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Chase and Brook Lynn decide they want to start working on having a baby.

Michael tells Kristina not to tell the police that she stole a gun from Sonny. Michael is sure that Alexis will go free because the police has no evidence against her. Michael intends to pay someone to take the blame for everything so Kristina and Alexis won’t go to prison. Kristina tells Michael that, before she went to baby Irene’s grave, she went to the Quartermaine mansion because she knew John Cates was there and she intended to kill him.

Sonny tells Alexis tha,t if she gets arrested, he will get her the best lawyer.

Jack Brennan gives Anna and Jason Lucky’s location and Anna and Jason head to Somalia to find Lucky.

Mac gets a call telling him that there is enough evidence to make an arrest in the John Cates murder. Mac arrives at Alexis’s house while she is talking to Sonny. Mac tells Alexis that he is there to make an arrest. Sonny thinks Mac is going to arrest him. Alexis thinks he is going to arrest Kristina. Alexis tells Mac Kristina isn’t home. Mac tells Alexis that she is the one he came to arrest, that is why he wanted to come make the arrest himself and make things easier on her.

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Brook Lynn and Lois have a long talk about the pros and cons of Brook Lynn and Chase trying to start a family now.

Sasha sets up a family brunch to surprise Cody. Cody asks Sasha to be his girlfriend during the brunch with his family and she says that she does want to be his girlfriend.

Diane asks Sonny to do something to keep Alexis from going to jail for killing John Cates based on circumstantial evidence.

Natalia tells Sonny that Tracy could force him to pull his investment out of Deception because of the morality clause in his investment contract. Sonny tells Natalia about Alexis’s problem and tells her that Alexis won’t go to jail for murder on his watch.

Carly tells Jason that Jack Brennan will soon find Lucky’s new location and, when that happens, she needs him to go to Africa and bring Lucky home. Jason promises Carly that he will bring Lucky home.

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Nina tries one more time to persuade Ric to take Ava’s case, but he refuses because she was involved in the accident that caused the death of Molly ‘s baby. Ava thanks Nina for trying to help and says she will find another lawyer. Ava is grateful to have the friendship of both Nina and Trina.

Diane advises Alexis to persuade Kristina to make a statement about the gun or she could go to jail for murder. Molly also advises Alexis to stop protecting Kristina or she will be the number one suspect in John Cates murder. Alexis insists that she must protect Kristina because Kristina isn’t in her right mind right now and she must protect her.

Molly tells the police that Kristina hated John Cates and doesn’t have an alibi for the night that he was killed.

Jack Brennan finds James Sidwell’s compound but the compound is empty. Sidwell and Lucky are already gone.

Jack Brennan promised Carly he will find Lucky but it will be hard to get him out of Somalia and bring him home.

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Dr. Isiah Gannon wakes up and tells Anna and Carly that Lucky is in Somalia being held captive by James Sidwell. Carly asks Jack Brennan to run an updated search on Lucky now that they have this new information that Isiah provided to Carly.

Michael tells Kristina not to tell Molly she stole Sonny’s gun because she doesn’t have an alibi. Michael tells Kristina not to worry because he doesn’t think Molly will put her own mother in jail.

Molly tells TJ that she thinks Kristina shot John Cates and she is going to get her to confess to exonerate Alexis so her mother won’t go to jail.

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Carly and Josslyn have a long talk because Josslyn is upset that Carly is once again sacrificing herself for Sonny by giving him an alibi. Carly denies that she is giving Sonny an alibi. She tells Josslyn that she and Sonny had a one-night-stand but Josslyn knows her mother too well to believe that story. Josslyn tells Carly she is scared she will have to live life without her because of her loyalty to Sonny. Carly promises Josslyn that she won’t lose her.

Ric persuades Elizabeth to go to the police and tell Chase that they saw Alexis throw a gun into the river while standing on the footbridge.

Sonny asks Jason to get rid of the gun and bullet casings from the gun he used to kill John Cates. Sonny is more worried about the registered nine-millimeter gun that is missing from his lockbox. Sonny asks Jason to find his missing gun.

Dex spends his first shift after graduating from the police academy with Anna executing a search warrant in Sonny’s apartment. Dex gives Anna Sonny’s lockbox and Sonny opens the box in front of Anna. Anna notices that one of Sonny ‘s guns is missing and Sonny tells Anna that he didn’t know his gun was missing.

Holly tells Lucky that she is running a con on his captor whose name is James Sidwell. Holly tells Lucky she needs to get something from James ‘s safe. Holly doesn’t want Lucky to mess up her plan.

Sidwell plays poker with Lucky again and tells him Isiah Cannon will soon be dead. The guy Sidwell sent to kill Isiah sneaks into his hospital room. Dante discovers that the phone that John Doe had with him was bought at an airport in Africa which is where Laura thinks Lucky might be.

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Tracy hires a dialect coach named Ms. Finch to help Lois soften her Brooklyn accent.

Gio tells Josslyn and Trina that Carly and Sonny slept together last night in Tracy’s bed. Josslynn freaks out and sends several messages to Carly but Carly doesn’t respond to them. Diane advises Sonny and Carly that they must make people believe they had a one-night-stand so the police believe that Carly is Sonny’s alibi for when John Cates was killed.

Lucky’s captor sends someone to General Hospital to make sure Isiah Cannon never wakes up from his unconscious state.

Jordan is determined to find out the identity of the John Doe that is in the hospital.

Alexis tells Kristina that she threw the gun she found in her purse in the harbor. Kristina tells Alexis that she stole the gun from Sonny’s safe but she didn’t kill John Cates. Alexis tells Kristina that Ava recanted her statement against her so the charges against her will be dropped.

Ric refuses to be Ava’s lawyer because it would be a conflict of interest for him. Ric tells Elizabeth that they must tell the police they saw Alexis throw a gun into the harbor.

Sonny calls Jason to tell him there is a gun missing from his safe.

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Drew tells Curtis that he kissed Willow for the second time and this time he knows he and Willow have feelings for each other. Curtis advises Drew not to act on those feelings again. Drew promises himself he won’t act on his feelings for Willow. Willow is about to tell Michael she kissed Drew when Kristina calls Michael to ask him to go to Alexis’s house right away. Kristina tells Michael she had a gun in her purse and now it is gone. Kristina tells Michael she took the gun to kill Ava or John Cates but she went to her daughter’s grave instead and didn’t shoot either of them. Michael tells Kristina that he found John Cates’ dead body on the Quartermaine estate tonight.

Alexis goes to the foot bridge to throw the gun that she found in Kristina’s purse into the harbor. Elizabeth and Ric see Alexis throw the gun into the harbor but she tells them she threw her phone into the harbor.

Carly and Sonny go to his place to get their stories straight about their one-night-stand alibi. Carly spends the night in Sonny’s guest room to make the alibi believable to the police.

Jason and Ava talk to Anna and tell her that he saved Ava from the hit woman, fake special agent Boyle. Ava tells Anna that Agent Cates hired Boyle to kill her because she wanted to recant her statement.

Sonny opens his safe and sees that one of his guns is missing and wonders who could have taken it.

Jordan asks Brick to help her figure out the identity of the John Doe that is in the hospital and he agrees to help in exchange for a real date.

Lucky plays poker with his captor once again to keep from being killed. Lucky is surprised when Holly interrupts the poker game but he pretends he doesn’t know her.

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Michael finds Sonny just outside the Quartermaine boat house. Michael tells Sonny that he should go up to the main house and ask Carly to give him an alibi. Sonny goes to the Quartermaine house and explains that he killed John Cates with two gunshots at point blank. Carly agrees to be his alibi. Michael is at the boat house and he calls Chase to tell him that he found John Cates dead body in the boat house.

Drew and Willow stop themselves after one kiss and Drew drives Willow back home because it is raining. Drew and Willow arrive at the Quatermaine mansion and see Michael in the boat house and he explains to them that he found John’s body.

Jason saves the day for two people. First, he finds Lucky’s doctor friend Isaiah Cannon’s unconscious body on the road because he was hit by the car that was driven by the hit woman hired to kill Ava. Jason calls an ambulance and Dr. Cannon is taken to the hospital. Dr. Cannon arrives at the hospital without identification, so Portia asks Jordan to use her contacts to help identify the John Doe.

Jason finds Ava at Pine Barron’s and kills the hit woman holding a gun on Ava.

Alexis and Sam are worried about Kristina, but Kristina is at baby Irene’s grave apologizing to her for arguing with Molly at her funeral and promising the baby, whom she calls Adela, she will never forget her favorite things. Alexis and Sam are relieved when Kristina arrives home and she tells them she was at Adela’s grave.

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Lucky tries to persuade his captor to hire him instead of killing him for helping Dr. Isiah Cannon escape. Lucky persuades his captor to play poker with him and, when his captor loses the first poker hand to Lucky, he decides to play another poker hand with Lucky and kill him tomorrow.

Drew tells Willow that Larry McConkey was the closest thing he had to a father figure. Drew wonders if Alan would be proud of him. Willow tells him that she didn’t know Alan but she is sure that Alan would be proud of him because he is a very admirable man who inspires her every day. Drew takes Willow’s hand and thanks her for knowing the right thing to say to make him feel better. Drew can’t believe that such a beautiful woman who is so caring is there with him. Willow and Drew kiss. Michael is worried when both Drew and Willow don’t answer their phones, so he goes down to the gatehouse to look for Willow who is at the gatehouse with Drew.

Alexis is able to stop John Cates from arresting Kristina with the help of Anna. Once Kristina arrives back at Alexis’s house, she steals Alexis’s keys and takes her car and drives away.

Ava tries to persuade the hit woman that John hired to her by offering her money, but it doesn’t work The hit woman continues to drive to Pine Barron’s to kill her, but the car skids because it is raining and Ava grabs the wheel to keep the car from crashing into another car.

Dante tells Maxie and Felicia that the doctor just told him Lulu’s condition is getting worse and she might die.

John and Sonny face off. Sonny shoots John but someone else also shoots John from behind and John falls to the ground.

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Violet asks Brook Lynn and Chase when they are going to have a baby. Brook Lynn and Chase tell Violet they want a baby but they don’t know when they will have one. Violet wonders when her daddy will be home and Brook Lynn and Chase explain to Violet that her daddy loves her and he is working very hard to come home as soon as possible.

Dante feels guilty for leaving Lulu alone to go on a WSB mission and then coming home from the mission and leaving her alone again to recover from PTSD. Dante lashes out at Carly for paying Brook Lynn to break up he and Lulu years ago.

Dante tells Carly she never cared about Lulu at all.

Drew has a campaign event at the park and after the event is over he gets a call from Congressman McConkey’s wife telling him that the Congressman died while he was at the airport waiting to catch a plane to go to the campaign event. Drew is hit hard by the news. Willow and Drew talk privately and he shares stories about the Congressman with her.

Willow tells Drew she will call Michal and tell him she isn’t going to the Quartermaine family dinner because she wanted to make sure he is okay.

Alexis persuades Sonny to turn himself in to John Cates because Kristina is too fragile to go through a trial. Sonny calls John to tell him he will confess to all his crimes and go to prison if he drops all the charges against Kristina. Sonny wants to go to the Quartermaine’s first to say goodbye to Dante and Michael before he goes to the police station. John tells Sonny that he will meet him at the Quartermaines and arrest him there.

Kristina tells John that she will swear on a stack of bibles at her arraignment that John is trying to use her and the death of her baby to force her father to turn himself in to the FBI. Kristina tells Alexis she has decided not to let John Cates use her to hurt her father.

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Lucky tells the doctor that he was brought to the compound to make his escape and return to the United States and send the WSB to rescue him.

Laura asks Brenan to help her find Lucky. Brennan finds out that Lucky’s last known location was at a refugee camp on the border between Somalia and Ethiopia. Brennan advises Laura to send someone to get Lucky because it is hard to get a message to Lucky. Kevin and Laura decide to go search for Lucky and she asks Tracy to take care of Ace.

Kristina asks Jason to stop John Cates before he can send Sonny to prison. Jason tells Kristina that something will be done. She just can’t tell her about it.

John tells Sonny he must confess to all his crimes and go to prison to keep Kristina from going to prison. John leaves Ava in a safe house with an agent guarding her. Ava suspects that the woman isn’t an FBI agent because she is wearing very expensive shoes and is using a gun that isn’t the type of gun FBI agents are issued. Ava remembers that Sonny told her John wanted to kill her so that her written statement would stand Ava tries to get away but the woman returns to the safe house before Ava can get away.

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Scott is still missing but Ric tells Heather that Scott asked him to take over her case. Molly asks Alexis if Irene had lived if she would have helped Kristina take baby Irene away from her and TJ. Alexis tells Molly she told Kristina she wasn’t going to take sides if she decided to seek custody of baby Irene.

Nikolas is unable to be Lulu’s donor because his liver function doesn’t meet the criteria for donation. Carly gets tested to see if she can be a donor for Lulu. Nikolas tells Laura she must find Lucky so he can get tested to see if he can be a donor for Lulu.

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