11-23-2016 (Wednesday)

Dillon comes into the living room of the Quartermaine mansion asking what is going on; someone left a ransom note on his bed and took some of his work things… Monica and Ned say the same thing happened to them.  Tracy shows up and tells everyone to quit whining, promising they’ll get their stuff back; she says they are going to celebrate this holiday like a happy family.  She chews Dillon out for trying to avoid her and then Ned; they explain, they know how it goes every year – they try to have a nice turkey dinner and end up ordering pizza.  Tracy says not this year; she tries to engage them, but fails.  She gets frustrated and gives them their items back; she has a drink.  They all apologize; they say they understand why she is trying to gather them together and they all hug and tell each other happy Thanksgiving.  Although they think they are going to enjoy a turkey dinner, finally, they think the cook may have mixed up the brine with Finn’s bacteria, and order pizza.  They take turns telling each other what they are thankful for and they sing.

Nelle shows up at Carly’s with a thanksgiving dinner from the store; Michael brought pies and Jax did some cooking.  Carly feels bad because she didn’t even think about making dinner; everyone tells her she deserves to relax.  Olivia shows up with some paperwork; she is surprised to see Carly as she thought she would be with Sonny now.  She doesn’t understand why Carly wouldn’t be there, telling her he wouldn’t ever change his ways for anyone before, but he did it for her and that should tell her everything she needs to know.  After Laura leaves, Sonny gets good and drunk; he calls Carly, but she has walked away from her phone and is hugging Jax when Nelle picks up her phone.  She decides not to interrupt them and sits the phone back down; he leaves her a short but sweet message.  Nelle grabs her coat and starts to head out; Michael asks where she’s going.  She says she had make plans with another friend who is alone today; he says that’s a lucky friend.  She wishes everyone a happy thanksgiving.  As Carly sits with her family, she looks at Michael and sees Sonny, she asks where Nelle is and Michael tells her she had someone she needed to see.  Sonny answers a knock at his door again; it’s Nelle.  She asks if she can come in; he says sure.  She says she felt a little out of place there, and lets it slip that Jax is comforting Carly.  She says she may have misunderstood; he demands to know what she means, asking if something is going on between them.  She says it was probably nothing; Jax is just here to help her.  He demands to know, yelling at her; she spurts out that she saw Carly and Jax kissing.

Lulu and Dante are at Maxie’s; Kevin shows up, without Laura.  Laura calls to tell Lulu she has to make a detour and will be there soon.  Dante calls his father to find out how he is holding up; Sonny asks how his grandson is… Dante offers to bring some dinner over to him.  He tells Dante that Lulu would ‘have their heads’ and says he will be fine; tells him to spend the day wit his family.  He wishes him a happy Thanksgiving and hangs up; there’s a knock at his door… it’s Laura.  He’s happy to see her; they talk about Spencer and she says she misses him.  But him being gone makes her realize how thankful she is for what she does have; she says she knew that he would be the one person who knows how she feels today.  She tells Sonny that people care about him, and even though some people may have forgotten that right now, they will come back and when they do, she says, he shouldn’t push them away.  Back at Maxie’s, Dante and Lulu surprise everyone by telling them that they are getting married again.  Olivia arrives.  Lulu looks stunning in a beautiful red gown, the ceremony is simple yet elegant; she tells Dante he is her “good thing”… they exchange vows, as the scene flashes from family to family, and to Sonny sitting on the floor, drunk and alone.  

Alexis tells Julian she wouldn’t dream of letting him stop her; she takes a drink.  She tells him to go away because he is violating a court order by being in ‘her space’ – he says he will leave, just as soon as he calls Sam to tell her what’s on her menu tonight.  She gets pissy, asking him if he is really going to tattle on her to Sam; he says he sees it as stopping her downward spiral.  She explains to Julian that Sam is happy right now and she doesn’t want to trouble her with this; she admits she is drinking too much, she knows that.  She grabs his hand and asks him, sweetly, please… but when he tries to convince her that she could always come to him for help, she says she would sooner die and takes another drink.  She tells him she doesn’t need him; she has her family and friends, and she’s getting her license back.  He says he worries about her prospective clients, and says he is going to get her the help she needs.  She runs out of the bar, gets into her car and speeds off, running Julian over in the process

11-22-2016 (Tuesday)

Jordan and Andre come into the diner, where TJ is working; they wish him a happy Thanksgiving.  He is working to save money for college, but will be done in time for dinner at Molly’s mom’s house.  Jordan says it was really sweet of Alexis to invite them all for dinner.  

As Alexis prepares, she recalls last year’s Thanksgiving with Julian.  Molly and Kristina have helped prepare the food, which was mostly catered apparently; Sam arrives, without Danny.  She says Jason, Danny and Jake decided to stay home and watch football; she didn’t want the distraction there, she says, so they are giving thanks in their own way.  Alexis tells the girls that the board is reconsidering her suspension; Kristina says that calls for a toast.  Jordan and Andre arrive; Molly offers them a glass of champaigne.  Sam goes to the kitchen to get sparkling cider for her and her mother; Alexis looks longingly at everybody else’s drinks.  

As the evening progresses, she continues to be entranced by them… she glances over at the bottles on the table.  She offers to help Molly whip the whipped cream, and clumsily drops the bowl, and says that was the only box she bought, thereby making an excuse for herself to leave the house; she says she is not coming back without whipped cream.  She sends a text to the girls, saying that Diane and Max had a fight and she is going to console Diane; they all three look confused.  She sits at a bar, having a drink, staring at a text from Julian.  Andre gets a call from a client, needing a phone consultation; he tells Jordan that he should probably go meet with this client.  She tells him they can leave, even though she is still talking to Curtis.  He says he called the night he found information and Andre told him not to bother her anymore, so that’s what he’s done; he says the ‘good doctor’ staked his claim, possibly sensing the rhythm that they used to have together, and suggests that they she and her shrink seek couples therapy.  

Ava shows up at the Metro Court with Avery to see Kiki; Kiki is happy and says she will be able to take a break in just a minute.  Julian shows up; he and Ava talk.  Julian tells Kiki that he would like to set aside their issues and come together as a family for the holiday; Kiki says no.  She gives her mother a wishbone and says she thinks she could use it.  She offers to share it with Julian; he loses.  He wishes her a happy Thanksgiving and leaves; she plays with the new little actress playing Avery, who is very talkative.  Cute.  Kiki sits down and talks to her for a minute; she tells her mom she still feels guilty for wanting to break up with Morgan that night.  Kiki then tells her mom that Sonny is home now, and will probably want Avery back with him soon.  

Scotty talks Lucy into meeting him for drinks in his hotel room; she says she knows that he is probably paying somebody to break into her room as they speak.  Then she laughs and shows Scott the bottle, still with pills in it, that she has with her in her purse… Scotty smiles as he smirks that she is always one step ahead of him; they start kissing.  He tries to make her think that he is willing to work with her to blackmail Ava; she tells him to convince her.  He grabs her and they fall on the bed; they make love.  Lucy gets out of bed to run to the bathroom; Scotty looks at the safe where she put the pills for safe-keeping.  She teases Scotty with the bottle of pills as she is leaving.  He goes back and tells Ava that he managed to get into the safe, and switched the pills in the bottle back to Lithium, so no one will know she was feeding sugar-pills to Morgan.  

Dillon talks to his mom; he apologizes for not being able to make it to dinner, saying he is busy working.  He pretends he’s getting another call to get off the phone.  She calls again later; he makes up another excuse, saying they are calling back.  He goes to pick up an order at the diner, and to see Kiki; tells her he is avoiding the holiday when she asks why he is working today.  She tells him that the restaurant ran out of Turkey dinner, but she has a turkey burger prepared for him.  He invites her to join him, if she doesn’t have to get back to work; she tells him her shift is over, so she agrees to stay.  He cuts the burger in half and they wish each other a happy Thanksgiving.  Julian meets with some man, at a pub, saying he really needs for this deal to go through; the man nods his head, they shake hands and he leaves.  Julian turns around and sees Alexis sitting at the bar.  He sits down beside her and tells her not to let him stop her, as she begins to lift her drink.

11-21-2016 (Monday)

Dante tells Jordan that it is possible someone else is responsible for the car bomb; she asks if he is having trouble being impartial.  He swears he’s not but says they have to look at every option, not just the easy ones.  Michael come to support his father at his arraignment; Diane lets Jordan know that she intends to have this case thrown out, as Sonny’s so-called confession was only the musing of a grieving father.  She manages to get Sonny released, and placed on house arrest instead, pending a hearing.  Sonny is fitted with an ankle monitor.  Diane assures him by the time of trial, Jason will have found evidence about who really put the bomb there; she says they have the bonus of him actually being innocent, which is not always the case.  

Jax pushes Carly way and tells her that they shouldn’t be kissing; she is still grieving, and still hung up on Sonny… he tells her she doesn’t need to be embarrassed about kissing him though, assuring her that he is still her friend and is here for her.  She begins talking about Sonny and how empty she feels right now; she says she wishes she would have stepped back and long time ago; Jax tells her “you can’t help who you love.”  Dante shows up at the door; he fills Carly in on the details of the arraignment; she thanks him for the information and he says he has to go.  

Sam and Jason look further for any information on Oscar Jessup, or anyone that knew him; they fear they are running out of time, since Sonny’s arraignment is this morning.  They try to figure out how they can see what was going on outside of the Floating Rib that night; the police have the survielence footage from the Floating Rib and they can’t look at it.  They think about security footage from other businesses nearby; Curtis walks in and tells them that he has footage from the mini-mart across the street on his phone – it has everything that happened in the parking lot that night, but he says, a delivery van pulled up and blocked the view of Julian’s car after Pete walked away from it.  Jason asks Curtis why he is still interested if Julian fired him; he says there was something about the way he fired him that doesn’t feel right, besides, he wants to see this through.  They shake hands and agree to work together.  

Nelle asks Kiki how she is doing, noting that she understands how hard it must be for her given how things ended with her and Morgan.  Kiki says she hates how things ended; Morgan deserved better.  Nelle says she hates how his death is tearing his family apart.  Kiki tells Nelle this is not the first time Sonny and Carly had broken up.  She starts asking a lot of questions about their relationship, break-ups and marriages; then she asks about Carly and Jax.  When she leaves, she tells Kiki it was really nice talking to her.  She takes Carly the guest book from Morgan’s service and offers to put it in her office for her; she overhears Carly and Jax talking about the kiss, and not wanting anyone to know about it.  She smiles.  

Hayden wakes up to Tracy staring at her; Tracy claims that she just wanted to make sure she hadn’t run off with the good china.  Hayden gives her hard time for actually caring; Finn comes in and Hayden asks when she can get out of bed.  She swears she is feeling all better; Finn says they need to wait for the test results before getting excited.  Curtis shows up; Hayden is happy to see him.  He says he just wanted to see for himself that she was doing better; she tells him she is actually really scared.  He tells her he is sure she will be fine; she’s a fighter.  Finn and Tracy excuse themselves; out in the hall, Tracy tells Finn she is worried.  She asks how he is doing because she knows he’s running low on his medication; he says he is okay, for now.  He tells Tracy that he wants her to let Hayden stay there, even though she’s getting better; she says she will talk to Monica.  Tracy tells Hayden that she is welcome to stay as long as she likes, but of course, Hayden has to be difficult.  She asks Tracy why she wants her to stay; Tracy says Finn will be mad at them both if she doesn’t.  Finn gets the call about Hayden’s test results.

11-18-2016 (Friday)

Elizabeth immediately reaches in her purse (fumbling) and grabs her mace, telling Baker to stay away from her; he retreats without hesitation and tells her he is not going to hurt her.  He says she didn’t have to send her boyfriend after him; she says she didn’t, but she understands why he went there, adding he’s lucky he only told him to stay away from her.  He laughs and says Franco must have left out the part where he almost choked him to death.  He shows her the marks on his neck; she turns and walks away… he tells her to tell her boyfriend that he is not a threat to her.  She turns around and says that he will always be a threat to her, alive or dead, because of what he took from her.  She leaves without getting the donuts.  She confronts Franco when she gets back to the hospital; he admits it but swears that he was only trying to scare him.  She calls that a lie of omission and says she is questioning now whether they can make it as a couple or not.  She tells him she doesn’t want him going to jail, because that would take him away from her; she makes him promise that he will not go after him again.  

Charlotte tells the judge that she calls Valentin “poppa” but Anna argues that’s only because he has coached her to call him that; so the judge asks her, but Charlotte says she knows he is her poppa, she remembers living with him and she loves him.  Anna shows the judge additional papers that show what a violent threat Valentin is, and that he didn’t even exist until a few years ago (having gone back to his family name only recently).  The judge breaks to review the evidence and make her decision.  Valentin confronts Griffin in the hallway, saying that he doesn’t think any of them will see Claudette again; Griffin punches him in the face.  The judge comes out and asks if they would like to come in and hear her decision; she tells them she cannot condone any physical violence.  But she assures them her decision is not based on what just happened; she tells them it is clear that Charlotte loves her father and is not afraid of him and she awards full, legal and physical custody of Charlotte to Valentin Cassidine.  Griffin is clearly upset.  The judge gives him a moment to say goodbye to Charlotte; he tells her she may not see much of him anymore, but he wants her to know that even though he isn’t her dad, she is in his heart just the same and he will always be there for her.  She hugs him.  Valentin whispers in Anna’s ear, “open your eyes” in Latin; she looks horrified as he takes Charlotte’s hand and leaves the room with her.  

Curtis meets Julian and tells him he has been digging into Oscar Jessup again… Julian gets a phone call and leaves the table.  Curtis sees Diane picking up her check; he jumps up and grabs it from her, saying, “allow me.”  She asks to what she owes this unexpected generosity; Curtis sits down and says he wants to talk about her client.  He asks why Sonny clammed up at the police station after confessing at the church; she says he was just exercising his right to stay silent… Curtis says Jason must have said something to him and he wants to know what.  Diane refuses to give him any information but thanks him for picking up her check.  When Julian returns, Curtis tells him that he is certain Jessup planted that bomb; Julian tells him he needs to find new employment.  

Joslyn tells her dad she wants him to stay for Thanksgiving; Carly argues that he probably can’t because he has things to get back to… Jax says his family here needs him right now and he will stay as long as they want.  Carly offers to put him up at the Metro Court; Joslyn says she wants him to stay with them.  Carly says of course he can stay; Jos excuses herself to go do a book report, while Jax and Carly talk.  She tells him she just doesn’t know how to move through this; he puts his arm around her and says they can try, together.  Joslyn comes out and sees them; she smiles.  They continue to talk and end up kissing after Carly says she wishes sometimes that she had fought harder for them.  Sonny has a nightmare while sleeping in his cell; Carly brings Morgan’s ashes in an urn and tries to show them to him.  

Jason shows up and tells him that the bomb, in fact, had nothing to do with him or the contract he put out on Julian; but they still have to find out who put it there.  Sonny says there’s no need to; he’s going to do his time and it doesn’t matter anymore.  Jason tells him he needs to keep fighting, for his kids, his family… Avery can’t grow up with Ava Jerome, he reminds him.  The guard tells Jason he has to go now; Jason ask if Sonny knows the name Oscar Jessup… he was a contractor that did work for the Jeromes, Sonny tells him.  Sonny gets ready for his arraignment; when Diane shows up, he tells her he is not going to plead guilty anymore.  

Franco runs into Sam in the hallway at the hospital; he apologizes to her for everything he has ever done to her and says he hopes she can find it in her heart, one day, to forgive him.  When Sam meets Jason at the bar, she tells him about the meeting with Franco, telling him that his apology seemed somewhat sincere but she feels that he is only using her to ease his conscience and she doesn’t know what Elizabeth is thinking, getting involved with him.  Jason tells her that Sonny told him who Jessup was; she says Spenelli is looking into the records as they speak.  Oscar has been dead since 1990, she finds out.  Julian is on the phone with someone, who he calls “Jessup,” saying he has done everything he asked for months now and asking when enough will be enough.

11-17-2016 (Thursday)

Jax comes back to the bar the next morning, after realizing he forgot his credit card.  The bartender tells him that he was sorry to see he wasn’t the one to ‘seal the deal’ with his lady-friend last night… he tells him someone else got lucky instead.  Jax shows him a picture on his phone and the bartender says that was her; he tells him he heard them mention something about a motel across the street.  Alexis wakes up, half naked, on a bed she doesn’t recognize; the shower is running in the bathroom… and the carpet in front of the bathroom door is wet.  Alexis has flashbacks of the evening (sitting at the table with this man, drinking one drink after another, laughing, him complimenting her, her falling for it); she quickly starts getting dressed to sneak out, but then she decides she needs to go to the bathroom, I guess;.  She asks the man how long he’s going to be in there and gets no response, which is when she steps onto the wet carpet – she asks if he’s alright and decides to open the door when he still doesn’t answer.  Oddly, no one is in there.  She wonders what the hell happened.  She thinks again; she remembers the man bringing up Franco – she laughed and more or less tells the guy she knows Franco.  When he asks if she has anything to do with him, she laughs again and doesn’t give him a straight answer – he freaks and decides not to mess with her; she didn’t sleep with him.  So what?  

There comes a knock at the door.  It’s the motel manager; he’s pissed she left the water on all night (it leaked somewhere) and he goes into the bathroom ro check… Jax shows up at the door.  He tells her he didn’t buy her excuse of wanting to stay to get some work and phone calls done; she just wanted to be alone to “tie one on.”  He tells her he heard she met someone too, to which she smirks; the manager comes out complaining about how she flooded the whole damn bathroom and will have to pay for it.  Jax pulls out his phone to call the girls; Alexis cannot believe he is going to “tattle” on her.  She gets angry and tells him she doesn’t need an intervention, nor does she need his judgment.  So she had too much to drink last night, and talked to a stranger, declaring she did not have a one-nighter, however, making the point that none of it is his business.  He thinks that her family should know about it, he tells her, because he sees a bigger problem here.  To persuade him to drop it, she says maybe Joslyn’s family should know about his little investment in that kidney; he is stunned, says he told her that in confidence, and she retaliates with the fact that she needs likewise confidence; she asks if he is going to call her daughters, or if she is going to call Carly.  Jax agrees not to call the girls, but begs Alexis to pull herself together for everyone that loves her.  

Carly tells Nelle that she went to see Sonny last night; Michael comes in and asks Nelle if she has been studying… they fill Carly in on their Chess game and upcoming rematch.  Carly says she needs to talk to Michael and they sit down at a table; she tells him she is glad to see that he and Nelle are becoming friends.  They discuss the friendship and the possibility that it always could become more.  Meanwhile, Nelle is behind the bar, getting into Carly’s purse; she finds a bundle of money and sticks it in her purse, just as Bobbi walks up and asks if she found anything interesting.  Haha… it’s the cash from last night’s bar receipts; Carly gave her specific instructions to take it and deposit it for her.  Bobbi is still suspicious of her.  

Michael tells Nelle he notices a change from when she first came there (not nearly as defensive, he insinuates), as they laugh about Bobbi’s suspicion.  Carly asks Bobbi what it is she doesn’t like about Nelle; she can’t tell her, because she doesn’t know, but she insists there is something about her she doesn’t trust.  Then she tells Carly Monica wants her to come back to work at GH, wanting some familiar faces there after re-opening.  As Nelle gets on the elevator to go make the deposit, she says to herself (smiling), “that went well.”  

Anna and Griffin prepare to go to court; Valentin comes into the diner where they are having lunch with Charlotte.  He takes Charlotte aside and talks to her, then tells her goodbye in French along with an un-translated message, and tells Griffin and Anna he will see them in court.  They meet in a mediation room, where a judge enters… she welcomes Commissioner Devane, and recognizes the other two parties, then explains that her decision will be binding and they proceed.  Anna shows that they do not dispute Mr. Cassidine’s parentage, only his fitness; she begins to present her case.  The judge asks where the mother is, and Anna tells her she boarded a plane for Calgary, but when the plane landed, she was not on it; everyone looks at Valentin.  Anna continues; she provides the entire history of Valentin’s actions in the past year (the judge is definitely troubled); Valentin then presents his evidence, his dismissal of charges from the Greek court, Affidavits about what a liar Claudette is, etc.  The judge says she needs to hear from the child herself at the juncture; she tells Anna her testimony is essential. 

Elizabeth is not happy with Franco; she reminds him that what he did was trespassing.  When Franco tells her that he got the message across and Tom Baker basically begged for his life, she gets even more upset.  She tells Franco she didn’t want him to do that.  He promises never to lie to her again, declaring his love for her; she hugs him and tells him they are good.  He asks her out to dinner; she tells him she has to go get donuts.  On her way to the diner, she runs into Tom Baker.