Well, it is very slow, and keeps stopping, and is taking forever, but I am almost done watching the show,.
This is going to be very short, and I am not mentioning John & Marlena as there is pretty much summarized above.
Chelsea & Dan are having their date, drinking only gingerale, as he is on call. They have rather inane conversations (at least to me), talking about how they met, gramma Kate....and he gets called back to the hospital. He invites her along, installs her in an empty room to wait for him. As she reads a mag, someone comes in with a covered cart, no not for a patient, but for her. She is about to take a peek, Daniel comes in, arranged this surprise dinner from Chez Rouge, puts a lei around her neck. They sit down to eat, not before he rolls his chair around to kiss her.
Morgan calls Chloe a liar, Roman takes her aside to question her about Paul being on the docks. Morgan interupts, insisting Chloe is lying just because she saw her kissing Philip. Not true. Philip takes Morgan away, roman asks her what Paul was wearing. Uh, oh. She sends Roman for some water, texts Lucas for details, and has them when he returns. Morgan talks with Philip, who assures her that her daddy is probably fine, but if John had anything to do with his disappearance, he will make him pay.
Stephanie is trying to talk Max out of confronting his father, Steve & Kayla join in. Kayla tells him children do not always remember things right, make their own truths, and be very careful of what he thinks could be true. Max takes off.
Nicole is confronting Trent about some of their past. Seems he thinks he rescued her, got her back on her feet after her father had used her for porn. Nicole claims she did that herself, got off the drugs, went back to school, got back on her feet. But Trent only used her for a sex toy, was no better than her father. Nicole is very emotional, and this is a much different Nicole here, gut wrenching scenes. She talks of being only his arm candy to impress his co-workers at faculty events, and when he began to move up, he left her, no job, no money nothing. He says she is a whiny, self-absorbed brat who feels so sorry for herself. He is cocky and self-assured, is on top, no one can do anything about it. Wanna bet, sez Nikki. Trent tells her she either keeps her mouth shut, or he will reveal her own dirty little secret.
Barb
sorry, this is the best I can do so late. I have to say tho, the scenes with Nicole are very intense ones.