Days Short Recap Friday, August 15, 2025

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Recap written by Michele and Cheryl

Arianna talked to Javi about wanting to go to Salem U instead of Arizona U. She loved her fathers. They are the best fathers in the world. She knew Javi would have been a good father too. Arianna apologized for overstepping. Javi thought it was fine. He admitted that he thought about her all the time. Leo doesn’t know about his secret because it was hard to explain. Arianna promised not to say anything. Tate told Sophia that the adoptive parents his request to see the baby. She knew he wanted to meet her, but she thought it was for the best. Tate didn’t agree with that at all. He refused to give up meeting their baby. Tate wanted to call Sophia’s lawyer so he could meet their daughter. Sophia panicked and tried to talk him out of it. Arianna was pushing Tesoro in his stroller while they were outside Sophia became uncomfortable when she saw the stroller. Arianna was going to leave, but Sophia wanted to see the baby again. Tate wondered what she meant by “again.” Sophia told him that she ran into Javi. Tate told her that he ran into the baby too when he saw Leo. He got a chance to hold the baby. Sophia became overwhelmed and started crying. Tate apologized to Sophia for being a jerk while she was trying to be strong. He promised to stop obsessing over seeing the baby.

Johnny told EJ that he didn’t want him to drag Chanel through the mud when she got on the stand. EJ agreed not to throw her under the bus. Paulina was happy about Belle’s defense, but she was worried that EJ would play the video of Chanel threatening him. Belle assured her that it wasn’t enough to charge her with if Johnny got acquitted. Chanel got on the stand and defended Johnny. EJ decided to become ruthless. He got her to admit that she blamed him for Johnny changing his mind about adopting. EJ played the video of Chanel threatening him. She denied the threat happened, but he cut her off. He didn’t have any more questions for her. The judge told Belle that she would be able to question Chanel the next day. Chanel, Johnny and Paulina were at the town square. Johnny ignored EJ’s call. He apologized to Chanel about what happened in court. She told him that what happened in the video wasn’t true. Belle arrived and saw them together. Johnny told her that the video was probably a deep fake. He wanted to send the video to an authority in AI. If he’s right, EJ might be behind the video. Later Johnny went to the DiMera mansion to let him know that he was fired.

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