Unable to install High Sierra 10.13.2 Supplement on my early 2011 15" Macbook Pro, which runs High Sierra 10.13.2 just fine.

Machine: early 2011 15" Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD that is only about 30% full.

I tried the install from the AppStore and the machine basically bricked. After 3 hours of staring at a black screen (no progress bar ever appeared), I forced the power off by holding the power button for 10 seconds. I tried to restart the machine and it made its tone but then did nothing further. I tried booting to safe-mode, recovery-mode, and a force boot - none of those made any difference - none got a progress bar, Apple logo, or anything but a black screen. To be clear, recovery mode would not get an Apple logo or go on to the recovery mode options. I got a tone, then a black screen in each case. My keyboard backlight was the only indication the machine was on, and it would go off and allow me to start a new attempt, if I held the power off for 10s.

I then proceeded to reset the NVRAM after which point the laptop booted straight into recovery mode. I recovered from a recent full Time Machine backup from my Time Capsule. The recovery completed and machine rebooted, but machine gave the circle with a slash through it suggesting the hard drive was corrupt, not found, or not bootable.

I booted into recovery mode again and used disk utility to reformat the drive. I then did a recovery from the same time capsule backup once more and this time it worked flawlessly. I was back up and running with no apparent issues, so I ran another Time Machine backup for good measure.

I went to the AppStore again and tried to install the 10.13.2 Supplement again and this time it downloaded and gave me the progress bar like it was installing. However, the machine rebooted and gave a notification that the install could not be completed automatically - with no further info of what to do next. I checked in AppStore and the last up date is a set of patches for 10.13.2 installed on 12/24/17. But it doesn't even show the 10.13.2 Supplement as an option to install anymore - it says my machine is up to date - but I doubt it.

My 2 new MacBook Pros, 2 MacBooks, and 2 iMacs all show the Supplement as successfully installing, so I'm not sure how to get this older MacBook Pro to install the Supplement. Any ideas? Thank you!