The protection continues, but not everyone's buying it

Kristina is sticking to her story that it was Ethan that attacked her, but does everyone really believe her?

Ethan is adamantly telling anyone who will listen that yes he grabbed her arm and yes she scratched his face but he is not the one who put her in the hospital.

I really enjoy the scenes with Kristina and Sam and how Sam keeps reinforcing the fact that Kristina is not to blame for what happened and that Kristina can not protect her attacker. Sam feels responsible for what happened to Kristina because she left her alone at the Lake House to confront Ethan; a point that Jason picked up on right away.

I couldn't believe the nerve the punk Kiefer had to actually enter Kristina's room after Sam had left. Maybe if Kiefer went in when Sam was there, Sam might actually be able to see how frightened Kristina is of him. Ironically, Kristina didn't seem frightened near Ethan when she was first brought into the hospital.

Kiefer tried to say that it didn't feel like it was him that attacked Kristina and that he just lost control. All he kept saying was "I swear to God." Unfortunately, Kristina forgave Kiefer the first time he hit her, so for some reason she thinks it's her fault. She actually apologized to him for lying to him. That was a WTF moment for me because no matter what Kristina did, she didn't deserve to have Kiefer raise his fists and hit her the way he did! Kristina knows that her father is out for revenge and told Kiefer she didn't want him to die. Again, I get that she's scared, but why does she insist on protecting him? And if she doesn't want Kiefer, the boy who beat her up, to die; why would she want Ethan, the boy who rejected her, to die? Does she feel getting rejected is worse than getting beat up?

Again their whole scene made me want to jump through my TV screen and strangle Kiefer. And as much as I hate Kiefer; I still have to admit that Christian is doing a phenomenal job in the acting department, along with Lexi. Definite kudos to the youngsters.

I don't know what was worse, listening to Kiefer telling Kristina they can get past it and forget it ever happened, Kristina telling Alexis that it never would have happened if she hadn't lied or actually seeing Kiefer's pompous parents on screen.

The way Mr. and Mrs. Bauer spoke about Kristina and her "unfortunate" family made me want to bitch slap them almost as much as Kiefer. No wonder the punk feels entitled to do whatever he wants to whomever he wants. Watching Kiefer sitting there, acting all innocent made me want to smack the smug look off his face. I certainly hope that Lucky is able to put together the proper timeline and save his half-brother from the lies.

Oh, and why was I NOT surprised that Mayor Floyd pulled strings to help the Bauers from talking to the PCPD, therefore protecting Kiefer.
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For once, I actually wasn't upset with Jason interfering when he went to go see Kristina. He went to see her because his girlfriend, Sam, the woman he loves is beating herself up inside for not being able to protect her sister. Jason is actually showing Sam the support that she always gives him.

I also like how Jason pointed out to Kristina that Ethan couldn't possibly be in two places at once. I know that Jason not believing that it was Ethan who put Kristina in the hospital is going to cause a rift between JaSam, but Sam really isn't seeing all the signs because she feels responsible and she's hurting for Kristina. Usually, it's Sam that's the one that's clear and level headed helping Jason see things the right way; this time it's Jason. I don't think it's going to cause JaSam to break up or anything, and it's actually going to be nice to see JaSam actually disagree on something. It will show that they have a normal relationship and that not everything is perfect in their world.

I hope that Jason and/or Lucky will be able to prove that it wasn't Ethan and in fact it was Kiefer that put Kristina in the hospital. Maybe, just maybe, Sam will stop beating herself up for something that was out of her control and Alexis and Molly will stop treating Kiefer like he's a god of sorts.


**On another side note of the episode, it was great to see Lulu not forgiving Nikolas for what happened with Elizabeth so quickly and for Lulu sticking to her guns about Liz being a liar. Lulu used to be Liz's biggest supporter and for once, Lulu is seeing Liz for who she really is. I have to admit it was nice to see not being so snarky to Nikolas when he showed up to bring her to the hospital. Maybe she's finally realizing that Nik is not the only one to blame for their affair; she had a hand in it as well.

**Anyone else find it really random to have the episode pretty much revolve around Kristina's and Liz's story lines and out of the blue insert a scene with Clair, Carly, Livs and Jax? It was kind of like, ummm, where is this coming from? Yes, I know that Sonny's trial is coming up, but they could have saved that scene for another day or actually added more scenes to reinforce the Sonny trial story line, not just the one as if to say "Don't forget we have this going on too."