; Jos tells her mom she is so sorry for her testimony.  Her mom tells her there are some things she needs to know about Nelle; Jos is stunned.  She can’t believe she fell for Nelle’s lies; they talk about what might happen with the baby – Carly says it will be born behind bars, and Michael will be a single parent.  Michael sits in the chapel with his dead son still in his arms; Sonny comes in and sits down beside him.  Michael blames himself; he says he is the one who set Nelle up and kept driving when she asked him to stop… he is the reason his son is dead, he tells his father.

Lulu talks to Chase at Charlie’s bar; Chase blames himself somehow.  He tells Lulu how he ‘just knew’ the baby was dead when he saw it in Nelle’s arms – it was “so, so still” he tells her.  Kiki and Griffin talk on the other side of the bar; Kiki tells him she isn’t drinking tonight.  She doesn’t want to get drunk and let anything slip; she tells Griffin her mother can’t find out… she gets angry, and then she gets even.  She says, “she would take us both down.”  Brad leaves Nelle’s room, and Nelle tells Ava they need to settle a few things; she says she has been arrested.  Ava asks what she plans to tell the cops; Nelle says she won’t say anything about her being her accomplice, but only because she would have to admit that Carly didn’t push her down the stairs and she won’t give her that satisfaction.  Ava goes back to the bar and apologizes to Griffin and Kiki for leaving them like that; Griffin says it’s okay, telling Ava Nelle is lucky to have a good friend like her, to stick by her side.  Ava tells them that Nelle lost the baby; Kiki goes to call Michael.  Nelle laughs to herself about how Michael and his family will never see her child, or know where he is, even though he’ll be right under their noses.  Elizabeth comes into the chapel; Michael hands her the baby and turns to his father… he hugs him and cries.

Tuesday, July 31, 2018 (S56E): Where’s Anna?

Robert tells Finn that Anna disappeared about a month ago; Finn is confused.  Robert asks when Finn last heard her voice and Finn says it was as she was driving to the airport; he tells Finn Anna never made it to the airport and never made her flight.  Finn tells Robert he is willing to do whatever he can to help Anna; Robert tells him to get a good night’s sleep.  He has arrangements to make.

The D.A. (Margaux) takes a look at the flash drive she found in the envelope with Drew’s name on it.  Drew talks to Curtis about accepting his life, as it is laid out before him now; Curtis says he understands that, and it sounds good, if he is able to do it.  Margaux comes into the bar; she tells Drew that she knows everything now and she apologizes for what he’s gone through.  He says he wouldn’t know how painful it was, because he doesn’t remember.  She starts talking about him having his brother’s memories and then apologizes again and again; he tells her it’s fine and she awkwardly leaves the table.

Michael tells his dad to go and leave him there; Sonny refuses.  Michael says he needs to find Nelle and make sure the baby is okay.  Sonny lifts him up and helps him away from the car, just before it explodes into flames.  Nelle is on the ground now, screaming with contractions; Obrect tells her to open her skinny legs and push.  Sonny and Michael find the van; they tell Chase what just happened and he tells them what happened with the van.  They wait on an ambulance for Michael; Chase tells Sonny that the commissioner got called away because a “single gunman broke (Carly) out of Ferncliff tonight.”  He asks if Sonny knows anything about it; Sonny says no.  Of course, he goes straight to the safe house, assuming that it was Jason; he tells Carly everything that happened.  He says Nelle walked away from the accident and hasn’t been found.Brad lifts his baby from the crib and begins chest compressions; he begs Wiley to be okay.

Next thing we see is Lucas getting Brad’s message; Lucas tries to return the call, but when Brad’s phone rings, it is in his car… Brad has driven to the woods, with the baby in a basket.  He is asking “why?”  He begs God to please let this be a bad dream; all of the sudden Nelle emerges from the trees, yelling for help.  Brad sees her; she has her baby in her arms… it’s a boy as well.  Of course she doesn’t tell Brad the entire truth about the conversation between her and Michael, but when he tells her she is luckier than she knows, he glances into the backseat of his car; she asks what’s up, and he tells her he and Lucas got their son tonight.  She tells Brad to take her baby; she says she has to leave town… she says Michael tricked her into confessing to all kinds of things she didn’t do.  Brad doesn’t feel right about it, but she convinces him it is the best alternative for everyone; she says she would rather he and Lucas raise her child than Michael.

Walking by the side of the road, with a dead baby in her arms, Nelle is picked by Chase and take to the hospital; Michael sees her.  Brad hands ‘their son’ to Lucas, who revels in his happiness as he holds him and declares him Wiley Cooper Jones.  Michael asks to hold their baby, and Nelle hands it to him… Michael is devastated when he notices the baby is dead.  She tells him, “our baby didn’t make it.”