Ric Informs Elizabeth They Need to Go to the Police — and Diane’s Suggestion Upsets Carly

All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Soaps.com may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes.

The Quartermaine family gathers in the living room at the mansion and discusses Jagger’s death. Tracy rants about someone violating her bed, her sacred space, as it looks like someone wrestled in it. Lois reminds her of the guests who were a little mussed up last night, and Tracy chocks on her OJ. Tracy thinks she will be permanently nauseous and never eat again. Olivia tells her to have a croissant and pronounces it with a Brooklynn accent.

Suddenly, a woman walks in, escorted by Gio, and corrects Olivia’s pronunciation. The woman can pinpoint Olivia’s accent down to the street in Brooklyn she’s from. Ned asks who she is, and she introduces herself as Robin Finch (played by Sarah Sherman), dialect tutor to the stars, and assumes Lois is her new student. Lois has no idea who she is. Robin explains she’s worked with many stars, including Meryl Streep. Lois and Olivia gasp and in unison say, “The dingo ayte mah baybeee!” Brook Lynn thought they straightened out this accent nonsense, but Lois swears she didn’t hire this woman. Tracy admits she did.

Ned and Brook Lynn defend Lois, but Tracy believes their sales numbers will improve if Lois’ rough edges are smoothed out. Brook Lynn tells Tracy she had no right to bring this person in and change her mother.

Joss returns home to the apartment above the Quartermaine garage, and Trina is waiting and notices she is wearing yesterday’s clothes. Joss admits she stayed over at Dex’s, and he graduated from the academy yesterday. Trina and Joss talk about the drama Joss missed last night, namely Cates’ murder. Joss knows Sonny hated the guy.

Gio arrives to hang out with them and take a break from he Qs. He fills them in on Tracy’s meltdown because his Uncle Sonny and Joss’ mom used her bed last night. Joss refuses to believe that and insists the Qs must be messing with him. Joss isays this must be a mistake, and Gio suggests maybe he misheard. Joss storms out, and Gio asks what just happened. Trina fills him in on Carly and Sonny’s bad breakup.

Joss goes to the mansion, and Olivia checks on her. Joss brings up the insane thing Gio told her about her mom, and she can tell by Olivia’s silence and expression that it is true.

Joss returns to the apartment as Gio leaves. She rants that her mom isn’t responding to her texts. Trina points out that her mom and Sonny are consenting adults, and she probably shouldn’t get in the middle of this. Joss thinks she’s right. She rants that if her mom wants to mess up her life, she can do it on her own. She storms out.

More: Who is *NOT* returning to Dancing With the Stars?

Back in the mansion, Tracy defends hiring the coach, and she thought Lois was on board. Lois admits the woman who called in complaining during the Home & Heart segment did get to her. Ned defends Lois’ accent as authentic, and Olivia returns and agrees with Ned and doesn’t want Lois to sound like a phony. Robin explains she is only offering to give Lois tools to conduct herself on a more professional level when needed, and it’s not her goal to recreate her but to empower her.

Lois thinks perhaps she’d like to see what Robin can offer her. She asks her to stay and show her what she can do.

Diane stops by Alexis’ place with good news, which is all thanks to Jason’s misadventures. She explains that Ava recanted her statement, as John Cates tried to have her killed, and Jason saved her. Diane informs her what went down, but Alexis says Kristina may be liable for another murder. Diane asks whose? Alexis fills her in during a commercial break. Diane tells her to get what she can from Kristina, but as a mother, not a lawyer.

Diane departs, and Kristina comes downstairs. She asks why Diane was here? Alexis informs Kristina that Ava has recanted her statement, so the FBI case is groundless and will be dismissed. Kristina thinks it’s over, but Alexis says it isn’t. She says Cates was shot and killed last night. Kristina heard and says, “One down, one to go.”

Alexis is concerned about how she’s talking about another human, as if the person is worth nothing. Kristina says her daughter was worth something, and Cates was worth killing. Alexis asks if she killed him, but Kristina insists she didn’t and was at Adela’s grave. Alexis knows she had a gun on her, but Kristina swears she didn’t use it. Alexis cries when she first found it, she thought she was going to hurt herself.

Kristina swears she wasn’t going to hurt herself, and Alexis is relieved. Kristina needs the gun back, as she took it from Dad. Alexis tells her possession of an arm violates her being out on bail, so she threw it off the bridge and into the canyon.

At Sonny’s, Carly tells him that she slept poorly, as she feared waking up to an accessory to murder charge. She doesn’t want him to go to jail, but she’s not going out on a limb or taking this farce any further for him. She has to get going, and he asks if he’s so bad she has to run off.

Carly says they have a beautiful family, and she loves him, but they are done as a couple. He asks what the harm is in playing out this alibi. She says the problem is going to be when their family finds out what they were supposedly doing last night.

Diane arrives to see Sonny, spots Carly in a sweatshirt and blurts out, “Oh no!” Over the commercial break, they fill her in on their alibi, but Diane isn’t buying it and says nobody else will either. She says if they want to sell this, they need more than a lapsed moment of judgment. What they need is a full-blown affair. Carly rolls her eyes.

Carly storms out of the room. Diane gives Sonny some good news, that Ava recanted her statement. As for what “this” is, he and Carly must be in synch and are going to have to make an official statement to the police. She walks out in frustration.

Carly changes back into her clothes, and Sonny says Diane suggests they talk to the police. He thinks history is on their side in making people believe this story of theirs. Carly agrees to help him to keep him out of jail and in Donna’s life, but she’s adding this to his tab.

Carly walks out and runs into Joss in the hall. Back inside, Sonny calls Jason with a problem: one of his guns is missing.

At the Jerome Gallery, Nina is shocked that Cates almost killed Ava. Ava says the nightmare isn’t over as Robert is still going ahead with the charges against her for attacking Kristina, and she thought Nina had a lawyer for her. Nina says she’s asked him to meet them here. Ric walks in, and Ava snarls. Ava knows Ric as he defended her in Connie’s murder. Nina says Ava still needs a lawyer, but Ric won’t take this case, even if Ava’s life depends on it.

Nina asks why he came if he wasn’t going to represent Ava. Ric wanted to see what the case was first. Nina reminds him that he owes her for trying to rob her during their very short marriage. Ric says given this happens to involve his niece and granddaughter, so this is a conflict of interest. Ric can’t take the case and leaves.

Ava thinks she should go on the run, as she is not returning to prison. Nina says if she runs, she’ll never see Avery again . Ava knows she can’t run, but wonders why Nina is helping her, as she betrayed her. Nina wants Avery to have her mom in her life, and since Willow gave her a second chance, so she feels Ava deserves one too.

At the hospital, Liz and TJ examine Isaiah, who is still unconscious. He briefly opened his eyes last night, but TJ explains it may have been a seizure. Liz wonders if that can possibly tell them who he is.

In the hall, Dante runs into Jordan. Dante was with Lulu, and Jordan heard Laura and Kevin landed in East Africa. Dante wishes there was something he could do to help them find Lucky. The camera pans over to Isaiah’s room.

Jordan fills Dante on their John Doe, and she is determined to find out who this man is, as he matters to someone. Dante offers to go to the accident scene and heads out, running into Ric on the way. They exchange looks.

Sidwell’s man, dressed as an orderly, sneaks into Isaiah’s room. Liz is still there and asks if she can help him. Liz notes she hasn’t seen him before. He explains he is new and here to clean up. Liz tells him to come back later as this patient needs his rest.

Ric checks in with TJ. He’s worried about how Molly is really doing. TJ thinks they are in different places with the loss right now. Molly is obsessed with what happened in the hotel room, and who is to blame. He fears this will cost Molly more than she realizes if she doesn’t let it go.

Later, TJ finds Jordan, who is putting in a call to Brennan about helping her ID the patient. TJ asks her why she’s working to solve this mystery. Jordan feels if she can find out who he is, it will make her feel less powerless. TJ says she’s the most powerful person he knows. She notes she couldn’t save her granddaughter or him from the pain of losing her. She wants to make up for what she couldn’t do.

Ric checks in with Liz. He tells her Cates was murdered last night, and they happened to see someone who had no love for the man toss a gun off a bridge. Ric feels the police need to know what they saw, and they have to come forward together.

Dante examines the hit-and-run scene and manages to find Isaiah’s cracked phone.

Back at the hospital, the man calls Sidwell for instructions. He says, “Understood, Isaiah will never wake up.”

Next on General Hospital, Lucky accuses Holly of pulling a con job, and Sonny worries to Jason that the gun ties him to Cates’ murder.