Days of Our Lives Update
Update written by Joseph
Holly wakes up in the hospital with Tate at her side. Tate tells her that Sarah let him stay the night. Tate then gets a text that Holly’s mom Nicole just landed at the airport and will be coming straight there. Holly feels bad that she rushed all that way just for her. Tate says that’s what moms do and she probably couldn’t have stopped her anyway. Tate asks how she’s feeling. Holly responds that she is much better which Tate likes to hear.
Brady brings Sarah coffee at the hospital and asks how Holly is. Sarah responds that her vitals are stabilized but her overall condition is not improving. Brady hopes the water sample result will give them some answers. Stephanie arrives and greets Kayla, wishing her a happy fourth of July. Stephanie brought flowers for Holly and asks if she’s doing any better. Kayla says unfortunately not, but they are hoping to get a diagnosis to find out what is making her so sick. Stephanie is sure she’s so worried. Kayla notes that she’s surprised to see her as she thought she and Alex would be at the parade. Stephanie responds that it was the plan, but it turns out that Alex went with his daughter, so that means no parade for her.
Alex and Joy bring Kelsey to the Brady Pub, talking about how much Kelsey loved the parade. Joy mentions that Roman said he has rocket pops and invites Alex to join them upstairs for Kelsey’s first brain freeze. Alex says he’d love to, but he has to go to work for an emergency meeting that his cousins don’t think can wait until after the holiday.
At Titan, Philip tells Xander that he doesn’t get the tripled payment rate. Xander assures they are going to fight it. Philip questions why they’d force them to anyways, knowing the terms are impossible. Xander says they’d only do it if they’d want them to fail. Philip remarks that it’s almost like it’s personal. EJ then arrives and declares he’s damn right it is.
Tate wishes Holly a happy Fourth of July and it’s also their one year anniversary. Holly remembers Tate kissing her as the fireworks started and guesses there’s not much chance of this today. Tate says they can stream them on the TV. Holly asks about Tate’s session with Stephanie today. Tate says it’s not until later and he’s sure she’d understand if he cancelled to be with her. Holly encourages him to still go and says she’ll just be going back to sleep, joking that she’ll need to be well rested for their TV fireworks show. Tate agrees to go, but promises to be back as soon as he can. Tate wishes her a happy anniversary and then exits.
Sarah talks to Brady about the possible diagnosis that align with Holly’s symptoms but they keep striking out. Sarah says she’s trying to stay positive for Holly and the family as he hugs her. Stephanie complains to Kayla that this is their new normal that Alex will make plans without her and go running any time his baby mama calls. Kayla guesses she’s referring to Joy’s insurance problem. Stephanie remarks that she still doesn’t know why Joy made it sound like something was wrong with Kelsey and scared the life out of Alex when it was her problem that had nothing to do with Kelsey. Kayla agrees that she should’ve been more clear on that but points out that Joy has a baby with Alex, so any of her problems will be his as well. Stephanie says she gets that and that’s what keeps her up at night.
Joy tells Alex that she doesn’t get how much of a work emergency it could be on the holiday but Alex points out that it’s a regular day for the rest of the world and Titan is a global company. Joy says she gets that and that’s the duty of a Kiriakis to take care of the family company, joking that it might even be Kelsey’s one day. Alex assures that she’ll be a natural like him. Joy tells Alex that she heard Kelsey trying to say “dada” earlier, so Alex tries to get her to say it and says he’s looking forward to it. Joy says she feels very lucky to be Kelsey’s mom and to have Alex as her dad.
Xander questions EJ being behind on ARO Wealth Management. EJ thought it was painfully obvious and explains that ARO is ORA backwards. Philip realizes that’s for One Rainy Afternoon, the title of Bonnie’s novel. EJ mocks that they call Philip the dumb one and calls Xander a miserable human being. EJ brings up his child being screwed over and says Xander is the scum that set Johnny up to nearly being a public disgrace and asks if he really thought he’d let him get away with it.
Tate comes out from Holly’s room and tells Brady, Kayla, and Stephanie that Holly said she’s feeling better but she wanted to rest, so he agreed to head to the gym. Tate asks if Stephanie is still up for their training session, which she assures she is, so Tate says he’s going home to change and will meet her there as he exits. Stephanie goes to bring her flowers to Holly. Kayla tells Brady that she’s glad their kids are getting a chance to spend time together. Brady says that Tate needs the clients so he’s grateful. Kayla thinks after everything with Owen, Stephanie could use anything to help her regain her confidence, so she’s all in.
Sarah goes to check on Holly as Stephanie arrives with her flowers. Stephanie says she wanted to discuss something with Holly, so Sarah says she will check on her in a little bit and exits. Holly guesses it’s about her internship. Stephanie confirms it is and apologizes for not reaching out sooner as she had a lot to deal with lately.
Alex says he had a lot of fun with Kelsey at the parade, but he should get to his meeting. Joy asks if Alex is going to see the fireworks tonight because she’s definitely bringing Kelsey, so she’s wondering if he’d like to join them. Alex thanks her but says he promised Stephanie that he would go with her. Alex says he’s sure they will have a blast and that Kelsey will love it. Alex says he’ll see them soon as he exits the Pub.
EJ says now that he knows Titan were the bastards trying to take down Johnny all along, he will do everything in his power to tear down their empire piece by piece. Philip argues that he knows their families have always been going at it but there’s no reason to turn this in to an all out war. EJ says he should’ve told Xander that before he decided to fan the flames. Xander argues that he did what he did to save his company and that EJ would do the same thing which Philip says is true. Philip adds that every time they get in to this revenge cycle, it only ends up weakening both sides. Philip suggests they cut their losses and call a truce. EJ says that would assume they are still in the game when they clearly are not. EJ calls it inevitable and the fall of the Kiriakis pride as he says cheers to another glorious DiMera victory.
Stephanie tells Holly that she’s sorry she hasn’t had much work for her lately. Holly says it’s okay as she enjoyed working on her Anastasia Sands books, but figured when she stopped writing, there wouldn’t be much for her to do. Stephanie admits she lost the muse after everything with Owen which Holly says she gets. Stephanie wondered if Holly had any interest in working on the PR side since she is getting that business up and running again slowly. Holly agrees to try and do anything she needs. Stephanie says that’s perfect, but first she needs to focus on getting better and she doesn’t just mean getting out of the hospital since she knows certain things can leave more than just physical scars and they owe it to themselves to heal from those too.
Kayla asks Brady if he and Sarah had any luck linking EJ to the Coriseal deaths, mentioning that Steve brought her up to speed. Brady says they don’t have any definitive proof yet but they are looking. Kayla responds that she wouldn’t put it past EJ to be involved as she wouldn’t put anything past him. Brady hopes the fallout from Lexie being back will lead to EJ being ousted from the hospital.
EJ tells Xander and Philip that he will leave them to figure out their next career move and jokes that they could be flipping burgers. Alex then arrives and says he thought they were having that emergency meeting, so he questions what EJ is doing there. Philip and Xander explain that EJ was behind their loan buyout and used a shell corporation to make the terms almost impossible to pay off. Alex questions if EJ would then become owner of the company. EJ confirms that’s the idea and comments on how it’s such a shame that the Titan-DiMera merger fell apart and now he will make Titan a corporate footnote. EJ declares that the Titan name will be scrubbed from relevance.
Joy sits with Kelsey at the Pub as Kayla arrives and asks if she’s seen Roman. Joy says she hasn’t, so Kayla decides it’s a good time for them to talk. Kayla knows they don’t know each other well, though she did feel a connection during her tenure on Body and Soul. Kayla adds that now they have a much more important connection since Kelsey is her new step granddaughter. Joy asks if this is about Stephanie. Kayla understands her concerns since having an unsecured firearm in the apartment was not safe for anyone, but Stephanie has now gotten rid of the gun so she has no reason to feel Kelsey is in any danger with Stephanie. Kayla argues that Joy asking Alex to choose between his child or his wife is unfair.
Holly tells Stephanie that she keeps telling herself that she should just get over what Sophia did to her but she can’t move past it. Stephanie relates to what she went through with Owen. Holly says the other day, she convinced herself that Sophia came back from the dead to stalk her. Stephanie relates, saying she did something incredibly stupid because she thought Owen was breaking in to her apartment. Holly asks if she wants to talk about it. Stephanie says she doesn’t and that she should get going. Stephanie tells Holly that she’s always there to listen if she wants to talk. Holly thanks her and says she really appreciates that. Stephanie tells her to feel better as she exits the room.
Brady and Sarah wish they could get the sample results faster. Sarah is praying that there’s Coriseal in the water, otherwise Holly took it herself. Brady talks about getting addiction and Holly having a lot of triggers lately. Sarah knows that Holly’s been through enough to make her relapse.
Philip complains that they should’ve known from the start that EJ was behind this. Alex questions how they fight this. Xander suggests using the money from Gabi’s inheritance. Philip points out it won’t be enough to cover the entire loan while Alex feels it won’t cover any of the loan if EJ is involved. Alex points out that if EJ finds out they are using his family money to fight the takeover, he will do everything in his power to stop Gabi from getting it. Xander declares that’s why they have to make sure EJ never finds out.
EJ returns home to the DiMera Mansion and meets his worker George, who informs EJ that he did as he asked and got a sample of the water from the Horton Cabin on Smith Island and confirmed that it contained both Coriseal and arsenic. EJ concludes that means Holly was poisoned by a product of DiMera Enterprises.
Joy asks Kayla if Stephanie asked her to come fight her battles for her. Kayla says she didn’t and this isn’t a battle, but a child’s life. Joy argues that it’s her child and talks about not telling Alex when she got pregnant and bowing out of Alex’s life to give he and Stephanie a chance. Joy declares that she was happy to raise Kelsey on her own until realizing that Alex might want a chance to get to know his kid, so she will not be made out to be the villain. Kayla questions if she’s implying Stephanie is the villain.
Stephanie joins Tate at the gym for self defense class. She thanks him for doing this on a holiday. Tate says he didn’t have any plans until later anyway when he and Holly plan to watch the fireworks on TV from her hospital room while Stephanie mentions she and Alex plan to watch the fireworks live. Stephanie calls it a special night for them and flashes back to Alex first telling her that he loves her, then calls it a certain anniversary for them. Tate says it is for he and Holly as well. Tate asks if Stephanie went to the parade earlier as he and Holly were going to but obviously weren’t able to. Stephanie says she had to miss it too but notes that Alex went with his daughter and her mom, then remarks that she’s sure they had a great time, just the three of them.
Philip states that keeping the truth from EJ shouldn’t be hard and he doubts Gabi would say anything to him. Xander worries that EJ might wonder where their sudden influx of cash came from and start poking around. Xander suggests taking a page out of EJ’s book and use a shell corporation. Alex thinks they need to call Maggie to let her know what’s going on. Xander calls that a bad idea. Alex thinks Maggie needs to be looped in but Philip agrees with Xander and says that Maggie has enough on her plate right now. Xander declares that with any luck, Gabi’s money will be able to handle the payments and Maggie will never have to know that EJ came after the company.
EJ questions George as to how the hell contaminated Coriseal ended up on Smith Island. George reminds EJ that he had his best fixer get rid of the bad batch and it turns out that he buried it on Smith Island. George guesses the pills dissolved and ended up in the water. EJ argues that the Horton Cabin isn’t the only one. George says they are in the process of testing all the wells but the nearest one came back clean. EJ question why only Holly got sick. George assumes the others didn’t drink as much of the water. George adds that he has some other bad news and reveals to EJ that he wasn’t alone on Smith Island as he shows him a photo he took of Brady in the window. George informs EJ that Brady left with a water sample, leaving EJ frustrated.
Sarah returns to Holly’s hospital room with Brady, who brings her flowers that were delivered at the front desk. Holly opens the card and is shocked to learn they are from Amy Choi.
Joy tells Kayla that she never said Stephanie was the villain. Kayla feels she implied it and argues that Stephanie is a good person who was put in an impossible position. Joy questions if she was supposed to keep Alex from knowing he had a child. Kayla argues that she’s using that to her advantage and brings up Joy calling Alex and letting him think it was an emergency with Kelsey’s health because she knew he’d come running. Joy argues that Alex hung up before she could explain. Kayla suggests Joy make her the one she calls for any hospital related concerns. Kayla then exits, leaving Joy shaking her head.
Stephanie tells Tate that she knew things would get complicated when Joy showed up with Alex’s baby but she didn’t know how complicated. Tate relates to when he thought Sophia was having his baby and he’s sure Alex is also feeling caught in the middle. Stephanie says it’s hard being on the outside, having so many things going on that she can’t control. Stephanie calls that another reason she’s grateful for these sessions. Tate says it will definitely help her feel control. Tate says he should be thanking her since with everything going on with Holly, he’s feeling helpless.
Holly can’t believe and this and complains that first Amy sends the processor after her and now this which Sarah questions. Holly then reveals that Amy is suing her over Sophia’s death which shocks Sarah and Brady as Sarah questions why she didn’t say anything until now. Holly cries that there was so much going on and she’s been feeling so sick that she couldn’t deal with it. Sarah is glad she said something now as she’s going to need a lawyer, so she will get Justin on it. Holly then reveals that she already talked to a lawyer, EJ. Sarah is shocked and questions why she would talk to EJ of all people. Holly reminds her that EJ was there when Amy cornered her in the town square and that he said to call him if she had any more issues with her, so she did. Holly then remembers that Amy first sound the processor out to Smith Island and now sending flowers to the hospital, so she questions if Amy is stalking her like Sophia was.
Alex says he knows Maggie has a lot going on, but he also knows she’s freaking out about losing the Kiriakis Mansion. Alex talks about EJ possibly taking control and how Victor would be turning in his grave. Alex complains that this has gotten out of control. Xander tells him not to panic as they are going to fight this to their last cent. Philip says to their last breath if they have to.
EJ complains that Brady and Sarah love nothing more than to cause him misery. George encourages that it will be several days before Brady gets any results on the water sample while they got theirs quicker because they knew what they were looking for. EJ says that Brady must have gave the sample to Sarah. EJ asks if Holly will recover. George responds that they don’t know they are dealing with arsenic poisoning and based on the symptoms he described, it will likely kill her.
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