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Days of Our Lives Transcript

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[Emotional music]

[Knocking at door]

Allie: Hi.

Chanel: Hey, horton.

Allie: Sorry, I didn’t mean to not turn up at the bakery today. I didn’t mean to leave you in the lurch.

Chanel: No, I’m not here to give you grief about that. I’m here to see if you and tripp found a way to work things out.

Allie: That would be a no.

[Emotional music]

[Elevator dings]

Shawn: Tripp. Tripp.

Tripp: Oh, hey, shawn. What’s up? What can I do for you?

Shawn: I was hoping you could tell me that you’ve heard from your mother.

Tripp: Uh, we spoke a few days ago. Why, what’s going on?

Shawn: Ava vitali escaped police custody this morning.

[Tense music]

Belle: So you’re not the ceo of dimera anymore?

Chad: That title now belongs to gabi hernandez.

Belle: How–how is that even possible?

Chad: Tony and I were out of town.

Belle: Oh, right. You rescued abigail. I heard. How is she?

Chad: She’s fine. We’re very lucky.

Belle: Oh, thank god.

Chad: But gabi took advantage of the situation. Called a shareholders’ meeting and managed to vote me out and her in.

[Exhales]

Belle: Well, what about jake? If gabi got the ceo role, what did he get?

Chad: A knife in his back.

Jake: So we called a shareholders’ meeting, right? To install me as ceo of dimera. Thanks, man. And damn it, if johnny and gabi didn’t pull a fast one and now johnny’s on the board of dimera, gabi’s in charge of the company, and I–[Whistles] On my ass.

Ben: Dude, I am so sorry, man.

Jake: Thank you. Anyway, he said you might have a bead on why johnny would try to pull something like this off.

Ben: Maybe. But what I don’t get is why gabi would do that.

Jake: Hell if I know, man. I’m trying to figure that out. What I do know is… that son of a bitch got it in gabi’s head that I was gonna screw her over, talked her into screwing me over first.

[Sighs]

[Atmospheric music]

[Knocking on door]

Susan: Knock, knock.

Johnny: Grandma, what are you doing here?

Susan: [Clears throat] I’m here to see if you really are my grandson.

Johnny: Well… if I’m not your grandson, then–

[Laughs] Who else would I be?

[Dramatic music]

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Johnny: [Chuckles] I know it can be a little confusing.

Susan: Hmm. And what is just confusing, johnny?

Johnny: Well, our family tree. Especially where I’m concerned. I mean, I’m a twin. Sami is our mom, but allie’s father is lucas and my father is elvis jr. So jackpot, I am definitely your grandson.

Susan: Okay, you know what? I do not need a lesson in genealogy. Mm-mm. Because you know what? I got one of those kits online and I traced my ancestors back a hundred years ago.

Johnny: Wow.

Susan: Uh-huh. And my great-great- great-grandfather, he got arrested for horse thieving. And he got off with just a warning. But his sister– you won’t believe it– she had to pay a $10 fine for bareback riding.

Johnny: [Exhales] Wow. I mean, I know the dimera family has more sinners than saints, but I am surprised to hear that the banks side of my lineage has its share of folks who could raise some hell. Tell me more.

Susan: Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, my, um– oh, oh, here. This one’s good. My great-grandfather, he used to refurbish those one-armed bandits to put in the basement for local bars. Yeah.

Johnny: Illegal gambling?

Susan: Mm-hmm.

Johnny: Did he ever get caught?

Susan: No. No, he did not.

[Both laugh] No, but his wife– his wife was not happy about it at all. I know what you’re doing. I d–[Blows air] Yeah, I do. I do. You know what? You are trying to distract me and I am not gonna get distracted from my mission. Mm-mm. All right. I know that johnny dimera is my elvis’ son. But what I’m here to ask and find out is are you really johnny dimera?

[Tense music]

Ben: So you think johnny stole maggie’s phone to text you and then forged your signature to sign the petition to steal gabi’s dimera shares?

Jake: Well, dude, I sure as hell didn’t do it. The question is how in god’s name did that bastard get gabi to believe that she overheard me telling maggie that I would turf her in order to get what I wanted?

Ben: And you were never with maggie alone?

Jake: Never. And get this, dude. Gabi claims that this alleged meeting with maggie at the mansion happened at the exact time that I was right here with you.

Ben: Okay, so then why don’t I call gabi and just tell her that you were here with me?

Jake: Dude, she’s not gonna believe you.

Ben: You know what I’m wondering?

Jake: Huh?

Ben: Is if you’re gonna believe me when I tell you how I think johnny did this.

Jake: I’m listening.

Belle: I would have thought that gabi and jake would be in cahoots on a power play like this.

Chad: Apparently, jake made the same assumption. He wouldn’t be the first guy that thought he could trust gabi hernandez.

Belle: And johnny was in on this with gabi?

Chad: Yeah. She went behind jake’s back, enlisted johnny’s help and hung her boyfriend out to dry.

Tripp: My mom escaped? Wait, does this have anything to do with rafe’s trial?

Shawn: Why would you say that?

Tripp: Well, I know how, you know, close they are and how loyal she is, so she might have tried to do something a little unconventional to try and help him.

Shawn: No. No, this isn’t about rafe. Your mom was being held for questioning in the disappearance of abigail dimera. And then someone posing as your mom’s lawyer just walks her out of the station. I’m still trying to get down to the bottom of it to find out what happened. But the officers that were asleep on the job are definitely gonna answer some serious questions.

Tripp: Okay, but what I don’t understand is my mom didn’t even know abigail. I don’t think I’ve ever heard her even mention her name, so why would she have anything to do with her disappearance?

Shawn: That’s my question. And I’m hoping your mom has the answer. So if you see her or you hear from her, will you give me a call?

Tripp: Yeah, I will.

Shawn: All right, thank you.

[Ominous music]

[Elevator dings]

Chanel: So the engagement is really off?

Allie: Mm-hmm. It was bad enough at the park when tripp told me that he would never trust me again and asked for the engagement ring back.

[Sighs] But then later, I ran into him at the pub with my grandma kate and grandpa roman.

Chanel: Well, what happened?

Allie: I told tripp exactly how I felt. That… that I hated myself for hurting him and that I loved him and that I would never stop loving him.

Chanel: And what did he say?

Tripp: He pretty much shut me down and just walked away.

Chanel: Oh. Oh, my god, horton. I am so sorry. Oh.

[Emotional music]

Your mission:

Tripp: Hey, mom. I’m worried about you, so just please give me a call back as soon as you get this, okay?

[Phone beeps]

Ciara: Hey, tripp.

Tripp: Hey.

Ciara: Is everything okay?

Tripp: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Everything’s fine. How are you and the baby doing?

Ciara: Oh, we are great. I actually just stopped by to pick up a refill for my prenatal vitamins. But I won’t keep you from your work. Give allie all my love, okay?

Tripp: You’ll have to do it yourself. We broke up.

[Emotional music]

Allie: Oh, god, sorry. I must be such a mess. Don’t worry, I’ve seen you look way worse.

Allie: Thanks, I guess. I really screwed up.

Chanel: No, horton. This is on me. Okay? It’s all my fault.

Allie: Don’t say that. I was in the committed relationship. I chose to sleep with you and I chose to lie about it. There is no one else to blame but me. Did you know that when tripp would sleep over, which was almost every night, he would wake up early so that he could turn the alarm off so it didn’t wake up henry and me? And then he would go and he’d make my favorite breakfast.

Chanel: Waffles with honey and peanut butter?

Allie: Yeah. [Laughs] And this morning when the alarm went off… it reminded me, just like it’s gonna remind me every single day, that I blew it with the most amazing guy I’ve ever known.

Belle: So where did this gabi and johnny alliance come from? I didn’t know they even knew each other.

Chad: Not discount gabi’s ability to manipulate, but it seems my little nephew isn’t quite as naive as he was pretending to be.

Belle: Why do you say that?

Chad: When ej went to prison, johnny swore up and down to me that we were on the same side. Said that what his father did to abigail was absolutely unforgivable.

Belle: Making a pass at her, you mean?

Chad: Forced himself on her, I mean.

Belle: Oh, well, that’s an accusation that ej denies.

Chad: I saw my brother kiss my wife, belle. Abigail experienced it, so either abigail and i are lying or ej is lying. There is no other explanation.

[Tense music]

Johnny: Ben and ciara told you that I was possessed by the devil?

Susan: They most certainly did.

Johnny: See? Now there is another example of confusion. Now, the movie that I’m working on is called “possessed: The marlena evans story.” And when it comes to getting this passion project made, you could definitely say that I am a man possessed. But you and I–hey. You and I both know that the prince of darkness was sent packing. I was in the room where it happened.

Susan: Yes, you were. Yes, you were. And it’s only a hop, skip, and a jump for the old beelzebub to find his way out of dr. Marlena and directly into you, johnny. Avoiding triggers, but can’t keep migraine attacks away?

Johnny: There were a lot of other people in that room. My mom, my sister, aunt belle, uncle eric, grandpa john was there, brady.

Susan: Uh-huh.

Johnny: Look, I get that the devil was after ben and ciara’s baby, so it makes sense that they’re a little nervous, but why would they think that it’s me? I mean, I barely know ciara and I just met ben.

Susan: Right. Right. You just met ben when you brought that cross over from julie williams as a housewarming gift.

Johnny: That’s right. So?

Susan: So buttons. That cross was turning itself over onto itself again and again outside their front door.

[Ominous music]

Ben: Remember that cross we had hanging outside?

Jake: Yeah, sure I do. The one that kept flipping over no matter how many times you turned it right side up.

Ben: That one. Johnny’s the one who brought it over here.

Jake: I thought you said it was from julie.

Ben: It was from julie. But when she was about to deliver it to us, she had this emergency happen that johnny just so happened to have been around for. Now, he volunteers himself to deliver the cross.

Jake: Dude.

Ben: Jake–

Jake: So you’re telling me you think johnny dimera is possessed by the devil?

Ben: Look, I know it sounds crazy and I’m not trying to be the one to put that type of stuff out there. I know this is exactly the type of paranoia that could land my ass back in bayview.

Jake: No, the devil was after your kid. You have every right to be paranoid. So if what you’re saying is true, then that would explain how that son of a bitch got gabi that she overheard this meeting that I had with maggie. A meeting which never happened.

[Suspenseful music]

Holy crap. Johnny told me exactly how he did it.

Belle: Okay, is it possible that this kiss that you witnessed–

Chad: Stop saying it like I’m making it up, belle!

> Belle: Okay, I’m sorry. But I have to ask. I mean, did this motivate you to maybe not tell the whole truth when you were testifying against your brother?

Chad: I swear to god… that it happened just as I said it did. Okay? I found the money trail that linked ej to sami’s kidnapper on my computer at dimera. And then I went to the police and I reported it.

Belle: That is a very direct and very careful answer to my question, which makes me wonder is there something that you’re not telling me?

[Tense music]

Ciara: Wait, so right after allie accepted your proposal, you found out that she cheated on you? With who? I mean, you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to, obviously.

Tripp: It’s fine. You’re bound to find out sooner or later, so… it was with chanel dupree.

Ciara: Chanel? Her business partner from the bakery? Oh, my god. I’m–I don’t get it. Just last week, allie and I were talking about how happy you guys were and how head-over-heels in love with you she was. Are you sure about this, tripp?

Tripp: Yeah, I’m sure. Allie admitted it. She had no choice actually, after her brother spilled her dirty little secret.

Ciara: Wait, johnny was the one who told you? Huh.

Chanel: You wanted to leave that night. The only reason you didn’t was because I begged you to stay.

Allie: Chanel, johnny had just broken up with you in the cruelest way possible. There was no chance in hell I was going to leave you alone.

Chanel: You were there for me. You always are. That meant so much to me and it still does. I wanna be there for you now. That night, you held me and… made the pain go away. I wanna do the same for you.

[Atmospheric music]

It’s the most wonderful

time of the year,

Tripp: And I had pretty much just put the ring on allie’s finger when johnny and chanel showed up. And instead of congratulating us, johnny asked allie if she had told me that she slept with chanel.

Ciara: Oh, my god. Tripp, that’s horrible. For you and for allie. I can’t believe her own brother would do that to her.

Tripp: Probably just ’cause the little twerp seems to get off on making people miserable. I mean, I am grateful that he told me, ’cause allie sure as hell wasn’t going to. I’m sorry, I know how close you are. Maybe I should let her tell you this.

Ciara: No. No, tripp. I care about you too. And I am so, so sorry.

Tripp: Yeah, well, maybe I’m just one of those guys that women use until something better comes along.

Ciara: What? No. No, that is not true.

Tripp: Really? Because I lost you to ben. And now I’ve lost allie to chanel, so… I’m sorry. That was a rotten thing to say. I’m just… so tired of coming in second place with the women that I care about.

[Keys jingling]

Nicole: Oh. Allie, you’re home.

Allie: Yeah, I took a sick day.

Chanel: And I should get going. I’m having one of the ovens serviced. Have to meet the repair man. You know, you can call me.

Nicole: Bye, honey.

Chanel: Bye.

Nicole: Are you okay?

Allie: Yeah, I’d rather talk about you. What happened it court today?

Nicole: Um. Well, the defense rested. Closing arguments wrapped up. And now rafe’s fate is in the hands of the jury.

Belle: Chad, if there’s something you held back from your testimony that the judge should’ve heard–

Chad: Okay, I– I appreciate how dedicated you are to ej’s case, but aren’t you still dimera’s general counsel?

Belle: Of course I am.

Chad: Okay, so then why don’t you focus on what we pay you for? If you’re not gonna help me oust gabi and reclaim my ceo position, then I’ll find somebody who will.

[Atmospheric music]

Ben: What do you mean johnny told you how he did it?

Jake: Okay, I don’t know how you pulled it off, but I know you were behind this.

Johnny: ‘Cause I stole a phone, forged a text, blah, blah, blah.

Jake: No, that was just the start of it.

Johnny: Oh, really? What else did I do? Morph into you, meet with maggie so gabi could overhear?

Jake: You know, now that i think about it… johnny almost bragged about it. About morphing into me.

Ben: Then what happened?

Jake: Things got tense and we must have mixed it up, ’cause I ended up flat on my ass.

Ben: But you don’t remember?

Jake: Things are fuzzy. You now, I kept wondering how some kid got the best of me.

Ben: Dude, maybe you weren’t fighting a kid. Maybe you just got sucker punched by the devil.

Jake: [Chuckles]

Ben: Seriously.

Jake: Dude. That makes no sense. Yet it explains everything.

Ben: [Exhales] Question is… how do we prove that?

[Tense music]

Susan: Inverted cross is the mark of the devil.

Johnny: Or it’s the mark of a bad handyman. Grandma, look at me. I am still the same little boy that sat on your front porch swing in memphis drinking mint juleps–mine virgin, yours not so innocent.

Susan: [Laughs]

Johnny: And I’d read you those trashy hollywood gossip magazines when you couldn’t find your glasses.

Susan: I know, you sure did.

[Laughs] And you were just as sweet as spun sugar. Oh, sweetheart, you know what? Maybe my devil-detector is on the fritz.

Johnny: No, no, grandma. Your gift is very powerful. So don’t you think that if I were possessed by the devil, you’d know it? If you’re washing with the bargain brand,

Ben: Ciara and I decided to call susan banks. She’s over at the dimera mansion right now talking to johnny.

Jake: You trust a “looney tunes” like susan with this?

Ben: Hey, “looney tunes” susan is the reason why I reunited with ciara when everybody else thought she was dead, my friend.

Jake: I know. I know.

Ben: “Looney tunes” susan was one of the first people in this town to realize that the devil was in marlena. So if her grandson is possessed, susan’s gonna know.

[Eerie music]

Susan: I’m not sure what to think.

[Sighs]

You must’ve jumped out of dr. Marlena evans and into my sweet johnny during the exorcism. And you can’t fool me. You can’T. Not anymore.

Demon johnny: Oh. I guess you’re not as dumb as you look.

Susan: Oh, it’s you! Beelzebub. I knew it! I knew it!

Demon johnny: Congratulations, susie Q. You figured it out. So now what are you gonna do about it?

[Ominous music]

Johnny: Are you okay? You look a little pale.

Susan: Well, I would know if you were the devil, wouldn’t I? Huh? I would feel the evil. It would chill me to my bones, go to the depths of my soul. But… oh, but that’s not how I feel.

You’re not gonna get away with this! You’re not gonna get away with this because you know what? You can slam doors in my face, but I am gonna go straight downstairs and I am gonna tell elvis everything.

Demon johnny: You know what?

[Door creaks open]

Susan: You’re gonna let me go?

[Mysterious whoosh]

[Gasps]

Demon johnny: And what are you gonna tell him?

Susan: I’m gonna tell him that I’m leaving salem.

Demon johnny: When?

Susan: Tonight.

Demon johnny: Excellent. Why?

Susan: Because roger needs me.

Demon johnny: He sure does.

[Sighs] Why don’t I help you pack your bags?

Susan: Okey dokey. You’re such a sweet boy.

Johnny: A woman with your powers? You would definitely know if I were lucifer himself.

Susan: [Laughs] You’re such a sweet boy. Oh, you’re right. You are right. I would know. Mm-hmm. There is no devil here.

Johnny: Exactly. So you can go ahead and tell ben and ciara that satan is gone and there’s nothing to worry about.

Susan: Okay. That’s exactly what I’m gonna do.

[Giggles]

Allie: Wow, it’s already gone to the jury. Rafe’s trial is moving really fast.

Nicole: Yeah, because all the prosecution had were those three felons who lied though their teeth and said that rafe set them up. And…luckily the defense had some very compelling witnesses.

Allie: Did rafe’s lawyer mention anything about ava being the one to set him up?

Nicole: She couldn’T. She didn’t have any proof.

Allie: Maybe if I’d gone through her stuff…

Nicole: No. Honey, listen. I told you I would never ask you to go after your boyfriend’s mother like that.

Allie: Except…

Nicole: Except what?

Allie: Tripp’s not my boyfriend anymore.

[Emotional music]

Ciara: Oh, tripp. You are a wonderful man. And I love allie so much, but you do not deserve to have been lied to like that.

Tripp: Thank you for saying that.

Ciara: I mean it. I really do. And if you need anything, anything at all, I’m right here.

Tripp: Just talking to you helped.

Ciara: Good. Well, I should probably get going.

Tripp: Yes.

Ciara: I had no idea that fathers-to-be were so overprotective. Oh, thank you.

Tripp: Thank you. All right, see you.

[Atmospheric music]

[Elevator dings]

[Light, ominous music]

Susan: Hey, are you still gonna divorce that sweet girl you married in italy?

Johnny: It’s for the best, grandma. Chanel has moved on. So have I.

Susan: Wow, that’s really quick.

Johnny: I’m holding out for true love. Like the kind you have with roger. And I’m sure that he is missing you big time. You should get home to him. Stop worrying about all the crazy people in this town.

Susan: Well, I mean, you’re getting divorced and your dad is in prison and I just get worried about the ones that I love. And I love you so much, johnny.

[Giggles] Oh.

[Ominous music]

Johnny: What is it?

Susan: The devil is still here in salem. Oh, in fact, right now, he is under this roof.

Nicole: Allie, I am so sorry.

Allie: It’s my own fault.

Nicole: Allie–

Allie: Nicole, what is wrong with me? I feel like I finally was getting my life together. You know, I have henry. I have a great job. I had a wonderful guy who wanted to marry me. And here I am just trashing it.

[Sighs]

Nicole: Come here.

Allie: [Cries]

Tripp: I’ve got nothing to say to you.

Chanel: Well, I’ve got something to say to you. Allie loves you, tripp. What she and I did, it was one time and it’s over. So could you please get that through your head? Because if you don’t and you walk away from her, you will be making the biggest mistake of your life. Allie doesn’t want me, tripp. She wants you. So please, could you please find it in your heart to forgive her?

[Emotional music]

Ben: I really thought susan would be back by now. Hope she’s okay.

Jake: Johnny’s her grandson. You– you really think he’d hurt her?

Ben: Let’s hope not.

Jake: All right. I’m gonna get going.

Ben: All right.

Jake: Let me know what happens with susan– if she ever comes back.

Ben: Will do.

[Door opens]

Ciara: Oh. Hey, jake.

Jake: Hey.

Ciara: Hi, baby.

Ben: Hi, babe.

Ciara: Hmm. So let me get this straight. I have two automotive wizards here and I still don’t have a baby swing?

Ben: Oh. Go easy, I was telling jake about our little johnny theory.

Ciara: Oh. And do you think we’re crazy?

Jake: Oh, hell no. In fact, I just had a little run in with satan myself.

Ciara: Really? What happened?

Jake: [Laughs] Well, long story short, johnny helped gabi double-cross me and then gabi dumped me.

Ciara: Oh, man. I’m sorry.

Jake: Thank you. I’ll be all right.

Ciara: Yeah.

Jake: And now, ben, I leave you to assemble the swing.

Ben: Thank you.

Jake: Mm-hmm. I’ll check in later.

Ciara: Yeah, I’ll see you, jake. Hmm. So it seems like the devil has a thing for breaking up couples. First abe and paulina’s wedding. Johnny broke up with chanel. Now jake and gabi. And he just blew up tripp and allie’s engagement.

[Ominous music]

Johnny: I thought we settled this devil nonsense.

Belle: Oh, uh, I hope I’m not interrupting.

Johnny: Oh, not at all, aunt belle.

Belle: Susan, I was just telling chad that I’m doing everything in my power to help ej overturn the conviction.

Susan: Oh. Oh. Well, I certainly appreciate that, belle. I mean, you know, my elvis, he doesn’t need to do penance for the sins of others.

Johnny: I totally agree, grandma.

Belle: Yeah. Well, okay, I’m gonna get going.

Johnny: Oh, don’t forget your coat.

Belle: Oh. [Chuckles]

[Phone ringing]

Johnny: I have to take this call, sorry.

Susan: What–hold on. What about the devil?

Johnny: We’ll talk about him later.

[Phone ringing]

[Phone beeps]

Belle: Okay, susan. I will definitely let you know if I hear any news about ej, okay?

Susan: Okay. Thank you.

[Chilling music]

It’s her! It’s her! Dear sweet jesus, belle brady is the devil. Oh!

[Hyperventilating]

[Chilling music]

Is now a good time

for a flare-up?

Nicole: Honey, listen. You didn’t trash your life. You made a mistake. And coming from someone who’s made a lot of mistakes in my life, especially when it comes to love… I did learn one thing. If you love someone and they love you back, even if you’ve done something wrong, there’s always a chance you can make it right.

Allie: You didn’t see how angry tripp was. How hurt. I don’t think he’s ever going to give me that chance.

Tripp: Allie made her choice the night she slept with you.

Chanel: No, that’s on me, tripp. Look, I was the one who came on to her.

Tripp: You didn’t make her lie about it. That was all allie.

Chanel: Please don’t blame her.

Tripp: Stop protecting her, chanel. I mean, I am such a damn idiot. All this time, okay? I’ve never been jealous of your friendship or possessive. And from the first time that i saw you two together, I could see how much you meant to each other. What good friends you were. And I respected that. Okay? That’s why when johnny stomped on your heart, I came to you offered my support, and you lied to my face. So no, I don’t wanna hear another word from you. And you can tell your girlfriend that I never wanna see her again.

[Emotional music]

Ben: I just can’t believe that johnny could be so cruel to his own sister.

Ciara: Yeah. I guess that’s all the more proof that we’re not dealing with johnny.

[Frantic knocking on door]

Susan: [Gasps] Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Ciara: Susan.

[Panting] Oh. Mm. “Saint michael the archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. And may god rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, o prince of the heavenly host of the power of god, thrust into hell satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.” Oh!

[Breathing heavily]

Ben: Hey. Is it true? What the hell happened?

Ciara: Is the devil back in salem?

Ben: Is johnny possessed by the devil?

Susan: [Breathes heavily] The devil– the devil is not in johnny. He’s not in my grandson. The devil is now in belle brady!

[Panting] Oh.

[Phone ringing]

Belle: Hey.

Shawn: Oh, hey, you.

Belle: Hi. How are you?

Shawn: Good. Hey, belle. What’s on the back of your coat?

Demon johnny: Well, nonno, looks like I fooled that old fool susan banks again. And now that bitch belle’s trying to convince everybody she doesn’t have two horns under those golden locks, she won’t have time to spring little elvis from the cooler. And I can turn up the heat on my plans.

Chad: Your plans for what?

[Tense music]

Belle: What? What is it?

Shawn: It looks like some ash or some soot. Just, like, a little few specks of black. It came right off. You been to a fire?

Belle: [Laughs] Well, I guess you could say that. I just came from the dimera mansion. And it looks like chad just got royally burned.

Chad: Your plan? Telling granddad about your little coup?

Johnny: I think he’d be proud–of at least one of us.

Chad: Gabi’s using you, you know.

Johnny: There are worse things than being used by a beautiful woman.

Chad: You think this is a game, johnny? You’re playing with the big boys now. This isn’t over. I will take back what’s mine and then you can go to hell.

[Dramatic eerie music]

Demon johnny: Oh, believe me, uncle chad, the fun is just beginning.

[Exhales]

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Gwen: Please, you can’t tell the police.

Ava: Oh, that you’re the one that knocked out abigail at the airstrip?

Gwen: Shh!

Ava: Of course I can.

Gwen: Ava, we are in this together. We have been from the beginning.

Ava: No, I helped you out. But this mess is all yours. And yet I’m the one that they dragged down here to the station. Not to mention that this is all for nothing.

Gwen: What do you mean?

Ava: Isn’t it obvious? If chad brought abigail back from that godforsaken island, sarah can’t be far behind.

[Dramatic music]

Sarah as renee: Tom and alice horton. Long time, no see. You know, everyone keeps trying to convince me that I’m your granddaughter. But I’m not. I’m renee dumonde, and I’m here to take my life back, finally be with the man I love.

Xander: Sarah. It’s really you this time.

[Door slams]

Shin: Hmm.

Kate: Oh, mr. Shin. I didn’t know you were in salem.

Shin: Kate, please. Call me li. And I’m here for the shareholder meeting.

Kate: The shareholder meeting?

Shin: Gabi and jake have called meeting for this morning, along with ej’s son.

Kate: Johnny?

Shin: I’m getting the sense they didn’t tell you.

Kate: Uh, no, they didn’t tell me. And they’ve planned it for a time when tony and chad aren’t here and ej is in prison, which makes me think they think the time is ripe for a play.

Shin: Hmm, what is it you think they’re planning?

Kate: Well, I don’t know. But whatever it is, they’re not gonna get away with it.

Jake: Whoa. Dressed already, huh?

Gabi: The meeting is in half an hour. You expect to be instated as the ceo of dimera in your boxers?

Jake: Aw, come on. We still have time. Come on, come back to bed, just for a minute.

Gabi: I don’t want to wrinkle my dress.

Jake: All the more reason for you to take it off. I was thinking we could have a little pre-meeting celebration.

Gabi: No, we–we cannot have any distractions today. Everything is riding on today.

Jake: Fine. I’ll get dressed. But tonight we’re celebrating.

Gabi: Oh, I’ll be celebrating… getting rid of your lying, double-crossing ass.

Demon johnny: [Sighs] Time for all hell to break loose at dimera. I do love my job.

Johnny: You stop right there.

Demon johnny: You again.

Johnny: That’s right. It’s me, johnny angel, and I’m taking over.

Demon johnny: [Laughs] Do you really think you can fight the devil and win?

Johnny: You’re not as powerful as you think. In fact, you’re nothing without me.

Demon johnny: Oh, please. You’re nothing but a host body, a vessel for me to puppet.

Johnny: That’s what you think.

Demon johnny: Go away. I have work to do.

Johnny: Oh, I’m not going anywhere, and neither are you. I won’t let you hurt any more people I love.

Demon johnny: [Groans]

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Demon johnny: [Grunts] I warned you what would happen if you fight me.

Johnny: My grandmother kicked you out. I will too.

Demon johnny: [Scoffs] Marlena and john drove me out with love. 35 years of loyalty and selflessness–ugh. But that is why I’m not worried about you. ‘Cause you don’t love anyone enough. Only yourself, johnny boy.

Johnny: That’S…not true.

Demon johnny: Only yourself. Now, go away!

[Phone rings] Hello?

Gabi: Everything okay?

Demon johnny: Why wouldn’t it be? Are we all ready for today?

Gabi: I am more than ready.

Demon johnny: You don’t think jake suspects you, does he?

Gabi: He doesn’t suspect a thing.

Demon johnny: Good. Let’s keep it that way. We need his vote to convene the meeting.

Gabi: Don’t worry. Jake is gonna get what he deserves. And I can’t wait to witness it.

Xander: Sarah. Jack told me everything.

Sarah as renee: Oh, my god. It can’t be you.

Xander: But it is. I– oh, my god, sarah. You have no idea what a relief it is to– just to see you again. All this time, I believed that you– that you threw me over on our wedding day and jumped into bed with rex. But it wasn’t you. It was never– it was never you. And I’m so terribly sorry for everything you must have gone through, getting kidnapped by kristen and trapped on a desert island for all this time.

Sarah as renee: And you were a part of the scheme.

Xander: Scheme?

Sarah as renee: Trying to make me think that I’m sarah horton.

Xander: I, uh– what are you–

Sarah as renee: You get away from me.

Xander: Sarah, please, I don’t–

Sarah as renee: Stop calling me that.

Xander: I don’t understand. Don’t you know who I am?

Sarah as renee: [Scoffs] I do. I know exactly who you are.

[Dramatic music]

Wondering what actually goes

into your multivitamin?

Sarah as renee: [Scoffs] You think anyone could forget who you are, alexander? Someone as charismatic as you?

Xander: That’s right. That’s–that’s me. Alexandros, but I– I go by xander.

Sarah as renee: Oh, really? You think you can just change the name that you go by and people will forget that as charismatic as you are, you’re also a despicable, lying son of a bitch? So whatever it is you go by, I know you as alex. And I want a divorce.

Xander: A divorce? We–we’re not married. I mean, we’re supposed to be–

Sarah as renee: Oh, how i wish that was true. But I fell for your act, and I was foolish enough to marry you, which was the worst mistake I’ve ever made.

Xander: Is this– is this some kind of joke?

Sarah as renee: [Scoffs] Not to me, it’s not.

Xander: But I– I don’t understand.

Sarah as renee: Okay. Then let me make it simple for you. I am renee dumonde. And I intend to marry the love of my life, tony.

Xander: Tony…dimera?

Sarah as renee: Yes! As soon as he gets a divorce from that pathetic woman who somehow got her hooks into him, you know, the one without a brain? And then I’m going to divorce you. To that end, I am going to go speak to don craig.

Xander: Who?

Sarah as renee: An excellent lawyer. He’s the best in town. So if you’ll excuse me.

Xander: Sarah, wait.

Sarah as renee: Damn it, alex, I told you not to call me that.

[Uneasy music]

[Line rings] Yeah, hi, jack. Um… you want to go ahead and finish that story you were trying to tell me?

Gwen: Did chad say that sarah was back?

Ava: No. But abigail knows everything, and she’s back, so…

Gwen: [Exhales heavily]

[Sniffles] Okay. Right. First things first, they don’t have a case against you. They haven’t even filed charges. Right?

Ava: Not yet.

Gwen: Right, so turning me in is not gonna help you. It’s just gonna hurt me.

Ava: Okay, like I said, abigail has already told them that I was on the scene when she was attacked. So I can be charged as an accessory.

Gwen: Yes, but they don’t– they don’t have any proof, do they? Yes, she remembers being attacked from behind, which means that you couldn’t possibly have done it.

Ava: Yes, but I didn’t do anything to help stop it, did I? They just assume that I was in on it. Which I was.

Gwen: Look at me. You are ava vitali. Yes? You have beaten murder charges, murder raps. Are you really afraid of this?

Ava: I have tried to build a different life for myself here, gwen. I’m not throwing it away. And I’m not going to prison. Plus, I don’t have rafe on my side anymore.

Gwen: Maybe not, but I’ve still got your back, as long as you’ve still got mine.

Kate: So how many people are we expecting?

Shin: The overseas members are perennially in absentia. Ej is, as you noted, unavailable. And tony and chad have quite inappropriately taken the corporate jet somewhere on personal business.

Kate: Personal business? Abigail was kidnapped.

Shin: I’m not unsympathetic. But it seems there’s always A… crisis in the dimera family.

Kate: Okay, so as far as I know, tony and chad are on their way back. So we can just postpone the meeting.

Shin: Well, I have a flight to hong kong at noon. I’m afraid I can’t push this back.

Kate: So why did they call for this meeting anyway? What’s so pressing about their agenda?

Shin: I’m afraid I’m not at liberty to discuss.

Demon johnny: Jake will never know what hit him.

Gabi: Right, yes. We’ll see you there.

Demon johnny: Why are you acting weird? Is he standing right next to you?

Gabi: Yup. Bye, now. So you’re finally dressed.

Jake: Yeah. What was that about?

Gabi: Just going over our meeting plans with johnny.

Jake: Huh. You know, I…could have sworn I heard you say, “jake’s gonna get what he deserves.”

Gabi: You will. By the end of the day, you will be ceo of dimera enterprises.

Tony: Johnny. I thought I heard someone in here.

Demon johnny: Uncle tony. I was told you and uncle chad were–were out of town.

Tony: Yes, we were. And luckily we found abigail and we got back here early this morning. Isn’t that wonderful news?

Demon johnny: Yeah, wonderful.

Tony: Well, aren’t you going to ask me if abigail’s all right?

Demon johnny: Oh, of course. I just, uh– I assumed she was fine, since you’re back here.

Tony: I see. Oh, by the way, I’d like to speak to you about something that involves the household.

Demon johnny: Okay, well, can we do it a little later? I’m–I’m kind of in a hurry, uncle T.

Tony: Wh-why? You got a date with the devil?

Demon johnny: Excuse me?

Tony: [Chuckling] I mean your movie. I see the way you’re dressed. You must be having a meeting with your producer.

Demon johnny: [Laughs] Oh, yeah. Right, right, yes. Big meeting, so…

Tony: One more thing before you go. How’s it going? “Possessed: The marlena evans story,” that is.

Demon johnny: Great. Yeah, like I just told tr, I’m already working on the sequel, so… see you.

Tony: Yeah.

[Uneasy music]

As a struggling actor,

Kate: So what’s going on with gabi and jake? Why all the secrecy about this meeting?

Shin: I gather there’s a desire to make some changes to the corporate structure.

Kate: Mm-hmm. What kind of changes?

Shin: Like I said, I haven’t been briefed.

Kate: Mm, but I’m sure you know something.

Shin: [Chuckles] Why don’t we wait for the meeting? Ah, here they are now.

Gabi: Hello, kate, shin.

Kate: Gabi, why didn’t you tell me that you had called a shareholders’ meeting today?

Gabi: Oh, I don’t know. Maybe because you had the audacity to oust jake from the company, and I was hoping I didn’t have to see your face.

Jake: Okay, we can get started as soon as johnny gets here, huh?

Kate: Well, I am going to call the house and see when chad and tony are due in. And perhaps they can join us remotely.

Demon johnny: They can’T.

Kate: How do you know?

Demon johnny: Well, I just, uh, came from home, and it seems they have been delayed due to a weather incident.

Kate: They’re still on the plane?

Demon johnny: From what I understand, they’re in a holding pattern over the bermuda triangle. I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about.

Shin: As I was telling kate, I can’t postpone the meeting.

Gabi: Nor would we want to.

Demon johnny: Exactly. We can accomplish everything we need without the other members of my family present.

Kate: Yeah. Well, that’s what I’m afraid of.

Demon johnny: So let’s get this show on the road, shall we?

[Tense music]

Chad: Hey.

Tony: Oh, chad. How’s abigail?

Chad: Uh, relieved to be home.

Tony: Ah, that’s good.

Chad: Say, we’re, um– we’re–we’re both very grateful for your help in tracking her down. Jack and jennifer are–are too, obviously.

Tony: Yeah, well, I’m glad everything worked out. So I suppose they’re on their way to boston, knowing that their daughter’s safe?

Chad: Yep, on the, uh– on their way to the airport as we speak.

Tony: I see. Oh, I wanted to ask you, what did you find out from ava vitali at the police station? Did she give up the name of her accomplice?

Chad: Not yet. She’s, uh–she’s still being held for questioning. So far, she’s clamming up. I suggested that I–I might be able to get the da to offer her a deal if she gives up the person who assaulted abby.

Ava: Chad is never gonna let this go. So how are you gonna help me, short of confessing?

Gwen: Well, for one thing, I won’t tell a soul that you helped kristen dimera escape police custody.

Ava: [Laughs] We did that together.

Gwen: I’m just saying.

Ava: Just saying? You’re just saying? Or are you threatening me? ‘Cause if you dare breathe one word of that, I will tell everyone that not only did you bash abigail over the head at the airstrip, but you knew that sarah had been kidnapped and she was stranded on an island, and you did everything in your power to make sure she never came home.

Gwen: Only you won’t do that, will you? Because then I will let it be known that you set up your boyfriend, rafe, on trumped-up charges.

Ava: Oh. So we’re going there now, huh?

Gwen: How many hours did the da spend prosecuting that case? How do you think she’s gonna treat the person that she knows wasted her time, turned the pd upside down, and left her looking like a complete fool? How do you think rafe is going to react when he finds out what you did?

Ava: Honey, it would be a mistake to threaten me.

Gwen: I’m just pointing out, ava, that you and I have secrets, don’t we? I did what I did to keep sarah away from xander, and I know everything you did to punish rafe for hurting you.

Ava: And you can’t prove a thing.

Gwen: Are you sure about that? I didn’t think so. So I would suggest that you keep your mouth shut, and I will do the same.

[Tense music]

Xander: So you’re saying that this drug made her so delusional that sarah thinks she’s– she’s a completely different person? Well, maybe they’re not trying hard enough, jack. But I bloody will. I’m not gonna give up until I bring her back to reality. Mate, I’ve gotta go. I’ll, uh–I’ll talk to you later. Thanks for all the help. Sarah!

Sarah as renee: Renee. Renee! And I asked you to leave me alone.

Xander: You are aware that this renee dumonde person you claim to be is dead and was murdered by a serial killer?

Sarah as renee: What’s your angle here, alex? And how did you get involved in this scheme?

Xander: Scheme? There is no scheme. I’m–and I’m not alex. I’m xander. You need to listen to me. This woman that you think you are, she’s been dead for years.

Sarah as renee: Okay, yeah. Well, loads of people in this town have been dead before, and then miracle of miracles, they were brought back to life by my very own father. So add me to that list.

Xander: Do you understand how insane this all sounds?

Sarah as renee: All I care about is getting a divorce from you and getting my tony away from that wretched woman who tricked him into marrying her. And why are you looking at me like that?

Xander: I just wish I could get through to you. I wish you could remember how much we love each other.

Sarah as renee: Oh, please. You have a heart of stone. You’re incapable of love. All you wanted was my inheritance. That’s why you tricked me into marrying you.

Xander: Hey, I-I never tricked you into anything.

Sarah as renee: Get away from me.

Xander: I’m xander cook, not alex, and I– all I ever wanted was to make you happy.

Sarah as renee: The only person that can make me happy is tony. My heart belongs to him, and it always will.

Xander: Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, please, just– I need to show you something. Can I? Can I–can I show you something? Will you just–look. Look at this. That’s us. Happy. Together. In love. Looking forward to our future together. Tell me you don’t remember this. You tell me you don’t remember us. Oh, man that is wrinkly.

[Dramatic music]

Gwen: [Sighs] If I were a praying woman… is this my punishment for all the revenge I tried to get, for all the misery and suffering that I’ve gone through? Even if ava doesn’t rat me out and sarah does come home… god, could it get any worse?

Ned: Oh, things can always get worse. Remember me?

Tony: I hope you find out who was behind this nightmare.

Chad: Oh, I will. And they’ll pay for what they put abby through.

Tony: I should hope so.

Chad: Mm, speaking of wives, I ran into yours upstairs, and she seems pretty upset about this whole sarah-renee situation.

Tony: “Upset” is not the word I would use.

Chad: Well, look, it’s gonna be rough for a little while. I mean, it took abby months to recover. And with the proper treatment plan…

Tony: Well, sarah refused help. Then she took off from the hospital after she noticed that steve and kayla weren’t looking.

Chad: Well, that’s not good.

Tony: No, it’s not. Did I tell you that she’s moving in?

Chad: Moving in here?

Tony: She insisted.

Chad: You said yes?

Tony: Well, yeah, because kayla thought it would be best if she was here. That way, she’d be safe, and possibly we can convince her to get treated.

Chad: No wonder anna’s head exploded.

Tony: Ugh, sarah barged in here, screaming invectives and–and threatening anna with– with eviction.

[Groans]

Chad: I’m sorry I missed it. Where’s sarah now?

Tony: She’s, uh, out there hiring a divorce lawyer for me.

Chad: [Laughing] Oh, god.

Tony: Why, do you think that’s funny?

Chad: No.

[Clears throat] No, it’s just– it’s all just such a mess.

Tony: [Sighs] You know, renee, she was such a passionate woman. But it seems that sarah is now channeling the same dimera determination.

Chad: Lucky you.

Tony: Yes, unfortunately, though, I seem to be indulging in her delusions as a way to avoid an all-out war.

Chad: And how does anne feel about that strategy?

Tony: [Grunts]

Chad: I’m sorry.

Tony: Me too.

Chad: Look, w– we have no idea what other drugs kristen was feeding sarah on that island. But she’s here now, and maybe being in a– in a familiar place will jog her memory.

Tony: Well, I just hope that she gets back to her old self soon.

Xander: Well? Does it look familiar to you?

Sarah as renee: Not at all.

Xander: But this is you. This is you and me. It’s a picture of us together. I–it’s one of my favorites.

Sarah as renee: Yeah, well, I’ve never seen it before. That woman in the picture with the short hair, that’s sarah horton. I’m renee dumonde. Or dimera, if you prefer.

Shin: I would like to call this meeting of the dimera shareholders to order. Who would like to speak first?

Jake: I will.

Shin: Chair recognizes jake dimera.

Jake: Thank you, mr. Shin. We have two motions that we would like to present to the shareholders. The first, we would like to elect victor kiriakis to the board of directors.

Kate: What?

Gabi: You have a problem with that?

Kate: I have nothing but respect for victor, but he’s competition. Why would we invite him into the fold?

Gabi: You know what they say: “Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer.”

Kate: What I say is, that is a tired, old cliché that means absolutely nothing.

Demon johnny: The goal is to extend the olive branch, lull vic into a sense of security, and then move in for the kill. Steal titan right out from under him.

Kate: Oh, yeah, because it would be that easy, wouldn’t it?

[Laughs] Since when have the three of you been working together?

Demon johnny: Well, we have common interests.

Shin: Jake, you said you had two motions?

Jake: Yes, thank you. The second motion is, we would like to remove chad as ceo of dimera enterprises.

Kate: And replace him with whom?

Jake: Me.

Kate: No. I won’t allow that. That won’t be happening.

Gabi: Excuse me, kate. Before you waste your breath railing against jake’s motion, I have two small amendments I’d like to offer.

Your mission:

Gwen: Ned grainger.

Ned: Thanks for remembering.

Gwen: Where the bloody hell did you come from? Have you been stalking me?

Ned: As a matter of fact, I have.

Gwen: Why?

Ned: Why? I did you a solid, lady. Then chad and tony dimera tracked me all the way down to key west.

Gwen: And then you told them where to find abigail.

Ned: Yeah. But I kept your name out of it.

Gwen: Thank you. I appreciate that.

Ned: You don’t think I did that for free, do you? Now’s the time for you to pay the price.

Xander: So you truly don’t recognize yourself in this picture?

Sarah as renee: No. Because that’s not me.

Xander: But when you– when you look in the mirror, this isn’t the face you see?

Sarah as renee: No, I see my face.

Xander: You mean renee’s?

Sarah as renee: My face. Damn it, alex. Here you go, tormenting me again.

Xander: According to jack, renee dumonde would be about, mm, 65 years old is she were still alive.

Sarah as renee: Okay, well, what do you want me to say? I’ve aged very well. It’s in the genes. We dimeras live practically forever.

Xander: I don’t believe this.

Sarah as renee: Yeah, neither do I. You’re all trying to make me think that I’m out of my mind, but you’re the ones that need serious help.

Xander: What did kayla say about your condition at the hospital?

Sarah as renee: Oh, my god. As if I care what kayla says or you, for that matter. You’re all trying to make me think that I’ve lost it, which I unforgivably cruel. So get out of my sight, alex. I’m gonna go home to the man I love, tony.

Xander: Please. Please wait.

[Eerie music]

Chad: If you want, I could– I could ask abby to talk to sarah. She might be able to get through to her.

Tony: Yes. She’s been through a similar experience.

Chad: Unfortunately she has. But anything we can do to help.

Tony: Thank you. I appreciate it.

Chad: It’s the least we can do. Have you told the rest of the family yet?

Tony: Well, I tried to warn johnny, but he was in a hurry. He seemed to be having a meeting with his movie producer.

Chad: Right. Well, I should, uh– I should get into the office. Hopefully I didn’t miss too much while we were gone.

Jake: Gabi, what’s going on? I don’t remember discussing any amendments.

Kate: So this is very interesting.

Jake: What’s this about?

Gabi: Well, if you remember, you were the one that amended our last plan when you went to mr. Shin about ousting ej from the company without even talking to me first.

Jake: You said you trusted me.

Gabi: I did. Do you trust me?

Jake: Of course I do.

Kate: That’s a mistake.

Jake: Okay, why? Why do this now?

Gabi: Just thought it would be more efficient this way. Mr. Shin, may I?

Shin: Go ahead, gabi.

Gabi: Instead of adding victor kiriakis to the board, I suggest we elect johnny dimera.

Jake: What?

Gabi: And instead of having jake as ceo, I propose you elect me instead.

Demon johnny: I second that motion.

Jake: What the hell is this?

[Tense music]

Trelegy for copd.

Jake: What are you doing, gabi? What’s going on?

Gabi: There’s been a change of plans.

Kate: I told you not to trust her.

Shin: I’m gonna call this to a vote.

Jake: We’re not ready yet.

Gabi: We’re ready.

Kate: You know, as much as I would like jake to get what he deserves, I am not gonna let you, gabi, take chad’s rightful place at dimera.

Gabi: You can’t do that, kate. Neither of you can.

Demon johnny: She’s right. You can’T.

Jake: What the hell?

Kate: How could you do this to tony and chad? They’ve been so good to you.

Demon johnny: Well, guess I’m just a chip off the old block after all.

Kate: Mm, well, I won’t be voting for this travesty. And obviously I don’t think jake will be either.

Gabi: Oh, but I will. And johnny will vote his shares.

Demon johnny: And my– my father’S.

Kate: Yeah. Well, mr. Shin is on jake’s side, right? He’s always been your favorite.

Jake: Wow. Never thought it’d be you who’d come to my defense.

Kate: Well, I’m doing what’s right for the company. And right now, with mr. Shin’s vote, my vote, and yours, it will be a tie. Unless someone walks in that door and breaks the tie, it’ll be a stalemate, which means the status quo stands.

[Tense music]

Gwen: How do you propose to make me pay?

Ned: I’m gonna make it easy for you. I want $1 million for my troubles.

Gwen: $1 million?

Ned: Or else I sing to the authorities and your boyfriend.

Gwen: Please. Please, please don’t say anything.

Ned: I won’t, long as I get my money.

Gwen: Okay. I will get you money, but you need to do something for me first.

Ned: You’re in no position to be making demands.

Gwen: Do you want the cash? Because I don’t have any. Ava vitali, on the other hand, she’s got access to the vitali fortune.

Ned: I’m listening.

Gwen: Problem is, is that she’s cooling her heels at the salem pd at the moment.

Ned: Okay.

Gwen: So if you can get her out of this mess, I promise I will get you your payday.

Xander: We were gonna get married. You were my everything, sarah, and…I thought that–

Sarah as renee: Don’t touch me.

Xander: Fine. But at least let me take you to see your mother. She’s worried sick about you.

Sarah as renee: My mother? I haven’t spoken to emily in years.

Xander: I’m talking about maggie.

Sarah as renee: Maggie horton?

Xander: Well, it’s kiriakis now, and she loves you very much.

Sarah as renee: Again, she loves sarah. And I don’t know why you keep going on about sarah horton. But what I do know is that you, alex marshall, make me sick.

Xander: I’m not alex marshall! I don’t even know who that is!

Sarah as renee: Okay, well, then let me fill you in. Alex marshall is scum, and I exposed him as such at a huge celebratory bash at the dimera mansion a while back. And it was ever so satisfying. And you know what would satisfy me now? Is never laying eyes on you again, you two-faced bastard.

[Somber music]

Gwen: Xander? Are you all right?

Xander: I, uh– I just saw sarah.

Kate: So, li, you’re voting for jake, right? You know it’s the right thing for the company.

[Unsettling music]

Li? Mr. Shin?

Demon johnny: What’s your answer, mr. Shin?

Shin: I vote… I vote aye, which means the motion is passed.

Kate: What? Are you serious?

Gabi: Excellent decision.

Demon johnny: Yes, wise move, mr. Shin.

Jake: I don’t get it. Why the hell would you choose them?

Shin: Ej’s in prison. Chad and tony have abandoned their posts. It’s time for a change.

Demon johnny: Indeed, it is.

Jake: What the hell is happening? How could you betray me like this?

Gabi: Don’t get all self-righteous. You betrayed me first.

Jake: How did I betray you?

Gabi: When you went to the board to have stefan’s shares transferred over from my name to yours.

Jake: I-I didn’t do that!

Gabi: Yes, you did. Johnny showed me the paperwork.

Jake: Then johnny must have forged it, just like he must have stolen maggie’s phone and sent me a text from it for me to meet her at her house.

Gabi: [Sighs] So how do you explain that I heard you tell maggie all you cared about was the ceo job?

Jake: What?

Gabi: Yeah. You said you didn’t care if I got the top position at titan, as long as you got what you wanted.

Jake: Okay, I-I-I– no, no, no, I never met with maggie.

Gabi: I was there. I heard every single word.

Jake: I don’t know what you heard, but it never happened!

Gabi: You’re a liar. You’re a liar and a loser. And my first move as ceo is gonna be to call security and have your ass thrown out of here.

Jake: What in god’s name? None of this makes any sense!

Demon johnny: Makes sense to me. Uh, gabi, why don’t you go ahead? Go ahead and get settled into your new office, and I would be happy to take care of jake here. Migraine attacks?

Sarah as renee: Sweetheart, I’m home. Cheers, daddy.

Tony: Um, can I get you something?

Sarah as renee: Well, I’d love a hug. Oh! And a divorce from that airhead wife.

Tony: I was thinking maybe you’d like a glass of water.

Sarah as renee: Oh. No, thank you. By the way, I did try to find don craig. And as much as I hate to admit it, anna was right. No one has seen or heard from in in 35 years. But I did schedule you an appointment with a very good lawyer, one who will also be handling my divorce from alex marshall, who I did have the misfortune of running into this afternoon.

Tony: You ran into alex?

Sarah as renee: I also spoke to that lawyer about drawing up eviction papers for anna.

Tony: No. Look, you can’t evict her.

Sarah as renee: Of course I can. And it’s imperative that I do. I will not have that woman spending another night in bed with the man I love.

Gwen: So sarah never really dumped you?

Xander: No. It wasn’t her on the day of the wedding. Nor was it she who came back and dumped me a second time.

Gwen: I see. So she’s– she’s been held captive on a deserted island this whole time, then?

Xander: It’s unbelievable, right?

Gwen: Mm. And now that she’s back, does this mean that she wants to pick up where the two of you left off?

Xander: Actually, no.

Gwen: Really? Why not?

Xander: Look, why don’t we, um, head up to the room and I’ll try to explain? It’s, uh, kind of a long story.

Ned: Hello, ms. Vitali.

Ava: I didn’t call a lawyer.

Ned: Are you sure? Because you look like you could use one.

Ava: Wait. Ned?

Ned: Ned who? I’m saul goodman, attorney at law.

Ava: [Chuckles] Okay, what the hell is going on here?

Ned: Your friend ms. Rizczech sent me to negotiate a deal with the da.

Ava: She hired you to be my lawyer?

Ned: We have an appointment with ms. Trask shortly, after which you’re gonna walk out of this police station a free woman, free to go wherever you want, by plane, perhaps?

Ava: Oh, so you’re gonna bust me out of here.

Ned: Maybe. But first I must warn you, my fees are quite steep. Your friend gwen says that you’re good for it. So can I count on you for payment?

Ava: You’re hired.

Chad: What the hell are you doing in my office?

Gabi: You can’t read? This is my office now.

Chad: I’m sorry, what?

Gabi: Gabi dimera, ceo. You’re out, and I’m in.

Demon johnny: [Chuckles] Whoo, not the way you saw today going, was it, pal?

Jake: Okay, I don’t know how you pulled it off, but I know you were behind this.

Demon johnny: ‘Cause I stole a phone, forged a text, blah, blah, blah.

Jake: Yeah, that was just the start of it.

Demon johnny: Oh, really? What else did I do, morph into you, meet with maggie so gabi could overhear?

Jake: I don’t know how you did it, but I know it was you who turned gabi against me.

Demon johnny: Look, blame me all you want, but you’re the one who just threw everything away: Your job, your future, your smokin’-hot girlfriend.

Jake: Okay, don’t you even think about getting close to gabi.

Demon johnny: Or you’ll do what? You’re powerless. You’re impotent, both figuratively and literally. Now, get out before I throw you out.

Jake: No.

Demon johnny: No? Guess I’m gonna have to call security.

Jake: Don’t even think about it, pal.

Demon johnny: Get your hand off of me.

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Orpheus: I didn’t know you were a fan of chick lit.

Clyde: Well, slim pickings in our library, milo. It was either this or the dictionary.

Orpheus: I’ve read it. It got way too many big words in it for you.

Clyde: Oh, you’re such a funny guy. Tell you the truth, I dig this miranda priestly chick. She suffers no fools, that’s for damn sure.

Orpheus: Well, I’ll just have to take a peek at it when you’re done. Unless your new cellmate has got first dibs.

Ej: Belle. You’re a sight for sore eyes.

Belle: Well, good morning. How are you holding up?

Ej: Eh, as well as can be expected considering the dreary surroundings. And I’m hoping against hope that you might have a update on the case that could uplift my spirits. Please tell me you’ve made progress on my appeal.

Belle: As a matter of fact, I have.

Ben: “Insert the seat support tube into the small holes of the backrest tube. Ensure the pushpins are completely pushed in.” What the–what’s a pushpin?

Ciara: You can reassemble a vintage harley, but a baby swing has you stumped?

Ben: [Sighs] Ciara, a vintage harley doesn’t come with ridiculously confusing instructions.

Ciara: Oh.

Ben: But I see you’re feeling better, yeah?

Ciara: Yeah. Yeah, the shower definitely helped. I cannot believe you let me sleep in so late.

Ben: Well, you needed to. You were tossing and turning all night. Did you have a bad dream?

Ciara: Not exactly. I just– I couldn’t stop thinking about what we were talking about last night.

Ben: You mean that johnny dimera might be possessed?

Jake: Johnny. The hell’s going on?

Demon johnny: Well, haven’t you noticed? I’m not johnny dimera.

Jake: I– [Grunts] I don’t understand.

Demon johnny: Let me ask you something, jake. Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Chad: Okay, gabi. Enough fooling around. Get your feet off my desk.

Gabi: This is my desk in my office. I’ll put my damn feet wherever I want.

Chad: Oh, wow, you are really committed. Okay. All right, you’ve had your fun. Now, uh–now, get out. And, uh, don’t try this again. Stop sweet-talking your way past my security, yeah?

Gabi: Actually, you’re gonna be the one that’s gonna need security clearance.

Chad: The hell are you talking about?

Gabi: You’re looking at the new ceo of dimera.

Chad: [Laughs] Okay.

Gabi: Oh, you don’t believe me, chad? Go ahead, call shin. He will back up every single word I said.

Chad: You’re serious.

Gabi: About the fact that I now am in charge of this company? I am very serious.

Chad: You? The new ceo?

Gabi: I mean, how many different ways can I say it, chad?

Chad: How in the hell did you pull that off?

Jake: Who– [Grunts] What are you?

Demon johnny: You mind? Look, you might be able to put your grubby paws on johnny dimera, but you do not manhandle the almighty. Avoiding triggers, but can’t keep migraine attacks away?

Gabi: You took your eye off the ball, chad. See, while you were with tony gallivanting in the dimera jet searching for your missing wife, I was here.

Chad: Scheming.

Gabi: Ah, seizing the professional moment.

Chad: We found her, by the way. Abigail’s fine. Thanks for asking.

Gabi: Oh, good. Well then it wasn’t a complete loss for you today. See, let’s get back to me. Um, I–I used your glaring absence and ej’s unfortunate incarceration to hold an emergency shareholder meeting, which resulted in me getting the top position and johnny being elected to the board.

Chad: J–johnny? My little nephew is on the board of this company?

Gabi: That’s right. But I wouldn’t call him “little” seeing as he has significant control over dimera.

Chad: Shin cannot be okay with this.

Gabi: Well, he was. In fact, he made the deciding vote.

Chad: What?

Gabi: Yeah, I believe he said that he couldn’t have his company’s leadership abandoning ship, and it’s also time for a change.

Chad: I don’t believe this is happening.

Gabi: It’s a lot to absorb, I know.

Chad: And what about– what about jake? What’s his new position? Is he emperor of the top floor?

Gabi: Jake?

Chad: Jake, my brother, your boyfriend. I assume he’s getting something out of all of this.

Gabi: Oh. Oh, yes, he did. Yes, he– he got his ass handed to him.

Demon johnny: Did you think the devil was gone? A proverbial christmas miracle? Come on. Only losers believe in miracles.

Jake: So you’ve been here, in johnny, for months?

Demon johnny: You’re catching on. I was beginning to think you were a little slow on the uptake. Of course, neither you nor your smoking hot girlfriend are nearly as smart as you think you are. It was so easy convincing her to betray you.

Jake: So you’re the reason–

Demon johnny: She thought you were gonna screw her over? Yeah, guilty as charged, uncle jakey.

Jake: I knew it.

Demon johnny: You know, she already had doubts about you. All I had to do was stroke them. A few parlor tricks, flash of my big sword, I had her in my clutches, and now, I’m gonna get her into my bed.

Ciara: I mean, part of me still thinks it’s crazy. You know, the devil jumping out of marlena and into johnny.

Ben: Ciara, I know, and I don’t even care how crazy it is anymore. We still need to check it out, make sure that johnny’s not a danger to our baby.

Ciara: Yeah. Did–did susan banks call you back yet?

Ben: No. I’ve only been checking my phone every five minutes. I’m thinking it might be time to try her again.

[Knocking on door] Did you order another pizza? You got to stop doing this or– oh, my god–susan. Hey.

Ciara: Hi. Susan. We were literally just talking about you. How did you know that we wanted to see you?

Susan: [Spluttering] ‘Cause your hubby sent me a message, silly.

Ben: I didn’t even tell you what it was about.

Susan: Well, you didn’t have to. See, as soon as I heard your voice in my ear–boom! I had a premonition, and I knew you were talking about someone near and dear to my heart. So I hopped on the first bus here to salem.

Ben: Wait, you knew what I was calling you about?

Susan: Oh, yes, of course. Yeah. My son. My son, elvis.

Ej: So you tracked down the henchman who held sami captive?

Belle: And testified falsely that you paid him to do it, jason smith.

Ej: How did you find him?

Belle: Well, it wasn’t easy. I mean, he basically went off the grid after I implicated you.

Ej: Falsely.

Belle: And I wanted him to admit it.

Ej: Why would he ever do that?

Belle: Well, he wouldn’T. Which is why I tried to trip him up and trick him into telling me who really did it.

Ej: And?

Belle: And no luck. The guy is sticking to his story.

Ej: Then we’re back to square one.

Belle: Well, maybe not. There are other avenues we could explore.

Clyde: You know, it’s funny how life works, isn’t it? Warden decides to give you a new cellmate, turns out to be my old pal, ej dimera.

Orpheus: Pal? Don’t you mean business associate? The two of you ran a drug operation, did you not?

Clyde: Now, where would you come up with an idea like that?

Orpheus: [Laughs] Surely you’ve read the sign in the library, “knowledge is power.” I make it a point to stay in the know.

Clyde: Well, you don’t know squat about me, milo.

Orpheus: Oh, but I do. In fact, I know a great deal. Including that your relationship with ej went south. Isn’t that why you killed him? Okay, this is a freezer, not a time capsule.

Belle: So I’ve been working with the wisconsin state police to try to find the other guy who was guarding sami, that guy, pete, to see if he would contradict jason’s story.

Ej: And?

Belle: And since he was never arrested, finding him has been a challenge.

Ej: [Sighs] In other words, that avenue is closed.

Belle: Yeah, but there are others.

Ej: Such as?

Belle: Such as insufficient evidence.

Ej: Didn’t you try that already?

Belle: Well, I– I tried to get a dismissal based on those grounds. And I probably would have, but you wanted to take the stand.

Ej: You know how much I regret that. If I had to do it over again, I–I–

Belle: Well, you don’t have it to do over again. The fact that remains that the judge made his ruling based on some really biased witnesses. I mean, you have– you have jason, you have lucas, chad, sami. I mean, there is so much room for reasonable doubt.

Ej: Then why not forget searching for the other henchman and just focus on overturning the judge’s ruling?

Belle: Well, because the odds of success there are slim. The jury would have been a lot easier, but someone didn’t want a jury trial.

Ej: [Groans] When I made that ill-fated decision, you told me to shut up, sit down, and let you do your job. And I didn’T. I disregarded your advice at every turn. And yet still here you are.

Belle: I told you I wouldn’t abandon you. I meant that. I know you’re innocent, and soon everyone else will too.

Ej: Thank you, belle. I hope you know how appreciative I am for all of your help.

Belle: Well, let’s get back to the original question. How are you doing in here? Ooh, and how are things with your cellmate?

Ej: You mean with clyde weston?

Clyde: I hate to burst your bubble, milo, but your information is bogus. Ej dimera is alive and kicking.

Orpheus: [Chuckles] Thanks to the wondrous wizardry of dr. Wilhelm rolf. But that night in the park when ej was shot, everyone thought he was dead.

Clyde: But I ain’t the one who plugged him. Some two-bit junkie did that.

Orpheus: That’s what the cops believe. Doesn’t make it true.

Clyde: [Laughs] As god is my witness, I did not shoot ej dimera.

Orpheus: Okay, clyde, maybe you didn’t pull the trigger. Maybe that honor went to your buddy, miguel, is it? But you are certainly responsible for that bullet ending up in ej’s chest.

Ben: You thought we called you about ej?

Susan: Yeah. Of course. He was in my premonition. And I have been thinking about him nonstop since that mean, mean, mean judge sent him to prison for a crime that he did not commit.

Ciara: No. Susan. Susan, I–

Susan: And everyone– everybody knows that my elvis loves his samantha, and they have their issues like all couples do, but I mean, he would never dream of kidnapping her.

Ben: Look, susan, we weren’t calling you about ej.

Susan: Oh. Okay. Well, then, what the heck were you calling me about?

Ciara: Um, his son.

Susan: Johnny? Wha–I mean, what possibly could be wrong with him?

Ben: You know, susan, you might want to brace yourself.

Jake: I–I got to warn gabi.

Demon johnny: Leaving so soon?

Jake: Guess not. Guess I’m dancing with the devil after all.

Chad: Dimera’s in chaos because you and jake got into a fight?

Gabi: It doesn’t matter why it happened. All that matters is that I landed on top.

Chad: No. I’m–I’m– I don’t think so.

Gabi: Excuse me?

Chad: You and jake can go at each other all you want, but this is my family’s company, my children’s legacy, and there’s no way in hell I am gonna let some lover’s quarrel destroy it.

Gabi: Oh. I see. So what exactly are you gonna do?

Chad: I’ll call a meeting.

Gabi: You– [Laughs] You need a majority to remove me.

Chad: Not a problem.

Gabi: Oh, it is though, because you don’t have the votes. Shin wants you out. And now that johnny has a seat on the board, he has ej’s shares as well as his own.

Chad: I–I don’t understand why he would turn on me like that. He wanted to work with me to remove vultures like you from dimera.

Gabi: Looks like you got played by your “little” nephew.

Chad: That little punk isn’t gonna get away with it.

[Loud crash]

[Suspenseful music]

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Clyde: You spin a good yarn, orpheus. But I don’t know what you’re talking about. I wasn’t even around when that shooting went down.

Orpheus: But ej was. Tell me, how does he feel about cohabitating with the guy who blew him away? I mean, that must make for some awkward conversations.

Clyde: Hey. Even if I had been there, ej wouldn’t know nothing about it. He doesn’t remember a damn thing about that evening.

Orpheus: That’s a hell of a thing to forget.

Clyde: Well, one of the pesky side effects of rolf’s miracle drug. Yeah, it’ll get you back to the land of the living, but does a real number on the old memory bank.

Orpheus: Yep, yep. But as I understand it, in time, the memories come back. So clyde, what you gonna do when ej remembers that you double-crossed him and left him to die?

Belle: Clyde weston is your cellmate?

Ej: Mm-hmm.

Belle: I mean, whoa, that is surprising. How’s it going?

Ej: So far, so good.

Belle: I thought–I– I just wouldn’t have thought that you two would hit it off.

Ej: Actually, we’re already acquainted.

Belle: How? Ej, you’re a lawyer. You know anything you say to me is confidential.

Ej: Clyde and I used to be in business together.

Belle: Mm. And I assume this business wasn’t exactly legit.

Ej: That would be a smart assumption.

Belle: I don’t know, maybe– maybe we should put in a request for a different cellmate. You know, I–I just don’t want this association you have with clyde weston to jeopardize your appeal.

Ej: Ancient history. I actually think he could be quite helpful.

Belle: How so?

Ej: He’s been in here a long time. Knows the place quite well. He told me he’d show me the ropes.

Belle: And you think you can rely on–on clyde weston?

Ej: Don’t get me wrong, I don’t trust the man in the slightest. But if I’m going to survive in here, I need someone to have my back. Is clyde weston my first choice? God, no. But right now, he’s the only choice I’ve got.

Susan: So you think the devil is hanging his hat in my sweet, little grandson, johnny, huh?

Ciara: Look, we know it sounds crazy–

Susan: Ah! I don’t like that word. It’s very judgy and it–it’s unkind.

Ciara: You’re right. I’m sorry.

Susan: [Sighs] So johnny possessed. Now, wh–what makes you think a thing like that?

Ben: Well, thers just been some strange occurrences recently.

Susan: Okay, well, like what?

Ciara: Well, like my grandma gave us a housewarming gift to hang outside of the apartment, a nice little cross.

Susan: Oh. Well, what’s so strange about that?

Ciara: Well, on her way to deliver it to us, her stove randomly burst into flames even though the thing wasn’t even on.

Ben: And while this mysterious fire just erupted, johnny happened to have been there, so he volunteered to bring the cross to us. And he did. He dropped it off, we hung it up, and this thing keeps flipping upside down.

Ciara: Mm-hmm. Every single time. And my grandma thought that it is a sign that the devil is back in town. And we know that the devil can jump from one body to another.

Ben: Right, and we also know that the only way for that to happen is that person that he did jump into would have to have been present at the exorcism, which your grandson, johnny, was.

Susan: You think that beelzebub boomeranged out of dr. Marlena evans and into my sweet, little grandson, johnny? And then he used the cross to leave his mark?

Ciara: Yeah, well, that’s why we wanted to talk to you, because you had the premonition that the devil was after my baby in the first place. You had the premonition that marlena was possessed by the devil.

Ben: And we were just wondering if maybe you had sensed anything about johnny.

Susan: Well, I was at the dimera mansion after the exorcism. And believe you me, if I even had the teensiest, weensiest feeling that old scratch had invaded my sweet, little grandson, johnny, I would have never left town.

Ciara: [Sighs] Yeah.

Ben: We knew it was gonna be a long shot.

Ciara: Yeah. Yeah, look, I’m sorry, susan. I’m sorry, we let our imaginations run wild. Clearly we were wrong about the devil being back in salem.

Susan: Uh, not necessarily.

Gabi: What the hell was that?

Chad: You’re the new ceo. You figure it out.

[Ominous music]

Gabi: What happened? J–johnny, I thought you said you were calling security.

Johnny: I didn’t have to. Jake left voluntarily. I mean, at least I thought he did. I thought he was gonna be a grown-up about all this, then he stormed back in here and attacked me.

Gabi: Jake. Jake, are you okay?

Johnny: The guy was acting like a complete psycho. I–I had no choice. I had to defend myself.

Gabi: Jake, jake, jake. Can you hear me? Jake.

Jake: [Groans] Gabi.

Gabi: [Sighs] Jake. What the hell were you thinking?

Jake: [Grunting] Johnny.

[Groans] He’s– he’s–

[Winces] We hit the bike trails every weekend

Susan: So after the exorcism, I had a premonition that the devil was still here in salem. And I thought that he just ducked right back into dr. Marlena evans. So I went over to her place, and I sprayed her full of holy water. I did it all over. And I tried to banish that demon, once and for all.

Ciara: But the demon wasn’t inside her.

Susan: No, no, no. She–she assured me that she was 100% her. So I just thought that my– my devil-detector was on fritz.

Ben: Huh. And you didn’t get any bad vibes about johnny?

Susan: No. No, not one. And I–and I mean, I saw him before I left town. But–

Ben: But what?

Susan: The night of johnny’s engagement party…

Ben: Yeah.

Susan: I got sick. I got sick, and I went to the hospital. I just knew that something was not right. I mean, I–I couldn’t shake this feeling, this feeling that–that– that there was this evil force behind it all.

Ciara: The devil.

Susan: Yes. And I just didn’t– I didn’t think that he was done with us yet. Huh. But johnny possessed, huh? I just can’t believe I just stood right in front of him, my kin, my flesh and blood, and I just didn’t have a clue.

Jake: He’s– [Groans]

Gabi: He’s–he’s what?

Jake: Johnny’s–

[Groans] Damn it. He’s a creep… who tricked you into stabbing me in the back.

[Eerie music]

Gabi: What happened? J–johnny, I thought you said you were calling security.

Johnny: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Belle: Oh. Our time’s almost up. Is there anything else you need?

Ej: Just find a way to get me out of this hellhole.

Belle: Well, I’m on it. My next angle is chad.

Ej: [Laughs] Don’t waste your time.

Belle: Why? Why do you say that?

Ej: The last time I saw my brother, he called me a criminal, a sociopath, and told me he hopes I’ll stay locked up forever.

Belle: Well, he was out of his mind with worry. And good news, abigail is home. She’s safe and sound.

Ej: Wonderful. I’m sure chad’s state of mind is much better. But not good enough that he’d help me.

Belle: Well, that’s exactly what he was going to do before he had that coughing fit on the witness stand.

Ej: Mm-hmm. And then he did the opposite.

Belle: Because he thought you tried to force yourself on his wife.

Ej: Which I assure you, I did not.

Belle: Okay. My point is, whatever did or did not happen, chad led me to believe that we’d be pleased with his testimony, which means he knows something. Something that we haven’t heard yet that could exonerate you.

Ej: And you think you can get that out of him?

Belle: Well, I’m sure gonna try. Chad is the one who found the payments that link you to sami’s kidnapper. And if I can get him to admit that he planted those or–or he knows who did, that’s gonna go a long way to proving your innocence.

Ej: While I admire your tenacity, I seriously doubt that my brother, who hates me more now than he did before I was arrested, is going to volunteer any new information.

Belle: I am gonna get you out of here. That’s a promise.

Ej: I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have you in my corner.

Belle: Well, hopefully, this will all be over soon. In the meantime, chin up.

[Dramatic music]

Orpheus: You’re up for parole soon, correct?

Clyde: Yeah. I finally got a new hearing. And with any luck, I’m about to blow this popsicle stand.

Orpheus: Unless those nasty memories come back to ej and leave you in a body bag.

Clyde: No, that ain’t gonna happen.

Orpheus: Well, there’s also the possibility that someone could present the parole bar with evidence that links you to a new crime.

Clyde: That would certainly throw a wrench into the works.

Orpheus: Yeah. Yeah, it would. But you sort of got it coming, don’t you?

Clyde: Hey, man, I get it. You hold a grudge against me for stabbing you, I know. But like I told you before, I did that for my son. Ollie was looking for his wife. I was just helping him.

Orpheus: My son did try to kill ben, so I suppose that makes us even. Besides, if you do get a parole, might be useful to have a– a friend on the outside.

Clyde: [Laughs] Yeah. I always say, one hand washes the other.

Orpheus: Hm. So we’ve established that it’s in both of our best interest that ej never remember what you did to him. Because if he does, we’ll both suffer the consequences.

Ej: What consequences are those?

[Dramatic music]

(Vo) at dog chow

Chad: Come in.

Belle: Thanks for agreeing to see me.

Chad: What can I do for you?

Belle: Well, I just came from statesville, and I want to talk to you about your brother’s appeal.

[Tense music]

Clyde: Ha, what a coincidence. I was just telling my friend here about my new cellmate.

Orpheus: And I was just telling clyde how fortunate he is. My cellmate can’t seem to figure out a way to hide his contraband. Keeps getting us both put on lockdown.

Ej: I see, those consequences.

Clyde: Ej dimera, meet milo harp.

Orpheus: You can call me orpheus. It’s a pleasure.

Ej: Same.

Orpheus: Well, I’m sure glad to see you boys are getting along.

[Tense music]

Susan: [Grunting] I can’t believe the devil has possessed my poor grandson.

Ciara: Well, no, susan, we don’t know that for sure.

Ben: I mean, this entire thing could be a series of bizarre coincidences.

Susan: Oh, you are being so kind to me, ben weston. But you know what, I cannot bury my head in the sand. See, if my johnny is going toe-to-toe with that devil, then he’s gonna need help from his grandmama. Yep, so I need to get there right away.

Ben: All right, well, I’m gonna go with you.

Susan: Oh, oh, oh. No. No. No. I really appreciate it, benny. But you know what, if you show up with me, then that might tip lucifer off that we’re on to him.

Ciara: Yeah, but susan, I really think that we–

Susan: And you know what?

Ciara: Yeah.

Susan: If the devil is in the dimera mansion, then I am the one who’s going to find out, sooner rather than later. Okay, here I go.

Ciara: Okay.

Susan: Hoo! [Sighs]

Ciara: All right.

[Dramatic music]

Gabi: What happened in here?

Jake: I don’t know. It’s all a little fuzzy.

Gabi: Johnny says you attacked him.

Jake: That’s a lie, just like everything else he’s been telling you.

Gabi: Just stop.

Jake: I–gabi, I– he’s playing you. He got you to believe that I’m doing all this stuff that I didn’t do.

Gabi: Like telling maggie that you’d be fine if I didn’t get the top position at titan. Huh? As long as you got what you wanted, you’d be fine handling me.

Jake: I never said that.

Gabi: I was there. I heard you say you were just using me.

Jake: That’s impossible!

Gabi: And the signature on the petition to steal my late husband’s shares from me. Huh? How do you explain that?

Jake: I don’t know, I can’T. Okay? At least not yet. But I know that little weasel was behind it.

Johnny: Come on, do we really have to listen to this again? I mean, at this point it’s– it’s just pathetic.

Jake: Gabi and I are talking here, pal.

Johnny: And clearly, she’s not interested in anything you have to say.

Jake: You want to let the lady speak for herself.

Johnny: Or what? You gonna go all hulk on me again?

Gabi: Johnny, would you just let me and jake speak alone, please?

Johnny: You sure you’re gonna be okay?

Gabi: I’ll be fine.

Johnny: Okay.

Jake: You happy now? You got everything you want? Ceo at dimera.

Gabi: That’s right.

Jake: So what? Obviously, you don’t need me anymore, right?

Gabi: Obviously.

Jake: I guess we break up now, that’s it?

Gabi: You know what, spare me the act, please. Don’t pretend. This is your fault.

Jake: The–gabi.

[Groans]

[Tense music]

Is it cool if I go by the house, pick up my stuff?

Gabi: Maybe you should get yourself checked out first–

Jake: I’m fine, I’m fine.

Gabi: Adios, then.

Jake: I love you, gabi. I don’t understand why you’re doing this.

Gabi: That makes two of us. If you want to get your stuff, now would be a good time because no one’s there.

Jake: You know, a few weeks ago, we were on top of the world, you and me. Partners in life, in business. We had our whole bright future ahead of us. And now… I don’t know how this could have happened.

[Dramatic music]

Clyde: So how’d it go with your lawyer?

Ej: Unfortunately, she had nothing new to report.

Clyde: Well, one thing I’ve learned in here, good things come to those who wait.

Ej: Patience was never my strong suit.

Clyde: Well, it ain’t so bad, you know. We got a roof over our heads, three squares a day. Hey. Take my advice. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this nice, cushy lifestyle.

Ej: What did you just say?

Clyde: [Laughs] I said, enjoy this nice, cushy lifestyle. You got the fancy accent, a mistress on the side and a nice, cushy lifestyle handed to you on a platter. Hey. You all right?

Ej: Yes. I was just thinking.

Chad: So you came all the way over here to talk about ej?

Belle: Yeah. Why? What’d you think I came over here to talk to you about?

Chad: Well, I assumed since you’re the company’s general counsel, you’d heard the news.

Belle: What news?

Chad: That scheming bitch ousted me from dimera.

[Pensive music]

Jake: See, we don’t have to share power. You know why? As soon as we take over both companies, you’ll run titan, I’ll run dimera.

Gabi: I like the sound of that.

Jake: Right? We’ll work on it first thing in the morning, but in the meantime, why don’t we work on a little merger of our own?

[Dramatic music]

Ciara: [Laughs]

Ben: [Huffs]

Ciara: All right. I am going to head to the hospital to pick up some more prenatal vitamins.

Ben: I’m going with you.

Ciara: Uh-uh. No, no, no. You are staying right here until you finish that swing.

Ben: Babe.

Ciara: Nice try, baby. Love you.

Ben: [Huffs] Love you too.

Ciara: Good luck.

Ben: Thanks.

Ciara: Oh. Hi, jake. Bye, jake.

Jake: Oh.

Ben: Jake.

Jake: Yo.

Ben: My man. What’s going on?

Jake: [Sighs]

Ben: Ooh. You do not look good.

Jake: Yeah, well, after the day I had, it’s not much of a surprise.

Ben: Oh, my god, guy. What happened?

Jake: Gabi double-crossed me. And, uh, yeah, left herself as head of dimera and me out in the cold.

Ben: What the hell happened?

Jake: I’m still trying to figure that out. What I do know is that snake, johnny dimera, got it in her head that I was the one who betrayed her. I just don’t know how he did it.

Ben: Well, I’ll tell you what, man, I can think of one possibility.

[Exciting music]

Susan: Knock, knock.

Johnny: Ah, grandma. Wh–what are you doing here?

Susan: [Clears throat] I’m here to see if you really are my grandson.

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Anna: What is taking them so long? It’s almost dawn, and they’re still not home. Tony? Oh, tony. Thank god you’re home. Oh, golly, I’ve been so worried. Are you all right? Let me look at you.

Tony: Yeah, I’m fine. Kristen got away, but chad and i were able to bring abigail, steve, and kayla safely home.

Anna: Oh, well, that’s wonderful news. I have to admit, I had a queasy feeling when I heard where you were headed.

Tony: Yeah, that island does hold some history.

Anna: Yes. Especially since it’s where you and renee dumonde had your romantic idyll.

Tony: Oh. [Laughs] That was a lifetime ago.

Anna: Yes, yes. Of course it was, and it’s silly of me to even bring it up, especially since we know that woman is long dead.

Tony: Actually… renee was there.

Sarah as renee: Why am i being held in this hospital against my will?

Kayla: We just want to run some tests.

Sarah as renee: And as I told you, there is no need for tests. I switched out the poison with goat’s milk.

Steve: Yeah, so you said.

Sarah as renee: And you both ate it, and you’re fine, so there was nothing wrong with that chicken.

Steve: This isn’t about the chicken, sarah.

Sarah as renee: Stop calling me sarah!

Ava: Oh… those three losers who framed rafe better not have ratted me out.

Chad: Hello, ava.

Ava: Chad dimera. What are you doing here?

Chad: I’m here to find out why you kidnapped my wife and who helped you do it.

[Soft mysterious music]

[Knocking on door]

Gwen: Xander, there’s someone at the door.

Xander: Hmm? Oh, bloody hell. I’ll get rid of whoever it is. You better have a damn good reason for waking us up at this hour. Abigail. What are you doing here?

Abigail: I came straight from the plane to tell you the truth about what gwen did to me.

Anna: I don’t understand. We both know that renee dumonde died years ago.

Tony: That’s right.

Anna: But you just said–

Tony: What I said was that renee was on the island. What I meant was “renee.”

Anna: Okay. Now I’m totally lost.

Tony: Well, you see, she is renee, ’cause that’s what she calls herself.

Anna: But she’s not renee?

Tony: No, but she actually believes that she is.

Anna: All right. Well, then who is she really?

Tony: Sarah horton.

Sarah as renee: Again with this sarah nonsense.

Kayla: It’s not nonsense. It’s who you are, and the only reason that you think it’s not who you are is because of the drug that you were injected with last year.

Sarah as renee: How could a drug make me think that I am someone else?

Steve: We’re not sure yet.

Kayla: That’s why we need to do an mri and a ct scan, so that we can see if there’s any lasting damage to your brain.

Sarah as renee: I can assure you that my brain is not damaged. Now, I’d like to get home to tony and my long-lost brother chad.

Ava: I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t even know your wife.

Chad: Well, the police believe otherwise.

Ava: Oh, so that’s why I’m here. They think I kidnapped abigail and did what with her?

Chad: Locked her away on a deserted island, where I just found her.

Ava: And you think I brought her there?

Chad: Maybe not personally, but you were masquerading as sarah horton at the airfield when abigail was knocked out.

Ava: I didn’t lay a hand on her.

Chad: Maybe not, but someone hit her from behind, knocked her unconscious, and you were there. So who was it, ava? Who was helping you?

Ava: Abigail, you don’t have to do that.

Abigail: Oh, I think I do. What am I supposed to do? Just let you walk away–

Chad: You can sit and act innocent, but I’m not leaving here until you identify your accomplice.

Gwen: Xander, don’t listen to her. You know she would do anything to hurt me.

Abigail: Oh, I would do anything to hurt you?

Xander: What’s this all about, abigail?

Abigail: She’s been lying to you, xander, and I have proof. The pilot ratted her out.

Xander: Pilot? What pilot?

Abigail: You didn’t want him to know the truth about what really happened to sarah, because you knew he would dump you so fast.

Xander: Sarah? What does this have to do with sarah?

Gwen: Nothing, nothing. Don’t–don’t believe her.

Abigail: Sarah has been held prisoner on a deserted island for the past year.

Xander: What?

Abigail: And gwen has known about it for months.

Gwen: Xander, I can explain.

Xander: How could you do this? How could you do this to me! What’s going on, gwen? You all right?

Jennifer: It’s 9:00, jack.

Jack: I know. I know. You know why I know? Because you told me it’s 8:45 about ten minutes ago.

Jennifer: Yes, but it landed an hour ago, so what is happening?

Abigail: Mom?

Jennifer: Where–abigail!

Jack: Oh, she’s here!

Jennifer: Oh, my gosh, baby.

Jack: Sweetheart. Oh, you made it home.

Jennifer: So glad you’re okay.

Jack: Yes.

Jennifer: Let me look at you. Are you okay?

Jack: Oh, my gosh. Are you hurt? Is–

Abigail: No.

Jack: Is everything okay?

Abigail: I’m fine. I’m fine. I just thank god chad found me and brought me home.

Jennifer: Where is chad?

Abigail: He went to go confront my kidnapper.

Ava: As I told your wife on the runway, the mask was just a harmless prank.

Chad: Let’s say that’s true. You still stood there and did nothing while someone knocked out my wife and dragged her onto that plane. Now, who was it?

Ava: I’m sorry. I can’t answer your question.

Chad: You can, but you don’t want to. Yet. You know, my brother and I–we talked to ned granger.

Ava: Ned granger?

Chad: He was the one who told us where abigail was, because he was the one that flew her there.

Ava: Okay.

Chad: And he said that kristen was there when they arrived on the island, so she’s not the one that knocked her out.

Ava: Like I said, I’m sorry, but I cannot answer your question.

Chad: Then you’re just gonna have to answer to the police.

Ava: I haven’t committed a crime.

Chad: How about accessory to kidnapping?

Ava: I had nothing to do with it.

Chad: Okay. I know all about your past. These crimes might seem meaningless to you, but this is about my wife. You understand? The mother of my children. And I’m gonna make damn sure that someone pays for what they did to her. But it doesn’t have to be you. You can walk out of here with a slap on the wrist. All you have to do is turn on your partner.

Gwen: Bad dream.

Xander: I’ll say. Do you remember what it was about this time?

Gwen: This time?

Xander: Gwen, it’s been happening to you quite a lot recently–I mean, waking up in a cold sweat, pale as a sheet.

Gwen: Yeah, I suppose it has been happening more, from time to time, hasn’t it?

Xander: And this time, would it maybe help to talk about it?

Gwen: Maybe. It was about dr. Snyder.

Xander: Snyder? I haven’t thought that swine for a minute. No wonder you’re so rattled.

Gwen: Yeah. It was terrifying actually. We had just thrown him down, in the lake, and his body sank, but then his body rose up, and–

Xander: And what?

Gwen: And… well, he started yelling at me, and he was telling me that I am the scum of the earth, and he told me that you didn’t really love me. He said that you were just using me to get over sarah. You were there, too, and confirmed it.

Xander: Oh, gwen. I hope your subconscious didn’t come up with this dream because you doubt my feelings for you.

Gwen: I don’t know why I had the dream. All I know is that it scared me half to bloody death.

Xander: Do you know what i dreamed about last night?

Gwen: No. How could I?

Xander: I dreamed that you and I were married, and we had four kids–two boys, two girls–all with your great, big, gorgeous eyes.

Gwen: Really?

Xander: A lovely house. White picket fence. A golden retriever called dumpling.

Gwen: Dumpling?

Xander: And you were telling me that you’d just been voted wife and mother of the year.

Gwen: Did I? Well, lucky me. Really? Did I say who said it?

Xander: No, no, no. You didn’t say, and I didn’t ask, but you were very pleased with yourself, understandably, and I was incredibly proud of you.

Gwen: You didn’t dream that, did you?

Xander: No, I didn’t, but I daydream about it all the time.

Gwen: Well, that’s very lovely.

Xander: Gwen, do I have to remind you we’re getting married soon? Would that be happening if I didn’t adore you and want to spend the rest of my life with you?

Gwen: No. Of course not. I know that your feelings for me are genuine. I know that you love me, and I cannot wait to be your wife.

Xander: But then why all these bad dreams, hmm? Unless–

Gwen: Unless what?

Xander: Are you nervous about abigail coming home?

Gwen: Why would I be nervous about it?

Xander: I don’t know. You tell me.

Kayla: I know that this is a lot to process, but chad is not your brother, and you are not a dimera. Your name is sarah horton, and I can prove it.

Sarah as renee: Please let me out of here.

Kayla: I can’t do that.

Sarah as renee: Why not?

Kayla: Because there are a lot of family and friends who love you and miss you. Please let us do these tests, okay? I am confident that I can come up with a treatment plan for you. Abigail recovered from a very similar condition, and so can you.

Steve: Kayla’s right, and we want to help you any way we can.

Sarah as renee: Okay.

Kayla: Really?

Sarah as renee: Yeah. Whatever’s going on with me, I want to know the truth about my life, so run the tests.

Kayla: Great. I think you’re making a wise decision, and I’ll set them up.

Steve: And I’ll let you get some rest. You hang in there, okay?

Sarah as renee: Thank you. Thank you both.

Kayla: Okay. I’ll be back.

[Pensive electronic music]

Your mission:

Jack: So ava vitali was under the mask?

Abigail: She was the one who’s been masquerading as sarah.

Jennifer: Why would she do that?

Abigail: She claimed that it was a prank. Of course, I knew it was more than that, and I told her so, but when I did that, next thing I know, someone came up behind me and just conked me over the back of the head.

Jennifer: What?

Jack: Do you know who it was?

Abigail: No, but chad’s with ava now, and he’s determined to find out.

Ava: If I give you a name, you think I just get to walk?

Chad: Well, you know how this goes. The da isn’t interested in the accomplice. They’re gonna want the big fish.

Ava: So all of a sudden, you’re an expert in knowing what the da wants?

Chad: Well, my wife is the victim, and my name happens to have a lot of pull in this town, so I can talk to trask and convince her to offer you a deal.

Ava: You have no way of knowing that she’s gonna say yes.

Chad: And what’s your alternative, ava? Hmm? I mean, I know whoever knocked abby out and dragged her onto that plane is the real culprit. Why would you want to go down for someone else’s crime?

Steve: Yeah, at least everyone’s safe. Okay, I’ll let you know if there’s anything else to report. I’ll talk to you soon. Yeah.

[Cell phone beeps]

Kayla: Was that maggie?

Steve: No, brady. I was waiting to call maggie until we get sarah’s test results.

Kayla: Well, that makes sense.

Steve: Hopefully, we’ll be able to give her some good news.

Kayla: Well, the tech is ready, so I’m gonna go pick her up and bring her down for imaging.

Xander: Hey, I understand. I know you’re still not on the best of terms with your sister.

Gwen: Yeah, you could say that.

Xander: Yeah. You were very upset when she accused you of pretending to be sarah and rejecting me again.

Gwen: Yes. That was quite hurtful.

Xander: But she, and jack, and everyone else now knows that it couldn’t have been you, so–

Gwen: No, of course not, because I was there, in the square, when sarah and abigail were together.

Xander: Exactly. You know, and in the end, it all worked out for the best anyway, didn’t it? I mean, sarah coming back here gave me the closure I needed, and I can’t say I particularly enjoyed being rejected again, but it reminded me that I’m finished with her too.

Gwen: Which is why you proposed to me.

Xander: Because you and i belong together, gwen, and now there’s nothing gonna get in the way of us being mr. And mrs. Xander cook.

Kayla: Okay, sarah. Everything’s set up.

[Quiet dramatic music]

Anna: So sarah is still convinced she’s renee?

Tony: Yes, and not only that, she’s acting like she’s madly in love with me and that she wants to pick up from where we left off all those years ago.

Anna: That’s absurd. You tried to set her straight, I hope?

Tony: Well, of course I did, but nothing I said made a dent. She’s stuck in this emotional delusion.

Anna: Oh, the poor thing. Well, where is she now?

Tony: Steve and kayla took her to the hospital to get some tests. Hopefully, they’ve gotten through to her by now.

Anna: Hopefully is right.

Tony: Well, she’ll just have to accept that you are my one and only love of my life.

Sarah as renee: Get your hands off my tony.

Tackling tough messes can

take more time than you have,

Ava: You make a compelling pitch, but I think I’m gonna take my chances. If the cops had anything on me, they’d have already arrested me.

Chad: Well, they had enough to drag you down here.

Ava: They’ll have to let me go soon.

Chad: I would not count on that. At the very least, you’re a witness and a person of interest in a kidnapping.

Ava: Oh, I’m always a person of interest. I’m used to that.

Chad: Well, you enjoy your quiet time, then, but if things do take a turn, and you decide you don’t want to go to prison, give me a call.

[Tense music]

Gwen: You know, I never did ask you why you go by cook and not kiriakis.

Xander: Oh, well, I ditched my birth name a little while ago. Complicated family history.

Gwen: I like cook.

Xander: It is a lot easier to spell than rizczech, but you don’t have to take it, if you don’t want to. Or maybe you could do, like, a hyphenate or–

Gwen: Gwen cook sounds absolutely perfect to me.

Xander: Me too. Mrs. Gwendolyn cook.

[Cell phone beeps]

[Cell phone rings] Who’s calling at this ungodly hour?

Gwen: I can’t imagine. Hello?

Ava: I need to see you right now. Get your ass down to the police station.

Abigail: No news from chad yet.

Jennifer: Well, he’ll get some answers. The important thing is, you’re safe. You’re not hurt. Everybody’s fine.

Jack: Although I’m sure it was terrifying.

Abigail: It was. Gosh, but I’m just so damn grateful to be back. And thank you both for staying on just to take care of thomas and charlotte.

Jennifer: Oh, honey, it was our pleasure.

Jack: Yeah.

Jennifer: Please.

Abigail: I mean, the kids being with the two of you, I bet they hardly missed me at all.

Jennifer: Oh.

Jack: Oh, no. Like, every five minutes, it’S… “when’s mommy coming home?”

Jennifer: “Where’s our mom? Where’s mommy?”

Abigail: Well, now that I am home, as much as I have missed having you here, I guess you can go back to boston.

Jack: Okay. Well, we know “the spectator’s” in good hands with you, and both your mother and i would like to tell you how proud we are of what a good writer and good journalist you’ve become.

Abigail: Thanks, dad. And I have you and mom to thank, just for being my role models, and for inspiring me, and yeah. And I guess I have my next big story.

Jack: Oh, do you? What is it?

Abigail: The kidnapping of sarah horton.

Jennifer: The kidnapping?

Abigail: Yes. She was on that miserable island too.

Jack: Sarah was there?

Abigail: Yeah. Kristen had been keeping her captive there since her wedding last year.

Jack: So xander was right. Sarah was in trouble.

Abigail: She sure as hell was. Yeah, and then I just accidentally stumbled upon the fact that it was kristen masquerading as sarah who actually broke it off with xander.

Jack: And not sarah?

Abigail: Not sarah. Mm-mm. Which is, of course, so terribly sad and, you know, not just because it wasn’t sarah who broke xander’s heart, but then poor woman ends up being kristen’s prisoner for months and doesn’t even know where the hell she was.

Jack: Kristen’s a sadistic maniac.

Abigail: And unfortunately, she’s never gonna pay for this crime, just like she hasn’t for so many others, because I’m sure it’ll come as a shock, but she got away.

Jennifer: Of course. She is sadistic and very clever.

Abigail: In the worst possible way.

Jack: But sarah’s alive and well?

Abigail: Alive, yes. Well, not so much.

Steve: We should have known she was playing us. We never should have left her alone.

Kayla: Well, she had us both fooled.

Steve: Well, she couldn’t have gotten too far.

[Cell phone beeps]

Kayla: Sorry. Dr. Johnson. Oh. Okay, thank you.

[Cell phone beeps] That was the head of hospital security.

Steve: They find sarah?

Kayla: No, but they did catch her on the security cameras leaving the hospital.

Steve: Give you three guesses where she went. The first two don’t count.

Sarah as renee: Did you hear me, anna? Step away from my tony.

Anna: I’m sorry, sweetheart, but this is my tony. I understand that you’re confused, but tony and I love each other.

Sarah as renee: He would have never even looked at you twice if he knew I was alive.

Tony: Okay, can we please just take a step back?

Sarah as renee: Your marriage is a sham, anna. You probably tricked him into it.

Anna: What are we gonna do about this person?

Tony: Let’s just try to keep her calm. I’ll call kayla.

Sarah as renee: You are not calling kayla, and I am not going to be calm while this tramp tries to steal my life!

Anna: Tramp? Excuse me.

Tony: That’s uncalled for.

Sarah as renee: Well, it’s the truth, so get your hands off of my man, pack your bags, and get the hell out of my family home! Life’s been hard enough.

Anna: I’m trying very hard to be patient with you because I understand that you’re ill, but I’m not going anywhere. This is my home.

Sarah as renee: Really? Is that your father on the wall? I didn’t think so.

Anna: Well, he’s not yours either. Tony?

Tony: Listen.

Sarah as renee: Hello, daddy. I’ve missed you.

Anna: Do something.

Sarah as renee: You know what you can do, tony, is tell this washed-up floozy to hit the bricks.

Anna: You know, that’s enough. If anyone’s going anywhere, it’s you.

Sarah as renee: Over my dead body.

Anna: Well, that can be arranged.

Gwen: It’s a bit early, don’t you think?

Ava: Well, it’s not my fault the cops hauled me down here before I even had my morning coffee. You alone?

Gwen: No, I’m not. What’s up?

Ava: Well, what’s up is that I am being held for questioning in connection with the abduction of abigail dimera.

Gwen: No kidding.

Ava: Yeah, no kidding, and chad was just in here grilling me about who I saw hitting his wife over the head.

Gwen: Okay.

Ava: Okay, so if you’re not down here in the next ten minutes, your name’s gonna come up in conversation… a lot. As in, “gwen hit abigail over the head.” You understand?

Gwen: Mm-hmm. Yep. Right. I will be there as soon as I can. Okay, bye.

[Cell phone beeps]

Xander: Wait? What’s going on? Who was that?

Gwen: That was the wedding planner that I reached out to.

Xander: It’s a bit early for a call, isn’t it?

Gwen: Yes. I know, but that’s what is the best thing about her. Early bird and all. I think I’m actually gonna pop round and go see her.

Xander: What? Now?

Gwen: Yeah. She had a cancellation this morning, so–

Xander: Well, do you want me to come with you?

Gwen: No. I’ll just go take the meeting, and we’ll see how it goes, okay?

[Drum music crescendos]

Jack: So sarah is–

Abigail: She’s not in her right mind.

Jennifer: That poor girl.

Abigail: It’s so sad. It’s heartbreaking, really, and, you know, obviously, I can relate, so–

Jennifer: Yes, of course you can.

Abigail: Anyway, it’s also a really difficult situation for tony, because god only knows why, because of sarah’s delusion, she believes, for some reason, that she’s tony’s old flame, renee dumonde.

Jack: How strange.

Abigail: So strange. It’s strange, complicated, especially because sarah, aka renee, is madly in love with him.

Anna: Let me at her!

Tony: That’s enough!

Sarah as renee: You can’t–

Tony: Both of you!

Sarah as renee: You keep her away from me, tony.

Tony: Listen to me, renee.

Anna: Renee? Now you’re calling her renee?

Tony: It’s the only way she’ll respond.

Anna: Has the world gone mad?

Tony: No need for any insults or threats. We need to act like adults, civilized, sane people, so that we can be able to work this thing through.

Anna: Only one of us is sane here.

Tony: Will you please, for my sake?

Sarah as renee: All right. I’m sorry, tony. I will calm down, for your sake. I’m sorry.

Kayla: Oh, there you are, sarah.

Anna: Oh, thank god you’re here. Did you bring the men in white coats with you?

Steve: What’s going on?

Anna: What’s going on is this deranged woman crashed in here and attacked me. Please take her back to the hospital, where she belongs.

Trelegy for copd.

Kayla: Why don’t we get you back to the hospital and take care of those tests?

Sarah as renee: No thanks. Not going.

Anna: Please, kayla, can’t you do something about this?

Kayla: I can’t force her.

Anna: Why not?

Sarah as renee: Because it’s a free country.

Kayla: And she’s not endangering anyone.

Anna: She almost attacked me, before you got here.

Sarah as renee: No. You attacked me, so, kayla, steve, why don’t you take her to the hospital and get her anger issues checked out, while I go freshen up?

Tony: Kayla, is there nothing else you can do?

Kayla: If she won’t submit to the tests, I mean, we could get a court order, but–

Tony: What are we supposed to do until then?

Kayla: Keep her safe.

Tony: Steve!

Steve: For now, until we can figure something out.

Anna: You are not seriously suggesting that we’d let her live here.

Kayla: Well, at least then we would know where she is. I’m sorry. If you need anything else, please don’t hesitate to call us.

Anna: Anything else? You haven’t done anything.

Tony: I’ll be in touch.

Sarah as renee: These have to go.

Anna: Keep your hands off. You’re not actually going to let her stay here.

Sarah as renee: Well, he’s not letting me do anything. It’s my family home, is it not, tony?

Tony: You can stay, for now.

Anna: Well, I’m not going anywhere either. Tony and I are husband and wife.

Sarah as renee: You were husband and wife. Tony, you need to be liberated from this horrible woman.

Anna: Liberated?

Sarah as renee: I’m gonna hire you the best lawyer in town. I’m gonna see if I can get in touch with don craig and get you out of this nightmare of a marriage.

Anna: Tony and I are very happily married, and don craig went out to mail a letter one day, and we never heard from him again.

Sarah as renee: Well, I’ll find someone, and when I do, if you don’t leave, I will have you forcibly removed.

Tony: I don’t think so.

Sarah as renee: Don’t worry. Renee is gonna take care of everything.

[Dramatic music]

God, it’s good to be home.

Chad: Hey, jack.

Jack: Chad, abigail’s waiting to hear from you. Listen, I owe you so much. We so appreciate everything you and tony did to bring our girl home.

Chad: I’m just happy that she’s okay. No injuries. A little bit traumatized, but abby’s resilient, so she’s gonna be okay.

Jack: Yeah, of course she is, and listen, she told us all about sarah. What happened to that girl. That hell. Actually, I was just about to call xander, let him know what happened and tell him that sarah didn’t leave him voluntarily.

Chad: Well, I’m sure he’ll be very happy to hear that.

Jack: He will. He will. Although–

Chad: Although what?

Jack: Xander’s getting married.

Chad: To gwen?

Ava: Is this supposed to be some sort of disguise?

Gwen: I’m trying not to call too much attention to myself.

Ava: By dressing like a snowman?

Gwen: Oh, god. I can’t believe that you made me come down here.

Ava: Oh, well, you just want me to sit at the station and rot?

Gwen: You know that I am not supposed to be seen with you.

Ava: Oh, believe me, gwen. That is the least of your problems.

[Cell phone rings]

Xander: The little birds are chirping this morning. Oh, it’s jack.

[Cell phone beeps] Morning, mate.

Jack: Xander, hey. Listen, I’m sorry to call so early, but abigail just got back.

Xander: Oh, that is just wonderful news, jack. I knew she was on her way home, but now that she’s back safe, thank god. You and jennifer must be thrilled.

Jack: We are, but you need to know that sarah was there too.

Xander: Sarah was where?

Jack: On the island with abigail.

Xander: I don’t understand.

Jack: Listen, do you remember the day of your wedding, a year ago? You got a call from susan banks at the pub. She said that she saw sarah going upstairs with rex.

Xander: Yeah, how could I not remember that?

Jack: That was actually kristen.

Xander: Yeah, jack. I know it was.

Jack: What you don’t know is that kristen didn’t only impersonate susan banks. She also impersonated sarah.

Xander: What?

Jack: The woman that you saw in bed with rex, the woman who broke up with you, was kristen in a sarah mask.

Xander: Oh, my god. No! But I–oh, my god.

Jack: I’m sorry to tell you like this.

Xander: No, but wait, wait, wait. What about when sarah came back to salem to visit maggie? That was kristen too?

Jack: No, no. Believe it or not, that was ava vitali.

Xander: Well, no, I don’t believe it, jack. It’s too insane. It can’t be true.

Jack: I’m afraid it is. Abigail confirmed it.

Xander: Where is sarah now? Where is she, jack?

Jack: They’re taking her to the hospital.

Xander: I have to go find her. I have to see her. I have to–[Cell phone beeps].

Jack: Wait. Before you do that, there’s one more thing you need to know. You–xander? Hello?

Jennifer: Oh, you are our hero. We can’t thank you enough.

Chad: No. Are you kidding me? Seeing the kids’ faces when abby tucks ’em in at night is all the thanks I need.

Jennifer: They missed their mama so much.

Abigail: Not as much as they would have missed me if it weren’t for grandma and grandpa being here.

Jennifer: Well, they were a comfort to us. Trust me. I’m gonna go check on g-pa right now.

Chad: How you doing, baby? Tired? You want some rest? What can I do for you?

Abigail: Not a thing. I’m too wound up to be tired. How’d it go with ava?

Chad: She stonewalled me. No surprise there, but I could tell that she was panicked. I mean, we know she didn’t assault you, but given her track record, trask shouldn’t have a hard time getting those aiding and abetting charges to stick.

Abigail: Right, so if she wants to save her own neck, there’s only one way to do it.

Chad: That’s to name her accomplice.

Gwen: You’re not gonna rat me out, are you?

Ava: You know, despite committing my fair share of crimes, I’ve managed to stay out of prison for most of my life. I’m not getting locked up for this.

Gwen: What are you saying?

Ava: What I’m saying is, if I do get arrested, the only way out may be to give them a name, so I’m gonna ask you one simple question. Why shouldn’t I sacrifice you to save myself?

Jennifer: How did xander take the news?

Jack: Stunned, but he’s gonna be even more stunned when he hears the whole story.

Jennifer: You didn’t tell him, jack?

Jack: I tried, but he hung up before I could. I mean, he wanted to go find her. He was gonna run off, and I told him that she was at the hospital.

Jennifer: Right, but he knows that the real sarah didn’t reject him, right?

Jack: Right. He knows that, but he doesn’t know that the real sarah considers herself to be tony’s late inamorata, renee dumonde.

Tony: I’m so sorry. I’m sorry you had to go through this, darling.

Anna: Don’t you “darling” me. You were playing along with that girl’s delusions.

Tony: Anna, please. Can we have a little compassion? Sarah is mentally ill. What she needs right now is some kindness.

Anna: Oh, really? Well, what if treating a crazy woman with kindness drives your sane wife crazy?

[Eerie music]

Sarah as renee: Tom and alice horton. Long time no see. You know, everyone keeps trying to tell me that I’m your granddaughter sarah, but I’m not. I’m renee dumonde, and I’m here to take my life back, and to finally be with the man I love.

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Jennifer: Jack. Jack! Jack.

Jack: Jennifer. Jennifer.

Jennifer: Oh, there you are. Okay, “the spectator” just published the article about abigail’s disappearance.

Jack: Jennifer.

Jennifer: They have it online; I have a hard copy.

Jack: Jennifer!

Jennifer: What?

Jack: I have news.

Jennifer: What?

Jack: I heard from chad. He and tony know where abigail is.

Jennifer: What? Jack, where is she? Where is she? Are they gonna bring her home? What’s happening?

Jack: Yes, yes.

Jennifer: Okay.

Jack: If everything’s going right…

Jennifer: Yeah.

Jack: And well, chad should be rescuing her as we speak.

Jennifer: Oh, jack. Oh, gosh.

Sarah: Tony! Oh, my darling. Oh, I can’t believe you’re here.

Anna: It’s valentine’s day, and I’m all alone. I can’t reach my husband. I have no idea where he is or if he’s okay.

[Sighs] So now, I have to stress eat. Hey, who ate all the chocolate-covered cherries? Oh, tony, when are you coming home?

Tony: I’m sorry. Did you just call me your love?

Sarah: Well, of course, that’s what you are. That’s what you’ll always be.

[Giggles]

Chad: What the–

Abigail: I can explain, I think.

Kayla: That’s not funny, kristen.

Kristen: Who’s laughing?

Kayla: Telling us that you drugged the food that we just ate is just– is that your–is that your idea of a sick joke? Because it isn’t, and obviously, obviously, you didn’t do it.

Steve: What would be the point; you’re already holding us captive.

Kayla: Yeah, you wouldn’t need to sedate us.

Kristen: If you think I gave you a sedative, oh, you’re wrong. See, I gave you something a little bit stronger.

Steve: How strong?

Kristen: Oh, strong enough to permanently solve my problem that you two have been causing me. I do hope you enjoyed your anniversary. It may be your last.

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Steve: We knew you were dangerous, but murder?

Kristen: Come on, chill out. No one’s gonna die.

Kayla: But you said–

Kristen: Oh, that I drugged you? Yeah, um, yes I did, but not with poison.

Steve: With what then?

Kristen: Oh, with this nifty little concoction that will make you forgot this whole ordeal. See, I can’t keep the two of you here on this island forever, nor would I want to. Frankly, you’re such lousy company. And lucky for you, I’m not interested in killing you. So, it would really suck if you remembered this little vacay and could testify against me.

Steve: What the hell are you talking about?

Kristen: Sorry, kids. But I’m afraid the island chicken comes with a side of amnesia.

[Screams]

Tony: My dear, what has come over you?

Sarah: Well, I know that I should wait until we’re alone to show my affection, but I just can’T.

Tony: No, no, no, no. That’s enough. You got to stop kissing me.

Sarah: Why?

Tony: Why? Because I’m a happily married man.

[Phone trilling]

Anna: Pick up. Pick up.

[Voicemail beeps] Straight to voicemail. The heck with this. I’m going to go get some answers.

Xander: Whenever we’re alone like this, I just lose all track of time.

Gwen: Really? Well, I know exactly what time it is. It’s time to eat. I’m starving.

Xander: Oh, ditching me for room service. Well, that’s very rude. Come back to bed right now.

Gwen: I will. I just want a few nibbles. Xander.

Xander: I want a few nibbles as well.

Gwen: Here you go.

[Chuckles]

[Both moaning] Um, xander. Um, there’s something I’d– I’d like to talk to you about. I just want to be serious for a minute.

Xander: Of course.

Gwen: Yeah.

Xander: What’s on your mind?

Gwen: Um… our wedding.

Xander: My favorite subject.

Gwen: Yes, well we do have a few details to sort out, don’t we?

Xander: Like what?

Gwen: Like when and where.

Xander: What about st. Luke’s?

Gwen: Right, yeah, the two town pariahs in front of god and everybody. Cue the lightning bolts.

Xander: We’re not so bad. My cousin, ciara, married a serial killer in that church.

Gwen: That sounds lovely. No, I was actually thinking that we could choose somewhere that’s a bit more personal to us.

Xander: Oh, like the– the horton family home?

Gwen: Do you want julie’s pacemaker to stop?

Xander: Good point. Well, let’s just table the venue for now. We’ll discuss the wedding party. I’m gonna ask jack to be my best man. Maybe jennifer would stand up for you?

Gwen: Come on, she thinks I killed her mother.

Xander: Not anymore. She knows that was an accident.

Gwen: Yes, still, it’s in poor taste.

Xander: Wait, I’ve got it, the perfect maid of honor.

Gwen: Who?

Xander: Ava vitali.

Gwen: Why would you suggest that I ask ava vitali to stand up for me at our wedding?

Xander: Well, why not? You–you said you two got close after her son died.

Gwen: No, I said that I offered my condolences because I knew charlie in passing.

Xander: Hm. I got the impression that you two formed a deeper connection, both having lost a child.

Gwen: My god, xander, I mean I just said a few kind words to the woman. You’re making it sound like we’re bosom buddies or something.

Xander: No need to get upset. It was just an idea.

Gwen: [Sighs] Sorry. Sorry. I will find someone. It just–it won’t be ava or jennifer.

Xander: Did you read her article about abigail?

Gwen: Yes, it was heart-wrenching.

Xander: A mother reporting on her daughter’s disappearance. I can’t imagine how difficult that must be, for jack as well. Hey, maybe we should swing by there, you know, express our support. Then I can ask jack if he’ll stand up for me while we’re there.

Gwen: Um, I think you should probably do that on your own because some things are sort of tense between abigail and I. I’m sure I’m the last person that they want to see.

Xander: Gwen, darling, if you’re still upset that your dad suspected that you had something to do with her disappearance, it’s like you said. That was just the worry talking. Jack knows you have no idea where your sister is. And when you told him that he could lean on you, it was clear how much that meant.

Gwen: He can lean on me. But you–you are asking him to be your best man. And, well, I think that that’s a moment that should be shared between just the two of you.

Xander: All right. Well, I’ll give him your love.

Gwen: Please do. Cheeky.

[Soft dramatic music]

Jennifer: But why would kristen go after abigail unless she was involved in sarah’s disappearance, jack?

Jack: Who knows what kristen’s thinking, why she does what she does? But at least when chad gets home with abigail, he will have some answers.

Jennifer: Oh, I hope he does.

Anna: Oh. Thank god you’re here.

Both: Anna.

Anna: I’m sorry. I’m sorry to just barge in like this, but the door was open and I’m going out of my mind with worry…

Jennifer: No, anna–

Anna: About tony, about abigail, about chad. No one will return my calls or my texts.

Jennifer: No, anna, we have really good news.

Anna: You do?

Both: Yes.

Jack: We know where abigail is, thanks to tony and chad. They’re on the way to her right now.

Anna: Oh, my gosh. That’s really great news. Oh, how wonderful. You must be so relieved.

Both: Yes.

Anna: Where is she?

Jack: Well, kristen has been holding her hostage on this abandoned dimera island. The one, you know, that’s off the coast of cartagena.

Anna: Oh, that island? Oh, wow. Well, I’m very happy for you, for all of us.

Jack: Well, you don’t look very happy. What is it, anna?

Anna: Well, it’s just that I know that island in question. I mean, I guess we’ve all heard of it, right? But for me, personally– never mind, I’m not going to rain on your parade with my selfish reaction.

Jennifer: Could you just tell us what you’re thinking, anna?

Anna: Well, I happen to know that my tony spent an extended holiday on that island with his very unstable– maybe I should say bonkers ex-lover, renée dumonde.

Sarah: I should have known that she was the reason you were being so cold to me.

Tony: Who is she?

Sarah: Your so-called wife. She’s been a thorn in my side since you two started dating, which you only did to get over me because we thought we were siblings.

Chad: I’m sorry, what?

Sarah: Don’t you see, tony? It didn’t work then and it won’t work now. You’ll never get over me.

Tony: Oh, dear god. Please help me.

Abigail: That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you. Sarah thinks that she’s renée dumonde.

Steve: Not so tough now, are you?

Kristen: Oh, enjoy your victory while you still remember it, ’cause you won’t once the drugs kick in.

Steve: Just how much of that crap did you put in our food anyway?

Kristen: Oh, enough to obliterate the memories of a herd of elephants.

Steve: I still think she’s bluffing.

Kristen: I assure you, I’m not. So if I were you, I would take this time that you have left to reminisce. You know, to reflect on all those warm and fuzzy moments you had with your children, with each other. Because soon, your epic love affair with the ole patch here, it will permanently fade to black.

Is now a good time

for a flare-up?

Tony: How is this possible? How can sarah horton think she’s renée dumonde?

Sarah: Ugh, god, not you too. I can understand this sarah nonsense from these two. But you? The only man I’ve ever truly loved? We can talk about it on the way to salem. All right, I’ve been stuck on this island for long enough. Let’s go.

Chad: We’ll be right down.

Sarah: Wonderful. That gives tony and i a moment to be alone.

Anna: Thank you. So my tony got that shady dimera pilot to come clean, huh?

Jennifer: Yes, and we are so grateful, anna.

Jack: Beyond grateful. I mean, without tony, I don’t think we’d– we wouldn’t have found her.

Anna: Well, as I’m sure you know, tony is devoted to all his brothers, but especially chad. And he would do anything for him.

Jennifer: Well, he really has gone above and beyond for what he’s done for chad this time. And for us too.

Jack: Yes. I mean I–hey, I need to let gwen know abigail’s coming home. Gwen has been so worried.

Anna: Well, how is your other daughter, jack?

Jack: Oh, doing very well, thank you–getting married, in fact.

Anna: [Laughs] Married? Really? Oh. Well, I’m so–that just surprises me, frankly.

Jack: Surprised, why?

Anna: Well–uh, never mind.

Jack: Tell us, anna.

Anna: Well, I don’t want to be insensitive, but– I mean, I know she is your daughter, but she has created a world of problems since she came to salem. I’m just wondering who– who would have the tolerance to put up with her tendency to lie, to be vindictive? I mean, what man would have the patience and fortitude to share his life with a woman like gwen?

Xander: That man would be me.

[Knocking on door]

Gwen: Bloody hell.

[Sighs]

Ava: Hey.

Gwen: What are you doing here?

Ava: We got a problem.

Chad: So kristen injected sarah with the same drug gwen used in your champagne?

Abigail: Yes. And I feel awful because I know firsthand the damage that that drug can do. You’re confused, and you have hallucinations. You feel terrified. And now sarah thinks she’s an entirely different person.

Chad: Right. There’s one thing I don’t get, is how did the drug give her my dead sister’s memories?

Abigail: Renée’s memories didn’t come from the drug. They came from her diary.

Sarah: But tony, we can’t leave. We have to eat first.

Tony: Oh, we can eat on the plane.

Sarah: But my sister went to the trouble of cooking up a feast for tonight. She made my famous island chicken. It would be an insult not to stay and enjoy it.

Tony: Oh, I’m sure she’ll understand.

Sarah: You listen to me! No one is going anywhere until we all sit down together and have a meal. I won’t take no for an answer.

[Laughs]

Kayla: We need to find the others before our memories fade. If we tell sarah and abigail what kristen’s done, then they can alert the hospital, and the staff can help us out as soon as we get home.

Kristen: Good luck with that, considering I drugged sarah and abigail too.

Steve: You did what?

Kristen: Oh, yeah, that’s right. All of my guests are having my very special island chicken tonight. By morning, none of you will remember how to tie your own shoes.

[Laughs]

Only daisy cottage cheese will do

Abigail: When sarah first got here, she was just like I was after gwen had drugged me. So to keep her calm and occupied, kristen gave her a bunch of books to read.

Chad: And renée’s diary was one of them?

Abigail: Yeah. Yeah, and she became so obsessed with the story, she started to think the entries were hers. And then she had a year to sink deeper and deeper into that delusion.

Chad: Poor sarah. Well, the good news is is we found you so we can head back to salem, and we can get her the help she needs.

Abigail: If I may ask, how did you find me? Not that i didn’t think you would.

Chad: Yeah. Um, ned grainger actually told us where you were.

Abigail: The pilot.

Chad: Mm-hmm. An eyewitness confirmed that he flew out of the airfield the same night you disappeared. I didn’t think that was a coincidence. But there was no flight plan. There was no security cam footage, and I didn’t know what to do. Luckily–luckily tony knew this ned guy a little bit.

Abigail: So you were able to just track him down?

Chad: Yeah, in florida. Tony convinced him to tell us where you were. And now we know kristen put him up to kidnapping you and flying you out here.

Abigail: Actually, it wasn’t kristen. It was ava.

Gwen: Are you mad? Xander could have seen you.

Ava: Relax. I watched him leave, I waited a bit, and then I came up.

Gwen: Why are you here?

Ava: I told you. We got a problem. I saw your step-monster’s article.

Gwen: Oh, that.

Ava: Uh, yeah, that. The deverauxs are back, and they’re using their newspaper to make a big stink about their missing daughter. It’s bad, gwen. It’s very, very bad.

Gwen: Okay, just calm down.

Ava: Well, that’s easy for you to say because abigail didn’t see you wearing the sarah mask.

Gwen: Which is not necessarily a problem.

Ava: I’m sorry, are you joking? What do you think is gonna happen if chad and tony bring dr. Horton and her chatterbox of a cousin back alive and well?

Jack: So xander, I’m sure anna didn’t mean to–

Anna: No, no, no. Jack, don’t apologize for me, ’cause I actually meant to say exactly what I said. And I’m sorry. I wish I didn’t feel the way I do because I care about you. And I realize, jack, that because she is your daughter, that you have tender feelings for her, but I don’T.

Xander: Really? I never would have known.

Jennifer: You know what? I just think we should stay off the subject of gwen right now, right?

Xander: No, no, no. No, let’s stay on the subject. I’d love to. And what I’d like to say is that gwen was deeply unhappy and very angry when she came to salem. That led to her consequently behaving rather badly.

Anna: [Laughs] Rather badly?

Xander: But she’s changed. She’s a wonderful, big-hearted person who feels deep regret for the hurt she caused the people that she now considers to be her family. Never mind “considers,” they are her family, and she’s terribly sorry for the way she behaved towards them.

Anna: Hm. You sure about that?

Jennifer: Anna, please.

Anna: All right, all right. Okay. I’ll shut up now. But I’m sorry– well, I’m not sorry about what I said about gwen. But I am sorry for all of you people in this room who now trust that woman. I mean, she was hired as a nanny to abigail and chad’s kids. And then she sleeps with chad just to ruin abigail’s life? And look what she tried to do to your marriage, you two. Letting you know that he had an affair while you were in a coma? And to what purpose? Spite or whatever?

Jennifer: I’ve gotten past that, anna.

Anna: Well, you are a more forgiving person than I am, because I could never get past the fact that someone took a wrecking ball to my life the way she did to yours and jack’s and to chad and abigail’S.

Xander: Look, can I please just get a word in here?

Anna: No. No. Because I know you’re just gonna go on some more about the big change in her. And yes, people can change. But in the case of gwen rizczech or riz–whatever, however you pronounce her name, I suggest you be careful, xander, because you never know what a woman like that could still be hiding.

Tony: Well, shall we get on with this?

[Both chuckle] Oh, everything looks delicious. Oh. Ow!

Sarah: Daphne dimera raised you better than that. It’s polite to wait until everyone is seated. Really, you were so concerned with decorum earlier. It’s obvious that anna’s lack of breeding has rubbed off on you. But don’t worry, I’ll fix it. I wonder what’s keeping abigail and my long-lost little brother.

Chad: Ava vitali was the one in the sarah mask?

Abigail: I know, it makes no sense. Why would ava want to hurt sarah?

Chad: I don’t know, maybe she was doing it to help a friend.

Abigail: You mean kristen?

Chad: Yeah, they were close at one point.

Abigail: But close enough to want to commit multiple felonies for her?

Chad: She’s in the mob. It’s kind of right up her alley.

Abigail: True.

Chad: Wait, so you– so you ripped off the mask, and then somebody just hit you from behind? Were you able to see whoever it was before you lost consciousness?

Abigail: No, no. The only person I know for sure was there is ava. Of course, maybe we could ask aunt kayla and uncle steve if they have any other insights. We should probably go find them.

Chad: Steve and kayla?

Abigail: Yeah. Kristen kidnapped them in italy and brought them here.

Chad: Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s go.

Trelegy for copd.

Jennifer: Look, uh, what if we try a more neutral subject to talk about?

Anna: That’s fine. I’ve had my say about gwen. Not another word.

Jack: Very good, very good. So xander, we just wanted to tell you– ’cause anna’s already heard the news, that abigail is coming home.

Xander: What?

Jennifer: Yes.

Xander: Oh, you waited this long to tell me?

Jack: Well, I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.

Xander: That is tremendous, tremendous news. That’s why I came over. Gwen and I read jennifer’s article in “the spectator,” and we wanted to express our support.

Anna: Oh, really? And, uh, where is gwen and all her support?

Xander: Well, if you must know, anna, as concerned as gwen was about her sister, she encouraged me to come here without her, given the still strained relationship between her and abigail.

Anna: How sensitive of her.

Jack: Anna, please.

Anna: Okay, all right. All right. On a happier note, it’ll be so wonderful and such a relief when abigail and chad and tony all come back safely to salem.

Jennifer: Yes.

Xander: On that, we can all agree. I know gwen feels the same.

Gwen: You need to stop, okay? Because your speculation, your doomsaying, is not helpful.

Ava: Oh, I’m sorry, gwen. Am I making you nervous?

Gwen: Yes.

Ava: Good. You should be. You should be freaking out, because if sarah and abigail get back here and they start squawking, it’s not just my life that’s gonna go up in smoke. It’s yours too.

Gwen: Kristen’s not gonna let that happen because she promised.

Ava: You think she’s gonna keep her promise?

Gwen: Well, she’s your friend, isn’t she?

Ava: A friend who blackmailed us into helping her escape. Trust me. If kristen’s back is up against the wall, she’s not gonna think twice about selling us out. And if she starts singing, then it is bye-bye, boyfriend. Bye-bye, daddy. Hello, statesville.

Kristen: Ah!

Steve: This should hold her for a while.

Kayla: Come on. Let’s go find abigail and sarah.

Kristen: Well, you better hope that they still remember you. I guess this is goodbye.

Kayla: Oh, no. No, no, no. You are going back to salem, where you’re gonna pay for everything you’ve done. Make no mistake, you’ll see us again.

Kristen: Oh, but by then, you won’t have a clue who I am or why I’m about to kill you.

[Laughing]

[Suspenseful music]

Chad: We need to find steve and kayla.

Tony: They’re here?

Chad: Apparently.

Abigail: Do you know where they are?

Sarah: I might have an idea or two.

Abigail: Could you take us to them, please?

Sarah: No can do, sis. I don’t trust that steve. He threatened kristen. I think he might be that serial killer that she warned me about.

Abigail: Um, okay, steve is my uncle. He’s a wonderful man. Can you please just take us to him and kayla?

Sarah: Okay, I will, right after we eat.

Abigail: We need to go now.

Sarah: Let me make myself clear. If you want to see your aunt and uncle, you will pull up a chair and join us.

Abigail: Fine.

[Tense music]

Chad: So, have you had any problems with the food on the island?

Abigail: Of course I was worried that I was gonna be poisoned, but it’s either eat or starve, so. Food’s been fine so far. This should be fine too.

Sarah: It is better than fine. It is the best chicken you will have in your life, so eat. And then I will take you o steve and kayla, I promise. Come on. What could be the harm in all of us having a nice family dinner together?

[Laughs] Rob did his best to manage his constipation

Gwen: By the way, xander’s not my boyfriend. He’s my fiancé.

Ava: Congratulations. Hm. Anyway, sorry I got a little worked up before.

Gwen: A little?

Ava: All right, the article threw me a little bit. But I’m happy for you, gwen, I really am. Guess what. My son is proposing to his girlfriend tonight.

Gwen: Wow.

Ava: Mm-hmm.

Gwen: Must be something in the water.

Ava: Don’t think so, because I’m drinking it, and nobody’s asking for my hand. Looks like everyone’s getting their happily ever after but me.

Gwen: Ava.

Ava: No, no, it’s all good. I mean, who needs love when you’ve got revenge to keep you warm?

Gwen: I will tell you that revenge does not solve anything. No, it doesn’t– does not make you feel better. It just makes you feel worse. You have to find another way.

Ava: Well, I tried, gwen. I went legit. I decided to stop being so possessive and paranoid. And what’d that get me? A boyfriend who cheated on me with my best friend.

Gwen: Which is awful.

Ava: Yeah. It’s not your problem, it’s mine. But seriously, congratulations. I’m sure that you and xander are going to have a long and happy life together. See ya.

Anna: So on that happy note where we’re all relieved– no, thrilled that your daughter and her husband and my husband will soon be home in salem safe and sound, I guess I better go.

Jack: Of course.

Jennifer: Yes, so good to see you, anna.

Anna: You too as well, my dear. And xander, I strongly urge you to heed my warning about gwen.

Xander: And I urge you, anna, to keep an open mind about my fiancée, who actually speaks quite highly of you.

Anna: [Laughs] Really? Yeah, I bet she’s just wild about me.

Xander: Well, she believes people can change, so she’s confident that one day, you’ll change your mind about her, maybe even offer her your hand in friendship.

Anna: Oh, well, not very likely, but I suppose stranger things have happened. So I’ll see you all soon.

Jennifer: Yes, goodbye.

Jack: Yes. Thank you, yes.

Anna: Just once again, congratulations on the wonderful news.

Jennifer: Yes.

Jack: Thanks.

All: Goodbye.

Jack: Bye.

Anna: Bye.

Jennifer: Bye.

Jack: Goodbye.

Jennifer: Wow.

Xander: Well, that was delightful.

Jennifer: Whew.

Jack: Anna can be outspoken.

Xander: That’s one word for it. Hey, now that we have a moment, just us, and you’ve gotten that great news about abigail, I just wanted to ask you, jack, if you’d be my best mate when I marry your other daughter?

Jack: Well, I– I have to think about it. Okay, I’ve thought about it, and yes, I’d be glad and happy to be your best mate.

[All laughing]

Xander: Well, I’m glad and happy to be your mate and soon, your son-in-law.

Jack: And that will make me a lucky man indeed.

Abigail: Well, the sooner we finish, the sooner sarah will take us to find aunt kayla and uncle steve.

Chad: I got to admit, this island chicken is actually really good.

Sarah: [Chuckles]

Kayla: No!

Steve: Don’t eat that chicken!

Kayla: Don’t eat the chicken!

Abigail: Oh, steve!

Kayla: My god, it’s too late.

Chad: What do you mean it’s too late? My asthma felt anything but normal.

Kayla: How much did you eat?

Chad: I ate half a chicken!

Sarah: Would you all calm down, please? No one has been poisoned.

Kayla: That’s not true. Kristen told us that she drugged the food.

Sarah: And I’m telling you she didn’T. I switched it out.

Tony: Switched it out with what?

Sarah: I found this earlier in the kitchen when kristen was cooking. It was filled with this weird, cloudy liquid, and it had a feather next to it. And then I remembered kristen telling me that the serial killer that was after me used a raven’s feather as his calling card.

Kayla: Well, that’s probably just a chicken feather.

Sarah: Well, we can’t be too careful. So I poured out the liquid, and I–I cleaned it very well. And then I filled it up with milk.

Chad: Just regular milk?

Sarah: We have goats here.

Abigail: So we’re not in any danger?

Sarah: Well, not unless you’re lactose intolerant.

Jack: For you, my love.

Jennifer: [Gasps] Oh. What is this? Why are you giving me this rose?

Jack: I don’t know. Check your calendar.

Jennifer: [Gasps] Jack. It’s valentine’s day. Oh.

Jack: All day long.

Jennifer: I feel terrible. What–I– oh, with everything going on, how did you even find time to shop?

Jack: Well, as a matter of fact, I’ve got a little story, mrs. Deveraux. You see, a long time ago, this plucky, young intern–

Jennifer: Plucky, I like it.

Jack: Yeah. Her name was jennifer rose horton, or ms. Horton for short.

Jennifer: Mm-hmm.

Jack: She came storming into my office, my newsroom, and my life and turned everything upside down and taught me a thing or two about faith.

Jennifer: Is that right?

Jack: Oh, yes. And with that faith, I decided to distract my mind for half an hour from worrying about our daughter to make sure that her mother had a valentine’s day to remember.

Jennifer: Bless your sweet heart, jack.

Jack: And that faith assured me that abigail would be coming home, the same way that I will always come home to you, my ms. Horton, jennifer rose.

Jennifer: I love you forever, jack deveraux.

Jack: I love you.

Jennifer: Happy valentine’S.

Jack: Happy valentine’s day.

Chad: What are we doing up here? We have to get on the jet and go home.

Abigail: I just want to grab this. We might need it if we want to be able to speak to renéE. I just really want sarah to be okay.

Chad: When we get home, we’re gonna be able to get her the help that she needs, okay? And I got to say how impressed I am that you knew that that was not sarah back in salem. I mean, I still can’t believe that it was ava.

Abigail: Neither can I.

Chad: As soon as we get home, she’s going down, and so is her accomplice.

[Door unlocks]

Gwen: How did it go with jack and jennifer?

Xander: Interesting.

Gwen: Interesting? How so?

Xander: Anna dimera was there.

Gwen: Oh. Yeah. She’s my biggest fan.

Xander: Forget that old windbag, I have some good news.

Gwen: Do you? Tell me.

Xander: Yeah, well, for starters, your dad agreed to stand up for me.

Gwen: Xander, that is wonderful.

Xander: That’s not all. Looks like abigail will be back in time for our wedding.

Gwen: What?

Xander: They found abigail. She’s coming home.

Sarah: You have no idea how happy I am that we’re finally together.

Tony: I have some idea.

Sarah: I can’t wait to get back to salem. Our first stop is gonna be divorce court.

Tony: Who’s getting divorced?

Sarah: You are. You’re going to kick that hideous anna to the curb.

Tony: Huh?

Sarah: [Laughs]

Kayla: I can’t wait to see kristen’s face when she finds out their plane was ruined.

Steve: Yeah, by her precious renee and some goat’s milk.

Kayla: She’s gone.

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[Slow country music]

Roman: Hey, hey. How’d it go?

Tripp: How’d what go?

Roman: Don’t give me that. You proposed to allie, right?

Tripp: Yeah. Yeah, that was a disaster.

Allie: Oh, it’s you.

Kate: Sorry. Who were you expecting?

Allie: Nobody. I was hoping it was tripp.

Kate: Honey, you’ve been crying. What’s wrong?

Allie: Everything.

Kate: Oh, baby. Oh.

Allie: [Breathing heavily]

Tony: [Sighs] Seems like it’s taking forever.

Chad: I’m losing it. We got this information from abby’s kidnapper, who could’ve just sent us on a wild-goose chase.

Tony: Well, I have a decent relationship with ned. That’s why I was able to convince him that it was in his best interest to tell us the truth.

Chad: Well, I hope you convinced him.

Tony: I threatened him with anna’s wrath.

Chad: Okay, so then you brought out the heavy artillery. It’s just…it’s taking us so long to get there.

Tony: Chad, our time in key west paid off. We now know where abigail is.

Chad: With kristen. I just pray that abby’s safe and unharmed by the time we finally get there.

[Banging on door]

Abigail: Kristen! Kristen, let me out of here! Tell me I can come and go as i please and then you lock the damn door?

[Banging] Kristen!

[Sighs] I was out of my mind to believe her anyway.

[Keys jangling]

[Gasps] Oh, my god! It’s you!

Kristen: [Grunts] Well, happy valentine’s day, lovebirds.

[Tense music]

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Kristen: [Sighs] I am sorry about the gags. I just–my head was killing me. I couldn’t bear another lecture about how I turned the tables on you, hmm? You two have always been so pushy. And your niece, she takes after you as well.

Steve: Abigail? She’s here?

Kayla: What have you done with her?

Kristen: Well, at the moment, she’s curled up with a really good book.

Steve: Tell us where abigail is right now, or I’m gonna–

Kristen: Oh, you’ll what? You’ll what? You’re gonna shoot me with a flare gun? I mean, you know what? I’ve already tried to shoot the lights off my christmas tree. And guess what. Didn’t work.

Steve: You can do some real damage with these things if you know what you’re doing.

Kristen: Oh. And do you know what you’re doing, steve?

Steve: You bet I do.

[Body thuds, flare gun clatters]

Kristen: You see, I’m not the one who clobbered you. It was sarah. Oh, I’m sorry, renee dumonde.

[Dramatic music]

Abigail: Sarah! Oh, my god! I am so glad to see you. You’re the reason that I’m here. I came looking for you.

Sarah: What are you doing in my room? I had to sleep somewhere else last night.

Abigail: I’m so s–

Sarah: I don’t even know who you are.

Abigail: Sarah, I–

Sarah: Why does everyone keep calling me that? My name is renee. Renee dumonde.

Abigail: I’m sorry if i upset you. I know everything that’s happened to you. Kristen told me all about it.

Sarah: What’s happened to me? It’s not me; it’s you and everyone else. I know who I am. What, are you all crazy or something? I have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

Kate: So you cheated on tripp. Do you mind me asking who with?

Allie: Chanel.

Kate: Okay.

Allie: She’s, like, my best friend I ever had. When she moved here, I couldn’t believe how happy I was to see her again.

Kate: Did… I mean, did chanel come on to you or…

Allie: No, no. Definitely not. It was–it was just a couple of kisses, that’s all.

Kate: Do you consider that cheating?

Allie: No. And I told tripp about that, and he was cool. I mean, he didn’t judge me at all or anything. And then chanel and johnny got married and we put it all behind us.

Kate: Okay. Well, honey, I don’t understand the problem.

Allie: Well, at chanel’s wedding party, when johnny broke up with her in front of everyone, she was a wreck. I’d never seen her like that. She’s usually kicking ass. Anyway, she asked me to stay over, and we were laying in bed and it just kinda happened. It was just one time.

Kate: And you told tripp after he asked you to marry him.

Allie: No. No, it wasn’t me who told tripp. It was my brother.

Kate: Johnny?

Allie: Mm-hmm. He showed up right after I said yes, and we told him we were engaged, and he just blurted it out.

Kate: What? Why would he do something so cruel?

Allie: I don’t know. He’s not the same anymore, grandma.

[Sighs] Chanel told tripp he was lying.

Kate: But tripp didn’t buy it.

Allie: After johnny left, he asked me if it was true. I took one look at his face and I knew I had to be honest.

Kate: So look, honey. If you are feeling confused about your sexuality, perhaps it isn’t the best time to commit to–

Allie: No, no. I’m not confused. I love tripp.

Kate: [Sighs] God, I would just love to tear johnny from limb to limb.

Allie: Thinking about what he did to chanel and now what he’s done to me… I hate him, grandma. I told him he’s not my brother anymore.

Kate: Well, good for you.

Allie: Doesn’t matter anyway, though. I mean, I’m the one who screwed everything up. I kept something huge from tripp for weeks, and he found out anyway.

Kate: In the worst possible way, the worst possible time.

[Sighs] Honey, is there any hope?

Allie: I don’t think so. I mean, I wouldn’t blame tripp if he never wanted to see me again.

Roman: Okay, well… I did hear that something happened between allie and chanel, but I thought it was minor and over with.

Tripp: Them kissing?

Roman: Yeah.

Tripp: Yeah. Yeah, allie told me about that. And I was pretty surprised, but she said it had nothing to do with us and that it was over. So I…made myself get past that, and… after that, things were really good between us. I mean, great even. And she knew that, and– and she went and slept with chanel.

Roman: How long ago?

Tripp: The night of the party. Wedding party where johnny told everybody that the marriage was over.

Roman: Okay, well, that was, like, a month ago.

Tripp: I shouldn’t be telling you this stuff. I mean, she’s your granddaughter.

Roman: Yeah. Yeah. And I love her. But she’s been through hell and you’re, like– well, hell, you’re the best thing that’s happened to her in a long time, so that’s why I gave you my blessing.

Tripp: And you also told me not to rush into marriage unless I was sure that’s what she wanted, and… man, were you right.

Kristen: Mm. When sarah clocked you, you went down for the count, and it was glorious. Oh, and you, you tough little doctor/barmaid. You looked like a scared baby lamb.

Kayla: Steve. Steve, are you all right? Why would you do that? You stood up at our wedding. What is wrong with you?

Sarah: What’s wrong with you? Why were you threatening my sister?

Kristen: Oh, thank you, renee. Your loyalty has always been so touching. But you know what? I can take it from here.

[Tense music]

And since you were down for the count, it was relatively easy to get you and your beloved down here. Hmm?

Steve: [Muffled speech]

Kristen: [Growls mockingly]

[Laughs] For crying out loud, use your words, huh? And mind your manners if you know what’s good for you.

Steve: What have you done with abigail?

Kayla: Where is she?

Kristen: Oh, my god. I mean, I make you guys this wonderful meal and all you can do is harp on about abigail? I’m telling you, she’s doing just fine. I mean, except for her guilty conscience.

Abigail: I came here hoping to find you, and you’re the one who found me. But, um… if you’ll give me a chance, I’ll try to explain everything. Do you recognize this?

Sarah: Of course. It’s my diary.

Abigail: Well, I hope you don’t mind, but I read it.

Sarah: [Laughs] I should be upset, but I guess it’s an open book.

Abigail: It’s an unbelievable story, though. I know it’s true, but the thing is, it’s not your story. It’s renee’S.

Sarah: You say you wanna explain things, but you don’t understand anything.

Abigail: Okay, you trust kristen, right?

Sarah: She’s my little sister.

Abigail: Okay, well, she told me that she gave this to you after she brought you here.

Sarah: She gave me a lot of books.

Abigail: But you had been drugged and you were kidnapped, so you were vulnerable and you were really, really confused. So you read this and you became convinced that this was the story of your life. But it’s not your story, because you are not renee.

Sarah: How could reading a diary make me think that I am someone that I’m not?

Abigail: Because of me.

Tony: I understand your feelings about kristen.

Chad: She wasn’t always this bad. When I came into the family, she treated me like an annoying kid brother, but she seemed to like me.

Tony: Well, it all seemed to have gotten worse for her when her relationship with brady fell apart and she lost contact with her daughter.

Chad: If you say so.

Tony: I think there is a part of her that still thinks of you as being her brother and remembers jennifer as a friend. But I’m in agreement. I don’t think she’d bring any harm to your wife and jennifer’s child.

Chad: Well, even if that’s true–god willing, it is– we have no idea what to expect when we land on that island. If we ever do. I mean, I didn’t even know this place existed. I don’t know anything about this place.

Tony: I do. I’ve spent some time there.

Chad: On family business or…

Tony: Actually, it was a romantic getaway.

Chad: Why didn’t you tell me you and anna had been there?

Tony: No, no, it was before anna, before you were born. There was a woman I was very much in love with by the name of renee dumonde.

Sarah: How can it be your fault that anything happened to me if I don’t even know you?

Abigail: It’s my fault that you got the drug that kristen gave you.

Sarah: What drug?

Abigail: You found a syringe loaded with a mind-altering drug.

Sarah: You’re making this up.

Abigail: No, no, I’m not. No, I know because I tried to give it to my sister. I mean, she’d done terrible things to me, which is no excuse. But I locked her in the room that you were in.

Sarah: [Laughs] And you’re supposed to be my savior?

Abigail: Look, I didn’t give it to her, okay, because somebody stopped me. But…I left it behind. And then you found it and you tried to use it to defend yourself against kristen.

Sarah: Why would I defend myself against kristen? She’s always been good to me.

Abigail: She may have told you that, but it was a lie. Okay, kristen is the one who locked you in that room. Then she injected you with the drug, and then she brought you here, okay? Now… if you would let me tell you the whole story, I believe that I can help you understand how this all really happened… and who you really are.

Kristen: It’s true. Little abigail was planning on shooting her big sister full of happy juice and sweat a confession out of her.

Steve: But abigail didn’t go through with her plan. She came to her senses.

Kayla: It was you. You’re the one that shot sarah with that happy juice and put renee’s diary in her hand at just the right moment.

Kristen: Okay, it was sarah who was waving that syringe in my face. I was forced to use it on her. But it was abigail who left the syringe where sarah could find it, so you know what? This is all on abigail.

Steve: Oh, man. That’s stretching it.

Kayla: You know, I’m not gonna believe a word you say until I see abigail for myself and see that she is all right.

Steve: Take us to her. Now.

Kristen: Aren’t you guys hungry? Don’t you want this lovely meal I made? Come on, you kids. You have so much to celebrate, huh?

[Sighs] See, it’s not just valentine’s day. It’s your anniversary.

[Tense music]

Kate: As someone who has had a certain number of relationships turn bad, I don’t think you should ever give up hope.

Allie: You weren’t there.

Kate: I know. I know. But I’m thinking perhaps tripp reacted the way he did because he felt blindsided. And once he calms down, he’s going to realize how much he’s thrown away. Have you tried to talk to him yet?

Allie: No. He was so mad, hurt. I don’t even think he could stand to look at me.

Kate: Okay, well, look. I am not going to leave you here by yourself, okay? Why don’t you come to the pub with me? I’m going to have dinner with roman.

Allie: No, no. Okay? It’s valentine’s day and I’m a mess. You guys should be alone.

Kate: Okay, but you shouldn’t be alone. And after what’s happened to you, do you think we’re gonna have a good time? Because we’re not. Honey, you are the child of my child, and I love you more than I can even say. All right? Please, will you come with me?

Tripp: I just– I just don’t get it, you know? I– it’s not that she cheated on me– or it’s not just that she cheated on me. It was with chanel. So it just makes me think maybe… maybe she’s not as into men as she wants to be.

Roman: Look… I can’t answer that, but I can tell you that I do know what it feels like… to be cheated on by a woman you thought you’d spend the rest of your life with.

Tripp: Dad and kayla told me about you and marlena.

Roman: Yeah. Marlena, she told me that she loved me. She swore that she loved me, and I believed her. But turns out that she loved john in a different way, and because of that, our marriage ended.

Tripp: I think allie loves me; that’s the hard part. She’s a good person. She wouldn’t just go behind my back for someone who meant nothing to her. So maybe… maybe she just loves chanel in a different way. Like marlena and john.

Roman: Well, you know, we’d been married a long time when we split up. We had kids. You’re not there yet. Maybe this thing with chanel is a phase, you know? But look, what do I know? You tell me, though, that… you believe that allie still loves you. And you know you love her. So isn’t there possibly some way that you two could get past this? Are you one of the millions of americans

Chad: Whoa. So you and renee fell in love… and then found out that you were brother and sister?

Tony: Right.

Chad: The old man really got around, huh?

Tony: No, renee broke it off without ever telling me the real reason. But she finally discovered… that it was never true.

Chad: Oh, because you’re not father’s biological son?

Tony: Well, by that time… she’d already married julie’s son, david banning, and… I’d met my anna.

Chad: And that was it for you two.

Tony: Well, as far as I was concerned, it was, but renee felt differently. She felt she’d been cheated out of happiness and… she wanted me back. Oh, she did such hideous things to anna.

Chad: I’m sorry, man.

Tony: And it was all for naught. Anna’s the love of my life. And she finally had to accept the fact that nothing she could do could come between us. I hate to say this. I never wished renee any harm… but my life has become far less complicated now that she’s dead.

[Sighs]

[Chuckles] I think I see–I can see land. As a matter of fact, I can see lights. We might be there soon.

[Chuckles]

[Ominous music]

Sarah: So let me get this straight.

[Laughs] I happened upon kristen while she was masquerading as someone else. So she kidnapped me and locked me in a “secret room.”

Abigail: Right.

Sarah: Mm. And that’s where I found this syringe. And I came at her with it, but she got hold of it and used it on me.

Abigail: Truth is stranger than fiction.

Sarah: I don’t believe any of this.

Abigail: Because you don’t remember any of it. The drug affected your mind and it wiped away any memory that you have of being sarah horton.

Sarah: Kristen would never do that to me.

Abigail: Kristen would do that to anybody who got in her way, okay? Look. Now, I don’t think that she knew what was in the syringe, okay? It’s a very, very powerful drug, and it has made you believe that you are someone that you’re not. Now, I know what it can do. My sister gave it to me. She spiked a glass of champagne with it, and the next thing i know, I’m having hallucinations and I was in a psychiatric hospital for months. I could have lost my husband, my kids, everyone, everything that I love. But I got treatment and I got better. Okay? Now, sarah… if you don’t listen to me, you could go down the same rabbit hole that I did, and… you might never get out.

[Cork pops]

Kristen: Whoo!

[Chuckles] See, valentine’s day must mean a lot to you two. You got married twice on that same day. And I bet you wore red both times.

[Laughs] So how about you two tuck into some island chicken, hmm? And I can untie you. It’ll be lovely.

Kayla: Why is she doing this?

Steve: I don’t know. But I don’t think we should touch that chicken.

Kristen: Oh, come on. I’m always on the side of people in love.

Steve: Even you can’t make that one work.

Kristen: [Laughs] There’s no point in you two not enjoying what this beautiful island has to offer, hmm? Hey. You know what? You’re not going anywhere. So you can either just sit here tied up and stare at each other, or… you can enjoy this wonderful dinner and… celebrate the important milestone. It’s your choice.

[Suspenseful music]

Steve: Okay. We’ll take the dinner.

Kristen: Good for you.

[Laughs] And I’m gonna untie you, hmm?

Tripp: Allie said she still wanted to marry me. What happened with chanel was just a mistake that she’d always regret.

Roman: Okay. And you believed her?

Tripp: I wanted to.

Roman: Do you still love her?

Tripp: Yeah, it’s not like i can just turn off the switch.

Roman: Okay, so you do. So let me ask you this, all right? If she still loves you and you still love her, don’t you think that maybe you… could find it in your heart to forgive her?

[Door clicks open]

[Slow country music]

To be a thriver with

metastatic breast cancer

Tripp: What are you doing here?

Kate: She came with me. We didn’t know you were going to be here too.

Tripp: I’m gonna go.

Kate: Tripp, please. Please don’t go. I brought allie here because she’s heartbroken. And I didn’t want her to be alone. She just told me that she still loves you and she feels miserable about what happened. I know that you’re hurt. I know you are. But the two of you had something that was just so lovely together. Can’t you find it in your heart to forgive her?

Tripp: Roman just asked me the same question.

Roman: So what’s your answer?

[Tender music]

Kayla: [Grunts] Oh.

[Door rattles]

Steve: [Grunts]

Kayla: No luck?

Steve: No. After that pretty speech she gave about love and family, she locked us in here again. We’re not gonna eat this food, are we?

Steve: I don’t know. I mean, we saw her uncork that champagne. I don’t think even kristen could poison it and cork it back up again.

Kayla: Yeah, but she could do anything she wants to that island chicken.

Steve: Yeah. But she didn’t poison that salad you ate.

Kayla: That’s true. And we do need to eat something so we don’t pass out.

Steve: Can’t afford to pass out. And I’m tired of second-guessing that woman. I want us to celebrate our anniversary. Okay? So I say let’s go for it. Happy anniversary, sweetness.

Kayla: Happy anniversary.

[Glasses clink]

[Dramatic music]

Abigail: You’re thinking about what I said, aren’t you? I can see it in your face. I know better than anyone what you are going through. You don’t know if you can believe what you’re seeing with your own eyes. I mean, my mind was so messed up, I didn’t even recognize my own husband. I actually thought he was a serial killer named ben weston. And all the while, he’s chad dimera. The same chad that loves me.

Sarah: Did you say dimera?

Abigail: Yeah. My husband is stefano’s youngest son– as far as we know, anyway.

Sarah: If that’s really true, if he’s stefano’s son, then… you’re married to my brother. You and I, we’re practically sisters!

[Tense music]

Your home…

Roman: Tripp, what is your answer?

Allie: Don’t do this to him, okay? Not here. Not in front of everyone. I know you can barely stand to be in the same room as me right now, and I don’t blame you. I hate myself for what I did to you. I– you are the guy who stood by me through everything. You loved me even when I was a complete mess. You’ve already forgiven me for other stupid stuff I’ve done. And henry. Henry loves you so much. He loves you like a father. I– tripp, I think the reason that I couldn’t tell you about what happened with chanel and me is the same reason that i couldn’t tell you why i loved you for so long. It’s because I felt like– like damaged goods. And I felt like I wasn’t good enough for you, and now I’ve proven that, and…

[Cries] I will never– I will never stop hating how much I hurt you. And I’ll never stop loving you either.

Tripp: You’re saying all these things, and it seems like you mean it. But… you’ve also said a lot of other things I thought you meant. I feel like I– like I’ll never really be sure that it’s me that you want. And if we’re not together, I… I can never really be sure of who you’re with, what you’re doing. And I… I can’t live like that, I’m sorry.

Allie: [Sobs] Oh, god.

Kate: Oh, allie, I’m so sorry. I should never have brought you back here.

Allie: No, no. It’s not your fault, grandma. It’s me. I just wanna go hold henry.

Roman: Hey, allie, why don’t you hang with kate and I? Have some dinner.

Allie: No, no. I couldn’t eat anything right now. I just wanna go.

Kate: Oh, god.

[Somber music]

Steve: [Sighs] So how do you feel?

Kayla: Like I haven’t been poisoned.

Steve: Yeah, I feel okay too.

Kayla: [Laughs]

Steve: What were you just thinking about?

Kayla: Um… our first valentine’s day wedding at julie’s place when it was still club tbd.

Steve: Yeah, we just got back from trying to track stefano down, and we said, “to hell with that guy. We’re getting married.”

Kayla: Yeah. You know, it was so special because joey and stephanie were there.

Steve: Oh, yeah.

Kayla: I really thought that was gonna be our forever wedding.

Steve: Should have been. ‘Cause that guy who sent you those divorce papers wasn’t really me.

Kayla: Wish I would have known that.

Steve: So do I. But we’re fine now. Okay? And last valentine’s day, that was our forever wedding.

Kayla: Well, it was certainly my only surprise wedding I ever had.

[Laughs]

Steve: That’s right. Yeah, it was a surprise for you. But I just could not wait another day to be your husband and for you to be my wife. You know what? I always remember the last thing you said to me when you vowed to be my wife again.

Kayla: What?

Steve: You said you knew this was gonna be our last wedding… because you’d never let me go again.

Kayla: I meant that. If you decide to leave me, I’m– I’m going with you.

Steve: I’m not going anywhere, baby.

[Tender music]

Abigail: Uh, okay. I am not your sister-in-law. I’m your cousin. Okay? Your dad and my grandfather were brothers.

Sarah: I didn’t even know I had a brother named chad.

Abigail: Well, he didn’t know he was stefano’s son until he was in college.

Sarah: So my long-lost brother. You know, for a while, I thought that tony was my half brother. It was awful. But then we found out that stefano wasn’t his father. But it was too late.

Abigail: We’re talking about your family, the hortons.

Sarah: I told you I didn’t wanna hear any of that. Tell me about chad. And tony. When was the last time that you saw him? Did he talk about me? Does he miss me as much as I miss him?

[Dramatic music]

Tony: So… how do you like the family pile?

Chad: Well, it could use a renovation, that’s for sure.

Tony: Yes, it does look a bit… the worse for wear. But I remember it.

[Sighs] I’ve been here before.

Chad: With renee. This place is enormous.

Tony: Yes, it has at least two wings. You know, we should check every room. Hopefully, we’ll find abigail in one of them.

Chad: Well, then we should split up.

Tony: Okay.

[Tense music]

Kristen: Hmm. I could have sworn I heard the front door.

My asthma felt anything but normal.

Abigail: Now that you know that I’m married to a dimera, you must believe I would never lie to you.

[Gasps] Oh, my god!

Chad: Abby.

Abigail: I knew you’d find me! Oh.

Chad: [Chuckles]

Allie: [Sniffles] “Hi, I put henry to bed and I’m going to bed myself. I’ll get up with henry in the morning so you and tripp can sleep as late as you want.”

[Sniffles] “I hope you had the best, most romantic valentine’s day ever.” Oh.

[Sniffles]

[Sobs]

[Somber music]

Tripp: “Amore mio.” My love.

Steve: So I’m at the pub, all set. Everything looks beautiful. And john calls at the last minute and he says…

Kayla: Mm-hmm?

Steve: Marlena can’t marry us and he can’t be my best man because they both have… food poisoning.

Kayla: Mm-hmm. Because marlena decided that she was gonna make john a valentine’s day breakfast.

Steve: Oh, big mistake.

Kayla: Danger.

Steve: Yeah. Yeah. Then our good friend abe showed up. He just happened to come to the pub just in time. He agreed to marry us, and tripp filled in as my best man.

Kayla: And sarah just happened to be going to the pub to pick up dessert for her and xander. So she was my maid of honor. Wow.

Steve: Seems like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it?

Kayla: Right now, it sure does. I wonder what tripp and allie are doing tonight.

[Lock clicks]

Kristen: Hello, lovebirds. Did you enjoy the island chicken?

Kayla: Was average.

Kristen: Hmm.

Steve: And guess you weren’t lying about not poisoning it.

Kristen: Well, that’s what I came down to tell you. I actually did lie.

Chad: Babe, are you sure you’re okay?

Abigail: I am now, yeah.

Sarah: Oh, my god. This is so romantic! Hi, chad. Nice to meet you.

Chad: What’s going on with her?

Sarah: [Laughs] Tony! Oh, my darling! Oh, I can’t believe you’re here!

[Tense music]

[Laughs]

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Eli: Baby.

Lani: Happy valentine’s day.

Eli: Wow, you look amazing. All of this does. How did you have the–

Lani: How did I have time to get dressed up, make you this amazing dinner, and bake a red velvet cake for dessert?

Eli: Mm-hmm.

Lani: The twins went down early, so I got kinda lucky. Sit, sit. Relax.

Eli: Okay, wait. First, I, um… I have to make a confession.

Lani: What–what confession?

Eli: I lied to you.

Paulina: “I know things aren’t going great between us, but I wanted you to know I’m thinking about you today.”

[Chuckles] Aww. This must be from abraham. Mm-hmm. “Fondly, tr.” Oh, hell no.

Tr: Are you sure the flowers I sent were delivered? Great. Thank you.

[Phone beeps]

[Sighs] I had a feeling this film would change my life. I had no idea just how much. Johnny, my man, I owe you.

Allie: Johnny? Aren’t you going to say something?

Johnny: Like what?

Allie: I don’t know, like maybe “congratulations”? You can’t be a little happy for your twin sister?

Johnny: No, I am. I’m just curious to find out if you told tripp before you accepted his proposal.

Tripp: Told me what?

Johnny: That she slept with my wife.

Tripp: What the hell are you talking about?

Johnny: Ooh, guess you didn’t tell him. Oops. My bad.

[Dramatic music]

Craig: I don’t know what could be holding him up. There’s no message from him.

Chloe: It’s okay, dad. He’s only, like, a few minutes late.

Craig: I’m gonna text him again. There’s probably a ton of traffic at the airport.

Brady: Yeah, that’s probably it.

Chloe: Before he gets here, I just realized I don’t even know what his name is.

Brady: Leo stark.

Craig: How did you know?

Leo: Happy valentine’s day.

Craig: Oh, I’m so glad you finally made it.

Leo: Oh, babe, me too. I missed you so much.

Craig: Mm.

[Kissing]

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Craig: Mm. Leo, this is my daughter chloe. Chloe, this is–

Chloe: Leo stark.

Craig: Oh. You two know each other.

Chloe: Well, we haven’t officially met, but I’ve heard all about him from brady.

Craig: Oh, and how is it that you two know each other?

Leo: Oh, well, bb and i go way back. In fact, for a hot minute we thought we were brothers. Thank god that wasn’t true, or that kiss we shared would have been all sorts of awkward.

Craig: You kissed?

Brady: Leo kissed me. It wasn’t mutual.

Craig: Right. Well, I’m– I had no idea that you all knew each other. What a small world.

Chloe: So leo never mentioned to you that he once lived in salem?

Craig: No.

Leo: Well, only because craig and I haven’t gotten around to sharing everything about our respective pasts yet. So I hadn’t mentioned yet that I was once a resident of this city. Not that memorable a time, truth be told.

Brady: Not that memorable? Leo, you had so many adventures here.

Craig: Adventures?

[Tense music]

Tripp: You know this is a new low, johnny, even for you. You know, spreading rumors about your own sister?

Johnny: Well, it’s not a rumor, it’s a fact.

Tripp: Oh, the hell it is. Come on, just grow up already. Find something else to do besides making trouble for once, okay?

Johnny: Oh, come on, man. You can’t be that surprised. These two have been lusting after each other for months. They can barely keep their hands off each other.

Tripp: They’ve kissed twice and that was a long time ago.

Johnny: And recently they did a lot more than that. You see, the night that i dumped chanel, allie went over to her place to comfort her, my wife, and ended up in her bed.

Tripp: Allie?

Chanel: Don’t listen to him. Everything he just said is a complete and total lie.

[Tense music]

Tr: Johnny wasn’t lying. This town really is full of surprises.

[Knocking on door] Paulina. I see you got my flowers.

Paulina: [Giggles] Oh, I sure did. And here’s what I think of them.

[Chuckles]

[Glass shatters]

[Dramatic music]

Life’s been hard enough.

Leo: Sweetheart, I’m sorry I neglected to tell you I once lived in this insular little town. I don’t like to talk about it, frankly, because… well, salem holds so many unpleasant memories for me.

Brady: Not to mention the people you’ve terrorized, leo.

Leo: What is that supposed to mean?

Brady: You know, I’m not too comfortable going into this in front of craig.

Craig: No, no, no. Brady, go right ahead.

Chloe: Yeah, brady. Please do.

Brady: Fine. You need to know that he’s responsible for making my family’s life a living hell.

Leo: What? Exaggerate much?

Brady: You know damn well I’m not exaggerating.

Chloe: He’s not, dad. This man tried to bring down brady’s family business with some bogus lawsuit.

Craig: Is that true? Hmm?

Leo: Yes, it’s true, but it is not the whole story, and these two know it. Not to mention that in the end, I was the victim.

Brady: You were the–mm. Were you a victim when you listened in on my personal business calls to try to sell titan secrets to stefan dimera?

Leo: I sure as hell was. You fed me bogus intel. Some people have no scruples.

Brady: Scrupl– craig, you need to know that my brother paul did a deep dive into leo’s past. This man has been involved in scam after scam and it looks like you’re his latest mark.

[Tense music]

Lani: What did you lie about?

Eli: Yesterday I said that i was going to see my grandma and doug. But I went to go see tr.

Lani: Eli.

Eli: Baby, I had to put him on notice. He needed to know that if he– if he messed with you or paulina, he was gonna have to deal with me.

Lani: [Sighs] Babe, I appreciate you looking out for me, but you didn’t have to go all caveman.

Eli: I’m your husband. Baby, it’s my job to protect you.

Lani: So how did tr take it?

Eli: I mean, he– he seemed to get the message. I think he knows that from now on, he’d better treat you and paulina with respect.

Tr: I knew I should have gone with the roses.

Paulina: I thought I made myself clear. I want you to stay away from me and my family.

Tr: I’m sorry I showed up at lani’s unannounced, but once i realized that she was my child, I just couldn’t help myself.

Paulina: Well, then allow me to help you. What you did was unacceptable. Appearing on her doorstep from out of nowhere?

Tr: All right, I know. It was the wrong approach. I know that now. That’s why I sent the flowers, to apologize.

Paulina: There was no apology on the card.

Tr: It was implied.

Paulina: Well, then let me be explicit in my response. Apology not accepted.

Tr: Look, I don’t wanna upset you.

Paulina: Then leave town, ray.

Tr: It’s tr. And I can’t do that, because I’m shooting a film. And I want to get to know my daughter.

Paulina: You know, if you hurt her, I swear…

Tr: You know, with all due respect, paulina, I don’t think I possibly could hurt her any more than you already have.

[Dramatic music]

Tripp: Okay, I’m confused. So you didn’t go over to chanel’s that night?

Chanel: No, she did. I was a wreck that night, obviously, and allie comforted me like the good friend she is. We talked, then she put me to bed and left, end of story. Just like she told you.

Johnny: Now, that’s funny, because that’s a much different story than I heard you two telling in the square yesterday.

Chanel: What are you talking about?

Johnny: I overheard you and allie discussing your night of passion, how you two got down and dirty between the sheets. And I could go into more details, but I think you’ve heard enough to know that I’m telling the truth. I just… I thought you deserved to know before you married allie. And you accused me of being a player.

Chanel: Tripp–

Tripp: I want to talk to allie.

Chanel: Please.

Tripp: Alone.

[Tense music]

Are you one of the millions of americans

Chloe: I’m sorry, daddy, but brady’s right. This man is a con artist.

Leo: Don’t listen to them.

Chloe: He’s just using you.

Leo: What the hell would I be using him for?

Brady: Money. Is it just a coincidence that you fell for a wealthy doctor? I fell for craig because he is brilliant and charming and wickedly funny.

Craig: This is very uncomfortable to take in right now.

Leo: Even more so for me. But craig, you are the only one here whose opinion matters to me. I’m sorry I wasn’t more forthcoming. I didn’t want to scare you off. But I am not like that anymore. And that’s because of you. I wanna be a better person because of you. You believe me, don’t you?

Craig: [Sighs] It’s just–gotta take this in.

Brady: I’m afraid there’s a lot more to take in. A couple months ago, leo was involved in a major scam in arizona. He double-crossed the isa to get his hands on a stolen gemstone.

Leo: Okay, that’s true. But right after that, I met this wonderful man who cares for me more than anyone has in my entire life. And that’s why everything has changed.

[Tense music]

Lani: So what did you think of tr? I mean, do you think that he’s a changed man?

Eli: It’s tough to tell. I mean, I was only with him for a few minutes.

Lani: Kay, well, what does your gut say?

Eli: That, understandably, you have a lot of complicated feelings about your biological father. But… right now, I think that we should focus on us.

Lani: Your instincts are excellent, detective grant.

Eli: Then I’d like to propose a toast. To my incredible wife, who not only worked a full shift today, but managed to get the kids down early and prepare this wonderful meal.

Lani: [Chuckles]

Eli: Baby, I am in awe of everything you do.

Lani: Mm.

Eli: And by how beautiful you look doing it. Happy valentine’s day.

[Glasses clink]

Lani: Happy valentine’s day.

Eli: I have an idea.

Lani: What?

Eli: All right.

[Phone beeps]

Lani: [Laughs]

[Romantic music playing]

Eli: May I have this dance?

Lani: You certainly may.

[Laughs] Aww.

Singer: Every fantasy

that’s in my head

Paulina: May I remind you that the only reason I lied about being lani’s mother was to protect her from you? It kills me that I hurt her by keeping that a secret.

Tr: I was talking about price town.

Paulina: How do you know about that?

Tr: I did some research. I wanted to learn some more about my daughter, and I came across your plan to bulldoze the horton town square, which is a tribute to her husband’s family.

Paulina: For your information, I realized I made a huge mistake and I just called off the entire project. I also apologized to each and every person I hurt.

Tr: And they forgave you? Even lani?

Paulina: Even lani.

Tr: Hmm. That’s wonderful. Gives me hope.

Paulina: About what?

Tr: That if our daughter could forgive you for such a huge betrayal… maybe you can do the same for me.

Chanel: What the hell is wrong with you? How could you do that to your sister?

Johnny: All I did was tell the truth.

Chanel: It wasn’t how you made it sound, like we’ve been having some torrid affair.

Johnny: Weren’t you?

Chanel: No. I was a mess that night because of what you did to me. Allie and I just– we just got caught up in the emotion.

Johnny: Oh, so it was the sweet kind of cheating, not the sleazy kind. Well, I’m sure in that case tripp will totally understand.

Tripp: You were pretty quiet before. Kind of let chanel do all the talking.

Allie: I–I didn’t know what to say.

Tripp: How about the truth? Don’t you think you owe me that? Allie, just talk to me, okay? Chanel said johnny was lying. Was he? Please just– just be honest with me. Was johnny lying?

[Tense music]

Allie: No. He wasn’t lying. I did sleep with chanel.

[ Mid-tempo music playing ]

Tripp: I called you that night, and you said you were going home.

Allie: I was, but chanel was a mess and I couldn’t leave her alone.

Tripp: So the only way to make her feel better was to have sex with her?

Allie: We were lying in bed and it just happened.

Tripp: The next morning i called you again and you told me you were home. I wanted to come see you before work, but you said you were on your way out… to go check on chanel. But you were already with her, weren’t you?

Allie: Yeah, I spent the night. But I woke up and I felt so horrible. I felt so guilty. I hated lying to you. I wanted to come clean.

Tripp: But you didn’T.

Allie: I went to the hospital and I saw you and I was going to tell you, but I–I just– I didn’t want to hurt you.

Tripp: Then maybe you shouldn’t have slept with chanel!

Allie: Tripp, I love you, okay? I love you so much. It was a mistake.

Tripp: Yeah, right.

Allie: No. No, I wouldn’t have said yes to your proposal if I didn’t love you, okay? You, you are the one I wanna be with. You’re the one I wanna marry.

Tripp: Are you kidding me? I mean, you don’t seriously think that we’re still getting married?

Chanel: If you knew that me and allie hooked up, why didn’t you say anything earlier?

Johnny: What do you mean?

Chanel: Instead of telling me what you overheard, you gave me this big speech about how we could still be friends even though we were going through the divorce. Why would you do that?

Johnny: Well, I guess I just got caught up in the spirit of valentine’s day.

Chanel: So you pretended that you wanted to get along with me and then we bump into allie and tripp and you just blow everything up?

Johnny: Look, I saw that poor sap about to make the biggest mistake of his life. I had to do something. I mean, I do know what it’s like to suddenly realize you married the wrong person.

Chanel: Oh, did you ever. Because I am going to take you for everything that you’re worth.

Johnny: Is that right?

Chanel: Si, giovanni. By the time I’m finished with you, you are going to wish you’d never been born.

Paulina: Let’s get something straight. I planned to tear down a beloved landmark. You? You abused me physically and emotionally for years! Now, they are not the same. Do you understand that?

Tr: Yes, I do.

Paulina: Well, then don’t compare my betrayals to yours. I may have been deceptive, but you were a monster.

Tr: You’re right. There’s no comparison. What I did was reprehensible. And I truly am ashamed. The drugs, the drinking, they turned me into somebody that even I didn’t recognize. I was on a downward spiral. I didn’t even know it. And after you disappeared, it got worse. I ended up in prison.

Paulina: For what?

Tr: [Chuckles] I started using my clients’ money to buy drugs. Once I got caught, my whole life fell apart.

Paulina: So I’m supposed to, what, feel sorry for you?

Tr: [Laughs] No. Because that’s when I finally realized that I needed to turn my life around. You see, hitting rock bottom is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Leo: After that little caper with the stolen peacock, my life took a nosedive. I was lonely, depressed, and forced into taking this thankless job handing out swag at medical conventions. As luck would have it… craig came over to my booth and inquired about my nuts.

Chloe: I’m sorry, what?

Leo: Oh, relax, would you? Your daughter did not inherit your sense of humor. Anyway, I was dressed up as a chipmunk handing out free nuts. You know, because they’re good for you. High in vitamins, minerals, good monounsaturated fats, which can help lower cholesterol. Anyway, we had a couple of laughs and I felt this immediate strong connection, like I had finally found my soulmate. You felt that too, didn’t you, craig?

Craig: Yeah. We did have a connection. He did make me laugh.

Leo: [Laughs] And, look, even though your dad was honest with me from the get-go, told me he had a wife, it was clear to me– and eventually to him– that his marriage was a lie. He was denying who he really was.

Chloe: Oh, so you coerced him into cheating on my mother?

Craig: Chloe, there was no coercion here whatsoever. Look… as completely thrown as this conversation has me, all I wanted was for you two to meet each other. And now I see that was not a good idea and it’s not working out, so my apologies to all of you.

Chloe: No. Dad, it’s not your fault.

Leo: May I just add something?

Craig: Sure.

Leo: Chloe, I understand your skepticism of me given my track record, and I know that you and your father have a very close and loving relationship.

Chloe: Yeah, we do.

Leo: Well, you’re very fortunate. My father was an abusive pig. He used to tell me that I was worthless and that I would never mean anything to anyone. And when you hear that over and over again, it creates a hole in your heart. So I tried to fill that with fancy things to– to make the pain go away. But it didn’T. And nothing made it go away… until I met your father. Finally, I was happy for the first time in my life. And not a day goes by, not a moment goes by that I don’t appreciate how lucky I am.

[Jazzy music]

Your mission:

Brady: Okay, look, I’ve heard enough. Craig, you need to be wary of this man because he’s a predator.

Leo: Hey, that is an unfair and cruel accusation.

Brady: It’s not unfair and cruel when it’s totally verifiable and true. I haven’t even gotten into what he did to my cousin sonny. It’s a whole thing there.

Leo: Okay, look, look. How about you two go and rake me over the coals somewhere else? It’s valentine’s day, for god’s sake. Craig and I would like to celebrate, to be left alone, not to hear some angry, self-righteous people distort the truth and tell us why we shouldn’t be together.

Brady: Craig, I’m telling you this because I care about you, okay?

Craig: [Sighs] Right, okay. Right. Look, um… I think leo’s right. I think it’s time that this conversation ends. You two should leave and we will talk about this later. Okay, chloe?

Chloe: We don’t want you to get hurt, dad. That’s what this is all about. How can you not know that?

Leo: Please don’t listen to them, craig. What I feel for you is real. This is not a con or a scheme or a ploy. I have left all of that behind me. Because like I said, for the first time in my life, I am honestly, truly happy. Because of you.

Chloe: Dad. He is playing you. You need to wake up and do the right thing. You need to end this farce of a relationship.

Tripp: You don’t honestly think that I’d still marry you after you cheated on me.

Allie: We can work through this. I will do whatever it takes to make this right.

Tripp: You must think I’m the world’s biggest chump, don’t you? And maybe that’s my fault. Maybe I let you think that you could just walk all over me, I wouldn’t care.

Allie: No.

Tripp: My mom warned me that your bff was a threat. And I pushed aside all of my doubts and insecurities and chose to believe in you, to trust in you. And look where that got me. Who knows, I probably deserved to have you cheat on me.

Allie: No, no. You did nothing wrong.

Tripp: I must have! Because in the end, you chose chanel over me.

Johnny: You’re nuts if you think you’re getting one dime out of me.

Chanel: Oh, we discussed this, okay? There’s no prenup, so the sky is the limit, baby.

Johnny: And I told you, my family’s loaded. I’m not.

Chanel: Tell it to my lawyer.

Johnny: Oh, I will. I’ll also tell him that you committed adultery with my sister–my twin sister. I’m sure that’ll go over well in court. Good luck convincing a judge that you’re the victim.

Chanel: God, you are such a creep. I can’t believe I ever loved you.

Johnny: Did you? Or were you just enjoying the perks that I could provide until you could get with my sister?

Chanel: God, you are disgusting.

Johnny: Does this mean we’re not hooking up tonight?

Paulina: You were glad you were in prison?

Tr: Saved my life. If I kept going the way I was, there’s no doubt in my mind that I would have od’D. Prison got me off that path. I stopped using drugs. I went to therapy.

Paulina: Mm-hmm. So poof, you were a new man.

Tr: It took a lot of hard work. I started at the bottom, climbed to the top.

Paulina: So you’re a hollywood bigwig now.

Tr: I have had a great deal of success. But I have never been able to fully enjoy it because there was always something that weighed on me. And that’s the guilt that I feel… over how I treated you.

Paulina: You should feel guilty. But look, you know what? I have moved on with my life. I’m fine now. I don’t need to stand here and listen to all this–

Tr: Yeah, but I need to say it. You know, over time there were so many times I tried to track you down to apologize. But I never wanted to upend your life. But now, fate has brought me back to you. And I finally have the chance to make things right. If you’ll let me.

Trelegy for copd.

Craig: Chloe, I appreciate your concern. Yours too, brady. But… like leo said, I think this conversation is over– for the time being, anyway.

Chloe: Dad, did any of what we said get through to you?

Craig: I admit, some of it is upsetting, yes.

Leo: Babe–

Craig: But… we all do things in our past that we’re not proud of. In fact… I’ve done something that I’m sure is very close to what leo did.

Chloe: What? What are you talking about? The mike horton thing?

Craig: Let me finish, chloe. Years ago, I was… quite desperate to become chief of staff, and I…

[Sighs] Manipulated a mentally unstable woman to file charges against mike horton–sexual harassment. It ended in disaster, and I deeply regret it as I’m sure you regret having what it is you’ve done.

Leo: Profoundly. If I could turn back time, I would.

Craig: It’s not about that, though. It’s about now. We don’t have to focus on the past. I just want to focus on what you and I have together.

Chloe: Oh, my god.

Craig: I am committed to this man, chloe. And I’m sorry that you don’t agree… but this is my life. And I am never letting him go.

Paulina: You think it’s that easy? That to hurt someone the way you hurt me, it can make it all better just by sending some damn flowers?

Lani: The flowers are beautiful.

Paulina: I’m glad you like them. Took me a long time to pick out the arrangement.

Lani: Yeah, well… I will be taking them to the hospital tomorrow and give them to someone who actually wants them. And as for this card…

[Paper tears]

Tr: What is it?

Paulina: I just realized that, um… it’s possible I might be a bit of a hypocrite. But I will tell you this– and this is from my personal experience– for true forgiveness, that’s got to be earned and that takes time.

Tr: I will put in whatever time it takes because… no one as wonderful as you has ever come into my life. And instead of honoring you and treasuring you and treasuring everything we had… I threw it all away. And the regret that I feel has stayed with me over all these years. The truth is… I never got over you, and I don’t know if I ever will.

Eli: Why couldn’t we stay in bed again?

Lani: Do you know how long it took me to make this cake? I am not letting all this hard work go to waste.

Eli: [Chuckles]

[Knocking on door] Who could that be?

Lani: Hmm.

Chanel: [Sighs]

Lani: Chanel, what are you doing here?

Chanel: I needed to talk to someone and I cannot deal with mama right now. Oh, god, I totally forgot it’s valentine’s day. I’ll go.

Lani: No, no, chanel. It’s fine. Right, eli?

Eli: Of course. Yes, of course. What happened?

Chanel: [Sighs] It’s johnny.

Lani: What did he do now?

Chanel: It’s not what he did, it’s what I did. With allie.

Allie: Tripp, you are the one I wanna be with, okay? And I’m gonna keep saying it until you believe it, because it’s the truth.

Tripp: No, it’s not. It’s a lie, okay? It’s a lie you’ve been telling me and yourself, ’cause clearly the person you wanna be with is chanel.

Allie: No, no. Sleeping with chanel was a one-time thing and it’s never going to happen again, I promise. If you can just find it in your heart to forgive me.

Tripp: How could I ever trust you again? If your jerk of a brother hadn’t said anything just now, I’d still be in the dark, right? That’s what I thought. Face it, there’s– there’s no coming back from this.

Allie: Tripp–

Tripp: It’s over, allie. You and I are done.

Demon johnny: Ahh. Well, I may not have gotten lucky tonight, but screwing with those losers was almost as satisfying.

Johnny: You can’t do this! You need to stop hurting to people I love!

Demon johnny: Well, hey now. Look who’s awake.

Johnny: I have to let chanel know I still love her, that I would never hurt her like this.

Demon johnny: And how do you plan on doing that?

Johnny: By getting rid of you.

Demon johnny: [Chuckles] I would like to see you try–

[Grunts]

Chloe: Dad, listen to me. You are making a huge mistake.

Craig: Chloe, that is enough.

Chloe: Enough? Enough of what? Trying to knock some sense into you? You want this snake to break your heart to same way that you broke mom’s? Is that what you want? Okay, I guess that’s what you want. You know what? I’m done. Brady, let’s get out of here.

[Jazzy music]

Tr: After what I’ve done, I know I don’t have the right to ask. But I would love to have the chance to make it up to you and to get to know my daughter. You don’t have to say anything. Just… think about it?

Paulina: [Clears throat] I better go. Sorry for the mess.

Tr: You don’t have to apologize to me, ever.

Paulina: I wasn’T. Um, I’m sorry for the housekeeper.

Tr: It’s my mess. It’s on me to clean it up.

[Dramatic music]

Lani: So you and allie…

Chanel: Yeah.

Eli: So what did tripp think?

Lani: Okay.

Chanel: I don’t know. I haven’t heard. Oh, god. Oh, what if I screwed everything up for them? You guys must think I’m a terrible person.

Lani: Chanel, no, we don’T. You didn’t mean to hurt anyone.

Eli: Yeah, unlike johnny. What the hell is up with that guy?

Demon johnny: [Grunts] You’re wasting your time. You’re no match for me.

Johnny: I’ll never give up. I won’t let you keep hurting the people I love!

Demon johnny: [Sighs] Stop fighting me or I will go upstairs and slaughter your little cousins in their sleep.

Johnny: No!

Demon johnny: Then stop fighting me.

[Mysterious whoosh] That’s better. Whew.

[Sighs] Your love for chanel and your sister is much stronger than I anticipated. It’s too bad they’ll never find out just how much you care.

[Eerie tone]

Allie: Tripp, I love you with my whole heart. Please, could you give me another chance?

Tripp: May I have my ring back?

Allie: What?

Tripp: It belonged to my great grandmother, and… I want it back. Allie.

Allie: [Sighs]

[Somber music]

I’m sorry.

Tripp: Me too.

Allie: [Sobbing]

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Brady: Happy valentine’s day.

Chloe: [Chuckles] Uh, you brought me a rose.

Brady: Yeah.

Chloe: You know this– this isn’t, like, a–

Brady: Chloe, chloe, relax. There was a kid selling them out on the street, and he was trying to raise money for his school band.

Chloe: Oh, okay. Well, thank you for being so sweet, for supporting the arts, and thank you for joining me here tonight. I really appreciate it.

Brady: Of course. I’m here to support you. Happy to lend a hand. So how are you doing?

Chloe: Mm, you mean how do i feel about meeting my dad’s new boyfriend?

[Sighs] I’m a nervous wreck.

[Exhales sharply]

Craig: Well, don’t you have a romantic setup going here.

Tripp: [Chuckles] Thank you.

Craig: Looks like you’ve got some big plans for valentine’s day.

Tripp: You could say that. Uh, I’m planning to propose to my girlfriend.

Chanel: So horton…

Allie: So dupree…

Chanel: What are you gonna do?

Allie: I don’t know. I’m not even supposed to know that tripp is proposing to me tonight. His mom spoiled the surprise.

Chanel: Okay, but now you do know, so you should probably figure out an answer for when he asks you to marry him. So are you gonna say yes?

Ben: I mean, johnny was the one who delivered the cross.

Ciara: Mm-hmm, a cross that keeps turning itself upside down every time we try to hang it.

Ben: Which is troubling.

Ciara: Yes, and johnny was at marlena’s exorcism.

Ben: He was.

Ciara: And honestly, ben, I’ve got to say, he’s been acting pretty strangely.

Ben: So what are you suggesting, ciara?

[Scoffs] That the devil just jumped from marlena to her grandson? Do we really think johnny dimera is possessed?

Johnny: Well, you know what they say, “pride goeth before the fall.”

Gabi: Is that what they say?

Johnny: Well, some people say that. I prefer, “we need to screw jake before he screws us.” And speaking of screwing, do you have any valentine’s day plans?

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Allie: [Sighs] I am still trying to process this.

Chanel: You know what, i shouldn’t have asked you. Tripp’s the one proposing. He should be the first one to hear your answer, not me.

Allie: No, no, you deserve to know. You’re my best friend. And you’ve been with me through this entire relationship. Honestly, the truth is, I–I’m just so caught off guard. I mean, tripp and I never even talked about getting married.

Chanel: Well, it is valentine’s day.

Allie: Yeah, and I know a lot of people get engaged on valentine’s day, but I did not think it was my time.

Chanel: So were you thinking you might say no?

Allie: I’m just not sure. What do you think? Am I ready?

Craig: Proposing to your girlfriend. Wow, this–this is a big night. Yeah, the way I see it, it can go either spectacularly right or spectacularly wrong.

[Chuckles] I remember that feeling. Proposing to my wife, getting ready. Mind you, it was 30 years ago. And I’m pretty sure she was gonna say yes, but still, there’s that moment that you know you’re gonna remember forever, and well, those words, they just–they wouldn’t come out.

[Chuckles] Am I making this harder on you?

Tripp: A little bit, but that’s okay. I mean, you–you somehow managed, right?

Craig: Yes, yes, and she said yes, so there’s that.

Tripp: And you’ve been together for 30 years? That’s something to be proud of.

Craig: Actually, my wife and I are in the process of splitting up.

Tripp: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.

Craig: It’s been a very difficult situation.

Tripp: I can imagine.

Craig: I don’t know, maybe. See, truth is, tonight– tonight, my daughter is supposed to meet my boyfriend, and I’m telling you, I’m just a nervous wreck about it!

[Chuckles]

[Sighs]

Brady: I understand that you’re nervous about tonight, but your dad has to know that this is awkward for you. So don’t–don’t put any pressure on yourself. You’re allowed to feel however you need to feel about this, and your dad is just gonna have to deal with it.

Chloe: Yeah, but what if i don’t like the guy? Or even worse, what if I do like him?

Brady: If you do like him? How is that even worse?

Chloe: I don’t know. I–I guess I’d just feel like I’d be betraying my mom.

Brady: There’s nothing wrong with you wanting both of your parents to be happy, chloe. What is nancy doing tonight?

Chloe: Well, I left her in the hotel room, where’s she’s watching old movies on peacock and acting very depressed. At least I persuaded her to order some room service before I left.

Brady: [Sighs] She’s tough. She’s gonna get through this.

Chloe: Yeah, I know, but it’s gonna–it’s gonna take time.

Brady: Does she know about this dinner?

Chloe: No; I mean, I kind of wanted to tell her, but what was I gonna say? “Hey, mom, instead of staying here and eating cheeseburgers with you and watching sappy movies, I’ve got to meet dad’s new boyfriend. Bye.”

[Sighs]

Johnny: So, what do you say? You want to go upstairs? Jake shouldn’t be the only one closing deals.

Gabi: [Chuckles] Until our other deal goes through, I think we should keep our mind on business.

Johnny: Oh, I’m very good at multitasking.

Gabi: I’m sure you are, but I prefer to stay focused on dimera and titan.

Johnny: Come on. It’s valentine’s day. We’re off the clock. Neither one of us is with someone we love.

Gabi: So we should love the one we’re with?

Johnny: Who said anything about love?

Gabi: Oh, so just meaningless sex.

Johnny: First of all, sex with me is far from meaningless.

Gabi: Oh, really?

Johnny: Your boyfriend is plotting against you. My soon-to-be ex-wife is trying to clean me out. We both deserve to have a little fun.

Ben: So the devil is in johnny?

Ciara: Look, I know it sounds crazy, but we did hear my grandmother say that satan possessed my grandfather before he jumped into marlena. So what if maybe at the exorcism, the devil just wanted us to think that he was gone?

Ben: But instead found a new host body? This is unbelievable, ciara.

Ciara: I mean, is it any more unbelievable than anything else we’ve ever been through?

Ben: I guess not. It would explain why that cross kept flipping upside down. It’s because johnny’s the one who delivered it.

Ciara: And it makes sense. Grandma julie bought that to protect us.

Ben: And we know the devil would do anything to break through that protection.

Ciara: So johnny shows up at my grandma’s house, sees the cross, and then, all of a sudden, this big fire bursts out out of nowhere, stopping my grandma from delivering it.

Ben: And leaves him with the prime opportunity to deliver the cross himself.

Ciara: And make sure that our brand-new home has the mark of the devil.

These are the faces

Ben: If johnny really has been the devil this entire time, who knows what kind of damage he’s already done? We’d have to retrace all of his steps since the exorcism and get in contact with everybody who he’s talked to.

Ciara: Oh, slow down, babe. Um, this is still just a theory.

Ben: Okay, so this is just a theory now? You’re not sure.

Ciara: Well, no, I– it’s just once you have come face-to-face with the devil, maybe it easy to see him everywhere else.

Ben: Still, the more I think about it, it just makes more sense.

Ciara: All right, so let’s think. Do we have any more evidence?

Ben: When jake was here, he was explaining to me about this big party they had for johnny and chanel’s wedding.

Ciara: Mm-hmm. Right, I heard about that. He broke up with chanel during that, didn’t he?

Ben: Yeah, in a room full of people. It was like the guy intentionally set out to, like, cause this big scene and humiliate her.

Ciara: Yeah, that’s really weird. Why would he do it publicly?

Ben: Well, according to jake, johnny’s been hitting on gabi now.

Ciara: Which makes him a player and a garbage human being, but that doesn’t necessarily prove that he is the devil.

Ben: Right, but it’s still giving jake bad vibes about this guy.

Ciara: Again, doesn’t exactly provide proof of demonic possession. And not to play devil’s advocate here, but…

Ben: Ha.

> Ciara: I don’t know, maybe jake has a bad vibe because he’s the jealous boyfriend.

Jake: Hey, hey, maggie.

Maggie: Jake, what are you doing here?

Jake: Oh, henderson let me in. I came to see what’s going on.

Maggie: Okay?

Jake: Got your message.

Maggie: What message?

Jake: Maggie, you sent me a message a little bit ago? Said it was urgent?

Maggie: I never texted you. I haven’t seen my phone since I misplaced it yesterday.

Jake: What? You didn’t send me a text.

Maggie: It wasn’t me. But listen, since you’re here, I spoke to victor regarding what we talked about.

Jake: Sorry, what was that?

Maggie: I was talking about victor. I relayed the terms of our agreement, and he had some questions

Jake: I’m gonna have to get back to you on that. I got to go look into something.

Johnny: [Sighs] Look, I know this hasn’t been easy on you. You put your faith in jake, and he let you down. He made you think that he loved you. He lied to your face. And now, he’s off double-dealing again with maggie? I can only imagine how disappointing that must be for you, but I promise that I won’t disappoint you. In business. Or anywhere. So what do you say? Why don’t we go upstairs and make this a valentine’s day to remember?

Gabi: I’m sorry. I can’T.

Johnny: Can’t or won’t?

Gabi: I’m–I’m just not ready to go that far yet.

Johnny: “Yet”? But you’re not ruling it out?

Gabi: Let’s just see how this meeting goes.

Johnny: Are you really gonna leave me here all by myself?

Gabi: I’m sure you’ll be just fine. I want to go home, and I want to prepare for the meeting. And aren’t you still married?

[Sighs]

Johnny: I don’t like being rejected. And I don’t like being left alone. What’s a horny devil to do with himself?

Craig: Truth is, I–

[Sighs] I never expected to be in this situation. For the longest time, I convinced myself and my wife that, well, we had a great marriage. Truth is, she’s very angry at me now, needless to say, and my daughter completely blindsided.

Tripp: She’s willing to meet your boyfriend.

Craig: Yeah, yeah. Uh, she agreed. I was thinking maybe it’s unfair that I asked her, and– maybe I should just text her, tell her I’ve got food poisoning, and call off the whole thing.

Tripp: Maybe not the best idea.

Craig: Yeah. Postponing the inevitable.

Tripp: Yeah.

Craig: [Chuckles] I–I have no idea why I’m confiding in you like this. I’m sorry, it’s just, uh– pretty nervous about tonight and the whole situation and needed to talk to someone. And you’re very kind. I appreciate that, but I should really let you get back to your plans.

Tripp: That’s–it’s okay. You’re going through a lot, so I understand the need to– you know, wanting to share that with someone.

Craig: Thank you. Thank you, but again, you need to practice. You’re in a good mood. Stay in that good mood and practice what you’re gonna do.

Tripp: I mean, there’s not too many ways you can, right? I mean, you know, “will you marry me?” You know, the only way to say it.

Craig: Yeah, man, it’s– it’s the way to go. Let me give you some advice that I’ve been giving myself. Um, if you’re feeling nervous, it’s worth doing. Good luck.

Tripp: Same to you.

[Gentle music]

Chanel: You know, I’m probably not the best person to giving advice on marriage considering how mine have worked out…

Allie: Okay, first of all, the xander marriage did not count.

Chanel: And johnny?

Allie: Well, it’s not your fault that my brother is the worst.

Chanel: Yeah, but I chose to marry the guy.

Allie: Did you have doubts when we asked you?

Chanel: That’s the thing, I didn’T. I mean, yeah, I was surprised, but I think I said yes before he even finished asking the question.

Allie: Because he was convincing.

Chanel: Because it felt right.

[Phone beeps] Is it from tripp?

Allie: Uh-huh. He wants me to meet him. My god, is this it?

Chanel: It looks like you have a question to answer.

Allie: Yeah.

Chanel: Horton, no matter what you decide, you know I love you.

Allie: Back at you, dupree.

[Pensive music]

Is now a good time

for a flare-up?

Jake: Hey.

Gabi: Hey. What did maggie want?

Jake: Actually, she didn’t want anything.

Gabi: I thought she said it was urgent.

Jake: Apparently, maggie never sent that text.

Gabi: What are you talking about? I saw the text myself.

Jake: I–we both saw it. Maggie claims she lost her phone, hasn’t seen it since yesterday.

Gabi: That makes no sense.

Jake: No, it doesn’T. Unless it does.

Gabi: What do you think is going on?

Jake: I think that little punk johnny dimera stole her phone and sent me that message.

Johnny: Happy valentine’s day.

Chanel: What’s so happy about it?

Johnny: Well, I’m sure we can figure something out. Wanna grab a drink? You wanna grab a drink with the woman you just dumped on valentine’s day?

Johnny: Look, you’re still upset, I get it.

Chanel: Oh, I’m so glad you get it.

Johnny: You have every right to be angry with the way that I treated you, but we had fun together, didn’t we?

Chanel: I don’t remember.

Johnny: I do. I always loved being with you. Just ’cause we’re getting divorced doesn’t mean the fun has to stop.

Chloe: Ah, salty.

Brady: Yeah. You know, what if–why don’t you take it easy on the nuts? Okay, you don’t wanna choke to death before you meet your dad’s new man.

Chloe: My dad’s new man. That’s gonna take some time getting used to.

Brady: Drink.

Chloe: Mm, thank you. Thank you for dealing with my mess tonight.

Brady: [Laughs] Come on, are you kidding me? I’m-I’m happy I’m here. I’m here to support you, you know that. It’s definitely an interesting situation.

Chloe: [Chuckles] Interesting is one way to put it. Do you think it’s interesting that you have to spend your valentine’s day holding my hand because I am freaking out?

Brady: It’s fine. It beats last year, remember? I spent valentine’s day in the hospital, recovering from a gunshot wound. This is better.

Chloe: How could I forget? I almost lost you.

Brady: Well, you didn’T. I’m here, I’m good, and look. No bullet holes. I’m healthy. This is much better. It’s an improvement.

Chloe: Well, yeah, I guess it doesn’t take last place, but we’ve-we’ve had some nice valentine’s day in the past, right?

Brady: [Laughs] Name one.

Chloe: [Laughs]

Brady: Seriously, all I can think about is the disasters with that. Vienna–vienna, remember? I couldn’t get reservations anywhere in that whole place?

Chloe: Yeah, ’cause you waited till last minute.

Brady: Well, who would’ve thought valentine’s day was a big deal in austria? Come on.

Chloe: Vienna is one of the most romantic cities in the world.

Brady: I knew that. I mean, I know that now.

Chloe: Ah. We made it work, though, didn’t we?

Brady: Yeah, we did.

Chloe: Remember that outdoor café we found with that little string quartet?

Brady: Yeah. It was freezing.

Chloe: [Laughs] I know, but I remember you took my hand, and we waltzed on the sidewalk.

Brady: And I remember that sidewalk because it was snowing, an wd itas so slippery that the two of us almost fell on our asses.

Chloe: [Laughs] Okay, so maybe it wasn’t the smoothest waltz, but I do remember that we laughed so hard that we just kind of slowly sank to the ground.

Brady: Yeah, we sank to the ground.

Chloe: [Sighs] Then you took me in your arms, and I-I remember how you kissed me. People everywhere living with

Chloe: Brady, I, uh… maybe–

Craig: Hey, honey. So sorry I’m late.

Chloe: Oh, hey, dad, hi.

Craig: I’m glad you are here. Hey, brady.

Brady: Mm, craig.

Craig: Are you, uh, meeting someone here for valentine’s day?

Brady: Um, no, not exactly.

Chloe: I-I invited brady to join us tonight, if that’s okay with you?

Chanel: Why the hell would i want to go anywhere with you?

Johnny: Never had a drink with a friend?

Chanel: A fri–you think we’re friends?

Johnny: Why not?

Chanel: Are you seriously asking that question?

Johnny: I just don’t know when things got so nasty between us.

Chanel: This isn’t about us being friends. This is about the lawsuit. You’re worried about me coming after your money.

Johnny: What money?

Chanel: Are you kidding me?

Johnny: My family’s rich. That doesn’t mean I control any of it–you should know that better than anyone. You couldn’t even pay your rent for a while.

Chanel: You are unbelievable.

Johnny: I’m just saying, you think this divorce is gonna somehow turn into some big payoff for you, you should think again. The only people getting richer are the lawyers.

Chanel: I’m done with this.

Johnny: You can–fine. All right, you can’t avoid me. We both live in salem, you’re business partners with my sister and much more.

Chanel: You leave allie out of this.

Johnny: Okay. I’m just saying, isn’t there some way we can try and figure this out without the lawyers? Let’s go someplace, talk. Just the two of us.

Gabi: You think johnny was pretending to be maggie? Why-why would he do that?

Jake: Who knows what goes on in that kid’s head? Maybe he wanted some alone time with you.

Gabi: So he broke into the kiriakis mansion and stole maggie’s phone? I mean, that’s a pretty elaborate scheme, knowing you’d just–you’d figure it out as soon as you got there.

Jake: Yeah, I admit, it’s, uh, doesn’t make much sense.

Gabi: At least you admit it.

Jake: [Scoffs] You have any other theories, detective benson?

Gabi: The other theory is, you’re lying.

Jake: [Scoffs] What?

Gabi: I know you have no reason to lie to me, so we can take that out of the equation.

Jake: No, I don’t have any reason to lie to you. Now, johnny, on the other hand– think about it. We have a strong bond, right? He’s on the outside, so it would benefit him to shake things up a little bit.

Gabi: I still don’t know what he’d gain by having you go over to see maggie.

Jake: What did he say to you after I left the mansion?

Gabi: Nothing–I told him I would contact him, then I came home.

Jake: I don’t trust the guy.

Gabi: I know you don’T. I know you don’t, but look. We don’t have to be partners for life with johnny. We just have to trust him long enough for him to call this meeting. Once we have his shares in place along with ours, then you can be the ceo of dimera, and I can be the ceo of titan. That’s what we’ve always wanted, no?

Jake: Yeah.

Gabi: You sure that’s what you still want?

Jake: Of course. I mean, but what I really want right now is for us to stop talking business.

Ciara: Jake thinks that johnny is trying to take gabi away from him; that doesn’t necessarily make him the most credible observer.

Ben: Right, but you have to admit, these are still red flags, ciara.

Ciara: Yeah, definitely. And if there is a chance that the devil is still in salem, we need to know about it.

Ben: Yeah, and fast.

Ciara: Oh, my god. Ben, I thought this was over. I really did–I thought that you and I were gonna be safe. I thought that our baby was gonna be safe, but–

Ben: Hey. I am not going to let anything happen to our baby, I promise you. You know I would do everything in my power to protect you both.

Ciara: But johnny is marlena’s grandson.

Ben: Yeah, and I understand that, and this woman has already gone through enough; the last thing I wanna do is cause her any more pain, but…

Ciara: Which, accusing her grandson her grandson of being the devil will definitely do. There has to be a way that we figure all of this out without getting her involved.

Ben: Hmm. Well, I can’t say I’m thrilled with this solution, but what if we talked to susan banks?

Tripp: [Sighs] Not bad.

Allie: Wow.

Tripp: Allie.

Allie: You did all this for me?

Tripp: You? No. No, no, no, I just needed to make a couple extra bucks, so I started an event planning business.

Allie: Oh, okay. Well, um, your clients are going to be very impressed.

Tripp: Yeah? Even though we’re outdoors in much colder weather than I was expecting?

Allie: It’s a beautiful night. I think it’s perfect to be out under the stars.

Tripp: I just thought it’d be a little more private than some restaurant.

Allie: Definitely, and– and this would make any girl feel special. It’s beautiful.

Tripp: So is my inspiration.

Allie: Thank you. What?

Tripp: Uh, look, um. I was planning on waiting to do this after our meal when we were, you know, gazing into each other’s eyes over dessert, but now that I have you here… I realize there’s no way I can wait that long, so… I’m just–I’m just gonna, uh…

Allie: Oh.

Tripp: [Laughs] Allie, I’ve never been happier than I am when I’m with you. We both came out of the darkest periods of our lives, and we pulled each other back out into the world. You gave me a life. You gave me hope. And I wanna spend the rest of our days trying to make you as happy as you’ve made me. I want to be your husband. I wanna be henry’s father. I want us to be a family. So… allie horton… will you marry me?

Allie: Yes.

Tripp: Yes?

Allie: Yes, tripp, I’ll marry you.

[Both laugh]

[Heartfelt music]

Chanel: My mom says that I should stay away from you and let the lawyers handle this.

Johnny: Mm, is that what you want? Turn our lives into some messy court battle?

Chanel: No!

Johnny: Then–what? Why don’t we just go someplace, sit down, figure it out, just the two of us. We can go back to your place. Or mine.

Chanel: Hell no.

Johnny: What’s wrong with my place?

Chanel: Everything! I’m never going back there again, johnny. If we are going to talk, we have to do it someplace a bit more private than in the middle of the square.

Johnny: There’s– there’s no one here now.

Chanel: Okay, but that could change at any minute, and it could get busy, so… follow me.

Jake: What’s wrong?

Gabi: Nothing, I’m just a little distracted.

Jake: By?

Gabi: I told you, I wanted to check on my brother.

Jake: [Sighs] Right, and then johnny interrupted you.

Gabi: Yeah, I never found out what happened in court. I wanna see how the first day of, uh, the trial went for rafe.

Jake: Of course.

Gabi: [Sighs] Oh, my god.

Jake: What is it?

Gabi: Nothing good. Not only did rafe’s accuser testify, but apparently, trask caught nicole trying to tamper with the witness.

Craig: I’m glad you invited brady, I–I know how close the two of you are, and, well, I understand how difficult it might be for you to meet the new man in my life.

Chloe: Yeah, I have to admit I’m a bit nervous about it. And I-I thought that brady being here, you know, he’d keep me from saying or doing something I shouldn’T.

Craig: Well, to be quite honest, I’ve been a little nervous myself. And then I started to think about it, and I went, “you don’t have anything to worry about,” because this guy that I’m seeing,” I mean, I gotta tell you, he is gonna put us all at ease. He’s funny, he’s–he’s got this gift of finding the humor in every situation, even if it’s a difficult one.

Chloe: Mm, funny– funny is good.

Craig: Yeah. He’s kind–he’s very kind. And I’m sure he is gonna love the both of you as you’re gonna love him. Life’s been hard enough.

Gabi: This is bad. This is really bad.

Jake: Hey, hey, gabi, look. It’s just the first day of the trial, all right? Prosecutor has done her job, it looks bad for the defense before they get their turn. It’s gonna be okay.

Gabi: I’m sorry, I-I cannot do this right now.

Jake: Right now or ever, apparently.

Gabi: What is that supposed to mean?

Jake: It’s valentine’s day, gabi–you’ve been acting weird all day.

Gabi: No, I haven’T.

Jake: You have. You have–I-I covered the bed in rose petals, I brought you chocolates.

Gabi: That I was allergic to.

Jake: I didn’t know about, okay? And more importantly, you’ve been acting all day like you don’t care about me, unless you’re being openly hostile, so what’s going on?

Gabi: You have to ask?

Jake: Yeah, I do.

Gabi: My brother is on trial for his life.

Jake: You sure that’s what this is about?

Gabi: What else would it be?

Jake: I don’t know, gabi, but it seems personal. We okay?

Gabi: We’re great. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to find some answers.

[Apprehensive music]

Ciara: What does susan banks know about johnny being possessed?

Ben: She seems to kind of have a sixth sense for this kind of thing. She was the one that warned us about the devil in the first place.

Ciara: Yeah, and she did have the premonition about how the devil was after her baby.

Ben: Exactly, and she recognized that dr. Evans was possessed before anybody else.

Ciara: Right, so if the devil is still in salem…

Ben: She is the one who would be able to sense it.

Ciara: You might be right. However, there’s only one issue with that.

Ben: What’s that?

Ciara: Johnny is her grandson, and she would do anything to protect him. I don’t know how happy she’s gonna be, getting a phone call from us, accusing her grandbaby of being the devil.

Tripp: Hmm. Mmm, that is really good.

Allie: Told you.

Tripp: You know, I feel like everything just tastes a little better when it’s being fed to you by your fiancéE.

Allie: You just wanted to say that word, didn’t you?

Tripp: Well, that’s what you are–my fiancéE. And pretty soon, my wife.

Chanel: Horton, tripp. I’m so sorry, I didn’t know you guys were here.

Johnny: Oops.

Chanel: Um, come on. Let’s go somewhere else.

Allie: Wait, um, dupree, what are you doing with him?

Johnny: Well, hello to you, too, sis.

Chanel: No, it’s-it’s cool. Johnny just wanted to talk about the divorce.

Johnny: But this looks romantic. What do you two have going on out here?

Your mission:

Gabi: Um, excuse me– can someone, um, help. Thank you for all your help.

[Apprehensive music]

Jake: Happy valentine’s day.

Gabi: This doesn’t make sense, jake. How could you betray me like this?

Craig: I-I don’t know what is holding him up. There’s no texts, no messages.

Chloe: Dad, it’s okay. He’s only, like, a few minutes late.

Craig: Well, I-I’m gonna text him again. He’s probably got a lot of traffic.

Brady: Yeah, that’s probably it.

Chloe: Well, when he does get here, I just realized, I don’t even know his name.

Brady: Leo stark.

Craig: Uh–how did you know?

Leo: Happy valentine’s day.

Craig: Hi!

[Laughs]

Ciara: Babe, I still don’t know if calling susan is such a good idea. I mean, what if we tell her about johnny, and then she warns him?

Ben: Well, ciara, we have to just hope she does the right thing. Unless you have a better idea– I’m all ears.

Ciara: Fine, make the call.

Ben: Yeah?

Ciara: What are you even gonna say to her? Like, “hey, susan, hi, what’s up? How you doing? Is your grandson possessed?” It’s kinda weird.

[Line trilling]

[Machine beeps]

Ben: Hey, susan. It’s ben weston. Uh, give me a call back when you get this. There’s just something I need talk to you about, and it’s pretty important. Thank you. Pretty important? God, I just panicked. That was so stupid.

Ciara: No, it– that’s all right. She’s probably out with roger for valentine’s day anyway.

Ben: Yeah. So we may not get any answers tonight anyway, right?

Ciara: I guess we will just have to wait.

Ben: I guess so.

Ciara: Let’s really hope that we are just jumping to some crazy conclusion and that the devil is out of salem for good.

Ben: Ciara, if we’re not, and he is here, and he’s after our baby, we’re gonna get through it. We’re gonna deal with it. ‘Cause we’re together.

Allie: Guess what? Tripp proposed!

Chanel: Did he?

Tripp: And allie said yes.

Chanel: Oh, well–wow! That’s, uh–congratulations. I-I’m really happy for you two. I–I just meant between my divorce and this movie, and– I really need to get away from johnny. But I promise you that this isn’t about us sleeping together.

Allie: Johnny? Aren’t you going to say something?

Johnny: Like what?

Allie: I don’t know, like maybe congratulations? You can’t be a little happy for your twin sister?

Johnny: No, I am, I– I’m just curious to find out if you told tripp before you accepted his proposal.

Tripp: Told me what?

Johnny: That she slept with my wife.

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Ciara: Okay now, up a little to the left. All right, now that’s too much. Down a smidge. Just a little bit.

Ben: Ugh.

Ciara: Little bit more.

Ben: Uh. You know, here I was thinking that when we got done with this, maybe we’d actually be able to celebrate valentine’s day. But at this rate, I guess we could just do that tomorrow.

Ciara: Okay, you know what?

Ben: What?

Ciara: I think the painting is perfect.

Ben: Oh, good.

Ciara: Just like you.

[Sentimental music]

NEWS BREAK HERE

Nicole: Ms. Vitali, as always, did a pretty good job of covering her tracks. But not good enough to get past me. She’s going down, mr. Hutchins. So you can either cut a deal and testify against her, or she’s gonna take you down with her because that’s the kind of person she is. So are you gonna walk in that courtroom and perjure yourself? Or are you gonna take advantage of your last chance to save yourself and admit that ava vitali put you up to this?

Ava: I hope you believe me, allie.

Allie: I know you wouldn’t swear on tripp’s life if you didn’t mean it.

Ava: Absolutely not. I love him with all of my heart. As I know you do. And for tripp’s sake, I just– I can’t have you thinking badly of me, especially not tonight, when he’s about to–

Allie: About to what?

Ava: Nothing. No, I shouldn’t– I shouldn’t have said anything.

Allie: Ava, should I be worried about tripp?

Ava: No. No, no, no, no. It’s a good thing. At least I hope you think so.

Allie: Oh, my god. Is tripp going to propose?

Chanel: Are you really proposing tonight?

Tripp: I’ve been wanting to do it for a while, but it’d take me, like, six years to afford a decent ring at my salary.

Chanel: That ring looks a lot more than decent.

Tripp: It was my great-grandmother’S. And it seems like allie’s style, but I’m not sure.

Chanel: Oh, tripp. It’s gorgeous. Allie’s gonna love it.

Tripp: Thanks. I really want it to be special. She deserves that. I just–I’ve never met anyone like her. Not only is she beautiful, but she’s funny, honest. I’m telling you what you already know.

Chanel: Yeah. I hope that didn’t sound like i was rubbing it in, though, after everything you’ve been through with johnny.

Chanel: No, no. I–I know how much you love allie. And it’s not your fault her brother was an ass. Allie did keep warning me about him.

Tripp: Yeah, but I think even allie underestimated how big of an ass he is. I mean, not only did he just treat you like crap, but, I mean, after what happened between you and allie…

Chanel: What happened between me and allie was that… we kissed a couple of times a long time ago. And since then, she has made it totally clear that you’re the one she loves. And johnny’s the one I… the one I thought I loved.

Johnny: It’s true. I might want to be the ceo of dimera one day, but gabi has convinced me that you’re the right man for the job– in this moment. She can be very persuasive, you know.

Jake: I do know that.

Gabi: I told johnny that you’ve done this job before, so you could be up to speed day one. Also that shin has always been on your side.

Johnny: And besides, I’m so busy with this movie, I don’t have time for another job. Tell you to truth, I kinda wish my producer wasn’t holding me to my contract.

Jake: Hmm, that’s funny, johnny, I thought you were dying to do this movie.

Johnny: Yeah. But I’m just feeling like I’M… in a deal with the devil to tell the devil’s story.

Julie: Perhaps it’s coincidence. But the devil did come to salem to claim your unborn baby. So doug and I got the cross– the one thing that we thought would protect our new great-grandchild.

Ben: Have some water.

Julie: Thank you.

Ciara: Grandma, it’s okay. We can fix it. We will try again and again and again.

Julie: Sweetheart, I know you think I’m overreacting, that I’m just a superstitious old woman. But let me tell you, the last time I saw an upside-down cross, the devil was standing in the middle of my living room.

Ben: And that was horrible, but marlena is not possessed by the devil anymore.

Ciara: Yeah. The exorcism worked, and the entire family was there to witness it.

Julie: Good. I know when the devil passed from doug to marlena… now it’s passed out of marlena. How do we know the devil has left salem?

[Eerie music]

Ahh it’s the birthday girl!

Nicole: I’ve covered a lot of cases like this. Now, I’m not telling you what to do, but I do think it’s wise to take the exit ramp while you still have the chance.

Hutchins: The last time a former associate of ms. Vitali crossed her, he wound up dead with a steak knife in his chest.

Nicole: Are you saying you’re a former associate of ms. Vitali?

Hutchins: I never said that.

Melinda: Mr. Hutchins, there’s been a change in the schedule. What the hell is going on here?

[Tense music]

Ava: [Chuckles] That’s quite a leap there, allie.

Allie: Is it? Because I ran into tripp the other day with my grandfather at the pub, and they said they were talking about uncle steve and aunt kayla, but… tripp is so old fashioned, I bet he was asking for my hand in marriage because my parents aren’t around.

Ava: Okay, now that’s an even bigger leap.

Allie: But is it true?

Ava: Okay, I’m not gonna lie to you. Yeah, it is.

Allie: Oh, my god.

Ava: Okay, now please, please do not say anything to tripp, because he is so excited and I cannot be the one who ruined it for him. It would just kill me if you said no because of me.

Tripp: Thank you for being happy for us.

Chanel: Of course I’m happy. Horton’s just about my favorite person in the world, and… I guess I’m gonna have to get used to calling her johnson now.

Tripp: Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. But speaking of rings, I was thinking about putting it at the bottom of her champagne glass.

Chanel: Well, I mean, if she happens to swallow it, you’re a doctor, so you can do that heimlich thing on her.

Tripp: You think it’s cheesy, don’t you?

Chanel: No, it’s not that. It’s just, um… you know, horton’s not really a big fan of champagne.

Tripp: That’s right. She likes cosmos. But I’ve never made a cosmo before in my life.

Chanel: I got you. I will write down the recipe for you.

Tripp: Oh, thank you.

Chanel: I know just how she likes it.

[Sentimental music]

Johnny: So we all on the same page?

Jake: Yeah. I say we strike while the iron’s hot.

Johnny: Gosh, uncle jake, you sure can turn a phrase. I’m gonna call shin and tell him that we want to convene a board meeting as soon as possible. So if you’ll excuse me.

[Tense music]

Jake: That arrogant son of a bitch.

[Exhales] Again? Sorry to interrupt whatever that was going on here when I walked in.

Gabi: Nothing was going on.

Jake: Looked pretty cozy to me, gabs.

Gabi: We need his votes to get what we want, okay? I know what I’m doing. Would you please trust me?

[Eerie tone]

[Phone beeps] Oh, funny. Maggie kiriakis wants to see you.

Jake: Hmm.

Gabi: What’s that about?

Ciara: Do you think that the devil possessed grandpa doug again?

Julie: Oh, god forbid. But something very strange happened just a couple of nights ago. A fire broke out on top of the stove. The stove was not even on.

Ciara: Are you sure it wasn’t?

Julie: I’m sure, darling. The repair person looked it over, said everything was fine, had to be user error.

Ben: Hmm. And you think maybe that it could have been the devil that did it?

Julie: The fire broke out just as I was leaving to bring you that cross.

Ciara: Yes, and johnny brought it over.

Julie: Yeah, johnny. Johnny showed up. Wanted to talk to doug about this awful movie that he plans to make. Well, I told him what i thought of that.

Ben: Well, he told us that you were busy–

Ciara: “Putting out fires.” He said you were putting out fires, but he said it in a very joking kind of way.

Julie: Well, it wasn’t any joke. The flames were this high, there was absolutely no reason for them, and…

[Sighs] God. Oh, god, this cannot be happening again.

Dry eye symptoms

driving you crazy?

Allie: Ava, it means so much to me that we have a good relationship because of henry and tripp. But even if we didn’t, my feelings for you would never, ever affect how I answer tripp.

Ava: Oh, thank god. Okay. Well, I should let you go, ’cause you’ve got a big night ahead of you. Oh. Please act surprised.

Allie: Oh, no worries there.

Chanel: All right. And serve in a chilled cocktail glass.

Tripp: Oh, thank you.

Chanel: Cosmos a la london, as prescribed by chanel dupree.

Tripp: Thank you so much. You’re the best. And whatever I can do to help you in court, you can count on me.

Chanel: Well, we might wanna rethink that. When I asked you, I didn’t know that you were just about to become johnny’s brother-in-law.

Tripp: Well, he’ll be my brother-in-law only if allie says “yes.”

Chanel: Well, if she does say “yes,” then just make sure it’s cool with her for you to testify.

Tripp: I’m sure it will be. I mean, she feels the same about johnny as I do. She’s even taken to calling him the evil twin.

[Ominous music]

Jake: I swear, I have no idea what maggie wants.

[Phone beeps]

Gabi: Well, she says it’s urgent.

Jake: It’s gotta have something to do with victor and the titan stuff. Better get going.

Gabi: Well, let me know what she says.

Jake: You know I will. But just fair warning, I don’t plan on doing much business talk.

[Ominous music]

[Eerie tone]

Ciara: Has grandpa doug been okay lately?

Julie: He hasn’t locked me in the freezer again, if that’s what you’re asking.

Ciara: Oh, god. I–I don’t know exactly what I’m asking. I just… has he been acting out of character?

Julie: No. No, he’s back to being the most wonderful husband in the world again. And you know I’m watching him like a hawk after everything we’ve been through.

Ciara: Yeah, well, sure. Of course. I can imagine.

Julie: Come to think of it… when the devil left doug, went into marlena, she was present in the room. I mean, she was physically there with him. Now, doug was not at that exorcism. So there’s no way that the devil could have gone back to possess him.

Ben: Is that how these things work?

Julie: That’s what I’m told.

Ben: All right.

Julie: Okay, uh, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry if I’ve disturbed you people.

Ben: No, no, no.

Julie: I didn’t mean to. I guess I am getting…

[Sighs] Crazy.

Ben: No, no.

Julie: I just want you to be well and, oh, my god, I want you to be safe, darling. And consider yourselves lucky that you don’t have a gas stove.

[Both chuckle] Have a wonderful, wonderful valentine’s day together.

Ben: Thank you.

Ciara: We will. And tell grandpa doug that i love him and give him all my hugs and kisses.

Julie: I’ll be glad to do.

Ciara: Okay.

Julie: Bye-bye.

Ciara: Bye.

Ben: Bye, julie.

Ciara: [Sighs] Okay, she really just gave me a scare. Ben?

Ben: It just doesn’t make any damn sense, ciara. There’s nothing wrong with the nail. The cross wasn’t top-heavy.

Ciara: Okay, now you’re scaring me.

Ben: Okay, hey. Let’s go inside.

[Sighs]

[Tense music]

Ciara: Ben, what are you thinking?

Ben: I’m thinking that maybe she was right. That there’s no way that the devil could have gone back into doug.

Ciara: But?

Ben: But maybe… it could have jumped into somebody else.

[Tense music]

This is the sound of nature breathing.

Hutchins: This lady says she’s a reporter, that she wanted to talk to me about–

Melinda: This is not a lady or a reporter. This is a witness tamperer. Get out, miss walker, before I have the bailiff throw you out. And I suggest you call a lawyer unless you wanna join your boyfriend in statesville.

[Phone beeps]

[Line ringing]

[Phone rings, beeps]

Ava: Hey, honey.

Tripp: Hey, mom. I just wanted to say thank you for helping me get ready for tonight.

Ava: Yeah, of course. How you doing?

Tripp: I wish I could fast-forward to dinner. But hey, can I ask you to pick up a few extra things for me? I’m gonna need some cranberry juice and some limes.

Ava: Cosmos, huh? Sounds like everything’s a go.

Tripp: Yeah. Yeah, she’s gonna be so surprised.

Chanel: Hey, horton. You look like you’re contemplating the meaning of life.

Allie: I kind of am. I just found out from tripp’s mom that he’s going to propose to me tonight.

Chanel: I know. He told me.

Allie: He told you?

Chanel: Well, only because he wanted my opinion of the ring. You’ll love it. It’s gorge.

Allie: I bet I will.

Chanel: So I know he wanted it to be a surprise, but since you know, what are you gonna say?

[Chilling music]

Jack: [Grunts]

Gabi: What’s wrong?

Jack: Damn it.

[Vocalizes] I don’t know. A weird shock feeling.

Gabi: It’s been really dry out; I’m literally an electroshock machine. Are you okay?

Jake: [Vocalizes] Yeah. I’ll be fine. I’ll see you later.

Gabi: Yeah.

Jake: Oh, and, uh, I hope you’re hungry, because I got a bit of a surprise for you when I get back from maggie’S. See you, johnny.

Gabi: He’s got a surprise for me. He’s still plotting with maggie practically out in the open.

Johnny: Well, you’ve got an even bigger surprise for him. You know what they say: Pride goeth before the fall.

Ciara: So if the devil is still after our baby…

Ben: It had to have been somebody at the exorcism.

Ciara: All right, well, belle told me who was there. Marlena, of course. John, eric, brady, sami, allie, and johnny. Johnny. The one who brought us the cross.

[Tense music]

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Ava: Oh, you–you think that I framed rafe? Why would I do that? He is my boyfriend.

Nicole: Oh, drop the act, ava.

Rafe: Nicole–

Nicole: It is so obvious that you found out rafe and i made love, and you wanted revenge.

Ava: You–you and rafe?

[Suspenseful music]

You slept with my best friend? Rafe?

Rafe: I’m sorry.

Ava: When? When?

Rafe: What difference does it make?

Ava: Because I want to know.

Rafe: It was halloween, okay?

Ava: So you’ve been lying to me for months. Both of you.

Rafe: Ava–

Ava: [Inaudible] How many times? Did it happen more than once?

Rafe: No, it was– it was a one-time thing.

Ava: Oh, is that the truth? Is that the truth now?

Rafe: Yes. The whole truth is I’ve had feelings for nicole for a while now.

Ava: We talked about this, rafe. You denied it more than once. You looked me in the eyes, how many times have you told me that you were committed to me?

Rafe: I lied, okay? I lied to you. I lied to myself. I’m so sorry. You deserve better.

Ava: You made me believe that what we had was real.

[Chuckles] It’s just all a lie, huh?

Nicole: I asked rafe to keep it a secret because I didn’t want to come between you.

Ava: Oh, what a good friend you are.

Rafe: This is not–

Ava: So concerned about my feelings.

Rafe: Ava–

Ava: What?

Rafe: It’s not on nicole, okay? This is on me. I owed it to you to tell you the truth, and–

Ava: And what?

Rafe: I did–I did far from that, okay?

Ava: Yeah, you sure did. Right, okay, so–so you sleep with my best friend. Yes, nicole, you slept with him, right? And then–and then you tell him to lie. She asks you to lie, you do it, and then you stand up for her?

Nicole: We made a mistake. But I am not surprised that you acted like the vindictive bitch that you have always been, and framed him–

Ava: Oh, my god, I am not the same woman I used to be.

Nicole: The hell you’re not.

Rafe: Okay, ava, I– ava, I understand that you are angry. I get that, okay? You’re upset. I am so sorry. And I understand that you feel betrayed for what I have done. But I have to ask you, did you do this? Did you? Did you frame me? ‘Cause right now, we can still get the charges dropped before it’s too late.

Marlena: When you first came in here, you talked a lot about craig. And then you said, “what’s wrong with me? What did I do wrong?” Are you thinking this is your fault?

Nancy: It is, I mean, not totally, I’m just– I’m just thinking that maybe if I–if I had tried really hard to be–to be–

Marlena: What? To be what?

Nancy: Marlena, to be what he needed. I mean, I know I’m stubborn, and–and I’m argumentative, and I talk way too much, I just keep going on–

Marlena: Stop it. Stop right there. Your husband is gay. That isn’t your fault. Your husband kept a very big secret from you. And–and his sexual orientation isn’t really a choice. But he made a choice to keep that from you. And that’s what I think is causing you so much pain.

Nancy: But marlena, he’s destroyed my marriage. I mean, what–what do I do now?

[Sobs]

Chloe: I get how difficult this must be for you, dad. And I–I do appreciate you opening up to me. And of course I want you to be happy. And I know after everything you’ve been through, you need love and support too, and just know that I’m here for you too.

Craig: Well, I won’t say no to my daughter.

Chloe: So you–you said you’re in love?

Craig: I am. And I want you to meet him, if that’s not too hard for you.

Chloe: Uh…meet him.

Craig: Yeah, he’s coming to salem. Tonight.

Johnny: “Anna, you are my everything. All my love, tony.” Nauseating. Much more interesting. You’re the naughty one, anna, so that one’s for you. Ugh. No. Too damn sweet. Well, what’s valentine’s day without a little bit of bitterness?

Gabi: I hate him.

Johnny: That’s more like it.

[Dramatic music]

Looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone?

Johnny: What’s got you so worked up?

Gabi: What do you think? Jake. He tried to feed me a chocolate candy.

Johnny: The nerve.

Gabi: And then there was flower petals everywhere, he woke me up with a rose.

Johnny: Is the, uh– the poor guy still breathing?

Gabi: I wanted to slug the son of a bitch, but you know what? I didn’T. I listened to your advice. I didn’t let on that I know he wants to backstab me.

Johnny: Well-played.

Gabi: But he was so sweet and romantic. I don’t know, is it possible that I somehow misunderstood when he was talking to maggie about cutting me out of the deal?

Johnny: I wish that were true, gabriella, because I can see how much you love my uncle. But I’m afraid his conversation with victor’s wife was no misunderstanding.

Gabi: How do you know that? You weren’t there.

Johnny: Maybe not, but I am sorry to say that I have found some indisputable proof that jake is planning to betray you.

Ava: Confess? To framing you?

Rafe: Ava. I know that you’re upset, but if you ever cared for me–

Ava: Oh, I did care for you. I loved you. And you cheated on me with that whore. So, no, I got–I got nothing to confess. In fact, I’d say you are guilty as sin. Good luck in court, rafe, ’cause you’re gonna need it.

Rafe: Ava–

Ava: Oh, and too bad you’re gonna be buried behind bars. Don’t worry, I’m sure nicole will wait for you.

[Tense music]

John: That’s gotta be rough, having all these feelings that you can’t act on.

Brady: Yeah, that’s something I have a little experience with.

John: You talking about chloe?

Brady: Yep.

John: So how’s that going, kid?

Brady: I’ve made no secret that I have feelings for her.

John: Mm-hmm.

Brady: But the fact that philip is still missing kind of puts everything on hold, dad. But that’s not what–[Sighs] That’s not what matters. What matters is chloe needs to know that she’s not alone in this. And I’m gonna be there for her every step of the way.

Chloe: You just said that you were worried about hurting mom, but you’re gonna bring your new boyfriend to salem?

Craig: I didn’t know he was coming till this morning. We spoke last night. After we hung up, he–

[Sighs] He booked a flight. Just–he doesn’t want any drama, he just wants to support me. If you can’t do this, I understand, but– it would mean the world to me if you could meet him, see how happy he makes me. Would you think about it? Please?

Chloe: Okay, I will.

Craig: Thanks.

[Emotional music]

Marlena: Nancy, you and craig have had so many happy years together. A family that you love– the breakup of a marriage, it’s–it’s a loss.

Nancy: It feels like a death.

Marlena: I know. And you’re grieving, and–

[Exhales] There’s no pill that I can give you, there’s no easy fix here. It is just going to take time.

Nancy: I was a afraid you were gonna say that.

Marlena: You’re not alone in this, you know? You got lots of people that are here to help you, that care about you. And if you need even more help, I’ll be here for you.

Nancy: Thank you, marlena. And thank you for giving me some perspective. Craig used to do things like that for me on valentine’s day. I guess not this year. Thank you.

Marlena: [Sighs] Life’s been hard enough.

Chloe: Hey.

Brady: Hi.

Chloe: Hey, do you have a minute?

Brady: For you, always. Come in.

Chloe: Thanks.

Brady: What’s going on?

Chloe: Oh, I–I just– I just saw my dad, and he wants me to meet his new boyfriend.

Brady: When?

Chloe: He’s on his way to salem right now. He booked his own flight, it wasn’t my dad’s idea.

Brady: [Sighs] Uh, what are you gonna do?

Chloe: That’s the thing, I don’t know. There’s–there’s a part of me that feels like I’m betraying my mom, but at the same time, I–I want to be there for my dad. I know he’s in pain and I want to support him.

Brady: Right, right. Your dad–I mean, that’s not an easy decision, chloe.

Chloe: No, it’s not easy. And I was hoping maybe it would be easier if you agreed to come with me?

[Knock at door]

John: Hey, gorgeous.

[Gasps] Ohh. Ohh. Somebody really loves you. And that somebody is here.

[Laughter]

Marlena: Happy valentine’s day.

John: Right back at you, sweetheart.

Marlena: I didn’t think that I would see you until this evening.

John: Oh, I just couldn’t stay away from my beautiful bride. And I had an interesting conversation with brady. He, um– he just told me that craig wesley’s in town, and he has left nancy for a man.

Marlena: I know. I know, um–nancy was the person who came in when I was talking to you on the phone.

John: That was her? Ooh. So how’s she doing?

Marlena: Well, I can’t really talk about it, but you can imagine she’s having a very hard time.

[Dramatic music]

[Phone ringing]

Jake: You guys seen gabi? Said she’d be here. You know, moral support and all.

Nicole: Uh, I haven’t seen her.

Jake: Must have just missed her then, huh?

Rafe: Gabi was never here.

Gabi: You have proof? What proof?

Johnny: When you came to me, with what you heard between maggie and jake, I realized I couldn’t trust my uncle jake, so I decided to do a little digging. I reached out to a contact that I have in the dimera legal department. She shared this with me.

Gabi: What is this?

Johnny: This is a formal petition to transfer stefan O. Dimera’s shares.

Gabi: My shares?

Johnny: Your shares to jake.

Gabi: He can’t do that.

Johnny: Well, jake makes the argument that you’re not blood-related, and that as stefan’s twin, he’s the rightful heir.

Gabi: No, he wouldn’t do that to me. You’re lying.

Johnny: I wish.

[Sighs] But… is this jake’s signature?

[Dramatic music]

Gabi: That bastard.

As a struggling actor,

John: I’m glad that nancy has found her way to you, because there is not a better person who can give her the kind of support she’s gonna need.

Marlena: Oh. You know, every time I talk to somebody whose marriage is in trouble, makes me appreciate how precious ours is.

John: Oh, you’ve got that right, doc.

Craig: [Sighs] Nancy– I’m so sorry I hurt you, I– I hope you know that. And I–I want you to know that no matter what happens, I’m still your friend.

Nancy: [Laughs] You are not my friend. And you’re not going to be my husband much longer, because I want a divorce.

[Melancholy music]

Brady: You–okay, you want me to go to dinner with you, and your dad, and his boyfriend? Tonight?

Chloe: Oh. Oh, my god. I’m sorry, I–I forgot it’s–it’s valentine’s day.

Brady: Yeah, it is, it is.

Chloe: You–you probably have other plans?

Brady: I don’T. So yes, I would love to go to dinner with you. I mean, what are friends for, right?

Nicole: Rafe, I am so sorry I lost it on ava.

Rafe: It’s okay. It is okay. You know, I’m actually kind of relieved.

Nicole: How could you say that?

Rafe: Because now it’s finally all out in the open, and there’s no reason we can’t be together. But I will totally understand if you don’t want to spend the next however many years talking through a wall of glass to a guy in a jumpsuit.

Nicole: I am not gonna let that happen. I am not giving up. I am going to find a way to prove that ava framed you.

Jake: Gabi, gabi, gabi. Said you’d be with your brother, and you’re not. Where the hell are you?

Gabi: Okay, that’s it, I’m out of here.

Johnny: Whoa, where are you going?

Gabi: To kill jake. Where do you think I’m going?

Johnny: Look, I can be a bit of a hothead myself, but I think we both know, cooler heads will win the game.

Gabi: I’d rather kill him.

Johnny: Hey, hey, hey. We talked about this, okay? We can use this. Besides, won’t it be fun to see jake’s face when we burn him to the ground?

Gabi: Well, you know, when you put it like that, fine. But we need a plan. What is the plan?

Johnny: Oh, it’s simple. We screw jake, before he screws you.

[Phone rings]

Gabi: Oh, it’s jake!

Johnny: Cooler heads…

[Phone rings] Remember?

Gabi: How could he do this to me?

Johnny: How about a valentine’s chocolate to take your mind of him, huh?

Gabi: I’m not hungry.

Johnny: This one’s cherry. Something tells me that’s your favorite.

[Dramatic music]

Gabi: Mmm.

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Abigail: So sarah is pining away for somebody other than xander?

Kristen: Mm-hmm.

Abigail: Okay. All right. I’ll play your little game here. Is it rex?

Kristen: Ugh.

Abigail: Eric?

Kristen: Oh, please. She and the good father never stood a chance.

Abigail: You probably pumped sarah so full of drugs, I mean, her new heartthrob could be harry truman.

Kristen: Oh, my god. I wouldn’t have shot her full of anything if someone hadn’t left a full syringen the dimera dungeon.

Abigail: Look, all right, I already get that it’s my damn fault, thank you very much. But unlike you who has no conscience, I already feel terrible enough about it without you continuously waving it in my face.

Kristen: Ooh, I’m just stating the facts.

Abigail: [Exhales] If it’s not rex and it’s not eric, then who would– it’s chad, isn’t it? You saw to it that sarah was fixated on my husband.

Kristen: No. It’s even better than that. I’ve seen to it that she is fixated on a dimera of seniority.

Abigail: Tony?

Kristen: Ahh, good girl.

[Laughs]

Steve: So you’re in love with tony dimera?

Sarah: Don’t sound so skeptical. I mean, we’ve had our ups and downs, but tony’s the love of my life.

Steve: Maybe she thinks she’s anna.

Sarah: Anna fredericks? How could you possibly confuse me with that scheming bitch?

Kayla: Well, then who are you?

Sarah: I am the one and only renee dumonde.

Kayla: That can’t be. You cannot be renee.

Sarah: Of course I can.

Kayla: No, it’s not possible because renee dumonde is dead.

Lani: Okay, tr coates, let’s see what you’ve been up to since you fathered me. “Hollywood heavyweight to produce biopic on small town shrink possessed by satan.” Hollywood heavyweight?

[Sighs]

[Door clicks] Hi.

Eli: Hi.

[Both laugh]

Lani: Welcome home.

Eli: Mm.

Lani: You made really good time getting here from the airport.

Eli: Yes.

Lani: How was it visiting your mom?

Eli: It was good, but I am glad to be back home.

Lani: You have no idea how glad I am to have you home.

Eli: Twins were a handful?

Lani: It wasn’t just that.

Eli: Uh-oh.

Lani: Mm-hmm.

Eli: What happened?

Paulina: I know my name is not on the lease. But your tenants, eli and lani grant, they’re members of my family. All I’m asking is that you make sure that a man named tr coates doesn’t get into that building again.

[Scoffs] Well, let’s talk money. How much do you want? Hello? Hello? Talk to me! Oh, he hung up on me?

[Phone beeps]

[Doorbell rings] Ahh, lani. Uh– you.

Tr: Lani’s dear old dad.

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Tr: [Grunts] Paulina. This is ridiculous. I just wanna talk to you.

Paulina: Oh, yeah, yeah, “I just wanna talk to you.” I know I’ll end up with a black eye or a big lip or worse.

Tr: I told you, I’ve changed. Do you really want your neighbors to be hearing all our business?

Abigail: [Scoffs] You expect me to believe that sarah is moping around this island because of tony dimera? She barely knows him.

Kristen: Oh, well, she knows him intimately now.

Abigail: What did you do? Did you put on a tony mask and romance her?

Kristen: Don’t you think that’s a little far-fetched?

Abigail: Not for you, no. I mean, how else is sarah gonna fall for tony?

Kristen: Well, I mean, sarah didn’t actually fall for tony. Renee did.

Abigail: Oh, god. I give up. Who the hell is renee?

Sarah: Kayla, you’re starting to worry me. As you can see, renee dumonde is alive and well. If you don’t know the difference between the living and the dead, you might wanna rethink that nursing career.

Steve: Uh, kayla’s a doctor. And so are you.

Sarah: Me? A doctor? No, I don’t like the sight of blood. I’ll leave that to neil curtis, thank you.

Kayla: You mean your father?

Sarah: Okay. I think that she needs some rest. A few minutes ago, she was saying I was mickey and maggie horton’s daughter, which we both know that sarah is a toddler. And now I’m neil’s child?

Kayla: It’s complicated.

Sarah: Well, it’s not to me. You don’t know what you’re talking about. I know I’m renee dumonde.

Steve: Uh, sweetness? Could you bring me up to speed on who this renee dumonde character is?

Kayla: Yeah, I think I better. Looks like we’re stuck with her. We hit the bike trails every weekend

Abigail: Okay, so you’ve got sarah believing she is stefano’s dead illegitimate daughter who is in love with tony and murdered by a serial killer?

Kristen: Ooh, go to the head of the class. I’m gonna give you a blue ribbon and another night here in almost paradise.

Abigail: So how’d you do it? How did you make sarah believe that she was renee?

Kristen: Well, it wasn’t really hard. When she first got here, she had lost her grip.

Abigail: I understand that. She made the trip in a suitcase.

Kristen: Mm-hmm. But see, she was a bit of a challenge ’cause one moment, she thought I was xander and the next, a coconut. Like that. And I thought if I kept her focused and kept her out of my hair, it would work out. So I just gave her a bunch of books to read.

Abigail: Out of the dimera library?

[Scoffs] I can imagine.

Kristen: Okay, but one of those books just happened to be the diary of my late sister, renee. And sarah pored over that tortured memoir at warp speed. And then when she was finished, voil. She was convinced she was renee dumonde. And there is nothing I could do to change that.

Kayla: And it turned out she was murdered by the salem slasher.

Steve: Aka andre dimera.

Kayla: Yeah.

Steve: So what’s your best guess why she thinks that she’s renee?

Kayla: I don’t know. Maybe kristen brainwashed her or maybe she just snapped.

Steve: After what kristen put her through, it’s possible. So what do we do?

Kayla: At the moment, I think we just humor her.

Sarah: What are you two whispering about?

Kayla: Um, nothing. We were just discussing how much we want to get out of this place.

Sarah: As do I. I miss my tony so much. I have to get home to him.

Steve: Well, we’re gonna need these if we’re gonna break out of this place.

Sarah: Oh, good. We can get to the kayak. But we have to make sure that we look it over thoroughly just in case anyone drilled a hole in it below the water line.

Steve: Why would you say that?

Sarah: Because that’s what i did to the boat that anna was on. What? Was she a friend of yours?

Anna: So you think someone paid ned to kidnap abigail?

Tony: That’s our theory, yes.

Anna: Oh, my goodness. Well, how soon do you have to leave?

Tony: Well, chad’s at the airfield now checking out the jet. I have to pack a bag and meet him there. Chad is hoping that I can convince ned to tell us where he took abigail.

Anna: Okay, I can go with you.

Tony: No, no, no, no, no. We don’t know what we’re walking into.

Anna: Well, ned would never hurt me.

Tony: Probably not. But I think it’s best that chad and I go it alone.

Eli: So this ray dude just showed up here with no warning?

Lani: Yeah. Scared me to death.

Eli: Why didn’t you call me?

Lani: I didn’t wanna break it to you over the phone.

Eli: [Sighs] Wait, how did he know how to find you?

Lani: He’s in town on business.

Eli: Well, what kind of business?

Lani: Film production. He’s producing johnny dimera’s film about marlena.

Eli: So I guess he’ll be here for a while, then.

Lani: Mm-hmm. He has a room at the salem inn.

Eli: You should have called me. I would have cut my trip short.

Lani: Nothing happened. He was minding his manners. I met my biological father for the first time. Other than that, it wasn’t a big deal.

Eli: Are you sure about that? You seem a little shaky.

Paulina: Oh, no. You sit over there.

Tr: I wanna talk about lani.

Paulina: Haven’t I told you to keep my daughter’s name out of your mouth?

Tr: She’s my daughter too.

Paulina: You gave up any rights that you had to my child when you started knocking me around.

Tr: I would never hurt lani. I told you, I’m a different man now. I have a right to know my daughter and my grandchildren.

Paulina: [Scoffs] You have no rights.

[Stammers] You–[Chuckles] Get out of here. Get out of here right now before I call the cops.

Tr: Okay, okay, okay. I’ll go. But we will be seeing each other again.

[Phone beeps]

[Line ringing]

Paulina: Hello. Hi. It’s me. I need to see you right away. It’s an emergency. Life’s been hard enough.

Steve: You drilled a hole in the boat that anna was on?

Sarah: Well, I didn’t know that tony was on it too. He could have drowned. But luckily, david got there just in time.

Steve: David who?

Kayla: David banning. Julie’s son, eli’s father.

Steve: Oh, right. That david. So david saved tony and anna’s lives?

Sarah: He did. Unfortunately, the baby that anna was carrying wasn’t as lucky.

Tony: I’ll call you as soon as we land.

Anna: Well, I guess that will have to be enough.

Tony: Mm. Would you keep an eye on charlotte and thomas? They know something’s up with their mum.

Anna: Of course I will. But darling, please, please be careful.

> Tony: [Laughs] Yes. Okay.

Anna: Oh.

Tony: Goodbye.

[Doorbell rings]

Anna: Oh. Hi. May I help you?

Tr: I certainly hope so.

Abe: Ooh. [Chuckles]

Paulina: Oh, whew. Thanks. Thanks for coming over.

Abe: You said it was an emergency. I didn’t realize you were preparing to bash somebody’s head in.

Paulina: I thought it might be him.

Abe: Who? What’s going on, paulina?

Paulina: This is about– it’s about lani.

Abe: Is she all right?

Paulina: She’s okay for now.

Abe: Well, what does that mean?

Paulina: That her bastard of a biological father is here in salem.

Tr: I’m here to see johnny dimera.

Anna: Oh, I’m sorry, but he’s out right now. May I give him a message?

Tr: My name is tr coates. I’m producing his film.

Anna: The one about marlena?

Tr: That’s the one.

Anna: Well, then please come in, mr. Coates.

Tr: Thank you.

Anna: The living room is right through there. Please, have a seat. Johnny is my nephew. My husband tony and I, well, we almost invested in the movie.

Tr: What stopped you?

Anna: My husband’s brother, johnny’s father. He didn’t think it was such a good idea. May I offer you something, mr. Coates? A glass of wine or a drink?

Tr: I’m fine, thank– and you can call me tr.

Anna: [Laughs] Okay, tr. You know, I’m really very excited about this movie. I think tony should play himself. Although actually, it was his deranged cousin andre who was pretending to be tony.

Tr: You know, maybe I will take that drink. Club soda?

Anna: Coming right up. And you know… I think I have the perfect casting choice to play andre’s wife, who, by the way, was also his adopted sister, kristen.

[Chuckles]

Tr: And, um, who would this perfect actress be?

Anna: Oh, me, of course.

Kristen: This was your fault, you know.

Abigail: Excuse me? Look, I might have left that syringe in the basement, but you? You are the one who injected sarah and decided to kidnap her in a suitcase. You’ve kept this woman prisoner here for months, and you didn’t think we were gonna realize that she was missing? Just so you know, I’m not gonna give up until I can take her home to her family.

Kristen: I mean, why don’t you ask sarah, or the woman you call sarah, which family she wants to be taken home to, hmm? Is it gonna be the hortons or the dimeras? Honestly, I thought I was getting my floors cleaned.

Abe: Ray? That son of a bitch is here? In my town?

Paulina: He calls himself tr. And he’s not just here, he came in style. Oh, he’s a hollywood big shot now. Teamed up with johnny dimera to produce that little weasel’s movie.

Abe: All right. How do we keep him away from lani?

Paulina: You think ray waited for a proper introduction?

Abe: You don’t mean that he–

Paulina: Yes, it’s too late, abe. They’ve already met.

Eli: I should have been here. You shouldn’t have had to deal with tr alone.

Lani: I didn’t have to. Paulina was right behind him, and she was in straight up mama lioness mode. I mean, she got rid of him before I could even begin to process what I was feeling.

Eli: So much for that.

Lani: I just… not that I didn’t know that he had been abusive to her, but paulina was going on and on about the kind of things that he had done to her and in detail. And now I have a way better understanding of why paulina was so afraid of tr that she didn’t even tell him that I existed. And why she gave me to her sister to keep me safe from him.

Eli: Makes me feel sorry for paulina.

Lani: Yeah, me too. But now that I know the truth, I have to admit I am curious about ray coates. I did a search on him. That’s him.

Eli: Wow. Does it make you feel guilty wanting to know more about him?

Lani: [Sighs] After what he did to paulina, yeah.

Eli: Well, listen, if anyone understands, it’s me. I grew up wanting to know everything about my dad. Left a hole in my heart that never healed.

Lani: But david banning didn’t abuse your mother. Tr coates, he– he beat my mom on a regular basis, and now he wants to be a part of my life. What am I supposed to do?

Tr: You do know the movie takes place 25 years ago.

Anna: Uh-huh.

Tr: Allie horton is set to play her own mother.

Anna: Ah.

Tr: Allie is in her 20s.

Anna: Oh, well, you know, you can just use one of those filter things. You know, put petroleum jelly on the lens or something. I mean, who better than tony’s real wife to play tony’s “real wife”?

[Laughs] You see what I did there?

Tr: Oh, yeah. I saw.

[Both laugh] But I actually have another actress in mind for the part.

Anna: Oh.

Tr: You know what? I will keep you in mind for some of my other projects.

Anna: You have other projects?

Tr: I produce two or three films a year.

Anna: Oh, then we definitely need to talk. You know, once you wrap “possessed,” you could do a sequel about the epic romance between tony and me. You can call it, “bewitched: The anna dimera story.” It’s got everything. Passion, action, more than one presumed death, and the best movie villain since darth vader.

Tr: Stefano dimera?

Anna: Oh, no. No. I was thinking more of his psychotic baby-killing bitch of a bastard daughter. Renee dumonde tried to ruin my life.

Sarah: Tony has always been my one true love. Tragically, we were forced apart when I found out that stefano was my birth father. But then we found out that stefano wasn’t tony’s birth father, so you see? We really are meant to be together.

Kayla: There’s a problem with that, though. Tony’s already married.

Sarah: Married? To who?

Steve: You’re not gonna like this. It’s anna.

Sarah: Again? Get me off of this island so i can tear her limb from limb. Gordan ramsey

Sarah: Well, tony will just have to annul his sham of a marriage. And then we can have an enormous wedding at st. Luke’s and have a reception at the dimera estate. What are you two doing? We have to get a move on if we’re gonna get out of here.

Steve: Look, renee, kayla and I wanna get back to salem just as bad as you do. But we have to deal with kristen first.

Sarah: Kristen’s never gonna let me leave. She said there’s a serial killer in salem.

Kayla: Wouldn’t be the first time.

Sarah: You’re telling me. The salem strangler tried to kill me more than once. I still can’t believe that poor jake kositchek was killing all those women.

Kayla: Uh–later, later.

Steve: Listen, renee. You have my word. I won’t let kristen stop us from leaving this island.

Sarah: You promise?

Steve: Promise.

Kristen: See, once sarah decided that she was renee, things became a lot easier for the both of us. And she was so obsessed with the details of her life, it made her docile. And then I could come and go as I wanted, and– I mean, for a while at least. Because now? Now all she thinks about is getting back to her beloved tony.

Abigail: Hmm. But you don’t know where she is.

Kristen: Oh, I’ll find her. I mean, she’s probably out building a boat out of banana leaves or something equally as asinine. No, I have to find her because I need to make sure she doesn’t hurt herself.

[Mutters indistinctly] This will keep you occupied. Hmm? It’s the life and times of renee dumonde. It’s a real page-turner.

Anna: So after all those years of believing I was a widow, my tony finally came back to me. Talk about a happy ending. He and I were destined to be together, no matter what renee dumonde wanted.

Tr: Well, it sounds like an interesting story.

Anna: Oh, I told you so. So what’s our next step?

Tr: Um… why don’t you write me up a treatment, and then we’ll talk?

Anna: Okay. That sounds like a good idea. I can start with when I first came to salem.

Tr: That’s perfect. Now, if you don’t–

Anna: It was just me and my little girl.

Tr: You didn’t mention you had a daughter.

Anna: Oh, her name is carrie. She’s so beautiful. People tell us all the time we look like sisters. Do you have any children, tr?

Tr: Actually, I just found out that I have a daughter.

Anna: Well, that’s wonderful.

Tr: Well, it would be, but… her mother’s done everything she can to keep us apart.

Anna: Oh, you can’t stand for that. You need to fight like a tiger to be in your daughter’s life.

Lani: I can’t help but hope that ray actually came to his senses and got the help that he needed. And not just for my sake, but for jules and carver. I mean, they share the man’s dna. What if one of them inherits his temper?

Eli: Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Genetics is just one factor in how a person turns out. Babe, if we raise our kids with love, kindness, and respect, I’m sure they’ll treat others the same.

Lani: You’re right. You are absolutely right. But after coming face-to-face with him and hearing everything that paulina went through with him… I can for sure as hell tell you who doesn’t believe that ray has changed, and that’s paulina.

Abe: I remember when you told me what ray did to you. After all these years, why did you tell him about lani?

Paulina: I didn’t! It was chanel.

Abe: What?

Paulina: She didn’t know who she was talking to. Ray went over there to talk to her about that damn movie and he mentioned that he knew me.

Abe: Is that all he said?

Paulina: Oh, yeah. He’s cagey.

[Chuckles] He told her that he met her cousin lani. And she told him that she was lani’s sister. He put it all together by himself and he never let on to her.

Abe: I’m gonna go check on lani and see how she’s doing.

Paulina: It’ll do her good to be with you.

Abe: Uh… what about you? Are you gonna be okay here?

Paulina: Well, you know us price women. We’re survivors. You go check on our girl.

[Sighs] Looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone?

Anna: Well, I’m ashamed to admit it, but I kept my daughter a secret from her father for the first four years of her life, and it’s o of my biggest regrets.

Tr: Did carrie and her dad ever get close?

> Anna: Oh, yes. Like they were never apart. Roman, my ex, he wouldn’t let me or anyone else keep him from being a father to carrie. And a wonderful one. So don’t you let anyone stand between you and your little girl.

Both: Hey.

Eli: How you doing, man?

Abe: Good, yeah. How’s valerie doing?

Eli: Superwoman as always. She sends her love.

Abe: That’s wonderful. And you, sweetheart.

Lani: Hi, dad.

Abe: How you doing?

Lani: I’m good. Just, you know, a little shaken up.

Eli: Well, now that you’re in good hands, I, um–I’m gonna go say hi to doug and julie.

Lani: Okay. Give them my love.

Eli: I will. I’ll see you. Take care of her, all right?

Abe: Good to see you too, man. Well, now that your overprotective husband is gone, your overprotective father wants the tea.

Lani: The tea?

Abe: Mm-hmm.

Lani: [Laughs] Look at you. Talking like a kid.

Abe: You know, I keep my hand in.

Lani: [Laughs]

Abe: So how you doing, sweetheart?

Abigail: “Dear diary, emily keeps telling me to stay away from tony, but I just can’T. He’s so handsome and he has that posh accent. Manly too. Like one of those jane austen heroes who rides up on his horse and makes the girls swoon. What’s wrong with my sister? Why is she so against tony and me getting closer?” Damn, this is kind of a page-turner.

Steve: Kristen!

Kayla: Might as well show your face. We’re gonna find you.

Sarah: Do you have to sound so angry? I mean, I get the threat of pirates, but my sister would never hurt us.

Kristen: What is all the ruckus? Oh, hey, sweetie. I see you met renee. Isn’t she special, hmm?

Ever notice how stiff clothes can feel rough on your skin?

Kayla: What did you give sarah? Why is she acting like this?

Sarah: Are we back to the sarah business again?

Kayla: Did you brainwash her? Did you deprive her until she dissociated?

Steve: Answer her.

Kristen: Wow, you two have always been so pushy. And your niece is exactly like you.

Steve: Abigail? She’s here?

Kayla: What have you done with her?

Kristen: Well, at the moment she’s curled up with a good book.

Abigail: “Everything’s awful. Stefano’s will was read this morning, and it says tony and i have to live in the dimera house with anna and david. I’d refuse, but then I lose my inheritance, and so would tony. I can’t believe my father’s torturing us from the grave. I don’t wanna be married to david anymore. He’s such a heel. And seeing tony every day with that trashy anna, I just– I can’t stand thinking about it. I have to do something. I have to find a way to get anna out of tony’s life… permanently.”

[Sighs] Poor anna. Renee really hated her guts.

Anna: Okay.

[Exhales] How do I even start? I don’t know what a treatment is except when doctors do it. Oh, I know, I’ll just pretend I’m nora ephron starting another masterpiece. Okay. Here goes. “Exterior.” That’s how they all start, right? Except this scene is inside. Hmm. “Interior. Tony’s penthouse. Daytime.” Okay, good. Now I’m rolling.

[Laughs]

[Gasps] “Anna is having it out with tony.” No, that’s not quite right. “The ravishing anna is having it out with cold, unfeeling tony because he refuses to accept her apology for sleeping with sinister andre by mistake because she thought he was tony.” What was it he said to me? Oh, how could I forget? Tony says… “oh, anna. How could you make love with that monster? Tell me, anna, did you look at him the way you look at me?” Anna says, “but tony, I told you, I thought he was you.”

[Inhales sharply] I’m going to make myself cry.

[Laughs] This screenplay writing thing is a snap once you get the hang of it. I wonder what I should wear to the oscars? Ha.

Tr: [Chuckles] Anna dimera may be a little eccentric, but… she’s right. I can’t stop trying to get through to lani.

[Knock at door]

Eli: Salem pd, open up.

Tr: Cops? What did paulina do now?

[Exhales deeply] Can I help you, officer?

Eli: Detective. Detective grant.

Tr: Oh, you must be lani’s husband. Come on in.

[Chuckles] So I guess this makes you my son-in-law.

Eli: Abe carver is my father-in-law. He’s one of the most decent men I’ve ever met.

Tr: I hope you think as well of me once we get to know each other.

Eli: Well, I don’t like what I know so far.

Tr: Well, I’m sure paulina has painted an ugly picture of me.

Eli: You didn’t help yourself too much by coming over to my home trying to barge in my door.

Tr: That’s not what happened.

Eli: Right. I guess you didn’t beat up paulina either. You didn’t scare her so much that she had to keep lani a secret from you?

Tr: Sounds like you’ve already made up your mind about me.

[Sighs] Are you planning to help paulina poison my daughter against me?

Eli: Lani is a strong, strong, smart woman and a damn good cop. She doesn’t need me or her mother to tell her how to feel. I just wanted to come by and let you know I have her back. You mess with any other price woman, you’ll have to answer to me, you understand?

Tr: Perfectly.

Eli: Bet.

[Tense music]

Lani: Having ray show up at my door, it knocked me for a loop.

Abe: You know, if… if you wanna know more about mr. Coates, I understand. But I am not crazy about the idea, given what he did to paulina. So just be careful, okay?

Lani: I may be curious about ray, but that’s all it is. You are my dad, and you always will be. And I know that now.

[Emotional music]

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Ej: Hello, mate. Sorry to disturb your rest. It looks like we’ll be sharing a cell, so I guess we’ll be spending quite a bit of time together. Clyde weston.

Clyde: Ej dera. Long time no see.

Xander: So you really like the ring?

Gwen: Oh, my god. It’s just–it’s perfect. I love it. I can’t wait to show it off.

[Knocking on door] And here’s my chance. Dad, what are you doing here?

Jack: I need you to be straight with me. What do you know about abigail’s disappearance?

Chad: You have a lead? Thank god, tell me what it– you’re kidding, no, no, no. No, no, I think you’re right, shawn. No, no, no, this is the key to finding my wife,

Kristen: Abigail, you’ve been very naughty. No.

Abigail: This is sarah’s room, isn’t it? Where is she?

Kristen: You know what? That’s what I would like to know.

Sarah: Oh, my god, I didn’t know anyone was in here. Kayla?

Kayla: Yes.

Sarah: Is it really you?

Kayla: Yes, it’s really me.

Sarah: Oh, it’s like a dream. How did you even get here?

Kayla: It is a long story. But don’t you worry. Everything’s gonna be all right. We’re gonna help you.

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Chad: Thank you, shawn. I will, yeah. Keep me posted.

Kate: Oh, please tell me that’s good news about abigail.

Chad: Shawn has a lead.

Kate: Oh, thank god.

Chad: So just before abby went missing listening, she tracked down this former dimera pilot who claimed he flew sarah out of town last year.

Kate: Yeah, she told me about that.

Chad: So the night abby disappeared, that same pilot flew out of a private airfield.

Kate: And that’s where you think abigail was headed, to confront sarah, whoever she is.

Chad: Can’t be a coincidence.

Kate: So what are you thinking?

Chad: I think abigail stumbled on to something with the whole sarah mystery. I think that pilot helped get rid of her.

Kate: Okay, so he must’ve filed a flight plan. Where did he go? Do you know where he went?

Kristen: Well, wherever sarah is, it’s not like she’s gonna go very far.

Abigail: So you admit you’ve been holding my cousin prisoner here on this island the whole time?

Kristen: Gold star for ms. Know-it-all. What the hell? You drugged me. I can’t believe you did that.

Abigail: What do you expect? You think because you give me tropical drinks with little umbrellas, I’m just gonna forget I’m a prisoner?

Kristen: Oh, my god. In all the time sarah’s been here, I mean, she never tried to drug me.

Abigail: Well, I’m sure it’s because she’s very grateful you kidnapped her and you brought her here against her will.

Kristen: See, sarah came willingly. In fact, she climbed into that suitcase.

Abigail: Why the hell would she do that?

Sarah: I still can’t believe my eyes. You really are here. Maybe I am dreaming.

Kayla: No, no, you’re not.

Sarah: Thank god ’cause I’ve been so lonely.

Kayla: I can’t even imagine what you’ve been through. Are you all right?

Sarah: Oh, I’m perfectly fine.

Kayla: Kristen didn’t hurt you?

Sarah: No.

Kayla: You can’t imagine how relieved I am to see you and that you’re looking so well.

Steve: You know what? I hate to break up this sweet reunion, but I think we need to get out of here before kristen gets back.

Sarah: And who might you be? This is the sound of nature breathing.

Steve: You don’t know who I am?

Sarah: No, should I?

Steve: I’m steve johnson. I’m kayla’s husband.

Sarah: You two are married?

Kayla: Yes.

Sarah: Well, that’s fantastic news, congratulations. When did this happen?

Steve: Well, we’ve been married a few times, but our most recent trip down the aisle was last year.

Kayla: You were my maid of honor.

Sarah: No, I wasn’T.

Steve: It’s true. You were in our wedding.

Sarah: Mm, I don’t think so. If I was in your wedding, I’d definitely remember that.

Abigail: Why would sarah willingly leave salem with you, hm? Were you trying to blackmail her? Tried to trick her somehow?

Kristen: Why does it matter?

Abigail: Fine. I’ll just go find sarah and see what she has to say.

Kristen: Wait. You want the scoop, lois lane? I’ll give it to you.

Gwen: Abigail’s disappearance? What are you talking about?

Jack: Abigail is missing.

Xander: Still? Chad came by here the other day looking for her. I just assumed they got their wires crossed or something.

Gwen: Yeah, this is the first time I’m hearing about it. I had no idea that abigail was missing.

Jack: Are you sure about that?

Chad: Unfortunately, the pilot didn’t file a flight plan so we have no record of where he could have gone.

Kate: Okay, well, did you check out the security cameras? That would give you a better idea of what happened.

Chad: Shawn looked into it. There’s no footage, so either the cameras weren’t working–

Kate: Yeah, or they erased the evidence.

Chad: All shawn’s got is that an airfield employee ided the pilot, but he says that he was alone. I’m positive though. He’s the key to finding abby.

Kate: Okay, so I assume that shawn is trying to track him down?

Chad: Now it’s just a waiting game.

Kate: Okay. Chad, look, I know that you are really horribly worried about abigail, and now is not the greatest time, I’m sorry, but since it’s about your brother–

Chad: Kate, don’T.

Kate: “Kate, don’t”? What does that mean? You don’t give a damn about the fact that you’re letting your brother go to prison for a crime he didn’t commit?

Clyde: Well, I was wondering when you might show up.

Ej: You’ve been keeping tabs on me, I’m flattered.

Clyde: Your trial was big news around here. Read all about how you kidnapped your wife and held her prisoner for months. I got to tell you, even by my standard, that’s pretty twisted.

Ej: I’m innocent.

Clyde: The judge didn’t seem to think so.

Ej: I was set up.

Clyde: Sure you were.

Ej: It’s the truth.

Clyde: Listen, first thing you gotta know is I ain’t no snitch, okay? So you can level with me, especially since you and I were one-time business associates, right?

Ej: I was your boss. And that was a long time ago. I never should have gotten mixed up in running drugs.

Clyde: No, it didn’t turn out too well for you, did it?

Ej: [Chuckles] Bit of an understatement considering it led to my supposed death

Clyde: Yet here you are, alive and well.

Ej: Mm-hmm, and you know one of my biggest regrets is that I never got to confront the son of a bitch who shot me. Migraine attacks?

Clyde: Sounds like you still hold a grudge.

Ej: Why wouldn’t I? I lost everything that night.

[Tense music]

Clyde: Exactly how much do you remember about that night, ej, about your shooting?

Chad: It’s so hard to keep up with you, kate. You know, one minute, you’re trying to talk me out of exonerating ej, and the next, you’re feeling guilty about about letting him take the fall.

Kate: Well, now that I know he’s staring at a ten-year sentence, I’ve landed squarely on feeling guilty.

Chad: Okay, then you know what, why don’t you go to the police and tell them that the real kidnapper is your son lucas? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Kate: You know, you have a son, all right? Surely you understand me wanting to protect mine.

Chad: Up to a point, sure.

Kate: Oh, up to a point? Okay, so what point would you throw thomas under the bus? At what point would you divulge information that could ruin his life?

Chad: I hope I never have to make that decision.

Kate: Okay, so that’s not an answer.

Chad: I don’t foresee myself ever having to make that decision.

Kate: Oh, you don’t, huh? Oh, why, because your children are going to be perfect? They’re gonna be honest, honorable model citizens?

Chad: I sure as hell hope so, yeah.

Kate: You know something? We all hope so when they’re little. But then they become adults, and it’s a constantly lowering set of expectations because you can give them all the love in the world, and they are still gonna find a way to screw your life.

Chad: Okay, okay, I get it.

Kate: No, you don’t get it. You don’t get it. But somebody you will because someday, they’ll be adults, and they’ll make horrific mistakes, and there won’t be a damn thing you can do about it.

Chad: Right, and when I do or when abigail and I do, I should say, then you’ll be there to advise us, right? To make sure that first and foremost, we let our children get away with all these horrible mistakes that you’ve alluded to.

Kate: Oh, so that was really subtle, really subtle.

Chad: Okay, fine, you know what, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. That was uncalled for. It’s just, my wife is missing and I’m just a little bit on edge right now, okay?

Kate: Okay, I know, of course you are. And I’m sorry because I shouldn’t have been going on about all of this actually ’cause clearly you are worried. So just listen to me for a moment. You can continue with your plan claiming that you planted the evidence against ej. Just leave lucas out of it.

Chad: No, because then I will be charged with perjury, okay? And there’s no way in hell I’m gonna implicate myself to save ej after he forced himself on my wife.

Kate: I just think it’s wrong to make him suffer that much.

Chad: You know what? Hey, why don’t you think of the positive? Your guilty as hell son gets to gallivant around the world with the woman that he loves. Okay. I’m sorry. That was the last time. I won’t do it again. And you know what? My consciousness has been raised, and you’re right. If it were my son, I would protect him the exact same way you are protecting yours.

Kate: Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I do. I just wish I thought that roman would, you know.

Chad: He’s not up to it?

Kate: Not up to it. If he knew that I let sami gallivant around the world with her kidnapper, he’d never forgive me.

Chad: Well, you don’t want your son to go to prison, and I get that you don’T. You’re just gonna have to learn to live with it.

Tony: Live with what?

Xander: Jack, why are you suspicious of gwen? She just told you that she doesn’t know anything about this.

Jack: I spoke with chad. He told me that abigail was investigating sarah’s disappearance, and now abigail is missing as well. He’s convinced that the two things are connected.

Xander: What does that have to do with gwen though?

Jack: Chad said that abigail suspected that gwen was pretending to be sarah.

Xander: Well, did he also tell you that it’s a totally bogus accusation proven by the fact that when sarah was talking to abigail in the square, gwen ran into them, isn’t that right, love?

Gwen: Yes, that’s right. It was actually quite alarming ’cause abigail had this really strong grip on sarah. She was trying to rip off a mask, apparently trying to expose me. And so when she saw me standing there, she apologized to sarah and just walked off.

Xander: So abigail clearly had it wrong. Jack, I’m sorry abigail is missing, but whatever happened to her had nothing to do with gwen.

Abigail: So what, just like that, you’re just gonna tell me what happened with sarah?

Kristen: Why not? Who you going to blab it to? It’s not like you’re going ”

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Steve: She remembers you, and abe, the hortons. She doesn’t know who I am or who she is.

Kayla: I know. It’s so strange, but who knows what kristen did her this year.

Steve: Maybe when we get her back to salem, it’ll trigger the rest of her memories.

Kayla: Possibly, but we just need to get off this island prison.

Ej: How long have you been here in statesville?

Clyde: Eight long years. Though I have managed to sneak in a few unofficial breaks here and there.

Ej: So you must be pretty keyed in to the inner workings of this place. Can I rely on you to show me the ropes?

Clyde: Least I could do for my old boss.

Ej: Who would’ve thought that after all these years, you and i would be sharing a cell.

Clyde: Talk about your strange bedfellow, huh?

Ej: Mm-hmm. Since you staked out the top bunk, I guess the bottom’s all mine.

Clyde: Holy cow. That poor bastard honest-to-god doesn’t remember how i double-crossed him. Hope it stays that way for his sake. The world is full of make or break moments.

Jack: Thank you, thank you. It means a lot to me, like I said. Wait a minute, look at that rock. Is there something you two aren’t telling me?

Gwen: Yes. Actually, we are engaged. Xander just gave me the ring before you arrived.

Jack: Oh. And I put a big damper on the whole celebration. I’m so sorry.

Xander: No worries, mate.

Jack: For what it’s worth, I’m so happy for you both.

Gwen: Really?

Jack: It’s clear you two are very much in love. And I’m glad that my daughter has you to look after her.

Xander: Thanks, mate. Hey, this mean I get to call you dad?

Jack: No.

Chad: What do you know about ned grainger?

Tony: Well, whenever anna and I used the corporate jet, we always requested ned ’cause he was a professional, congenial man. Actually, we got to know each other quite well.

Chad: Do you know how to find him?

Tony: I know he had a little bungalow down in key west.

Chad: Tell me you have that address.

Tony: Not exactly, but I do–well, I’m familiar with the vicinity.

Kate: Would you recognize the house if you saw it?

Tony: Yeah, yes. Because he actually had us over for dinner during a layover one night. Cooked lobster for us.

Chad: Okay, you and i need to go down to key west as soon as possible.

Kate: You should call shawn first.

Chad: I’ll give him a heads-up, but I’m not leaving this up to the cops, not when abigail’s life depends on it.

Kristen: Well, let’s just say sarah was high enough after she was injected that she thought I was xander.

Abigail: That happened to me, too. My mind kept mixing people up. I mean, I actually thought chad was ben at one point.

Kristen: I mean, her hallucination actually worked to my advantage. See as xander, I was able to get her into the suitcase, tell her that we were escaping kristen and that we were gonna get married on a deserted island.

Abigail: So that’s what you meant when you said she went with you willingly.

Kristen: Mm-hmm. And she couldn’t get in there fast enough.

Abigail: I gotta say I just–I would not be okay if it weren’t for the fact that I had intensive therapy and took medication. If sarah hasn’t seen a professional, she’s gotta be a mess.

Kristen: Actually, she’s doing quite well now.

Sarah: Look what I found.

Steve: Wow, this is great.

Sarah: I’ve dreamed of this day for so long, and it could really be happening. If we go out far enough that we can flag down a ship, then I can finally get back to the man that I love. I’ve missed him beyond all reason.

Kayla: Well, he’s been so worried about you, too.

Sarah: You’ve seen him?

Steve: Well, before we left salem, he tried to hire my agency to come search for you.

Sarah: So he hasn’t forgotten me?

Steve: Of course not.

Sarah: There’s not a day, not an hour has gone by that I don’t think of him. His dark hair and his soulful eyes and that voice. I do love his deep sexy voice.

Kayla: Well, you’re clearly still in love with xander.

Sarah: Who’s xander? This is the sound of nature breathing.

Ej: Far cry from the sheets back home.

Clyde: Hey, just a tip. Don’t talk about your extravagant lifestyle out in gen pop. They’re not gonna find it so endearing.

Ej: Got it. I do hope I can trust you, clyde, because I’m going to need someone to have my back around here.

Clyde: Oh, you have no idea.

Kayla: You don’t remember xander either?

Sarah: I don’t think so. Is it with a z or an x?

Steve: Xander was your fiancé. You almost married him.

Jack: Have you set a date for the wedding?

Gwen: Might have to catch my breath.

Xander: But soon, I hope, and we’re counting on you, and jennifer, and abigail being there. I have no doubt in my mind abigail will be found by then, mate.

Jack: Right, right, well, I better give jennifer a call and give her an update, let her know what’s going on.

Gwen: Keep us posted.

Jack: Oh, I will, I will.

Gwen: Okay.

Jack: Trust me, okay. Congratulations, you two, again.

Gwen: Dad, I do hope that you find abigail soon.

Jack: We will, and when I find out who did this, I swear to you, I swear to god, I will make them pay.

Abigail: Does sarah still thinks she’s married to xander? Does she think she’s living happily ever after with him on this island?

Kristen: Ah, well, no. I mean, sarah has moved past that phase.

Abigail: What do you mean?

Kristen: Well, let’s just say that she’s not hung up on xander anymore.

Sarah: I don’t know what’s going on here, but I can assure you I’ve never been engaged to a xander.

Kayla: But what about the dark hair and the soulful eyes?

Steve: Sexy voice?

Sarah: I was talking about tony.

Steve: You’re in love with tony?

Kayla: Dimera?

Sarah: Is there another?

Tony: I must say these are hardly the circumstances under which i imagined seeing ned again.

Chad: Let’s get to the airfield.

Kate: No, no, wait, you just can’t go off and confront this man; he could be dangerous.

Chad: I’m not waiting for the cops and their protocols.

Tony: I’m with chad on this. And I think it will help because I’m friendly with ned. I think I can get him to cooperate.

Chad: And if tony can’t convince him, I will. I’ll call the jet and have them fuel it up.

Tony: We’re gonna find abigail. We’re gonna bring her home to you and to your children.

Steve: You’re in love with tony dimera?

Sarah: Don’t sound surprised. I mean, I know we’ve had our ups and downs, but tony’s the love of my life.

Steve: Maybe she thinks she’s anna.

Sarah: Anna fredricks? How could you possibly confuse me with that scheming bitch?

Kayla: Then who are you?

Sarah: I am the one and only renee dumonde.

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Xander: I think we should think about getting out of bed.

Gwen: What? Do you have somewhere to go?

Xander: In fact, I do.

Gwen: Where might that be?

Xander: It’s a surprise.

Gwen: Well, can I at least have a hint?

Xander: Sure. It rhymes with sing.

Gwen: Uh-huh, bling?

Xander: Mean, you’re on the right track.

Gwen: Ding?

Xander: In a sense.

Gwen: Oh, my god. Ring, ring. You’re gonna get me an engagement ring.

Xander: Ding, ding, ding, ding. Well, to be precise, I’m gonna begin the process of window shopping for an engagement ring. So yeah, if you have any hints you wanna drop, now would be the appropriate time.

Gwen: Oh, my god, xander. You are so, so sweet and so utterly charming, but we don’t have any money for a really nice ring. I swear I don’t need anything fancy.

Xander: You deserve it. You deserve the fanciest ring on the planet.

Gwen: Okay. I won’t fight you on it.

Xander: I won’t be long. Try and stay of trouble while I’m gone.

Gwen: I’ll do my best.

Ej: Ironic, isn’t it? That of all the crimes I’ve committed in my life, here I am about to be locked up for the one I did not.

Belle: Well, I’ve already filed the papers to get the appeal rolling.

Ej: At least now I understand why chad changed his mind about testifying on my behalf. But what I don’t understand is why he so certain he saw me kissing abigail at the courthouse when I never went near her.

Belle: Doesn’t make sense.

Ej: If only I could just see him and then explain–

Belle: Oh no, no, no. You don’t wanna do that. He’s got a lot going on with abigail right now.

Ej: What do you mean?

Belle: Well, shawn got a call from chad last night. He got a text–ostensibly from abigail–saying she went to boston to visit her parents.

Ej: And?

Belle: And someone else must have sent that because abigail never went to boston. And now she’s vanished without a trace.

Chad: It’s like finding a needle in a 300-mile haystack. You could be anywhere, but I’m not giving up, abby. I will find you, whatever it takes.

[Soft music]

[Crash]

Kayla: Oh!

Steve: What the hell was that?

Kayla: I think someone slammed the door. Were you sleeping, too?

Steve: Sorry, baby. I shouldn’t have dosed off like that.

Kayla: It’s understandable. You were clobbered on the head, and kristen drugged you.

Steve: And I can’t tell if it’s day or night.

Kayla: Was this here before?

Steve: What? No, maybe she snuck in here while we were sleeping.

Kayla: Well, at least she brought us some provisions.

Steve: And a few other things.

[Cell phone rings]

Kristen: Hello?

[Cell phone rings] Damn it, abigail was right. The cops are closing in.

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Shawn: Hey, uncle steve, it’s me. I know brady hired you to look for kristen; I’m sure you’re hot on her trail.

Kristen: Very hot.

Shawn: I’m calling because abigail went missing yesterday, and we have reason to believe kristen is involved. But brady says he hasn’t heard from you lately, so please give me a call when you get this.

Abigail: I told you they’d be looking for me.

[Cell phone beeps]

[Soft music]

Gwen: Here we go.

[Cell phone beeps] “Kristen or whoever you are, I know you have my wife, and you’ve disabled tracking on her phone. Please have some compassion. She’s a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister. I’m begging you. I’ll do anything you want. Just please, let her come home to her family.”

Xander: Stop being so sentimental. Sarah is never coming back to you. And the only way you can afford to buy gwen an engagement ring is to sell this one.

[Tense music]

Sarah: Why can’t the man I love whisk me away on the back of a stallion? Or at least a raft.

Limu emu

Belle: Chad thinks that kristen might have had something to do with abigail’s disappearance.

Ej: Why would my sister kidnap abigail?

Belle: Well, apparently abigail was on the trail of what happened to sarah, and that led her to kristen. I mean, honestly I stopped trying to figure out kristen’s motivations.

Ej: Well, if she did have something to do with abigail’s disappearance, chad should find some comfort.

Belle: Why do you say that?

Ej: Because abigail is a dimera. Family first and all that. Kristen won’t hurt her. We may stab one another in the back figuratively, but never literally.

Belle: Never?

Ej: Well, there was that one time with poor benjy. And renee. But both those incidents were andre’s fault.

Belle: Well, I do hope that kristen has abigail because shawn said that steve and kayla were on her trail. And if anyone can find kristen dimera, it’s them.

Kayla: Let’s see, you know, when it comes to kidnapping, kristen sure provides a1 service.

Steve: She’s had experience.

Kayla: Look at this, three different options for sweetener for our coffee.

Steve: So thoughtful of her.

Kayla: And look at this, our driver’s licenses.

Steve: Yeah, too bad there’s no place to drive to.

Kayla: Excellent point.

Steve: I can tell you right now, she didn’t return my phone.

Kayla: Well, you probably wouldn’t have cell service here, anyway.

Steve: Oh, whoa, whoa. What are you doing? You can’t eat that.

Kayla: Why not? It looks fresh.

Steve: It could have drugs or poison in it.

Kayla: I’m starving. The last time I ate anything was one of the communion wafers that I snuck at the convent. And that was days ago. I mean, aren’t you hungry?

Steve: Yeah, but not hungry enough to risk being poisoned.

Kayla: You know, I’m willing to take the chance. Thank you.

Abigail: Must be stressful feeling those walls just closing in on you. Like I said, just a matter of time.

Kristen: And like I said, if anyone comes looking for you, my house has plenty of rooms.

Abigail: Is that really what you want? You want a house full of kidnapping victims?

Kristen: No, I want to be left alone. I mean, if people would just mind their own damn business, none of this would be happening.

Abigail: So I found a whole wing of the house that’s locked off. What’s in there, sarah? My aunt kayla and uncle steve?

Kristen: No, my bedroom. And I have the only key. No offense, abigail, but I didn’t wanna wake up in the middle of the night with you looming over me.

Abigail: You can’t keep us here forever, you know?

Kristen: I wouldn’t be so sure about that.

[Tense music]

Chad: “I’m sorry, but I can’t help you.” That’s it. That’s it? I’m sorry? “Whoever you are, if you harm one hair on my wife’s head, I will find you. And I will kill you. I do not care if you are family.” Send.

Shawn: Whoa, what’s going on?

Gwen: Sorry, chad, but I can’t do anything to help abigail now. So bugger off.

Alice loves the scent of gain so much,

Shawn: “I will find you, and I will kill you?”

Chad: What, too strong?

Shawn: I don’t think it’s very helpful.

Chad: Well, I need whoever it is to know that they’re not getting away with this.

Shawn: You should have let the police be the one to reach out to abigail’s kidnappers.

Chad: What does it matter? They’re not gonna tell me where abby is anyway.

Shawn: We’ve been trained to handle situations like this. We could have worked out a strategy.

Chad: Strategy, okay. Tell me what your strategy is to bringing my wife home.

Shawn: I went back to the airstrip, and I interviewed all personnel that were working yesterday, and also I tried get a look at the security footage.

Chad: And?

Shawn: And it’s gone. Somebody was covering their tracks.

Chad: Why am I not surprised?

Shawn: I left a message for my uncle steve. Brady hired him to try to track down kristen, hoping that maybe she’ll have some information on philip’s disappearance.

Chad: Okay, what else?

Shawn: I’m still waiting to hear back from him.

Chad: So then what do we do now besides wait?

Shawn: Well, can you think of anyone else who might know where to find kristen?

Chad: Actually, maybe I can.

[Knocking on door]

Gwen: Oh, my god. Coming, coming. Get in there, get in there, get in there. Oh. Coming, I’m coming.

[Tense music]

Maggie: Gwen, is everything all right?

Gwen: Maggie. Yes, everything’s fine.

Maggie: I thought I heard some pounding.

Gwen: Pounding? No, no, I was just trying to call the housekeeping, and the bloody line just doesn’t work. So if you are here to see xander, you’ve actually just–you’ve missed him. But I can take a message for you.

Maggie: Oh no. Actually, I just wanted to see how he was doing after…

Gwen: After sarah turned up and kicked him to the curb again.

Maggie: Well, yes, it must have been very painful for him.

Gwen: Actually, I’m very happy to report that he is doing very well.

Maggie: Really?

Gwen: Really. Turns out that him running into sarah could have been the best thing that could have happened to him.

Maggie: Why would you say that?

Gwen: Because he has finally put sarah in his rear view mirror, and he has decided to move on. In fact, he’s just proposed to me.

[Soft music]

Xander: I’m on my knees, unemployed, apparently unengaged, I’m not really in a cake kind of place–

Sarah: Can you just open the damn box?

Xander: Well, this is really weird.

Sarah: Well, will you? Oh, my god. The most romantic thing I’ve ever read.

Kristen: You barely touched anything I’ve given you since you’ve been here. What, are you on a hunger strike?

Abigail: No, I just don’t really care to be poisoned again, thank you very much.

Kristen: Abigail, I’m not gonna drug you.

Abigail: Why would I trust anything that you say?

Kristen: Well, because the alternative is to starve.

Abigail: No, the alternative is for you to let me go.

Kristen: Can I just make a point? See, if you would have minded your own business, you would be home with my brother and your two beautiful children right now.

Abigail: You are blaming me for getting abducted, okay.

Kristen: All right, see, I see you looking at the phone. Oh, my god, abigail, you can’t help yourself.

Abigail: What are you doing?

Kristen: Well, you can’t be too safe, hm?

Abigail: Look, what was I supposed to do? Sarah’s my cousin, okay? And reporting’s not just my job, it’s in my blood, sort of like kidnapping seems to be in yours.

Kristen: I was adopted, and you know that.

Abigail: Okay, so you were raised to be a kidnapper.

Kristen: Wow. I’m not a monster. I don’t wanna hurt anyone. Look, I’ve made you comfortable here.

Abigail: I would be slightly more comfortable if I were at home with my husband and my kids.

Kristen: I understand. But your father will tell you that I took very good care of him in nashville.

Abigail: Yeah. Apart from the fact that you kept him locked in a warehouse and let his family think he was dead for years.

Kristen: He is alive today because of me.

Abigail: Look, I know you pride yourself on being a non-homicidal type of criminal–well, except for the whole thing with my brother’s girlfriend, but–

Kristen: Okay, you know that I didn’t mean to do that.

Abigail: And maybe you don’t mean to kill me either. But if I starve to death, that’s on your head.

Kristen: Oh, my god. For god’s sakes, you know what? If it’s gonna stop this pointless conversation, I’m gonna prove to you right now that I’m not poisoning any of this, not your corn flakes or your drink. Wanna see? I’ll prove it to you right now. Hm?

[Soft music]

You satisfied now?

[Tense music]

Abigail: Very satisfied. Do you struggle with occasional nerve aches

Maggie: Xander proposed to you?

Gwen: Yeah, sorry if it hurts you to hear that. I know that you were very invested in xander and your daughter’s relationship.

Maggie: I’m just surprised. I didn’t see a ring, so…

Gwen: Well, yes, well, it was quite spur-of-the-moment. Actually, he’s out shopping for a ring as we speak.

Maggie: Is that right?

Gwen: Listen, maggie, I know that xander was very dear to you. And I know that you don’t approve.

Maggie: Gwen, I didn’t say that.

Gwen: You didn’t have to. But if you are holding onto any sort of hope that xander and sarah are going to get back together one day, don’T. Because he has said he is not waiting for sarah to come back to him. In fact, sarah has made it very clear, yet again, she does not want him.

Maggie: I know, I was there.

Gwen: Then what’s the problem?

Maggie: The problem is something was off with sarah’s visit.

Gwen: Like what?

Maggie: I don’t know, call it a mother’s instinct, intuition. I don’t know. But she just didn’t seem like the sarah that I know and love.

[Tense music]

Belle: Before I forget, I brought you a little something to help you get acclimated. This one is for the commissary. Buy yourself something nice. And that one’s for the phone.

Ej: Do you always provide these services for your incarcerated clients?

Belle: My clients don’t usually end up in prison.

Ej: Oof, lucky me.

Belle: Ej–

Ej: I’m kidding. I’m very grateful for everything you’ve done and to have you on my side. But you could probably hold onto the phone card because I have no one to call anyway.

Belle: You can call me for anything really, anytime.

Ej: Thank you, belle.

Chad: Ej.

Ej: The hell are you doing here?

Chad: I need to talk to you.

Ej: Belle just told me that abigail is missing. I’m very sorry.

Chad: Yeah, I bet.

Ej: Look, I don’t know anything about what happened to her, if that’s why you are here.

Chad: Maybe you don’t, but I’m almost certain our sister does, and I know you’ve been in contact with kristen. Where is she?

Abigail: Surely you understand how much I miss my kids. I mean, I’m sure you miss rachel.

Kristen: More than you know. Have you seen her?

Abigail: I have.

Kristen: How is she?

Abigail: She’s getting big. Yeah, I saw her at the mall with brady and chloe a few weeks–

Kristen: Okay, just shut up! Just stop it!

Abigail: I thought you wanted to know what you were missing.

Kristen: I did. I did, but the idea of chloe being–she… being she—oh my.

Abigail: Something wrong?

Kristen: Um… yeah, my head is–it’s just spinning.

Abigail: Well, it’s about damn time.

Kristen: What? What did you do?

Abigail: Well, I just–i went out exploring the property, the part you let me see, anyway, and I found some old sleeping pills in a medicine cabinet, and I am very happy to see they’re not expired.

Kristen: No.

Abigail: Yep, yeah. And let me just say, I wouldn’t slip a foreign substance into just anyone’s drink, given my own personal, unfortunate circumstance. But you, you, I felt deserved a little taste of your own medicine, so to speak.

Kristen: So you put it in there and then–

Abigail: Yeah, yeah, and i wasn’t sure how much I’d be able to get you to consume, so I put enough in there to tranquilize a horse. Quite frankly I’m surprised you’re still upright.

Kristen: Oh!

Abigail: That’s more like it.

Is now a good time

for a flare-up?

Gwen: What do you mean it didn’t seem like sarah?

Maggie: Well, my daughter has flaws, we all do. But she’s a very kind and caring person. And despite everything that happened between her and xander, I know how much xander meant to her. But for her to behave like that toward him, it was just–it was out of character, to say the least.

Gwen: Well, perhaps she’s changed since she left salem.

Maggie: Yes. Yes, honestly, she hasn’t been acting like herself since the day she took off.

Xander: Gwen, you’re dressed. That’s a shame. Maggie, hello. What are you doing here?

Maggie: Hello, xander. I just–I stopped by to see how you were holding up.

Xander: Well, I’m doing well, thank you.

Maggie: I heard. Excuse me, forgive me. Congratulations are in order. Gwen told me that the two of you are engaged.

Xander: Indeed we are. Thanks, maggie.

Maggie: I will always be sorry that things didn’t work out between you and sarah, but if gwen makes you happy, then I wish you both all the best.

Xander: I appreciate it.

Gwen: That’s very kind of you, thank you.

Maggie: Well, you two have a good day.

[Soft music]

Gwen: Something tells me she did not mean that.

Sarah: No one’s coming to rescue me. If I want to get out of here, I have to do it myself.

Steve: You’re not gonna believe this, baby.

Kayla: Wow, flare guns. Where’d you find those?

Steve: I was nosing around, and I noticed something in that grill over there. Gave it a yank, and it popped right off.

Kayla: If we could just get that door open.

Steve: Wait a minute.

Kayla: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I’m not finished.

Steve: Oh, baby, listen. When we get back to salem, I’ll buy you a beautiful dinner. I promise. But this and these flare guns could be our ticket out of here.

Abigail: If I were a key, I’d be… right here.

[Tense music]

Ej: Let’s say I did know where kristen was. Why the hell would I tell you anything after you falsely accused me of forcing myself on your wife?

Chad: Falsely accused? I saw it with my own eyes.

Ej: I have no idea who or what you thought you saw–

Chad: You can try to explain this away all you want, but–

Belle: Stop it, stop it. None of this matters now. All right? We all care about abigail, and we all want to bring her home. Now, ej, if you can help chad find her, you will do that, won’t you? Wondering what actually goes into your multi-vitamin.

Ej: I do care about abigail as a sister-in-law and a friend, of course.

Chad: Of course.

Belle: Then you’ll help.

Ej: I’m sorry. Ever since kristen escaped town, I’ve tried to keep tabs on her, but I haven’t heard from her in months.

Belle: Are you sure?

Ej: Yes. I have no idea where she is, and that’s the god’s honest truth.

Chad: What about the dimera secret holdings? Have you checked any of those properties?

Ej: You have more information at your fingertips than I do. You hold the keys to the dimera kingdom after you railroaded me out of my job.

Chad: Stop playing the victim. Abigail’s the victim here.

Ej: Let’s not forget we both know that I don’t belong here.

Chad: You’re a criminal, ej, a sociopath; this is exactly where you belong.

Belle: All right. None of this–

Chad: Hopefully you stay locked up forever.

Belle: Chad, none of this is helpful.

Chad: Just being honest.

Ej: Oh, honest, like when you and lucas set me up, when you lied on the stand?

Belle: Listen, you should know that we’re filing an appeal, and we are gonna win because I know you know that ej is innocent.

Chad: Yeah, innocent is the last thing that he is.

Ej: You see, he couldn’t care less that I was wrongly convicted.

Chad: Justice has been served. The world is a better place with you behind bars. And if you never get out, there is nobody on the outside that is ever gonna miss you, least of all me. Belle.

[Tense music]

Xander: Was that awkward with maggie?

Gwen: A little.

Xander: I’m sorry.

Gwen: It’s okay. I understand that this is probably going to be a part of our lives now moving forward.

Xander: What do you mean?

Gwen: You were set to marry the lovely and beautiful sarah horton, the caring doctor from salem’s family that everybody loves–

Xander: Gwen.

Gwen: And instead you are settling for me, the town pariah who tried to destroy her sister’s life.

Xander: Gwen, look at me. Hey, look, I don’t care what anyone else thinks, even maggie. You’re everything I could ever want. I know we belong together.

Gwen: Are you sure about that?

Xander: Very sure. If you still don’t believe me, then please allow me to prove it.

[Soft music]

Kayla: Oh, try not to stab yourself.

Steve: I know what I’m doing.

Kayla: Uh-huh, I can’t begin to tell you how many people I have stitched up in the er for injuring themselves with utensils.

Steve: Picking locks?

Kayla: Among other things, yes.

Steve: Ooh, sorry I asked.

Kayla: Come on. Be careful, all right?

Steve: I know what I’m doing. Just don’t worry about me. Ow, oh, ow.

Kayla: That looks like it hurt, but I’m not gonna say I told you so.

Steve: You just did.

Kayla: Let me see your hand.

[Tense music]

We do it every night.

Belle: I’m sorry for what chad said to you.

Ej: I suppose I deserve some of it.

Belle: You don’t deserve to go to prison for a crime you didn’t commit. I’ll be back to discuss the appeal after you’ve had some time to settle in.

Ej: Thank you for being my lifeline.

Belle: Well, you hang in there. And I hope your cellmate is–

Ej: Is not a murderer, or somebody that hates all dimeras?

Belle: Well, neither would be very fun for you.

Ej: Although I hear that rafe hernandez could be an inmate soon. Now, that would be my worst nightmare.

Belle: Well, fingers crossed.

Ej: Thanks. I’m sure I’ll be fine.

[Cell phone rings]

Chad: Hey.

Shawn: Were you able to see ej?

Chad: Yeah, thanks for getting me in there. Belle was there, too.

Shawn: She was?

Chad: Yeah, working on his appeal.

Shawn: Right, right. Any luck?

Chad: Ej claims to know nothing about kristen.

Shawn: Do you believe him?

Chad: Hard to tell, but I think it’s a dead end. I guess we’re back to square one.

Shawn: Not necessarily. I may have a lead.

Gwen: Oh, my god. I thought you were just going window shopping.

Xander: Yeah, I decided to upgrade to actual shopping.

Gwen: Xander, how much did that cost? I hope you didn’t have to hock some precious possession or something.

Xander: I sold sarah’s engagement ring.

Gwen: Oh, xander.

Xander: No, it was silly that I’d held onto it as long as I had, just glad I got one last use for it, and very glad to finally put that part of my life behind me.

Gwen: It’s stunning.

Xander: So are you. Hold out your hand.

Gwen: Oh, my god. You’ve already done this once, you know.

Xander: Well, if it’ll make it stick, I’ll propose to you every day of our lives. Gwen rizczech, soon-to-be cook, will you marry me?

Gwen: Yes. A second time, yes. A thousand times, yes! Yes, yes, I will marry you.

Xander: I hope it fits.

Gwen: God, look at that. Xander, that is truly–that is so perfect. It’s beautiful. I love it. I love it so much. I love you. I love you so much. Thank you for making me the happiest woman in all the world.

[Tense music]

Kristen: Abigail, you have been very naughty. No.

Abigail: This is sarah’s room, isn’t it? Where is she?

Kayla: Okay, okay, okay. Stay still, all right?

Steve: Patching up patch. Just like the old days, huh, baby?

Kayla: How does it feel?

Steve: Well, kinda like a rare piece of beef.

Kayla: You are a rare piece of beef.

Steve: Am I now?

Kayla: Yes.

Steve: Okay, that’s good. But I think I’m gonna need a kiss to make it really feel better.

Kayla: Okay.

Steve: No, not there. Right here.

[Tense music]

Ej: Definitely not the ritz. Hello, mate. Sorry to disturb your rest. It looks like we’ll be sharing a cell, so I guess we’ll be spending quite a bit of time together.

[Tense music]

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Johnny as jake: I would like a guarantee in writing that i will be made ceo of dimera after we take over.

Maggie: Yeah. Well, I’ll see what he says.

Johnny as jake: And now, let’s talk about titan.

Maggie: Victor has very strong reservations about putting an outsider, someone out of the family, in charge of his company. I’m–I’m afraid making gabi ceo of titan just may be off the table. Is that a dealbreaker?

Gabi: Sure as hell is.

Johnny as jake: Absolutely not.

Maggie: Really?

Johnny as jake: Mm-hmm.

Maggie: I thought making gabi ceo of titan was one of your conditions.

Johnny as jake: It was, but I wouldn’t want something like that to sour the deal. As long as I’m made ceo of dimera enterprises, I got everything I want.

[Unsettling music]

Ava: Not fast enough, but it’ll do.

Jake: What are you so happy about?

Nicole: What time are you talking to the lawyer? Great. Hopefully she has a strategy that to get the charges thrown out. In the meantime, I will try to find a way to prove that ava is the one who is setting you up. Don’t worry, rafe. We are going to clear your name, one way or another. Hey, just call me after you talk to the lawyer. Okay? Good luck.

Allie: Hey. Sorry. I didn’t mean to interrupt.

Nicole: No, that’s okay. I–I thought you were working today.

Allie: I am. I was just grabbing an early lunch. Were you talking to rafe?

Nicole: Yeah.

Allie: How’s he doing?

Nicole: Not great. Even when the criminals accused him of planting evidence, I didn’t actually think they would arrest him. I mean, this is a nightmare.

Allie: I’m so sorry. But I mean, if he’s not guilty, then the cops are going to figure that out, right?

Nicole: [Scoffs] I’m not so sure about that.

Chanel: Mama, what’s going on?

Paulina: Nothing. I just thought it would be nice to take a family trip to miami. Get out of this cold weather. Well, hurry up and pack up some things.

Chanel: I’m not going anywhere. Now that I’ve served johnny with those divorce papers, it’s finally heating up around here.

[Knocks on door]

Lani: You back already? Mr. Coates, uh, what are you doing here?

Tr: But I did meet your cousin, though.

Chanel: What cousin?

Tr: Lani grant.

Chanel: Oh, no, you got the wrong information. Lani’s not my cousin. She’s my sister.

Lani: Mr. Coates?

Tr: I’m sorry to show up unannounced, lani, but there’s something important I have to discuss with you. And it can’t wait.

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Lani: Mr. Coates.

> Tr: Tr.

Lani: Tr, I know you are in business with chanel’s husband, johnny, but if you’ve come here to try to talk me into asking her not to sue him–

Tr: That’s not why I came to see you.

Lani: Good, because I don’t have anything to do with chanel’s marriage or her divorce.

Tr: I can’t imagine she wouldn’t value your opinion.

Lani: [Scoffs] You don’t know chanel. Her opinion is the only one that she values.

Tr: Mm, like her mother before.

Lani: Okay. The point is even, if I wanted to influence her, which I don’t, I can guarantee you that I would have no effect.

Tr: But she is your sister, right?

Lani: Uh… who told you that?

Tr: Chanel told me herself.

Allie: Everyone at salem pd knows that rafe is a good cop. I mean, they have to realize that they made a mistake.

Nicole: Not just a mistake. Someone is framing him.

Allie: Who would do that to him?

Nicole: I can’t say for sure. Not yet anyway, but I’m working on finding some proof.

Allie: Okay, well, you don’t have to do it alone. There are so many people who care about rafe, and everyone will help you clear his name. I mean, you have me and ava.

Nicole: Well…

Allie: What?

Nicole: Honestly, allie, I don’t think ava’s gonna be much help.

Ava: Oh, just reading a silly article in the health section. “Ten ways to drive your lover crazy.”

Jake: Ha, is that good crazy or bad crazy?

Ava: A little of both.

Jake: Lucky rafe.

Ava: Lucky rafe. What are you doing home in the middle of the afternoon?

Jake: Unemployed, remember?

Ava: [Chuckles] So shouldn’t you be out pounding the pavement? Looking for a job so you can move you and your girlfriend outta here?

Jake: That might happen sooner than you think.

Ava: Oh, music to my ears.

Jake: You know, see, gabi and I, we got a plan. So as much as I’m loving these random run-ins between the two of us, you’re probably not gonna see us around here much longer.

Maggie: Well, I’m sure victor will be happy to learn that he doesn’t have to hand over titan to an outsider.

Johnny as jake: Well, I aim to keep everyone happy.

Maggie: Aren’t you forgetting someone?

Gabi: Thank you, maggie.

Johnny as jake: Am I?

Maggie: I thought gabi helped engineer this deal. Now, isn’t she gonna be upset when she learns that she’s not getting the titan job?

Johnny as jake: Don’t worry. I can handle gabi. The world is full of make or break moments.

Allie: But ava is rafe’s girlfriend.

Nicole: She is.

Allie: Okay, so why wouldn’t she help us in figuring out who’s framing him?

Nicole: Let’s just say, ava and rafe’s relationship is complicated.

Allie: Wait, are you saying–

Nicole: I’m–I’m not saying anything.

Allie: But you’re suggesting that tripp’s mother could be the one who’s framing him for this?

Nicole: Like I said, I don’t have any proof.

Allie: Okay, but that’s what you think.

Nicole: It’s just a hunch.

Allie: There has to be a reason. Why would rafe’s own girlfriend wanna frame him for a crime?

Nicole: Well, allie, just lately, I’ve been getting a sense that ava is just having some anger issues.

Allie: At rafe?

Nicole: And me.

Allie: What? Why would ava– why would ava be mad at you? I mean, it’s not like there’s anything going on you and rafe. Oh…

Jake: No more coffee?

Ava: Rafe was the one who’d usually put on a second pot.

Jake: Gotcha. Listen, I’m sorry about everything that’s going on with him. Didn’t see that coming.

Ava: Well, neither did he.

Jake: You know, if anybody was gonna get nailed for corruption, I would’ve thought–

Ava: It would’ve been me?

Jake: Eh…

Ava: Eh. Yeah. That’s what you were gonna say. I know it, and you would’ve a fair point. But you and gabi, you’re not as pure as the driven snow either. If you remember, you and i were in the same business.

Jake: Emphasis on “were.”

Ava: And gabi?

Jake: What about her?

Ava: Well, she may not have been convicted of most of her crimes, but her rap sheet is almost as long as mine. Your girlfriend’s a killer with a nice wardrobe.

Maggie: I thought that you and gabi were equal partners.

Johnny as jake: Some partners are more equal than others. Trust me, I got gabi under control.

Maggie: Well, now that we have that straightened out, do we have anything else to discuss?

Johnny as jake: I think that pretty much covers it all.

Maggie: Great. Well, let me walk you out.

Johnny as jake: Oh, no, I– I know my own way out.

Maggie: All right. Well then, I’ll let victor know what we discussed.

Johnny as jake: I appreciate it. And…pleasure doing business with you.

[Sinister music]

Johnny: Well, now, if that doesn’t drive jake and gabi apart, I don’t know what will.

Paulina: Baby, what–what do you mean that things are just starting to heat up? I mean, you actually want to deal with the fallout from serving johnny the divorce papers?

Chanel: I mean, I’d obviously rather not, but I’m not gonna run from it either. I need to be able to keep an eye on him.

Paulina: Baby, that’s what lawyers are for. Oh, and if you ask me, what you need is something to take your mind off your snake-in-the-grass soon-to-be ex-husband. Like a little fun in the sun with your family.

Chanel: I don’t know. It just feels wrong to leave.

Paulina: Oh. Oh. Oh, I get it. Oh, you need to be in control, just like your mama.

[Laughs] Darling, if you need to micromanage your attorneys, you’re only a phone call away.

Chanel: No, it’s not just that. Even if I wanted to leave town, I’m obligated to stay contractually.

Tr: May I come in? I’d rather not have this conversation in the hallway. You don’t have to be wary of me, you know.

Lani: I’ve heard otherwise.

Tr: From paulina. Of course, she also neglected to mention that chanel was your sister.

Lani: I don’t see what my relationship with chanel has to do with you and johnny.

Tr: It doesn’T. It has to do with the relationship between you and me.

Lani: What are you talking about? We don’t have a relationship.

Tr: I know.

Lani: What am I missing here?

Tr: When I bumped into paulina, your mother, she told me that chanel was her only child, which obviously isn’t true.

Lani: Obviously, you have financial interest in chanel’s lawsuit because of your stake in johnny’s movie. Paulina probably just didn’t want you trying to get to chanel through me.

Tr: That’s not why she lied.

Gabi: How could jake double-cross me like this? After everything that we’ve been through, he just sells me out? Like–like I don’t matter? Like we don’t matter?

[Cell phone rings] The heck! This thing was dead. Johnny?

Johnny: Gabi, hey. I was just calling to find out how your visit with maggie went.

Gabi: [Sighs] It didn’T.

Johnny: What do you mean? I thought you said you went over there to talk to her.

Gabi: I did go to see her.

Johnny: But you didn’t tell her about my shares?

Gabi: No, that two-faced son of a bitch beat me to the punch!

Johnny: Gabi, did something happen?

Gabi: Oh, if you call somebody stabbing you in the back “something happening.”

Johnny: Where are you? I’ll be right there.

Allie: You and rafe?

Nicole: It was just one time. We are not having an affair. It’s just–I was scared. Rafe was there. He was comforting me. And one thing led to another.

Allie: I understand. But are you sure it’s just a one-time thing? Because, you know, sometimes you say it’s over, but the feelings are still there.

Nicole: Well, we were just discussing that right before he was arrested, but we are not going to have an affair behind ava’s back. We don’t even know if she knows what happened between us. But if she does, then she’s lashing out at rafe for betraying her with me, and I feel responsible to help.

Allie: You are a good person.

Nicole: Oh, I don’t–I don’t feel like it right now, but thank you. Allie, like I said, this is just a theory, so I have to ask: Can you please not say anything to anyone about this?

Allie: You mean, not even tripp?

Ava: Oh, what a surprise. Oh, my son, who is a full-fledged doctor is still going to make house calls.

Tripp: Oh, for you, always. But wait, you’re not sick, though, right?

Ava: No, not at all. And with you here, I couldn’t feel any better.

Tripp: I’m glad to hear it. I wasn’t sure you’d be home. I figured you’d be down at the station visiting rafe.

Ava: Yeah, he has a meeting with his lawyer today.

Tripp: I hope that goes well.

Ava: Yeah. Me too. So, dr. Johnson, to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?

Tripp: Well, I’ve kind of made a really big life decision, and I just wanted you to be the first to know. , Well, among the first.

Ava: Okay.

Tripp: I’m gonna ask allie to marry me.

Ava: Really?

Tripp: Really.

Ava: [Sighs contentedly] Honey, that is wonderful. Oh, my goodness! I am so happy for you!

Tripp: Oh. Do you really mean that?

Paulina: You’re contractually obligated to stay in salem?

Chanel: That’s what they tell me.

Paulina: Honey, I’m pretty sure allie can’t make you run the bakery against your will.

Chanel: No, it’s not about the bakery. It’s the movie.

Paulina: Johnny’s movie? Well, I thought that was– what’s the expression– I thought it was “in turnaround.”

Chanel: Yeah. Well, I guess now it’s out, and he’s making it again.

Paulina: [Scoffs] So your soon-to-be-ex, that miserable dog who just threw away the best thing that ever happened to him, he still wants you to be in it?

Chanel: Yeah, I don’t know if johnny still does, but the studio definitely does. The guy who came me made that very clear.

Paulina: What guy?

Chanel: Oh, he actually said he knows you.

Paulina: Oh, yeah?

Chanel: Uh-huh. Yeah, he said the two of you go way back. His name was tr coates.

Lani: You know why my mother lied to you?

Tr: I knew your mother a long time ago. Over 30 years ago, to be exact, we had a relationship. So when chanel told me that you were paulina’s daughter, I did the math, and I realized that I could be your father.

Lani: [Scoffs] Mr. Coates– um, tr, I think you’re confused. You may have had a relationship with my mother, but my father is some guy named ray.

Tr: Ray coates.

Lani: Uh-huh. Tr.

Tr: That’s me, lani. I’m terrell raymond coates. When tough pain hits,

Nicole: I know this is a lot to ask. Ava is tripp’s mother, and I’m sure you don’t like hiding things from tripp.

Allie: I hate it.

Nicole: I’m sorry. I’m sorry. The last thing I wanna do is make you lie to your boyfriend, even if it’s a lie of omission. But please, allie, I’m– can you please do this for me?

Ava: Why wouldn’t I be happy that my son is gonna propose to his girlfriend?

Tripp: Because a few weeks ago, you said that you thought there was a little more than friendship going on between allie and chanel. And you thought that she was gonna break my heart.

Ava: Yeah, I did say that I suspected they might be more than friends.

Tripp: Mm-hmm, but the way you went on about it, you know, I wasn’t sure if you were talking about me and allie, or you and rafe.

Ava: I know you asked me that question, and the truth is, you were probably right. Rafe and I were going through some stuff, and I should not have projected it onto you.

Tripp: What kind of stuff? Were you afraid that he has feeling for someone else?

Ava: It doesn’t matter. I figured out a way to work through it. And I think allie is a great girl. I am always gonna be an overprotective mama, but I see that she makes you happy, and that’s all I could ever hope for. I want nothing but the best for you.

Tripp: Same, mom. Same.

Jake: Gabi? Johnny?

[Sighs] Where the hell are they?

[Sighs]

Johnny: Gabi? Hey, are you okay?

Gabi: Do I look okay?

Johnny: You look upset.

Gabi: Oh, why would i be upset? Oh, maybe because the man that I’ve been with for almost a year, the man who claims to love me, just threw me outta the bus.

Johnny: What did jake do?

Gabi: What did he do? He just put a knife between my shoulder blades. That’s what he did.

Johnny: Just tell– tell me everything. What happened?

Gabi: I went over to see maggie. He was already there, so I hung back to listen. He didn’t know I was listening. And, you know, he was talking about the plan on how we’re gonna get victor on the board at dimera.

Johnny: Yeah. That’s part of the plan, right? Soften victor up for the kill.

Gabi: That was the plan. But then, maggie said that victor could not have me be the ceo of titan. And jake, you know what he said? He said that would be no problem, that it was not a dealbreaker.

Johnny: Are you serious? He said that?

Gabi: Yeah, he said that as long as he got what he wanted, he had no trouble handling me.

Johnny: That double-dealing bastard.

Paulina: You spoke to tr coates? When?

Chanel: This morning. He stopped by the bakery. He told allie and me that he’s holding us to our contracts.

Paulina: And my name came up?

Chanel: Yeah, he was saying how he knows you from back in the day.

Paulina: Oh, yeah? What else did he say?

Chanel: Uh, that he bumped into you yesterday. Oh, and that he met lani too.

Paulina: What about her?

Chanel: I don’t know what she told him, but he thought that she was my cousin.

Paulina: And what did you say to that?

Chanel: I told him that he was mixed up and that she’s my sister.

Paulina: Oh, no.

Chanel: Mama, what is it?

Lani: You’re ray? Hmm. Paulina’s told me all about you.

Tr: Listen, lani–

Lani: You need to get away from me. Do you hear me?

Tr: I know from what you’ve heard, you have every reason to be afraid–

Lani: You need to leave this apartment, now.

Tr: I’m sure paulina has said all kind of terrible things about me.

Lani: I said, get out! Do not make me get my gun!

Tr: Please, lani. I just want you to know that I am not the same man that I was when I was with your mother. I gave up the drugs. I got sober. I can’t tell you how much therapy I’ve been through. I promise you, I’m a different man now. One that you could be proud to call your father.

Trelegy for copd.

Nicole: I’m so sorry to put you in this position with tripp.

Allie: It’s okay. You didn’t mean to tell me about rafe and ava.

Nicole: No. Well, if I could just get some proof, then we wouldn’t have to keep it a secret.

Allie: There’s got to be a way to figure it out.

Nicole: I’m trying. I am, but it’s not like I can just go over to rafe’s and start looking through ava’s things, because if I show up there, she’s gonna know that I’m onto her.

Allie: Right. And I mean, she’s already suspicious of you.

Nicole: Yeah, exactly.

Allie: Well, what about me?

Nicole: What? No, allie you cannot go through ava’s things. You would never betray tripp like that.

Tripp: Yeah, so I was gonna ask allie’s parents in person for their blessing, but they’re out of town and I can’t get ahold of them.

Ava: Well, you will.

Tripp: But I figured that asking her grandfather was the next best thing.

Ava: And what did roman have to say?

Tripp: He said he was thrilled for us, and he wholeheartedly gave his blessing.

Ava: Of course he did because he knows that he could not ask for a better grandson-in-law. You are caring and a very loving man. And you’re a doctor. You’re gonna be a wonderful, wonderful father to henry.

Tripp: I really hope so. I– I love that little guy so much.

Ava: Having you in his life, I know he’s gonna grow to be an incredible man.

Tripp: Thank you for saying that.

Ava: Yeah. So when are you gonna pop up the question?

Tripp: Oh, well, was thinking about valentine’s day.

Ava: That’s very romantic.

Tripp: Yes, but not if i can’t find the right ring.

Ava: You haven’t bought one yet?

Tripp: Not yet. No, as a brand-new doctor, you know, I barely take home enough to make my loan payments. So I’m still trying to figure out what I can afford.

Ava: Hold that thought.

Johnny: It’s no wonder you’re so upset. And it’s one thing to be betrayed by your business partner, but when you’re sleeping with him too…

Gabi: He told me he loved me. How could he? I never thought he could do something like this.

Johnny: Beyond his type, I never fully trusted the guy.

Gabi: I did. You know what ironic? This morning, he told me he was worried about you.

Johnny: Me?

Gabi: That we would be spending time together and he–that would leave him the odd man out.

Johnny: Well, I think that’s what you call projecting.

Gabi: I call it lying.

Johnny: Look, I’m sorry that he hurts you like this, but at least now, you can see jake for who he really is.

Gabi: A dimera?

Johnny: A second-rate dimera, so busy trying to prove himself that he can’t appreciate everything you bring to the table. Your business acumen. Your intellect. Not to mention your complete willingness to go for the throat. Jake is lucky to have you as a business partner. And if he can’t see that, then he doesn’t deserve you.

Gabi: You know what, you’re right. Yes. Yes. He does not deserve me, that backstabbing creep. I’m gonna tell him right now.

Johnny: No, gabi. Wait, wait. Hey. Maybe you shouldn’T.

Paulina: You told tr coates that lani’s your sister?

Chanel: Yeah. What is the big deal? It’s all out in the open now, isn’t it?

Paulina: Ye–yes. Well–oh, but–

Chanel: But what? I mean, what does it matter if some random stranger knows the truth? Mama?

Paulina: Go home right now.

Chanel: Wait, what?

Paulina: You heard me. Go home right now and pack your bag.

Chanel: What is the hurry?

Paulina: Just do it and be ready to go to the airport as soon as I get back.

Chanel: Wait, where are you going?

Paulina: To pick up lani. Oh.

Lani: Why would I want anything to do with you?

Tr: Please let me explain–

Lani: No. All these years, I didn’t know paulina was my mother. They told me she was my aunt. Her sister raised me as her own.

Tr: I didn’t know that.

Lani: My own mother gave her child away. And you wanna know why?

Tr: Because of me.

Lani: Because of you! Because she was so afraid of you, afraid that if you even found out that I existed, that you would never leave her alone– that you would keep threatening her, abusing her. And her worst fear was that if you found out that I was your daughter, that you would do the same thing to me. And then you come waltzing in here, telling me about all the self-help work you’ve done on yourself. And what? What? You just expect me to run into your arms? Call you daddy? Huh?

Tr: Please, lani. I realize I’m a stranger to you and everything you’ve been told makes you want to turn and run the other way, but I swear to you, I’m a changed man. And I just want to get to know my daughter. We’re eating and drinking foods and beverages

Jake: Gabi? Johnny?

[Sighs] Where are they?

Gabi: Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t confront that bastard right now?

Johnny: Look, you can do what you want, but if it were me, I wouldn’t be so quick to throw away my advantage.

Gabi: My advantage?

Johnny: You saw jake for who he really is. And I can’t imagine how much it must have hurt to hear him talking that way, but maybe honestly, it’s good that you did, ’cause now, you have the upper hand.

Gabi: So you think I should keep acting as dumb as jake thinks I am?

Johnny: Exactly. Let him think he’s the only one playing both sides. He does still have his shares, doesn’t he?

Gabi: For now.

Johnny: So why don’t we work behind his back to relieve him of them?

Gabi: Turnabout is fair play.

Johnny: You have the element of surprise. And you have something he doesn’t: Me. I think we could do great things together, gabi. Run this town. Maybe even shake up the whole world.

Gabi: All right, let’s do it. Let’s take everything.

Johnny: Yeah. Let’S.

Gabi: I will be in touch.

Johnny: Bye-bye, jakey.

[Laughs]

Ava: Knew I was saving this for a reason.

[Tender music]

Tripp: Mom, this is– this is beautiful.

Ava: Mm. It was my grandmother’S. And she gave it to me when I was a little girl, right before she died. My grandfather gave it to her when he proposed to her. Look at what the inscription says.

Tripp: “Amore mio.”

Ava: Mm. That’s what allie is. She’s your amore.

Tripp: Mom, this is amazing, but I–I can’t take this.

Ava: Why not? It is a family heirloom. That was your great-grandmother’S. Come on, it’s not like I’ve got a daughter I’m gonna pass it down to.

Tripp: Are you sure?

Ava: Of course. Nothing would make me happier than to see my future daughter-in-law with that on her finger.

Tripp: I–I can’t wait to give it to her. Thank you so much, mom.

Ava: Aw, baby, you don’t have to thank me. I am just–I’m so happy that you found someone who loves you as much as I do.

Allie: Hey.

Chanel: Hey.

Allie: I brought some extra chowder.

Chanel: Oh, I’m not hungry, but thank you.

Allie: You okay?

Chanel: I don’t know. Can we talk?

Allie: Yeah. Yeah, of course. Come on. What’s going on?

Chanel: Well, I might need you to cover me at the bakery for a while.

Allie: How come?

Chanel: My mom was just here, and she wants me to go to miami with her.

Allie: What? When?

Chanel: Now. Like–like right now.

Allie: Really? Are you gonna go?

Chanel: At first, I didn’t want to, but now I’m thinking it might be a good idea to get away and put some distance between me and this whole terrible situation with johnny and the divorce and…other things.

Allie: Other things. Like sleeping with me?

Tr: Lani, I know how complicated this situation is.

Lani: No, it’s not complicated at all. You are not my father. I already have a father, and he is the best man that I know.

Tr: Look, I am happy to hear that, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t get to know each other. We can take the first steps now, today.

Paulina: Get the hell away from her! Avoiding triggers, but can’t keep migraine attacks away?

Paulina: You heard me. Stay the hell away from my daughter!

Tr: Oh, so you’re admitting she is your daughter.

Paulina: Did I not make myself clear? Get outta here now!

Tr: All right. You can kick me outta here, but that does not change the fact that lani is also my daughter.

Paulina: She is nothing to you, and she never will be!

Tr: All right. I know I missed a lot of years and I will never be able to get those back, but I’m gonna do whatever I have to do to be a father to you now. That’s a promise.

Paulina: Oh, baby. Oh, baby.

Gabi: [Sighs] Oh, got them.

Jake: There you are.

Gabi: Hi.

Jake: Hi. I’ve been looking everywhere for you.

Gabi: Have you?

Jake: Yeah. I stopped by the dimeras’. You and johnny weren’t there.

Gabi: Oh, you must have, uh, missed us. So what have you been up to?

Jake: Oh, well I stopped by ben’s new place to see him. I stopped back at home, ran into ava. You weren’t there. Like I said, been looking for you.

Gabi: That’s it?

Jake: Well, I’m here now.

Gabi: Hmm, busy day.

Jake: Yeah.

Tripp: Are you sure you’re okay with me taking this ring? I mean, what if you want it for yourself?

Ava: Oh, you don’t have to worry about that.

Tripp: Yeah, but I mean, a cop salary can’t be much more than a new doctor, so I mean–

Ava: Okay, I said you don’t have to worry about that.

Tripp: Are you okay?

Ava: Listen.

[Chuckles dryly] My love life has been spotty, to say the least, and I’ve been hurt more times than I can even count, but I still believe in happily ever after. I love you.

Tripp: I love you too.

Ava: [Chuckles]

[Somber music]

[Sighs] We could have had our happily ever after, but you threw it all away. And now, you’ll have to pay for that.

Chanel: I wasn’t talking about what happened between us, horton.

Allie: Are you sure?

Chanel: I am. Yeah. Yeah, I just meant between my divorce and this movie, and I really need to get away from johnny. But I promise you, that this isn’t about us sleeping together.

[Sinister music]

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Allie: Thanks for walking me to work.

Tripp: Well, you know, I only do it for the doughnuts. It’s got nothing to do with spending a little extra time with you or anything.

Allie: Oh, no. My illusions are shattered.

Tripp: I love you.

Allie: I love it when you say that.

Tripp: That’s good, ’cause you’re gonna be hearing it for the rest of your life.

Allie: That’s fine by me.

Tr: Salem has a certain amount of charm. I’m ginning to think we can shoot the whole movie on location, interiors and everything. Maybe I can even get the real marlena evans to do an unbilled cameo. Oh, I’m absolutely serious. We’re calling the movie “possessed: The marlena evans story,” right? So what could be better than shooting it where it actually happened? Oh, you assume correctly. I won’t be leaving this town anytime soon.

Paulina: You cannot blow this. You’ve been working your whole life to make sure that lani doesn’t go anywhere near ray coates. Now, here he is, in salem. You go in there. You do whatever it takes to make sure he never finds out he has a daughter.

Lani: Ah, a-ha, okay. I just need to get them into their snowsuits, their scarves, their hats. That should take about an hour and a half. Okay.

[Knocking on door] Paulina.

Paulina: Pack your bags, baby. We are done freezing our behinds off. We’re going south for the winter.

Jake: You’re really quiet this morning.

Gabi: I’m worried about rafe.

Jake: Rafe is one of the most honest guys I know. These charges? They’re not gonna stick.

Gabi: I hope you’re right.

[Cell phone beeps]

Jake: That phone. It’s blowing up this morning. Who is that?

Gabi: Johnny dimera. Who do you think?

Jake: Well, little twerp’s persistent.

Gabi: He wants me to go over to his place. He thinks we need to talk.

Johnny: About to work out. Why don’t you join me? We can do some heavy breathing together.

[Cell phone beeps]

[Knocking on door] Oh, did you come here to beg me to take you back?

Chanel: I wouldn’t lower myself to do a thing like that.

Johnny: Then what do you want?

Chanel: I brought you something.

Johnny: Aw, you shouldn’t have.

Chanel: Oh, it’s my pleasure.

[Tense music]

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

[Tense music]

Johnny: Are these divorce papers?

Chanel: Beat you to it, didn’t I? My lawyer said I didn’t have to give them to you myself, but I wanted the satisfaction of saying, john roman dimera, you have just been served.

Johnny: You think you’re gonna get this much money from me?

Chanel: It’s called spousal support, and yeah. I do.

Johnny: We were married for, like, two days.

Chanel: So? You have dimera enterprises, and I have a bakery. And you were so hot to get married that you didn’t make me sign a prenup, so my lawyer says I can take you for a lot.

Johnny: You know, my dad was right about you. You just married me for my money.

Chanel: I married you for love, and you know it. And then you treated me like dirt, so you had your fun, but now, it’s gonna cost you.

Jake: Let me see your phone. There are no secrets between us, right?

Chanel: Right.

Jake: [Laughs] I thought the dude was supposed to have some sort of fancy education. There’s hardly any words here. It’s all emojis and smileys, the little devil guy.

Gabi: That’s how people his age communicate.

Jake: Well, I especially like this last one about how you two should get sweaty together. The big man talking about his workout.

Gabi: See you later.

Jake: Where are you going?

Gabi: Where do you think I’m going? I’m gonna go close the deal with that little devil. Doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.

Jake: So wait a minute. If johnny gets what he wants, he’s gonna get you in a bed, and you’re gonna be running titan. And with ej in jail, all he’s gotta do is freeze chad out, and he can run dimera enterprises himself. And where does that leave me, huh? Here with nothing.

Gabi: Stop pouting, jake. Johnny is not gonna get his way, okay?

Tripp: I can’t wait to get off work, so we can pick up where we left off.

Allie: I can’t wait either, and, tripp, I’ve been thinking. You know what, never mind.

Tripp: Come on, come on. What were you gonna say?

Allie: Just that I’ve been feeling a little guilty lately, like I’ve been distracted sometimes, when we’re together I mean. I just haven’t been connecting with you as much as usual.

Tripp: I haven’t noticed that.

Allie: Really?

Tripp: I mean, I guess sometimes I sense that you’ve got your mind on work or what happened between chanel and johnny, but I don’t expect you to be focused on me all the time.

Allie: I know, I know that, and I don’t expect that of you either. Just, I feel like, even if you’re not focused on me all the time, you’re still there for me 100% and for henry.

Tripp: Well you and henry, you’re the most important people in my life.

Allie: You’re important to me, too, tripp, and henry, but I’m sure you know that, ’cause you must notice how he lights up every time you walk in the room and how you make him laugh.

Tripp: Yeah, except when he wanted to play with my phone, and I had to take it away from him, and he screamed his head off.

Allie: Okay, but then you calmed him down in what, like ten seconds? And he was smiling again.

Tripp: Making him smile. That is my favorite pastime. Allie, what are you thinking about?

Allie: Just that you are the kindest, most caring person I’ve ever known. I’m really grateful to have you in my life.

Tripp: I am beyond grateful to have you in mine, and although I’m obviously not henry’s dad, I love him so much. I really look forward to, you know, throwing a ball with him, maybe coach his little league team one day.

Allie: You would make an amazing coach, not to mention a great dad, which you already kind of are, to henry I mean.

Tripp: I do hope that he thinks of me that way.

Allie: I know he does, and now I know you need to go, so henry and I will be waiting for you.

Tripp: I’m a lucky guy. See you later.

Allie: Bye.

Tr: Excuse me.

Allie: Oh, hi.

Tr: I need to talk to chanel dupree. It’s important.

Lani: You always make these big announcements, and I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Paulina: Well, this is my first winter up north in a long time, and I’m just sick to death of it. And I was watching the weather report this morning, and they said some groundhog saw his shadow, and we’re in for six more weeks of this garbage.

Lani: Yes, I know. I have two toddlers who get very cranky, if they don’t go to the park every day.

Paulina: So why stay here when I have this big, huge, and fabulous house sitting empty in miami? You don’t even have to pack little jules and carver’s things. I’ve already bought enough. Everything they–

Lani: What, you’ve already brought them clothes?

Paulina: Mm-hmm, what’s wrong with that? They’re my grandbabies.

Lani: Okay. I know what you’re doing.

Paulina: I’m not sure I know what you mean.

Lani: Don’t play dumb with me. You and I, we had a moment.

Paulina: I’ll never forget it. That chandelier started to fall on me, and you screamed out, “mom!” Oh, you saved my life.

Lani: And here you are trying to get us all to go to florida with you.

Paulina: What’s wrong with that?

Lani: What about eli?

Paulina: Well, he’s visiting valerie.

Lani: And my job?

Paulina: Oh, we can figure that all out.

Lani: Okay, no, no. It’s too soon. If you and I are gonna have a relationship, a real one, there has to be less style and a lot more substance.

Paulina: What does that mean?

Lani: It means that you need to be patient and present.

Paulina: You’re right.

Lani: Okay, so we agree.

Paulina: Yes. I want to do whatever it takes to be a good mother to you.

Lani: And I am open to giving you that chance, so I do appreciate your offer, but no, we’re not going to florida with you.

Paulina: Oh, yes, you are.

Allie: Chanel’s usually here by now actually. I don’t know what’s keeping her, but I work here with her, and I’m her best friend. Is there anything I can help you with?

Tr: This isn’t about the bakery.

Chanel: I just got back from seeing your pig of a brother.

Allie: Hey, and this man is here to see you.

Chanel: Me, why?

Tr: My name is tr coates. So you’re chanel dupree.

Chanel: That’s right, and how can I help you, mr. Coates?

Tr: Well, you can start by calling me tr.

Chanel: And why would I do that? I don’t even know you.

Tr: I’m here to talk to you about your role in “possessed.”

Chanel: Why?

Tr: Because I’m the guy who’s producing it. I made the deal with johnny dimera.

Ben: Hey.

Jake: Yo.

Ben: Good to see you, man.

Jake: You too, man.

Ben: What’s going on?

Jake: Your know, your cross is hanging upside-down.

Ben: Oh, what the hell? It keeps doing that. It must be, like, top heavy or something. Anyway, come on in.

Jake: Didn’t know you and ciara were religious.

Ben: It was a housewarming gift from her grandma.

Jake: Guess you can’t be too careful. The devil was after your baby.

Ben: Yeah, thank god that’s all over now.

Jake: Yeah. How’s ciara doing?

Ben: She’s good, she’s good. The morning sickness is all over, and she says she feels great. Baby’s doing well, so…

Jake: That’s good. You two deserve some happiness.

Ben: Thanks, man.

Jake: Yeah.

Ben: How are things with you?

Jake: Eh, could be better. This pushy little creep is after gabi.

Johnny: You were married, like, a million times. How much alimony were you paying? I guess we’re alike when it comes to beautiful women. We just can’t say no. Right, nonno?

Gabi: I know I’m not supposed to be eavesdropping, but were you two talking about me? Life’s been hard enough.

Gabi: So this was your workout, chatting it up with your dead grandfather?

Johnny: Did you know him well?

Gabi: We crossed paths a few times.

Johnny: That’s all?

Gabi: He didn’t give off a warm and fuzzy vibe, at least not around me, but I did admire the way he sold himself as a businessman. I mean, when I knew he had the heart of a mob boss.

Johnny: Well, I’m sure that if he were still around, he would return the admiration.

Gabi: I doubt it.

Johnny: I assume you’re here to talk about my dimera shares.

Gabi: I have news. Maggie is representing victor in all of this, and jake and I have a deal with her.

Johnny: What are the terms?

Gabi: We vote victor onto the board of dimera, and then he makes me ceo of titan.

Johnny: Well, I see what you get. I see what victor gets. What I don’t see is, well, what’s in it for me?

Jake: Nice new digs. It’s an improvement from that place over the garage.

Ben: We got a baby coming.

Jake: Yeah.

Ben: Can’t have the kid breathing in fumes all day long, right? Not to mention this is a bigger space, so we got the room now for a nursery.

Jake: That’s good. Well, you need help painting or fixing the place up, say the word.

Ben: I was already counting on that.

Jake: All right.

Ben: So what’s going on? Are you gonna tell me who this creep is you think that’s going after gabi?

Jake: Johnny dimera.

Ben: Him?

Jake: Yeah, you know him?

Ben: Yeah. I just met him yesterday. He was the one who dropped the cross off from julie. You think he’s going after gabi?

Jake: I know he is. Dude already dumped his wife.

Chanel: Yeah, I don’t think johnny still wants me in his movie.

Allie: Yeah, and why would chanel want to be in a movie made by some soulless cretin?

Tr: Come on. Do you even know johnny?

Allie: Yeah. Only since the womb. He’s my twin brother.

Tr: Ah, so you must be allie horton.

Allie: That’s right.

Tr: You’re playing your mother when she was your age.

Allie: Not anymore.

Tr: Well, it’s good you’re here; saves me from making the same pitch twice.

Chanel: And what pitch is that?

Tr: That you’re both under contract to my production company. If you don’t fulfill your contractual obligations, I will sue you and win.

Allie: Okay, go for it, ’cause there’s no way in hell–

Chanel: That either of us is gonna do that damn movie.

Tripp: Mr. Brady.

Roman: Tripp, how you doing?

Tripp: I’m fine, I’m fine. I was wondering if you had heard from allie’s folks.

Roman: Not a word, but wouldn’t expect to.

Tripp: They’re together, right?

Roman: Yeah, yeah. After what sami went through, I think they’re lying low. Is there a problem?

Tripp: No, no, not a problem. You know, just kind of like to do things by the book.

Roman: Okay, good for you.

Tripp: Yeah, and I’m also a little scared of allie’s mom.

Roman: Well, sami does have that effect on a lot of people.

Tripp: Yes, and she doesn’t like to be left out of things.

Roman: Uh-huh. You mind telling me what things you’re talking about?

Tripp: Well, I, uh… I love allie, sir, and I’m gonna ask her to marry me. Like pulsing, electric shocks,

Roman: Oh, okay. This is–I’m surprised.

Tripp: Not me. No. I think I fell in love with her the first time I ever saw her at that club in london. You know, she was a little too wasted to really see me, but I brought her home, put her to bed, and left her my phone number. And I hoped that we can start something good that next day, but then she never called, and we both know why.

Roman: Right.

Tripp: You know, but we came through all of that, and, you know, getting to the bottom of it, I never stopped loving her. And I love henry, too, you know. I come home from work, and, like, he just breaks out in this big grin, and I mean there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for them, mr. Brady. I want to take care of allie and henry for the rest of my life.

Roman: Okay, all right. Well, you know what, tripp? You’ve told me a lot about how you feel, but how does allie feel?

Tripp: She says she loves me. She acts like she does.

Roman: Be sure about that before you start talking marriage. I just don’t want to see you two make a big mistake.

Tr: I understand johnny broke your heart.

Chanel: Was that what he told you?

Tr: No. I heard that from your mother.

Chanel: And how do you know her?

Tr: Paulina and i go way back. I knew your mama when you were just a twinkle in her big, brown eyes. I’m very sorry about your father.

Chanel: You knew him, too?

Tr: No, sadly, I never had the pleasure.

Chanel: I miss him.

Tr: I’m sure you do, but i did meet your cousin though.

Chanel: What cousin?

Tr: Lani grant.

Chanel: Oh, no. You got the wrong information. Lani’s not my cousin. She’s my sister.

Lani: Excuse me? Are you telling me what to do?

Paulina: No. It’s not about me. It’s about big mama.

Lani: What, is she okay?

Paulina: I know she didn’t want me to tell you, but she hasn’t been feeling well.

Lani: Is it serious?

Paulina: No. I think she’s just lonely, but she would love to see you and the babies, but I don’t want her coming up here where it’s so cold. So I told her I’d do whatever it takes to get you and the kids down there, just for a couple of weeks, and perfect timing, eli’s–since he’s away.

Lani: No, I can’T. Look, I cannot leave town right now. I made a promise to someone that I would be here for her.

Paulina: And who’s that?

Lani: Chanel. Her heart is broken, and she needs someone to talk to until she can put her life back together. And that someone is going to be me.

Ben: Johnny dimera had a wife?

Jake: Well, he did, for about two days, and then he kicked her to the curb, started sniffing around gabi.

Ben: How did that happen?

Jake: All right, so after I got booted out of dimera, I took a job with titan with gabi. She and I both got fired from titan, and we got sick of sitting on the sidelines.

Ben: What does that have to do with johnny?

Jake: I’m getting there. So gabi still thinks that she has some pull with victor, ’cause he wants to hang onto her company, right? Victor also wants a seat on the dimera board, so we’re hoping that we have enough votes to put him there.

Ben: You want to put victor kiriakis on the board of dimera enterprises? Isn’t that like putting the fox on the board of the henhouse?

Jake: Well, gabi seems to think that it would benefit both of us, right, because here. The plan is for gabi to be in charge of titan, and I’m back in charge of dimera.

Ben: But you don’t have enough votes to get victor on the board.

Jake: Unless we get johnny to vote our way, right, so johnny’s got his shares. He’s also got ej’s shares now.

Ben: Mm-hmm, and I heard ej’s doing a little bit at statesville.

Jake: Right, so johnny has what gabi needs, and he’s made it very clear what he wants in return.

Ben: So what’s gabi gonna do?

Jake: Well, she’s convinced that she can use that to make him do what we want.

Ben: How about you? Convinced?

Gabi: Uh-uh. Not in front of him.

Johnny: Well, there’s no pictures upstairs.

Gabi: I thought you were smart enough to play the long game.

Johnny: I’ll play any game you want.

Gabi: Come on, just stop it. I don’t like to be pressured into doing things I don’t want to do.

Johnny: Is that really the case though? ‘Cause it kind of feels like you’re keeping you from doing things that you do want to do.

Gabi: I told you, jake and I, we are exclusive.

Johnny: Why? ‘Cause I was raised by my grandfather and my father to take over dimera enterprises. Jake was raised to be a grease monkey. He’s dead weight, you know it.

Gabi: And what does that make me?

Johnny: Well, what you lack in pedigree you make up for with brains, drive. What do you and I need jake for? For rob, it took years to find out

Jake: Gabi’s over at the dimera house talking with johnny right now.

Ben: Alone?

Jake: Yeah, he keeps calling her over there to talk business.

Ben: Without you?

Jake: I don’t like this plan of hers.

Ben: I wouldn’t like it either, brother.

Jake: You know, gabi and I, we worked so hard, together, to get everything we have, but this plan of hers? I don’t trust johnny dimera as far as I can throw a grand piano.

Ben: Hey, screw johnny. All that matters is that you can trust gabi, right?

Gabi: Jake’s not a poor relation. He has his own shares.

Johnny: Then leverage your many assets. Get him to turn ’em over to you.

Gabi: If you think this whole divide and conquer thing is gonna work–

Johnny: This whole scheme was jake’s idea, wasn’t it? See, he can’t stop obsessing about being booted out of a family he was never good enough to be a part of. He doesn’t care about titan. He probably doesn’t care about you.

Gabi: Don’t you dare say that.

Johnny: Come on. The guy has a singular goal of trying to worm his way back into dimera, so he can take a bite out of the apple. He’s using you to do that, and once he’s done, he’s not gonna need you anymore.

Gabi: You’re just too spoiled to understand what jake and I have, okay? We’re not entitled like you are. We know what it feels like to come from nothing, and we have a future. And he would never–

Johnny: I’m not the only one who wants to screw you. You better start watching your back.

Tripp: Sir, I would never push allie into marrying me.

Roman: I’m not saying that. No. You know how you said about seeing allie in the bar and how drunk she was? Well, allie, and johnny, and sydney, they were on their own way too soon because sami was devoting herself to ej. Now, johnny thought he wanted to get married, too, and you saw what he ended up doing to poor chanel.

Tripp: I’m not like johnny.

Roman: I know that. I’m just saying it’s never a good idea to rush into anything.

Tr: Lani? She’s your sister?

Chanel: My half-sister.

Tr: You had the same father?

Chanel: The same mother.

Tr: Paulina is lani’s mother. Huh, I had no idea.

Chanel: Yeah, I just found out myself.

Paulina: For the record, I had chanel years after we split with my husband george.

Tr: Is she your one and only?

Paulina: Yes, she is.

Allie: Excuse me, but what does this have to do with whether or not we do the movie?

Lani: I promised chanel that she could come over every night while eli is away. She’s gonna help me with jules and carver. Then we’ll watch tv, drink some wine, and just talk.

Paulina: It means so much to me that you want to be a real sister to chanel.

Lani: So you understand why I cannot go to miami with you.

Paulina: Well, you know, chanel, she’s doing a lot better. Right now, she’s fixing to give the devil his due. Young johnny dimera, oh, he is going to pay for all the pain and suffering that he caused her, and she knows I have her back.

Lani: I just can’t leave her here all alone.

Paulina: Then why leave her here?

Lani: What?

Paulina: I’ll go and talk to her. Get allie to run that bakery for a while. We’ll take her with us. You, me, and big mama, we’ll all see to chanel. Come on, what do you say?

Lani: I guess I can ask for the time off.

Paulina: So you’re going?

Lani: If I get the time.

Paulina: Oh! Oh, you don’t know how much this will mean to big mama.

Lani: I might be crazy. The last time I let you drag me down there, I almost got shot.

Paulina: Well, you’ll be safer there than you are here.

Lani: What does that mean?

Paulina: Well, you know big mama. She’ll get even if she doesn’t get what she wants. Look, you go, and you get yourself packed, and get the twins packed and everything, and then I’ll go tell chanel the plan. And then we’ll all be headed off to the airport. By the time we get back, ray coates will be gone, and lani never has to know anything about him.

Allie: Excuse me? Mr. Coates, I asked you a question.

Tr: I just misunderstood what your mother told me. That’s all. I have another appointment.

Allie: I just want to make sure you understand. You can sue us or whatever, but there’s no way that we’re doing that movie.

Tr: I’m sure we’ll be able to work something out.

Allie: Did that seem as weird to you as it seemed to me?

Chanel: Yeah. He was ready to sue us–

Allie: And then he just dropped it like a hot rock.

Chanel: Thanks for backing me up.

Allie: Dupree, you know I always will.

Tripp: Mr. Brady, I’m not your grandson.

Roman: Meaning I can’t tell you what to do?

Tripp: Meaning I would never treat allie the way johnny would treat chanel.

Roman: I know that. It’s just that, you know, allie already has a baby she didn’t ask for.

Tripp: That is working out, okay, she’s a fantastic mom.

Roman: Yes she is, but if she is not ready for marriage, you need to respect that.

Tripp: I will. Sir, I give you my word. I will never hurt allie in any way. And she’s learned to trust me, and she’s given me her heart, and I’ve trusted her with mine. I mean, isn’t that what love’s all about?

Jake: Yeah, yeah. Of course I trust gabi. I mean what we have goes way beyond this deal, but what I will say is sometimes gabi has a tendency to underestimate people, you know?

Ben: Yeah. Ciara says johnny’s a player. Gabi is way out of his league, brother, right?

Jake: Yeah. Still, man, something about johnny bugs me. You know, back when I ran with the mob, right, I could look a guy in the eye, and I could see that his evil, most of the time, came from weakness, right? Came from having a rough childhood like you and I had, and you know, a series of other bad breaks along the way, right? So they had to toughen up because they were afraid of losing what they had worked so freaking hard to get.

Ben: Mm-hmm.

Jake: But then there were the other guys. The guys who were just flat-out mean, evil, right? They would play like they had nothing to lose. Those were the guys that scared me, and I think johnny’s one of those guys.

Ben: He is a dimera.

Jake: Dude, so am I.

Ben: As long as you and gabi stick together, you’re gonna come out on top, all right?

Gabi: I trust jake. I believe in him.

Johnny: Well, I think, any day now, jake is gonna give you a good reason to question your trust in him.

Gabi: You’re just talking. You don’t know–

Johnny: I know you, gabriella, and I think you and I are at the beginning of a very exciting partnership. And as a sign of good faith, I promise to vote my shares and my father’s shares in favor of giving victor kiriakis a seat on the board.

Gabi: That is great. That is great!

Johnny: Who are you calling?

Gabi: Your uncle jake, of course–can you give that back to me?

Johnny: Why would you want to call jake?

Gabi: I don’t think right now is a good time to have your uncle questioning my loyalty to him, do you?

Johnny: No.

Gabi: Great, thank you. This thing is dead. I charged it this morning.

Johnny: Maybe it can’t hold a charge. Guess you’ll have to catch up with jake later.

Gabi: Yes. I guess I’ll do that after i share the news with maggie. You’re not gonna regret this, johnny, I promise.

Johnny: Oh, I know I won’t, but you and uncle jake on the other hand, different story. I guess I better go change. Oh, sometimes I love my life. Avoiding triggers, but can’t keep migraine attacks away?

Roman: Well, tripp, look. I can’t speak for allie’s parents, but for what it’s worth, you two have my blessing.

Tripp: It’s worth a lot, sir.

Roman: All right, you’re a good man, tripp johnson. The apple did not fall too far from the tree.

Allie: I thought you had to be at work early.

Tripp: Hey, well, I just remembered that I needed to ask your granddad if he had heard anything from dad or kayla. What are you doing here?

Allie: I’m just grabbing an early lunch.

Tripp: Oh, okay, well, I’ll see you at home tonight?

Allie: Yeah, I’ll see you. Bye. What was that all about?

Roman: Well, he told you. He wanted to talk about steve and kayla, so usual?

Allie: Sure.

Roman: Okay.

Chanel: Hi, mama.

Paulina: Oh. Oh, I see that smile. Oh, well, what’s that about?

Chanel: Me serving johnny with divorce papers. Going after his money.

Paulina: Yeah, that’s good. That’s real good. I need to talk to you about something.

Chanel: Wait until you try these butterscotch oatmeal cookies that I came up with. They are to die for.

Paulina: Oh, yeah, well, I’ll take a dozen of ’em. Then you pack ’em up for me, and then go pack a suitcase.

Chanel: Wait, what?

Paulina: I’m serious. You, me, your sister, your little niece and nephew, we are all getting out of town today.

[Knocking on door]

Lani: You back already? Mr. Coates. What are you doing here?

Jake: Thanks for listening, bro.

Ben: Of course, man. Of course. I hate what chad and ej did to you, brother. It’s not fair, and I really do hope you’re gonna end up getting back exactly what’s yours.

Jake: Hope so, man. Hey, at least I’m not going it alone though, you know?

Ben: Yeah.

Jake: I get to do this with somebody I love and care about. Gabi and me? We make a good team.

Ben: Yeah, you do. Take care, man.

Jake: You too. When I come back to help you fix the place up, I’m hanging that damn thing up right. Hell, it’s upside-down again.

[Tense music]

Johnny as jake: Gabi and i are very close to securing victor a seat on the dimera board. Gabi’s with johnny right now. She’s nailing down his votes.

Maggie: Ooh, victor will be very pleased to hear that.

Johnny as jake: And just one more thing, if you wouldn’t mind talking to victor about it. I would like a guarantee, in writing, that I will be elected ceo of dimera after we take over.

Maggie: Well, I will talk to him about that.

Johnny as jake: And now, let’s talk about titan.

Maggie: Yes, victor has very serious reservations about putting someone outside of the family in charge of his company. I’m afraid making gabi ceo of titan, it may be off the table. Is that a dealbreaker?

Gabi: It sure as hell is.

Johnny as jake: Absolutely not.

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Ciara: [Sighs] Okay, you are not gonna tell me what’s going on, are you?

Ben: No, I am not going to tell you. I’m gonna show you.

Ciara: Okay. Ha. Where are we?

Ben: Home.

[Eerie off-key notes]

Julie: Who are you? And what are you doing in my house?

Craig: Nancy, we need to go someplace where I can talk privately.

Nancy: I have nothing to say to you–you know what, why don’t you just call your little floozy and ask her to pop open the champagne, because you have finally gotten rid of the old ball and chain?

Chloe: Dad, you said you’d tell her.

Craig: I tried to, but she dumped a bowl of clam chowder on my lap and stormed off before I could get it all out.

Nancy: Get all what out? My husband is cheating, my marriage is over–what else could there possibly be? Obviously you two know something I don’T. Now, which one of you is gonna tell me about it?

Kristen: I thought you might like some dessert. Would you like some peach pie?

Abigail: You can choke on your pie, kristen.

Kristen: [Laughs] Well, you don’t have to get snippy about it. I would let go if I were you.

Abigail: No. Not until you tell me what you did to my uncle steve and aunt kayla.

Kristen: What do you think I did to them? Earlier you were droning on about being a dimera. And how do dimeras eliminate problems?

Abigail: Oh my god. You killed them.

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Ciara: Home? Baby, I know what our home looks like, and this is not our home.

Ben: Well, I should have said our new home. Because I’ve been looking at apartments for a while now, and this is the best one yet.

Ciara: You’ve been looking for an apartment without me?

Ben: Well, I wanted to surprise you. Looking at apartments can be stressful, and I think you’ve had enough of that going on already, so I narrowed it down to my top three favorites, and then I asked julie to come take a look at them, and we decided together that this is the best one.

Ciara: Yeah, but ben, I love our apartment.

Ben: But we got a baby coming.

Ciara: Really? Hmm, well, I must have just forgotten about that part then, huh?

Ben: You know what I mean. We’re gonna need more room. I mean, think about it. I mean, maybe we could squeeze in a crib at most, but what about everything else? What about all the other baby paraphernalia–the diapers and the toy boxes and… the diapers.

Ciara: The diapers.

Ben: The diapers.

Ciara: Okay, listen, our baby isn’t gonna need all that fancy stuff–just the essentials.

Ben: Ciara.

Ciara: Mm-hmm.

Ben: You’re a brady and a horton.

Ciara: You’re right.

Ben: I am right. And we are not buying all that stuff. Your family is buying all that stuff.

Ciara: Oh my god, we’re not gonna need a bigger apartment, ben, we’re gonna need a warehouse.

Ben: Mm-hmm. So then maybe I can show you around a bit. Because in the words of our real estate agent, the second bedroom over here is crying out to be a nursery.

Johnny: You don’t recognize me?

Julie: Stay back!

Johnny: Julie, it’s me. Johnny dimera.

Julie: Oh. So it is.

Johnny: So…what’s with the broomstick?

Julie: You broke into my house.

Johnny: I’ve scared you. I’m so sorry. I didn’t–

Julie: I’m sure being raised a dimera, you were told that you do not have to obey the common decency laws of behavior, but you were misled. You do not just walk into somebody’s house.

Johnny: You’re right. It’s a-it’s a real problem of mine. You know, when-when I get obsessed about these ideas, I start turning them around in my head, and all of a sudden I just forget what I’m doing. I really am really sorry.

Julie: Really? When these obsessions are going around and around in your head, do you go into any random building? Do you have a reason for walking into this house?

Johnny: [Chuckles] Actually, I did have a reason. I was, uh, I was wanting to talk to doug.

Julie: Talk to doug about what?

Johnny: Well, I wanted to talk to someone else who knows what it’s like to have the devil inside him.

Craig: Nancy, we need to talk privately. Can we please just go back to our room?

Nancy: It’s my room, buster!

Chloe: Mom, please just calm down.

Nancy: I do not need to calm down! And I do not need to go back to our room and talk privately. Looks like you know what’s going on, and he knows what’s going on. And you know what, I dumped clam chowder in your father’s lap at the pub, so if salem is still salem, in about 20 minutes, the entire town is going to know… that you broke our marriage vows. So, what is there to talk privately about? Wait, did you shag my best friend? Ooh, maybe it was the tramp at the reunion. You know, you need to stop, craig, with that “we need to talk in private” and just be straight with me!

Craig: I will, but not with an audience. I’m going back to the room.

Chloe: Mom, please, he’s trying to do the right thing. Just go be with him.

Nancy: What in the name of god did I do to deserve this?

Kristen: No, I didn’t kill them. I simply…neutralized them. See, they didn’t give me a choice. They were sticking their noses into my business.

Abigail: You know, there are people who think the right to privacy doesn’t extend to kidnapping.

Kristen: And they were humiliating themselves in the process, and, pfft, the two of them were galivanting around rome dressed as a priest and a nun, and they were thought they were play acting, but ironically they really are now living a celibate and cloistered life.

Abigail: Meaning?

Kristen: I mean, I always thought they were skittish. Maybe they found some peace.

Abigail: Are they here on this island?

Kristen: Oh my god, dear, dear abigail, you really need to curb your journalistic impulses. I mean, honey, you don’t wanna meet the same fate they did.

Kayla: What the hell have you done now, kristen?

Nancy: Just… just yesterday, craig, we were in that bed together, and I thought I was the happiest woman in the world. No, I was the happiest woman in the world. Because I didn’t know who you were or what you had done. I was just a happy, ignorant fool.

Craig: I’m sorry, nancy. I’m so sorry that I hurt you. You’re the most wonderful woman in the world. I would–

Nancy: Just stop it, craig. Just stop. I do not want to hear how wonderful I am, and I especially don’t want to hear about how much pain you’re going through or how much this hurts you, and how hard it is on you.

Craig: You’re right. You’re right. Of course.

[Small laugh] I’ve been such a coward.

Nancy: Oh my god. I think I wanted–I think I know why you wanted me to come back here and be alone with me. Oh, craig, you want to tell me that it was all a big mistake, right? That you really don’t love her. That you want my forgiveness. And that you’re never gonna see her again, right? Isn’t that what you want to tell me, craig?

Julie: What are you saying to me?

Johnny: Well, it turns out that the movie I was planning to make is back on, and since now doug has gone through the same thing my grandma marlena went through–

Julie: You know, johnny, it was really nice of you to visit with us when you got back from italy and lovely when you dropped by at christmas. And doug is so appreciative of the flowers and the cards you sent when he was in the hospital.

Johnny: I, uh–

Julie: Right, you never did any of those things. You’ve never bothered with us at all. And now you want to talk to my husband, who’s been through hell… to find out what hell is like. I suppose to make money off of his suffering, off your grandmother’s suffering.

Johnny: Well, I talked to her and she’s fine with it.

Julie: Well, god bless marlena, and good luck to her. I’m not fine with it. You’re really turning out to be sami’s little boy, aren’t you? Combining your father’s arrogance with your mother’s towering insensitivity!

Johnny: Oh my god, I… I offended you. I didn’t mean to. I mean, you’re right about me. I am all those things you said. I’m sorry, really sorry. I…I do everything wrong. I am like them.

Julie: You’re just young and stupid. I was in the same place myself, as I dimly recall.

Johnny: Look, can I… can I just step back outside, knock on the door again, and start over, and this time not act like a jerk?

Julie: Another-another time, johnny. I’m really on my way out now. I’m busy. I am going to take a housewarming gift to ben and ciara.

Johnny: Really? They’re, uh, they’re moving?

Julie: Yeah. Well, they have a new baby on the way. Of course, with everything that has been happening, I want them to be sure they have this, and to put it right outside their new home.

Johnny: I’m sorry, do you smell smoke?

Julie: No. No, nothing’s on.

[Rapid beeping]

Johnny: Sounds like it’s coming from the kitchen.

Julie: My god, you’re right! My god!

[Beeping continues]

Johnny: [Sighs]

[Beeping stops] Oh. This must have set her back 4, 5 bucks.

Ben: So, we could make the room that’s next to the nursery into a home office, if you decided that you wanted to work from home.

Ciara: Okay, but aren’t we jumping the gun a little bit here? I mean, why pay rent for a more expensive place before we even need it?

Ben: Because you are in your second trimester, and this baby is gonna be here before we know it. So, at least if we move in now, give us a little time, fix some things up, and we won’t be under so much pressure.

Ciara: I guess.

Ben: Hmm. But we do need to act fast, because we’re not the only ones interested in this place.

Ciara: Oh, okay.

Ben: Look at this place.

Ciara: What did you just tell me about “no pressure”?

Ben: Good point.

Ciara: Yeah.

Ben: I love this place. I do. But we are not moving in here unless you love it too. So what do you say?

Abigail: What fate did they meet? You still haven’t told me.

Kristen: I told you everything you need to know. I did not kill them.

Abigail: So you said. But where are they? What did you do to them? Because I found steve’s eye patch and their driver’s licenses stashed over there in that drawer, so they’ve got to be somewhere here on the island.

Kayla: You killed him? You killed him? You–you bitch!

Kristen: Let go of me, you lunatic!

[Gunshot]

[Clattering]

[Both shouting] Damn it, kayla! The nuns are gonna be here any second. Oh god, what the hell am I gonna do with you?

Kayla: Steve. Did kristen really kill you? Where are you?

[Thumping]

[Thumping]

Steve: [Coughs] Oh…oh, my god.

Kayla: Oh my god. (Man 1 vo) I’m living with cll

Kayla: Oh, thank god, she said she killed you.

Steve: Sweetness. Sweetness.

Kayla: Thank god. Oh my god.

Kristen: You do know that your evidence doesn’t prove that they’re here. So, if you’re not gonna take my word for it, then go look for yourself, hmm?

Abigail: You’re kidding, right?

Kristen: Oh, abigail, you’re not a prisoner here.

Abigail: That’s exactly what I am.

Kristen: Well, guess what, the warden just granted you a yard pass, hmm? Would you like a magnifying glass or a deerstalker cap? Or maybe a snakebite kit, hmm?

Ben: So, what do you think of this place?

Ciara: Well… I do like the layout. And it would be kind of fun fixing this place up.

Ben: Ah!

Ciara: Yeah. When–when would we sign the lease?

Ben: I already did.

Ciara: What?

Ben: Mm-hmm.

Ciara: No, but–no, you just said that–

Ben: Baby, it’s the first of the month–I had to move quick. Other people wanted this place. I didn’t want to lose it. What? Look, I made the landlady agree that she would tear up that damn lease if my wife didn’t absolutely love it. But since you do, legally, we could spend the night here.

[Both giggling] If we really wanted to. So, what do you think, mrs. Weston?

Ciara: Oh god. I say yes.

Ben: [Whispers] She said yes.

Julie: There was a fire on top of my stove!

Johnny: Whew! Well, thank god for the smoke alarm.

Julie: Yeah, well, thank god for my trusty fire extinguisher. But it doesn’t make any sense. I mean, I never turned that stove on.

Johnny: Ooh, that means it’s malfunctioning. Now, I don’t mean to be an alarmist, but you want someone to look at that right away. I mean, imagine if it happened again in the middle of the night, say.

Julie: Suppose you’re right. But I really think I need to get that cross over to ben and ciara.

Johnny: Why don’t you let me take it over to them? I’d like to do something to get back in your good graces.

Julie: You wouldn’t mind?

Johnny: Nah, wouldn’t mind at all. All I need is their new address.

Craig: I can’t ask you to forgive me.

Nancy: Why not? Craig, we’re not the first couple going through this. I mean, we can get by it. Sure, I’m still mad as hell at you, but… but, hon, if you still love me and I love you, we can get past all of it. All you have to do is promise me that this will never happen again, and–

Craig: I can’t do that, nancy.

Nancy: Craig, are you telling me that you’re in love with this woman?

Craig: I am in love, but it’s not a woman.

[Small augh] I’m in love with a man.

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Chloe: This feels like being in the waiting room at an er, and there’s been a horrible crash, and you’re just waiting to find out who makes it and who doesn’T.

Brady: Chloe, I’m not trivializing this at all, but this is not a matter of life or death. No one’s gonna die here.

Chloe: I know, but I just don’t know how my mom’s gonna take it, you know? Craig is her whole life.

Brady: No, you are underestimating your mom. She’s tough. She is a formidable woman.

Chloe: I know. I mean, I know that she’ll survive, but will she be the same?

Nancy: [Sobs] So, after all these years, I’m just a cover story? I mean, you’re sleeping with me, but you’re dreaming of men?

Craig: No, nancy, I love you.

Nancy: No! No. Just as a friend, right? But you never bothered to tell me how you were feeling!

Craig: That’s because I never knew how I was really feeling!

Nancy: Are you telling me that this is the first person–man–that you’ve ever slept with?

Craig: No. No. When I was younger, I knew I was attracted to men, back when I was in college. We weren’t married then.

Nancy: But you were sleeping with men.

Craig: Yeah. Yeah, I was. I was, and then… I realized that that’s not what I wanted. That’s not the life I wanted to live. So I put those feelings aside, nancy, and I-and I married you.

Nancy: Ha ha ha ha! Woo-hoo! Lucky me! But craig, I have feelings too.

Craig: Nancy, nancy, I did love you. I wanted to build a life with you. I never cheated on you.

Nancy: Until now. Okay, craig, you didn’t just say you slept with this man, you said you loved him. And you know, you say that you love me. Are you bisexual? Come on, craig, after all these years, you owe it to me to tell me the truth!

Craig: Yeah. I do. I owe you the truth. I’m gay.

Ben: In the hopes that that would be your answer, I planned ahead. So, mrs. Weston, there are some of your favorites– marshmallow-infused hot cocoa right over there. But that’s for later. Because for right now, I think, maybe, we should just christen this place a little bit. If you know what I mean.

Ciara: I think I do know what you mean. I saw that you made the bed up. You planned ahead.

Ben: You did see that?

Ciara: My baby’s little planner.

Ben: Oh my god. I just wanted tonight to be perfect… and it’s gonna be.

[Ciara laughs]

[Knock on door] Oh, what?

Ciara: Who on earth could that be? It’s a brand-new apartment. How do they know we’re here?

Ben: You know, it’s probably julie, but I’m gonna tell her there was an emergency. Can I help you? Rob did his best to manage his constipation

Steve: Can’t believe you’re here.

Kayla: I was so scared. What happened?

Steve: [Mutters] Kristen. She showed up at our hotel room in rome. She had a gun. She said you were fine, but I didn’t know what she’d done to you.

Kayla: I don’t even know what happened. I don’t even know where we are. She drugged me, I guess. I just woke up a few minutes ago.

Steve: So did I. Last thing I remember, I was trying to get the gun away from kristen, and she must have knocked me out and drugged me somehow. I-I-I woke up, I was in that trunk.

Kayla: What is this place?

Steve: Let’s see. There are supplies. There’s bottled water, flashlights, emergency kit. Some kind of an alarm on that wall over there. Here we go.

Kayla: Look at this. There’s lanterns and there’s-there’s hurricane safety pamphlets.

Steve: This must be some kind of storm shelter. I bet we’re on an island.

Kayla: I’ll bet you it’s not bali ha’I.

Abigail: You’re trying to scare me.

Kristen: No, abigail, I’m just giving you fair warning. It is a jungle out there. I love saying that, because it’s literally true. But you saw for yourself when you left before.

Abigail: Cameras?

Kristen: Well, yeah. I mean, I don’t want the servants to pinch the silver. Oh, wait, there are no servants. There’s no one out there to help you. See, we are on an island in the middle of an ocean. I mean, you can go out there and play robinson crusoe, make a raft, paddle away. But you’re not the first to try. See, most die in the jungle before they ever see the water. And the ones that do get that far, well, I mean, they just are dashed up on the rocks. You see, abigail, this really isn’t a beach of your dreams.

Craig: I can’t expect you to understand.

Nancy: I understand perfectly. You married me, craig, knowing you were attracted to men. I married you because I loved you. It never occurred to me to ask, “is there anything that you’re keeping from me, hon? Like you’re gay?”

Craig: I didn’t tell you because I managed to control those feelings, nancy. You and I had a good marriage. We had beautiful children.

Nancy: We have a good marriage and beautiful children based on lies. Come on, craig, why now? I mean, why him? Whoever he is?

Craig: It’s different now. I’m in love. And now that I know the way I feel about this man, and that it’s him… I’m sorry, nancy, there’s just…there’s just no turning back.

Ciara: Johnny! Hi!

Johnny: Hey.

Ciara: Oh, so good to see you! Come in.

Johnny: You too!

Ciara: Ben, this is my cousin, johnny dimera.

Ben: Right. What do you want, johnny?

Ciara: Ben!

Johnny: No, no, it’s okay. I get the sense you guys weren’t expecting visitors. But I come bearing gifts, or a gift, from julie.

Ben: Thank you.

Ciara: Wow.

Johnny: Yeah. Happy new home.

Ciara: Wow. Well, that is so sweet, but why didn’t she bring it herself?

Johnny: She had some fires to put out, but she wanted you guys to have this right away. Didn’t want you spending another night here without it to protect you. She wants you to hang it outside.

Ciara: Wow. That’s-that’s beautiful. But why… why does she think that we need protection?

Johnny: I presumed it was because the devil’s after your baby.

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Ben: Was. He was after our baby. But the devil has been exorcised.

Ciara: Yes. Thank god, marlena is fine now, and it is all over and done with.

Ben: Now, you were the one who was going to make a movie about this, right?

Johnny: Is. Is gonna make a movie. Yeah. It seems the producer wants it done right away.

Ben: Oh, well, you know what I’d like to be done right away, johnny? I would like for you to keep my wife, my baby, and myself out of your damn movie. How about that? No, no, because I think you making a movie about what happened to dr. Evans is creepy, and especially the fact that this is your grandmother–you really wanna make money off of what happened to her?

Johnny: Ah, that’s right. You’re devoted to her. She was the person who helped you after you, uh… well, ben, you’re not the only person who’s not thrilled with the idea of this movie. But the truth is, my grandma’s fine with it.

Ciara: Thank you for bringing this over.

Johnny: Yeah, uh… julie sent a hammer and nails with me, so I think she wants this thing up asap outside.

Ben: That’s a great idea, actually. Thank you for bringing this by, johnny. Appreciate that. Nice, uh, nice seeing you.

Johnny: Right. Well, it was great seeing you.

Ciara: So good seeing you.

Johnny: And I think that this baby is going to have one protective father.

Ciara: Yeah.

[Ben hammering]

Abigail: I wouldn’t be so smug if I were you. Your house of cards is crumbling.

Kristen: Well, I’m not smug. I’m self-assured.

Abigail: Let me ask you this. Did you happen to send chad a text saying “don’t worry about me, I’m fine”? Thought so. So, turns out, on the very same day that you decided I needed a little sea air here, I told chad everything that you had done to kate, and mentioned you’d done the exact same thing to sarah. So, how long do you think it’ll be before he figures out that I didn’t just voluntarily leave him and my children?

Kristen: Oh, he’ll figure it out eventually.

Abigail: He will. He won’t stop until he finds me.

Kristen: Oh, well, this is finally property. He’s welcome at any time. So, abigail, darling, why don’t you just sit, relax, rest, and let me get you a drink.

Abigail: No.

Kristen: Okay, fine. Fine. So, nighty-night, and don’t let the bedbugs or tarantulas bite.

Abigail: You’ve overplayed your hand, kristen. This is all unraveling.

Steve: You know, kristen thought that xander had hired me to look for sarah horton. But when I told her it was about philip, she tried to cover, but she looked relieved. And xander was convinced that sarah didn’t leave salem on her own volition.

Kayla: Kristen?

Steve: Maybe. I’d like to know just how many salemites are on this island.

Chloe: Brady.

Brady: Yeah.

Chloe: I’m really mad at him. I mean, he’s my father. I love him, and I know that he’s in so much pain, but I’m really, really mad at him.

Brady: It’s okay. It’s okay. I’d be worried if you weren’T.

Chloe: He must have told her by now. Oh god, help her get through this.

Nancy: How long have you known this guy?

Craig: A few months.

Nancy: And after a few months, you know you’re in love with him? Craig, how can that be?

Craig: Because he’S… he’s changed everything for me, nancy. He’s helped me face things that I’ve-I’ve spent my entire life trying not to face. And for the first time in my life, I know who I am, nancy. And I can’t go back to living the way I was. I just can’T. And that’s why… you’re the most–

Nancy: Just stop! Just stop it right there. I do not want to hear another word out of your mouth. Because now it’s my turn. Avoiding triggers, but can’t keep migraine attacks away?

Chloe: Thank you, for being here.

Brady: Yeah, well, that’s what friends are for, right? No matter what, we are friends.

Chloe: Yeah. And I’m just thinking about how this-this changes everything. You know? Like, what’s it gonna be like from now on? Birthdays, christmas… it’s never gonna be the same. I’ve known… I’ve known and loved this family since I was 15 years old, and now I just feel like it’s-it’s gone forever.

Nancy: You are not gonna be the one to say it’s over, craig. It’s gonna be me. Because I cannot be with a man who could just throw our lives away after all of this because he just realized something he should have been honest about years ago. Craig, you should have told me, before I was your wife.

Craig: Nancy, I’m sorry. I’m sorry.

Nancy: I don’t care how sorry you are! You know what, I can’t really stand to look at you anymore. I want you to leave, because our marriage is over. It’s dead. And craig, you are dead to me too. Now, get out of here–I can’t look at you one more second.

Craig: Nancy.

Nancy: Get out of this– my room. Get out of my room, now. Go, craig! I–just–

[Sobbing]

Abigail: I’m not gonna just sit around here and do nothing. I’m gonna find uncle steve and aunt kayla. And when I do, we are all getting the hell out of here.

Kayla: So, you think sarah’s here too?

Steve: I don’t know for sure. But I have a feeling we’re not alone on this island. We need to get out of this place and find out who else is here.

Kayla: I’m ready if you are.

Ben: Whoa, wait a second.

Ciara: What? What’s wrong?

Ben: Nothing. Just…this.

[Eerie off-key notes]

Demon johnny: “Oh, just this.” [Scoffs] And they talk about the banality of evil.

Ciara: Oh, I am gonna have to call grandma julie first thing in the morning and thank her.

Ben: It was so nice of her.

Ciara: Yeah. And so like her. To want to bless our baby, bless us, bless our home, and keep us all safe.

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Chad: Jennifer, that doesn’t make any sense. Abigail texted me last night and said that she was headed to boston because there was an emergency with the newspaper, and you and jack needed her help to sort it out. So there’s no emergency?

[Tense music]

Abigail: Come on, kristen, I know that sarah’s here. That’s what you meant when you said that this place is still serving its purpose. You stash all of your kidnapping victims here.

Kristen: Has anyone ever told you that you’re quite annoying? You’re like a mosquito with a press pass.

Abigail: Just tell me where sarah is. People back home are worried sick about her, especially xander.

Gwen: Where are you going?

Xander: [Sighs] Gwen rizczech.

Gwen: What are you doing?

Xander: Gwen, I know I don’t deserve a woman like you, someone so strong, and loyal, and so beautiful. But would you take pity on this poor, pathetic, completely naked scoundrel and grant me the honor of becoming my wife?

Gwen: Don’t you talk about yourself like that.

Xander: Could you please just answer the question?

Gwen: No.

Abigail: You had sarah shipped here after she figured out that you were pretending to be susan banks. And you’ve kept her here ever since, why?

Kristen: Well, aren’t you clever, hm? Wasn’t it euripides who said, “cleverness is not wisdom”?

Abigail: Compared to everything else you’ve done, imitating susan banks is like jaywalking. I mean, you are going to prison no matter what. Sarah never did anything to hurt you; she doesn’t deserve this.

Kristen: Oh, my god! I’m gonna ask you nicely to just shut up, god! You are getting on my nerves. Oh, you know what, abigail, I need you to just mind your own damn business.

[Phone ringing]

Abigail: Aren’t you gonna get that?

[Phone ringing]

[Line trilling]

Brady: Come on, steve, pick up. Please tell me you found kristen.

Craig: Ah, great. Liquid courage.

Chloe: You can do this, dad. You have to do this.

Craig: I don’t think i can, chloe.

Chloe: Well, it certainly can’t come from me. Dad, you have to tell mom you’re gay.

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Craig: It’s not accurate.

Chloe: Not accurate? What does that mean?

Craig: Chloe, I never said I was gay.

Chloe: You said that you’re in love with a man. The terminology doesn’t matter. Mom has to know. She has a right to know. And it has to come from you.

Nancy: Ah, there you two are. Oh, you both look so serious. Is everything okay?

Chloe: Yeah, actually, I was just about to go.

Nancy: No, no, look, honey, I know that I came here because of a terrible, terrible reason, but I think a higher power wanted me here.

Chloe: Why do you think that?

Nancy: Well, after that debacle with philip kiriakis, I knew you were in crisis. Honey, he can stay missing for the rest of life quite frankly, but your father and I are here because we were meant to be to help you get back together with brady.

Chloe: Mom, listen, this is not the–

Nancy: No, no. I’m gonna call brady and tell him to meet us for dinner tonight at the pub. And nothing too la-di-da, I think. Maybe we can just have that tomorrow night, you know, a little candlelight and–

Chloe: Mom, mom, just stop, please. I will call brady, okay? And you two go to dinner, and brady and I will meet you there for coffee and desserts.

Nancy: Okay, I know. We’re gonna just give you a little alone time.

Chloe: Well, I was thinking of giving you two some alone time. Dad has something he needs to talk to you about.

Nancy: He does?

Craig: Yeah, I do, I do. And it’s important.

Nancy: Oh, I know what it is. I know what it is. You’re finally gonna take me on that cruise to iceland. Oh, before everything melts. You know, it’s gonna be so fabulous. Come on, craig, let’s go.

Craig: Okay. Here goes everything.

Chloe: Good luck, dad.

Craig: Luck has nothing to do with this. I need a lot more.

[Soft music]

Roman: You look pretty intense.

Kate: Ej was just sentenced to ten years in statesville.

Roman: Good. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

Kate: I guess.

Roman: You guess? He kidnapped sami. He deserves 20 years.

Kate: I know what lucas did was misguided, but you can’t say anything.

Chad: Misguided? He locked up sami for three months. Now she’s traveling the world with her kidnapper. I think that deserves a word a little stronger than misguided. Criminal, sociopathic?

Kate: Okay, just stop. All right, stop. Ej and I were close once.

Roman: Don’t remind me. As far as I’m concerned, you and sami are both a lot better off out of that nest of dimera vipers. And now sami and lucas are together and so are we. And I hope ej’s new cellmate has been lonely for a long time.

Kate: Okay, well, I’m gonna get going. I’m going to go see to see how chad’s doing.

Roman: What’s gotten into her?

Gwen: Don’t be upset, okay?

Xander: Don’t be upset? You just turned me down flat.

Gwen: Xander, I can’t marry you, and you really don’t want to marry me.

Xander: Of course I want to marry you; why else would I get down on one knee, naked as a jaybird? It’s you who doesn’t want to marry me. It’s because of sarah, isn’t it?

[Phone ringing]

Abigail: Don’t you think it’s a little rude after everything that ava’s done for you to just not answer her call? Or maybe it’s not ava.

Kristen: No.

Abigail: Maybe it was the dimera pilot calling, asking for more money because he knows xander and i are onto him. Maybe he was calling to tell you just how much of victor’s money maggie is willing to pay to find out where he flew you and sarah.

Kristen: All right, you know what, abigail? You realize I do have a gun.

Abigail: How much time do you think you have, kristen? Wasn’t it also euripides who said, “do not use the same plot over, and over, and over, and over again. Folks are gonna catch on”?

Kristen: Oh, my god! Don’t push your luck with all these questions.

Abigail: Where is sarah?

[Dramatic music]

Avoiding triggers, but can’t keep migraine attacks away?

Chad: Jennifer, just calm down, okay? I am sure that there’s a reasonable explanation. Yeah, I will keep you posted. I will call you as soon as I hear anything from her, okay? The kids are good. I know. I love you too, jennifer.

Kate: So did you hear? Ej got sentenced to ten years in statesville.

Chad: Oh, that.

Kate: “Oh, that”? That’s all you have to say?

Chad: How about “I don’t care”?

Kate: What do you mean you don’t care? That’s a little harsh. I mean, I know he hit on your wife, but we both know he went–

Chad: My wife is the reason why I don’t have time to think about ej, or anyone else for that matter.

Kate: What’s going on with abigail now?

Chad: She’s gone missing.

Abigail: I want to know what you’ve done with sarah.

Kristen: If you don’t shut up on your own, I do have the means to do it for you.

Abigail: Have you forgotten that my last name is also dimera?

Kristen: You married a dimera, abigail. That doesn’t mean you are one.

Abigail: It does to chad. If you lay so much as a finger on me, he will hunt you to the ends of the earth, not to mention how brady would feel about that.

Brady: Hey, hey. Why are we meeting here? I thought we were gonna meet at the club for a dinner with your folks.

Chloe: Well, I wanted to give them some time alone to talk.

Brady: About what?

Chloe: My dad is having an affair.

[Sighs]

Brady: Chloe, I thought it was a misunderstanding.

Chloe: Nope. He’s been cheating on her. But that’s not the whole story.

Nancy: Thank you, sweetheart. I’m telling you, craig, this place is like it’s stuck in time. You know, this morning at breakfast, I could swear that, at any moment, caroline brady was gonna come out of that kitchen.

Craig: Hm?

Nancy: Are you okay? You look awful.

Craig: Yeah, um, you know, can we maybe go somewhere else, some place just a little more private?

Nancy: Oh, no, honey, no. We told chloe that we were gonna meet her and brady here.

Roman: All right. Specials are on the left, but I’m sorry, we’re out of the cod.

Nancy: Wait, roman! It’s nancy and craig.

Craig: You don’t need to tell him that.

Nancy: Oh, roman. I hope you’re not still holding a grudge, are you?

Roman: Let’s just say I don’t feel real warm towards people who use my daughter like you two did just to get ahead at work.

Craig: Okay. Maybe we should go.

Nancy: No, no. Roman, we are sorry about that. But I do understand if you can’t let it go. My kids mean the world to me, too. How is carrie? Is she happy?

Roman: She and austin are very happy.

Nancy: I’m glad, and sami?

Roman: Sami’s good, too.

Nancy: Great, you know, as parents, we are only as happy as our unhappiest child. And well, we know how you feel. We’re here to support chloe too because, well, brady is trying to put her back together again. I mean, she has been through the wringer this year.

Roman: Yes, yes, she has.

Nancy: But brady and chloe are joining us for dessert a little later. We want her to have, like, a normal family life, like the first day of the rest of her life, and–I know that sounds dumb.

Roman: No, no, it doesn’T. I’m sure chloe will love it. So welcome back. And dessert’s on the house.

Nancy: Oh, thank you, roman. Wait, honey. Do you still have that fabulous clam chowder?

Roman: Of course we do.

Nancy: We’ll have two orders, please.

Roman: Okay, you got it.

Craig: Thanks.

Nancy: You know, craig, under that rough exterior, roman really is a sweet guy. I mean, in a weird sort of way, he kind of reminds me of you.

Craig: Really?

Nancy: Okay, honey, he’s not as handsome as you, but, you know, he’s sweet, but he’s tough, and he’s strong, and he shoots from the hip. But he’s still a sweet man. He loves his kids. He loves his family. And well, he’s a real man. You know what I mean? Like you. Life’s been hard enough.

Kate: So the dimera pilot said someone called sarah horton paid him to fly her and an enormous suitcase out of salem. And then last month, kristen somehow finds out that abigail and xander are searching for sarah, and she conjures up a sarah, fake sarah, so they’ll call off the hunt.

Chad: That was abigail’s theory.

Kate: I think it’s true because it sounds just like kristen. I mean, and there are parallels. I mean, it happened to me. She kidnapped me, she put on a kate mask, she breaks up with jake. And then if what abigail says is true, she kidnapped sarah, and she put on a sarah mask, and then she broke up with xander and then ends up at the airport with a body-sized suitcase.

Chad: God, I’m so stupid. I sat in this room, and I listened to abigail tell me what happened to you. And I just went and read the kids a story. I’m an idiot.

Kate: Stop, stop. Don’t beat yourself up.

Chad: Don’t beat myself up? Abigail told me she didn’t think the person that her, maggie, and xander talked to was sarah, that fake sarah went to the airport. I’m just like, “hey, don’t worry about it, let’s have dinner.” Like abigail’s gonna sit at home and do nothing when she thinks kristen kidnapped sarah. No, of course, she’s gonna go to the airport. Why didn’t I go with her?

Kate: Because the whole thing just sounds preposterous. That’s why. I mean, it happened to me, chad, and I still don’t believe it. All right? I’m sorry.

Chad: If kristen hurts abigail–

Kate: Don’t go there. Don’t even go there.

Chad: Where is she? And where the hell is sarah?

Sarah: I can’t read anymore. I’ve read so much, my eyes are gonna bleed. How many hours have I stared out that damn window at the damn ocean? I got to get home. I have to get back to the man I love.

Gwen: Yes. Of course, it’s about sarah. You’ve just spent the last bloody month trying to track her down, xander.

Xander: ‘Cause I was trying to make sure she was okay. And now I know she’s okay, and we can have our lives back.

Gwen: ‘Cause she dumped you again.

Xander: Hey, it doesn’t matter that she dumped me, just like it wouldn’t matter if she wanted me back. I love you, gwen. I want to be with you.

Gwen: Come on. How in god’s name do you actually expect me to believe that?

Xander: Because it’s the truth.

Kristen: Sweet, sweet abigail, hm? See, I don’t need to worry about how chad or brady are gonna feel about this because they’re not gonna know about this, huh? Now I want you to take some time, and I want you to reflect and ultimately absorb the fact that you don’t have any power. I am in absolute control. And you’re just gonna have to make peace with that. Try to eat something. Maybe it’s low blood sugar that’s making you so disagreeable.

[Soft music]

Brady: You overheard him on the phone?

Chloe: Yeah. About five minutes after my mom was going on about what an honest, loyal husband my father is.

Brady: Oh, god. Chlo, I’m so sorry. You shouldn’t have had to hear that.

Chloe: I just don’t know what this is gonna do to my mom.

Brady: Well, he’s not the first husband who has cheated on his wife. But I mean, this girlfriend, do you know who she is, or–

Chloe: It’s not a her, him.

Brady: Him?

Chloe: Yeah. My dad’s been cheating on my mom with a man.

Brady: Are you trying to tell me that your father is gay?

Nancy: Craig, I keep seeing people that I think I used to know.

Craig: Nancy, could you please focus? Just for a moment. I–there’s something I need to tell you.

Nancy: Okay. Are you all right?

Craig: Yes.

Roman: All right. There you go, two chowders. Enjoy.

Craig: Thanks, roman. Oh, god.

Nancy: Craig, what is it? Are you sick? Is that what you’ve been hiding from me?

Craig: No, nancy, that’s not it.

Nancy: But, craig, you are hiding something from me, right? For god’s sake, just tell me what it is.

Craig: Nancy. You were right before. I am seeing somebody else. Rob did his best to manage his constipation

Brady: So craig is gay?

Chloe: I don’t know.

Brady: You don’t know? You just said that–

Chloe: He said that he’s seeing another man. We didn’t exactly discuss the specifics of how he identifies.

Brady: Okay, right.

Chloe: Brady, he’s in so much pain. But he says he loves my mom, but then he also says–

Brady: Says what?

Chloe: He says that he’s in love with this other guy. I don’t know. I mean, I get this sense that maybe he’s been in denial this entire time, but it just feels like it’s really new to him.

Brady: Yeah.

Chloe: But at the same time, I don’t really give a damn about his pain because of what this will do to my mom.

Brady: Yeah. It’s okay, I get it.

Chloe: It’s just–I told him he’s got to tell her the truth. She deserves to know the truth. Brady, I think it’s gonna be bad.

Nancy: I knew it! I knew it all the time.

Craig: Nancy, there’s something else I need to tell you.

Nancy: No, no, no, no. Just spare me the details. I don’t want to find out that it just happened, or that she completes you, or other load of crap.

Roman: Hey, hey, hey, hey. Can we keep our voices down?

Nancy: You mean me? You want me to keep my voice down because I’m the one being loud while he just sits there like the sleazy little wimp that he is!

Craig: Nancy, let’s go.

Nancy: I’m not going anywhere with you, you son of a bitch!

Craig: Oh!

Abigail: She probably poisoned the apple. That’s what witches do. What the hell did she give me? How the hell do I get out of here?

Kate: I don’t know. I don’t think that phone call proves that it wasn’t kristen in the mask. I mean, we know that she has the technology to be me, to be nicole, she can be joan of arc for all we know. I mean, certainly she could fake a phone call.

Chad: She said that gwen had entered as if on cue. Like the whole thing was staged.

Kate: Like an elaborate, nefarious scheme. Like you’re still here, my love. And gwen, gwen’s involved, too?

Chad: I remember something that abby had said to me. She said that gwen was there when she told her parents that she was looking for sarah, that gwen had freaked out. At the time, she thought that gwen was just trying to keep xander from going back to sarah. But… what if she knew that kristen had sarah and… no, that’s too much of a stretch.

Kate: No, I don’t think so. We both know that kristen is capable of coercing someone into helping her. Gwen, I mean, gwen would be open to temptation. She’d be open to blackmail.

Chad: Yeah, but I just don’t see any connection between gwen and kristen.

Kate: What? They’re exactly alike. I mean, they’re both amoral, vicious, vindictive.

Chad: Gwen’s–

Kate: Gwen’s what? Gwen’s changed? Do you realize how many times we’ve said that about kristen? I think abigail is close to the truth. Dangerously close to the truth.

[Soft music]

Xander: Say it again. Say, “no, we don’t love each other.” You can’t, can you? You and I have both kissed a lot of people we didn’t love. But that kiss was different, wasn’t it? Because we do love each other. So why not get married? Why not let me do anything and everything I can to make you happy?

Gwen: You already do.

Xander: I didn’t do this right. I asked you to marry me, and I didn’t have a ring.

Gwen: I don’t want a ring.

Xander: No, no, no, no. I do have one, and as a matter of fact, it’s perfect. This is the ring I gave sarah.

[Knocking on door]

Kristen: Hello in there! Is it all right if I come in?

Sarah: Of course it is! It’s so good to see you.

Kristen: Oh! How are you doing today?

Sarah: You don’t have to keep asking me that.

Kristen: Well, I worry about you.

Sarah: You do?

Kristen: You know I do.

Sarah: Then when can I go home? Kristen, I can’t keep taking this, just inside one room and never going out. I need to go home to him. I know that he misses me as much as I miss him.

Kristen: Oh, honey, honey, we’ve been over this. It’s just not safe right now. You need to stay here so we can protect you.

Sarah: I’m a grown woman. I can protect myself, and I can protect him, too. And you know how much he needs me.

Brady: Can I ask you a personal question?

Chloe: Well, I just told you that my father is cheating on my mother with a man. So I don’t think it gets more personal than that.

Brady: Yeah. Did you ever suspect?

Chloe: That he was cheating?

Brady: No, no, no. That he was gay.

Chloe: I don’t know. I mean, maybe. I always knew he was different from the other dads, but I was fine with it. I liked it. You know, it was cool that he could talk to guys about sports, but then at the same time, he could talk to me about opera. And I like how he loves singers, and broadway, and dancing, and old movies. I always just thought I was lucky. So did my mom.

Craig: Damn it, nancy! That’s hot!

Nancy: Well, good thing. I hope it melts your privates.

Craig: Nancy, wait, nancy!

Roman: Men’s room, second door on the left.

Gwen: Damn it, xander, honestly, do you think that I want her ring?!

Xander: No, I just–oh, god, that was stupid of me!

Gwen: And insensitive and really hurtful.

Xander: No, I get it. I get it, I get it. I just–i wasn’t thinking straight, gwen.

Gwen: I mean, honestly, wouldn’t you know that the last thing, the last thing that I would want is a ring that you intended for sarah.

Xander: Yes, I should have known. But I was just so caught up in wanting to give you a ring, any ring. But, gwen, please forgive me and know that when I have the money, I’m gonna get you the biggest, most ornate ring right out of your rom-com movie fantasy–

Gwen: Stop, just stop. Just stop, xander, stop.

Xander: What is it now?

Gwen: Don’t you see, I don’t want a ring. That is not what this is about.

Xander: Then what is it? Why are you behaving this way? What more do I have to do to prove to you that even if sarah horton walked through that door right now and begged to have me back, I would still choose you?

Kate: Here, you need this?

Chad: No, thank you. I need to keep a clear head.

Kate: Okay. Mmm. You’re a better man than me.

Chad: You know, one thing that we have to hold on to is that kristen is a dimera.

Kate: Yes, she is.

Chad: And what was he always drumming into our head? Family. We can wage war on each other, we can lie, cheat, and steal from each other, but in the end, kristen isn’t gonna hurt abigail. She wouldn’t do that to thomas and charlotte. I don’t know where abigail is, but I know she’s okay.

Abigail: Should have known, should have known a decrepit mansion on a remote desert island, boy, that’s not good enough for the dimeras. No, we got to plant a whole freakin’ jungle around it. Sorry I didn’t pack my scythe.

[Tense music]

Trelegy for copd.

Kate: Well, I hope craig is going to be okay. All right, I’ll see you later.

Chad: Who was that?

Kate: Roman. I just wanted to let him know that I was going to be a little longer than I expected.

Chad: Yeah?

Kate: Yeah, becau we need to figure out together how we’re going to go about finding abigail.

[Tense music]

Abigail: That’s quite a guest list you have here, kristen.

Kristen: Look at what I have. I brought you a treat.

Sarah: I’m not hungry.

Kristen: Oh, not even for peach pie a la mode?

Sarah: Does sound nice.

Kristen: I know, it is nice. And I know it’s your favorite. Mine too.

Chloe: But he always–I mean, he always seemed like he loved my mom so much. He can’t have been faking that.

Brady: Chloe.

Nancy: [Sobs] Your father just told me.

Chloe: Mom, I’m so sorry.

Nancy: You knew, chloe? You knew and you didn’t tell me?

Chloe: You had to hear it from him.

Nancy: So you just covered for him, right, how long?

Chloe: No, I just found out this morning. Let’s go to the inn.

Nancy: Well–no, stop. You know what? To hell with him. And to hell with her, too. I mean, if she thinks that she can give him the decades of love and support–and oh, my god, the things I’ve done for that man.

Chloe: What woman?

Nancy: Really? The woman he said he was–

Craig: Nancy, nancy, please.

Nancy: Stop it. Just stay the hell away from me.

Chloe: Mom, no, you need to talk to him right now. People everywhere living with

Craig: Nancy, please. We have to go somewhere where I can explain.

Nancy: What else is there to talk about? Oh, you know what? Maybe you should call that floozy of yours and have her crack open the champagne ’cause you finally got rid of the old ball and chain.

Chloe: Dad, you said that you would tell her.

Craig: I tried to explain, but she decided to throw a bowl of clam chowder in my lap and stormed off before I could finish.

Nancy: For god’s sakes, what else is there to talk about? My marriage is over. My husband is cheating on me. I mean, what more is there to talk about?

Xander: You’re not saying anything.

Gwen: I’m sorry. I’m just still a bit triggered.

Xander: Of course you are. ‘Cause I’m an idiot. I shouldn’t even be mentioning sarah’s name in your presence, let alone reminding you that I–

Gwen: That you were once going to marry her and that you bought a ring for her.

Xander: Yes. I did that, but that’s over now. All those feelings I had for her are gone. All the love in my heart, it’s all for you now, gwen. I’m telling you the truth.

Gwen: But–

Xander: No buts. Look, I know sarah’s in your head, but she’s not in mine. She’s not in my head, and she’s not in my heart. You are the only woman for me. And I really do believe that I’m the man for you.

Gwen: So do I. Yes.

Xander: I’m sorry, could i hear that again, just a little bit louder and maybe a little bit more definite?

Gwen: Yes, yes. Yes, you are the man for me. I will marry you. I will marry you, xander.

Xander: You have no idea how happy you’ve made me.

[Gwen laughs]

[Soft music]

Sarah: Won’t be long, my love. I’m coming home to you.

Chad: Well, I’m only about 24 hours late.

Kate: Yeah, well, that’s all we’ve got. You have to get yourself out to that airstrip and just see what you can find out. I’m gonna call the police, make sure they’re there by the time you get there.

Chad: Thank you for everything.

Kate: You don’t have to thank me. I am here for you and abigail always. Go.

Chad: All right.

Kristen: Hmm, I thought you might like some dessert. Would you like some peach pie?

Abigail: You can choke on your pie, kristen.

Kristen: Well, you don’t have to get snippy about it. I would let go if I were you.

Abigail: No. Not until you tell me what you did to my uncle steve and my aunt kayla.

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TR: I have business here with johnny dimera, and I’m not leaving till it’s settled.

Paulina: Now, fine, but you just stay the hell away from me. And you go anywhere near my family, I swear–I swear!

Lani: Paulina? Is everything okay?

Paulina: Hey. Hey, you. I didn’t see you there.

Lani: What’s going on?

Paulina: Nothing. Nothing. Why?

Lani: Because it sounded like you two were arguing.

Paulina: No. We weren’t, you know, exactly arguing.

TR: More like you were trying to chase me out of town.

Lani: Well, why would she do that? Who are you?

Demon johnny: I know I’m not supposed to contact you directly, judge barnes, especially on the day of my father’s sentencing, but between you and me, I think you made the right decision. What he did completely traumatized my mother, and I’m glad you found him guilty. My hope is that you’ll put him behind bars for a very long time. Yes. Thank you for listening.

[Cell phone beeps] That ought to do it.

Belle: Okay. Here’s your suit. Well, where’s johnny?

Ej: I haven’t heard from him all day. I don’t think he’s coming.

Belle: Well, I was counting on him to speak on your behalf at sentencing.

Ej: I’ll send him another message, but I get the feeling he’s avoiding me.

Belle: Hmm. Well, is there anyone else you can think of who could vouch for you? Friends? Other family members?

Ej: Well, we can cross chad off the list. Last thing I want is to give my brother a second chance to stab me in the back.

Gwen: Seems like something my simp of a sister would do.

Kristen: Oh, god. Ava and gwen, you ladies both owe me.

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Chad: Hey.

Johnny: Uncle chad. I’m sure you saw that my father’s sentencing hearing is about to start.

Chad: Yeah. I wonder how hard the judge is gonna be on him.

Johnny: If he cares about justice, he’ll give him the max.

Chad: Do you mean that?

Johnny: It’s what he deserves for kidnapping my mother. Not to mention, practically forcing himself on abigail.

Chad: Yeah, that was disturbing.

Johnny: I still can’t believe he’d do something like that right there, in the courthouse.

Chad: Me neither.

Johnny: I mean, what kind of monster acts that way? I assume abigail is keeping her distance?

Chad: She left town actually.

Johnny: Oh. I didn’t know she was going away.

Chad: Neither did I. She left last night without saying goodbye to me or the kids.

Johnny: You worried?

Chad: I was, ’cause I couldn’t reach her, but she finally texted me.

Johnny: Everything okay?

Chad: Yeah. She had to go to boston, to help her parents. Some emergency with the paper they bought.

Johnny: Hmm. Well, I hope she comes back soon. I need her back in town when production begins.

Chad: Production? On your movie?

Johnny: Yeah, yeah. Big plot twist. “Possessed: The marlena evans story” is making a comeback.

Paulina: I’ll tell you exactly who this man is. This is johnny dimera’s business associate, and what you heard was me voicing my opinion about my soon-to-be ex-son-in-law.

TR: Spoiler alert. She’s not a fan.

Lani: At the moment, neither am I.

Paulina: Oh, you hear that? Now you got two people telling you not to get involved with that louse. Let’s go.

TR: Wait, wait, wait. I never got introduced to this young woman. I’m terrell raymond coates, but everyone calls me tr. And who might you be?

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Belle: I’m really, really sorry things turned out this way. I feel like I let you down.

Ej: It wasn’t your fault. You warned me not to take the witness stand, but I was too arrogant to listen.

Belle: No, you just wanted to get your side of the story out there.

Ej: And you can see how well that went. If I had taken your advice, I might not be in this position.

Belle: Well, can’t argue with that, and usually I’m right.

Ej: [Exhales deeply] You’re a good lawyer, belle, and I don’t know that anyone could have done a better job.

Belle: Thank you.

Ej: No, thank you.

Belle: For losing?

Ej: For believing in me, when even my own family doesn’T.

Ej: Well… [Clears throat] I guess it’s time to face the music.

Belle: Yeah. Hang on. Sorry. [Chuckles] Okay. Yeah, okay. That’s better.

Chad: You’re still making the movie?

Johnny: I am.

Chad: After what marlena just went through? You don’t think that’s gonna be hard on your grandmother?

Johnny: It’s not something I wanted to do, okay? I didn’t have a choice.

Chad: What do you mean you didn’t have a choice?

Johnny: Producer showed up this morning. Said if I didn’t give him the movie I promised that he’d ruin my career.

Chad: Seriously? He threatened you?

Johnny: Yeah, said he, uh… already promised his investors a big return and that if I don’t deliver, he’ll make sure every studio in hollywood knows I can’t be trusted.

Chad: Who was this guy?

Johnny: His name’s tr coates. He’s a big power player in the industry. Not someone you want to cross.

Chad: Right. It sounds like he’s playing hardball.

Johnny: Yeah.

Lani: I’m lani price-grant.

TR: Price, so you’re–

Paulina: She’s my niece.

TR: Ah, yeah. I can see the resemblance. And these little munchkins are–

Paulina: That’s my family, so you best keep your distance, okay, if you know what’s good for you. You feel me?

Lani: Paulina, isn’t that a little harsh?

TR: Yes, it is harsh. Thank you, lani.

Paulina: You just keep her name out of your damn mouth.

TR: Hey, I mean no harm. I’m just here to make a great movie with johnny D. I didn’t even know you were here.

Paulina: Fine, fine. Go ahead, go on, make your damn movie. Just leave my family out of it, okay? Just leave me alone! Just–come on, lani. Just come on!

Gwen: Yeah, I just texted chad. I’ve still got him convinced that abigail is in boston. Ava, I know that he’s going to figure it out eventually. I’m just trying to buy us some time, so I can figure out what to do next. I didn’t exactly plan for her to see you in that sarah mask, did I? No, ava, I’m not blaming you. We’re just lucky that that pilot has agreed to deliver her to kristen. I have to go. Bye.

[Cell phone beeps]

Xander: Oh. Sorry, love. Didn’t mean to interrupt your phone call.

Gwen: No, that’s all right. Was just wrapping up.

Xander: Thought I heard you mention kristen’s name. Why are you talking about her?

Kristen: [Panting] I really need to hire someone to do this grunt work. Especially since it’s been happening so often.

Trelegy for copd.

Abigail: [Groans]

[Winces]

Abigail: Where the hell am I?

Kristen: Welcome to fantasy island.

Gwen: I was talking about kristen, because I read an article about her today, in “the spectator.”

Xander: What about it?

Gwen: Well, allegedly she phoned abigail denying having to do anything with your cousin philip’s disappearance.

Xander: Well, who were you talking to on the phone.

Gwen: Um, my friend claire. I thought she’d have some insight, since she and philip are family.

Xander: Oh, I don’t think I’d take kristen’s word as gospel. I mean she’s not exactly known as a truth-teller.

Gwen: Yeah, I hear you. Anyway, where were you today, handsome?

Xander: Hmm, well… I was out shopping for a gift. For you.

Gwen: What? What’s this?

Xander: This is a bag. A bag that contains a box. A box that houses the gift I bought for you.

Gwen: Really? What is it?

Xander: Dunno.

Gwen: [Chuckles]

Gwen: [Gasps]

[Exhales] It’s london.

Xander: Look, I know it’s not the same as going there in person, but it’s the best I could do.

Gwen: It’s beautiful.

Xander: Look, I was a complete wanker canceling our plans, just so I could go and search for sarah, who, as it turns out, was doing just fine.

Gwen: It’s okay.

Xander: No, gwen, it’s not. No, I hurt you. I want you to know that I’m really, truly sorry.

Lani: You didn’t need to walk us home.

Paulina: I just wanted to make sure that that man didn’t harass you.

Lani: Why would he do that?

Paulina: Well, who knows? I’m a good judge of character. I got a nasty vibe from him.

Lani: Well, he didn’t seem that bad to me.

Paulina: “Not that bad?” You saw how aggressive he was.

Lani: Actually, you were the aggressive one. I mean, why did you flip out on him like that, anyway?

Paulina: I didn’T. I didn’t flip out.

Lani: You kinda did.

Paulina: You gotta stand your ground with men like tr coates. I put him on blast. Any–any friend of johnny dimera is an enemy of mine.

Lani: I know you have your issues with johnny after what he did to chanel, but are you sure it’s not more than that?

Paulina: What else would there be?

Lani: I mean when tr asked who I was, you told him I was your niece. Why wouldn’t you want him to know I was your daughter?

Johnny: I don’t blame tr for wanting me to make the movie. It’s a great script, and I signed a contract.

Chad: Sure, but that was before the devil came back to salem.

Johnny: But he wasn’t here for that, and plus, he does really seem genuinely excited about the movie. He even said he sees it as a trilogy.

Chad: Whoa, wait. He wants to make three movies about marlena? What are the sequels gonna be about?

Johnny: Well, part two would be about my grandmother’s most recent possession.

Chad: And the third?

Johnny: We’ll figure something out.

Chad: Look, I don’T… I don’t think this is a great idea, but I am happy for you and your career.

Johnny: Thank you. That’s nice of you to say.

Chad: It sounds like you’re not gonna have a whole lot of time for dimera going forward. If you want, I could talk to our lawyers and see about them transferring yours and your father’s shares to me.

Johnny: That won’t be necessary. I still plan to be involved with dimera enterprises.

Chad: You sure? Making a movie is a– it’s a lot of work, you know? And I know you want to give it your full attention.

Johnny: I can do both.

Chad: This is your big break, johnny. I don’t want you to leave anything on the field.

Johnny: I promise you I can handle being a business mogul and a movie mogul at the same time.

Chad: Very ambitious of you.

Johnny: Well, trust me. I’m up for the challenge. I’m ready to make my mark on the world.

Belle: How are you holding up?

Ej: [Screams]

[Exhales sharply]

Belle: I’m so sorry.

Ej: Ugh.

[Sighs] I knew bad news was coming, but to hear those words spoken from the judge, I–

Belle: Don’t give up. Listen, we’re gonna file an appeal right away.

Ej: Both you and I know that that’s a longshot. My fate’s been sealed. I’m innocent and I am going to be rotting away in statesville prison, for the next ten years.

[Exhales deeply] My plaque psoriasis…

Paulina: Are those angels asleep?

Lani: They will be in a few. So I’ll ask again. Why didn’t you want that man to know who I was?

Paulina: Well, I wasn’t sure if you were comfortable with me introducing you that way. Not yet, anyway. You’ve only called me mom once, and that was because I was about to be crushed by a chandelier.

Lani: You had no problem telling everyone I was your daughter, at chanel’s party.

Paulina: That was among family. This man, he’s a complete stranger.

Lani: So?

Paulina: So he doesn’t need to know our business.

Lani: I don’t see what difference it would make. I mean it’s not like we’re hiding anything anymore.

Paulina: Don’t you get it? I’m trying to protect you, to protect all of you.

Lani: How? And from what?

Paulina: Well, like I said, this person, tr? Well, he’s doing this movie with johnny, and with my help, chanel, she’s planning on taking her soon-to-be-ex to the cleaner’S.

Lani: What does the divorce have anything to do with tr?

Paulina: How do you think he’s gonna feel with chanel making half the movie profits? Things, they get sour. Tr, he blames me and chanel, then he comes after us.

Lani: For what exactly?

Paulina: [Stammering] It doesn’t matter. This man–men like that– they they destroy everything they touch. Trust me. It’s just better that he doesn’t know that I have another daughter.

Lani: I don’t know. It feels like a stretch.

Paulina: I’m being cautious. I’ll admit it.

Lani: Are you being cautious, or are you just not telling me the whole story?

Gwen: You don’t have to apologize.

Xander: Yes, I do. I was incredibly unfair. You had to give up spending the holidays in london, just so I could run around playing detective.

Gwen: You thought sarah was in danger. I know that she was very important to you and you were worried about her.

Xander: Yeah, but she wasn’t in danger. She just really, truly wanted to get away from me, and I guess I… still didn’t want to accept that.

Gwen: I know how hard it is to realize when someone you really care about doesn’t feel the same way.

Xander: I didn’t realize how much she hated me until I saw her again. You should have been there.

Xander: Well, maggie cares about you deeply. You lied to her about where you were.

Sarah: I wanted to be left alone and I was afraid that she would tell you where I was. I was trying to avoid this.

Xander: Oh, so you hate me now.

Sarah: Yes. You put another woman’s baby in my arms and told me that it was mine. You let me fall in love with her, and then you watched as she was taken away from me. How could I not hate you?

Xander: I mean you would not believe how angry she was.

Gwen: I can only imagine.

Abigail: Kristen?

Kristen: Hello, abigail.

Abigail: What are you doing here? What-what am I doing here?

Kristen: Well, those are both excellent questions.

Abigail: What is this place?

Kristen: It’s an old dimera property on a deserted island. Hasn’t been kept up as well as it should, but it does serve its purpose.

Abigail: Which is?

Kristen: Here. Juices from the native fruits.

Abigail: I’ll pass.

Kristen: Are you sure? After your flight, I would assume you’d be dehydrated.

Abigail: Flight?

Kristen: Mm-hmm. And this will flush out all the sedatives that you were given.

Abigail: I’m getting the hell out of here.

Kristen: Did you not hear the part about being on a deserted island? Where the hell are you gonna go, abigail?

Abigail: Give it a shot, anyway.

Kristen: Oh, all right. Well, if I can’t make you stay, maybe this will, hmm?

Johnny: So aunt abigail’s still game to play my grandma, right? I know she’s busy with the newspaper.

Chad: I don’t know. You’ll have to ask her when she gets back to town.

Johnny: I have a feeling she’ll say yes. I know how excited she was about playing the part, and who can blame her? I mean, what’s more fun than acting like you have the devil in you?

Chad: I don’t know if I’d call it fun, but I’m sure abby’s up for the challenge.

Johnny: Of course, now that my dad’s gonna be going away, I’ll need to find a new leading man. You still interested in playing john black?

Chad: Me?

Johnny: Well, you pitched the idea before. Ddi you change your mind?

Chad: Yeah, I just have a lot more on my plate now, so– but I’ll think about it.

Johnny: Ah, come on. Can’t imagine you want to watch someone else have sex with your wife.

Chad: Having fake sex with my wife.

Johnny: Of course, of course. I just–I was just thinking could be another good way to stick it to my dad.

Chad: You really think he cares about that?

Johnny: Oh, I think he cares about everything when it comes to you. He tried to steal the company from you. He tried to steal this role from you. Now you get both.

Chad: Your father’s done a lot of horrible things, but he’s about to pay dearly for his crimes. I’m not about to dance on his grave.

Johnny: Don’t you think he’d do the same thing to you?

Chad: Yeah, but no. He’s still my brother, and he’s your father. He’s about to have his whole life taken away.

Belle: Before you go out there, I’m sure the news of your sentencing has already hit the press.

Ej: We dimeras are always good for clickbait.

Belle: There is going to be a swarm of reporters out there, so I’m gonna go coordinate with the courthouse and see if we can sneak you out the back way to the prison van.

Ej: You don’t have to worry about that. You’ve done your job.

Belle: Ej, you’re still my client.

Ej: And I’ll always be very appreciative, but the best thing you can do for me right now is leave. Go home to shawn. Please.

Belle: No, I’m not gonna abandon you.

Ej: I’ll be fine. I just– I just need some time to myself before they take me away.

Belle: Okay. Well, I can give you some time. I’ll just be right outside, in the corridor.

Ej: Damn it, belle. I told you to go home.

Belle: Why? Why are you trying to get rid of me? Oh, my god. You’re planning to escape, aren’t you? -We are here! -For new homeowners,

Ej: Never ask questions you don’t want to know the answer to.

Belle: You really are planning an escape.

Ej: Just go.

Belle: So what? Are you studying kristen’s playbook?

Ej: What do you want me to say?

Belle: Are you meeting her somewhere? Is she in on this?

Ej: The less you know the better. I don’t want you implicated.

Belle: You can’t do this.

Ej: You know what I can’t do is go to prison for the next ten years for a crime I didn’t commit.

Belle: You’re only gonna make this so much worse.

Ej: Nothing can be worse than that. You give me one good reason why I shouldn’t get the hell out of here while I still can.

Belle: I’ll give you two: Sydney and johnny. If you run, you’ll never see your children again.

[Cell phone beeps]

Chad: Breaking news: Judge just rendered his sentence.

Johnny: And?

Chad: He gave your dad ten years.

Johnny: Ouch.

Chad: Ten years. I can’t even imagine.

Johnny: Oh, come on, don’t tell me you’re actually feeling sorry for my father.

Chad: You’re not?

Johnny: He kidnapped my mother, held her prisoner for months. Whatever happens, he did to himself.

Chad: Right.

Johnny: Look, I know I’m supposed to feel sympathetic, because we share the same dna, but honestly, what I feel is relief. Justice was served. Now we can all move on.

Chad: Just like that?

Johnny: I have a movie to pull together, okay? Think about my offer and please, call abigail, tell her I need her in salem asap.

Abigail: You’re gonna shoot me?

Kristen: [Chuckles] I mean, if I have to.

Abigail: Ugh. All right. Well, if I’m not going anywhere, you mind telling me how I ended up here?

Kristen: Hmm. What was the last thing you remember? Hmm?

Abigail: I was headed to the airfield looking for my cousin sarah, because I suspected it was not sarah, but it was you in a mask.

Kristen: Ooh, solid theory.

Abigail: And it turns out it was a mask, only the person beneath it was ava vitali.

Kristen: Ooh, and the plot thickens.

Abigail: Did you put her up to it? ‘Cause I know the two of you are friends.

Kristen: Mm-hmm. Well, I mean it’s true, we go way back. But what happened at the airfield when you figured all this out?

Abigail: Well, I was about to call rafe, only someone came up, hit me from behind, and I think I know who it was.

Xander: I know you said you forgive me, but I hope you really do.

Gwen: I do. As long as you can forgive me too.

Xander: For what?

Gwen: [Sighs] For acting like an insecure child, doubting you, doubting what we have together.

Xander: You have nothing to be sorry for, gwen.

Gwen: I do. I– I completely overreacted. You see, I–I– I saw you obsessing about sarah, and I just–I panicked. The truth is, xander, you– you’re all I’ve got. My father’s moved away, and abigail and I will– we can hardly even be in the same room together. And so, if lost you, I’d be completely alone.

Xander: Here’s the good news, gwen. You’re not gonna lose me. Ever.

Gwen: Do you mean that?

Xander: Of course I do.

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Paulina: Trust me, lani, if chanel and i go to battle against tr, he will exploit any and all vulnerabilities.

Lani: You don’t even know him, right?

Paulina: No, no. No, no, no. Except that he’s working with johnny dimera, which tells me a lot. Besides, I know that type.

Lani: Which is?

Paulina: Charming and affable, on the surface, but something very different underneath.

Lani: How can you tell that from one conversation?

Paulina: You know, just like you’re good at sniffing out criminals, I got a nose for users. You don’t get to be a big time movie producer without being a cutthroat. I’m just trying to protect you, you and your precious children.

Lani: I think you’re being paranoid.

Paulina: Paranoid, cautious, what’s the difference? Lani, just do me a favor, would you? Now, if you ever come across that man again, you just go running in the opposite direction. You hear me? You hear me? I don’t want you having anything to do with tr coates!

Kristen: So who do you think knocked you out?

Abigail: I mean, come on. I wake up here. I’ve got you hovering over me. It doesn’t take an investigative reporter to assume it was probably you.

Kristen: Oh, well, I can neither confirm nor deny.

Abigail: Sure, okay. Let’s just keep playing your games.

Kristen: All you need to know, ms. Abigail, the reason you’re here is because you were sticking your nose where it didn’t belong.

Abigail: You mean I was getting too close to the truth about what actually happened to sarah.

Kristen: What truth is that?

Abigail: Sarah didn’t just decide to leave salem on her own last year. You did something to her, didn’t you?

Gwen: Why is it every time I’m with you, everything just… feels so much better? Like all my problems just sort of float away.

Xander: Well, I hope I can always do that for you. I hope–

Gwen: What? What? You seem like you want to tell me something. What is it?

Xander: Look, I know this isn’t the ideal time to bring up her name again, but I do have one last thing I want to say about sarah.

Gwen: Okay.

Xander: Before she left, she gave me some really good advice. She told me to stop obsessing about our breakup, get on with my life, focus on you.

Gwen: She said that, did she?

Xander: Yes, she did, so that’s what I’m gonna do from now on. No more looking back. I only want to look to the future, and my future is with you.

Gwen: You really mean that?

Xander: I know exactly how to prove it. For rob, it took years to find out

Ej: All right. I’ll stay. I’ll call off the extraction.

Belle: You’re doing the right thing.

Ej: [Chuckles] Oh, I’m not so sure about that. But I am putting my trust in you.

Belle: Well, I won’t let you down. I am going to clear your name. I promise.

Lani: I still think you’re overreacting, but if it makes you feel better, I will stay clear of tr.

Paulina: Thank you. Oh. Ooh, trust me, it will be for the best.

[Cell phone rings]

Lani: This is work. I need to take it.

Paulina: Oh, of course. Go ahead.

Lani: Detective price.

Paulina: Oh. Oh, whoo! Oh, that was a close call. Oh, don’t worry, little angels. I’m gonna keep you and your mama safe. That mr. Terrell raymond coates. He’s never gonna find out that your mama is his daughter. I’ll make damn sure of it.

Johnny: Mr. Coates.

TR: I told you, call me tr.

Johnny: Sorry. Tr, I’ve got some great news. I just spoke to my grandmother about the movie.

TR: And?

Johnny: And she wasn’t thrilled about it, but she understands that I was in a tough position, so–

TR: She’s a go?

Johnny: We’re good to go. We’re bringing the devil back to salem. Come on.

TR: All right.

Chad: Hey, jennifer. Yeah, I’m trying to reach abigail but she’s not picking up. Is she around? What do you mean she’s not with you? If she’s not with you, then– then where is she?

Kristen: What exactly are you accusing me of?

Abigail: We all know what you did to kate last year. You locked her up, you put on one of your masks, you impersonated her, and then you went and you broke up with jake.

Kristen: [Chuckles] News gets around, huh?

Abigail: Yup. Then you tried to ship her out of town, only, she managed to escape.

Kristen: Abigail, why are we talking about this?

Abigail: Because I’m just thinking you probably did the exact same thing to sarah.

Kristen: And why would i do that?

Abigail: Same reason you kidnapped kate, to shut her up.

Kristen: Hmm. You do have interesting theories.

Abigail: I’m right, aren’t I? What’d you do to sarah, hmm? Where is she?

Gwen: Where are you going?

Xander: [Exhales deeply] Gwen rizczech…

Gwen: What are you doing?

Xander: Gwen, I know I don’t deserve a woman like you. Someone so strong, and loyal, and so beautiful, but would you take pity on this poor, pathetic, completely naked scoundrel and grant me the honor of becoming my wife?

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Craig: Yeah. I know. I know. I miss you too, sweetheart. But just think about it this way. It won’t be that much longer till you see me.

[Twig snaps]

[Soft dramatic music]

Nancy: This is wonderful.

Brady: Well, the pub always has the best food.

Nancy: It’s true. That’s not what I meant. Yesterday. Yesterday, brady, I would have been absolutely convinced that, well, craig was lying to me about that being a work call. But today, today I’m perfectly calm because I know that my–my husband, my loving, wonderful husband, has gone out of his way to show me how much he loves me. And even though I came to salem for being terribly upset, then needing my daughter to talk me off the ledge, I’m really happy to be here, to be here with both of you.

Brady: It was wonderful to spend time with you and craig.

Nancy: Even though we sort of surprised you and disrupted your entire lives.

Brady: No, you didn’T. No disruption at all.

Nancy: You know, as happy as I am, there’s only one thing that would make me happier.

Brady: What would that be?

Nancy: Getting you and chloe back together again.

Ava: That’s what you get for cheating on me with that cheap slut.

[Knock at door]

[Suspenseful music]

Nicole, hey. What a coincidence.

Nicole: Coincidence? Why?

Ava: I was just thinking about you.

Shawn: Peace offering. Listen, I’m really sorry about this.

Rafe: Oh, man, come on. You got nothing to be sorry for, shawn. You know, a third con came forward and said that I had falsified evidence. You–you had no choice but to make the arrest, and you got trask breathing down your damn back.

Shawn: Yeah, well, a few ticked-off thugs claiming to be railroaded isn’t exactly an ironclad case.

Rafe: Yeah. The thing is, I’m not out there in the street making collars. I’m usually here, I’m behind the desk. So for these guys to come out of the woodwork saying what they said. It doesn’t look good.

Shawn: Yeah. Well, it’s obvious you’re being framed. I mean, I–I spent hours trying to–to find a connection between these losers, but I know I’ve got nothing. Except maybe…

Rafe: What?

Shawn: The last time we spoke, you said that you think that ava might be behind this. You still think that she’s the one that set you up?

Lani: There’s no way.

[Knocking at door]

[Melancholy music]

Abe: Hey!

Lani: Dad. Hi. Come in.

Abe: Thank you. Thank you. You know, I was in the neighborhood and I thought I would stop by and say hello. And I brought a little something for jules and carver.

Lani: Just passing by, huh? Well, the kids are asleep, but will you settle for me?

Abe: Absolutely. Where’s–where’s eli?

Lani: He’s in D.C., Visiting his mom, so it’s just me and the twins, and I am dying for some adult company.

Abe: Oh. It’s perfect. That works out for both of us.

Lani: You know, you don’t have to have an excuse to visit the twins.

Abe: I do know that, but I was in the neighborhood. And since seeing you always lifts my spirits…

Lani: Bad day already?

Abe: Yeah, I had a–had a run-in with paulina.

Paulina: Ray? Oh, my god.

Tr: Hello, paulina.

Paulina: Stay the hell away from me. Stay the hell away from me. I’ll–I’ll lay you out flat right here and now.

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Lani: So…

Abe: Ah, thank you.

Lani: What did paulina do this time?

Abe: You know, maybe “run-in” is too strong a word. We–we were civil. Friendly, even. There’s always going to be tension between us.

Lani: I’m so sorry.

Abe: At least things are better between you and paulina, aren’t they? I mean, you saved her life. Those are her words.

Lani: She is so dramatic. But, yes. I mean, I will probably always have my guard up with paulina, but we are on better terms. And I do hope that happens for you, too, someday.

Abe: I-I don’t think that’s possible. Not when she wants me to… do something I can’t do for her.

Lani: What do you mean?

Abe: Well, I-I don’t– I don’t think I’d ever be able to trust her again, especially after letting me think that I was your real father. And she always knew otherwise.

Tr: You got some fight in you now, I see.

Paulina: I always did. Just got beaten out of me by you.

Tr: You put your fist down now, paulina. I am not going to hurt you.

Paulina: Too late for that. What are you doing here, ray? What do you want from me?

Tr: I go by tr now.

Paulina: Yeah? Well, you can slap on an alias to run from all the skeletons in your closet, terrell raymond, but you’ll always be rotten ray to me.

Tr: Some things never change. Like that mouth on you.

Paulina: I asked you a question. What do you want?

Tr: I don’t want anything.

Paulina: Well, then why did you track me down after all these years?

Tr: I didn’t “track you down.” I didn’t even know you were in this godforsaken little backwater.

Paulina: So, what the hell are you doing here in salem, usa, of all places?

Craig: I’ll be back later today. I’ll talk to you soon. What are you doing here, chloe?

Chloe: I brought your coat. Mom thought you’d be cold. But you sounded like you were pretty hot to me. For rob, it took years to find out

Brady: Chloe and I already told you, we’re just friends.

Nancy: Uh-huh.

Brady: Mm-hmm.

Nancy: Brady, ever since the two of you were singing duets in the park way back when, I’ve known that you are the only man for my daughter.

Brady: Well, she didn’t know that, obviously.

Nancy: And it’s not obvious to me. And in my opinion, the only reason that she went back to philip this time was because you were entangled with kristen dimera.

Brady: Nancy, she and philip were together when he disappeared. And we don’t know if he’s–he’s alive or dead, so there is no way that I can pursue something with chloe right now.

Nancy: But you do have feelings for her?

Brady: Yes, I do.

Nancy: So brady, then you’re–you’re basically in limbo.

Brady: That’s a good way of putting it.

Nancy: But what–but what if we never find out what happened to philip? Are you okay wallowing in limbo forever?

Brady: That might be the way it has to be, nancy, yeah.

Nancy: No, no, it’s not. Not the way I see it.

Craig: I don’t know what you’re talking about, chloe.

Chloe: Come on, dad. I just heard you. “Baby, I miss you”? I hope you don’t talk that way to your co-workers, or someone’s going to slap you with a sexual harassment suit.

Craig: Okay. It’s not what you think–

Chloe: It’s exactly what I think. And mom’s “ridiculous meltdown” when she first came to salem makes total sense. You lied to her, and you lied to me. You are cheating on her, aren’t you?

Craig: Yeah. Yeah, I am.

[Melancholy music]

Rafe: Like I said, I’ve got no proof that ava’s behind this. It’s just my gut. And what happened with duke?

Shawn: The teddy bear that got the–

Rafe: Yeah. That’s right. First, that happens. And then right after that, these guys come forward, and here I am.

Shawn: Yeah. Well, it wouldn’t be difficult for ava to orchestrate a frame-up, you know, given her mob ties.

Rafe: Well, exactly. Yeah. I’m right there with you. Well, she was just so damn proud of leaving her old life behind.

Shawn: And what about the dead mobster you found on your kitchen floor not that long ago? I mean, that shows that her life isn’t that far behind her, but I still don’t get motive. Or you mentioned that ava’s got an issue with yours and nicole’s friendship, but you also mentioned that you and ava have been solid for months.

Rafe: Yeah. That’s not exactly true.

Ava: Nicole, please, come–come on in.

Nicole: Thanks. So you were thinking about me, huh? Why?

Ava: Well, the eggplant parm. You know, I should’ve sent you home with some last night, but I was just too upset to even think straight after rafe was arrested.

Nicole: Well, it is safe to say that neither one of us had an appetite after that.

Ava: My stomach’s just– it’s full of knots. Anyway, I’m–I’m surprised to see you back here so soon. What’s up?

Nicole: Don’t you think you’re being a little paranoid here thinking that ava is setting you up? I came to check on you. How are you doing?

Ava: You know, you really are the sweetest. You–you–you are–you are–you are the best friend. Well, you know, I mean, I couldn’t really sleep a wink last night, right? I just–I kept thinking about what’s going to happen if rafe is convicted and he ends up in prison. It was enough to keep me up all night.

Nicole: Well, I have complete faith that that’s not going to happen because rafe is innocent. And you know that better than anyone, don’t you?

Lani: Please. When you say things like that–

Abe: Like what?

Lani: That paulina let you think that you were my “real father.” You are my “real father” in every way that matters.

Abe: I should’ve chosen my words more carefully. What I meant was that you have a biological father out there. And ever since you found out, I’ve barely heard you mention him. Look, lani, I understand, and believe me, I appreciate that you think that I would be threatened by you seeking out information on him, but you are connected biologically. And I would think that you would be somewhat curious about him.

Tr: I have business here in salem.

Paulina: What kind of business would that be? Waste management?

Tr: Actually, I’m a movie producer now.

Paulina: Movie producer? I can only imagine what kind of movies you make.

Tr: It’s all totally legit.

Paulina: You don’t even know the meaning of that word.

Tr: But apparently, I have a talent knowing what the public likes. And one of the filmmakers I’m working with just happens to live right here in town. He’s a young man from a fine, upstanding family. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. Johnny dimera?

Paulina: Johnny– johnny dimera? That’s the son of a bitch that broke my daughter’s heart.

Tr: You have a daughter? Life’s been hard enough.

Tr: I had no idea you had children, paulina.

Paulina: Well, my family is–is none of your damn business. My daughter has nothing to do with you.

Tr: I didn’t say she did.

Paulina: For the record, I had–I had chanel years after we split, with my husband george.

Tr: Is she your one and only?

Paulina: Yes, she is.

Tr: Well, she is a very lucky young woman to have a woman such as yourself for her mama. And george is a very lucky man.

Shawn: So you and nicole slept together. But ava doesn’t know about this, right?

Rafe: Well, I don’t think so. And ava, she’s–she’s been so sweet and loving and extra thoughtful, really, and not just to me. To nicole too. She’s always inviting her over to dinner and to just hang out. But I have seen this act before.

Shawn: I don’t follow.

Rafe: A few months back, gabi and ava were at each other’s throats, and I mean bad, right? And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, ava is super sweet. I tell you, it turns out that that was one hell of an act, because while she was smiling to gabi’s face, she was stabbing her in the back. She was trying to screw her out of gabi chic.

Shawn: Okay, so you– so you think that maybe ava does know about you and nicole.

Rafe: And that destroying my career is her revenge.

Ava: What is that supposed to mean? That I would “know better than anyone” that rafe is innocent?

Nicole: Well, because you’re the closest person to him. You know what a great guy he is, how honest he is, how seriously he takes his work.

Ava: Yeah. Rafe is nothing if not honest.

Nicole: So then you know he’s being set up.

Ava: I very much want to believe that.

Nicole: Why wouldn’t you?

Ava: Well, for one thing, the police would not arrest one of their own–the commissioner, nonetheless– without a mountain of evidence.

Nicole: But it’s fake, ava. And I’m sure that’s something else you know.

Ava: What I know is that when I needed rafe to believe in my innocence, he didn’T. So why would i automatically believe in his?

Nancy: Brady, I’ve seen the way chloe looks at you. She loves you too. Now all I have to do is convince her to admit that to herself.

Brady: Nancy, it’s sweet of you to want to try to help, but I-I think chloe and i should handle this on our own.

Nancy: Brady black, do you want to be with my daughter or not?

Chloe: You stood in my office and you swore to mom that she’s the only woman for you.

Craig: She is, chloe.

Chloe: How can you possibly say that when you just admitted to having an affair? Who is she? Do I–do I know her? Does mom know her?

Craig: There is no other woman.

Chloe: Damn it, dad, just tell me the truth.

Craig: I am.

Chloe: You’re not making any sense. You just admitted to cheating on mom, but you deny there’s another woman–

Craig: Because it’s a man, chloe. I’m cheating on your mom with a man.

Brady: Look, nancy, it’s not that simple.

Nancy: Of course it is. You love chloe; she loves you. Now, you just have to man up and put it out there.

Brady: You know, sometimes “manning up” means taking a little step back.

Nancy: You know, that kind of thinking is going to get us absolutely nowhere. Now, are you going to let me help you make this happen or not?

Brady: Well, it’s going to be a little hard considering you and craig have to leave today.

Nancy: Nope.

Brady: Nope?

Nancy: Nope. I’m going to stay right here until I make sure that you and chloe are on the road to happily ever after, just like craig and me.

Chloe: A man? You’re–you’re sleeping with a man? But you–you and mom have been married for so long. I just–I don’t–I don’t understand.

Craig: I don’t either, chloe. Oh honey, come here. I’m sorry. I-I didn’t want you to find out this way.

Chloe: Well, anyway. You don’t want me to find out any way, obviously. I mean, my–my god, dad. I knew that you and mom had problems, but all couples do from time to time, right? I guess I always just thought that maybe mom was just a little bit crazier about you than you were about her. And I just sort of assumed it’s because she’s a more demonstrative person than you are, but… dad, are you–are you trying to tell me that you’re gay?

Lani: I know everything that I need to know about paulina’s ex. Apparently, he was abusive, controlling, cruel. So yeah, I did wonder about who my father was when I was growing up. But now that I know the truth, I have zero interest in meeting him.

Abe: Well, you might have other relatives out there you’d like to know.

Lani: Zero interest in meeting them, if they even exist. Look, I’m convinced that biology is overrated. You are the father that I have always dreamed of when I was a little girl. So why would I want to have anyone else as a dad when I have you?

[Warm music]

Paulina: Don’t you try to sweet talk me. That might have worked when I was an innocent young girl–

Tr: Paulina, you were never an innocent girl. But I didn’t mean to be inappropriate. I know you’re taken.

Paulina: A woman is never “taken,” ray. You know what? That is not a concept I expect you to understand.

Tr: Again, I didn’t mean to offend. Is he with you? Your husband?

Paulina: My george is dead, god rest his soul.

Tr: Oh, I didn’t realize. My condolences, paulina.

Paulina: I’d rather be in a grave right beside him than anywhere near you.

Tr: Look, I don’t blame you for feeling that way. The way I treated you, it–it was unforgivable. And I’m truly sorry.

Paulina: You’re what?

Tr: You heard me. But I don’t expect you to forgive me. And I know this might just sound like words to you, but I’m not that man anymore.

Paulina: So you’re trying to tell me you’ve changed? You got the lord, and you got sober?

Tr: Both.

Paulina: Well, it’s going to take more than a miracle for that. A man like you doesn’t change, ray coates. And never will.

Find your rhythm.

Brady: Look, nancy. I appreciate your enthusiasm. I really do, but I mean, you have to get back to new york, right?

Nancy: For what? Parker’s in boarding school, joy’s in grad school–

Brady: What about craig’s job?

Nancy: Well, he’s been in so many medical conventions. He’s got about a bazillion days of vacation. So, oh, it would be so fun to be able to stay here and visit with my girl. I mean, we could–we could do things like we used to. Get our nails done. Go shopping. It would be so much fun. Oh, please, brady. Come on. I can’t wait to see her face when I tell her.

Brady: Me neither.

Nancy: Oh. Though it’s taken an awful long time for her to get craig his jacket. I wonder what could be keeping them.

Craig: Chloe, I–I love your mother very much, very much. I had two beautiful children with her.

Chloe: I–I’m aware of that. You didn’t respond to my question.

Craig: If I’m attracted to men. Well, yes, it seems that I am. If that makes me gay, then I’m gay.

Chloe: Okay. Well, have you had these feelings forever, and just never acted on them, or what?

Craig: I don’t know. I just–I met this guy. We had great chemistry together. Both of us.

Chloe: Okay. I don’t want to hear.

Craig: Chloe, you have to believe me. I never–I never meant to hurt your mom.

Chloe: Well–well… well, then, you need to call this guy back, whoever he is, and tell him that you’re not rushing back to see him. You have to end this, dad.

Craig: I can’T.

Chloe: Why not?

Craig: Because I’m in love with him.

Rafe: Truth is, I fell into this relationship with ava, and then I convinced myself that it was real. But the whole damn time, I’ve been thinking about nicole.

Shawn: All right. So why didn’t you break it off with ava a long time ago?

Rafe: You know, nicole, she–she didn’t want a rebound relationship after what happened with eric. And then she started dating ej. I was living with ava, you know. I was living with her. She was–she was making me home-cooked meals, and she was being so sweet, and I didn’t want to hurt her. Then I–I just kept telling myself what we had was real.

Shawn: I understand. So now that nicole and ej are over…

Rafe: I realized that I want to be with nicole, that I’ve always wanted to be with nicole, and… I told nicole that I was going to tell ava, that I was going to break things off with her, but I didn’t get the chance because that’s when you showed up and arrested me.

Shawn: Well, I’m sorry for my characteristically lousy timing.

Rafe: It’s not your fault.

Shawn: So what are you going to do now?

Nicole: What do you mean innocence? What did you do?

Ava: Well, I was innocent. Which means I didn’t do anything, boy, but did rafe think that I was guilty as hell.

Nicole: What are you talking about?

Ava: Your precious plushie. Rafe was convicted that I went into your office and chopped its head off. Can you believe that? I mean, what possible reason would I have to go and do something like that to my best friend? Or the man that I love. Who wouldn’t hurt me any more than I would hurt them.

[Eerie music]

Trelegy for copd.

Rafe: There’s not much I can do while I’m in here.

Shawn: Right. Well, give me orders. I mean, you’re still my boss. What’d you need?

Rafe: [Laughs] Yeah, right. Not for long. No, I can’t imagine abe’s gonna leave me in this position, at least until I clear my name.

Shawn: And I’m going to do my best to make sure that that happens. So do you want me to–you want me to dive deep into–into ava’s priors and, you know, figure out the link between these clowns that are accusing you and her?

Rafe: Oh, I still do think that’s the best way to get to the bottom of this. But be careful.

Shawn: Yeah. Always.

Rafe: Shawn, I’m serious. I’m damn serious. I mean, if ava is using her connections–her mob connections, to make this all happen, there’s no telling what she’ll do.

Nicole: Of course I would never hurt you, and neither would rafe.

Ava: No? I did wonder there for a while.

Nicole: Wonder what?

Ava: About the two of you. And sharing custody of that silly little bear. And I will admit, I–I was a little jealous at first. And the old me might’ve gone in there and chopped the poor guy’s head off. Hell, the old me would have aimed for some other body part if he’d have been anatomically correct. The old me. You know, the one who sabotaged steve’s plane and kidnapped kayla. Might have thought about framing rafe. Hell… I may have even thought about how good it would feel to bring him down. The old me might’ve thought once I can’t have him when he’s rotting in prison, then neither can you. You have to admit, it would’ve been perfect revenge.

Nicole: Yeah, it would have been.

Ava: But, of course, I am not the old me. I’m the new and improved ava vitali. Yes, I am perfectly sane. I am a law-abiding citizen who would never believe that her best friend and the man she loves would go behind her back and hook up.

Nicole: Of course not. Listen, I have to go. But please tell rafe I said hi. How’s he doing?

Ava: I have no idea. I mean, I–of course, I would love to see him, but I just think that it’s probably best if stay away right now because I wouldn’t want my… past connections to make anything worse for him. You know what I mean.

Nicole: I think I know exactly what you mean.

Abe: Mmm. Hey, can I help?

Lani: This? One of the perks of being a mom. I am glad I’m not on duty today. The idea of melinda trask on one of her self-serving crusades and had rafe arrested for charges that everyone know are bogus? If I saw the woman, I’m afraid of what I might say to her.

Abe: You know, I completely believe that rafe is innocent. But until he’s exonerated, I still have to find someone to run the department. I don’t suppose you’d be interested.

Lani: Thanks, but I’ve got my hands full.

Abe: Yes. Indeed you do. You know what? I–I’ve got to get down to the pd.

Lani: I’m sorry carver and jules stayed asleep through your visit. But now I just hope that they will stay asleep through me getting them into the stroller.

Abe: Well, good luck with that and I’ll make sure I come see them when they’re awake.

Lani: Come back anytime you want, dad.

Abe: You know, it means a lot you still call me that.

Lani: Well, that is what you are to me, dad, always.

Abe: Aww.

Tr: I understand your doubts, paulina. But I bet I can prove to you that I’ve changed.

Paulina: I seriously doubt that. And I–honestly, I don’t give a damn.

Tr: At least let me take you out to dinner. I mean, for old time’s sake. I mean, I know that I can’t begin to make things up to you. But at least let me help you see that we were happy in the beginning–

Paulina: I don’t want to have dinner with you, ray. I don’t want to have another conversation with you. Now just–just–just get the hell out of my way and get out of dodge.

Nancy: You know, I better take chloe her coat. She is probably freezing out there.

Brady: Do you want me to come with you?

Nancy: Oh no, hon. I am sure everything’s okay. I just bet you anything that they went to the cart in the square to get a hot chocolate. Craig cannot resist temptation.

Chloe: So you’re in love with some guy you just met?

Craig: It’s been a few months.

Chloe: And it’s love.

Craig: I’ve never felt this way before, chloe.

Chloe: But you–you said you–you love mom. Are you still in love with her?

Craig: I never meant to hurt her.

Chloe: Are you still in love with her? Oh, my god. Oh my god, dad. Wow. So you’re–you’re not willing to break off things with this man?

Craig: I won’T. I can’T.

Chloe: Okay, well then at least respect mom enough to tell her the truth.

Shawn: All right, I’m on it, rafe. I’ll report back to you as soon as I know anything.

Rafe: Hey, thanks, man. I owe you.

Shawn: Listen, we’re going to get you out of here.

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: Hi.

Rafe: Nicole.

Nicole: I don’t suppose I could talk to rafe.

Shawn: No. Perfect timing. I will leave the two of you alone.

Nicole: Thanks.

Abe: Oh, hey, shawn. How’s rafe doing?

Shawn: About as well as expected. I’m doing my best to try to, you know, keep him out of population. Hoping he’s out from under these charges soon.

Abe: You and me both. But until these charges go away, I need to find someone to step in as acting commissioner. Now, with eli out of town, would you be willing to take on the most thankless job in salem?

Shawn: Do I have a choice?

Abe: Well, you know, if you’re worried about rafe’s feelings, I think he would be grateful to know that the department’s in the hands of someone he trusts.

Shawn: You know, I’ll do it. But when you talk to rafe, I want you to tell him that I can’t wait for him to have his job back.

Nicole: You look pale.

Rafe: It’s only been one night. I’m fine.

Nicole: Well, if it’s any consolation, I don’t think you’ll be in here much longer. I went to see ava this morning–

Rafe: Well, you didn’t say anything to her, did you?

Nicole: No. No, of course not. I played it cool. And so did she. And she didn’t admit to anything, not in so many words, but she didn’t leave a doubt in my mind that she is guilty as hell.

Ava: You’re lucky I didn’t chop off your unmentionables, rafe. Maybe someone will take care of that for me when you’re in statesville.

Chloe: I mean it, dad. You have to tell mom that you’re in love with someone else.

Nancy: There you two are. Is everything okay?

Craig: Yeah. Everything is fine. Everything.

Chloe: Yeah. Mom, dad has something he needs to tell you.

Nancy: Oh.

Craig: Nancy, the phone call.

Nancy: No. No, no. I hope they didn’t call you to ask you to come home.

Craig: Why not?

Nancy: Because we’re staying in salem.

[Tense music]

Paulina: Why are you still standing here?

Tr: Well, last time I checked, you didn’t own this town. Although someday you might, knowing you. But in the meantime, I still have business with johnny dimera, and I’m not going anywhere until it’s settled.

Paulina: Well–well, fine. Fine. But you–you–you stay out of my way. And if you go anywhere near my family, I swear– I swear I’ll–

Lani: Paulina? Is everything okay?

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Nancy: Good morning.

Craig: Morning, sleepy head.

Nancy: Have you been awake long, craig?

Craig: No. Just a few minutes.

Nancy: Craig, you were so sweet and loving last night. I–I’ve missed that.

Craig: I missed it too.

Nancy: I’ve missed you. And this.

Johnny as the devil: My, my. You’re a big one, aren’t you?

[Foil whips] It’s all about seizing the offensive and of course, thrust.

[Eerie music]

[Line ringing]

[Voicemail beeps]

Johnny: Gabriella, it’s johnny. I was just about to do a little fencing. Why don’t you blow off my boring old uncle jake and stop by the mansion? I’ll even let you play with my foil, if you ask nice.

[Doorbell rings] Guess she was already on her way.

Paulina: Do I need to say it again? Johnny dimera ripped out my little girl’s heart, so if he wants a divorce so damn bad then I want that nasty little piece of work drained of every trust fund cent he has. Now, are you lawyer enough for this job? Do I need to find someone else?

[Doorbell rings] Call you back. Speak of the devil.

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Marlena: I hope you’ll accept these as a small peace offering.

Paulina: You really think waving a bouquet in my face is the wisest choice after what you did?

Marlena: Yeah. I’m so sorry for what happened at your wedding. I-I-I just–I wasn’t myself and-and I-I can’t tell you how terribly sorry I am for what I did.

Paulina: So that exorcism, it really took?

Marlena: Yeah, it did.

Paulina: That’s what they thought after the first one.

Marlena: But I’m whole now. I–I’m really whole, and I’m– I’m just so terribly sorry for what I’ve put you through. Paulina, may I come in?

Paulina: You can’t blame me for being cautious. When you were breaking bad as a beelzebub, you– you gave me a look that could kill, threatened my life, then blew it to hell.

Johnny: That’s the good thing about playing with bad girls. They never make you wait. W-what the hell are you doing here? For rob, it took years to find out

Nancy: What’s wrong?

Craig: Nothing. You wore me out last night. I’m tired.

Nancy: Oh, I-I understand. It’s okay. It’s just that… I love having you close to me again and feeling that you– I love you, craig wesley.

Craig: I love you, nancy.

Allie: Hey, hey. Where do you think you’re going?

Tripp: Oh, I’m sorry. I was trying not to wake you. I guess I’m losing my touch.

Allie: You’re definitely not losing your touch. But you used to be so much better at sneaking out at all hours of the night.

Tripp: You sound like I’m sneaking around.

Allie: Um, well, those days are behind us because you’re no longer a med student with crazy-ass hours.

Tripp: Yes, I do not miss that.

Allie: I know it’s been official for a couple of weeks, but we never got to celebrate. So…

Tripp: What?

Allie: Congratulations, dr. Johnson.

Abe: Hello, chanel.

Chanel: Hi.

Abe: Oh, you know, I-I was just on my way to your bakery. Get some almond croissants. I hear–I hear they’re out of this world.

Chanel: They are very popular.

Abe: I’m sure. Well, you take care, okay?

Chanel: Abe? I’m really glad I ran into you. I know you’re angry with me for ruining your wedding to my mom and I wanna apologize.

Marlena: I heard what happened at your wedding. And as a mother, I can’t imagine how much it hurt to have your daughter speak to you that way.

Paulina: The way my secret came out at my wedding was on that horned fool, but keeping the truth from abe and lying about it, that is on me. No doubt, oh, the devil– devil did me wrong, but I was the one who lost my mr. Right.

Johnny: Uh, mr. Coates, I’m-I’m-I’m sorry. Please, come in. It’s just that you are the last person I expected to see in salem.

Tr: Call me tr. Mr. Coates was my father. Nice place you have here.

Johnny: Thanks…tr. I-I like to call it “the house that nonno built.”

Tr: And nonno would be?

Johnny: My late grandfather. He was one of a kind.

Tr: Hmm, god rest his soul.

Johnny: I don’t think that he and god were on very good terms.

Tr: I’m more concerned about our terms, johnny.

Johnny: Our terms?

Tr: You and I had a deal and I’m here to see that you keep your end of our bargain. Because no matter how interesting your nonno might be, the only family lore I’m interested in is, “possessed: The marlena evans story.”

Trelegy for copd.

Tr: These last months, I was on location down under. It was summer and it was hotter than hades. And I was off the grid and unreachable. Hmm. So you can imagine my surprise when I got back to civilization, and one of my assistants told me that you left a message that you were shelving the film.

Johnny: I can explain–

Tr: No, I don’t want your explanation. I want my movie.

Johnny: And I understand that, but you see the thing is I kinda promised my grandmother that I wouldn’t tell the story about what happened with her and the devil.

Marlena: Paulina, I am so sorry that you lost abe. I-I saw the– I saw the love between you. The strength of it. Do you suppose that in time, the two of you could hope to find your way back together?

Paulina: I opened up to you once before about my love life and now I’m a very single lady.

Marlena: Again, I’m sorry. I will never forgive myself for the– the way that I betrayed your confidence.

Paulina: Well, it wasn’t you, was it? But I will say this, I know that man still loves me seven ways to sunday and I go to bed every night, I wake up every morning, hoping he’ll remember that, but he has made it crystal clear he’ll never trust me again.

Abe: Look, what happened with your mother and me, it’s not your fault. All you did was tell the truth, which is something paulina should’ve done a long time ago.

Chanel: Maybe, but it was her truth to tell, not mine.

Abe: You had no choice in the matter.

Chanel: Even if the devil made me do it, I saw how happy you and mama both were that day. And I see how unhappy you both are now. And well–

Abe: Well what?

Chanel: I think all that bad karma came back around and bit me.

Abe: What do you mean?

Chanel: Don’t tell me you haven’t heard that my husband dumped me out of the blue? That my marriage crashed and burned.

Tripp: A caduceus. Wow, this is awesome.

Allie: Yeah, I thought– I don’t know–I thought maybe you could pin it to your jacket since it’s an ancient symbol of medicine.

Tripp: Actually, it’s– it’s not.

Allie: What do you mean?

Tripp: Well, even though the caduceus has come to be the symbol of medicine in modern times, the ancient symbol is actually the rod of asclepius. Not sure if I’m pronouncing that right but it’s not important.

Allie: Hey, sure it is.

Tripp: No, no, it’s not. No, what is important is that you got me this very sweet gift and I love it.

Allie: Tripp, tell me what the caduceus– tell me what it actually means.

Tripp: Well, with the two snakes in ancient times, it’s associated with alchemy and thieves, and liars.

Allie: You are the smartest, fiercest, most beautiful woman I know. Anybody would be lucky to be with you.

Chanel: Do you really mean that?

Allie: Yeah, I do.

Tripp: Allie, are you okay?

Brady: I’m really glad that your parents are back on track. I know you’ve been stressed about phillip’s disappearance, so this is one less thing you have to worry about, right?

Chloe: Yeah, it is. And since you’ve been so supportive, I wanted to know if you wanted to join my parents and me for breakfast? They-they’re leaving town but they wanna meet at the pub.

Brady: Yeah, sure. No, I’d love to come.

Chloe: Okay, cool. And can you do me a little favor? Can you not mention my mom’s meltdown when she first got back to salem? You know, the awful misunderstanding with my dad?

Brady: Yes, chloe, I have no intention of bringing that up.

Chloe: Okay, thank you. I think it’s better if we just all pretend like it never happened, you know, just be happy for them.

Brady: Agreed. Let’s go eat.

Chloe: Okay.

[Soft music]

Nancy: Craig…

Craig: Hmm?

Nancy: I’m so sorry that I doubted you.

Craig: Nancy, no apologizing.

Nancy: But I have to. Sweetheart, look, I’m ashamed of the way I-I ran at chloe. I-I confronted you angrily. I should have trusted you. I should have trusted us. And I fear that– no, no, I am not gonna talk about my insecurities anymore, except maybe to my therapist.

Craig: Okay, okay. Listen to me. There is no reason for you to feel insecure, okay? You, you’re a wonderful person, darling. You got a great, kind heart, and you make me laugh. That wicked sense of humor of yours which, you know, is one of the reasons why I love you most.

Nancy: I love hearing that, craig, but there’s– there’s still a part of me that needs to feel like you’re still attracted to me.

Craig: Oh, okay. If–if you’ve been feeling that lately, that one’s on me. All right? Nancy, I love you, and I’m truly sorry.

Nancy: I’m just so happy we can talk so openly about this, but now, as much as I’d like to stay here in bed with you all day, we need to get dressed so we can go have breakfast with our daughter.

Craig: Yes, we do.

Nancy: Craig?

Craig: Mm-hmm.

Nancy: You just make me so happy. And honey, I just feel so guilty.

Craig: Uh-uh–uh-uh. No guilt–no guilt.

Nancy: I love you.

Craig: I love you too.

[Soft music]

Okay.

Allie: I’m-I’m sorry. It’s-it’s just, uh–

Tripp: No, no, I’m–I’m–I’m sorry. I’m sorry. You–you gave me this awesome gift. And I just go all nerd on you with useless trivia. I’m–I’m sorry. I’m sorry you’re stuck with such a geek for a boyfriend.

Allie: Hey, no, there’s– there’s no one that I’d rather be stuck with.

[Tender music]

Chanel: I don’t understand it, abe. It–it wasn’t like it was just some fling. We talked about our future, what we wanted. We–we both wanted the same things. We had real plans. Right before the reception, johnny told me how much he loved me, and then he just totally humiliated me. Like everything we shared was a lie.

Abe: Well, you know, I can’t imagine how that felt how that must feels now.

Chloe: Like hell. That’s how it feels. And that’s why mama thinks we should bleed johnny for every penny that he has.

Abe: Is that what you want?

Marlena: Paulina, I can’t tell you how grateful I am to at least try to make amends.

Paulina: Well, I think I have a vase those might fit in.

Marlena: For what it’s worth, I know how happy you made abe.

Paulina: Did he say that?

Marlena: No. Um-um, no, sorry. I haven’t–I haven’t spoken to him. I mean, after what I put the two of you through, I’ve just kept my distance. It’s also why I didn’t go to the party for johnny and chanel.

Paulina: Whoo-hoo, and what a party it was. I’m sure you heard.

Marlena: No, heard what?

Paulina: Instead of a celebration, it turned into one big nightmare… for me and my daughter, anyway.

Marlena: What happened?

Paulina: I won’t go into the gory details. Let’s just say your grandson broke my little girl’s heart.

Tr: You promised your grandmother you wouldn’t make the movie?

Johnny: I did.

Tr: Now that’s disappointing. And I hate being disappointed. So I suggest you rectify the situation.

Johnny: There’s not much I can do. Things got a little crazy when the devil came back and possessed my grandma again.

Tr: Again? That’s even more reason to do the film. You’ve got a built-in sequel. Hell, it practically writes itself. And if we put our heads together, I’m sure that we can come up with “possessed part three” without too much trouble.

Johnny: I do have some thoughts.

Tr: So what are you doing about it? Sitting around in your pajamas all day will not gonna make you rich and famous. You gotta get up off your ass and think big, son.

Johnny: Oh, don’t worry. I have plenty of ideas.

Tr: It takes more than ideas. It takes some guts and energy, which is what I thought you had the day you knocked on my door to pitch your project.

Johnny: Well, no guts, no glory. Isn’t that what they say?

Tr: I told you when we met that you needed to be motivated, to stay motivated, that the film business was cutthroat.

Johnny: And I told you that cutting throats wouldn’t be a problem for me.

[Eerie music]

Looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone?

Tripp: Oh, now that was the best possible way to spend the morning, and i won’t even be late for work. Although it would be totally worth it.

Allie: Go, go save the world with your mad doctor skills.

Tripp: Well… could you?

Allie: Yeah.

[Gentle music]

Tripp: Now, you know, I have a couple of minutes, so if you want, I can wait for you to get ready and drop you off at the bakery.

Allie: Oh, I’m actually spending the day home with henry. Nicole had some work emergency, and the babysitter is sick.

Tripp: Is chanel gonna be okay?

Allie: Yeah, I texted her earlier. She said she’s got it.

Tripp: I mean–I actually meant, you know, what happened with johnny.

Allie: Oh, yeah. God, tripp, he–he really screwed her up. So sweet of you to ask.

Tripp: Pree’s your best friend, right? And you love her. So that means she’s important to me, too.

[Delicate music]

Chanel: At–at first, I–I didn’t want johnny to pay, but then allie told me she saw him kissing some girl. I mean, already? God, it’s just–it’s all so horrible and complicated.

Abe: Yeah. Hey, come here. Come here. Yeah, it’s okay, it’s okay.

Chanel: Oh, god. I’m sorry. I hate falling apart like this.

Abe: Don’t be sorry. You know, the way johnny treated you, nobody should be treated that way, but remember, you’re not alone in this. You have your mom. You have your friends, and your family. I know how much allie loves you. And I am so glad that you have such a good friend to help you through this.

Chanel: Yeah, I’m very grateful.

Abe: You know, lani and i are– well, we are closer than ever, and I hope you and i can stay close, too. If that’s what you want.

Chanel: It’s definitely what I want.

Abe: [Chuckles]

Marlena: I don’t understand this. You know, when–when johnny came home from italy, he–he told us how–how much he loved chanel, how happy he was to be married to her. Oh, I’m so sorry.

Paulina: Not as sorry as that fickle young man’s gonna be once I get through with him because–now don’t get offended, ’cause I know he’s your grandson, but I’m gonna make that boy pay for what he did to my daughter.

Brady: I hope it’s okay that I join you for breakfast here.

Nancy: Of course. I was telling chloe that I hoped you would be here too.

Brady: Thank you. That’s kind of you.

Craig: It’s great to see you, brady.

Nancy: You two were privy yesterday to my meltdown. And I–I wanted to say that I’m ashamed if I was–if I was any way accusatory of my–my good and honest husband. And, I also wanna say to my daughter, which is very close to what you said to me, brady, when I got to salem and was sort of out of control, like I said, and that is, sweetheart, don’t ever make accusations against the person that you love unless you have strong evidence that you’re–you’re not imagining that they betrayed you. I guess what I’m trying to say in all of this is, don’t ever be like your mom. Don’t let your insecurities take over and–and doubt the devotion of the person that loves you.

Chloe: Okay, thanks. Got it, mom.

Nancy: I know, sweetheart, that you’re not insecure like me. I mean, you’re beautiful, and you’re smart–

Chloe: Stop it. So are you.

Nancy: But I don’t always feel that way. And I impose too much on your dad to–to reassure me.

Craig: Nancy, you don’t impose on me ever. I obviously have been deficient as of late, especially in making you feel secure about our love for each other. Our marriage. But I love you, and… I’m deeply, deeply, sorry that I hurt your feelings.

Nancy: You’re the best man that I know, craig wesley, and I love you so much.

Craig: I love you with all my heart, nancy wesley. All my heart.

[Warm music]

Is now a good time

for a flare-up?

Craig: Well, this looks delicious.

Nancy: Oh, it does, doesn’t it?

Craig: Mm-hmm.

[Cell phone beeps] Oh. Oh. [Sighs] I–you know what? This is about a patient I have to call in. I’m gonna step outside for a second, okay? Um–

Nancy: Of course.

Craig: Honey, I’ll be right back. Please start eating. Don’t let this get cold, right? I’ll be right back.

Nancy: Hurry back, sweetheart, please.

Chloe: Mom, I’m so happy for you and for dad.

Brady: Me too, nancy. It’s great to see you’re working it out.

Nancy: Me too, and I’m so glad also. In fact, I’m over the moon, and I really have the two of you to thank for all your support, especially you, darling, for always being there for me.

[Eerie music]

Tr: So what’s it gonna be, johnny? You willing to pay the price to get what you want? Or are you gonna lay around on your daddy’s money?

Johnny: Maybe you’re right. Maybe I gave up too soon. Subject matter was brilliant, if I do say so myself. But what do you suggest I tell my grandmother?

Tr: Well, I’m sure your dear old granny thinks you’re a good boy. So if it’ll make things easier for you, I’ll be the bad guy. It’s not like I don’t have experience in breaking promises to little old ladies or anybody else who doesn’t understand my dream.

Johnny: Whatever it takes, huh?

Tr: Gotta crack a few eggs, johnny. Not that I would be anything but a gentleman to your grandmother. What’s the worst that’s gonna happen anyway? She skip church bingo so she can crack a cane over your head?

Johnny: You, sir, do not know marlena evans like I do. The woman’s got plenty of fire, trust me.

Tr: Oh, I don’t doubt that she’s a tough old bird. After all, she did outsmart the devil twice.

[Laughs] But now she’s got to deal with me, and this is how it’s gonna go down. You gonna tell granny marlena that you can’t get out of this deal and that if you even try to screw me over on this film, I will ruin you.

Johnny: You’d really do that? You’d ruin me?

Tr: I am capable of many things. But hell, no, man, I ain’t gonna ruin you. I need you. But that’s what you’re gonna tell your grandma.

Johnny: Oh, you had me worried there for a second.

Tr: Nothing to worry about. We’re a team. I take care of my own so long as you don’t disappoint me. What do you say?

[Uneasy music]

Johnny: Man, I feel like I’m making a deal with the devil.

Tr: I may act like a badass, johnny, but I’m actually a very gentle soul unless I’m crossed.

Paulina: Oh, oh.

Abe: Paulina.

Paulina: Hello. I–I was just headed into the bakery to see chanel.

Abe: Oh, wait, wait, you just missed her. She–she wasn’t feeling well, and she headed home.

Chanel: Oh, what are you doing, dupree? Stop it.

[Knock at door] Tripp, what are you doing here?

Tripp: I hope you don’t mind me dropping in like this, but there’s just something I’m wanted to tell you. My asthma felt anything but normal.

Chloe: Dad’s phone call is certainly taking a long time, right?

Brady: Mm-hmm.

Nancy: That’s the way it usually is. They call with one question, turns into a hundred.

Brady: Well, it’s a shame his eggs are getting cold.

Nancy: Not just his eggs. The man forgot his jacket. He’s gonna get a chill.

Chloe: You know what? I’ll bring him his jacket after I keep eating his eggs. I’ll be right back.

Nancy: Thank you, sweetheart. This is wonderful.

Brady: I know. The pub has the best food.

Nancy: That’s so true. That’s not what I meant. Yesterday, brady, I would have been absolutely positive that craig was lying to me about that being a work call, but today, I’m perfectly calm. Because my loving wonderful husband has gone out of his way to show me how much he loves me.

Craig: I know, I know, honey. I miss you too. I do–I do.

[Melancholy music]

Chanel: What did you wanna talk about?

Tripp: I didn’t just wanna say this over the phone. I wanted to talk to you about in person.

Chanel: Okay.

Tripp: Allie and I– we’re both here for you, okay? And what her brother did to you was the worst. And I just wanted you to know that you deserve a hell of a lot better than johnny dimera, okay?

[Soft music]

Johnny: What can I tell you, grandma? I got caught up in the romance of italy being with a beautiful woman. One minute, I was eating gelato with chanel, the next minute, I was proposing. And by the time we got back home, I realized that I had made a huge mistake.

Marlena: Well, it’s–it’s one thing to acknowledge a mistake, but johnny, you were cruel.

Johnny: Not my finest hour, I admit. And I’m sorry for that, for hurting chanel. But I’m even sorrier that I’m gonna hurt you, grandma.

Marlena: Me?

Johnny: By breaking a promise that I made.

Marlena: By breaking what promise?

Johnny: The one about my movie.

Paulina: Did chanel tell you that she and that no-good dimera boy are getting a divorce?

Abe: Yeah, she did. I’m sorry.

Paulina: Phony little creep. He gave me his word that he would make my little girl happy. Well, I guess a man’s word isn’t–isn’t what it used to be. At least for some men.

Abe: Well, right, right. But, you know, I–I–i did do my best to give chanel some comfort.

Paulina: Well, if you tried, I’m sure that you did. My baby–she thinks the world of you.

Abe: As I do of her. Hey, I, you know, heard about your near miss with the dimera chandelier. I’m–I’m glad to see your ankle is okay.

Paulina: Well, lani– she’s just too modest to admit it, but she saved my life.

Abe: Yes, I–I heard that, too. Well, I should go, and have a nice day, okay?

Paulina: You too, abe.

Tr: Paulina?

Paulina: Oh, my god. Ray?

[Dramatic music]

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Rafe: You know, the more i think about it, the more it makes sense. Ava didn’t tell me where she was or what she was up to. Maybe nothing came up. Maybe she was just planning on walking through that door in the hope of seeing…

Nicole: Seeing what?

Rafe: This.

[Dramatic electronic music]

Ned: How’d your meeting go? Oh. By the looks of things, not too well.

Xander: I’m sorry; did you want something?

Ned: Obviously. I want my money.

[Phone beeps]

Chad: Abby, what’s going on? Where are you? Johnny said–

[Doorbell rings] Belle.

Belle: Hey. I’m sorry to just show up without calling, but I wanted to pick up some toiletries for ej.

Chad: Oh, what, the shampoo in the lockup isn’t good enough for my brother?

Belle: I thought he would appreciate having some of his own things. Would you mind getting it for me?

Chad: Yeah, no, I’m not doing anything to help ej, not after what he did to my wife.

Belle: What did he do to abigail?

Abigail: I knew it! I knew it was… you? Ava vitali? What the hell?

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Belle: Ej did what?

Chad: He forced himself on my wife.

Belle: Are you sure?

Chad: Uh, yes, I’m sure. I saw him with my own eyes.

Belle: Where did this happen?

Chad: At the courthouse during the recess that the judge gave because of that coughing fit or whatever the hell it was. You remember–I ran into you in the hallway? We were about to walk inside, and then I had realized that i forgot my phone in the witness room, so I went to go get it, and there’s ej, attacking my wife.

Belle: What did he say when you walked in?

Chad: Well, after abigail slapped him across the face, I asked him what the hell he thought he was doing, and he wasn’t even the least bit apologetic. Just sat there, staring at me, smug as ever.

Belle: Oh, my god. I–I just can’t believe he would do something so disgusting.

Chad: I was gonna kill him. Abby asked me not to.

Belle: You know what? It really doesn’t make sense, though, because, I mean, you were about to get back on the stand, and you made it pretty clear that we would be pleased with your testimony, so why would ej sabotage himself like that?

Chad: Because ej is an arrogant bastard who thinks he can do whatever he wants, not to mention an entitled pig that thinks he can help himself to whatever he wants. Do you know what he said to my wife? He said that he was gonna take her on the conference table. Take her.

Belle: Ugh.

Chad: I mean, who knows what would’ve happened if I hadn’t shown up when I did?

Belle: God, well, no wonder you were so mad when you came back from that recess.

Chad: Yeah, well, he’s gonna be spending the next decade in prison, so maybe he’ll learn to keep his hands to himself.

Belle: I am so, so sorry for what abigail had to go through. I mean, there is no excuse for ej’s behavior. But he is still my client, and so if you could just point me to the bathroom, I’ll grab the stuff and go.

Melinda: Ah, mr. Dimera. We meet again. You’re looking a little bit, um, defeated.

Shawn: Look, we’d love to stay and chat, da trask, but ej’s got somewhere he needs to be.

Melinda: Oh, the only place he should be is downstairs, awaiting sentencing.

Shawn: He’s meeting with his lawyer.

Melinda: I hope not to discuss an appeal.

Ej: That’s between me and my attorney.

Melinda: Well, it’s your money, but I should warn you: It’s a waste of time.

Ej: We’ll see.

Melinda: You are so damn arrogant. All of you dimeras are. For years, I’ve tried to take one of you down, but you always seem to slither out of trouble. But at last, all my hard work has paid off, and I get the distinct pleasure of sending one of your kind directly where you belong: Statesville prison.

Xander: Your money?

Ned: Yeah, that’s where you’re headed, right? After the meeting I had with you and abigail dimera earlier today? You went to procure payment for our little exchange? You remember? Last spring, sarah horton needed somebody to fly her out of salem. I’m the guy who did the job. I told you I would tell you, but it was gonna cost you.

Xander: Yeah, right. Hi, ted.

Ned: Ned. Ned grainger.

Xander: I’ve got a lot on my mind now, so if you’ll excuse me, I–

Ned: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you trying to pull?

Xander: I’m not sure what you mean.

Ned: You and mrs. Dimera were very anxious to get information out of me. You told me to sit tight, and you’d get my cash. Now it seems like you forgot the whole thing.

Xander: I didn’t forget. I went to ask sarah’s mum for the money.

Ned: So let’s have it. She did give it to you, didn’t she?

Xander: Actually, I didn’t get a chance to ask.

Ned: Well, I sure hope you have some other means of funds, because I’m not gonna tell you squat unless I get paid.

Xander: I don’t need you to tell me where you took sarah. I already found her myself.

Abigail: You’re the person who’s been wearing this mask? I–I mean, I knew it wasn’t really sarah, but I just thought the person masquerading as her was kristen or gwen. I never would’ve guessed that it was you.

Ava: Surprise.

Abigail: This just doesn’t make sense. I mean, do you even know who sarah is? What reason do you have to be impersonating her? What are you doing, ava? Why are you doing this?

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Xander: Sarah was at her mother’s house when I arrived.

Ned: So?

Xander: So I know where she is. Obviously, I don’t need you to tell me.

Ned: We had a deal.

Xander: Yeah, the deal’s off.

Ned: I was counting on that money. I just bought a watch. Cost me a small fortune.

Xander: Well, I guess you’re gonna have to take it back, eh?

Ned: I can’T.

Xander: Why not? Still in the box. You haven’t worn it, have you?

Ned: No, but I can’t take it back. I love this watch!

Xander: Unfortunately, ned, sometimes, no matter how much we love something, we still end up losing it.

[Dramatic music]

Melinda: Mrs. Brady. I heard you had a meeting with your client.

Belle: Ej was supposed to be brought up from holding.

Melinda: No need to file a complaint. Your hubby already brought him to the interrogation room. I’ll tell you what I already told mr. Dimera. This meeting is a waste of time.

Belle: Thanks for the input.

Melinda: He was found guilty, all right? And considering all the damning testimony against him, I don’t see how you’ll convince a judge to come to any other conclusion.

Belle: Why don’t you let me worry about that?

Melinda: Ooh, you must really be kicking yourself, huh, for letting him take the stand like that?

Belle: [Scoffs] Excuse me?

Melinda: Any first-year law student knows that a defense attorney never lets their client testify unless it’s absolutely necessary. I mean, whoo, when you opened that door for me, I was thrilled… but I was also shocked, because someone with your experience to make a rookie mistake like that? You must be mortified.

Shawn: Oh, let me guess. Our esteemed da is doing a little preening.

Belle: Oh, no, she’s just showing me all her insecurities. She’s a little nervous that I’m meeting with ej.

Melinda: [Laughs] I have nothing to be insecure or nervous about. I won.

Shawn: And is this the part where you say that you’re way more of a force than belle in the courtroom and that you’re a better attorney because you’re so damn tough?

Melinda: Seems like a reasonable position, considering someone has to have her husband fight her battles for her.

Belle: Oh, please.

Shawn: Listen, I can assure you that my wife is more than capable of defending herself.

Melinda: Yet here you are, riding to her rescue.

Shawn: Not at all. Actually, I just know that she’s had a really busy last few days, and I just wanted to give her a little break.

Belle: Aww.

[Soft music]

Nicole: Rafe… we have to stop.

Rafe: Yeah, I’m sorry. I s–I shouldn’t have done that. I…

Nicole: It’s okay. Obviously, I wanted to kiss you, too. But we can’t do this. You are with ava.

Rafe: I’m with ava. I know, I know. I’m sorry, and I don’T… I don’t know what I was thinking. I guess I just let my frustration get the best of me.

Nicole: Frustration because you don’t know if your girlfriend is playing you?

Rafe: Yeah. Yeah, like I said, ava’s been– she been acting weird the last few weeks, and–I don’t know. Maybe I’m just being paranoid because I feel guilty.

Nicole: Because we had sex behind her back.

Rafe: Which I still don’t understand how she would know about.

Nicole: She might not. She’s been pushing for the three of us to spend time together.

Rafe: Yeah, and what’s the end game with that?

Nicole: Being able to spend time with her friend and her boyfriend without being all weird.

Rafe: Uh-huh, right. Is it? Is it, or is she just playing nice? Meanwhile, she’s on a revenge rampage. Right? Started with her cutting the head off of duke, and then she’s setting me up to look like a dirty cop, and you said the other day that she was acting weird in your office.

Nicole: I know. No, but maybe–maybe I’m being paranoid too.

Rafe: Uh-huh, yeah? Okay, what about tonight, huh? What about that? She insists that we all have dinner? She’s not even here.

Nicole: Something came up.

Rafe: Did it? Did it, or is she just leaving us alone in the hopes to catch us doing something?

Nicole: Rafe, ava is my friend, and I would like to give her the benefit of the doubt, that if she knew what happened between us, she would be direct. But honestly, I don’t know. I don’t know.

Rafe: Yeah. So I guess I got tired of waiting for the other shoe to drop and took action. Let the chips fall where they may.

Nicole: I got it. I feel the same way.

Rafe: I don’t like being tested. And I don’t like playing games.

Nicole: Maybe that’s not what’s happening. For all we know, ava could be completely innocent.

Abigail: Let’s hear it, ava. Why are you running around town in a sarah horton mask? Why are you impersonating my cousin?

Ava: Eh. It was a prank.

Abigail: A prank.

Ava: Yeah. You know, just having a little harmless fun.

Abigail: Harmless? Are you joking? It’s bizarre, and it’s twisted, and it’s evil.

Ava: Oh, okay. Well, not all of us have lives as exciting as yours, abigail, so every once in a while, I like to spice things up.

Abigail: Do you seriously expect me to believe that? Okay, fine. Let’s see if you can come up with another explanation here for your boyfriend, the police commissioner, hmm. Let’s see if he’s available.

Ava: Abigail, you don’t have to do that.

Abigail: Oh, I think I do. What am I supposed to do, just let you walk away–

[Dramatic music]

For rob, it took years to find out

[Soft guitar music]

Shawn: If you’re here to gloat to my wife some more, I can give you a call as soon as she’s done with ej.

Melinda: I actually need to talk to you… about your boss.

Shawn: Rafe? Why, what’s going on?

Melinda: He’s under investigation for planting evidence in several cases.

Shawn: Uh, two cases, and it’s obvious that those perps are lying, so the whole thing is a joke.

Melinda: I don’t think so, and neither does internal affairs. They take police corruption very seriously.

Shawn: Come on. There’s no way that you can believe that rafe is corrupt.

Melinda: My opinion is irrelevant. But when these allegations are made, I have no choice but to investigate.

Shawn: And you’re gonna come up empty-handed, ’cause rafe’s record is spotless. What, all a sudden, what, he’s a dirty cop now? Why would he do that?

Melinda: My guess: Pressure. Under his leadership, this department has become a complete laughingstock.

Shawn: Oh, all right, you know what? I would not go that far. We’ve hit a few speed bumps here and there, but that’s about it.

Melinda: I read about it every day, how crime is up because salem pd won’t do anything to put the bad guys away. I think rafe needed to turn the heat down by any means necessary.

Shawn: He would not manufacture convictions. There’s no way that he would do this, because he’s a good cop, and he’s a good man.

Rafe: You’re right. Ava might be innocent in all of this. She might not be setting me up to look like a crooked cop. But what I’ve come to realize is… it doesn’t matter.

Nicole: You don’t care if ava’s trying to ruin your career?

Rafe: No, of course I do. Yeah, it’s just, whether she is innocent or not, it doesn’t change the way I feel about you. I can’t get you out of my head or my heart. I’m just thinking I need to– I need to end things with ava.

Nicole: Are you sure that’s something you really wanna do?

Rafe: Yes. Yes, because whether she is innocent or not, it doesn’t really matter. It’s not working. I mean… we can’t go on like this.

Nicole: Rafe, I don’T… I–I don’t think this is the best time to make a big decision like this. I think maybe you should wait until things settle down and the investigation is over.

Rafe: Okay, just hear me out. Either ava knows what’s going on, and she is trying to punish us, in which case, obviously, I can’t stay with her…

Nicole: Or she has no idea, and she’s coming from a totally genuine place.

Rafe: And if that’s the case, I still can’t be with her.

Nicole: Why not?

Rafe: Because it’s not fair to keep the woman that I am with in the dark about the woman that I want to be with.

[Soft music]

Xander: Gwen? Hmm. Maybe she’s in the shower.

[Knocking at door]

Chad: Hey, is abigail here?

Xander: No. No. Why, what’s going on?

Chad: She ran out of the house, looking for sarah.

Xander: I found her. I just came from uncle vic’S. Sarah turned up there. She went to see maggie… and made it very clear that she’s done with me for good.

Chad: Yeah, can’t say that i blame her.

Xander: Oh, well, this will make you happy. Abigail was investigating sarah’s disappearance for the “spectator,” and I was assisting, but now that sarah’s been found, my partnership with your wife is over. Wait, didn’t she tell you all this?

Chad: Yes, of course she did, but I thought she might’ve come here to see gwen.

Xander: Why?

Chad: Because she thinks that she doesn’t have the whole story yet. Look, she’s convinced that the woman you found with maggie isn’t the real sarah.

Ava: Gwen, how did you…

Gwen: I heard abigail attacking you over the phone. I figured you might need backup.

Ava: Thanks. Timing was perfect.

Gwen: Yeah, I can see that. So I suppose the jig is up.

Ava: Yeah, your little sis ripped that mask right off my face.

Gwen: Ah, damn it! I thought we’d thrown her off of sarah’s scent for good. What happened?

Ava: Oh, she goes talking about how something kept bothering her, how she knew that I wasn’t really sarah.

Gwen: Can’t believe this. You were right. My sister really is like a dog with a bone, and now that she’s seen you with the sarah mask, she’s never gonna stop looking for sarah. What do we do?

Ava: Treat her the same as you would any dog you can’t control. You put them down.

If you have postmenopausal

osteoporosis

Rafe: Breaking up with ava is the right thing to do for all three of us.

Nicole: She will be devastated.

Rafe: And I hate the idea of causing her pain. I do. That’s why I’ve stayed with her for so long. But I need to do this. I need to be honest with her and with myself. I wanna be with you, nicole.

Nicole: [Sighs] Are you sure that’s how you really feel?

Rafe: Yeah. Unless that’s not what you want.

Melinda: I have no interest in your personal feelings about commissioner hernandez.

Shawn: No, it’s not just me. Rafe has the respect of every officer in this department.

Melinda: Okay, being respected, liked, and even loved does not preclude you from having committed a crime. Your sister is married to a serial killer, is she not?

Shawn: Okay, you know, are we done here? Because you know what, I’ve got some work I need to get done.

Melinda: Look, my point is, I’m only interested in the facts, and it sounds like you are, too, which is why I want you to go through every recent arrest that rafe has signed off on with a fine-toothed comb. You know, anything with his signature on it. Just–I want details.

Shawn: Details?

Melinda: Yeah, review every report, page by page. Go talk to the people he’s arrested. See if you can uncover a pattern.

Shawn: Do I have a choice?

Melinda: Not if you don’t want me to think you’re covering for your boss. I’ll even get you started. Top one, perp came in last night. He’s still down in lockup. Why don’t you go down there, have a little chat with him, and see what you can find out?

[Melancholy guitar music]

Ej: Ow. Where the hell are you, belle? Oh, finally.

Belle: I would have been here sooner, but I had to get this logged. Your toiletries.

Ej: Thank god. I don’t know how I’d survive another night without my shea butter moisturizer. That was a joke.

Belle: Yeah, I’m not really in the mood.

Ej: Right. So shall we get down to business? What news of my appeal? What’s your plan to stop me from spending the next decade behind bars?

Belle: Before we get to any of that, I think there’s something you and I need to talk about.

Ej: Sounds serious.

Belle: It is. I just talked to chad. He told me what you did to abigail.

Xander: So let me get this straight. Abigail thought it wasn’t really sarah that I saw at uncle vic’s? It was someone in a sarah mask.

Chad: Yes. At first, abigail thought it was kristen because she had done the exact same thing to kate.

Xander: Right, right, that makes sense. Wait, what does this have to do with gwen?

Chad: Well, it wasn’t kristen, so abigail thought it was gwen.

Xander: I–I don’t get it. Why exactly?

Chad: Who has a motive to pose as sarah, right? Hey, think about it, xander. You’re in a relationship with gwen. Now, what happens to that relationship if you find out what really happened to the woman who was your fiancée, the woman who you love very much? So sarah–sorry, fake sarah– shows up, tells you she wants nothing to do with you, and that effectively ends you searching for her.

Xander: So abigail thinks that the woman I saw, the woman who broke my heart for a second time, was actually gwen?

Gwen: Put her down? You C… come on. You can’t be serious.

Ava: It would solve our problems.

Gwen: And it would create loads more for me– no, I’ve already been suspected of two murders in less than a year. I’m not gonna add another one to the list. Plus, she’s my sister!

Ava: Half-sister.

Gwen: That is not the point. Look, yes, I hate that she’s trying to get payback because i slept with her husband, and i hate that she’s trying to break up xander and I, but I don’t want her dead.

Ava: Okay, but you know we need to think of something, because she was about to call the cops when you knocked her out.

Gwen: Okay, how about, when she points the finger at us, we’ll just say she’s having another one of her delusions?

Ava: No, no, rafe’s never gonna believe that.

Gwen: Well, we’re not gonna know unless we try.

Ava: No. Okay? He thinks I’ve gone legit, and we need to keep it that way. I’ve set all these plans in motion against him, and I’m seeing them through. He needs to pay for cheating on me, sleeping with that slut nicole.

Gwen: Okay, what do you suggest that we do, then?

Ava: No… we could leave her here. No, maybe she won’t remember anything when she wakes up. I mean, you did hit her pretty hard.

Gwen: She’s already seen you in the sarah mask. I’d say that that’s quite difficult to forget, wouldn’t you?

Ava: [Sighs] Okay, then let’s figure out a plan later. Right now, we need to get her out of here.

Gwen: How exactly are we supposed to do that?

Ned: Evening, ladies.

[Dramatic music]

Trelegy for copd.

Nicole: Rafe, it’s just that I’m barely divorced.

Rafe: I understand. I do. So we can take this as slowly as you want. Unless…

Nicole: Unless what

Rafe: Well, you had said that you wanted to get that giant conference table out of your office because it was a reminder of something you wanted to forget.

Nicole: I was trying to forget that we betrayed ava.

Rafe: Okay. But not what happened between us.

Nicole: No. That was pretty unforgettable.

Rafe: Okay. All right, so just to be clear, it’s not that we’re not together because we don’t wanna be, it’s because I’m with someone else.

Nicole: Someone that we care about.

Rafe: Yes. Someone that I want to end the relationship with.

Nicole: Oh, I– rafe, I just want you to really think about this.

Rafe: I have been. I have been for months, and now I finally wanna do something about it. I mean, don’t you? Aren’t you tired of holding back, and wouldn’t it be great to finally be out there with how you really feel? Stop hiding?

[Knocking at door]

[Softly] Oh, my… that?

[Knocking at door]

Nicole: You better get that.

[Dramatic music]

Ej: Chad said I did what?

Belle: He said you kissed abigail.

Ej: [Laughs] That’s insane.

Belle: He said he saw it with his own eyes.

Ej: When? Where?

Belle: At the courthouse, after he had that coughing fit. He said he walked into the witness room and saw you forcing yourself on his wife.

Ej: That’s impossible.

Belle: Well, something happened during the recess that made him furious with you.

Ej: It certainly wasn’t that I hit on abigail.

Belle: Then why the 180? Why would chad suddenly decide not to give testimony that would help us after he just implied that he would?

Ej: Maybe he was never intending to help us. He could’ve been toying with us the whole time.

Belle: No way. That’s not chad.

Ej: I’m telling you, I never left that courtroom.

Belle: You sure about that?

Ej: Absolutely. During that recess, I was with johnny, signing that agreement you advised me against. You were there.

Belle: No, actually, i wasn’T. Johnny asked me to give you some privacy, so I was out in the corridor, trying to find out when we would reconvene.

Ej: Oh. You didn’t see me leave, did you?

Belle: There are other exits. If you left a different way, how would I–

Ej: I didn’t! The only time I left my seat was when you called me up to the witness stand. If you don’t believe me, then ask my son.

Xander: So after abigail realized sarah wasn’t kristen in a mask, she thought she was gwen in a mask?

Chad: Right. Well, until gwen showed up.

Xander: What? Why didn’t you say that in the first place? Obviously, gwen wasn’t impersonating sarah!

Chad: I don’t know! I’m sorry! I–I don’t know what the hell is going on, either. I’m just trying to find my wife.

Xander: Well, did you try calling her?

Chad: Yes, of course I tried calling her. She’s not answering her phone, so I thought she came here following up on something.

Xander: But if abigail knows that gwen wasn’t impersonating sarah, ’cause she just saw them together, why would she come here to follow up?

Chad: Because she is not convinced that it was sarah.

Xander: Even though she’d just seen the proof right in front of her eyes?

Chad: My wife–she’s a reporter, right? She gets these instincts. Right now, she has an instinct that somebody’s running around salem in a mask.

Xander: Are we sure it’s the journalistic instincts talking and not the voices in her head?

Xander: Watch it.

Xander: Mate, look. The mystery is solved. Think you need to tell abigail to let it go.

Chad: I did. We were at home, having a relaxing night. I went to go check on dinner and came back, and she was gone. Johnny said that she flew out of the house, so I assumed she came here.

Xander: Well, she didn’T.

Chad: Great. Let me know if you see her, will you?

Xander: Yeah, sure thing, mate.

Ned: Now this is what I call serendipity.

Ava: Yeah? What are you talking about?

Ned: I overheard your dilemma. Here you are, trying to get rid of this woman, and here I am, about to fly my bird out of dodge.

Gwen: And you’d be willing to take her with you?

Ned: Sure… for a price. As a professional bull-rider

Belle: If you say you never left the courtroom, then why is chad so sure he saw you kissing abigail?

Ej: Isn’t it obvious? He’s lying.

Belle: Why? Why would he do that?

Ej: He’s out to get me, or did you not see him testify to a room full of people that i orchestrated my wife’s kidnapping?

Belle: Ej, before you made a pass at his wife, he was ready to exonerate you.

Ej: For the last time, I did not make a pass at his wife.

Belle: Okay, well, then, for the last time, why would chad say you did, then?

Ej: If you ask me, he’s being eaten alive by guilt.

Belle: Guilt?

Ej: For sending me away for something that I didn’t do. Chad knows full well that i wasn’t behind samantha’s kidnapping. He’s conspiring with that moron, lucas horton, to frame me. But if that ever got out, he would be fired from dimera, publicly disgraced, and end up going to prison himself, correct?

Belle: Possibly.

Ej: That reality must’ve set in during the recess, and so he decided that he would make sure that the truth would never come to light by giving false testimony that would guarantee i would end up in statesville. And the only way he could live with what he did was to somehow convince himself that I deserve it.

Belle: Hmm. By making up the story that you came on to his wife.

Ej: Chad has been so paranoid for so long about his brothers lusting after abigail, he may have found a reason to see things that aren’t really there.

Belle: Oh, so you’re saying he’s delusional?

Ej: I’m saying he committed a betrayal of the highest order. He doesn’t have the constitution for it, so he found a way to cope. He’s probably not even conscious that he did it.

Belle: Oh, my–now you sound like my mother.

Ej: He came up with something believable, didn’t he? I did take that role in johnny’s movie that involves sex scenes with abigail. It’s not a stretch that I would make a play for her.

Belle: But you didn’T.

Ej: Of course not. But if chad believed I did, then for the next decade, he could tell himself that I’m a low-life and he’s a good guy for doing the right thing.

Ej: Wow, that is very machiavellian of you.

Ej: Have you met my family?

Belle: Okay, well, listen. I seriously doubt that chad subconsciously is trying to alleviate his guilt, but let’s just say he is. Why would abigail go along with that, let him tell everyone that you were forcing yourself on her if it wasn’t true?

Ej: He’s her husband. She’s going to support him, no matter what.

Belle: Oh, god. Listen, ej, I know you’re upset, but what you’re saying is insane.

Ej: It’s the only plausible explanation, because I swear to god, I never laid a finger on abigail.

Ava: How much to fly her out of here?

Ned: I’m afraid I can’t offer much of a discount.

Gwen: Why not?

Ned: Well, I happen to know that’s abigail dimera, and i have to imagine that her very well-connected family is gonna wonder what happened to her.

Ava: Yeah. So what?

Ned: So that makes this a premium job.

Gwen: Meaning what?

Ned: I can’t just dump her in a field the next state over. The resources those people have? They’ll trace it back to me in a heartbeat. To make this lady disappear, really disappear, it takes some effort. It’s gonna cost you. Come on, wheels up in ten minutes, ladies. What’s it gonna be? You want me to fly your problem up, up, and away?

[Suspenseful percussive music]

Shawn: I’m sorry to interrupt your evening.

Nicole: It’s okay. Don’t–don’t worry about it.

Rafe: Uh, come on in, man. What’s up?

Shawn: Well, it’s trask. Right, she asked me to look into some recent arrests.

Rafe: Oh, which ones?

Shawn: All the ones that you signed off on.

Rafe: Okay, great. So let me guess: She wants to go over some cases and see if i have planted evidence.

Nicole: Oh, my god. This–this is ridiculous. Rafe didn’t do anything wrong. He’s c–this is so obvious that he’s being set up.

Shawn: I’m assuming that you two have discussed this.

Rafe: Mm-hmm.

Nicole: Yes, and this investigation is outrageous.

Shawn: I completely agree with you.

Nicole: So can’t you just go back and tell trask to–

Rafe: Nicole… it’s okay. Mm-hmm? I understand. She wants someone to go over all the cases, and, well, I’m just glad that it’s you.

Shawn: See, I told her that i think that you are completely innocent.

Rafe: Yes, and I am ready to prove my innocence, so whatever it is that you need to do.

Shawn: I spoke to a guy who was arrested last night.

Rafe: Wait, the b&e at the pawn shop down by the docks? Yeah, I signed off on that arrest. It was totally clean.

Shawn: Actually, he’s claiming that the evidence was planted, rafe.

Rafe: What?

Shawn: Yes, he’s claiming that, whatever the cops found at the scene it wasn’t his, he’s never seen it before, and it was planted there to make him look guilty.

Rafe: Okay, well, it’s a lie, right? I mean, obviously, this is all part of the frame-up. I mean, listen, trask knows that, right?

Shawn: I’m sorry, rafe, but trask actually sent me here to place you under arrest.

Nicole: Oh. Life’s been hard enough.

Melinda: Oh. Where’s your attorney?

Ej: My meeting’s over. I’m waiting for someone to escort me back to holding.

Melinda: Oh, don’t look so glum, mr. Dimera. You’re about to get some company.

Rafe: You’re here to arrest me?

Nicole: Shawn, you can’t do this.

Shawn: Listen, believe me, i do not want to, but I don’t have a choice.

Rafe: Oh, my god.

Ava: Oh, I am so sorry I’m late, but I brought desserts. What’s going on?

Shawn: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights as I’ve read them to you?

[Suspenseful music]

[Door lock beeps]

Xander: Oh, I was wondering where you went.

Gwen: Yeah, I just, um… popped out for some window shopping. What have you been up to?

Xander: Chad dimera was just here, telling me this crazy story about a mask. Honestly, I had a hard time believing it.

Gwen: A mask, eh? Tell me all about it.

Chad: Abby, where are you? Why aren’t you picking up?

[Doorbell rings] Abby, hey, look, I’m getting worried. Call me when you get this, okay?

Belle: Hey. I’m sorry to bother you again. Listen, I just saw ej, and i wanted you to know, he adamantly denied making any kind of pass at abigail.

Chad: That’s great. Anyway, belle, I don’t have time for this right now, okay?

Belle: Why? What’s going on?

Chad: I can’t find abigail.

Ned: So glad those ladies coughed up the cash, ’cause this is a lot of work, mrs. Dimera.

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Gabi: What are you doing here?

Johnny: I wanted to see you again.

Gabi: How did you know I was here?

Johnny: Well, what can I tell you? When I want something, I always find a way to get it.

[Jazz music]

Chanel: I’m glad you’re here. I have something to tell you, and it’s kind of a big deal.

Allie: You look upset. What’s going on?

Chanel: [Sighs] My mother saw us together.

Allie: What do you mean together?

Chanel: I mean together in bed.

[Soft dramatic music]

Paulina: Ugh. Stay out of it. Stay out of it, paulina. No, no, oh. None of your damn business. It doesn’t concern you at all.

Tripp: Okay, great. Patient talking to herself. Please tell me you’re not gearing up to tell me off.

Rafe: Fine, I’d be more than happy to talk to internal affairs. The sooner the better.

[Knock at door] You’re not– you’re not listening, ms. Trask. I want them to investigate because if they investigate, they will see that i have been set up. Come in already! Yeah, and then they will find that I have nothing to feel guilty about.

Ava as sarah: Let go of me!

Abigail: Not until I see who’s underneath that mask. It is over, gwen. I’ve figured it out.

Gwen: What on earth are you doing, abigail?

Abigail: Gwen?

Gwen: Well, who else would it be? And why are you assaulting that woman?

[Dramatic music]

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Gabi: That powerful last name, all the posh schools, all that time spent in italy, and you’re just another american clod.

Johnny: Scusi?

Gabi: Women just love to be called “something” and “it.”

Johnny: [Chuckles] Let me rephrase. When I find myself in a conversation with a charming, smart, drop dead gorgeous woman, I do whatever I can to… continue the conversation.

Gabi: Well said.

Johnny: [Chuckles] I love talking to you. I just love it. And since my sister so rudely interrupted us earlier, I decided to follow you here. I hope you don’t mind.

Gabi: I guess what I am is flattered.

Johnny: Well, I am very happy to hear that. What do you say we get out of here and go someplace more private?

Allie: Your mom saw us in bed together? Okay, okay, well, well, we’re best friends, and you had just been publicly humiliated, and you didn’t want to sleep alone, so I slept over.

Chanel: When she saw us, we weren’t sleeping.

Allie: You mean she saw us?

Chanel: Yeah.

Allie: [Sighs] Oh, my god, okay. I don’t feel so good. What, does she have, like, a spy cam in your room or something?

Chanel: Apparently, when she opened the door, neither of us saw her. We were busy.

Allie: Well, I need to talk to her. Is she here?

Chanel: No, no, she went to the hospital. She had a doctor’s appointment.

Allie: Oh, my god. What if she runs into tripp?

Paulina: Why would I be telling you off?

Tripp: ‘Cause you’ve been waiting here for way too long. I’m sorry. We’re swamped tonight.

Paulina: Oh, I can see that. I just didn’t think I was going to see you.

Tripp: Yeah, well, luck of the draw. So how is the ankle doing? Is it still tender?

Paulina: Not so fast! Okay.

Tripp: Excuse me. Is there a problem?

Paulina: Yeah. Yeah, there is. I want another doctor.

[Soft dramatic music]

Gwen: Ooh, don’t look now, abigail, your mouth’s hanging open.

Abigail: I don’t– I don’t understand.

Gwen: You don’t understand? Well, you– I’m used to you attacking me, but a total stranger?

Ava as sarah: Yeah, well, I’m not a stranger, but she did think I was you.

Gwen: Thought you were– we don’t look anything alike. Do we? I mean– you do look a bit like– I’m sorry. Are you sarah horton?

Ava as sarah: That’s right. Abigail’s cousin.

Gwen: Yes, I’ve seen you in photographs. I’m gwen rizczech.

Ava as sarah: Oh, that’s right. You’re xander’s new girlfriend. Yeah, my mom told me about you.

Gwen: Right, um, well–

Ava as sarah: Look, no, we don’t need to say it’s nice to meet you. It probably isn’T. But don’t worry. I only came back to salem so that I can show everyone that I’m fine. Also you should know that I told xander in no uncertain terms that it is over between us.

Gwen: Oh.

Ava as sarah: Yeah. So you are welcome to him. I just want the past to stay in the past.

Gwen: Well, thank you for telling me that.

Ava as sarah: And now one more thing. My mom knew who I was. The man that I lived with for over a year knew who I was, so now I’m hoping that you know that it is really me, sarah, and I am not wearing a mask. Right?

[Dramatic music]

For rob, it took years to find out

Rafe: I have to go. Always a pleasure.

[Phone beeps] Ugh, trask.

Nicole: Figured as much.

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: She’s not backing down?

Rafe: Oh, no. She’s having the time of her life.

Nicole: Oh, gosh, I’m so sorry.

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: I brought wine.

Rafe: Mm, thank you.

Nicole: Rafe, listen, I can’t stop thinking about what you said earlier. Do you really think that ava is the one who set you up? Oh, my god. Oh, my god, me and my big mouth.

Rafe: No, no, it’s okay she’s not even here.

Nicole: What do you mean she’s not here? She came to my office two hours ago and demanded that I show up here for dinner, and she’s not here?

Rafe: Yeah, I know.

Nicole: What? Well, what, is she playing games with us? Where is she?

Rafe: See, that’s the fun part. I have no idea.

Ava as sarah: Abigail, use your head. Do you really think that I’m gwen wearing a mask when she’s standing right there?

Abigail: [Sighs] No, I guess not.

Ava as sarah: Good.

Gwen: But no apology, right? No “sorry for assaulting you and grabbing your arm really hard and clawing at your face”?

Abigail: I– I am sorry, sarah, but I just–I– kristen tried to do the same thing to kate.

Gwen: Kristen? Kristen dimera? What does she have to do with this?

Ava as sarah: Gwen.

Gwen: I mean, really, you’ve lost your mind, abigail.

Ava as sarah: Gwen, let’s all–let’s all just calm down ’cause I’ve put my family through a lot of stress and worrying about me unnecessarily. Okay? I do have to go, but I really don’t want to leave with any bad feelings between us.

Abigail: Right, yeah, no, I’m sorry. I–I’ll let you go.

Ava as sarah: Okay. Abigail, you get some help. Okay.

[Soft dramatic music]

Gwen: Satisfied?

Abigail: Guess I have to be.

Gwen: Got that right.

Ava as sarah: That was close.

Gwen: Really, really close, but thank god you pulled that out of your hat, ava.

Allie: Tripp’s on duty. I mean, what if she sees him?

Chanel: It doesn’t matter. Mama wouldn’t say anything to anybody, especially not to tripp.

Allie: God, I hope that you’re right. It would just kill tripp if he found out.

Chanel: Yeah, I mean, that’s exactly what I was trying to tell you. I’m glad you finally figured it out for yourself.

Allie: I was face-to-face with him earlier, and…

[Sighs] The way he was looking at me, I mean, he was worried about me. He’s such a good guy. I really don’t deserve him.

Chanel: Oh, that is not true.

Allie: I just couldn’t hurt him. And yes, I did finally realize for myself that he cannot find out, especially because you know what happened between us is never ever going to happen again, right?

Tripp: Why would you want another doctor?

Paulina: Oh, it’s nothing personal

Tripp: Well, it kind of is. I mean, did you have a problem with the way I treated your ankle before?

Paulina: No, no, you did a great job.

Tripp: Okay, then why would you want to be seen by someone else?

Paulina: Actually, I don’T. I apologize–just go ahead. Go ahead, treat me. Go on, go on, doc. Whew. I’ll just sit here. I’ll sit here. I’ll just keep my big mouth shut.

Gabi: I don’t see why we can’t continue our conversation here.

Johnny: Well, we could. It’s just kind of loud in here. I want to make sure I don’t miss a word.

Gabi: [Chuckles]

Johnny: [Chuckles] Actually, it’s not that loud in here. Okay, I know. I just wanted to be alone with you.

Gabi: That sounds provocative. You want to show me your etchings?

Johnny: I don’t have any, but I do have a very sizeable block of dimera shares. I think that could be really useful to you.

Gabi: You want to be alone with me to talk business?

Johnny: Among other things. My sister interrupted us before, so why take the chance of someone else interrupting us?

Jake: Ah, you mean someone like me?

Is now a good time

for a flare-up?

Chad: Hey, better late than never.

Abigail: Sorry.

Chad: You want a drink before dinner? What can I get you?

Abigail: [Sighs] I’m fine.

Chad: You don’t sound fine.

Abigail: [Sighs] Sorry, it’s just something happened.

Chad: Okay. Are you all right?

Abigail: No, I’m fine, but something’s off, like, really off. I mean, I was proven wrong and everything, gwen was there. And then it wasn’t kristen because kristen called me, but then I just– I can’t figure–

Chad: Hold on, wait a second. So kristen called you? And you saw gwen? I’m sorry. I think I’m missing something here.

Abigail: No, it’s because I don’t even know what happened, but I just–I found sarah.

Chad: You found sarah? That’s fantastic.

Abigail: I mean, I didn’t find her. She came to town on her own just because she wanted to tell maggie not to worry about her?

Chad: Okay, so then that’s great, right? That’s good for maggie.

Abigail: I don’t know. I’m just not sure because I talked to sarah myself, and I’m not really sure that it’s her.

Gwen: So let me ask you this. How did abigail get the idea that it was me under that mask?

Ava: Well, she didn’t start there. At first, she thought that I was kristen. Then she wanted this whole song and dance about how I kidnapped kate, and then I wore a mask to break up with jake so jake wouldn’t follow her, and then she decided it was you with a sarah mask doing the same thing so xander wouldn’t follow sarah.

Gwen: Wow. Well, she got pretty bloody close to the truth, didn’t she?

Ava: Sure did.

Gwen: So then tell me. How did she… how did she go from thinking it was kristen to thinking it was me?

Ava: Oh. Well, kristen called right in the middle of her tirade.

[Chuckles] So it was clear that sarah was not kristen. And I tried to make her realize she was being absolutely ridiculous thinking that you were sarah, but she did correctly deduce that you are the one with the motive.

Gwen: [Sighs] Well, thank god you and i switched places after I was sarah, and I kicked xander in the teeth for the final time. Otherwise, this whole thing could’ve been an absolute disaster.

Tripp: Okay, so the swelling has gone down, but you should still ice it if it bothers you.

Paulina: Will do.

Tripp: Good news is that you won’t need the cane anymore.

Paulina: Oh! And she threw down her cane and walked! Hallelujah!

Tripp: Well, take it easy. Take it easy, all right. First, no 5ks or anything. All right?

Paulina: Oh, darn it.

Tripp: I’m sorry.

Paulina: Well, at least I’ll be able to make it from the living room to the kitchen. Chanel, she’ll be ecstatic. Won’t have to hear my clomping around in the morning.

Tripp: Yeah, how is chanel doing?

Paulina: Well, she was devastated at first, you know, johnny dumping her. Miserable little creep. But she’s doing a lot better thanks to allie.

Chanel: Of course, right. Never again. What happened between us, we agreed on it. I was just in really bad shape, and you comforted me. That’s all because you’re such a great friend. I just feel bad that I… that I made things weird between you and tripp.

Allie: It’s fine. Just don’t worry about it.

Chanel: Uh, so you never told me why you came by in the first place.

Allie: Oh, right, um… I tried to talk to johnny.

Chanel: Oh, and how did that go?

Allie: Not so great.

Chanel: What did he say?

Allie: It’s not– it’s not really what he said. Uh, look, I don’t know if I should be telling you this.

Chanel: Well, now you have to.

Allie: Okay. When I went over to that stupid mansion, I walked in on johnny kissing another woman.

Johnny: Uncle jake, how nice to see you. Gabi and I were just discussing a potential alliance. I still think we could be quite useful to each other.

Jake: Huh, you come up with any other ideas?

Johnny: One or two, but we got interrupted. That’s why I came here, to pick up where we left off at the mansion.

Jake: Mm, and what exactly were you talking about at the mansion?

Johnny: I wouldn’t mind starting with you.

Jake: So one of you gonna tell me?

Johnny: Sure.

Gabi: No, uh, let me.

[Jazz music]

Do you struggle with occasional nerve aches

Tripp: I’m glad allie was able to help chanel.

Paulina: Yeah, she was wonderful. She was wonderful. You know, made sure she got home, she got her in bed. Then she left right away. Uh-huh, that’s just what she did, she left right away. Oh, allie, she’s such a good friend, uh-huh, and chanel, she needs a good friend. That’s what she needs. That’s all she needs right now.

Tripp: Paulina, you seem a little nervous.

Paulina: Do I?

Tripp: And I think I know why.

Chanel: Oh, johnny didn’t waste any time, did he?

Allie: No, he didn’T.

Chanel: [Sighs] Who was it?

Allie: It doesn’t matter.

Chanel: Who was it, horton?

Allie: It was gabi hernandez. She lives with his uncle, jake.

Chanel: He was making moves on his uncle’s girlfriend?

Allie: I know. It’s gross. But I swear, when I tried to talk to him, too, it’s like he’s hit some new personal low.

Chanel: As always, my mother was right.

Allie: That johnny’s a jerk?

Chanel: A real jerk. Never loved me. God, lied to me.

Allie: Hey, good riddance to him, chanel, okay? He’s bad news.

Chanel: Then why does it hurt so much?

Allie: Hey.

Chanel: [Sobs softly]

Gabi: Well, johnny and i didn’t get to talk very much because his sister interrupted us at the mansion.

Johnny: Yeah, she’s mad at me for divorcing her best friend.

Jake: Mm, well, that’s unfair seeing as you, what, gave it your best for a week or two?

Johnny: Act in haste, repent at leisure.

Jake: Huh.

Gabi: Jake, why don’t you get us some drinks, and then we can tell johnny here all of our ideas and how we can all work together?

Johnny: Ooh, that sounds super fun.

Jake: Sure. Get you a beer?

Johnny: Actually, I will have a hot toddy.

Jake: Can I get you a shawl with that, johnny?

Johnny: [Chuckles]

Jake: Gabi?

Gabi: I’m fine.

Jake: You good?

Gabi: Mm-hmm.

Johnny: I noticed you didn’t tell your boyfriend that I kissed you. I take that to mean you’d like to keep that our little secret? And that you wouldn’t mind if it happened again.

Chad: So first you thought it was kristen, and then you thought it was gwen.

Abigail: Until kristen called me, and gwen walked out of the inn.

Chad: Sure, so doesn’t that mean that it was actually sarah?

Abigail: I know it seems that way, but I–

Chad: But what?

Abigail: I just can’t stop thinking about how kristen abducted kate, then wore a kate mask and went and broke up with jake. It just all feels so similar to what’s going on with sarah and xander.

Chad: Yeah, it is weird. I mean, first sarah dumped xander, and now xander is with gwen.

Abigail: It’s awkward. I mean, I just feel like– I felt like I was in some kind of a bad play.

Ava: I know that I got upset when you asked me to take over and put on that stupid mask again, but…

[Chuckles] Did it turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

Gwen: Literally.

Ava: Whoa. What do you mean, you want me to play sarah again? You already got maggie to buy that her precious sarah is safe, and you dumped xander. Hard part’s done.

Gwen: No, no, I–I am done. I tell you, I almost had a complete freak out wearing this bloody mask. It is absolute bloody hell, and I’ve got abigail breathing down my neck.

Ava: What, so you want me to do it? You know, it’s not exactly my problem. I think I’ve already gone above and beyond here.

Gwen: I’m sorry, I can’T. I can’t do it. I walked in the room, and I saw her drinking tea.

Ava: Who, maggie?

Gwen: And then she saw me– no, she saw sarah. She saw her daughter, and she flew across the room, and she hugged me.

[Soft dramatic music]

In my entire life, my mother has never looked at me the way that she– the way that she looked at me.

[Sighs] And I tried to keep it together, but xander, when I could see it, he still–he still–

Ava: Okay, you need a drink.

Gwen: I need you. I need you– I need you to help me. Please, if I go out there as sarah, and I run into somebody who knew her, who loved her… I could lose it. And then all of this is gonna be for nothing.

[Sighs] I can’t do it. I can’T.

Ava: Well, lucky for you, I am such a nice person.

Gwen: I owe you. I do know how much I owe you.

Ava: Big time. But… you need to get going because sarah needs to get to the airstrip.

Gwen: No, couldn’t– couldn’t you do it please?

Ava: Uh-uh, I’m gonna have to say no this time, sweetheart. I’m having the dinner with rafe and nicole.

Gwen: You’re having dinner with them? You hate them.

Ava: Yeah, I know that. You know that. They don’T. Well, not yet.

Nicole: Well, this is fun. You must come to dinner. I won’t take no for an answer. It’ll just be the three of us, only I won’t be there.

Rafe: Oh, sit down. Have some wine.

Nicole: Rafe, you are the one who came to me and said you think ava got the perps to say that you were the one that planted evidence on them.

Rafe: Yeah, I know.

Nicole: And you think ava’s the one who cut poor duke’s head off.

Rafe: I thought, yeah, maybe.

Nicole: And she came to my office not just once, but twice to set up this dinner, and now she’s not here.

Rafe: You see, that’s why I shouldn’t have told you any of this because you’re all worked up.

Nicole: No, no, look, I already felt a little weird before you told me anything. All her friendliness. Oh, you and rafe are friends. You shouldn’t not see each other because of me. It just seemed forced. But now that I think about it, it’s not just forced. It’s calculated. Okay, rafe, this is your cue to jump in and tell me that I’m overreacting and my guilt has me paranoid.

Rafe: Yeah. Yeah, just I don’t know that you are.

[Dramatic music]

Honestly, I thought my floors were clean.

Gabi: I didn’t tell jake that you kissed me because I didn’t want him to beat the crap out of you.

Johnny: You know, gabi, I advise you to rethink your relationship with him. I mean, that kind of behavior doesn’t indicate mutual trust.

Gabi: [Chuckles] Yeah, johnny, keep on giving me relationship tips. How’s chanel these days?

Jake: Here’s your toddy, johnny. Hopefully the bartender didn’t get too trigger happy with the cinnamon sticks. So… let’s finally get down to business, huh?

[Jazz music]

Chad: Don’t you think maybe you just want this to be true?

Abigail: No, I want the person that I talked to to actually be sarah. I want sarah to be safe, and I want her to be making her own decisions. That’s what I want. I mean, think about it. What if this were kate? Okay, if kate had not gotten away from christian…

Chad: Mm-hmm.

Abigail: What does that look like? How does that play out, okay? We get periodic text messages that say, “hi, don’t worry about me, I’m fine.” Et cetera, and then her phone loses a connection, and we never see or hear from her ever again just like the text messages that maggie got and just how sarah’s phone got disconnected.

Chad: I see parallels.

Abigail: [Sighs] I am just worried that sarah is still in trouble or worse, and this is all some big charade to make us stop looking for her.

Chad: Well, kristen of the masks isn’t here, so it’s not kristen in the mask.

Abigail: And it wasn’t gwen. But I barely got off the phone with kristen, and then gwen comes out of the inn. It just all felt so staged.

Chad: Well, if it is, then there’s another actor involved.

Abigail: Maybe it was a fake call. Maybe it was gwen in a sarah mask, and then kristen calls me from the inn and then walks out in a gwen mask? Oh. My head hurts.

Chad: [Chuckles] I can see why.

Abigail: I’m really scared for sarah. Whoever the person is that I talked to, that sarah was on their way to the airstrip, so just means tonight is my last chance to get to the bottom of this.

Gwen: Oh, come on, you hate rafe and nicole so much. You’re throwing them a dinner party? Let me guess, you’re making penne out of strychnine?

Ava: I cannot let them know that I’m onto them. Not yet.

Gwen: Look, I just– just phone them or something and tell them that you’re running late. I–I can’t– I can’t take the chance of anyone seeing me as sarah. I–I’m not gonna be able to pull it off, and you’re– you’re really, really good at this, you are. You’re so good. Please. Please come. I won’t ever ask you for anything ever again.

[Soft dramatic music]

Nicole: I feel like I’m in “fatal attraction,” only, this time, the wife is glenn close.

Rafe: [Sighs] I’m sorry. I am. You know, maybe– maybe we’re just being paranoid.

[Phone rings] It’s her.

[Phone rings] Ava, are you all right?

Ava: Yeah, look, I’m so sorry. Something’s come up, but the salad is already made, so just put the eggplant parm in the oven at 350 for 30 minutes.

Rafe: Oh, no, that’s okay. We’ll wait for you.

Ava: No, no, no, don’T. Um, I don’t know how long I’m gonna be.

Rafe: Ava, what’s going on? Is something wrong? Ava? She hung up.

Nicole: Well, did she say where she was or when she’s coming back?

Rafe: No.

Nicole: [Sighs] Oh, my god, rafe, do you think she left us here alone on purpose? People everywhere living with

Chad: Okay, abby, there are some weird parallels. But let’s think about this here. Maggie and xander both talked to this woman, yeah? Did either one of them express suspicions?

Abigail: Maggie did not, and I haven’t spoken to xander since he saw her.

Chad: Okay, he probably would’ve called you, though, if there were. I mean, you two have been working on this thing together. He knows as much as you do, and he thinks that’s sarah.

Abigail: I guess.

Chad: Okay, look, look, just–hey, just relax, okay? I’m gonna go read the kids a book, and then we can do dinner. Then, when I get back, pew, pew, pew. I’m gonna do everything in my power to take your mind off of this sarah.

[Soft dramatic music]

Paulina: Oh, oh, oh.

Tripp: Look, and I know that there was a point in time that chanel and allie were a little bit more than just friends.

Paulina: So you know about that?

Tripp: Yeah, allie doesn’t keep secrets from me.

Paulina: Is that right?

Tripp: And I know that they kissed a couple of times in the past and that it’s over. Allie loves me.

Paulina: Mm

Tripp: And that she and chanel are just really good friends.

Paulina: And the check is in the mail.

Tripp: I’m sorry. I didn’t catch that.

Paulina: Oh, no, I was– I said, “I’m so happy for you, dr. Johnson.”

Tripp: Oh, please, tripp.

Paulina: No, here in the hospital, you’re dr. Johnson. Here, oh, get my cane. Give it to somebody who can use it. Well, I’ll see you later. Oh.

Tripp: Well, you can kind of see where chanel came from.

[Chuckles]

Allie: I’m sorry. Ugh, I shouldn’t have just blurted that out. I just–I just thought you should know. That’s all.

Chanel: No, I– I’m glad you told me. It’s not your fault. I needed to know.

Allie: Just please don’t cry, okay? He’s so not worth it.

Chanel: Oh, you’ve been telling me that from the beginning, and I wouldn’t listen.

Allie: I didn’t want to be right, but I mean, the brother that I grew up with, my ally, my friend, he’s gone. I mean, I don’t know what happened, but he’s gone.

Chanel: Yeah, apparently.

Allie: Hey, want to talk about it?

Chanel: I will, but just not right now. Okay?

Allie: I got it. Okay, well, call me if you need anything, okay?

[Soft dramatic music]

Chanel: [Sighs]

[Sobs]

[Sighs]

Jake: So we’re thinking we pool our shares, and we work on getting a heavy-hitter on the board at dimera.

Johnny: Who do you have in mind?

Jake: I don’t know. Somebody like victor kiriakis.

Johnny: The competition?

Johnny: Why not? Think about it. We get him thinking we’re interested in an alliance, right? We bring him onboard, sic him on chad and ej, and when we get rid of them, we get rid of him.

Johnny: You know, I like the way you think, but I’m not sure that’s the move.

Jake: I don’t know. It could pay off big-time.

Johnny: And it could blow up in our faces. I need some time to think about this. Something or someone would really have to persuade me into thinking this is a good idea.

[Jazz music]

Jake: So… what are you not telling me, gabs? Like pulsing, electric shocks,

Rafe: You thi

Rafe: You think ava planned this?

Nicole: Maybe. Maybe she’s testing us. Or maybe she’s putting her money where her mouth is. She says she trusts us, and leaving us here just proves it.

Rafe: Or maybe she’s playing some sort of sick game. The more I think about that, the more it makes sense. Maybe nothing come up. Maybe she was just planning on walking in here in the hopes of seeing–

Nicole: Seeing what?

Rafe: This.

[Line trilling]

[Phone ringing]

Gwen: You’re there already?

Ava as sarah: Yeah, i just got here.

Gwen: Yes, and?

Ava as sarah: And I made sure that a couple people got a good look at me on the way. I’ll make sure that the security camera has a clear shot of me, and then I’ll get out of camera range and take off this damn mask and get home.

Gwen: [Sighs] I really can’t thank you enough.

Ava as sarah: Just remember that. You owe me.

Jake: He kissed you? That fricking snake.

Gabi: Relax. I slapped him across the face.

Jake: Doesn’t seem to have put him off much.

Gabi: Well, I didn’t want it to. The more I push him away, put him down, he tells himself I’m protesting too much. That inflated ego of his is putty in my hands.

Jake: I don’t like it.

Gabi: Well, you’re gonna love it once he puts victor on the board, and I know he will.

Jake: He doesn’t give you the creeps? Guy creeps the hell out of me.

Gabi: Okay, yes, fine, but women know how to compartmentalize their feelings, and now that he’s gone, I get to concentrate on you.

[Jazz music]

Allie: Hi.

Tripp: Hey, what are you doing here?

Allie: Well, I brought you chowder from the pub, and a slice of chanel’s pecan pie.

Tripp: Oh, my favorites. Thank you so much.

Allie: I didn’t want you to have to eat hospital food, and also mainly I missed you.

Tripp: I missed you too.

[Tender music]

Paulina: Hmm. No more cane!

[Laughs] And good riddance.

Chanel: Mama, that’s great. That’s really great.

[Soft dramatic music]

Paulina: Out with it, baby. What’s wrong?

Chanel: I’ve– I’ve been thinking about what you said before. You were right.

Paulina: Of course I am. About what?

Chanel: Johnny. Why should he be living the high life while i have to wake up at the crack of dawn to make a living? And mostly because of what he did to me, you said I should go after a divorce settlement, and that is exactly what I’m going to do. I’m going to take that little worm for everything that he’s worth.

Paulina: It’s always good to have goals in life.

Johnny: [Deep voice] Oh, gabi. You think you’re so smart, but you have no idea who you’re actually up against.

[Indistinct eerie whisper]

Chad: What are you doing here?

Johnny: [Voice normalizes] Not thrilled to see me?

Chad: Nah, it’s just that abi–abigail was just here. Where is she?

Johnny: She was just leaving as I got here. Drove off like a bat out of hell.

[Eerie dramatic music]

Abigail: I knew it. Oh, oh. I knew it wasn’t– I knew it was… you?

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Abigail: Sarah? Thank god I caught you. We need to talk.

Ava as sarah: Abigail, I’m– I’m so sorry, but if I don’t leave right now I’m gonna miss my flight–

Abigail: Well, just answer one question.

Ava as sarah: What is it?

Abigail: You’re not really sarah, are you?

Ava as sarah: I beg your pardon?

Abigail: You heard me. You’re not my cousin, sarah horton. You’re kristen dimera.

[Suspenseful music]

[Phone ringing]

Kristen: Huh. Sorry, sweetness. Steve can’t come to the phone right now.

Kayla: Steve, call me back as soon as you get this. No, no, no. No, better yet, why don’t you get here. I’m in the reverend mother’s office but she could come back at any minute. I think if we want to find anything on kristen, it’s gonna take two of us.

Chloe: Hey, dad. It’s me again. Why haven’t you called me back? Mom is here and she’s a wreck. She’s convinced that you’re having an affair and I can’t talk her out of it, so we need to fix this now. Please call me.

[Sighs]

Craig: Why call when I can come in person?

Chloe: Daddy.

Craig: Better late than never, huh? Mm. Mm.

Gabi: Johnny, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about our conversation yesterday.

Johnny: When you said we had interests in common?

Gabi: Mm-hmm. Yeah. I wanted to talk to you about what our partnership might look like.

Johnny: You know, I’ve been giving that a lot of thought. And I was thinking that it might look something like this.

Gabi: Uh!

[Panting] Uh!

Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the “days of our lives.”

[Soft orchestration]

Chanel: Hey, mama. How’s your ankle?

Paulina: Never mind about that. We need to talk about the other night.

Johnny: You really pack a wallop. Made me bite my cheek. You drew blood.

Gabi: Is this some kind of an act?

Johnny: Oh, come on. I was reading your signals loud and clear.

Gabi: What signals? I am in a loving, committed relationship to your uncle, jake. Do you remember him?

Johnny: To be honest with you, the family tries very hard not to think about him.

Gabi: Ah, well, the family’s making a huge mistake.

Johnny: Teasing. Hey. C’mon, what’s the big deal? You got a boyfriend, jake. A hot second ago, I had a wife. Things change.

Gabi: You’re old enough to drink?

Johnny: Yeah. Can I make you one?

Gabi: No. No, thank you. You may have sabotaged your marriage, but I am in a loving, committed relationship to jake. You got it?

Johnny: Got it. You’re with the grease monkey. Doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun on the side.

Craig: I got your message, and I booked the first flight out.

Chloe: Oh, I miss you.

Craig: I miss you too, sweetheart.

Chloe: But you have to set mom straight.

Craig: [Laughs] She driving you crazy?

Chloe: Well, yeah, naturally. But I understand. She–she thinks you have some other woman on the side. And I’m trying to tell her she’s being ridiculous, but she won’t listen to me.

Craig: Thank you for your concern. And I’m sorry she dragged you into this.

Chloe: It’s okay, it’s not your fault. I know you’d never cheat on her.

Craig: [Sighs] Well. You know how your mother gets when she gets these things in her head, right?

Chloe: Yeah.

Nancy: It’s all in my head. Is that what you want chloe to believe?

Ava as sarah: You think that I’m kristen? Are you having another one of your episodes?

Abigail: My mental health has never been better, thank you.

Ava as sarah: Okay. I don’t know what’s going on here, but if you’re not sick, then this must be some sort of a mind game that I really don’t have time for, so.

Abigail: It all makes sense.

Ava as sarah: What makes sense?

Abigail: You kidnapped sarah horton, you stuffed her in a suitcase, and then you put on your sarah mask to make all of salem believe she left town of her own free will.

Ava as sarah: Are you just gonna say that with a straight face? Do you even hear how delusional that sounds?

Abigail: You tried to do the same thing to kate. She’s telling everyone who will listen to her that you abducted her, and then you put on a kate mask and you went and you broke up with jake.

Ava as sarah: I would start you on anti-psychotics, but I didn’t bring my prescription pad. So I’ve put up with you for as long as I’m going to.

[Phone ringing] Do you want to answer that? It might be a hot tip that amelia earhart running around in a jimmy hoffa mask.

Abigail: Do not move.

[Sighs] Abigail dimera. Hello? Who’s calling?

Kristen: It’s your sister-in-law, kristen dimera.

[Dramatic music]

It’s my 5:52 woke-up-like-this migraine medicine.

Brady: Xander, what are you doing here?

Xander: Drinking. Care to join me?

Brady: No, I–I don’t drink. As a matter of fact, I’m here to pick maggie up for an aa meeting.

Xander: Ah. Oh, yeah. Well, I think she’s upstairs. I figured she wouldn’t mind if I helped myself to some of uncle victor’s lovely scotch.

Brady: Okay. Well, I hope someone is giving you a ride home.

Xander: No. I’ll take a taxi. Brady, before you go fetch maggie, can I ask you a question?

Brady: Go for it.

Xander: How do you drown your sorrows?

Brady: What?

Xander: I mean, since you don’t drink.

Brady: Oh. Well, xander to be honest with you, I really don’t drown my sorrows at all anymore. I kind of allow myself to just experience them. I talk to people I trust about them. I vow to make better choices in the future to avoid having more sorrow, and eventually things seem to get better.

Xander: Yeah, well, that’s– that’s the problem right there, brady. I mean, I’m just not as patient as you. For me, eventually just isn’t soon enough for me. God, it sounds like an eternity.

Brady: I’m gonna see if I can find maggie.

Xander: Please tell her that I– you know, I admire her for not drowning her sorrows either, for facing them head on. You know, dealing with adversity with courage and fortitude and not even a drop of barley brew.

Brady: I’ll pass that along to her.

Xander: Bloody, bloody hell!

Brady: What is wrong?

Xander: [Scoffs] Sorry, brad. I hadn’t meant for you to hear that. Look, just– why don’t you just treat me like you normally treat me? Just ignore me or–

[Sighs] Just treat me like somebody you want disappear or just you wish would leave you alone. Trust me, I’ve been getting a big dose of that recently.

Brady: Xander, what– what are you talking about?

Xander: Sarah. The woman I thought was the answer to my prayers, the love of my life, she– she dumped me again.

Abigail: Who is this really?

Kristen: God. It’s me, of course. I understand you’re editing “the spectator” now. Well, I have a story for you.

Abigail: Go on.

Kristen: [Scoffs] Well, so much for gratitude. I could be giving the scoop to “the intruder,” you know.

Abigail: [Huffs] What sort of scoop are we talking about? Keep in mind you are speaking on the record.

Kristen: Fine by me. Here’s the gist. I had nothing to do with the disappearance of philip kiriakis. And I would never, ever frame brady black. He’s the father of my only child. I’m an innocent woman, and you can quote me on that.

Ava as sarah: I could hear who you were talking to. It was kristen, right? The person you keep insisting I am? It seems like somebody needs to brush up on their girl reporter skills. So as I said, I do have a plane to catch.

Abigail: I am not done with you yet.

Chanel: I was scared to death for you, mama, when I heard that that chandelier almost fell right on top of you. You could’ve died.

Paulina: But I didn’T. I just turned my ankle. That’s it. Lani took real good care of me. Baby, it’s you I’m worried about. I haven’t talked to you since the reception.

Chanel: Quite a party, huh? My new husband made a fool of me in front of both of our families.

Paulina: How are you holding up?

Chanel: How do you think?

Paulina: Mm, don’t you worry about that eurotrash little poser. We’re gonna make him pay, you best believe that.

Chanel: What do you have in mind?

Paulina: You just leave everything to me.

Chanel: Okay. Now I’m worried.

Paulina: You didn’t sign a prenup with him, did you?

Chanel: No, it didn’t even come up. Why?

Paulina: I am talking to one of the top divorce lawyers in the country. I hope johnny dimera is ready to be starched and pressed, because we are taking him to the cleaners.

Johnny: Well, I won’t tell if you won’t tell.

Gabi: Down, boy.

Johnny: Come on, gabi. You’re a hot, beautiful, smart woman. Are you really ready to limit your sex life to jake dimera for the rest of your life?

Gabi: I never said I wasn’t attracted to you, johnny.

Johnny: That’s right. You didn’T.

Gabi: But jake and i are committed to each other.

Johnny: Ever heard of an open relationship?

Gabi: [Laughs] That– that isn’t for us. Jake is very traditional.

Johnny: Hm. Well, I can think of a couple traditions I wouldn’t mind starting with you.

Allie: You two? Seriously?

To be a thriver with

metastatic breast cancer

Johnny: Hey, sis. Nobody told me you were stopping by.

Allie: No kidding.

Gabi: Johnny and i were just–

Johnny: Discussing the company’s quarterly report.

Allie: Mm. Must’ve been kind of hard to talk with his tongue down your throat. And since when do you give a rat’s ass about the family’s company?

Johnny: Well, since my dad signed his shares in it over to me.

Allie: Are you making that up?

Johnny: No.

Allie: So much for bragging about never turning corporate.

Johnny: Well, I realized it was time for me to step up, take my rightful place at dimera enterprises.

Allie: Hm. And, um– and you were just coming over to offer your congratulations?

Gabi: I’m gonna head out.

Allie: Good idea.

Johnny: We’ll continue this conversation some other time.

Gabi: Yeah. Allie, I’d really appreciate it if you didn’t go trotting to jake and tell him what you saw.

Allie: Trust me, you and jake are way down my list of priorities.

Johnny: What’s your problem?

Allie: My problem is that my brother is even more of a disgusting jerk than I thought.

Chanel: I don’t want you to go after johnny’s money.

Paulina: Why not?

Chanel: Because I’m a strong, independent woman, just like my mama.

Paulina: But–

Chanel: But nothing! Forget about johnny and his twisted family’s fortune.

Paulina: Okay. For now.

Chanel: I should’ve listened to horton when she tried to warn me about her brother. And I wouldn’t be in this mess now.

Paulina: Hm. I’m glad that you two– you two girls are such good friends. I saw the way allie ran after you when you left the reception.

Chanel: Yeah. Horton’s the best.

Paulina: I take it she was able to make you feel better?

Chanel: I– I wouldn’t have been able to get through that night without her.

Paulina: I already knew that.

Chanel: You did?

Paulina: I saw the two of you in bed.

Craig: What do I have to say to convince you there is no other woman?

Nancy: Well, you have to say, “I’m not having an affair, nancy,” and mean it. But you can’t, can you?

Craig: For the love of god.

Chloe: Guys, I’m getting a real dysfunctional family vibe–

Craig: You know, I can’t believe you brought her into this.

Nancy: She’s a grown woman. She has every right to know that her father is a lying, cheating womanizer.

Craig: Okay, that’s it. I give up!

Ava as sarah: How can I be kristen when you just hung up the phone with her?

Abigail: It was a phone call, not a video chat. If you can put on a mask and pretend to be sarah, I’m sure you can get a voice double for a phone call.

Ava as sarah: That’s really reaching, don’t you think?

Abigail: Who else would have a motive to come to town dressed as sarah just in order to break up with xander all over again?

Kayla: This should work. Why would a mother superior need to lock her drawer?

Kristen: Her cigarettes, maybe. Well, there’s no need for you to commit a mortal sin, sister. ‘Cause your search is over.

Kristen: Well, look at you. Huh? Oh, you seem to have found a true vocation. And here I thought you and steve were a love affair for the ages. Mm? I mean, are you really gonna give all that one-eyed passion to become a bride of christ?

Kayla: You can just save all the little peppy patter. You and I both know I’m no nun. I’m helping steve look for you.

Kristen: Oh. Why is that? Is it bring your wife to work day?

Kayla: Because I wasn’t gonna let him come and find you alone. And he thought that you would be hiding out here.

Kristen: [Chuckles] Why?

Kayla: Because it’s what you did before.

Kristen: Oh, gosh. I mean, I hate being predictable. But I am afraid that steve will not be able to bring me in this time.

Kayla: Where is he?

Kristen: You know the old saying–

[Laughs] “Curiosity killed the patch?”

Xander: She called me a creep, a neanderthal, and made it very clear to me, again, that she is absolutely done with me, wants nothing to do with me. And the only feeling that she has for me is disgust.

Brady: That sounds pretty brutal.

Xander: You know, I think I had it coming. I’ve hardly led an exemplary life, as well you know, brady. I’m a– I’m just a terrible person. I think maybe sarah finally realized that.

Brady: Xander, I know how much you loved her. And I know how devoted sarah was to you. Maggie would go on and on about it. She was really rooting for the two of you.

Xander: So you don’t think I got what I deserve?

Brady: Actually, in this case, I don’T. ‘Cause I think your feelings for her were genuine. And I know how much you wanted to marry her.

Xander: Yeah, but then instead of tying the knot with me, she jumps into bed with her ex, brady, on my wedding day, I mean– and then she turned around and dumped him shortly thereafter. Not that that softens the blow at all.

Brady: I’m sorry. I know better than anyone what it’s like to have a relationship just–

[Scoffs] Blow up in a spectacular fashion.

Xander: You and kristen?

Brady: Yeah. And now, I got steve johnson trying to hunt her down.

Chanel: Look I– I was so messed up after what johnny did. I didn’t want to be alone. And horton was cool enough to hang out with me until I fell asleep.

Paulina: Chanel? Remember when you were a little, bitty girl? What did I always say when you were scared to tell me something you thought might get you into trouble?

Chanel: That I could always tell you the truth.

Paulina: That’s right. I know I haven’t always lived up to that. But it still stands. You can tell me the truth about anything.

Chanel: But I am telling you the truth. Look, all we did was cuddle. I know it might look–

Paulina: Chanel. Chanel. Stop. J–just stop. Now when I say to you that I saw you two together, I mean I saw you together.

Allie: First, you dump chanel, and then I catch you trying to come on to gabi. I mean, what do you suppose will would think about you trying to hook up with arianna’s mom?

Johnny: I don’t know why he’d care. He obviously wasn’t that into her. You on the other hand–

Allie: Johnny, shut your mouth.

Johnny: Were you jealous?

Allie: Shut up!

Johnny: Lighten up. It was a joke.

[Sighs] You want something?

Allie: No. And when did you start knocking back booze in the middle of the day?

Johnny: You could stand to take the edge off too. Believe me.

Allie: Johnny, this isn’t funny.

Johnny: Well, it’s a little funny. You marching in here with your righteous indignation. You’re a joke.

Allie: And you’re a jackass.

Johnny: Mm. Always was, always will be– at least in your eyes. Don’t you ever get tired of running around passing judgement on everyone that you meet?

Allie: Thank god chanel is through with you.

Johnny: You warned her I’d hurt her. And you were right. Come on, doesn’t that make your day?

Allie: No. Okay? That’s not what I wanted. I was actually hoping for chanel’s sake that you would be different this time.

Johnny: Sorry.

Allie: No, you’re not. I always knew you were a player, but I’m realizing now that you’re also a soulless creep.

Ava as sarah: For the last time, I came back because I found out that xander was making my mom worried sick about me.

Abigail: But how did you find out? Because nobody knew how to reach sarah.

Ava as sarah: I have my ways.

Abigail: Tell me about ’em.

Ava as sarah: Look, abigail, I know that you want this to be a really big story so you can drive traffic to your newspaper’s website, but the truth is, I broke up with somebody that I shouldn’t have been with in the first place. That’s it. End of story. What do I have to do to convince you?

Gwen: Don’t you think that if sarah just wanted to be found by xander or anyone, she would have just turned up by now?

Abigail: Assuming that she’s able to.

Gwen: Now who sounds paranoid? Why can’t you just let the woman be, abigail? And why can’t you just let me have a tiny bit of happiness at this time in my life?

Abigail: You couldn’t convince me as yourself, so you’re trying to convince me as sarah.

Ava as sarah: What are you babbling about?

Abigail: You’re not kristen.

Ava as sarah: See. Finally.

Abigail: How did you get your hands on the mask, gwen? This is the sound of nature breathing.

Ava as sarah: You’re not gonna let this insanity go, are you? First I’m kristen, now I’m gwen. Who am I gonna be next? Grandma alice coming to get her cut of profits from donut sales?

Abigail: You can deny it all you want, but I’m onto you now. And I got to hand it to you, pretty resourceful.

Ava as sarah: Okay, I’m done with this.

Abigail: Okay, you push past me, and I will make a scene right here in this square that my great-grandparents built. I will say poor sarah’s having a breakdown, she needs to go to the er. You really want to risk that?

Ava as sarah: You’re the one having the breakdown. Wouldn’t be the first time.

Abigail: Who was it that told me to stop looking for sarah, hm? Wasn’t her mother. Wasn’t xander. It was you. You, and I ignored you. And I kept looking anyway. And I’m onto you now, and you know it. And you are so desperate to keep xander that you will do anything. Right, gwen?

Nancy: [Chuckling] Don’t you know, craig, that every cheating husband has used business trips, working late at the office as cover-ups for an affair? And I want to thank you for turning what I thought was a good marriage into a cliché.

Craig: Do you see what I have to deal with?

Nancy: Don’t talk about me like I’m not even in the room!

Chloe: Mom! No one can even talk to you ’cause we can’t get a word in edgewise. And I don’t know if you care, but I– I believe dad.

Nancy: You–you do? Really?

Chloe: Yes, I–I really do. And I know him really well. Wouldn’t you agree?

Nancy: Better than anyone.

Craig: Which is why chloe knows I’m telling you the truth. Nancy wesley, do you not know how much you mean to me? That there is no other woman in the world for me? Mm.

Nancy: [Crying]

Chanel: It–it just happened, mama. Okay? And–and I’m not ashamed.

Paulina: And I don’t want you to be ashamed. But baby, you– you went to bed with a brother and a sister– twins, no less. That’s a dicey situation.

Chanel: Well, you messed around with abe after you knew he’d already been with aunt tamara.

Paulina: Now hold on, baby girl, now, don’t you go getting yourself into grown folks’ business. For the record, there was thirty-odd years between my relationship with abraham and your aunt tamara. You, you hopped into bed with allie on that same night that your husband told you your marriage was over. How long has this been going on?

Chanel: It hasn’t been. Horton’s in love with tripp.

Paulina: Now, you and I both know that is not exactly the case. You and allie, you had a strong connection way before you ever laid eyes on johnny.

Chanel: Maybe. All right, but it never went beyond a couple of kisses.

Paulina: Until it did. Listen, dumpling, I know you believe that it wasn’t planned, but I think you need to take a step back, search your heart. Come to terms with how you feel about johnny and allie. The situation is already complicated enough. Don’t let it get completely out of hand.

Allie: Do you know how much you hurt chanel? She really loved you. She thought you were the one.

Johnny: The one?

[Laughs] Me? Don’t be ridiculous.

Allie: Excuse me?

Johnny: Oh, we both know who has the key to chanel’s heart. And it ain’t me.

Allie: What are you talking about?

Johnny: Well, I’m talking about you, alice caroline horton, my beloved sister. The one who always did like to ride the fence. She sits in judgement on her pious perch as a horton. All while quietly enjoying the fact that her mother married into dimera money. She runs around with her noble do-gooder, tripp johnson, the brother of her dead, rapist baby daddy, because he’s safe.

Allie: Do you enjoy doing this to me?

Johnny: And while tripp is off healing the sick, allie’s playing kissing games with her bff, chanel. And then when chanel up and marries allie’s brother, does that stop allie from lusting after chanel? No, it does not.

Allie: You’re a pig.

Johnny: And you’re a hypocrite. I saw you fly out of here after chanel took off. You couldn’t wait to console her. I bet you consoled her right out of her clothes and into bed, didn’t you?

Ava as sarah: You know, if the journalism thing doesn’t work out, you could try your hand writing those cheap thrillers– the ones that the plot doesn’t make any sense, ’cause that’s what this is.

Abigail: Insult me all you want, gwen. I’m still gonna prove that it’s you underneath that sarah mask.

Gwen: I don’t understand. How–how are you here?

Ava as sarah: Oh, well, I called the front desk and asked for xander cook’s room number. They were really quite accommodating.

Gwen: I–I didn’t– I didn’t mean that. I meant–

Ava as sarah: Oh, you meant how did I get off the desert island that kristen dimera stashed me on when I threatened to tell the cops that she was masquerading as susan banks? Which you already knew. Because that’s what kristen was using to blackmail you into helping her escape.

Gwen: Sarah, I–I–

Ava as sarah: I didn’T.

Gwen: What?

Ava as sarah: Sarah horton is still very much on that island.

Gwen: I–I don’t understand. That doesn’t make sense.

Ava as sarah: Oh, right. Sorry, I forgot.

Gwen: What on earth are you doing?

Ava as sarah: I’m really done with this. Goodbye, abigail. Let go of me!

Abigail: Sure. Right after I take a good look at that mask up close.

Chanel: I love horton as a friend. And I’m physically attracted to her. But I was in love with johnny. Really in love. And I thought he loved me too.

Paulina: Aww. I’m so sorry that monster, he treated you the way he did.

Chanel: I don’t even know that guy who stood up and told our families that we were through. My johnny, he held my hand and he showed me around rome. And one night, we were in this restaurant and some dude was talking in italian about johnny being white and me being black, and not in a good way. You should have seen johnny, mama. He shut that dude up. He didn’t want me to feel bad for one minute. I just–I just don’t even understand what happened.

Paulina: Baby, you’re gonna get through this. You’re gonna get through it. You are. You are. And you’re gonna find the perfect person to spend the rest of your life with.

Chanel: I wish I had your faith.

Paulina: Well, baby, until you do, I have got enough for the both of us.

Chanel: [Crying]

Paulina: Oh, baby. Well, you know, I’m– I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Baby, I hate to leave you. I hate to leave you like this, but I’ve got to– I’ve got to go. I’ve got a follow-up appointment at the hospital.

Chanel: You go. You–you make sure that that ankle is healing right. Even if my broken heart never does.

Allie: I actually hate you.

Johnny: Looks like I struck a nerve.

Allie: No, hate isn’t the right word. I hate the things you do, but really I feel sorry for you. You’re just as delusional as most of the twisted members of your dad’s side of the family.

Johnny: And the horton’s are so together–

Allie: I’m going to try and get this straight to you one last time. I am in love with tripp. And chanel is my best friend.

[Huffs] I thought I could come over here and try and talk to the johnny that I loved when we were kids. Maybe I could ask him why he did what he did to a wife who loved him. I was dumb enough to think that I could come over and talk some sense into you, get you to go over and apologize to her.

Johnny: Well, I’m never going to apologize for what I am. That’s not the dimera way.

Allie: Great, giovanni. Be a good little dimera. Make your crazy father and your precious nonno so proud. But while you do that, keep something in mind. You used to have a twin sister. You don’t anymore. I have one brother, and his name is will. You’re on your own.

Demon johnny: Oh, allie.

[Laughs] You don’t know the half of it.

Xander: You hired steve to track down kristen?

Brady: And bring her to justice, yeah.

Xander: Well, I hope to hell he finds her. I’m sure you know I’ve had my own share of miserable headaches thanks to kristen dimera. You know, honestly, for a while there I suspected that she might have had a hand in sarah’s disappearance.

Brady: I can understand why you’d think that.

Xander: You know, I actually hoped that she was involved for a while. It would have been a lot better for my ego. But no, it turned out that sarah left me of her own free will.

Brady: So what, she– she’s just leaving again?

Xander: Yeah. Bound and determined to get far away from salem and the likes of me. And since just the sight of me repulses her, there’s nothing I can do to stop her, nothing anybody can do.

Kayla: Steve is not dead. You’re just–you’re just trying to throw me off balance.

Kristen: Oh, please.

[Laughing] I have been one step ahead of you this entire time. I was watching when kindly father nichols brought poor, misplaced sister mary elizabeth in here. And see, while you were in here making a pathetic attempt to toss mother superior’s office, I was at your hotel room taking care of steve.

Kayla: Taking care of him? What does that mean?

Kristen: Well, I did what had to be done. Hm. Who do you think disconnected that phone call to him an hour or so ago?

Kayla: You killed him? My asthma felt anything but normal.

[Doorbell rings]

Chanel: Oh, mama must’ve forgotten her keys. Coming. Horton.

Allie: Hey, dupree. We need to talk.

Gabi: Hey, call me back when you get this. I mean it, jake. I have to tell you about this meeting I had with johnny. Apparently he’s more of an operator than I thought.

Johnny: Should my ears be burning?

Craig: Mm. You know what? Why don’t I take the both of you out for dinner and we can celebrate. Hm?

Nancy: Well, it sounds great.

Chloe: Yeah, it does. You know what? There’s a new place in town called the bistro, and it’s pretty good.

Craig: Let’s eat there.

Nancy: It’s a deal.

Craig: Okay.

Nancy: But I want to go back to hotel room and freshen up first.

Craig: Okay, sure. Chloe and I will meet you there in, what, about an hour or so?

Nancy: [Giggles] Again, it’s a deal. And craig, I hate repeating myself, but I’m so happy.

Craig: Bears repeating.

Nancy: Okay, one hour.

Chloe: Love you. See you soon.

Nancy: I love you too.

Craig: Bye, honey.

Chloe: [Sighs] I knew it. I–I knew that you wouldn’t cheat on mom, but she wouldn’t hear it from me. She had to hear it from you.

Craig: Yeah. Mm.

[Sighs]

Kayla: You killed him?

Kristen: What are you doing?

Kayla: You killed him? You bitch!

Kristen: Let go of me, you lunatic.

[Gun fires]

[Suspenseful music]

Ava as sarah: Let go of me.

Abigail: Not until I see who’s under that mask.

Ava as sarah: What?

Abigail: It’s all over, gwen. I have figured you out.

Gwen: What in god’s name are you doing, abigail?

[Dramatic music]

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