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Days of Our Lives Transcript

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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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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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Justin: I’m in hell. Not only am I in hell, I’m in hell with jack lalanne.

Xander: Oh, mate, if you’re already talking to yourself, you’re gonna crack up completely when you get to statesville.

Justin: Good to know I have something to look forward to.

Xander: You know, I haven’t forgotten that you were trying to help me and gwen.

Justin: I haven’t either. How many times did I tell you that it was a stupid idea, and we could all end up in jail?

Xander: A lot of times, but I just kept putting on the pressure.

Justin: But I’m the one who caved. I’m the one who caved. I tried to extort a judge. I have no one to blame but myself.

Xander: Or bonnie.

Justin: Watch it.

Xander: I still think I owe you, so I’m gonna take you under my wing.

Justin: [Laughing] Oh, xander cook is going to take me under his wing. How low have I sunk?

Xander: I’m gonna show you what you need to do to survive prison life.

Justin: Don’t go to any trouble.

Xander: So, get on your feet. Grab my ankles.

Justin: I beg your pardon?

Xander: First lesson. When someone who could snap you in two like a twig tells you to do something, don’t get flip. Just do it.

Bonnie: This is the third time you’ve moved me! Can’t you make up your minds? I know my rights!

Gwen: Keep it down, would you?

Bonnie: I asked for a single! Okay, listen. In my vast experience, I have discovered that when one is entering a cellmate relationship one must set the ground rules from the get-go. First and foremost, I absolutely cannot stand beauty parlor chit-chat. So unless you have something mighty important to say, I suggest you shut your trap.

Gwen: Oh, bite me.

Bonnie: What’d you say to me?

Gwen: I said bite me.

Bonnie: I know you. You’re jack’s daughter. You were there when sarah and xander were gonna get married, and she decided to do her ex-husband instead. So tell me, honey, what you in for?

Jack: I am worried about julie. She’s not sleeping. She’s not eating.

Steve: It’s all right. Kayla’s with her. She’ll get her calmed down.

Jack: Why should she calm down? She has every right to be angry. I mean mad as hell. My god, I don’t–for the life of me, I don’t understand why they don’t at least let julie go in and see doug.

Steve: I don’t either.

Jack: I mean she’s worried to death about him. I mean not seeing him only makes everything worse.

Kayla: Well, I agree with you, on that. You know, I put a call into bayview. I mean doug is sedated. The visits would be supervised. It doesn’t make any sense to me either.

Steve: How was julie?

Kayla: Well, like jack said, emotionally she’s a wreck, but physically, you know, she’s okay. I gave her something to help her sleep.

Jack: Kayla, you saw doug at the hospital. Do you think he needed to be committed?

Kayla: He did attack julie.

Jack: Yeah, but to put him in bayview with no visitors. Restrain him, yes, but don’t put him in solitary confinement.

Kayla: Look, I know that this is sad, but I’m sure that marlena did what she thought was best.

Jack: Well, I’m not sure. I’m not.

Johnny: So you heard about the movie I want to make, right? How it’s your story now?

Marlena: Yes.

Johnny: Well, I came to ask for your permission, but after talking to grandpa, I’m having second thoughts. I had everything all lined up. The funding. The script. Even the cast. But now I’m thinking I should just scrap the whole thing. It was a bad idea.

Marlena: I don’t think so.

Johnny: What? What do you mean?

Marlena: I actually think it’s a wonderful idea. I want you to make the movie.

John: What?

Johnny: Really?

Marlena: Really.

John: Sweetheart, i don’t think you understand here that this film–it’s about you. It’s about when–

Marlena: When I was possessed. I know. That’s why I want to give johnny my blessing.

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Johnny: Grandma, are you sure about this?

Marlena: Johnny, let me give you some advice. When somebody gives you exactly what you want, you take it and run with it.

Johnny: Okay. Thanks I guess then.

Marlena: We–

John: Sweetheart, I want you to think about this. Now, johnny and I, we had a long, long talk about this movie here. He’s cool with it, right?

Johnny: Yeah.

John: You know, if you say “no,” he’s gonna understand.

Marlena: But I said yes. You’ve got the script. You’ve got the funding. You’ve got the cast, and you have what I guess they call a green light. Shouldn’t you be getting busy?

Johnny: I guess, yeah.

Marlena: Well, then make us one promise, at least.

Johnny: Okay.

Marlena: We will have front row seats to the premiere.

Johnny: Okay.

[Tense music]

 

Jack: I’m sorry. I know marlena’s a good doctor, but it just seems to me that having doug committed is really extreme.

Kayla: Yeah. Marlena is a great doctor, actually, and she loves doug. I’m sure that that was the hardest phone call she’s ever had to make.

Jack: I guess.

Steve: Jack, you told me julie isn’t sleeping or eating.

Jack: Yeah, yeah.

Steve: What about you?

Jack: What about me?

Steve: How can I put this? You look like crap.

Kayla: You kinda do.

Steve: How’s gwen doing?

Jack: Well, I don’t know. They won’t let me see her. I mean it is a mess. She agreed with my assessment that the judge is corrupt and in ej’s pocket, and then she decides to go–well, now that same judge has her in jail. And he says that he’s gonna throw the book at her.

Kayla: At her and justin.

Xander: Chill, justin. I asked you to grab my ankles, not your own.

Justin: Hey, if you like having your ankles grabbed by some man, fine. It’s just not my thing. And I don’t want to be your workout buddy.

Xander: Yes you do. In fact, when we hit statesville you’re gonna want all your little acquaintances to know that we are very tight. I can’t look out for you 24/7. You need to be able to handle yourself. I mean what about when you’re in the shower, and some 240-pound gorilla decides he wants some companionship? You won’t be able to litigate your way out of that.

Justin: This isn’t happening to me.

Xander: Yes. It is, and it’s all my fault, so I’m gonna look after you, whether you like it or not. What’s the sentence for extorting a judge?

Justin: A minimum of five years.

Xander: Well, I don’t know about your personal hygiene regimen, but to me, five years is a hell of a lot of showers.

Victor: Brady, my boy, that is lovely, lovely news. Maggie’s back. Chloe’s been kicked to the curb. Bonnie lockhart is on her way back to prison, and kristen’s in exile. Life can be so sweet.

[Knocking at door]

Melinda: You told my office you needed to see me?

[Cell phone beeps]

Victor: Well, madame district attorney, you’re looking very lovely this morning.

Melinda: You seem like you’re in a good mood.

Victor: Oh, I am, indeed, and I think that you’re about to put me in a better one. To be a thriver with metastatic breast cancer

Victor: Please have a seat. Would you like coffee?

Melinda: I’d like to know what you want.

Victor: Oh. Well, I thought you and i could have a little chat.

Melinda: Shot in the dark. A little chat about xander cook and justin kiriakis?

Victor: [Laughs] Can’t put anything over on you, can I?

Melinda: How about I start? Xander cook is a drug dealer, among other things, and has a record as long as his arm. In da slang, case against him is a slam dunk.

Victor: Pride goeth before a fall.

Melinda: And justin kiriakis is on tape for trying to extort a judge. He’s gonna go to prison, and he will definitely be disbarred.

Victor: Hasn’t been convicted yet.

Melinda: Oh, but he will be. The evidence against him is clear in both cases. I have no choice but to prosecute your nephews to the full extent of the law.

Victor: So you’re saying there’s nothing for us to talk about?

Melinda: That’s right.

Victor: Then why did you come here?

Justin: I don’t know what makes me angrier. My own stupidity or the fact that trask is enjoying this so much. That woman is really, really good at her job, and we just made that job really, really easy for her.

Xander: I do feel so bad. You didn’t want to do it, and i just kept pushing your buttons.

Justin: I’m a lawyer. Maybe not for long, but I am a lawyer. I knew what I was walking into. I knew the risk I was taking.

Xander: You did it for bonnie.

Justin: And you did what you did for gwen.

Xander: Life was a lot simpler when I didn’t give a crap about anyone but myself.

Justin: Hmm. The things we do for love.

Xander: I’m worried about gwen. I mean I know I can handle all this, but she’s not as tough as she seems.

Justin: No? Being a sex worker isn’t for the faint of heart.

Xander: She wasn’t a sex worker.

Justin: No? Then what was snyder holding over her?

Bonnie: Maybe it’s your cockney accent, but did you just tell me that you tried to solicit a judge?

Gwen: [Sighs] I’m not cockney.

Bonnie: Whatever. Man, I thought I was a high-risk kind of broad. You came onto him in chambers? Talk about a disrobing.

Gwen: Look, I wasn’t actually gonna sleep with the old toad, okay? I just wanted to get it on tape that he was going to drop the charges against xander, if I–you know.

Bonnie: No– honey, I do know.

[Snorts] You did all that for xander?

Gwen: He’s done a lot for me too.

Bonnie: Yeah? Ain’t love grand. And what did he do for you?

Gwen: I’m not gonna get into that now. I don’t even know you.

Bonnie: Oh, please. Xander and justin are cousins. We’re practically related, you know.

Gwen: No, no, no. That’s not what that means. No.

Bonnie: Yeah. Well, we will be, as soon as justin gets me out of here and we get married. Just like we were supposed to, before we were so rudely interrupted. And let me tell you something about your boyfriend. He ain’t no fun at a party. Nicole brady was celebrating–what? Why are you looking at me like that?

Johnny: I can’t tell you what this means to me, grandma. Thank you so much.

Marlena: Well, I’m pretty excited about this myself.

Johnny: Hey, this is a working script. If there is anything in here that bothers you–and I mean anything, at all–just let me know.

Marlena: Oh. Well, this is all your project. Don’t you worry about me.

Johnny: You really are the best. See you later. Thank you.

Marlena: Yeah, and don’t stint on the special effects. Ooh. You’re looking pretty grim.

John: I’m just trying to find a way to say something that comes off in a way that’s loving and respectful, and I can’t get there. All I can think to say is what the hell has gotten into you? We’re here for the heavy flow-ers

Marlena: I don’t know what you mean.

John: No? Doc, ever since this thing happened with doug, you’ve been…

Marlena: I’ve been what?

John: You’ve been exhausted. Just–it’s like the weight of the world is on your shoulders.

Marlena: Your point?

John: My point is, after all this, you have now entrusted the most personal–the most painful part of your life to a kid who wants to make a movie about it on his phone? With a cast of amateurs. Here you go. “Possessed: The marlena evans story.” You know, he didn’t even bother to change your name.

Marlena: You are being so negative about this.

John: If the kid wants to make a bizarre movie, let him make it about something else. Maybe a talking dog or something.

Marlena: John, if you insist on believing in talking dogs, I may have to put you in bayview.

John: Is that supposed to be a joke?

Marlena: I’m trying to end the conversation. I told johnny he could do the film, and I meant it. And for the record, this is not for johnny.

John: Who’s it for?

I can feel you giving in. You’re on the verge of being fully mine again. We are almost one.

Melinda: Why did I come here? Don’t you remember? You asked me to. And if you’re about to offer me a bribe, might I remind you that your nephew is in jail for trying to corrupt the judicial process.

Victor: No. I’m not going to corrupt anything. I’m just trying to close a deal here.

Melinda: I don’t need a deal. I have four defendants dead to rights.

Victor: Who’s talking about four? I’m talking about my nephews. I could give a rat’s ass about gwen whatever-the-hell- her-last-name-is. And as for the abominable widow lockhart, hanging’s too good for her.

Gwen: You don’t know?

Bonnie: Don’t know what?

Gwen: Oh. Hm. [Clears throat] Okay. You know how I said that we were trying to get that judge? Well, xander and I had help, and, well, xander thought that, once I got the tape, it would be good to have someone else take that tape to the judge.

Bonnie: What are you telling me?

Gwen: Xander got justin to help us, and now, he got arrested too. Sorry.

Kayla: You know, after all the things that xander has done and all the things that, you know, no offense, but gwen has done, I can’t believe that justin would break the law for them. I mean he’s salem’s answer to atticus finch. He doesn’t even break the law by jaywalking, for god’s sakes.

Steve: Justin didn’t break the law for them. Smails was gonna hear bonnie’s case too.

Kayla: Oh.

Jack: You know, after she stashed a body in his bed, on their wedding day, I would have thought that justin would have rethought the relationship, but no, apparently, he’s still in love with her.

Steve: You see? That’s what I’m talking about. Maybe it wasn’t about honor. Maybe it was about love. Justin didn’t just go after that judge because he had it in for xander. Smails was also showing bias against bonnie, so justin risked everything for the woman he loves. Nothing out of character about that.

Justin: If gwen wasn’t 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? Should I not ever mention that she lied her way into the job as a nanny for jack’s grandchildren and then tried to blow up his marriage? And then, moving right along, she sleeps with her half-sister’s husband and puts it in the front page of the…

Xander: Yeah. She did all of that. You’re right, justin, but she did it because of what was done to her. 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. Hmm. 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. We’re eating and drinking foods and beverages

[Bonnie crying]

Gwen: I’m sorry. I am; I really thought that you would know.

Bonnie: [Sighs] They were right. His family, his friends. They were all right. They told him to stay away from me. That I was poison, and I’d ruin his life.

Gwen: Come on. Look. He must really love you, yeah, to do something like that?

Bonnie: He really loved his wife, and I made her life hell. And now I’m doing the same thing to him.

Gwen: Well, you know, you said that he hasn’t ever done anything wrong, so I don’t know. Maybe they’ll let him off easy.

Bonnie: You don’t understand. It’s not about the sentencing. It’s that he did something wrong. Illegal. Being a lawyer is everything to justin. And now blackmailing a judge–he’s a good man. Now, everybody’s gonna know what he did for me. He might be able to forgive me, but I don’T… I don’t think I can.

Xander: Justin, listen to me. Just drop this.

Justin: She lied to jack again. Don’t you think he has a right to know that, before she pulls the rug out from under him again?

Xander: No, okay? You might think that she’s trying to put one over on him, but that’s not it.

Justin: It sure seems that way.

Xander: Jack is my friend. He’s my only friend, so I am thinking of him. Trust me. He doesn’t want to know. No good will come of this, for anyone. So you just forget this conversation ever took place. As far as you and anyone else is concerned, gwen was a sex worker. End of story.

Victor: So the way I see it, my poor nephews have been corrupted by these two women.

Melinda: So you want them both to walk? What’s in it for me?

Victor: I knew you and i could do business. I also know you’re not in it for money.

Melinda: No, I’m not. I hate losing.

Victor: It’s like we’re soulmates.

Melinda: As I said, I can put your nephews away for years, without even breathing hard. But, if I let them go, I give up two high-profile cases. I need something big, to make that worth my while.

Victor: I like the way this is going.

Melinda: You do know who I’m talking about, don’t you?

Victor: Oh, madam district attorney, I’m way ahead of you.

Marlena: I’m doing the movie for me.

John: How can that even possibly be true?

Marlena: John, for the last 25 years, people have waited until I’m almost out of the room to start whispering and joking about what happened to me, because they want me to hear it.

John: I never felt that, and if you did, I am sorry. That had to be awful.

Marlena: What else is awful is when my husband, and my family, and the people who love me act like it never actually happened.

John: No, we don’T. No, we don’T. We just don’t talk about it, ’cause we don’t want to upset you.

Marlena: That’s upsetting, to me. I don’t like being handled. I don’t like that one of the most devastating parts of my life is treated like some dirty, little secret. That’s upsetting, to me. And I don’t want to hide. I want to put a light on it. I want people to know that I am not ashamed of it.

John: Yeah, well, I’m sorry, but I strongly disagree. And I think making this movie is only gonna make everything worse.

Marlena: I was the one who was possessed.

John: And you still would be, if it weren’t for me. The airport can be a real challenge for new homeowners

Bonnie: I’m sorry.

[Groans] I don’t usually lose it like that.

Gwen: Yeah. Well, I gave you some pretty gutting news, didn’t I?

Bonnie: You got enough troubles to worry about without listening to mine.

[Sniffles]

Gwen: Actually, I was thinking we do have something in common.

Bonnie: Honey, you don’t want to have anything in common with me.

Gwen: [Chuckles] Well, justin is in here because of you, and xander is in here because of me, so–

Bonnie: Oh, baby, but that’s kind of where the similarity ends, see? Xander got himself put in jail many a time, on his own accord. He is no angel.

Gwen: Okay. Careful.

Bonnie: You got it bad, don’t you?

Gwen: No. I don’t know. Whatever xander did in the past, he’s here because he was looking out for me. That’s just–it’s not something I’m used to.

Justin: Tell me this. Does gwen’s little secret have anything to do with our case?

Xander: No. I swear it doesn’T.

Justin: Okay, well, I won’t say anything to jack.

Xander: Thanks.

Justin: Don’t thank me. I’m thinking of jack. He’s already got enough to worry about.

Xander: Well, actually, I was thanking you for believing me. No one ever does.

Justin: It was a pragmatic decision. From what you’ve told me, I’m gonna need your protection, once we get to statesville.

Xander: Sounds like you think it’s a given that we’ll get convicted. You don’t think we have a chance?

Justin: With trask prosecuting and judge smails testifying, there’s a legal term for our position. We’re sunk.

Jack: I’m no legal eagle, but I don’t think it helps gwen’s case that her lawyer was arrested trying to extort the judge.

Steve: It’s one hell of a mess, that’s for sure.

Jack: I tried to get belle to take the case, but she and shawn are off visiting claire.

Steve: Well, justin’ll find someone to replace him.

Jack: Yeah. Well, justin needs to get a lawyer of his own now.

[Cell phone beeps]

Steve: Well, that’s weird.

Kayla: What?

Steve: Victor kiriakis wants to see me.

Kayla: Why?

Steve: Guess I’ll go find out. You coming with?

Kayla: No, no. I think I’m gonna wait around, just to check on julie. Make sure she’s not having a reaction to the sedative I gave her.

Steve: Okay. Listen, bro. Gwen is lucky to have you. You hang in there. I’ll see you at dinner tonight.

Kayla: Okay.

Jack: I’m gonna go out with you. I’m gonna try one more time to get in there, to see her.

Kayla: Good luck, jack.

Jack: Thank you. With oberfuhrer trask on the case, I’m gonna need it.

[Cell phone rings]

[Cell phone beeps]

Kayla: Oh, thanks for returning my call. What? Dr. Evans did what?

John: No, no. It didn’t happen to me, but I had to watch it happen to you, and, doc, I don’t have any desire to relive that. Hey. Come on, you’re my girl. Maybe I’m being a little overprotective here, but I almost lost you, doc. To him. And I remember so clearly how close it came to happening. And ever since johnny’s been making this–trying to make this movie, you’ve been moody. You’ve been on edge. You’ve been having all these nightmares. And if that is what’s happening when you just think about it, I’m not gonna stand by, and wait, and see what’s gonna happen, if he actually makes the damn thing.

Marlena: John. You seem to have some unresolved issues about that period of time. Look, I’d like to help you with that. Maybe if you read johnny’s script that would give you some help, but there’s nothing that I can do to help you through this. I’m sorry. So I’m just going to go to our bedroom and read the script. If you’ll excuse me.

[Melancholy music]

John, the devil was in me, not in you. So it really is my decision, and you can move heaven and earth, if you want to try to do that, but nothing will change my mind.

[Dramatic music]

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Bonnie: I’m sorry. I should have known better than to trash another woman’s man.

Gwen: He’s not my man.

Bonnie: Yeah, keep telling yourself that, honey.

[Footsteps approaching]

Melinda: Oh, nice to see the two of you getting along. I hear that when you’re in statesville it helps to have a friend on the inside.

Bonnie: Man, that woman gets on my nerves.

Victor: I just want to be sure you understand that I’m paying you, so that you make sure my nephews are treated well.

Steve: Talking to the jail’s concierge, trying to get an upgrade for justin and xander, huh?

Victor: Pleasant rest of your day.

[Cell phone beeps] Well, mr. Johnson. Good to see you. Can I get you something?

Steve: I’m good. What’s this about?

Victor: Well, the fact is I have something that needs to be done, and I want to hire you to do it.

John: Hey.

Kayla: Hi, john.

John: Hi, kay. What a surprise; come on in.

Kayla: Thank you. I’m hoping to talk to marlena. It’s about doug. Is she here?

John: Yeah, yeah, yeah. She’s in the bedroom reading. Is doug okay?

Kayla: He’s sedated. Heavily sedated, and he’s still under a very strict “no visitor” order. Which is confusing. Julie wants to see him, and I don’t have a problem with it.

John: I see, but what? Bayview doesn’t agree?

Kayla: I just got off the phone with them, and they don’t have a problem with her seeing him either. It’s marlena who extended the “no visitor” order.

Well, marlena, it looks like you and I will be making a movie together.

Itchy?

Bonnie: Oh, ye of little faith!

Gwen: Bloody hell is that?

Bonnie: We are afflicted in every way, but not despairing. You know what I forgot?

Gwen: To use your inside voice?

Bonnie: No! We’re talking about justin here. He is a great lawyer, and he will go the whole nine yards for his fight. Just think how many yards he’ll go for his fiancéE. That’s right! Do your worst, trask! Eat dirt, smails! Justin kiriakis is coming after you, and you are going down!

Gwen: Oh, god. I don’t know how much more of this I can take.

[Justin exhales, grunts]

Justin: How many was that?

Xander: Three.

Justin: I think that’s enough. I don’t want to get muscle-bound.

Xander: Yeah, I don’t think that’s a major concern.

Melinda: Aw, don’t look so glum, boys. If your uncle victor comes through, you two might just be off the hook.

Victor: Why do you look so surprised? You’ve worked for me before.

Steve: Well, that was a long time ago. I’m sure you can find someone else to do your dirty work for you.

Victor: I want to hire black patch. I’ll make it worth your while. At least hear me out, before you say “no.”

Steve: All right, shoot.

Victor: I want to find a missing person.

Steve: What poor soul are you looking for?

Victor: Well, not poor, and she has no soul.

Steve: Does she have a name?

Victor: I like to call her the she-devil. You probably know her better as kristen dimera.

John: I guess that marlena’s worried about julie’s safety. I mean you know that she was there when doug attacked her.

Kayla: Well, maybe, but I don’t know if it’s what’s best for doug. You know, if I could just talk to her.

John: Kay, you think maybe you can check in later? I don’t know if this is such a good time.

Kayla: Is something wrong?

John: Yeah, to be honest, I’m worried about her. I’m not so sure she’s making good decisions.

Kayla: Meaning?

John: Meaning that she’s made some calls lately that I don’t understand either. She just isn’t herself.

Marlena: No! This is not what I want!

Look at the script, marlena, and remember, it’s all there. Everything we did.

[Sinister music]

The reason you agreed to do this is because you are finally embracing our story. You’re finally ready to celebrate all we have shared. You are so close now. I’m here. Let me in, and we’ll be one.

[Dramatic music]

[Deep groan]

[Distant screaming]

[Electricity crackling]

Marlena: [Demonic voice] Finally, we are one!

[Evil laughter]

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Rafe: And I shouldn’t have said anything about ej. It’s just, the guy is such A… every time I think about you two or see you two together, I just get so damn…

Nicole: So damn what?

Rafe: Jealous.

Nicole: Don’t do that, rafe. Don’t say that. You can’T. You are with ava.

Rafe: I know, but…

Nicole: But what?

Ej: [Clears throat] Am I interrupting something?

Philip: What the hell?

Brady: Take it easy. I can explain, philip.

Philip: I don’t want to hear a damn thing you have to say.

Johnny: Hey, allie.

Allie: Hi. Look, if you’re here to see chanel, she’s working. So please don’t bother her.

Johnny: I’m here to see you.

Allie: What’s that?

Johnny: That is a contract. Once you sign that, it’s gonna be official. Allie horton is sami brady in “possessed: The marlena evans story.”

Devil voice: Excellent. You’re finally starting to let go. You’re almost there, marlena. We have already achieved so much together. If you let me back in, there will be no limit to what we can accomplish. But we cannot delay. Our time is now. I need you to be mine, tonight.

Marlena: [Gasps]

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Allie: I thought grandpa roman pulled his financing.

Johnny: He did.

Allie: Okay, so then how is this movie still being made? I mean, I thought you couldn’t make it without his investment.

Johnny: Yeah, that’s what I thought. But I got the money somewhere else.

Allie: Where?

Johnny: My father.

Nicole: Hi, ej. No, you were not interrupting anything. I just bumped into rafe, and he offered to share a doughnut from allie’s bakery.

[Both chuckle]

Ej: That’s strange.

Rafe: What’s strange? The doughnuts are amazing.

Ej: I’m sure they are. But I thought you and nicole were trying to stay away from each other.

[Mysterious music]

 

Ben: What are you wondering, my love?

Ciara: I’m wondering if we just made a baby.

[Windows slam]

[Wind howling]

[Sighs] Ben? Are you okay?

John: Hey.

Marlena: Oh, hi. What time is it?

John: I let you sleep in a little.

Marlena: Yeah, and you’ve brought me breakfast, I see.

John: And tea. Hot this time. How are you feeling, honey?

Marlena: Um, I’m not sure. I had an upsetting dream.

John: Another one?

Marlena: Yeah, another one.

John: Any idea what this one was about?

Marlena: Yeah, unfortunately.

John: Oh. Want to tell me about it?

Marlena: I was… levitating.

John: Levitating.

Marlena: Levitating. Right here. Right here. Right off the bed.

[Sighs] It seemed so real.

Limu emu & doug

Chloe: Oh my god, brady. Are you all right?

Brady: Yeah, I’m fine.

Chloe: What the hell is wrong with you? Have you lost your mind?

Philip: You were in his arms. Again! You keep saying over and over that you guys are just working together.

Chloe: We are.

Philip: You keep saying that. You keep insisting that he’s not coming after you.

Chloe: Because he’s not.

Philip: Then what did I just walk in on?

Chloe: Brady trying to be a friend.

Philip: I think he wants a little more than friendship. I think he wants to take you away from me. And somehow I’m the bad guy. He’s lucky one punch is all he got.

Ben: Sorry. I was just putting the candles away and got reminded of that weird thing that happened last night.

Ciara: Hmm. Yes, that was pretty weird. But we agreed that it was just a random gust of wind, right?

Ben: We did. Yeah.

Ciara: Okay, so you’re not reading anything into it? Right?

Ben: No.

Ciara: Good. Because I think we had an amazing night last night.

Ben: We did.

Ciara: So you’re not second-guessing us trying to have a baby?

Ben: Oh, no.

Ciara: Good. I’m very glad to hear that. Well, I should probably get going.

Ben: Wait, wait. You got someplace special to be or…

Ciara: Actually, I do. As much as I loved our wedding and our honeymoon and lounging around in bed with you trying to have a baby, I think it’s about time for me to get a job.

Rafe: What’s the point, ej? Nicole didn’t do anything wrong.

Ej: I never suggested she did. I’m being supportive. I know how committed she is to doing the right thing. And that ava’s her friend. I know that she doesn’t want to make any trouble.

Rafe: Well, there’s not gonna be any trouble unless you cause it.

Nicole: Okay, guys, we don’t need to talk about this.

Rafe: I’d actually like to hear what he has to say.

Ej: You sure? Because the way I see it, nicole is trying to move on and you won’t let her. I wonder how your girlfriend would feel about what I just saw.

Allie: Your dad has been against the idea of this movie since the beginning.

Johnny: Yep.

Allie: So what? He just decided to accept it and wants to invest?

Johnny: Pretty much. Yeah.

Allie: All right, this doesn’t sound like ej. He doesn’t do anything unless there’s something in it for him.

Johnny: Yeah. Who says there isn’t? He did have one demand in order to give me the money.

Allie: Which was?

Johnny: He wants a role in the movie.

Allie: Really? What role?

Johnny: He wants to play grandpa john.

John: Remember anything else about the dream?

Marlena: Yes. While… while I was… levitating, there was somebody talking to me.

John: Okay. Who was it?

Marlena: I didn’t see him, but I could hear him so clearly. I could–I could hear him as clearly as I hear you right now.

John: Okay. Recognize the voice?

Marlena: Well, I…

[Inhales deeply] I hadn’t heard it for so many years. But I do know exactly who it is.

John: Who?

Marlena: It… it… it’s satan. It’s the devil. This is the sound of an asthma attack…

Allie: Your father is a lawyer and the ceo of a major corporation.

Johnny: Co-ceo, but yes, point taken.

Allie: Why would he want to play john black in your movie?

Johnny: Because abigail is playing grandma marlena.

Allie: Okay.

Johnny: He’s doing it to piss off uncle chad because chad wouldn’t back him up when he was trying to convince me to work at dimera.

Allie: Right. And you’re cool with this?

Johnny: He’s not my first choice, no. But the important thing is, I get to make my movie. So I need you to sign.

Allie: I can’T.

Johnny: Is there a problem?

Allie: Yes, there is a problem. The problem is that grandpa john is not on board with this project at all. And neither is grandpa roman. I mean, they asked you to cut the possession part of the story, and instead you made it the entire movie.

Johnny: Allie, this is an important story that needs to be told. I’m not exploiting grandma and grandpa. If anything, it honors her strength and the strength of their love story.

Allie: Okay, I’ll tell you what. I will act in your movie if you get direct permission from grandma marlena.

Johnny: [Chuckles] So you’ll do it if she says yes?

Allie: I will. And if she’s not okay with it, then neither am I.

Johnny: Oh, don’t worry. She will be.

John: Hey, here’s the deal. Try not to think about it. It’s just a damn dream. What you need to focus on is taking care of yourself. And of course, your patients. Doug and julie, they’re gonna need you to be at the top of your game, and I know how concerned you were about ben last night.

Marlena: Oh, yes, I was concerned about ben.

Devil voice: Ben and ciara’s child is so important for the future. I want that baby. I need that baby for myself.

John: Doc, what’s going on? What’s wrong?

Marlena: I need to get out.

John: Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Now? Are you sure?

Marlena: Yeah. Yeah. I need to get to ben right now. I’m gonna shower and then go see ben.

Ben: So last time you mentioned this, you were thinking about going back to get your job at titan. Is that what you’re still thinking?

Ciara: That is exactly what I’m thinking. I’m gonna go see my grandfather today.

Ben: Good luck with that.

Ciara: Well, grandpa victor is not leaving that room until he gives me the answer that I want.

Ben: Ooh, he’s not gonna know what hit him.

Ciara: [Laughs] Mm.

[Giggles] Okay. I have to go. I do, but save that thought for later. And maybe we can have another go at trying to have a baby. Okay?

[Laughs]

Brady: You know, you sound like a crazed idiot.

Philip: Right. Because you’re perfectly innocent. Just a nice supportive friend with no ulterior motives at all.

Brady: I’m not even gonna bother trying to explain myself to you.

Philip: I don’t need you to explain yourself. I know what you’re up to.

Brady: I was trying to set the record straight.

Chloe: I told you there’s no point.

Brady: Clearly. Maybe all that’s left to do is to hit you twice as hard as you hit me, huh.

Philip: Go ahead. Go ahead. I’m standing right here.

Brady: Philip– no, I’m gonna take the high road on this one. Listen, get your ass out of my office, or I’m gonna have security throw you out, all right?

Rafe: Is it fun being a troll, ej?

Ej: I’m just asking questions.

Rafe: You’re inserting yourself into something that’s none of your business. And you’re trying to make everyone uncomfortable while you’re doing it.

Ej: The only person making nicole uncomfortable is you.

Rafe: How dare you judge me? After the way that you have treated every single woman you’ve ever gone out with, including nicole… well, it’s no wonder things didn’t work out with you and sami.

Ej: [Chuckles] Remind me how I’m the bad guy here. I gave you and your live-in girlfriend a $300 bottle of wine to smooth things over.

Rafe: Never asked for it.

Ej: Which makes it an even bigger gesture. A thank you would have been nice.

Rafe: For what?

Ej: I got nicole out of a very tense situation at julie’s place the other night. Not to mention saving your ass.

Rafe: Oh, everything was just fine.

Ej: Everything was not fine. And now here you are mooning over her in a public place.

Nicole: Okay, he wasn’t mooning.

Ej: Wake up, nicole. He is playing silly games with both you and ava.

Rafe: That’s enough. You know what you can do with your $300 bottle of wine?

Ej: Tell me. Your mission:

Nicole: Stop it. Stop it, both of you.

Rafe: You know he deserves it.

Ej: Deserves what? Oh, you want to hit me, commissioner?

Rafe: You have no idea how much.

Ej: Go ahead. I think I see someone over there with their phone filming. How great will it be when a video of the commissioner assaulting a citizen goes viral?

Nicole: Ej, stop it now.

Rafe: It might just be worth it.

Nicole: Stop. Rafe, just–just go.

Ej: Mm-hmm.

Rafe: Hm.

Ej: Well, that was fun. Lucky I came along when I did.

Nicole: I really wish you hadn’T.

Philip: Now, chloe, please. Let’s go somewhere where we can talk alone.

Chloe: You should leave.

Brady: You really should. My security team, they play pretty rough.

Philip: All right, I’m gonna go. I’m gonna go home. We’ll talk about this later.

Chloe: I’m so sorry. Are you sure that you’re all right?

Brady: Yeah, yeah, chloe, I’m fine, I’m fine. I’m just–you know, what I’m upset about is the way he’s treating you.

Chloe: Yeah. Well, like I was saying before he came charging in here, I think you may have been right about him all along.

Brady: I wish I wasn’T.

Chloe: I don’t think he knows how to change. I think it’s up to me to fix this.

John: Hey, johnny. Come on in, kid.

Johnny: Can I talk to grandma?

John: Well, kid, I’m afraid you just missed her. Maybe I can help. What’s it about?

Johnny: It’s about the movie. I got the money I needed from my dad.

John: Ej? Gotta be kidding me. I thought he was against that project from the beginning.

Johnny: He changed his mind. He decided to support my vision as a writer/director.

John: I see; so what, he signed on as a producer?

Johnny: And an actor as well, yeah.

John: What? What role is he playing?

Johnny: You.

John: You can’t be serious.

Johnny: Anyway, I’ve got the casting all set. The financing is secured. I just have one more thing I need to take care of.

John: Mm-hmm, and what would that be?

Johnny: Allie won’t sign on to play my mom without grandma’s permission.

John: Well, kiddo, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. ‘Cause there’s no way in hell she’s ever gonna give you that.

Ciara: Well, hello, hello.

Allie: Hi.

Ciara: What do you recommend for buttering up my stubborn old grandpa?

Allie: Hmm. Well, that would be a job for a buttery almond tart with chocolate drizzle.

Ciara: Oh, good idea.

Allie: So what do you need from victor?

Ciara: Well, I actually want my old job back at titan. Hopefully that’ll put me and ben in a good financial situation for when we have our baby.

Allie: A baby? Wait, is that actually happening?

Ciara: Yeah, we hope so.

Allie: Wait, so what happened to ben’s doubts? I mean, last time we talked, you were afraid he might never want kids.

Ciara: Yeah, well, he was afraid of passing on his mental illness to our kids, but he actually talked to your grandma, and she helped him work through all of his issues.

Allie: Wow, grandma marlena to the rescue.

Ciara: Yeah. I owe her big time. He feels a lot better about the situation after the session. And we went right down to it.

Allie: By right down to it, you mean…

Ciara: I mean I threw away my birth control pills and we got right down to it.

Allie: I love that for you.

Ciara: Thank you.

Allie: Wow, so all it took was one session with my grandma. I wonder what she said to him.

Ben: Dr. Evans, hi.

Marlena: Hi. I’m sorry to come by unannounced. I just know that you were a little conflicted after our last session, and I just wanted to make sure that you were all right.

Ben: Thank you. Yeah, I really appreciate that. And for coming by. Please come in.

Marlena: Oh, thank you.

Ben: Sure.

Marlena: Oh, cute.

Ben: It’s not much, but it’s home.

Marlena: Yeah. Well, how are you?

Ben: I took your advice. Ciara and I made the decision together that we are ready to have a child. She even threw away her birth control pills last night.

Marlena: Oh. Well, that’s a very big step.

Ben: Yeah. It is a big step. And we took it, thanks to you. You know something? Even after we were together, we both had this, like, strange feeling that we made a baby.

Marlena: Wow, that’s wonderful.

Ben: Yeah, yeah. I was feeling really hopeful. Until…

Marlena: Until what?

Ben: This really strange thing happened. The wind blew, and it knocked open the windows and it blew out all the candles.

Marlena: Why was that strange?

Ben: Well, first of all, the night was completely calm weather-wise, and second of all, when the wind entered the room, it put this, like, cold shiver through my entire body.

Marlena: A cold shiver.

Ben: Yeah. Yeah. I know it sounds kind of silly. I was just afraid that maybe it could have been, like, an omen.

Marlena: Hmm. Maybe it was.

Ben: What do you mean?

Marlena: I will not allow you to use ben.

Devil voice: What are you doing?

Marlena: What I have to do. I’m going to warn him.

Devil voice: You will do no such thing.

Ben: Dr. Evans? Do you actually think that the wind could have been, like, a sign that ciara and I shouldn’t have a baby? Counting your veggies can be hard.

Ben: I know it doesn’t make sense, but should I be worried about that strange feeling I got when the wind blew through here?

[Cell phone chimes] Oh, do you need to take that?

Marlena: No, no, no. I came to talk to you.

Ben: Okay.

[Cell phone chimes] I mean, it could be a patient that needs you. It’s okay. Please.

Devil voice: Don’t even think about telling him, marlena. My plans for ben’s child are for you and me alone.

Ben: What is it, dr. Evans?

Ciara: Whatever your grandma said, it must have been very persuasive because he left thinking that he did not want to have children, and he came back and was very open to the idea.

Allie: So he’s not worried at all anymore?

Ciara: No, he still has his doubts. But he said that whatever happens happens, and we will get through it together.

Allie: Oh, you and ben are gonna be such great parents.

Ciara: I think so. I really do. I just hope that I’m not, like, pressuring him into doing something that he doesn’t want to do, you know?

Allie: Yeah, but, you know– I mean, if he’s still unsure, I can guarantee you that when you actually have the baby in your life, all of that’s gonna go away. I mean, he’s going to fall in love with that child, just like I did with my little henry.

Ciara: I hope so. Well, I better get these to my grandfather so that ben and I have a way to support this hypothetical baby of ours.

Allie: Well, good luck with everything.

Ciara: Thank you.

Allie: Bye.

Ciara: Bye.

Chloe: Oh, man, I can’t believe how many times we’ve been through this. Philip goes too far and he explodes with jealousy. And then he apologizes and promises he’ll never do it again. And I give him another chance.

Brady: And then he blows it again.

Chloe: Wash, rinse and repeat.

Brady: You do understand it’s not getting better. It’s getting worse, chloe. You can see that he’s starting to lose more control, right?

Chloe: I see it. Yeah.

Brady: What are you gonna do?

Chloe: [Sighs] I don’t–I don’t know. But all I know is, I need to do something now before somebody gets really hurt.

Nicole: Rafe was right. You were acting like a troll. And a jerk.

Ej: I thought I was doing a good thing. You told me you wanted to get over rafe. I mean, what if I hadn’t come along? What would have happened?

Nicole: I don’t know.

Ej: I do. Is that really what you want, nicole? To be making out with ava’s boyfriend in a public place?

Nicole: Of course not.

Ej: Exactly. I wasn’t just saving you from rafe, but from yourself. On the outside, I looked fine.

Nicole: I don’t need to be saved from rafe or myself. But you did stop me from doing something that I might have regretted.

Ej: Good.

Nicole: But you at least have to admit you could have handled that differently.

Ej: [Clears throat] Granted. The man does get under my skin.

Nicole: And you love getting under his.

Ej: A fella’s got to have hobbies. I’m sorry. But I am on your side, nicole.

Nicole: I know.

Ej: And I was right about what I saw, wasn’t I? You were about to kiss rafe.

Nicole: Yes.

Allie: Rafe.

Rafe: Allie. Hi there.

Allie: Hi. Is everything okay? Is something wrong with the doughnuts?

Rafe: No, no. No, the doughnuts were delicious. I still haven’t actually brought them into work yet. I had a little run-in with your stepfather.

Allie: Oh?

Rafe: You know, I almost forgot what a piece of work ej is.

Allie: We are in agreement on that one. What did he do?

Rafe: You know, it’s not even worth talking about. You know, we never really got along.

Allie: Because of mom.

Rafe: Mostly, yeah, but… have you spoken with her?

Allie: No, she’s been pretty incommunicado recently. I don’t know; johnny’s been trying to get in touch with her too, but…

Rafe: Oh, yeah? You think everything’s okay?

Allie: Who knows? I mean, it’s probably better she isn’t around anyway. I’m not sure how she would feel about me playing her in johnny’s movie.

John: Look, kid, I know how talented you are. And I really think that you’ve got a great career ahead of you here, but this is not the movie that you want to make.

Johnny: Why can’t you just try reading the script?

John: I lived it. I don’t need to read it. And I definitely don’t want your grandmother to have to read it.

Johnny: Why not?

John: Because it’d just upset her. It already has.

Johnny: What do you mean?

John: We talked about your movie last night. Marlena goes to bed and she has a nightmare that really shook her up.

Johnny: What kind of nightmare?

John: She dreamed that she was levitating off the bed.

Johnny: Like she did 25 years ago?

John: And she heard the devil’s voice in her head. You see, this movie is bringing back horrible memories. Trust me, johnny, you don’t want to put her through this.

Johnny: But–

John: I’m serious, kid. If you really love your grandmother, prove it. By dropping this whole project right now.

Ben: Who was that text from?

Marlena: Doesn’t matter. I came here to talk to you about the omen.

Ben: Do you actually think that the wind blowing out all the candles like that is a bad sign?

Marlena: What I didn’t say to you was that I’m thinking of this as a good omen.

Ben: Really?

Devil voice: Ease his mind, marlena. Tell him his baby will be a gift to the world.

Marlena: Don’t you worry. See, I think with all the love you and ciara have to give a child, I think this baby would be good for everybody.

Devil voice: [Laughs] Especially me.

Ben: Thank you, dr. Evans, seriously, for always being there to help me and coming by to check on me. Thank you.

Marlena: It was my pleasure.

Ben: I’ll see you out. Thank you again.

Ciara: Hey, philip. Is your father around?

Philip: He’s in the living room.

Ciara: Is everything okay?

Philip: No. And no, I don’t want to talk about it.

Ciara: Okay. Enjoy your drink.

Philip: Chloe. Before you say anything, I wanted to apologize for hitting brady. I shouldn’t have done that, and I’m sorry.

Chloe: Well, apology not accepted. Not this time.

Philip: I wish you could see it from my perspective.

Chloe: Well, your perspective is warped.

Philip: Are you sure about that? Because every time I see you, you’re in brady’s arms. I mean, damn it, chloe, why can’t I get you to see what’s right in front of you?

Chloe: I can’t do this anymore! I’ve lost count of how many asthma attacks I’ve had.

Philip: Are you breaking up with me?

Chloe: I didn’t say that.

Philip: What are you saying?

Chloe: I’m saying that I feel like we should take a step back. And I just need to breathe and figure out what it is that I want.

Philip: So you’re moving out.

Chloe: Yeah.

Philip: You don’t have to do that. I can give you as much space as you need.

Chloe: See, that’s just it. I don’t want you to give me anything. I’m gonna go pack my things.

Philip: Brady.

Nicole: I just can’t believe I almost let that happen between me and rafe, and right out in the open.

Ej: It wasn’t your fault.

Nicole: Well, it was at least half my fault.

Ej: He’s the one who has a girlfriend.

Nicole: But still, I have to try and get past these feelings. And I do not want to come between ava and rafe.

Ej: And yet, when you’re together…

Nicole: I also want to kiss him. But I don’t, but I do, and…

Ej: So kiss me instead.

Nicole: What?

Rafe: So you’re gonna recreate your mom’s life on screen.

Allie: Well, sort of. Johnny is rewriting the script, so it’s mainly about my grandma marlena now. I mean, I would really just be more of a supporting player if…

Rafe: If what?

Allie: Well, I told johnny that I wasn’t going to do it unless he got permission directly from my grandma.

Rafe: Ah. You think she’ll say yes?

Allie: I mean, if it were me, I definitely wouldn’T. But I don’t know what’s going on in her head.

[Cell phone chimes]

Devil voice: You did well, marlena. Once again, you talked ben weston out of his doubts. And you didn’t even try to warn him.

Marlena: Now, you leave me alone.

Devil voice: Why would i do that? I can feel you giving in. You’re on the verge of being fully mine again. We are almost one.

Ciara: Guess what. You are looking at the new junior executive at titan.

[Both laugh]

Ben: Grandpa said yes?

Ciara: Yes. Like you said, he couldn’t say no to me.

Ben: Well, that makes two of us.

Ciara: Oh, my gosh. He was very complimentary of my work from before.

Ben: But he still hates me.

Ciara: Mm-hmm. Yes. But once I’m in the fold, I will work to make that change.

Ben: Okay. One thing at a time.

Ciara: One thing at a time. So what have you been up to?

Ben: Dr. Evans stopped by to check on me, actually.

Ciara: Really?

Ben: Yeah. I know. I was surprised, too. But she wanted to see how I was feeling after our conversation, and she made me feel even better about us having a baby. And she put my mind at ease about the whole “gust of wind blowing out the candle” situation.

Ciara: Uh-huh. So last night, you weren’t at ease? You were just telling me what I wanted to hear?

Ben: Maybe a little bit.

Ciara: Oh, god.

Ben: But I was only doing it because I want you to be happy.

Ciara: And what about now?

Ben: Well, now, I want us to have a baby just as much as you do.

Johnny: I’ve been so focused trying to raise money to do this movie, I didn’t stop to think about the consequences it has for my own family.

John: Hey.

Marlena: Oh, hi. Johnny, do what do we owe this surprise?

Johnny: Hey, grandma. I actually came to talk to you about something.

John: Johnny–

Marlena: Oh? What is it?

Johnny: So you heard about the movie I want to do, right? How it’s about you now?

Marlena: Yes.

Johnny: Well, I came over to ask for your permission, but after talking to grandpa, I’m having second thoughts. I had everything all lined up. You know, the financing, the script, even the cast, but now I’m thinking I should just scrap the whole thing. It was a bad idea.

Marlena: No, I don’t think so.

Johnny: What do you mean?

Marlena: I think it’s a good idea. Yeah. I want you to make the movie. Somebody in there?

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Philip: Good morning.

Chloe: Mm-hmm.

Philip: I’m sorry about our misunderstanding. Seeing you and brady hugging–

Chloe: Misunderstanding? You were a complete ass.

Philip: I was. Like I said, I’m sorry.

Chloe: Yeah, ’cause that solves everything.

Philip: No, but it’s on me to fix this. Which is why I was hoping for a fresh start so that we can water our tree together.

Chloe: Do you know what you can do with your tree?

Brady: So I am excited about the new season.

Nicole: Me too–I will get the look book, and we could– wow, those are huge.

Brady: It’s probably philip’s latest grand gesture to chloe, right?

Nicole: Um.

Brady: Hmm?

Nicole: Actually, they’re for me. From ej.

Ej: Ah, good morning, son. I had harold brew your favorite italian roaster. Hear fellini couldn’t start the day without a good espresso.

Johnny: Suddenly you’re an expert on fellini now?

Ej: I make it a point to educate myself on all my investments. And what investment is more important than your film?

Johnny: Heh, so you go from laughing at the idea of my making a movie to not only investing, but insisting that you play the role of john black.

Ej: Maybe I’ve been bitten by the acting bug.

Johnny: Maybe you just want to stick it to uncle chad.

[Both chuckle]

Chad: Good morning, mrs. Dimera.

Abigail: Is it morning already? Oh, god, I overslept. Why didn’t you wake me up?

Chad: I was just looking at you. Taking you in.

[Soft romantic music]

 

Ava: I can make you those eggs you like.

Rafe: That sounds great.

Ava: Yeah?

Rafe: What’s this?

Gabi: Breakfast.

Rafe: Wait, are these bunuelos?

Gabi: Just like mami used to make. And I have your coffee, ava. Just how you like it with a splash of cream and two sugars. ‘Cause I know you like it sweet.

Rafe: That’s–okay. Who are you and what have you done with my sister?

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Chad: I know that just because we spent the night together, it doesn’t mean that, um, everything is– everything is resolved. But I hope you feel as good about it as I do.

Abigail: You know, when we were reading the script last night, it really got to me when john said that marlena was the only person on earth that makes him feel the way that she does.

Chad: What are you saying, I nailed the–nailed the part?

Abigail: I’m saying you make me feel that way. And you in my bed and in my life, it’s exactly where I want you to be.

Chad: I love you.

Abigail: I love you. And you really did make a great john black. Did you mean it when you said that you were interested in taking on the role?

Chad: I did, yeah. Are you okay with that?

Abigail: Totally, yeah. It’s just that ej did threaten to make trouble for you at dimera if you took on this project.

Chad: Just let him try. I’m not afraid of ej.

Ej: What does chad have to do with me playing the role of john black?

Johnny: Are you kidding? What better way to get under his skin than to play love scenes with abigail as marlena?

Ej: Every actor needs motivation.

Johnny: And yours is screwing with uncle chad. Look, at least respects me enough to be honest. The only reason you’re even interested in this project is because there’s something in it for you.

Ej: I could take my money and walk if my intentions aren’t pure enough for you.

Johnny: You playing john black, I mean, uncle chad and aunt abigail are gonna freak out. What if they both walk and I lose my leading lady and an investor?

Ej: Then we don’t let them quit.

Johnny: And what’s the alternative? Ask politely and everybody just plays nice?

Ej: Something more efficient and binding.

Johnny: Binding?

Ej: Contracts. All you have to do is get chad and abigail to sign on the dotted line. And once they’re locked in, then you can deliver the bad news.

Brady: From ej. Well, that would explain the size. Obviously overcompensating.

Nicole: Be nice.

Brady: What does the card say?

Nicole: “Thank you for a lovely evening. Hope we can do it again soon.”

Brady: Hmm. You’re not falling for this act, are you?

Nicole: What act? He’s just thanking me for a lovely evening.

Brady: Nicole, he treated you like garbage when you were married. Do you remember that?

Nicole: That was a long time ago.

Brady: It’s irrelevant. He’s trying to suck you back into a bad situation. I can’t believe you’re gonna fall for it.

Nicole: Brady, I say this as a friend and with love. Shut up.

Philip: I get that you’re angry but if you could just hear me out.

Chloe: What, so that you can apologize again? How many times do you expect me to accept the same apology from you, philip?

[Sighs]

Look, when we planted that tree together, you promised me that it was a symbol of you fixing your behavior. And I actually started to believe you. Started to believe that we could have a real chance together.

Philip: We do.

Chloe: No, we don’T. Not like this. It will never work out.

Philip: I was a jealous idiot.

Chloe: Yes, you are right about that. But admitting it for the millionth time isn’t going to change anything. And if that tree means so much to you, go water at yourself.

Jake: Looks like your girlfriend’s pretty angry with you. Makes two of us.

Rafe: Is, uh, is this real?

Gabi: Yes, that’s what you wanted, isn’t it? The end of world war iii, taking the high road, making the peace. As I hear they say in philly.

Ava: Sounds vaguely familiar.

Rafe: So what’s going on?

Gabi: I just realized you’re right–this is our home. We should be living here harmoniously. We should be kind to each other.

Rafe: Yeah, we should, yes. This is great. You know what? I hope that this is the start of a better relationship between the two of you, you know, because that will make life a hell of a lot easier on all of us.

Ava: Definitely.

Gabi: You gonna try one?

Rafe: All right. Mmm! Mmm, good! Just like mami used to make.

[Gabi laughs] But I gotta run.

Gabi: Wait, where are you going?

Rafe: I promised the guys down at the squad room that i would bring them sweet bits, and they sell out earlier. So I gotta go. But you know what? We will celebrate this truce tonight with jake.

Gabi: Can’t wait.

Rafe: Okay. Bye.

Ava: Bye. These look really delicious–

Gabi: You lying hag. You gave philip that dirt on jake, didn’t you? Serena: It’s my 3:10

Ava: I don’t know what you are talking about.

Gabi: Oh, that file about jake’s past with the vitali mob. Did you think I wasn’t gonna figure it out?

Ava: No one ever called you stupid. Whatever you are so worked up about, wasn’t me.

Gabi: [Chuckles] The hell it wasn’T. Using some supposed crime from jake’s days at the vitali mob to blackmail me into signing over gabi chic, oh, that has your stink all over it.

Ava: What if it does? What are you gonna do about it?

Jake: What the hell, man? Using my past to blackmail gabi into signing our company over to you, it’s not gonna work. I didn’t kill jensen eddie. Carmine did.

Philip: Then it’ll be your word against his.

Jake: Uh-huh.

Philip: So why don’t you go put on your classy suit my mother bought you and tell your story to the jury. Doesn’t change the fact that you’re nothing but a thug.

Jake: And you’re nothing but a spoiled rich kid who’s so desperate to feel powerful. You’ll fire gabi from her own company. You wanna fire someone, pal, fire me.

Philip: Fine. You’re fired.

Johnny: So you want me to lock uncle chad in as an investor before I announce that you’ll be playing on abigail’s romantic lead? That’s–

Ej: Good business.

Johnny: Underhanded.

Ej: If you don’t like the deal I’m offering, then you can find another investor.

Johnny: You know I’m against the wall on this. There’s no one else. And I’m not gonna make this movie unless lucas, uncle chad, and you invest.

Ej: So do we have a deal? Oh, speak for the devil. Johnny and I were just discussing his lovely leading lady, and you’re both right on time.

Abigail: For what?

Ej: I took the liberty of drawing up contracts on behalf of my son.

Chad: Well, after all the crap you gave him about making his movie, now you’re gonna help him?

Ej: Johnny’s grandfather roman had a change of heart and pulled out. As a father who has witnessed his son’s immense dedication to this project, I felt compelled to help him out in his hour of need. I am now a full investor along with you and lucas. And I couldn’t be more excited about what’s to come.

Chad: Is this true?

Johnny: When you’re making a movie on a shoestring budget, you need all the help you can get, right? Uh, you wanna look this over. I’m afraid I can only afford to pay you to scale, so.

Abigail: Oh, johnny, I’m not doing it for the money. You’re family. And there’s nothing that chad and I want more than to help you make your passion project a reality.

Nicole: I appreciate your concern, brady, but after you messed up your chances with chloe, do you really think you should be doling out relationship advice?

Brady: Okay, technically, I didn’t mess up my chances with chloe, all right? I just waited a little too long to express how I felt about her, and philip kinda just swept in and beat me to the punch. That’s all.

Nicole: Which would have never have happened if you had listened to me. Which is why I say I am not inclined to take your advice. Yeah.

Brady: Okay, hey, fine. You know what? Do whatever you want to do with ej, I’ll stay out of it. I’m not even gonna say another word. Not another–I’m not gonna say another word. I can do it. Look, I can change. If you’ve noticed, I hadn’t said a thing about chloe and philip. I haven’t gotten in their way at all. And if chloe wants my blessing for the two of them, I’m happy to give it. I’ve been their biggest cheerleader, for god’s sakes.

Chloe: I don’t need your blessing, brady. You can pack in the cheerleading too.

 

Jake: You think I give a damn if you fire me?

Philip: [Laughs] I’m sure you don’T. But at least I can cross it off my to-do list. Doesn’t reflect well on titan to have a murderous thug in its employ.

Jake: You laundered money for ava vitali. And you’re gonna stand over there and judge me? Hey, pal, I got news for you. I got myself out of the mob, whereas you, you needed your daddy’s help. I don’t know if you were just too weak or too damn stupid to figure it out yourself.

Philip: Whatever you think of me or how I conducted myself, you need to remind yourself that there’s only one of us facing serious jail time. But as I told gabi, there’s a very simple solution.

Jake: [Chuckles] You can go straight to hell.

Philip: She signs over gabi chic, you stay a free man.

Gabi: I will never surrender gabi chic to philip, that’s for damn sure, especially when jake is total innocent.

Ava: Ah, is that what he told you?

Gabi: I believe him.

Ava: Does it really matter? ‘Cause he certainly had no problem helping to dispose of jed zanetti’s body. So killer or not, he’s gonna do some nice prison time for that.

Gabi: I don’t– I don’t get it. This is between philip and me. What’s in it for you?

Ava: All these months, you have done nothing but try to break up rafe and me. So when philip needed a hand trying to smack you down, I decided I was gonna show you what it feels like when someone tries to take away something you love.

Gabi: You will never take jake away from me.

Ava: No, I am talking about what you really love. What’s so much a part of you that you live and breathe it. Imagine the day that you sign over the company that you grew with blood, sweat, and tears. Gabi chic rises from the ashes of your stupidity and greed as ava chic.

Abigail: Well, everything looks to be in order.

Johnny: Shall we make it official?

Abigail: I cannot wait to get started.

Ej: I’ve also drawn up identical contracts for lucas, myself, and you as producers. Given your trust tissues, you can confirm for yourself that all three are identical. We invest the same amount to cover the cost of production. If the film makes a profit, the three of us recoup our investment and share in the profits equally.

Chad: All right, let’s do it.

[Suspenseful music]

And, um, you might wanna have your father draw up another contract.

Johnny: W-what do you mean?

Chad: Well, I, uh, I’d like to play opposite my wife as john black.

Abigail: He was helping me run my lines, and he was– he was pretty wonderful.

Chad: Mm-hmm.

Johnny: Uh–uh, you– you wanna play john black? I had no idea.

Ej: Yeah, I told your father. He didn’t mention it?

Johnny: No, no, he didn’T.

Ej: I didn’t think it was my news to deliver.

Chad: Well, I mean, you know now, so. What do you want me to do? You want me to, uh– want me to test?

Johnny: No, I’m sure you would be great.

Ej: Actually, I already have contracts for the role of john black.

Chad: Great. All right, I’ll sign.

Ej: Maybe I wasn’t clear. I’ve already signed it. I’ll be playing john black opposite abigail. Are you tired of clean clothes that just don’t smell clean?

Chad: What are you trying to pull, ej?

Ej: I thought you’d be pleased that I’m finally giving my son the support you insisted he deserves. And you know when I do something, I go all out.

Chad: You’re doing this to screw with me because I wouldn’t help railroad your son into working for dimera.

Ej: Always about you, isn’t it?

Abigail: Ej, this is so wrong in so many ways and you know it.

Ej: I’m sorry that you don’t like it. But there’s nothing, really, you can do.

Chad: No–of course there is. Look, you know why your dad’s doing this and it’s not to support you or do what’s best for your film. So solve the problem. Revoke this contract.

Nicole: Oh, hey. Hi.

Rafe: Hi.

Nicole: Oh, is that your idea of a healthy breakfast?

Rafe: Ah, yeah, well, you know, the guys down at the station love their donuts.

Nicole: Which is why I’m on my way to sweet bits myself.

Rafe: Oh, well, I hate to tell you, but i cleaned them out.

Nicole: Oh.

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: I see.

Rafe: But I guess I could– yeah, I can spare one for a friend, maybe. What do you say? It’s a nice morning, sunny bench, donut with a friend.

Nicole: Rafe, we agreed.

Rafe: It’s a donut, okay. We don’t have to make it a whole thing.

Nicole: All right.

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: I mean, have you ever known me to turn down a donut?

Rafe: Okay. See, that’s more like it.

Nicole: Yeah, and besides, I’m not really in a rush to get back to the office.

Rafe: Okay. Chocolate?

Brady: So philip saw us together at the river?

Chloe: Yeah, and it was bad enough that we were hugging, but we were doing it right in front of the tree, and so he went ballistic.

Brady: You did tell him that we–we were there with my daughter, rachel. And the only reason we were there was to water your tree after we got her pumpkin.

Chloe: Yeah, I know. I mean, when I could get a word in, and I even told him the only reason we were hugging is because you had finally accepted that he and i are a couple and that you were going to respect that.

Brady: Well, that must have calmed him down, right?

Chloe: No, he didn’t believe a word of it. He said that there’s no way that that hug could have been innocent. And then maggie came in, and i was just so furious I had to get away from him. But needless to say, philip and I are barely speaking.

Jake: Uh-uh. See, I’m not going to prison. And gabi, she’s not signing her company over to you.

Philip: And you haven’t been paying attention. You see, I now know that you and gabi have been scheming for weeks to get me fired from titan so you could take over. The keylogger move wasn’t too bright.

Jake: You got no proof on that.

Philip: I do have proof. I have proof that you were involved in a murder in philly.

Jake: And you’d go low enough to use it.

Philip: Gabi started this. I’m just fighting back.

Gabi: Ava chic? Oh, there is no chance in hell I will ever give my company to philip so that you can run it. I would rather–

Ava: What? What? Send your boyfriend to prison for a few decades?

Gabi: Jake isn’t going to prison.

Ava: But you can’t have it both ways, gabi. It’s either your business or your man. I’m thinking that jake needs to be pretty worried.

Gabi: The only one that needs to be worried about losing their man is you. What do you think rafe is gonna do when he finds out that you’ve been trying to steal my company? Woman: I have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

Chloe: And I can understand that seeing me in your arms could be upsetting to philip and hurt his feelings. But what I don’t understand and what I can’t forgive is that instead of just talking to me about it, he wanted to play some stupid game.

Brady: Game, what do you mean?

Chloe: Well, he asked me to go water our tree together after knowing I had just been there with you. And I didn’t want him to pitch one of his fits, so I just– I didn’t mention that.

Brady: Okay, mm. So he assumed that you intentionally were hiding that from him.

Chloe: I should’ve just told him the truth, but I’m so tired of his jealousy and tiptoeing around him and being afraid that I’m gonna set him off.

Brady: Hey. You know none of this is your fault. You do know that, right?

Chloe: Well, it was my mistake to not listen to you in the first place about him. So you can just– you can go ahead and say it.

Brady: Say what?

Chloe: I told you so.

Jake: This is you fighting back, huh? You can’t hide behind daddy, so what, you turned to ava for help?

Philip: You have a partner in crime; why shouldn’t I?

Jake: Gabi and I, we’re a team. Ava is a bloody viper. She’s not helping you out of the goodness of her heart, man. She’s helping you ’cause she hates gabi.

Philip: Happens to serve my purpose.

Jake: You really think you’re in control, don’t you? Don’t you realize ava will feed you to the wolves to save her own hide, and you won’t even see it coming.

Ava: Rafe would be furious if he found out that I helped philip steal your company. Whew! He would dump my ass so fast. But he isn’t going to find out because if you go running to your big brother, you’re going to need to tell him that jake was involved in a murder that he helped cover up. So, what do you think the police commissioner is going to do with that?

Gabi: You really think my brother won’t be suspicious that you’re all of a sudden running my company?

Ava: No–not if you tell him that running gabi chic no longer sparks joy.

Gabi: Oh, he’ll never believe that.

Ava: Well, make him believe it. Tell him that you want to focus on your life with jake. Maybe you need a new challenge. Well, you know, I would vote for you jumping on a plane and moving in with your little girl.

Gabi: Oh, shut the hell up about ari.

Ava: The reason really doesn’t matter. Just so long as you sign over gabi chic to philip. And once you do, he’s gonna need someone to run it and conveniently hire me. And between you and me, I actually think that rafe is going to feel relieved knowing that someone who’s close to the family is running gabi chic.

Gabi: Well, then you don’t know my brother as well as you think you know him.

Nicole: Mmm. Mmm. These really are delicious.

Rafe: Mm-hmm.

Nicole: I’m still so shocked that julie gave up the family recipe to sweet bits, you know, instead of serving it at julie’s place.

Rafe: I actually think that I prefer the atmosphere better at sweet bits than at julie’s place lately.

Nicole: Because of the other night? Awkward, right?

Rafe: Yeah. Just a little awkward. I hope you and ej didn’t leave early on account of ava and me.

Nicole: Just you.

Rafe: Oh. Just me, huh?

Nicole: Look, I’m trying to stick to the agreement to keep our distance.

Rafe: Yeah.

Nicole: Well, but on the plus side, you got to enjoy a fabulous bottle of wine that ej ordered.

Rafe: Well, ava enjoyed it. I had beer.

Nicole: You’re joking.

Rafe: No, I’m not joking. Would you really think that I would accept anything from ej dimera? I still don’t understand why the hell you–

Nicole: Why the hell what?

Rafe: Never mind. None of my business. Besides, you already know how I feel.

Nicole: Yeah. You mean about me going to dinner with ej.

Rafe: Yeah, exactly that. But damn it, nicole, why would you do anything with him after the way he has treated you?

Ej: My son wouldn’t have hired me unless he believed I’d make an excellent john black.

Chad: That’s bull. You strong armed him into this, and you know it. Johnny, you need to do the right thing here.

Johnny: I’m sorry, but the decision’s already been made.

Abigail: But johnny, you have creative control, so you can unmake it.

Johnny: Yeah, and lose all the money I need to make this movie.

Chad: I’ll give you the money.

Ej: Very generous, but the contract’s been signed. So I suggest we all focus on working together to make the best film possible.

Abigail: Well, that’s impossible.

Ej: Come on. The show must go on. Isn’t that, right?

Johnny: I’m sorry you’re unhappy, but I promise this will be a professional set. Egos at the door.

Chad: Yeah, fat chance.

Johnny: I really am sorry, uncle chad. It’s the only way I could get this movie made. It’s not personal; it’s just business. Is struggling to manage your type 2 diabetes

Gabi: Rafe knows better than anybody how much gabi chic means to me. If I sign it over to philip, he’s gonna know I’ve been blackmailed. And just the idea of you running my company is ridiculous. You have zero experience.

Ava: Yet you hire jake, and his résumé is not that much different than mine. Although he is turning out to be quite the liability, isn’t he? You just figured it out, haven’t you? It’s over, and I’ve won.

[Tense music]

 

Philip: I am not naive about ava.

Jake: You were under her heel once and you came back for more. You may not be naive, but you sure as hell are stupid.

Philip: I get it. She’s dangerous, but this is different.

Jake: This is the mob, phil. You saw what happened to jed zanetti, didn’t you? He crossed the wrong person, and carmine didn’t hesitate to take him out. You play, there’s a price.

Philip: Is that a threat?

Jake: Oh, you can take it however you want, pal. I’m just saying, last time you got mixed up with the mob, brady took a bullet that had your name on it. You might not be so lucky next time.

Brady: I told you so? Chloe, I’ll never say that to you. I was just looking out for you. I genuinely am sorry for what you’re going through with all this.

Jake: Well, thank you for not rubbing it in. I guess you were right all along. Philip’s the same jealous jerk he was in high school, and no matter what I try to tell him and convince him that I wanna be with him, he can never get over the fact that you and i were once in love.

Brady: I have to admit, and I’m not defending philip’s actions, but, uh, what we had, it was– it was intense. Do you remember? I mean, it was wonderful, it was passionate, it was… we weren’t just in love; we couldn’t get enough of one another, if you recall. My point is, if I were philip, I might be having a hard time with it all as well.

Ej: You know, if you’re still determined to be in this film, I’m sure there’s a role for you. Ooh! Perhaps you could play roman. Something tells me you can bring a great deal to the role of a cuckhold.

Abigail: Okay, hold on. Stop it, please. That’s exactly what he wants. Don’t give him the satisfaction.

Ej: Thank you for maintaining the peace, abigail. And I must say, I’m very much looking forward to working with you.

Abigail: Well, I wish that i could say the same but I– I’m gonna do my best to give a good performance, but it just got a lot more difficult.

Ej: Not to worry. As excited as you were about the chemistry you and chad shared in your reading, you and I have had our own special chemistry, which we will no doubt channel into winning performances as salem’s star-crossed lovers.

Nicole: Ej is my boss. It’s not like I can just say no to his invitation.

Rafe: Come on, you know damn well that wasn’t a business dinner. Come on.

Nicole: Fine. It was a date. Okay, and maybe I had to suppress memories of the way ej treated me in the past. Damn it, rafe, my marriage imploded, and so did his, and we’re both alone, and maybe this was just my way of trying to get past the misery and feel attractive again and alive.

Rafe: Okay, that’s fine. I get that; I do. But I mean, you could do so much better than him.

Nicole: Yeah, I could, and you know what, if I had it my way, I would’ve gone to dinner with you instead of him.

Ej: Hmm. I’d best get to learning my lines. Wouldn’t want to let down my leading lady, especially for the conference room scene. Oh, and from what I’ve researched, I’m thinking this method acting technique could be the ticket. Thoughts?

[Tense music]

 

Chad: You knew what he was up to, and you let us sign those contracts?

Johnny: I didn’t know you wanted to play john.

Chad: That’s not what this is about! Okay? You scammed us into signing those contracts so you could get what you wanted. Integrity be damned; your father would be proud.

Johnny: I got to finish casting the rest of my movie.

Chad: Unbelievable.

Abigail: I don’t think we should be so hard on johnny.

Chad: Yeah, I’ll try to remember that while ej’s taking you on the conference table.

Abigail: Okay, but maybe it’s not gonna get that far.

Chad: Why?

Abigail: Ej threatened to tell shin that you were too distracted by side projects and he was hoping to get you out. So flip it on him. Convince shin that ej is incapable of properly running dimera because he’s got a side gig of his own. It’ll scare the hell out of him, and maybe he won’t do the movie.

Chad: Well, what do you mean don’t–don’t do it? When have you ever known my brother to quit when he wants something? Right now, what he wants is to come between us.

Abigail: Okay, well then, he is gonna be sorely disappointed. Okay? Because you are the man that I love, okay? And not ej, nobody, when we’re together, no one’s getting between us.

[Soft romantic music]

 

Chloe: Well, I’m sorry to lay all of this on you yet again.

Brady: Stop, hey, hey, no apologies necessary. It’s not like I don’t bear some responsibility here. I have egged philip on more than once. I could try talking to him again and make him understand that there is nothing going on between us.

Chloe: No, thank you, but I think that would make things a lot worse.

Brady: Maybe. Will you at least let me know if there’s anything I can do? I don’t like to see you unhappy; it makes me unhappy.

Chloe: No, I’ll be okay…

[Both exhale] Once I calm down, which you have helped me do so much already. Thank you.

Brady: I’m always here for you.

Chloe: And that means so much to me.

Brady: Okay.

[Tense music]

 

Gabi: Don’t take a victory lap just yet, vitali. I am not gonna give up on my company or jake.

Ava: Hmm. You’ve quite the fighting spirit. I give you that.

Gabi: Oh, I’m not just gonna fight; I’m gonna win. And the best part is, when rafe finds out what you tried to pull, you will have chased him straight into nicole’s arms.

Rafe: You’d rather have dinner with me?

Nicole: I miss our friendship, and duke’s great and all, but he really doesn’t say much.

Rafe: No.

Nicole: And look, rafe, we have an agreement to keep our distance because you are with ava. And I am gonna honor that agreement.

Rafe: And I shouldn’t have said anything about ej. It’s just the guy, he’s such a– every time I think about you two or see you two together, I– I just get so damn…

Nicole: So damn what?

Rafe: Jealous.

Nicole: Don’t do that, rafe. Don’t say that. You can’T. You are with ava.

Rafe: I know, but…

Nicole: But what?

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Eli: Oh, this man’s on a roll.

Abe: Of course I am! The woman said yes.

Lani: I still cannot believe that my aunt and my dad are getting married.

Abe: Well, indeed we are, so I would like us to raise glasses and have a toast to love.

Paulina: Oh.

Eli: To love.

Lani: To love.

Abe: Love, to love.

Paulina: Oh, and let’s not forget about marriage.

Abe: Oh, that’s right. Cheers.

Abigail: So is that why you want to play john in the movie? You don’t want me to have a sex scene with another man? I mean, you do realize I’m gonna be acting, right?

Chad: Yes, of course. I was just–I was kidding.

Abigail: Were you? ‘Cause your jealousy is kind of what got us into trouble, in the first place.

Chad: I was wrong about you and jake. I regret ever going there. You know that.

Abigail: Well, I don’t know. I’m kind of starting to wonder if it’s happening again. Do you want johnny to give you the part in the movie because you don’t trust me with ej?

Chad: No, it’s got nothing to do with him. I just want to spend time with you as much as I can. And I think that doing this movie will be good for us.

Abigail: Really?

Chad: Yes. I have a feeling that this could bring us closer.

John: Hey.

Roman: Hey, I’m sorry for coming by so late without calling first, but I just wanted to let know I told johnny i won’t help him fund that movie.

John: Nice. Thank you, roman. I know that wasn’t easy.

Roman: No, but you’re right. The last thing we want is for marlena to have to relive that time.

John: I hear you. Hey, come on in.

Roman: Okay.

John: So tell me, how did johnny take the news?

Roman: Well, I just explained to him that when I agreed to invest I thought he was doing a movie about sami. And now, it’s all about this devil business, and I just think that telling that story is not a good idea.

John: Yeah, well, I’m sure he was disappointed.

Roman: Yes he was, and I, you know, I felt bad about having to let him down, but we’ll get past it. The important thing is that we do everything we can to protect marlena.

John: Amen to that.

Just let go, marlena. Give in to me. Give in to me. Give in to me.

[Dramatic music]

Excellent. You’re finally starting to let go. You’re almost there, marlena. We have already achieved so much together. If you let me back in, there will be no limit to what we can accomplish. But we cannot delay. Our time is now. I need you to be mine tonight.

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

[Soft music]

 

Ciara: Was that just me, or did that feel different? Extra special?

Ben: It was definitely not just you.

Ciara: I didn’t think it was.

Ben: Uh-uh.

Ciara: And that kind of has me wondering.

Ben: Oh, yeah? What are you wondering, my love?

Ciara: I’m wondering if we just made a baby.

[Crash]

[Ominous music]

Babe, what was that? Is there a storm coming or…

Ben: Everything looks clear.

Ciara: So then what made the window fly open?

Ben: I have no idea. Maybe it’s just a big gust of wind?

Ciara: That appeared out of nowhere, and just disappeared? That’s pretty weird, ben.

Ben: I really hope that wasn’t, like, some kind of bad omen.

Ciara: Bad omen of what?

You should be very proud of what you’ve helped me accomplish so far. You attacked julie williams, in the hospital, and convinced everyone it was her husband doug. You had him committed to bayview, so you would not expose our collaboration. Then, best of all, you persuaded ben weston to father a child, to bring his and ciara’s baby into the world. You convinced him to let go of all of his fears about the future. Now, marlena, you must let go of yours. Woman: I have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

Abigail: So you think us acting together would bring us closer?

Chad: I do.

Abigail: Hmm. Well, what if I turn out to be a big diva on set?

Chad: Wouldn’t care if you were.

Abigail: No?

Chad: No.

Abigail: It’s not gonna bother you if I insist my room is stocked daily with purple hydrangeas and chocolate-covered pretzels?

Chad: It’s an independent film with a shoestring budget. I don’t think anybody’s gonna be getting a dressing room.

Abigail: I want the pretzels. Milk chocolate.

Chad: Okay.

Abigail: Not dark.

Chad: All right, you got it. But I do think that playing john and marlena would be really cool. I mean, just think of everything that they’ve overcome, all of the times that they’ve been separated, and they got back together. And they just keep getting stronger and stronger. It’s a really beautiful love story they have.

Abigail: They’re a real super couple.

Chad: Yes they are. It gives me hope that we can come back together. And who knows? Maybe, by the time the film is done, we’ll be able to sleep in the same room.

John: You know, when I saw that revised script, I almost blew a gasket.

Roman: Did you talk to marlena, tell her what’s going on?

John: Well, you know, I was going to, but when I got over to the hospital, she was so upset.

Roman: About what?

John: Well, she had this really heavy therapy session with ben weston, and I guess she didn’t like the way the session went. She wanted to talk to him some more, but, roman, she was so drained. I said, “no, no, honey, time for you to shut it down tonight.” I brought her home, and she got right into bed.

Roman: Okay. So she doesn’t know the new direction johnny’s going in?

John: You know, maybe I’m being a little overprotective by not telling her, but she’s been having such a rough time lately, I just didn’t want to pile on.

Roman: Okay, was she upset about something else other than ben?

John: Doug.

Roman: Oh, oh, yeah, doug. God, that poor guy. Not in his right mind. I mean he even attacked his own wife, and I mean, marlena did what she had to do, to protect him and everybody else.

John: Told her the exact same thing, but she still feels like she failed doug. I think that’s why she’s so driven to try to help ben right now.

Ciara: Ben, what do you mean by “bad omen”?

Ben: I don’t know.

Ciara: Ben, what happened? You were feeling so good earlier, so optimistic after seeing marlena.

Ben: I was, and I am. I am.

Ciara: So then why are you talking about bad omens?

Ben: I just think it’s kinda strange. You know, I mean, you decide to throw away your birth control pills, we make love, and then you wonder out loud if we just made a baby. And then, all of a sudden, the windows blast open, and all the candles blow out.

Ciara: So what are you saying, what do you think that means? You think someone’s trying to warn us not to get pregnant?

Ben and ciara’s child is so important for the future. I want that baby. I need that baby for myself.

[Dramatic music]

– Oh…oh. – What’s going on?

Ciara: Ben, answer me. Do you think that some unknown force is trying to warn us not to get pregnant?

Ben: Of course not, no, baby. I know it was just the wind.

Ciara: Ben? You promised me that you’d be honest with me from now on. Baby, what’s going on?

Ben: I guess I’m just just a little nervous about having a baby.

John: I’m telling you, roman. Doc is just really beating herself up lately.

Roman: She’s a great doctor, the best; everybody knows that.

John: Yeah, I know, but still she feels like she failed doug. And then she had to make that painful decision to have him committed there. It’s just kind of shaken her confidence.

Roman: Well, you know, hopefully get some rest’ll help.

John: Yeah, yeah, I think she’s too wired to sleep though. That’s why I made her some tea. Probably should run it in to her.

Roman: Yeah, good call. You know what? If you need anything, either one of you, just say the word.

John: Oh, thanks, man. And thank you again for backing out of that film. I mean, even though it’s just gonna be on the big screen, we don’t need that particular bit of history repeating itself.

I can feel you’re still fighting me, that you’re not ready to fully commit. I know you’ve always done everything for everyone else and nothing for yourself. Except when you let me in and feel my power coursing through your veins. You need to let yourself go completely and feel that way again. Perhaps you’d be more open to the idea if you knew my plans, which can only come to fruition with your help. You can never go back on the approval you gave ben to bring a child into the world. The future is in your hands, marlena. I think it’s time that I share with you exactly what I have in store for that child.

Abigail: Chad.

Chad: Now, I’m not trying to pressure you at all. I just miss sharing a room with you, and a bed. But I know you’re not ready for that, and I respect that. And I would never try to skip past everything that I have to do to make things right between us anyway. I just–I’m just expressing hope for the future.

Abigail: Well, it’s like i told you in boston. There’s nothing I want more than to be able to trust in our marriage again and our love.

Chad: And you’re not there yet. I understand. And I’ll wait as long as it takes. But I just want you to know I love you. I always have, and I always will.

[Soft music]

And that’s just about what i wanted to say. I’ll let you go to bed.

Abigail: Hold on.

Chad: What?

Abigail: Why don’t you stay in my room tonight? This is the sound of an asthma attack…

Chad: What did you say?

Abigail: I think you heard me.

Chad: I did–I think I did. I just–I wanted to make sure.

Abigail: [Sighs] Ever since I came home, I’ve kept you at arm’s length. But you’ve been very patient, and you’ve been understanding, and you’ve been devoted, and you’ve taken care of the kids. You’ve taken care of me and given me the time and space that I need. Everything I have asked, you have done and more, and so, I think it’s time I let you back in.

[Soft music]

 

Ciara: Oh, baby. I didn’t expect one session with marlena to magically erase all of your reservations. I mean, having a baby is still a huge step, no matter what. It’s life-changing, so it makes sense for the both of us to be a little bit nervous. I’m nervous, too, baby, as much as I am excited about the idea.

Ben: But we will stay on it, and we’ll just be hopeful that I don’t pass down any of the mental illness I had to our child, and if, god forbid, we see any signs at all that I did, we find treatment.

Ciara: Mm-hmm.

Ben: Right away.

Ciara: Mm-hmm, that’s right.

Ben: I’m sorry for freaking out. It’s just that you could be pregnant right now.

Ciara: Well, the odds are pretty slim for the first try. And so that means we are gonna have to try again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

Ben: And again.

Ciara: And again.

Ben: I am down for that.

Ciara: Hmm?

Ben: Mm-hmm.

Ciara: Although, honestly, weston, between the two of us, I am getting the short end of the stick here.

Ben: What do you mean short?

Ciara: Well–

Ben: What?

Ciara: I mean that I’m gonna be the one to gain all the weight, I’m gonna wake up with the morning sickness, the swollen ankles. All you’re gonna have to do is run to the store and get me my cravings whenever I want.

Ben: Mm-hmm, and I’m going to love every minute of it. In fact, what can I get you right now? Ice cream, pickles? What can I get you?

Ciara: Just this, babe.

My plan for ben and ciara’s baby is so monumental, so magnificent, and it all begins with–

John: Hey, doc, still awake?

Damn that john black, always trying to come between us.

John: What the heck? Is this thing locked?

Just ignore him, marlena. He’ll go away.

John: What the hell’s going on in there? Looks like it’s stuck. Hey, doc, are you okay in there? Doc? Hang on, doc, I’m coming! Come on!

Tackling tough messes can

take more time than you have,

[Soft music]

 

John: Hey, sweetheart. You okay, honey?

Marlena: Oh, yeah.

John: Hey, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to wake you up. I just got really worried when I couldn’t open the door, and I swear I heard some voices in here.

Paulina: One key lime pie to go.

Eli: Oh, you know I’m gonna enjoy this.

Paulina: Well, to each his own, baby, to each his own.

Eli: Hey, and congrats again.

Lani: Oh, thank you so much for dinner.

Paulina: Mm-hmm.

Eli: Oh, bring it in. Bring it in.

Paulina: Aw.

Eli: I love you guys.

Abe: Oh, hey, take care.

Eli: See you guys later.

Paulina: Goodnight.

Eli: Goodnight.

Abe: That was a lovely evening, don’t you think?

Paulina: Hm.

Abe: Everything okay?

Paulina: I can’t believe I asked lani to call me mama. What was I thinking?

Abe: Hey, you know, you shouldn’t be so hard on yourself, just got carried away. Now, I know how you feel. Being lani’s dad is–it means everything to me.

Paulina: Well, after all that celebrating, I am wiped out. I think I’ll get ready for bed.

Abe: You know, let me ask you this–now that we are engaged, when do you want to do this?

Paulina: You mean, you want to set a date?

Abe: Yeah, any thoughts?

Paulina: Well, I guess that depends upon if you want a big wedding or a small one. Big takes a lot more planning.

Abe: Well, if it was left up to me, I’d do it tomorrow.

Paulina: I guess we’ll be having a small one.

Abe: So I will defer to my bride.

Paulina: Abraham, we are on the same page about pie and wanting our wedding to be an intimate affair. And now, for our first big challenge after becoming engaged–

Abe: Challenge? What do you mean?

Paulina: Finding a free date for both of us when we can get hitched–ah!

[Soft music]

 

Ciara: I don’t really want any food right now, do you?

Ben: Not really, kinda tired.

Ciara: Yeah, me too, but I don’t think I can go to sleep quite yet. Maybe there is something good on tv.

Ben: Yeah, check it out. I’ll watch anything.

Ciara: Okay.

Oh, my god. It’s “rosemary’s baby.”

 

John: Were you on your phone?

Marlena: No, I was asleep.

John: Maybe the voices came from that. Sound machine might have switched over to the radio or something. It looks fine to me.

Marlena: Oh. Well, I didn’t hear anything. Maybe I was talking in my sleep. What did you hear me say?

John: I’m not sure. I was out in the hall. Everything was mumbled.

Marlena: Okay.

John: No, no, no. Where are you going?

Marlena: Well, honey, I’ve been awfully worried about ben. I want to get dressed and go check on him.

John: No, no, you need to rest. You can talk to ben tomorrow.

Marlena: No, I don’t think–

John: He’s gonna be fine. He’ll be fine.

Marlena: It’s not–

John: He’ll be fine. Right now, I’m a lot more concerned about you, okay?

 

For once in my life,

I feel a little good

thing inside

looking in your eyes

I only want to love you

and hold you tight

I feel fine

because you’re mine

we’re in the light

dancing in the light

of love

holding you tight

tripping in the light

of loving

you

my world is gonna shine

because you’re mine

because you’re mine, mine

because you’re mine, mine

because you’re mine

because you’re mine

because you’re mine

because you’re mine

because you’re mine

because you’re mine your mission:

Eli: Hey, roman.

Roman: Hey, well, look at you two out on the town.

Lani: Yeah, we were just out at dinner celebrating.

Eli: Yeah, abe and paulina got engaged last night.

Roman: Oh, great, I like it.

Lani: Yeah, we’re really happy for them both.

Roman: Yeah, so am I. I didn’t think he’d propose this soon, but they do seem like a great match.

Eli: Made in heaven.

Paulina: So you thinking, like, a saturday night vibe or more easy like sunday morning?

Abe: Well, I have no preference. You know, of course I like having a nice wedding, but it’s the marriage. It’s the marriage that’s important.

Paulina: Abraham, we are on the same page. So how about mid-december?

Abe: Yeah, that’s almost too close to the holidays.

Paulina: Right, right.

Abe: Yeah. How do you feel about earlier in january?

Paulina: Hmm, oh, no good. I’m breaking ground on a project in bal harbour, and that time of year in salem, kinda bleak, no?

Abe: Yeah, I see. I see what you mean, yeah. Well, how about the third week in november?

Paulina: Well, that actually could work.

Abe: Ooh, that’s great. That would be more than a month’s notice, so theo and brandon could arrange to be here too.

Paulina: Oh, you think we could pull it all together by then?

Abe: I think anything we put our minds to will work.

Paulina: Well, then it’s all settled. A little more than a month from now, we’ll be husband and wife.

Abe: Ooh.

Paulina: Oh.

Ben: Why’d you turn it off?

Ciara: It’s a horror movie, and it’s not really what I want in my head right before I go to sleep.

Ben: Is it about a woman who gives birth to the devil’s baby? Just seems pretty dumb.

Ciara: It wasn’t a bad omen, ben.

Ben: What do you mean?

Ciara: That movie coming on was totally random. No one is trying to tell you that you’re evil and that I’m rosemary.

Ben: I mean, who said that?

Ciara: I can see it in your eyes, babe. You’re freaked out that I landed on that movie. Am I right? Baby, I am not some submissive pixie, and you are not evil. You are the best. You are a loving, caring, wonderful man, and you are gonna make the most amazing father. I know it because it’s true. And you’ve come way too far and worked way too hard to let fear ruin that. So let’s just forget about all of this nonsense that happened and focus on what is really real, and that is our love for each other.

[Soft music]

 

John: Here you go.

Marlena: Chamomile?

John: Hope it helps.

Marlena: Oh, I guess i thought it would be hot.

John: Yeah, well, I was on my way to bring it to you when roman stopped by.

Marlena: Oh, roman came by? Why?

John: We’ll talk about it later–tell you what I’ll do. I’ll go heat this up, okay?

Marlena: Hey, why don’t we talk about it now?

John: Well, I was going to, but I know that you were kind of upset about ben. Johnny has decided to rename his movie from “the sami brady story,” to “the marlena evans story.”

Marlena: Why would he change a movie about sami to a movie about me?

John: Well, apparently he’s fascinated about your past, specifically when you were… when you were… marlena: Possessed by the devil.

John: You know, I was upset enough just by knowing it was gonna be a part in the movie. Now, the whole damn movie’s gonna be about it.

Marlena: Oh, no.

John: But don’t worry about that; that’s why roman came by. He told me he changed his mind about investing. Johnny’s having a hard time coming up with the cash ’cause practically everybody has said no.

Marlena: So he won’t be able to make the movie?

John: I’m not gonna let him.

Marlena: That was his dream.

John: His dream was to make a film, and he can still do that. He’s just not gonna do this one, ’cause the last thing you need is to have to relive that part of your life, honey.

Chad: I can’t believe this is real. I mean, I’ve wanted this and you for so long. But I…

Abigail: What?

Chad: I just–I have to ask you something, but I don’t know if I should.

Abigail: You can ask me anything.

Chad: So does this mean we’re back together? When I heard about the science behind the new

Abigail: I don’t want to shut you out anymore; I want to be close to you.

Chad: I want that too, more than anything.

Abigail: But I think we also have to be realistic about where we are, you know? Our problems don’t disappear just because we made love. We’ve still got a lot of things to work on, and I’ve got a lot of things to work on. Everything–the guilt that I feel, after everything that happened with gwen’s baby, and… but I don’t want to work on things alone. Moving forward, I would like to work on everything together.

Chad: We will, I promise.

[Soft music]

 

Abe: Look how far we’ve come. It’s all because of you.

Paulina: Me, really? What did I do?

Abe: You kept your promise not to hide things anymore, no more secrets, no more lies. I mean, ever since, it’s just been wonderful. You made peace with your daughter, with my daughter, with me. I’ve never been happier. And I hope you feel the same way.

Paulina: Of course I do. Of course. Oh, mm.

Lani: Okay. The babies are asleep thanks to our excellent nanny. And thank you for cleaning up.

Eli: No problem, but now I am in the mood for something sweet.

Lani: You have got to be kidding me. I don’t ever want to see another pie for as long as I live.

Eli: No, no, I’m not talking about a pie. No pecan pie, or key lime pie, or florida lime pie.

Lani: Mm-hmm.

Eli: I want some lani pie.

Lani: Oh. Well, come get it.

[Laughs]

Ciara: Are you sure you’re okay?

Ben: Yeah, I am.

Ciara: No more worries about random gusts of wind or horror movies with devil babies?

Ben: No, no, no, no. Dr. Evans made me see that there is no reason why we shouldn’t have a child. And god forbid, any issues come up, we’ll handle it together, like we handle everything. We are gonna make the most beautiful family together.

Ciara: Oh, my god. I love you so much.

Ben: I love you so much. You can barely keep these eyes open.

Ciara: Yeah, I’m tired. Will you hold me? I want to fall asleep in your arms.

[Soft music]

 

John: I hope you’re not upset with me and my bringing up that movie.

Marlena: No, of course not.

John: All right, you know I support johnny. Just that he needs to understand that this project, it’s never gonna happen.

Marlena: I assume you you talked to him?

John: Well, you know I did. And so did allie, but I think he needs to hear it from you. And I was just thinking that, once you were feeling better, you know, you could talk him out of it, but now I don’t even think you’re gonna have to have that conversation.

Marlena: Oh, well, I’m glad for that.

John: And everything that is in the past is gonna stay in the past where it belongs. And it’s just gonna be smooth sailing for me and you, baby, from now on out.

[Ominous music]

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Chanel: That was quite a kiss.

Johnny: Well, that was my way of saying thank you for convincing my sister to do the movie.

Chanel: Allie and i are best friends. So she usually takes my advice.

Johnny: Which was a big help for me in this case. Can I ask you for one more thing?

Chanel: Well, it depends on what that thing is.

Johnny: I’ve got a lot more parts to cast. How would you feel about playing one of them?

John: “Possessed: The marlena evans story”? Did you know about this?

Roman: No, I didn’T. I put my money in this thing because your brother told me he wanted to make a movie about your mom. Now it’s all about marlena’s possession?

Allie: I’m sorry, grandpa. I just assume johnny told you.

John: I can’t even believe this.

Allie: He thought that this movie would make more of a– you know…

Roman: Yeah, moneymaker.

Allie: I mean, you have to admit it it’s pretty exciting. It’s not every day that somebody gets possessed by the devil.

Marlena: What are you talking about? What kind of plans do you have for ben’s baby?

Demon marlena: I don’t wanna spoil the surprise. Let’s just say it is imperative that ben weston and ciara brady conceive a child.

Marlena: Well, he doesn’t agree, and I’m not sure that I convinced him to change his mind.

Demon marlena: Don’t underestimate yourself, dr. Evans. Ben weston always listens to you. He takes your words to heart. And soon I’m going to get what I’ve been wanting for so long.

Ciara: How did it go with marlena? Did you talk to her about us starting a family?

Ben: Actually, yes, I did.

Ciara: You did? Well, did it make you feel any better?

Ben: It did.

Ciara: Wait, it did?

Ben: Mm-hmm.

Ciara: So does that mean–

Ben: If you wanna have this baby, let’s have a baby.

Ciara: Are you serious?

Ben: I know how important this is to you, and that makes it important to me. So let’s do this. Let’s make a baby.

Ciara: Oh, my god.

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Chanel: So you really want me to be in your movie?

Johnny: Yeah, I do. I have a feeling that the camera would love you.

Chanel: Well, I have been told I take a great picture.

Johnny: Is that a yes?

Ciara: And I’ve always thought acting sounded like fun.

Johnny: Oh, so it is a yes.

Ciara: When I was little, I used to pretend to be those twins on “sister, sister,” and I would make my mama be the mom. She recorded a bunch of videos. She probably still has them.

Johnny: Well, if she does, I would love to see them.

Ciara: So if I did say yes to being in your movie, what role would I play? And if you say the devil I’m punching you in the face.

Johnny: No, you’re not the devil. I actually think I have the perfect role for you.

John: [Scoffs] No way this is gonna happen. He’s not gonna make this movie. Kiddo, did I not ask you to talk to your brother? Did I not practically beg you to convince him to stay away from this part of your grandmother’s life?

Allie: I did talk to him. I swear. But he is stubborn and he says that this is the movie he has to make. I mean, I don’t think anything is gonna stop him.

John: No, I just thought of one thing that can.

Marlena: I don’t understand. What makes ben and ciara’s child so special to you?

Demon marlena: Do I really have to spell it out? The child would inherit the genetics of a serial killer, a man who murdered three women. Young weston was right to be worried about passing on his dark, twisted legacy to his child. That’s where I need you.

Marlena: There’s no such thing as a serial killer gene.

Demon marlena: But as a psychiatrist, you must know that certain genes if nurtured in the proper environment, can result in psychopathic behavior. Weston himself had a sadistic father and a weak mother.

Marlena: Ben and ciara are not those parents.

Demon marlena: Just leave that part to me. That child could turn into the perfect instrument of evil.

Marlena: You don’t know ben the way I know him. He despises what he’s done. And he is not inherently evil.

Demon marlena: But the capacity for evil still resides in him as it would in his child.

Ciara: Oh, my god, I can’t believe this. Ben, you really want us to have a baby? You want that now?

Ben: I do.

Ciara: Oh, my god. Oh, my god, ben this is just– god, you made me so happy.

Ben: Oh, my god. I can see that.

Ciara: What did marlena say to change your mind?

Ben: Well, first of all, she said that half of our baby’s gene pool will be from your side, thank god. And since you are the best, strongest, most beautiful person I’ve ever met, I can’t be afraid of what’s happening on my side of things. And it’s not–I can’t let it stop us from having a baby. Like I said, it is important to me too for us to be parents. I wanna have a baby with you.

Ciara: Really?

Ben: Really.

Ciara: Oh, my god. Oh, my god, ben, I love you so much.

Ben: I love you so much. It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Abigail: Love-making has never really been an issue for us.

Chad: No, it hasn’T.

Abigail: However, you still have a lot of issues to work out, and I don’t wanna cloud that by being intimate too soon.

Chad: This–this kiss. It’s just–it’s pretend. It’s john and marlena kissing. Doesn’t have to mean a thing to–to chad and abigail.

Abigail: Oh, well, thank you very much for explaining that, mr. Stanislavsky.

Chad: I’m being– I’m being serious. Look, you don’t have to worry about me turning this into something that it’s– it’s– it’s not, all right? We’ll kiss, and then we’ll go upstairs. Well–we’ll sleep in separate bedrooms. That is unless you–you find me too–too irresistible.

Abigail: Suddenly, I don’t think that’s gonna to be very much of an issue.

Chad: No?

Abigail: No. Where were we?

Chad: Okay, all right. Okay. Do you really want me to go, doc?

Ej: Well, well. What have we here?

Johnny: So I was thinking you could play celeste perrault.

Chanel: Oh, interesting name. Tell me about her.

Johnny: She was my grandfather’s henchwoman.

Chanel: Oh, so she did his dirty work.

Johnny: Some of it, yeah. She was also his lover.

Chanel: And how does she fit into the story?

Johnny: Well, she was a psychic too. She was the first person who sensed that the devil was in salem.

Chanel: Oh, so she’s like the hero of the movie?

Johnny: She should be, yeah. But when she tried to warn everyone, nobody believed her.

Chanel: Why is that?

Johnny: Oh, you know how some people are about psychics.

Chanel: So what makes you think that I’d be the perfect celeste? Wait, is she black?

Johnny: Uh, well, yeah, yeah. Now that I–I guess she is. Now that I think about it, yeah.

Chanel: You–you guess?

Johnny: No, I mean she–she was–she is, yes, but that’s not why I thought of you. I mean, she’s–she’s strong, you know. She’s–she’s a woman doing a man’s job. She’s wise.

Chanel: Uh-huh.

Johnny: She’s beautiful.

Chanel: Uh-huh.

Johnny: And you have a connection to her.

Chanel: What connection?

Johnny: She–celeste is the mother of my aunt lexie, who is the mother of theo. Theo carver, the guy you dated.

Chanel: Wait, so let me get this straight. You want me to play my old boyfriend’s big mama?

Allie: How can you stop johnny?

John: Easy. You see your brother never bothered to get the rights to marlena’s story.

Allie: But he said that she encouraged him to make the movie.

Roman: Well, I’m sure she said that, because she didn’t know the movie was about her. Same as me.

John: Yeah, I’ll just talk to marlena, and I’m sure she will stop johnny from doing this.

Roman: Yeah, if she wants to shut it down, I do believe the law is on her side.

John: That’s a fact. I’m gonna head over to her office right now. She has one appointment with ben weston. But I’m sure she’s alone.

Ciara: Here you go.

Ben: Thank you, love.

Ciara: So this dream you told marlena about.

Ben: I had it in new orleans. I dreamed that we had a son. We came home, and we discovered that he killed his babysitter with a necktie.

Ciara: And you didn’t think to tell me about this?

Ben: Baby, we were on our honeymoon.

Ciara: Yeah, but, baby, i would have reassured you that it was all good.

Ben: I did not want you to have to reassure me. I didn’t wanna burden you. Like I said, we were on our honeymoon, and dr. Evans reassured me today. She’s not even sure if the illness that I had is actually hereditary. You know, and if god forbid there’s the chance that our kid does inherit that, there’s treatment.

Ciara: Mm-hmm, like you had.

Ben: Right.

Ciara: Right.

Ben: It doesn’t mean that we can’t not look for signs, you know. We can’t kid ourselves, but–

Ciara: No, we will not.

Ben: No.

Ciara: No.

Ben: And I’m still not a 100% gung ho, but I know that I can certainly live with my fears, especially if it means that you and i can start a family together.

Ciara: Sounds like marlena gave you some really good advice.

Ben: She did give me good advice.

Ciara: Mm-hmm.

Ben: She was a little different, though.

Ciara: How so?

Ben: Usually, she doesn’t tell me what to do. She lets me make my own decisions for myself, but today she made it seem like I would be making this huge mistake if I decided to never have kids. Like, she really wanted me to listen to her. It was almost like…

Ciara: Almost like what?

Ben: Like she had a personal stake in us having a baby.

Ciara: Hmm.

Marlena: Even if ben and ciara’s child were predisposed to evil behavior, it doesn’t mean that behavior would ever surface.

Demon marlena: Must you be such a doomsayer?

Marlena: Look, ben and ciara would be kind and loving parents, and–and they would–they would raise their child in a loving and safe environment.

Demon marlena: But there are cases where biology is destiny. Ben weston was conditioned by clyde weston to become the necktie killer. Even though that need in him was dormant for years and years, he couldn’t escape the evil that clyde had planted inside him. And clyde himself is the product of generations of evildoers. I chose ben very carefully.

Marlena: But ciara would be the mother, and she is a product of–of two loving and caring families, the bradys and the hortons.

Demon marlena: I never said it wouldn’t be a struggle but the struggle is what makes this all so perfect.

To be a thriver with

metastatic breast cancer

Ej: I just came down for a nightcap. Feel free to continue with your reconciliation or whatever it was.

Abigail: Actually, chad was just helping me run lines for a scene from your son’s movie. We were–we were pretending to be john and marlena.

Ej: Hmm, it’s not enough to provide funding for johnny’s little project?

Chad: I was helping my wife with her lines. It’s called being a supportive husband.

Abigail: Yeah, and since the role of john hasn’t really been cast yet…

Chad: Oh, no. You know what? That’s right. Maybe I should audition for it. It’d be a–a real kick to act with my wife in my nephew’s movie.

Johnny: Chanel, listen to me.

Chanel: I’ve heard enough. You want me to play theo’s granny?

Johnny: Whoa, you’d be playing her as a young woman, not as a granny. I mean, if–if you have a problem with it, you could always play the part of her daughter. It’s a smaller role, but aunt lexie was the doctor who took care of my grandmother in the hospital.

Chanel: So my only options are to play theo’s mama or his big mama.

Johnny: Allie’s playing our mother. I mean, it’s not that strange.

Chanel: I’m pretty sure theo carver would think it was strange.

Johnny: So you’re turning me down.

Chanel: I’m gonna have to think about it.

Ciara: Baby, I know it wasn’t easy for you to change your mind, and I know you did it mostly for me. So I have to ask you if you’re sure that this is what you really want, because as much as I want to have a baby with you, I–I don’t want you to do this if you think you have to because you owe me or something.

Ben: Do you know how much I love you?

Ciara: Yes.

Ben: If I wasn’t scared of what my genes might do to our baby, I would have been on board with this from the start. I’m not doing it because you want it or just because you want it. Dr. Evans made me feel a whole lot better about this whole idea. I cannot wait to make a baby with you.

Ciara: I can’t wait either. So should we take the first step? Because I’m not gonna be needing these anymore.

Ben: Go for it.

Demon marlena: Don’t you see? Ben and ciara’s bloodlines are the perfect combination. Their progeny will have enormous potential for evil and also a pure and innocent soul, one that could be easily corrupted. It’s going to be wonderful. It’s exactly what I have been wanting for so long.

Marlena: What does that mean?

Demon marlena: You don’t need to trouble yourself with that–

Marlena: But I do. You forced me to persuade ben to have this child. Now you’re telling me that you’ve had plans for this child right along?

Demon marlena: When you risked your professional reputation to have ben released from the sanitarium, and of all the psychiatrists in the world he became your patient, it was as if the stars suddenly aligned. It was glorious.

Marlena: I will not allow you to use ben.

Demon marlena: What are you doing?

Marlena: What I have to do. I’m gonna warn him.

Demon marlena: You will do no such thing.

Marlena: You try and stop me.

[Knock at door]

John: Doc, you busy?

Marlena: Come in.

John: Whoa. You’re alone. I could have sworn I heard another voice. Now, we all know progressive offers 24/7 protection,

Ej: It’s your favorite pastime, isn’t it, getting under my skin?

Chad: Okay. You–you think that everything is about you? Look, I mean, playing a married couple with problems could be good for us.

Abigail: I never thought of it that way.

Ej: And when will you do your job, the one where you run an international corporation?

Chad: I can do both.

Ej: Oh, really? We’re supposed to be sharing the position of ceo. But the only one working long hours is me. Chad: I can’t help if I’m better at time management than you are.

Ej: That’s your assessment. Mine is that you are simply not pulling your weight. And once I express that concern to shin, I think he will agree with me.

Johnny: Chanel, please. I really want you to play the part of celeste. You’d really be great.

Chanel: Well, then you should stop playing director for a little while and do some more of that wooing.

Johnny: I left my guitar back in my bedroom, but we could go back there and I don’t know.

Chanel: Is that where you keep your casting couch?

Johnny: You are really giving me a hard time tonight.

Chanel: Yeah, it’s good for you. You’ll thank me later. But I wouldn’t be opposed to you taking me to dinner.

Johnny: Well, my father has cut me off financially, as you know, but we could go to the pub. I’m sure I could talk my grandpa into giving us a free meal.

Chanel: You really think you can just charm your way through this world, don’t you?

Johnny: Well, yeah. ‘Cause I usually can. You coming?

John: Thought you still might be in your session with ben. Were you talking with him on the phone?

Marlena: No, I–I recorded our session, and I was listening to it.

John: And how did it go?

Marlena: Well, for some reason I–I think I might have led him down the wrong path. So, I–I think I–I need to talk to him.

John: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Now?

Marlena: Yeah, I think this shouldn’t wait.

John: No, I–I–I don’t think that’s a good idea. Because you are paler now than you were when left the house. Something’s going on that’s got you upset.

Marlena: It was a very emo–it was a very emotional session, and–and I think ben still needs me.

John: Sweetheart, I know how committed you are to your patients, and I respect that, but right now tonight you’re gonna shut it down. I’m gonna take you home. You talk to ben tomorrow.

Marlena: John, this is not–

John: I’m not taking no for an answer, sweetheart. Let’s go. Let’s go. Now.

Marlena: Fine. I’m fine.

John: Come on.

Ben: How soon after you stop taking the pill can you get pregnant?

Ciara: I don’t know. Let me check.

Ben: Check. Please, please, please.

Ciara: Okay, so it says here that I can get pregnant immediately.

Ben: Okay.

Ciara: Or it can take up to a year.

Ben: It doesn’t really narrow it down. Does it?

Ciara: Uh-uh. It also says that if I stop taking the pill in the middle of my pack, which I am doing, I can get pregnant right away. It’s rare, but it does happen.

Ben: Ooh, well, then what better time than the present, huh? Am I wrong?

Ciara: No.

Ben: I didn’t think so. On the outside, I looked fine.

Chad: You know, I’d–I’d like to work hard, ej, but the truth is you’ve been inching me out of the process since the moment we took over those jobs. And you damn well know it.

Ej: I entered into our agreement in good faith. I wanted it to work.

Chad: No, you didn’T. You’ve been planning this from the get-go. I’m backing johnny so you’re making your move.

Ej: I have a hard time trusting people who betray me.

Chad: I believe in johnny, I’m supporting him. And this is your way of paying me back. Just be a man and call it what it is.

Ej: Don’t tell me, you’re serious about running dimera. I just heard you talking about acting in a student movie. You don’t have time for side jobs.

Abigail: Okay, look. You took time to act as xander cook’s attorney. What was that? Pro bono work?

Ej: What I do is none of your business.

Chad: Okay.

Abigail: You know darn well that he has all the time in the world to be in johnny’s movie in his spare time and still put in a full day at dimera.

Ej: No, I don’t think shin will concur. As a matter of fact, I’ll call him now, sound him out about chad’s new gig.

Chad: I mean, I don’t–I don’t even–i don’t even have the part, and you just drooling over the thought of dumping me.

Ej: You never should have undermined me with my son.

Johnny: So you closed the bakery and came here, huh?

Allie: Yeah, I did. You have a problem with that?

Johnny: I just thought you were going home to learn your lines.

Allie: Well, I called nicole, and she said henry was already asleep, so i figured I’d come see grandpa and get some dinner.

Johnny: So grandpa’s still here?

Allie: Yeah, he’s in the back.

Johnny: Oh, good. I need to talk to him.

Allie: Before you do, you should know that grandpa john was here, and he saw my script. He knows the movie’s about grandma marlena now, and he’s flipping out.

Johnny: Oh, man. He was–he was really pissed?

Allie: Yeah. He’s gonna tell grandma that she shouldn’t give you the right to make the movie.

Johnny: But I will convince her that she should, that I can tell her story.

Roman: It won’t make much difference.

Johnny: What do you mean?

Roman: Look, I saw it john, saw his reaction when he looked at your script, and it got me thinking. And, johnny, I can’t in good conscience invest in your movie anymore.

John: All right, now, doctor, I want you to try to get some sleep, and I’m sure you’re gonna feel a lot better in the morning. Okay?

Marlena: Yeah. I’m just still so worried about ben.

John: Have you figured out why yet?

Marlena: No, just a–just a gut feeling.

John: Well, I think I might know what’s going on here.

Marlena: Well, I wish I did.

John: I think that you were just obsessed with ben, because you tried so damn hard to help doug, and you couldn’T.

Marlena: Yeah, I-I try so hard. I-I-I just wanted to get through to doug. I want–and then I–I feel awful about trying to convince julie to let me commit him to bayview.

John: Hey, after what he did to her, you didn’t have a choice. Now, I know you, sweetheart, and I know that you–you always want to try to help everybody, especially those people you love, and–and then, you know, you’ve done a really good job with ben, but you don’t need to talk to him tonight. Tonight you just need to take care of yourself. Okay?

Marlena: Yeah.

John: Okay.

Marlena: Okay, yeah, I’m– I’m–I’m sure ben will be fine. It can wait till tomorrow.

Ciara: What do you think?

Ben: I think we should have been making babies a long time ago. I’ve lost count of how many asthma attacks I’ve had.

Chad: So should we try the scene again?

Abigail: Aren’t you worried about ej getting to shin?

Chad: Ej, no. I don’t care what ej says. I’ve been killing it at the office. And I don’t see shin making any changes. Not–not with the way profits are. So should we take it from the top?

Abigail: I’m tired. I think I’ve rehearsed enough for today.

Chad: What? What are you talking about? We’re just–we’re just getting to the good part.

Abigail: Uh-huh. I just wanna go upstairs. I’m gonna check on the kids, and I’m going to take a very long, hot bath.

Chad: Well, why don’t we– why don’t we check on the kids together. And then I can–I can escort you to your room because I wouldn’t want you running into any–any dangerous creatures in the hallway, especially ones with plummy british accents.

Abigail: Hmm. You’re very protective.

Chad: Yeah.

Abigail: But that sounds nice.

Johnny: Oh, come on, grandpa. You can’t do this to me. I’m counting on you.

Roman: Yeah, I know. Look, I feel bad about breaking my word, okay? But admit it, you pulled a bait and switch on me. And it’s not fair, and it’s not right. And this new story of yours, I don’t think you get what a really bad idea this is.

Johnny: Oh, man.

Roman: Johnny, you can’t just be about what you want. This movie can mess people’s lives up, people you love, people you care about.

Johnny: Thank you for trying to help me.

Roman: All right, listen. I gotta run. Make sure nobody robs the place.

Allie: We’ll keep an eye out.

Roman: See you later.

Chanel: I am so sorry, G.

Johnny: I mean what the hell am I supposed to do now? I’ve tapped every investor I can think of.

Allie: Any way you could crowd source the rest of the money?

Johnny: That could take forever. Damn it.

Chanel: Hey, why don’t we just order some food and then we can brainstorm over dinner.

Johnny: I’m not hungry anymore. You mind if we take a rain check? I–I just need to think this thing through on my own. I’m really sorry.

Chanel: I understand. We’re gonna figure this out.

Johnny: I hope so. See ya.

Chanel: Poor guy. I’ve never seen him like that.

Allie: I have. But we were little kids.

Marlena: Ooh, goodness. Do feel kind of worn out. Maybe I could turn off those thoughts that keep going through my head.

John: Thoughts? What kinda–what kinda thoughts?

Marlena: Just thoughts– thoughts about my patients.

John: Hey, hey, hey. Maybe this gizmo over here will help. Want me to turn it on?

Marlena: What–what is that?

John: Why, this is called a white sound machine. Comes highly recommended by abraham carver. Paulina brought one up from miami; it puts abe to sleep just like that.

Marlena: Well, okay. Let’s hope it works.

John: Yeah, that and maybe a cup of hot chamomile tea?

Marlena: Aw, that’d be nice. Thank you.

John: All right, now you just close your eyes, and I will be right back. Okay.

[Eerie music]

Demon marlena: Listen to your husband, marlena. Forget all about ben weston.

 

Johnny: [Scoffs]

Ej: Something wrong?

Johnny: Oh, you’ll love this, yeah. Grandpa roman doesn’t wanna put money in the movie anymore. So my dream project is over before it ever even got started.

Ej: If you’re expecting me to gloat, it’s not going to happen. What if I offered to cover roman’s investment?

Johnny: Okay, but what’s the catch? ‘Cause I know there is one.

Ej: You’re right.

Chad: Can we do this every night? Check on thomas and charlotte together?

Abigail: I would love that. Yeah. Were you really serious about wanting to play john? Or you just trying to get in ej’s face?

Chad: Maybe a little bit of both. But what I wanna–when I started to talk about the two of us doing it together, I started to really like the idea.

Abigail: Why?

Chad: It just seems like it would be a fun adventure for us to go through together. And I wouldn’t have to worry about you doing some sex scenes with some random guy.

Johnny: I’m not going to work at dimera enterprises. I would rather wait tables at the pub.

Ej: That’s not my condition. You’ve made yourself clear.

Johnny: Stop playing games, dad. What do you want?

Ej: What I want is to play john black.

John: Yeah, hold on a second. Hey, roman.

Roman: Hey, hey, sorry for coming by so late without calling first, but I wanted to let you know. I told johnny I won’t help fund his film.

John: Nice. Thanks, roman. I know that it wasn’t easy.

Roman: No it wasn’t, but your right. The last thing we want is for marlena to have to relive that time.

Marlena: Ben, have to warn ben.

[Wind whooshing]

Demon marlena: Let it go, marlena. Leave ben to me. Stop fighting. Give in to me.

Ciara: Was that just me or did that feel different? Like extra special?

Ben: It was definitely not just you.

Ciara: I didn’t think it was.

Ben: Mm-mm.

Ciara: And that kinda has me wondering.

Ben: Oh, yeah? What are you wondering, my love?

Ciara: I’m wondering if we just made a baby.

[Clattering]

[Wind whooshing]

[Tense music]

Demon marlena: Just let go, marlena. Give in to me. Give in to me. Give in to me to me…to me… to me…to me…to me…to me.

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Chanel: That was a day.

Allie: And a half. I can’t believe we sold out everything in the bakery.

Chanel: I feel like I barely even had a chance to breathe. I didn’t even get a chance to ask you how your date was.

Allie: It was fine, but how about you? What did you end up doing last night?

Chanel: You know, it turns out it was good I didn’t go out with you guys, because I was involved in a surprise engagement.

Allie: What? You and my brother got engaged?

Johnny: Hey, just the person I was looking for.

Abigail: Oh, really? Good reason or bad reason?

Johnny: Good.

Abigail: Okay. Another script.

Johnny: You can tear up the old one. That is the rewrite. Hot off the press.

Abigail: Okay, and so you said this one focuses mainly on your grandmother being possessed by the–

Johnny: It’s okay. You can say it. You’re gonna have to live it when you play her in the movie.

Abigail: You wrote another script that fast?

Johnny: Yeah. I was working on it all night, but I gotta tell you that thing practically wrote itself. I guess you could say the devil was my muse.

Abigail: Hmm.

Kayla: [Laughs] How did you know that’s what I needed?

Roman: Lucky guess. Nothing does the trick like mom’s cure-all.

Kayla: I wish it could cure everything.

Roman: What’s going on?

Kayla: I just came from committing doug to bayview for evaluation.

Roman: How’d that go?

Kayla: He was extremely upset and was insisting that he didn’t belong there. And he just kept asking for julie, over and over again.

Ciara: I think that I’m more ready to start a family than ben is.

Julie: He doesn’t want children?

Ciara: Oh, he does. It’s just he has his own issues to work through, before he can fully commit.

Julie: Considering his family history and his own, that makes sense.

Ciara: Yeah, he’s actually at a session with marlena right now, mm-hmm. Hopefully, she can help him work through those feelings. There is no one I trust more than marlena.

Julie: As do I. I know she’s going to help my doug and help your ben too. I have complete faith in marlena. And you should too.

Marlena: I’m sorry, ben.

Ben: It’s okay, and thank you again for making the time to see me.

Devil: Don’t let him go, marlena. You need to convince ben weston that he and his wife must have this baby. Don’t let me down, marlena, or there will be a steep price to pay.

[Echoing] Pay, pay.

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Allie: Why didn’t you tell me you were engaged? I mean, where’s the ring?

Chanel: [Laughs] Relax, horton. I am not engaged to your brother after three dates.

Allie: Oh, okay, well, you said you were involved in a surprise engagement, so what’s the engagement?

Chanel: Abe proposed to my mom last night.

Allie: Oh! Well, that’s great.

Chanel: And the best part is she said yes.

Allie: Well, lucky uncle abe. Your mom is a total catch.

Chanel: Hell yeah she is, and it was a really romantic night all around.

Allie: Okay, well, if you’re talking about my brother now, I don’t really need the gory details.

Chanel: It would only be gory if he was a lousy singer.

Allie: No, please do not tell me that my brother brought out his guitar and “serenaded” you.

Chanel: Yeah, he sure did.

Allie: Oh, my god.

Chanel: He was “wooing” me. His words.

Allie: I told you he was a player.

Chanel: Well, if he is, then so far he’s playing it exactly right.

Abigail: You changed the name of the movie, I see.

Johnny: I had to. It’s not the sami brady story any more.

Abigail: Did you tell your mom? ‘Cause she’s not gonna be happy.

Johnny: She is not even returning my texts or my calls, so she doesn’t get a say. But you do, and so does chad. I want you both to read over this. Please let me know if you have any questions, if any of the dialogue feels unnatural. I want you to be brutally honest, okay?

Abigail: You’re sure about that?

Johnny: Of course. It’s a collaborative film, and I appreciate you guys believing in my vision.

Abigail: Aww. Thank you. I really appreciate the opportunity.

Johnny: So you’re excited?

Abigail: I am, yeah. After these last few crazy months, I can’t believe how much I’m looking forward to it.

Johnny: Well, I will leave you to it, and maybe… read it with the lights on.

Abigail: “Possessed: The marlena evans story.”

[Eerie music]

 

Devil: Are you listening to me, marlena? You need to stop him. Now.

Ben: Dr. Evans, you all right?

Marlena: You didn’t hear that?

Ben: Hear what?

Devil: Ben can’t hear me, doc. I have a direct line right into your head. And more importantly, your soul.

Ben: Dr. Evans, what did you hear?

[Eerie music]

 

Marlena: A sound. Outside. It must have been something outside. Nothing–it’s nothing.

Ben: What did it sound like?

Devil: You need to change his mind, marlena. Tell him right now. Tell him to have this baby. If you don’t, I’ll have to pay a visit to poor, vulnerable doug.

Marlena: Well, I don’t–

Ben: Dr. Evans, are you sure you’re all right?

Marlena: Um… no, actually I’m not feeling very well at all.

Ben: You know, maybe you should head home. Get some rest. Yeah? You’ll feel better, okay?

Marlena: Wait. You can’t leave. Your mission:

Allie: Please tell me that you recorded my brother singing to you.

Chanel: I did not.

Allie: Damn it. I could have used it for blackmail.

Chanel: It was a very lovely, private moment.

Allie: A lovely, private, cringey moment. I’m sure my brother couldn’t be cheesier if he tried.

Johnny: I bet I can.

Chanel: Hey, you.

Johnny: Hey.

Allie: Heart-shaped chocolates? You know she’s a baker, right?

Johnny: They’re chocolate-covered mixed nuts.

Chanel: My favorite. You’re good. He’s good.

Abigail: Oh!

Chad: Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Abigail: [Laughs] Oh, my gosh. I did not…

Chad: Sorry.

Abigail: Hear you come in. I was so caught up in the script.

Chad: How many times you read that thing?

Abigail: This is a totally new version. Johnny practically started over. He wants us to read it and give him some feedback.

Chad: Okay. It sounds like a nice diversion from the day at the office that I had.

Abigail: You weren’t confronted by the devil, were you?

Chad: Not quite. Ej’s not speaking to me.

Abigail: Because of the movie stuff?

Chad: He’ll only communicate to me through our assistants. He’s furious that I’m financing a story about sami’s past.

Abigail: Well, you can’t pull out now. Not only would it break johnny’s heart. I think it’d kind of break mine.

Roman: [Sighs] Damn. It breaks my heart. I mean, I know he was having trouble. Mixing up names. I mean, he did that when he came in the pub, a while back, but damn. It sounds like it’s really getting a lot worse.

Kayla: Well, I think we know better than most that dementia is a degenerative illness. And in doug’s case, it just seems like it’s progressing with alarming rapidity.

Roman: Well, we did get a miracle for mom.

Kayla: Well, it’s gonna take at least that, if not more, for doug to recover.

Julie: You just got married. Your whole life is before you. There’s no rush to have a baby, is there?

Ciara: I guess not. Plenty of people decide not to have kids, right? And good for them. It’s just–I don’t know. I never thought that I would have to make that decision.

Julie: What about adoption? I mean, if ben is so concerned about passing on his genes.

Ciara: Yeah, allie actually asked me about that, but I mean I don’t think we’re the perfect candidates, given ben’s history.

Julie: I understand.

Ciara: And besides, I don’t even think that would address all of his concerns. I think he’s not only afraid of passing down his genes. I think he’s afraid of the kind of parent he’s gonna end up becoming. I think he’s afraid that he’ll turn into clyde.

Ben: Why can’t I leave? Aren’t we finished with our session?

Marlena: We are, but…

Devil: Pull yourself together, marlena. You can do it. You have to do it.

Marlena: I don’t want you going home to ciara and telling her that you can’t have a child.

Ben: Why not?

Marlena: Because–

Devil: Say it, marlena. Say it.

Marlena: Because that would be a terrible mistake. This is the sound of an asthma attack…

Julie: Oh, my darling girl. I hope all your hopes and dreams come true.

Ciara: Thank you, grandma, but right now, I am worried about grandpa and you. I’m just so sorry for what you guys are going through.

Julie: We’ve had a long and exciting life together. I never took a day of it for granted. I have no regrets.

Ciara: But still, I mean you never really think that something like this would happen.

Julie: No. No, you don’T. You can prepare yourself for illness. You can even prepare yourself for that day when one of you has to say goodbye. But I never expected that my darling would want to hurt me or stop loving me.

Ciara: No. He would never stop loving you. No matter how sick he gets, he still loves you, deep down in his soul with all of his heart. And that is one thing that I know for certain. He always will love you.

Kayla: [Sighs] Thank you for the chowder.

Roman: Any time, sis.

Kayla: All right, I’m gonna head over to the hortons and check on julie.

Roman: Okay. Give ’em my love.

Kayla: I will do that. I love you.

Roman: I love you.

Kayla: Hey, john.

John: Hey, kay.

Kayla: How’s marlena feeling?

John: Better. Nowhere near 100%. I tried talking her out of going to work.

Kayla: She went to the hospital?

John: You know doc. Always putting everybody else’s needs first.

Kayla: That she does.

John: Keep an eye on her for me, will you?

Kayla: Of course.

John: Thanks. Appreciate that. Yeah.

Kayla: Take care.

Roman: Hey, john. What can I get for you?

John: Just a couple minutes of your time.

Roman: Always on the menu. What’s up?

John: Johnny tells me that you are thinking about investing in his film.

Roman: Doing more than thinking about it. Told him I would.

John: Well, I’m here to talk you out of it.

Chad: You’re really psyched about doing this movie, huh?

Abigail: I am, yeah. It feels like a new challenge. An opportunity to maybe learn something about salem’s history. And aren’t you excited to be a part of it?

Chad: Yeah. I wouldn’t be investing in it if I didn’t believe in it.

Abigail: So you’re not gonna let ej’s temper tantrum change your mind?

Chad: No, not a chance.

Abigail: Good, because chad–this story–it’s insane. I mean, my part. The things that I get to do. I just hope that I can do justice to everything that marlena went through, really.

Chad: Well, I mean, you–look at me. You have succeeded at everything you’ve ever done, okay? You are gonna be great.

Abigail: Thank you. I think I’m gonna read the words out loud. You know, just to kind of make sure everything flows.

Chad: Yeah, well…

Abigail: You know?

Chad: Why don’t we read it together? I’ll be your scene partner.

Abigail: Really?

Chad: Yeah. Look, I am–I mean I’m no professional.

Abigail: God.

Chad: Okay? But I’m game. You can call me… john black.

Abigail: It’S… father john black. You ready?

Chad: Let’s do it.

Abigail: [Clears throat]

Chad: Fade in.

Chanel: Mmm. I wonder if we can make a cookie that tastes like this. Cashews and dark chocolate.

Allie: No. It’s almost dinnertime.

Johnny: You just cannot admit that I bought something nice for chanel. You know, I’m actually a pretty good boyfriend.

Allie: Okay, well, if you’re here to do more wooing, I’m gonna get going.

Johnny: Ah, hang on. I’m here to woo you too.

Allie: Oh, another script.

Johnny: I know you haven’t committed to the project yet, but there is no way you’ll turn me down after you read this draft. I promise.

Allie: Sorry, buddy, but I’m turning you down right now.

Ben: You’re telling me that it would be a mistake not to bring a baby into this world? Fully knowing that it could possibly be sick, like I was?

Marlena: Ben, you were ill. You’re not ill anymore.

Ben: I understand that, but I also know that it could come back. And I face that possibility every single day, and I know my child could go through that same thing.

Marlena: But the odds are so low.

Ben: They’re not zero.

Marlena: No. No, nothing is really zero. Look, god forbid–

Devil: Don’t bring him into this.

Marlena: Ben… we all have traits we don’t want to pass on to our children. I mean, that’s just part of parenting. It’s part of being human. Look, if your child were to become ill, well, you’d get medical attention. Mental health is the same thing.

Ben: Yeah, but when I was ill it didn’t just make me sick. It caused me to kill people.

Marlena: We didn’t catch it soon enough, but you will be so vigilant with your own child.

Ben: Dr. Evans, there isn’t an amount of vigilance in this world to head off evil. I’m sorry. I-I can’t– I can’t do that.

Devil: Stop him now. You have to.

Marlena: Why?

Ben: What do you mean, “why?” I’m a ganiac, ganiac, check my drawers

Johnny: Allie, come on, please. I need you to play mom.

Allie: Why? The story’s about grandma now.

Johnny: And mom is her daughter. She was about our age when grandma was possessed.

Chanel: Oh, there’s a sentence.

Johnny: Look, mom has some really pivotal scenes. Wait till you read about the moment that she walked in on grandma and grandpa john on top of the titan conference…

Allie: Okay.

Johnny: Table.

Allie: One, ew, and, two, what does it have to do with the possession?

Johnny: The fallout from that affair is the event that pushed mom over the edge. I mean, that’s why she changed aunt belle’s paternity test results, why she kidnapped her. A lot of people say that that was the birth of sami brady as we know her.

Chanel: Your mom did all of that?

Allie: It’s literally just the beginning.

Chanel: So what happened with your grandma, after your mom caught her?

Allie: Well, the truth got out about the affair, and my grandpa roman divorced her.

Johnny: Leaving marlena all alone, vulnerable, and full of shame. And that’s how the devil found his way in.

Roman: Okay. Well, john, I gotta tell you I am not gonna go back on my word to my grandchild.

John: Roman, you know what this film’s about.

Roman: Yeah. Sami’s life.

John: All of our lives. And from what I understand, it’s gonna include the moment that doc and I–

Roman: Cheated on me.

John: Yep.

Roman: John, I came to terms with that a long time ago. Stefano upended all our lives. Marlena fell in love with you when she thought you were me, and after that, as hard as you two tried, you couldn’t stay apart.

Marlena: John. I didn’t think I’d see you tonight.

John: I didn’t expect to see you here, either, especially alone.

Marlena: I’m not. Roman is coming.

John: You know, doc, you couldn’t lie to me when we were married, and you still can’T. God, you look beautiful tonight. Wait please.

Marlena: Don’t do this.

John: Just a minute.

Marlena: Don’T. If you care about me at all, don’t touch me. Not now. Not ever…

Both: Again.

Chad: I guess john didn’t listen.

Abigail: No editorializing. Keep going.

Chad: Sorry.

[Clears throat]

[As john] I talked to carrie, after you left. She felt as though you may be coming down with a little something.

Abigail as marlena: Oh, well, she was wrong.

Chad: Are you sure?

Abigail: Yes, I feel fine.

Chad: All right. Then why aren’t you upstairs at the party with everyone else?

Abigail: I just needed some time by myself.

Chad: Why? Why? I mean, if you’re not ill, why are you here? What are you running away from? If, um–

Abigail: You know, I think maybe that’s enough for one day.

Chad: It’s a little close to home, huh?

Ciara: There we go.

Julie: Enough of this. Cheer me up.

Ciara: Okay.

Julie: Yes. Tell me about your honeymoon. It was in new orleans?

Ciara: Yes, it was.

Julie: So tell me all about the food.

Ciara: Oh, the food! Well, where do I even start? The crawfish. The muffuletta sandwiches. The beignets. Oh, and we even visited oak alley.

Julie: Oh, it’s beautiful, isn’t it? Your mother and father made some wonderful memories there.

Ciara: Yeah, it is beautiful, but it’s changed a lot. The plantation’s had to reckon with its past. Yeah, enslaved workers built the house, planted the oaks, and that is all a part of its legacy.

Julie: It’s important to reexamine the sins of the past. Hard as that is.

Ciara: Yeah. It actually made ben think about how he had to reckon with his own sins.

Julie: This is why he has doubts about having children?

Ciara: Whatever happens, whether we have kids or not, I will respect his decision. I would never want to pressure him into doing something that he doesn’t want to do.

Ben: You’re asking me why I don’t want to risk bringing a bad seed into this world? Dr. Evans, isn’t that answer kind of obvious?

Marlena: I know about your fears, but I’m telling you it’s very, very unlikely.

Ben: But you said earlier–

Marlena: Yes. That it’s possible. Anything is possible. But there’s a very big difference between healthy fear and unhealthy avoidance.

Ben: And you think that’s what this is?

Marlena: I think any child you have is going to grow up in a wonderful and loving home– something you never had. And ciara, she loves you so much. She wants to have a family with you.

Ben: I know that.

Marlena: And if you deny her the chance to be a mother, she’ll accept that… on the surface.

Ben: Well, what do you mean, “on the surface”?

Marlena: Well, when one half of a couple makes a decision that affects them both, there can be a level of resentment.

Ben: So you think ciara would resent me for not wanting to have a kid?

Marlena: I certainly have seen that in my practice. And you know, when there’s that level of resentment it really can damage a marriage.

Ben: So you’re saying?

Marlena: I’m saying go home. Make love to your wife, and see if you can make a baby together. Clerk: Hello, how can I?

Allie: Johnny, I’m not an actress.

Johnny: Neither is abigail, but you have the life experience to play these parts. Nobody knows mom like you do. You know how she acts. You know how she thinks.

Chanel: You do look like her.

Johnny: You would kill this.

Allie: All right, as much as I enjoy you kissing up to me, I just don’t have time. I mean, I’m so busy with the bakery and henry.

Chanel: And tripp.

Johnny: It wouldn’t take that much time. Look, you’re not the star of the movie. We would shoot around your schedule. You make a little money. I’d owe you forever.

Chanel: How can you say “no” to that?

Allie: I thought you were against the movie?

Chanel: Well, I’m just saying it could come in handy to have your twin owe you forever.

Johnny: Think about how much you would enjoy holding that over me.

Chanel: And besides, how can you turn down that face?

Allie: All right, fine. Fine. I will play mom in your movie. I just hope that this does not come back to haunt us.

Roman: John?

John: Hey.

Roman: Where did you just go?

John: Sorry, I just kind of drifted off reminiscing. What do you know about zen?

Marlena: About what?

John: About zen. As in buddhism. It’s very complicated, yet it’s very simple, at the same time. Like the story of the man who wanted to know who buddha was. So he asked him, “are you a god?” And buddha said, “no.” So he asked him, “are you an angel?” And once again, buddha said, “no.” So he said, “you must be a saint.” And for the third time, buddha replied, “no.” So the man said, “what are you?” And buddha looked at him and said, “I am awake.” Well, that’s what the word “buddha” means. Awake. It’s how the whole thing started: With one man who woke up.

Abigail: And you’re right. You know, I was running away from you and my feelings, and just like john said of marlena in the script. But… I’m not doing that anymore.

Chad: If this is too much–

Abigail: No. No, you can keep going.

Chad: Are you sure?

Abigail: Yeah, yeah. Let’s go ahead.

Chad: [Clears throat]

[As john] What do you know about zen?

Abigail as marlena: About what?

Chad: About zen. As in buddhism. It’s very simple, yet very complicated, at the same time.

Julie: Well, ben must be finished with marlena by now, and you should be heading home.

Ciara: Are you sure? I just–I don’t know if you should be alone right now.

Julie: I can be alone, sweetheart. I don’t want you to waste one minute with your precious husband. You’ve lost too much time as it is.

Ciara: All right, as long as you’re sure you’re gonna be okay.

Julie: You know me.

Ciara: Toughest woman I know.

Julie: Runs in the family.

Ciara: Yes, it does. I will be praying for grandpa.

Julie: Thank you, sweetheart.

Ciara: Please let me know when I can visit him.

Julie: Of course.

Ciara: Okay.

Julie: Of course

Ciara: Okay.

Julie: And I hope everything works out for you and ben, and I wish you all the luck in the world, and, oh, you so deserve to be happy. And so does he.

Marlena: What are you waiting for? Go on home.

Ben: This does not sound like you.

Marlena: What do you mean?

Ben: I mean you never tell me what to do. You ask me questions, but then you leave me room to make my own decisions.

Marlena: Yes. I just don’t want you going down the wrong road, you know? Want to stay on the path. I mean you’ve worked so hard to end up with ciara.

Ben: Yeah.

Marlena: So does that clarify everything?

Ben: Yeah. Yeah. Actually, it does, so thank you. Once again, thank you.

Marlena: Yes.

Ben: Get some rest.

Marlena: Yes. You take care.

Ben: Thanks. You too.

[Tense music]

 

Devil: Good job, marlena. I knew you could do it. On the outside, I looked fine.

Johnny: You don’t have to commit right now, okay? You can go home. Read the script. The scene in the titan conference room is at the very beginning. You don’t even have any lines. You just have to look horrified when you walk in on grandma and grandpa john having sex.

Allie: Yeah, well, that shouldn’t be too hard.

Johnny: I’ll need to see how deeply it hurts: The shock, betrayal. This was a moment that broke mom. Changed her forever, and in this story, it was the inciting incident.

Chanel: The what now?

Johnny: The event that sets everything into motion. It was that carnal sin which invited the devil into salem. There wouldn’t be a story without it.

Abigail as marlena: Why are you telling me that story?

Chad as john: Because that’s how I feel when I’m with you. And no one on this earth and nothing else–

John: Nothing and nobody on this earth makes me feel that way.

Marlena: Don’t do this to me.

John: Oh, god. I know you want to go, and I’m not gonna stop you, but please, there is one thing I need to say, all right? You know what I was going through when isabella died. How I was walking around like a zombie. I was dead inside, until that night on the plane when you and I made love. You gave me life again, doc. And if nothing more comes out of this, I just want to say thank you. One fateful night changed everything. For me. For you. Sami. Marlena. Now here we are, having that part of our lives recreated on the big screen?

Roman: And you’re worried that it’s all gonna bring it rushing back?

John: Well, aren’t you? Come on, man. We’ve worked so hard to put all this behind us here. We don’t know what’s gonna happen, if we open that door.

Roman: Well… you know what? Could be a good thing. Final catharsis. If I’m okay with it, why shouldn’t you be?

John: It’s not about the affair, roman. It’s about marlena being possessed by the devil.

Devil: Brilliantly played, marlena. Using ben’s own love for ciara as a weapon against him? You did me proud.

[Recorder beeps] You think you can get rid of me by shutting off the recorder? After all these years, you should know you can never get rid of me. My nunormal?

Johnny: Thank you for helping me convince allie to do the movie.

Chanel: You did the heavy lifting.

Johnny: Hey, I thought you were terrified of this story?

Chanel: Well, I’m still properly afraid of the devil, like any good girl should be, but I see how passionate you are about this story. I know you’re not gonna give up, and I kinda wanted to move the conversation along.

Johnny: Oh? Why is that?

Chanel: So I could be alone with you.

Johnny: And I could demonstrate my passion in a different way?

Chanel: Exactly.

Chad as john: You want me to leave… I’ll walk out that door right now. And as hard as it may be, I’ll stay out of your life, if that’s what you want.

[In normal voice] Abby, what’s wrong?

Abigail: It says they kiss.

Chad: Yeah, I know.

Julie: You have seen doug?

Kayla: Yeah. I have, and I’m afraid that there’s no change. He’s still very upset and confused.

Julie: But I get to visit him tomorrow, right?

Kayla: Well, I think that we should wait till after the first 24 hours. We need to make sure that the doctors think that he’s not a danger to you anymore.

Julie: I hate this, kayla. I feel so helpless. I’m not there to jog his memory. I’m not there to hold his hand. I’m not there to tell him I love him.

Kayla: I know, but hopefully, soon.

Julie: Well, is there anything I can do?

Kayla: Well, you know me. I’m a doctor, but I believe very strongly in the power of prayer.

Julie: So do I, and I’m gonna keep on praying for my husband till my last breath.

John: I tried to convince johnny, “just leave the possession part out of the script.”

Roman: Okay. What is it you’re worried about?

John: Oh, come on, man. Do I even have to say it?

Roman: That it could happen again? That we’re inviting the devil back into our lives.

John: Why take the risk?

Roman: All right, john. Tell you what. Let me talk with johnny, okay? As big a moment as that was in all our lives, sami’s had a lot of big moments. I think johnny can make the movie without that.

John: Thanks.

Allie: Hey, look. It’s a meeting of the grandpas.

Roman: Hey, look who’s here. How’s it going?

Allie: Not great.

John: No? Why not? What’s wrong?

Allie: Well, I can’t believe it, but I just let johnny talk me into playing mom in his stupid movie.

Roman: Wait a minute. Are we looking at the star of the sami brady story?

Allie: No, I am just a supporting character now.

John: How is that even possible?

Allie: Well, johnny totally rewrote the script. It’s a horror movie now. He even changed the title.

Roman: What’s it called now?

Allie: “Possessed: The marlena evans story.”

[Dramatic eerie music]

 

Marlena: I don’t understand. Why are you doing this?

Devil: Marlena, I told you we had a lot of work to do.

Marlena: What does any of this have to do with ben?

Ben: Well, I am glad that you at least got to be there for julie.

Ciara: Well, I tried. So how did it go with marlena? Did you talk to her about us starting a family?

Ben: Actually, yes, I did.

Ciara: You did? Well, did it make you feel any better?

Ben: It did.

Ciara: Wait, it did?

Ben: Mm-hmm.

Ciara: So does that mean…

Ben: If you want to have a baby… let’s have a baby.

Devil: Do you want to know what this has to do with ben? What do you think, marlena? I have big plans for ben weston’s baby. Big plans.

[Cackling]

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Gabi: Did you kill a guy named jed zanetti?

Jake: Where is this coming from?

Gabi: From philip, who, by the way, just fired me.

Jake: What?

Gabi: Yeah, for spying on him, and now, he’s trying to get me to give up gabi chic and threatening to send you to prison for murder. But that cannot happen, unless all of this is true, so I am gonna ask you again, jake. Did you kill this guy jed back in philly?

Jake: Not here. Not in public. Let’s talk at home.

Gabi: Fine. Be lucky if we run into that bitch ava.

Jake: You mean she’s behind this?

Gabi: Where else would philip have gotten this information?

Brady: I value our friendship. Always have. And I wouldn’t want to do anything to jeopardize it, so… I accept that you have chosen philip, and I hope it works out, chloe. I hope that you’re happy together.

Chloe: Thank you, brady. That means a lot to me.

[Dramatic music]

 

[Static crackling]

[Demonic growling]

Devil voice: We certainly took care of that old geezer, didn’t we, marlena?

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Devil voice: It’s laughable how easy it was for the two of us to dispense with that old fool. Just look at what you and I can accomplish together, marlena, when you let me in. I let you cast me out, but it’s only a matter of time before you and I are one again.

Marlena: No.

Devil voice: You won’t let me back in right now? Let me in, marlena. It’s so much simpler not to fight it.

Marlena: No!

John: Doc, what’s wrong? What’s going on in here?

Brady: I hope philip appreciates how amazing you are.

Chloe: Well, thank you, and I don’t think philip appreciating me is the problem. I kind of feel like he appreciates me a little too much.

Brady: Think you’re right about that. I just–I hope he gets past all the jealousy stuff.

Chloe: Yeah, I think he finally has. I think he’s over it, and you know, buying this tree and us planting it together is a sign of our new beginning. You know, a sign that we are committed to each other.

Brady: Well, I wish you luck. You deserve only the best, chloe.

Chloe: You too.

Brady: I’m gonna go get my girl. I’ll take you home, okay?

Chloe: Okay.

[Tense music]

 

Philip: I know I can’t erase the mistakes of the past, but I’m hoping that it can be the start of a new, better beginning for us. Serena: It’s my 3:10

Maggie: I couldn’t believe it when I got back this morning and I heard the news.

Julie: Well, darling, you have had heartbreak of your own with summer. Again, I am so very sorry.

Maggie: Thank you. At least I was there to take care of her until the end.

Julie: I’m sure it meant the world to her, maggie.

Maggie: So when did all this trouble with doug start?

Julie: Oh, a few weeks ago. It’s all happened so fast. I mean, doug was himself. He was telling stories always, you know, about the people in our lives. And sometimes I remember it, and sometimes I didn’T. And then one afternoon, at our restaurant, while we’re setting up for the dinner crowd, he locked me in the walk-in freezer.

Maggie: [Scoffs] Well, that had to have been an accident.

Julie: I thought it was, at first. He told marlena it wasn’t, and then he began to confuse names, and he began to forget people. And then the inappropriate behavior.

Maggie: Oh, I can’t imagine.

Julie: It’s been awful.

Maggie: Yeah.

Julie: Went to the hospital for tests.

Maggie: Mm-hmm.

Julie: Once he’s there, he became even more confused and very agitated. And that’s when they tell me he hit me over the head with a tray.

Maggie: Dear god. You must have been so traumatized.

Julie: Well, I don’t actually remember it.

Maggie: Oh.

Julie: But marlena was in the room, and she told me what happened.

Marlena: The tablet…

John: Is it this article that’s got you so upset?

Marlena: The article.

John: About doug?

Marlena: Yes, I saw the article, and that upset me.

John: Of course it did, sweetheart. I mean, you were right there when he assaulted julie, and you had to make the painful judgment to commit him to bayview.

Marlena: I feel awful about that. About all of it.

John: Well, you know, unfortunately, doug’s become a danger to himself and others. And you know doug. He would never forgive himself if he ever really hurt julie or anybody else, so, honey, you only did what you had to do, in order to not only protect doug, but everyone that he loves.

Gabi: Where is that she-devil?

Jake: Doesn’t seem like she’s home.

Gabi: Lucky her.

Jake: I don’t get it. I was just talking to her, and she was acting all sweet, like this perfect little angel, saying all she wanted to do was make peace with you and move on.

Gabi: Well, that’s what she does, like when she acts all innocent in front of rafe.

Jake: Yeah, and the whole time, she was plotting with philip to take us both down.

Gabi: Ava vitali is a lot of things, but innocent is not one of them. I should have known when I smelled that aftershave the other day. Of course it was philip’S.

Jake: She blackmailed him. He almost died because of her.

Gabi: Yeah, but now, they have a mutual enemy, so of course mafia princess ava gives him the dirt on you.

Jake: What’d phil say?

Gabi: Claims that there’s an eyewitness against you.

Jake: Give you a name?

Gabi: According to the file, some guy named carmine supposedly saw you commit the murder.

Jake: [Scoffs] Carmine merlino?

Gabi: So it is true? This is the sound of an asthma attack…

Ciara: [Sighs] Whatever comes from your talk with marlena, we will deal with it. But ignoring the discussion isn’t gonna make your problem go away, ben.

Ben: You’re right. Marlena does always help.

[Sighs]

[Sighs]

[Cell phone beeps]

[Line trills]

[Cell phone rings]

[Cell phone beeps]

Marlena: Hello, ben. Is everything all right?

Ben: Well, actually, I was hoping to maybe schedule an appointment to see you. I’m just in the process of working my way through some feelings right now.

Marlena: Okay. How about right now?

Ben: Are you sure?

Marlena: I’m always here for you. Why don’t we meet at my office?

Ben: Okay, great. Yeah. Thank you. See you soon.

[Cell phone beeps] She can see me right now.

Ciara: That’s great.

Ben: Yeah.

Ciara: Do you want me to come with you?

Ben: You know what, baby? Thank you, but I think I have to figure this out on my own. Dr. Evans somehow always finds a way to help me see things a little bit more clearly.

Ciara: Call me as soon as you’re done, okay?

Ben: I will.

Ciara: I love you.

Ben: I love you.

[Sighs]

Ciara: Yeah.

Ben: Mm.

Ciara: Bye.

[Sighs]

[Cell phone rings]

[Cell phone beeps] Hello? Hey, shawn. What’s up? Wait, what? What happened to grandpa doug?

Julie: I was at a loss. I did not know how to deal with what was happening to doug, and then marlena recommended he be committed to bayview. They talked me into signing the papers, and they took him away.

Maggie: Oh, julie, that had to be so painful for you.

Julie: Pretty much the hardest thing I ever did in my life.

Maggie: Yeah.

Julie: ‘Cause as he’s going away, he looked back at me with such desperation and such fear. And I realized, what if it’s me? What if it’s me that he needs, and I’m turning him over to strangers?

Maggie: Oh, honey.

John: Come on, doc. What are you doing?

Marlena: I have an appointment with ben.

John: Whoa, whoa, whoa. But now? Come on.

Marlena: He needs me. Look, I couldn’t–I couldn’t do anything for poor doug, and now, maybe I can help ben.

John: Okay. I suppose you know what’s best.

Marlena: I do. I won’t be long.

John: Be careful.

Marlena: Yeah.

Gabi: I asked you the other day if you killed anybody, and you didn’t give me an answer. Is that because–

Jake: I didn’t kill jed zanetti.

Gabi: I knew it, and I swear I told philip. I told him that you were innocent.

Jake: Far from innocent, gabi.

Gabi: What?

Jake: [Sighs] It’s a lot more complicated than that.

Gabi: Jake, what do you mean, “complicated”? Either you killed that man, or you didn’T.

Jake: I shouldn’t even be talking about this. It’s not good for either of us.

Gabi: I need to know what happened, jake. All of it. I need to know exactly what we are dealing with here, so that we can figure out a way to fight philip.

Philip: My father doesn’t pay you to ask questions, henderson. Just have the gardener bring me a saw!

[Cell phone beeps] Oh, this one’s gonna be a lot easier to cut down.

Chloe: Hey, you’re home from work early.

Philip: So are you. What a nice coincidence.

Chloe: Yeah, you look like you were headed out.

Philip: I was.

Chloe: Okay. Where are you going?

Philip: I was just gonna take a drive down to the river to water our tree. You want to come? Don’t settle. Start your day with secret.

Jake: Never even wanted to think about this again.

Gabi: Hey, I can see how hard this is for you, but whatever it is, you already know that I love you.

Jake: So like I said before, the vitalis, we would make arrangements with the local businesses, right?

Gabi: Yeah, yeah, you offered them protection.

Jake: Yeah, and it was my job to enforce those arrangements. To apply pressure if there was any pushback. And there hardly ever was, but this one time… went too far. Remember the guy we were just talking about?

Gabi: Carmine merlino. The witness?

Jake: Yeah. No, no, no. Carmine was not a witness. Carmine and I worked together, and I would go out and collect the pizzo.

Gabi: Pizzo?

Jake: Yeah, yeah, that’s the protection money we collected from the local businesses, and there was this local bar owner, jed zanetti.

[Sighs] Crap. He was behind on his payments, and so the boss–our boss– ordered us to scare him. A little bit.

Gabi: What did you do?

Jake: Got in his face. Roughed him up a little bit. Carmine wouldn’t stop. Before I knew it, jed was coughing up blood.

Gabi: Oh, god.

Jake: Yeah. I tried. I tried to pull him off him, but he wouldn’t stop. It was too late. It’s too damn late.

Gabi: Jed died.

Jake: [Sighs] Right in front of me.

Gabi: Jake.

Jake: What?

Gabi: Philip says that carmine is willing to testify you were the man that beat him to death.

Jake: Okay, gabi, I didn’t do it, okay? I was there, but I tried to stop it.

Gabi: I believe you. I believe you, jake. It must have been awful.

Jake: Worst day of my life.

Philip: Why does it seem like you don’t want to go with me to our tree? Is there something I should know?

Chloe: No. Of course not. I would love to go with you. It would be nice to spend some time there.

Philip: Couldn’t agree more. And I don’t have to tell you, if you don’t nurture these things, they can wither and die.

Chloe: We won’t let that happen.

Philip: Of course, you can always overwater a tree too.

Chloe: Overwater?

Philip: Yeah, if you’re not careful, you can drown the roots. Kill the tree. Do you think that’s something we need to worry about?

Chloe: Philip–

Philip: Let me save you the trouble of lying. I saw you at our tree in brady’s arms.

Brady: Rachel’s in her room designing scary faces for us to carve.

John: Well, I hope it doesn’t give her nightmares. Enough of those going around these days.

Brady: How is everything? How’s marlena feeling?

John: Well, better, she says. She went to work.

Brady: All right. That’s good, right?

John: Yeah. I suppose. Still pretty upset about doug though.

Brady: Yeah I heard about that. Dad, did doug really attack julie?

John: Yeah, it looks that way. Although he keeps denying it. Says someone else did.

Brady: Who?

John: Doug says that marlena was the one who assaulted julie.

Ben: Thank you for seeing me on such short notice.

Marlena: Of course. I’m glad to see you. Always happy to help.

Ben: Means a lot to me.

Marlena: Do you mind if i record the session?

Ben: No, no.

[Recorder beeps]

[Static crackles]

[Demonic growling]

Devil voice: Dear marlena, did you really need to play this tape? I’m so hurt that you’ve already forgotten our little reunion.

Ben: Dr. Evans? Is something wrong?

Ciara: I just heard about grandpa doug. Hey. Are you all right? Stupid question. How could you be?

Julie: Well, I’m very glad to see you, ciara. And maggie’s back. Isn’t that wonderful?

Ciara: Yes. Oh, it is. Welcome home! So good to see you.

Maggie: Thank you, sweetheart, thank you.

Ciara: Does mom know?

Julie: I spoke with her, and of course, she immediately wanted to come rushing back. And I told her there was no point, because her father is not allowed visitors.

Ciara: We can’t see him?

Julie: He has been declared a danger to himself and to others. He is in isolation, until he is further evaluated.

Maggie: That’ll change soon.

Julie: I hope so.

Ciara: I just–I really can’t believe that grandpa doug would try to hurt you.

Julie: He wouldn’t, and he didn’T.

Maggie: What are you saying, julie?

Julie: I’m saying that the person that hit me over the head with a tray is not my doug. The airport can be a real challenge for new homeowners

Ciara: Who else could have hit you with that tray?

Maggie: I mean, you said the only one in his room was marlena.

Julie: That’s right.

Ciara: You don’t think that marlena–

Julie: No! No. Of course I don’T. What I meant was, the person who wanted to hurt me could not possibly have been doug.

Maggie: Oh, honey. You’re right. You’re right about that.

Julie: I’ve loved him so long. Most of my life, and he has such a magnificent heart, and I didn’t want to believe that he had dementia. But now it’s becoming clear that my darling is… is losing touch with reality.

Maggie: Well, that may be so, but julie, the one thing that he’ll never lose is you. That’s not gonna happen, and you’ve gotta try to hold onto that, okay?

Julie: I will. I will.

Maggie: Okay. Okay. All right. Well, then I’m gonna go and let the two of you talk. I promise you I’ll light a candle for doug this sunday at church.

Julie: He would appreciate it.

Maggie: And if you need me, you call me, anytime.

Julie: Mm-hmm.

Maggie: Okay?

Julie: I will.

Maggie: Day or night.

Julie: Thank you, maggie.

Maggie: Okay.

Julie: Baby.

[Sighs]

Ben: Dr. Evans?

Marlena: Hmm? Oh, I’m fine, ben.

Ben: You seem distracted.

Marlena: No. Not at all.

Ben: Okay.

Marlena: Why don’t you tell me what’s on your mind?

Ben: Okay, well, ciara and I, we just got back from our honeymoon, and we have been having a talk about having a baby.

Marlena: Wow. That’s a big step.

Ben: Yeah. Yeah, it is a big step. And given all the horrible things that I have done in my past, I’m worried it might be a big mistake. I’m already responsible for enough pain.

Gabi: So you may not believe me, but I understand how you feel.

Jake: Gabi, you couldn’t possibly understand.

Gabi: Of course. Of course I could understand. The exact same thing happened to me.

Jake: What do you mean?

Gabi: Well, a long time ago, I was married to this guy named mick. He’s julie’s cousin. And after we split, he tried to rape me, so I hit him over the head with a rock. Kate and sami convinced me to cover it up. They helped me dump his body in the river, only he wasn’t dead. He came back.

Jake: Came back?

Gabi: Yeah, and he wouldn’t stop trying to hurt me. So I shot him, and this time, he did not come back.

Jake: Gabi, I’m so sorry.

Gabi: When someone is that obsessed with trying to control you, they will destroy your life if you let them.

Philip: I mean, what happened after I left? Did you and brady have sex on the fresh ground right in front of the tree that we planted?

Chloe: Oh, my god. Do you hear yourself? No. Rachel was with us.

Philip: I didn’t see rachel.

Chloe: Brady asked me to join them at the pumpkin patch.

Philip: Oh, like a nice, sweet family thing, huh?

Chloe: Will you let me talk, please? I’m the one who asked to stop at our tree to water it after the pumpkin patch. When we got there, rachel asked me what our story was. How you and I fell in love. It was after that that brady finally realized what I’ve been talking about all along.

Philip: Which is what?

Chloe: That I’m with you, and that I’m not interested in being with him.

Philip: And he just suddenly accepted that?

Chloe: Yes. He said he would back off and let us be together.

Philip: I don’t believe that.

Chloe: Oh, my god, but it’s the truth. And he agreed to it because he thought you’d gotten over your crazy jealousy. And I can see now that this dangerous obsession of yours has gotten worse. We’re for those who love to discover.

Gabi: This is not your fault, jake. Philip says he’s gonna use carmine’s story to send you to prison, but it’s his word against yours.

Jake: Okay, well, sure, carmine’s a lowlife, but gabi, I got a rap sheet, okay? It’s not like it’s gonna be easy–I can sit there and convince some judge or jury that I’m a choirboy.

Gabi: You think that they could convict you after all these years?

Jake: Yeah, worst-case scenario, I take the fall for a murder I didn’t commit.

Gabi: And best?

Jake: Guilty for being an accessory after the fact. All right, so… what’s phil want you to do?

Gabi: He wants me to choose between my company and you.

Jake: Hmm.

Gabi: But I’ve already made my decision. There is no way in hell that I am losing you.

Philip: What was I supposed to do when I saw you and brady together?

Chloe: How about ask me? How about giving me the benefit of the doubt for once?

Philip: I trust you. I just–

Chloe: “Don’t trust brady.” Blah, blah. I know. I’ve heard that a million times. I thought that you were fine with the fact that brady and i are friends and we work together.

Philip: I am.

Chloe: Then what the hell was that?

Philip: I mean, come on, chloe. I didn’t find you at basic black at a marketing meeting.

Chloe: Yeah, no, you were spying on me at the tree. Our tree! That’s supposed to symbolize the hope for our future!

Philip: Am I supposed to think that you in brady’s arms was just innocent?

Chloe: Yes, I expect you not to be a jealous ass!

Maggie: What is going on here?

Ciara: I do know what it’s like to look at someone you love and not know what’s going on in their brain. To be afraid that they might hurt you.

Julie: Oh, darling. You and ben, that’s different.

Ciara: I know. I know it is. But I also know how lucky of a man grandfather is to have someone like you fighting for them.

Julie: Well, you know, you marry a man for better or for worse.

[Both laugh] And in nearly 50 years of marriage, I can say that the betters always outweigh the worse.

Ciara: Well, you are both so lucky then.

Julie: I thank god for it all the time. Yep. Doug and I hit the lottery every day of our lives.

Ciara: And I know there will be better days to come.

Julie: Thank you for saying that, darling. Now, you tell me about you and ben.

Ciara: Well, what about me and ben? I mean we are finally together again. We are so happy.

Julie: And you’re back from your honeymoon. So what’s next?

Marlena: Do you want to have children with ciara?

Ben: I love her more than anything in this world, and the idea of starting a family with her is everything I could possibly hope for. But I have battled my demons my entire life. My father is troubled. My sister jordan was, too, and I know tripp is just a medical student, but he also confirmed that my condition could be hereditary.

Marlena: He’s right. It could be. Have you discussed this with ciara?

Ben: Yeah, and she’s willing to deal with whatever comes of it, and–

Marlena: You’re not?

Ben: I was really getting myself there, but then I had this dream, and it just shook me.

Marlena: Tell me about the dream.

Ben: It was in the future, and ciara and I had this young son. And he…

[Sighs]

Marlena: Go on.

Ben: Our son, he had one of my neckties, and he used it to hurt somebody.

Marlena: I understand how disturbing that dream must have been.

Ben: I’ve done some evil things in my life. And I have learned to accept it in order to try to get better. And I try every day to try to make up for what I did, but I truly don’t know if I can risk bringing another soul into this world that might be capable of doing more evil.

Brady: Doug really accused marlena of attacking julie?

John: Oh, he was adamant about it.

Brady: Dad, that’s just evidence of his mental decline then, right? Symptom of dementia?

John: Maybe.

Brady: “Maybe”? What other explanation is there? Why would marlena hit julie?

John: Well, according to doug, marlena attacked him too.

Brady: What?

John: And more to the point, doug said that marlena tried to kill him. When I heard about the science behind the new

Gabi: I’m just gonna tell philip I’m gonna take the deal.

Jake: No, no, no, gabi, wait, please.

Gabi: Wait for what? I’ve already made my decision. I choose you.

Jake: Okay, I know we’ve been doing a lot of joking about who’s gonna be ceo if we take over titan.

Gabi: When we take over titan.

Jake: Okay. What I’m trying to say is, gabi, you’re incredible. You impress me every day with your strength. Your determination. Your lady boss badassery. I mean, you built gabi chic from nothing.

Gabi: And if it goes away, this time, I won’t have nothing. I will have you.

Jake: Hey, look, I appreciate you trying to protect me. It means everything. But I’m not gonna let anybody take your company away from you. So we’re gonna have to find another way to stop philip.

Chloe: What’s going on here is, your stepson is trying to destroy any chance of our relationship working out.

Philip: But I’m the one fighting for it.

Chloe: You know what? I’m done now. I am sick of your obsession, and I’m sick of you not trusting me!

Philip: No, I never said I didn’t trust you.

Maggie: Well, it kind of seemed like–

Philip: Chloe’s right. I was being a world-class jerk, and she doesn’t deserve that. But I’m not gonna sit still while brady steals her away from me again.

Brady: Doug believes marlena tried to kill him.

John: You know, son, it just could be that doug is feeling guilty that he attacked julie, and it’s easier for him just to blame marlena.

Brady: Wow. I can’t even imagine how julie is feeling about all this.

John: You think? Having the one person you love more than anybody in this world be a threat to you?

Ciara: We don’t have to talk about ben and me right now.

Julie: I want to. I want to. It would be a distraction from all the misery and confusion.

Ciara: Okay. Well, in that case, ben and I have been discussing what it would feel like to have a baby.

Julie: Oh, wonderful.

Ciara: Yeah, it is. It’s just–it seems like I’m a little more ready to have a family than ben is.

Julie: Ben doesn’t want to have children?

Ciara: No. He does. He just has some of his own issues that he needs to work out before he can commit.

Julie: Understandable.

Ciara: Yeah.

Julie: Considering his family’s history and his own.

Ciara: Yeah. Well, he is in a session right now with marlena, so hopefully she can help him work through some of his feelings. There’s no one I trust more than marlena.

Ben: Am I just being too cautious? Am I being paranoid?

Marlena: I think your fears are very understandable, and having a child is just about the most important decision a couple can make. It is a lifelong commitment, you know. And I think that every child has the right to be loved and wanted without reservation.

Ben: Without reservation. I know how much ciara wants to have a baby with me, but the more you and I sit here and talk about this, the more convinced I am that it is just not the right thing to do.

Marlena: Are you sure?

Ben: I know how much pain I’ve caused. And even though I found a way to process it, the guilt and the shame, it’s never gonna fully leave me. I can’t chance my child suffering that same fate or me being responsible for more suffering or death. I’m worried that I’m gonna spend my days standing over his or her crib watching and waiting for signs of something bad to happen. I can’t go through with that. I can’t do that to ciara, and I will not do that to my child.

Marlena: I’m so sorry, ben.

Ben: Thank you, and thank you for taking the time to see me.

Marlena: Mm.

[Static crackles]

Devil voice: Don’t let him go, marlena. You need to convince ben weston that he and his wife must have this baby.

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Xander: [Exhales] You getting smails on tape, it’s brilliant. I’m so proud of you.

Gwen: And as soon as justin plays my recording in his chambers, he will realize that if he does not let you and bonnie go, he’s finished.

Xander: [Exhales] I really hope our plan works. I just hate putting my cousin in this position.

Gwen: Why? Thanks to us, he’s going to have a future with his fiancéE.

Xander: Justin has more morality in his little finger than the rest of the kiriakis men combined. Blackmailing a judge? That will not come easy for him.

[Solemn music]

 

[Beep]

Gwen: I am very sorry to do this, but you–you understand my situation. And I need to be clear, because I know that you and I can have a really good time together. I will sleep with you if you promise to let xander go. I believe that they call that a quid pro quo. Agreed?

Smails: Agreed.

[Beep] You’re in league with xander cook’s girlfriend?

Justin: Yes, I am, and to be clear, you won’t be having sex with her. You also won’t just be dropping the charges against xander cook but also dropping the charges against bonnie lockhart.

Smails: She’s accused of murdering two people.

Justin: Yes, and committing larceny. I’m her lawyer. I’m aware. Now, your honor, I need you to make it all just go away, for lack of evidence or whatever you think will fly.

Smails: And if I refuse?

Justin: Oh, well, then this little recording will, uh, be given to my brother-in-law, jack deveraux at “the spectator,” who will share it with the world, destroying your reputation and effectively ending your career.

Brady: You know, on second thought, maybe I should have justin talk to grandfather, have him convince vic that the idea of me stealing you away from philip is ridiculous.

Chloe: Do you think that would really work? I mean, you literally just told him that you wouldn’t do that, and not only did he blow you off, he went and told maggie that we’re back together again.

Brady: That’s just because he has zero respect for me.

[Scoffs] He has more respect for justin, I believe.

Chloe: Oh, I don’t know, i think his opinion on justin has probably slightly changed now that he’s involved with and engaged to bonnie lockhart.

[Phone rings]

Brady: Hm. Uh…hey, dad, what’s up? Sorry to hear that. Um, is marlena going to be okay?

Jake: I don’t blame gabi for being suspicious. You laid it on pretty thick this morning.

Ava: I didn’t realize that freshly baked muffins would be such an offense.

Jake: The two of you have been at each other’s throats since you moved in with her brother. Why all of a sudden would you be acting all sweet and adorable?

Ava: Well, ’cause I realized things don’t have to be this way. I can use my power.

Jake: To do what?

Ava: Change the dynamic between gabi and me.

Gabi: So, let me get this straight, if I don’t sign gabi chic over to you, you’re going to send jake to prison for murder?

Philip: Correct.

Gabi: That is–that is ridiculous. I will never give you my company, and you will never try to take it away from me by making up some story about my boyfriend. Jake has never killed anyone.

Philip: Are you sure about that?

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Xander: [Exhales] I wish I could see the look on smails’s face when justin sticks it to him. Ej too, when he finds out I’m free.

Gwen: Mm-hmm, and once the judge stops the charges against bonnie, you know that $1 million that she stole is no longer going to be evidence, is it? The police are going to have to give it back.

Xander: About damn time. I’m going to enjoy spending every penny of that.

Gwen: No, xander, darling, you cannot spend that money. You need to give it back to ej, and he’s going to hire you at basic black.

Xander: Why would I do that? Why would I wanna work for that guy after the way he treated me?

Gwen: You know what, you’re right. Screw ej, he doesn’t deserve to have you working for him.

Xander: Exactly. I mean, I could maybe see rewarding justin with some of that cash, although he’s such a good guy, he probably wouldn’t take it anyway.

Gwen: Yeah, he’s loaded anyway. His reward will be getting bonnie back.

Xander: You know, I’ve never understood the attraction there, but he must really love her if he’s agreed to fight this dirty.

Justin: So, do we have a deal?

Smails: Mr. Kiriakis, justin, we’ve encountered each other in the courtroom many times over the years, and you’ve always impressed me with your command of the law.

Justin: What’s your point?

Smails: I’m surprised and, frankly, dismayed that you of all people would blackmail me.

Justin: Well, you can imagine my dismay when I learned that you had reinstated the charges against xander cook right after he was unceremoniously dropped as a client by ej dimera, so i am losing patience, your honor. Do we have a deal?

Smails: You don’t wanna do this.

Justin: You’re right, i don’T. In fact it makes me sick to even be having this conversation with you, because I happen to believe in playing by the rules. But I also believe in justice, and in the cases of bonnie lockhart and xander cook, there will be no justice unless they’re set free. So, are you going to dismiss the cases against them, or will I be forced to use this recording to have you thrown off the bench?

Brady: Yeah, dad, please don’t worry about it. No, yeah, I’m sure, I’m sure I’ll figure something out. Just please keep me posted if there’s anything I can do, okay? All right, I love you, bye.

Chloe: What’s wrong with marlena?

Brady: [Sighs] She’s not feeling well. My dad thinks she may be overworked. She’s just worn out.

Chloe: And you said you need to figure something out? Is everything okay?

Brady: Yeah, they were–they were supposed to take rachel to the pumpkin patch today. You know, hayrides, corn mazes, the whole thing. But my schedule’s wide open, so I can just take her. It’s not a problem.

Chloe: Aww, she’ll love that. What a little cutie pie. Please send me some pictures.

Brady: I have a better idea. Why don’t you come with us?

Jake: So, what are you saying, you want a truce with gabi?

Ava: I told you, the muffins were a peace offering.

Jake: Eh, kumbaya ain’t your style.

Ava: Yeah, maybe not, but rafe doesn’t wanna live in a war zone, neither do I.

Jake: Do you think gabi does?

Ava: Well, it sure seems like it. From the minute I moved in, she’s been so nasty to me, and I’ve done absolutely nothing to deserve it.

Jake: Hm.

Ava: Look, I know you love her, jake, but, I mean, it’s gotta be so frustrating. She spends all her time fighting with me instead of just being happy with you. I mean, don’t you want it to stop?

Jake: Of course I do. I hate it. I also hate that rafe and I are caught in the middle of it.

Ava: Okay, you want the same thing I do–to make peace.

Jake: I want to believe you right now, I do, but gabi would call me a fool to trust you.

Philip: How well do you really know jake?

Gabi: Well enough to know he’s not a killer.

Philip: But he was in the mob.

Gabi: He got out. He–he wanted to earn an honest living, a normal, safe life.

Philip: In salem?

Gabi: That’s because his ex-girlfriend took–you know what, it doesn’t even matter, because he’s here now, and unlike you, he’s a decent man.

Philip: You admitted you put that spyware on my computer. Are you saying that he wasn’t involved in that?

Gabi: I admitted that? I–I don’t remember. And you have no proof.

Philip: I have proof that jake isn’t the man you think he is.

Gabi: What the hell are you talking about?

Philip: The proof is all right there…that your decent boyfriend was a hit man. As a dj, I know all about customization.

Xander: Look, I know exactly what we should do with at least some of that $1 million. I’m taking you, gwen rizczech, on a tropical vacation.

Gwen: Really? Well, I’ve never been anywhere remotely warm in my entire life.

Xander: Oh, well, get ready for sand, surf, and loads of sunshine.

Gwen: Oh, my. Well, that sounds lovely. As long as you don’t mind me protecting my delicate skin under an umbrella.

Xander: Of course not. No, it will be my pleasure to slather your entire body with sunscreen.

Gwen: [Laughs] Okay. So, tell me then, where would we go? What sort of posh, fancy resort are you thinking about?

Xander: I’m talking about the kinda place that’s so exclusive that you wouldn’t even see another person, unless of course they were coming over to our bungalow to give us a couples massage or serve us dinner under the stars.

Gwen: Wow, well, that does sound magical.

Xander: I just really wanna get away, just go somewhere far away where we can be all alone and finally start getting to know one another properly.

Gwen: I really, really want that too, xander. I mean, it’s crazy, we’ve been so busy putting out all these fires, but we haven’t really had the chance to just focus on you and me.

Xander: Exactly. An island getaway is just what we need. Looking at sunsets, sipping mai tais, maybe some sex on the beach.

Gwen: Ooh, yum, yes, I love that cocktail.

Xander: I wasn’t talking about the cocktail.

Gwen: You naughty boy.

Philip: Take it.

Gabi: No, whatever’s in there is all lies.

Philip: You ever heard of the name jed zanetti?

Gabi: No.

Philip: Well, he owned a bar in philly. Apparently, he made a habit of stiffing the vitalis whenever it came time to collect, so jake was sent in to rough him up a little. He ended up beating poor jed to death and dumping his body somewhere off the jersey shore.

Gabi: That is such bull.

Philip: It’s all right here in the folder.

Gabi: Jake never killed anybody. I don’t believe a word of this.

Philip: I had a feeling you wouldn’T. Turns out there was an eyewitness.

Gabi: What?

Philip: He saw everything up close and personal. And he’s prepared to testify in a court of law that the man you love is a stone-cold killer.

Ava: Honestly, I’m at a loss as to what I can do to win gabi’s trust.

Jake: I don’t think baked goods are going to do the trick.

Ava: How do I get her to stop seeing me as the enemy?

Jake: That’s a tough one. I mean, I so much as say your name, smoke starts coming out of her ears. You know what this reminds me of?

Ava: Hm?

Jake: The time the vitalis and the ligambis were fighting over control of the docks.

Ava: Exactly.

Jake: Yeah.

Ava: The two families were so focused on taking each other out, we both almost lost the waterfront.

Jake: Hm, and if we’re not careful, it’s going to happen again. We gotta find a way to peacefully co-exist.

Chloe: [Sighs] Well, as much as I would love to go and pick out some pumpkins with you and rachel, I actually have a job to do.

Brady: Yeah, but you also have an in with your boss. Your boss, uh, believes in keeping his employees very happy, and let me tell you something right now, there’s nothing happier than a hayride.

Chloe: Brady…

Brady: It’s fun. “Look at me, I’m chloe! I’m having fun on the hayride!” Come on, there’s nothing to do at the office, literally.

Chloe: Nothing urgent, no, but I would feel really bad about playing hooky. You know, I would feel very unprofessional.

Brady: Mm-hm. Is this really about you not wanting to miss work, or are you worried how philip is going to react? Yeah, yeah, yeah

Chloe: Why are you making this about philip when I’m just trying to show you that I’m a good employee?

Brady: It was just a question, that’s all.

Chloe: I admit philip has overreacted in the past to you and I spending time together, but he’s over that now. He knows that we’re friends and colleagues. He’s fine with it.

Brady: Okay, if you say so.

Chloe: [Sighs] Why do you keep doing this?

Brady: What am I doing? What?

Chloe: You know how hard philip’s been working at getting past his jealousy and leaving behind all that old petty nonsense, but you–you keep dragging us back into it. You keep provoking us every chance that you get. All I’m trying to do right now is prove to you that I’m loyal to your company.

Brady: I–I appreciate your loyalty to the company, and i know you are a responsible employee, but, chloe, still that doesn’t change the fact that rachel and I would love the chance to be with you today and hang out with you.

Chloe: Well, why didn’t you just say that and not make it about philip?

Brady: Because old habits die hard, and I’m sorry, I’m just trying–okay, sorry, I’m–I’m gonna do this over again, okay? Chloe, would you do me the honor of accompanying my daughter and I to our adventure in pumpkinland? If it helps you with your decision, it would be very, very good for rachel, who obviously misses her mom a lot, and I’m doing the best I can, chloe, but I’m gonna be honest with you, she could probably use some female energy. Marlena’s been supportive, but she’s got a lot on her plate. And I’m sorry, I’m pouring this on. You’re–you’re obviously not eager to go. I–I don’t wanna pressure you. Just, uh, we’ll be fine, and, uh, you won’t have to worry about upsetting philip. I’m sorry.

Chloe: Well, look, if you think it’s good for rachel, and philip getting upset aside, i don’t think he would object to us trying to take her to have some fun. Oh, besides, uh, the pumpkin patch is really close to where philip and I planted that tree, so I could water it on our way back.

Brady: Okay, that’s great.

Gabi: You know, clearly this carmine person is lying.

Philip: I might agree if he didn’t provide so many specifics, like how he and jake shoved zanetti up against the wall, then there was some punches thrown, and it escalated into him coughing up blood.

Gabi: That never happened.

Philip: Carmine even described the moment that they realized he was dead. He said he and jake were standing there blaming each other for taking it too far. Then jake said something like, uh, “you gotta shut your beak and get rid of the body.” That’s a hell of a lot of detail to make up.

Gabi: Maybe carmine’s seen a lot of movies. I know that jake is not a killer.

Philip: He never kept a secret from you? You really trust him that much?

Gabi: Yes, I do. The person I don’t trust is you. You’re so desperate to get leverage over me, so you can steal gabi chic. Where did you get all this inside information on the mob anyway, huh? Oh, my god, it was ava.

Ava: I agree. Rafe’s house cannot continue to be a battleground between the two couples.

Jake: Yeah, it really is exhausting.

Ava: It’s ridiculous. I mean, I can’t believe we are at the point where gabi thought that I would poison the muffins.

Jake: [Chuckles] Do you remember when the two families had a sit-down to work out their problems on the docks?

Ava: I wasn’t there, but i did hear about it. Everyone thought it was gonna be a big waste of time and that it would only make things worse.

Jake: Yeah, well, I was there, and I can tell ya, firsthand it did not start off well.

Ava: What happened?

Jake: All right, so, your cousin, he bought a bottle of grappa, right? And he set it down on the table, poured a shot for everybody, only the ligambis refused to drink, until cousin angelo drank first.

Ava: Oh.

[Laughter] I’m sure he loved that.

Jake: Oh, yeah, he was furious. Are you kidding me? But–but he stuck with it, because he knew what was at stake, right? So, cousin angelo drank first, and did not drop dead. And before you knew it, everybody was having a great time. We finished off the entire bottle, and found a solution to the problem with the docks. See, that, that is what we need now, a good old-fashioned sit-down between the warring parties to figure out a way to make the peace.

Ava: That, my friend, is a fabulous idea.

Jake: Heh.

Ava: Hm.

[Dark ambient music]

 

Gwen: So, this island is so secluded that you can only get to it by seaplane or boat.

[Chuckles] I mean, look at that, right? White sand, turquoise water. It’s absolute paradise.

Xander: What are you waiting for? Just book it.

Gwen: Okay.

[Door opens]

Xander: Did you play the tape for the slimy judge?

Justin: I did.

Gwen: Right, so, I assume that this means that xander and bonnie are now off the hook?

Justin: Not exactly.

Xander: Well, why? Gwen got him on tape agreeing to trade my freedom for sex. I mean, if that comes out, he’ll be ruined–wha–what happened?

Melinda: What happened is mr. Kiriakis was busted for blackmailing a judge.

[Music intensifies]

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Xander: Blackmail? What are you talking about?

Melinda: Judge smails understandably was unsettled when ms. Rizczech made her offer, so he contacted me and followed my advice and was ready with his own recording device.

[Device beeps]

Justin: You also won’t just be dropping the charges against xander cook, but also dropping the charges against bonnie lockhart.

Smails: She’s accused of murdering two people.

Justin: Yes, and committing larceny. I’m her lawyer. I’m aware. Now, your honor, I need you to make it all just go away, for lack of evidence or whatever you think will fly.

Smails: And if I refuse?

Justin: Oh, well, then this little recording will, uh, be given to my brother-in-law, jack deveraux at “the spectator,” who will share it with the world, destroying your reputation and effectively ending your career.

Melinda: [Scoffs]

[Device beeps] Not only is this recording evidence of blackmail on mr. Kiriakis’s part, but it also proves that ms. Rizczech solicited judge smails, and she will be charged accordingly.

Gwen: I wasn’t actually going to bloody sleep with him.

Melinda: But you were trying to entrap him–that’s enough to charge you with.

Xander: Oh, that’s a load of crap!

Melinda: Actually, it’s the law.

[Scoffs] What a rogues’ gallery we have here. Mr. Cook will be going down for drug trafficking, mr. Kiriakis for blackmail, and ms. Rizczech for solicitation. The only person missing here is ms. Lockhart, who, of course, will be going down for murder.

[Solemn music]

 

Jake: So, here’s the plan, we tell gabi and rafe we’re going to have a sit-down.

Ava: Oh, maybe we don’t use that word.

Jake: [Chuckles] Okay, okay. That we’re going to have a dinner, right? And we eat, we drink. Once everybody’s good and loosened up, we put all of our cards out on the table.

Ava: I make the case to gabi that rafe and I care very deeply for one another.

Jake: Right, and you acknowledge to gabi you know she loves her brother. In other words, you show her respect.

Ava: You’re so right, because if I can convince gabi that I’m all about respecting her, which I am, then she won’t feel so threatened by me.

Jake: There you go.

Ava: I mean, honestly I don’t understand why she feels threatened by me now. I mean, it’s not like I could do anything to hurt her.

Gabi: Ava’s a freakin’ mafia princess. Of course you got the dirt on jake from her, which, all of it is lies.

Philip: Ava forced me to launder money for her. Why would I go to her for anything?

Gabi: Then where’d you get it?

Philip: A background check that titan runs on its new employees. Initially our investigative team didn’t find any major red flags, but as they dug deeper…

Gabi: They found a ludicrous story about jake beating a guy to death in a bar?

Philip: I know you don’t want to believe it.

Gabi: I don’t believe it at all, period.

Philip: Unfortunately that doesn’t change the fact that it happened, and now we have to decide what to do.

Gabi: There’s nothing to decide–you fired me, so now I regain control of gabi chic. That was part of my deal.

Philip: Ah, but the deal’s changed, gabi, non-negotiable. So, listen up–if you sign your company over to me, I won’t take this information to the police. If you refuse, I will. I’m pretty sure, with the eyewitness testimony, the authorities in philly have a pretty solid case against jake. He could go to prison for life.

Gabi: So, you’re blackmailing me?

Philip: I’m asking you to make a choice. Your company or your boyfriend– which one are you gonna lose?

[Light laughter]

Brady: I think we got three of the best pumpkins in the patch.

Chloe: We sure did. Hey, rachel, what kind of face do you want your daddy to help you carve into your pumpkin?

Rachel: A scary one!

Brady: Whoa. [Laughs]

Chloe: Oh, I think that’s a great idea. You know what you should do? You should go home and draw a bunch of scary faces on a piece of paper, and then pick your favorite one for your pumpkin.

Rachel: Will you help me?

Chloe: Of course I will.

Brady: That was too cute. Okay, let’s, uh–let’s go home.

Chloe: Uh, okay, well, wait, first, um–uh, we have to water this special tree that philip and I planted together.

Brady: [Grunts]

[Softly] Okay. Here we are again.

Ava: I like this sit-down idea. But like you said, gabi sees red whenever you mention me, so, how are you gonna bring her to the table?

Jake: Leave that to me.

Ava: I just wanna know what the strategy is that you’re gonna use with the most stubborn person on the planet.

Jake: Ha. I’m gonna convince her that, for rafe’s sake and for the sake of our relationship, the fighting has to stop. Nobody wins in a situation like this.

Ava: Sounds good.

Jake: Will you talk to rafe?

Ava: Once you talk to gabi and she’s on board, you let me know, and then I will. So, where’s gabi today?

Jake: Oh, she had an unexpected meeting with philip.

Ava: Unexpected?

Jake: Yeah.

Ava: Well, I hope everything’s okay.

Gabi: You really are scum.

Philip: I hired you, and you betrayed me.

Gabi: Wrong. I saved you. When I decided to relaunch gabi chic at titan, you were hanging on by a professional thread.

Philip: I wouldn’t go that far.

Gabi: Oh, I would. The only reason that you’re ceo is because your daddy took pity on you, ’cause you almost destroyed your entire family, destroyed his company, and–and xander quit out of disgust.

Philip: And now he has complete confidence in me, because I’m doing an outstanding job.

Gabi: Because of the profits that gabi chic is generating, which are going to double when i release that fragrance and jewelry line.

[Sniffing]

Philip: What the hell are you doing?

Gabi: That aftershave. That–I smelled that in my house yesterday. You were there, weren’t you? Oh, no, you didn’t–you didn’t get that dirt on–on jake from a background check. You and ava are teaming up to take me down.

Chloe: That’s great, rachel. Make sure you fill the water to the top.

[Clears throat]

Brady: Did we really have to do this now?

Chloe: Uh, we were right here.

Brady: Chloe, it’s supposed to rain tomorrow.

Chloe: Yeah, but I would rather be safe than sorry. Why are you annoyed by this? I told you I wanted to do this before we left.

Brady: I–look, I know, I know, I’m sorry. Fine, whatever. It’s fine. Hey.

Chloe: Oh, thank you. Oh, that’s kinda heavy.

Rachel: Why is this a special tree?

Chloe: Well, it’s special because your great-uncle philip and I, when we were in high school together, we were sweethearts, and we carved our initials into a tree that was originally right over there.

Brady: But then your uncle, he kinda chopped it down, because he was acting like a spoiled brat.

Chloe: He realized he made a mistake, and he fixed it, so he went and bought us this new one to symbolize a new beginning, and we planted it here together. Wasn’t that so sweet of him?

Brady: Yeah, it’s very sweet. He’s–he’s a–he’s a prince.

[Soft solemn music]

 

Justin: Melinda, melinda, before you arrest us, please just hear me out.

Melinda: I can’t tell you how disappointed I am, counselor. I really thought you were one of the good guys.

Xander: He is!

Melinda: Not anymore, clearly. I am truly shocked that you would get involved with these two. She likes to brawl and bash people’s heads in, and xander cook? Where do you even being with him? How could you let them talk you into being a part of this horrendous scheme?

Justin: ‘Cause I am certain judge smails is in ej dimera’s pocket.

Melinda: Then you should have tried to prove it through legal means. My office could’ve launched an investigation to determine whether or not any crime was committed. Instead, “the spectator” is gonna run a front-page story about your arrest and your your probable disbarment. If you’ll excuse me, I’ll see about you two getting booked.

[Door opens, closes]

Xander: I really am so sorry, mate. Shingles? Oh… you mean bill.

Xander: This is all my fault, for forcing you to go along with our plan.

Justin: No one forced me to do anything. I knew how risky it was to approach judge smails. I knew that if he was threatened, he would find a way to retaliate.

Xander: But you couldn’t have known he’d record you.

Justin: It might have occurred to me if I’d been on my game, if I’d been thinking clearly, sensibly, but I wasn’T. I was operating out of fear.

Gwen: Of what?

Justin: That I wouldn’t be able to find a legal way to keep bonnie from going back to prison. As you pointed out, the odds are stacked against her. I mean, it’d be very difficult to get an acquittal under the best of circumstances. Facing a crooked judge? Trying to get a jury to see past bonnie’s record and damning evidence? I couldn’t take the chance. I had to protect her.

Gwen: You did it for love. That’s beautiful.

Justin: Hm. Except now bonnie and I will be prison pen pals instead of husband and wife.

Xander: We will find a way out of this.

Justin: How? I’m about to be charged with a felony.

Melinda: Come with me, please. I’ll come back for you.

Xander: Poor guy. God, I wish to hell I kept him out of this, I feel awful.

Gwen: Don’T. This was all my stupid idea.

Chloe: Well, thank you, rachel. You helped me do such a fantastic job.

Rachel: Can I go and water some more trees?

Brady: Yes, you can. Just make sure you stay close, so I can see you at all times, okay?

Rachel: Okay.

Brady: Okay. Have fun.

[Clears throat]

Chloe: [Sighs] Was it really necessary to tell her that philip chopped down our original tree, ’cause he was being a brat?

Brady: I could’ve said “jealous lunatic.” I’m sorry. I’m–hey, I’m–I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said that, you’re right.

Chloe: Then why did you? And please don’t tell me, “old habits.”

Brady: Chloe, come on. You know why. I’m just having a–I’m having a hard time accepting the fact that I lost you to philip. Okay?

Chloe: I–I appreciate your honesty, but please try harder, or our friendship is gonna suffer.

Brady: Look, you know, i don’t like to give philip credit for anything, but, uh, I think the guy’s actually beating me on this front. It was gracious of him to invite me to dinner, and it was his idea to plant this tree. That was thoughtful. Maybe the guy has finally changed his ways, and for your sake, I hope he has.

Philip: You’re convinced I’m conspiring with ava, because you think you smelled my aftershave inside of your home? You’re losing it, lady.

Gabi: Admit it, ava gave you that dirt on jake.

Philip: Your boyfriend committed a murder. It doesn’t matter how I found out.

Gabi: It matters to me, because if that information came from that skank, then I’m positive that it is fake. She probably twisted some arms, broke some legs, probably even paid that carmine person to lie, because she hates me, and she wants to ruin my life.

Philip: I knew this was going to be tough for you, but i figured you loved jake more than your company.

Gabi: Oh, just, what, sign on the dotted line, hand over my life’s work, my daughter’s legacy, all because you waved a folder in my face?

Philip: Take this, show it to jake. Show him exactly what carmine is willing to say on the stand, and then you need to decide what you wanna do. If I don’t hear from you soon, I’m going to take a copy of that information to the police, who will charge jake with murder.

Ava: Despite a bumpy start to the day, I’m glad that I ran into you. Good to talk things through.

Jake: Yeah, and look, if the vitalis and the ligambis can make peace, we sure as hell can figure out a way to do it.

Ava: Absolutely. Oh, you know what, angelo always said you were a very smart guy. I’m surprised he let you go.

Jake: Mm. Well, he knew my heart wasn’t in it anymore. I was no good to him.

Ava: Well, you’re turning out to be very valuable to me. Let me know how things go with gabi.

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Gwen: [Sighing] I lied to my dad about being a sex worker, and now I’m–now I’m being charged with solicitation for real.

Xander: We just should have left well-enough alone, let jack go on thinking that I was the drug dealer.

Gwen: I could not let you go to prison for my crimes. I had to do something. But this–this–this is–this is–this is completely out of control now. I–I–I mean, I–I have to find a way to explain this to my father without him hating us both.

Xander: I’ll tell him. I’ll explain that you were just trying to get the charges against me dropped.

Gwen: No, but you are facing those charges because of me. You sacrificed so much, because I blamed abigail for my miscarriage when she wasn’t even responsible for it.

Xander: And I have no regrets.

Gwen: Xander, I thought our problems were going to be over. We’re finally on good terms with my dad, and…

you and I, we were–we were going to be together. For the first time in my life, I–I was actually feeling positive about my future, but, I don’t know, I–I feel like I’m going to lose everything. We’re going to lose everything.

Xander: Hey, we’ve both been down before, and we always find a way to get back up. This time’s no different. Trust me on that.

[Doors open]

Melinda: You’re up, ms. Rizczech.

Gwen: [Clears throat]

Chloe: Wait a minute, did i hear you correctly? Did you actually say something nice about philip?

Brady: Did I? He wants to be worthy of your love. I can’t think of a stronger motivator to turn over a new leaf, no pun intended. I value our friendship more than you know. I would never wanna do anything to jeopardize it, so, yes, I– I accept the fact that you have chosen him, and, chloe, I hope it works out, I really do, and i hope you’re happy together.

Chloe: Thank you, brady. That means a lot to me.

[Tense dynamic music]

Jake: Guessing it didn’t go too well with philip. What did he want?

Gabi: Answer my question first. Did you kill jed zanetti?

[Music intensifies]

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Gabi: [Laughs] Thought you were gonna let me sleep in this morning.

Jake: I said we could go to the office late. I didn’t say anything about sleeping.

Gabi: Mm, so it’s a question of semantics, huh? Seems kind of underhanded to me.

Jake: Yeah, I guess so. So you want to go back to sleep?

Gabi: Well, no. Seeing I’m awake already.

Jake: I’m wide awake.

[Playful knock at door]

Ava: Room service!

Gabi: The hell?

Jake: Just a minute. Oh, okay!

Ava: Oh, good morning…

Jake: Oh, okay.

Ava: You two. Now, is there a better way to start the day than with a fresh-from-the-oven muffin?

Philip: Good morning.

Chloe: Hey. It is a good morning.

Philip: Thought you said you were going to the office early.

Chloe: I changed my mind. I decided to have a nice, leisurely breakfast by myself and enjoy my roses.

Philip: Ah. Looks like the nursery steered me straight. They seem to be holding up pretty well.

Chloe: Yeah, they’re really beautiful.

Philip: Let’s hope they were right about our tree too. They said it would grow fast.

Chloe: Yeah, I think it will. Before you know it, we’ll be having a picnic in its shade.

Philip: The first of many.

Brady: Morning. Anybody want a muffin?

[Tense music]

 

Xander: Thanks for coming in so early.

Justin: You said it was urgent.

Xander: Well, it is. It kind of is. Yeah. You remember what gwen and i talked to you about yesterday?

Justin: Vividly.

Xander: So you remember that we were thinking about maybe getting something on the judge, you know, to prove that he’s corrupt, so he’ll drop my case.

Justin: I do remember. I do remember.

Xander: Fantastic. Well, after you–

Justin: I didn’t agree to go along with it. Let me tell you what your lawyer would tell you, if you had one. What you’re talking about is blackmail, okay? It could blow up in your face. And gwen’S. And you could end up in even bigger trouble than you’re already in.

Xander: It could help you out with bonnie’s case.

Justin: Don’t push it, cook. I’m an officer of the court, okay? I have an ethical duty to tell judges the truth.

Xander: Isn’t what we told you privileged?

Justin: No. Because I am not your attorney. But let me give you some free advice. Don’t even think about going ahead with this little plan, because it’s not only illegal, it’s stupid.

Xander: Problem is, gwen’s already on her way to see him.

Smails: Marjorie, I told you I didn’t want to be disturbed.

Gwen: Judge smails.

Smails: Who the hell are you?

Gwen: Gwen rizczech. I know I shouldn’t have barged in like this, but there was nobody out there.

Smails: Well then, wait till there is, and make an appointment.

Gwen: Yes, I would have. You see, I’m here on a very private matter.

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Smails: What private matter?

Gwen: Well, I’m a friend of xander cook.

Smails: Then get out.

Gwen: No, judge smails, please.

Smails: Young lady, I am not about to have an ex parte conversation with the friend of someone who’s appearing in my court. If you want to communicate with him, you’ll have to go through his lawyer.

Gwen: I understand. But it’s just that, well, xander’s not just a friend. He’s actually probably the best thing that’s ever happened to me. And if you do not hear me out, he might go to prison for something that he has not done. Judge, I just cannot allow that to happen.

Chloe: Brady, what are you doing here?

Brady: Oh, you texted me and said you were gonna be late to work.

Chloe: You said it was okay.

Brady: Mmm. Oh my god. Yeah, no, it is okay, but I realized I didn’t have anything pressing going on this morning either.

Philip: So you decided to come here with muffins.

Brady: No, I didn’t bring these. I found these on the kitchen table. And these are fabulous, by the way. But that’s not why I came. I came to see the most beautiful woman that I know.

Tripp: So doug is now in bayview?

Kayla: Oh, tripp, it is so sad. Marlena has determined that he is a danger to himself and to others.

Tripp: I feel so sorry for his wife and his entire family. He’s such a good guy.

Kayla: Well, hopefully he’ll be able to go home soon. On a completely different note, about our new hospital initiative here.

Tripp: Mm-hmm.

Kayla: Thank you for taking the lead on that.

Tripp: Yes.

Kayla: Have you had any luck finding a patient that will volunteer to be the face of the campaign?

Tripp: As a matter of fact, I have.

Steve: And that would be me. It’s my 4:05 the-show-must-go-on

Kayla: So your father is your volunteer?

Steve: If you’re referring to the new program here at salem university hospital that you need some handsome devil to be the face of, yes, I’m the volunteer.

Tripp: Dad pretty much pounced on it.

Kayla: Okay.

Steve: I mean, look at this mug. Can’t do any better than this, right?

Kayla: Well, there is a patient in 608 who bears a striking resemblance to george clooney.

Steve: You with the george clooney again. Okay, well there might be a whole lot more handsome mugs out there than I am, but none as highly motivated as I am to make this hospital proud. Because my wife is the chief of staff here, and my son is on his way to becoming an esteemed physician.

Kayla: Okay, mr. Highly motivated. Do you know what you’re volunteering for and what your responsibilities will be?

Steve: No.

Tripp: No, we didn’t get that far, actually.

[Cell phone rings]

Kayla: Oh, ah-pa-pa-pa-pa. Excuse me. Ah, I gotta take this. Be right back.

Steve: So what exactly will I be the face of, son?

Tripp: Well, you know, it’s flu season, and we’re trying to raise awareness for pneumococcal pneumonia and the need to get inoculated.

Steve: Oh, so you want me to get a flu shot?

Tripp: Basically, yeah.

Steve: Sorry, son. It’s not gonna happen.

Justin: Wow. What a great plan. That is genius!

Xander: You don’t have to be sarcastic.

Justin: No. No. Did you or did you not tell me that gwen was planning on sleeping with judge smails? A little bit of tit-for-tat?

Xander: Hey, watch it.

Justin: I just told you that trying to get some dirt on the judge was stupid. Deciding to be the dirt on him is–you know, hearing this, I could have been derisive, disgusted, even angry at your total contempt for the legal system. You should be happy I settled on sarcastic.

Xander: You’re actually kind of a prig, aren’t you, justin?

Justin: You’re sending your girlfriend off to sleep with another man in order to save your butt? I don’t care if you think I’m a prig.

Xander: Well, you don’t listen either, do you? She’s not actually gonna sleep with him! Just offer to. She’s gonna tape the whole thing, and once the judge knows that we have proof that he accepts favors for dismissing favors, he’ll have no choice but to dismiss mine. It’s genius.

Smails: I’m afraid you have nothing to say about what happens to mr. Cook.

Gwen: No, please.

Smails: The depth of your feelings for him is irrelevant.

Gwen: But please, if you–

Smails: Now, I have told you to leave. You really don’t want to force me to call security.

Gwen: But there are extenuating circumstances.

Smails: Oh, lord.

Gwen: Please. Please. Sorry. I’m sorry. Just let me explain. You see, xander has been railroaded. He was never dealing drugs.

Smails: His lawyer will have ample opportunity to prove that in court.

Gwen: Yes, but you see, sir, that is the problem. He did hire a lawyer, ej dimera, and he got the case dismissed, but it was somehow reinstated. And neither one of us can understand how that happened. But now, it seems to me that you–you are the only one who can change that back.

[Dramatic music]

 

Philip: Oh, brother.

Chloe: Brady, this isn’t funny.

Brady: She walks in beauty, like the night. And she says “something something starry skies.” So good.

Chloe: Brady, what are you doing?

Brady: I’m eating a muffin.

Philip: Eating a muffin and trying to drive me crazy. You want a coffee, brady?

Brady: I wouldn’t say no to that. Thanks.

Chloe: This isn’t cool, okay?

Brady: Am I interrupting something? I can go wait in the kitchen.

Philip: The kitchen? Thought you were to see the most beautiful woman in the world.

Brady: Yeah, I am. I’m a sucker for redheads.

Philip: Redheads?

Maggie: Oh, brady, you’re here too.

Brady: I wouldn’t miss it for the world. Welcome home, maggie.

Maggie: Ah!

Brady: So good to see you.

Gabi: What-what the hell are you doing here? We’re not even dressed.

Ava: Yes, I see.

Jake: Because you came in uninvited.

Ava: I just wanted to make sure you got the muffins while they were still warm. Buon appetito.

Gabi: Did you poison them?

Ava: No. But they aren’t gluten-free, if that’s an issue for you. So mangia, mangia. Si fa bene. Oh, gabi, you look so cute with bedhead.

Gabi: That bitch.

Ava: Enjoy the muffins, jake. Might be your last homecooked meal.

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Gabi: The nerve of her. Just barging in here. Do you think that she put a nanny cam in here? She put a nanny camera in here! Ava, we are on to you! You can take your nanny camera and shove it where the sun don’t shine!

Jake: You’re being a little paranoid, don’t you think?

Gabi: Really?

Jake: Yeah.

Gabi: She walked in at the exact moment we were about to make love. It’s like she knows, or she can see what we’re doing in here. Who would do something like that?

Jake: Who?

Gabi: Uh-huh .

Jake: You. You would do something like that.

Gabi: Oh, don’t eat that!

Jake: What, you really think she poisoned the muffins?

Gabi: Are you kidding me? Oh, that is nothing compared to what she’s done. Poisoned muffins is like a practical joke to her. I mean, I can’t believe rafe has sunk this low.

Jake: Okay, I’m just gonna run something by you real fast. How about we find another place to live?

Gabi: No. No, no. This is my family’s house. I’m not gonna let her win.

Jake: Is it really winning if you’re miserable 24/7? Because you have been miserable 24/7 since the moment we moved in here.

Gabi: I can outwait her, okay? I’m not gonna let her get away with this.

Jake: Let her get away with what?

Gabi: I don’t know! I don’t know what–she’s up to something. The question is what.

Chloe: Well, everyone’s really missed you.

Maggie: I missed all of you. So much. Oh, and victor, of course. Oh, dear. Has he been difficult?

Chloe: Not really.

Maggie: Oh, that bad, huh? Oh, I’m gonna have to see what I can do about getting him back in his… cage?

Brady: You’re the only one that can, maggie. You should have heard his voice, though, when I– when I called him and told him you were coming back. He had that grumpy lion voice of his, which we all know means he’s feeling something inside, so…

[Cell phone beeps]

Philip: Ah. I’m sorry, maggie. I have to run.

Chloe: Is everything okay?

Philip: It’s just a work thing. So good to see you.

Maggie: Thanks, philip.

Philip: When I get home tonight, we’ll have a proper celebration.

Maggie: Well, it’s wonderful to be back.

Philip: Chloe? I’ll see you later. Brady, good to see you.

Maggie: So are you and philip getting along?

Brady: Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

Maggie: Yeah. I didn’t think so.

Smails: So in the first motion to dismiss, ej dimera was mr. Cook’s representation.

Gwen: That’s right.

Smails: Then I don’t see the problem. Mr. Cook already has a capable defense attorney for the case.

Gwen: Yes, but not anymore. The creep dropped xander as a client. I supposed he felt like he couldn’t squeeze any more money out of the poor guy, and now he’s in jail. Xander, that is. And he hasn’t done anything wrong.

Smails: The fact that mr. Dimera dropped him as a client is not a reason for me to change my recommendation.

Gwen: Yes, but you changed it for–

Smails: And if mr. Cook doesn’t have an attorney, the court will appoint one.

Gwen: But it doesn’t seem fair. He trusted dimera, and now he’s left him high and dry.

Smails: I’m sorry. But as the presiding judge, there’s nothing I can do.

Gwen: Really? But you were able to dismiss the case before. And then dimera was able to just go in there and get it reversed. How could he do that? I mean, you ruled that there was no case, and now xander is going back to trial in your courtroom!

[Tense music]

I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I know I don’t know the law like you do. Just that, well, you said that there wasn’t enough evidence, and you dismissed the case before, so why isn’t there just a way that you could dismiss the case again?

Smails: Ms. Rizczech…

Gwen: I’m so sorry. I know–now I’m getting emotional. I just–it’s so frustrating. You see, I would do anything to help xander. I mean anything.

Justin: It’s genius? Ha! Look, even if judge smails is corrupt…

Xander: You know he is, though.

Justin: He didn’t get where he is by being easily duped. You don’t think he’s gonna be wary when your girlfriend shows up out of the blue and suddenly offers herself to him? He’ll have her arrested before she even gets out of the office.

Xander: I know that! That’s-that’s why I told her not to confront him with the evidence herself. I told her to bring the tape back to me.

Justin: Whoa, what am I missing? What are you gonna do with the tape? Invite the judge to your cell for a little chat?

Xander: No. I’m not going to confront the judge with the tape. You are. Shingles? Oh… you mean bill.

Justin: Have you heard a word I said? I am not going to have any part in this.

Xander: You might not have a choice.

Justin: And just what is that supposed to mean?

Xander: I just think that, to an outside observer, or a cop, it might look like you have already taken part in it. Think about it. You came to visit the police station yesterday, and you talked to gwen and me all alone in this room for quite a while. And then this morning, you show up here first thing, at the exact time gwen showed up at the judge’s office. From the outside, it really does look like you are part of this. And what would happen if gwen and I said that it was all actually your idea–in fact, you came to us?

Justin: Are you threatening me?

Xander: I really don’t want to. I want to persuade you. And everything that I said yesterday, that still holds true today. You can use the tape to get the charges against bonnie dropped too. And as you said, as an officer of the court, smails will know, if you have the tape, it won’t be so easy to make it disappear.

Justin: Huh. Wow. You are a true kiriakis.

Xander: I’m not trying to screw you over, justin. I swear I’m not. But this could work out for both of us.

Justin: You don’t give a damn about me.

Xander: But you give a damn about bonnie. And the last I heard, she just got denied bail again. Now she’s got to sit all alone in that cell, waiting for a trial where she’s charged with two murders, defended by the man she was about to marry, until he found a dead body in his bed.

Justin: Shut up!

Xander: Can I just ask you just a quick legal question, justin, if I may? Don’t you think the da is going to want to call you to the stand to testify not just about that dead body, but about what bonnie did to your first wife. I mean, aren’t prior bad acts also admissible?

Justin: I said shut up.

Xander: Gwen and I came up with a stupid plan, a crap plan. But it still has a hell of a lot better chance of helping bonnie than anything else you’ve got.

Maggie: I’m sorry you were worried about me. But you know, when summer died, as awful as it was, it was also a relief that she wasn’t in any more pain. When I went to la and I scattered her ashes over the ocean, it was this sense, I don’t know, of calm that washed over me, ’cause I knew she was finally– she was finally at peace.

Brady: I’m really glad you were with her at the end.

Maggie: Yeah. Me too. But I’m very happy– I’m very happy to be home.

Brady: This place is not the same without you. You have a soothing effect, maggie, especially on you-know-who.

Maggie: From time to time.

Brady: I don’t know if he told you, but he had a party to celebrate bonnie’s arrest.

Maggie: Gee, justin must have really appreciated that. And no, he–victor, he didn’t share that with me.

Chloe: I wonder why?

Maggie: Well, at least there was some good news, happy news, on the home front.

Brady: Really? I’d love to hear it.

Maggie: Oh, come on, brady. Don’t me coy with me. Victor told me the two of you were back together.

Ava: Well, you took your own sweet time getting here.

Philip: Family business. So you got the goods on jake?

Ava: Yeah. I spoke with angelo. He gave me some very interesting information.

Philip: Interesting?

Ava: Damning.

Philip: Enough to take gabi down?

Ava: If she cares about jake as much as she says she does, she’s gonna fold like a house of cards. Because if this gets into the right hands, jake will go to prison for a long, long time.

[Desolate music]

 

Gabi: The fall line is falling off the shelves. If these projections hold, I mean, sales are gonna exceed all of our targets.

Jake: Great.

Gabi: Did you just-did you just take a bite out of that muffin?

Jake: You want one?

Gabi: That–that’s a bite mark. Does that–that looks like a bite mark to me.

Jake: Okay, it was one bite. All right? I mean, you actually think that ava would–

Gabi: What?

Jake: Would actually–

Gabi: Jake, stop it. No, jake. No! No! Are you serious? No! Stop! Oh my god! Baby… it was an act?

Jake: Who is naive now? Yes, it was an act!

Gabi: Stop!

Jake: And it was a damn good one, if I don’t say so myself. Now give me my muffin back.

Gabi: Oh, you want this muffin?

Jake: Yes! I do! I’m hungry!

Gabi: There you go.

Jake: What the hell?

Gabi: I’m gonna take your mind off of that muffin.

Jake: Are you now? Okay.

Tripp: I don’t get it, dad. I mean, what’s the downside?

Kayla: Okay, guys. What’s going on?

Tripp: Dad doesn’t want to get a flu shot.

Kayla: What? Why not?

Steve: Because I’ve never had one. And I rarely get the flu. And I’m healthy as a horse.

Kayla: Well, that is the lamest reason I have ever heard in my entire life. And I can’t believe that I missed you not having that shot. It’s important. And you, you, mr. Healthy as a horse, could be sick as a dog with the flu if you were exposed. And, you know what? There’s no risk to it. And, being a medical professional, I am going to insist that you get that damn shot and stop acting like you’re so invincible. You hear me?

Steve: Well, I guess she told me.

Tripp: Kind of.

Steve: All right. I’ll be the face of your campaign, and I’ll get the flu shot.

Kayla: Damn right, you will. We’re for those who love to discover.

Kayla: So I think, if you take this over there–oh. Ah! There he is. Were you a brave boy?

Steve: Yeah. I was brave.

Kayla: Uh-huh.

Steve: Partly because I didn’t feel a thing.

Kayla: Mm-hmm.

Steve: And because, actually, I’m grateful to my wife and son for encouraging me to do it. Because now, I really do feel invincible.

Tripp: Well, I’m grateful for you, for actually coming around, dad, because you really are the perfect face for this program.

Steve: Because I’m so handsome, right?

Tripp: Yes, yes, that, and, you know, although everyone should get the flu shot, the target demographic is 65 and over.

Steve: Oh. Now I get it.

Kayla: And I think tripp’s right. You are the perfect face for the campaign.

[Laughter]

Philip: Wow, this is damning. If it’s true.

Ava: Well, according to angelo, it is.

Philip: Jake did all this?

Ava: I can even produce an eyewitness.

Philip: Are you sure you want to do that? If a mob informant steps up, gabi would have a pretty good idea where this came from. My guess is she’d be more than happy to tell rafe about it.

Ava: She won’t be able to prove anything. Especially if you say it came from someone you met during our ill-fated association. But deep inside, she’ll know it was me. She’ll know that I’m the one who blew up her life.

Gabi: You know, now that the keylogger’s kaput, we’re gonna need to find something to make sure that philip stays jealous of brady.

Jake: Wow. Talk about hot pillow talk. I just gave you my best stuff, and here you are talking about two other dudes. Really?

Gabi: Oh, come on, don’t look at it like that. The power of your love empowers me.

Jake: Oh. Uh-huh. Nice save, gab.

Gabi: I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings. How about I show you some of my best stuff? Speak of the devil, philip wants to see me.

Jake: Anything wrong?

Gabi: No, I don’t think so. He probably just saw the numbers for gabi chic and wants to up my budget.

Jake: Mm.

Gabi: You know, despite ava, this has turned out to be a very, very good morning.

[Gentle music]

 

Xander: Justin, maybe it’s time that you remember that you’re a kiriakis too.

[Soft dramatic music]

 

Justin: I can never forget it.

Xander: Look, I know you want to be all legal and everything, but the law doesn’t matter to smails. It doesn’t matter to this da, either. They’re the ones in charge. Smails is a corrupt judge who will sell himself to the highest bidder. The da is a power-mad bitch who will do anything for a headline. And bonnie is a headline superspreader. Two murders, justin! With her record, how many years is she gonna get?

Justin: It was self-defense. Both times, it was self-defense.

Xander: And bonnie shouldn’t be punished for protecting herself. But we both know justin the lawyer can’t help her now. But justin the kiriakis can. Think about it this way. Neither smails nor trask would think twice about doing something like this. Is your high-mindedness really worth bonnie spending the rest of her life in statesville? Can I say one more thing?

Justin: Can I stop you?

Xander: Just imagine the look on victor’s face when you tell him that bonnie’s going to go free.

 

Smails: What are you suggesting?

Gwen: That, if the case against xander gets dismissed again, I would be very happy to show you how grateful I am.

Smails: You’re a very beautiful woman.

Gwen: Would you like to know a secret about me? I am very, very attracted to powerful men. I just get– I get so excited in their presence.

Smails: Really?

Gwen: Well, you know, you could find out for yourself. I may not have ej dimera’s money, but… I do have other assets.

Smails: I’ve noticed.

Gwen: Mm-hmm. So would you like to come and see me sometime?

Smails: You know, I think I would.

Gwen: Just one more thing, judge. [Gasps] I really like calling you judge.

Smails: Be my guest.

Gwen: I am very sorry to do this, but you–you understand my situation, and I need to be clear, because I know that you and i can have a really good time together. Hmm? I will sleep with you if you promise to let xander go. I believe that they call that a quid pro quo? Agreed?

Smails: Agreed.

Gwen: I’m really looking forward to holding up my end of the bargain.

Justin: Get thee behind me, satan.

Xander: Oh, come on. Smails is a piece of dirt who has it coming. He’s everything you hate. Victor’s a pillar of virtue compared to him.

Justin: This could all be hypothetical, because I’m still not sure that gwen is going to be able to pull this off.

Gwen: You really don’t have much faith in me, do you?

Xander: What happened?

Gwen: Exactly what I said would happen.

Xander: Yes!

Gwen: We’re meeting this eve. Surprisingly, he was even able to name a motel that he found to be discreet. I think maybe he’s done this before.

Xander: Now we have what we need to get him. That is, if justin will help us.

Brady: What–what exactly did victor tell you?

Maggie: That the two of you were back together.

Brady: He was–he was… premature. You know granddad. When he wants something to happen, in his mind, it happened.

Maggie: Yeah, but victor hates chloe. Chloe, I’m sorry.

Chloe: Hey, it’s the truth.

Maggie: But why would he want the two of you back together?

Chloe: To get me away from philip.

Maggie: But that doesn’t mean he wants you with brady.

Chloe: I think he just wants me to disappear.

Brady: And since that’s not going to happen, I think victor’s decided that I hit the bottom of the barrel with kristen.

Chloe: Yeah, and as he so sweetly put it, I was the lesser of two evils.

Maggie: To think I miss that man.

Ava: Oh, well, isn’t this déj vu? Think I just saw you with a muffin.

Jake: Yeah. You did.

Ava: But mine was pumpkin. That looks like blueberry?

Jake: You’re observant. From sweet bits. I didn’t eat any of yours.

Ava: You don’t like pumpkin?

Jake: It’s not exactly my favorite, but that’s not why I didn’t eat it.

Ava: Why? What was wrong with it?

Jake: You made it. Gabi doesn’t trust you.

[Dramatic music]

 

Gabi: You wanted to talk to me?

Philip: I did.

Gabi: Well, why here? Why not at the office?

Philip: I thought it’d be best to do this in private, in case there was some kind of scene.

Gabi: Did you not see my numbers this morning? Why would there be a scene?

Philip: Because I’m firing you. Serena: It’s my 3:10

Gwen: Ugh, what a sleaze that judge was. I need to have a shower now.

Xander: Gwen, I just hate that you had to go through that. Well, you didn’t have to go through it, but you–you did it anyway, for me.

Gwen: Look, I only needed to come on to some creep. I didn’t even have to follow through, did I?

Xander: It’s just, justin had me so scared.

Gwen: What?

Xander: Well, he kept going on about how this plan of ours could blow up in our faces, especially yours. And I was just so glad when you walked through the door.

Gwen: Look how much you’ve done for me. And you and I are gonna walk out that door together, thanks to justin.

Justin: Sorry to barge in. Your assistant wasn’t at her desk.

Smails: Mr. Kiriakis. I don’t believe any of your cases are before me today.

Justin: No, your honor. I’m here about bonnie lockhart’s case.

Smails: I’m afraid I have a full docket. We’ll talk about it later.

Justin: No, actually, we need to talk about it right now. I’d like to strongly suggest that you dismiss her case, as well as the case against xander cook.

Smails: And why would I do that?

Justin: Because if you don’t, I will be playing this recording.

Gwen: I am very sorry to do this, but you–you understand my situation, and I need to be clear, because I know that you and i can have a really good time together. Hmm? I will sleep with you if you promise to let xander go. I believe that they call that a quid pro quo? Agreed?

Smails: Agreed.

[Dramatic music]

Chloe: Maggie?

Maggie: Sorry. Victor, you know, I can’t turn my back on that man for a minute. It’s time to gird the lion in his den. Oh, it’s a good thing–it’s a good thing that man is so cute. All right, I’m coming, victor.

Brady: I’ll never understand in a million years how she puts up with him. But I’m damn glad she does.

Chloe: Well, she loves him, almost as much as he loves her. And I think he thinks that she walks on water. He’s not always wrong. But he’s a tenacious old coot. I can’t believe he hasn’t given up on trying to push us back together.

Brady: Yeah, well, he never gives up. But don’t worry. I’ll have a talk with him and make it clear that that’s not going to happen.

Ava: Gabi doesn’t trust me? Are you telling me she seriously thinks I poisoned those muffins?

Jake: Actually, yeah.

Ava: Under the same roof as her brother, the police commissioner.

Jake: I told her she was overreacting, but she wouldn’t let me touch them.

Ava: Wow. She really does have a suspicious mind. I mean, come on, what could I possibly do to her?

Gabi: I’m fired? Why?

Philip: Because you put that keylogger on my computer.

Gabi: But it found one on mine.

Philip: Don’t you deny it. We’ve been through this dance before, remember? I’m not gonna play these games with you again.

Gabi: Fine. I’m taking gabi chic with me.

Philip: Actually, you’re gonna sign that company over to me.

Gabi: And why in the name of god would I do that?

Philip: Because if you don’t, I’m gonna send jake to prison for murder.

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Lani: Eli, I’m home.

Eli: Shh. Oh, my god, please. I just put them down to sleep.

Lani: Oh, sorry. Here, I was just screaming your name.

Eli: It’s okay. You didn’t wake them.

Lani: Okay.

Eli: Ohh.

Lani: Good. Sorry I was gone so long. I really wanted to help you put them down, but my dad called and said he needed more time.

Eli: Is he still planning on popping the question?

Lani: That is the plan. Just hope it all goes smoothly.

Abe: And for dessert, the pice de résistance, mwah, homemade key lime pie.

Paulina: Key lime pie? Did you say key lime pie?

Abe: I did.

Paulina: Who told you it was my favorite?

Abe: It’s not?

Paulina: I hate key lime pie.

Abe: Well, chanel specifically said that your favorite pie was key lime pie.

Chanel: Since when do you not love key lime pie?

Paulina: Since the day I was born. I’m sorry abe, chanel got it dead wrong.

Chad: Hmm. What? You think you’re gonna finance your film by playing for pocket change in the square?

Johnny: Actually, I was trying to impress a girl.

Chad: Aww, did it work?

Johnny: Made her smile.

Abigail: Sounds like a win.

Johnny: So, is this how you and the wife spent an evening at home?

Chad: Oh, only when abigail can’t tear herself away from what she’s reading.

Johnny: Ohh, which is the script I see. Does this mean you’ve agreed to play marlena?

Rafe: Oh, business must be good as you’re out celebrating.

Ej: Business? This is pure pleasure.

Rafe: Wait a minute, you two are on a date?

Ej: As a matter of fact, we are.

[Nicole chuckles]

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

[Soft orchestration]

 

Eli: So you still cool with your dad and aunt paulina being a married couple?

Lani: I think they’re great for each other. Although yes, it will be a little weird that aunt paulina is gonna be my aunt and my stepmom.

Eli: Yeah, well what if she wants you to start calling her mama?

[Lani chuckles]

Chanel: Mama, I have seen you put away a whole key lime pie after a bad day.

Paulina: If I was to eat a whole pie by myself, which has never happened, it would be a florida lime pie. There’s a world of difference.

Chanel: Like what?

Paulina: Well, like for starters, florida lime pie doesn’t have that nasty graham cracker crust. I hate graham crackers, they’re for kids. And I’m all grown up.

Abe: Well, there is pecan pie.

Paulina: Pecan pie. Oh, I’m sorry, abe, I hate that too. Oh, now tammy, if she was here, she’d be all over it. And I keep telling her, “tammy, now that pie, that’s a heart attack waiting to happen.” Oh, I feel so bad that you worked so hard making me pies I don’t like. Oh, but don’t worry about a thing, I’ll just skip dessert. But, ooh, if you two will excuse me, these heels are killing me.

[Grunts]

Chanel: Oops.

Rafe: Is he for real? You two are actually on a date?

Ej: Why is that so difficult to understand? We used to be married, twice in fact.

Rafe: That’s exactly my point. Yeah, I thought you had figured this guy out.

Ej: You know what they say, old man, third time’s a charm.

Nicole: Hold your horses there, old man.

[Ej chuckles]

[Sighs] This is just a date, marriage is not on the table. It’s been a long time, a lot has happened. We’re just catching up.

Rafe: Good to know.

Ej: Hm, may I assume this is now settled?

Rafe: Do you know, I would love to invite you to join us, but you might actually say yes. So if you’ll excuse us.

Ej: Mm-hmm.

Ava: Enjoy your dinner.

Ej: Mm-hmm.

Chanel: I am so sorry, abe. I didn’t know there was any such thing as florida lime pie.

Abe: Well, don’t worry about it. I mean, your mother’s right, we just won’t serve dessert.

Chanel: You’re–[Quietly] You’re proposing tonight, everything has to be perfect.

Abe: Yeah, we’re still gonna have a delicious meal.

Chanel: No, no. You know what? This one is on me. I am getting you a florida lime pie.

Abe: No, no, we just don’t have–

Chanel: Not another word.

[Abe pats leg]

Lani: How come you got all quiet all of a sudden?

Eli: I was thinking about my grandma. I talked to her while you were out.

Lani: How’s julie doing?

Eli: Doug hit her with something, she was out cold.

Lani: Oh, my god. Babe, that’s horrible. Is she okay?

Eli: Yeah, but it’s clear that she can’t be around doug alone anymore.

Lani: So what is she gonna do?

Eli: Marlena admitted him into bayview sanitarium for his own good.

Lani: Oh, my god. I felt terrible for them both.

Eli: Yeah, me too.

Lani: I’m so sorry that I wasn’t here when you heard all of this.

Eli: It’s okay, you’re here now. So how was shopping with paulina?

Lani: Well, it gave us a chance to talk. We talked about the whole paris trip that didn’t happen.

Eli: Did she explain why she ghosted you like that?

Lani: Well, there was no business trip and it was all my mother.

Eli: Wait, what?

Lani: Mm-hmm. She talked aunt paulina out of taking me to paris, said she didn’t want her spoiling me.

Eli: She let you think that aunt paulina dumped you and she didn’t tell you that she was the one that canceled the whole thing?

Lani: Nope. And neither did paulina. I guess she didn’t want me to turn against my mom.

Eli: Yeah, I guess. Sounds like there’s more to the story than what paulina is telling you though.

Johnny: So you gonna do it? She gonna do it?

Chad: Um, she’s on the fence. Is that right?

Abigail: I think it sounds like fun, but I–

Johnny: But what?

Chad: Like, she’s just–she’s nervous because she’s never really acted before–sorry, professionally acted before.

Johnny: But I don’t want professionals. I want this to feel like it’s happening in real time with real people.

Abigail: A story about demonic possession.

Johnny: Look, the performances if they’re right, are gonna be what grounds the material, okay? You’ve known grandma marlena your whole life, and you’re really smart. You’d be great as her.

Abigail: I hope so. I mean, I do, I have experience with mental illness more than once so I do know what it feels like to have something you don’t understand take over your mind.

Johnny: See? That’s great.

Chad: But if you–if you wanna do this, for real, I’ll back you 100%.

Abigail: Thank you. I needed to hear that from you.

Johnny: So does that–?

Abigail: I would be honored to play marlena.

Johnny: Ahh, it’s awesome!

Chad: Yeah!

Johnny: Yes. Okay. This movie’s finally starting to come together. Now all I need is one more committed investor. You haven’t given any more thought to it, have you?

Chad: Uh… ej isn’t wild about me now, if I fund your movie he is… he’s gonna hate my guts.

Johnny: Oh, uncle chad, are you really gonna let your big brother tell you what to do?

Ava: Thank you. Mm-hmm.

Nicole: Did you really have to push rafe’s buttons like that?

Ej: He started it.

Nicole: Oh, wow. That is mature.

Ej: Why are we even talking about rafe? Why does he care who I’m seeing? He’s here with ava vitali.

Nicole: Yes, he is.

Rafe: I can’t believe nicole’s actually out on a date with that guy. He’s treated her like trash.

Ava: Well, people do change rafe, I am living proof of that.

Rafe: Yeah. But not ej. Guy was born on third base, he thinks he’s hit a triple. Look at nicole, she’s totally falling for his act.

Ava: You don’t know that, it’s just a date. Like the one we’re supposed to be on.

Rafe: You’re right. I’m sorry.

Ava: Mm-hmm. Thank you. You have always loved vicks vapors.

Eli: So now that our little devils are sleeping like angels, what should we do?

Lani: [Laughs] Well, I can show you what I bought today.

Eli: That’s not what I have in mind.

Lani: Well, maybe this will change your mind.

Eli: I stand corrected.

Lani: Uh-huh.

Eli: Ooh.

Lani: Uh-huh. Wait. You gotta let me put it on.

Eli: Ah, you know what? Let’s just throw this on the floor and pretend that you did.

Lani: Oh, mm-hmm.

[Knocking at door]

Eli: Nah, ignore it.

Lani: They’re not–they’re not gonna give up and they’ll wake the kids up.

Eli: You gotta be kidding me.

Chanel: I miss living here. Can I come in?

Eli: Sure. Why not?

Chanel: Ah, sorry to interrupt. I brought you a pecan pie.

Eli: Oh. Well, pecan pie, thanks. All right, well, hey, thanks for coming over.

Chanel: Uh, no. I’m here because I need to borrow your kitchen.

Lani: What for, chanel?

Chanel: To make a pie.

Eli: I don’t understand.

Chanel: You would if you knew mama better.

Paulina: Oh, it’s so sweet of you to make dinner.

Abe: Well, you know, I could not have done it without input from your mother and chanel. Would you like some wine, may I pour it for you?

Paulina: Yes, you may.

Abe: Thank you. There we go.

Paulina: So where is that daughter of mine?

Abe: You know, I don’t know. She said she had an errand.

Paulina: [Laughs] Probably an errand named giovanni.

Abe: Ooh, is that the boy she’s seeing?

Paulina: His real name’s johnny. He made up the giovanni part.

Abe: Ah. You know, actually, his grandfather used to call him that.

Paulina: How do you know?

Abe: If his last name is dimera then he was my late wife’s nephew, and mine.

Paulina: Ohh, then you know all about him. Well, I only know what I see. He’s a real cutie patootie and he knows it. I only hope he’s good enough for my chanel.

Abe: Well, he was a great little kid, but if he takes after either one of his parents, chanel is going to have her hands full.

Paulina: Oh dear.

Abe: Well, chanel can take care of herself, she gets it from her mother.

[Both chuckling] To you my love.

Paulina: Aww.

Chad: Look, the only reason I work for dimera is because tony insisted. So if I piss off ej and he tries for another power grab then I’m out on my ass.

Johnny: So that’s the only thing keeping you from investing in your favorite nephew?

Chad: I would say it’s a pretty big thing. Who said you’re my favorite nephew?

Johnny: Come on, man, I’m your good luck charm. I was there when you met aunt abigail.

Chad: What?

Abigail: Yes. Yes, he’s right. It was java cafe, I thought you were johnny’s father.

Johnny: See?

Chad: Oh, sure.

Johnny: Yeah, i am responsible for putting you two kids together.

Chad: Uh-huh. Yeah, I remember you said you didn’t like her.

Abigail: Oh, excuse me.

Johnny: Hey, hey. Come on, I was just a dumb little prepubescent kid, how the hell did I know she was gonna be the love of your life and the star of my movie. A movie that’s not gonna happen if you don’t invest.

Chad: So that’s a-that’s emotional blackmail.

Johnny: What is?

Chad: That you’re not gonna put her in your movie if I don’t give you the money.

Johnny: There’s not gonna be a movie to put her in if I don’t have the money for it. And my dad’s pretty much made sure that I don’t have any other family members to hit up.

Chad: Mm-hmm. Okay, so I either piss off ej or I deprive my beautiful wife of doing what she wants to do? Thanks a lot, pal.

[Jazz music playing]

 

Ej: Would you please stop that?

Nicole: Stop what?

Ej: Mooning over rafe.

Nicole: I’m looking at the menu.

Ej: Hmm.

Nicole: I always do that. You know, they say it’s a good brain exercise.

Ej: No one says that.

Nicole: Yeah. Well–whatever.

Ej: I thought the stated purpose of this evening was to help you put rafe out of your mind. But since this isn’t working, why don’t we go back to my place? I’m sure cook will be more than happy to whip up dinner for miss nicole.

Nicole: But the waiter just opened a $300 bottle of wine. You really want it to go to waste?

Ej: No I don’t, and it won’T.

[Tense music]

 

Rafe: What’s this?

Ej: A very lovely and expensive parting gift. You two have a great night.

Ava: Thank you.

Ej: Shall we?

Rafe: [Exhales] Okay. Turns out deb’s constipation with belly pain

Eli: I don’t get why pie is so important.

Chanel: I just thought it would be cool if abe could present the ring on top of the piece of the pie. And also because I just really want this night to be perfect. I feel like I’m the one who screwed it up and I need to fix it. For mama.

Lani: That’s really sweet of you. You know, you and your mom have really come a long way since you two just blew into town.

Chanel: Yeah, I guess we have.

Paulina: These are the best short ribs I’ve ever tasted. The potatoes are to die for.

Abe: Oh, I’m glad it’s to your liking. And I know you have had a long day.

Paulina: Mm-hmm. But I had such a nice time being with lani.

Abe: Hmm, I’m glad.

Paulina: Mm-hmm. But she kept going on and on about this trip that she’s planning for her and eli. It was almost as if she was–

Abe: She’s not really planning a trip.

Paulina: She was stalling, right?

Abe: I called her and i told her that I needed more time to get dinner ready and she was–she was great about it. And I’ll tell you that I am so blessed to have your niece in my life.

Paulina: Well, lani, she is a very special young woman.

Abe: I am so grateful that we have the rest of our lives to catch up on all those years that we lost. You know, being her dad, it’s one of the most precious gifts god’s ever given to me.

Rafe: No, no, you can’t drink his wine.

Ava: Why not?

Rafe: Because he could have drugged it, that’s why.

Ava: Ugh, rafe.

Rafe: Okay. Suit yourself. I’m gonna order a beer. Oh, my god, where is the damn waiter?

Ava: Boy, ej sure did get under your skin.

Rafe: No, it’s the guy is such a damn phony, you know. Of all the guys that nicole could have chosen to go out with. What?

Ava: What what?

Rafe: I know what you’re thinking. You think that I’m jealous because ej is out with nicole. That’s what.

Ava: Oh. Well, now that you bring it up, are you?

Abigail: You know, I think this is gonna be between you and johnny. Why don’t you just take me out of the equation?

Chad: Why?

Johnny: Yeah, why?

Abigail: Because, you know, it sounds like a really fun challenge to be in a movie, one I never thought I was gonna get to have. But if it doesn’t happen I’m not gonna be heartbroken about it.

Chad: Okay. But maybe a really fun challenge is exactly what you need right now.

Johnny: Right?

Abigail: I don’t wanna alienate ej.

Johnny: Look, I told my dad whether or not I get to make my movie, I’m not going to work at dimera so he’s not getting his way no matter what happens.

Chad: Well, in that case, okay.

Johnny: Okay, what?

Chad: I’ll fund the rest of your movie.

Johnny: Ha. Thank you.

Chad: Yes.

Johnny: Oh, my gosh.

Chad: Come here.

[Both grunt]

Abigail: Hi.

Johnny: Thank you.

Nicole: Hey. Oh, johnny, wow, it is so good to see you.

Johnny: Yes, good to see you too. What are you doing here?

Ej: I invited her here for dinner. What did I just walk in on? Why were you too hugging?

Chad: Uh, I’ve agreed to provide the rest of the funding for johnny’s movie.

Ej: You what?

[Tense music]

With voltaren arthritis pain gel

Paulina: I can’t believe you did the dishes after slaving over a hot stove all day.

Abe: It wasn’t that bad.

Paulina: Hmm, I’m not used to a man going to so much trouble for little old me.

Abe: Oh, now it’s my very great pleasure.

Paulina: Honey, now, I don’t wanna hurt your feelings but that day shopping, it did me in. I can hardly keep my eyes open, would you mind if I turned in?

Abe: What about dessert?

Paulina: Well, I thought we were skipping it, but if you’re craving some sweets then why don’t you just jump into bed with me?

Abe: Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Uh…

Paulina: Oh. Oh. Abraham carver, what in the world?

Abe: This is not the most original idea, but tough times call for quick decisions. Paulina price, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?

Lani: Who are you texting over there?

Chanel: Your dad. I told him the pie should be cool enough to serve in 15 minutes. I hope their dinner has taken a long time.

Lani: I cannot believe that your mom and my dad are actually getting married.

Eli: It’s gonna make y’all stepsisters.

Lani: Well, I’ve always wanted a sister.

Chanel: Me too. I used to bug my mama about it all the time.

Lani: Well, I promise to be the best sister you never had.

Chanel: You already are that. You gave me a place to stay and you listened to me. And I remember when mama was making me look for work and you said, “if you earned a living doing something you love, you will never work a day in your life.” You, you’re the one who gave me the courage to open up the bakery.

Eli: How is that going?

Chanel: It’s going great. Allie and I are making money and we’re having fun doing it.

Lani: And it hasn’t been awkward or anything between you two?

Chanel: No, no. She understands about me. And besides, I’m into men now.

Lani: Oh.

Eli: Wow.

Lani: Okay.

Chanel: I know.

Eli: Well, who’s a lucky guy?

Chanel: I kept it all in the family.

Lani: Who’s family?

Chanel: Allie’S. He’s her twin brother.

Both: What?

Ej: It’s bad enough that roman and lucas have sided with johnny, but my own brother?

Chad: What I do with my money is none of your business.

Ej: It becomes my business when you start funding my son’s idiotic dreams.

Johnny: Stop yelling. What’s so wrong with uncle chad supporting me and abigail?

Ej: What do you have to do with this?

Abigail: Well, johnny asked me to play marlena in the movie and I said yes.

Ej: You?

Abigail: Why not me?

Ej: Of course, how silly, you are the dame judi of salem.

Abigail: I have an acting résumé.

Ej: As what? A shepherdess in the christmas fte?

Abigail: It was a school play and I was the title character.

Ej: My god, have you all gone insane? You knew exactly how I felt about this and you didn’t even consult me.

Chad: Oh, what a disappointment that must be for you. Yeah, I forgot all of our long discussions about my feelings before you made your power grab and tried to install yourself as ceo, sole ceo.

Ej: Hmm, I see. So this is pay back?

Johnny: The whole freaking world doesn’t revolve around you, dad.

Ej: You are not giving a dime to johnny.

Chad: You can’t stop me.

Ej: The hell I can’T. This is the sound of an asthma attack…

Eli: You’re really dating allie’s twin brother?

Chanel: Yeah. His name’s johnny.

[Lani and chanel laugh]

Lani: Okay. What does allie think of the idea?

Chanel: She didn’t like it at all. She said johnny’s a real player. And I didn’t wanna be in the middle so I told the two of them to duke it out and I went home.

Eli: Yeah, good move.

Chanel: Yeah, it was because it’s all worked out now.

[Timer buzzes] Oh, finally. I just hope I’m not too late.

Paulina: Oh, abe. I know we talked about this, but I didn’t expect a proposal so soon.

Abe: Well, it’s supposed to be done with a little more finesse. Would you be good enough to give me an answer? I don’t wanna break a hip down here.

Paulina: Oh my, my answer is yes, yes. Yes.

Abe: Well, here, let me have your hand.

Paulina: Oh, yeah. Oh.

[Chuckling gleefully] Ohh, oh, it’s beautiful. Oh, you get up from there, give me a kiss. Oh, abe.

[Kissing] Ohh. Ooh.

[Abe laughing]

Rafe: No, I am telling you I’m not jealous, okay? I am just worried about nicole.

Ava: Why?

Rafe: Why? Her and ej, they have history, you know?

Ava: Yes, I know.

Rafe: Okay. Well, did you also know that ej made her life completely miserable? I, mean, he threatened her life more than once. In fact, she was so scared of him when she was carrying his baby she didn’t even want him to know that he was the father, I had to pretend to be the father. Okay, so, I mean, really, do you blame me for being concerned?

Ava: No.

Rafe: Okay.

Ava: I do not. Okay. But nicole is a grown woman and she has the right to make her own decisions. And there’s nothing we can really do about it. At least not tonight.

Rafe: You’re right. You are so right, and I am sorry. Okay? Let’s just forget about ej and nicole.

Ava: Ah, yes, let’S.

Rafe: Yes, start by getting rid of this damn bottle of wine.

Ava: Okay, drop that.

Rafe: Are you kidding?

Ava: Oh no. This is a very, very nice wine. And I’m sure ej didn’t want to share it with us but he had to. He had to because nicole, she couldn’t have any fun at all while you were here. So, hmm, think of it this way, you won and this is the prize.

Rafe: You’re good.

Ava: Mm.

Rafe: You are really good.

Ava: Thank you.

Rafe: But I’m still not drinking the wine.

Ava: Okay.

[Exhales]

Ej: Shall we take this outside?

Chad: I would love to if that’s what you want to do.

Abigail: Okay, you know what? Back off ej, I mean it.

Nicole: Listen, you’re coming with me.

Ej: I’ll do no such thing.

Nicole: I insist.

[Tense music]

 

[Door clicks close]

Johnny: So, uh, really sorry about that. I hope you haven’t changed your mind about investing in the movie.

Ej: This is unbelievable. My own brother is undermining me with my son.

Nicole: Okay. Ej, I get it, you’re madder than hell, but if you don’t calm down, I feel like you’re gonna have a stroke.

Ej: That’s ridiculous.

Nicole: [Sighs] Ej… sit with me. This is supposed to be a date, right? Humor me.

[Eli exhales sharply] Just take a deep breath.

Ej: [Exhales] I don’t understand why everyone’s against me.

Nicole: Well, all that time you were fighting for your life, they were going on with theirs. But chad is not your kid brother anymore. He’s a man with a wife and kids. And johnny’s growing up too and he wants to be his own man and make his own mistakes.

Ej: I wasn’t there for so long. I’m just trying to be a father to my son again.

Nicole: By forcing him to work at dimera enterprises? Come on, he’s not gonna stand for that. He’s got too much sami in him.

[Eli groans softly] Is that what this is about? Sami?

Chad: Don’t worry, nothing can make me back out.

Johnny: Thank you. Thank you so–oh, my gosh, I have the funding. Okay, I better go start working on final draft of the script. Whoo. Hey, hey, just, uncle chad, uncle chad, thank you so much. Come on, come on, come on. Oh, my god, mwah, I could just kiss you all night.

Chad: [Chuckles] Okay.

Abigail: [Laughing] Oh god, you made his night.

Chad: Forget me, what about you?

Abigail: What about me? What about me?

Chad: I mean, when you–when you told ej to back off, I could–I could have, could have grabbed you, I could have kissed you. I mean, I still could. We could grab a bottle of champagne and go upstairs celebrate being in the movie business together. What do you say? As a dj, I know all about customization.

Abe: Well, to finding love again when I least expected.

Paulina: Oh, and to us and to all the fun that we’re gonna have together.

[Both laugh]

Chanel: Sorry I’m late. This is a homemade, for real, florida lime pie. I made it for you, mama.

Paulina: Oh, baby, that’s so sweet. And that pie, that looks good.

Chanel: Abe, if you would just join me in the kitchen, you can help me serve the pie.

Abe: Oh, you know, that won’t be necessary.

Paulina: Your mama’s getting married.

[Both laugh]

Chanel: Oh, my god, congratulations!

Paulina: Oh! [Laughing]

[Both squeal happily]

Abe: Well, look, I am so sorry I couldn’t wait. I had to take my shot before she went to bed.

Paulina: I’m wide awake now though.

Chanel: I’m so happy for both of you, and myself. Okay, I’m gonna get out of the way so that you two can celebrate.

Abe: Oh no, no, no, you’re gonna stay right here and have glass of champagne.

Paulina: Mm-hmm, and some pie. I can’t wait any longer.

[Laughing] Oh.

Abe: Oh, thank you.

Paulina: Oh, whoo, now this is what I call a pie.

[Laughter] Mmm! Mmm, mmm, mm, mm, mm.

Lani: It was really sweet of you to help out with the whole pie crisis.

Eli: Well, I’m happy to do it. My only regret is that it ended up interrupting something very important.

Lani: Oh, yeah?

Eli: Yeah-huh.

Lani: Mm, and what was that?

Eli: Let me give you a hint.

Ava: Now, I know what you’re thinking.

Rafe: Do you?

Ava: Yes. That even though the night didn’t start off that well, it ended up being pretty nice.

Rafe: You are very perceptive. What am I thinking now?

Ava: Oh. I don’t wanna tell you so I’ll show you. Let’s get the hell outta here. Oh, yeah.

Ej: I don’t know what samantha has to do with any of this.

Nicole: Well, sami cheated on you with lucas, and you feel like you’ve lost control of your life. So now you’re trying to regain that control by telling your son and your brother and everyone else what to do. Ej, you’ve been down this road before. You know, if you try to control people, you’re just gonna push them away. So maybe… maybe if you just back off a little bit, you won’t end up alone.

Ej: I’ll take your advice into consideration. In return, I will make you dinner myself.

[Both laugh]

Nicole: Since when do you cook?

Ej: Since someone told me I make a mean omelet.

Nicole: That was me.

Ej: Mm-hmm, it was.

[Both chuckle]

[Soft piano music]

Abigail: The offer is very tempting, but I’m just not quite there yet. It’s just too important, I don’t really wanna… I don’t wanna rush it.

Chad: I agree.

Abigail: I’ll see you in the morning.

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