Monday 04-11-2016

Abby watches the match burn, as she tells Ben how he changed her; one match, then another, then a third – Ben looks a little bit scared.  He tells her she can’t do this, to which she replies, I have to… it’s my duty.  Joey meets with Steve at the café; he asks what’s going on with his mother.  In the hospital, Kayla is told she has a subdural hematoma; it could burst at any time.  She wants to monitor it and talk about surgery down the road.  She asks to keep this between them; the young doctor (whose name is apparently Fynn) tells her it’s too late for that.  He already left Steve a voicemail.  Abby throws the match on the bed and Ben is ablaze; Chad races into the room and puts the flames out – Abby is pissed.  She says Ben needs to die.  Ben’s legs are badly burned.  Joey’s girlfriend shows up and butters Steve up a bit; they leave, and he gets a phone call.  Downstairs now, Abby sings to her baby (acting a little crazy); she doesn’t want Chad to touch her – she asks why he let Ben live.  She tells Chad that Ben is going to kill her… and when he does, it will be Chad’s fault.

Meanwhile, Ben is upstairs getting loose.  When Chad tells Abby he has called the police to come get Ben, she tries to hand him the baby, telling him she needs to go kill Ben now.  Chad talks her out of it; Ben heads down the stairs.  When Steve shows up, Kayla refuses to tell him what is going on; she just says that it is stress-related and tells him she needs time to deal with things.  She finally tells him, it was from Ava knocking her out. Steve apologizes to Kayla, saying it’s all his fault.  Jade tries to talk Joey into going on a road trip with her; I think he’s considering it.  Kayla tells Steve that love doesn’t conquer all and asks him to leave.  Abby breaks down and tells Chad how she lured Ben up to the bedroom to get him away from Thomas; Chad tells her that’s ok, she did the right thing.  Then she tells him how she stabbed him, and tied him up and lit him on fire, insisting she wanted to kill him.  Chad tells her it was self-defense and that’s what they are going to tell the police. 

Chad catches Ben coming down the stairs and punches him, knocking him out.  Police arrive at the mansion; EMTs put Ben on a stretcher and carry him out.  Kayla insists on being released… she goes home to find Steve’s note with her ring; Steve sits down on a bench in the park.  Chad changes some of the details of Abby’s story about how Ben got burned and threatens bad publicity if they harass Abby over this after all she’s been through; she is obviously in a state of shock (will certainly have PTSD after this).  She is still angry with Chad; says because of him, she is never going to be free now and asks how he could do this to her.  She cries.