Brady Pub

“What’s a guy gotta do to get a beer around here?” jokes Bo to Max as he arrives. Max doesn’t find it so funny and berates his older brother for trying to get him to turn on Melanie. Bo says he just wants the truth from Melanie and wants to clear Ma of a murder charge. Max asserts that all the Bradys are going to stick together like they always do and Melanie will be alone, since he’s all she’s got.

“Well that’s sure what she wants you to think,” surmises Stephanie as she approaches them. Max and Steph argue about Melanie and he chastises her for constantly trashing Melanie. Steph retorts how Melanie murders people and lets Max’s ma take the blame for it. He continues to lash out for going to Bo and Hope. Steph tells Bo that she’ll be more than happy to come down to the station and sign a sworn statement. She walks off and refuses to cry in front of Max. “What the hell is there to cry about?” Max asks Bo. “Let me think, uh, she’s in love with an idiot?” suggests Bo.

Bo implores Max to try and figure things out with his girl and suggests trying the “I’m sorry” approach. Max rehashes how Bo has bent the rules for people in his family. Bo walks off to answer his phone and Steph returns to the bar. Max holds his head down and says he’s sorry. Steph apologizes as well, but they argue once again about Melanie. Max laments how Melanie’s scared and all alone.

Just upstairs, Melanie is attempting to seduce Philip in order to buy his silence.

She coyly says she had her father’s wallet, even though it doesn’t mean anything. She suggests that the two of them have made a connection and unbuttons his shirt before kissing him. Philip notes how she’s not exactly a novice. They fall onto the bed before Philip breaks away, buttoning his shirt and admitting that he doesn’t know how good he feels about sleeping with a killer. She accuses him of leading her on and then accusing her of murder. “Leading you on? You could give Paris Hilton a few tips,” he retorts. Philip surmises that she wouldn’t have tried seducing him unless she desperately wanted to keep him quiet. He implores her to straighten up and fix her hair, stating that they’re going out to face the music.

Back downstairs, Bo later sits with Max and Stephanie and fills them in on Sami’s ordeal. Max and Steph begin to argue, but Bo suggests they just try and move forward. Philip and Melanie then come downstairs together. Steph notes to Max how his sister wasn’t all alone after all. Philip declares that Melanie is officially out of options, rehashing how she already tried sex and tears. “Hey Bo. You got your handcuffs handy?” questions Philip, who confesses that he saw Melanie with Trent’s wallet after the murder. “And it didn’t occur to you to tell me this until just now?” asks Bo. Philip claims he didn’t understand the significance of it at the time, but Bo isn’t buying his excuse. He says he didn’t want to misread the situation and smugly implies how Melanie was desperate to keep him quiet.

Max advises his sister not to say anything until she gets a lawyer. Melanie insists that there’s no proof, and it’s their word against hers. She adamantly refuses to lay down and die just so Bo can protect his precious ma. Max is stunned by his sister’s words. Bo advises Melanie to shut up and not to leave town. Melanie refuses to stick around town and let them frame her. “You can’t go,” insists Max. “Watch me!” dares Melanie before she walks out the door.

Philip asks Bo if he’s just going to let Melanie leave like that. Bo doesn’t need Phil to tell him how to do his job, then walks off. Nearby, Max continues to stick up for his sister to Steph, who displays no sympathy whatsoever for Melanie. “You just don’t understand her,” states Max. “No, Max, I don’t understand you,” counters Steph.

Melanie goes back upstairs and is packing away when she receives a note underneath her door which says, “I saw you at the cemetery. I know what you did.” Melanie is daunted.

University Hospital

Kate arrives at the hospital to see Daniel, who returns his swimming trunks to him ready to get cozy, but he backs away and says they can’t do this. Kate admits that she hates it when he’s so serious, and tells him not to be so somber and sorrowful about breaking things off with her. Daniel surmises that she’s in agony waiting for her test results. She puts her purse down and suggests that if she had a malignant tumor growing inside of her, the best doctors in town would’ve found it by now. She admits she wants to make love to him, regardless of whether or not she’s dying. She kisses him.

Meanwhile, Chelsea arrives just outside the cubicle and asks Sandy, a staff member, if she’s seen Dr. Jonas. Sandy points to the cubicle. Daniel and Kate’s kissing is interrupted by his page. Chelsea then walks in and apologizes for interrupting. She asks Kate if she’s okay and questions why she’s there to see Daniel. Kate assures her granddaughter that she’s fine and is there because she needed to return something to Daniel. An uncomfortable Chelsea needs to go over some files with Daniel, who says he’ll be right back and leaves.

Kate hides the swimming trunks as Chelsea questions what Daniel left behind. She tells Chelsea she doesn’t have to wait there, since she knows she has to get back to work. Chelsea reveals that she’s on break. She brings up the whole forgiveness talk they recently had, briefly rehashing what happened with Billie and Nick. “It just hurts because I love you so much, and I get so mad at you and so emotional,” she expresses. Kate admits that’s what she loves about her so much. Chelsea states how things are over between Kate and Daniel and is ready to forgive her. She asks Kate to be her grandmother again, believing it’s all in the past. Kate thanks her and Chelsea embraces her.