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Del accuses Kat of ruining a celebration and implies that she's a bad mother, because she wants both of her children and her granddaughter to continue living with her? Ugh. I love the adult Kat and Jacob sibling relationship. Kat meeting her great grandmother was unexpected. Sounds like she was a time traveler too and so were Colton and Evelyn. When Elliot was calling out "Dad" and Vic didn't answer, I thought Elliot was going to find him dead on the floor instead of the empty ring box on the table.

I thought Jake went there after Sam chased him into Elizabeth's basement? I don't remember Nikolas being at Shriner's with Spencer. I remember Jake needed treatment for something and Elizabeth and Jason/Drew went with him to a medical facility. Sam went too in order to support Jason/Drew and Elizabeth wanted Sam to believe she and Jason/Drew were going to be together. Franco also went to be a "friend" to Elizabeth.

Yep. Carly told Willow today she had the kids sent to the Quartermaines to protect "Michael's access" to them. And now that Willow has calmed down and Carly is not snarling in her face, she says the two of them can see Michael. Of course Ric passively aggressively blames Alexis/their poor relationship for why he wasn't a constant and consistent presence in Molly's life. Maxie looks beautiful! Her clothes, hair, and makeup all suit her well. Her entire physique looks so different from even early-mid 2024. Lulu being all "I'm applying here because I need a job" despite knowing she can't get along with BLQ was so entitled. She is delusional to think once she gets a job she can get Charlotte back and then get a place for her and her two kids, and all will be well. I just can't with Carly. She knows nothing about medicine (is going off how Ava looks now) but gets pissy when Michael's doctor and wife ask for more information/studies/results instead of just saying yes to the Germany clinic instead of Hopkins and then is on board with waking him up to excruciating pain to get him to choose between Willow's preference and hers. I LOVED Chad Duell's pissed off/WTH look Michael gave his mother as he woke up to her leaning over him, inches from his face. So, the only way Drew can have a calm conversation with someone is if they accept that he's "in love" with Willow and they don't expect him to apologize for it? Ok then. Good luck with that. Drew, without speaking to Willow, gets Marty and a court order and police officers to arrest Tracy and looks verryy smug about it. He's so very gross. Hope you all enjoy next week! I'll be on vacation.

I was wondering about this because JE/Tracy is in all 5 episodes this week having conversations with a half dozen or more cast members, talking about family with an emphasis on Monica. Has that ever happened before?

Excerpt from my post earlier today: I laughed when Tracy told Carly she can't go see Monica because Yuri's guarding the door and the kids are off-limits, doing homework and enrichment activities. LOL. Carly crying, telling Tracy she's really something else, and leaving alone in a huff was funny.

Tracy was pretty awesome today with Carly! I LOVED her digs when Carly said the kids belong with their mother and she didn't think things through. To Tracy's credit, she didn't yell until Carly had the audacity to try to guilt trip Tracy by talking about Monica's love. She got pissy that Tracy brought up what Monica has lost and been through because of her. Carly's talking like the burn clinic is a sure thing and Willow doesn't have the connections they do to get Michael the help he needs ... when she doesn't even know for sure that he'll survive. She's acting like every second she doesn't have access to Michael is the worst possible outcome for him. There just aren't enough eye rolls for this. I laughed when Tracy told Carly she can't go see Monica because Yuri's guarding the door and the kids are off-limits, doing homework and enrichment activities. LOL. Carly crying, telling Tracy she's really something else, and leaving alone in a huff was funny. Am I supposed to feel sorry for her? I don't Chase is just the best guy and Willow doesn't deserve to have him in her life let alone have him as a friend. At least Willow now accepts that she got together with Michael because he offered her a family and accepts Chase's point that she's always been looking for somewhere to belong. So Chase will be the one to convince Tracy to stand down? BLQ being so anxious that she's not pregnant yet when she admits that's it been less than six months is just another eye roll moment. And I mostly ignored the Cody-Dante chat retconning Dante and BLQ's teenage time at camp. I feel sorry for Alexis over her worry about Scout (and Drew's attitude).

It's not being "held ransom" by some enemy of Sonny's; Michael is actively being treated at the hospital for his severe injuries. Willow's condition for his parents to see Michael and be informed about his treatment is that she gets her kids back. She wants Michael to heal/get better for the kids, especially after Wiley wanted her to confirm that Daddy will be coming back to them. The issue here is Carly and Sonny being appalled that their life choices and actions have consequences for them. Carly wants to dismiss and disregard Willow as Michael's wife and the mother of his children while ignoring or at least glazing over the fact that Michael is severely injured for the second time in his life because she chose Sonny to be his father. Well, that's not working out for her. Sonny got a swift kick in the ego because an enemy got an explosive device into his home without anyone noticing and hurt his son instead of him. He's just lucky that his two young daughters were not there. This is how they behave in order to feel like they are good and devoted parents.

Tracy said Monica is devastated over Michael's injuries and "Drew's betrayal", not "Willow and Drew's affair" which made me think she disowned Drew. I don't doubt that Monica came to love Drew as a son when BM was in the role, but her attachments to Jason and Michael run much deeper. She adopted Jason when he was a child and has known that 30-something year-old Michael is her grandson since he was a baby. When she met Jason's "twin brother," he was in his 40s (or late 30s). LC has been in a lot of scenes with SB and CD over the decades; I don't think she's been in a scene with CM's Drew since the first couple months of CM being in the role. I know that Monica got to see Scout when she was a baby while Sam was with BM's Jason-then-Drew, but I can't recall if Monica has been in a scene with Scout since then. The Monica-Scout attachment is unclear. I think the big difference here is that Michael's kids call the Q estate home (long-term), they have extended family and staff there who can take care of them, and in theory their dad will get better and return to the estate to be with his kids. Michael and Willow had not started divorce proceedings nor decided on custody arrangements. Drew is utterly unapologetic to everyone about his part in breaking up the Michael-Willow marriage because "our feelings are real" and when everyone got mad and Tracy wanted him to leave, he had a f**k you all attitude, I'm taking my kid with me - it's your (the Q Family's) fault she's suffering alone. Scout had always been theoretically her grandmother's visitor at the Q mansion, Drew is her only living parent, and unfortunately because Dante and Sam never got legally married while they were living together, Dante has zero rights to keep her with him and Jason and the two boys at the Q mansion. My impression is that as long as the family was nice to him and treated him with the respect he felt entitled to, Scout could continue living at the Q mansion. Before the affair was exposed, Scout told Dante, Jason and the boys that Daddy said I don't have to move to Washington. I can stay here (the mansion) and he'll go back and forth. Now that he's had a taste of Willow and Wiley being with him and Scout in Washington, he apparently doesn't care what he told Scout.

I watched enough of the Alexis-Drew scene to understand that he took Scout with him because he's decided she stays with him no matter what - if the Qs are determined that he can't live there and won't just get over what he did when they've done worse, than they don't get to keep Scout. (It also sounds like he wants to use Scout to entice Willow's maternal feelings; i.e. "Willow would love to be your mommy now".) He won't even consider letting her live with Grandma Alexis temporarily either. I agree with you. My reaction was about Tracy's well-written guilt trip and the excellent acting from both JE and SB. I can't even recall ever seeing them both show emotion in a scene together. I found them believable as aunt and nephew for the first time.

It was amazing!! Watching Tracy hug him and he let her, and they were both crying - just blew me away. They must have known LC was gravely/terminally ill and not returning to the Show. The scene(s) felt like a set-up for Monica spending her last moments in the near future off-screen with her great grandchildren. Jason staying in the mansion while Sonny leaves and then clutches his chest, was a shocker.

FYI - Today's episode stopped a few minutes in due to President Biden's announcement about the Israel/Hamas ceasefire deal and then reporters doing their jobs. However, @GHScorpiosRule you'll love Elizabeth's line to Lucky 😂 as they're sitting in the restaurant (not Bobbie's!) together looking like a couple out on a date. She got her line out, he looked over at Cyrus, and then the news cut in. Show back on at 2:28. DAMN feel the burnnn! Gooo Tracy!! First to Sonny, about the murder of AJ so that Monica can't see her son and to Jason, about telling Monica to her face that you're going to take her great grandchildren away. That entire guilt trip that made Jason get all teary, was amazing. He more than had it coming for decades. JE is such a gem! Jason choosing Monica's love for the kids over Sonny/Michael and Tracy tearfully hugging him was just a woowww moment. And Sonny clutching his chest again by the Qs front door as he leaves (alone) has such a ring of karma to it. Loved seeing Lucky persuade Elizabeth that they should stay and enjoy their dinner together (after Cyrus had been escorted out). Hopefully she's getting the hint that Lucky sees her in a more-than-friends/exes kind of way. It's so nice to see them both wearing nice clothes, having a heartfelt conversation, and agreeing to do things "our" way. Joss demonstrates she's dumber than a box of rocks. She deserved Anna yelling at her. I LOVE the preview of Tracy letting Carly have it when she shows up at the Q mansion. I can't tell if she's yelling at Carly about Monica, or Bobbie. ETA: Carly and her WSB buddy were on and so were Cody/Sasha, Gio/Trina and Felicia/nuEmma in a bar scene but I didn't watch/pay attention due to not caring about these characters and also boredom.

We don't know if the PCPD will or won't intercede; nuLulu was mouthing off to support Tracy but nobody actually contacted the police. I was really disappointed that neither Tracy nor Martin seemed to realize/remember that Det. Harrison Chase, who escorted the social worker to Nina's to get the kids, is BLQ's husband and lives right there in the Q mansion. When Martin mentioned calling the police, I wanted him to open the door and bellow in the direction of the stairs, "Det. Chase, are you home? You're needed downstairs!" Although it would be a very awkward day for Chase if he had to arrest both his grandmother-in-law and the mayor's attorney brother for disorderly conduct. I agree it's not up to nuLulu to speak for Dante or anyone else on the PCPD.

Tracy and Monica both know that Monica has no say regarding custody and where the kids live. Tracy acknowledged that to nuLulu once Martin left. Tracy said she doesn't care about possibly being in legal trouble. Her perspective seems to be she is really worried about Monica's physical and mental health and thinks keeping the great grandchildren there gives Monica some measure of happiness.

Yep. Plus NuLulu told Martin that she doubts Det. Dante Falconeri or his PCPD colleagues will help take the children away from his brother's home. Martin left, telling them "it's not over", Willow exited the gatehouse without the kids (because Sasha pressured her to let them go w/the nanny to the main house for cookies Grandma Monica wants them to have) and thought she was getting her kids at the main house. The next thing you know, Felicia stops Carly from going in to sit with unconscious Michael and Carly looks shocked.

So glad to see JJ in the opening credits, finally!! Loved Tracy snarking at nuLulu and then giving her a reality check. Good for her, when she's being asked to bank roll the "find Charlotte and bring her home" mission. I also loved seeing Lucky in investigative mode, then treating Joss as the interrupting/annoying entitled young person she is and the WTF look on his face when she thanked him like she's an officer while he's a witness and then walked away. BHerbst's hair looks gorgeous and I really enjoyed Elizabeth, nuLucas and Lucky talking about Cyrus and the patients' deaths. Since Wiley and Amelia were supposedly getting cookies, in the main house, I was expecting him to hear something since Tracy and Marty were so loudly bellowing at each other. The only good thing is the writers made clear that Tracy is refusing to let the kids go because of Monica, not because she is suddenly invested in Michael or his children. I enjoyed Nina slamming the door in Drew's face and I thought she would slap him when he was all "I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, but..." The Willow-Sasha showdown was unexpected. Is the Show now trying to tell us that Sasha never fell out of love with Michael? I wonder if Sasha will move into the gatehouse once she acknowledges to everyone she's pregnant. I guess they are trying to move the burn storyline along quickly with CD exiting. It's been what, a day or two at most? since Michael got burned and Carly's all "the world is cruel and I don't want Michael to have to live with scars - yes, let's send him to where Ava was treated!" Umm, maybe be sure he's not going to die first?! I did like Felicia telling her and Jason nope, you can't see Michael. How's it feel to have karma bite you, Carls? I wish Joss and Donna heard their mother tell Jason that Michael is "perfect." Did anyone else get a good laugh out of the preview of Joss telling Anna to arrest Cyrus?