04-19-2017 (Wednesday) A Secret Meeting

Paul meets Marlena in the park; he has something for her.  He hands her an envelope and leaves, telling her to trust him.  It’s a letter from John; she goes to a motel, as directed, and waits in a room.  John walks in; she can’t believe he’s really there.  He says, “it’s nice to see you doc” and she hugs him, as she is crying tears of happiness.  He tells her it’s okay and apologizes for all the cloak and dagger stuff; she asks how long they have.  He says they are just going to make the best of it; they kiss.  After making love, they talk; she asks him if he is safe.  He says he can’t tell her anything and asks how she is; she says she misses her husband.  He apologizes and says he will get home as soon as he can; she kisses him again, as “motivation.”

Paul goes to see Sonny; Sonny tells him how frustrated he is with his new job at Basic Black.  Paul says he has information that will help them take down Deimos; this news perks Sonny right up.  He shows him an email, mentioning a delivery of artifacts to the “homestead.”  Sonny says he must have found another dealer; they figure he’s having them shipped to Greece.  Paul does some more checking; Sonny tells Paul that he is no longer afraid of Deimos, adding, as long as Paul is by his side, he feels like he can do anything.  Paul smiles.  He tells Sonny, he never thought he would be happy again after his career ended; now he has a whole new life.  He tells Sonny he is going to be a great CEO; they hold hands.

Jade asks Joey if he’s still mad at her for drinking with Tripp; he says he’s just disappointed.  She asks what she can do to make up for it; Joey doesn’t respond.  Kayla stops by with a refill on Jade’s medication; she tells her to be sure she follows the directions this time.  She brings groceries too, puts them away and walks out the door.  Jade dumps about four pills in her hand and starts to take them; Kayla comes back in the door and says, “stop.”  Joey comes back in and asks what’s going on; Kayla tells him she thinks Jade is trying to stay sick so he’ll keep taking care of her.  Kayla leaves; Joey asks Jade if what she said is true.  She admits that it was, in way; she says when he is taking care of her, she feels so close to him.  She tells him she loves him again; he reminds her that he does NOT love her and tells her he thinks she needs to move out.

Tripp meets with the man in charge of his money; he says he will be in touch.  Tripp celebrates by offering to buy a round of drinks for everyone in the Pub; Steve tells him he should do himself a favor and say no to that money.  Tripp says Ava’s father owes him; he tells Steve he wants his videos back that his mother made for him.  Steve tells him that he needs to tell him a little more about his mother; he says, he left a few things out.  They sit down at a table and Steve proceeds to tell Tripp that he loved his mother once; he says she was a free spirit.  He says they were going to get married, but he was abducted right before the wedding – she thought he left her at the altar.  Then, her father took him away from her, Steve tells Tripp; he can only imagine what that did to her.  He says the next time he saw her, she was out of her mind.  Tripp asks how he can trust anything he says; Steve shows him a picture of Ava’s secret room (which she held Kayla hostage).  He sees that is the work of a troubled mind, but struggles with comparison to the loving mother in the videos he watched.  He brings up his adoptive father, who used to beat him; Steve says his dad used to beat him too.  

Steve tells Tripp he wants to be a father to him... a good one; he says he can be a part of their family, if he wants to.  He pleads with him again to turn down the money; Tripp asks if he would be done with him, if he does take it.  Steve says he will never be down with him; he is his son, no matter what.  But, he tells him, that family took that sweet, young woman in those videos and turned her into something that could create that room; he doesn’t want to see the same thing happen to him.  Steve invites Tripp to come over and join them for pizza; Tripp says, “not tonight.”  He needs to think, he says.  After he leaves, Tripp gets obnoxiously drunk and orders another drink; Roman refuses to serve him anymore and Tripp gets upset.  He stands up and knocks his glass of the table; it breaks on the floor.  Roman tells him to back up; Tripp takes a swing at him.  Roman turns him around and pins him down over the table; he takes him down to the station.  He tells him a night in jail might do him some good.

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