Monday, August 13, 2018 (S56E94): To Tell The Truth

Elizabeth scolds Cameron for shoplifting; Oliver mocks what a bad example he is setting for the kids… Jos tells him he isn’t the bad example, she is.  Griffin confesses to sleeping with Kiki when questioned directly by Scotty on the stand;Ava condemns Griffin for sleeping with her daughter; he isn’t proud of it, but tells her she can’t use that to hide her “righteous indignation.”  He calls her out for hiding evidence that could have freed Carly.  She tries to deny any involvement, but Griffin knows she had the blanket.  She finally admits it, saying it doesn’t mean that Carly didn’t push Nelle.  She calls him out for breaking his vows as a priest, breaking his hypocratic oath and for breaking her heart when he “screwed” her daughter.  He says she was the one using him, “to see what it would feel like to have a soul.”  Ava looks hurt and leaves.

Drew finds the flash drive in Margeaux’s hotel room; she tries to tell him it is for another case, but he doesn't believe it.  He demands to see what’s on the drive; she agrees to let him and turns on her computer… pictures of her as a kid come up on the screen.  He questions why she said it was for a case.Mike accidentally triggers the security alarm on Sonny’s house; Sonny comes down stairs with gun drawn and scares Mike horribly with he points the gun at him.  After they get Mike settled, Sonny reconsiders putting him in a home; Sonny says, “I don’t know how to do this.”

Curtis and Jordan go to family counseling with his Aunt Stella; the therapist praises them for coming for help.  Stella becomes frustrated fast and says she’s “outta here.”  The therapist writes something down; Stella questions what it is.  A discussion ensues and the truth about Stella’s hatred for Jordan comes out; Stella tells them she isn’t coming back for another session… until Curtis tells her he loves her.  Robert finds Finn’s tracker on the floor of the cell where Finn and Anna were being kept; he wonders how his captures found it.

Friday, August 10, 2018 (S56E93): How Do You Un-send a Text?

Franco apparently means to send the text, disclosing Kiki’s sexual affair with Griffin, to Scotty; when he realizes it was to Ava, he looks terrified.  Ava looks at him; he shakes his head.  The D.A. is questioning Griffin on the stand; he asks if he ever lies, then he asks about his relationship with Kiki..  Griffin hesitates; the fire alarm goes off (Franco is out in the hall, with his hand on the alarm).  The judge recesses; Ava tries to get Franco to tell her more about the text… he pretends not to know anything about it.  Ava’s mind replays every single time she ever walked in somewhere and found Kiki and Griffin hugging.  When they return to the courtroom, Scotty asks Griffin straight out “have you ever had sex with Kiki Jerome?”

Cameron Webber comes into Kelley’s diner with Joslyn; he is putting in a new pair of ear buds; Jos asks where he got them, since he didn’t have the money to buy them half an hour ago.  He boasts about being a great thief, hinting that Jos should know what it’s like.  She gets annoyed with him, then an officer comes in and says he needs to take him in for questioning about the shoplifting incident that happened an hour ago.  Carly gets a visit from Kevin; he wants her to go back to therapy…. she tells him "never again.”  She needs no reminders of Ferncliff; Kevin leans down over another patient….who is strapped to a chair, in a straight jacket – it looks just like him.  He says, “hello again brother.”  He turns the chair and sees a face that looks much like his own; the man in the chair says, "hello brother."

Thursday, August 9, 2018 (S56E92): Don’t Spill the Beans

Franco convinces Alexis to listen to him; she tells him it better be good.  He tries to tell her, but the judge comes into the room; she tells Franco to go sit down.  She gives a grand opening statement; Scotty just says his client is innocent.  Elizabeth is called to the stand; admits she never personally saw the harassment… Scotty dismisses her testimony has hearsay.  Apiphany testifies next; doesn’t need a crystal ball to see when a young woman is hurting and a no good man is the cause of that hurt.  The other young nurse who had sex with Dr. Bensch gets on the stand next, and says if she hadn’t slept with him, she would have lost her job.  Scotty tries to make it seem like she willingly just had sex with the doctor, but Alexis reads the definition of “coercement” and sets the jury straight.

Jordan and Curtis meet up at the Metro Court; Curtis has rented a room to “reconnect.”  Jordan tells him she doesn’t really have the time; then we see them in bed.  Curtis goes to get in the shower; his phone rings… Jordan picks it up and sees a message from “Chandra.”   She calmly asks him why Chandra is texting him, and shows him the unopened message; he laughs and says she tried to message him before but he hasn’t responded.  When Jordan asks why not, he pulls her up and says, “because I am so in love with you.”  Jordan goes to Stella and questions why she would have contacted this woman just before their wedding; Stella tries to say it wasn’t for any particular reason, but Jordan doesn’t buy it.  Carly revels about being free; she says she can’t wait for Diane to get Jason released.  She says she blames Nelle for Michael losing the baby; Sonny says they shouldn’t give Nelle anymore of their time.  Mike comes in; he is happy to see Carly, but doesn’t remember where she has been.  She says she was away, and couldn’t get back to her family; she says she just kept hoping… he likens her to Dorothy, “with the red shoes.”  He runs out to get something, and Carly and Sonny here a loud crashing noise.  They take him to the hospital to get stitches in his forehead; Stella suggests again that it might be time to consider putting Mike in a long-term care facility.

Ava gets on the stand next; Alexis asks about Bensch’s visit to her gallery.  Scotty declines to ask Ava any questions; he tells Bensch that “making Kiki’s mother into a martyr won’t do any good” for his case.  Kiki gets called next.  She explains how the relationship with Dr. Bensch slowly changed from good to bad; Scotty wants to pass again on questioning the witness, but Bensch threatens to fire him if he doesn’t show the picture.  He asks Kiki about the picture, accepts her answer, with an insinuation that it could mean more, and sits down; Alexis asks to rebut and clarifies that it was a simple hug from a friend consoling her because of Dr. Bensch’s actions.  She decides to ask permission to call Griffin to the stand, as the picture brings him into it; Scotty objects but the judge allows it.  Franco hurries and texts Ava, thinking Griffin is going to admit his affair with Kiki on the stand: “Griffin and Kiki had sex!”  Ava looks pissed.

Wednesday, August 8, 2018 (S56E91): Secrets Begin to Emerge

Finn is being held in an empty room somewhere; a man comes in with medical records and says its time for him to take a look at his new patient.  Finn tells him he isn’t doing anything for him, until he gets proof that Anna DeVane is still alive.  The man walks into another room, where Anna is strapped to a bed, with an IV in her arm; he takes her picture.  She asks what that’s for; he says, “proof” and leaves again.  Anna sits up and looks at an surgical knife she has hidden; she says, “you have to start somewhere.”  Finn tells the man that picture could be old; he says he wants to see Anna in person, alive and healthy.  The man brings Anna in, and says, “if our patient dies, Dr. Finn, so does she.”  Finn kisses Anna; she feels the implant in his hand… he tells her “the cavalry is on the way” and she says “no… we can’t have that.”  She takes the implant out of his hand and crushes it.  The man comes in and tells Finn “it’s time to roll.”

Robert, still talking to Peter, says it’s time to cut to the chase; he tells Peter to show him how good his information is that he thinks they want… Peter wants a guarantee of his freedom.  He says, he’ll guarantee if, if the information he gives is regarding the experiments at the facility where Jason was held captive.  He tells Robert what he knows.  Robert says it isn’t information - it’s a stall.  He says he’ll offer him a compromise.  He says he will “shelf” the charges; Peter agrees to cooperate with anything Robert wants him to do, or the charges will be re-filed.Maxie tells Nina that the gang in advertising was really impressed with the print this month; Nina says, no matter how Valentin wants to spin it, a lie is still a lie.  Valentin walks up to the table and says that nothing about his love for her is a lie.

Kim and Drew laugh about all the emails they are getting from the school, for meetings and such; Margeaux sees them talking and interrupts.  Drew introduces her as the new D.A.; Kim says “oh that’s how you two know each other, huh?”  Drew admits they met at a baseball game, and Kim acts coy about it; she giggles.  Margeaux goes in to talk to Peter, with Drew listening outside the door; she threatens him with more charges… Peter asks why she is so interested in this case.  She says its been put upon her to clean up his mess; she tells him to “give back Drew Cane’s identity” and she will drop every last charge.  Drew stops her; he says he is happy with his life the way it is now… he tells her if she is doing this for him, “thanks but no thanks.”  She asks if he is sure; he says yeah, asking “what would be the point?”  He says Peter was probably his father’s victim just as much as he was.  Griffin comes in next and tells Peter he is free to go; Margeaux tells him to get out of there and leave town, before she changes her mind and decides to charge him.  Peter smiles; in the hall, he tells Maxie that he has decided to stay in Port Charles.

Kiki is really nervous about the hearing that’s about to start; she says she has waited for this day for so long, and now that it’s here, she is terrified.  She is surprised to see Griffin come out of her mother’s bedroom, half dressed.  Ava tells her, her family and friends are there to support her; Griffin tells her not to even think about Bensch being there – not to give him that power.  Scotty tells Franco that he is still on their side, willing to throw Bensch under the bus, but he can’t promise that something explosive isn’t going to come out of the testimony.  Franco questions what he means, and Scotty tells him that Griffin slept with Kiki; Franco calls him a “hypocritical bastard.”  Scotty asks what he is going to do about it, now that he knows the truth.  Ava questions the clothes Kiki is wearing; she says she wanted to look professional… Ava tells her she needs to wear the outfit Alexis picked out for her, saying she can’t let Bensch win.  Franco tells Scotty that he is going to talk directly to Alexis about this and make sure she doesn’t ask any questions that will lead Griffin to tell the truth about his relations with Kiki on the stand.  He goes to the court and tells Alexis he needs to talk to her before her whole case falls apart.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 (S56E90): Gotcha!

Sam offers to help Michael clean up the things in his baby’s nursery; he says all he can think of is all the other children that could be using this stuff right now.  Michael finds the baby blanket in his son’s dresser; he says it was obviously planted there by someone who decided to double-cross Nelle.  Carly goes into the interrogation room to see Nelle (even though she is a fugitive at the moment); she tells Nelle that she messed with the “wrong family.”  Nelle looks rightfully frightened.  She tries to tell Carly how alike they are, because of what Carly did when she first came to town; Carly points out that she succeeded in her goal of tanking her mother’s marriage, and successfully seduced Tony “fair and square” – she says Nelle, on the other hand, had to drug Sonny to even get him in bed with her.  Nelle looks pissed and humiliated at the same time.

Jason tells the D.A. that it is her fault that all of this has happened to Carly, and says this is her chance to do something right.  He gives her the paper with Carly’s forged signature consenting to the electroshock treatment; he explains how it couldn’t possibly be Carly’s signature because of when it was signed.  He reminds her that she is up against Diane here; he says it could tank her entire career.  She tells him, if she is going to listen to what he has to say, he has to turn himself in… and it could mean prison time.  He says, “as long as Carly is safe.”  Chase apologizes profusely about the death of Sonny’s grandchild; Sonny tells him his idea led to “unintended consequences” which is a lot different from it being his fault.  He says no matter how careful you are, you can’t plan for everything – no matter what side of the law you are on; he says no one could have imagined the baby would a casualty.  He says it’s a heavy burden, but Chase is going to have to be the one to carry it.

The D.A. comes in with Jason, to find Carly and Sonny; she offers Carly a transfer to Shadybrook… she says it’s a preferable arrangement.  Sonny says it’s “so not happening” as he stares at a text from Diane that says: “Mission Accomplished.”  Sonny tells her that the judge just agreed to set aside Carly’s conviction.  Michael comes in with the blanket and says, he thinks he can help with that.  Carly gasps when he dumps the blanket out on the table; they explain to Margeaux what it is and how he found it.  She finds it suspicious and says it may have been planted there; Sonny reminds her that Janelle Benson has already been proven guilty.  She agrees to vacating Carly’s sentence; Nelle is brought out of the interrogation room, and screams “no, no, no, no, no” when she sees the crocheted blanket on the table.  Margeaux says she has Nelle on so many offenses right now, the blanket is practically meaningless; Carly says, “not to me.”  Michael says goodbye to Nelle; she screams at Carly, “this is all your fault… and I hate you.”  The D.A. tells Sonny that she should be working on bigger things anyway, like a case against him; he tells her to “bring it on.”  Carly and Jason tell each other they have no regrets; Carly jokes that they might get adjoining cells.

Ava is concerned about how hard this law suit is going to be on Kiki; it is has already been horribly difficult.  Alexis tells Kiki she has also been getting prank and lewd phone calls every day; four so far today, she says.  Griffin finds Ava and tells her they need to talk; he lets it slip that he loves her and she jumps on it, saying she loves him too; he confirms that he truly loves her, but says they still have a lot they need to talk about.  She asks if it can wait until after the trial; he says okay.  He finds Kiki in the hallway and tells her that he needs to tell Ava that he cheated on her; he says he won’t name names, and promises not to let her know it was Kiki.  Kiki says if he tells her, he will lose her and make her his enemy; she says it would be bad for both of them and walks away.  Scotty tells Ava they are going to go to trial; she reminds him that he is throwing the case for her… he says he has to put on a “reasonable defense” however and there’s no telling “what someone might be forced to admit.”