Jack meets Carly at the Metro Court pool. She wants to thank him for helping get Michael into the clinic in Germany. Because of him, Michael is healthy, he’s back, and he has his children. She will always be grateful to him. She then surprises him with a giant, engraved wrench to commemorate their first unofficial date.
Emma and Joss Target Dalton
Emma arrives and speaks with Gio as she watches Dalton exit the pool. She approaches her professor, and they chat. Dalton invites her to stop by his office anytime, saying he really admired her dedication in his class. After Dalton leaves, Gio asks Emma what she’s doing.
Emma tells Gio about her suspicions about Dalton, and she wants to shut down his animal testing. She admits to flirting with Dalton, who wouldn’t be the first sleazy professor to be turned on by a student. Gio doesn’t like it, but he offers to help her in any way he can. He says she had his back on the worst night of his life, so he’ll always have her back. She thanks him and takes off.
In Dalton’s office, Vaughn, posing as a janitor, checks in with Joss. Joss has found nothing on Dalton’s computer and server, so it must be on his phone. Joss insists she’ll get the phone.
Martin and Tracy Try to Make a Deal
Martin stops by the mansion to meet Tracy. He thinks she’s ready to hire him to deal with Drew. She isn’t paying him anything and simply wants him to give Drew a message. She says she’ll give Drew the Quartermaine name back if he agrees not to testify against her regarding this Ketamine business. Martin tells her no deal. He wants her to arrange a press conference during which she warmly welcomes Drew back into the family, and he has even drawn up her statement.
Tracy reads the statement he wrote up and laughs at it. She won’t humiliate herself by reading this, but he says she should take time to think over his offer. He has no issue seeing her in prison, saying the cops alone have enough evidence to bust her.
Drew Declares War
In Drew’s office, Jason lashes out at him for tearing Michael’s family apart and calls him poison to those kids. Jason says there will be no compromise until Willow sees that he’s poison. Drew accuses Jason and everyone else of punishing Willow for not falling in line with how they wanted her to act, and Michael might have stolen those kids in court, but he won’t keep them. He tells Jason that’s the message he can take back to Michael.
Jason says he may have destroyed Willow, but he won’t get Michael’s children, and he won’t destroy them. Jason then storms out.
Anna Plays Hardball
At the PCPD, Anna orders Chase and Dante to follow her, and they head to the holding cells. She orders them into a cell and says they aren’t going anywhere until they figure things out. She tells a cop on duty that if they start fighting, to turn the hose on them.Chase tells Dante that he hated the position he was put in, but he will always have Brook Lynn’s back. Dante says, “And stab me in mine?” Chase explains that Brook Lynn didn’t want him to know about their child, as he’d look for their son and disrupt his life.Dante says he can forgive teenage Brook Lynn for not telling him, but not the adult who hid the truth from him. Chase defends Brook Lynn, who was a teenager and had to make a difficult decision to give her son up so he could have a good life. Dante says Brook Lynn chose what was right for herself, not for him or his son.
Dante fumes over his relationship with Gio, or lack of one. Chase says that’s on him for how he reacted to Rocco’s alcohol poisoning. Dante tells Chase he has no idea what it’s like to be told your son is in the hospital, as he’s not a father. Dante immediately regrets saying that. Chase says he’s lashing out a lot lately, and if he keeps isolating himself from everyone, Gio won’t reach out when he comes around. Dante realizes he did come down on Gio too hard, and he hopes he didn’t blow the only chance to get to know his son.Back at the station, Anna calls an officer, who is watching a person of interest. She tells him to file a code and lists off a string of numbers. Suddenly, Jack appears and says they need to talk. They head into the interrogation room, and Jack has information on the second assassin who tried to take out Sonny in LA. She was well-known to the WSB, so two contracts have now been put out on Sonny. He says Sonny has run afoul of someone with very powerful and dangerous connections.
Anna asks why he’s suddenly willing to share this information with her now. Jack says there likely will be another attempt on Sonny, and he assumes she doesn’t want to see anyone else hurt in the process, like Michael was. She realizes this is about Carly. Anna thanks him and asks Jack if he looked into Professor Dalton for her. He says he did, and the guy is clean. Jack leaves, and Anna knows he just lied to her.
