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Days of Our Lives Transcript

Transcript provided by Suzanne

[“Wedding march”]

Paulina: [Giggles] Well, smile, baby. Mm-hmm.

[Sighs contentedly] Aww.

Marlena: Welcome, everyone. We are gathered here today, in the presence of god, as well as family and friends, to join together this man, abraham carver, and this woman, paulina price, in holy matrimony. Marriage is an honorable estate, not to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly, but reverently, soberly, and with god’s blessing. If anyone knows of just cause why these two may not be joined in holy matrimony, let them speak now or forever hold their peace.

[Sinister music]

Paulina: Marlena? Marlena, what are you waiting for? Let’s get the show on the road.

Marlena: [Chuckles] Of course.

Chanel: Wait. I have something to say.

Susan: Help! The devil locked us in here! Come on. He’s out there running amok in salem. Come on, help!

John: Susan.

Susan: Ooh! John black, you’re awake. Ooh.

John: Susan.

Susan: Yeah? Now, I know you’re awake, john. What is it?

John: I need–I need you to do something for me.

Susan: Oh, okay. Okay. Anything. Anything. What can I do for you?

John: Shut! The hell! Up!

Shawn: Oh. Hey there, counselor.

Belle: Detective. I just came from seeing my new client and thought I’d stop by and say hi.

Shawn: Well, I certainly appreciate the visit. You taking the case?

Belle: Mm, that depends.

Shawn: On what?

Belle: On whether or not I’m willing to sue my mother.

[Eerie music]

Paulina: Baby, what’s going on? Is there something you need to say to me before I get married?

Chanel: I don’t have anything to say to you, but I do have something to say to abe and lani.

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

[Soft orchestration]

Susan: Dear lord. Has satan possessed your body too, now, john black?

John: No, I’m not possessed. I’m just annoyed.

Susan: All right, but your tone–

John: At the risk of sounding rude, I have been locked in here forever, and the sound of you pounding and screaming like that is making my head explode! I’m surprised you haven’t woken the dead by now.

Susan: Oh. Oh. The dead. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, we’re in here.

[Gasps] Oh. Oh.

John: What are you doing?

Susan: I can feel them. How about you? Yeah, the poor, unfortunate souls. I mean, they have been laid to rest in here.

John: Well, they’re not gonna be any help to us now. And if someone doesn’t come to save us soon, I’m afraid we’re gonna join their ranks.

Paulina: Um, honey, if this is about you not being maid of honor, well, I–I thought we talked this all out together. And I told you I only asked lani because–

Chanel: I know damn well why you asked lani.

Paulina: You know what, honey? You know what?

Chanel: You asked her because she’s not really your niece. She’s your daughter!

[Dramatic music]

It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Lani: Chanel, what are you talking about?

Chanel: I’m sorry, lani, but it’s true.

Lani: No, look. I–I don’t understand what you’re talking about. Your aunt tamara is my mother.

Paulina: Chanel, sit down. This is my wedding.

Chanel: Listen to me, lani. They’ve been lying to us our whole lives.

Lani: Why are you doing this?

Chanel: Because I’m trying to tell you we’re not cousins. We’re sisters.

Lani: No. No, no. This is not right.

Paulina: Of course. Of course it’s not. She’s not making any sense. Chanel, that is quite enough.

Lani: Okay. Wait, wait. Look, let her talk.

Chanel: I know I sound crazy. I just found out myself, but when you were born, mama gave you away to her sister to raise as her own.

Paulina: Oh, I–I don’t know where she’s getting all this nonsense, but this is grade-a hooey! Now, let’s get back to the wedding. Abraham.

Abe: Chanel, where did you hear this? Who told you this?

Susan: Oh, john black! You listen to me. You better not be giving up. Mm-mm-mm! You’re gonna let satan have dr. Marlena’s body? No. No. To that, I say, no siree, bob. Mm-mm-mm! Because I know the horror of being possessed by the devil himself. And god only knows what I did, what sins I committed, I mean, while the prince of darkness had possession of my body.

John: So you don’t remember?

Susan: Well, okay. I do remember. I remember waking up from a very vivid dream about being tormented by hairballs. And then–oh! And then, I– I confronted the devil. And then, nothing.

John: Yeah. Well, then consider yourself lucky.

Susan: Why? What–what did I do under the spell of satan, huh? John black, you tell me right now, ’cause if I’m gonna die in this crypt, I need to know what mortal transgressions I committed so that I can confess my sins to god and ask for his forgiveness.

John: All right! If you have such an urgent need to know, you tried to seduce me.

Susan: Oh! Golly! Oh.

Abe: Chanel, who told you this? Who told you that paulina is lani’s mother?

[Tense music]

Marlena: I’m sorry. You can’t say anything about it.

Chanel: Well, what if I, uh, I don’t reveal my source? Like, if I don’t tell anyone who told me?

Marlena: No, no, no, no. Paulina would know. And then, she would feel betrayed, and then, I could lose my license.

Chanel: It doesn’t matter where I heard it or who told me. It’s the god’s honest truth. I know it is. Tell them, mother. Tell everyone how you’ve been lying for all these years.

Lani: Aunt paulina?

Paulina: Well, I hate to say this, but my daughter– my only daughter, chanel– is lying.

Trelegy for copd.

Abe: Why would chanel make up something like that?

Paulina: Because she’s trying to hurt me, or because of the maid-of-honor snub, or because I cut her off when she first came to town.

Lani: Chanel, tell me the truth.

Chanel: I am, lani. I’ll put my hand on a bible in this church and swear to god I’m not lying to you.

Paulina: Don’t do this.

Chanel: Mother.

Paulina: Trust me when I tell you, let this go. Whoever told you was mistaken. You’re wrong about this.

Olivia: No, she isn’T.

Paulina: Mama?

Olivia: I cannot let my daughter bear false witness against both of her daughters in the house of god.

Lani: What are you saying?

Olivia: I’m saying chanel is right. Tamara is not your mother. Paulina is.

Susan: No! No, no, no.

John: Susan. Susan. Susan, it’s all right. It’s all right.

Susan: No, no, no!

John: You know what?

Susan: Dr. Marlena is my friend, and she is my hero, and I would never willingly betray her.

John: And–and you didn’T. You didn’t, because it wasn’t you. He transformed you.

Susan: What? Into the cat again?

John: Suze. Susan.

Susan: What?

John: He transformed you into someone else.

Susan: [Whimpers] Who? Who? Who? What was the form that I tempted you in, hmm?

[Quirky music]

John: Kristen dimera.

Susan: [Stammers] Ooh! That she-devil. Oh, my god. I was doubly possessed. Oh, I really am in hell. Ooh!

Lani: I don’t understand. How can my mother not be my mother?

Olivia: Oh, my sweet lani. We made a decision, as a family, all those years ago.

Lani: To give paulina’s baby to her sister to raise as her own?

Olivia: We thought we were doing the right thing.

Lani: But if tamara is not really my mother, that means that–

Abe: That I’m–I’m not your father.

Paulina: Abe.

Abe: Is it true?

Paulina: Abe–

Abe: Don’t try to deny it. I can see it written all over your face.

Paulina: Abe. Now, please, I can explain everything. And I will, later. I promise, but let marlena just finish the ceremony. Then we can deal with this as husband and wife or as a family.

Abe: Do you think there’s going to be a wedding?

Paulina: Oh, I’m not ready to give up.

Abe: There’s not going to be a wedding. Not today. And not ever.

Paulina: Well–abe, no. Where are you going? Abe, please. Please. Please don’t go, abe! I love you!

[Sobbing]

[Tense music]

Lani: [Sobbing]

Limu emu… & doug

Belle: So my mom convinced julie to sign this document, and it waives her authority to make any medical decisions as doug’s spouse and gives it all solely to my mom. So, I mean, I guess I could argue that julie just didn’t know what she was doing when she signed her rights away, right? She was distraught, she was desperate, and didn’t think it through.

Shawn: Well, and then you’d have to cast doubt on your mother’s professional judgment.

Belle: Right, which normally I wouldn’t dream of doing, but lately, her judgment just, I don’t know, seems off. And not just in this case.

Shawn: What else?

Belle: Well, for starters, she dressed as the devil on halloween. And then, the other day, the way she treated that poor cat.

Susan: Oh! I wish I stayed as a little kittycat. Instead, I made you cheat on your saint of a wife, and I am now eternally damned.

John: No, you’re not, because I didn’T.

Susan: You didn’t what?

John: Cheat on my wife. But the devil made it clear that he’s not giving up, and he still intends to use you so I will betray marlena. You see, he needs to corrupt her soul so he can completely possess her.

Susan: So he’s gonna come back here for me?

John: Yeah, he’s gonna come back here. I’m afraid so.

Susan: [Yelps] Help! Help! The devil is coming after me. Oh, my god!

Lani: [Sobbing] I don’t understand any of this. My whole life–

[Voice cracks] My whole life is a lie.

Eli: Why don’t we go talk in private?

Kate: You okay?

Roman: I just feel so bad for lani and abe, for this to happen on his wedding day.

Kate: Do you want to go find him?

Roman: No. I–I know abe. He’s gonna want to be alone to process this. He knows I’m there for him when he’s ready.

Chanel: I’m sorry I ruined the wedding.

Roman: We’re not the ones you need to apologize to.

Theo: You didn’t have to do this, chanel.

Chanel: Yeah, but my mom was lying to abe and lani.

Theo: It’s my dad’s wedding day, and you made it about you because you were feeling upset that you didn’t get picked as maid of honor.

Chanel: You think that’s what this is about?

Theo: I think you wanted to make yourself the center of attention, and you didn’t care who you hurt.

Chanel: That’s not true!

Theo: I always knew that you were a self-centered brat, but I never thought your damn selfishness would destroy our family.

Lani: [Sobbing]

Eli: We’re gonna deal with this, whatever it is.

Lani: I don’t even know how to process what just happened. Like, how can my dad not be my dad?

Eli: Did you ever, you know, have a test after you found him?

Lani: No. My mom, she– she told me he was my father, and I believed her.

Eli: Of course you did. And why would she lie?

Lani: I just–I felt so lucky to have a dad that I didn’t even question it. I couldn’t have asked for a better dad, and now–

Eli: Lani, listen. This does not have to change anything.

Lani: What do you mean? It changes everything.

Paulina: Abraham, you can’t outrun me, you know. It’s hard to be a runaway groom walking with a cane.

Abe: Do you think this is a joke?

Paulina: No, no. Of course not. I just want to talk.

Abe: You lied to me. You lied to my–

Paulina: Lani. She will always, always be your daughter.

Abe: No, she’s not. She never was. You have cost me the most important thing in my life.

Dad are you sure

you’re up to host?

Roman: [Sighs]

Kate: I’m telling you now, I just never trusted that woman, from day one. When paulina came to town, I just didn’t like her.

Roman: Yeah, but we still don’t know the whole story.

Kate: She lied to abe. He’s better off without her, roman.

Roman: Yeah, but you’re still mad because paulina beat you out of that lease in the square.

Kate: Yeah, yeah. You’re damn right I am, because she tricked abe. She tricked him into changing the zoning so she could tear the place down.

Roman: That was a dirty trick, yes.

Kate: Yeah, yeah. And the whole town started to turn against her because of that, but abe, with his big heart, forgives her, and then everyone forgives her. And–and now–

Roman: And now, she broke his heart all over again.

Kate: Yeah.

Paulina: Please let me explain.

Abe: Explain what? You’ve been lying to me ever since the day we met about what matters most to me.

Paulina: And I’m so sorry.

Abe: Uh, do you understand? Do you understand what it meant to me to find lani so late in life? To have a daughter like lani, it’s a big part of who I am as a man.

Paulina: And it was a big part of the reason that I fell for you.

Abe: Well, you made me fall for you too. Head over heels. But the difference was I was honest with you. About everything. But you kept silent and let me give you my heart, knowing how I felt about your daughter, knowing–

[Voice cracks] Knowing that I loved her as my own.

Paulina: I never meant to hurt you.

Abe: Then why did you? How could you walk down the aisle to marry me with lani as your matron of honor, knowing that this was just based on a myth?

Paulina: No. No, abe. No. What I feel for you, that’s real.

Abe: If you truly loved me, you could never keep this kind of secret from me. Your love is like everything else. It’s just one big, damn lie.

Paulina: No. No, it isn’T. It isn’t, abe. I swear to you, I wanted to tell both you and lani the truth, but I couldn’T. I just–I didn’t have a choice.

Abe: Of course you did. Of course you did. You chose to give her up, and I didn’t have that choice today. I lost my daughter. I lost my daughter because you kept the secret to cover your guilt.

Paulina: No. No, I didn’t keep it for me, abe. I kept it for you, and I kept it for lani.

Lani: [Exhales sharply] All those years growing up without a father. I would go to the park and watch all the little girls play with their daddies, and I didn’t have anyone to push me on the swing or anyone to play catch with me.

Eli: I know that must have been hard.

Lani: And I love my mom. I do, but she wasn’t always there either. Like, I taught myself how to–how to ride a bike, how to stand up to a bully, and how to build a sandcastle. And I missed out on all of those father-daughter moments that you are gonna have with jules. And then, I came here, to salem, and…I found a father and I found a brother. A family.

Eli: An amazing family.

Lani: And now, they’re not mine. They’re not my family. Abe is not my father, and theo is not my brother. It’s just me. It is just me. It is just–

[Sobbing]

Chanel: Abe had a right to know that his bride was keeping this secret from him.

Theo: And your mother was wrong to keep it, but why out it this way? Instead of setting fire to the wedding, why not try to protect the people you love?

Chanel: The truth would have still broken their hearts!

Theo: But it wouldn’t have turned their pain into a spectacle. What on earth possessed you to do this?

Susan: Someone! Please. Anyone! John… I need to resign myself to being used as the devil’s tool of debauchery. I mean, fact is, I may soon be tearing at your garments and ravishing you with utter abandon.

John: I don’t think that’s gonna happen.

Susan: Oh, my gosh. Is it getting hot in here?

John: Susan?

Susan: Hmm?

John: You have hairpins?

Susan: Mm-hmm. I mean–I mean, I haven’t exactly had time to put my hair up in curlers.

John: Susan!

Susan: What?

John: You have hairpins. You can pick these locks.

Susan: I can?

John: Yes, you can.

Susan: [Gasps] Oh, john black, I can!

John: Yes.

Susan: I can! I can do that. This is such a great idea. Oh, my goodness. It’s gonna be like you and i in a jason bourne movie.

John: Just like it, yeah.

Susan: Yeah, yeah.

John: Okay.

Susan: Okay. Okay.

John: So?

Susan: Yeah, so? What–

John: So?

Susan: So, hairpins. Right, right, right. Okay, okay. All right. All right, let me see. Let me see how to do this. All right, I can do this. I can do this. All right? All right.

John: Okay. Okay. Here’s what we’re gonna do. I’ve lost count of how many asthma attacks I’ve had.

John: All right. Put that pin into the lock and bend the end to about 20 degrees.

Susan: Okay, okay. I got it. I got it.

John: All right. That’s good. Now, that one’s called your lockpick. You’re gonna do that to rake the binding pins.

Susan: All right. Binding pins.

John: That’s right. Now, the other end, you gotta put inside the core right there.

Susan: Mm-hmm.

John: And you’re gonna use that to create rotational tension on the plug.

Susan: Okay. Rotational tension on the plug.

John: All right, now, with the lockpick…

Susan: Mm-hmm.

John: Stick it inside, all the way to the back. And pulling towards you and upwards, try to hit those binding pins, and hear ’em click. Pull it towards you. Rake ’em towards you.

Susan: Oh, I’m pulling. I’m pulling.

John: Rake it towards you.

Susan: I’m raking it towards me.

John: Keep going. Back and–

Susan: You know what? John black, this is just–

John: Rake it back.

Susan: No. It’s just not working; I can’t do it.

John: It’s all right. It’s all right. It’s all right. Sometimes new locks, they’re– they’re harder to pick.

Susan: Okay.

John: Okay, okay. We’re all right.

Susan: Okay.

John: The lock on the crypt door. It’s older. It’s ancient. Sometimes they’re easier. You can have better luck with that.

Susan: Okay.

John: All right, but susan, you gotta hurry. He could be back here soon.

Susan: I can try. I can try. Okay, what do I do? What do I do when I get out of here?

John: You’re gonna do what you do best. You’re gonna scream your brains out and tell all of salem the devil has marlena!

Susan: Okay. As god as my witness–

John: Keep this pick. Keep the pick and go.

Susan: I am not gonna let him have dr. Marlena evans. I am not.

John: Quick. Go.

Susan: Okay, I’m gonna do this; I’m gonna do this.

John: Rotational…

Susan: All right, so–

John: Tension on the core.

Susan: Okay.

John: That’s right. Put the pick lock in there.

Susan: All right. The rotational.

John: Pull it towards you.

Theo: Am I missing something? Did you decide to blow up this wedding on your own, or did you talk to somebody about it?

Marlena: That’s enough, theo.

Theo: Dr. Evans.

Marlena: Yeah. Chanel was just doing what she thought was right.

Theo: And you saw what it did to my dad. Did you think that was a good thing?

Marlena: Judgments won’t help anything right now. Chanel, I think you should take your grandmother home. It’s been a very trying day for everybody.

Olivia: You don’t know my life. You just can’t send me home like I’m some damn old woman, all right?

Marlena: Of course. No, I understand that. I was just thinking that it’s been difficult for everybody today.

Chanel: She’s right, big mama. There’s nothing for us to do here.

[Sinister music]

Demon marlena: I think my work here is done. I do love destroying a good wedding.

Theo: Did you say something, dr. Evans?

Marlena: No, no. Not a thing.

[Eerie music]

Kate: Oh! What’s this?

Roman: Chowder.

Kate: I know what it is. I served it here for over a year. I mean, what is all this?

Roman: Well, you said the word, we went on our first date. At least our first date this time around.

Kate: Yeah, some date.

Roman: Yeah. We didn’t get a chance to eat, so I am officially announcing, even though the wedding is over, this date is not.

Kate: [Chuckles]

Roman: Why are you looking at me like that?

Kate: Because I’m thinking. I’m thinking that you and abe are really cut from the same cloth. You’re both good guys. You both deserve to be happy.

Roman: Is this your way of warning me that I can’t trust you either?

Kate: You know who I am, roman.

Roman: Maybe better than you know yourself.

Kate: That doesn’t scare you?

Roman: No, not at all. Uh-uh. You are worth the risk.

Kate: I hope so. You think abe’s gonna be okay? And lani?

Roman: Well, I think they’re gonna need a whole lot of support from all of the people who love ’em if they’re gonna save that family.

Eli: Hey, you’re not alone. You got me, jules, carver. And, baby, I am positive that abe– you’re not gonna lose him, and you’re not gonna lose theo.

Lani: But it won’t be the same.

Eli: Why not? I mean, I didn’t have my biological father, okay, but the father that I did have, he loved me. And that’s what mattered most. And I know that abe loves you. He’s your father in every way that counts, and he will always be that.

Lani: How is it that you always know the right thing to say to make me feel better?

Eli: It’s my job.

Lani: And you’re right. I’m not cutting abe out of my heart. I couldn’t if I wanted to. But things will change, whether we like it or not, because of her.

Eli: Hey, we don’t know the whole truth yet.

Lani: No, we don’T. But I need to, and I need to know why.

Eli: So go find out. Go get the truth from paulina.

Paulina: Remember when I told you about that boyfriend I had all those years ago? How possessive he was? How he abused me? That man was lani’s father.

Abe: I see.

Paulina: When I got pregnant, I didn’t tell him because I knew, if he knew, he’d latch onto that child and onto me, and he’d just hold on forever. So it was my mama’s idea to keep me hidden from him, until I gave birth, and then just give my little baby girl to my sister.

Abe: And tamara agreed to that?

Paulina: Well, she was ready to be a mother. We made it work. But I had no idea that, all these years later, you would just assume you were lani’s father and that tammy, she would just go along with it.

Abe: So you’re saying that this was your mother’s fault or tamara’s?

Paulina: No, abe. I’m not saying that at all. Believe me. I blame myself plenty. Ultimately, it was my choice, and I’ve had to live with that every day, since that little girl was born.

Abe: Until today.

Paulina: Especially today. Oh, I’ve lived a very exciting life, abe. I am. I made a lot of money, I traveled the world, but not a day–not a day went by that I didn’t miss lani and imagine the kind of life that we could have had together. But when I came to salem and I saw you with her and I saw how happy you were, i knew I’d made the right choice. I protected my daughter from a very bad man, and she ended up getting the very good father that she deserved. So yes, I will apologize for all those lies and the way that I hurt you both, but I won’t– I won’t apologize for the way it turned out.

Abe: So now, you’re coming clean. Now, who’s that supposed to be for? Me? Lani? Or just you?

Paulina: Abraham–

Abe: You can tell yourself all the lies you want. You have to forgive me, because I am not going to listen anymore.

[Somber music]

Doesn’t your family deserve the best?

Kate: Thank you for the chowder. This date didn’t go exactly the way I thought it would, but I am going to give you a chance to make it up to me the next time.

Roman: So there will be a second date?

Kate: Oh, there’s gonna be many dates. Okay, I should go change.

Roman: All right. All right. I’ll be down here, in case you decide you want to come back down.

Kate: Okay.

Roman: Abraham. Can I get you something?

Abe: Just a friend.

Roman: You came to the right place.

Eli: Hey.

Theo: Is lani okay?

Eli: Not really.

Theo: I want to talk to her. I want to tell her that she is still my sister, no matter what.

Eli: I told her. There’s something she has to handle first.

Theo: Where’d she go?

Eli: She went to confront the truth.

Paulina: [Exhales sharply]

[Melancholic music]

Chanel: [Sighs] Do you hate me, big mama, for ruining the wedding?

Olivia: Did you do what you believed was right?

Chanel: I–I thought so.

Olivia: Well, then you’ve got nothing to feel sorry about, have you?

Chanel: Big mama, why are you looking at me like that?

Olivia: It was that headshrinker, wasn’t it? Told you to blow up the wedding too, didn’t she?

Chanel: What makes you say that?

Olivia: Oh, child, I’ve been around long enough to know when the devil’s got somebody’s tongue.

Belle: All right, julie. I’ll be in touch soon. You just hang in there. Okay.

Shawn: So what did you decide?

Belle: I decided to take your grandmother’s case.

Shawn: So you’re taking your mom to court?

Belle: And let’s just pray to god she sees the light.

[Sighs]

Susan: John black, it’s not working. I can’t do it.

John: Yes, you can. You’re doing great, susan. Just don’t give up.

Susan: Well, I mean, I know my fingers are nimble. It’s just this lock is just so rusty. It’s gonna take a miracle. You know, like when the angel of the lord came down to st. Peter’s cell, and he–

[Door unlocks]

John: Susan?

Susan: Did you hear that? I think I heard a click. Did you hear a click, john black?

John: Susan?

Susan: Huh?

John: Try the door.

Susan: Oh, okay. I’m gonna try the door.

John: Yeah.

Susan: Okay. Oh!

John: Okay. Susan?

Susan: Yeah? Yeah?

John: Get out of here! Go now. Hurry!

Susan: Okay, I’ll go. And I’m gonna rescue you, and I’m gonna stop satan in his tracks. Ooh!

Demon marlena: Going somewhere?

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Kate: This is so amazing. Couple of days ago, we didn’t know if abe was gonna live or die, and now, we’re going to his wedding.

Roman: You know what else is amazing? You get more beautiful every day.

Kate: I hardly that’s true.

Roman: No, that is true. But you never could take a compliment. Not from me anyway.

Kate: Okay, fine. I’ll take it. I’ll take it. What about you with that smile that’s always just a little bit naughty but kind? And every time I see it, makes my heart melt.

[Elevator chimes]

Steve: Hey, baby.

Kayla: Oh, no. You didn’t get my text.

Steve: No. Oh! My phone’s been on vibrate. I’m sorry.

Kayla: Well, I’m sorry you had to come down here to pick me up, but I can’t go. I was called in for emergency surgery. I can’t go to the wedding.

Steve: Oh, no. Well, that’s too bad. Well, maybe you can come by later.

Kayla: I doubt it, but I will certainly try. But in any case, will you please apologize to abe and paulina for me? Give ’em my love.

Steve: I’ll do that. Something else I’m gonna do when I’m at that wedding.

Kayla: What’s that?

Steve: I’m gonna have a talk with marlena.

Marlena: Chanel? Did you hear what I said?

Chanel: Yes, but…

Marlena: Oh, this must be so confusing for you.

Chanel: I am confused. So you’re telling me that lani is not my cousin? She’s my sister?

Marlena: Yes. Paulina and lani are mother and daughter.

Lani: Auntie p, I’m confused. You told chanel that asking me to be your matron of honor was a spontaneous decision, one that you made after my dad was shot when we found out that he was gonna be okay?

Paulina: That was a wonderful moment, wasn’t it?

Lani: Yes, but that’s not the moment that you decided to ask me to stand up for you. You came to talk to me about that the day before. Don’t you remember? You said you had something important to discuss with me, and then eli came in with the news about my dad.

Paulina: Eli. Right.

Lani: And then the next day at the hospital, I asked you what you wanted to talk to me about, and you said that–

Paulina: I lied.

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

[Soft orchestration]

Abe: So what do you mean? I mean, this is a new suit. Is my tie too wide?

Theo: Your clothes are fine, dad. The problem is that ugly-ass hospital cane of yours.

Abe: Oh, yeah, well, paulina doesn’t like it either. But what do you want me to do? I’m still unsteady. I mean, the last thing I want to do is wipe out walking down the aisle at my own wedding.

Theo: Well, it’s a good thing your best man’s got you covered. Be right back.

Lani: You lied?

Paulina: Yes.

Lani: Auntie p, I don’t understand. After everything that happened with price town, you promised me that you would never lie to me again. Now you’re saying you broke that promise?

Paulina: No. No, baby. I didn’t lie to you. I lied to chanel.

Chanel: How is this even possible?

Marlena: I know it’s a lot to process.

Chanel: So my mom had an affair with abe when he was dating my aunt?

Marlena: No. No. Your mother didn’t meet abe until she came to salem. Lani’s father is a guy named ray.

Chanel: So abe isn’t lani’s father?

Marlena: No, he’s not.

Chanel: But my mom I also lani’s mom?

Marlena: And that’s why she chose her to be her matron of honor.

Chanel: It all makes sense now. Of course lani is her daughter. Oh, my god. My mother has been lying to me my entire life. Doesn’t your family deserve the best?

Kate: Okay. Well, I guess I’ll see you at st. Luke’S.

Roman: See you there. Unless you want me to give you a lift.

Kate: No, no. I have my own car.

Roman: Well, I know that, but we’re going to the same place. Why not go together? What?

Kate: Okay, so as much as I appreciate the offer, I just don’t want you to get the wrong idea.

Roman: What? Like it’s a date?

Kate: Exactly.

Eli: Okay. There we go.

Olivia: Oh, eli, it was so sweet of you to pick me up at the airport and bring me to the chapel.

Eli: No. My pleasure. We’re just sorry that tamara couldn’t make it to the wedding. We were hoping she’d be able to reschedule her tour.

Olivia: Tour shmour. That’s not the reason tamara’s not coming to paulina’s wedding.

Eli: Hmm, then what is?

Paulina: Chanel put me on the spot when she asked me why I chose you over her. I blurted the first thing that came into my head.

Lani: That it was a spur-of-the-moment decision when truthfully you were planning to ask me all along.

Paulina: Well, I couldn’t tell chanel that. I knew it would hurt her feelings.

Lani: Chanel is tough.

Paulina: She acts tough. Your cousin actually is very fragile, and it’s not like I completely forgot about her. She has a very important role in the wedding. She’s walking me down the aisle.

Lani: Auntie, can I ask you something?

Paulina: Of course. Anything.

Lani: Why would you ask me to stand up for you and not your own daughter?

Chanel: This explains so much about how mama sees lani compared to me.

Marlena: And how is that?

Chanel: She’s together. I’m a mess. She’s a role model. And I’m a cautionary tale.

Marlena: Has it always been like that?

Chanel: Not at all. Giving me the best of everything always made mama happy and proud, until we got to salem. Now, all of a sudden, I’m this freeloading, gold-digging embarrassment who needs to grow up and get a job.

Marlena: And do you think that lani had anything to do with that?

Chanel: Of course.

Marlena: That hardly seems fair. Paulina spoils you your entire life and then suddenly turns around and belittles you.

Chanel: Oh, it was worse than that. She cut me off. Oh, but lani–she gets a fat check for the twins’ college tuition. And I was all, “why is mama being so generous to these babies that she barely even knows?”

Marlena: Because they’re her grandchildren.

Chanel: Like I said, it all makes sense now.

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Abe: [Chuckles] Wow. How many men are supposed to eat this breakfast?

[Both laughing] You’re expecting company?

Paulina: Stop joking and eat. You’re gonna need strength to walk down that aisle.

Abe: You wanna know something, I was on a clear liquid diet two days ago. I don’t know if my system can handle a pound of bacon.

Paulina: Your system is gonna have to handle a lot more than that if I have have anything to say about it.

Abe: Mm. Do tell.

Paulina: You have jokes, I have surprises.

Abe: Whoa. Well, I can’t wait to hear all of them.

[Both chuckling] And I’m glad that you gave up on that idea about postponing the wedding until I made a complete recovery.

Paulina: What was I thinking? I can’t wait to be mrs. Abraham carver.

Abe: Mm.

Eli: Hey, grandma.

Julie: Eli. Well, shouldn’t you be getting ready for the wedding of the year? Oh, excuse me, the wedding of the century?

Eli: Oh, well, you know I’m the king of low maintenance.

Julie: Mm. Only because you are the king of naturally good looking.

Eli: Well, then I guess I get it from my gorgeous grandmother…

Julie: Aww.

Eli: Who I would love to escort to the “wedding of the century.”

Julie: Darling, I told you I’m not going.

Eli: Are you sure I can’t get you to change your mind? I mean, lani’s gonna be doing her matron of honor duties. And, oh, look at this empty, lonely arm that’s dying to be accompanied by a gorgeous woman like yourself.

Julie: [Clears throat]

Eli: Yes?

Julie: I’ve already given my regrets to abe and paulina. No, darling. I would be just a sad sack on your arm. I… I can’t think of anything except doug. I am so worried about him. I cannot understand how marlena can stop me from seeing my own husband.

Eli: Kayla still hasn’t gotten through to her yet?

Julie: Oh, kayla? Kayla can’t reach her, which is why I’m not going to just sit here and take this anymore.

Belle: [Gasps] Oh. Oh, thank god. Thank god that wasn’t real.

Shawn: Are you okay?

Belle: I am now.

Shawn: Was it another nightmare?

Belle: Yeah, about my mom. Oh, god, it was terrifying.

Shawn: Was she possessed by the devil again?

[Ominous music]

[Phone ringing]

Demon marlena: Steve johnson. Looking for your bff, no doubt. John black. Well, I could tell you that he’s trapped in the crypt with susan banks just to see the look on your face, but it’s not a video call, so…buh-bye.

Ben: At four weeks, the baby is the size of a poppy seed.

Ciara: Ooh, poppy.

Ben: You’re thinking of baby names?

Ciara: Breakfast. I’d do anything for an everything bagel right now.

[Knock on door] Wow. Well, baby, that was fast.

Ben: Okay, if there is a everything bagel on the other side of this door, you got magic powers, seriously.

Marlena: Hello, ben.

Ben: Hey. Dr. Evans, hey, come on in.

Marlena: Thank you. Hope i didn’t come in a bad time, but I wanted to update you on the conversation that I had with susan and also to bring you that.

Ciara: Oh, that’s so sweet. Thank you.

Ben: No, it’s a fine time. Did susan say anything else about the evil presence she felt around our baby?

Marlena: Yes, she did.

[Dramatic music]

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

[Soft orchestration]

Abe: Well, kayla tells me that she has never had a patient that had quicker recovery.

Paulina: Well, of course. Would I marry anyone less than exceptional?

Abe: [Chuckles] Well, I had exceptional motivation. I’m feeling no pain. Must be my exquisite company.

Paulina: More likely like the pain pills.

Abe: Oh, I didn’t take any today. I’m just feeling a natural high on life, love, and feeling fine.

[Both laugh]

Paulina: Well, you certainly look it. And you will be at least once you–uh–

[Sneezes] Ooh. You know, once you–

[Sneezes]

[Clears throat]

Abe: Oh, I don’t think my bride-to-be is feeling so fine. Is that–is that a cold or is that cold feet?

Johnny: You’re not going to your own mother’s wedding?

Chanel: Sorry if you had your heart set on being my plus one.

Johnny: What’s wrong, chanel? I thought you were okay with your mom marrying abe.

Chanel: I love abe. He’s a great guy and I’m sure he’d be a great stepfather. He’s not the problem.

Johnny: Okay. Then what or who is?

Chanel: The matron of honor. My dear cousin lani.

Lani: There we go. Look at you, just so handsome.

[Both laugh] And I am really happy that you’re in salem for a while.

Theo: Me too. It’s been great having a chance to spend some time with my big sis.

[Both laugh]

Lani: Well, I have had a really good time catching up with you too. Although jules and carver really made me pay for it at 3:00 A.M.

Theo: This baby thing, a lot harder than it looks, huh?

Lani: Especially having two. When I was pregnant, I read that it wasn’t just gonna be twice the work, it was more like four or five. And that has been proven true. Hey, I hope the twins didn’t scare you away from becoming a father.

Theo: No, no. I was just thinking about ciara and about the children we might have had and now ciara and ben are happily married.

Lani: I’m sorry, theo. I know that must be really hard for you.

Theo: It’s not just that.

Lani: Then what? Did something happen?

Theo: I saw them in the square, and it was just three of us standing there. It was beyond awkward, and ciara drops this book, and it was a baby book. And like a total idiot I just said, “you’re having a baby?”

Lani: Ciara’S…

Theo: Pregnant. She is gonna have ben’s baby.

Ciara: So what exactly did susan say this time?

Ben: I mean, who does she think is gonna try and hurt our child?

Marlena: Well, if you’re sure you want to know…

Ciara: Dr. Evans, please.

Marlena: She said… it was the devil. It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Johnny: What do you have against lani? Did something happen when you guys talked last night?

Chanel: You could say that. You know how my mom told me it was a spur of the moment decision when she asked lani to be her matron of honor? That she just blurted it out the day after abe shot?

Johnny: Yeah.

Chanel: Well, that was a total lie.

Abe: Are you coming down with something?

Paulina: No, no, no. I refuse to be sick on my wedding day.

Abe: Well, it may not be up to you.

Paulina: Abra–choo! Ooh. You may be right.

Abe: When did you start feeling ill?

Paulina: I don’t, I didn’T. It must be that damn cat.

Abe: What cat?

Paulina: Marlena’S. Oh, if I’d known that she had a cat I would have taken my allergic medication before I went over there yesterday.

Abe: Marlena has a cat?

Paulina: Uh-huh. She sure does–a sneaky looking feline named susan.

Belle: No, no, she wasn’t possessed by the devil. At least not in this one, but she was there. We were, uh… we were on death row and we were in that execution chamber.

Shawn: Like when sami–

Belle: Yes. Yes. Except this time my mom was the executioner and, oh, she was killing that adorable stray cat that was at our house yesterday.

Shawn: Adorable? Come on. Did you see that cat’s fangs? I mean, it’s probably better that she took it to the shelter.

Belle: Oh, how can you say that? What if they put it down?

Shawn: Knowing your mom, she took it to a no-kill shelter. I mean, come on.

Belle: Maybe. But still…

Shawn: But still what?

Belle: Don’t you think she’s been acting a little weird lately? Ever since we got back from seeing claire?

Shawn: I don’t know. I mean, she seems fine to me, but you know…

Belle: Well, not to me. I don’t know. Maybe I’m just rattled because my dad’s been mia away on that case.

Shawn: Would it make you feel better if we go and check on your mom this morning?

Belle: You know, it would. Thank you.

Shawn: Mm-hmm, we’ll go check on her right after breakfast.

Belle: Okay.

Shawn: But first…

Belle: Mm. Who needs breakfast?

Shawn: Hmm, that’s what I’m talking about.

Belle: [Chuckles]

Eli: Grandma, I’m sorry that you’ve had to wait so long to see doug. And I would have driven you down there again the next day, but…

Julie: But, but your dance card has been very, very full. It’s not your problem. It shouldn’t be a problem. I just don’t get it. How marlena has the power, the right to stop me or anybody from seeing my husband.

Eli: Yeah. I don’t get it either. Listen, I’ll tell you what, tomorrow morning I’m gonna be right here and I’m gonna take you down to bayview and we’re gonna get to see doug and we’re not leaving until it happens.

Ciara: Wait, the devil is after our baby?

Marlena: No, no. That’s what susan said, but I think I know what happened. We were talking and she mentioned that she had watched “rosemary’s baby” a few nights ago. And because susan is so suggestible, I think it might’ve had some influence on her subconscious.

Ciara: Yeah, we actually saw that on tv too.

Ben: Yeah.

Marlena: Oh. But you didn’t think it meant that the devil was trying to get to your child, did you?

Ciara: No.

Ben: No. No. Of course not.

Marlena: Well, of course not, because unlike susan, you’re rational people, and you don’t watch a movie and think the devil is after your baby, because that would just be ridiculous.

[All laughing] I’ve lost count of how many asthma attacks I’ve had.

Theo: I don’t know why I was surprised. I mean, I knew that ciara and ben were married. It’s just for her to be pregnant, it seems so…

Lani: Fast?

Theo: Only a couple of months ago, she was engaged to me and we were picking out party favors and talking about starting our own family one day.

Lani: Theo, I am so sorry. This would be upsetting for anyone.

Theo: But I don’t want to be upset. I want ciara to be happy. I mean, that is all I’ve ever wanted. I just wish I would’ve told her that yesterday.

Lani: But you still can.

Theo: I know. And I will. Speaking of difficult conversations, how did your talk with chanel go?

Lani: Surprisingly well. I told chanel how I felt uncomfortable about auntie P. Asking me to be her matron of honor and chanel promised that she was totally fine with it.

Johnny: Did lani tell you your mom lied to you?

Chanel: She was trying to explain to me how my mom decided to ask her to be matron of honor instead of me. And she mentioned that my mom was about to ask her right before abe was shot.

Johnny: What?

Chanel: Yeah. So that story was a total lie. She never wanted me to be her maid of honor. She wanted lani all along.

Abe: Marlena has a cat named susan?

Paulina: I know, right? Who names their cat susan? Maybe cleopatra or aphrodite.

Abe: I can’t imagine marlena naming a cat after susan banks.

Paulina: Well, she’s a fully grown cat, so maybe she came already named. But I know one thing, she sure came with a boatload of dander. Oh–[Sneezes]

Abe: Here you go.

Paulina: Whoo! Ooh. I hope that little furball hasn’t given me hives. That’s the last thing I need on my wedding day.

Abe: You look perfectly fine. Just as lovely as always. But, you know, what were you doing at marlena’s last night?

Marlena: So susan mentioned a bassinet draped in black, and I knew exactly what had happened.

Ciara: Yeah, there was a scene like that in the movie.

Marlena: Exactly. But I was able to persuade her that her vision was from the movie and not from anything, you know, satanic. Anyway, she wanted to apologize for all the trouble. But as it happens, she’s gone back to memphis. So you won’t have any more predictions of gloom and doom as far as your baby is concerned.

Ben: Let’s hope not, right?

Marlena: Yeah. No. I think that’s an end to all that. From now on, it’s gonna be smooth sailing for you, and you’re gonna have a wonderful baby. And I for one can’t wait to meet the little baby.

[Eerie music]

Advil dual action fights pain 2 ways.

Johnny: Why would your mom want lani as her matron of honor instead of you? That just doesn’t make sense.

Chanel: Yes, it does. If she loves lani more than she loves me.

Johnny: Which is completely absurd.

Chanel: Try completely obvious. I’m just surprised it took me so long to see it. What is the one word you would use to describe my mother?

Johnny: Frightening. I mean, fierce. Fierce.

Chanel: That, too, but I was thinking of proud. Paulina price is the g-o-a-t when it comes to pride. And how can she take pride in a daughter who’s a never-ending disappointment?

Johnny: Hey, nobody, nobody, least of all your mother could ever consider you a disappointment.

Chanel: Oh, no? Are you forgetting how I married a criminal for his money, which he didn’t have, by the way. So I couldn’t even get that right.

Johnny: What about the girl who took salem by storm with her sweet bits?

Chanel: Opening up the bakery was too little much too late. Especially when you compare that with what lani’s accomplished in her life. Solving crimes with one hand and cradling her beautiful babies with the other. My mother tried to give me a participation trophy by allowing me to walk her down the aisle. And she even lied about that to spare my feelings. And the worst part about it all is…

Johnny: What?

Chanel: I think she wishes lani were her daughter and not me.

Johnny: Come here. Come here.

Lani: If we don’t get a move on, aunt bridezilla is gonna have a fit.

Theo: Well, I’ll meet you at her place. I just have a couple of errands to run on the way. I got to pick up the boutonnieres, et cetera, et cetera, you know.

Lani: I know you better be there and on groom’s duty asap.

Theo: Yes, ma’am matron of honor, ma’am.

[Both laughing]

Lani: This day, this family is gonna drive me crazy, but you know what? I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world. I mean, look at us. Here we are celebrating my aunt marrying our father.

Theo: We are just the all-american blended and extended family, aren’t we?

Lani: You know, I know this must be a little strange for you too.

Theo: No one can ever take my mom’s place. But, you know, I think paulina’s great. And the last time I got a new family member, I think it turned out pretty okay.

Lani: Well, you’re okay yourself, bro. Come here. I love you.

Theo: I love you too.

Julie: Eli. So kind of you to want to help me get in to see doug at bayview, but you do have other priorities.

Eli: You will always, always be a top priority for me, grandma. Okay? All right. Look, but I better go. I got to pick up paulina’s mom from the airport.

Julie: Oh, before you go, I have a trinket for you to give the bride to be, for her something borrowed. When doug was mayor of salem, he had this made for me. He said the first lady of salem should always have her own key to the city.

Eli: Sounds like doug.

Julie: So creative. So loving. Oh, god, I just can’t imagine him all alone and so frightened in that awful place.

Eli: Grandma…

Julie: So when you hand this to paulina, you tell her it’s from the old first lady of salem to the new first lady of salem with love.

Eli: You will always be the first lady of salem to me. You are the most thoughtful person I know.

Julie: I sure wasn’t when paulina showed up here. I thought she was up to no good.

Eli: Well, she wasn’t exactly an angel. Price town is a prime example.

Julie: It was her vision. It was inappropriate. It was unwanted in salem, but it was a vision. Eli, I believe she’s a good woman at heart. And what’s more important, she’s good for abe. So you see, when I’m wrong, I can admit it.

Paulina: I was at her house last night because… I’ve decided that I have to keep my secret. I cannot tell abe he’s not lani’s father. I can’t do it to him and I cannot do it to lani. I wanted to make sure she was ready, willing, and able to officiate for us today. I don’t want any last minute screwups.

Abe: Well, you know, marlena’s usually quite reliable. Was it something in particular?

Paulina: Oh, no, no, no. Of course not. But with the week we’ve had, I just–I don’t want to take any chances. I don’t want anything, anything to get in the way about wedding today.

Belle: Ah, straight to voicemail. Well, my mom’s obviously not here. Where could she be?

Shawn: Maybe she’s with a patient.

Belle: No, she took the day off for abe’s wedding.

Shawn: Maybe she already left at the church.

Belle: Hmm.

Shawn: What is that?

Belle: What the heck is that? And where did it come from?

[Uneasy music]

Ben: Ciara, you all right? Something wrong?

Ciara: It’s just when you touched my stomach, it almost felt like the baby kicked.

Marlena: Oh.

Ciara: Even though I know it’s far too early for that to happen.

Ben: Yeah, it’s–I just– I literally just read that. I had it right here. Yeah. You have another 12 weeks before that can even happen. You’re good. Good?

Marlena: And maybe the baby’s just excited to meet me.

[Laughs] I’m joking.

Ben: No, yeah.

Ciara: Yeah. Yeah.

Marlena: You’re gonna have to excuse me. I’ve been asked to officiate at abe and paulina’s wedding, and these sacred rites take precedence.

Ciara: Oh, wait. But wait, we haven’t even opened your gift yet.

Marlena: Oh, just open it anytime, at your convenience.

Marlena: Okay.

Ben: Well, I’ll see you out. Thank you again, dr. Evans, for coming by and for the gift and mainly for just putting our mind at ease with the whole susan banks thing.

Marlena: Oh, well, it was my absolute pleasure.

[Dramatic music]

Are you one of the millions of americans

Lani: Looking good, dad.

Abe: Oh, feeling good, daughter. Feeling good.

[Chuckles]

Lani: Okay. It’s time for you and me get to the church and get you ready, auntie P.

Paulina: Mm-hmm. Chanel’s meeting us there, right?

Lani: Of course.

Paulina: Oh, where’s theo? He’s supposed to be here helping abe.

Lani: He had to run an errand, but he’ll be here. He will be here; he was just a few minutes behind me.

Paulina: We are on a strict schedule, lani.

Lani: I know. I’m the one who wrote the schedule.

Abe: Look, I can dress myself.

Paulina: Abraham…

Abe: I have been doing it for quite a few years now. I can even tie my own shoes just like a big boy.

[Laughs] All right.

[All laughing]

Paulina: That man, he’s something else.

Lani: He is, at that.

Paulina: But that rubber stopper cane that they gave him at the hospital, that’s just a step down from that little tacky walker, you know, that have tennis balls on the bottom.

Lani: I know, I know, it’s not very fashionable. But the fact that he is walking at all, let alone down the aisle, auntie P., Is pretty much a miracle.

Paulina: You don’t have to tell me how lucky he is, how lucky we all are that he is still here with us. And speaking for myself, I know I am the luckiest woman in the world to be marrying that man today. Oh. [Chuckling] And you, you standing up for me, well, that’s–that’s just the cherry on the top.

Lani: [Laughs] Well, there is nowhere else I would rather be.

Paulina: Oh, honey. You don’t know how much that means to me.

Julie: Now, remember to tell paulina that’s only her something borrowed. Make it clear I want it back.

Eli: Okay. I will. And don’t forget, I will be here first thing in the morning to take you to bayview to see doug. All right?

Julie: Perfect. Perfect. Thank you, darling.

Eli: No problem. And in the meantime, I’m gonna call marlena and see if I can get her to change her mind. Love you.

Julie: Love you.

[Soft music]

Oh, my love. How I’d love to go to that wedding with you on my arm. Instead of sitting here fretting over marlena’s draconian laws. Wait a minute. Why do I have to wait until tomorrow?

Ciara: Baby, what marlena just told us about what susan said, that didn’t shake you up at all, right?

Ben: No. Of course not.

Ciara: Okay.

Ben: Ciara, obviously the devil isn’t after our baby.

[Knock on door] God, we are popular today, huh?

Ciara: Ay-yi-yi, yi-yi-yi-yi. Theo.

Theo: Is this an okay time?

Ciara: Yeah. Yeah. Come on in.

Theo: Hey.

Ciara: I thought that you were supposed to be at your father’s wedding.

Theo: I’m actually on my way there now, but I had an errand on this side of town, so I thought I would swing by.

Ben: Well, it’s good to see you again, theo.

Theo: You, too, ben. And the reason that I came today is to apologize. When you guys told me that you were having a baby, what I should’ve said then–what I want to say now is congratulations. I wish both of you–or all three of you–every happiness.

Belle: Well, it’s too big to be jewelry. I don’t know. What is it? Like, wall art?

Shawn: Who knows? It doesn’t look like something your parents would own.

Belle: No. It looks like something susan banks would have in that big purse of hers. She was here yesterday.

Shawn: So if it is hers, then what’s it doing down there on the floor?

Belle: I don’t know.

[Phone ringing] Sorry. Belle brady. Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I can go over there right now. Thank you.

Shawn: What’s up?

Belle: I just got a new case; I gotta go.

Shawn: Wow. It must be urgent. I mean, if you gotta go right now.

Belle: It sounds like it is. Anyway, that is going to have to remain a mystery for now. Hopefully my mom can explain all of it. If we can never track her down.

Shawn: I’ll leave it right there.

[Phone buzzing]

[Tense music]

Johnny: Grandma. Hey.

Marlena: Oh, johnny.

Johnny: How you doing?

Marlena: I’m fine. I’m fine. Ooh, that’s nice. I was feeling a little decadent. So I thought I’d come by and support our local bakery.

Johnny: Ah.

Marlena: Everything looks so yummy.

Johnny: Yeah, I can certainly vouch for their yumminess.

Marlena: Okay. Well, what would you recommend?

Johnny: Chanel? You’re up.

Chanel: Let’s see. You have to try a slice of our angel food cake. It’s one of our specialties.

Marlena: No, thank you. I need something less healthy. How about, uh… how about death by chocolate?

Chanel: Ooh, that is an excellent choice.

Johnny: Grandma, have you met my friend and baker extraordinaire, chanel dupree?

Marlena: Oh, chanel, it’s nice to– ah, you’re paulina’s daughter, aren’t you?

Chanel: Not the way she’s acting.

Marlena: I beg your pardon?

Johnny: Chanel’s having kind of a rough day.

Marlena: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Sometimes it helps to talk about those things.

Chanel: You are very kind, but I don’t want to trouble you.

Marlena: No trouble at all. I’m a therapist. That’s what I do.

Chanel: What’s wrong?

Johnny: It is the bank. They need me to come down and sign some papers immediately and apparently an e-signature won’t do, so…

Chanel: Well, go, take care of it. I’ll make sure allie gets the script changes.

Johnny: You sure?

Chanel: Yes.

Johnny: I really don’t want to leave you like this.

Chanel: I’m fine.

Marlena: For the record, I think you’re making a mistake, but of course it’s entirely up to you.

Paulina: But you’re not gonna tell anyone, are you?

Marlena: No, no. No, of course not. Why don’t you go ahead? Chanel and I will be just fine.

Johnny: Okay. All right, then I’ll see you guys. Nyquil severe gives you powerful relief

Ciara: Thank you, theo.

Ben: Yeah, theo. You coming by, your being genuinely happy for us, it means a lot. Thank you.

Ciara: Yeah, and you know, you don’t even have anything to apologize for. I mean, I was the one who hurt you, and that is the last thing I ever wanted to do. I just hope that at the end of all this we can still be friends.

Theo: Always. Well, I should get a move on. The wedding awaits.

Ciara: Theo, wait. Before you go, do you think maybe I can give you a hug?

Theo: Only if I can give you one back.

Ciara: All right.

Lani: Auntie, you look beautiful.

Paulina: Well, thank you, darling.

Lani: Actually, you know, you and my mother are two of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.

Paulina: Enough of the flattery; I’ve already made you my matron of honor. And with you by my side and chanel on the other, oh, I can’t imagine anything more perfect. And speaking of my daughter, I thought she would have been here by now.

Lani: You know punctuality is not her strong suit, but she’ll be here. You know, we had a really good talk last night.

Paulina: Oh? Well, I’m glad. ‘Cause she was kinda standoffish when I saw her at the hospital last night. I hope she’s not holding a grudge against me.

Marlena: So you feel like your mother is preferring lani to you?

Chanel: Yes, I totally do. Johnny thinks I’m just imagining things, but I swear I’m not.

Marlena: I’m sure you’re right.

Chanel: You think I’m right?

Marlena: Yes, I do.

Chanel: Did my mother tell you something?

Marlena: Well, just enough for me to know that you should trust your instincts.

Chanel: Please, you have to tell me, dr. Evans. What did she say to you?

Marlena: Well, she said enough for me to know that there is a reason that she treats lani differently.

Chanel: And do you know what that is?

Marlena: Mm, I’m afraid I do. This is the sound of nature breathing.

Abe: [Chuckles] Well…

Theo: Hope you don’t mind my letting myself in.

Abe: Of course not. My son and best man have carte blanche.

Theo: Well, I hope that have carte blanche to speak the truth, because this is not gonna work at all.

Lani: I promise chanel’s fine. We talked about my being your matron of honor.

Paulina: Mm-hmm. A job which you will handle beautifully, just like you do everything else.

Lani: Well, thank you. To be honest, I think I was more uncomfortable with the situation than chanel was.

Paulina: Oh, well, you have no reason to be uncomfortable. I explained to chanel how I asked you to be my matron of honor on the spur of the moment because you’d been through so much after your father was shot.

Lani: What? Auntie P., You–you said that you were gonna ask me to be your matron of honor the night before, but you didn’t get a chance because my dad had been shot. So why are you saying right now that it was a spur of the moment decision? What’s going on?

Chanel: Well, what did my mom tell you about lani and me?

Marlena: I’m so sorry, but to reveal that would be to–to break doctor-patient confidentiality. That’s a cardinal sin.

Chanel: Dr. Evans, I have been torturing myself trying to understand what’s going on with my mom and me. And if you know something that could help me understand why my mom chose lani over me to be her matron of honor, you have to tell me, please.

Marlena: Oh, I just hate to see you suffering like this. So may god and the medical board forgive me for breaking my solemn oath. The reason paulina chose lani to be her matron of honor is…

Chanel: What?

Marlena: Lani is not her niece. She’s her daughter.

Belle: Hey, you.

Julie: Wow. You made good time. I just called the office a little while ago.

Belle: Well, my assistant said that you wanted to hire me for a new case and I should rush right over. So what’s so urgent?

Julie: Well, I have a problem, and I think your legal skills are the ones that are really needed to solve it.

Belle: Oh, well, I’m happy to help if I can. And frankly, I could use a distraction. So what do you need?

Julie: I want you to sue your mother for me.

Ciara: It is so sweet how excited marlena is about our baby.

Ben: I know. If she wasn’t so supportive of me in my session with her, we might not be pregnant in the first place. Go ahead. Open it.

Ciara: Okay. Wow. It is called a bola necklace. It is supposed to soothe the baby by calling their guardian angel over to watch them in the womb. Aww, how sweet! A little guardian angel looking over our little angel.

Ben: [Chuckles] Let’s try it on.

Ciara: Mm-hmm.

Ben: I got you. I got it.

Ciara: Okay. And then the note says, “ben and ciara. I know your baby is destined to do great things.”

Ben: [Chuckles]

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[Soft music]

Nicole: Oh. What are you doing here, at this time of night?

Ej: I come bearing sustenance in the hope that you won’t object to having company.

Kristen: I’m kristen dimera.

Gwen: Yeah, I know who you are. Why have they put you n here with me?

Kristen: Let’s just call it a twist of fate. If you have a minute, I’d love to chat.

Gwen: God, what about?

Kristen: My future.

Gwen: Your future? What future? As far as I know, you’ve got a one-way ticket back to statesville.

Kristen: Actually, I’m not going back to statesville. See, you’re gonna bust me out.

Gwen: Well, it seems the rumors are true.

Kristen: What rumors?

Gwen: You don’t even know me. If you think I’m going to lift a finger for you, you must be mad as a hatter.

Kristen: Right, but I know everything about your new boyfriend that I could write his memoir, and it would include a touching section on cynical old you finally falling deeply in love.

Gwen: What does xander have to do with any of this?

Kristen: Oh, gwen, he’s in the thick of it. He’s the reason you’re gonna get me a get-out-of-jail-free card. Unless, of course, you don’t mind losing him forever.

Demon susan: What do you think, john? Breaking your wedding vows would be a surefire way to destroy your love with marlena.

John: I wouldn’t do that. I would never betray marlena for another woman. Certainly not ms. Susan banks.

Demon susan: Huh. Well, I will admit it might not be hard to resist susan–

Evil kristen: But what about your old flame, kristen?

[Tense music]

John: I’m seeing things.

Evil kristen: Still here.

John: Kristen?

Evil kristen: Of course it’s me, baby. Who else could lead you right into temptation?

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

[Soft orchestration]

John: No, you’re just another one of lucifer’s tricks.

Evil kristen: Ouch. That kind of hurts my feelings.

John: He conjured up my son’s dead mother the last time he did this to marlena.

Evil kristen: Hmm. Right, but I’m not dead. I’m right here, standing in front of you. You can see me. You can hear me. You can even touch me.

Marlena: John.

John: I’m right here, doc.

Evil kristen: Well, hello there, sleepy head.

Marlena: You!

Nicole: You know, you really shouldn’t have gone to all the trouble, ’cause I already had dinner.

Ej: Not dining fashionably late anymore?

Nicole: And you should have called first.

Ej: And ruined my surprise?

Nicole: Ej, look, it’s been a long day, and I was just on my way to bed.

Ej: Ooh. Nice to know my timing is as impeccable as ever.

Nicole: Just so you know, I will be going to bed alone, so you can take your food, and just–

Ej: I actually brought something else. Chocolate cookies and cream, which is your favorite, if I recall. Surely, you have room for dessert. Mm-hmm.

Xander: I heard my best girl was back in town.

Maggie: Ah, and I heard that you got into a lot of trouble while I was gone.

Xander: Well, you came home just in time.

Maggie: Oh, didn’t I?

Xander: I really was so sorry to hear about your daughter’s passing.

Maggie: Yeah. I wish I’d had more time with summer. I never was a really good mother to her.

Xander: You were with her in the end.

Maggie: Yeah, well, she’s not suffering anymore.

Xander: Have you had any word from sarah?

Maggie: Not as much as I’d like, a text now and then.

Xander: And she sounds happy with rex?

Maggie: Yes, she does.

Xander: That’s good. No, I’m happy for her.

Maggie: Really?

Xander: Why wouldn’t I be?

Maggie: Well, because she left you so abruptly, and you’re not exactly gracious with defeat.

Xander: I admit, a few months ago, if I’d heard about sarah being happy with someone else, that would have sent me on a month-long pub crawl.

Maggie: Hmm, so what’s changed?

Xander: I’m in love again.

Gwen: You’re up to your neck in trouble. I mean, what could you possibly do to make me lose xander? I swear, if you’ve done something to hurt him, I–

Kristen: Oh, relax, gwen. I’m not gonna hurt xander. Hired muscle’s hard to come by these days. As a matter of fact, I have some news that I think might make him ecstatically happy.

Gwen: What news could you have that could possibly make xander happy?

Kristen: The truth about sarah horton. On the outside, I looked fine.

Nicole: So let’s see here. You were fatally short, sort of, left for dead…

Ej: Mm-hmm.

Nicole: Reincarnated, gone through an explosion, an invalid for a few years, and somehow, you still manage to remember my favorite ice cream.

Ej: It’s in the file of vital information that I keep in a safe place.

Nicole: But I told you that when we were married the first time.

Ej: Right.

Nicole: I know it’s hard to get used to not wearing your wedding ring.

Ej: I feel liberated. A reminder of what I rid myself of.

Nicole: Oh, nice try, ’cause I’ve had a front row seat of the never-ending love/hate tango of ej and sami.

Ej: That dance is over.

Nicole: Oh.

Ej: Mm-hmm.

Nicole: Until she comes back to salem the next time.

Ej: It’s funny, isn’t it?

Nicole: What?

Ej: The two of us both moving on from disastrous marriages to the brady twins.

Nicole: Oh, yeah, right.

Ej: And wouldn’t it be something… if we both moved on from them together?

[Tense music]

Maggie: You’re really in love with gwen ri–how do you say her last name?

Xander: Rizczech, and yeah. I am.

Maggie: I wish I could be happy for you, but after what she did to a really good person, like abigail and poor laura–

Xander: I’m telling you. Your sister-in-law’s death, it was an accident.

Maggie: What gwen did to abigail and chad was no accident. The same as jennifer and jack.

Xander: There’s a lot you don’t know. It came out while you were away.

Maggie: I know jack is gwen’s biological father.

Xander: And she grew up believing that jack turned his back on her, so he could be with jennifer. Of course, it wasn’t true. He had no idea she existed until she showed up here, but I promise you gwen no longer has it in for jack and his family. She’s put all of that behind her.

Maggie: I’m not as convinced of that as you seem to be.

Gwen: Well, it seems that you might be a bit behind on the local gossip. You see, xander knows what happened to sarah horton. She jumped into bed with her ex the day that she was supposed to marry him. Apparently, it was so good that she jilted xander, and then she left town, broke his poor heart.

Kristen: So are you acquainted with my reputation of mistress of disguise?

Gwen: My goodness, who isn’t? Your macabre transformations are stuff of legend.

Kristen: They are indeed, which is why you’ll believe me when I tell you that it wasn’t sarah horton that broke poor xander’s heart on that ill-fated wedding day.

Marlena: John. John, she’s not real. Tell me you know that.

Evil kristen: Oh, god. Please, god, make her shut up.

Marlena: Don’t believe her! Don’t believe her. Oh, darling, you’ve gotta fight. You have to fight.

John: Don’t worry, doc. The love we have is stronger than anything the prince of darkness can ever dream up.

Evil kristen: Do the two of you realize how nauseating you sound?

John: Yeah, I imagine a love like ours is pretty revolting to you because it’s abiding, it’s unconditional, and it’s true.

Evil kristen: Well, you and i used to have a very deep and true love.

John: I’ve never loved anyone like I love doc, so tell you what, why don’t you bust me out of these things, and let me go to her?

Evil kristen: I can’t do that; we have way too much catching up to do, and frankly, this reunion would be a lot better, if it wasn’t for this three-is-a-crowd situation that’s happening here.

John: What does that mean?

Evil kristen: You’re gonna have to say goodbye to your beloved doc for now. I’m waiting.

[Tense music]

Why give your family just any eggs

Rafe: I hope you can forgive me.

Ava: For what?

Nicole: If you tell ava the truth, it will break her heart, and I can’t let you do that.

Rafe: I’m not gonna lie to her.

Nicole: I’m not asking you to.

Rafe: Okay, then what are you asking?

Nicole: I’m just asking you not to tell her or anyone else, and neither will I.

Rafe: Um, just being so hard on you just now, what happened with carmine, and thinking you were going back to the old ava vitali.

Ava: Come on, there is nothing to forgive you for. You know, my past makes it pretty hard for people to to believe me, and I did go after gabi.

Rafe: You did, and her company, which she built from nothing, and it means everything to her.

Ava: And you mean everything to me, but I promise you I won’t give her any more trouble.

Rafe: Okay, all right. Listen, I understand though. She is a lot, you know. Just the next time she drives you nuts, you come to me.

Ava: Okay.

Rafe: Okay?

Ava: Yes, I’m sorry I didn’t do that before.

Rafe: Well, I have no business lecturing anybody.

Ava: I really have no idea why you were being so hard on yourself. Now, how about this? How about we just… we wipe the slate clean, and we just start fresh?

Rafe: That sounds good.

Ava: Yeah?

Rafe: Yeah.

Ava: You want to know what else I’d like to do?

Rafe: What?

Ava: This.

[Soft music]

Ej: Why don’t we take this to the bedroom?

Nicole: Because holly and allie’s baby are down the hall.

Ej: You don’t know how quiet I can be.

Nicole: Since when?

Ej: Oh, you recall the intimate details. I’m flattered.

Nicole: I–

Ej: Hello. What just happened?

Nicole: I can’t do this.

Ej: Well, why not? We’re both single, consenting adults. Why shouldn’t we enjoy each other?

Nicole: Because I’ll feel like more of a slut than i already do, okay?

Gwen: So let me get this straight. You put on a sarah horton mask, and then you jumped into bed with her ex, and you just hoped that xander would find the two of you in bed together?

Kristen: And he did.

Gwen: Okay, and then you, still with this sarah mask on, broke it off with xander, and then you what? You left town with this rex person?

Kristen: No, I did not leave town; it was sarah, courtesy of a one-way ticket provided by me to a secluded island that was owned by my family.

Gwen: So who’s rex with?

Kristen: Nobody, silly. To him, it was just a fling with his ex. See, I arranged for him to get an offer from doctors without borders in a remote location where there’s almost no access to cell phones or emails. It was a prestigious appointment that even rex couldn’t turn down.

Gwen: So he went alone?

Kristen: Hmm. Keep up, will you? Yeah, and to make things easier for maggie, I text her periodically, from sarah, to make sure that she doesn’t worry about her precious daughter.

Gwen: So–hmm. So this sarah never actually threw xander over for rex?

Kristen: By jove, she’s got it. Yes, and if you don’t get me out of here, I’m just gonna tell xander where to find the real love of his life.

Evil kristen: Oh, there. That ought to hold you.

Marlena: What do you plan to do with john?

Evil kristen: Don’t you worry about him. I’ve got big plans for john black.

Marlena: You’re not even real. You’re not even kristen.

Evil kristen: What’s your point? Okay, so once john betrays his wedding vows to you, in the worst possible way, then, you see, your great love will no longer be strong enough to help you resist me.

Marlena: You’ve underestimated john. You always do.

Evil kristen: No, no, no, marlena. After all, kristen was able to get father eric to betray his vows, and his vows were to the almighty. John’s vows are just to you, so yeah, he’s gonna submit to his desires, and he’s gonna love every single second of it. It’s just too bad you’re not invited. It’s gonna be a fantastic show.

[Tense music]

We do it every night.

Xander: Maggie, I’d just really like you to get to know gwen; you’ll see for yourself she’s not what she was.

Maggie: You’re asking a lot.

Xander: Come on, you were the first person in my life who believed that I could change, and because of you, I did.

Maggie: I wasn’t the first person to believe in you. It was sarah. You know, I’m never gonna get over her running off with rex. She was over rex. She was in love with you.

Xander: No, I think i understand it. She never really forgave me for what happened with her baby. Had to be that, and when she left town I was in such a bad place, maggie. And then I met gwen, and she was in a bad place, too, but the two of us together, we helped each other, made each other happy again. And now I can see that sarah and I are both–well, we’re both where we’re meant to be.

Gwen: You’re a bloody liar. I don’t believe a word of what you’re saying to me. You’re just playing a little game with me, aren’t you?

Kristen: Maybe. Or maybe I’m telling the truth. And if xander finds out that sarah never stopped loving him, he’ll end it with you so fast it’ll make your head swim.

Evil kristen: Alone, at last.

John: What’d you do with doc?

Evil kristen: Oh, haven’t we spoken enough about that headshrinker? Well, you used to love it when I ran my finger through your hair.

John: She’s not kristen. She’s not kristen. The real kristen is obsessed with brady. She’s the mother of his daughter.

Evil kristen: But I’m your kristen. I’m the kristen that you ached for when I was married to tony. I’m the kristen that you battled stefano for. I’m the one that helped save belle and stupid, insipid sami. Sold that poor baby into the black market. I mean who does that? Do you remember all those things? Hm?

Ej: Is it me? Does being with me me make you a slut? Or is it residual guilt about eric?

Nicole: We’re not having sex because I don’t want to.

Ej: And it couldn’t be because my divorce isn’t final. The nicole I know would relish the chance to stick it to samantha. And when was the last time you had sex anyway? That pathetic, drunken fling with xander cook? That was months ago–

Nicole: For your information, I had sex on halloween, okay?

Ej: I have competition. Really? I shouldn’t be indignant. We’re not exclusive, so if you’re worried about my male ego, you–

Nicole: No.

Ej: Shouldn’t–

Nicole: I’m not–I could care less about your ego, all right? I’m just upset at myself for making love to a man who was with someone else. Someone I know, okay?

Ej: Why be so hard on yourself? These things happen.

Nicole: Oh, really?

Ej: Hm.

Nicole: I don’t remember you being so “live and let live” when you found out sami cheated on you with lucas.

Ej: Touché.

Nicole: Sorry. That wasn’t fair.

Ej: But I would like to point out that samantha and i were married. Xander and his partner are not.

Nicole: What does xander have to do with this?

Ej: It wasn’t him on halloween?

Nicole: No, no. I was with a good man, a man with principles, a man who thinks about other people and not just himself, okay? He is nothing like xander or you, for that matter. He hates your guts, by the way.

Ej: Oh, my god, oh. You slept with rafe.

Ava: Too much too soon. I came on too strong.

Rafe: No, no, no.

Ava: Yep, I did.

Rafe: No.

Ava: I did, yep. There has been a lot that’s gone on in the last two days, and maybe starting over means taking things slow.

Rafe: Yeah, maybe.

Ava: Okay.

Rafe: Okay.

Ava: All right. Then you know what I’ll do? I’ll sleep in my room tonight, okay? You know, I’m sure you’re exhausted, and we could both use a really good night’s sleep. And we’ll catch our breaths and figure out where we want to go from here.

Rafe: Yeah, you know, that sounds like a plan.

Ava: Okay. I’ll see you in the morning, okay?

Rafe: Okay. Night.

[Soft music]

Maggie: You know, I guess i should be a little more considerate about gwen. I mean, people, they do change.

Xander: And gwen has paid a really heavy price for what she did–I mean, jack’s all but turned his back on her.

Maggie: And don’t you think she deserved that after all the misery she caused abigail?

Xander: Well, that’s what gwen says, but I just… want to think there’s some hope. And you know, a good word from you about her, that would go such a long way with jack and the hortons.

Maggie: Oh, xander. I have loved abigail since the day she was born, and me talking up gwen to her family would feel like a betrayal to her. I mean, think about what sarah did to you. You know now how much a betrayal like that can hurt.

Marlena: John. John will never betray me, not as long as he knows that I’m still me, and I still love him. Oh. Fight. John, you’ve gotta fight. Please. Our love is so much stronger than anything that monster can throw at us.

Evil kristen: Do you remember when I first came to salem? You saved me.

John: Are you sure you’re okay?

Kristen: Yeah, I’m okay. This little mugging just capped off the perfect night.

John: No, I think this little mugging just about cost you your life, young lady.

Kristen: Well, I was a little scared, just for a minute there. Just that part where you jumped in, and that one kid pulled that switchblade.

John: Yeah, well, that’s over with now.

Evil kristen: You were my hero then. You could be my hero again. To be a thriver with metastatic breast cancer

Kristen: Oh, gwen, be smart. All you have to do is spring me out of this place, and you can have your happily ever after with xander.

Gwen: All I have to do? My god, do you know how many cops are out there because you’re in residence now? They’re on every bloody corner.

Kristen: Well, then you’ll have to be extra careful, won’t you, hm? Like you were when you slipped abigail those drugs that made her see pink elephants. I wouldn’t wait too long. It’s gonna be easier to get me out of this place than to get me out of statesville.

Maggie: You really think gwen is worth all this trouble?

Xander: Oh, I truly do.

Maggie: And you’re sure that she’s never gonna do anything else to hurt my family?

Xander: Absolutely.

Maggie: Okay, then. I’ll talk to jack. I’m not making any promises.

Xander: Come here.

Maggie: What?

Xander: Just do it.

Maggie: Whoa! You put me down. You’re incorrigible. You really are.

Xander: Maggie kiriakis, I love you.

Maggie: Oh! Oh, my.

Nicole: Okay, time to go.

Ej: I’m sorry, okay? I just don’t understand. I thought you resolved to stay away from him.

Nicole: I had, but I was at the office working that night, and it’s really creepy being in the basic black building by myself, and on halloween, and I–oh, god. I thought I saw deimos kiriakis.

Ej: What?

Nicole: I mean it. I thought I saw him.

Ej: He’s dead.

Nicole: And so are you, yet here you are with ice cream. Look, I called rafe, and he came over, and he calmed me down. And he was really sweet, and we had sex on the conference table.

Ej: Oh, my god, I own that–

Nicole: Okay, stop, don’t start, stop it.

Ej: I can’t believe this.

Nicole: Well, for your information, nothing has changed between rafe and me, okay? It was one time, and it’s never gonna happen again.

Evil kristen: Don’t you remember what it was like for us at the very beginning? Oh, we couldn’t keep our hands off of each other. Even your friend alice horton could see that we were falling in love with each other.

John: You saved me, too.

Evil kristen: Yes! Yes, you do remember. I saved you from the fire at the community center.

John: And afterwards, i tried to donate money to you, so you could rebuild the place.

Evil kristen: Yes. I didn’t want to accept it, but you wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Can’t you see we were meant to be together?

John: I know what you’re trying to do, and it’s not gonna work here. The only woman that I want to be with is marlena. That’s never gonna change. Never, never gonna change. Never gonna change.

Evil kristen: Okay, but you know what? You did remember what we had. I can see it on your face, but I can be patient if I have to be. After all, I’ve been around for an eternity. And I do mean that literally. It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Ej: It’s all over with rafe? You’re sure?

Nicole: I’m sure. He’s with ava, and she is my friend. And she can’t know what happened, so you need to keep your trap shut.

Ej: I don’t even want to think about the ghastly details of your one-nighter with rafe, let alone talk about it.

Nicole: Thank you.

Ej: But I do have one condition.

Nicole: What?

Ej: The next time you’re terrorized by the undead on a pagan holiday, promise to call me first.

[Soft music]

Xander: I have good news. Did you hear what I said, love?

Gwen: What’s your good news, darling?

Xander: Well, I just came from talking to the one person in this bloody town who can fix things between you and jack.

Gwen: Really, and who’s that?

Xander: Maggie horton kiriakis.

Gwen: Oh, dear, I wish you hadn’t have done that.

Xander: It’s a good thing. Maggie has some real sway in the horton family. If there’s anyone who can convince jack to make peace with you, it’s her.

Gwen: I don’t understand. Why would sarah horton’s mother want to lift a finger for me?

Xander: Because she has a soft spot for anyone who’s trying to change their ways, and I told her I believe in you. But soon, maggie, and jack, and all the rest of them, they’re all gonna see in you what I see.

Kristen: And if xander finds out that sarah that sarah never stopped loving him, he’ll end it with you so fast it’ll make your head spin.

[Soft music]

Susan: What just happened to me?

Demon marlena: You had the privilege of being my temporary host.

Susan: Oh, oh, my god! You mean that satan was inside my body? Oh, beelzebub, I rebuke you, in the name of all that is holy and righteous!

Demon marlena: Shut up, you nitwit, before I decide that you are too much trouble to live.

Susan: Please, god, please. Please forgive me, I mean, I really did try to stop her. I did. I just–she’s just too strong.

Demon marlena: I just had a good idea. Why don’t I pay a visit to elvis junior?

Susan: No, no!

Demon marlena: Then stop the praying! Why don’t you two just relax? I’ve got a few things I’ve gotta do. Yeah, I’ve got to corrupt some more souls, destroy a few more lives, but I’ll be back so soon. And then, john and kristen can pick up where they left off.

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Trask: I’m afraid I don’t know what money you’re talking about.

Gwen: Xander’s $1 million.

Trask: Why would I have it?

Gwen: Can we just skip past this, trask, because I know that you are blackmailing xander in exchange for keeping my secret.

Trask: Oh, that million. Pretty juicy secret, if I remember correctly, lying about your miscarriage so you can blame your sister for the death of your baby.

Gwen: I’m not proud of it.

Trask: Nor should you be. No wonder xander was so willing to hand over all that money to protect you.

Gwen: I didn’t know that he was going to do that–if I’d have known, I would’ve stopped him from making that deal.

Trask: Oh, well.

Gwen: No, it’s not, “oh, well,” because I’m calling this off. I want his money back now.

Steve: All right, shane. I appreciate it. Give my best to kimberly, okay?

Kayla: Oh, oh, oh, oh, bye, shane–tell kimberly to come visit me sometime.

Steve: I guess you heard that. Okay, man, thanks.

Kayla: What were you two talking about?

Steve: Well, I thought maybe belle or marlena got mixed up and that john was actually on an isa mission, not a black patch case, so I called shane to find out.

Kayla: And?

Steve: He said that john hasn’t worked with them in months, which means we still have no idea where john is.

Demon marlena: Hello. I’m home. Oh, looks like you’ve missed me. I’m sorry I was gone so long, but I had a lot to accomplish. No rest for the wicked, you know.

John: What have you been up to?

Marlena: Well, don’t be so upset. I was just out uniting some salem citizens with some old friends like I’m about to do for you.

[Cat meows] She always did like you.

[Offkey notes]

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

[Soft orchestration]

Trask: Sorry, ms. Rizczech, but a deal is a deal.

Gwen: You do not understand. That deal is no longer valid.

Trask: And why is that?

Gwen: Because I have decided to tell my father the truth about my miscarriage.

Kayla: So you’re still worried about john.

Steve: Like I said, baby, something is not right about all of this.

Kayla: You know, is it a possibility that maybe john really is working for the isa, and it’s so top secret that even shane can’t even tell you?

Steve: It’s possible, but my gut is saying shane is telling me the truth.

Kayla: Well, you said you talked to belle. I mean, what about marlena?

Steve: Not yet.

Kayla: Well, you need to go talk to her. Maybe marlena can shed some light on the situation.

Demon marlena: That is so sweet. You know, back in the middle ages, people thought that cats were my minions, that they would do the bidding of the devil. But people were so suspicious and afraid in those days. They were afraid that cats would steal their souls on my behalf.

John: So is that why he’s here–to steal my soul?

Demon marlena: No, cats can’t do that. No, you’re beginning to sound like you’re from the dark ages.

John: So why the hell is he here then?

Demon marlena: Well, i thought you might be lonely. I thought you’d like to see an old friend.

John: A friend?

Demon marlena: Don’t you recognize her?

John: No.

Demon marlena: All right. How about this?

John: Susan? It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Chad: So your dad is writing off gwen for good?

Abigail: For now at least. I told him he might feel differently once he cooled down. But he’s done with her and her lies.

Chad: Well, I can’t say that I blame him or that a part of me isn’t relieved.

Abigail: She’s done a lot of damage to our family.

Chad: Yeah. Everyone’s gonna to be a lot better off without her in our lives.

Abigail: Yeah.

Chad: What? You don’t agree?

Abigail: It’s just regardless of what she’s done, she’s still my dad’s daughter, and I feel really terrible that he’s losing her. I never intended to take her away from him.

Jack: You think I don’t care about my daughter?

Xander: Well, not enough to pull her out of her misery. Jack, think about it from her perspective. She just lost her baby and then she tried to do the decent thing by going over to break the news to chad in person.

Jack: Only she didn’T.

Xander: Because instead she was confronted by an understandably very angry abigail who unleashed a barrage of verbal abuse.

Jack: Abigail’s already taken responsibility for the fight at the top of the stairs. That hardly justifies gwen’s horrific lie.

Xander: You’re still not thinking about it from her– put yourself in gwen’s place. Just imagine how that must have been for her, back at the hospital, in pain, grieving the loss of her child, abigail’s cruel words still ringing in her ears– abigail, who has two beautiful children of her own and has always had the love of her father her whole life. Come on. Do you not understand how in that moment gwen might have wanted to take just a little bit of revenge? It was an impulsive decision to lie, one she has felt horrible about ever since.

Jack: And yet not horrible enough to tell me the truth.

Trask: You’re going to tell your father the truth– all of it?

Gwen: Yes. As soon as I leave here, I’m going to confess to my father about why I lied regarding the circumstances of my miscarriage.

Trask: Well, he hasn’t been in your life very long. Aren’t you afraid that once he knows, he’ll cut you out of his, hate you forever for what you did to his other daughter?

Gwen: Of course I am, but that is a risk that I must take.

Trask: Hmm. For xander and his money.

Gwen: Look, he has already done so much for me. I cannot ask him to make this kind of sacrifice.

Steve: Marlena is not returning my calls.

Kayla: Well, don’t take it personally–she hasn’t returned any of my calls either.

Steve: I know you were trying to get in touch with her about doug, right? It’s just downright cruel to keep julie away from him.

Kayla: You know, I agreed with her decision at first. I mean, we do need to make sure that doug is not a danger to julie or to himself. But now I just think it would be so good for him to be around his loved ones.

Steve: Do you have any idea why marlena has taken such a hard line on this?

Kayla: Honestly, I don’T. You know, before she had him committed, doug insisted that it was really marlena who attacked julie. But I can’t imagine that she would take that personally.

Steve: There’s definitely something off with her.

Kayla: That’s funny. That’s exactly what john said before he disappeared.

John: Susan. Susan, you all right?

Susan: Meow.

John: Susan!

John black, is that you?

Susan: [Stammering] Y-yeah?

John: You okay? You okay?

Susan: No, I–you’re not gonna believe this. I had a dream. I had this dream, and I was turned into a cute little kitty cat by… by the devil.

Demon marlena: Hello, susan.

Susan: You back away, satan. Back away, I say, in the name that is all good and all holy.

Demon marlena: Put your paws down. That won’t help you.

John: She’s right, susan.

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Susan: Where are we?

Demon marlena: Look around. I think you can figure it out.

Susan: Andre dimera, stefan dimera, stefano dimera. Okay, well, why are we surrounded by all these dead dimeras?

Demon marlena: We are in the dimera crypt, you idiot.

Susan: You know what? That’s just so rude, even for lucifer.

Demon marlena: I should have left you as a cat.

Susan: Okay, you know what? You clearly made a mistake. You see, john black, and I, we don’t belong here. I mean, we are not dimeras, and we’re certainly not dead yet.

John: Susan, susan!

Susan: Okay, okay, come on. I’ll get you down, john black.

Demon marlena: You know why I can’t let you go.

Susan: I know you’re in there dr. Marlena evans. I know it. I just need you to listen to me. Your husband is in danger. Come on. Come on. Dr. Marlena evans, look. Look at this beautiful face. I mean, he’s in agony, and he needs you. Just let his love, lot his love guide you out of that darkness.

Demon marlena: No.

Susan: Yes! Yes. Dr. Marlena evans, please fight. Fight, fight, fight, fight for your love. Come here. Look, look, look. Look at the love in his eyes.

Demon marlena: No! Now stop it, you twit.

Trask: You do realize that that is already in my possession?

Gwen: Yes.

Trask: Then you understand that even if you told the truth, I have no real incentive to give it back.

Gwen: Please, I am trying to appeal to your sense of decency. Now I assume that you got into this job because you wanted to do the right thing, yes? That is what I am trying to do here.

Trask: I’ll admit it’s very noble but I still find it puzzling.

Gwen: Which part?

Trask: Your sudden decision to come clean. After all, you did go to great lengths to keep it secret.

Gwen: I already told you. I am doing this for xander, to get his money back.

Trask: And you’re willing to suffer the consequences that come along with telling the truth?

Gwen: Yes. It’s eating me up inside anyway. My father deserves to know the truth.

Trask: Indeed. So why are you lying right now?

Gwen: What do you mean?

Trask: [Scoffs] We both know that your sudden decision to do the right thing is all an act. Your secret has already been exposed.

Jack: I know gwen was in pain when she made up that lie, and maybe it was impulsive. But you know what wasn’t? The hundreds of times that I have seen her since. If she had come to me and told me the truth in the days or even the weeks that followed, maybe we could have worked something out. But she didn’t do that, did she?

Xander: She didn’t want to lose you, jack. Come on. Gwen grew up with nothing. Her new relationship with her dad meant everything to her.

Jack: Xander– this isn’t the first time that she’s lied to me. We have been down this road before, and there comes a point when forgiveness isn’t an option anymore.

Xander: So that’s it? Your daughter’s dead to you?

Jack: No. There will always be place for gwen in my heart, but I don’t think I can forgive her for this. Quite frankly, I can’t forgive you either.

Kayla: I found john in marlena’s office. He was looking for a recording of one of her therapy sessions.

Steve: That’s a violation, isn’t it?

Kayla: Of course it is, and I told him that, but he didn’t care. He believes that marlena wasn’t acting like herself and that it all started after the therapy session with doug.

Steve: The night that doug collapsed in her office.

Kayla: Yeah, and I’m sure that was very upsetting to marlena, but john thought it was something more than that.

Steve: What was he hoping to learn from that recording?

Kayla: I don’t really know. He just thinks that whatever transpired between marlena and doug had something to do with it, changed her.

Steve: I assume you tried to talk him out of it?

Kayla: Of course I did. But he went back anyway and listened.

Steve: Okay. Do you know what he heard?

Susan: Please, please, dear lord, bring dr. Marlena evans back to her husband and help her fight off satan so that she can save john black and me too. As your humble servant, I am begging you. I am begging you, please help her fight.

Demon marlena: No!

Susan: Lord god, hear my prayers please. Help dr. Marlena evans, help john black. They need you. They need you more than ever.

John: I know you can hear me, doc. Today is our wedding anniversary. You remember our wedding, our vows– in sickness and in health, till death do us part. Well, I’m going to make you a vow right now. With every last breath of my body, I’m not giving up, and neither should you. So fight, doc. You keep fighting, doc. You fight for us. You fight for our love! Fight!

Susan: Fight! Yes, fight, marlena, come on, fight, fight!

Demon marlena: No!

John: Marlena! Susan! Marlena!

Marlena: Oh, john.

John: Doc? Doc, sweetheart?

Marlena: Ohh… oh, my gosh.

John: Hey, baby.

Marlena: Oh, are you all right? Look what I’ve done to you.

John: No, no, no, no.

Marlena: I’m so sorry.

John: I’m okay. It wasn’t you, it wasn’t you. It wasn’t you.

Marlena: I’m gonna get you out of here. It’s all going to be okay. It’s all going to be okay.

[Susan’s neck cracks]

Demon susan: Hee hee hee. I wouldn’t count on that, marlena. Your mission:

Chad: Come here. You have absolutely nothing to feel sorry about. All you did was uncover the truth. So whatever happens to gwen from here is on her.

Abigail: But what if I cost my dad a chance at a relationship with his daughter?

Chad: Well, she didn’t care about your relationship with your father or me or our children. I mean, she let you blame yourself for her baby’s death.

Abigail: I mean, you blamed me too. I mean, I know you didn’t want to admit it, and that’s okay. But I could tell.

Chad: Look, and I’m ashamed of it, yes. I did resent you for playing a part in my child’s death, but I knew that you didn’t do it on purpose.

Abigail: Okay.

Chad: I’m sorry, okay, for everything. And I’m just…I’m grateful that we know the truth, and we can finally start to heal.

Xander: I don’t understand. What did I do?

Jack: You’ve been sticking up for gwen this whole time, covering for her. You must have known the real story, or are you telling me you also believed she was a sex worker?

Xander: I didn’t know, not at first.

Jack: Then you found out.

Xander: Gwen refused to tell me what snyder was holding over her, but then he made a slip. When I confronted her, she admitted the truth.

Jack: That she lied about the miscarriage.

Xander: She begged me not to tell you or anyone else, so…I kept my mouth shut.

Jack: In other words, you lied to me.

Xander: I did it for gwen.

Jack: And what about me? Don’t you think you owed it to your supposed best mate to tell him the truth?

Xander: Honestly, thought I was protecting you. I just didn’t want you to get hurt.

Jack: That sure worked out well, didn’t it?

Gwen: I don’t know what you’re talking about–my secret hasn’t been exposed.

Trask: Well, that’s funny. This morning I received a very lengthy text from your beloved xander.

Gwen: Xander texted you?

Trask: Oh, he sure did, and he explained how jack discovered the truth, so it wouldn’t be fair for me to keep the money. He didn’t mention that to you?

Gwen: No, he did not.

Trask: Coincidentally, he also tried to appeal to my sense of decency, but unlike you, he didn’t try to trick me.

Gwen: Well, you are trying to trick me now, aren’t you?

Trask: Am I?

Gwen: Yes! God, you could have told me that you knew the truth from the bloody start.

Trask: What, and miss this little performance of yours?

Gwen: [Huffs] You are an awful person.

Trask: And you’re a miserable piece of trash. For jack’s sake, I hope he has kicked your lying ass to the curb.

Kayla: You know I can’t break doctor-patient confidentiality. I mean, by all rights, I should have reported john.

Steve: Sweetness, I am not asking information relating to doug. I would just like to know if john told you anything that might give us a clue as to where he went.

Kayla: Well, this I can tell you–john was rattled by what he heard.

Steve: Did he say why?

Kayla: He just said that he could hear marlena talking on the recording, but not doug.

Steve: Well, maybe the recording device was too far away from him.

Kayla: No, every time doug was talking, there was just static.

Steve: Well, could have been a technical glitch.

Kayla: Well, maybe, but he also said what really disturbed him was that it seemed like marlena was talking to someone else in the room besides doug.

Steve: There was someone else in the room that night with them?

Kayla: That’s what he thought.

Steve: Well, who could it have been?

Demon susan: [Chuckling] Did you two really think that you could get rid of me that easily?

Marlena: You leave susan alone.

Susan: Oh, trust me. I don’t want to be in this body either. But you, ms. Marlena, gave me no choice since you managed to cast me out again. But luckily, susan’s connection to the spirit world…

[Chortling] Gave me easy access to her soul.

John: And I’ll keep on fighting you.

Susan: I know you will. Keeping you alive obviously was a bad choice. Your love continues to give marlena strength. But I’m going to do something about that.

Marlena: You stay away from him. Don’t you dare hurt him.

Susan: You can’t stop me!

John: Doc! Is struggling to manage your type 2 diabetes

Gwen: Look, ms. Trask.

Trask: So now it’s ms. Trask?

Gwen: Hey, look, I am sorry for trying to deceive you, but not everything that I said was untrue.

Trask: Oh? Which part was true?

Gwen: I truly am grateful to xander. I never wanted him to give up all that money just to protect me.

Trask: I’m sure you’re very disappointed that he can no longer afford to spoil you or take you on exotic vacations.

Gwen: I do not care about that! I care about him. Don’t you understand?

Your lawyer’s not here yet, but you can wait in there.

Kristen: Thank you.

Trask: Gwen, I really don’t have time for this. I need to get back to work.

Gwen: Please hear me out.

Hold on a sec. Someone’s in there.

Gwen: When my father found out the truth, yes, he did kick me to the curb, and now he wants absolutely nothing to do with me, and neither does anybody else in my family. Xander is all that I have left.

Trask: Sadly, xander cook isn’t much of a consolation prize.

Gwen: Actually, he is to me. He’s everything to me. God, if it weren’t for him, I would have completely fallen apart. He has been there for me like nobody else has. So please let me do this one thing for him in return. Give him back his money.

Trask: I’m sorry, ms. Rizczech, but I’m not willing to do that.

Xander: I really am sorry if I let you down, mate.

Jack: I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Xander: What does that mean?

Jack: It means that this friendship has always been a one-way street.

Xander: That’s not true.

Jack: Isn’t it? You tell me you don’t only come to me when you need something. Best man, shoulder to cry on, place to live.

Xander: Friends help each other out.

Jack: What have I gotten in return? Pack of lies, an abused couch, an empty fridge.

Xander: Ay, maybe I have been a bad friend to you and an even worse housemate, but…I did what I did to protect your daughter when she had no one else to turn to.

Jack: Why?

Xander: Why?

Jack: Yeah, why? Why go to all that trouble? Why risk so much?

Xander: Because I care about her, I– I love her.

Jack: Well, then god help you both.

Steve: It doesn’t make sense. If someone had interrupted the session, wouldn’t marlena have mentioned it?

Kayla: You would think so.

Steve: Did john say anything else?

Kayla: The only thing he said was when marlena was talking to the third person, she sounded scared.

Steve: Scared in what way?

Kayla: I don’t know. I felt he was just about to tell me, and then we were interrupted by the news of abe being shot.

Steve: I assume marlena didn’t discuss this with you.

Kayla: No, I have not spoken to her.

Steve: This just doesn’t make sense. There’s one thing that’s bothering me about this. If john was so concerned about marlena, so concerned that he would break the law… why would he up and leave town to go on a case?

John: Don’t you hurt her!

Demon susan: Hmm…

[Chuckling] Why would I do that? You see, marlena and i are like this.

John: Not anymore. She’s finally free of you.

Susan: I’ll admit, I wasn’t expectin’ to be so rudely evicted from her body, but I’m not done yet with her.

John: What are you going to do?

Susan: What am I not going to do? You see, doc and I have so much more to accomplish together.

John: She’s going to keep on fighting you because our love is too strong, and we’re going to beat you to your knees like we did all those years ago.

Demon susan: [Chuckling] Then maybe it’s time to take you out of the equation.

John: Now you can kill me, but you’re never going to kill the love between doc and me or the spirit of that love.

Demon susan: Mm, you may have a point. I mean, love can be so persistent. Maybe killing you isn’t the answer, john, not when I can find a better way to break marlena’s spirit.

[Eerie, offkey notes]

Once upon a time there was a reindeer named tiptoe

Chad: I know that the truth coming out about gwen doesn’t magically fix all our problems. I know that we still have a lot of trust issues to work through, but, I mean, am I wrong to feel hopeful?

Abigail: No, I feel that way, too.

Chad: I’m really glad to hear you say that.

Abigail: We’re making progress. We’re sharing a bed again.

Chad: Well, as you said, we never had a problem there.

Abigail: No. And we’re building back that trust, just little by little, one step at a time. And I think knowing the truth about gwen’s lies is only going to make our road easier.

Chad: I hope so.

Abigail: I just feel like i woke up from a bad dream. I spent all those months just being attacked and made me really angry. I felt like I was someone else.

Chad: And now?

Abigail: I feel more like myself than I’ve felt in a really long time.

Chad: I can feel that, too. I mean, you, uh…when you smile your eyes light up.

Abigail: Really? Can you really see it?

Chad: Yeah. Used to be when I looked in there, it was… it was fog, dark clouds.

Abigail: And now?

Chad: All I see is beautiful blue skies, and I’m so thankful for that.

Trask: Ugh, what are you doing here?

Kristen: A meeting with my attorney. I put in a request to see brady.

Trask: Oh, I guess you haven’t heard.

Kristen: Heard what?

Trask: I bumped into your lawyer earlier. Turns out brady declined your request.

Kristen: Don’t believe you.

Trask: Well, you’re more than welcome to stay and confirm it. But if you’re counting on brady to come to your rescue, I’m afraid you’re out of luck.

Demon susan: All this time, marlena still hasn’t given herself over to me completely.

John: And she never will.

Demon susan: Never say never, john. You humans and your emotions, I mean, they’re so fragile. I mean, you mortals are so susceptible to passion and jealousy and insecurity and hate. Not even dr. Marlena evans is immune.

John: So now what are you talking about?

Demon susan: I’m talking about you, john, betraying your beloved doc in the worst possible way. Why give your family just ordinary eggs

Chad: We’re finally back on track.

Abigail: Thank you for not giving up on me.

Chad: Never.

Xander: Jack, you should be mad at me all you want, but please at least consider forgiving gwen.

Jack: I think it’s time for you to go.

Xander: All right. But just a little reminder– where would you be if your family hadn’t forgiven you, if they hadn’t given you a thousand second chances? But if you’re too judgmental to give one to your daughter, maybe gwen is better off without you.

You must be the lawyer. You have 30 minutes.

Gwen: Oh, no. I’m not–I’m– what’s going on here?

Kristen: You’re gwen rizczech right?

Gwen: Yes.

Kristen: My brother jake’s ex-girlfriend and the one who tricked my other brother, chad, into bed?

Gwen: [Sighs] Okay, listen.

Kristen: I’m kristen dimera.

Gwen: I know who you are. Why have they put you in here with me?

Kristen: Hmm. Let’s just call it a twist of fate. You have a minute to chat?

Gwen: God, what about?

Kristen: My future.

Gwen: Your future? Really, from what I’ve heard you don’t have a future. You’ve just got a one-way ticket right back to statesville.

Kristen: Mm, actually, I’m not going to go back to statesville. You’re going to bust me out of here.

Steve: I suppose john could have heard about this so-called case the night of abe’s shooting and had to leave town right away.

Kayla: But you don’t think that there really is a case?

Steve: No, I don’T.

Kayla: Where would john be?

Steve: I don’t know. But I have a feeling it’s connected to what he heard on the recording of doug’s session. Baby, I don’t suppose you could just let me listen to that?

Kayla: No, absolutely not.

Steve: Right. Okay. Well, I guess my only lead is to find out where john went after st. Luke’S. The only person who would know that…

Kayla: Is marlena.

Steve: Yeah.

Demon susan: What do you think, john? Breaking your wedding vows would be a surefire way to destroy your love with marlena.

John: I would never betray marlena for another woman, certainly not ms. Susan banks.

Demon susan: Ah. Well, I will admit it might not be hard to resist susan. But what about your old flame, kristen?

[Eerie off-key notes]

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Chloe: How about we stop talking about philip and we get back to work?

Brady: Best steps. Good idea.

Chloe: Brady, seriously, I mean it. You cannot tell anybody what happened here last night. I mean–

Brady: I know what you mean. I know. You’re referring to the sex that happened on the conference table. Okay, listen. I am not gonna tell a soul about it. It will be our secret, okay? Hey.

Chloe: Hey. All of this stuff needs your signature.

Brady: I would put it over there on the desk.

Chloe: Why? I wiped down the whole table.

Brady: I know, I think you missed a spot, though.

Chloe: Good grief. Hold on, where? Show me. Come on, where?

Brady: Here, give me. I’ll get it. I’ll do it.

Chloe: Just point it out.

Brady: Right there. Thank you.

Chloe: You know, when I told nicole that she and rafe need to stop playing games and put everything out on the table, this is not what I meant.

Gabi: I’m so tired of this room, I could scream. I mean, rafe knows that you didn’t shoot abe. You should’ve been out of here last night.

Jake: That’s not gonna be that easy, gabi. Da wants to nail someone for what happened to abe, and carmine’s dead.

Gabi: Because ava vitali knifed him. I mean, why can’t the da throw the book at her?

Jake: Because ava claims her dead son did it, and both you and I know that’s not as farfetched as it sounds.

Gabi: All right, okay, yes. A lot of strange things happen in town last night.

Jake: Including your dead ex-husband breaking me out of here. You know, both you and I know I would be in the loony bin if I told the cops what actually happened. Which is why I said I had to do it myself. So yeah, breaking out of jail isn’t exactly helping my case.

Melinda: That’s right, it isn’T. But you’re in luck, mr. Dimera. I have a proposition for you.

Gabi: What kind of proposition?

Melinda: I will drop all the felony charges against your boyfriend on one condition.

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

[Soft orchestration]

Chloe: Ugh. Ick.

Brady: You know, there is a certain amount of irony to this.

Chloe: There’s nothing ironic about having sex on a conference table.

Brady: That’s not what i meant, what I meant was, when rafe and nicole were doing their thing, marlena was advising me to do the same thing to you right there.

Chloe: That’s not ironic, my friend, that’s just bad advice.

Brady: Which I didn’t take. By the way, will you do me a favor and let philip know that nothing happened between us the night I helped you move into the inn? ‘Cause I really don’t need him flipping out on me anymore.

Chloe: That’s not gonna happen.

Brady: Uh-huh.

Chloe: It’s not gonna happen, I promise you. I really feel like philip has changed and he knows he needs to trust me. So I think bringing you up at all is just, you know, we don’t need to do that.

Victor: Ah. Single malt with bromo, just what the doctor ordered. Where’s there broken glass all over this table?

Philip: Don’t worry about it. Anderson said he’s gonna get somebody to clean it up.

Victor: Don’t you think it’s about time you started cleaning up your own messes? Or better yet don’t make them in the first place.

Philip: Get the feeling you aren’t just ranting about the broken glass on the table.

Victor: I had a little chat with melinda trask. Tells me you’re in league with ava vitali again. It’s your little partnership caused abe carver to get plugged.

Philip: She doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

Victor: No, I think maybe she does.

Philip: Why would you say that?

Victor: Because she also said you’re lucky you’re not in jail.

Gabi: What kind of condition did you have in mind?

Melinda: I think I’ll discuss that with mr. Dimera since he’s the one that’s cuffed. Victor kiriakis and I recently made a deal, one that he’s not that fond of.

Jake: What kind of deal?

Melinda: If you agree to say under oath that philip kiriakis was blackmailing you, then I will–

Gabi: Then jake can neutralize victor, which is worth more to you than having jake here on these nothing charges.

Melinda: They aren’t nothing charges.

Gabi: Come on, our lawyer says that his charges will be dismissed on merits.

Melinda: And jake is so confident of that he broke himself out of jail.

Gabi: You know, as tempting as it is to stick it to philip I just, I don’t think it’s a good idea to make an enemy of victor.

Melinda: Excuse me. My offer is to your boyfriend, not you. Well?

Jake: I’ll take the deal. Why give your family just ordinary eggs

Abigail: Dad.

Jack: Oh, hi, sweetheart. Didn’t hear you come in.

Abigail: I wanted to see how you were doing.

Jack: Me? I’m okay.

Abigail: Kinda blew you out of the water earlier. Sorry.

Jack: For telling the truth? Thank god somebody did. Gwen certainly wasn’t going to.

Abigail: Do you mind telling me what happened after chad and I left?

Jack: Gwen begged me to understand. Can you believe that? She made you believe that you were responsible for the miscarriage and she wanted me to be understanding of that.

Abigail: What did you say?

Jack: I told her I would never understand her putting you in that position. And then I walked out, and when I came back, she was gone. Hopefully she got the message that she’s no longer welcome in this house.

Xander: Jack was off his head when he said all of that. He didn’t mean it.

Gwen: He meant it. Do you know that I kinda just forgot myself for a minute and I called him “dad”? He looked at me like he absolutely hated me.

Xander: Well, it seemed like that was what abigail wanted when she showed up– to make him hate you.

Gwen: And why wouldn’t she? I told our father and her husband that she was the reason that I lost my baby.

Xander: She’s no angel. When you told me about the row you had with her before you fell, things she said about you being a rotten mum.

Gwen: You know what, she’s right. I mean, look at me. Can you imagine me trying to raise a child?

Xander: You’ve raised chad and abigail’s lot for months, and you did a good job.

Gwen: Yeah, by drugging their mother and shagging their father.

Xander: Don’t talk about yourself like that.

Gwen: Do you know that abigail told jack that I am incapable of loving anyone.

Xander: Well, she has a hell of a nerve saying that.

Gwen: Started to think that maybe she was right.

Xander: So where does that leave us? Best friends?

Gwen: All I know is that I do not want to deal with real feelings anymore. I am done with making people love me. Never should have come to this bloody town to begin with.

Xander: But then you wouldn’t know me. I make it worth it, right?

Gwen: Do you know that I have wanted family who cared for me my entire life? The only person who’s ever put anything on the line for me is you. You tried to cover for me with jack and you went to jail.

Xander: Wasn’t that bad, and I’m out now.

Gwen: Almost cost you a million.

Xander: Well, almost doesn’t count.

Gwen: You know what? Let’s-let’s take that money. Let’s celebrate the way it was supposed to be. Just take me to some deserted tropical island where I can just forget about all my troubles. We’ll just have sex on the beach all day, santa marias beach. Will you take me? Let’s leave tonight. Yes?

Xander: I’m sorry, love, but I can’t do that.

Melinda: You’re a smart man, mr. Dimera. I’ll get the paperwork in motion, and then you’ll be free to go.

Gabi: You’re gonna get outta here.

Jake: Yeah. You know, for a second there, thought you were gonna make her go back on her offer.

Gabi: I was just trying to get you a better deal.

Jake: I’m okay with the deal. I’m okay with testifying against philip, especially if I got you by my side.

Gabi: Oh. Oh, well, look who it is. The bitch who tried to frame jake and steal my company. How did that go for you, honey?

Ava: I’ll beat this.

Gabi: Will you? You really think so? Because jake just cut a deal with the da. So while you’re fighting those nasty murder charges, he’s gonna be free as a bird. It’s gonna be really nice to go back home, and she won’t be there. She’s never coming back.

Philip: Jake dimera talked carmine merlino into coming to salem, not me.

Victor: Do you deny using information you got from ava vitali to reach out to that leg breaker?

Philip: No, but I–

Victor: And did you also agree to install ava vitali as head of gabi chic?

Philip: Yeah, because–

Victor: Because you’re a moron.

Philip: I didn’t have a choice, dad.

Victor: Oh, don’t give me that.

Philip: Gabi was setting me up; jake was gonna help her. I had to get rid of him. And gabi was gonna take gabi chic with her unless–

Victor: Unless you blackmailed her and installed the mob princess in her place.

Philip: What was i supposed to do?

Victor: You were supposed to come to me. We all know you had a better idea, but you’re a moron.

Philip: You already said that.

Victor: Yeah, well, here’s something I haven’t said. You’re fired. This is the sound of nature breathing.

Abigail: Look, dad, I did not come here this morning because I wanted to ruin your relationship with gwen. You know, I just didn’t believe that the secrets she was afraid to tell you is that she’d been a sex worker for a while. Because I know you, you know, and I know that you would figure out some way to understand something like that.

Jack: I forgave her for drugging you and sleeping with chad.

Abigail: Exactly. Which is the reason why I made it my business to find out the truth. And then when I did so, I just felt like you deserved to know.

Jack: That she’d already miscarried before you started your argument at the top of the stairs. When I think about the way that I treated you after she fell–

Abigail: Dad, you were in shock.

Jack: That doesn’t excuse what I did. And neither does my guilty conscience.

Abigail: Look, it’s over now, okay?

Jack: Well, you know what really galls me? Gwen has known for months that I had no idea that her mother was pregnant with her all those years ago. That I never deliberately turned my back on her. She knows that I have forgiven her for the horrific things she’s done to you, and when she came to me and told me that she was pregnant with your husband’s baby, I-I opened my arms to her. She’s known all that and still, she came up with this vicious lie. And then you– you left–you left behind your two beloved children for weeks because you– because I believed and chad believed her vicious lies.

Abigail: It wasn’t just that.

Jack: It was that. It was. It was. Abigail, I can’t stand what she did to you, but I really can’t stand that she did it with my help.

Abigail: You did not help her.

Jack: I did help her. I didn’t question her. It was all the same thing.

Abigail: Okay, look, I– look, I’m okay. I really am. Dad, please. Hey, look at me.

Jack: God. Thank god. Thank god for you.

[Heartfelt music]

You asked me–you asked me about my relationship with her, with gwen. She’s still my daughter, and I’m not–and I’m not gonna stop loving her. But the days of me asking you and jj and your mother to accept her as a part of the family are over. She is my problem now. None of you ever have to have anything to do with her ever again. You have my word on that.

Gwen: You don’t want to go away with me anymore.

Xander: I didn’t say I don’t want to. I said I can’t, I–

[Sighs] The da still has my money, and I’m not getting it back.

Gwen: But that money is no longer evidence.

Xander: Trask decided to keep it for herself.

Gwen: What? But that’s a bloody crime.

Xander: Right. But with my track record, who’s gonna believe me when I say that?

Gwen: But she can’t get away with that, xander.

Xander: Yeah, she can.

Gwen: Why?

Xander: Remember her walking in on us? We were talking about you lying to your father about when you lost your baby? You were right. She didn’t let on, but she did overhear us.

Gwen: Oh, my god.

Xander: When I went back to see her, she said she’d tell jack everything if I didn’t let her keep the money.

Gwen: But jack knows now.

Xander: I didn’t know that when I made the deal.

Gwen: Oh, my god. This is unbelievable. So you not only went to jail for me, you now also lost $1 million just to protect me from my stupid lie.

Xander: It’s not like I’ve made that money from the sweat of my brow. I’ll get my hands on another million.

Gwen: You know what, could you just do me a favor? Just shut me out of here and tell me never ever to come back again.

Ava: I hate to ruin your little fantasy here, but I’m innocent. I didn’t kill carmine, and nobody can prove that I did.

Gwen: [Scoffs] You really think the da is gonna believe that charlie came crawling from the grave to save the mother that he always hated?

Ava: Tripp and allie saw him too.

Gwen: They’re still on thin ice. Trask knows that you and philip were planning to use carmine to blackmail jake and me. And so does rafe.

Ava: Oh, you must have loved telling him that.

Gwen: Oh, I did. But you know what I can’t understand is, you had me, jake, rafe. We’re all living together. How could you be so stupid to think that rafe wouldn’t notice what you were trying to do to his sister?

Ava: Well, I wasn’t actually worried about it because he’s as sick of you as I am.

I’ve got your paperwork here. Sign it and you are free to go.

Gwen: Ready to blow this joint?

Jake: I’m so ready.

Gwen: Ta-ta. Have yourself a good day.

Philip: Well, you gave me a stellar performance evaluation a few weeks ago, and now I’m out of my ass? No wonder the board is complaining about a lack of consistent leadership. That’s on you, father.

Victor: I’ve got the board under control.

Philip: So who’s gonna be next? I know. Justin and xander can run things from jail.

Victor: You’re both out. You’re behind the times.

Philip: You still haven’t told me who’s gonna take my place.

Victor: Well, it won’t be justin, I can tell you that. He’s on his honeymoon.

Philip: He got married to bonnie already? That’s why you’re in such a bad mood and taking it out on me like you always do.

Victor: You’re all in contention for my least favorite relatives. You can trust that xander’s never gonna run titan again.

Philip: So it’ll be brady. Of course it will. First, he steals my girlfriend then he steals my job.

Victor: The hell are you talking about?

Brady: There you go.

Chloe: Thank you.

Brady: You knocking off?

Chloe: Well, yeah, I thought I’d call philip and see if he wants to have dinner out.

Brady: Well, have a good time.

[Phone beeps] I don’t believe it.

Chloe: What’s wrong?

Brady: It’s kristen’s lawyer. She wants to see me. The airport can be a real challenge for new homeowners

Victor: So brady slept with chloe, eh?

Philip: And it’s obviously highly amusing to you.

Victor: Oh, come on, philip. Don’t tell me that you didn’t know that that was bound to happen? At least she’s out of kristen’s clutches.

Philip: Is this you saying I should look on the bright side?

Victor: No, it’s me saying that I should and I am. Both my son and my grandson have dodged a female bullet.

Chloe: Who’s kristen’s lawyer?

Brady: Somebody ej hired.

Chloe: Oh, well does the text say why she wants to see you?

Brady: No, but I’m pretty sure I know why.

Gabi: Oh, man. Thought they would have cleaned that up by now.

Jake: I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough dead bodies to last me a lifetime.

Gabi: Me too, but at least you’re out of jail. I wonder how ava’s holding up.

Jake: You think the da’s really gonna believe that charlie came back from the dead?

Gabi: Do I believe nick came back from the grave and then buried you alive in it?

Jake: I don’t know, man. Either people in this town are seeing things, or–

Gabi: Those things really happened.

Melinda: This is your statement to commissioner hernandez. There’s a note on it that said that it was made without counsel present.

Ava: Right.

Melinda: I’d like you to read it over carefully and sign it. Why did you do that?

Ava: ‘Cause I can’t sign that.

Melinda: Why?

Ava: Because what I told rafe about my dead son killing carmine, it wasn’t the truth.

Melina: And what is?

Ava: I’m guilty. I stabbed carmine. I killed him. I’ve lost count of how many asthma attacks I’ve had.

Melinda: So you’re confessing?

Ava: Right.

Melinda: What’s the catch?

Ava: Look, I panicked. A former associate of mine was dead on the police commissioner’s kitchen floor.

Melinda: And your first instinct was to make up a totally unbelievable lie.

Ava: Like I said, I panicked.

Melinda: Well, you don’t look panicked now. Why don’t you tell me what did happen?

Ava: So I was making dinner and carmine shows up at my door. At the police commissioner’s door. He told me that he just– he shot the mayor, and he wanted a place to hide out, and I told him that I couldn’t help him because I’m not part of the vitali family anymore. He didn’t like my answer. So when I threatened to call rafe, he grabbed a dish towel from the counter. He twisted it around my neck, and he tried to strangle me. Look, you see the marks? Well, I guess they’re fading.

Melinda: So what happened next?

Ava: Well, I couldn’t really breathe, so I knew I had to do something. I grabbed the knife that I’d been using, and I stabbed him. I was just trying to save myself. I wasn’t trying to kill the guy.

Melinda: So it was self-defense?

Ava: Exactly.

Melinda: That is a very compelling story, ms. Vitali. Only one problem. I don’t believe a word of it.

Xander: Look, I don’t care if the da does keep that money.

Gwen: Xander, you look me in the eye and you tell me that.

Xander: All right, I do care. But I’m not walking out on you, gwen.

Gwen: Well, that’s sweet.

Xander: Why would I? This is my room. And also, you are the best thing that’s happened to me since, well, in a long time.

Gwen: I’m the best thing that’s happened to you? Well, that’s just bloody sad.

Xander: Why? We’re free. We’re together. We’re both better off than we were when we met.

Gwen: Except for the fact that my father hates me.

Xander: Jack just needs to cool off. I mean, he’ll come around.

Gwen: No, you weren’t there today. There’s no fixing this one, and that’s on me. But we are not gonna let melinda trask get away with blackmailing you.

Xander: I–I can’t exactly cry foul. Not since we tried to blackmail that judge and it blew up in our face. My hands are tied, and trask knows it.

Gwen: Don’t you think it’s gonna look quite odd if the district attorney just suddenly has an extra million dollars?

Xander: She’s not keeping it for herself–she’s using it for a worthy cause.

Gwen: And what’s that? The melinda trask retirement fund?

Xander: A legal defense fund for undocumented immigrants in memory of her dead daughter.

Gwen: You think she’s telling the truth?

Xander: She says she wasn’t the best mum to her daughter, and now she regrets it. Just like jack will regret it if he turns his back on you. And if he can’t see that for himself, I’m gonna make him see it.

Brady: I’m pretty sure that kristen wants me to help her see rachel. How am I s–how am I supposed to do that knowing that she just attempted to kidnap her?

Chloe: You can’T. I mean, how can you?

Brady: I mean, as it is, I have to sit that little girl down and tell her that her that her mom is not the pied piper, and that her mom is not gonna take her on some special trip. And that her mom isn’t coming back.

Chloe: I’m sorry that you have to deal with that.

Brady: I can’t let kristen get back into our lives. Chloe, I’m still in recovery. That woman is like a line of cocaine for me.

Chloe: So are you saying that you’re not going to go see her?

Philip: I told you over and over what chloe means to me. Are you really saying to my face that you’re glad she’s with brady?

Victor: For your sake, yes.

Philip: Damn you. I hope whoever takes over titan tries to burn it to the ground. I hope you have to stand there looking at the flames as I throw gasoline on the fire. Like many people with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis

Jack: How could you possibly want me to give gwen another chance?

Abigail: I just think in putting this all together, I finally understand what happened the day gwen fell. You know, after you asked her to move into the house, she went to the hospital because she started having contractions and dr. Snyder did a sonogram and saw that there was unfortunately no longer a fetal heartbeat. So gwen came to the dimera house looking for chad, and I think if she had found him before me, she might’ve told the truth and said she had lost the baby. And then I wouldn’t have had that argument with her, and she wouldn’t have fallen down the stairs, and then maybe all of this pain and misery might’ve been avoided.

Jack: What about all the pain and misery you’d already suffered? She drugged you. When gwen slept with your husband. When gwen tried to destroy your mother’s and my marriage, abigail. Gwen has tried her best to tear this family apart. And even if she’d just begun to see the error of her ways, there’s a choice to be made here. It’s finally clear to me now, thanks to you. So please don’t apologize to me for making me see the light. Just–just accept my humble appreciation that you care about me enough that you’re helping me to see.

[Sentimental music]

Gwen: Where are you going?

Xander: To talk some sense into jack.

Gwen: It won’t work. And xander, you’ve already done so much for me already.

Xander: Hey, I’m doing this for him too. I know jack. He’s hot under the collar right now, but he doesn’t wanna lose you. And I’m gonna make him see it. Okay? You’ll be okay.

[Heartfelt music]

Gabi: I cannot believe it. Last night I thought I lost you forever, and now here you are in my arms, in my house. Carmine’s dead, and philip’s dead in the water. Company’s still mine.

Jake: Gabi, I don’t wanna burst your little happy bubble, but you know, we did lose our jobs, right?

Gabi: We’ll find a new partner for gabi chic.

Jake: Hope so. Right now, the only partner I can focus on is you.

Ava: You don’t believe me. Now, that would be your problem.

Melinda: Seems to me like it’s yours.

Ava: Why? It’s my word against carmine’s, and he is dead. How are you gonna make a murder charge stick?

Melinda: You leave that to me.

Ava: I take it you’re aware of my family history?

Melinda: Oh, yes.

Ava: Then I suggest you tread carefully.

Melinda: Is that a threat?

Ava: It’s a fact. I know a certain amount about the law. And if you bring charges against me, I’ll walk, and you’ll be humiliated. So you can throw me in front of a grand jury if you feel so inclined. If I, were you, I’d just be happy that ava vitali helped me bring the man who shot the mayor to justice. And that kristen dimera is behind bars. And I would definitely quit while I was ahead.

Trelegy for copd.

Xander: Good evening.

Jack: What do you want?

Xander: To have a word with you about forgiving gwen. And I’m not leaving till you see my way of thinking.

Melinda: What are you doing here, ms. Rizczech?

Gwen: I know that you have appropriated xander cook’s $1 million. And I am here to explain to you why you need to give that back to him.

Ava: Ugh. Do you two ever read or watch tv or anything? Or do you just go at it like rabbits?

Gabi: What the hell are you doing here?

Ava: Oh, well, I decided you were right. That trask wouldn’t believe my true story and my statement. So I told her what she wanted to hear. And here I am. So pat yourself on the back, little gabi gabster– you finally did a good deed.

Gabi: Does rafe know that you’re here? Because I seriously doubt you’re still welcome in his house.

Ava: Oh, does he know that you’re here? Because same. Gosh, you know what, I’m so in need of a shower, so I hope you’ve already had yours because there’s not gonna be any hot water left.

[Tense music]

Brady: No, thank you. Thank you for helping me figure out what I’m gonna do.

Chloe: I did that?

Brady: Yes, you did.

[Phone beeps] Please tell your client that I don’t want to see her nor do I wanna hear from her again. Thank you. Send. Yeah.

Chloe: Are you gonna be okay if I go?

Brady: Yeah. Yeah, I’m good. It’s just gonna take some time. I’m really glad you were here, though, when I got that call from that lawyer. You soothe me. You’re a good friend to me.

Chloe: Back at you.

Brady: Okay. You may go now. Go have a nice dinner with philip ’cause you deserve it.

[Pensive music]

Chloe: Oh, my. Okay, let me guess. You’re giving up corporate life to become a gardener?

Philip: Are you laughing at my symbolic gesture?

Chloe: And what exactly does it symbolize?

Philip: Me fixing the mistakes of my youth.

Chloe: With a tree. Okay, where exactly did you find that tree?

Philip: I got it at the garden center.

Chloe: [Laughs]

Philip: It was in my trunk; I thought we could plant it today in the same spot as our old tree.

Chloe: Seriously, you want me to help you dig a hole in this dress?

Philip: Come on. Give me a break.

Chloe: I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

Philip: I know you can’t erase the mistakes of the past, but I was hoping it could be the start of a new, better beginning for us.

[Tense music]

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paulina: You’re sure you don’t want me to fluff your pillows again?

Abe: [Chuckles] You know, you’ve been fluffing my pillows ever since you got here. Why don’t we just consider them sufficiently fluffed?

Paulina: Would you like some water?

Abe: Uh, I have water in my hand. You’ve given me water.

Paulina: I’m sorry.

Abe: Don’t be sorry. I just– I just wanna know, is something bothering you?

Paulina: Oh, okay. I will tell you, I’m worried about you.

Abe: I’m fine.

Paulina: See, see, that’s what I’m talking about. You–you were shot! You’re in a hospital bed. No, you’re not fine. And you–I’m so scared of you being so you. You’re gonna push yourself too hard and not take the time you need to recover and you’re gonna hurt yourself.

Abe: You heard what kayla said.

Paulina: I still think we should postpone the wedding.

Abe: Look, we–we have talked about this. There’s no reason to postpone the wedding.

Marlena: Look you are about to take a sacred oath to be–to be true to abe. And how can you do that knowing that you’re– you’re lying to him about being lani’s mother?

Paulina: Yes, there is. We just need to know that you’re okay, that you’re strong enough.

Abe: I told you, I’ll be fine. But maybe that’s not the problem. Maybe the problem is you don’t want to get married.

Lani: I just cannot stop thinking about how weird it is that aunt paulina asked me to be her matron of honor.

Theo: All I asked was if you wanted cool ranch or flamin’ hot?

Lani: Flaming hot.

Theo: And why is it weird? I mean, she’s your aunt, he’s your dad. Why shouldn’t you be the matron of honor?

Lani: A matron. Like, what a terrible word. Like I’m running a prison or something.

Theo: Is that why you don’t want to do it? Because you don’t like the word?

Lani: No, I wanna do it. It’s just– yes, I’m aunt paulina’s niece, but chanel is her daughter. I don’t–I mean, but yeah, aunt paulina did call me later and she said that everything was fine because chanel was gonna give her away.

Theo: Okay, then what’s the problem?

Lani: I don’t know. I just– I really wanna make sure that it’s okay with chanel.

Chanel: Tthere you are. I expected you back 45 minutes ago.

Johnny: So did I.

Chanel: What happened?

Johnny: Well, I was delivering the cake for those people’s 56th anniversary.

Chanel: Yeah, that was six blocks away. It should’ve taken you like 15 minutes at most.

Johnny: Yeah, but when I dropped off the cake, they seemed like they wanted to tip me. Then I told them they didn’t have to, but it seemed like they really wanted to. Then they told me their family wasn’t coming and that they had a grandson my age. And then they wanted me to have a piece of the cake. Really good cake, by the way.

Chanel: You had cake with them?

Johnny: And looked at their wedding pictures.

Chanel: [Chuckles] Well, for a dimera, you’re kind of mush.

Johnny: It’s called empathy. And it’s what makes me such a brilliant director.

Chanel: And a really inefficient delivery boy. So was someone not home or did you just forget to deliver that?

Johnny: Oh, this? No, this is not a delivery. This is for you. See, I think it’s time for us to start getting serious.

Ciara: Ben, I know that you trust susan ’cause she helped you find me. And now you know that whatever vision she’s had has nothing to do with you. So please just hold on to that for me, okay?

Ben: I will. But it just doesn’t change the fact that she thinks that there’s somebody out there trying to harm our child.

Ciara: Yeah, but who? Who could it possibly be?

Ben: I don’t know. But I wish I did.

Susan: Dr. Marlena evans, I care about ben weston and ciara brady weston just as much as you do. It’s just what is coming towards them is a real doozy and it’s just too big, too dark, too powerful for even a big deal psychiatrist like yourself to handle on your own.

Marlena: How dare you presume to tell me what I can and can’t handle.

Susan: Well, I just meant–

Marlena: You know what? I’ve managed just fine for all these years without you. Why don’t you go back to memphis? I’m sure roger’s missing you.

Susan: No. I will not go back to memphis. Not until I figure out what this darkness is that I’m feeling. I just need to protect that little, innocent baby. And you know what? I don’t care if you approve or not.

Marlena: You… are not going anywhere.

Susan: [Gasps] Oh, lord almighty. I know it’s you. You’re the evil presence I felt. You’re the one that’s after the baby.

[Sinister music]

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

[Soft orchestration]

Chanel: It’s time for us to start getting serious? Is this a ring? Ooh, nice presentation.

Johnny: Just open it.

Chanel: Is this your subtle way of telling me you wish I was a blonde?

Johnny: No. It’s for the movie. Celeste is a blonde.

Chanel: Oh, well, now all I need are some high heeled sneakers.

Johnny: You’ll also need to learn how to use these tarot cards.

Chanel: Ugh.

Johnny: That’s the grim reaper.

Chanel: And grim doesn’t quite catch it.

Johnny: Okay, celeste believed in these cards. You can’t act like they smell bad.

Chanel: It is a skeleton with a scythe. I should smile?

Johnny: No, no, but… you have to treat them with respect, right? I mean, you have to believe that they have power.

Chanel: Okay.

Johnny: Seriously, chanel, it’s probably gonna be the hardest part about playing this character. You believe more than anybody else in the movie, in the occult. So you have to convince the audience that you truly, completely believe that the devil is in salem.

Ciara: It just doesn’t make sense.

Ben: What doesn’t make sense?

Ciara: Well, susan said that there’s someone out there who wants to harm our baby, right?

Ben: Right.

Ciara: But we don’t know who that person is. So maybe… this time she’s off her game. I mean, I know that you trust her and usually her premonitions are right, especially when she helped you find me but maybe this particular vision has her wires crossed.

Ben: What do you mean? That this vision could be about someone else?

Ciara: Well, I feel like that makes a little bit more sense. I mean, who would want to harm an innocent baby and why do they want to come after our baby? Our baby, ben.

Marlena: Susan. Susan, you– you think I’m an evil presence? That’s really ridiculous.

Susan: No, it’s not. And it’s the truth.

Marlena: The truth. That I would want to harm ben’s baby? Look, I know you believe in these premonitions, but I just–I don’t know how you could say that to a friend.

Susan: Oh! You are not my friend!

Marlena: You don’t think I’m your friend marlena?

Susan: Nope. Uh-uh. Dr. Marlena and I are friends, but you, you are not her.

Marlena: Susan.

Susan: Mm-mm, mm-mm! You can’t fool me. I know the truth and you– you are the devil incarnate.

[Sinister music]

Why give your family just ordinary eggs

Paulina: Of course I want to marry you. How could you even say that?

Abe: Because you keep wanting to postpone the wedding.

Paulina: Because of your health. You were shot.

Abe: And I recovered. I feel fine. Almost 100%. And even if I weren’t, nothing would stop me from marrying you. Paulina… I could have died. But that reminded me not to take one minute of life for granted. You are so much– so much of my life. So next week, I want to stand up in front of god, our families, and our friends and marry you. And there’s nothing that can stop me from going through with that. Unless, you’re telling me that’s not what you want.

Paulina: I want it more than anything in the world.

Abe: You don’t sound very happy about it.

Paulina: I’m sorry.

Abe: Don’t be. You’ve been through hell. You were worried sick. Don’t–don’t worry about me. I’m not going to do anything stupid. I want to be married to you for a very long time.

Paulina: Me too. Um, do you need anything before I go?

Abe: You’re going?

Paulina: Yes, I just remembered I have an errand to run.

Theo: You know, if you’re worried about chanel, I can talk to her, see if she’s upset.

Lani: You wouldn’t mind?

Theo: You know what? I think sweet bits is just closing. I’m gonna go see if I can catch her.

Paulina: You know, you’re a really great brother.

Theo: You’re not too bad yourself.

[Both chuckle] You know, sometimes I think about what it was like when I didn’t know that I had a sister and how much better everything is now that I do.

Lani: I know exactly what you mean.

Theo: But we are brother and sister, and nothing can ever change that.

Lani: Mm-mm.

Theo: [Chuckles]

Lani: [Chuckles]

Ben: And here’s another thing. Ciara, back when I was looking for you, susan didn’t just tell me that you weren’t alive. I mean, she did everything in her power to try and help us. She tried to have more visions, she tried to understand what the visions meant. And ultimately, that is what led me to you. This woman does not quit. Which means when we have this baby, we’re gonna be a whole lot better off. We’re gonna know a lot more. We’re gonna be ready for whatever else happens. I promise you.

Ciara: Mm-hmm.

Ben: I promise you.

Ciara: Yeah, I guess that’s kind of, um, comforting.

[Knocking on door] Who is that? Did you– are you expecting company?

Shawn: Ben, ciara, you guys home?

Ciara: Oh, my god. Not now, not now!

Ben: It’s all right. Do you want me to get it?

Ciara: No, I got it, I got it, I got it, okay? I just need to calm down.

Ben: Breathe.

Ciara: [Exhales deeply]

Ben: You’re good.

Ciara: Hi.

Belle: Hi, shawn told me the good news!

Shawn: And I was sure you wanted us to stop by unannounced.

Ciara: Yeah, no, it’s fine. Well, come on in.

Belle: Oh, my gosh, how are you feeling? Are you having any morning sickness?

Ciara: Um, uh, not really. Aunt kayla said that it could come later, so–

Shawn: Ciara?

Ciara: Yeah.

Shawn: Is everything okay?

Ciara: Mm-hmm. Yeah, everything’s fine. We are super happy about our baby. It’s just, um–

Belle: It’s just what, honey?

Ciara: Well, susan banks stopped by earlier, and quite honestly, she scared the living hell out of me.

Marlena: Susan, you need to calm down, you’ve– you’ve worked yourself up into a state.

Susan: Mm-mm, mm-mm. No, you have. Mm-mm, and I don’t mean dr. Marlena evans, because she is not the person I’m looking at. She’s not even the person I’m talking to. You’re not even a person. You’re just a thing!

Marlena: You don’t think that I’m marlena?

Susan: No, no. I know you’re not.

Marlena: Oh, susan.

[Sighs]

[Sinister music]

Demon marlena: You’re right.

Susan: [Gasps] I knew it! I knew it! I know evil when I see it, and you, you are evil as they come.

Demon marlena: I’ve dealt with people like you before, you know. People that have a little bit of psychic power and think they can best me. Celeste, now you. Let me tell you something. Your paltry powers can’t begin to compare to mine. And you will regret the day you ever took me on. I am going to unleash the full force of my powers and there is nothing you or anybody can do to stop me.

[Sinister music] This is the sound of nature breathing.

Belle: How could susan do that? Ugh, I could just strangle her.

Ciara: Well, she really did believe what she was saying.

Belle: I don’t care what she believes. You don’t come here and intentionally scare a woman who just found out she’s having a baby. Ben, I hope you threw her out.

Ciara: Well, she wasn’t trying to scare us. Really, she was just trying to warn us.

Ben: She knew ciara was pregnant. Nobody told her. She just knew.

Belle: And you believe her?

Ben: I mean, she was right before. She knew that ciara wasn’t dead. And to be honest with you, I would have never found her if it wasn’t for susan.

Shawn: Okay, okay, but there’s another way of looking at this here. I mean, these premonitions, these visions that she has, I mean, they’re mystical. They’re vague.

Ben: I know.

Shawn: So that at the end of the day she can make it up, and she can say that she was right to whatever extent.

Ben: I disagree.

Shawn: Okay, well, even if you do believe that she sees these things, you can’t trust her. You cannot trust her. I mean, she had will believing he was ej for years.

Belle: And like shawn said, everything she says is vague, generic. I mean, even this threat: Someone wants to harm your baby. That could mean anything.

Ciara: Yeah, well, ben said that she’s gonna keep trying to figure out what’s going on and who this person is.

Belle: Which means she’s just gonna keep trying to push her way into your life. God, I’m so mad that she came here and scared you like that. And now you’re telling me she’s just gonna keep doing it?

Ciara: No, no, belle, like I said, she wasn’t trying to scare us per se. She was just genuinely trying to warn us.

Belle: About some vague threat. I mean, listen, did she say what you’re supposed to do about it? You wanna tie some garlic around your neck or something?

Ben: I don’t think us talking about it right now is really helping.

Shawn: I agree, I agree.

Belle: Okay, all right, fine. Well, no, just one more thing though. Please tell me she’s going back to memphis and isn’t gonna set up some psychic network here in salem.

Ben: I know everybody thinks susan’s like this big hoax. I get it, you know? But there’s something else I didn’t tell you. This woman reached out and put her hand on ciara’s stomach and whatever susan was feeling caused her to faint, knocked out. It freaked me out. And that is why I went to your mother. And I asked her to come over here.

Ciara: She took susan home with her.

Belle: Oh, well, if anyone can talk some sense into her, it’s my mom.

Ciara: Yeah.

Demon marlena: Don’t try to reach for your phone. Nobody can help you now.

Susan: [Grunts]

[Exclaims] There is a power greater than you and he is on my side. “You are the keeper, oh, lord, the shade of our right hand.”

Demon marlena: Oh, brother.

Susan: “Protect us. Protect us from all evil and keep our soul.” Oh, and keep that little baby’s soul.

Demon marlena: Really? You pack a cross?

Susan: I started because of ivan and vivian. Mm-hmm, people said that they weren’t vampires but I knew better. No, no! God knew better. And he guided me to carry this at all times. He brought me here to protect that little baby and to vanquish you and those– those battery operated eyes! And with this in my hand, with this–see this? With this in my hand, there is nothing you can do to me. With him I am more powerful than you.

Marlena: God, you’re dumb. You should never take on the devil. You’ll only lose.

[Sinister music]

Demon marlena: Told ya.

[Knocking on door]

Paulina: Are you in there, marlena? It’s paulina. I need to talk to you.

Susan: [Groans]

Abe: Come on, now.

Lani: No.

Abe: Look, I’m your father. I gave you life. And we’re only talking about 10 minutes.

Lani: No, dad. Look, you’ve been shot and you’re in the hospital and on a restricted diet. So I am not going to buy you a pastrami on rye, russian style. No.

Abe: I am going to be skin and bones by the time I leave here.

Lani: Well, just imagine how good you’re gonna look at your wedding.

Abe: Oh, so now you’re trying to bodyshame me.

Lani: No! Dad, I’m just trying to change the subject. Okay? So have you heard from brandon? Is–will he be able to make it?

Abe: No. No. It turns out and you– you’re not gonna believe this, but he is going on safari with celeste.

Lani: Seriously?

Abe: When they were taking care of theo, when he first got in south africa, apparently they just really hit it off.

Lani: Okay. Well, it’s hard for me to imagine those two as friends. I mean, from everything that I’ve heard about her, she’s, uh, quite the character.

Chanel as celeste: Stefano. You should not have snuffed out that candle. I am afraid you have invited the evil to come in. There may be no stopping it now. Stefano? Johnny!

Johnny: Uh, what?

Chanel: It’s your line.

Johnny: Oh, sorry, my bad.

Chanel: Are you sure you wanna do this? I mean, stefano was your grandfather. This could be weird for you.

Johnny: No, I wanted to do the movie and trust me, it’s gonna get a lot weirder than just reading his lines.

[Clears throat] I want you to get rid of these cards and the rest of your voodoo superstition. I have a more important task for you. I want you to help me with marlena.

Chanel as celeste: Stefano, please, you must not continue on this quest.

Johnny as stefano: Celeste!

Chanel as celeste: No, believe me, I am not speaking out of jealousy. No, it’s fear. Genuine fear that you have unleashed something terrible. And if you continue to fight for marlena then–

Theo: Grandma? Is that you? My nunormal?

Theo: My uncle chad told me that you’d be playing my grandma celeste in johnny’s movie. But I guess I just have to see it to believe it.

Johnny: Theo, man, it’s been forever. It’s great to see you.

Theo: And now you’re directing a movie.

Johnny: Yeah, yeah, pretty exciting stuff. And I think chanel’s gonna be fantastic.

Theo: With a lot of work, maybe.

Chanel: Um, what is that supposed to mean?

Johnny: My grandma grew up in new orleans. She has a creole accent.

Chanel: You didn’t say anything about doing an accent.

Johnny: I guess I didn’t think about it.

Theo: Don’t worry. I’d be happy to coach you.

Chanel: Great, thanks.

Theo: No problem. But would you mind doing a favor for me in return?

Chanel: And what would that be?

Theo: Talk to lani.

Chanel: Lani?

Theo: She’s feeling kinda weird about this whole matron of honor thing.

Abe: Speaking of celeste, wonder how she feels about me getting married again.

Lani: I’m sure she is really happy for you, dad.

Abe: What?

Lani: I’m just thinking about how her and aunt paulina are gonna get along. Given everything that I’ve heard about her.

Abe: That should make family reunions pretty interesting.

Lani: Speaking of, where is aunt paulina?

Abe: She said she had an errand to run.

Lani: Ah, probably something about the wedding?

Abe: Mm, maybe.

Lani: Dad, what’s wrong?

Abe: All day long, she seemed nervous, on edge. She kept trying to fluff up my pillows and ask if there’s anything else that I wanted.

Lani: Dad, she’s trying to take care of you.

Abe: I know. She said she still thought that we should postpone the wedding.

Lani: Well, I can see why she feels that way. Dad, when you got shot, she was so scared she was gonna lose you. So you might have to prepare yourself for her being kind of over-protective for a while.

Abe: Yeah, that’s what she said. And she was worried that it might be too soon, that I wouldn’t be up to– for the ceremony and everything. But…that’s only part of it. It seems like there’s something else that’s– that’s going on with her.

Marlena: Paulina, how nice to see you.

Paulina: Well, you may not feel that way once you hear what I’ve come to say.

Marlena: Come in.

Paulina: I’ve decided that I have to keep my secret. I cannot tell abe he’s not lani’s father. I can’t do it to him and I cannot do it to lani.

Marlena: Well, I didn’t say it was going to be easy I’m afraid that if you don’t tell them, your marriage to abe may be doomed.

Paulina: You don’t understand, I heard theo talking to lani. I can see how much she loves him, how much she needs him. I’ve decided that neither one of them can know the truth.

Marlena: Well, that might not be up to you.

Susan: [Groans softly]

Paulina: What was that? Serena: It’s my 3:10

Marlena: What was what?

Paulina: I heard a sound like–like someone was groaning.

Marlena: Groaning?

Susan: [Groans softly]

Paulina: Like that! Oh, my goodness!

Shawn: So do you think your mom’s gonna tell her to go back to memphis and take her craziness with her? Or am I gonna have to go over there and do it myself?

Ben: I think we should still have a toast. Sorry, no champagne, but–

Shawn: Are you kidding me? Beer’s great.

Ciara: Oh, no!

Belle: You can’t have that.

Ciara: And shawn.

Shawn: Uh, yeah, ciara?

Ciara: I know that you are just, you know, worried about me and ben and the baby, but I think we can handle susan our way.

Shawn: Oh, look at you. You’re all mature. Not that long ago, you would’ve just told me to butt the hell out.

Ciara: Oh, good, so you got the memo.

Shawn: Yes, consider me butted out.

Ciara: Good. All right, so how ’bout that toast? Here is to nine months of sparkling water.

Shawn: And to a healthy and happy baby who’s picked himself or herself two really great parents.

Ciara: Whoo, yes, I sure hope so. Because when I got those test results back, I was like, “oh, my god, I’m so happy. But I’m also having no clue about being a mother and I’m feeling so much elation and I’m terrified at the same time.” All in one flat second. Whoo!

Ben: Cheers to that.

Belle: I know that feeling. I actually think I know something that might help.

Ciara: [Chuckles]

[Elevator dings]

Lani: Hey, chanel. I’m sorry, visiting hours, um, they just ended.

Chanel: Oh, well, um, I brought these for your dad.

Lani: Oh, that’s– that’s so sweet, um, thank you. I will make sure he gets these.

Chanel: But I actually came by to see you.

Lani: Ah, theo. He spoke with you, right?

Chanel: Yeah. And he told me that you felt weird about being my mom’s matron of honor, but it’s fine. It really is. I know things were crazy the night your dad got shot.

Lani: Yeah, um, they were. See, when your mom came over to talk to me that night. You know what?

Chanel: What?

Lani: Even that– even that was odd. She just–she showed up and she was so serious, not herself at all. And she said she had to talk to me and I have to tell you, I thought it was a lot heavier than her asking me to be her matron of honor.

Chanel: So she went by your apartment to ask you to be her matron of honor?

Lani: Yes, but she never got the chance. First, the twins woke up, and then, well, eli came home and told us about my dad. And then we rushed to the hospital.

Chanel: Mama, I–I know you’ve been through a lot and I’m so glad that abe’s going to be okay. But hearing that you want lani by your side at the wedding and not me, that really hurts. Couldn’t–couldn’t you have told me first?

Paulina: Oh, baby, I wasn’t planning it. When I first got engaged, of course I thought you would be my maid of honor. But in the past 36 hours, lani and I, we’ve been through so much. Because her father, he was the one who was hurt and she was so terribly, terribly worried. I just want to extend myself to her in some way. To distract her, you know?

Lani: But she didn’t ask me at the hospital either. I mean, now that I think about it, we were all so worried about my dad that I think maybe she forgot that she had to talk to me. But I had to ask her. Like, I needed to know what she wanted to talk to me about.

Chanel: Well, you know what, lani? I’m glad we talked about this.

Paulina: Well, what have we here?

Marlena: Oh. This is susan. Susan, meet paulina. Paulina, susan.

Paulina: Pleased to meet you, susan. Oh, well, the– the cat, is she okay? I never heard a cat make a sound like that before. Is she all right?

Marlena: Yeah. Well, well, she’s had some problems. Health issues, mental issues, dental issues.

Paulina: Oh, yeah, I can see her teeth are a little odd. Never seen buck teeth on a cat before.

Marlena: She’s not doing so well. I’m afraid we may get to the point where I have to put her down.

Shawn: Wow, ben and ciara really tore out of here.

Belle: Yeah, I think they wanted to get to the bookstore before it closed.

Shawn: To buy that amazing book that you recommended?

Belle: Yes, I hope it helps.

Shawn: You know, I can’t help but feel like ciara regretted telling us about susan.

Belle: Well, I don’t know. I think she–she needed to talk about it and then maybe realize she didn’t want anyone to know about it. I think that we should go see my mom.

Shawn: No, ciara told me to butt out.

Belle: We’re not butting in. We’re just gonna go and see if that premonition was as bad as it seems.

Shawn: Okay, well, I guess doesn’t hurt to try. But I’m gonna have a hard time keeping my mouth shut and not telling susan a piece of my mind, all right?

Belle: Okay, let’s go.

Paulina: Well, I’m–I’m sorry about your cat and I don’t wanna keep you, but I just want you to know that I changed my mind.

Marlena: For the record, I think you’re making a mistake, but of course, it’s entirely up to you.

Paulina: But you’re–you’re not gonna tell anyone are you?

Marlena: Oh, no. No, of course not. But I’d still be glad to officiate at your wedding if you want me.

Paulina: Well, it’s very important to abe and to me. Well, I hope your cat feels– feels much better. Okay, well, night.

Marlena: Good night.

Demon marlena: Got more work to do there. But right now, susan, you are my top priority

Lani: Actually I’m the one who did all the talking. I still wanna know how you feel about all this.

Chanel: Lani, you don’t have to worry about how I feel. You have nothing to feel bad about. All you did was say yes when she asked you. So if anyone’s to blame, it’s her. No, that came out wrong. I just– now that I know that she went to see you, made a special trip to ask you, that means that this is obviously what she wants.

Lani: Are you sure?

Chanel: It’s her day. It’s all about making her happy.

Theo: So you and chanel, uh?

Johnny: Uh, yeah, yeah, we’ve been dating for a couple of months. Is that weird for you? I know you guys used to date.

Theo: Not for that long, no.

Johnny: Good, I don’t want anything to be awkward.

Theo: No, no. What would be awkward would be running into ciara and ben.

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Demon marlena: I could change you back, but life is simpler this way. And besides, I think I like you better this way. Come on, let’s go for a ride.

Belle: Oh–

Marlena: Oh, hi, what a surprise. I was just going out.

Belle: Where’s susan?

Marlena: Susan had to leave.

Shawn: When did you get a cat?

Marlena: A cat? Oh. Oh, no, this isn’t mine. I just found it wandering around the hall. Now if you’ll excuse me.

Belle: Actually, no, we wanted to talk to you. Ben and ciara just told us about susan’s premonition.

Marlena: Oh, yes. Well, you know what? They’ve got nothing to worry about, but they’re so terrified. I mean, the fact is, susan has no idea what she’s talking about.

Ciara: Hi, theo, johnny.

Johnny: Hey, how’s it going?

Ciara: Good. Um, I didn’t know you were back in town.

Theo: I flew back when my dad got shot.

Ciara: How’s he doing?

Theo: A lot better. He’s actually getting married next week. That is, if somebody doesn’t, you know, kidnap his bride on the way to the church.

Johnny: Hey, king of cups! That’s a great card! That’s a great card.

Ben: Uh, would you give your dad our best, please?

Ciara: Yeah. Um, ben, we should probably get going. We just came into town to pick up a book so–

Theo: Oh, I’ll get it. “The abcs of having a baby?” You guys are having a baby?

Lani: Well, I’m glad this didn’t screw things up between us. We are cousins and about to become sisters.

Chanel: I always wanted a sister. But I already told you that.

Lani: [Chuckles] Yeah, you did. And I’ve always wanted one too. I will leave these with my dad’s night nurse and I will see you later. Bye.

Chanel: Night.

Paulina: Chanel? Oh, what are you doing here?

Chane: Leaving.

Marlena: I promise you, nobody has to worry about susan. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve gotta get this cat to the shelter.

Belle: Oh, wait, you’re– you’re turning her in already?

Marlena: Well, I’m–I’m sure somebody’s missing her.

Belle: Well, what if they can’t find her owner? Don’t they sometimes put them down?

Marlena: They do. See you later. Catch the door for me.

Belle: What was that about?

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Philip: What the hell are you trying to pull, ava?

Lucas: Hey, bro.

Philip: Man, you scared the hell out of me.

Lucas: Relax. Halloween’s over. So what’s going on?

Philip: You invited me to lunch, you tell me.

Lucas: Well, yeah, I invited you to lunch ’cause it’s the only way to make you sit down long enough to tell me what’s going on with the whole brady and chloe thing.

Kate: What “brady and chloe thing”?

[Breathing heavily]

Chloe: Brady? Are you okay?

Brady: Yeah. Um, yes. It’s–it’s nothing.

Chloe: Uh, you didn’t even hear me call your name, so it’s definitely something.

Brady: Let’s forget about it, okay? Let’s forget about it.

Chloe: Uh, I would, except i don’t know what I’m forgetting about ’cause you didn’t tell me anything.

Brady: You’re not gonna let this go, are you?

Chloe: No. So you might as well spill.

Brady: Okay, I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you. I was picturing us having sex on that conference table.

Susan: Oh! There is evil associated with this baby.

Ciara: Was ben right? Did he somehow pass this along to our baby?

Susan: No. No, I–I don’t feel the evil coming from the baby’s father.

Ciara: Okay. Well–

Susan: It’s coming from someone else!

Ciara: Okay, well, who then? Susan, who?

Susan: It–it’s just–it’s so fuzzy.

Ciara: Come on; do it again.

Susan: No, it’s fuzzy, fuzzy. And I just– it’s just gets all jumbled up. So I can’t really see anything right now.

Ciara: Right. Okay. Well, please, you have to try again, okay? Where is this source of evil coming from? Who is it, susan?

Marlena: Ben, you and ciara having a baby. Oh, that’s the most wonderful news!

Ben: Well, thank you. But not according to susan banks.

Marlena: What does she have to do with anything?

Ben: That’s why I’m here. Susan’s in salem. She came to warn us that our baby’s in danger.

Marlena: In danger? What’s the matter with her? She won’t get away with this!

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

[Soft orchestration]

Rafe: So can I get you a coffee, water?

Nicole: I’m–I’m good.

Rafe: Okay. So?

Nicole: So about last night–

Rafe: Yeah. Oh, just so you know, ava and tripp are here. They’re in the interrogation room. I brought her in to question her about carmine merlino’s murder.

Nicole: What did she say?

Rafe: Well, she said she had no idea where he came from, that he–he just came in and started ranting and raving and then he attacked her. And were not for her son, she wouldn’t be alive today.

Nicole: Tripp murdered carmine?

Rafe: No. Her other son. Charlie.

Nicole: Oh.

Philip: Where did you come from?

Kate: Well, I live here, so.

Lucas: I invited my brother here for a private lunch. Thank you.

Kate: Honey, that is so sweet. So what about brady and chloe?

Lucas: Well, as you know, you know, the other day philip was down in the dumps because chloe moved out?

Kate: Yeah, I know. And that’s when I said good riddance.

Lucas: Well, thank you for that amazing pep talk. We appreciate that, but it didn’t help. So after we walked it off, we actually did see brady and chloe going into the salem inn together.

Kate: Oh! Well, that was totally predictable, right?

Philip: Mother.

Kate: What? I mean, you said yourself, chloe didn’t leave the house because her injury was better. She left because of brady. So what happened when you confronted her?

Philip: I didn’T.

Chloe: I’m sorry. What did you just say?

Brady: It sounded just as bad as I heard it in my head.

Chloe: What is going on with you?

Brady: Chloe, I swear, there’s a logical explanation.

Chloe: Okay. I’m listening.

Brady: You know that kristen was arrested, right?

Chloe: Yes, I heard. I’m–I’m sorry.

Brady: What you don’t know is that steve johnson caught kristen trying to kidnap rachel.

Chloe: Oh, my god.

Brady: But rachel’s fine. She’s fine. But she’s been asking a lot questions like, “when is mommy coming home? When is she coming back to go on our special trip?” And I don’t–I don’t know what the hell to tell her. I mean, I can’t tell her that her mother is an attempted kidnapper. I was struggling with what to tell and what not to tell her, so I asked marlena for advice. And marlena told me that–that I needed to be honest with myself before I’m honest with my daughter.

Chloe: About what?

Brady: Marlena believes that everything that went down with kristen is my fault.

Chloe: Your fault?

Brady: Yes, because I wasn’t honest with kristen about how I felt about you. And she went crazy with jealousy anyway. The assumption being that kristen knew that I wasn’t being honest with her. And marlena suggested that I was just hiding my feelings from you and–and from myself. I explained to her that I was simply trying to respect your decision to be with philip. And that’s when marlena suggested to me that I just get everything out in the open. That I come to the office and throw you on the conference table and just do what I do and then that’s–

Chloe: Okay, hold on. Let me get this straight. Marlena, dr. Marlena evans, your stepmother, told you to throw me on the conference table and have sex?

Brady: Exactly. Yeah.

Ben: Susan’s not getting away with what? Dr. Evans, I think she just might be trying to help in her own weird way.

Marlena: And how is she helping? By telling you and ciara that your baby is in danger? That’s–that’s absurd. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

Ben: Or maybe she does.

Marlena: What does that mean?

Ben: [Sighs] Dr. Evans, when everybody thought that ciara was dead and that I was crazy for thinking she was alive, susan banks confirmed it. If it wasn’t for her, I may have never found ciara. I may not have been married or expecting a baby. I mean, I’m always gonna be grateful to this woman. And I’m always gonna keep an open mind if she has something she wants to tell me.

Susan: Hey. Yeah.

Ciara: Please, susan! Just say something. Tell me who it is.

Susan: Oh, shoot. I lost it again!

Ciara: No!

Susan: Do you know what? I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I really want to help. I really, really do. I mean, that’s why I came all this way.

Ciara: Okay, well, then please, help me. Susan, tell me who the threat to my baby is!

Susan: Well, don’t you think I want to?! It’s–it’s just so much pressure! So much! Ciara, honey, my visions, they come when they’re good and ready. They did. And I just can’t force them. I just–I need to relax!

Ciara: Right, okay. All right, then please, please relax.

Susan: Okay, I’m gonna relax. I can’t do it if you’re staring holes straight into me.

Ciara: Oh, right, sorry.

Susan: Sit, sit, sit, sit.

Ciara: Okay, okay.

Susan: Thank you. Thank you. Good. All right.

[Exhales deeply]

[Inhales deeply] All right, I can do this. I can do this. I just need to get back to where I was before I fainted. Okay. Oh, lord, please help me. Okay. Ooh, it’s dark. It’s dark, dark, dark. It’s the purest evil. And it’s all clouded. It’s clouded. Oh, dark intentions are obscured and–oh, I see! I see, I see!

Ciara: What do you see?!

Susan: [Growls]

Ciara: Sorry.

Susan: Oh, I see, I see. Oh, I see. I see–I see someone who claims that they care about people, but doesn’T. Someone who seeks only his own gratification. Oh, my goodness. He delights in spreading pain and suffering to those closest to him.

[Gasps]

Ciara: Oh, my god. I think I know who it is. It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Lucas: You didn’t say anything to chloe?

Philip: No. Because I realized that I overreacted. Maybe she and brady were going into the salem inn ’cause he was helping her with her bags.

Kate: Oh, he was helping her with something, all right, but it wasn’t her bags.

Philip: Great. Do your worst, mom. But I am not biting. I have given up on the jealousy, the anger, and the paranoia. No more blowing up over nothing. So I didn’t mention that I saw them, which avoids the third degree. Why create a huge mess when it’s possible that nothing even happened that night?

Lucas: Maybe. But if that’s true, then why didn’t brady just say so?

Brady: I’m sorry the words even came out of my mouth. I–I opened the door, it was on my mind, I saw you. I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.

Chloe: It’s okay. It’s okay. Mm, that table has seen a lot of action.

Brady: Sorry, what?

Chloe: Never mind.

Brady: No, don’t– don’t never mind me. It sounded a lot like you said, “that table’s seen a lot of action.”

Chloe: I’m not saying another word.

Brady: Excuse me, you have to now, obviously. Was there–was there somebody having sex on this conference table besides us? I mean, we didn’t–we didn’T. You know what I mean. Come on!

Chloe: Okay, fine. One of our employees admitted to me that they had sex on that table last night.

Brady: Last night? Last night? That means it was someone who was working late. It was nicole, wasn’t it?

Nicole: So ava said charlie killed that guy?!

Rafe: Mm-hmm. Yeah. You see, ordinarily, I would think that she was lying to get out from under the charge, but, you know.

Nicole: But I saw a dead person too.

Rafe: Yep.

Nicole: Oh, and I’ve been trying to convince myself that I imagined deimos.

Rafe: Yeah, I’m right there with you. But it is weird that both you and ava, you both thought you saw a dead people on the same night.

Nicole: Well, it was halloween. And ava is as scared of charlie as I am of deimos, so maybe she did imagine him.

Rafe: Yeah. Except ava’s not the only one who swears she saw charlie. Tripp does as well.

Nicole: Oh.

Susan: Oh! Oh, my goodness. You–you know who the evil presence is? Are you psychic too, ciara?

Ciara: Oh, well, no, no. But based on what you just said, I think I have a hunch that it might be someone who’s very close to ben.

Marlena: Of course, you can be grateful to her, but it doesn’t mean you have to pay any attention to her–her half-baked visions.

Ben: What if she’s right? Dr. Evans, what if she’s right and everything that I’ve been afraid of this whole time comes true and I really am passing down my–

Marlena: Oh, ben. We’ve talked about this before. You are kind and caring. And you are–you are no danger to this baby.

Ben: And I really want to believe that. I do, but it wasn’t just what susan said. It’s what she did. She reached out and she put her hand on ciara’s stomach. And whatever susan was feeling, it caused her to faint. And it freaked me out. And that’s why I came to you.

Marlena: Well, I’m glad you came to me, uh, because the last thing that we need– the last thing that you need is some self-righteous fool trying to predict your future. And trust me, I will take care of susan.

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Philip: You talked to brady?

Lucas: Yeah. Yeah, I did. I went to give him hell. You know, I told him that we saw him carrying chloe’s bag into the salem inn. And I asked him point blank if they slept together.

Kate: Okay. Did he admit anything?

Lucas: No. But he didn’t deny it either. He said that if philip wanted to know the truth, that philip should ask him himself.

Kate: Oh, my god. Well, you know, obviously, it’s true because he wouldn’t be dancing around like that if he didn’t want to be caught in a lie.

Philip: Or maybe he thought it was none of lucas’s business, which it isn’T. And it’s none of yours either, mother. What?!

Kate: What do you mean what? You know, I’m just afraid that–don’t tell me you’re gonna hide your head in the sand again about the whole fact that chloe’s cheating on you?

Philip: What, so you’re just gonna continue to incite me?

Kate: No, no, what I’m trying to do is get you to open your eyes to the fact that you’re once again involved with a lying, shallow phony who is going to hurt you again just like she did in the past.

Philip: And speaking of the past, your jealousy has led you to some very dark places. I don’t want that to happen to me.

Kate: I have no idea what you’re referring to.

Philip: Where to start? How about the poison brownies you gave chloe when she cheated on lucas with your ex-boyfriend daniel?

Lucas: Not to put too fine a point on it.

Chloe: I will not confirm nor deny–

Brady: You don’t have to. I’m totally right, aren’t I? Aren’t I? See, yep, yep. I can’t believe it. I told her–no, I told her that ej was gonna be bad news, and she didn’t even listen to me, so–

Chloe: But–

Brady: No. I mean, what, they’ve been on two dates? I mean, I know they were married before, but–

Chloe: Brady–

Brady: Chloe, she’s vulnerable right now. You know, the divorce and everything. He’s totally taking advantage of her; it’s ridiculous.

Chloe: Ej didn’t–

Brady: You know he did. He obviously did. And I’ll tell you what, I don’t know where the hell he gets off, that’s for sure.

Chloe: Well, if you’d just listen to me.

Brady: Oh, someone’s gonna listen; it’s ej, and he’s gonna get a piece of my freaking–what are you– what are you doing?!

Chloe: It wasn’t ej. It was rafe.

Nicole: Well, do you think tripp lied about seeing charlie to protect his mom?

Rafe: Well, he is protective of ava, but I don’t think he’d come up with a story like this, not dragging allie into it.

Nicole: Allie also saw him?

Rafe: Oh, yeah. Apparently, charlie was at your apartment.

Nicole: Oh, my god. I haven’t even talked to allie since all this happened. Is she okay? And henry?

Rafe: She’s okay. Henry’s okay. Luckily, henry was with roman. But it was scary, you know? When tripp showed up at the apartment, charlie was attacking allie. He had intentions of killing both of them, and well, luckily, tripp was able to overpower him. He thought he killed him, and then–

Nicole: Oh, let me guess. He disappeared just like deimos.

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: This is so creepy.

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: So now what?

Rafe: Well– how are you even gonna verify everyone’s stories?

Rafe: That’s a good question. So I sent a squad over to check out the graves, first of all.

Nicole: You know, last night, you were pretty sure that ava killed carmine and it was over between you. But what if this is all somehow true and ava didn’t kill him? Oh, my god, rafe. We made a terrible mistake.

Ciara: Well, this is clyde weston, ben’s father. He did some pretty terrible things, and he’s in prison now. But could he be the evil presence you’re feeling? You think he’s the one trying to harm my baby?

Susan: Hmm. I mean, I do get bad vibes off of him. And I mean, he looks mean, mean, mean, but is he out to harm your baby? No, no. I don’t think so. I don’T. Uh-uh. I’m sorry, ciara.

Ciara: Oh, it’s all right. Well, so now what?

Susan: You know what? Okay. Would you mind if I tried one more time?

Ciara: No. Of course, please.

Susan: Okay, okay.

[Breathes deeply] Oh! Oh! Oh, I feel it! I feel it to the marrow of my soul! I feel it! It’s an overpowering evil!

Ciara: From where? Susan, from where?! Who is it?! Please.

Susan: Oh!

[Eerie music]

Your mission:

Marlena: Take your hands off that baby right now!

Susan: Oh, dr. Marlena evans, as I live and breathe.

Marlena: You won’t be breathing much longer if you don’t do as I say.

Susan: I’m just so glad you’re here. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you for bringing her. I really appreciate that. You know what, if anyone, if anyone can help us on this quest to find out who’s behind this danger and doom that I’ve been feeling all the way back in memphis, it is dr. Marlena evans.

Marlena: I’m not here to help you. I’m here to stop you!

Susan: Stop me? Why?

Marlena: Can’t you see what you’re doing?

Susan: I’m just–I’m trying to helping ben and ciara.

Marlena: You’re not helping. You’re scaring them! And that won’t do. Look, this couple has to stay calm and serene because their main focus is giving birth to this very special child.

Kate: I’m just trying to protect you, okay?

Philip: I don’t need your protection, mom. Chloe’s the woman for me. The only reason she moved out was because my jealousy was so out of control, so no more jealousy.

Kate: Okay, you can jump in anytime with some words of wisdom, okay?

Lucas: Nah, I’m okay. I’m staying out of it.

Philip: I’m gonna be the man chloe wants me to be. I’m gonna romance her. I’m gonna show her how I feel. You know, most importantly, I’m going to trust her. From now on. And hopefully, we can put this all behind us. And if I’m lucky, she’ll move back in with me.

Brady: Rafe? Rafael and nicole?

Chloe: Yeah.

Brady: Okay. I thought he was living with ava vitali.

Chloe: Well, according to nicole, rafe says it’s over with ava.

Brady: Uh-huh, and he just happened to show up on halloween night when nicole was working here and–

Chloe: I don’t–I don’t know. It’s none of our business.

Brady: It’s kind of our business because this is kind of our office. That’s kind of our table.

Chloe: Oh, brady, please just drop it, okay? Forget I said anything. I promised nicole I wouldn’T. But you just–you have a way of getting things out of me.

Brady: Well, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make you betray a confidence, chloe.

Chloe: Okay. You didn’t “make” me. I take full responsibility for my big mouth, but now I feel like a bad friend. So please, you–you cannot breathe a word of this to anyone, okay? Please?

Rafe: Last night wasn’t a mistake. What happened between us wasn’t because ava killed carmine. It was just an excuse.

Nicole: I don’t understand.

Rafe: I’ve been trying to do the right thing. I have, you know, to keep distance between us, ’cause that’s what we agreed to do, right? But it’s been hell. It’s been hell, because I can’t–I can’t get you out of my head. All I do is think about you. You are in my heart.

Nicole: Rafe–

Rafe: I don’t–I don’t know if you saw deimos or not. And I don’t know if ava, tripp, or allie, I don’t know if they saw charlie. But what I do know is what happened is what I’ve wanted to happen. Nothing else matters.

Nicole: It does matter, rafe. It changes everything. My nunormal?

Nicole: Last night, you thought the worst of ava. You thought she killed carmine and was reverting back to her old ways, but now that we know charlie is real or at least as real as a zombie can be…

Rafe: I know.

Nicole: What if ava is telling the truth and that she wasn’t hiding him? Look, then all your assumptions of her lying to you, they could be wrong.

Rafe: Okay, nicole, again, it’s not about ava.

Nicole: No, this is about ava.

Rafe: No, it’s not. It’s–

Nicole: Yes, it’s about ava, because I know you care about her. And ava cares about you.

Rafe: Yes.

Nicole: And I know how terrified she was last night because of that monster beyond the grave or… she was desperate. And she needed you, and you weren’t there, because you were making love to me.

Kate: Well, hey, at least you’re not involved with this one anymore, right?

Philip: Why did you invite mom to lunch?

Lucas: I didn’T.

Kate: Hey, look, I’m just saying. I mean, ava vitali kills her former associate who also shot abe and then blames it on her dead son, I mean, that is some kind of crazy. I’m just glad you’re far away from it. That’s all.

Philip: All right, I’m done here.

Kate: What?

Philip: Thanks for lunch.

Kate: What? What? Okay, something I said?

Philip: I’ve just got someplace to be.

Kate: Please tell me that you’re not gonna go see chloe.

Philip: Bye-bye.

Kate: Oh, philip.

Philip: Bye-bye.

Kate: Come…

[Sighs]

Brady: I won’t say a word to anyone. I promise. I promise. It’s not like I want to make your life more difficult than I already have.

Chloe: What are you talking about?

Brady: The other night, when I helped you move into the salem inn, I’m sure philip just gave you a bunch of grief about that, right?

Chloe: Actually, he didn’T.

Brady: Oh. You got my voice mail, though, like, warning you that he might be furious, right?

Chloe: I did. But he didn’t seem furious in the least. In fact, he showed up at the inn, he surprised me, and we had a really pleasant evening together. He didn’t say a word.

Brady: You’re kidding me, right?

Chloe: No. Honestly, seriously, he has not mentioned it since.

Brady: Wow.

Chloe: Yeah. I’m hoping that this means he’s finally gonna take the high road and not let his jealousy get the best of him, and he finally trusts me and believes when I say that you and I are just friends.

Susan: I would never, ever, ever do anything to hurt ben and ciara.

Ciara: She was only trying to help.

Marlena: And–and now look at you, you’re all upset. You should be having nothing buy joy in your lives right now. And then susan had to come and upset you with this ridiculous story.

Susan: Oh, my god. I know what I felt.

[Tense music]

Marlena: I know you mean well. But this nonsense has to stop. Do you understand? Good. Thank you for letting me help you through all this. Why don’t you take care of ciara, and I’ll–I’ll take care of susan. Come with me. Now.

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Rafe: Yeah. Yes, ava needed me. But you needed me too.

Nicole: Did ava try calling you when you were with me?

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: And when you spoke to her earlier, did she ask you where you were last night, why you didn’t pick up or call her back?

Rafe: She did.

Nicole: And what did you tell her?

Rafe: Nothing. I mean, not about us, all right, you know? I was going to tell her, but then tripp came in, and he derailed the conversation. But I am gonna tell her. I’m gonna tell her the truth. I’m gonna tell her everything.

Nicole: No! You can’t!

Ben: That was pretty intense, huh, with susan? You okay?

Ciara: Yeah. I’m okay.

Ban: Sure?

Ciara: Yeah, I’m okay. Are you okay?

Ben: Yeah. What’s this doing out?

Ciara: I–I asked susan if the evil she felt affecting our child had anything to do with clyde.

Ben: What did she say?

Ciara: She said no, that it wasn’t him. That evil presence she’s feeling is not related to you, it’s not clyde, it’s someone else.

Susan: You know, I didn’t mean to upset you. I was just trying to help.

Marlena: Well, you didn’t help. You scared those kids. And the ideas of you put in their heads–that’s detrimental to them and to this baby.

Susan: I present no danger to that baby.

Marlena: I’ll be the judge of that. In the meantime, I want you to stay away from them.

Susan: Stay away? But, dr. Evans, this is a storm like no one else has ever seen. And that baby is the center of it. I can–I can feel all of it.

Marlena: Stop it. That’s enough. I don’t want you going anywhere near them. You are to stay away from them. Do you understand?

Susan: With all due respect, what the heck do you know?

[Scoffs] Marlena: How dare you speak to me like that?

Susan: I’ll tell you how I dare. I feel things that no one else feels. I see things like no one else sees. And I sense evil coming for that baby. And if I–i can’t live with myself if I didn’t speak up about it.

Kate: You know, you could’ve been a little more of a help with your brother.

Lucas: You mean I could have taken your side?

Kate: No, you could just have agreed with me that chloe is a lying, cheating little slut. I mean, actually, brady didn’t deny that something happened between them, right?

Lucas: You know what? Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything at all. Maybe philip was right. Maybe chloe deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Kate: You’re joking, right?

Lucas: And unlike you, I don’t choose to see the worst in chloe.

Kate: Oh, that’s so noble. But it’s also foolish and laughable, because just like I have damn good reason to distrust chloe, so do you.

Brady: Look, especially for your sake, I hope that philip has gotten some control over his trust issues, because that would make your life a lot easier, but…

Chloe: But what?

Brady: The philip I know, he would lose his mind if he thought you and I had sex. Why give your family just ordinary eggs

Kate: Your naivete truly boggles the mind.

Lucas: Right, I’m naive because I’m giving someone the benefit of the doubt?

Kate: Well, if they don’t deserve it, they don’t deserve it. Do you remember how chloe cheated on you with daniel jonas? Do you remember how devastated you were, how furious, how humiliated?

Lucas: Oh, you’re one to judge, aren’t you? Do you remember when you slept with jack when he was married to jennifer?

Kate: Actually, I do recall that. Do you recall recently having sex with a certain married lady named samantha dimera?

Lucas: What’s the point, huh?

Kate: Yeah, I think the point is pretty obvious. Point is ex sex.

Lucas: Oh, okay.

Kate: That got you and sami back in the sack together, didn’t it? Well, who’s to say it didn’t happen between chloe and brady?

Lucas: All right, fine. I will concede that there is a possibility of that. There is.

Kate: Mm.

Lucas: And if this crazy plan of yours is true, if they’re really getting together, well, then you know what? Philip is gonna lose it. He is gonna blow sky high. I know it.

Chloe: How about we stop talking about philip and we get back to work?

Brady: That’s–that’s a good idea.

Chloe: And, brady, seriously, I mean it, you cannot tell anybody what happened here last night. I mean–

Brady: I know–I know what you mean. I know. You’re referring to the sex that happened on the conference table. Okay, listen, I’m–I’m not gonna tell a soul about it. It’ll be our secret, okay?

Nicole: If you tell ava the truth, it will break her heart. And I can’t let you do that.

Rafe: I’m not gonna lie to her.

Nicole: I’m not asking you to.

Rafe: Okay. Then what are you asking?

Nicole: I’m just asking you not to tell her or anyone else. And–and neither will I.

Rafe: So what? Like, that’s it?

Nicole: Rafe, I–i betrayed my husband. And it was a terrible mistake. I am not gonna betray my best friend. I don’t want to be that kind of person. And I’m pretty sure you don’t either. And I can already see how this is gonna play out, the guilt, the lies, the hurt, the self-loathing. And who knows? We could end up hating each other.

Rafe: No, no, no. No, I can never hate you.

Nicole: I know what we have to do. We have to forget this ever happened.

Rafe: No. No, nicole, I am not gonna let it end like this. I’m not. I’m not.

Nicole: I’m not giving you a choice.

Rafe: What are you–

Nicole: I can’T.

Rafe: Nicole. What… mm. Damn.

[Sighs]

Susan: Dr. Marlena evans, I care for ben weston and ciara brady-weston as much as you do. But–but what–what is coming for them, it’s a real doozy. And–and it’s just too big and too, too dark and too powerful for even a big-deal psychiatrist like yourself to handle on their own.

Marlena: How dare you presume to tell me what I can and can’t handle?

Susan: I just meant that–

Marlena: I am just fine. I’ve been doing just fine managing great without your help. So why don’t you go back to memphis? I’m sure that roger misses you.

Susan: No. No. I will not go back home to memphis, not until I figure out what this dark thing is that’s surrounding that little baby. You know what? I don’t care if you approve or not.

Marlena: You’re not going anywhere.

Susan: Lord almighty. Oh… it’s you.

[Eerie music]

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Ben: Oh! Susan banks. What the hell are you doing here?

Susan: I had to come– I had to come back. I had to. I had a premonition. Yeah. About your baby.

Ciara: How did you know that I was pregnant?

Susan: [Gasps]

Chloe: Morning. Oh, you look tired. Were you up late?

[Dramatic music]

What did you do last night?

Nicole: I had sex on that conference table with rafe.

[Dramatic music]

Ava: Rafe. Thank god you’re here.

Rafe: We need to talk.

Demon marlena: So good to see that the havoc I wreaked on halloween is getting some publicity.

[Eerie laughter] Hang on to your hats, boys and girls. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

[Eerie music]

Susan: [Huffs] You know, your lack of faith is like a knife to my heart. How did I know that you were pregnant? Honey, I told you, I had a premonition!

Ciara: Okay, and you came all the way from memphis to tell us that.

Susan: Yeah! See, once I saw what the future holds, I drove straight here like a bat out of hell.

Demon marlena: Since I spent the night raising souls from their graves, maybe I’ll spend today putting a new one in the ground.

[Eerie music]

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

[Soft orchestration]

Tripp: I’ve already left ten messages. Just tell commissioner hernandez to call me back, okay? Hey.

Allie: Hey.

Tripp: Is he asleep?

Allie: Yeah. Grandpa roman and my dad kept him up way past his bedtime. I guess they were watching some animated halloween movie. Lots of little ghouls and goblins.

Tripp: Oh, I bet they had fun.

Allie: Yeah. I’m just glad that he wasn’t here for our little horror show. And I still don’t know if that was real or not.

Tripp: Yeah, me neither. And now I feel really bad about telling my mom that charlie’s little visit from hell was all in her head, that she was just hallucinating.

Allie: Yeah, well, if she was hallucinating, then we were too. I mean, we saw your dead brother also.

Tripp: Yeah, but there has to be a rational explanation. I mean, maybe some weird halloween mind trick was going around.

Allie: I don’t know. But I felt charlie’s hate. I felt his evil. He wanted to kill me. He wanted to kill both of us. And I really thought he was going to.

[Dramatic music]

Rafe: You told both shawn and eli that your deceased son was responsible for the dead man that I found in my kitchen!

Ava: It’s the truth.

Rafe: Oh, god.

Ava: Rafe, I swear. Charlie crawled out of his–his grave, and he stabbed carmine merlino. I watched him do it.

Rafe: Come on, ava. Come on!

Ava: Come on? You have to believe me! Why are you being so cold?

Chloe: Okay, that’s a good one. Wait, are you serious? You had sex with rafe on this table? Eww. So, are you gonna tell me how that happened?

[Dramatic music]

[Eerie music]

Demon marlena: Just as I was about to kill john black last night, their pesky grandson interrupted. Well, prepare to meet your maker, john black. You have cheated death for the last time.

Brady: Marlena?

Susan: I got here as fast as I could. Oh, I did stop off to get a couple pounds of turkey jerky. I mean, they say it is the world’s best. So, am I right? Am I right? Is ben weston’s seed flowering in your womb?

Ben: Yes, susan. Ciara is pregnant.

Ciara: Yeah.

Ben: It was confirmed this morning.

Susan: Oh, I was right! I was right! Oh my god! You know what, when I-when I see the future, I’m always right. My visions are always right. I mean, except when I play the slots in those- those-those riverboat cruises that I take with roger. I mean, I swear that those little one-eyed bandits–I think they’re rigged. I do.

Ciara: I believe it. So, wait, so you came all the way here to tell us something that we already know.

Susan: No. No. I came to warn you.

Ben: Warn us about what?

Susan: Your baby, it’s in grave danger. Serena: It’s my 3:10

Ben: Danger? Susan, what are you talking about?

Ciara: Okay, ben, you can’t listen to her. I mean, no offense, susan, but from what I’ve heard about your visions, you are wrong more often than you are right.

Ben: Yeah, but how’d she know we were pregnant?

Ciara: I don’t know. Maybe shawn told someone, and then they told her, and–

Susan: [Growling] You know what? I’m used to people doubting my gifts– at their own peril.

Ben: She was right before. When you were missing, she helped us find you.

Susan: And you know what? You know what? If-if-if that mean, mean, mean kristen dimera didn’t convince me to switch places with her, you would have been found a heck of a lot sooner.

Ben: You were in statesville while she was running around free.

Susan: Yeah! Running around free as me! Making a lot of trouble in town, and breaking poor brady’s heart.

Marlena: Brady. I didn’t hear you come in.

Brady: I just dropped rachel off at school. Is everything okay?

Marlena: Of course. Why would you ask?

Brady: Well, to be honest with you, when I walked in, I swear I heard man’s voice say something about father cheating death? Yeah. Yeah.

Marlena: Oh, right. I was talking to roman on the speakerphone.

Brady: Oh, is dad in some kind of trouble or danger?

Marlena: Well, not that I know of. Not that I ever would know of. But he’s on some secret mission with black patch. I just, I’m hoping that nothing bad happens to him.

Brady: Nothing bad’s gonna happen to him. He’s indestructible. You know that.

Demon marlena: Yeah, we’ll see about that.

Brady: What?

Marlena: I said I can’t wait to see him when he’s back.

Brady: Yeah. I’m surprised he left. I mean, it’s your anniversary. Right?

Marlena: Yeah, of course, of course. You know your dad. He’s always racing off to help somebody. Anyway, I was-I was racing off on an errand that is fairly urgent, so I’ll be going.

Brady: If you have one minute, just one minute, I would love to get your advice on something.

Marlena: Sure. Glad to be of help.

Allie: I always feel so safe with you.

Tripp: I can stay as long as you want.

Allie: I appreciate that, but I know you want to go see your mom. I love you, tripp.

Tripp: So, that part wasn’t a hallucination.

Allie: Saying that to you is the only part about last night that I know was real. I’m sorry it took me so long to say it.

Tripp: Don’t be. I’m just glad you did. And allie, I love you, too.

[Light piano music]

Ava: I have been here all night, by myself, freaking out, and you finally show up, and you are as cold as ice. What is going on?

Rafe: I’m just trying to get to the bottom of what happened.

Ava: I told you what happened.

Rafe: Well, why don’t you tell me what carmine merlino, a well-known mobster who had put a bullet in the mayor, was doing in my house to begin with?

Ava: I was making dinner, and all of a sudden he showed up, and he starts ranting and he starts raving, and then all of a sudden he attacked me.

Rafe: Really?

Ava: Yes! Rafe, he threatened to strangle me. He started to do that ,and all of a sudden charlie shows up, and he put a knife in carmine’s chest!

Rafe: Okay. Okay. What did charlie do then?

Ava: You know, I didn’t stick around. Because as much as I wanted to catch up with my psycho zombie kid after he stabbed the guy who tried to kill me, you know what, I just got the hell out of there.

Rafe: Right. Well, there’s just one major problem with your story.

Ava: What’s that?

Rafe: We only found one set of prints on the knife that was used to kill carmine– yours.

Chloe: Wait, I’m confused. I thought you were dating ej. Did he freak out over that thing with steve’s phone? What happened?

Nicole: No. Chloe, can we please not talk about it right now, okay? I’m exhausted.

Chloe: Yeah, I bet you are. I bet you are, my friend. And I care about you. And if you did something you regret–

Nicole: I don’t regret it.

Chloe: Oh, well, then I’m even more confused. I know that you have feelings for rafe, but I thought you two agreed to keep your distance…

Nicole: We did.

Chloe: Out of respect…

Nicole: We did.

Chloe: For ava.

Nicole: Yes. We did.

Chloe: Then, what happened?

Nicole: There were, um, extenuating circumstances.

Chloe: What does that mean?

Nicole: You know how committed I was about not acting on my attraction for rafe. ‘Cause I didn’t want anything to get in between ava and him.

Chloe: Okay, then what happened?

Nicole: I almost died.

Chloe: What?

Nicole: I saw– right here, in this room, I saw–

Chloe: Well, what-what is it? What’d you see?

Nicole: Deimos kiriakis.

Chloe: Deimos is dead.

Nicole: I know that. But last night, he came back to kill me.

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Ciara: Thank you, susan, for helping ben find me. Really.

Susan: Oh, I would really like to help you again, now.

Ben: One moment, susan. Maybe we should hear her out. I mean, she really did come all this way.

Ciara: I don’t know, ben. It seems very personal. Not to mention weird. Look at her.

Ben: Yeah, she’s definitely odd. But like I said, how did she know we were pregnant?

Ciara: Like I said, maybe shawn told someone and the news got to her somehow. Look, I don’t-I don’t care, ben. I do not like her coming into our home out of nowhere, telling me that scary things are gonna happen to my baby.

Ben: Well, the baby wouldn’t even exist right now if she didn’t help us. Look, if you want me to get rid of her, I’ll get rid of her right now, but I think it might be easy if we just listen. We definitely don’t have to believe anything she says.

Ciara: Fine. Fine, fine, fine. Fine. Susan.

Susan: Mm-hmm?

Ciara: We would love to hear your vision.

Susan: Oh! That is such a good decision! Very smart and intelligent.

Ben: Yep. Okay, so why don’t you go ahead and tell us, susan, what kind of danger you think my child is in.

Marlena: What do you want advice about?

Brady: Rachel. Rachel. Ever since kristen’s little surprise visit–that’s what I’m referring to her attempt to kidnap our daughter–she’s been asking all kinds of questions.

Marlena: Like what?

Brady: You know, like, why did mommy have to leave again? You know, when is mommy coming back and taking me on that surprise trip that she promised? And I don’t know what to tell her.

Marlena: Well, why don’t you try the truth?

Brady: Well, she’s-she’s really young. I don’t think I want her to know all the things her mother has done.

Marlena: Well, I wasn’t talking about her mother. I was talking about you.

Brady: What I did?

Marlena: Brady, let’s just be honest. Are you or are you not harboring impure thoughts about chloe lane?

Chloe: How much did you have to drink last night?

Nicole: I was stone cold sober. I came here to get some work done, and I looked up, and an undead deimos was standing right there, and he was furious. And he came at me, so I grabbed a pair of scissors, and I stabbed him in the heart, and he died. Again.

Chloe: Oh, my god.

Nicole: I was freaking out, obviously, so I called rafe to help me, but by the time he came here, the scissors were on the floor–no blood, no body, no deimos. I mean, it was halloween, and it was really creepy, you know, being here by myself. I don’t know, maybe-maybe I imagined the whole thing.

Chloe: Still sounds terrifying.

Nicole: Yeah. I was a wreck when rafe got here, and he was so kind and comforting, and one thing led to another, and–

Chloe: And then conference table sex?

Nicole: Yeah.

Chloe: So, now what?

Rafe: So, how do you explain the forensics report?

Ava: I don’t know, rafe. Maybe zombies don’t have fingerprints.

Rafe: You do have a connection to carmine, though. You used to be his boss.

Ava: Yes, used to be. I cut my ties with my past.

Rafe: Oh. Okay. But not according to gabi. In fact, she says that you and philip kiriakis were using carmine to blackmail her, that if she refused to sign over her company, they were gonna pin a murder on jake that he didn’t commit.

Ava: Yeah. Right. Of course. Of course. Why am I not surprised that your sister is using this to try and turn you against me?

Rafe: Well…

Ava: She’s the reason I spent the night here, isn’t she? She is the reason you never showed up.

Rafe: Ava.

Ava: I know. I know that shawn called you and he told you I was here and that I needed you. So, where were you? What was so important that you couldn’t come here and help your girlfriend, who is being held on suspicion of murder?

[Dramatic music]

Rafe: Ava, there’s something I need to tell you.

Brady: I would hardly call my feelings for chloe impure.

Marlena: Oh. Well, we could argue semantics all day long, but the truth is you do have feelings for her. And when kristen asked you about it, you said you didn’T. So you lied. You lied to kristen, and you lied to yourself.

Brady: I’m trying to be respectful here. I really am. I mean, look, chloe has said that she’s with philip. She’s with philip. So, I-I know that she wants to work on it with him.

Marlena: You are her first choice.

Brady: I blew my chance, and I’m going to accept it. I have to accept it.

Marlena: No, you don’T.

Brady: No, I don’t? Okay, then what–marlena, what do you-what do you-what do you suggest that I do about this?

Marlena: I suggest you go back to the office, you find chloe, and without a word, you lay her down on the conference table and show how big your feelings are for her.

[Dramatic music]

Ava: Where were you last night?

Tripp: Mom. Are you okay?

Ava: Yeah, honey, I’m fine, I’m fine. No thanks to some people.

Tripp: Didn’t they give you my messages?

Rafe: Yeah, I’ve been kind of busy.

Tripp: They were refusing to let me come back here. I could have really used your help. I’m so sorry I left you last night.

Ava: No. Are you kidding? I told you–I insisted that you go check on allie. Are she and henry okay?

Tripp: Yeah. I just came from there. They’re fine.

Ava: Thank god. Thank god charlie didn’t hurt them.

Rafe: Your mother says she saw your dead brother last night.

Tripp: She did. Allie and I saw him too.

[Dramatic music]

Allie: Dupree. Why aren’t you at the bakery?

Chanel: My bestie/business partner called in sick, so–

Allie: What’s that?

Chanel: Chicken soup. Guaranteed to cure what ails you.

Allie: Well, that’s very sweet, but I have a confession. I’m not sick, I just didn’t get much sleep last night.

Chanel: Oh. So, you and tripp–

Allie: We were together, but it’s not what you think. Actually, something really scary happened last night.

Chanel: Well, halloween’s all about being scared.

Allie: No, it wasn’t, like, normal halloween scary.

Chanel: Well, why don’t we sit down and you can tell me all about it?

Ciara: All right, susan. Tell me, what grave danger is my child in?

Susan: I’m not really clear on the specifics.

Ciara: Mm-hmm. But you said that you know what the future holds, so.

Susan: I did! I did see it! I did! It’s just, sometimes it gets a little fuzzy, like.

Ciara: Mm-hmm. Okay, here’s the thing: I just found out that I am pregnant, so the last thing that I need is any negative thoughts or opinion or idea fluttering around in my brain. You know, like, I’m freaked out enough as it is.

Susan: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, I would never want to make a mother-to-be feel ill at ease. No! It’s bad enough with the morning sickness. But you have to listen to me! It’s very important that you hear what I have to say.

Ciara: Okay, but it seems to me that you don’t even know what you have to say, susan.

Susan: You know what, it’s like I told ben when you went missing: I just-I can’t control the vision! I just can’t! And-and-and-and one minute, everything is super duper sharp, and then the next, I just lose the signal. And I can always get it back. I can. I can always get it back if I tune in just right.

Ciara: Mm-hmm.

Ben: Yeah, and it helps if you hold on to something, right? Like the fortune from the cookie, right?

Susan: Oh, yes, ben! That could work! That–yes! Yes!

Ben: Okay.

Susan: You know what, I just need to get a psychic vibration from the baby. Do you have a rattle or something?

Ciara: You know what? We haven’t really gotten a rattle yet. I found out a couple of hours ago, so.

Ben: What if you, like, put your hand on the belly?

Susan: Oh, yeah.

Ciara: My belly?

Ben: I meant ciara’s belly.

Susan: I know, silly. I just couldn’t resist a good six-pack. Wow.

Ciara: Okay, that’s enough.

Susan: Oh, okay, right, I’m sorry. Okay. Yeah.

[Mysterious music]

Oh, I feel something. Oh, my goodness, you got a little life force in there.

Ben: Okay, yeah, what else, susan? Susan?

Susan: Oh! Oh, the evil! Oh, lord, the evil! Nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard.

Chanel: So, what was this scary incident that kept you up all night?

Allie: I don’t really want to get into it. But I can tell you something else that happened last night. I finally told tripp that I loved him.

Chanel: Horton, that’s amazing. He must be so happy. I know he was feeling a little insecure about it.

Allie: Right. Because you guys talked about it.

Chanel: Guilty as charged. Sorry I lied.

Allie: Why did you?

Chanel: I don’t know. When you came off the elevator and you saw the two of us talking, it was a little bit awkward, and I didn’t want to speak out of turn. But all that matters is that tripp knows you want to be with him and not me, despite johnny and that ouija board nonsense. What was that all about, anyway?

Allie: He saw you feeding me the pumpkin cookie, and he thought it was intimate.

Chanel: Are you serious? Halloween really makes people see things that aren’t there.

Allie: So, did my brother ever apologize for being a huge jerk?

Chanel: He did come over last night, and we did make up.

Allie: Hmm, so, in other words, you let him off easy.

Chanel: Oh no, I made him work for it. Literally.

Allie: What do you mean?

Chanel: Who do you think covered your shift this morning? Starting at 5:00 A.M.

Allie: No way.

Chanel: G decorated six trays of dia de los muertos cookies, and then I had him help me with this surprise order that came in for a cake. Some folks celebrating a 56-year anniversary.

Allie: Wow! 56 years. That’s a long time.

Chanel: Some people really do beat the odds. They’re destined to be together, and they stay together. They’re so-called super couples.

Ciara: Oh, my god, ben, what are we gonna do with her now?

Ben: I don’t know. Maybe I should go get dr. Evans. She’ll know how to handle it. Will you be okay here?

Ciara: Do I have a choice?

Brady: Can’t believe you just said that.

Marlena: You needed to hear it.

Brady: You think I should go to the office and throw chloe down on the conference table? Marlena, come on. No! No way! No.

Marlena: Brady.

Brady: Yeah.

Marlena: You can’t keep going on like this. You’ve got to be honest with yourself and with the woman you love. And I think this is the most direct way. I mean, it’s bold and daring, and very romantic. So, you go on and you find chloe and show her who’s boss.

Brady: Marlena, I am her boss. I am her boss. Even if I wasn’t her boss, and even if she wasn’t involved with somebody else, I mean, come on, that kind of behavior in the workplace–

Marlena: What? Worked for john and me. John had his way with me on the conference table at titan.

Brady: Right.

Marlena: And the rest is true love history.

Brady: Also recall it traumatized sami, and also ruined your marriage to roman.

Marlena: Well, roman got over it. Eventually. And philip will too. The thing is, when there’s this kind of a powerful attraction, it has to be expressed, because the heart wants what the heart wants. And so does the body. So, you go on to chloe, and you tell her how you feel.

Brady: Okay.

[Eerie music]

Chloe: What’s going to happen when ava finds out about this?

Nicole: Look, rafe led me to believe that it was over between him and ava.

Chloe: Since when?

Nicole: Since she was taken into police custody on suspicion of murder.

Chloe: What?

Nicole: It’s a really long story, but apparently ava’s been lying about leaving her life of the mafia princess behind, and it turns out that she’s been hiding the guy that shot abe, and then she ended up killing him in rafe’s kitchen with a knife.

Chloe: Oh. Okay, let me get this straight. So, last night, you and ava both possibly stabbed someone to death. But in ava’s case, there was a body.

Nicole: I know, it sounds crazy!

Chloe: Yeah, but let’s go with it. So, if rafe and ava really are over, what does it mean for you and rafe? Was last night a one-time thing, or is it the start of something?

Nicole: I don’t know. Rafe and I didn’t really talk much last night.

Chloe: Well, maybe you should talk now.

Ava: You saw charlie. See, I told you.

Rafe: Yeah. Listen, tripp, I get why you’d want to cover for your mother, but lying to the police isn’t a good idea.

Tripp: I’m not lying,. Okay, look, when she first told me she saw my brother, I didn’t believe her either, okay? I thought she was having a drug flashback. But when I went over to allie’s place, charlie was there holding her.

Ava: God. Oh my god.

Rafe: But you said she and henry are okay, though.

Tripp: Yes.

Rafe: All right. Well, go on. What happened next?

Tripp: Charlie let go of allie and he came after me. We fought. I just kept hitting him over and over again. And finally, allie pulled me off of him. And we took our eyes off him for like two seconds, and he just disappeared.

Rafe: Disappeared?

Tripp: I can’t explain it, okay? He just vanished. All right? You don’t believe me, do you? I don’t blame you. I mean, I’m not sure I believe it myself.

[Dramatic music]

Nicole: This doesn’t make any sense. Deimos was here, dead on the floor, with a pair of scissors in his chest. I mean, how could he just- how could he just disappear?

Rafe: Well, then I’ll go check on charlie’s grave.

Ava: Let me come with you.

Rafe: Yeah, sorry about that, but until this is all cleared up, you gotta stay here. As a dj, I know all about customization.

[Light instrumental music]

[Dramatic music]

Demon marlena: I can’t wait to see what happens with chloe and brady. Even if he doesn’t have the nerve to ravish her right now, I’ve planted the seed in his brain, so it should cause some trouble. Now, on to his father, john black.

Ben: Oh, hey. Dr. Evans, hi. I really need to talk to you.

Marlena: Yeah. I’m sorry, I was just leaving.

Ben: It’s really important. We just found out ciara’s pregnant.

[Eerie music]

Ciara: Well, good morning, sunshine.

Susan: Goodness, gracious. I am so sorry about that.

Ciara: That’s all right. Are you okay?

Susan: You know, I’m a little lightheaded, but it is passing.

Ciara: Good. Good. Well, I still think you should rest until marlena gets here.

Susan: Oh, you know, I did not mean to upset you! I didn’t!

Ciara: Oh, I know. I know. It’s just, you know, it’s not particularly helpful of you to put your hands on my belly and start screaming about something evil. Ben is already really worried about our baby, because of his family history and the things that he’s done in the past.

Susan: Yeah, I know. I know. He was the necktie killer. But dr. Marlena evans told me that there’s no threat to anyone anymore.

Ciara: Yes, that is right, he’s not. But he’s still worried about passing on his “evil gene” to the baby.

Susan: Well, everyone knows that I’m not one to stick my nose into anybody else’s business, but– I didn’t mean to upset you at all, so I’m just gonna-I’m gonna go to the little girls’ room, and then I’m gonna be moseying on my way.

Ciara: Well, wait, susan. If there’s even the slightest chance that my baby is in danger, I need to know. I’ve lost count of how many asthma attacks I’ve had.

Chloe: Brady? Brady. Are you okay?

[Dramatic music]

Chanel: So, where is this man you have declared your love for?

Allie: At the police station.

Chanel: Is he in trouble?

Allie: No, but his mom is, and he’s trying to get her out of it.

Tripp: Mom, I am so sorry I doubted you.

Ava: It’s okay, hon. I am starting to have some doubts of my own.

Rafe: Yeah. Head over to the ceremony and check out charlie dale’s grave. Let me know if you find anything unusual. And while you’re at it, check out deimos kiriakis’ as well. Okay.

[Dramatic music]

Ciara: I know that the love and I ben have for each other will get us through whatever the future holds. I know that. But I’m gonna need you to try again. So, just please.

Susan: Okay.

[Eerie music]

Ciara: What?

Susan: The evil! The evil associated with this baby is very strong! Oh my, there’s so much!

Ciara: Okay. What does that mean? Does that mean that ben was right, that he passed on his evil gene to my baby?

Susan: No! No! The evil’s not coming from the baby’s father! The evil is coming from someone else.

[Eerie music]

Marlena: Ciara’s pregnant. Are you sure?

Ben: Yeah. Yeah. She took an at-home test, and then kayla confirmed it this morning.

Marlena: You and ciara are having a baby. That’s the best news ever.

[Laughing]

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Belle: [Gasps]

Shawn: Belle? What’s-what’s-what’s wrong?

Belle: I just had the most awful nightmare.

Shawn: About what?

Belle: My mom was possessed by the devil–again.

Ben: Baby, you just took that test last night. I assume it’s still potive?

Ciara: Yes, it is positive. We are still pregnant. I just–I can’t believe it.

Ben: Why? Because it happened immediately after you stopped taking your pill?

Ciara: Well, I knew it was possible. But it still kind of just seemed like a one-in-a-million chance, you know.

Ben: Mm.

Melinda: Please don’t tell me you’re gonna count it.

Xander: No, I’ll trust you ’cause you know there’ll be hell to pay if it’s not all there. It’s been real–

Melinda: I don’t regret at all to inform you that you won’t be spending a penny of this.

Xander: What are you talking about?

Melinda: Because you’re gonna be giving the money to me.

Xander: Why exactly would I do that?

Melinda: Because if you don’t, I will blow your girlfriend’s life sky-high.

Xander: Since you just dropped some pretty serious charges against me, I’ll say this politely, but I do not take kindly to anyone who threatens the people I care about.

Melinda: I’m not threatening anyone, mr. Cook. As district attorney, I simply have a duty to expose the truth.

Xander: What truth?

Melinda: I know gwen rizczech’s dirty little secret.

Jack: What are you so angry about?

Abigail: Her.

Jack: I don’t understand. You told me that you had apologized to gwen and she accepted.

Abigail: Well, I’m here to take back that apology because I now know that my sister has been lying through her teeth again.

Jack: Lying? About what?

Abigail: Losing the baby. Turns out I didn’t have anything to do with it.

[Dramatic music]

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

[Soft orchestration]

Ben: When you looked online, the website said that if you stop taking your pills in the middle of a pack, which you did, you could get pregnant right away.

Ciara: Yes. It also said that it’s rare.

Ben: We’re rare. We beat the odds.

Ciara: Kind of feels like it’s a little more than that though. Kind of feels like a miracle to me.

Ben: Ah, I mean, it is a miracle.

Ciara: Yeah.

Ben: You’re pregnant.

Ciara: I’m pregnant.

Ben: You’re pregnant.

Ciara: I’m pregnant.

Ben: I mean, it’s amazing. It’s mind-blowing, but, I mean, people do conceive children every single day.

Ciara: So you’re not surprised?

Ben: Not really. I mean, we’re young, we’re healthy. We’re very, very good at doing what you need to do to get pregnant the old-fashioned way.

Ciara: Yes, we are. Do you think that it happened after the first time we tried?

Ben: Maybe. Although we did do it like bunch of times after.

Ciara: Yeah, we did, but we did both agree that the first time felt different. Was special. After we had wondered out loud, if I was pregnant, a big gust of wind came in through the window and–

Ben: Scared the hell outta me because I thought it was a bad omen.

Ciara: Maybe it wasn’t a bad omen. Maybe it was a good omen.

Belle: She just kept– she kept saying over and over in this really creepy voice, “expect the unexpected.”

Shawn: What do you think it means?

Belle: I don’t know. You know, it was, like–like, it was kind of an inside joke, and she just kept cackling like a maniac. Ugh, I can still hear it.

Shawn: Well, it’s not real. All right?

Belle: No, I know. I know. It’s probably just a combination of jet lag and seeing her in that weird halloween costume yesterday dressed as the devil with those creepy contact lenses that made her eyes look like they were glowing. Anyway, I’m sorry I woke you.

Shawn: No, no, no, no. I’m sorry. I’m sorry you had to see your mom like that. I mean, it must be difficult, given her history, so–

Belle: Yeah.

Shawn: Come here. Come here. Maybe we can go back to sleep now.

Belle: Okay.

Shawn: Mm-hmm.

Belle: Yeah, no. I’m wide awake.

Shawn: What?

Belle: No. And we’ve been asleep for like 12 hours. Thank you, international travel.

Shawn: Well, since we are both awake now, I mean, I gotta confess that I am having some devilish thoughts myself.

Belle: Oh, yeah?

Shawn: Mm-hmm.

Belle: What do you have in mind, mr. Brady?

Shawn: Well, I don’t know. Maybe I could lead you into temptation.

Belle: I’d like to see you try.

Shawn: Challenge accepted, mrs. Brady.

[Both laughing]

[Romantic music]

Xander: Secret? I’m not sure I know what you’re referring to.

Melinda: Oh, I’m sorry. I just assumed that you knew since gwen’s your girlfriend and you’re not the one that she’s been deceiving all these months.

Xander: And who would that be?

Melinda: Her father, jack deveraux. And as I said, I have a duty to bring the truth to light. So I’m just gonna go to his house right now and tell him what his daughter has done.

Gwen: Abigail, I already admitted that I lied about what happened when I lost my baby.

Jack: That’s right. She did.

Gwen: You said some really vicious things to me at the house that day. You said that I would be a horrible mother. So I wanted to hurt you the way that you hurt me. And I said that you pushed me down the stairs, but that wasn’t true. It was just horrible, tragic accident.

Abigail: It was horrible and it was tragic. But I wouldn’t exactly call it an accident.

Jack: Abigail, please–

Chad: Let her finish, j

Gwen: I fell down those stairs on accident. And I lost my baby.

Abigail: Both those statements are true but not in that order. Right, gwen?

Jack: What is she talking about?

Abigail: Do you want me to take this one, sis, hmm? Did you wanna do it or should I?

Gwen: Why are you doing this? You hate me so much.

Chad: Don’T. You’ve put her through enough. Don’t you blame her for this.

Abigail: I still feel terrible that we got into that argument. I feel terrible that you ended up in the hospital, but it is time for the truth to come out. And I do mean the whole truth this time.

Gwen: I-I-I don’t– I-I don’t know what she’s talking about.

Abigail: Mm, yeah, you do. You and I both know damn well that you lost that baby before you fell down the stairs. It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Ben: So…we can either stay here and wonder if we’re having a baby, or we can head to the hospital and find out for sure.

Ciara: Let’s do it.

Ben: Yeah?

Ciara: Yeah.

Ben: Or we just assume that test is wrong and we stay here.

Ciara: Oh, yeah. And why would we do that?

Ben: So we can keep trying.

Ciara: Are you sure you’re up for it?

Ben: Always. And you are too. I can see.

Ciara: You know what? Let’s go to the hospital, see if I’m carrying your child. And if I’m not, we’ll come right back here and we pick up right where we left off.

Belle: So great that ben and ciara are trying to have a baby.

Shawn: Yeah. Yeah. I just hope they’re not rushing things. I mean–I mean, why don’t they enjoy being newlyweds for a little while and you know, I mean, start a family in a few years, you know?

Belle: Oh, come on. After everything they’ve been through, makes sense that they wouldn’t wanna take anything for granted. Especially their time together. Truth is, none of us know what tomorrow may bring.

Shawn: Yeah. Speaking about imaginable events, I am gonna go to the hospital. I’m gonna visit abe. Do you wanna come?

Belle: Oh, no, but I’ll meet you there later. I’m gonna go check on my mom.

Shawn: And make sure she’s not possessed by the devil?

Belle: Okay. I know it’s a little nuts, but I-I just–I need to see her out of that costume so I can get that image out of my head.

Kayla: Well, I think I need to say my goodbyes. I have to get back to work.

Steve: Wait. One more thing. Before we got called over here for the wedding, you said there’s a chance that gwen is lying to jack again.

Kayla: That’s what abigail told me.

Steve: Lying about what?

Kayla: Well, you know how gwen claimed that dr. Snyder used his knowledge of her past as a sex worker to blackmail her into delivering his drugs. Well, abigail doesn’t believe that. She thinks that whatever he’s– was holding against her is much worse.

Steve: Like what?

Kayla: Well, she’s not sure, but she’s hoping that there’s a clue in snyder’s office. So I let her look through it.

Steve: Is that allowed?

Kayla: Well, the drug case is closed. And I removed all the medical files, so I just didn’t see any reason to say no.

Steve: So she thought she might find some answers in the guy’s personal belongings?

Kayla: I guess.

Steve: Well, I don’t have to tell you how much I love abigail. I really hope she comes up empty on this one, for jack’s sake.

Kayla: You said he was in good spirits this morning.

Steve: Yeah. Because trask dropped the charges against gwen.

Kayla: Oh, thanks to you.

Steve: No matter what she’s done, she’s still my niece, just like abigail. I couldn’t let her go to prison. But to hear she’s still keeping secrets…

Kayla: Well, we don’t know for sure.

Steve: Well, I know that jack thinks she’s changed. That she’s not out for revenge anymore, and they’re on their way to being a family. I’d hate to see that undone.

Kayla: I think that abigail feels the same way.

Steve: She does?

Kayla: Yeah. I mean, she told me that she hopes that her suspicion is wrong. She doesn’t want to hurt her father or her sister. She just wants to know the truth. She needs to know the truth. No matter what it is.

Steve: Well, jack believes that they can put all the bad blood behind them. So I say we stay optimistic too.

Jack: Abigail, what are you saying?

Abigail: I’m saying that gwen was no longer pregnant when she fell down the stairs.

Jack: I-I’m-I’m lost.

Abigail: You know the secret that dr. Snyder was holding over her?

Jack: Of course. Of course, I do. She was a–she was a sex worker in philadelphia.

Abigail: Gwen–gwen was not a sex worker. Okay. Tell him. Would you just–would you just tell him that this was another one of your stupid, stupid lies?

Jack: Why would she lie about that?

Chad: Because the truth was worse.

Abigail: Gwen watched drugs kill her mother. Why on earth would she agree to deliver opioids?

Jack: Because snyder threatened her. He was gonna come to me and tell me about her past.

Abigail: But why on earth would that be so threatening, hmm? Gwen has done horrible things to our family. She drugged me. She tried to blow up your relationship and mine. She got into a fight with my grandma that resulted in her death and you forgave her of all of it. So why would she be afraid to tell you that she sold her body in the past to survive? It doesn’t make any sense.

Jack: She’s ashamed. She’s ashamed. She thinks it’s one more thing that-that-that’s gonna make her look bad next to you.

Abigail: Yeah. Mm-mm. I never bought any of that.

Jack: Okay, you didn’t, but what does this have to do with gwen losing her baby?

Abigail: I will tell you. The day that gwen showed up at the house and I said those horrible, horrible things to her, she was coming from the hospital where she was treated for severe abdominal pain.

Jack: That can’t be right.

Abigail: I am truly sorry, but it is. Dr. Snyder examined her, found that her baby did not have a heartbeat because she had miscarried. So, of course, when she arrived back at the hospital later that day, dr. Snyder knew that her fall down the stairs had nothing to do with why she lost the baby.

Chad: And it quickly became clear to him that she didn’t want us to know about that.

Abigail: Gwen wanted everyone to think that I was responsible for killing her unborn child. Dr. Snyder knew how desperate she was to keep the real story from coming out. And that is what he was using to blackmail her.

Chad: And even after she admitted the fall was an accident, she still let us believe that abigail was partly to blame. That if they hadn’t fought on the stairs, she wouldn’t have lost the baby.

Abigail: But the truth is, when we got into that argument, she wasn’t even pregnant anymore.

Jack: Is this true?

Belle: Guess nobody’s here. All right. It was just a costume. It wasn’t real. Just like the nightmare wasn’t real.

[Knocking on door] Who is it?

Steve: It’s steve.

Belle: Oh.

[Sighs]

Steve: Oh. You okay? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.

Belle: Something like that. Come on in.

Steve: I wasn’t expecting to see you here. I thought you were in south africa visiting claire.

Belle: Yeah. Shawn and I got back last night.

Steve: Well, how’s she doing?

Belle: Oh, she’s great. She’s great. It was a really–it was a really positive move for her. And– I’m sorry I-I just lost my train of thought. I’m just out of it from the time difference.

Steve: Oh, it’s okay. So where is everyone?

Belle: I don’t know. I came by to see my mom, and nobody was here.

Steve: Oh, that’s too bad. I was hoping to talk to your dad about some business.

Belle: My dad? He’s out of town on a case.

Steve: What case is that?

[Elevator bell dings]

Shawn: Ben? Hey, what’s going on? What are you doing here?

Ben: Oh, it’s ciara. She’s in there with kayla right now.

Shawn: Is something wrong?

Ben: Well, if you consider possibly being pregnant wrong.

Shawn: What? That’s-that’s amazing. Wow.

Ben: Surprised?

Shawn: Yeah. I mean, I’m surprised. Of course, I’m surprised. I mean–I mean, just last night you were just telling belle and I how you guys were gonna start trying to have one.

Ben: Yeah. It’s crazy, man. Ciara was saying that she was feeling a little queasy. She went and picked up a pregnancy test and it came back positive.

Shawn: Wow. Wow.

Ben: Yeah. Wow, wow.

Shawn: Hey. Are you still worried about you and ciara having a baby?

Kayla: All righty. I will get the lab to put a rush on this.

Ciara: And then I’ll know for sure. Wow. It must be such a huge moment finding out that you’re gonna be a mom knowing that your life is going to change forever.

Kayla: You have no idea.

Ciara: You know what, kayla? I think I just got a little scared.

Kayla: That is perfectly normal.

Ciara: Really?

Kayla: Yes. Having a baby is a big deal and there are gonna be times that you’re gonna be scared. But it’s also one of the most rewarding experiences that you’ll ever have.

[Light music]

Xander: Sorry. I still have no idea what you’re talking about.

Melinda: That’s how you wanna play this? Fine. I’ll humor you. The other day, I overheard you and ms. Rizczech chatting in this very room.

Xander: Oh, you mean when gwen wanted to see me and you so generously gave us all of 15 minutes.

Melinda: And oh, boy, did I learn a lot in that short amount of time.

Xander: You were eavesdropping on us?

Melinda: Certainly you had no expectation of privacy. This isn’t your living room, mr. Cook.

Xander: So what exactly do you think you heard?

Melinda: That ms. Rizczech has never been a sex worker. And that she’s been lying to everyone about the timing of her miscarriage. Oh, and I believe she said that her father would never forgive her if he ever found out that she was letting her sister abigail take the blame for the death of her baby when, in fact, she did nothing wrong.

Xander: You must have misunderstood.

Melinda: I think I understood perfectly. My guess is that gwen had already miscarried before her little tumble down the stairs, and then she lied about it after the fact.

Xander: That’s absurd.

Melinda: You’re certainly entitled to your own opinion. But I wanna know what mr. Deveraux thinks about it. So I’m just gonna run by him.

Xander: Wait.

Melinda: That’s what I thought.

Gwen: I don’t know where abigail got this insane idea from. Maybe she’s off her meds, or maybe she’s having some sort of a psychotic break. I don’t know ’cause I don’t know at all what she’s talking about.

Jack: Sweetheart, abigail, I know that you-you feel guilty about what happened with gwen’s baby.

Abigail: What does that have to do with anything?

Jack: I’m just wondering if this–this story might be a way to assuage that guilt.

Abigail: It’s not a story, dad, it is the truth.

Gwen: Really? Really? Do you have proof? Do you have any sort of evidence whatsoever to support this outrageous accusation? You know, snyder is dead. He’s in hell. And unless he’s risen from his grave, there’s no way you could have gotten this rubbish from him.

Abigail: I didn’t need to ’cause I have it all right here in your chart.

[Dramatic music]

As a dj, I know all about customization.

Steve: What makes you think john is away on a case?

Belle: My mom said he was.

Steve: Marlena said john left town on business for black patch?

Belle: She said that he left town on an important case. Why? Is something wrong?

Steve: It’s just the first I’m hearing about it, that’s all.

Belle: Is that unusual? That he wouldn’t tell you?

Steve: Not necessarily. I just did a solo job for victor kiriakis.

Belle: Okay. So one hand doesn’t always know what the other hand is doing.

Steve: Exactly. So if your mom said john is off on a case, must be true.

Ciara: As always, marlena has been such a huge help to ben. He’s had some worries about becoming a father. He’s scared that our child will develop his mental illness.

Kayla: Well, that is an understandable concern. But you both will be caring and attentive parents, and if you see anything off, you’ll get help right away.

Ciara: Absolutely. And marlena has helped ben see that his fear shouldn’t stop him from starting a family and clearly it hasn’t because here I am. But you know, given his psychological history and the way he grew up, I’m kinda scared that the worry may never go away.

Kayla: Well, what do you think?

Ciara: Well, I think he’s gonna be an excellent father. He’s gonna be everything that clyde never was for him. Clyde made ben’s childhood an absolute living hell, and our child is gonna be surrounded by nothing but love.

Shawn: Look, at dinner last night, you said that you were nervous about becoming a parent.

Ben: Well, dr. Evans helped me get past that. Plus, half of our baby’s genes is gonna belong to ciara. And she’s gonna be, like, the best mother ever, so.

Shawn: This is true. When my sister loves, man, she loves with everything she’s got. I can only imagine how fierce her love’s gonna be when it’s maternal.

Melinda: Here’s the deal. I’m gonna take what’s in this briefcase, and in exchange, I agree not to say a word to jack devereaux or anyone else about what I know.

Xander: Oh. So madame district attorney doesn’t really care about blackmail as long as she’s the one getting paid.

Melinda: The money’s not for me.

Xander: Then why do you want it?

Melinda: That’s personal.

Xander: And that’s a million dollars. The least you can do is tell me what you’re gonna do with it.

Melinda: I’m gonna use the money to honor my daughter’s memory.

Xander: Are you gonna donate it to the hospital?

Melinda: Haley did love being a nurse. But I thought about how I could do the greatest amount of good and help the most amount of people in a way that would truly be meaningful to haley. So I’ve decided I’m starting a legal defense fund to assist undocumented immigrants.

Xander: Oh, yeah, I remember she was almost deported.

Melinda: I was able to pull some strings at the last minute, but most parents don’t have a senator on speed dial. I want to be able to offer them resources, information, hope. There’s nothing more I can do for my daughter, but maybe I can help someone else’S.

Gwen: Where did you get that? My medical records are private.

Abigail: We found it in dr. Snyder’s office inside of a book called “miscarriage of justice.”

Chad: It’s a record of your first visit to the hospital. The one snyder agreed to keep secret if you run drugs for him.

Gwen: You broke into his office?

Abigail: Aunt kayla let us in.

Gwen: That’s illegal. I can have you arrested.

Jack: Everything abigail said is right here in snyder’s notes. It says you saw him that morning complaining of pain. He did an ultrasound that showed you’d miscarried.

Abigail: Before she fell down the stairs.

Jack: By then you knew. You already knew you’d lost your baby.

[Dramatic music]

Your heart is at the heart of everything you do.

Shawn: So what’s the verdict?

Ciara: Why, hello, bro. What are you doing here?

Shawn: Well, I came here to check up on abe run into ben. So what did the test say, huh?

Ciara: Oh, okay, easy. Aunt kayla put a rush on the test results, but we don’t know if you’re gonna be an uncle just yet. Or if you are going to be a father.

[Sighs] You guys.

Shawn: [Sighs]

[Light music]

Xander: Look. As an immigrant myself, I think what you’re doing is actually quite noble. But why do you have to do it with my money?

Melinda: Well, I did a little math to figure out what your lies have cost the taxpayers. Turns out, that’s a pretty tidy sum. After all the time and energy I and the hardworking people in my office have wasted on your high crimes and misdemeanors, I figured you’re not really entitled to this money.

Xander: Well, that is quite a stretch.

Melinda: I’m not interested in your opinion. But the choice is yours. If you don’t really care about protecting ms. Rizczech’s relationship with her father, then you can take this money and go.

Xander: Fine, keep it. But just to be clear, if I give you this cash, then I have your word that you will never say anything to jack about gwen’s secret.

Melinda: I swear to you, jack devereaux won’t hear it from me.

[Dramatic music]

Chad: How? How could you do this? I mean, you came between abigail and me once already. You were on a mission to ruin our marriage when you seduced me and got pregnant?

Gwen: I didn’t know that that would happen.

Chad: But it did. And as devastating as that was, my wife found a way to rise above and handle it with grace.

Gwen: Grace? Was that really graceful the way she screamed at me at the top of the stairs?

Chad: She said she regretted it. And my wife had nothing to do with what happened to that baby. Yet, you let her believe that she did. But she felt so guilty that she left town. She left me, she left our children.

Gwen: Abigail told me that she wanted to be rid of me and my baby. She meant that. She asked me to get an abortion.

Chad: And you told me that having the baby had nothing to do with hurting abigail, yet that was a lie.

Abigail: She wants to hurt all of us. After all of the understanding and the forgiveness that we have shown her, she’s still deceiving us and causing us pain. It’s all she knows how to do.

Gwen: Oh, yeah, because you are so perfect.

Abigail: I am far from it. But I was raised by loving people and so I know how to love. You weren’t, so you don’t know how to love anyone but yourself, and I feel sorry for you, gwen. I really do. I wish things could be different between us. But it’s very obvious to me now that they can’T. You’re a toxic person, and I don’t want you in my life.

[Dramatic music]

Jack: I can’t believe I didn’t see this coming. How could I have been so blind?

Gwen: I’m sorry.

Jack: I trusted you. I supported you. And my other daughter told me that all you wanted was to hurt me and our family. Why, gwen? Why would you do this?

Trelegy for copd.

Ciara: Oh, my god.

Kayla: Well, I have your results.

Ciara: Are you ready?

Ben: If you’re ready.

Ciara: Oh, my god. Okay, tell us.

Kayla: Congratulations. The two of you are gonna have a baby.

[Laughter and cheering]

Abigail: Thank you.

Chad: You haven’t said much since we got home. Are you okay?

Abigail: Actually, I think I am, you know. I have just spent so much of the last six months blaming myself for gwen’s miscarriage, and now that the truth is out, I don’t have to do that anymore. And I feel like this huge wave has just been lifted off of my chest. I just–

Chad: And… dropped on gwen.

Gwen: Abigail was wrong.

Jack: It’s all here in black and white.

Gwen: Not about that. I did lie about my miscarriage. I did. I lost my baby hours before I fell down the stairs. But she was wrong when she said that I don’t know how to love.

Jack: Really? I think she was right on the money. Your family turned the other cheek for you, opened their hearts to you. My brother kept you from going to prison.

Gwen: I know.

Jack: On how–how to treat other people… you don’t know a damn thing.

Gwen: I may not be very good with relationships, but I do know that how I feel about you is how a daughter should feel about her father. I feel grateful. And I feel safe. For the first time in my whole miserable life, I actually feel value as a human. I–I feel like somebody actually cares about me, I matter to somebody.

Jack: Then why would you lie to me?

Gwen: ‘Cause I didn’t want to lose all we have, ’cause it means more to me than anything else in this world. I couldn’t bear the thought of you looking at me the way that you are looking at me now, with so much anger and contempt. I knew that any love that you’ve hoped for me or any sort of connection that we had would be gone the minute that you found out what I’ve done. Now I can see that I was right. Please, dad.

Jack: No. Don’t– don’t you call me that.

Gwen: Dad? Jack? Please.

[Dramatic music]

Doesn’t your family deserve the best?

Xander: Oh. I have good news and bad news.

Gwen: Whatever it is, I’m sure it doesn’t hold a candle to mine.

Xander: What’s happened?

[Dramatic music]

Gwen: I just lost my father.

Xander: Wait, something happened to jack?

Gwen: Yes. They found out that I was lying about my miscarriage.

Xander: Oh, that bitch.

Gwen: How did you know it was abigail?

Xander: Abigail?

Gwen: Yeah, she figured the whole thing out.

Xander: How?

Gwen: Her aunt kayla let her and chad into snyder’s office. And they found my original chart, and then they brought it back here and they told jack everything. He’s furious. He wants absolutely nothing to do with me.

Xander: Oh, gwen, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry, love.

Melinda: I swear to you, jack deveraux won’t hear it from me.

Xander: It’s going to be okay, I– I promise.

Chad: I’m so glad you don’t have to carry around that guilt anymore. I know that was one of the big issues that kept us apart.

Abigail: I’m not going anywhere. Thank you for your patience.

Chad: Thank you for being so forgiving.

Abigail: Obviously, I’m very glad that the truth has come out. But I just feel…horrible that my dad is so hurt. I think he was really starting to care for gwen. I don’t know if their relationship will survive this.

Kayla: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey.

Steve: The nurse at the desk told me I could find you in here.

Kayla: Something wrong?

Steve: I went over to john’s place to talk to him about some business. Belle was there. She said marlena told her john went out of town on a case.

Kayla: And he didn’t tell you about it?

Steve: He didn’t tell anybody. I called the office, they had no idea what I was talking about.

Kayla: Did you try calling him?

Steve: Multiple times. He’s not answering. He’s not calling back. Something’s not right here, baby.

[Elevator bell dings]

Shawn: Hey.

Belle: How’s abe?

Shawn: Oh, I haven’t had the chance to get in and see him yet.

Belle: Why not?

Shawn: ‘Cause I ran into ben and ciara. And I have good news. Ciara’s pregnant.

Belle: Oh! That’s so wonderful. Yay.

Ben: For your prenatal vitamin.

Ciara: Wow. You know, I can really get used to this. My handsome husband waiting on me, hand and foot, that’s a good deal.

Ben: Hmm. You better get used to it. Because I’m not letting you do anything until that baby is born.

Ciara: Ben, are you really happy that I’m pregnant? And I know that you’re excited in a way and we agree that it would be a good idea to have a baby, but I need you to be honest with me. Are you still having reservations about being a dad?

Ben: No, not anymore. Ciara, I am so blessed. I’m having a baby with the woman that I love. There’s nothing more that I want in my entire life.

[Rapid knocking on door]

Ciara: Mm-hmm.

Ben: Whoa, whoa, I’m doing everything now. Remember?

Ciara: Okay.

Ben: Whoa! Susan banks? What the hell are you doing here?

Susan: I had to come. I had to come, ben. I had to. I had a premonition, yeah, yeah, about your baby.

[Dramatic music]

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Maggie: Well, cook really outdid herself with these scones.

Victor: Mm-hmm.

Maggie: You should try one. Well, you know what I miss most about being away? Was our lovely conversations over breakfast. You know, the news about politics, and catching up. It was all so invigorating.

Victor: Excuse me?

Maggie: You didn’t hear a word I said?

Victor: I’m sorry. This article. Ava vitali, she’s– she’s in police custody on suspicion of killing the guy that shot abe. That’s wonderful, isn’t it?

Maggie: Well, thank god that horrible man is no longer a threat.

Victor: I’m talking about the part of her going down for murder.

Maggie: Oh, of course. How silly am I?

Victor: The woman blackmailed philip. Forced him to launder money through my company. I’m allowed to revel at her misfortune.

Maggie: Well, whatever sparks your joy, dear.

Victor: Another miscreant behind bars. You know the cell in pd lock up must be running out of room.

Justin: Actually a few spots just opened up.

Maggie: Oh, justin!

[Laughter] You are free!

Justin: Yes, I am.

Maggie: Oh, my goodness gracious.

Justin: All thanks to uncle vic and steve johnson.

Steve: Oh, hey. Right about now, gwen should be getting released.

Jack: Oh, steve, I don’t know how to thank you. You really came through for my daughter.

Steve: Well, when victor told me that the original deal didn’t include bonnie and gwen, I just didn’t think that was right.

Jack: So you fought for both of their released too?

Steve: And I was happy to do it.

Jack: Even though you’re not a fan of either one.

Steve: Well, I’ve come around on bonnie. And gwen is my niece. What kind of an uncle would I be if I just let her go to prison?

Xander: Oh, there you are. Are you okay?

Gwen: Better now.

Xander: What took so long? Bonnie and justin got already released. I was starting to worry there was something, like, snag with your case.

Melinda: I was just explaining to ms. Rizczech that the only reason why she’s free is because her uncle, steve, played hard ball.

Gwen: Apparently, your uncle did not intend to save bonnie or me.

Melinda: If it were up to me, all four of you would be serving time in statesville.

Xander: Oh, a softie like you wanting us all locked up? I’m surprised.

Melinda: More than you know. But your freedom was a small price to pay for what I got in return–the bitch who murdered my daughter.

Kristen: Oh, thank you for coming. So where’s ej?

Chad: [Sighs] He won’t be showing up.

Kristen: What do you mean? Why not? I need him to represent me.

Chad: I’ll let him explain it himself.

Kristen: [Exhales sharply]

Abigail: Aunt kayla, do you have a minute?

Kayla: Oh, sure. I was just going on my break, so yeah, I definitely have a minute. What’s up?

Abigail: Did you happen to get my text the other day?

Kayla: I’m sorry, I did. Then, everything with abe and everything else going on. I’m sorry. Things got so crazy.

Abigail: Totally understand. No, no. But now that everything is okay with abe, thank god, I’m hoping that you could help me out.

Kayla: Okay.

Abigail: [Sighs] I think that gwen is lying to my dad, and I need you to help me prove it.

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

[Soft orchestration]

Justin: Since D.A. Trask dropped all the charges, I probably won’t be disbarred.

Maggie: Oh, that is fantastic news! Did you happen to pull some strings?

Victor: Well, I might have negotiated a deal that was mutually beneficial with trask.

Maggie: Oh, and what did she get out of the deal?

Victor: Something, or someone that she’s always wanted. Kristen dimera.

Maggie: But she’s gone into hiding.

Victor: Well, that’s why i hired steve johnson to find her, and apparently, he’s come through. Looks like he took her directly to trask.

Justin: It’s a fact. Kristen is already in custody.

Victor: Could this day get any better?

Victor: I really do appreciate your help, uncle vick. Things were looking pretty dire.

Victor: Well, you’re the best of us, justin. I couldn’t allow you to go to prison. Although what you did was very, very stupid.

Justin: I love you too. Sincerely, thank you. Bonnie and I owe you.

Victor: Bonnie? The hell she’s got to do with it?

[Squeals] Time to get this party started!

[Giggles]

Xander: Oh, I would love to see the look on victor’s face when he finds out bonnie’s out of jail.

Gwen: He hates her that much?

Xander: Can’t stand the sight of her. No, he’s convinced that she’s not nearly good enough for precious justin.

Gwen: I can’t imagine what he’d think of me then.

Xander: I don’t give a damn. Victor’s opinion hasn’t mattered to me for a very long time.

Melinda: Ugh, this insight into the kiriakis family dynamic is oh, so fascinating, but you’ll have to excuse me. I have a psychopath to put away. Although, something tells me it won’t be long before I see one or both of you back here again.

Xander: Excuse me, um, aren’t you forgetting something? You and I have unfinished business.

Kayla: So what do you think gwen’s lying about?

Abigail: Well, I mean, i don’t know if you’ve heard, but gwen admitted to my dad that dr. Snyder blackmailed her into being his drug courier.

Kayla: Yes, jack did tell steve and me that, yeah.

Abigail: And did he happen to mention the leverage that snyder had over gwen?

Kayla: Just that apparently he knew that she was a sex worker in her past.

Abigail: Right, which, I mean, she only did it to help make ends meet, which is so sad and something my dad would absolutely understand. And she knew that, and he did understand.

Kayla: Right.

Abigail: So I just–I don’t see why she would allow herself to be blackmailed into delivery drugs, something that she abhorred, all in an effort to keep my dad from finding out she used to be a sex worker. I mean, we both know she’s done things infinitely worse since coming to town, and she’s felt no shame about them.

Kayla: So the point is, you think that she’s lying about her past?

Abigail: Yes, I do. I think she’s hiding something else, something much worse.

Victor: Why aren’t you in jail?

Bonnie: [Giggles] What are you talking about? Hey, honey.

Justin: Hi.

Bonnie: You’re the one who got me sprung. That’s why I bought you this fancy champagne as a thank you. Mm-hmm.

Victor: Well, you’re not welcome. Must be some sort of a mix-up.

Justin: What do you mean?

Victor: I negotiated a deal for you and xander to be released. It didn’t include the release of some dime store dolly parton.

Bonnie: Well, I guess patchy renegotiated the terms, because now both gwen and i are free as birds. Tweet tweet.

Xander: Gwen and I aren’t walking out of here until you return my briefcase.

Melinda: Oh, the one filled with a million dollars?

Xander: Yeah, that’d be the one. And now that bonnie’s case is closed, you don’t need it for evidence anymore.

Gwen: And xander and I have really big plans for that money. Don’t we, darling? Starting with a tropical paradise resort and mai tais.

Xander: Not to mention sex on the beach.

Gwen: Yeah, and he’s not talking about the drink.

Melinda: Ew. Okay. Enough already. I’ll get you your money, mr. Kiriakis, but the paperwork will take a while. So why don’t you come back in an hour or two?

Xander: I’ll be here, and I expect every last dollar to be accounted for. Shall we?

Yeah.

Steve: You know, initially kayla and I had a hard time accepting gwen into the family after what she did to you and jennifer, and the hell she put abigail through.

Jack: I understand, I do. But you have to know, gwen regrets everything she’s done, the pain she’s caused. She’s worked so hard to make amends and turn her life around.

Steve: Yeah, well the only reason she saw the inside of a cell was because she was trying to take down a corrupt judge.

Jack: Exactly, exactly. Gwen’s really trying, and I just hope it– hope it counts for something.

Steve: Well, I had to give her a second chance. I’ve had plenty of those myself.

Jack: Me too. And for what it’s worth, I truly believe that gwen has changed. She’s done for good with her secrets and lies.

Kayla: So if gwen wasn’t a sex worker in her past, what do you think snyder was holding over her head?

Abigail: I don’t know. And to be honest, I hope that I’m wrong. I mean, gwen and my dad have gotten close recently, as I’m sure you know, and if there is something, I hate the idea of hurting my dad, and gwen, for that matter. I’ve done enough to that woman as it is. I’m the reason she lost the baby–the whole fight at the top of the stairs– and that’s just really hard to forgive myself for.

Kayla: Abigail, it was an accident.

Abigail: Yeah, but it wouldn’t have happened if i wasn’t so furious. And it didn’t end there, right? You know, I mean, she went, she was treated by snyder because of the fall, and we all know where that led. And so, I–part of me feels like I should just let the whole thing go, but I just have this nagging feeling that there is something else going on. And that’s where you come in.

Kayla: I–I don’t see how I could help.

Abigail: I’d like to go in and take a look at snyder’s office. I’m–I’m hoping that I could go in there and I could find some clue as to what it was he was really holding over gwen.

Kristen: “Dear kristen, I know you were counting on me to represent you against your latest charges, but the board has advised me not to take on your case, as it will reflect badly on the company. I will do what I can to help you behind the scenes, but unfortunately, I cannot do so publicly.” What the hell? I nursed this bastard back from the grave, and this is how he repays me?

Chad: I lobbied hard. Ej refuses to go against shin.

Kristen: [Scoffs] To hell with shin and appearances. My future is on the line, and without ej’s help, I could spend the rest of my life behind bars. I order my groceries online now.

Steve: So you and gwen have gotten pretty close, haven’t you?

Jack: We have. We have, and now that she’s finally let down her guard, I’ve had a glimpse of the kind of woman she could’ve been if she hadn’t been walking around carrying that huge chip on her shoulder. Selfless, caring, especially when it comes to xander.

Steve: Things pretty serious between them?

Jack: Well, she did try to entrap that judge to get xander out of jail.

Steve: Well, nothing says love like pretending to seduce another man.

Jack: In a weird way, in gwen’s mind, that’s exactly what that said. And now that she has zander are out of jail, they have a real chance to see where it can go.

Gwen: [Scoffs] Well, I just checked upstairs, there’s not a soul to welcome us.

Xander: You didn’t really think anyone in this house would actually be glad to see us, did you, besides your father?

Gwen: I suppose you’re right. Hey, what are you doing there, mister? Is that my laptop?

Xander: Oh, I hope you don’t mind; I just couldn’t wait to get started on our vacation plans.

Gwen: You really are excited about this, aren’t you?

Xander: Are you kidding? We’ve been apart for weeks in tiny, dank cells. The least we deserve is to unwind on a nice, sandy beach somewhere.

Gwen: Mm, yes. With our toes in the water.

Xander: Seagulls squawking overhead.

Gwen: [Chuckles] The smell of salty air.

Xander: And you, in the tiniest bikini we can find.

Gwen: And you, trunks or a speedo?

Xander: Speedo. You know I can pull it off.

Gwen: Not unless I pull it off first.

Kayla: The police had sealed snyder’s office, but as of this morning, the case is officially closed since all the charges against xander have been dropped. Apparently he was the last unresolved part of the case. The rest of the drug ring has already been rounded up.

Abigail: Mm-hmm. Well, are you sure this is okay? I don’t want you to get into any trouble.

Kayla: Well, I don’t see why you can’T. I already retrieved all the patient information, so now, all that’s left are his personal effects.

Abigail: Great. Well, I can’t thank you enough for this.

Kayla: Well, just lock the door when you leave. And good luck. I hope you find what you’re looking for.

Abigail: So do I.

Kayla: Okay.

Kristen: [Sighs]

Chad: Don’t panic, okay? Ej hired another attorney. He’s supposed to be top notch. He’ll meet you at the courthouse later.

Kristen: Oh, great. Am I supposed to be grateful? When did ej become such a coward that he couldn’t come down here and tell me to my face that he was abandoning me?

Chad: You know he’s worried about the bad publicity.

Kristen: Didn’t seem to bother you. Or are you not scared of incurring shin’s wrath?

Chad: Well, you know me. I like to live dangerous.

Kristen: Thank you. Thank you for coming down here.

Chad: I’m sorry you’re in this mess, kristen.

Kristen: Yeah, and I’m only in it because victor sicced steve johnson on me. Ooh, I really ought to just stab the old man in the heart, again.

[Laughter]

Chad: No, no, no.

Kristen: [Sighs]

Steve: So johnson went behind my back and negotiated a side deal. I should’ve known I couldn’t trust him.

Justin: And here I thought you did something nice for a change.

Steve: I did do something nice, just not for her.

Maggie: Victor!

Bonnie: [Scoffs] I don’t know why you’re making such a big fuss. You got what you wanted. Justin and xander are free. Gwen and I are just an added bonus. Kind of like when you order onion rings and you get a couple of fries thrown in.

Steve: No, absolutely not. No, I’m going to call trask. This has got to be fixed right away.

Justin: No, stop! The deal is done, and in case you need to be reminded, bonnie is innocent. She deserves her freedom.

Victor: She killed a woman and tucked her into your bed.

Bonnie: It was self-defense.

Victor: Forgive me if I find that hard to believe.

Maggie: Victor, let it go. Justin and bonnie have been through enough. I’m sure they’re ready to put this nightmare behind them.

Justin: And that’s exactly what I intend to do. In fact, I would like to, um, pick up right where we left off. What do you think about getting married today? Better skin from your body wash?

Bonnie: [Giggles] You want to get married today?

Justin: Why not? We could have the ceremony right here, just like we originally planned.

Victor: This venue is booked.

Maggie: For what?

Victor: I’m having friends over for lunch.

Justin: You don’t have any friends.

Victor: How the hell would you know that?

Justin: Name one.

Victor: Ricardo.

Maggie: He’s your barber.

Bonnie: [Snorts]

Justin: That settles it. We’re having the ceremony right here. Now we just have to hope that the justice of the peace, the matron of honor, the best man are all available. I’ll call them right now.

Bonnie: Wait, what do I wear? My wedding dress is all wrinkled, and still in the bag from being arrested.

Justin: Not a word. How about that dress that you were gonna wear for the reception?

Bonnie: It’s perfect. Why didn’t I think of that? Oh, god, I love you so much.

Justin: I love you too.

Bonnie: Aw! You have made me the happiest woman in the world.

Justin: Let’s go.

Bonnie: Okay.

Justin: Oh.

Bonnie: Oh.

[Laughter]

Victor: I’m gonna kill steve johnson.

Kayla: [Gasps]

Steve: [Growls lowly]

Kayla: [Squeals] Hello.

Steve: People are watching us.

Kayla: Perfect timing.

Steve: Well, I thought you would be on your break about now, so I wanted to come down and see if I could steal you away for a stroll in the park.

Kayla: Well, that sounds lovely. I just need to hear back from the lab, and then we can go.

Steve: Okay.

Kayla: So how was your breakfast with jack? I bet he was very happy that you got gwen released.

Steve: He was. I tell you, though, I’m just hoping our niece can manage to stay out of trouble from now on.

Kayla: Yeah, about that… you know, I’m sorry to say this, but I–I think that she might be lying to jack again.

Steve: About what?

[Cell phone rings] Hold that thought. Hey, justin. What’s up?

Melinda: I heard the bad news. Your brother, ej, is throwing you to the wolves. Hmm, tough break.

Kristen: Uh-huh, yeah. Well, he did arrange for another lawyer. The best, so, I’m not worried.

Melinda: Well, you should be. You’ll be serving out the five years of your original sentence, which could’ve been two, but you blew that by breaking out twice. And now, you’re facing additional charges of… how many counts of kidnapping and aggravated assault? I can’t keep track anymore. So trust me, you are going away for a very, very long time. And I want you to know, I’m the one that’s making it happen.

Chad: Hey. Got your message. Find anything yet?

Abigail: Uh, not so far. Snyder was definitely a pack rat, which is why I needed your help.

Chad: Anything you need. Where do you want me to start looking?

Abigail: Um, why don’t you do these cabinets here?

Chad: You got it.

Abigail: How did things go with your sister?

Chad: Well, she’s upset that ej’s not taking the case. I can’t blame her, you know. I mean, ej goes on and on about loyalty, but whenever it comes down to it, he’s only ever out for himself.

Abigail: Yeah, well, we knew that already, right?

Chad: What exactly are we looking for?

Abigail: I don’t know. I’m sort of hoping something’s just gonna jump out at us, but maybe I’m grasping at straws and there’s nothing to find.

Chad: We sure as hell aren’t going to give up. Gwen has a secret in here. We’re going to find it.

Both: [Moaning]

Xander: Oh, god, I’ve missed those lips. Every bit of you.

Gwen: I think we should take this to my room, yeah?

Xander: Why don’t we stay here? Why waste precious moments climbing stairs?

Gwen: [Laughs] We know how julie feels about this couch. She will absolutely kill us.

Xander: Or number one, she’s not here, and two, she doesn’t have to know. And three, I am so crazy for you right now. I can’t wait another second.

Gwen: Oh, god. Oh, yeah.

[Both laugh] Hurry. Hurry.

Jack: Gwen, are you– oh, my god.

Gwen: [Screams]

Xander: [Grunts]

Gwen: Oh. It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Jack: Excuse me. I didn’t mean to interrupt.

Xander: No worries, mate. Did you have to shove me so hard?

Gwen: I’m sorry, it’s reflex. Are you all right?

Xander: Just a broken rib or two, no big deal.

Jack: I really should be going, so I’ll–

Gwen: No. No, no, no, no. Jack, jack, please don’t go. Don’t go. I’m so happy to see you.

Jack: Not as happy as I am to see you. Steve filled me in on everything, welcome home.

Both: [Laughs]

Gwen: I owe steve so much.

Jack: Listen, you pay him back by having a really good life.

Gwen: Believe me. I plan to do that, and it’ll be such a relief to know I don’t have to ever think about that awful snyder ever again.

[Tense music]

Chad: Snyder was really into legal thrillers.

Abigail: Maybe he was researching how to get away with running a drug ring.

Chad: I mean, he certainly wasn’t studying the classics– “law and disorder”, “miscarriage of justice”?

Abigail: What’s that?

Chad: Looks like a medical record.

Abigail: For gwen rizczech?

Chad: It’s about the miscarriage.

Abigail: Whoa, it is, but why would he be keeping this hidden away in a book?

Kristen: I’m very aware of the deal you made with victor and steve. I’m a bit surprised an overachiever like you cut loose four potential feathers in your sad little cap.

Melinda: It was so worth it. The woman who killed my daughter wasting away in a prison cell. I will finally have justice for my little girl.

Kristen: I’m sorry about haley, but it truly was an accident–

Melinda: Shut the hell up with your excuses. You took my daughter away from me.

Kristen: Yeah, and you are doing exactly the same to me. I may never get to see rachel again.

Melinda: That seems fair to me. I lost my daughter because of you. I’m just returning the favor.

Kayla: Hello?

Steve: Hey.

Maggie: Hey.

Steve: Where are the bride and groom?

Maggie: Oh, they’re still getting dressed.

Victor: This is all your fault.

Steve: Say what?

Victor: We had a deal. And that deal did not include you going behind my back and making any side deals to release any other trash that you happen to have around town.

Kayla: Well, what was steve to do? Leave them behind? I mean, bonnie was innocent and gwen was just helping zander.

Steve: There was no way in hell I was going to leave my brother’s daughter and justin’s fiancée in prison, so I don’t give a damn what you think.

Victor: I should’ve known you’d go rogue. Let me make one thing clear. I am not paying you one red cent, and I’m not going to hire you either.

Steve: Is that a promise? Oh.

Kayla: Oh.

Steve: There’s the happy couple. Except they don’t look so happy. What’s going on, man?

Justin: The justice of the peace is not available today. So we’ll have to postpone the ceremony.

Victor: Great.

Maggie: No, you won’t! I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I suppose I could officiate. On the outside, I looked fine.

Bonnie: You’re offering to marry us? You don’t even like me.

Maggie: Well, you’re not exactly my favorite person, but you are justin’s, and that counts for something.

Justin: Thank you, maggie. Thank you.

Victor: This is ludicrous. You’re not even ordained.

Maggie: Well, actually, I got ordained in prison last year. I had a lot of time on my hands.

Victor: You couldn’t take up macrame?

Kayla: I think it’s a great idea.

Steve: So do I.

Maggie: [Chuckles]

Justin: Shall we do this?

Bonnie: There’s nothing I want more.

[Laughter]

Maggie: All right, well, let me write a script, and I’ll be right back.

Kayla: Well, I thought that you might need this.

Maggie: Oh, thank you.

Kayla: Well, what are matrons of honor for?

Bonnie: Could I ask you one more favor?

Kayla: Of course.

Bonnie: Mimi wanted to video chat so she could watch. Could you hold my phone?

Kayla: Yes, I’d be happy to.

Justin: And, steve, do you mind doing the same thing for sonny and his brothers?

Steve: No problem, buddy.

Justin: Okay.

Bonnie: Steve, I know I’m about to have the happiest day of my life, and it’s all because of you, because you got me out of prison. So I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you did for me.

[Laughs] For me and my about-to-be husband.

Justin: Steve, we are so very grateful. Thank you.

Steve: You know, kayla and I are grateful too because you look happy. I can see those dimples again.

[Laughter]

Justin: Okay, are we all set?

Kayla: Yep.

Justin: Are you staying?

Victor: Why wouldn’t I? I was here first.

Justin: Suit yourself. But you better be on your best behavior. I don’t want you casting a pall over our celebration.

Victor: I wouldn’t dream of it.

Jack: I think we should celebrate your freedom with a toast.

Gwen: Sounds lovely.

Jack: To my best mate. To my darling daughter. I know these past few months have not been easy, but I never cease to be amazed and impressed by how the two of you have looked out for each other. Not quite yet. I’d like to think of this as a fresh start. What’s that irish blessing? May green be the grass you walk on. May blue be the skies above you. May pure be the joys that surround you. May true be the hearts that love you.

Xander: Now?

Jack: Now.

Xander: Cheers.

Gwen: Cheers.

Both: [Indistinct]

Gwen: Mmm.

[Phone beeps]

Xander: Oh, a text from trask. Paperwork’s finished. I can collect my briefcase. I’ll be back as soon as I can. We are one step closer to our little bit of paradise.

Gwen: I can’t wait.

Xander: Me neither. Thanks so much for the welcome, jack.

Jack: I take it you two are official now?

Gwen: [Sighs] I–I suppose so, yeah. How do you feel about that?

Jack: Does he make you happy?

Gwen: [Sighs] Believe it or not, yeah. Yes.

Jack: Then you have my blessing.

Gwen: That means more to me than you know. Thanks, dad.

Jack: Dad?

Gwen: Sorry. That sort of just slipped out.

Jack: No, no. Don’t be sorry. I’ve been waiting months to hear you call me that.

[Laughter]

Gwen: Lovely.

Abigail: “Patient experienced sharp abdominal pain, drove herself to the hospital 20 minutes after symptoms began.”

Chad: Well, that’s not what happened. Gwen took an ambulance here.

Abigail: That just doesn’t make any sense. This doesn’t mention anything about her falling down the stairs. Look at the time on these.

Chad: What about them?

Abigail: This says that this exam took place hours before gwen and I had the argument.

Chad: So she was here before the accident?

Abigail: Oh, my god. Why give your family just ordinary eggs

Maggie: Dearly beloved, we are gathered today to join justin alexander kiriakis with bonnie maureen lockhart in marriage. This commitment is not to be entered into lightly, as it is a sacred bond and one that comes with great responsibility. If there is anyone present who may show why this couple should not be lawfully wed, speak now, or forever hold your peace.

Justin: Don’t even think about it.

Victor: Worth a shot.

Maggie: Shall we continue?

Justin: Please.

Maggie: Justin, will you take bonnie as your lawfully wedded wife?

Justin: I do.

Maggie: To love, honor, and cherish her through good times and bad through all the days of your life?

Justin: I do.

Maggie: And, bonnie, will you take justin to be your lawfully wedded husband?

Bonnie: You bet I do.

Maggie: To love, honor, and cherish him through good times and bad for all the days of your life?

Bonnie: Every single second of every single minute, every single hour of every single day.

Both: [Laughs]

Maggie: Justin and bonnie will now exchange rings as a symbol of their love and commitment for each other.

Bonnie: [Exhales]

Maggie: Justin, would you place this ring on bonnie’s finger and repeat after me? As a symbol of my never-ending love, with this ring, I thee wed.

Justin: As a symbol of my never-ending love, with this ring, I thee wed.

[Tender music]

Maggie: Bonnie.

Bonnie: Mm.

Kayla: Sorry.

Maggie: Would you place this ring on justin’s finger and repeat after me? As a symbol of my never-ending love, with this ring, I thee wed.

Bonnie: As a symbol of my never-ending love, with this ring, I thee wed. Forever and ever and ever.

Both: [Chuckle]

Maggie: And now with the power vested in me, I’m honored to pronounce you husband and wife. Justin, you may kiss the bride.

[Laughs]

[Laughter]

Steve: There we go!

Maggie: All right!

Kayla: Now we’re talking.

Maggie: All right.

Xander: Got your text. Where’s my money?

Melinda: It’s all here. Your precious 1 million.

Xander: Yeah, I’d like to see it for myself if you don’t mind.

Melinda: [Scoffs] Please don’t tell me you’re going to count it.

Xander: No, I’ll trust you, because you know there will be hell to pay if it’s not all there. It’s been real.

Melinda: I don’t regret at all to inform you that you won’t be spending a penny of this.

Xander: What are you talking about?

Melinda: Because you’re going to be giving the money to me.

Xander: Why exactly would I do that?

Melinda: Because if you don’t I will blow your girlfriend’s life sky high.

Gwen: [Sighs] So you’re really okay with me calling you “dad”?

Jack: Why wouldn’t I be?

Gwen: This whole father-daughter thing, it’s still rather new to me, and I didn’t know if we were quite there yet.

Jack: Then let me remove any doubt from your mind. You are my daughter, and I love you, and nothing will ever change that.

Gwen: Thank you, dad.

Jack: Oh.

Gwen: [Chuckles]

[Door opens]

[Tense music]

Abigail: [Clears throat]

Jack: Well, how perfect is this? You’re just in time to join our little celebration.

Abigail: Well, sorry, dad. Party’s over.

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Philip: Sorry, man.

Nick: Don’t worry about it. Happy halloween.

Philip: Weird. That guy in the zombie costume looked just like nick fallon. But how can that be? Nick is dead.

Gabi: Jake, baby, please! I’m here, okay? You have to be alive. Please, just stay alive. Baby, please! You buried him. Be alive!

Nick: Well, I think of it more like a sublet.

Gabi: Stay alive, jake! I’m here, I’m coming! Stay alive, you have to stay alive! Dead or alive?

Nick: Why don’t you ask him?

Gabi: This is gonna take all day! Oh, thank god. Jake, baby, I’m coming. I’m here. Be alive.

Eli: Shawn.

Shawn: Oh, hey.

Eli: Sorry I had to call you in so late.

Shawn: No, it’s no problem. What’s going on?

Eli: Well, all hallow’s eve has brought out the goons, the goblins, and the crazies, starting with gabi, who apparently busted jake out of holding.

Shawn: What?

Eli: Yeah. Listen, that doesn’t even compare to the murder suspect that we’ve got in the interrogation room. Someone you know, actually.

Shawn: Oh, boy. I’m afraid to ask.

Eli: Ava vitali.

Shawn: What happened?

Eli: Honestly, I think she just snapped.

Ava: God, charlie. How is this possible? How are you back? I shouldn’t have run. I shouldn’t have. I should’ve stayed, I should’ve stopped you. God– charlie, please, don’t hurt tripp. Please. Please don’t hurt your brother, please.

Tripp: Allie? Get the hell away from her.

Charlie: Of course, superman tripp to the rescue. Why am I not surprised?

Tripp: Oh, my god. Mom was telling the truth. You really are here.

Charlie: What are you gonna do about it?

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

[Soft orchestration]

Gabi: Don’t give up, jake. I’m so close. I’m here, baby. I have to be close, okay? Yes, yes. Yes. Jake!

Shawn: Ava stabbed carmine merlino? Isn’t he the same guy who shot abe?

Eli: Yeah.

Shawn: How is that possible?

Eli: Look, all that talk about ava breaking free from her past, it seems like those mob ties run pretty damn deep. Apparently she was hiding carmine at rafe’s house.

Shawn: Oh, my gosh. She admitted that?

Eli: She’s not admitting much of anything. Hell, she’s not even making sense. That’s why I’m headed out on a few leads to see if I can find out exactly what happened. You mind taking a run at her? See if you can get her to tell you exactly what she knows?

Shawn: Yeah, man, I mean, I could give it a try.

Eli: Well, if you’re lucky, maybe you’ll be able to get her to talk to you about something other than people rising from the dead.

Nicole: Oh, god.

Rafe: This had better be good.

Nicole: Listen, deimos– deimos was here.

Rafe: What?

Nicole: He came back to get me and I–I killed him. Rafe, I stabbed him with a pair of scissors.

Rafe: Damn it, nicole. Deimos kiriakis is dead.

Nicole: No, he is in there dead on the floor with a pair of scissors in his chest. Go look for yourself.

Rafe: Nicole, you need to see this.

Nicole: I don’t understand. He was here. He–deimos was right here.

Gabi: Jake, jake, it’s me! I’m here. Can you hear me? I’m gonna get you out. I’m gonna get you out, okay? It’s me. Jake! Jake, I’m here. I order my groceries online now.

Nick: So I guess mommy filled you in. Warned her precious tripp that big, bad charlie was in town. Of course she did.

Tripp: Allie, are you okay? Has he hurt you?

Allie: No.

Tripp: Walk–walk over here, by me.

Charlie: No! I’m in charge here. You’re not going anywhere.

Tripp: Hey, it’s– it’s gonna be okay. It’s gonna be–everything’s gonna be okay.

Charlie: Why is that? Because her knight in shining armor is here to protect her? Is that it?

Tripp: Let her go, okay? I’m the one you hate, not allie.

Charlie: You’re right about that, big brother, and this is finally my chance to do something about it.

Ava: Shawn. Shawn, did eli tell you what happened? You have to do something. You have to find charlie.

Shawn: I will look into it, I promise, but first, I want to talk to you.

Ava: Okay, no. I don’t– I don’t want coffee. I want you to find charlie before it is too late.

Shawn: Look, ava, I need you to calm down, all right? I can’t help you until I know the facts.

Ava: I told detective grant the facts.

Shawn: Okay, well, tell them again, but tell them to me, all right? Start with what happened between you and carmine merlino.

Ava: You know, this is a waste of time, right? Because I didn’t kill carmine. My son, charlie, did.

Shawn: Ava, charlie’s dead.

Ava: No, he’s not. I saw him.

Shawn: No, you could not have seen him. Jan spears killed charlie and framed belle for the crime. Don’t you remember that?

Ava: Of course I remember it. Everyone in this town was a suspect.

Shawn: Right. So it doesn’t matter who killed him. The fact is, charlie’s dead.

Gabi: Jake, jake! Jake, please, please! Baby, you have to wake up. Please, jake. Jake, jake, jake, I’m here. Wake up. Wake up, please, please, please. Stay with me, please. Jake, don’t– no. No, no, no, no. Jake, jake, breathe, breathe. Gotta breathe. You gotta breathe, okay? Okay. Jake, jake!

Jake: [Gasps]

Gabi: Oh, my–thank god!

[Gasping frantically]

Jake: What the hell happened?

Gabi: I’m sorry. Are you okay? Thank god–

Jake: I–was I in a–

Gabi: In a coffin? Yes, yes. Are you okay? Are you fine?

Jake: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m much more alive than I was a few minutes ago, I guess.

Gabi: I thought I lost you.

Jake: Yeah, well, you might lose me if you don’t let me just breathe for a second.

Gabi: Okay, I’m sorry.

Jake: No, I just– oh, my god, I’m so happy to see you. You want to tell me what the hell is going on?

Gabi: I–I don’t know. I saw what I saw, and I still don’t know what happened. Do you know how you got here?

Jake: The last thing I remember, I– a cop…was taking me to lock up in jail, and I– someone grabbed me from behind and… that’s the last thing I remember until I just woke up with your lips on mine. That’s a hell of a way to wake up, by the way.

Gabi: I’m so sorry. This is all my fault.

Jake: Your fault?

Gabi: Yeah. Nick fallon, he came after you because of me. He busted you out of jail and he buried you in his grave.

Jake: Nick fallon?

[Eerie music]

Is that the guy you killed?

Nicole: This–this doesn’t make any sense. Deimos was here, dead on the floor with that pair of scissors in his chest. I mean, how could he just– how could he just disappear?

[Sighs] You think I’m crazy, don’t you?

Rafe: Okay, why don’t you just tell me what happened?

Nicole: [Stammers] I– I was right here working, and I heard a noise, and I looked up, and deimos was at the door.

Rafe: Okay. Then what happened?

Nicole: And, oh, god. He was so angry, and he told me that I was gonna pay, and he came at me and I panicked, and i grabbed the pair of scissors, and I stabbed him. And–and he was right here! He was right here when I called you.

Rafe: Okay. Okay, so–so deimos came back from the dead, and you killed him, and now he’s gone. No blood on the scissors. Oh, but they say zombies don’t bleed, right?

Nicole: Rafe, the look in his eyes– I have never been so terrified in my life.

Rafe: Okay, okay. So let’s say deimos did come back from the dead, right? Well, he’s got a hell of a lot of enemies, so why is he gonna come after you?

Nicole: ‘Cause he said he wanted revenge.

Rafe: Revenge? For what? Once upon a time there was a reindeer named tiptoe

Rafe: Nicole, why would deimos want revenge on you?

Nicole: [Sighs] Because I– because I rejected him, okay? You know–you know how obsessed he was with me.

Rafe: Right, okay. So that’s why deimos showed up here tonight from the dead, ready to kill you because you had rejected him and he never got over it, even after he died.

Nicole: Of course, you don’t believe me. I wouldn’t believe me. Oh, my–

Rafe: Oh, okay, here. What I believe–what I believe is that, um, you were here alone in the dark, and it’s halloween and everyone’s thinking of ghouls and goblins, and it’s– it’s natural, right? Your mind, it just, you know, maybe it played tricks on you.

Nicole: No, no, no. My mind was not playing tricks on me, rafe. I–

Rafe: Okay.

Nicole: Okay, you know what? Maybe it–it all was in my imagination. Okay, so I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have bothered you.

Rafe: No, it’s okay.

Nicole: No, it’s not. It’s not okay, okay? Can we just please forget what happened here? I was acting like a crazy woman. And just– just go home to ava.

Rafe: Yeah, well, actually I’m not going home to ava.

Nicole: Why not?

Rafe: Because ava is being questioned about a murder.

Ava: Don’t speak to me like I am an idiot. Of course, we all know that jan spears killed charlie, but it doesn’t change the fact that charlie showed up in my kitchen tonight.

Shawn: Right, and he’s the one who killed carmine.

Ava: Yes. Carmine was trying to strangle me, and then suddenly charlie showed up, and he killed him. And then he starts ranting and raving about how I never loved him, and I would never love him enough, and then he came after me with a knife, and that is why I ran.

Shawn: Okay, so– so carmine wanted you dead.

Ava: Yes.

Shawn: But now–but now he– now he’s dead. I mean–

Shawn: Yes, because charlie killed him.

Shawn: Yes, I know. I know that’s your story.

Ava: It’s the truth.

Shawn: I thought you changed your ways, ava.

Ava: I have.

Shawn: Moved in with rafe, starting a new life.

Ava: What are you trying to get at?

Shawn: I don’t know. You’ve got a good thing going. And you’re happy, you’re settled, and then your past comes back, and it bites you. Things get out of hand. I don’t know. Maybe you’re latching onto this crazy story because you want to avoid taking responsibility for killing carmine merlino.

Philip: Detective grant. You out trick-or-treating? I’m afraid we’re down to the dregs, but there’s still a few good pieces left if you dig.

Eli: I’m here on police business.

Philip: What can I do for you?

Eli: Carmine merlino was found dead earlier this evening.

Philip: I heard about that on the news. Wasn’t he the man believed to have shot mayor carver? What would you want with me?

Eli: Look, you can–you can cut the whole innocent act, okay? I know that you’re up to your eyeballs in this.

Philip: How so?

Eli: Because carmine merlino was in town because of you. Because he had got some dirt on jake dimera that you were gonna use to get gabi to hand over her company to you. Allegedly. And instead he ended up shooting my father-in-law.

Philip: That’s quite a tale. But if you’re looking for me to confirm it–

Eli: Why don’t you just start with answering some of my questions. Like when’s the last time that you saw the guy?

Philip: Will you please calm down? Jake’s the one who brought carmine to salem. You and I didn’t even know about it.

Ava: You think that gabi’s gonna let jake take the rap? She hates my guts. Damn! I don’t know why I agreed to help you. I don’t know what I was thinking.

Philip: I thought you had nerves of steel.

Ava: Rafe cannot find out that I am mixed up in what happened to abe carver.

Philip: So what do you wanna do?

Ava: We gotta keep carmine quiet, which means you need to do what he wants.

Philip: I can’t hide him here. He came to the freaking front door. You think henderson’s not gonna tell my father about my house guest, the mobster? You know how to disappear people. You get rid of carmine.

Ava: All right, I will.

Philip: Call me when it’s handled.

Ava: Oi, hey, hey. Where you think you’re going?

Philip: You started this. You handle it. I’ve got places to go, people to see. I admit I… learned some unsavory details about an employee and promptly fired him for it, which isn’t a crime the last time I checked. But if this carmine was an associate of jake’s, maybe the person you want to talk to is jake.

Jake: Nick fallon. You killed him…twice, right? So…how the hell is he alive enough to try and kill me?

Gabi: All I know is he was dead and buried here up until tonight. Now he’s walking around salem as creepy as he was when he was alive.

Jake: [Chuckles] You saying he’s a–a zombie? That’s crazy, right?

Nick: Isn’t it just?

[Laughs] You should’ve left well enough alone because now… we’re gonna have to do this all over again. Hi sabrina!

Nicole: Ava’s being questioned about a murder? Why?

Rafe: Well, after I left you at the hospital, I went home, and I found carmine merlino dead on my kitchen floor.

Nicole: Isn’t that the man suspected of shooting abe?

Rafe: Yep, that’s the one, and from what I can gather, ava’s been hiding him.

Nicole: In your house?

Rafe: Yep, apparently so. She thought it was okay to put me and my family at risk to hide the guy who nearly killed abe.

Nicole: You think she might have killed that guy?

Rafe: Uh, you know, honestly, I don’t know, but like I said before, there is definitely a connection between ava and carmine.

Nicole: And you’re wondering if she might be reverting to her old ways.

Rafe: Yeah, yeah. And according to gabi, ava hooked philip up with merlino to get dirt on jake so as to blackmail gabi and take over gabichic.

Nicole: I can’t believe she would do that.

Rafe: No, you’re right. Neither can I. You know, and for weeks, she’s been going out of her way to be nice to gabi, and I– you know, this whole time, she’s been plotting to take over her company with philip.

Nicole: I am so sorry.

Rafe: Yeah. Yeah, so am I. Yeah, it looks like I’ve been played for the fool. So…apparently ava hasn’t been honest with me for a very, very long time.

Ava: For the hundredth time, I did not murder carmine. Charlie did. And this isn’t just about me. This is about keeping everyone in this town safe.

Shawn: What do you mean?

Ava: Charlie, he is on the loose, and he wants henry back. He could be going after allie as we speak.

Tripp: You know, you’re such a loser, you know that? You were a loser when you were alive, and now you’re just a loser as a zombie.

Charlie: Shut the hell up.

Tripp: You’re not even scary. You’re just pathetic.

Allie: Tripp, don’t make it worse.

Charlie: Better listen to your little girlfriend ’cause by the time I’m done with you–

Tripp: Bring it, then. Come on, at least you’ll be picking on somebody your own size instead of allie.

Charlie: Instead of who, allie? Oh, poor, innocent allie, she wanted it that night. She’s never gonna admit it, but she did.

Tripp: Shut the hell up–

Charlie: Or what, you’re gonna kill me? I’m already dead, and that’s your fault.

Tripp: I’m not the one who put a bullet in you.

Charlie: You were there the night that jan shot me. You knocked on the door. You called my name. I heard you, and what’d you do? You just walked away.

Tripp: I didn’t know you were inside.

Charlie: You didn’t know I wasn’T. You could’ve busted down the door. You could’ve called an ambulance. If you did, I’d still be alive. You know what? I’m glad you didn’t try to rescue me ’cause then jan would’ve had the pleasure of killing you, and now, that pleasure is mine.

Allie: No.

Charlie: What better way to pay you back for the hell that you made my life than to take you back down to hell with me?

Allie: No, no, no!

Gabi: How the hell? You came back from the dead, but you are not going anywhere near jake.

Nick: I told you, sweet cheeks, it’s called payback.

Gabi: No, please let it go. Please, nick. Nick, just let it go.

Nick: Gabi, just calm down.

Gabi: [Yelps]

Nick: Gabi, gabi, are you– are you okay?

Gabi: I want to go home.

Nick: Okay. Well, where is home? You know? I’ll make you feel better.

Gabi: No–

Nick: You’ve told me so many times how much you love it, the way I make you feel.

Gabi: Nick, you’re scaring me.

Nick: Don’t be scared. Just let me help you remember why we’re so good together.

Gabi: No, no, no.

Nick: You kill me…

Gabi: Stop it!

[Gasping]

Nick: [Grunts, thuds]

Gabi: [Panting]

Nick: I kill the man you love, even steven. Now, get out of my way.

Jake: Don’t you touch–

[Groans]

Nick: [Chuckles] Says the guy who can barely stand.

Gabi: Leave him alone, nick.

[Yelps]

Jake: No!

Nick: Oops.

Jake: You bastard.

[Grunts]

Nick: You’re hard to kill. But you know what they say, “if at first you don’t succeed, try a stake through the heart.”

Jake: Stake?

[Grunts] I think you’re… a bit confused, pal. I’m not the undead one.

Nick: True. But I think it’ll still get the job done. Might be overkill but…

[Laughs] Whatever it takes.

[Metallic clang] Charmin ultra soft has so much cushiony softness,

Allie: Charlie, no!

[Both grunting]

[Metallic clang]

Charlie: Ow! Ah, you bitch.

Allie: I should’ve done that a long time ago.

Charlie: You’ll regret that.

Tripp: [Grunts]

Charlie: [Grunts]

[Both struggling]

Allie: Tripp, be careful.

Tripp: It’s over!

[Breathing heavily]

Charlie: You think you won, don’t you? You have our mom, my son, you even got the girl. But guess what, big brother? You can play house all you want, but deep down you know she’s always gonna be damaged goods. All you got was my sloppy seconds.

Tripp: [Grunts]

[Both struggling]

Allie: Tripp! Tripp!

Gabi: He’s dead.

Jake: Didn’t know zombies had a heartbeat.

Gabi: Yeah, well, nick didn’t have a heart when he was alive, so same difference.

[Thudding] Yep, he’s dead. Hopefully for good this time.

Jake: Thanks for killing him before he could kill me.

Gabi: I already killed nick twice. I guess he was right. Third time really is the charm. All right, should we put him back where he belongs?

Jake: Yeah, I think that’s a good idea.

Gabi: Can you stand? I can help you.

Jake: Please.

[Groans]

Jake: Well, one undead, dead again.

[Grunts] Whoo, so… since we’ve established that you’ve already put this maniac out of his misery three times, how do you explain how the hell he got out of here tonight? Climbed out of this grave?

Gabi: Jake, I have no clue, and honestly I don’t even think I want to find out.

Eli: Well, I’d like to talk to jake, but he busted out of jail tonight and is still at large.

Philip: On your watch, detective? Higher-ups couldn’t be too pleased about that. Any leads?

Eli: He may have had help.

Philip: Let me guess. You mean gabi.

Eli: I mean… he may have had help.

Philip: So gabi busts her mobster boyfriend out of the slammer. I knew those two were bad news. Glad I fired him. But I’m a little confused, detective. Shouldn’t you be out hunting salem’s own bonnie and clyde instead of harassing innocent citizens?

Philip: The innocent part is still up for debate. I’ve got to get back to the station.

Philip: So we’re done?

Eli: For tonight, but I may have more questions, so–

Philip: “Don’t leave town?” Don’t worry. This isn’t my first rodeo. If you need me, you know where I’ll be. Feel free to take some candy for the road.

Nicole: I knew ava and gabi didn’t get along, but for ava to help philip steal gabi’s company– that company means everything to her.

Rafe: Yeah, well, you know, don’t go feeling too sorry for gabi because it turns out she’s not exactly on the straight-and-narrow, either.

Nicole: What do you mean?

Rafe: Well, jake broke out of jail tonight, and it looks like gabi may have helped him.

Nicole: That’s–

Rafe: Yeah, nuts, right? Yeah, exactly. I thought I was gonna spend tonight confiscating toilet paper and shaving cream.

Nicole: Oh, and then–then i call you over here to deal with A… pair of scissors.

Rafe: Well, it wasn’t just a pair of scissors. You were obviously very shaken up.

Nicole: Over nothing. I’m sorry, again.

Rafe: No, no, stop. Stop it. Stop, okay? Stop apologizing. It’s okay.

Nicole: No.

Rafe: No, I’m glad I was here. I was worried about you.

Nicole: Well, I–I’m fine. I–I’m fine, so… you should go and solve the case.

Rafe: Yeah, you know, actually eli is working the investigation because, you know, between gabi and ava, I’m a little too close to it, you know? Anyway, I’m glad that I’m here because, you know, on a night like tonight and all that craziness out there, right, I don’t want to leave you alone.

Nicole: Well, I’m–I’m I’m not alone. I’ve got–I’ve got duke.

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: And he’s awesome company, he’s always there when you need him.

Rafe: Well, what if I want to be the one who’s there when you need him? Nyquil severe gives you powerful relief

Nicole: You wanna be there for me? But you are. You always have been. We’re friends.

Rafe: Yeah, well… maybe I’m jealous of all the time you spend with duke.

Nicole: But we agreed.

Rafe: Yeah. I know what we agreed. We agreed we were gonna stay away from each other so that I could give my relationship with ava a chance. That’s not working for me anymore.

Nicole: But what about you and ava?

Rafe: After what’s happened tonight, I don’t– I don’t know if there is a me and ava.

Nicole: But you haven’t even talked. I mean, maybe there’s an explanation.

Rafe: For screwing over my sister, finding a dead guy on my kitchen floor? I’ve tried with ava. I have. I’ve– I’ve given her the benefit of the doubt. I’ve defended her to my sister. I’ve avoided you, you know. I’ve pretended that a bench and a doughnut and a bad coffee at the hospital was enough. It’s not. It’s just not because every time I see you, I just want…

Nicole: You just… want to what?

Shawn: Do you remember when charlie drugged you, and you were seeing people who weren’t actually there? And you thought– you thought that charlie– charlie killed tripp.

Ava: Yeah. Tripp said the same thing. He thought it might be an aftereffect of the drug.

Ava: Okay, so it is possible that maybe–

Ava: No, no, because charlie wasn’t a hallucination, okay? If he was, carmine wouldn’t actually be dead.

Shawn: Unless, you–

Ava: Okay, just stop it. Please, just stop. You know what? I would like to speak to someone who is actually going to listen.

Shawn: Do you want a lawyer?

Ava: No, I want rafe.

Shawn: I’m sorry, but he’s not here right now.

Shawn: Well, kinda figured that one, detective, but, um, I do believe that I am entitled to a phone call.

Shawn: Okay, yes, you are. I’ll call him for you. How’s that?

[Line ringing]

[Phone buzzing]

[Line ringing]

Shawn: Yeah, he’s not picking up. Rafe, hey, it’s shawn. Listen, I’m down at the station right now with ava. Can you– can you give me a call when you get this? Um, she wants to talk to you, and she’s saying that, uh– you know what, just– just give me a call when you get this, all right?

Allie: Tripp, enough. Hey–

Tripp: Son of a bitch.

Allie: Hey. Enough, okay? He can’t hurt me anymore.

Tripp: Alive, dead, undead, my brother is never gonna hurt you again, okay? I’ll make sure of that. All right? Do you hear me?

[Dramatic music]

Jake: What do you say we rebury him?

Gabi: Oh, I’ve dug up enough dirt for one night. And I don’t want to stay around here and wait for somebody else to get reanimated.

Jake: Yeah. I’m ready to get the hell out of here, too.

Gabi: Hey, jake, you were just dead. We should get you to a hospital.

Jake: Yes, I may be very much alive but… I’m also an escaped prisoner.

Gabi: You did not escape and you did nothing wrong.

Jake: Still, I need to set things straight with the cops, and as much as I’d like to get you home, get you to bed, I’ve gotta get back to jail. Serena: It’s my 3:10

Shawn: Look, I’m sorry. Rafe didn’t pick up.

Ava: Okay, will you call him again? Please, you have to–

Shawn: Look, obviously he’s busy, ava.

Ava: Okay, well, so if he doesn’t call back in a few minutes, just call him again.

Shawn: Listen, I’ve got places I need to be right now–

Ava: Please, will you please?

Shawn: Listen, you know what? I keep my phone on me at all times. I know when rafe gets his message, he’s going to call me back, and as soon as he does, I will let you know, all right?

Eli: Shawn, did you get anything out of ava?

Shawn: Nope. She’s sticking to her “my dead son did it” story.

Eli: Got to give it to her, it’s a new one.

Shawn: Yeah, any news on jake dimera?

Eli: No, we’ve got units combing through the city. No luck. He’s still at large– what the hell?

Shawn: Speak of the devil.

Gabi: Look, I know what you’re thinking but we can explain.

Shawn: About how you busted jake out of here?

Gabi: That is not how that happened.

Eli: I would love to hear how it did happen. Every single detail. Who’s going first?

Jake: Don’t blame gabi. She had nothing to do with my escape. I did this all on my own.

Tripp: You know when I said I wanted to do one of those ghost tours on halloween? Yeah, I’m over it.

Allie: Charlie couldn’t have just disappeared. I mean, where is he?

Tripp: I have no idea.

Allie: But that–I mean, that just happened, right? That was real, wasn’t it?

Tripp: I–I don’t know what the hell is going on, but it’s not just us, okay? My mom saw him, too.

Allie: That’s why she called you?

Tripp: Yeah, apparently charlie killed somebody right in front of her and came after her with a knife. She freaked out and barely escaped.

Allie: Oh, my god.

Tripp: When she first told me about it, I didn’t believe her. I just blew it off. I thought it was just some aftereffect of the drugs charlie gave her, but when I saw him with you, I–

Allie: That was no aftereffect. How did you even know to show up?

Tripp: Mom was afraid that charlie would go after you, and even if it turned out to be all in her head, I couldn’t take that chance ’cause the just the thought of that– of that maniac being anywhere near you or henry. Thank god the little guy’s with roman.

Allie: What if you didn’t show up? Oh, what if charlie had taken henry?

Tripp: Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, but he didn’t, okay? It’s okay, it’s okay. He didn’T. You’re safe, and henry’s safe, okay?

Allie: Because of you.

Tripp: Hey. The only reason I’m still breathing is because you’re pretty good with the frying pans. Thank you.

Allie: When I saw charlie’s hands around your neck–

Tripp: It’s okay. It’s all right, it’s all right. It’s okay. Are you okay? What?

Allie: I… I love you.

Tripp: Don’t say that.

Allie: No, I want to say it. Because it’s true. I love you, tripp johnson.

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[Gentle music]

Nicole: Oh, duke. I should really get rid of you. We both kn that. But I’m not doing that. And why is that? And why am I talking to a stuffed bear?

[Scoffs]

Deimos: You know what they say: Talking to yourself, it’s the first sign of insanity.

Nicole: [Screams]

[Dramatic music]

Nicole: Deimos.

Deimos: Aw, you remembered.

Nicole: But… you’re dead.

Deimos: Yes, I am. You murdered me. And yet here I am. I must say, nicole, you haven’t changed a bit. Have I?

Nicole: Why– why are you here?

Deimos: Because you and i have some unfinished business.

Gabi: Nick?

Nick: Not quite in the flesh but close enough.

Gabi: No.

Nick: Tell me, gabi, have you missed me? Missed my arms around you?

Gabi: [Screams]

Nick: I missed the sound of your voice. Ever soft, gentle, and low. An excellent thing in a woman.

Gabi: I’m–I’m dreaming. I’m dreaming.

Nick: Of having your beloved husband back? Of this moment?

Gabi: It’s because I told jake about you.

Nick: Did you tell him about your first husband? Your first love?

Gabi: [Screams] No, no, no. You–you don’t matter. You are not here. I don’t think about you. I don’t ever say your name.

Nick: Really? You sure you don’t dream about me? I don’t haunt your dreams?

Gabi: Uh-uh. No, no. I–I told jake about you and that’s why I’m dreaming about you. I just have to wake up.

Nick: Sorry, babe. This isn’t a dream. It’s your worst nightmare.

Eli: Rafe, what’s up?

Rafe: Yeah, I’ve got a possible homicide on my hands and I need you and the forensics team on it right away.

Eli: Where’s the body?

Rafe: My kitchen floor.

Tripp: Okay, tell me– tell me what’s going on.

Ava: You– you won’t believe me.

Tripp: Just–just tell me.

Ava: I– I saw your brother.

Tripp: Charlie’s dead, mom. You know this.

Ava: No. I saw him. He came for me.

Tripp: Okay, you need to calm down.

Ava: No, listen to me. I saw him. I am not crazy, okay? He came–he came to rafe’s house. He found me. He killed someone right in front of me.

Charlie: You’re not getting rid of me that easily. Not this time.

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

[Soft orchestration]

Ava: Tripp, tripp, you have to believe me. I saw charlie stab him. He killed him.

Tripp: Charlie’s dead, mom. You know this.

Ava: No, he isn’T. He is alive. You know, maybe he isn’t alive, okay? But he is back and he found me at rafe’s house.

Tripp: Okay, okay, you’re really upset and you thought you saw him, but that’s not possible.

Ava: Okay, listen to me. Tripp, I saw him. He killed a man.

Tripp: What–what man? What are you talking about?

Ava: Okay.

[Stammering] There was–he was– I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know who the man was. But–but he stabbed him. He killed him. Tripp, I watched him do it.

Tripp: Okay, okay, all right. Mom, this isn’t making any sense. The man, does rafe know him?

Ava: No, no. Rafe–rafe, he wasn’t there. He–he didn’t see anything. Oh, my god, tripp. Tripp, I was so scared because– because after charlie stabbed– after he stabbed him, he said that he was– he was undead. And then he talked about the night that he died. And–and he said how– how when I told him that I loved him, that I didn’t mean it and that I was lying. And that I never– that I never ever loved him.

Tripp: Okay, mom, I think we should go to the hospital.

Ava: No! Okay, I am not crazy. He said that I never loved him and I never would because he would never be you, okay? And then– and then he looked at me. He looked at me in some bizarre way, and then– and then he grabbed– he grabbed another knife. And said he was going to kill me. And he was so calm about it that I knew he meant it. So I pushed him and I ran. And that is when I called you.

Tripp: Okay, mom, let’s– let’s go.

Ava: Okay, no. No, tripp, we need to run away, okay? We have to run away because don’t you see? He is not only gonna kill me. He is gonna kill you, too.

Allie: Whoever you are, this is sick.

Charlie: Allie, you know who I am. I’m your old friend charlie.

Allie: No, charlie’s dead and it’s–it’s sick for you to put this ridiculous mask on and come here.

Charlie: I had to come. I had to see you again.

Allie: Who are you? Why are you doing this to me?

Charlie: Do you really think this is a mask? You think I’m kristen dimera out trick-or-treating?

Allie: Go away!

Charlie: Fine. Figure it out for yourself. Pull it off. See who it is who hates you so much. Go ahead.

Allie: [Gasps]

Charlie: [Laughs] Now you know who hates you so much. Charlie hates you so much.

Allie: You’re dead.

Charlie: Yeah, that’s what they keep telling me. Everybody keeps saying that. But you know what? You can’t keep a good man down. Technically, I–I think I am. But, you know, I hate labels. I think I’m gonna identify as undead now.

Allie: Go away.

Charlie: That’s not gonna happen.

Allie: Don’t touch me.

Charlie: Oh, don’t worry. Your virtue isn’t at risk. I didn’t come here to party. I’m on a mission. I–I think you know why I’m here.

Allie: No.

Charlie: Yes. I came here for my son.

Gabi: It can’t be. I killed you.

Nick: Sorry, which time are you talking about? The–the first time where you– you bashed my head in with a rock? That time?

Gabi: I had to, I had to. No, stop, you’re hurting me!

Nick: I would never hurt you. Look at me.

Gabi: No!

Nick: You love me. Just tell me how much.

Gabi: No! Stop it!

[Gasping]

Nick: [Groans, thuds]

Gabi: [Gasping]

[Breathing heavily]

Nick: So there you were with a dead body on your hands. So you called your friends, sami and kate. You guys decided to toss me in the river. Great plan. Only one small, small, tiny little problem.

[Whispers] I wasn’t dead. I came back, didn’t I? Just like I’m back now.

Deimos: Nicole, nicole, nicole. [Chuckles] You look lovely as always. I will never forget how absolutely radiant you were in red the night you killed me.

Nicole: Dr. Rolf. Dr. Rolf brought you back?

Deimos: [Chuckles] No, no, no, no. The one who brought me back is a hell of a lot more powerful than dr. Rolf. And quite a bit more evil.

Nicole: Who?

Deimos: Well, I’m sorry, at the moment that information is classified. I may have said too much already. But then again, you always had a way of getting me to open up, to drop my guard. Do you remember how much I opened up my soul to you?

Nicole: Oh, you didn’t have one.

Deimos: You know, I’ve often thought–you know, because when you’re dead, you actually have a lot of time for reflection. So I have often thought that it was really ironic that the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, ended it. In cold blood. No remorse. That just didn’t sit well with me, nicole. So I came here to tell you that I still hold a grudge. Serena: It’s my 3:10

Nicole: I did not murder you in cold blood.

Deimos: Oh, sweetheart. I was there, remember? Victim and eyewitness. I was totally defenseless and you stabbed me in the heart!

Deimos: [Chuckles] Well, well, well. Look who we have here.

Nicole: Stay away from me.

Deimos: I was really sorry to hear what happened to holly. How you lost her.

Nicole: How did you know about that?

Deimos: I’m the one who made it happen.

Nicole: You– you made it happen?

Deimos: All it took was one more corrupt judge. Lucky for me, huh?

Nicole: Wait, are you saying–

Deimos: Just like the first time. Only that time, I was on your side.

Nicole: My side?

Deimos: Come on, nicole. You remember that, don’t you? When I was in love with you?

Nicole: You made sure the judge–

Deimos: That’s right. And believe me, it really wasn’t that difficult. I mean, come on, is there really anyone more unfit to be a mother than you?

Nicole: Oh, my god.

Deimos: I think it’s time for daddy to go pick up his little girl at the foster home. And I cannot wait to see her get excited to see me.

Nicole: No. No!

Deimos: Daddy’s little girl, that’s what she’s gonna be. I mean, come on, you know me, nicole, I am gonna spoil that kid rotten.

Nicole: No! She is my daughter, not yours, you sick bastard.

Deimos: Wow, look at this. Looks like I touched a nerve, huh?

Nicole: I’ll never let you take my daughter. Do you hear me? I will never– I will never–

Deimos: Oh, come on. Really? Come on.

Nicole: [Sobbing]

[Knife thuds]

Deimos: [Gasps]

Deimos: Strolling down memory lane, are you? Remembering how you plunged that knife into my chest? Deep into the chest of an innocent, unarmed man.

Nicole: Innocent? You broke the laws of man and god in order to take my daughter. She was innocent. She was defenseless and you used her like a pawn to get what you wanted. And what you wanted was depraved. I didn’t murder you. I put you down like a rabid dog.

Deimos: You played god. And up until now you thought you got away with it. I think they call that a fool’s paradise. But it’s over. Because now you’re face to face with the man who knows that you’re nothing more than a murdering whore. And a man who also knows that you were never even charged, let alone punished for what you did. But that all ends tonight. And I guarantee you, nicole, the punishment is gonna fit the crime.

Eli: Jeez.

Rafe: Yeah.

Eli: What have we got?

Rafe: The victim’s name’s carmine merlino. Same guy that shot abe.

Eli: Do we know who killed him?

Rafe: No. I just came home, found him dead on my kitchen floor.

Gabi: And I told you yesterday that carmine’s mob boss is none other than your precious ava. So if you want answers, why don’t you talk to her?

Eli: Oh, I know that look. You know something, don’t you?

Rafe: Yeah. Yeah, I do.

Ava: Don’t you see? Don’t you see? We have to get out of here. We have to get out of salem because charlie’s not going to stop until he gets the both of us.

Tripp: Mom, he’s dead.

Ava: No. He is back. I saw him.

Tripp: And there’s a good reason for that, okay? But you need to calm down and listen to me, as a doctor. All right, this is just like what happened to you when charlie drugged you.

Ava: What?

Tripp: Remember? You thought you saw charlie kill me and then you thought you saw dad carrying me out to bury me.

Ava: I was not drugged tonight.

Tripp: It doesn’t matter, okay? All right, people who have taken hallucinogens like the ones charlie gave you can have hallucinations for years to come. There’s medical documentation that shows that those drugs can result in serious residual effects including flashbacks and delusions. Like what happened to you tonight. The drug stays in your body for a long time.

Ava: Okay, tripp, listen to me. I remember the delusions back then, okay? Tonight was not like that. Tonight– tonight was real. It was like I could reach out and I could touch him. Oh, my god.

Tripp: What?

Ava: Allie, allie. We need to call allie. We need to warn her. We need to tell her to grab henry and run.

Allie: Don’t say that you’re henry’s father. You’re not.

Charlie: You can’t have it both ways, allie. You can’t accuse me of raping you and say henry isn’t mine.

Allie: What you did to me has nothing to do with being a father. You don’t even know him.

Charlie: Because of you! You told everyone that I was a rapist. Everyone wanted me dead. I died without ever even knowing who my son was. But now I’m back. And you can’t stop me. You did everything you could to keep me away from him. Now I’m gonna take him away from you.

Allie: No.

Charlie: Get the hell out of my way.

Julie: [Shouts] You scared me to death.

Kate: Hm, yet you’re still standing.

Julie: It’s a figure of speech. Well, kate, I don’t know if you’re coming by for a late night snack and a martini. I’ve completely forgotten what you order. But you’re out of luck. We’re closed.

Kate: I can see that. But I’m glad you’re still here because actually, I came to see you.

Julie: Really? Why?

Kate: I was going to call but I have a feeling that you wouldn’t pick up when you saw it was me. And I wanted to invite you to thanksgiving.

Julie: Oh, really? And what were you expecting me to bring? A poisoned pumpkin pie perhaps?

Kate: Well, actually, I was pretty sure that you wouldn’t accept. So it was a fairly painless way for me to extend myself.

Julie: Isn’t that how you always extend yourself, kate?

Kate: You know, julie, all joking aside, I’m genuinely sorry for doug’s situation.

Julie: Thank you very much. But I’m sure you didn’t come here just to say that.

Kate: No, actually, I didn’T. I came here to tell you that your cousin, nick fallon, is back from the dead.

Nick: You nearly jumped out of your skin when I showed up very much alive in that church. I mean, god, the hypocrisy! A gay and a murderess having their kid baptized.

[Laughs]

Gabi: I wasn’t a murderess because you weren’t dead yet. But you know what? I should’ve hit you three or four times with that rock because the world is a much better place without you.

Nick: But you made sure you killed me the second time around.

Gabi: For trying to take ari and me away from everyone we loved.

Nick: No. No excuses. It was premeditated murder, gabi. You even admitted it.

Gabi: Then I got the gun out of the closet and loaded it. I found the silencer there with it so I put that on. Then I stuck it inside the diaper bag.

Nick: You confessed. You gave a statement to the police.

Gabi: I served time. I paid my debt to society.

Nick: I don’t give a crap about society. I’m talking about your debt to me. You shot me three times and then got off on a technicality.

Gabi: I paid, first in prison and then, when I got out, your bitch cousin, julie, made sure that I kept paying for the rest of my life.

Nick: Not enough. Not nearly enough. Well, as you can see, I survived the second time you murdered me, too. And now I’m back and I am going to make you pay. What’s that expression they say? Oh, yeah. Third time’s a charm.

[ Crow squawks ]

Charlie: You bitch!

Allie: Please, god, please.

Charlie: You knew he wasn’t in there. Give me that. Fun and games are over, allie. You’re gonna tell me where the hell my son is.

Tripp: It’s okay. It’s okay. Henry’s inside the pub with roman and lucas.

Ava: Call allie.

Tripp: No. Mom, I’m not gonna scare her for no reason, okay? Charlie’s dead, mom. You watched him die. You don’t have to worry about him anymore. He can’t hurt you.

Ava: I saw him.

Tripp: You thought you saw him. I have already explained that to you. All right, now– if you won’t go to the hospital, I’m gonna take you home.

Ava: No, you’re not. We are not going home because there is a dead body there.

Tripp: I promise you, there isn’T. I’ll–I’ll go with you. I’ll prove it to you, okay?

Eli: Rafe?

Rafe: [Sighs] Right, okay. Look, what you need to know is there’s a possibility that ava is involved in this.

Eli: Okay.

Rafe: We’ll know more when we get the time of death. But, um, I think that we’re gonna find that gabi was with jake at the station when he was murdered and ava was the only one who was here.

Eli: Right. And?

Rafe: And when david was running the vitali crime family, carmine worked for her.

Eli: You–you think he came here to see her?

Rafe: Well, I don’t think he came here to see me. You know, my guess is that he probably knew that jake was in custody, so he came here to see ava. And gabi said she thinks that ava’s the one who helped merlino get away when he shot abe.

Eli: Rafe, you need to hand over this case to me.

Rafe: I–I know, okay? I know. But listen to me. I’m just going on what gabi said to me, and it wouldn’t be the first time that she has fed me a load of crap. Not to mention, ava said that she was out of the mob. So you know, she could be jerking me around too. I mean, what a– what a great domestic situation I’m in, right?

[Phone rings[

Eli: You know you’re gonna have to make a statement, right?

Rafe: Yeah, I know. Great, I’m sure this is more good news. Hernandez. Son of a bitch! Okay.

Eli: What is it?

Rafe: Jake dimera escaped lock-up. Oh, my god, what has gabi done this time?

Gabi: Are you gonna kill me?

Nick: Hm. Mm, no. That would be too easy. I decided that if the opportunity ever rose from the dead, so to speak, that I didn’t want you to die. I wanted you to suffer. And to that end, I decided to kill your boyfriend.

[Laughs]

Gabi: Jake?

Nick: Yeah, jake. Your beloved jake. Oh, wow, gabi, I mean, what a loser that guy is. I mean, you’re really rolling around at the bottom of the barrel there.

Gabi: Please, he’s never done anything to you. I’m the one that you hate.

Nick: Yeah, I think of it more like collateral damage. Because his death would be the gift that keeps on giving. You would live the rest of your life knowing that his blood is on your hands.

Gabi: Please, please, please, I’m begging you, please don’t kill him. Please don’T.

Nick: Oh, gabi. What if it’s already too late?

Nicole: [Gasps] Don’t come any closer.

Deimos: And what are you gonna do, huh? You gonna kill me again? Go ahead. Do your worst.

Nicole: [Screams]

Deimos: [Breathing heavily] Charmin ultra soft has so much cushiony softness,

Deimos: You little bitch!

Nicole: [Screams]

[Choking]

[Coughs and gasps]

Rafe: So when jake and the cop who was taking him back to his cell didn’t show up, they did a search and they found the cop knocked out cold and jake nowhere to be found.

Eli: That was a stupid ass thing for jake to do.

Rafe: If it was jake.

Eli: You don’t think it was him?

Rafe: Well, it doesn’t make any sense. He was cooperating. He gave a full confession. He even seemed guilty that his gun was used to shoot abe. He just–you know, I–I talked to him. I asked him to be patient, that things would sort themselves out and he seemed to agree.

Eli: But not gabi?

Rafe: Well, I told her to be patient. Like that would ever work.

Eli: All right. You think gabi would take matters into her own hands?

Rafe: Well, I’m about to find out. God, what a night.

Julie: What do you mean nick is back from the dead?

Kate: Well, two trick-or-treaters at the pub said they saw him tonight.

Julie: And that’s what– think, kate. A couple of trick-or-treaters saw a couple of other trick-or-treaters and one of them must have been dressed like nick.

Kate: Well, that would presuppose that they’re selling nick fallon halloween costumes this year.

Julie: You know what I mean.

Kate: Ah, well, maybe you’re right. I mean, what kid wouldn’t want to dress up like a psycho killer, right?

Julie: Nick was not a psycho killer.

Kate: Don’t get defensive.

Julie: Kate, for once in your life, instead of being hurtful and nasty, why don’t you try showing a little empathy for a young man who had a very difficult life and was traumatized by what happened to him in prison.

Kate: Right. Then he set out to traumatize gabi hernandez in exactly the same way.

Julie: Well, gabi got her revenge, didn’t she? Shot him three times. You may not recall but I remember very clearly because he died in my arms.

Kate: Allegedly.

Gabi: What do you mean, “it’s too late”?

Nick: Well, what it means is that after I rose up out of my grave, which by the way, you really should’ve seen it. It would have knocked your socks off. Anyway, then I–I went down to the police station.

Gabi: Why?

Nick: To find the boyfriend, of course.

Gabi: How did you know he was there?

Nick: Oh, see the undead have this sort of, um, telepathic gps system. Anyway, aren’t you getting caught up in little details? Don’t you want to know what happened? What I did? Not which bus I took to get there?

Gabi: What happened?

Nick: Well, I got down to the station and your boyfriend was being escorted to a cell. I intercepted him.

Gabi: And what did you do?

Nick: Well, as a recent acquaintance of mine once said–really funny guy– “if it were done “when ’tis done, “then ’twere well it was done quickly.”

Gabi: Oh, my god. Did you already kill him?

Allie: I will never tell you where henry is.

Charlie: Not willingly.

Allie: You will never again be in the same room as my son.

Charlie: My son!

Allie: Not in any way that matters.

Charlie: Who’s the father then, huh? Tripp? The two of you. Oh, classic love story. Boy meets girl, girl falsely accuses boy of rape.

Allie: Tripp knows why I did that. It’s because you screwed me up by what you did to me. Hell, everybody knows that it was you. Hey, charlie, did you notice how few people attended your funeral? Did you know that I didn’t? I was afraid that I’d be fined for excessive celebration.

Ava: I told you. I told you there was a dead body. You didn’t believe me. I was telling the truth.

Tripp: I’m sorry. I just thought that– eli, what happened?

Eli: There’s been a homicide.

Tripp: Who was it?

Eli: Carmine merlino. He was the man who shot abe. Ms. Vitali, I’m sorry, but I gotta take you down to the station for questioning. Turns out deb’s constipation with belly pain

[Eerie music]

Nicole: Rafe. I gotta call rafe.

[Line ringing]

Allie: You know how you’re always whining about how mommy loves tripp best?

Charlie: Stop it.

Allie: Well, she does. Of course she does. Because as dumb and creepy as you are, that’s how cool and smart he is.

Charlie: Stop talking about tripp!

Allie: You brought him up. You always bring him up.

Charlie: Shut up.

Allie: Imagine having a mother who has two sons and one of them is everything a mother could ever want and the other one is the definition of “loser.”

Charlie: I said shut up!

Tripp: Why do you need to question my mom?

Eli: The deceased was a former associate of hers. He worked for her when she was in charge of the vitali mob.

Tripp: You said that–

Eli: She–she said that what, tripp?

Ava: I didn’t kill him. It was charlie. I saw him.

Eli: Who’s charlie?

Ava: My son. He killed carmine. I saw it.

Eli: Ms. Vitali, charlie is dead.

Ava: Rafe. I need to talk to rafe.

Rafe: So you say you saw my sister say goodbye to jake. Okay, did you actually see her leave?

Cop: She came out of the interrogation room and maxwell and i went in to get dimera. She wasn’t here when we brought him out.

Rafe: Okay. And then maxwell took him down.

Cop: And I started the paperwork.

Rafe: And he was cuffed?

Cop: It’s procedure, isn’t it?

Rafe: Okay, yet somehow, jake still managed to hit maxwell over the head and escape? Did you happen to see where he went?

Cop: No.

Rafe: Right. Right, my sister’s not answering my calls. What the hell is going on?

Gabi: Did you kill jake? Tell me!

Nick: Let me put it to you this way. I happened to have an empty grave at my disposal. And I figured I might as well put it to good use. It’s my woke-up-like-this migraine medicine.

Julie: Allegedly? Where do you get your news, kate? I was holding him. I–I–I felt the life draining out of him.

Kate: Yes, of course you did and that had to have been terribly painful for you.

Julie: Are you mocking me?

Kate: No, not at all. And–although I do agree that it’s probably not true that nick has been restored to life, you do have to admit he cheated death once before.

Julie: Oh, when you and gabi and sami tried to drown him in the river. Talk about the three witches from macbeth.

Kate: Hmm, yeah. Well, he did manage to crawl back out of the water, didn’t he? But I think it is highly unlikely that he managed to crawl out of the grave after being shot three times. Although…

Julie: Although what?

Kate: Although, I mean, not to brag about it or anything, but I did manage to do that. So, who knows? Maybe he managed to pull off the same trick. Anyway, I need to get going. Happy halloween.

Gabi: You buried him?

Nick: Well, I think of it more like a sublet.

Gabi: Dead or alive?

Nick: Why don’t you ask him?

Gabi: Ah!

Nick: Gosh… I hope she’s not too late.

[Phone ringing]

Rafe: Nicole, this isn’t a good time.

Nicole: I need you, rafe. Now.

Rafe: Okay, what is it?

Nicole: I’m in my office. It’s an emergency.

Eli: Rafe’s at the station. You can talk to him there.

Tripp: Okay, if she’s going down to the station, then I’m coming with her.

Ava: No. Tripp… if the police aren’t going to look for charlie, you have to.

Tripp: Mom.

Ava: I told you there was a dead body here and there was a body here. Charlie was here. Okay, I know that you said that everything’s safe, okay? But I have this awful feeling about allie.

Tripp: Mom, I can’t just leave you alone.

Ava: Just go check, okay? I mean, what–what does it hurt? Prove me wrong. Prove me crazy. I mean, you love her, tripp. What do you lose by checking? Because if you don’t, and something happens to her, you are gonna regret it for the rest of your life.

Charlie: You know what? You think you are so smart. You thought that if you talked about tripp that I would get crazy and I would forget about henry. But you know what? You’re not smart. I saw right through it. Now I’m going to ask you one more time. Where is my son?

Allie: I will never tell you where he is.

Charlie: You know what? I see that. Nothing that I can do will get you to tell me.

Allie: Right.

Charlie: So I’m just gonna have to find him solo.

Allie: Well, he’s not here.

Charlie: Hmm, you trying to send me on my way? As soon as I leave, you’ll call whoever has him? Or you’ll call the police. And I can’t let that happen. So, I’m sad to say, allie, I’m gonna have to kill you.

Trelegy for copd.

Gabi: Jake! Jake! Jake, no! Jake!

[Gasping frantically]

Nicole: Oh, god.

Rafe: This had better be good.

Nicole: Listen, deimos– deimos was here.

Rafe: What?

Nicole: He came back to get me and I killed him. Rafe, I stabbed him with a pair of scissors.

Rafe: Damn it, nicole, deimos kiriakis is dead.

Nicole: No, he is in there. Dead on the floor with a pair of scissors in his chest. Go look for yourself.

Rafe: Nicole, you need to come in here.

[Dramatic music]

Eli: You have the right to have an attorney present–

Ava: I don’t need a lawyer. I need you to listen to me. Okay? Charlie is back. He came back, he killed carmine, and then he was going to kill me.

Eli: Maybe what you need is a doctor.

Ava: Okay, I am begging you. Please, send someone to help tripp. I am telling you the truth. I swear to god, I am telling the truth.

Tripp: Allie! Get the hell away from her.

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[Knock at door]

Abe: Oh. Yeah.

Nicole: Hi.

Abe: Oh. [Chuckles] Nicole.

Nicole: Oh, well, I see flowers was not an original idea.

Abe: Oh, that’s mostly paulina.

Nicole: Oh, well, I hope you’re not allergic, because the last thing you need to do is start sneezing.

Abe: [Laughs] Oh, ah, these stitches.

Nicole: Are you okay?

Abe: Just don’t make me laugh.

Nicole: Okay. I won’T. So I hear you’re engaged to paulina.

Abe: Oh.

Nicole: Are you happy?

Abe: Believe it or not, this is a happy face.

Nicole: Oh, sorry. I saw lani and theo dragging paulina to the elevator.

Abe: Well, she’s been here for two days straight. She needs some rest.

Nicole: So do you. So if you’re not up for the company, just say so.

Abe: Oh, hey, I am always, always glad to see you.

Nicole: Abe, I am so glad to see you. I was so scared.

Abe: Yeah. Me too. You know, that gun, it just– it just came out of nowhere.

Nicole: Why would jake dimera do that to you?

Abe: I just told rafe. He didn’T.

[Dramatic music]

Jake: Hey, you’re back.

Gabi: Yes. Rafe talked to abe. Tell him.

Rafe: Mayor carver corroborated your statement.

Jake: Thank god.

Rafe: Yeah. He also picked carmine merlino’s picture out of a photo array. Yeah, merlino. Pretty impressive rap sheet, that guy, huh?

Jake: Yeah.

Rafe: Known associate of some major mob types in philadelphia. And we also found his prints on your gun.

Jake: [Laughs] Well, I was afraid that the mayor would forget everything that happened before the shooting.

Gabi: Well, he didn’T. And that’s not the only good news. Go on, tell him.

Rafe: Abe overheard carmine admitting that he’s the one who whacked zanetti, not you.

Jake: [Laughs]

Gabi: And now that he’s been cleared from these bogus charges, will you please take these handcuffs off him?

Rafe: Hmm. Not just yet.

Gabi: What?

Carmine: Hey!

Ava: What are you doing here, huh? This is the police commissioner’s house, for god’s sake.

Carmine: I had to see you.

Ava: You were supposed to be lying low.

Carmine: Don’t get much lower than the town dump. You know how bad that place stinks?

Ava: Yeah, well, no one’s gonna find you there, are they? Thought you liked playing tony soprano.

Carmine: What am I supposed to do, hide out in sewers for the rest of my life?

Gabi: Well, it beats life in prison, doesn’t it? And that’s exactly where you’re headed. Rafe could come home any minute.

Carmine: I don’t think you get what I’m saying, so let me make myself clear. You either find me some five-star accommodation, or you’re gonna wind up in the cell right next to mine.

Allie: A walk through the cemetery? That’s your idea of fun?

Tripp: What, are you scared?

Allie: Me? No.

Tripp: Okay, well, I just thought maybe, you know, that stuff with the ouija board with your brother freaked you out.

Allie: I’m fine.

Tripp: Good. ‘Cause I’ve always, you know, thought it’d be cool to done one of those ghost tour things on halloween.

Allie: Why? I mean, halloween isn’t any different than every other night.

Tripp: Oh, yeah? Okay, let’s go.

Demon marlena: So… little allie horton doesn’t believe in the supernatural… even after what I did to her grandmother. I guess I’ll just have to make her a believer. Rise up. Rise up, charlie dale! And prove to allie that my powers are real.

[Sinister music]

[Laughs] I’ve still got it. Undeniably, unequivocally, I’ve got it.

Charlie: Hail.

[Bones crack] I am at your command.

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

[Soft orchestration]

Gabi: What do you mean not yet? You heard abe. Jake’s innocent.

Rafe: Of attempting to murder abe. But he is guilty of bringing a loaded firearm to a public park, which is against city ordinances, not to mention the fact that the da’s gonna want to speak to him about all his priors with merlino, not to mention the philly pd.

Gabi: [Scoffs] Come on!

Rafe: You know the best way to help yourself? Roll on merlino: Who his friends are, who might want to help him out, that sort of thing.

Jake: Okay, I haven’t had any dealings with the guy in years, I swear.

Gabi: And I told you yesterday that carmine’s mob boss is none other than your precious ava. So if you want answers, why don’t you talk to her?

Ava: I had nothing to do with you shooting the mayor. I didn’t even know you were in salem.

Carmine: Oh, yeah? Well, let’s talk about something you do know, like how you and phil kiriakis wanted me to help you frame jake dimera, all so you could steal your boyfriend’s little sister’s company. I got to hand it to you, boss.

[Laughs] Shacking up with the police commissioner and sticking it to his little sister all at the same time? That’s moxie. But just you wait until he hears about all the stuff you pulled in philly.

Ava: He’s not gonna hear about anything.

Carmine: If I go down for shooting the mayor, I ain’t going alone. I’m taking you with me.

Ava: Oh, you threatening me?

Carmine: Oh, yeah.

Tripp: Okay, okay, so if we cut through the alley, we should be, like, a block north of the cemetery. What, is something wrong?

Allie: I can’t do it. I’m sorry.

Tripp: What? Why didn’t you just say so?

Allie: I’m not superstitious, but cemeteries really creep me out. I mean, I don’t like being surrounded by a bunch of dead people, especially on halloween. I don’t care if they’re six feet under.

Demon marlena: Marlena’s granddaughter needs to be taught a lesson.

Charlie: If you’re talking about allie horton, I’d like to teach her a few lessons myself.

Demon marlena: Ah. I thought you’d be a very good match for the job.

Charlie: I have scores to settle with lots of folks in salem.

Demon marlena: The more mischief you make, the happier I’ll be. So why don’t you just get to it?

Trelegy for copd.

Allie: If you want to go check out the graveyard, you go for it, but I’m gonna wait for you right here.

Tripp: No, no, that’s okay. I’d rather be with you. And besides, I think we could figure out something else to do.

Allie: Something that doesn’t involve graveyards?

Tripp: Are you upset with me?

Allie: No. No, I’m just–

Tripp: Just what?

Allie: Okay, I’m a little upset. When I walked into the hospital, I saw you and chanel talking, and she said that you guys were talking about abe. But you weren’t, were you? You were talking about me.

Nicole: Abe, I’m so sorry it took you getting shot for me to come see you.

Abe: Oh, I– I should’ve checked in with you. How are you? How are you doing?

Nicole: [Chuckles] You’re the one who gets shot, and you’re asking me how I’m doing.

Abe: I heard that you and eric split up. And I–I should’ve called you.

Nicole: I guess you figured out that I never sent him the email.

Abe: The one that you said would end your marriage?

Nicole: I was unfaithful to him. I should’ve known it was gonna come out.

Abe: Well, what are you gonna do? I mean, are you gonna try to work this out?

Nicole: No. We’re getting a divorce.

Abe: For sure?

Nicole: We just realized that we don’t belong together.

Abe: Oh, that makes me sad.

Nicole: Yeah. Me too. No, I’ve lain awake a lot of nights thinking about why it happened.

Abe: What’d you come up with?

Nicole: I know eric loved me. But I wonder now if he really wanted to be married.

Abe: What do you mean?

Nicole: I worked a lot with him at st. Luke’s, and he loved being a priest.

Abe: Well, that got taken away from him.

Nicole: Yes. But he never stopped missing that life. And I think his work in africa made him feel closer to who he was then.

Abe: Yeah. I see what you mean.

Nicole: I–I’m not saying the divorce is his fault. I’m just trying to find a way to forgive myself so that I can move on. I’m seeing someone.

Abe: Is he–is he worthy?

Nicole: I don’t really know how to answer that. It’s ej dimera.

Abe: Are you kidding?

Nicole: I–I’m sorry, abe, if that upsets you. I know you can’t stand him.

Abe: I thought you couldn’t either.

Nicole: I couldn’T. And when things blew up between him and me, I was sure I would never even be in the same room as him.

Abe: What changed?

Nicole: Well, for one thing, he started to pursue me, not the other way around.

Abe: [Sighs] And the other thing?

Nicole: He helps me forget someone else, someone that you would have approved of.

Abe: What went wrong?

Nicole: As usual, my timing is lousy. So by the time I figured out he was the one, another lucky woman snapped him up.

Gabi: So I tell you that ava’s the one that hooked up carmine and philip, yet you go home and tell her nothing.

Rafe: I didn’t go home last night, for the record. I was directing the manhunt for carmine.

Gabi: Ava knows where he is, yet you continue to harass jake and you keep him locked up here for no reason!

Jake: Gabi, it’s okay.

Gabi: No, no, it’s not okay. You think that you have rehabilitated that bitch? But why don’t you just do your job?

Rafe: Oh, I know how to do my job. I called ava, and we are playing phone tag.

Gabi: Phone tag, rafe? Come on! She doesn’t want to answer. She doesn’t want to admit that she was carmine’s mob boss. I will bet you anything she was the one that got carmine to get away.

Ava: Thought you knew better than to threaten your boss.

Carmine: My boss?

Ava: Mm.

Carmine: You? [Laughs] You used to wield a knife with the best of them. But now you’re using it to cut up eggplant in a dump like this. You traded in your gat for a– for a sculabast! So no, I ain’t afraid of you no more.

Ava: You better be.

Demon marlena: And by the way, you haven’t thanked me for bringing you back from the dead. Didn’t your mother teach you any manners?

Charlie: Matter of fact, she skipped manners.

Demon marlena: [Laughs]

Charlie: Thank you for bringing me back from the dead.

Demon marlena: That’s more like it. Now, you know what I want you to do, so get out there and wreak some havoc for me.

Charlie: With pleasure.

Demon marlena: [Laughs]

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Rafe: That is a huge leap to accuse ava of helping carmine get away.

Gabi: Oh, come on. Ava and philip, they started this whole carmine situation. She reached out to carmine. He told her that garbage about jake killing zanetti. And philip told me flat out that if I didn’t sign over gabi chic, he was gonna use that made-up crap to get jake.

Rafe: And why would ava want to help philip?

Gabi: Because she– she wants to run gabi chic.

Rafe: And you never thought of telling me this?

Gabi: I didn’t want to make more trouble for jake. And mainly I didn’t think you would believe me.

Jake: Hey, everything she’s saying is true.

Rafe: Okay. Why would philip want to get rid of you?

Gabi: Mm, he wants to run gabi chic his own way.

Rafe: You want me to trust you? Why don’t you try telling me the truth for once?

Gabi: What? Wait, where are you going?

Rafe: I’m going to see abe. I will have someone come and take you back to lockup.

[Door slams]

Gabi: [Scoffs]

Jake: [Sighs]

Tripp: What makes you think chanel and i were talking about you?

Allie: Well, I know you both really well. And you clammed up as soon as you saw me, and then you both seemed guilty.

Tripp: Okay. You’re right, I’m sorry. This isn’t really my… favorite subject.

Allie: What isn’t?

Tripp: Me being more into you than you’re into me.

Allie: Because you told me you love me and I couldn’t say it back.

Tripp: I didn’t know you told chanel about that.

Allie: She’s my best friend. And I only told her that because I feel so awful. I mean, not only are you cute and sexy and smart, but you take care of henry in the morning so I can go to work. I mean, you fixed his hole in his blanket.

[Sighs] I’m the luckiest girl in the world to be with a guy like you. And saying “I love you,” I just–it’s not about you.

Tripp: Hey, look, you don’t have to explain anything, okay? I didn’t even want to bring it up. I don’t want you to feel any type of pressure, okay?

Allie: I told you, I’ve never said “I love you” to anyone. And after what charlie did to me… I know it’s awful to say, but I’m glad he’s dead. It’s so much easier to put him out of my mind when I know he’s out of my life forever.

[Suspenseful music]

Demon marlena: [Laughs] Julie williams. I should’ve known. The only mortal dumb enough to have mourned this fallen angel.

[Scoffs] Nicholas fallon. Yeah. Yeah, the one who single-handedly tried to bring down the horton family. You certainly muddied up that name, didn’t you?

[Chuckles] Nice work. I do have one more job for you now, though.

Carmine: Look, if you ain’t gonna help me out, I’m gonna have to take this situation into my own hands.

Ava: Get out.

Carmine: Shut up. I’m gonna take this moppine and I’m gonna wrap it three times around that skinny little neck. The perfect way for a casalinga to go.

[Tense music]

Charlie: Mother, I’m home. We do it every night.

Ava: You–you can’t be here. You’re–you’re dead.

Charlie: And now I’m undead. This guy…he’s dead. Hey, I just saved your life. How about a “thank you, charlie?”

Ava: Thank you.

Charlie: “Charlie.”

Ava: Charlie.

Charlie: Will this make you love me?

Ava: What? I–I told you. I told you the night that you died.

Charlie: Yeah, but i don’t think you meant it. I think you were happy to have me off your hands.

Ava: No.

Charlie: Yeah.

Ava: No.

Charlie: I heard what you said about your poor dead son. You’ll never love me, will you? I’ll never be perfect like your sainted tripp.

Ava: No, no, that’s not true.

Charlie: You don’t exactly seem happy to see me.

Ava: Okay. Okay, this is a nightmare. This is a nightmare. It has to be. This can’t be–this can’t be happening.

Charlie: Oh, it will be. I want you to see the hell that I call home, sweet home.

Ava: Leave me alone!

Charlie: [Grunts]

[Growls]

Abe: So you said that this man who got away is someone I approve of. So I assume that means I know him.

Nicole: Yes. You do. But like I said–

[Knock at door] Rafe?

Rafe: Hey.

Abe: Hey.

Rafe: Listen, I am sorry to interrupt, but I just need to get your statement and I’ll be out of here.

Nicole: You know what? I–I was just gonna head out, let abe get some rest.

Abe: Oh. Well, here. All right. And–

Rafe: Thank you.

Abe: You know, my– my eyelids are getting a little heavy. Look, so glad to see you. Don’t be a stranger.

Nicole: I won’t be. I promise.

Rafe: I’ll see you soon, abe. All right? Take care.

Abe: Yes, sir.

Rafe: You got time for a coffee?

Nicole: Yeah, sure, why not? Yeah.

[Soft dramatic music]

Gabi: I cannot believe him! I mean, here you sit in handcuffs and he hasn’t said a word to ava!

Jake: He loves her. This is probably very hard for him.

Gabi: Oh, first of all, how do you know he loves– no. Second of all, why are you being so nice about him?

Jake: Because, gabi, he’s right. I’m not innocent. I brought carmine to salem and I brought a loaded gun to our meeting in the park.

Gabi: Yeah, but you were just trying to scare him off.

Jake: I know. Carmine took the gun from me and then used it to shoot the mayor.

Gabi: But you didn’t shoot anybody, okay? Not abe, not zanetti. You just–you don’t have it in you, unlike me. I killed nick fallon not once but twice! And he had it coming to him both times!

Demon marlena: Ah, nick fallon. This isn’t your first undead rodeo, is it?

Nick: Yours either, dr. Evans.

Demon marlena: Whoo! Don’t call me by her name! Oh, you have become quite a handsome little devil, haven’t you? Struck down in your prime. And yet there you are, still so young and handsome… and tempting. Better skin from your body wash?

Demon marlena: Mwah.

[Laughs]

Nick: Is that why you raised me from the dead?

Demon marlena: No. That was just a little diversion.

[Gasps] John black must be turning over in his crypt.

Nick: So what do you want me to do?

Demon marlena: If I were to give you one day back on earth, how would you spend it?

Nick: Hmm. If it were up to me, I guess I’d avenge my death.

Demon marlena: [Laughing] Oh! Good idea! And you could start with that little tart gabi hernandez.

Nick: I thought you liked her.

Demon marlena: Well, marlena likes her okay. I guess I’m all right with her when she’s doing my bidding. And I might need one more person to join my little army of the undeads. Of course, she would have to die tonight.

Gabi: Abe’s statement will say you didn’t do anything wrong. Carmine had the gun. Carmine shot abe. My brother’s just too embarrassed to admit that he got suckered by ava. But I know him. I know he’s thinking about it, realizing I’m right.

Jake: You really think ava helped carmine go underground?

Gabi: Who else can make him disappear like that? That bitch has not changed. She is pure evil. Oh, I can see the scene right now. When rafe confronts her, she’s gonna beg and cry. But you know what? This time, rafe is not gonna let her squirm out of this. She is out of the house for good and on her way to prison.

Nicole: Mm. When you said you’d buy me a cup of coffee, I thought you’d take me someplace where there’s decent coffee.

Rafe: Yeah, yeah, I was thinking that too. And yeah, but then I rethought it.

Nicole: ‘Cause I said we should keep our distance for the sake of ava?

Rafe: Yup.

Nicole: Mm-hmm.

Rafe: Right. That. But I do need to ask you some questions.

Nicole: About what?

Rafe: A police matter. And it’s also personal for me. I have reason to believe that the woman I’m living with might be indirectly responsible for abe getting shot.

Nicole: Are you kidding?

Rafe: Yeah, I wish I was. I got to ask you, did ava ever give you any indication that the mob life she left behind wasn’t actually that far behind her?

Nicole: Well, can I ask you what–what got you thinking about that?

Rafe: Gabi. So obviously, I have to be careful. She hates ava, and, well, we both know what she’s capable of when she hates someone. But I got to tell you, after talking with her tonight, I got to think that maybe there’s a chance she’s telling the truth this time. And I’ve been a damn fool.

Tripp: You don’t have to explain anything or apologize for–

Allie: I want you to know this. Those three little words have been on the tip of my tongue so many times. And now I feel like maybe–

[Cell phone ringing]

Tripp: Hang on. It’s my mom. Hey, mom.

Ava: Help me.

Tripp: Mom?

Ava: Please, help me!

Nick: So do you want me to kill her or not?

Demon marlena: I want you to do whatever creates the most misery for the most people. Have you met me? Now, I’m gonna need one more person like you to create this unholy energy. Who could that be?

Nick: Hmm. That’s an interesting name. Greek god of terror.

Demon marlena: Don’t ever use the g-word around me!

Nick: “Greek”?

Demon marlena: Oh, for a smart guy, you’re such a dodo. No! The other g-word.

Nick: Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to offend.

Demon marlena: Mm. Are you still waiting here? I’m thinking. I’m thinking. Can you just go do your job?

Nick: Yes, ma’am. Sir. Sir? Ma’am? Sir?

Demon marlena: I’m not a real person. I don’t have a pronoun. I’m tired of talking. Now, go! Go make evil!

[Unsettling music]

Deimos kiriakis. Another person nobody wants to see again.

[Laughs] Ah, a perfect instrument to carry out my plans.

[Sighs] On the outside, I looked fine.

Deimos: [Breathing heavily]

[Dark music]

Demon marlena: I feel a certain energy emanating–

Deimos: The place where my heart used to be, before the coroner put it in a jar.

Demon marlena: My mark.

Deimos: My half brother, victor, carved it into my chest, said I was the devil.

Demon marlena: Hmm.

Deimos: So he put your mark on me.

Demon marlena: Well, you were much hated in life, but you will be adored in the afterlife. I hereby deputize you.

Deimos: Great. To do what?

Demon marlena: To right all the wrongs done to you, starting with nicole walker. She never, never paid for killing you. She didn’t even tell many people that she’d done it.

[Sighs] Pity. Nicole used to be one of mine. But then she fell in love with marlena’s son. But now her eric has left her. So she’s ripe for the picking. Go. Reap your vengeance.

Deimos: I’ve waited a long time for this.

Nicole: Well, I talk to ava a lot, and…

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: She hasn’t said anything that’s made me wonder if she’s still in contact with her family.

Rafe: Huh. What about philip? Have you heard anything from him?

Nicole: No, nothing at all. In fact, philip and brady are at war over chloe, so they’re not exactly confidants.

Rafe: Huh. Well, maybe gabi’s making up stories again. You know, she and ava, it’s like living with two pieces of flint. I never know which spark’s gonna start the fire.

Nicole: I think the best thing that you can do is just talk to ava and try to have an open mind.

Rafe: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that’s– okay, well, thank you for everything, you know.

Nicole: You’re my friend, and I just want you to be happy.

Rafe: Yeah, I want the same for you. So doing something with holly tonight?

Nicole: [Laughs] Nothing, actually. She is having a sleepover at her best friend, rebecca’S. And rebecca’s mom is taking them trick-or-treating first, so that makes rebecca’s mom either a saint or a martyr.

[Laughs] Or maybe both.

Rafe: Maybe.

[Both laugh] So no plans?

Nicole: I’m a little behind on work, so I’m gonna go to the office and try to catch up.

Rafe: Okay. Yeah. Well, you should be able to find some peace and quiet there.

Nicole: Mm-hmm.

Rafe: Yeah. So okay. Well, good seeing you.

Nicole: You too. You know, for what it’s worth…

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: I really hope gabi’s wrong about ava.

Rafe: Yeah, me too.

Tripp: Mom, just tell me that you’re okay.

Ava: Meet me at the pub. He’s after me.

Tripp: Who is?

Ava: I have to go.

Tripp: Mom!

Allie: Is something wrong with your mom?

Tripp: Yeah, but i don’t know what. I could barely understand her. I’m so sorry, she wants me to meet her at the pub.

Allie: Yeah, no, right, take off.

Tripp: Thank you for understanding.

Allie: I hope she’s okay.

Tripp: Yeah, me too. I’ll call you.

Jake: All right, that cop’s gonna be here soon to take me back to lockup. You should probably get going.

Gabi: I kind of do want to see what’s going on with rafe, I mean. But I swear to you, this is gonna be over tomorrow. You’re not gonna see the inside of a jail cell.

Jake: Hope you’re right.

Gabi: Hey. I love you.

Jake: [Sighs] Love you.

Gabi: [Smooches] Can’t wait to give you a real kiss tomorrow.

[Suspenseful music]

As someone who resembles someone else,

[Unsettling music]

Demon marlena: Hmm. The two of you must be so proud. Your great-grandson is back in town again, wreaking havoc on the place that you simply cherish. And there’s nothing you can do about it. You know what? Maybe I’ll plan a little family reunion.

[Laughs] Just kidding. No, you can both keep pushing up daisies for eternity.

[Laughs]

[Sighs] I kill myself.

Rafe: Ava, you home? We got to talk.

[Tense music]

Oh, my god.

Tripp: Okay, okay, tell me what’s going on.

Ava: You– you won’t believe me.

Tripp: Just tell me.

Ava: I– I saw your brother.

[Slow knocking]

[Rapid, forceful knocking]

Allie: This trick-or-treater better not wake henry.

[Gasps]

Charlie: Trick.

[Soft music]

Nicole: Oh, duke. I should really get rid of you. We both know that. But I’m not doing that. And why is it? And why am I talking to a stuffed bear?

[Chuckles]

Deimos: You know what they say. Talking to yourself, it’s the first sign of insanity.

Nicole: [Screams]

[Unsettling music]

Gabi: Baby, are you still out trick-or-treating? Oh, you’re having a party instead. All right. No, no, no, I can– no, I can call back. I can call you tomorrow. Yeah, you enjoy. I just wanted to say I love you and I miss you and I’m gonna visit very soon, okay? Hey, listen, will you put daddy will on the phone? I love you with all my heart, baby. Hey, will. Hey, listen, I’m not gonna keep you. I know you’re chaperoning a halloween party. I just wanted to say I cannot believe how grown ari looks in those pictures you posted. I think I’m gonna cry. What? No, it’s nothing. I just had kind of a strange feeling. Listen, you get back to the party. I just wanted to wish you and sonny a happy halloween and tell ari how much I miss her. I’m gonna be visiting very soon, all right? Okay, yes. Yes, you too. Bye. Why do I feel like somebody walked over my grave?

Nick: I know the feeling.

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Belle: Shawn? Hmm. Shawn, are you here? Hello? Who’s here?

Shawn: Boo!

Belle: Oh, my god!

Shawn: Not exactly the reaction I was hoping to get when I’m half naked. Oh, happy halloween.

Belle: Oh, my god. You are so gonna pay for that.

Shawn: Am I? How so, hmm?

Belle: Hmm, I’ll have to think of a few ways.

Shawn: Oh…

Belle: I thought we had to go have dinner with ciara and ben.

Shawn: We do. We do, and it sounds like she has some news for us.

Belle: Hmm.

[Melancholy music]

Ben: Hey, jordan. I often think about how good of a sister you really were to me when we were kids. Nowadays, I’m trying to have kids of my own. And I really just wanna make sure I can give them a better life than we ever had so they don’t end up the way that I did… or you did.

Ciara: Hey.

Ben: Hey.

Ciara: Are you okay?

Allie: So the devil’s at the dimera crypt?

Johnny: That was a more specific answer than I was expecting.

Allie: And you didn’t make that happen?

Johnny: No, no. Look, I mean, I’ll do it again. Spirits, is the devil at the dimera crypt?

[Eerie music]

Demon marlena: I thought it was fitting to bring you here as your last resting place. Marlena stopped me from killing you in the chapel, but now I’m back to finish what I started.

John: [Laughs] No, you can’T.

Demon marlena: I can, and I will. Come on, don’t be upset about this. You’ve had a good run. You may have vanquished me three decades ago, but I’m back now, and you are no match for me.

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

[Soft orchestration]

Ciara: I got your text. So I knew you would be here.

Ben: Yeah.

Ciara: You could have asked me to come with you, you know.

Ben: Ciara, jordan terrorized you. I wouldn’t expect you to wanna come here and pay your respects.

Ciara: Ben, she was sick.

Ben: I was sick.

Ciara: Yes, but the difference is, you got help and you overcame your mental illness.

Ben: Thanks to dr. Evans, you, your love, and your belief. That’s the only reason why I’m here.

Ciara: Can I ask you a question? Did you really come here just to visit jordan? Or are you still afraid that our baby might end up like her?

Shawn: So I told ciara that we’ll meet up at the pub after you’re done visiting your parents. How are they doing, by the way?

Belle: Well, unfortunately, I only saw my mom. My dad has left town on some, I don’t know, mysterious mission.

Shawn: Yeah? Did she say how long? I mean, I know it’s hard on her when he’s away.

Belle: Yeah, no, she seemed okay. I think she’s taking kind of a devil-may-care attitude, actually.

Shawn: What does that mean?

Belle: Well, for starters, she was literally dressed as the devil. Mm-hmm. She had like the horns and the tail and the whole weird glowy contact thing.

Shawn: That’s sort of a pretty odd choice for halloween costume, you know, considering her history.

Belle: Yeah. That’s what I said, but she said it was cathartic for her to own her past.

Shawn: Mm-hmm, okay. Whatever. I mean, she’s the expert, so…

Belle: She also said that she was supporting johnny’s new movie project, “possessed: The marlena evans story.”

Shawn: Hold on. Wait a minute. Wait, so she’s–like she’s letting johnny make a movie about her possession?

Belle: Apparently.

Shawn: But how does your dad feel about that? I mean, he can’t feel okay. I mean, dredging up their history and that awful time in their life?

Belle: I don’t know. I mean, he can’t be happy about it, but she’s totally into it. I don’t know. Maybe she’s really happy to just exorcise those demons once and for all.

Allie: This game is stupid.

Johnny: It’s not a game. You saw what the board did.

Allie: You’re just trying to freak me out on halloween.

Johnny: I wouldn’t do that. Not about this.

Allie: Well, I don’t care what you say, okay? The ouija board’s fake.

Johnny: Only one way to find out. Let’s go to the crypt and look for the devil.

John: You’ll never get away with this. All my family will never stop looking for me.

Demon marlena: You underestimate me again, john. It’s a fatal flaw. I’ve gone to great lengths to make sure that you don’t trip me up this time. You know what? Your beloved tink is back in town. And she wanted to reunite with her father.

John: You saw–you saw izzy?

Demon marlena: Yes, I did. Marlena explained to her that you were on an extended business trip.

John: No.

Demon marlena: Yes. And soon marlena will be notified that there was a terrible mishap overseas, that her beloved husband, that john, died in some mysterious mission. Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo. Everybody will grieve. They’ll light candles and they’ll say prayers. And they’ll say, “oh no, no. Why did you take that wonderful, amazing, loving man?” They’ll have no idea that I was the one who ended your life while you’re all chained up like a dog.

John: [Gagging] As someone who resembles someone else,

Anna: She didn’T.

Tony: Anna.

Anna: Oh, tony. I didn’t hear you come in.

Tony: Oh, that’s because you were so engrossed in johnny’s script. Where did you get that?

Anna: Oh, I borrowed it from abigail. Tony, have you read this latest version? It’s incredible.

Tony: Well, I’m sure it is.

Anna: We really need to be involved in this movie.

Tony: I told you we can’t because ej wants johnny to work at dimera, not making movies.

Anna: I know, darling, but that’s old news. Ej is not only investing in this movie, he is playing the role of john black.

Tony: He is?

Anna: Yes. And if he can be in the movie, I think you should be too.

Tony: Me? As who?

Anna: As tony, of course.

Tony: You want me to play tony?

Anna: Who better to play tony than my tony?

Tony: Well, let’s not forget it wasn’t me. It was my cousin, andre, who usurped my life at that point.

Anna: Well, that just makes it a more challenging role to play, but I know you’d be brilliant. I’m calling johnny right now, and I’m going to throw your hat in the ring.

Tony: Oh no, no, no. You’ll do no such thing.

Allie: There is no way that I’m going with you to that crypt.

Johnny: Why? You’re scared you might come face to face with the devil?

Allie: No, because I have plans with tripp.

Johnny: Oh, convenient.

Allie: Why do you care if I go with you? What, you’re too scared to go alone?

Johnny: I’m not scared. I’m inspired. I mean, what better way to research my film than to come face to face with the devil himself? And I intend to get it all on camera.

Allie: You’re wasting your time.

Johnny: Why would the spirits tell us the devil’s at the crypt if he’s not?

Allie: There are no spirits, and there’s nothing in the crypt.

Johnny: Yeah. Well, we’ll see about that.

[Uneasy music]

John: Doc, I know you’re in there. I need your help. Come back, come back to me.

Demon marlena: Your precious doc tried fighting me yesterday. I’ll give her this, it was a valiant effort, but she fell short.

John: I know that you’re still in there. I know that you’re still fighting, so fight for me, doc. Fight for us. Fight for our love.

Ben: I can’t pretend that I am completely over my worries about having a kid. And, of course, I think about jordan and how she turned up. But mainly I have to just trust that your goodness is gonna shine through.

Ciara: Mm-hmm. Yes, and our baby will have what you and jordan never had, a house filled with so much love.

Ben: Yeah.

Ciara: Yeah.

Ben: You cold?

Ciara: No, I’m not cold. It’s just, this place is kind of creepy.

Ben: Yeah. I mean, we are in a cemetery on halloween night.

Ciara: Yeah, I noticed.

Ben: Yeah.

Ciara: Look, my brother and belle just got back from south africa after visiting claire. And they wanted to have dinner with us at the pub. But if you’re not feeling up to it–

Ben: No, no, no I–no. I’m I’m up for it. I’d like that. I wanna see ’em.

Ciara: Are you sure?

Ben: Yes. I think I’ve said all I needed to say to jordan right now. I feel a lot better.

Ciara: I’m glad. I order my groceries online now.

Ciara: It is so good to see you.

Belle: You too. You too. Come here, you.

Ben: Hey, hey, hey. Good to see you.

Belle: Thanks. You too. Sit.

Ciara: So where is that brother of mine?

Shawn: Hey, I’m late. Late as usual. I’m sorry, sorry. I was checking up on abe’s condition, sorry.

Ben: How is he doing?

Shawn: He’s doing a lot better.

Ben: Yeah. Good, good. Good. That’s great news.

Ciara: Yeah. We heard that jake was brought in for the shooting.

Shawn: Yeah.

Ciara: That is so weird. We were with gabi and jake right before it happened.

Shawn: You were?

Ciara: Yeah, we were supposed to have breakfast with them.

Shawn: Well, wait, wait, so was he acting strangely? Like did he say or did he do–did he seem agitated or, like, did he seem upset in any way?

Ben: Ciara was inside with gabi, and I was with jake right before he left.

Shawn: Okay. So did he say anything that would be relevant to this investigation?

Anna: You don’t want to be in johnny’s movie?

Tony: Have you forgotten that abigail is playing marlena?

Anna: So?

Tony: So marlena is my peer, and I’m abigail’s senior by decades.

Anna: So he’ll rewrite the character. How can you not be dying to play such a pivotal role?

Tony: Because I don’t think it’s that pivotal.

Anna: Are you kidding? Tony is a man at a crossroads in his life and in his marriage. He’s married to kristen, but he’s seething with jealousy because his wife is secretly attracted to another man: The sexy priest, father john black.

Tony: Oh.

John: [Croaking] Help me… doc, please, help me.

Demon marlena: There’s no one coming for you, john. I can feel the life force draining out of your body even now.

[Disquieting music]

Johnny: That’s weird. Always used to be a key in the lock.

Demon marlena: Let go, john! Let the sweet relief of eternity flow over you.

John: Never.

Johnny: Hey, lucifer, you in there?

[Creaking noise]

John: Help me, please.

Demon marlena: Dammit.

Johnny: If you’re in there, satan, my name’s johnny. I’m a filmmaker. Love to meet you. Okay. So much for the ouija board.

[Door clunks]

Grandma? Woman: I have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

Shawn: What did jake say to you outside, ben?

Ben: He told me that he had something to take care of, and then he took off.

Shawn: All right. Did you suspect that there was something wrong?

Ben: I’m telling you everything that he told me, brother.

Shawn: Okay. All right, all right. But if you think of anything else, you can let me know.

Ben: I will.

Ciara: Okay, wait, wait, wait, did you come here to give my husband the third degree or…

Shawn: Okay, okay, it’s my job.

Ciara: To enjoy some clam chowder and hear about our honeymoon?

Belle: Yes, ciara’s right. Let’s eat. And I wanna hear all about new orleans. Was it amazing? Tell me everything.

Ciara: Was amazing. The food, incredible. The music, the music was–

Shawn: Please tell me you went to all the places that mom and dad went to, and tell me that you went to oak alley.

Ciara: Oh, we did. It was beautiful. And it’s really moving to see how they’re confronting their history by teaching the visitors about it.

Shawn: Hmm. All right. I bet it is. So what else did you guys do?

Ben: The usual honeymoon stuff. Ciara and I helped the isa recover a stolen gemstone.

Belle: What?

Shawn: What the–

Ciara: Yeah, yeah, it’s a really long story, and I’ll be more than happy to tell you all about it later. But right now, we actually have some really special news to share.

Belle: Yay.

Shawn: Oh yeah?

Belle: Tell us, what is it?

Ciara: Well, as wonderful as the trip ended up being, it helped us come to a pretty big, life-changing decision about our future.

Shawn: And what is that?

Ciara: Well, we’re trying to have a baby.

Belle: Yay!

Johnny: Grandma, what are you– what are you doing here, and dressed like that?

Marlena: When I finished your script, I wanted you to know that I liked it.

Johnny: Thank you. But that still doesn’t explain what you’re doing here inside the dimera family crypt.

Marlena: When you weren’t at home, I thought I would just take a stroll.

Johnny: Hmm.

Marlena: And then I got here, and there was a key in the lock. So I thought I’d take a moment to pay my respects to your grandfather.

Johnny: Dressed like the… devil?

Marlena: It’s a halloween costume. I did it for you.

Johnny: Well, that’s cool, I think. So you like the script?

Marlena: I did. I found the script powerful and accurate.

Johnny: You know, this crypt could be a really cool location for my movie. I barely even have to dress the set. Ow. Ow.

Marlena: Sorry. I wouldn’t go in there if I were you.

Johnny: Is there a problem with me going inside?

[Uneasy music]

Tony: You know, a less confident man would feel threatened by you calling john black sexy. Excuse me.

Anna: Well, honey, I’m just being honest. I mean, 30 years ago, that man in a collar? Whew. And to kristen, he was forbidden fruit. I mean, according to the script, anyway, she was a young woman of great faith who was torn between her devotion to her poor blind husband and her attraction to the hot priest.

Tony: Oh, so now he’s sexy and hot.

Anna: Well, as was tony. Yes. Let’s just say that kristen was deeply conflicted.

Tony: I thought this movie was about marlena.

Anna: It is, but it’s kristen who drives the action. She’s one of the first to recognize that evil has come to salem.

Tony: Oh, sounds like quite the plum role. I wonder who johnny’s gonna cast.

Anna: Well, as far as I can tell, there’s only one person that’s actually perfect for the role.

Tony: Hmm, who?

Anna: Oh, you’re looking at her.

Tony: I think I need a drink.

Why hide your skin if dupixent

Tony: You wanna play kristen?

Anna: Well, if you are going to play tony, it just makes sense.

Tony: Well, let’s not forget that kristen left tony for john.

Anna: Yes. But as you pointed out, it was really andre that kristen jilted.

Tony: But she didn’t know that.

Anna: You know, I don’t know why this really matters. And I don’t know why you’re being so resistant.

Tony: Because I’m hardly enthusiastic about revisiting a dark chapter in my family’s history.

Anna: Okay. What if we ask johnny to rewrite the tony and kristen subplot and–oh, and highlight their love story. And then, in this version, they can end up living happily ever after, just like us.

Tony: Huh.

Anna: Hmm?

Tony: Mm…

Marlena: There is something in the crypt I don’t want you to see.

Johnny: What is it?

Marlena: A rat, a big nasty rat.

Johnny: A rat? I’m not afraid of a rat. In fact, I am writing one into my movie. Did you know that some people call rodents the devil’s disciples?

Marlena: I think there are even some non-rodent disciples. I think you should stay away from it.

Johnny: You sure you didn’t see anything else in there?

Marlena: I don’t think so.

[Eerie music]

Now what brought you out here?

Johnny: It’s gonna sound weird.

Marlena: Well, not much surprises me.

Johnny: Okay. Well, allie and i were using a ouija board, and we asked it if the devil was in salem.

Marlena: Hmm. Did you get an answer?

Johnny: The board spelled out that he was here, at this crypt.

Marlena: The spirits are on to me.

Johnny: What? Ah, right, yes. The board knew, I guess.

Marlena: Or the spirits knew.

Johnny: You believe in that?

Marlena: Yeah. I guess I should. I mean, after what happened to me, you know, I think I’d be crazy not to believe in the supernatural. Believe that it’s real.

Johnny: And that’s why I’m making my movie.

Marlena: Yes. Look, I know that you have skeptics, and some even in your own family. But I think it’s important that you carry out your vision. I mean, this movie is going to let people know there are forces out there that people can’t begin to understand. And they have no idea what the devil is capable of doing.

Ciara: We put a lot of thought into this decision.

Belle: Mm-hmm.

Ben: Mainly because of the history of mental illness on my side of the family.

Belle: Yeah, of course.

Ciara: Yeah. Ben actually spoke to your mom about it, belle.

Ben: Yeah, she really went out of her way, belle, to reassure me that no matter what genes our child ends up with, the love that we give our child is really what’s gonna be the most important.

Belle: Oh, so she helped you.

Ben: Yeah.

Ciara: Yeah. After speaking with her, ben felt a lot better about the situation.

Ben: I mean, she flat-out told us that we should have a child. And ever since then, she’s just been texting me and calling me and just really making sure that we’re moving forward with the whole plan.

Belle: Really?

Ciara: Yeah. She’s been very invested in me having a baby.

Belle: Huh? She doesn’t usually tell people what to do or make it so personal.

Ciara: Yeah. Oh, I’m sorry. Is all this baby talk making you tired? Is it boring you?

Belle: Oh, sleepy.

Ben: Oh, man.

Shawn: I’m sorry. This jet lag is killing me right now. I’m sorry. You guys mind if we go home, and we’ll pick this up another time before I hit my head on this plate and fall asleep?

Ben: No, no, no, go ahead. Go ahead; let’s go get you some sleep, brother. Good to see you.

Shawn: Yeah, you too. Congratulations.

Ben: Thank you.

Belle: Good luck with the baby making.

Ben: Thank you.

Belle: Oh, my god, is that such a weird thing to say?

Ciara: No, it’s not. It was so good seeing you.

Belle: So good to see you too. Oops, oh, let me grab this.

Ben: Oh, sorry. Don’t forget that.

Belle: All right. See you guys later.

Ben: See you guys.

Ciara: All right, bye.

Belle: It was nice to see you.

Ben: You barely touched your new england clam chowder. What’s going on? You want me to order something else?

Ciara: No, I’m actually not that hungry. Yeah, my stomach has been kind of funky all day.

Ben: You’re not feeling well?

Ciara: I actually think that it might be something else.

Ben: Something else?

Ciara: Yeah. I stopped by the pharmacy before I came to find you.

Ben: Is that what I think it is?

Ciara: Well, if you think it’s a pregnancy test, then yeah. It’s exactly what you think it is. I thought I was managing my moderate

Anna: So shall we offer our services to johnny and request a rewrite?

Tony: Well, let’s just say that he takes out the conflict between tony and kristen. Doesn’t that water down the story, huh?

Anna: Well, see, you are intrigued.

Tony: No, I just don’t think that an audience would like to see a married couple drinking champagne and talking about how much in love they are.

Anna: I disagree. I think people love to watch other people in love.

Tony: Well that’s because you know more about drama than I do.

Anna: How about I find us a good tony and kristen scene, and we can rehearse it together? Then we’ll be prepared to pitch ourselves to johnny.

Tony: Ah, hmm… you really think he’d want to cast us?

Anna: Darling, if you can bring one tenth of your natural passion and charm to the role, he’ll be begging to get us on camera.

Tony: Okay. Okay.

Johnny: Can I take a picture of you in that costume?

Marlena: Why?

Johnny: Well, allie told me that the ouija board was nonsense and that I wasn’t gonna find anything out here. I just wanna show her that she was wrong.

Marlena: Well, you didn’t exactly find the devil, did you?

Johnny: Still, you are here, and you’re dressed like that, so spirits didn’t lie, did they?

[Rattling sound] Did you hear that?

[Eerie music]

Marlena: I didn’t hear anything.

Johnny: It sounded like chains or something. You didn’t?

Marlena: Maybe it’s the spirits.

Johnny: I don’t think ghosts actually rattle chains. You really didn’t hear that?

Marlena: You have a wonderful imagination. It’s one of the reasons I love you and another reason that you’re gonna make a wonderful movie.

Johnny: Thank you, grandma. Let’s get out of here.

Marlena: Yeah, go ahead. I’ll catch up.

Johnny: Okay.

Demon marlena: I’ll deal with you another time, john black.

John: [Groans]

Shawn: Well, I cannot believe that my little sister is gonna be a mom.

Belle: I know. Oh, I’m so happy for them.

Shawn: It sounds like your mom really helped them out.

Belle: Yeah. Yeah. I’m glad she’s able to be there for them. I don’t know. Don’t you think it’s kind of strange that she keeps following up like that? You know, making sure that they’re still trying to have a baby?

Shawn: I mean, she’s always been really invested in ben’s health and happiness, so I don’t know, it makes sense.

Belle: Yeah. Just seems like maybe she’s a little overly invested in ben and ciara having a child.

Ben: Do you really think you could be pregnant right now already?

Ciara: Well, I am a day late, and usually I am like clockwork, so…

Ben: Well I–

Ciara: Well?

Ben: I guess we should head home and you can take that test.

Ciara: Yeah. Or I can take it right now.

Ben: Right now, now, like here now?

Ciara: Yeah, like right here right now.

Ben: Right, right. Okay.

Ciara: Like right… okay, breathe. It’s gonna be okay, babe.

Ben: Okay.

Ciara: Okay?

Ben: Hmm.

Ciara: I’ll be right back.

Ben: All right.

Ciara: Okay.

Ben: Okay.

Ciara: Okay.

Ben: Okay.

Ciara: Okay.

[Melancholy music]

Tony: You know, all this talk about the past has reminded me of when I first came to salem… oh, drumroll please, 40 years ago?

Anna: Oh, darling. You’re much too young to have done anything 40 years ago.

Tony: You always say the sweetest things to me, but it’s true. And that’s when I came to salem, at that time, that long ago.

Anna: A lot of crazy things have happened since then.

Tony: Yeah. Crazy things, sad things, wonderful things. But to me, the most wonderful thing of all was falling in love with you, my precious anna.

Anna: Your precious anna is one very lucky woman.

Tony: No, no, no, no, no. The lucky one, well, that’s me. I knew it from the start. I mean, the smartest thing I ever did was marrying you.

Anna: Are you serious? Tonight?

Tony: Yes. I’m serious. I want you to marry me tonight, right now.

Oh, let it hold you

oh, let it taste your lips

if only for this moment

for you I would do it again

’cause I wanna love you

forever

it only

gets better from here

and I’m with you come

whatever

’cause beautiful days

turn to years

but if only the sunset

oh, let it

capture this night

only this moment so perfect

for you I’ll do it again

even for just one kiss

I’ll do it all just for this

Tony: Anna, it’s best decision I ever made those 40 years ago coming to salem… falling in love with you and marrying you, and that’s because, mm, anna, you are the light of my life.

Anna: And don’t you ever, ever forget it.

Tony: Never, never, never.

[Both giggling]

[Uneasy music]

Demon marlena: So nice to be back among the dead tonight. And, of course, my favorites, the really bad ones. Oh, ben, looks like you’ve been to visit your sister. Soon she won’t be the only bad seed in the family.

[Tender music]

Ben: Hey. Baby, maybe it was just a stomachache after all. You know, it’s probably too soon for us to even get pregnant anyway, right? But I promise you, we’re gonna go home, and we’re gonna keep trying and trying. What are you doing? What is that? Are you saying that– because you’re not really saying anything at all, but judging by the little smile on your face–what…

Ciara: We’re having a baby.

Ben: Having a baby?

Ciara: We’re having a baby. Are you happy?

Ben: Am I happy?

Ciara: Are you happy?

Ben: Am I happy? Am I happy? Am I happy? Am I happy? Are you kidding me right now? Are you kidding right now?

Ciara: No, I’m being serious. We’re having a baby.

Ben: We’re having a baby.

Ciara: You’re gonna be a dad.

Ben: You’re gonna be a mom.

Ciara: I’m gonna be a mom.

Ben: I love you, mama. Mom, I love you. And I love that we are about to have a baby together. Are you kidding?

Ciara: I’m serious.

Ben: Are you–

[Foreboding music]

Demon marlena: Your child will be mine, ben. Nothing can stop that. Not marlena, and certainly poor old john black.

John: I gotta get outta here. I’ve gotta save marlena. I’ve gotta save all of salem from pure evil.

Demon marlena: So… little allie horton doesn’t believe in the supernatural, even after what I did to her grandmother. I guess I’ll just have to make her a believer. Rise up, rise up, charlie dale, and prove to allie that my powers are real.

[ Eerie music playing ]

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Brady: That jackass thinks I slept with chloe. I gotta warn her.

[Groans] Where’d you put your phone, brady?

[Tense music]

Kristen: Oh, brady. I wish I could stay, but don’t you worry. I won’t be gone long.

[Phone ringing]

Victor: Who’s this?

Melinda: Good evening to you too, mr. Kiriakis. It’s melinda trask. So I guess our deal is off.

Victor: Why would you say that?

Melinda: Well, I haven’t heard from you, so I assume that means you haven’t found kristen dimera.

Rachel: Mommy?

Kristen: Oh, baby, hi. It’s me. It’s me.

Nicole: Surprise.

Ej: Nicole. I was just thinking about you.

Nicole: Oh. Well, I got your message about dinner, and I was hoping the invitation still stands.

Kristen: I can’t believe you left your phone alone with those nosy do-gooders.

Ej: Actually, they weren’t alone. Of course the invitation still stands. I’m so very glad you decided to accept.

Nicole: Thank you.

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

[Soft orchestration]

Philip: Were you expecting someone else?

Chloe: No. Just surprised to see you here.

Philip: Why? I mean, I know you moved out, but we’re still together, right?

Chloe: Yeah, but we haven’t spoken since I left the mansion, and I didn’t tell you where I was going.

Victor: It’s only been 24 hours.

Melinda: I’m the district attorney. Every minute that goes by, the people of salem grow more impatient. They know that one of your nephews was arrested for drug trafficking and the other for blackmailing a judge. Now, I’m prepared to dismiss the charges against them if you give me ms. Dimera. Otherwise, I’ll proceed to trial. Now, do you have her or not?

Victor: I haven’t managed to track down that she-devil as yet.

Melinda: In other words, you can’t come through.

Victor: Nonsense. I’ve got steve johnson on the case. I assure you, he’ll find her. Good evening, ms. Trask.

Jack: Were you just talking with the da?

Victor: Maybe we can get her to prosecute you for eavesdropping.

Jack: Aw, come on, victor. As long as I’m here, why don’t you tell me about the deal you just made with her?

Xander: Am I being released?

Melinda: Why would you think that?

Xander: I thought my uncle victor–

Melinda: You thought wrong. Your uncle hasn’t met my terms.

Xander: Then what am i doing up here?

Melinda: Someone demanded to see you.

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Kristen: Oh, sweetheart, I missed you so, so much.

Rachel: Daddy said you had to go away.

Kristen: I did, I did. But I never wanted to leave you. But guess what? Tonight, I am so excited, because I got to come see you. But you know what, sweetie, rachel, I need you to promise me that it’ll just be between you and I. Can you do that for me? That’s my good little girl. Oh, sweetheart, I have missed you. I’ve missed you so much. Do you know what I miss most about? This–mm-hmm. I missed reading you bedtime stories, and I missed picking out–well, helping you pick out your clothes, because I know how much you like to do that on your own. But I bet you have to wear that funny little coat– that peach coat, now that it’s colder out, yeah?

Rachel: I wore it pumpkin picking with daddy and chloe.

Kristen: That-that’s nice. That’s nice. You, daddy, and chloe. Well, that must have been a fun trip. Hey. Hey, speaking of trips, how about you and I go on a trip of our own, just the two of us? What do you think? Yeah?

Chloe: Philip, how did you know I was here?

[Phone ringing] Sorry, one second.

Philip: Do you need to get that?

Chloe: No. It’s not important.

Brady: Hey, chlo, listen, it’s me. I wanted to give you a heads up. Lucas just left. Apparently he and philip saw me carrying your bags into the salem inn last night. Philip has assumed the worst, and he thinks that we spent the night together. Now, I refused to dignify his accusation by getting into it, so I didn’t tell lucas anything. But I wanted you to know, just in case you were blindsided by one of philip’s famous freak-outs.

Nicole: I’m really glad that I’m here with you tonight. It’s keeping me from losing it over abe.

Ej: I’m terribly sorry about what happened.

Nicole: It’s just shocking. The mayor being shot at point blank range in the park, I–

[Sighs] I know he’s gonna be okay. I know it.

Ej: I’m sure sending your love his way will make a big difference.

Nicole: Yeah, I don’t know.

Ej: I do. How’s the pizza?

Nicole: It’s great. But I do have to say, when you invited me over for dinner, I didn’t think we’d be having takeout.

[Both chuckle]

Ej: Were you thinking a 12-course repast in the formal dining room?

Nicole: To be honest, yes.

Ej: I do tend towards ceremony. But I quite enjoy being spontaneous from time to time.

Nicole: Like when?

Ej: Well, I don’t think a man who would marry samantha brady or nicole walker would be inclined to an entirely predictable life.

Nicole: Probably not.

Ej: And being unpredictable can keep one’s enemies on their toes. When you employ the element of surprise, it makes it that much harder for them to betray you.

Xander: Gwen, how are you?

Gwen: Not bad. All things considered.

Xander: I’ve missed you.

Gwen: I’ve missed you too.

Xander: How have they been treating you?

Gwen: You’ve got 30 minutes, and there’s a cop right outside the door, so don’t try anything stupid. No touching! My nunormal?

Xander: God, I wish I could kiss you.

Gwen: I know, me too. But look, we don’t have much time. Talk to me. Tell me what’s going on.

Xander: Well, I did see your father last night.

Gwen: Did he give you my message?

Xander: You mean did he tell me that you were willing to confess so I can go free? Gwen, what are you thinking?

Gwen: You don’t belong here.

Xander: We’ve been over this.

Gwen: But you don’t deserve to be locked up here. You had nothing to do with it.

Xander: I can think of quite a few people who disagree with you.

Gwen: Well, it’s out of your hands now. My father is going to go and speak to the da.

Xander: No, he’s not! I told you not to say a word to that witch!

Gwen: Xander, if you want to atone for your sins, there has to be a better way.

Xander: Like what? Go see a priest, say a few hail marys? Sorry, darling, that ship has sailed.

Gwen: Why are you so bloody stubborn?

Xander: I’m not just gonna abandon you, gwen. We’re in this together. Besides, there might be another way out of here.

Gwen: Yeah, I did hear about that. Bonnie told me that justin told her that trask might consider dropping the charges against the four of us. But it seems like wishful thinking, no?

Xander: Not necessarily. There is a plan in the works.

Victor: What deal? I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Jack: I think you do. I saw xander last night. He said trask strongly implied she was about to drop the charges against him. You have anything to do with that? Maybe you made some sort of arrangements?

Victor: Suppose that were the case. What the hell do you care?

Jack: Of course I care, victor. I don’t want them going to prison. Xander’s my friend, justin will always be family, and gwen’s my daughter.

Victor: Whoa, who said anything about gwen?

Nicole: Betray you? What do you mean? You haven’t heard from sami, have you?

Ej: No, no, no, no. I wasn’t referring to my soon-to-be ex-wife’s indiscretion. I suppose I just have treachery on the brain.

Nicole: Oh?

Ej: You remember last night, when we had dinner, and steve johnson and his wife approached our table?

Nicole: It’s kind of hard to forget, especially because she was so smashed, and she knocked over that glass of wine and almost ruined your beautiful italian tie.

Ej: Right. And I had just assumed that she’d had a difficult day and over-indulged. But later, I realized that her drunken display was just a ruse. An aversion to allow her husband to tamper with my phone, which I’d left on the table in my haste to salvage my neckwear.

Nicole: Why would steve want to mess with your phone?

Ej: So he could track down my sister. Question is: Why would they have chosen that moment to do it? I mean, they must have known that you would have stopped steve from putting his hands on my personal property. Unless they had already organized another ruse to entice you away from the table as well. However, that just seems unlikely, considering you were all still there when I returned.

Nicole: Okay. Okay, I admit it. I let steve hack into your phone.

[Suspenseful music]

Kristen: Honey, I know that you don’t like wearing this jacket, but it’s only for a little while, all right?

Rachel: Shall we say goodbye to daddy?

Kristen: No, no, sweetie. We have to keep it a secret even from daddy. Yeah, yeah, this is a special, special trip for mommy and rachel, remember?

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Chloe: Sorry about that.

Philip: No problem.

Chloe: So how did you know that I was here?

Philip: From your assistant.

Chloe: Oh, you mean grace.

Philip: Right, grace. I called your office. I figured she might have your new address. Don’t worry, she’s not giving your confidential information to random strangers. I told her I’m your boyfriend, which I still am, right?

Chloe: Yeah, of course.

Philip: Good. So, I was hoping we could have dinner together.

Chloe: Oh, you want to order some room service?

Philip: Unless you’ve already eaten.

Chloe: No, I have not.

Philip: Good. Because the fried chicken here is killer.

Ej: And what’s even more appalling than your betrayal is the fact that you had the nerve to show your face in this house! By all rights, I should fire you and throw you out!

Nicole: I’m sorry. I’m sorry for going behind your back, ej. I truly am. But I am not the least bit sorry that steve is hunting down your sister. Do you have any idea what she has done to people? Do you have any idea what she has done to me? She locked me up and she stole my life, so if steve wants to drag her ass back here, then I am all in.

Ej: I can understand your antipathy towards my sister. And while I would never try and sugarcoat what she did to you, you must know that kristen’s life isn’t easy right now. She’s on the run, separated from her daughter.

Nicole: And I sympathize with rachel, of course I do. ‘Cause it’s not her fault that she has a raging lunatic for a mother. That little girl suffers every day with confusion and sadness and pain.

Ej: My sister has made a lot of mistakes, big mistakes. But she is devoted to her daughter.

Nicole: A daughter that wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t stolen my identity, and she got pregnant because she slept with brady while she was pretending to be me!

Ej: Let’s not go there.

Nicole: No, we’re gonna go there! While kristen had me locked up, she kidnapped my daughter, and she wouldn’t let me have her back until I let her take over my life. And then when she did go back to salem, disguised as me, she told everyone that holly died in a horrific accident. You think about that, ej! Think about that! She faked the death of a child so she could suck brady back in. So I don’t give a damn how much kristen is hurting, ’cause I’ll never feel sorry for that miserable bitch.

Kristen: Get out of my way. My daughter and I have plans. Please, steve, this does not concern you.

Brady: Kristen. What’s going on? What are you doing? Why is steve here?

Steve: I’m on assignment. I can tell you more about that later. But right now, maybe you want to get this little girl back to bed.

Brady: That’s a good idea. Come on, honey. Let’s go, sweetie. Let’s get you back into bed, okay? Come on.

Kristen: You son of a bitch! I just wanted to spend time with my little girl.

Steve: Well, given the backpack and the coat, I’d say it was more than that.

Kristen: Why are you doing this? Why are you tracking me down like a dog?

Steve: Victor kiriakis hired me to find you.

Kristen: Oh god, I should have known. So you’re his bounty hunter now?

Steve: I’m a private investigator.

Kristen: Yeah, who gets paid to tear kids away from their mothers.

Steve: You’re a fugitive. You know that, right?

Kristen: Yeah, and I also know that you’re not a cop, so you can go straight to hell.

Steve: Okay, listen, listen, we can do this the easy way or the hard way, your choice.

Kristen: Easy way? Have you met me? Making things difficult is my stock-in-trade. I thought I was managing my moderate

Chloe: Mmm. Oh my god, this is so good.

Philip: Told you.

Chloe: I would never think, in a million years, to order the fried chicken here.

Philip: Mm-hmm. I love the food at the mansion, but this is one dish cook hasn’t quite mastered yet.

Chloe: Well, I don’t think victor’s really the “eat with your hands type. And the more that I’m doing it, I can understand why. Oh my goodness, do we have any extra napkins?

Philip: Here, take mine.

Chloe: Oh, thank you.

Philip: Your, uh, your face.

Chloe: What?

Philip: Your–you got something on your cheek.

Chloe: Oh, no.

[Romantic music]

Ej: I’m not denying that kristen committed a horrible crime against you.

Nicole: Then you can understand why I let steve hack into your phone.

Ej: I don’t like it. But yes. I understand your feelings very well. But I’m afraid i don’t share them. No matter what she’s done, kristen is still my sister. She’s extremely loyal, and has always looked out for me.

Nicole: I know she wrote you that letter exposing sami’s affair.

Ej: She saved me from a lifetime of humiliation. If she hadn’t opened my eyes, I’d have remained in my marriage, completely oblivious to the fact that I was being played for a fool. And it’s thanks to her that I knew I had to act. And by act, I mean permanently and immediately kicking samantha out of my house and out of my life.

Nicole: Well, if it’s permanently over with sami, then why are you still wearing your wedding ring?

Kristen: You have to make it so tight?

Steve: You were the one who wanted to make things difficult. Okay.

Kristen: How’s rachel?

Brady: She’s settled back into bed. She’s a little wound up, for obvious reasons. I don’t know if she’s gonna sleep for a while. What are you doing?

Kristen: Just wanted to see our little girl.

Brady: So you broke in.

Kristen: I haven’t seen her for months, brady.

Brady: What was your plan, kristen? You sneak in here–where were you gonna take her?

Kristen: No, I just wanted to spend a little time with her, that’s all.

Brady: My god, I can’t– I can’t believe you did that. Just when I think all this psycho behavior is done, you do this crap again.

Kristen: Oh my god, how can you be so cruel? I am all alone. After you cut me off, rachel’s all in have left. And I have no contact with her.

Brady: Kristen, who’s fault is that?

Kristen: I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it; I can’t bear it. I can’t bear–I can’t bear never hearing her little voice or holding her little hand. I miss her, brady. I miss her so much. And I know she misses me too. I could see it in her eyes.

Steve: Okay, come on, let’s go.

Kristen: No, no! Please, don’t let him do this. Don’t let him take me away. Stop it. I know I’ve done terrible things. I know I have. But I am still rachel’s mother.

Steve: Okay, let’s go. Come on.

Kristen: You know what, you know who’s behind all this? You know who steve’s on assignment for? Your grandfather.

Brady: Victor?

Kristen: Yeah. That’s what mr. Black patch here just told me. Victor is paying him to do this. Can you believe that? That monster–what he already did to me, what he did to us, brady.

Brady: Is that true?

Steve: Yeah.

Kristen: Don’t let this happen. That heartless bastard separated me from rachel once before. I am begging you, don’t let him do it again. Please.

Jack: So you’re just gonna let gwen and bonnie languish in jail?

Victor: I don’t care where they languish. I’m dealing with my family. Anyone else, not my concern.

Jack: If you really want to deal with your family, you might want to reconsider.

Victor: Why is that?

Jack: Well, you may not care about those two women, but your nephews certainly do. Xander’s gone to great lengths to protect gwen, and justin was about to marry bonnie. How do you think he’s gonna feel when he finds out that you could have intervened on bonnie’s behalf and chose not to? Do you think he’ll ever want to hear from you again? Do you think he’ll ever forgive you? And I know you’ve had a very rocky relationship with xander, but you obviously still care about him. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be helping him. And he cares about gwen, very much.

Victor: He’ll get over it.

Jack: I don’t think so. He sees this as an all-or-nothing situation. Same as justin. They all get out or they all stay in.

Victor: That’s insane.

Jack: No, victor, that’s love. Let me tell you, the only way that justin and xander will get on board with your plan is if it includes gwen and bonnie. If it doesn’t, you might as well forget the whole thing.

Gwen: So what is the plan?

Xander: Apparently, my uncle vic made a deal with the da to get the charges against us dropped. If it works out, we’ll both get off scot-free. But for now, we just have to sit tight.

Gwen: Well, I can understand why victor would want to get the charges dropped against you and justin, ’cause you’re family. He doesn’t know me, and he despises bonnie.

Xander: Don’t overthink it, darling. Just be grateful that we might be getting out of here.

Gwen: Doesn’t really seem like trask, either. Why would she let four people she has dead to rights off the hook?

Xander: Uncle victor must have offered her something huge. Justin and I talked about it, but we couldn’t figure out what. I should mention, speaking of justin, that I kind of blurted out something stupid when I talked to him.

Gwen: Something stupid?

Xander: I might have told him that you were never a sex worker.

Gwen: What?

Xander: I didn’t mean to. It’s just, he made a comment about you being tough enough to handle prison because of your past experience in that particular profession, and I just said it without thinking.

Gwen: Xander, if he doesn’t think that I was a sex worker, then what-what is it that he thinks that snyder was holding over me?

Xander: He doesn’t know. And I told him that it’s just better for everyone if we keep up the cover story. Trust me, he has no idea that you lied to your father and everyone else about the timing of your miscarriage.

Gwen: Thank god. Because xander, my father would never forgive me if he knew that I was letting abigail blame herself, even though she had nothing to do with it.

Xander: You don’t have to worry about that. I promise you. Justin’s totally in the dark. You and I are the only two people that know the truth.

[Door creaks open]

Ej: Are you insinuating I’m still carrying a torch for samantha?

Nicole: It’s not a crime to still have feelings for your wife, to admit it. Look, when eric and I broke up, I didn’t want to take off my ring. It felt so final, that it would just really be over, and I was so scared to say goodbye.

Ej: I said goodbye and good riddance to samantha the moment I threw her out of this house. Believe me, I am more than ready to take off this bloody ring.

Nicole: I know how difficult it is.

Ej: You’re right. Because the damn thing’s stuck. Yes, I realize the irony.

Nicole: Okay. Well, let me–let me help you. Fingers are still greasy from the pizza.

[Both laugh]

[Heartfelt music]

Philip: That might have been even better than the chicken.

Chloe: Might have been?

Philip: No, it totally was. I think I want seconds.

Chloe: Oh.

Philip: Is that okay with you? Any interest in getting horizontal?

Chloe: Mm, I would, but can I take a rain check, please?

Philip: Okay, yeah.

Chloe: Yeah, I’m just, I’m really tired. I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night.

[Tense music]

Brady: I can’T. Can’t do it, kristen.

Kristen: You’re just gonna– you’re gonna let him drag me away?

Brady: You were going to kidnap my daughter.

Kristen: Our–our daughter. And I wasn’t going to kidnap her. She’s my child, too, and I just wanted to spend a little time with her, brady, that’s all.

Brady: You are–you are– you are running from the law. Did you give one thought as to what would happen if you got caught? How much that would traumatize that little girl in there? How much do you want to put her through, huh?

Kristen: I’m sorry.

Brady: Oh, you’re sorry? I’m sorry too. I’m sorry more than you can imagine. I’m also the guy that has to go in there and try to explain this to her.

Kristen: You know what, just let me stay, and then we can talk to her together, please.

Brady: Oh my god, it’s out of the question.

Kristen: So that’s it. You’re not gonna help me.

Brady: I’m sorry, after what you pulled tonight, I can’t believe you have the audacity to even ask me that.

Kristen: Is this about chloe?

Brady: Oh my god, chloe? What are you talking about?

Kristen: Well, I–I heard about your little trip to the pumpkin patch. I mean, is that why you want to get rid of me, because rachel will have a new mommy?

Brady: Oh, kristen, I have no idea what the hell you’re talking about.

Kristen: That whore has been moving in on my family for months!

Brady: Shut up! She’s is sleeping. Keep your voice down.

Kristen: I am her mother. You cannot replace me, brady.

Brady: All right, steve.

Kristen: You can’t replace me!

Brady: Get her out.

Kristen: I’m her mother.

Brady: Get her out!

Kristen: I am her mother!

Kristen: Don’t!

Steve: Okay, okay.

Kristen: Do you hear me?

Steve: Okay.

Kristen: Brady, I’m her mother.

Victor: You have a law degree that I don’t know about?

Jack: No.

Victor: Well, that’s too bad. You’d have made a hell of an attorney.

Jack: Does that mean you’ll help gwen and bonnie?

Victor: Not that good.

Jack: Oh, victor. You really need to think this through.

Victor: And you need to scram so I can eat in peace.

Jack: It’d be so easy for you, victor. One phone call to the da.

Victor: You want to get the charges against your daughter dropped, make your own deal.

Jack: What would it cost me?

Victor: Cost you?

Jack: I assume you had to pay trask off.

Victor: You see, that’s the beauty of this whole thing. I don’t have to pay her a damn dime.

Melinda: Time’s up.

Xander: You said we had 30 minutes!

Melinda: Oh, did I? I meant 15. You may have rights, but I’m not a pushover.

[Phone rings] I have to take this. An officer will accompany you back to your cells. Here we are again.

Nicole: Okay.

[Both chuckle] Got it.

Ej: Well done. Thank you.

Nicole: Ah, uh, yeah. Well, now that that’s done, I-I should be going, and–

Ej: So soon?

Nicole: Yes, I’m–I’m gonna relieve the sitter. I like to tuck holly in bed when I can, so. Thank you for the pizza and understanding about the phone.

Ej: I may have resorted to some less-than-honorable tactics from time to time myself. So it would be hypocritical of me to hold it against you. Now, as, um, a show that everything is okay, can we at least kiss and make up?

[Inquisitive music]

Nicole: Yeah, um. I should–thank you. Uh, good night.

Ej: Goodnight.

Nicole: Yes.

Chloe: Mm, so we’ll get together another night, okay? Maybe another fried chicken dinner?

Philip: Sure. Like you said, you’re tired.

Chloe: Mm.

Philip: Talk tomorrow?

Chloe: Definitely. Good night.

Philip: Sleep well.

[Pensive music]

Brady: Hey, chlo, listen, it’s me. I wanted to give you a heads up. Lucas just left. Apparently he and philip saw me carrying your bags into the salem inn last night. Philip has assumed the worst, and he thinks that we spent the night together. I’m so sorry, honey. Mommy had to go away again. But I don’t want you to worry, because I’m here for you. I will always be here for you.

Xander: “You have rights, but I’m not a pushover.” I mean, we might be her prisoners, but she doesn’t have to play mind games.

Gwen: Xander, how cares if she cut our visit short?

Xander: I do! I haven’t seen you in days!

Gwen: But what if that was just a huge mistake, us talking like this out in the open? What if she heard?

Xander: Heard what?

Gwen: You assuring me that we are the only ones who know what snyder was blackmailing me with.

Xander: No, she couldn’t have. We heard her open the door. I said all that before she came in. Look, we’re already in enough trouble. We don’t have to invent more. Before you know it, this is all gonna be an unpleasant memory.

Gwen: You really think so?

Xander: Trust me. I know so. Everything’s gonna be okay.

Jack: So that’s how you made this deal. You offered to trade kristen for xander and justin.

Victor: She was all too happy to accept. Considering the fact that kristen killed her daughter. Wasn’t haley dating your son?

Jack: Yes. Jj was in love with her.

Victor: Well, then you should be happy about this too, deveraux. Win for both of us. And a nice payday for your brother.

Jack: Steve?

Victor: I put him on the case. In fact, he should be delivering the goods any minute now.

Melinda: Mr. Johnson, I was very pleased to get your call. I assume you have kristen dimera in your custody?

Steve: I do.

Melinda: Wonderful. If you’ll hand her over to me, I’ll get the ball rolling in dismissing the charges against the two kiriakises.

Steve: Well, I’m afraid I can’t do that just yet.

Melinda: I’m sorry?

Steve: If you want kristen, you’re gonna have to drop the charges against bonnie and gwen too.

Melinda: That wasn’t a part of the deal.

Steve: It is now.

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Chanel: Oh my god, horton, today was nuts.

Allie: I know. Apparently, people really love free pumpkin cookies. No. Were those the last two? I didn’t even get to try any.

Chanel: Good thing I saved you one.

Allie: Dupree, you’re the best. Mmm. Amazing.

Chanel: I know, right?

Chad: Mmm. These cookies are great.

Abigail: [Laughs] Oh, my gosh. It is so sweet of chanel and allie to let the kids take as many as they wanted. But we probably should’ve put the brakes on.

Chad: It’s fine. It’s what halloween is for. It’s for the sugar.

Abigail: Yeah. Yeah, I guess you’re right. Oh, man.

Chad: Any word from kayla?

Abigail: No, not yet. I really, really hope she lets me take a look around clay snyder’s office. I just–I don’t want to push, but I wish she’d get back to me, you know?

Chad: She will. I’m sure she just has her hands full taking care of abe right now.

Lani: Yeah, I’ll tell him. Okay, I love you too.

[Sighs] Oh, my god. Hi, theo. Oh, hi.

Theo: How’s dad?

Paulina: You gave us the scare of our lives yesterday, but thank god you made it. And you know what I realized sitting here all these hours just looking at your handsome face? I have been happier in the last eight months than I’ve been in my entire life. Don’t let it go to your head, abraham carver, but you’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

[Soft dramatic music]

 

Abe: Go on.

Paulina: You’re awake. Oh, praise jesus!

 

[Eerie music]

 

Demon marlena: With that pesky john black out of the picture, I can finally be who I really am.

[Laughs]

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Johnny: [Growls] Gotcha!

Allie: Oh, my god, johnny.

Chanel: You scared the hell out of us.

Johnny: Have a little sense of humor, guys. It’s halloween.

[Chuckles]

Chanel: Aren’t you a little old for trick-or-treating?

Johnny: This is not candy. I was up in the attic looking for a costume when I found this in a box of old toys.

[Eerie music]

 

Abigail: I just hope kayla didn’t throw out all of dr. Snyder’s belongings after he died. I mean, I know it’s a long shot, but I think it could be possible that there’s something in his office that would help us figure out what he was really holding over gwen.

Chad: Maybe. I know you’re anxious to get to the truth, but there’s not much you can do until you hear from kayla. So I do have a way in which we could pass some time.

Abigail: Hmm? What’s that?

Chad: Well, we just started sharing a bed together. It’d be a shame if we didn’t use it.

Abigail: Mm-hmm. That’s a good point. I do have one question. Costumes on or off?

Chad: Um… off.

Abigail: Then it’s unanimous.

[Romantic music]

 

Ej: Whoa!

Chad: Ej, what the–

Ej: Hope I’m not interrupting anything. And who’s ej? I’m father john black, and I’m here to perform an exorcism on my precious marlena. Cute costume, but you really should be dressed as the devil.

[Eerie music]

 

Demon marlena: Well, you won’t be needing this anymore. And as for john black, I know exactly what to do next.

Belle: Surprise! Guess who’s back–

I order my groceries online now.

Theo: When you called me and told me dad got shot I–

Lani: I know. We were all so scared. We didn’t know if he would survive or if he would wake up. And it just– it brought me back to–

Theo: To what happened with me.

Lani: Yeah. That was a really dark time. But look at you now. You are strong, and you are healthy, and dad will get there too because he has us and he has his new fiancéE.

Theo: [Chuckles] I’m still wrapping my head around that one.

Lani: I know. It took me a minute too. But ever since dad and aunt paulina got engaged, he has just been walking on air.

Abe: Paulina, I–

Paulina: Hush. Hush now. You don’t need to talk.

[Chuckles] We know that I have enough to say for the both of us.

Both: [Laugh]

Paulina: Oh, now there’s the smile I like to see! From now on, that is your only job, mr. Mayor. You just keep on smiling. You rest, you relax, and you let us take care of you.

Abe: Mm-hmm. I can do that.

Lani: He woke up?

Paulina: Uh-huh. Just this minute.

Abe: Theo.

Theo: Hey, dad.

Abe: And, lani, you’re still here.

Lani: Of course I am. How are you doing, dad?

Abe: I’m good. Grateful. Theo, I–you came all this way.

Theo: Are you kidding? I got on the first flight out of jo’burg.

Abe: You didn’t have to do that.

Theo: I wanted to. And I was planning on coming back for the wedding anyway. Unless you’re planning on postponing it.

Paulina: We have to postpone it. We can’t put abe through a wedding in his condition. Oh, theo, I know you came a long way, but your father’s health, it comes first.

Theo: I understand and totally agree.

Lani: Mm-hmm, yeah, me too.

Abe: I know it’s–it’s my health that you’re talking about, but I–I have something to say on this subject, and we’re not postponing the wedding.

Abigail: Ej, it’s really not the time or the place.

Chad: Now, what my wife is trying to say is get the hell out now!

Ej: You’re still so insecure.

Chad: And you’re still a jackass who doesn’t understand the concept of personal space.

Ej: Hm, well, there certainly won’t be any space between abigail and me when we start filming, and you can’t handle that, can you?

Chad: Leave.

Ej: Very well. But you still have to come to terms with the fact that your wife and i will soon be on the big screen making mad passionate love for all the world to see. Right, marlena?

[Soft dramatic music]

 

Chad: I know he’s my brother, but I-I loathe him.

 

Chanel: A ouija board?

Johnny: Yeah, you remember this, allie? We used to play this all the time. I thought, “what more of a perfect time to pull it back out than halloween?”

Chanel: You don’t want to be messing with that stuff, G. Bad things can happen.

Johnny: No, it’s harmless.

[Sighs]

Allie: I used to be so scared of this thing when I was a kid.

Johnny: But now you’re over it. Come on. Let’s try it out.

Chanel: No, thanks.

Johnny: Please? For me? It’s fun, I promise.

Chanel: I know I am so gonna regret this. Where should I put my hands?

Johnny: Okay, chanel, ask it a question.

Chanel: I’ll pass.

Johnny: Fine. I’ll do it. I’ve been dying to ask it something.

Allie: Why am i not surprised?

Johnny: Tell us, oh powerful spirits, was grandma marlena really possessed by the devil?

[Eerie music]

 

Belle: Mom, what’s going on?

Marlena: [Chuckles] Oh, oh, this.

[Chuckles] Oh, honey. It’s a halloween costume.

Belle: But your eyes are–

Marlena: Oh, oh, oh, yeah. Contacts. Kind of fun, huh?

Belle: No, no. They’re pretty creepy.

Marlena: Oh. Well, I was only trying to get in the holiday spirit.

Belle: “Holiday spirit”?

Marlena: Clearly, you object.

Belle: Well, I–I don’t– I don’t think I “object,” it’s just I’m–I’m surprised, you know, with one of your closest friends in the hospital and–

Marlena: Oh. Oh, you heard about abe.

Belle: Yeah. Shawn and I were on the same flight with theo coming back from south africa.

Marlena: I see.

Belle: Yeah. Theo said his injuries are really serious.

Marlena: Well, it was dicey for a while, but he’s going to be just fine.

Belle: Oh, good. Thank god.

Marlena: Just don’t–don’t– don’t credit god for that. I mean, what I mean by that, it really was kayla and the hospital staff that saved him. Anyway, hey, give me a hug. I’ve missed you.

Belle: Yeah, you’re gonna have to take those contacts out first ’cause they’re really freaking me out.

 

 

Paulina: Abe, are you sure about this?

Lani: Dad, we know how much you want to get married, but–

Abe: No, but nothing. I know you all are concerned about my health, but the best thing for my health would be to marry the woman I love. And that–that is my final answer.

Paulina: Well, I guess it’s settled.

Lani: [Chuckles]

Abe: And you, you know, I know you’ve been here all last night and all day today. You need to–you need to rest, so just go home. Be with your children.

Lani: Eli is with them, dad. And there’s no way that I was gonna leave your side, not until I knew that you were okay and I could tell you how much I love you.

Abe: I know, sweetheart.

Lani: Dad, I don’t know what I would have done if I’d lost you. We haven’t had that much time together.

Abe: I know. And no one–no one regrets all those missing years more than I do. And now–now we have the rest of our lives to make it up.

Lani: [Chuckles] Um… kayla says she’s gonna be in here to check on you, so she will not be happy to see all three of us here.

Abe: You’re probably right.

Lani: Why don’t auntie p and I step out and leave you and theo to catch up?

Johnny: I ask you again. Was grandma marlena really possessed by the devil?

[Eerie music]

 

Chanel: You did that on purpose.

Allie: Yeah, she’s right. You totally pushed it.

Johnny: No, no. I didn’T. I swear. That was the spirits telling us that the possession was real.

Allie: Whatever.

Johnny: Are you doubting the devil, sis? Bad move. Wouldn’t want to make him mad.

 

Marlena: There. All better?

Belle: Yeah. Much.

Marlena: And yet you still seem disapproving.

Belle: Well, I just don’t–I don’t understand why you would dress up like that after everything that happened to you.

Marlena: Well, I’m embracing my past.

Belle: What does that mean?

Marlena: That means that, for 25 years, my possession was–well, it was a topic not to be discussed anytime by anyone.

Belle: Because it was incredibly painful.

Marlena: You know what is really painful? Being ashamed of yourself. I’m done feeling like that. I don’t want to feel that way. That’s why I want everything out in the open now, which is why I agreed to let johnny make his movie.

Belle: What movie?

Marlena: Possessed: The marlena evans story.

Belle: [Chuckles] I’m sorry. Wait. You’re letting johnny make a film about that?

Marlena: Yeah. Well, I think it’s time that people knew a little more about that kind of thing.

Belle: And what does dad have to say about this? I mean, I can’t imagine he would go along with that.

Marlena: Well, it isn’t up to… dad is not thrilled about the idea.

Belle: Where is dad anyway?

 

Why hide your skin if dupixent

Marlena: Uh, your dad?

Belle: Yeah, you know, the guy you’re married to? Goes by the name john black? Calls me tink?

Marlena: He’s gone.

Belle: What do you mean, “gone”?

Marlena: Well, he–he had a call about an important case for black patch.

Belle: Oh, really? I’m surprised that he would leave when someone he’s so close with is in the hospital.

Marlena: No. No, I mean, he–he realized that abe was gonna be fine before he left. And you know your dad. When duty calls, you’d have to chain him up to keep him away.

John: Where… where am I? How… how the hell did I get in here? St. Luke’S. I went to find julie and doc. Only it wasn’t doc.

Ej: Hm. Must work on that eyebrow thing. Oh, good. You decided to go over your lines with me. We really should get comfortable with these scenes before our first rehearsal.

Abigail: Actually, I came to tell you that johnny is gonna have to find someone else to play marlena.

Ej: Why?

Abigail: Because I quit.

[Soft dramatic music]

 

Johnny: I want to ask it something else.

Allie: So you can cheat again?

Johnny: No, I swear. I–look, I won’t even touch it this time. You guys can do it yourselves.

Allie: Fine. One more question. But that is it.

Johnny: Okay. Okay, spirits, does the devil know we’re making a movie about him?

[Eerie music]

Does he approve? Awesome! The devil’s cool with my movie.

Allie: Or maybe chanel is just being a cheerleader.

Chanel: I am not!

Allie: Well, we have to ask it something besides yes or no questions.

Johnny: Okay, fine. Let’s–we’ll move on to a different subject.

Who does chanel really want to be with? Me or my sister?

Allie: Hey! That is so out of line!

Chanel: What is wrong with you, g?

Johnny: I’m just kidding.

Chanel: You know what? I’m done with this ouija board nonsense. I need to go see how my mom is doing in the hospital. Later.

Allie: [Sighs] Nice going, dumbass.

Johnny: I was joking.

Allie: Why would you even ask that question? You know there’s nothing going on with chanel and me.

Johnny: That’s not what it looked like when i first showed up.

Lani: Have you had a chance to eat? I can go down to the cafeteria and–

Paulina: Lani, honey, I’m fine. I’m fine. Now, please, go home to your little angels.

Lani: I just spoke with eli, and they’re fine.

Paulina: You have been so wonderful staying with me, being here for your father. But jules and carver, they need you too.

Lani: I just–I want to stay here for a while, okay? Just to make sure my dad is okay, okay?

Paulina: You’re still shaken up.

Lani: [Sighs] When eli came home and told us that my dad had been shot–

Paulina: It was a terrible moment.

Lani: That reminds me. Before you walked in, you said you wanted to talk to me about something.

Paulina: I–I did?

Lani: Yes. You said it was important, that marlena had given you some advice about me? You said that you hadn’t spoken with my dad about it yet, and that you prayed that he understood why you were sharing it with me. You said it had something to do with you wanting me to call you “mama.” Auntie p, what is it? The airport can be a real challenge for new homeowners

Paulina: We don’t have to talk about this now.

Lani: Please, aunt p, I’m not only curious, I’m a bit concerned. I mean, it sounded serious.

Paulina: I–I want you to be my maid of honor.

Lani: What?

Paulina: Uh-huh. Well, I suppose it would be matron of honor since you’re a married woman.

Lani: Wait. Auntie, I’m confused. Why is that something you would keep from my dad?

Paulina: Oh, well, I didn’t want him to get all excited about it, you know, before I knew if you’d accept. And so now that we know that your father is going to be okay, and he’s full steam ahead for tying our knot, well, will you do it?

Lani: Yes.

Paulina: Oh.

Lani: Yes, of course.

Paulina: Oh, really?

Lani: Yes.

Paulina: Oh, wonderful! Oh, wonderful! That’s wonderful!

Lani: Wait. What about chanel? Won’t she be upset that you’re asking me to be your matron of honor instead of her?

Chanel: That is an excellent question.

Lani: [Sighs]

Allie: I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Johnny: I saw chanel feeding you a cookie. It looked intimate.

Allie: We were passing out halloween cookies all day. And when they were gone, I realized I didn’t get to have any, and I was bummed. So it turns out chanel saved me one. And what you saw was her feeding me a bite. There’s nothing intimate about that. God, why are you such a jerk?

Johnny: Why are you being so defensive? Did I strike a nerve?

Allie: No. No! All you did was screw things up with chanel. I mean, why would you do that?

Johnny: I didn’t mean to. Obviously, I know that you’re with tripp and chanel is with me.

Allie: Yeah, well, not much longer if you keep acting like this.

Johnny: I will apologize to her.

Allie: Well, we’ll see if she accepts it. Hey, I have an idea. Why don’t we ask the ouija board?

[Soft dramatic music]

 

Marlena: You must be exhausted after your trip.

Belle: Actually, I feel pretty good.

Marlena: Well, I’m thinking that you should– you should go on home and unpack and maybe take a little nap.

Belle: Oh, no. I’m really–I’m okay.

Marlena: Well, yeah, you know. But the thing is that jet lag can kind of hit a little bit later. But, you know, you go on and get yourself a little nap, and we’ll touch base later.

Belle: Mom.

Marlena: Mm-hmm.

Belle: If I didn’t know better, I’d say you were trying to get rid of me.

Marlena: Why would I do that?

John: Ah, so he’s back. After all of these years, he’s back. Underestimating me, that’s a big mistake ’cause I will never stop fighting you. Doc will never stop fighting you.

Ej: You can’t quit. You signed a contract

Abigail: I’ll break it.

Ej: As a producer, I could sue you.

Abigail: Go for it.

Ej: What about johnny? He’s so excited for you to play marlena. He’ll be very disappointed.

Abigail: Cut the crap, ej. You don’t care about johnny. You were totally against him making the movie, and you only changed your mind because you knew it would bother chad.

Ej: Why–why would I want to bother chad?

Abigail: Maybe because sami cheated on you. You want everyone to be just as miserable as you are. But let me tell you something, the stunt you pulled earlier was pathetic. Honestly, I’m embarrassed for you. That you can’t stop playing these stupid, petty, vindictive games. Now, I have tried to be a good sport, but I don’t need this.

Ej: Abigail, please–

Abigail: I’m out! And there’s nothing that you can say or do that will change my mind. I am done with you. And because of that, unfortunately, also done with the film.

Chad: No, no, you’re not. If someone’s going to quit it’s ej. Are you one of the millions of americans

Ej: And why the hell should I quit?

Chad: Because no one wants you involved, ej! Not even your own son. You had to strong-arm him into–

Abigail: Chad, it’s okay. I don’t mind backing out.

Chad: No, no way. All right, look, this movie means a lot to you, all right? And I’m not gonna let you quit.

Ej: See, even your husband agrees with me.

Chad: Shut your mouth, ej! Look, abby, don’t let him ruin this for you, okay? From the moment you read the script, you’ve been so excited, all right? And you wanted to do something different and get out of your comfort zone, and you are gonna make a great marlena, all right? When you and I read that love scene about john and marlena, look, you were–you were amazing.

Ej: As she will be when she plays opposite me.

Chad: Look, I get that you’re trying to bother me, ej, but it doesn’t work, okay? I will never distrust my wife again. I’ve done it with two of my brothers. I’m not gonna do it with you, so give it up ’cause her and I, our love is strong, and you’re not gonna come between us, you understand? There’s nothing you can do to change that.

[Soft dramatic music]

 

Ej: See you at rehearsal.

 

Theo: I’m so glad that you’re okay.

Abe: You know, I–ever since I met paulina, I have been more than okay.

Theo: You got engaged pretty fast. And I know that I’m not one to talk but–

Abe: Theo, you can talk to me anytime. You know, son, no one– no one could ever replace your mother. That’s not what this marriage is all about.

Theo: Dad, I know. And I know that mom would want you to be happy.

Abe: Yeah. I am happy. Paulina has made me happier than I ever thought I would be again.

Paulina: Chanel. Where did you come from?

Chanel: The elevator. I wanted to see how you were holding up but, apparently, you’re doing just fine.

Lani: I’m gonna go check on my dad.

Chanel: You asked lani to be your maid of honor?

Paulina: Uh-uh. Matron.

Chanel: Mama, I know you’ve been through a lot. And I am so glad that abe’s going to be okay. But hearing that you want lani by your side at the wedding and not me really hurts. Couldn’t–couldn’t you have told me first?

Paulina: Baby, I wasn’t planning it. When I first got engaged, of course, I thought you would be my maid of honor. But in the past 36 hours, lani and I, we’ve been through so much, and because her father, he was the one who was hurt, and she was so terribly, terribly worried. I–I just wanted to extend myself to her in some way, to distract her, you know? And when we found out that, you know, abe wasn’t gonna die, I just blurted out I wanted her to be my matron of honor. And I know now–I know–I know it was insensitive to you, so I owe you a big apology.

Chanel: You’re not the only one.

Allie: Spirits, should chanel forgive my brother for being such a dumbass?

Johnny: You’re hilarious.

Allie: I’m serious. You can’t just go around saying hurtful and obnoxious things and expect people to laugh it off. You’re acting just like ej.

Johnny: Ouch. You know I hate it when people say that I’m like my dad, the same way you feel when people say you’re like our mom.

Allie: Fair enough.

Johnny: Allie, I am sorry for being the way that I am. Can you please forgive me?

Allie: Fine. But I don’t know if chanel will.

Johnny: I should’ve never changed the subject anyway. I was on a roll running with the devil.

[Dramatic music]

 

John: Doc will keep fighting. She’ll keep fighting for me, for us, for our love, and she will never stop. She’ll never stop.

 

Demon marlena: Hello, old friend. Have you missed me?

Here we are again.

Lani: How’s it going in here?

Abe: All good.

Lani: Ah, good to hear. So I have some good news. Aunt paulina just asked me to be her matron of honor.

Theo: Really? That’s great. But, you know, what about chanel?

Lani: Yeah. I had the same question. They’re out there talking now. What do you think, dad?

Abe: Well, I love the idea of both of my children standing up for us. As long as you agree to be my best man.

Theo: Are you sure?

Abe: Absolutely.

Theo: Then I accept.

All: [Laughter]

Abe: Ooh, that’s perfect. Perfect.

Lani: Only if chanel is okay with it.

Paulina: I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. And I would never leave you out of the ceremony. You’re going to have a very important role.

Chanel: What role?

Paulina: Well, my daddy died a long time ago, so I’m going to need someone to give me away, you know? Would you do me the honor of walking me down the aisle?

Chanel: If you do me the honor of letting me make your wedding cake.

Paulina: [Laughs] I wouldn’t dare think of anyone else.

[Laughs] Aw.

Allie: I can’t believe you talked me into doing this again.

Johnny: Humor me. Is the devil here in salem?

[Eerie music]

Where in salem? D…

Both: I… M…

Johnny: E…

Allie: R…

Johnny: R…

Both: A.

Johnny: “Dimera”?

Abigail: It was very impressive how you stood up to ej.

Chad: You stood up to him too. I mean, letting him know that you’re willing to quit took guts. And you made it very clear that there–there’s more important things in life than playing this part. But I am glad that you are doing it.

Abigail: Are you sure?

Chad: Yes. 100% we are united in wanting you to do this movie. And in knowing that ej is not and will never be a threat to us.

Johnny: Did I just imagine that, or did the board just spell out dimera?

Allie: What does that mean?

Johnny: Okay. Spirits, tell us more. Is the devil at the mansion?

Okay. Then where? C… R… Y… P… T.

Both: The dimera crypt?

John: [Grunts]

Demon marlena: Comfortable, john? Among all the dimera dead? I remember a time when you thought you were stefano’s brother. It turned out not to be true. You were nothing more than a pawn, but I thought it would be fitting to bring you here as your last resting place. You know, marlena stopped me from killing you at the chapel the other day, but now I’m back to finish what I started.

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Brady: Is johnny kidding with this script? How could marlena be okay with this?

[Knock at door] Lucas, hey.

Lucas: Hey, you got some time?

Brady: Yeah, come on in. So what’s up?

Lucas: What the hell are you trying to pull with chloe?

Chloe: Nicole, hey.

Nicole: Oh, hi, chloe.

Chloe: Oh, is something wrong?

Nicole: Yeah, it’s–it’s abe. He was shot tonight.

Chloe: Oh, yeah, I just saw a headline on the news as I was crossing to the lobby. Is he gonna be okay?

Nicole: Well, according to this, he’s in surgery, but he should make a full recovery.

Chloe: Oh, thank goodness.

Nicole: Yeah, he was right in salem park, and someone took a shot at him.

Chloe: That’s so scary.

Nicole: It is. You know, abe’s the closest thing I have to a father. I–I don’t know what I would do without him in my life. Anyway, what were you doing coming out of the inn?

Chloe: I’m living there for now.

Nicole: I–I thought you were staying with philip.

Chloe: I was.

Nicole: Oh, dear, what happened?

Chloe: He and I had a big fight, and I moved out.

Nicole: What was the fight about?

Chloe: What do you think? Brady.

[Tense music]

 

Philip: That bastard. I don’t have time now. Whatever it is, it’s gonna have to wait.

Ava: So I guess you heard that the cops picked up jake dimera?

Philip: No, what happened?

Ava: You don’t know? Abe carver was shot today.

[Dramatic music]

 

Jake: I’m going nuts in here.

Gabi: I know, but at least rafe let me stay with you. It’s the only upside to him being commissioner.

Jake: I just wish I knew what the hell was going on with the mayor considering everything that happened to him is my responsibility.

Gabi: Shh. Do not let rafe hear you say that.

Rafe: What am I not supposed to hear?

Gabi: Oh, is there any news about abe?

Rafe: Huh. As a matter of fact there is. Abe was transferred to the trauma unit at university hospital. They were waiting for him to stabilize before they took him to the or when his heart stopped.

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Maggie: Paulina.

Paulina: Yes.

Maggie: We haven’t officially met. I’m maggie horton. I’m an old friend of abe’S.

Paulina: Oh, yes–yes, of– of course. Yeah, abe told me about you. You’ve–what–what a fine person you are.

Maggie: Well, that’s lovely to hear. That’s very nice coming from a wonderful man like abe. I heard what happened, and I wanted to–to offer my support. Is he okay?

Paulina: Oh, maggie, our precious abe.

Maggie: Oh.

Paulina: [Sobbing]

Jake: Oh, my god. Abe’s dead?

Rafe: Technically, yes.

Gabi: What does that mean?

Rafe: He flatlined. They tried to revive him, and, well, finally they did. He’s in surgery now.

Jake: Oh, thank god.

Rafe: Well, why would you tell jake that abe was dead?

Rafe: Has it slipped your mind that I am a cop, okay? I wanted to gauge his reaction.

Gabi: Oh, well, did he pass your little test?

Rafe: Well, I’m not sure yet.

Jake: You had a chance to talk to him?

Rafe: No, I haven’T. He’s not allowed to accept visitors until tomorrow.

Gabi: So he didn’t tell you what happened.

Rafe: No, and in fact, I was hoping to hear that from you. But you realize your best option is telling the truth, all of it?

Gabi: He’s innocent. You have nothing on him.

Rafe: Yet your boyfriend here, he was at the scene of the crime. His fingerprints are all over the gun that was used to shoot abe. So I’ve got plenty on him.

[Tense music]

 

Philip: What reason would jake have to shoot abe carver?

Ava: I don’t have a clue, but it sure does screw up our plans with jake and gabi, though.

Philip: Kind of hard to hold zanetti’s death over jake’s head if he’s already in jail for shooting abe carver.

Ava: And gabi is not gonna sign gabi chic over to us.

Philip: Because carmine’s not a threat to jake.

Carmine: I wouldn’t be so quick to say that if I was you.

Brady: What happens between chloe and me is none of your business.

Lucas: Philip and i were in the square last night, and we saw you on chloe going in the salem inn together. And you were carrying her suitcase for her very gallant–

Brady: Well, hey, I’m just that kinda guy.

Lucas: Are you also the kinda guy who spends the night with another man’s girlfriend?

Nicole: So what was the fight about?

Chloe: Well, philip punched brady.

Nicole: What?

Chloe: Yeah, he’s acting like a maniac. I feel like I’m back in high school.

Nicole: Sounds beyond adolescent to me. Please tell me you broke it off with him.

Chloe: I did not, but I do feel like we shouldn’t be living under the same roof, and realistically I moved into the kiriakis mansion so I could get back on my feet after my gunshot wound, but now I don’t–i don’t really have any reason to be there, you know.

Nicole: Mm-hmm.

[Phone rings] Oh.

Chloe: Do you need to get that?

Nicole: No, it’s no one important.

Ej: Hi, nicole, just wondering if you’d be interested in having dinner with me tonight? Perhaps the third time’s a charm, and in the interest of avoiding interruptions, you could come here. I actually seem to be home alone.

Kristen: Guess again.

Ej: What are you doing here?

[Tense music]

 

 

Gabi: Jake must have touched the gun when he found abe. That’s the only reason his prints could be on the gun.

Rafe: You wanna get kicked out of here?

Gabi: Of course not.

Rafe: Then keep quiet. Now, you didn’t just happen to pick up the gun, did you?

Jake: No.

Rafe: No, because, you know, it’s registered in your name.

Gabi: Yes, but–

Jake: Gabi, I made this mess. It’s up to me to clean it up. I’ll tell you everything I know.

Rafe: Good plan.

Gabi: This is good for him, not good for you. Don’t–don’t say another word. You know that he is allowed to have an attorney present. You know that.

Rafe: Yeah, maybe you should use your one call to lawyer up instead of calling gabi, because she’s really not helping you right now.

Jake: Gabi, he’s gonna talk to the mayor in the morning. He’s gonna find out everything that went down no matter what I do right now. You want the whole story? I’ll give it to you from the beginning.

Philip: How’d you get into this house?

Carmine: Some stiff in a monkey suit opened the door for me.

Philip: Henderson wouldn’t let you come in here.

Carmine: He didn’t want to. I had to lean on him a little bit.

Ava: You’re not even supposed to be in salem. What are you doing here?

Carmine: Nice place you got here.

Philip: Answer the lady’s question.

Carmine: You two both owe me.

[Tense music]

I’m here to collect.

Brady: I’m good friends with chloe. That’s why I was helping her move into the salem inn.

Lucas: Yeah, right.

Brady: I’ve been more than respectful of her relationship with philip.

Lucas: Except when chloe tries to put distance between them, then there you are. You’re always there, right? You’re sleeping in the same bed with her on a business trip. You’re helping her move out of his place. Come on, man.

Brady: Nothing, nothing happened between chloe and me either of those times.

Lucas: Philip is your flesh and blood, brady. He deserves better from you, and you know it.

Nicole: Oh, okay, thank you. Thank you so much. So abe is now out of surgery and in icu and in stable condition.

Chloe: Oh, that’s a relief.

Nicole: Yes, it is.

Chloe: So why are you being so mysterious about that last call that you had before you called the hospital?

Nicole: I wasn’t being mysterious. Okay, fine, fine. It was–it was ej. He invited me to dinner.

Chloe: Oh, and I’m assuming the answer is no?

Nicole: I don’t know.

Chloe: Then why didn’t you take his call?

Nicole: Well, because last night at dinner–

Chloe: You went out with him last night too?

Nicole: Yeah, but I did something a little underhanded.

Chloe: Underhanded? What did you eat an extra bread roll?

Nicole: No, seriously. I-I-I truly did something underhanded. I let–I let steve johnson hack into ej’s phone.

Chloe: What? Why?

Nicole: Because steve is on some mission to track down kristen, and I pray to god that he finds her and throws her behind bars for the rest of her miserable life.

Ej: Kristen, you do know you shouldn’t come within a thousand miles of salem.

Kristen: Yeah, well, I had to see you.

Ej: You’ve been on the run for months. Why now?

Kristen: Well, there’s something I have to do. That. I order my groceries online now.

Paulina: I am just such a mess, as you can see.

Maggie: Well, you’re entitled, and–and so abe, is he gonna be okay?

Paulina: Thank god; he just woke up a few minutes ago. I told him how grateful we were to him for fighting his way back, told him that we loved him. And he–he said it right back.

Maggie: [Gasps]

Paulina: He said “love you” right before he closed his eyes again.

Maggie: Oh, paulina. Oh, I am so relieved to hear this.

Paulina: [Exhales] I was so scared, maggie. Even though abe and I, we haven’t known each other for very long, but he–he’s become such an important part of my life.

Maggie: Well, from what I’ve heard, he feels the same way about you.

Paulina: [Chuckles] Yeah, which makes me very– a very, very, very lucky woman and surprised really, because I never expected to find love at this point in my life.

Maggie: Well, that does my heart good. I’m just so glad that abe too has found love. ‘Cause he has so much to give. That I know.

Paulina: Yes, he does.

Maggie: Well, I-I-I wished that I could see him, but I-I suppose it’s better for me to just wait.

Paulina: Probably–probably at least so he’s a little bit stronger. Yeah, my–my daughter is in there with him now. I mean, my–no, my niece, lonnie, she–I’m sorry. I don’t know what I’m saying.

Maggie: Well, you’ve been through a lot.

Paulina: Yeah, not as much as poor abe has, though.

Maggie: Paulina, do they know how it happened? I mean–I mean, how he got shot, who shot him?

Paulina: Nope–nope, nobody knows. Nobody knows yet, but you just wait till I get my hands on whoever’s that is to blame.

Gabi: But there’s something that you don’t know. Philip is trying to find dirt to use against jake.

Rafe: Why?

Gabi: Because he wants to blackmail me into signing over gabi chic to him.

Rafe: Okay, what does this have to do with abe? And I thought that I was talking to you.

Jake: Okay, it’s like gabi said, philip’s trying to dig up dirt on me to use against her. So he looked up an old coworker of mine in philly.

Rafe: Uh-huh.

Jake: His name’s carmine.

Rafe: Carmine what?

Jake: Marlino.

Rafe: Okay, is carmine mobbed up?

Jake: Yeah.

Rafe: What’s he have on you?

Jake: Nothing. But philip convinced him to go on record saying I took out a guy we both knew.

Rafe: Yeah, what’s his name?

Jake: Jed zanetti.

Rafe: So in addition to the attempted murder charges that you’re facing here, you’re also wanted for murder in another jurisdiction?

Gabi: He told you he didn’t do it.

Rafe: Did I not tell you to keep quiet or you’re getting kicked out of here?

Jake: All right, look. Carmine is trying to pin zanetti’s death on me, and philip is more than happy to help him do it.

Rafe: What does all this have to do with abe?

Jake: All right. So I called carmine to come to salem, have a sit-down. I was hoping maybe I could reason with him.

Rafe: Oh. Was he reasonable?

Jake: No. So I–i sort of threatened him.

Rafe: Ahh. So that’s why you had your gun.

Jake: Yeah, but man, I wasn’t gonna hurt him. I just wanted him to go away. Leave us alone. Carmine knew I was bluffing.

Gabi: He knows that jake’s no killer.

Jake: Carmine, he wrestled the gun away from me, and that’s when abe walked up. He saw what was going on. He sized up the situation, tried to intervene. That’s when carmine turned on him and shot him point-blank.

Rafe: Hmm. Yeah, then what happened?

Jake: Carmine dropped the gun, and he ran. I stayed and called 911.

Gabi: No, he also gave abe cpr, which I think saved his life. Now, if he shot abe, do you think he’d really stick around to do that? He is telling you the truth. You know that.

Philip: If you think you can shake me down for more money you’re dreaming.

Carmine: I’m in a mess because of you too. You wanted me to finger jake for offing jed zanetti.

Ava: What kind of mess?

Carmine: Jake, he got word to me that he wanted a meeting. So I showed up.

Ava: Without clearing it with me?

Carmine: We figured it wouldn’t be a problem, but the little sob started waving a gun around. After that, things got a little out of hand.

Ava: How out of hand?

Carmine: I grabbed the gun. Some guy walks in out of nowhere. He ended up getting shot.

Philip: A guy you shot is the mayor of this town, you idiot. Jake’s in jail for shooting him.

Carmine: I’m aware.

Ava: Okay, so who did shoot the mayor, carmine?

Carmine: It was the gun. It just went off. It was an accident.

Philip: You shot abe carver?

Carmine: It was not my fault he caught a bullet. The way I see it, it’s your problem.

Lucas: So philip sent you here to fight his battle for him?

Brady: He doesn’t even know I’m here right now.

Luc you know what? Chloe is–is probably the best thing that’s happened to him in a long time. And from what I heard, you had your chance with chloe, and you blew it, right?

Brady: Lucas, I was in a committed relationship. I couldn’t tell chloe that–that I wanted her as much as she wanted me.

Lucas: Great, great. Good for you. You finally figured out that kristen’s no good. But it doesn’t give you the right to steal philip’s girlfriend.

Brady: Let me ask you something. Have you–have you asked chloe what she wants? All right, I didn’t think so. I mean, how could you face her, right? Sami didn’t want ej to find out the two of you had slept together, so she talked you into romancing chloe as a cover. I don’t think you cared about chloe’s feelings then. I sure as hell don’t think you care about them now, lucas.

Lucas: Listen to me. I’m not proud about what I did, okay? But we all know why sami did what she did, because of kristen, because of your girlfriend. What did she do? She kidnapped chloe and threw her in the trunk of my mom’s car. And then what, gets shot by jan spears? Face it, man. As long as kristen’s out there, you’re a walking death threat to chloe, and you know it.

Chloe: Why is steve johnson trying to track down kristen all of a sudden?

Nicole: I don’t know, and I don’t care. I just want him to find her and lock her up.

Chloe: Okay, then why are you feeling guilty?

Nicole: Well, because I–I don’t like going behind ej’s back. But I don’t feel one bit of guilt about outing kristen, because I don’t owe that bitch anything for what she did to me.

Chloe: You’re not gonna get an argument from me. As far as I’m concerned, I hope steve is slapping some handcuffs on her right now.

Nicole: Right?

Ej: You risked your life to come back here and slap my face. Why?

Kristen: Don’t tell me you weren’t in on it.

Ej: In on what?

Kristen: I have been off the grid for months. And then all of sudden I get a message that steve johnson is breathing down my neck. I barely got out ahead of him.

Ej: Then why in god’s name did you come back here?

Kristen: Because it turns out he traced my location from the phone number I gave you. Oh, I have risked everything, everything to tell you that sami betrayed you. And I did it because I trusted you.

Ej: Do you really think I would ever give you up to steve johnson or anyone else for that matter?

Kristen: Oh, my god. Then–then if you didn’t, then how did he get my number?

Ej: I don’t know. May…

[Exhales] Bloody hell. I think I know how it happened. Want your clothes to smell freshly washed

Kristen: You know how steve johnson got my number?

Ej: I was having dinner out last night. Steve johnson and his wife came over to my table ostensibly to say hello.

Kristen: Why? They hate you?

Ej: Right? And that soon became apparent. Kayla johnson was sloppy drunk. She knocked over my wine glasses, splashed wine all over my shirt. I looked a mess, so I ran to the men’s room to clean up. I realize now I left my phone on the table.

Kristen: You idiot. Kayla probably wasn’t even drunk. Come on, they set you up. I can’t believe you left your phone alone with those nosy do-gooders.

Ej: Actually, they weren’t alone.

Chloe: So what’s the deal with you and ej? Are you guys, like, seeing each other?

Nicole: Well, we went out to dinner a couple of times. It is a little weird, ’cause he’s my boss.

Chloe: Not to mention your ex, so how’s it going?

Nicole: Well, the first time we ran into rafe and ava, and then ej and rafe had words.

Chloe: Over you?

Nicole: Over me, over sami. Oh, they just hate each other. And then there was that whole thing with steve and kayla that happened.

Chloe: Hmm, do you think that maybe all these interruptions might be a sign?

Nicole: Mm, ej’s message said that he wanted to do a do-over.

Chloe: And what do you think?

Nicole: I think that I want to give it a try, you know. Ej’s trying to put his life back together, and so am I.

Chloe: So are two just commiserating?

Nicole: Well, he– he did kiss me.

Chloe: Ah, nicole.

Nicole: What?

Chloe: Look, I know that you’ve felt lonely since eric left, but come on. There are more guys in this town other than xander and ej.

Nicole: Yeah, believe me, I know.

Chloe: What’s that supposed to mean?

Nicole: It means I need a distraction.

Chloe: From thinking about eric?

Nicole: Mm, it’s not that simple.

Chloe: What do you mean?

Nicole: The one person I can’t stop thinking about is rafe.

Rafe: Well, jake, your story has some believable elements. That would explain the additional prints that were found on the gun.

Gabi: What additional prints? You never mentioned additional prints.

Rafe: You know, if his story is true, you shouldn’t act surprised, okay? We weren’t able to match the prints, but now that we have carmine’s name, we might have the physical evidence, and his story might bear out to be true.

Jake: It is.

Rafe: Okay, any idea where carmine is now?

Gabi: Oh, if it were me, the first person I’d check in with is philip kiriakis.

Philip: You shot the mayor, and you think it’s my problem?

Carmine: Yeah, if it wasn’t for you and her, I’d still be in philly minding my own business.

Ava: We didn’t ask you to come to salem to shoot the mayor. We didn’t ask you to come to salem at all.

Carmine: I told you. Jake got me here. He pulled a gun on me, and I had to take it away from him.

Ava: You didn’t have to use it on the mayor.

Carmine: I was defending myself.

Philip: Nah, I don’t think the mayor is gonna see it that way, and I guarantee jake won’T.

Ava: You know that he’s in custody right now, right? He’s probably singing like he’s on broadway. And it’s all about you.

Carmine: Cops pick me up, I’ll have my own song to sing. So you two better take care of me.

Philip: What do you want?

Carmine: This place looks like it’s got a hundred rooms. Hide me out in one until this blows over.

Philip: I’ll have to think about it.

Carmine: Well, while you’re thinking about it, where’s the gents? It’s been a long day.

Philip: Out the door to the left, second door on the right.

Ava: So what the hell are we gonna do now?

Get ready. It’s time for

the savings event of the year.

Maggie: Paulina, I know what it’s like when you want to take revenge on someone who hurts the person that you love. But I think it would be better for you to let the police take care of whoever did this to abe and for you to focus on abe’s recovery and yourself.

Paulina: Yeah, you’re right. You’re right, maggie. You are right. I wanna let go of this anger and throw all my energy into helping abe to heal.

Maggie: Well, I hope so for your sake as well as abe’S.

Paulina: You are a very wise woman. And beautiful too.

Maggie: Thank you. So are you.

Paulina: Anybody ever tell you you look like bonnie raitt?

Maggie: Actually, you’re the first. Hmm, that’s quite a compliment. I am a big fan of hers.

Paulina: Oh?

Maggie: Yeah.

Paulina: Oh, well, then hey, well, you know, maybe when abe gets back on his feet, we can all go to a monterey karaoke together?

Maggie: Oh, oh, I’d love that.

Paulina: We give them something to talk about.

Marlena: Mm-hmm, damn right.

Paulina: [Laughs]

Jake: When you talk to the mayor I swear he’s gonna back up everything I said.

Rafe: Mm-hmm. Oh, even if he does, you’re not off the hook. You brought a loaded gun and a mobster to the park. And because of you abe carver almost died.

Jake: What are you gonna charge me with?

Rafe: Well, I don’t know yet. But if you know what’s good for you, you will walk away from this criminal and never look back.

Chloe: You do have a thing for rafe. I knew it. Why didn’t you tell me?

Nicole: Because it’s–it’s complicated, you know. I wasn’t even clear about it myself, and rafe and I have known each other for so long. You know, he’s–he’s that guy that you–you turn to when things are awful. But I-I was married to the love of my life, or so I thought. Then eric kept staying in–in africa longer and longer, and I started to see rafe differently, but I was still married. And then my–my marriage blew up and then I-I was miserable and guilty. You know, by the time I sorted out my feelings, rafe was with ava. And ava is starting a new life and a new beginning. And she’s my friend too.

Chloe: Do you know what I’m wondering?

Nicole: Oh, I can only imagine.

Chloe: I’m just wondering if that night that eric told you he wasn’t coming home again if you would have run into rafe instead of xander.

Nicole: Well, I think rafe would’ve seen how angry and hurt and drunk I was. And he would have gotten me home and into bed alone.

Chloe: Because he’s an honorable man.

Nicole: And because he was finding something with ava.

Chloe: So you don’t think that he deserves to know how you feel about him?

Nicole: No. No, chloe, I can’T. I just I–I can’T.

Chloe: Hmm, so you’re dating ej instead. That makes a lot of sense.

Nicole: About as much sense as you wanting brady and dating philip.

Chloe: Brady was in love with kristen.

Nicole: Yep, not anymore.

Chloe: Look, I really–i really like philip. When he’s not acting like a jealous idiot, he can be really sweet and romantic, and we just have a really long history.

Nicole: So do ej and I.

Chloe: And he’s hurt you over and over again.

Nicole: But that’s because sami was in the picture, and now she’s not.

Chloe: For how long? Oh, come on, nicole.

Nicole: Look, you know, a long time ago I was so, so in love with ej. Maybe I can love him again.

Chloe: Mm, assuming it’s not doomed to begin with.

Nicole: What is that supposed to mean?

Chloe: What if he finds out that you double-crossed him and his crazy sister? I mean, he’s still a dangerous man. He’s turned on you before, and god knows if kristen finds out that you helped steve track her down…

Nicole: Kristen is in hiding. She is nowhere near salem.

Chloe: But if steve finds her, she won’t be in hiding anymore.

Kristen: Stop stalling, ej. Who else was at the table when steve hacked your phone?

Ej: It was a dinner date.

Kristen: Name?

Ej: It was a business associate. Steve obviously duped that person into leaving the table.

Kristen: Hmm, and then he hacked your phone that you so stupidly left in plain sight. Oh, I don’t know who I hate more in this moment, steve johnson or you.

Ej: I suggest you turn your wrath on johnson, because right now I’m all you’ve got.

Kristen: Then you better hide me until all this blows over or I swear on my daughter’s life I will take you down with me.

Nicole: Look, I don’t care about kristen. She’s on the ropes, and she knows it. And she needs to keep running, because if they find her, they’re gonna throw her in jail and put her in a prison that she can’t escape from.

Chloe: Mm, we can only hope.

Nicole: And I–I think ej would understand why I did what I did if he finds out, but hopefully he won’T.

Chloe: Mm, then why aren’t you returning his calls?

Nicole: Because I was shocked about abe, and i just needed some time to think. But ej’s message sounded fine, and, you know, maybe I should take him up on his dinner invitation. Maybe I should go to his house right now.

Brady: Look, I hate what kristen put chloe through. It’s a big part of the reason why I broke it off with her, but will you do me a favor? Kristen’s daughter is asleep right down the hall. So if you’re gonna trash-talk her mother try to keep it down a little bit.

Lucas: I’m sorry, all right? I really am. I’m sorry, but–

Brady: Look, lucas, the bottom line is, you got–you got no right to point fingers at me, and neither does philip. And if he really wants to know what happened between chloe and me last night, then tell him to man up and come and ask me himself, or he can go to chloe and ask her. Either way, his choice. I’ve got moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

Lucas: Why should philip ask you about anything? You’re just gonna lie to him like you just did to me.

Brady: Hey, you know what? Damn it. You–you and– you and philip, you can believe whatever you wanna believe. That’s fine. I’ll tell you what. You know what? Make his night. Go tell him to challenge me to a duel, pistols at dawn. Let’s do this.

Lucas: I never thought I’d say this, but you are one cold son of a bitch, aren’t you?

Brady: [Laughs] Get the hell out of here, man.

[Sighs]

Philip: Will you please calm down? Jake’s the one who brought carmine to salem. You and I didn’t even know about it.

Ava: Oh, you think that gabi is gonna let jake take the rap? She hates my guts. Damn, I-I-I don’t know why I agreed to help you. I don’t know what I was thinking.

Philip: I thought you had nerves of steel.

Ava: Rafe cannot find out that I am mixed up in what happened to abe carver.

Philip: So what do you want to do?

Ava: We gotta keep carmine quiet, which means you need to do what he wants.

Philip: I can’t hide him here. He came through the freaking front door. You think henderson is not gonna tell my father about my houseguest the mobster? I mean, you know how to disappear people. You get rid of carmine.

Ava: All right, I will.

Philip: Call me when it’s handled.

Ava: Wait, hey, hey, where you think you’re going?

Philip: [Exhales] You started this. You handle it. I’ve got places to go, people to see.

Chloe: So ej wants you to come to come to his house for dinner, huh?

Nicole: Well, he said he’d be there alone.

Chloe: So you’re just gonna show up at his doorstep? You’re not gonna call him?

Nicole: Well, it’s not like he’s gonna be cooking on his own. Besides, I–I know ej. He likes surprises.

Ej: I can’t hide you here in this house. If you want to stay, you’ll have to stay in the secret room.

Kristen: Well, it’s not exactly secret anymore.

Ej: You saw to that. So there’s no good hiding place for you here. Damn it, kristen. I thought you were smarter than to flee to your family home. I’m sure steve johnson will be knocking on the door anytime soon.

Kristen: What do you take me for, an amateur? I-I left a bogus trail to keep him busy for months. Oh, god. I did. I did. Have you ever read “the purloined letter”?

Ej: The what?

Kristen: Edgar allen poe. The guy hides a letter in plain sight, and it works out great. Nobody would ever think that I’d come back here.

Ej: I’ll organize some bedding. I assume you still know your way to the wine cellar?

Kristen: Right.

Ej: Where are you going?

Kristen: Brady’s, of course.

Ej: [Laughs] I’m beginning to think you’ve lost your grip. If brady sees you, he’ll turn you in.

Kristen: Brady is not going to see me. I didn’t come all the way back here without seeing my little girl. She’s all I have to live for.

Ej: Kristen, you’re making a big mistake.

Kristen: I just have to look at her. Just for a moment while she’s sleeping. No one will ever know I’m there.

Ej: [Sighs] I know I can’t change your mind.

Kristen: By george, I think he’s got it.

[Tense music]

As a dj, I know all about customization.

Gabi: I–I love jake. Are you kidding me? You can’t just order me to leave him.

Rafe: Look at the stats on the man. He’s in the mob.

Gabi: Look who’s talking, mister I’m shacked up with jake’s ex-mob boss.

Jake: Gabi, it’s not–

Gabi: No, no, no, he needs to know the truth.

Rafe: You’re gonna go off on ava again? You can save your breath, okay?

Gabi: Oh, no, you think that all she does is have sex with you and make lasagna? Do you know why abe got shot? How did philip get in touch with carmine? It was your girlfriend, ava. She gave him that information. She is in this up to her neck.

Ava: Oh, took you long enough.

Carmine: Took a little tour of the house on the way back. Where’s kiriakis?

Ava: Don’t worry about it. I’m gonna take care of your arrangements.

Carmine: You better.

Ava: Let’s get something straight. I may be out of the life, but I am still your boss. And you’re acting pretty cocky for just a hired goon. So remember, I can still, squash you like a little bug. Let’s get outta here.

Brady: That jackass still thinks I slept with chloe. I’ve got to warn her. Where’s my… where’s your phone, brady?

[Ominous music]

[Doorbell rings]

Ej: I’ve got it, harold.

Nicole: Surprise.

Ej: Nicole, I was just thinking about you.

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Paulina: Shouldn’t we have heard something by now? What’s taking so long?

Lani: I’m sure we will hear something soon.

Paulina: Yeah. Well. I can’t wait around here any longer. I’m going to get some answers.

Lani: No, wait. Auntie, wait. No, you’ll just get in the doctors’ way.

Paulina: So I’m supposed to stand around here not knowing if abe’s alive or–

Eli: Auntie paulina, this isn’t helping, okay? You gotta get it together.

Paulina: Right. Right. I know. I know. But I’m losing my mind worrying about abe.

Eli: You stay here with lani. I’ll see what I can find out.

Kayla: We’re losing too much blood into his chest cavity. Start two large-bore ivs. Type and cross four units. I’m gonna place a chest tube.

[Beeping] Ah, we’re losing him! We need to start cpr. If we can’t get him to the or, I need to keep the chest tube in here! We need that blood.

John: I know who you are, and I’m ready for you. And I swear to god I will battle you for my wife, and I will defeat you just like I did the last time.

Demon marlena: Aren’t you the clever one, john black? There’s nothing you can do about it.

John: No.

Demon marlena: Your precious marlena is mine now.

John: My dear god.

Demon marlena: You have confused me with the other guy. Let me clarify for you.

[Eerie music]

 

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

John: Leave her alone. Release her this instant!

Demon marlena: After all the time I put into possessing her? I think not.

John: Doc? Can you hear me? I’m here to help you, doc. I will never give up on you!

Demon marlena: One more step, and I will hurt her.

John: I won’t let you do that.

Demon marlena: How do you plan to stop me? Holy water? Really? You think I hadn’t prepared for that?

[Sizzling] Any better ideas?

Julie: I just heard. I just– paulina, I’m so sorry.

Paulina: Thank you.

Julie: I just left marlena at st. Luke’S. And we each lit a candle for abraham.

Lani: Thank you, julie. We–we really appreciate that.

Julie: Had to elbow my way through a bunch of reporters down there in the lobby.

Paulina: Bunch of damned vultures. That’s what they are.

Julie: No, no, just put that out of your mind, paulina, and you just focus on abe. Maybe by now, he’s past the worst of it.

Kayla: And again. Clear! Come on. Come on.

Nurse: Sir, you can’t be in here.

Eli: I’m salem pd. Kayla, what–what is going on?

Kayla: He’s gone.

[Flatline beeping]

[Mystical music]

 

Abe: Lexie?

Lexie: Hello, abe. I thought I was managing my moderate

John: In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy spirit–

Demon marlena: Knock it off! Your meaningless prayer is not gonna help marlena! And, in fact, it’s making me want to hurt her more.

John: Please don’t! Don’T.

Demon marlena: Then do as I say! All I’ve gotta do is snap my fingers, and I can stop marlena’s heart cold.

John: No, you won’t!

Demon marlena: Oh, yes. It’s what I would’ve done to doug if marlena hadn’t listened to reason.

John: What does that mean?

Demon marlena: It means we struck a bargain. I wouldn’t kill marlena’s friend, doug, if she would let me back in.

John: So that was it.

Demon marlena: Because she couldn’t bear to have her dear friend die. That’s just the kind of person she is. So we’re together again.

John: I don’t understand. It’s been over 25 years. Why would you come back for her now?

Julie: Paulina, you’re going to wear a groove in the linoleum. Why don’t you just sit with us for a while?

Paulina: All right. All right. For a while.

Julie: You know, I understand that you and abe are engaged. I haven’t had a chance to congratulate you yet.

Paulina: Thank you. We’re very happy. Or we were.

Julie: You know, abe has been a dear friend to my husband and me for such a long time, but that’s just one of the reasons we were so thrilled when eli married lani. They made it official we’re really family.

Paulina: Well, how long have you and your husband known abe?

Julie: Oh my, let me see. Well, he was still a cop. Actually, he was working on a case that involved my son, david, eli’s father. It just hit me. Abe has been a part of our lives for 40 years. And I know that he’s gonna be around for many, many more.

Eli: It’s not possible.

Kayla: I’m sorry, there’s no heartbeat.

Eli: So that’s it? There’s nothing else you can do? Kayla, please!

Kayla: It’s a long shot, but I’m going to keep going. I’m not gonna give up. Come on, abe! Come on!

Abe: Lexie. Oh, my god. It’s been ten years since I lost you, but not a day’s gone by that I–that I don’t think of you, that I miss you. You’re still in my heart and in theo’s, our precious son. He’s so kind, gentle, and when he smiles, there you are, my sweet lexie.

Lexie: You raised him well, abe.

Abe: Oh, no, no. I won’t take credit, not all of it. You were there, as I said, and you are in his heart and in his smile. You’re there always. Always, always. We do it every night.

Demon marlena: You know, the first time I took control of marlena, she was alone. She was in despair. Made my job so easy. But now–

John: But now, marlena is surrounded by people who really love her.

Demon marlena: Yes. A very effective shield. And when the two of you were so deeply in love, I’ve never seen her so strong as she became then. I know the dark days when she was under the spell of andre dimera. Wow, she was so distraught when she killed all those innocent civilians in salem, starting with abe, of course. But then it turned out that everybody was alive, even abe. But I guess abe isn’t so lucky now, is he?

Paulina: 40 years, that’s a long time to know somebody.

Julie: Well, time flies by, but I must tell you, abraham has not changed very much. He was always a wonderful man.

Paulina: I feel you. When I first set eyes on abraham, it was eight months ago, but I feel like I’ve known him forever.

Lani: Auntie, this is my father.

Paulina: So this is the famous abraham carver. The man who knocked up my sister. And if you’d have told me that I’d be engaged to him eight months later… I–I can’t–I can’t– I can’t lose him. I can’t lose him now.

Lani: Auntie, you’re not gonna lose him, and neither am I.

Paulina: Oh, well, it’s about time! Now, what did you find out? Is abraham gonna be all right?

[Flatline beeping]

Kayla: Come on, abe! Come back to us. Do you hear me? Come on! Come on.

Abe: Oh, just the other day, I was looking through an old photo album, and there we were, just the two of us. You know, 20 years ago, we were so young, so in love. And then– then there were three of us.

Lexie: You and me and our precious theo.

Abe: Yes. Yes. Theo. Theo had finally arrived. Look, I also know that I overreacted in dr. Bader’s office. But I just hate talking about our love life and our trying to conceive a child in just such cold, clinical terms.

Lexie: I know it’s not easy for you. But, honey, I really think we’ve found a way to make it work. Yeah.

Abe: Well, I tell you what, I am all for this way of making it work. Science and spontaneous passion, that’s an unbeatable combination, just like you and me.

Lexie: I want us to have a baby so much, abe. I just–no matter what we have to do, okay?

Abe: So do I. So do I. But even if we don’t, I still have you and me. And that’s enough for me. Come here. It took years, but it was so well worth the wait.

Lexie: I’m sorry about what happened at the hospital.

Abe: Ah, the only thing that matters is that you came home with me.

Lexie: Yeah.

Abe: Hey, you said you wanted to tell me something.

Lexie: Yeah. I decided to wait until we came here because the last time I was here– something happened today, and it happened after we decided to try again. I think it’s a sign, abe. No, no, no, it’s more than a sign. It’s a gift. I wanted so badly for it to happen that I let it come between us. And the moment that I was willing to just let it go, it happened!

Abe: Why don’t you come on and just tell me, will you?

Lexie: Honey, we’re having a baby!

Abe: And then, nine months later, there he was, our theo, our miracle. And you live on in him, my love, and so will we both. So will we both. I’ve lost count of how many asthma attacks I’ve had.

Abe: You know, there was another photo album. There were pictures of us. And I saw, in those pictures, the sadness in our eyes. And it made me wish that I had been kinder, more compassionate. And I saw that, with some benefit of time and perspective, what kind of struggle you had, how much you had to overcome.

Lexie: Honey, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Abe: How long ago did you know about the baby switch? Wow, so you still can’t tell the truth, can you? Don’t even–don’t–don’t answer ’cause it doesn’t matter what you say. I can’t believe you. You know, money may have bought silence from barb reiber. It’s not gonna buy you love, or happiness, or another child.

Lexie: Abe, I–

Abe: You said I didn’t put our family first, but you put yourself ahead of bo and hope, glen and barb, me, and most important, zack. You were willing to let zack and jt go through their whole lives and not know who their biological parents were, who love them and want them desperately because you were just so jealous, so selfish. And you were–you were willing to do–do more than lie. So where did that get you, huh? Where did that get us? I’m sick–I am sick when I thinking of what you did. I’m sicker still when I think of what I just did. Oh, my god–oh my god. We just talked about–we talked about forever–forever. When it should have been never. Difficult times, as there always are, but the hardest thing of all, for me, was losing you.

Eli: They’re still working on him. Kayla said it could be a while.

Paulina: Oh, I don’t have a good feeling about this.

Julie: You know, paulina, there’s a place right across the street that could give us all some comfort.

Paulina: Oh, where’s that?

Julie: St. Luke’s church. There’s not much we do for abraham here, but I know he could use our prayers.

Demon marlena: Marlena hated herself for being andre’s pawn. That’s when I thought I had my chance, but then it turned out that all those supposed victims of hers were alive, and she was blameless.

John: That’s right. And she and i got back together after that. Remember that, doc?

Demon marlena: There is no doc. There is only what I create.

John: I’ll never believe it.

Demon marlena: Well, then you’re a fool. I have waited and waited for years, and I finally got my chance. My old friend stefano dimera created a situation, and marlena believed that you had been killed by a hit-and-run driver, and she was distraught.

John: Until she found out that I was alive.

Demon marlena: Yes. And you found your way back together as you always do over and over and over. And then I found doug. He was perfect. Doug then became my target.

John: Oh, so you possessed him. He was the one that was doing all those things to julie. My god! When I think of all the times he tried to warn me about marlena.

Demon marlena: He did try to warn you, but you wouldn’t listen. But I was afraid at some point you might believe him. So I clocked julie over the head and I framed doug for it.

John: And that’s why he’s in bayview.

Demon marlena: I had marlena commit him there long-term. He can’t have anybody come to see him. He can’t even have his cute but annoying wife come to visit. So doug was the only person who knew about me, and he was taken care of. But now you know about me, and that’s a problem.

 

Lani: I have been putting off calling theo and brandon, but I don’t think I should wait anymore.

Eli: Come over here so we can talk.

Lani: I really hate having to break the news to theo. He’s so far away.

Eli: You want me to make the call?

Lani: No. Just don’t leave.

[Line trilling] Hi. Hey, theo, I am so sorry to wake you up in the middle of the night. Yeah. Theo, something happened. It’s dad.

Paulina: Oh. Damn it!

Julie: Slippery thing, isn’t it? Let me get that.

Paulina: Nice try. I’m usually the queen of together. I never fall apart.

Julie: Well, women like us always think we have to be the strong ones. But when something like this happens, it’s good to remember we’re only human.

Paulina: I hate being so helpless.

Julie: Yeah. I understand. The sanitarium where doug is, they– the doctors won’t let me see him.

Paulina: What? You’re his wife.

Julie: Well, they say he’s not himself. And they say he’s a danger to me.

Paulina: They say?

Julie: It’s killing me, paulina. I’m not there to hold him and tell him I’ll always love him.

Paulina: You want to get into that hospital? I know a lawyer. He can get anybody in anywhere.

Julie: Oh, honey, thank you. I’ll think about it.

Paulina: You do that.

Julie: You know, paulina, I believe– I believe that abe and doug feel that we’re with them. I mean, we don’t have to be in the same room for them to know how much we love them. They want to be with us just like we want to be with them. But until we can hold them, can we just be there for each other? I mean, we sort of get each other, don’t we?

Paulina: Yeah. You and me, we got the same chip.

Julie: [Laughs] Right.

Paulina: Thank you, my friend.

Julie: Oh, ohh.

Abe: You were so brave, selfless. With your big heart, you wanted to make it easier for me to lose you. And I wanted you to believe that you had succeeded. You really hadn’T. It’s getting a little chilly out here. You know what, I think I’m gonna run in and get us another blanket, okay? Lex? Come on, sweetheart. Just wake up. Lex? Lexie? Lexie? Lexie? Wake up. Wake up. Wake up, sweetheart. Oh, god. Oh, god. Oh, god! Oh, god! Oh, god! Oh, god. But now, my love, we’ll be together again.

Lexie: No, abe. We can’T.

Demon marlena: I knew it wouldn’t take you long to figure out there was something very wrong with marlena. After all, you’ve been through it before. But, in fairness, I have picked up some new techniques over the decades.

John: Well, your new techniques, they’re not gonna help you hold onto doc any more than your old ones did. I beat you once, and I’m gonna beat you again because the love that doc and i share is stronger than any bond you will ever have on her. And I’m gonna get my wife back. And I’m not gonna leave this church until I take her with me. On the outside, I looked fine.

Demon marlena: You’re wasting your time. Marlena has given herself to me completely. She is lost to you.

John: I’ll never believe that. Listen to me, doc! I know what you’re going through right now, and I’m here fighting for you. Don’t surrender!

Demon marlena: She can’t hear you! Don’t you know that?

Marlena: Yes, I can!

John: I love you, doc!

Marlena: I hear you, and I feel you. Your love is making me stronger. I’m–I’m trying, john.

John: Doc!

Demon marlena: Silence!

[Tense music]

 

Paulina: How’d your brother take the news?

Lani: He sounded all right. I could tell that he was scared. But he’s gonna get on the first flight from johannesburg.

Julie: Good. Did you reach brandon?

Lani: No. I had to leave a message.

Julie: Well, I hope he can make it too. It’s so important for abe to have his children around him.

Lani: Yeah.

Julie: Just a blessing that you’re here, lani. I hope you know how much your father loves you. Crazy about you.

Lani: He is the dad that I have always dreamed of. He and I were robbed of so much. This can’t be the end because I don’t know how I will stand it.

Abe: We can’t be together? I don’t want to leave you.

Lexie: I’ll be here, my darling, waiting. But it’s not your time yet. I think you know that.

Abe: Yes, I know it. I know it now. My children– my children need me and my grandchildren, my friends, paulina. I know I have to go back.

Lexie: And so you will, my love.

Abe: God bless you, lexie. I’ll be seeing you in my heart, and so will theo. I will be seeing you in his smile.

[Flatline beeping]

Kayla: Come on, come on.

Nurse: Dr. Johnson, we’ve been at this for a while. I think it’s time to call it.

Kayla: I know. Time of death–

[Heart monitor beeping] Oh, abe! Abe, can you hear me?

Nurse: We have a heartbeat!

Kayla: Oh, oh, abe. Facing expensive vitamin c creams with dull results?

Demon marlena: I have waited a lifetime for this.

Marlena: No, please. Don’t kill him. I won’t let you kill him!

Demon marlena: Ahh! All right, fine. I won’t kill him. At least not yet. He may be useful in some way. But I certainly can’t leave him here in this condition. Ugh.

Lani: Oh, hey, kayla, how is he? How’s my dad?

Kayla: Well, it was intense for a while, and he still needs to go to surgery.

Paulina: But?

Kayla: But I am very optimistic that he’s gonna pull through.

Paulina: Oh, ohh! Wonderful! Thank god! Oh!

Lani: Can we see him?

Kayla: Just for a short time, all right? I mean, he’s been through a major trauma, and he’s very weak.

Lani: I won’t stay long, okay? It’s just–thank you. Kayla, thank you. Thank you so much. Can my aunt come with me?

Paulina: I’ll be quiet as a mouse. I swear.

Kayla: Okay. This way.

Paulina: Oh!

Abe: Paulina.

Paulina: I’m right here, right here, and so is lani.

Abe: Lani–

Lani: Don’t talk. Don’t talk, dad. Opening your eyes is enough for me. You know, you gave everyone a real scare. But you’re gonna be okay.

Paulina: Thank you for fighting your way back to us. We love you so much.

Abe: I love you.

Lani: I love you, dad.

Abe: I love you.

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Lani: Aunt paulina, what brings you here?

Marlena: Look, you are about to take a sacred oath to be– to be true to abe. And how can you do that knowing that you’re lying to him about being lani’s mother?

Paulina: There’s something important I need to discuss with you. Is this a good time?

Lani: Yeah, uh, the twins are napping, and eli’s out with his grandmother, so come on.

Paulina: [Chuckles]

Marlena: And you told them it’s impossible for them to see mr. Williams, right?

Of course. But mrs. Williams’s grandson is a police officer, and he demanded that they both be given access.

Marlena: He demanded?

They’re going to take this to my superior.

Marlena: Now, you listen to me. It is very dangerous for julie to see mr. Williams. I’m on my way in. Just stall them till I get there.

How will I–

Demon marlena: Ugh! Julie, julie, julie.

[Sighs] It’s time you learned to leave well enough alone.

Marlena: No, it can’t be. It can’t be.

John: What’s going on? What was doug doing?

Marlena: This is impossible. Stop that. You don’t know what you’re saying. This is–this is dementia.

[Doug speaking indistinctly]

John: What’s he saying?

Gabi: Where are you, jake? I was in the pub hanging out with ciara waiting for you. And then ben came in and said you left to take care of something. What could be so important that you couldn’t come inside and tell me yourself?

[Scoffs]

Carmine: [Laughs] You’re killing me. You with a gun? Come on, jake, you’re a pussycat. There’s no way that you would shoot me, and we both know it. See what I mean? You couldn’t do what needed to be done, just like you couldn’t with jed zanetti. Luckily, I got no problem doing what needs to be done.

Abe: What the hell is going on here?

Jake: No!

[Suspenseful music]

Abe, abe. Mayor carver.

[Abe groaning] Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Hey. Hey, hey. Hey.

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Jake: No, no, no, shh. What the hell is wrong with you? You shot the mayor!

Carmine: This is all on you. You made me do it. And it’s your gun.

Jake: You son of a bitch! Hey, shh, shh. Hey, stay with me, stay with me, stay with me. I’m gonna get you help, all right?

[Abe groaning] Hey, hey, hey. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, I need an ambulance at the park just off the town square. Yeah, mayor carver’s been shot!

Lani: I got the cutest text from my dad going on about how excited he is about the wedding– how he is buying himself a new suit. He wants this day to be perfect.

Paulina: [Chuckles] Oh, your father has already gone out of his way to make it perfect.

Lani: Because he loves you.

Paulina: And I love him so much.

Lani: I know you do.

Paulina: I feel so lucky to have a man like abe. He’s so respected and adored by so many. We even got marlena to perform the ceremony.

Lani: That’s great. They go way back.

Paulina: Yeah, I know. I know. We go way back, too. That’s why when marlena tells me anything, I take it to heart.

Lani: She’s very wise.

Paulina: She gave me some advice earlier.

Lani: Well, if it was marriage advice, I’d listen to her. In fact, please pass it along to me.

Paulina: Um, well, actually, it wasn’t marriage advice. It was about you.

Lani: About me? Well, what about me?

[Baby cries on baby monitor] Hold that thought.

[Crying continues]

Paulina: Lani… how am I going to tell you that I’m your mom and abe is not your real father?

Eli: How much longer until we can see mr. Williams?

I’m still working on clearance.

Julie: Well, you’ve been working on it for half an hour. If I’m not allowed to see my husband immediately, detective grant is going to insist on seeing the head of this institution, your boss.

Marlena: That won’t be necessary.

Julie: Marlena. Why am I not surprised? The nurse called you, didn’t she?

Marlena: Of course she did. I would expect her to when somebody comes in and tries to see a patient of mine who’s not allowed to have visitors.

Julie: I am not a visitor. I’m doug’s wife.

Marlena: Julie, I’ve told you before, it’s not safe. He attacked you once. He could do it again.

Eli: I’ll be by my grandmother’s side the entire time. So I’ll make sure that she’s safe.

Marlena: It’s not just your safety that I’m worried about. It’s also doug’S.

Julie: Why?

Marlena: Look, I’m afraid that the sight of you might upset him, which could set him back.

Julie: It could also give him comfort. It could raise his spirits. My god, he’s been in this place isolated for days. He must think I’ve abandoned him.

Eli: Come on, marlena, I mean, please. You got to understand what they’re going on.

Marlena: You’ve got to understand that I am trying to help doug and julie.

Eli: Okay. I get that you have the authority to keep my grandmother from seeing doug, but I have the authority to question him about a crime.

Marlena: What’s he saying? That you’re going to press charges against doug for assaulting you?

Julie: Of course not.

Eli: Yeah, no. I didn’t even say anything about my grandmother. Actually, I’d like to have him explain more about how you tried to kill him.

[Recorder whirring]

Marlena: That’s not funny, doug.

John: Ah, I don’t understand this. Why don’t I hear what doug’s saying?

Marlena: No, no, you can’t be the–

[Recorder whirring] Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this to doug? He’s the kindest, gentlest man I’ve ever known. He’s an angel.

John: Is doug not even in the room with you?

Marlena: Why are you doing this? After all these years, why have you come back to salem?

John: If that’s not doug… who the hell is she talking to? Serena: It’s my 3:10

[Knock at door]

Kayla: Marlena, are you free–

[Scoffs] Not again.

John: No, no, no, no, no. It’s not what you think.

Kayla: I warned you the other day that accessing marlena’s private patient information was a violation. What are you thinking?

John: What marlena is thinking is what I’m worried about.

Kayla: What do you mean?

John: Something bad is happening to my wife, and it started right after her session with doug. Now, when I play this recording–

Kayla: No, don’t say anything, all right? Just give me the recording.

John: I’ve already listened to the session!

Kayla: I don’t want to know that.

John: No, no, you got to understand. There’s something off with the recording.

Kayla: I don’t care. If you heard something, forget it, all right? And if you don’t give me the recorder, I’m going to have to report this as a violation of patient-doctor confidentiality and a violation of–

John: Damn it, kayla. You got to hear me out here. Come on, you were one of doc’s closest friends.

Kayla: And she would be very unhappy to know that you are here right now.

John: Please, just listen to the recording. For some reason, when marlena speaks, I hear her voice really clear. But when doug speaks, all I hear is static. And the way marlena is talking, it sounds like there’s someone else with her.

Marlena: Obviously doug was not in his right mind when he claimed that I tried to kill him.

Eli: I’d like to hear that from him.

Marlena: He’s delusional, eli.

Eli: I’ll be the judge of that, marlena.

Marlena: You’re not qualified to judge it. I’ve been a psychiatrist for many, many years. I’m trained to diagnose somebody that’s going through what doug is going through.

Julie: Well, I am his wife. I know him better than anybody in the world does.

Marlena: Yes, but he’s not who he was before.

Eli: Why would he think that you tried to hurt him?

Marlena: Because he’s paranoid… because he’s confused. Look, I try to do the very best I can for all my patients, but once in a while, a patient comes along who is so deeply disturbed that they think the therapist has become the enemy.

Eli: Did you do something to him that would make him think that?

Marlena: Of course not. I took an oath. First, do no harm. In my professional opinion, I think that julie seeing doug would do that kind of harm.

Julie: Well, I’ve heard about your learning. I’ve heard about your judgment. I heard about you took a hippocratic oath, but you’re not behaving like a human being, marlena. My god, I thought of you as family all my life– loving, supportive.

Marlena: Thank you for that.

Julie: Well, what’s happened to your compassion? Even as you’re looking at me, your eyes are so cold. I don’t think I know you anymore.

Lani: You seem to have the magic touch with jules.

Paulina: There’s no magic to it, just practice and technique. The same technique I used on you when you were a babe. You know, the secret is in the rhythmic pats on the tush.

Lani: Tush pats is your secret>

Paulina: Uh-huh. The secret is the rhythm. It’s not a random thing. It’s three paths, sway, three pats, then sway.

Lani: And that works?

[Laughter]

Paulina: It worked on you every time, and you were stubborn. Oh.

Lani: I didn’t know that you helped mom with me when I was a baby.

Paulina: Oh, no, no, not all the time. Just when things were really hectic, uh, but I treasured every moment

Lani: Until you had to leave for your next adventure.

Paulina: Well, tammy decided that she had to have you all to herself, and your grandma, she agreed. But I just enjoyed being close to you for as long as it lasted.

Lani: Well, I’m sure it was good practice for you until you finally had a daughter of your own.

[Siren approaching]

Jake: All right, help is on the way. You just got to hang in there, all right, abe?

Rafe: Jake, what’s going on?

Jake: Thank god you’re here. He’s not doing well.

Rafe: Get your hands up. Move away from him.

Jake: What? No, no, no, you don’t understand.

Rafe: Move away from him!

Jake: You don’t– I-I-I didn’t do this!

Rafe: Now!

Jake: I’m the one who called 911!

Rafe: Get away from him now. Come on, get in there. Hands behind your back.

Jake: What?

Rafe: Get ’em– come on, abe.

Rafe: Oh, my god.

Gabi: Answer your phone. Hey, watch where you’re going.

Carmine: Go to hell.

Gabi: Hey, wait a minute. You’re carmine merlino. My hygienist cleans with a round head.

Gabi: What are you doing here, carmine?

Carmine: You must got me confused with somebody. I got one of those faces.

Gabi: No, no, no. I know exactly who you are. I saw that ugly mug in a file that philip kiriakis gave me.

Carmine: I don’t know who that is.

Gabi: You’re a terrible liar. He brought you to town, didn’t he? He’s trying to pin this–this jed zanetti’s murder on jake, but you’re the one who really killed him.

Carmine: Let me guess– you’re jake’s latest. Drawn to the bad boy with the heart of gold.

Gabi: [Scoffs] Don’t worry about who I am. We are not giving up.

Carmine: Fine, but I got news for you, sweetheart. Right now jake’s got bigger problems than jed zanetti.

Lani: You said marlena gave you some advice about me?

Paulina: Yes, she did.

Lani: Okay. You want to share?

Paulina: Uh… lani, I need you to know… before I ever loved your father… I loved you so much.

[Sighs] And because of how… I think of your father and what he means to me, this is why I need to have this conversation with you.

Lani: This sounds serious.

Paulina: It is. And your father, he… he doesn’t know anything about what I’m about to share with you. But I hope and I pray that he understands why I decided to tell you first.

Lani: Okay. I got to admit, you’re starting to worry me here, auntie. I–

Paulina: No, no, no worries. No worries. All I want is for us to all be a family.

Lani: Does this have to do with the other night… when you asked me to call you mama?

Paulina: Actually, it does.

Marlena: Oh, julie, I’m sorry you don’t feel that I’ve been caring enough towards you and doug. I’m just–I’m trying so hard to be professional. And because of our long and close friendship, I… I need to ask you to trust me.

Julie: Marlena, I’ve shown my trust in you. I let you talk me into having doug committed to this institution. But with the decisions you’ve been making lately, it’s getting harder and harder to believe that you really–that you really care about what’s best for him.

[Cell phone rings]

[Cell phone beeps]

Eli: Hey, rafe, I’m sorry. This is not a good time.

Rafe: Yeah, there’s been a shooting.

Eli: I’m at bayview right now with my grandmother. You’re gonna have to have somebody else cover for me.

Rafe: Listen, I’m not asking you to work the case. The victim is abe.

Eli: What?

Rafe: Yeah, he was just shot in the chest, and we’re about to take him to the hospital now. I thought you’d want to be the one to tell lani.

Eli: Okay. I’m on my way.

Julie: What’s happened?

Eli: Abe’s been shot. They’re taking him to the hospital.

Julie: My god! How bad is he? What happened?

Eli: I don’t know, grandma. I don’t have all the details. He’s been shot in the chest, and he’s headed to the hospital–that’s all I know. But I got to go tell lani.

Marlena: Go ahead. I will stay with julie.

Eli: Okay, thank you.

Julie: Who would do such a thing to a man like abe?

Marlena: I don’t know. There’s a lot of evil in the world. May I drive you home?

Julie: Oh, no, no. I want to go right to the hospital. I should be there for abe and for lani and eli.

Marlena: Aren’t you afraid you’ll be in the way?

Julie: [Scoffs] In the way? No, they’re my family. If you cannot drive me, I’ll just call a taxi.

Marlena: No, no, that would be a mistake. I have a much better idea.

Kayla: So you’re saying you think that there was someone in the room with marlena and doug? It was a private session.

John: I’m telling you, she was talking to somebody else, and she was scared.

[Cell phone ringing]

Kayla: I’m sorry. I got to take this. Dr. Johnson. What? I’m on my way.

John: Everything all right?

Kayla: There was a shooting, and the victim’s en route.

John: Okay, I’ll tell you what? I’ll just wait for you outside er.

Kayla: John, it was abe.

John: No way.

[Dramatic music]

 

Jake: Hey, how is abe? Is he going to be all right?

Rafe: I don’t know. He was shot in the chest, jake. Tell me what happened. Oh, so now you’re not gonna say anything. So what, you just, uh–you came across him lying there?

Jake: What if I did?

Rafe: So, uh…. so you’re claiming someone else shot him. They left the gun by his body, and you saw nothing.

Jake: I’m not saying anything else without my lawyer. Advil dual action fights pain 2 ways.

Rafe: Abe’s been shot. He might not make it. And you’re gonna lawyer up on me?

Jake: I want my phone call.

Rafe: Well, you need to know that abe is not only my friend and mentor, but he is one of the best men that I have ever known. And if you are responsible for this, I am not gonna rest until you pay.

[Dramatic music]

 

[Door closes]

[Line trilling]

[Cell phone ringing]

Gabi: Hello.

Jake: Hey.

Gabi: You finally called me back. I was really starting to worry. Where are you?

Jake: [Sighs] I’m at the police station.

Gabi: Oh, god, is this about carmine?

Jake: Just get down here as soon as you can.

Gabi: [Sighs]

Julie: Abe has been shot in the chest. Nobody knows what his condition is. What good would I be going home?

Marlena: Well, no offense, but what good would you be at the hospital?

Julie: I take great offense at that, marlena. And if you will not drive me to the hospital, just get out of my way, please.

Marlena: No, no. You know what? I… I’ve got a better idea. Why don’t I drive you to st. Luke’s?

Julie: You want to take me to church?

Marlena: Yes. Yes. I was thinking that we could– we could, uh, pray together for doug and for abe.

Julie: Right now?

Marlena: Yes. Well, I know how much you believe in the power of prayer. Well, I-I saw you and john just the other day praying for doug in the chapel.

Julie: Well, of course I believe in the power of prayer, but–

Marlena: And the church is only–only just steps away from the hospital. I think it would be very helpful if we went there and we prayed together for doug and abe.

Julie: I suppose you’re right.

[Scoffs] Actually, these days, I always have my rosary with me.

Marlena: Oh, it’s okay. It’s– don’t you think you ought to just pull that at st. Luke’s?

Julie: All right.

Marlena: Okay, then we have a plan. Um, I-I think it’s good that we’re doing this together.

Julie: Marlena… I’m sorry that I’ve been so harsh with you about doug’s care. I-I know you’re not the enemy, and… I apologize for demonizing you.

Marlena: Well… it’s not the first time that’s happened. I guess I can get over it.

Julie: Thank you for offering to pray with me.

Demon marlena: All the prayers in the world won’t help you now.

Lani: I hope you understand that even though you’re marrying my father, calling you mama is weird to me. You will always be my auntie, not my mother.

Paulina: I got to– I can understand why you feel that way.

Lani: And besides, I mean, do names even really matter? We both know how we feel about each other in our hearts.

Paulina: That’s so true. That’s so true, baby. What I need you to understand is that… you are so much more to me than just my niece or abe’s daughter. The truth is…

[Lock clicking]

Lani: Hey. Babe, I wasn’t expecting you home so soon. Were you able to get julie in to see doug?

Eli: No. Look, baby, something happened while I was at bayview.

Lani: To doug? Is he okay?

Eli: Not to doug, to your dad.

Lani: Huh?

Eli: He’s been shot. Your mission:

Gabi: Oh, my…

Jake: Hey.

Gabi: I’m so glad you’re okay.

Jake: Sorry. Sorry to worry you.

Gabi: Baby, I was just more annoyed than worried. I ran into carmine.

Jake: You did? When?

Gabi: I bumped into him outside of the pub, and I could recognize him from the picture–the file that philip gave me.

Jake: Did he know who you are?

Gabi: I told him.

Jake: Why would you do that, gabs?

Gabi: What is going on, jake? You ditched me at the brady pub. Is that what you’re here? Did he turn you in?

Jake: Gabi… I was the one who convinced carmine to come to salem.

Gabi: What?

Jake: Yeah. I wanted to tell him face-to-face I wasn’t gonna let philip use him… to steal your company. He wouldn’t listen to reason… so I pulled a gun on him.

Gabi: You what?

Jake: I was just trying to scare him.

Gabi: Well, I guess you succeeded. He was in a hurry when I bumped into him.

Jake: Yeah, well, he didn’t back down. And then he grabbed for the gun.

Gabi: What?

Jake: Yeah. We struggled for a bit. And then mayor carver showed up.

Gabi: Wait, abe was there?

Jake: He tried to intervene.

[Sighs] Probably saved my life, but–

Gabi: What? Did–did something happen to abe?

[Monitor beeping]

Kayla: There’s no sound on the right. Probably a hemothorax or a pneumothorax. I’m gonna have to intubate. There is an exit wound, and he’s in shock from loss of blood. We need a massive transfusion protocol.

Blood pressure dropping.

Kayla: We need to get him stabilized. Hang on, abe. Come on. Hang on.

[Elevator bell dings]

Lani: John.

John: Oh, lani. I am so sorry, baby.

Lani: You heard about my dad?

John: I was with kayla when she got the news. She’s with him right now in the trauma unit.

Paulina: Oh, why, why? Eli– who would want to shoot that dear man?

John: Eli, you got any info on that?

Eli: No. Nothing yet.

Lani: Is he going to be all right?

John: I don’t have any details yet, sorry.

Paulina: Oh, leave that to me.

Eli: Wait, wait. No, I’m sure kayla will update us if she has any new information.

Paulina: I’m not waiting on any update. That man, that is my fiancé.

Eli: Wait. Paulina, you can’t just barge in there like that.

Paulina: Let them stop me.

Eli: Paulina!

Lani: Let me handle this, okay? Stay with the kids.

John: You have no idea how any of this happened?

Eli: No, I got the call while I was at bayview from rafe while I was trying to get my grandmother in to see doug.

John: Did you see him?

Eli: No. Marlena showed up and blocked us. We were dealing with all that when I got the call.

John: Did you leave julie with marlena at bayview?

Eli: Yeah, but my grandmother texted me. She said marlena and her are headed down to st. Luke’s to pray for abe.

John: St. Luke’s?

Eli: Yeah. Is everything okay?

John: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just, uh… keep me posted about abraham. I’m gonna check on julie and marlena.

[Elevator bell dings]

Julie: [Sighs]

[Suspenseful music]

 

Marlena: Why don’t you light a votive candle for abe and doug?

Julie: Yes, of course.

Lord, hear our prayer.

Demon marlena: They say everyone is welcome in your house… but what about me? How does it feel to have me back in your sacred space again? Such fond memories I have of trashing the place 25 years ago. I’m almost glad that it’s been cleaned up, patched back together… because now I can desecrate it all over again. Those who believe in you think that humans gain grace through sacrifice. Well, I’m here to offer my own sacrifice to you… your devoted servant, julie. I will drown her in the same font where her great-grandbabies were baptized. Nothing says satan has returned like a little drowning in the house of god.

 

Gabi: Did you tell rafe what happened, that carmine shot abe?

Jake: [Sighs] I panicked, okay? I didn’t pull the trigger, but it was my gun.

Gabi: Why didn’t you tell that to my brother?

Jake: I didn’t want to incriminate myself, gabi. What was I supposed to say? I was threatening carmine because I didn’t want him to implicate me in a murder?

Gabi: Oh, I can’t believe this.

Jake: I’m sorry.

Gabi: No, it is not your fault, okay? If philip and ava hadn’t tried to steal gabi chic… oh, damn those two.

Jake: Your brother’s pretty upset about abe. He’s pissed that I’m not talking.

Gabi: Hey. I will talk to him right now, okay? Right now we just have to pray… that abe pulls through, okay?

[Monitor beeping]

Kayla: His blood pressure’s stabilizing, but we need more plasma.

Paulina: Where’s abraham? Where’s my–

Kayla: Paulina.

Paulina: Abe, dear god! You need to save him!

Kayla: Paulina, you cannot be in here. You cannot be in here.

Paulina: Oh, he needs to know I’m here for him.

Kayla: Yeah, he does, okay? Would you please give us some room to work and go on out? Thank you.

Paulina: He needs to know I’m here and I love him.

Lina: Aunt paulina, he knows that, okay? He is fighting his hardest to get back to you and to me and to everyone who loves him, okay? I know, I know, I know.

Julie: And please, lord… hold doug and abe safe… in your everlasting arms. Lord, hear our prayer.

Marlena: Amen. That was lovely.

Julie: [Sighs deeply] I always feel so much better in… a sacred space.

Marlena: Yes. We all do. Isn’t this where your grandbabies were baptized?

Julie: Oh, yes. What a joyful day that was, marlena– welcoming little jules and carver into the family of god.

Marlena: [Chuckles] Babies–such a blessing.

Julie: And I was honored, honored to be chosen godmother to little jules. And I know how abraham was thrilled to be godfather to little carver. And now…

Marlena: We just have to hope that abe will be fine.

Julie: I can hardly believe that we’re here praying for his life… and for doug… to be restored to me, to be the man I’ve always loved. When did our lives take this dark turn? And… how did it happen so fast?

John: Doc! Julie!

Julie: [Chuckles] John. How did you know you were here?

John: I saw eli at the hospital. He said you texted him.

Julie: Well, it was marlena’s idea that we come here.

John: Is that right?

Marlena: Yes. I thought it would do us both some good.

Julie: How’s abe, honey?

John: Kayla’s doing everything that she can for him. Eli is there with lani and the twinners and paulina, but they sure could use your support.

Julie: Well, I told marlena that, and she thought I’d be in the way.

John: Did she now?

Marlena: I just thought there were better uses of our time, like being here to pray for abe and doug.

John: Julie… why don’t you head on across the street? I’m sure they’re gonna be real glad to see you.

Julie: Thank you, john.

Marlena: [Shouts]

John: Hold on a second, doc.

Marlena: [Scoffs] Shouldn’t we be going over there? I mean, we’re close, dear friends of abe’S. Wouldn’t we want to be there with him?

John: We will be. But I also want to be here for my wife, except… I’m not so sure you are my wife anymore. As someone who resembles someone else,

Marlena: John, what are you talking about? Of–of course I’m your wife.

John: No, you haven’t– you haven’t been yourself since that incident with doug.

Marlena: Well, maybe it was just very upsetting to see somebody you care about so much lose his mind. As his doctor–

John: I went to your office, and I listened to the recording of your session with doug.

Marlena: You shouldn’t have–

John: I heard your voice perfectly but doug… only static.

Marlena: Hmm, that’s odd.

John: Yeah, you know, at first, I was confused about that. Couldn’t figure out what it meant. But you sounded so scared, so I started thinking really hard about what you said on that recording. You asked him why after all these years has he come back to salem. And I thought, “that doesn’t make any sense. Doug’s been here forever.”

Marlena: I don’t know what to say–

John: And then it finally hit me, why I couldn’t hear doug’s voice. The reason why you were so scared was… because you weren’t even talking to doug, were you? There was someone else in the office that day, someone you hadn’t seen in 25 years.

Marlena: I’m sure I don’t know what you’re talking about.

John: Oh, I’m sure you do because you’re the one who attacked julie… you’re the one who has caused all of this.

Marlena: You should stop talking now before you say something you’ll regret.

John: It’s you, isn’t it? You have possessed my wife again, haven’t you?

Jake: It’s my fault abe got shot.

Gabi: No, no, it’s not your fault. You were trying to save my company. So right now we just have to stall for time… and hopefully abe recovers enough to tell rafe exactly what happened… that carmine shot him, not you.

Jake: Yeah. Abe has to pull through… not because of me…

[Sighs] Because of his family… and all the people who love him.

Lani: Let’s just sit here for a minute.

Eli: Hey, how’s your dad? Did you talk to kayla?

Lani: Yeah, but she wouldn’t say. He lost a lot of blood.

Paulina: Oh, eli, why? Why? What could this shooting be about? Do you think abe was targeted because he’s black?

Eli: I hope not, but we’ll follow up with rafe.

Paulina: Oh. Oh.

Lani: Dad.

Paulina: Lani… lani, your father–he’s a strong man, the strongest man I’ve ever met.

Lani: Yeah, I– me too.

Paulina: Honey… I know he’s looking forward to our life together… and also to a daughter that he loves and the family that she’s built– those two precious babies. We’ll get through this. We will. And then after, we’ll all celebrate our wedding… together.

Lani: Yeah.

Kayla: We’re losing too much blood into his chest cavity. Start two large bore ivs. Type and cross four units. I’m gonna place a chest tube.

[Monitor beeping rapidly] Ah, we’re losing him.

[Monitor flatlines]

John: I know who you are, and I’m ready for you. And I swear to god, I will battle you for my wife. And I will defeat just like I did the last time.

Demon marlena: Aren’t you the clever one, john black? There’s nothing you can do about it.

John: No.

Demon marlena: Your precious marlena is mine now.

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What do you think? A string quartet? Harpist?

Abe: Mm–

Paulina: Oh, that’s not an answer, abraham.

Abe: Well, that’s my answer. Whatever it takes to make you happy.

Paulina: Aww. You are so good to me. But we got beaucoup things to do on our list. There’s a mile long if we want

get this wedding in shape. Now, I hope your day is clear.

Abe: Ah, I’ve already done my part. The most important part.

Paulina: Now really? What is that?

Abe: I proposed to the most vibrant, engaging, charming woman I have ever, ever known. Nothing else really matters.

Paulina: No, maybe not to you, you silver-tongued devil. But I want my wedding to be as perfect as my groom. So now, are you gonna help me with these lists or am I gonna have to get tough?

Abe: Oh, well, let’s do this.

Paulina: Come on now.

Abe: Okay.

[Tense music]

 

Jake: [Sighs] Better watch your back, philip. There is no way in hell I’m gonna let you steal gabi’s company away from her.

Gabi: Jake?

Ciara: What’s wrong?

Ben: Absolutely nothing. I’m just very happy that I came around on this whole baby-making project.

Ciara: Mm-hmm.

Ben: Because it is awesome.

Ciara: I told you so.

Ben: Mm-hmm.

Ciara: I told you.

Ben: Mm-hmm.

[Eerie music]

 

Demon marlena: Good morning, ben. I was very encouraged by our session. I hope you felt the same way. I may be overstepping but I was wondering how the… procreation is going? Send. It may not be my place, but I want this process to move along quickly. Ben and ciara’s child is the utmost import to my plan.

John: Hey, doc, who are you talking to?

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Lani: Is that a bottomless key lime pie?

Eli: Shoot, I wish. It’s the last slice.

Lani: You had two for dinner last night, one for breakfast. What are you gonna do for lunch?

Eli: Sell my soul to the devil for another slice.

Lani: Or you could just ask chanel to come over to bake you another one.

Eli: Nah, then I wouldn’t be able to sit around here half-naked.

Lani: Hmm.

Eli: No.

Lani: That would be tragic.

Eli: You taking my slice?

Lani: Mm-hmm.

Eli: Oh. Mmm. Delicious!

Lani: You got a little.

Eli: Oh, okay.

Lani: Here, here. I got it. Let me help you with that.

Gabi: Jake, what are you doing?

Jake: Hello, whoa, gorgeous.

Gabi: Ugh, well, these bags under my eyes, I hardly slept. Tossing and turning all night. Neither did you.

Jake: Did I keep you up?

Gabi: No, phillip did. We need to stop this bastard. I mean, there’s no way in hell that you’re gonna go to prison. There’s no way I’m gonna give up my company.

Jake: Yeah, it’s not gonna happen.

Gabi: Well, it will happen if we don’t come up with a plan. We need to be proactive. We need to hit him before he knows what happened. I don’t know what–what can we do to stop this son of bitch.

Jake: Honestly, the only thing on my mind right now is the woman I love standing right in front of me looking sexy as hell.

Gabi: Oh, yeah?

Jake: You know, I’d do anything to make you happy, right?

Gabi: Anything?

Jake: Anything.

Paulina: We don’t need to worry about a wedding cake. Not with sweet bits in charge.

Abe: Aha, and I can lock down the officiant.

Paulina: Oh, really? Who do you have in mind?

Abe: Marlena. She would love to join us in holy matrimony. So what do you think?

Paulina: There are two secrets. Abe is not lani’s father and tammy is not her mother.

Marlena: How can that be? Tamara raised her.

Paulina: Yes, she did. But I gave birth to her. I am lani’s mother.

Abe: You don’t like the idea of marlena marrying us?

Paulina: No, no. A shrink who does weddings? What does she have, a package deal? You know, marry the couple now, and a discount on therapy later?

Abe: You do have a way of putting things. But whatever your reservations are about a shrink marrying us. There is a lot more to marlena than meets the eye.

John: Doc?

Marlena: Oh, I didn’t hear you. Sorry I was just speaking to a colleague about his plans for the future.

John: Could have sworn I heard a man’s voice.

Marlena: I had him on speaker. Any more questions?

John: No. Sorry, I guess I’m just a little– boy, you sure got up early this morning.

Marlena: Didn’t I though?

John: Mm-hmm.

Marlena: You know what they say. No rest for the wicked.

[Knock at door] Oh, my.

John: I got it, I got it, honey. Julie, how are you?

Julie: Not good? And I’m afraid I won’t be any better until I get your permission to see my husband. Your mission:

Ciara: [Sighing] Oh.

Ben: You think we did it? Did we make a baby?

Ciara: Well, compared to last time, I don’t know. It’s hard to tell. I mean, there was no random gusts of winds. The candles didn’t blow out. The clouds didn’t part. The heavens didn’t open up and the ground wasn’t shaking but–

Ben: Well, speak for yourself.

Ciara: Oh, trust me, I had my own spiritual experience.

Ben: I love you.

Ciara: I love you.

Ben: And I already love this baby.

Ciara: There may not even be a baby.

Ben: Ciara, it only takes once, that was like–

Ciara: Yeah, but–but who knows if this once is the time?

Ben: Then we’re gonna have to keep trying.

Ciara: Sounds like a plan.

Ben: In the shower?

Eli: Well, so much for making it to the bedroom.

Lani: Mm, you know, I thought that our extracurricular activities would–you kinda get lost in the diaper changes and feeding schedules but we’re making it work.

Eli: No, it’s not work at all, you know, I got a feeling we’re gonna be honeymooners for life. Not just some old–

Lani: No, uh-uh, no. Don’t you say some old married couple.

Eli: Hey, look, you the one that said it. All right, the only old couple around here is gonna be paulina and your dad.

Lani: Mm, mm-mm. I have–I have a feeling that aunt paulina will–she’ll find a way to keep it sexy and spicy.

Eli: Yeah, I’m sure she will.

Lani: It was really nice celebrating them though. Those two are crazy in love.

Eli: Yeah, or just plain crazy. What was paulina talking about, that you should call her mama?

Abe: I was the officiant at john and marlena’s wedding, as I’ve told you. And marlena made me promise to let her return the favor if I–if I ever decided to tie the knot again. So you don’t want me to break my word, do you?

Paulina: This really means a lot to you, doesn’t it?

Abe: It does.

Paulina: Well, okay. That’s just something else we can just check right off the list.

Abe: Thank you so much. You know what? Why don’t we head over to their place and we can get on the road to happily ever after.

Marlena: Julie, I’m sorry you are upset.

Julie: I don’t care how sorry you are, marlena. I wanna see doug now. I wanna see him today.

Marlena: Well, I’m afraid I can’t let you or anybody else see doug right now.

Julie: Why the hell not?

Marlena: He tried to kill you, I was there. He slammed you over the head with a tray, I mean, it’s– it’s a miracle you weren’t seriously hurt.

Julie: Well, I guess it was a miracle because the tray didn’t kill me. I still wanna see my husband.

Marlena: He’s dangerous, julie. And it’s possible that seeing you might just set him off.

Julie: It’s also possible that you are wrong, marlena. With all due respect, I know my husband better than you do. He’s in isolation. He–he is frightened. I don’t see how seeing me or any of the people who love him wouldn’t make him feel a thousand percent better.

Marlena: I’m very sorry. But the answer is no I’m afraid.

John: Doc, can one visit really hurt? Doug is sedated. If he’s supervised?

Marlena: I’m a psychiatrist. I’ve been doing this for many years. I think I know what’s best for my patient unless you think you do?

John: Just trying to help you a little bit that’s all.

Marlena: Julie, if there’s nothing else.

Julie: What gave you the right to play god with people’s lives?

Marlena: Julie, playing god is the last thing I wanna do, but what if I let you see doug and somehow he–he got his hands on–on a pencil or something sharp and–and he–and he stabs you in the heart?

John: Doc, easy.

Julie: That’s ridiculous. You’re treating him like he’s just a patient and he’s your friend. Where is your heart, marlena?

Marlena: Well, somebody’s gotta be objective.

Julie: Are you sure that you are? But what if it was john? What if it was john who was stuck in some snake pit of an institution and you weren’t allowed to see him?

Marlena: Well, if john had tried to kill me, I would hope that somebody with a rational mind will do something to help him.

Julie: Oh, bull! You’d be mad as hell. You know you would.

Marlena: Julie, trust that I have doug’s best interests and yours at heart. Really I do, and– and if there’s any change in him at all, I’ll be sure to let you know.

Julie: I feel sick that I ever let you talk me into signing those commitment papers.

John: Julie.

Julie: This isn’t over!

Abe: Uh, well, what was that all about? Julie seemed pretty upset.

John: Julie, well she wants to visit doug at bayview.

Marlena: Yeah, an–and I had to tell her that doug is a danger to himself and others.

Paulina: He seems so harmless to me. Well, I guess I got off easy when he goosed my caboose.

Lani: Asking me to call her mama? Yeah, definitely awkward.

Eli: Yes, it was weird. But you know what, you set her straight and I don’t think it’s gonna happen again.

Lani: Yeah, we know that. Though it does come from a place of love, auntie p can overstep.

John: So what brings you two by?

Abe: Well, we have news to share.

Paulina: Abe and i are getting hitched.

John: [Laughs] Sensational, isn’t it, doc?

Marlena: Oh, yes. That’s–that’s wonderful.

Abe: Yeah, hey and–and we would be honored, marlena, if you would preside over the ceremony.

Marlena: Oh, but of course before I agree, there’s something I need you to know abe.

Gabi: So I’m thinking an omelet and a side of bacon. Oh, and hash browns. You made me work up an appetite.

Jake: Wow.

Gabi: I’ll share if you’re nice.

Jake: I think I might just have some coffee.

Ciara: Hey.

Jake: Oh.

Ciara: Hi, how are you guys? So good to see you. I’m actually really glad I ran into you. I wanted to talk to you about something.

Gabi: Sure.

Jake: That’s perfect timing ’cause I gotta chat with ben about something. So why don’t you two go in, grab a table and we’ll be in a few.

Ciara: Sure.

Gabi: I can’t promise I won’t start without you.

Ciara: Bye.

Jake: Salem inn over there, right?

Ben: What’s going on?

Jake: Got a little bit of a situation.

Ben: What the hell are you doing with that?

Jake: Someone is trying to hurt gabi and I–I gotta stop it. Oof. You are busy

Abe: What do I need to know? What dark secrets are you keeping from me?

Marlena: Well… it’s about paulina. You see, I got thinking about tamara and how I couldn’t possibly officiate over a wedding involving you and your sister’s ex-boyfriend and baby daddy without knowing how she feels about it.

Paulina: Oh, that–that–that’s all you’re worried about. Well, I’ve spoken to my sister and I’m happy to say we have tammy’s blessing and she’ll be tickled to know you’re the one tying our knot.

Marlena: Mm, well, I’d like to hear that from her. And then I’d be thrilled to marry you.

Abe: Oh, good. Thank you, thank you.

John: This calls for a celebration. Mimosas all the way around maybe, what do you say?

Abe: You know, I wish we could but in my bride-to-be and I have a million things to do to get ready for this wedding, so– oh, starting with buying me a new suit.

Paulina: Oh–oh–uh, john, do you mind–could you go with abe? I think I’d like to stay here and chat with marlena about what we had in mind for the ceremony. So what do you say, john? Are you available?

John: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Of course, even though I don’t know how much I’ll be able to help. I mean, my–my–my style was a little low-key for abraham.

Paulina: It’s perfect. You can help him keep it simple. I mean, we don’t want the groom to outshine his bride.

Abe: Oh, that’s not possible.

John: Okay, I’ll–I’ll be right back.

Marlena: Oh.

Abe: I’ll see you in a bit.

Paulina: Mm-hmm.

John: Congratulations, abe.

Abe: Yes, yeah.

Marlena: You don’t want to talk about the ceremony, do you?

Paulina: No, I don’T. Sister, whoo, you had me sweating bullets just now.

Marlena: Did I?

Paulina: You know damn well you did, you–you needed to talk to abraham and that–that look that came over your face. I got the distinct impression you were going to out my secret.

Marlena: You mean your secret about lying to abe and lying to lani. The thought did cross my mind.

Lani: We’re behind schedule.

Eli: Yes. I know but it was so worth it, wasn’t it?

Lani: Mm-hmm.

[Knock at door]

Julie: Eli, oh, thank god you are home.

Eli: Everything okay? Is it doug?

Julie: How would I know? Marlena won’t let me see him.

Lani: I thought the restriction on visitors was just temporary.

Julie: Yes, it was but now it’s become permanent. If this keeps up– if this keeps up, marlena won’t let me see him until hell freezes over.

Eli: Well, marlena is his doctor.

Julie: I am his wife.

Lani: He–he attacked you.

Julie: He is no danger to me or to anyone. I know this, you know this, the whole world knows this except for the great and powerful marlena evans. Well, no, she will not see what’s right in front of her that doug needs me. If this keeps up, I swear I’m gonna turn out to be the danger to others, especially one very tall blonde psychiatrist.

Lani: Okay, julie, I know how bad you wanna see doug, but if marlena won’t allow it, I don’t–I don’t think there’s anything that any one of us can do.

Eli: Oh, actually there is.

Ben: So, gabi signs over the company to philip, or you go down for murder?

Jake: Yeah.

Ben: And phillip’s already wrangled an eyewitness.

Jake: Who’s lying through his teeth. I admit I was stupid enough to get involved, but I did not kill anybody.

Ben: Just relax, breath.

Jake: Thought I was done with this life. But now here it is in my face being used to hurt gabi.

Ben: I can relate, brother. Trying to escape the man I was. There’s nothing easy about it.

Jake: Yeah, never thought I’d hold one of these things in my hand again.

Ben: There’s gotta be another way.

Jake: Sometimes words don’t do the trick.

Ben: Well, listen, I know you’re trying to protect gabi and I know you might be feeling really desperate right now, but I promise you brother, look at me, you’re doing the wrong thing, even for all the right reasons. Nothing good can come of it.

Ciara: Mmm, so good. I’m definitely gonna miss this.

Gabi: Miss coffee, why?

Ciara: Oh, well, ben and i are actually trying to get pregnant.

Gabi: That is great. Is that what you wanted to talk to me about?

Ciara: No, actually I wanted to talk to you about work.

Gabi: Work?

Ciara: Yeah, well with a baby coming, I thought it might be a good idea to have a little nest fund, so to speak. So I talked to my grandfather and I am going back to titan.

Gabi: Lucky you.

Ciara: Yeah, well, I will be if I can work for gabi chic. It is one of titan’s most profitable and fastest growing divisions and you gabriela dimera are a rockstar and there’s no one I would rather be working for.

Gabi: That’s very flattering, but it’s not gonna happen.

Ciara: Why not?

Gabi: Your uncle phillip fired me.

Ciara: What? Wait, he can do that?

Gabi: Oh, it gets better. He’s trying to steal my company.

Jake: You know gabi built her company from nothing and phillip kiriakis, that silver spoon son of a bitch, who’s been handed everything in his life, gonna try and take it away. No, no, no. I’m not gonna let it happen.

Ben: So you’re planning to kill philip kiriakis. In life there are people who,

Ciara: No, my uncle philip must be crazy. Firing you? Stealing your company? How can there be a gabi chic without you gabi? You are the brand. It is you.

Gabi: Thank you. You are damn right, but phillip is too stupid and greedy to get that. He actually thinks I can be replaced.

Ciara: Well, is it a done deal? Can anything be done about this? Because honestly it just doesn’t seem like the brightest business decision to me.

Gabi: Well, maybe you could share your opinion with–with your grandfather. I mean, at this point, I think victor’s the only person that phillip’s gonna listen to. And if he doesn’t start listening to reason, very soon, he’s gonna live to regret it.

Jake: Never killed anybody before. I don’t intend to start now.

Ben: Okay, so what the gun is just a–a prop?

Jake: It’s the only language that some people understand, especially when they are as dumb as carmine merlino.

Ben: Carmine merlino. What, you lost me.

Jake: Carmine is the clown that phillip tagged to testify that I beat a man to death.

Ben: And let me guess carmine’s the real killer.

Jake: Exactly. So I got him on the horn, convince him to come down to salem and have a sit down. Just the two of us. I’m hoping to convince him to get it through his thick skull, that it’s in our best interest for him to keep his mouth shut.

Ben: And what if he doesn’t keep his mouth shut?

Jake: Hoping the threat of a little heat might show him some reason.

[Beeping] That’s carmine. Wish me luck.

Ben: Whoa, whoa, whoa, I’m coming with you.

Jake: No, no you’re not.

Ben: Jake, this guy’s dangerous. You need somebody to watch you back.

Jake: You and sierra are finally living your life, happily. I’m not letting you anywhere near this.

Ben: Jake, I’m not letting you go by yourself–

Jake: No, I’ll be fine. Just tell gabi I remembered an appointment I had to keep, all right?

Ben: An appointment–

Jake: I’ll be fine.

Eli: Okay, ma, if marlena is worried about your safety, then I will go down to bayview with you and I will stay with you the entire time.

Julie: Oh, love, that so kind, but it won’t help. Marlena’s order it bans all visitors, not just me.

Eli: Well, lucky for us. My badge will get us by doctor’s orders.

Julie: Really?

Eli: Yeah.

Julie: Oh, sweetheart, that would be wonderful.

Eli: All right, come on. We’ll go down to bayview and we’re not gonna take no for an answer.

Julie: Oh, my love.

Paulina: When I came to your office that day, you said that what we talked about was private, protected by patient doctor confidentiality.

Marlena: It is. That’s why I didn’t say anything to abe.

Paulina: But you just said you admitted that you almost did. You said it crossed your mind you almost blurted out what I told you.

Marlena, this just won’t do. Now. I need to know that I can trust you. If I can’t, you and I we have a big problem.

Marlena: You don’t have a problem with trust with me because I’m not the person you’re marrying.

Paulina: What are you saying?

Marlena: What I’m saying is before you walked down the aisle and say I do, you’re going to have to come clean. You’re going to have to tell abe the truth and lani the truth.

Abe: Well, I am so sorry that I forgot that the men’s store wasn’t open today.

John: No, it’s okay. It’s okay. Actually, I’m kind of glad it gives you and me a chance to talk a little bit.

Abe: Yeah, you know, you do seem preoccupied. What’s on your mind?

John: Let me ask you something. Does doc seem like she’s herself to you?

Abe: Well, what do you mean?

John: Yeah, just–she’s been doing some things lately that have been A… bit out of character. You saw the way julie left her place.

Abe: Oh, she was definitely upset.

John: Doc still wouldn’t let her see doug. But instead of comforting julie, empathizing with what she’s going through there, she took really hard stand and just made everything worse.

Abe: Well, we both know that julie doesn’t wanna listen to something she doesn’t want to hear.

John: Yeah, I know–I know that, but it’s–it’s more than that. It’s– I don’t know, doc’s got a edge. Even with me, and the fact is… she’s been off for quite a while.

Abe: Off? How?

John: You know, for example you know that–the promo johnny was to make?

Abe: Yeah, the–the one who’s going to include marlena’s possession.

John: Yeah, yeah, well, the kid has rewritten the whole script and now it only is about marlena’s possession.

Abe: Only about. I don’t get it. We–we had all agreed that that chapter of marlena’s life, all of our lives is best left in the past. That–that was the position marlena took.

John: Well, I thought so. Then suddenly, yesterday she announces in front of johnny that she’s all on board for his project. Last night, I walked in on her and she’s totally engrossed in the script. I think she’s really enjoying it, and the whole time she’s– she’s wearing a pair of dark sunglasses.

Abe: Dark sunglasses?

John: You remember those days, don’t you, abraham? Marlena was always going around and trying to hide her eyes from everybody.

Abe: [Exhales] You don’t think– you don’t think marlena is possessed again, do you? Advil dual action fights pain 2 ways.

John: No, I don’t think that she’s possessed. I just think that–that she’s in trouble and she needs my help, but I don’t even know how to help her I don’t even know where to start.

Abe: When did you first notice her acting differently?

John: It was right after the first session with doug.

Abe: That must be pretty upsetting watching him collapse right in front of her.

John: Here’s the odd thing, doc says that… she’s fuzzy on all the details of what happened. She was so concerned in fact that she went back to her office to replay the tape and that’s when she learned that she’d forgotten that doug had threatened to kill julie.

Abe: That’s a really big thing to forget.

John: Yeah, yeah, well she said, “well–well–well, this all happened so quickly and you know, and I was so distracted with doug collapsing and everything.” No, she is a professional. She never loses her cool here, so something’s not quite right.

Abe: You think something happened? I mean, something she hadn’t told you?

John: I don’t know but I’m–I’m pretty sure that there’s something on that doug’s session tape that could tell me a hell of a lot.

Abe: You’re not thinking of playing that tape, are you? The ethics.

John: I gotta do something, abraham, or I’m never gonna figure out what’s going on with my wife.

Paulina: I thought a shrink was supposed to listen to people, not tell them what to do.

Marlena: Look, I’m speaking to you as someone who has known and cared about abe longer than you have sista.

Paulina: You mocking me, marlena?

Marlena: No, I’m just stating a fact.

Paulina: Well, let me give you a fact. Now, I may not have known abe for as long as you have, but I–I love the hell out of that man.

Marlena: Yes, I know you do. And–and what is love really? I mean, it’s–it’s honesty and being willing to tell the truth.

Paulina: I swore to take the secret to my grave. And if I don’t it would put abe into his. I might finally have my daughter but abe would lose the apple of his eye. Now, how can I–how can I break the heart of the best man that I’ve ever known?

Marlena: Look, you are about to take a sacred oath to be–to be–to be true to abe. And how can you do that knowing that you’re–you’re lying to him about being lani’s mother.

Paulina: Well, it’s not like a bolt of lightning is just gonna come in through the chapel window and strike me dead.

Marlena: Are you sure? I know that you’re a woman of faith, so I know it’s imperative that you tell abe and lani the truth. And if you don’t, god have mercy on your soul.

Eli: Hi, I’m eli grant from the salem pd. We are here to see doug williams.

Kessler: I’m sorry, detective, but mr. Williams isn’t allow visitors.

Eli: Well, this is a police matter so I have to insist.

Ben: Hey.

Ciara: Hi.

Gabi: Where’s jake?

Jake: Carmine.

Carmine: Jakey lambert.

Jake: It’s dimera now.

Carmine: The name has changed but I’m betting your game is still the same.

Jake: Not exactly.

Carmine: Come on. You can take the wise guy out of philly, but you can’t take philly out of the wise guy.

Jake: Huh.

Carmine: Am I right?

Jake: I hear you’re thinking of testifying that I’m the one who killed jed zanetti. We both know that’s a lie.

Carmine: My word against yours, jakey.

Jake: Either way, we were both there and it’s in our mutual best interest for you to keep your mouth shut.

Carmine: Let me worry about what’s in my best interest, okay?

Jake: How much is phillip paying you?

Carmine: Who said anybody’s pay me anything?

Jake: Why else would you lie? Why else would you be chirping about this now?

Carmine: I got nothing to say to you.

Jake: I’ll pay you. Huh? I’ll match whatever phil’s paying you and throw a little something extra on top.

Carmine: Sorry, not interested.

Jake: Oh.

[Cocks gun] You lie about me, you lose your life. That work for you, carmine? It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Lani: Aunt paulina, what brings you here?

Demon marlena: [Chuckles] All that arrogance. You’re such a fool, paulina. You know, you should have listened to your instinct for self-survival. Now I’m just gonna give you a little nudge and then you’ll tell lani that you really her mother and abe’s not her father. And then–[Laughs] And then– and then all hell’s gonna break loose.

[Phone rings]

Marlena: Dr. Evans.

Kessler: This is nurse kessler from bayview. Julie williams is here with a detective grant insisting she be allowed to see her husband.

Marlena: You don’t say.

John: There we go. Now, forgive me god, but I gotta get to the bottom of this.

Marlena: You need to stop talking like this, doug. This is just your–your mind playing tricks on you. And that’s why I’m here. I’m here to help.

Ben: Jake said he had something to take care of and that he would catch up with you later.

Gabi: Did he say what that was?

Ben: He just said it was something that couldn’t wait.

Carmine: [Laughs] You’re killin’ me. You with a gun. Come on, jake, you’re a pussycat. There’s no way that you would shoot me. And we both know it.

Jake: [Grunting]

Carmine: See what I mean? You couldn’t do what needed to be done. Just like you couldn’t with jed zanetti. Luckily, I got no problem doing what needs to be done.

Abe: What the hell is going on here?

Jake: No!

[Gunshot]

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Chad: I am sorry I’m late.

Abigail: Hi.

Chad: Memorizing lines?

Abigail: No. This is not johnny’s script, but it’s still pretty damn interesting. Turns out we’re a little behind on the local news.

Chad: What the hell?

Abigail: Yeah. Gwen’s in jail for soliciting a judge. And, looks like, this time, she might actually pay for what she did.

Bonnie: Not that I’m in any rush to get back into statesville, at least they have a tv. Of course, you could get a black eye trying to change the channel. Want to play 20 questions? Hey. Hey, hey, hey. You crying?

Gwen: No!

Bonnie: Kid. Hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. I know it’s rough, but you gotta believe me; justin’s brilliant. He’s gonna get us out of here.

Gwen: How? He’s in the same boat that we are in. He’s in a bloody cell, just like us.

[Sighs] God, this is driving me absolutely mad, knowing that xander’s just down the hall, but he might as well be in bloody siberia.

Bonnie: Honey, it’s always darkest before the dawn.

Officer: Lockhart?

Bonnie: What?

Officer: Out.

Bonnie: Why? Where are you taking me?

Gwen: Jack.

Officer: Let’s go.

Bonnie: Listen, jack, whatever happens– whatever happens to me, you tell justin I love him. Please, just promise me that. Ow. God!

Jack: I promise. I promise. Sweetheart. How are you?

Gwen: I’m sorry. I completely messed everything up. Please don’t hate me.

[Tense music]

 

Xander: Can’t stop thinking about what trask said. If uncle victor comes through, we just might be off the hook.

Justin: It must mean that he’s made some headway with her.

Xander: You think?

Justin: What I don’t get is why… she would tip her hand to us like that–and make a special trip down here to do it.

Xander: It’s the power trip.

Justin: Didn’t seem like one.

Xander: No, I know her type. She just wanted to remind us that she still owns us… throw her weight around so we don’t notice that victor’s already won and she’s about to cave.

Justin: But why cave? I mean, she lives for headlines. She has a slam dunk, front-page case against us. What the hell does victor have that is worth more to her than that?

Steve: Hey, sweetness.

Kayla: Hey.

Steve: Sorry I’m late.

Kayla: No, I just got here. Remember I told you that I put a call into bayview?

Steve: Yeah. To get them to let julie in to see doug, right?

Kayla: Yeah. Well, I heard back from him right after you left.

Steve: And how’d it go?

Kayla: They won’t budge.

Steve: Why not?

Kayla: Well, they said it’s not their decision, that they are just following orders. Marlena’s orders.

Steve: What?

Kayla: Yeah, apparently she extended the order that doug can’t talk to anybody except the bayview staff. I mean, keeping julie from doug? Marlena’s not that kind of doctor. In fact, she’s not that kind of person.

Steve: No. So what are you gonna do?

Kayla: Well, it’s too late to do anything now, so I’m gonna have to take care of it in the morning.

[Exhales] I’m pretty fun, aren’t I? I bet you’re happy that you are having dinner with me.

Steve: Baby, I’m always happy to have dinner with you. You know that.

Kayla: You know what I want?

Steve: What?

Kayla: I want a drink… and I want to change the subject.

Steve: I can make that happen. So… what do you want to talk about? The cubs?

Kayla: No. I want you to tell me what victor wanted.

Steve: Nothing much. He just wants black patch to find kristen dimera.

Nicole: Oh, gosh, nicole.

Ej: Allow me.

Nicole: Ej. Um… what are you doing here?

Ej: I believe you and i have some unfinished business.

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Nicole: Um… ej, if you’re here to discuss the spring projections…

Ej: I think you know that’s not why I’m here.

[Dramatic music]

Our dinner at julie’s place was a fiasco. I’m here to humbly ask for a do-over.

Kayla: So victor wants you to find kristen.

Steve: Uh-huh. And he’s offering a handsome reward for her.

Kayla: What is it? Some kind of vigilante justice? Is he gonna build a guillotine in his backyard? No, no, I take that back. I bet he already has one.

Steve: No, nothing like that. He’s made some kind of deal with melinda trask.

Kayla: Oh, god. The one person on earth who hates kristen more than victor.

Steve: With good reason. Kristen did kill her daughter.

Kayla: So it’s obviously revenge.

Steve: Right. Since victor knows that, he’s offering kristen to her.

Kayla: In exchange for what?

Steve: Dropping the charges against justin and xander.

Xander: No, you’re right. I just don’t see victor being able to pay trask off. Power means more to her than money.

Justin: Trask knows if she took a bribe from him, she’d be in his back pocket for the rest of her career.

Xander: Yeah, she’s already got us in here for soliciting a judge; I mean, imagine the headlines if she put victor kiriakis away for bribery.

Justin: Right. So we know it’s not about money. God only knows how victor’s mind works.

Xander: Well, you know what was weird? She said he was trying to get both of us out. Now, you, I understand he’ll move heaven and earth for, but me? I mean, we’re not on the best of terms to begin with, and now I’ve dragged you down with me.

Justin: You’re family. That’s victor’s bottom line.

Officer: Let’s go, kiriakis.

Xander: My god, he did it. He got us out.

Officer: No, not you, beefcake. Just him. Move it.

Justin: Where are you taking me?

Officer: You’ll see. Want your clothes to smell freshly washed

Nicole: Ej, tonight’s not a good night. You know, it’s been a long day and holly’s at a sleepover and I could really use a good night’s sleep.

Ej: But you’ve still got to eat.

Nicole: I think I’ve got some fried rice in the refrigerator. I should be fine, right? Rice doesn’t go bad?

Ej: Ah. Nicole, how about if I promise to have you back before curfew? We’ll go to julie’s place for food that isn’t three weeks old. I could call ahead and make sure there’s a dry martini waiting for you.

Nicole: Oh, you remembered my achilles’ heel.

Ej: So is that a yes?

Nicole: [Sighs] Yes. I guess so. Yes. Could you just give me– give me a minute to fix up?

Ej: Nicole… you don’t need to fix up. Nothing about you needs fixing.

Chad: So no one could ever accuse gwen of being prudent, but to come onto a judge?

Abigail: She did more than come onto him. She flat out offered to sleep with him if he threw out xander’s court case. And it was more than a he-said-she-said thing. I mean, the man was wearing a wire.

Chad: And now she’s facing prison time.

Abigail: Could be up to five years.

Chad: I mean, a judge. She had to have known she was taking a huge risk.

Abigail: Well, you know, I’m sure it never occurred to her that any man would ever have the willpower to turn her down.

Chad: Touché.

Abigail: But what I don’t understand is, why xander? I’ve known this woman to do anything for anyone other than herself, and now xander?

Chad: He always did bring out the best in people. Have you talked to your dad? This must have come as a huge shock to him.

Abigail: I don’t think anything gwen said or did could come as a shock to him now.

Chad: Not even offering to sleep with a judge?

Abigail: It’s not that much of a stretch. Turns out she and my dad had a little heart-to-heart, and she told him that, back in philly, she used to be a sex worker.

Jack: Gwen, I could never hate you. Do you think I would even be here if I blamed you for what happened?

Gwen: I am to blame for everything. It’s bad enough that I’ve messed up xander’s life, but now justin’s too.

Jack: Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it right there. First of all, you didn’t put a gun to xander’s head. He screwed up his own life. And it’s not the first time.

Gwen: But justin–

Jack: Oh… [Sighs] He’s gonna get off, believe me. Look, he was planning to marry bonnie lockhart. That’s a rock-solid insanity defense if there ever was one.

Gwen: [Chuckles] Yeah, she is special, isn’t she?

Jack: Yeah, that’s one word for it. Yeah.

Gwen: God, how’d you even get in here to come and see me?

Jack: It wasn’t easy. Finally had to play the reporter card. So you tell me, are you eating? Sleeping?

Gwen: I’m okay.

Jack: Mm-hmm? Bonnie’s not driving you crazy?

Gwen: Well, you know, I thought at first that she would. But… she’s actually been quite a distraction. And in her own weird way, she’S… she’s been very nice to me.

Jack: You know, the two of you shouldn’t even be in here together. She’s being charged with murder! She could be dangerous.

Gwen: I don’t know. I’m actually sort of worried about her. Do you-do you know where that cop just took her now?

Bonnie: Justin! What are you doing here?

Justin: Well, I understand you’ve been demanding to see your lawyer.

Bonnie: I have. I’ve been so worried about you! I just didn’t think they’d let me see you ’cause you’re in here too.

Justin: I haven’t been convicted or disbarred, so technically I am still your lawyer. So there’s no reason for me to not be here, and–not that there’s much that I can do for you in here.

Bonnie: You could give me a hug.

Justin: Sure.

Officer: No–no touching.

[Emotional music]

You got five minutes.

Bonnie: Justin, what have I done to you?

[Sobs] Sorry.

Kayla: So victor plans to spring justin and xander and leave bonnie to rot in prison.

Steve: Not to mention my niece, gwen.

Kayla: Look, I understand that he is paying for a job, but don’t you think it’s horribly unfair that he would ask you to only help his family members?

Steve: I do. But who says I have to go along with his plan?

Kayla: You’re thinking of double-crossing victor kiriakis? The man who invented revenge?

Steve: I won’t be double-crossing him. He’ll get what he wants. But now that I know what trask is after, I can go to her and tell her the price went up. If she wants kristen, she’ll have to drop the charges against bonnie and gwen too.

Kayla: Steve, no.

Steve: No what?

Kayla: No, it’s dangerous! Please. You cannot take this case. People everywhere living with type 2 diabetes

Chad: So that’s what dr. Snyder was holding over gwen–was that– was that she was a sex worker.

Abigail: That’s what she told my dad, anyway.

Chad: Okay, so xander is sitting in jail for something gwen did, just to keep the truth from your dad, but your dad already knows the whole story?

Abigail: Yeah, but I have a feeling that’s not the whole story. And quite frankly, I don’t believe a word of it.

Jack: I’m working on getting you a new lawyer. Okay?

Gwen: Thank you.

Jack: Okay. This is what I’m thinking. We can argue that since justin was a lawyer and he okayed the plan, you had no idea how serious it was when you–

Gwen: No, he tried to talk us out of it, jack. He only went to smails after I had gone to see him and… made the offer. I came up with the idea all on my own.

Jack: Damn it, gwen. Why did you do it? Didn’t you know the whole thing was gonna blow up in your face? Why didn’t you… why didn’t you come to me?

Gwen: Because there was nothing that you could do… then. There is something that you can do, though, now.

Jack: Name it.

Gwen: Give xander a message for me.

Bonnie: Steve was right. I ruined your life.

Justin: Bonnie! We only have five minutes together, and I don’t intend to waste it listening to you cry.

Bonnie: All right. Even in the slammer, you had a handkerchief.

Justin: Bonnie!

Bonnie: No, you’re just such a classy guy, and I’m a worthless piece of–

Justin: Bonnie, stop! Don’t talk like that about the woman I love.

Bonnie: Still?

Justin: Yes, still!

Bonnie: You’re nuts!

Justin: Probably!

Bonnie: Look, I need you to listen to me like you never listened to me before, do you understand? This is important! You can’t worry about me. I’ve done time. I know how to handle myself. But justin, you don’t know what they do to guys with handkerchiefs in statesville. So you gotta do whatever it takes to get out, do you understand me? You tell trask that you will turn dime on me. And as long as she drops the charges against you, you gotta do and say whatever she wants you to say. Do you understand?

Justin: I won’t do that.

Bonnie: You have to. It’s the only way out here!

Justin: No. Fortunately, it’s not.

Steve: Baby, I have to do this. I can’t watch justin and bonnie and gwen go to statesville if there’s something I can do about it.

Kayla: This isn’t just about double-crossing victor. It’s about finding kristen and bringing her back here. Do you think she’s gonna do that without a fight? And when she fights, she kills people.

Steve: I can handle kristen.

Kayla: How are you even gonna find her? Nobody has seen or heard from her in months. How will you track her down?

Nicole: [Laughing]

Steve: I think the answer to that might have just walked through the door.

[Intriguing music]

Advil dual action fights pain 2 ways.

Xander: Jack! Oh, it’s good to see you, mate.

Jack: Nice place you got here.

Xander: Look, I’m so sorry about gwen. I swear, I was totally against her going to that judge. Just, I was in custody. I couldn’t stop her.

Jack: I know. I know. She told me it was all her idea.

Xander: Well, not exactly. I was the one who started talking about trying to prove that smails was dirty. She was just so desperate to help. But it is on me.

Jack: You know, the two of you have a very interesting relationship. You think everything is your fault, and she thinks everything is hers.

Xander: What’s that supposed to mean?

Jack: It means that she wants me to tell trask that she was the one delivering drugs for snyder, and you had nothing to do with it–that, at least you should get out of this free, that maybe you’ll just get a slap on the wrist for dumping the body, and that’s it.

Xander: No! Jack, you can’t do that.

Jack: No, no! Look. Gwen’s just trying to help you, xander; please, just let her do it.

Xander: Jack, promise me you will not say a word about this to trask.

Jack: Why not?

Chad: So you think gwen lied to your dad.

Abigail: After everything that he’s forgiven her for– drugging me, trying to ruin his marriage, seducing you, not to mention the fight that she had with grandma that ended up in her, you know, dead… to think that being a sex worker is gonna be the one thing that he couldn’t get past?

Chad: So she had to–she had to come up with something to explain the blackmail.

Abigail: Yeah, but it’s a shrewd lie, right? And he already feels guilty about her. And then she says she was forced to sell her body? He’s not gonna dwell on that. He’s sure as hell not gonna challenge it.

Chad: No, you just put your fingers over your ears and go, ” ahh!” I mean, but… but seriously, I mean, it is all supposition.

Abigail: It’s a working hypothesis. One, snyder had to have something really big on her in order for her to be willing to take that big of a risk. Two, if the threat is telling my dad, then it must have been something that he would not be able to forgive.

Chad: Just refer to all of the other terrible things that she’s done that your father’s forgiven her for.

Abigail: Right, but I think the one red line that I can think of is if she deliberately hurt his family– me, my mom, jj, or our kids.

Chad: She–she already has. I mean, your–your–your dad knows everything that she’s done, and he asked her to move in with him.

Abigail: Yeah, but he did that because when she did those things, she thought that he had deliberately abandoned her and that I had stolen her life, but now that–she knows it’s not true.

Chad: So the threat isn’t something from the past. ‘Cause he’d forgive that.

Abigail: I think that if she did something deliberately after she knew the truth, it’d be a totally different story.

Kayla: You think that ej knows where kristen is?

Steve: Well, we know kristen sent ej the letter telling him about sami’s affair with lucas. So at the very least, she’s been in touch with him.

Kayla: Even if he knows, he’s not gonna give up his own sister, especially to you.

Steve: No, but nicole might.

Kayla: Nicole? Why would she know anything?

Steve: Well, wasn’t she the one who handed the letter over to ej, to get back at sami for blowing up her marriage? Maybe there was a postmark on it or something that she saw. And unlike ej, nicole hates kristen.

Kayla: I thought she hates ej too, but they look awfully cozy for a business dinner.

Ej: So now that you have your martini, shall we talk about basic black’s new line?

Nicole: I think we need to talk about you kissing me. What was that about?

Kayla: We need to find a way to get nicole alone.

Steve: “We”? I thought you said I shouldn’t do this.

Kayla: I know, but I thought about what you said, about helping justin and bonnie and gwen. So I think that we need to do something. And I have an idea.

Ej: That kiss was an impulse. You said you didn’t want to be kissing rafe. I was trying to provide a viable alternative. I’m sorry if I overstepped my bounds.

Nicole: You did. But it’s not like I tried to stop you. And I let you talk me into taking me out to dinner, which I probably shouldn’t have done.

Ej: We’re both going through a divorce. It’s not as if we’re doing anything wrong.

Nicole: It’s not about wrong or right; it’s about being stupid and really stupid.

Ej: So you think, because we’re both going through nasty divorces and that we have a truly bizarre and complex personal history and that neither one of us have ever been remotely reliable, this might not be a good idea?

Nicole: Something along those lines, yes.

Ej: Yeah. But it could be fun to see what happens. And, as I recall, when we did have fun, we had pretty spectacular fun.

Nicole: Okay. We paid for that fun, big time.

Ej: So you’re telling me you’re now sadder and wiser and don’t want to risk making the same mistakes all over again. Hmm?

Nicole: That’s right. However, if you buy me another martini, we can talk about it.

Steve: Where you going?

Kayla: Garcon! Garcon, mr. Dimera here wants a drink or something or other. I just had to come over here and confirm for myself that the two of you were here together! And I wasn’t just seeing things.

Steve: Baby, listen, let’s go get you something to eat.

Kayla: No, no, no, no, no, no, just a second, now. I’m catching up with my old pal ej.

Ej: Old pal? You hate me, as I recall.

Kayla: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Hated. Hated. As in past tense. No, I mean, you brainwashed my husband. I mean, I’m sure that you had a good reason to do that. And you! And you, nicole. This must be, like, the craziest déj vu for you. I mean–I mean, how many times were you guys married?

Steve: Come on. Let’s let them be now.

Kayla: Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Mm-mm.

Steve: Come on. Let’s go.

Ej: We were just trying to order.

Kayla: Oh, well, you know what, the rack of lamb is my very favorite. It’s right here.

Steve: Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Nicole: Oh, my gosh.

Kayla: Oh, my gosh, that’s probably a silk tie, isn’t it?

Ej: It was.

Kayla: Ah, triage! Get that to the men’s room, stat! You need to douse that baby with water. I mean, really clean it and get that stain out of there. Move it! Move it over there! Go on! Head on out!

Steve: Okay, okay.

Kayla: Go.

Steve: That’s enough.

Kayla: That way.

[ Crow squawks ]

Bonnie: So trask said victor has a way to get us off the hook?

Justin: That’s what she said.

Bonnie: Maybe she doesn’t have enough evidence against us.

Justin: There’s a recording of me extorting a judge. And they found a dead body with a bullet in our bed. That’s the kind of evidence a da dreams about.

Bonnie: Well, maybe she finally figured out that that judge is crooked and is going after him instead.

Justin: Bonnie, I don’t want to use this time talking about our case. I want to talk about us.

Bonnie: Oh.

Justin: God only knows what victor is trying or if it’ll work. But I want you to know that whatever happens, I still want to marry you, even if we have to have the ceremony in the statesville cafeteria.

Bonnie: Oh, god, justin.

Justin: Bonnie, don’t cry.

Bonnie: I can’t help it. I know I don’t deserve you. I don’T. But I love you so much. God, I miss you so much.

Justin: I miss you too.

Officer: That’s it; time’s up.

Chad: So even if she is lying, how can we prove it? Snyder’s dead.

Abigail: I hope that was a really painful death and he is burning in hell somewhere.

Chad: Okay.

Abigail: I mean, think about it. Because of me, she loses her baby. And then–

Chad: But that-that was an accident.

Abigail: But he’s her doctor, and it must have been one of the lowest moments of her life; he blackmails her? What a pig.

Chad: I agree. So… you feel sorry for gwen?

Abigail: I feel sorry for her, yeah. I feel guilty about her, I hate her, and I wish she’d never been born.

Chad: Okay, then–then why don’t we just let her go? I mean, she’s made her decision. Why don’t we just let the cards fall where they may? And then you and I, we can focus on us and the kids.

Abigail: I can’T.

Chad: Why? Because you feel guilty?

Abigail: No; because of my dad. Snyder must have known that gwen did something my dad could never forgive. It must have been horrible, personal. Of all the things that gwen has done to my dad, I think the worst is yet to come. And to protect him… I gotta find out what it is.

Xander: Jack, you can’t tell the da the truth about gwen.

Jack: Think about it, xander. Maybe if gwen comes clean, they’ll go easy on you.

Xander: No, no, no, no, listen: She can’t say a word about any of it, because–look, there’s a good chance that all the charges against us are just gonna go away.

Jack: You’re delusional. I mean, the evidence is overwhelming!

Xander: No, I’m not delusional. Justin and I heard it from trask herself.

Jack: Why in god’s name would trask let you off?

Xander: I have no idea.

Ej: I hope you’re not operating on anyone tonight.

Kayla: [Giggles] You’re funny. You’re hilarious.

Steve: Okay, okay.

Nicole: [Stammers] Are you okay?

Kayla: I’m fine.

Steve: And stone-cold sober.

Nicole: Right. So what’s going on?

Kayla: We need to get you alone.

Steve: We need to ask you some questions about kristen dimera. On the outside, I looked fine.

Jack: Justin.

Justin: Jack.

Jack: Look, I just wanted to tell you, bonnie asked me to tell you that she loves you.

Justin: I know. I just talked to her.

[Cell phone ringing]

Jack: Oh. Um… look, I just want you to– I’m so sorry that you got pulled into all of this. I have no idea what’s going on. Xander wouldn’t have even been charged if gwen had just told the truth.

Justin: Actually, it’s a little more complicated than that.

Jack: What’s that supposed to mean?

Gwen: Justin can be your lawyer from jail? That’s weird.

Bonnie: Oh, yeah, weird. And great.

Gwen: Does he think that he can win your case?

Bonnie: Uh, no, not exactly.

Gwen: Then why do you look so happy?

Bonnie: Can you keep a secret?

[Sentimental music]

 

Abigail: I think aunt kayla might be able to help me get to the bottom of this.

Chad: How?

Abigail: Whatever snyder had on gwen might still be in his office.

Chad: Abs, uh, are you sure you wanna do this?

Abigail: I have to. For dad.

[Cell phone blips]

Nicole: So by the time I got the letter, it was already out of the envelope. I never saw a postmark.

Steve: But you read the letter. Was there anything in there that could have given you any idea of where she might be?

Nicole: No. Look, I wish I could help. I am sick of that woman getting away with murder.

Steve: Maybe you can help.

Nicole: What are you doing?

Steve: If ej has been in contact with kristen, it would be in here.

Nicole: Okay, if he found out you were messing with his phone…

Steve: You gonna tell him?

Kayla: Kristen locked you up and stole your life. Wouldn’t you like to repay the favor?

Nicole: Well, what about the passcode?

Steve: There are ways around that.

Nicole: All right, fine, just hurry up, okay?

[Tense music]

I thought I was managing my moderate

Abigail: Okay, I am going to turn this off.

Chad: I thought you were waiting to hear from kayla.

Abigail: Oh, it can wait till morning. Want some more wine?

Chad: Yes, thank you.

Abigail: Mm-hmm. Chad.

Chad: I am right here.

Abigail: Uh-huh. Before, you were talking about us focusing more on us and the kids.

Chad: No, no, no, forget–forget what I said. You gotta–you gotta look after your dad. It is what it is. You gotta-you gotta do what you gotta do.

Abigail: I will, but I don’t think that that means that we can’t focus on us and the kids. You know, all the stuff with dad and gwen has just been really weighing me down, but…

Chad: I can tell.

Abigail: But tonight, I just felt like I was able to talk to you about it, and you really listened. And it really helped me sort things out, and… you know… it just felt like before. Felt like we were us again, and… I want it to stay that way.

Chad: Not as much as I do.

Abigail: Starting to feel like home again.

Chad: Thank god.

Kayla: He’s coming! He’s coming! He’s coming!

Ej: What’s going on here?

[Tense music]

 

Jack: What’s more complicated than I think?

Justin: If gwen was a sex worker, what was snyder using to blackmail her? Or was that all a lie? Or maybe she was just like every other drug runner–in it for the money.

Xander: No, he was blackmailing her. She’d never do it otherwise. She hates drugs because of her mother.

Justin: So what did snyder have on this paragon of virtue?

Xander: Don’t talk about her like that!

Justin: Well, how the hell am I supposed to talk about her?

Xander: Her life was hell! But now she has one thing that matters to her–after all these years, she finally has a father who loves her, and I’m not doing or saying anything to screw that up.

Justin: So she told jack that she was a sex worker, meaning that that wasn’t as bad as what snyder was using to blackmail her. What the hell did she do?

Xander: Can’t tell you. I promised her I wouldn’T.

Justin: So you do know what she did. And you know why– that she would do anything to keep jack from finding it out. Now that xander’s confessed to a crime he didn’t commit, telling the truth could open a whole can of worms. Trust me. You don’t want to go there.

Gwen: Justin told you that trask might be dropping the charges against the four of us.

Bonnie: That’s right.

Gwen: Why?

Bonnie: Hell if I know. But it’s gotta be something really big. Mm-hmm.

[Both laugh excitedly]

Ej: Why are the two of you still here?

Nicole: Actually, they were just leaving.

Kayla: Well, I wanted to see about maybe paying for your dry cleaning.

Ej: Not necessary. Now, if you’ll excuse us–

Steve: All right, all right. We’re on our way out.

Kayla: I need my things.

Steve: I’ll get your things. Sorry to interrupt.

Kayla: Thank you.

Steve: I’m really sorry.

Kayla: I’ll get the door.

Steve: Okay.

Ej: God, I hate them.

Nicole: They’re–they’re gone now, so let’S… let’s just forget it.

Kayla: Well?

Steve: Got it. If I can trace it, track kristen down in time, justin and bonnie and gwen and xander will go free, and kristen dimera will be in jail, where she belongs.

Kayla: Good.

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Brady: What are you doing here? I mean, what are you doing back here?

Chloe: I’m just working on some contracts. How did it go with the buyer?

Brady: It went really well. We got the silk at cost.

Chloe: Good.

Brady: Yeah, it’s good. So for the second time, chloe, what are you doing he?

Chloe: I just told you I’m finishing up some work.

Brady: Those contracts aren’t due for a couple of weeks, and the first time you left, you said you were going to go do something about philip. Did you talk to him?

Chloe: Yeah.

Brady: And did he rope you back in? And, for the 8 million and 7th time, did he say he was sorry and that it was never gonna happen again?

Chloe: Yes

Brady: And, for the 8 million and 7th time, did you forgive him and get stuck in the cycle all over again?

Chloe: No, brady, I didn’t get stuck in the cycle again. I moved out.

Kate: Philip, what the hell is wrong now?

Philip: Great. This is just what I needed.

Kate: Hey, I know. It’s a silly question, right? Because if you’re like this, that means it’s about chloe. Every time you’re like a puppy in a thunderstorm, it’s because of chloe.

Philip: You’ve always been such a comfort to me.

Kate: Honey, it gets boring. You’ve been doing this since you were in high school. At least then you were an adolescent. It was age-appropriate to be mooning around like hamlet on downers. This is just–this is sad.

Philip: Always a pleasure.

Kate: No, wait, wait, wait. Okay, tell me. Please, tell me. What did chloe do now that’s so bad?

Philip: She moved out.

Kate: Hmm? Oh. Are you just saying that because you know it’s what I want to hear?

Roman: All right. Here you go. Well, man, you look really intent. What are you working on?

Lucas: Johnny just dropped off this contract outlining my investment in the movie. Pretty professional, don’t you think?

Roman: Well, you know what? I wouldn’t know.

Lucas: What, he didn’t give you yours yet? I’m sure it’s coming.

Roman: You know, actually, I decided not to invest after all.

Lucas: Why not? I thought you were gung-ho about the whole thing.

Roman: Yeah, well, I felt bad about–for johnny. I mean, his dad’s a jerk, his mom’s missing in action…

Lucas: “But”?

Roman: But I talked to john, and he’s worried about marlena. He thinks this movie could stir up some really horrible memories, and I agree. And if that did happen, it could–it could end up really hurting marlena.

Johnny: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely.

Chanel: So you’re quoting sonnets now?

Johnny: That is what wooers do. Did it work? Do you feel wooed? You want to make out now?

Chanel: I know why you’re in such a good mood.

Johnny: Because I’m with you.

Chanel: Because your dad gave you the money for your movie.

Johnny: Well, yeah, that too. How’d you know?

Chanel: Allie told me. I’m surprised he coughed up after giving you such a hard time about it.

Johnny: Thank god he did. I thought I was gonna have to start busking.

Chanel: Oh, he saved you from being a street performer?

Johnny: Yeah, I’ll tell you about it after I go get allie’s contract.

Chanel: She’s not there. She already left.

Johnny: You know where she went?

Chanel: Home, I guess. But there’s something else you should know. She told me that she wouldn’t do the movie unless your grandmother signed off on it.

Johnny: Well, that’s another reason that I’m in such a good mood. Because I just talked to my grandmother, and she said it’s okay.

Chanel: Really?

Johnny: Yeah. Actually, she said it was more than okay. In fact, she seemed very excited about it. Almost like it was something she wanted to happen.

[Eerie music]

 

Demon marlena: Finally, we are one!

[Demonic laughter]

John: Hey, doc? Can I come in?

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Allie: Henry, you have literally loved your blanky to death.

Tripp: Hey.

Allie: Hi. You’re here early.

Tripp: Yeah, I hope that’s okay.

Allie: Of course it is.

Tripp: [Groans]

Allie: How was your day at work?

Tripp: I will be glad to be done with this er rotation. We had an entire fifth-grade class come in with food poisoning.

Allie: Spare me the details.

Tripp: Gladly. Yeah.

Allie: Well, after all that, I’m assuming you’re not hungry, she says hopefully.

Tripp: Hopefully?

Allie: Well, I got out of work late, and it was a tossup between going to the grocery store or getting home in time to put henry to bed.

Tripp: That’s okay. We’ll just get takeout. What do you feel like?

Allie: Anything but pizza again. But the menus are right there.

Tripp: What’s this?

Allie: Oh, that is my contract for johnny’s movie. It’s the first time I’ve ever been referred to as an “artist.” Kinda liked it.

Tripp: But you didn’t sign it.

Allie: And I’m not going to. Not until my grandma signs off on it, which I really don’t see her doing, so…

Chanel: Your grandma was excited about it?

Johnny: Yep.

Chanel: About you making a movie about when she was possessed by the devil?

Johnny: Seemed that way.

Chanel: You sure you didn’t just want it to seem that way?

Johnny: No, no, she was all smiles and everything. Said she wanted tickets to the premiere. She even made a joke about not stinting on the special effects.

Chanel: Wow. I guess she’s put the whole thing behind her.

Johnny: Yeah, I guess.

Chanel: What?

Johnny: When she gave me the okay, she really did seem excited, you know. Happy, even. But before that, my grandpa john said they were talking about the movie one night and she had a nightmare about it.

Chanel: So just thinking about it gives her nightmares, but she’s excited for you to actually make it? You sure you didn’t just guilt her into saying yes?

Johnny: No. No, I swear. I mean, I was ready to scrap the whole thing. I told her that, and then once I did, it’s like she was trying to talk me into it.

Chanel: If you say so.

Johnny: I do love her, you know. I don’t ever want to hurt her, but it’s almost like she insisted that I go ahead with it. Even got a little short with my grandpa john when he disagreed. And that’s another thing.

Chanel: What?

Johnny: She is never short with anyone, especially him. I wonder what’s gotten into her.

John: Hey, doc, everything okay in there? Doc? Hey. I’ve been out in the hall, like, pounding for five minutes.

Marlena: Oh, I’m sorry. I was so engrossed in this script, I guess I didn’t hear you.

John: What’s with the sunglasses?

Marlena: Hmm? Oh. Oh. I was getting a little glare from the lamp and it was making it hard to read the script, so I thought the sunglasses might help.

John: Really?

Marlena: Yeah. Yeah. I was right. They do. This is really a good story that he’s written. Yeah, it’s quite a little page-turner.

John: I can imagine.

Marlena: Are you having a problem?

John: Well, yeah. Yeah, I just had a really unpleasant déj vu. You know, the last time you started wearing sunglasses inside was when you were possessed.

Marlena: Really?

John: Yeah, and you told me it was some problem with your eyes, but that wasn’t the truth, was it? It was the devil trying to hide himself. Your mission:

Allie: So what looks good to you?

Tripp: All of it.

[Chuckles] Dude, you decide.

Allie: Well, that thai place we had the other night, that was pretty good.

Tripp: Hey, isn’t this henry’s blanket he won’t go to sleep without?

Allie: Yeah. I just had to sneak it away from him after he fell asleep. I thought maybe I could fix it, but now that I’m looking at it in the light, I think it’s a little out of my skill set.

[Chuckles]

Tripp: I could do it.

Allie: You could?

Tripp: I wouldn’t say I could do it if I couldn’T. Does nicole have a sewing kit?

Allie: “Does nicole have a sewing kit?”

[Both laugh] No, not unless you need one to make a martini.

Tripp: All right. Fair. Fair. That’s not a problem, though, ’cause the boy scout that I am, I came prepared.

Kate: So did victor help chloe pack? Did he call her a car? ‘Cause I know he loves her just as much as I do.

Philip: I’m glad you find my life so amusing.

Kate: You know, I would feel sorry for you if you didn’t already have that covered yourself.

Philip: So why don’t you let me wallow in my self-pity all alone, then?

Kate: Philip–okay, fine. I’m sorry. No more jokes. But if chloe has rejected you, you need to accept that. You need to accept it with some dignity and some self-respect.

Philip: This coming from a woman who pretended to be blind and have amnesia.

Kate: Oh, that was different.

Philip: How? How is that different?

Kate: Because that’s me, okay? Philip, I do feel badly for you, and as much as I don’t understand it, I know you care for chloe. But do you realize how frustrating it is for me to watch her and to watch you as she hurts you over and over and over again? It’s just not worth it.

Philip: I disagree. And it’s not that she hurts me. It’s the other way around. It’s, I hurt her.

Kate: What are you talking about, that you hurt her? You treat her like a queen, philip.

Philip: No, it’s not how I treat her, it’s how… it’s how I am with her. I keep losing it. I tell her it won’t happen again and I just lose it.

Kate: What are you talking about?

Philip: Brady.

Brady: I’m sorry. That must have been really hard for you.

Chloe: Had to be done.

Brady: Yeah. And hey, I’m sorry about the way I spoke to you just now. It was–it probably came across a little–

Chloe: High-handed? Didactic? Condescending? Full of yourself?

Brady: Yeah, pretty much all those. I’m sorry. I just–I get frustrated at the situation here because you know how I feel about you, and it’s just hard for me to let philip just do what– the point is, you didn’t let him do it this time. You didn’t give him a second chance. You know, you stuck up for yourself, you made a clean break, and honestly, I think it’s the right thing to do.

Chloe: According to you. I did what I thought was right.

Brady: You did. You broke up with him.

Chloe: No, brady. I didn’t say that.

Lucas: Let me ask you this. When did john tell you that marlena wasn’t interested in doing the movie?

Roman: The other day. Why?

Lucas: Well, according to johnny, she’s on board. She’s okay with it.

Roman: Really?

Lucas: Yeah.

Roman: I wonder how john feels about that.

Johnny: I’m telling you, I got a weird feeling about the two of them. It’s almost like she was trying to get me out of there before my grandpa could even say anything else.

Chanel: But you’re still going ahead with the movie?

Johnny: Well, it’s the marlena evans story, not the john black story. So it’s her call.

Chanel: Well, yeah. But he went through it too. So I’m sure he thinks it’s his story too.

Johnny: But that’s like saying “belle du jour” is about the husband.

Chanel: Well, you know what? You can name a million movies I’ve never heard of, but that doesn’t change the fact that this movie of yours could end up being a really bad idea.

Johnny: Well, thanks for the vote of confidence.

Chanel: Sorry. I’m just reacting to what you told me about your grandparents.

Johnny: You know, I actually really love my grandpa john. I just don’t think he’s, let’s say, open to new ideas, but my grandma is. And I think that she is going to make him see that he is worried about nothing.

Chanel: Whatever you say.

Johnny: I mean, I don’t get why he’s so against the idea. This was years ago, right? I mean, it’s not like she’s possessed by the devil today.

Marlena: So you think that I’m wearing sunglasses because I’m possessed by the devil?

John: Well, doc, you’ve got to admit you’ve been acting kind of strange lately. One day, this stupid movie here is giving you nightmares. The next day, you do this 180 and you’re all for it.

Marlena: Well, I don’t find it strange that I would change my mind. I mean, I think I’ve been looking at the script unemotionally and thinking that it might be a very good way to put the past behind us.

John: Well, you know what? I disagree with that again. I think it’s only gonna dredge up the past.

Marlena: Well, I disagree. I think it’s a great way to end all of the suggestions and innuendos that are going around. That’s why I said that johnny could go ahead. Not because I’m possessed by the devil.

John: Okay, fine. Take the glasses off, then.

Marlena: [Scoffs]

Tripp: Wow, this– yeah, this blanket should be on life support.

Allie: Hmm. Tell me, doc, did I wait too long to get help?

Tripp: I won’t lie, this procedure is gonna be touch-and-go.

[Both laugh]

Allie: There was a time where I was going to clubs and parties and getting drunk on champagne. And now I’m sitting here worried about a baby blanket. And it’s okay.

Tripp: Where you going?

Allie: I just remembered, I think I have everything I need to make a carbonara.

Tripp: What about takeout?

Allie: Well, sitting here watching you with your needle and thread is making me feel quite domestic.

Tripp: Ah.

Allie: So maybe we can watch a home improvement show after.

Tripp: You know, going to bed is about as domestic as it gets.

Johnny: So my dad would only give me the money if I gave him a part.

Chanel: He has a secret desire to act?

Johnny: He has a very public desire to stick it to my uncle chad.

Chanel: Wait, so is abigail going to have scenes with the guy who wants to “stick it” to her husband?

Johnny: He’s gonna play john.

Chanel: That should go well.

Johnny: Yeah.

Chanel: And have you thought about how allie feels about the way your dad treated you guys’ mom?

Johnny: Oh, that.

Chanel: Do you think she’s gonna be thrilled to work with him? I mean, doesn’t it worry you that you’ve assembled a cast with some complicated histories? Like, this might not be what you’d call a tranquil set.

Johnny: I hope to channel the cast’s personal animosity towards each other into dramatic tension. Which is a film term for, “I’ll do whatever it takes to get the money.”

Chanel: Well, bette davis and joan crawford made a great movie.

Johnny: Speaking of bette davis, I’d better go get allie’s contract. Now that she’s a baker, she goes to bed at, like, 6:00 or something. And I need that contract.

Chanel: I’ll go with you.

Johnny: Great.

Chanel: What?

Johnny: I just realized I left a script with my grandma marlena. She’s probably reading it right now. Hope it doesn’t freak her out.

Marlena: Can you even hear yourself? You are being ridiculous.

John: Well, if I’m being so ridiculous, why don’t you just take your glasses off?

Marlena: Because I find the suggestion insulting. I tell you that my eyes are feeling sensitive, and you tell me that I’m possessed by the devil. Do you know how hurtful that is?

John: Well, it’s happened before. You can put your glasses right back on. I just want to take a good look at your eyes. It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Kate: I don’t know. I mean, I just don’t get it. I mean, isn’t chloe aware that brady’s just that kind of guy that makes people want to punch him? I mean, I–

[Gasps] You’re here! Oh, your brother is in distress. He needs family, and I need a drink.

Roman: Well, I’ll just get right on that.

Kate: Chilly in here. So what do you say? Are you gonna help me? Apparently, chloe’s taken a powder, this one’s despondent, and nothing I say seems to help, so…

Lucas: Have you thought about just leaving him alone, giving him a break?

Philip: That was my idea!

Kate: No, that’s nonsense. This is kismet. All three of us are here together, and we’re gonna have a dinner–a family dinner. I insist.

Brady: So you and philip didn’t break up? What am I missing here? Because you said you moved out, your suitcases are in the corner there–

Chloe: Yeah, I did move out. That was always just a temporary arrangement until I recovered from my gunshot wound.

Brady: Sorry, I just kind of assumed–

Chloe: Well, you assumed wrong. Philip and I are just taking a step back, but we did not break up. I’m not–I’m not ready for that.

Brady: Even though he flips out every single time he sees us together?

Chloe: Well, I told him to get himself under control. And if he does, I think we could have a real future together.

Brady: That’s a big “if,” chlo.

Chloe: Brady, look at our history. I fell in love with phillip in high school, and I’m not ready to give up on him.

[Knock at door]

Allie: I’ll get it. Keep working. Oh, what are you doing here?

Johnny: And a cheery hello to you too. I came to pick up your contract. Catching up on your needlepoint?

Allie: I didn’t sign my contract, and I’m not going to until grandma gives you permission.

Johnny: And she did. Tonight.

Allie: Oh. So you finally wore her down?

Johnny: No, I swear. She even said she thought it was a good idea.

Allie: And what about grandpa john?

Johnny: No. No, he wasn’t happy at all.

Marlena: Okay, well… are you satisfied?

John: Relieved. Sorry.

Marlena: Well, that’s okay. I think you got all worked up about johnny’s movie. Kind of the power of suggestion.

John: Mm-mm, it wasn’t that. It wasn’t even your glasses. It’s–for a while now, you just haven’t seemed like yourself.

Marlena: [Scoffs] I just changed my mind about the movie, that’s all.

John: No, no, no, it’s more than that. You’ve changed in general.

Marlena: So you keep saying.

John: I’m not the only one who thinks that.

Marlena: What is that supposed to mean?

John: I came here to tell you that kayla just dropped by. She’s–she’s concerned. It seems she just found out that you were the one who extended doug’s order that he can’t have any visitors, not even julie. Why the hell did you do that? Before nexium 24hr,

Johnny: So you learn how to sew in home ec?

Tripp: Medical school. We need to know how to stitch up a split lip after some wise-ass gets the crap beat out of him.

Johnny: Ah, but those guys always have it coming, don’t you think? Hey, I just got a great idea. How would you feel about helping out with the costumes? I can’t pay you, but I’ll give you a screen credit.

Tripp: You know what? I’d love to, but I’m just super busy at the hospital saving lives and stuff.

Johnny: Right.

Allie: Here’s your contract. Although I still cannot believe that grandma agreed to this.

Johnny: Yeah, me neither. The final hurdle has been leapt. Let the filming begin.

Allie: Oh.

Johnny: “Oh”? What’s that supposed to mean?

Allie: No, it’s just– I don’t know, I guess I never thought that this movie was actually gonna be made, and now that it is, I–

Tripp: You want out?

Allie: No. No, I don’t want out. I–it’s just weird. My whole life I’ve spent vowing to never become my mother, and now I’m going to be playing her in a movie.

Lucas: Look, maybe it’s best that chloe moved out. It’ll give you both a chance to cool off. You know you need a little cooling-off period right now.

Kate: “Cooling off”?

Lucas: Mm-hmm.

Kate: There’s nothing to cool, okay? It’s done. It’s over. Fini. Rest in peace.

Philip: I never said that. I said that she moved out.

Lucas: Because you were blowing up about brady, right?

Kate: He punched brady. That’s it.

Philip: Yes, that’s the issue.

Lucas: You need to calm down, okay? Stay clear of brady and just give chloe some space. That’s all it takes.

Kate: “Give chloe space”? Give chloe the heave-ho.

Lucas: Come on.

Kate: Don’t you understand? You’re free of her now.

Philip: But don’t you see, mother, I don’t want to be.

Kate: [Sighs]

Brady: And no matter what, I just want you to be happy. If you want to give this another try with philip, again, then I hope he can give you everything that you want.

Chloe: Thank you.

Brady: But you still need to find a place to stay, right?

Chloe: Yeah, moving out was the right thing to do, but it was so spur-of-the-moment, I didn’t make any plans.

Brady: Well, don’t make the wrong assumption here about what I’m about to offer, but if you need a place to stay, you’re welcome to stay with me. This is the sound of an asthma attack…

Marlena: It’s true. I did extend the restrictions on doug’s visitors. And I don’t appreciate hearing about that from you, because that treatment of doug is between my patient and myself.

John: I didn’t pry. Kayla told me all about it. Doug… doug is practically like family. Come on, kayla says that julie is desperate to see him.

Marlena: I understand that, and I feel sorry for julie, but the thing is that doug is a danger to himself and to others.

John: I know he got a little agitated the other–

Marlena: “Agitated”? He hit her, over the head, with a tray. I was afraid, when she was on the ground, that he might have killed her.

John: All right, I know, that had to be frightening, but doug was left alone with julie at the hospital. At bayview, he’s gonna be supervised, he may even be restrained, and kayla thinks it would do him–

Marlena: Kayla is not in charge of doug’s case. I am. And if she has some concerns about my treatment of him, she can bring that up to me, not to you.

Chloe: Brady, have you been paying attention at all? Philip was already crazy jealous that you and I work together, but you think it’s a fine idea for me to move in with you?

Brady: With me? No. I’m suggesting you move in with my dad and marlena at their place. They’d love to have you.

Chloe: Well, thank you. That’s very nice of “them,” but I really think that you and I should just keep our own separate residences. I’m just gonna get a room at the salem inn.

Brady: Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay. But I insist–I insist on this. I’m helping you with your bags. It’s the least I can do.

Roman: Here you go. You guys want menus?

Philip: You know what? I’m not really that hungry. I think I’m just gonna head home.

Kate: Okay, I don’t think he should be alone.

Lucas: I think he’s had enough motherly advice for one night. Take a walk or something?

Philip: Great idea. Night, roman.

Roman: All right, take care.

Kate: Good night. Roman?

Roman: What? Too much vermouth?

Kate: It’s not like you to be snarky.

Roman: Yeah, well, it’s not like you to act like I’m not even in the room.

Kate: I don’t do that.

Roman: You just did that. And you’ve been doing it for a while. And you don’t have to, all right? I get the message. Apparently, you’re not interested in me the same way I’m interested in you, all right? It’s good, okay? I’m a big boy. I’m not gonna force myself on you, but at least I thought we could stay friends.

Kate: We are friends.

Roman: You don’t treat me like a friend; you treat me like an incompetent waiter.

Kate: There’s a reason for that.

Roman: [Laughs] What? I’m too pushy? I overstep my boundaries?

Kate: You were right! You were right about me and jake. You warned me that I was being foolish, of what was coming, that I was gonna be hurt, and it came. And I did get hurt. And now you can tell me that you told me so, and that would be so humiliating for me, so I have to pretend you’re not there so you can’t say it.

Roman: Damn.

[Laughs] You are a complicated woman.

Kate: God.

Roman: Listen to me, don’t you know I would never say, “I told you so” to you? Might think it. But here’s what I would tell you. I am really, really sorry that I was right. And that jake is so damn dumb that he doesn’t realize you are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Kate: You make it very hard for me to pretend you’re not there. Charmin ultra soft has so much cushiony softness,

Roman: Well, okay. I’m sorry. That drink is on the house.

Kate: Roman, no. Don’t go. Don’t go. That’s not how I meant it. I didn’t mean it that way at all. It’s just that after this thing with jake, I feel like I’m just, you know, gun-shy about getting hurt.

Roman: So you said.

Kate: I mean, I know I should put everything that happened behind me, but, for some reason, I just– I just can’t, you know, and then there’s the way that you always know what I’m thinking and the way that you listen to me and the way you put up with what I have to say and the way you’re funny and make me laugh, you know, and I’m afraid that I’m gonna, you know… with you and for all the wrong reasons, really. And that’s not fair to you. That’s not fair to you because I’m just too screwed up right now to start anything, even though you are– well, you’re–

Roman: Clearly available.

Kate: No, you’re clearly very attractive to me. So there. I’ve said it. I’ve said it. Are you happy? I’ve said it.

Roman: For a moment, yeah. Good start.

Kate: Hell, you know, honestly, I think it’s so much easier for me to ridicule my son’s emotional life than to talk about my own.

Roman: Okay, I’ll tell you what, all right? Until further notice, your emotional life is off the table, okay? And since I haven’t heard that word yet signaling that you might be ready for something more, until that word or unless that word is “chowder,” I will respect your wishes and give you more space.

Kate: Okay. Thank you.

Roman: And you take all the time you need to get over that jerk– oh, my bad, jake, okay? Really, take all the time you need to get back to where you were. It’ll be worth the wait.

Chloe: Brady, thank you so much for carrying my luggage, but, really, you don’t have to take them all the way into the inn.

Brady: I’ve come this far. I might as well go the whole way.

Chloe: Thanks.

Philip: Ah, you were right. A walk did me good. Air cleared my head. Finally got me to stop thinking about…

Allie: Just let me know when I should put the pasta on.

Tripp: Any time. I’m all done.

Allie: Oh, wow, his initials. Tripp, it’s beautiful.

Tripp: Yeah, I know how much henry loves this blanket, and I didn’t want there to be any doubt about who it belongs to.

Allie: It’s amazing. You’re amazing.

Johnny: Could this night get any better? I feel like things are finally starting to fall into place.

Chanel: Before you know it, you’ll be the next bong joon ho.

Johnny: I could only hope to make something as good as “parasite,” although I think I might have a shot at it if you agreed to be in it.

Chanel: Oh, you mean, have I decided between theo’s mama lexie and his big mama celeste?

Johnny: Is there someone else you’d like to play?

Chanel: I’m just messing with you. I’ve decided I’d like to play celeste.

Johnny: Theo’s grandmother? Why?

Chanel: Okay, well, I don’t like being a grandmother, but I do like that she could see what everyone else couldn’T. That she knew before anyone else that evil had come to salem.

John: Hey, I didn’t mean to question your judgment. You’re doug’s doctor. I’m sure you’re only doing what you feel is best for him.

Marlena: Thank you. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’d like to get back to the script. I’m just getting to the good part.

John: All right. I’m gonna go try to whip up some dinner.

Marlena: Thank you. That’d be just great.

[Eerie music]

Demon marlena: John thought that he could trip me upe by having me take off my glasses.

[Sighs] Little does he know I am so powerful, I can change my appearance. But it does seem that john is still so suspicious, and that could become a problem. Evil dies tonight.

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