11-15-2017 (Wednesday) I Saw A Gun

Claire picks up Theo’s bag of clothing, sees the blood on the hoodie, hyperventilates and passes out again.  Tripp sits her down in a chair; she comes to on a table.  He comforts her, saying she needs to be strong for Theo.  Claire says, maybe if she hadn’t gotten so mad at him, or had stayed with him… Hope tells her this isn’t her fault.  She asks if she knows what Theo was doing after the party; Claire says no, only that he seemed to be distracted and said he had somewhere he needed to be.  Now, Hope tells Jen that JJ was the shooter; Jen is in disbelief.  JJ replays the event in his head as he looks over the ‘crime’ scene, which he probably shouldn’t be doing.

Mother to mother, Hope says, she understands how Jen feels, but she tells her that JJ cannot go anywhere near the hospital right now.  Jennifer calls JJ’s phone and leaves a message asking him to call her when he gets it.  Chad and Abigail discuss who might be trying to destroy their company; Jennifer calls.  Abby can tell something is wrong.

Kate leaves another message for Theo, telling him not to break into the building she tells him to call her when he gets this message.  Andre comes in, and asks if Kate truly believes him and she says she does.  Abigail and Chad come down stairs and tell Andre and Kate the news; Kate is obviously nervous, but Chad assumes Andre put Theo up to it.  Kate interrupts and says what’s important is that they are there for Theo and he’ll be okay.

Jennifer finds JJ sitting in the Square, next to the taped off area around the fountain; he says, he swears he didn’t know it was Theo.  Still sitting on the ground, he cries; Jen hugs him.  She says she knows he would never intentionally hurt anyone.  He asks her to go be with Theo and Lani for him, because he can’t; she says okay.  She walks in to hear how angry Abe is that JJ shot his son; she asks how Theo is.  Abe simply says, “he’s in surgery.”  She tells him JJ is beating himself up; Abe says, “he should be.”   Jen asks what she can say or do; he says, "nothing."  Jen reminds Abe that they love each other’s children as their own, but he tells her that the Carvers and the Hortons will never share anything again if his son dies because of what hers did.

Tripp tells Hope he found Theo’s phone on the floor and starts to hand it to her; Hope hears Jen and Abe fighting out in the hall and leaves to stop them.  Abigail comes in and asks her mom to come with her.  Abe walks off with Lani and tells her he tried to convince Theo to stay away from the DeMira’s, but Theo convinced him that he would be careful.  He angrily says if he finds out Andre had anything to do with Theo being near that building tonight, he will tear him apart.

JJ recalls the scene again and again as he stares at the fountain; he turns to see Lani standing behind him.  He tells her he would have rather taken the bullet himself than to have shot her brother; Abe asks Kate if the DeMira’s are “behind this” but Hope says no one should say anything until she looks at Theo’s phone.  She says it may tell them why he was at the warehouse in the first place… Kate mumbles to herself that if the police get Theo’s phone they will know everything; Abe orders Hope to start looking at Andre DeMira immediately.  Hope follows his orders and leaves without going back to get the phone from Tripp; Kate comes in and says she needs to take that phone.

Andre and Chad, still at home, have a passive aggressive discussion about whoever did this; Chad says he will make their life a living hell.  JJ replays the scene over and over in his head, and each time, he sees a little clearer… Theo’s face, as he turns to look at him.

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