Franco makes some new threats, Rebecca decides to depart and Dante has his party card filled.

Carly meets Franco and quickly figures out that he thinks Jason is an artist like him. Her opinion of Port Charles’ newest eccentric gets a little more shaded when Sonny fills her in about the weird game the artist is playing with Jason and his knowledge of Michael’s part in Claudia’s death. Carly doesn’t waste her time in telling Jax all about this, though she insists that Franco is not a threat to their family. Her heart is later warmed when Jax gives her a photograph of Michael, Morgan and Josslyn.

Jason, Sam and Spinelli put their heads together to figure out that all of the murder scenes depicted in Franco’s artwork ended up coming true. While they start to suspect that he’s a serial killer, Franco leaves his signature tag in Ronnie’s hospital room. Ronnie scribbles down a cryptic note for Jason and the hitman realizes that Franco wants to meet him at the restaurant. When Stone Cold arrives, he discovers that Franco has left Josslyn’s hat for him, just to let him know how much of a threat he can be.

Rebecca shocks everyone when she suddenly announces that she’s leaving town. It might not be without a bang though. Lucky walks in on her and Elizabeth while they’re in a furious argument. She puts the breaks on ruining things for everyone, however, after she overhears Nikolas pouring his heart out at Emily’s grave. Across town, Lisa learns that Robin is HIV positive and then joins Matt to spend Christmas Eve with Robin and Patrick. Elsewhere, Kristina and Molly do their best to push Mac and Alexis together. The adults end up sharing a kiss under some appropriately placed mistletoe.

Family dinners rule in Port Charles this year. Sonny invites Dominic to join him and Olivia for dinner. Will she be able to stop herself from gagging on the irony of the situation? Dante has other invitations too. Lucky invites him over to the Spencer’s family party for the sake of his sister. Even Luke shows up for the event after his son asks him to. While Laura’s special angel watches over the family, the holiday spirit helps Maxie and Spinelli get past their recent problems.

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