04-10-2017 (Monday) Tripp Gets to Know His Mother

Steve comes back and says he couldn’t find Tripp; Joey says he didn’t say anything about staying out over night.  Kayla says they will find him; Steve complains that he couldn't find him.  Joey tells his dad, Tripp needs to know the truth; he says Tripp needs to know he is the one who killed Ava.  Tripp watches the videos of his mother; she warns him not to trust people that just want to get close to him so they can hurt him.  Ava tells Tripp how much she loved him before he was even born, saying she plans to give him these recordings on his 21st birthday.

Victor asks Deimos why he is smiling; Deimos says he is just focused on Titan right now, and all goes well, they could be saying goodbye to one of their rivals. Rafe and Hope listen, but hear nothing now; they are watching as Eduardo paces back and forth nervously.  Kate waits at the Club for Eduardo to show; she tells Gabi it looks like she might have been stood up.  A man comes to meet with Eduardo; he has stolen bonds.  Eduardo says they look good; he shows the man some other type of certificate, which is apparently counterfeit.  He tells the man these will be very useful; the man says he is counting on that.  They make the exchange; Rafe and Hope record it.  Rafe comes around the corner; Eduardo tells Rafe that he was just picking up papers a colleague has been holding for him – Rafe tells him he knows he has a hundred million dollars worth of “t” bonds in there and asks him not to lie to his face.  He says he was hoping to catch Deimos doing something illegal, not his dad; Eduardo says he must have gotten a tip from Deimos.  He tells Rafe this is  a set-up; Rafe doesn’t buy it.

Eduardo asks his son to just look the other way this one time; he says they could donate the bonds to charity.  Rafe says he can’t just forget about his oath or his integrity; he arrests his father and tells him his rights.  Deimos brags to Victor about how he set up Eduardo; Victor says he would love to see the look on Eduardo’s face when he realizes he’s been set up.  Dario gets a call, at the Club, and tells Gabi their dad has been arrested; now Kate knows why he hasn’t shown up for their date.

Tripp comes back angrier than before; he Steve and Kayla that he knows who they really are.  They ask what that means; he tells them they are liars, showing them the videos Ava made for them.  He says he got them from her cousin; he says she does not look like the worst person in the world, nor did she look unstable.  Steve says he can’t take his mother’s words at face value; he says she was a cunning manipulator, who may have loved Tripp in her own way, but… Tripp cuts him off saying she never got that chance, because he murdered her.  Joey begins to tell Tripp there’s something he really needs to know, but Steve stops him.  He tells Tripp that he will never get to know the real Ava Batalli; almost crying, he says he’s afraid he will never get the chance to know him either, and he leaves.  Tripp gives the discs to Kayla and says they can see for themselves what she told him; they go to the diner and watch them on a laptop.  Steve says he doesn’t know how he can he discredit a dead woman who leaves a performance like that; back at the loft, Joey tries to talk Tripp into staying.  Tripp asks him if he has something else he wants to tell him; he tells Tripp Ava kidnapped his mom and bashed her over the head, says she lied all the time and was “messed up.”  Tripp starts to leave, saying he can never forgive Steve for smothering his mother to death; Joey says if he stays, he will tell him the truth about what really happened.

Eli is impressed that Rafe would arrest his own father and compliments him; Rafe says he was just doing his job.  Dario comes to the station and asks Rafe what the hell he did… Rafe says he has turned a blind eye so many times he couldn’t do it again.  He says he hates it and would rather go to jail himself than send his father there, but he had to do his job.  He tells her the Federal authorities are going to be there tomorrow to pick him up; he apologizes to his sister, who cries as he hugs her.  Dario goes in to talk to his father; he tells him he is sorry for pushing him to get the business up and going so fast.  Eduardo tells Dario he is proud of him and asks him to look out for his sister, saying Gabi isn’t as strong a she pretends to be.  Dario says none of them are and leaves the room; Gabi comes in to see her father.  She is angry because he had promised her he was done breaking the law; he says he’s done his best.  She says his best was playing with Ariana and being there for them; she says she forgave him for leaving them before, but doesn’t think she can forgive him for leaving Ariana.

Kate comes to see Eduardo; he tells her he was “detained” as he holds up the cuffs.  She tells him she is sorry they wanted so long to say how they feel; he says he loves her after they kiss.  She says she loves him too; an officer comes in to take Eduardo.  He stops and tells his kids that he is so sorry he let them all down again; he says he tried really hard to be the kind of person they already are.  Deimos gets the call that Eduardo has been arrested; Victor congratulates Dario, but warns him that Gabi and Hope are “off limits” and says Dario and Rafe will probably be coming after him

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