At the Corinthos Coffee warehouse, Jason was surprised to look up and find Sonny standing in his office, asking if he was free. Sonny said he wanted to clear the air. He reported that he had reached an agreement with Dex. Sonny said, "I am done with him, and he's free to do whatever he wants to do. He wants to be a cop? Don't matter to me."
Jason thought that was the right call but was surprised when Sonny said he wanted to make the same deal with Jason. "Go work for the FBI or whatever it is that you're doing, but I don't want to have anything more to do with you," Sonny said. He once again offered to buy Jason's half of Corinthos Coffee, but Jason refused to sell. Jason said, "This was our business. We founded this company together as equal partners."
Sonny countered that their partnership was based on a trust that had been broken. Jason said he wasn't staying for himself, but instead, he was staying for Sonny. After all, it was his only legitimate business left to shield him from RICO charges. Sonny accused Jason of spying on him, but Jason insisted he was Sonny's friend and would never do that. Jason also warned Sonny that he was in real trouble. Jason was worried about how Sonny had been acting and begged him to rein things in because he was making sloppy decisions.
Jason's words did no good. Sonny said that since Jason was turning down his buyout offer, Sonny wouldn't be friendly anymore. "If you don't get out of my way, you're done. You're gone," Sonny said.
Molly popped by Metro Court to ask Carly about what had happened with Sonny, Dex, Jason, and Kristina the night of Brook Lynn and Chase's wedding. Carly said she had been home with her feet up, so there was nothing she could tell Molly. Molly appealed to Carly as her aunt. "You've known me my whole life, and I'm asking you for help," Molly said. Molly worried about Kristina's physical state. After all, Kristina was carrying Molly's child.
Carly agreed to talk, as long as it was off the record and Molly didn't use anything she said in a legal capacity. Molly agreed, so Carly explained that Jason had called to tell her about the fight, which Kristina had witnessed, and that Sonny had followed Kristina to the ladies' room to try to explain things. "I think Kristina was afraid of Sonny because she saw him in a way that she had never seen before...I'm sure that was devastating for Kristina," Carly said.
Carly admitted that Kristina had had to see the dangerous side of Sonny at some point, but she was sorry for the way it had happened. Molly decided to keep the information to herself and not even tell T.J.
Later, Sonny walked into Metro Court and told Carly that he'd been dealing with Jason. Back at the warehouse, Jason heard something that put him on high alert. A man with a gun hid behind sacks of coffee beans while another shooter took a position nearby. Seconds later, gunfire erupted. Jason managed to take cover and pull out his gun, but he was pinned in.
John paid a visit to Brennan's hospital room, ready to haul him back to Pentonville. Brennan wondered when the FBI had become prison escorts, so John told him that being a crooked intelligence agent made Brennan special. "You are dangerous by definition," he said.
Portia soon arrived to tell John that Brennan wasn't going anywhere. His surgeon hadn't cleared him for release. John told Portia that Brennan was a security risk trained in disinformation, meaning he could "make things look like what they're not." Portia was adamant that Brennan would not be released until his surgeon said so, no matter what.
After Portia left, John insisted on questioning Brennan. He was curious why Brennan had spent so many months behind bars without a trial, and why lawyers kept asking for unjustified postponements, as if they'd been directed to stall. John accused Brennan of not wanting to leave Pentonville until the time was right.
Brennan insisted he didn't even understand the charges. It was all a misunderstanding from when Carly had seen him with zip ties and thought he had been planning to kidnap her. John wanted to talk about Brennan and Anna's connection. John knew that Brennan and Anna had history dating back to their early days at the WSB, so he thought it was too coincidental that Anna had been the one to take Brennan down and arrest him. John speculated that the bust had been a ruse to hand Brennan's leadership position at Pikeman to Anna.
Elsewhere in the hospital, Chase stopped by the nurses' station to see Elizabeth. She embraced him immediately, offering condolences about his dad. However, Chase was there for a specific reason. As executor of Gregory's estate, he needed to find someone to give him a copy of his father's death certificate.
Elizabeth called the hospital records department and tracked it down for Chase before they sat down for a chat. He told her that the reality of Gregory's death kept hitting him. Chase said, "It's like I'm moving underwater. Everything is slower because I'm slower." Liz assured him that what he was going through was normal, stressing that he shouldn't be afraid to ask for help.
Chase also wanted to talk about Finn. He was concerned about his brother's drinking and blamed himself for Finn's argument with Elizabeth because Chase was the one who had called her to check on Finn. Elizabeth pointed out that Finn had already been drinking when she'd gotten there. She said, "His reaction was his own. It had nothing to do with the timing, and it certainly wasn't your fault for calling me."
Chase insisted that Finn regretted drinking as well as the way he had treated Elizabeth. Chase was sure Finn would stop turning to alcohol, and Elizabeth tried to be just as hopeful. Chase continued explaining why Finn had drunk, but Elizabeth said she understood Finn had just been through something traumatic. She said, "What I didn't understand was his reaction to me. He was argumentative and angry with me for suggesting he go to a meeting -- which he refused."
Elizabeth had been worried about Violet, but Chase continued making excuses. "Finn made bad choices, and he knows it," Chase said. Eventually, Chase invited Elizabeth to a memorial for Gregory, where they would spread his ashes. She admitted that Finn had already let her know and that she would attend.
In the mayor's office, Laura was outraged that the Invader had printed a story about her efforts to get Heather's case reopened. Laura defended herself to Jordan and insisted that -- as a citizen -- she was entitled to request copies of Heather's records, but Jordan saw it as a problem because Heather was a serial killer. Laura was still angry and insisted she was within her rights, since Heather had given her power of attorney.
At the hospital, Portia was furious when Curtis showed her the article about Laura. "There's gotta be more to this story because the Laura I know would never do this," Curtis said. He thought about it for a bit and had an idea, walking away from Portia and telling her they'd talk that night.
Back in her office, Laura tasked Jordan with getting to the bottom of a press leak but also thanked Jordan for not saying "I told you so" after she'd warned Laura what might happen. Jordan advised Laura to get ahead of the story by issuing a statement saying that Laura had no plans to reopen Heather's case. Laura was not ready to make a promise she might not be able to keep. Since Laura admitted she had no intention of freeing Heather, she agreed to draft a statement saying just that.
Later, Curtis stopped by to talk to Laura about Heather, so Jordan left. Curtis tried to be diplomatic when he told Laura he hadn't thought too much of her initial curiosity about Heather's case because he hadn't thought she'd really move to have it reopened. However, he had become worried.
Laura said she was not looking to set Heather free. She was just exploring whether there were legal ramifications due to Heather's cobalt poisoning diagnosis. "I can tell you it's my personal feeling that in light of Heather's diagnosis, she deserves to have her case reopened," Laura explained. However, she only hoped that Heather would get a lesser sentence and not be freed. She also told Curtis the discussion was premature because no action had been taken yet.
Curtis asked Laura to see things from Trina's point of view, as well as his family's. Trina had watched her friends be stalked and attacked, and she had later learned she'd been the intended victim. Curtis urged Laura to understand how Trina felt. Laura still wouldn't budge. "I am having a hard time locking this woman away for the rest of her life when she may not have possessed the mental capacity to tell the difference between right and wrong," Laura explained.
Finally, Curtis raised a major point: Heather's daughter, Esme, had also never been held accountable for her actions because of amnesia. "Trina didn't press charges against the new Esme because Esme wasn't aware of what the old Esme had done," he said. Curtis asked Laura if she wanted to risk a legal loophole putting Heather back on the street. Laura just said it was up to the court to decide. Curtis promised Laura that he and Portia would fight her.
Back at the hospital, Molly visited T.J. and sidestepped the topic of Kristina. She only mentioned how her mother was mourning Gregory. However, T.J. wanted to talk about Kristina because he was alarmed that she wasn't in constant communication with them during her third trimester.
Portia interrupted Molly and T.J. to ask Molly for a moment of her time. After T.J. walked away, Portia asked if she thought that Laura could succeed in her quest to help Heather. Portia stressed to Molly that she needed to keep Heather behind bars, declaring she would do everything to make sure Heather was never released.
