{"id":51415,"date":"2023-11-21T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=51415"},"modified":"2023-11-23T13:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T19:20:32","slug":"days-transcript-tuesday-november-21-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/days-transcript-tuesday-november-21-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Transcript Tuesday, November 21, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>Days of Our Lives Transcript<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dayslogo.jpg\" alt=\"Days of Our Lives logo\" width=\"235\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style3\">Transcript provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/biothane\/\">Thane<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/biosuzanne\/\">Suzanne<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style3\">THIS STILL NEEDS SOME EDITING!<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] Yeah, Dad&#8217;s at the hospital with Nicole.<\/p>\n<p>[soft music] Yeah, they&#8217;re both taking it pretty hard. No, no, no, I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;d be intruding at all. I&#8217;m sure Dad would, uh&#8230; he&#8217;d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] Okay. Love you, too, Syd.<\/p>\n<p>[phone beeps]<\/p>\n<p>Surprise.<\/p>\n<p>[both chuckle]<\/p>\n<p>Hey. Oh, man. Did you, uh&#8211; did you just get back?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, plane landed a couple hours ago.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I am very glad to see you. I missed you.<\/p>\n<p>I missed you, too.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; how&#8217;s Lani?<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s good, considering. Uh, but she&#8217;s still on track to be released at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s great.<\/p>\n<p>How was your dad&#8217;s wedding? I&#8217;m so sorry I missed it.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, yeah, the wedding was&#8211;was fine, But, um&#8230; I have some pretty bad news. Uh&#8230; something terrible happened to my dad and Nicole last night.<\/p>\n<p>[monitor beeping]<\/p>\n<p>I, um&#8230; I just spoke with Rafe. They&#8211;they still haven&#8217;t found Dimitri, which is of no surprise given the shameful incompetence of the Salem PD. But I promise you, I will not let this go. My bastard nephew will be brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p>What difference does it make, EJ? Nothing matters now. My baby&#8217;s gone, and nothing&#8217;s going to bring him back.<\/p>\n<p>[grunts] How&#8217;s the baby?<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs] In better shape than I am. Kid&#8217;s got lungs like Pavarotti. Kept me up half the night.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s sick, do you? Does he have a fever?<\/p>\n<p>Sloan, he&#8217;s a newborn. Crying is, like, his only skill. It&#8217;s practically his job. Just relax, okay?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry. Not normally such a loon.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I&#8217;d only be worried if you weren&#8217;t a loon. It&#8217;s your first time being a mom.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230; and my first time stealing another woman&#8217;s child.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I thought we were going to focus on the positive.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Okay. Pierce, Dr. Pierce, did he say anything about Nicole? How&#8217;d she take the news?<\/p>\n<p>That is hardly focusing on the positive. But, no, he didn&#8217;t say anything about Nicole, and I didn&#8217;t ask either.<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs] Yeah, well, it was a stupid question anyway. I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;s devastated about the baby, and it&#8217;s all my fault.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>I mean it, Gil. Stop it right there, or I will end you.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think you will.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Ava. It&#8217;s Harris. I know I&#8217;m a little early.<\/p>\n<p>[gunshot] Ava? Ava?<\/p>\n<p>[both breathing heavily] Ava, what happened?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s dead. I killed him.<\/p>\n<p>[soft orchestration] announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the &#8220;Days of Our Lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re definitely right. He&#8217;s dead.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, God.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay. Come here. Sit down.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Okay, uh, this is the second body I found in this apartment. Am I right to assume this is not connected to Li&#8217;s death?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you&#8217;re right to assume.<\/p>\n<p>Ava, Ava, do you want to tell me what happened?<\/p>\n<p>He just, um&#8230; He&#8211;he showed up&#8211; up at my door, just&#8211;just out of the blue.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Just going to put the gun down. Let go. It&#8217;s okay. You want to tell me why&#8230; Gil showed up at your door?<\/p>\n<p>Gil, what do you want?<\/p>\n<p>A key.<\/p>\n<p>A key? Right. Oh, you need one to the employee restroom?<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] It&#8217;s not for the restaurant. It&#8217;s for the Salem PD evidence room.<\/p>\n<p>Are you kidding? Why?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently one of our lower-level dealers got arrested last night with a certain amount of product on him. Now, he knows better than to flip, but you know how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>[breathes deeply] Cops start poking around, could broaden the investigation, so the evidence needs to disappear.<\/p>\n<p>So why you coming to me with this? How am I supposed to get it?<\/p>\n<p>From your detective boyfriend, of course.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted something from me.<\/p>\n<p>What? What&#8217;d he want?<\/p>\n<p>Uh, Eric&#8217;s home, so I got to go. Okay.<\/p>\n<p>[phone beeps]<\/p>\n<p>Hey.<\/p>\n<p>Hey.<\/p>\n<p>Who was on the phone?<\/p>\n<p>Melinda. I called her to check in on our son. We still don&#8217;t have an exact date yet for his arrival, but it should be soon. And I&#8217;m very excited.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s devastated?<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you said something about someone being devastated and it&#8217;s all your fault.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Well, yes, I just&#8211; I didn&#8217;t really want to bother you with it, but Melinda was saying that&#8211; she said that the birth mother is having a difficult time with her decision to give up her child.<\/p>\n<p>Is&#8211;is she backing out of the adoption?<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no. She knows it&#8217;s for the best. And she&#8217;s absolutely going through with it. She&#8217;s just&#8230; You know, it&#8217;s difficult for her, as you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>And I just&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] I can&#8217;t help but feeling&#8230; Really guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Hey. You know what? You have nothing to feel guilty about. You and I, we are going to give this baby a wonderful life.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything I can do to make you feel more comfortable? Uh, another pillow? Another blanket? I could give you one of your favorite foot massages.<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>[monitor beeping]<\/p>\n<p>[door opens]<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Mom. How are you? I thought you might be sick of hospital food, so I brought you your favorite pizza&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ooh.<\/p>\n<p>With extra cheese, just the way you like it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not hungry.<\/p>\n<p>But I heard you haven&#8217;t had anything to eat since yesterday. Right, EJ?<\/p>\n<p>That is true, sweetheart.<\/p>\n<p>Mom, you can&#8217;t not eat. It&#8217;s not good for you. Here, you should at least have one slice.<\/p>\n<p>I said I&#8217;m not hungry!<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Oh, my God, Johnny. That is so awful. Your poor dad, and&#8211;and Nicole&#8211; she must be going through it.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. It&#8217;s a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[inhales deeply] It&#8217;s a nightmare. I just wish there was&#8211; I don&#8217;t know&#8211; something I could do.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Well, the only thing you can really do in times like this is just be there, right?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Yeah, I suppose you&#8217;re right.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, w-what if we made dinner for your dad and Nicole and took it over to the hospital? What&#8211;what do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Yeah, I think that&#8217;d be a great idea. I think they&#8217;d really appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, great. I am going to go to the kitchen and take a sneak peek and see what we can make, okay?<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Hey, come here.<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>Just come here.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>I just want to&#8211; I want to thank you. You just got back, and you&#8217;re already jumping in to help my family.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re important to me, and so is your family. I&#8217;m happy to do it.<\/p>\n<p>And that is why I love you&#8230; one of the many reasons.<\/p>\n<p>[soft music]<\/p>\n<p>I-I&#8217;m sorry, Mom. I didn&#8217;t&#8211;I didn&#8217;t mean to upset you.<\/p>\n<p>[monitor beeping]<\/p>\n<p>Look, Holly, your mom&#8217;s just exhausted, and I think she just needs to rest, okay? Maybe you can come back another time.<\/p>\n<p>Mom, I&#8217;ll stop by again tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the pizza.<\/p>\n<p>[beeping continues]<\/p>\n<p>[Nicole sniffles] What can I do, darling?<\/p>\n<p>Um, I&#8217;m&#8211;I&#8217;m tired, and I, uh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[inhales deeply] I just want to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be right outside.<\/p>\n<p>[sobbing softly]<\/p>\n<p>[door closes]<\/p>\n<p>You bought five different kinds of diapers?<\/p>\n<p>[both chuckle]<\/p>\n<p>Well, there are so many different styles and brands.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-huh, I&#8217;m sure any one of these is going to work just fine. Do you want to start going and, uh, getting that crib set up?<\/p>\n<p>Uh, actually, I was thinking maybe I should go to the hospital, you know, check on Nicole.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, are you not okay with that?<\/p>\n<p>No, of course not. Sorry. I mean, yes, I&#8217;m&#8211;I&#8217;m okay. You should go. What happened to Nicole was really terrible.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it was. It&#8217;s a terrible twist of fate.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] Okay, Ava, talk to me. What did&#8211;what did Gil want?<\/p>\n<p>Well, um&#8230; Initially, he&#8211; he claimed that he&#8211; he came here to discuss work, but then he got all handsy with me, and&#8230; he started coming on to me in the most&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] Disgusting way, and then I realized&#8230; what he was really here for.<\/p>\n<p>I can see that your blouse is torn. Did he try to assault you?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, he did.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] He just&#8211;he just&#8211; he just kept getting closer and&#8230; and closer, and then&#8211;and I tried to&#8211; I tried to&#8211;to push him away, but he&#8211;he wouldn&#8217;t, and so then I just&#8230; I grabbed his gun and&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Why&#8211;why did he have a gun?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know. All I know&#8211;he attacked me, and now he&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[breathes shakily] Oh, my God, Harris. Harris, what&#8211;what&#8211;what&#8211; what have I done? Uh, what&#8211;what have I done?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay. It&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>[sobbing]<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>[sobbing] I&#8217;m so glad you&#8217;re here.<\/p>\n<p>I got you.<\/p>\n<p>[sobbing]<\/p>\n<p>I only wish I would have trusted my instincts.<\/p>\n<p>[sobbing] What do you mean?<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I met that guy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[sniffles]<\/p>\n<p>I knew he was trouble.<\/p>\n<p>You have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>[cries, sighs]<\/p>\n<p>[Harris sighs, Ava sniffles, sighs]<\/p>\n<p>[cell phone clicking]<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[grunts]<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Holly. How&#8217;s your mom?<\/p>\n<p>Uh, awful. She barely acknowledged me when I came in the room today. She was just kind of&#8230; staring off into space. I, uh&#8211;I tried to get her to eat some pizza, and she totally snapped at me, so EJ told me I should leave. I think I was only there for, like, two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really sorry that happened to you.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. She&#8217;s&#8230; in hell right now, and&#8230; I don&#8217;t know. I hated seeing my mom that way. She&#8217;s always so strong, you know.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Always the one who was helping me, and now&#8230; I don&#8217;t know how to help her.<\/p>\n<p>Come here.<\/p>\n<p>[sniffles]<\/p>\n<p>[crying]<\/p>\n<p>EJ. Hey, I just heard about the baby. I&#8217;m so sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Thanks. I&#8217;m, uh&#8230; I&#8217;m so glad you&#8217;re here.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>There you are.<\/p>\n<p>Is he sleeping?<\/p>\n<p>Shh. I just got him down for a nap, finally.<\/p>\n<p>Little angel.<\/p>\n<p>So what happened with Eric? You ended our call so abruptly.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; Yeah, he overheard the end of our conversation, whenever I said, &#8220;She must be devastated about the baby, and it&#8217;s all my fault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but don&#8217;t worry. I just&#8211;I told him I was talking about the birth mother and that you had said she was having a very hard time with her decision to give up her child.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. And he bought that, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, he&#8211;he did.<\/p>\n<p>So, um, on a happier note, are you and Eric ready to become parents?<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>Almost. Eric bought about half the diapers in Salem already.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Oh.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s covered. And we&#8217;re going to finish the apartment once he gets back from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital? What is he doing there?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s, uh, visiting Nicole.<\/p>\n<p>[somber music]<\/p>\n<p>[monitor beeping]<\/p>\n<p>Nicole? Just thought I&#8217;d stop by, see how you were doing. You know, I can come back another time.<\/p>\n<p>Eric&#8230; Don&#8217;t go.<\/p>\n<p>[knock at door, door opens]<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>[grunts]<\/p>\n<p>Whoa. Hey.<\/p>\n<p>Hey.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t mean to startle you.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t, um&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>[inhales deeply] Don&#8217;t worry about it. My nerves are just&#8230; You know, I just&#8211;sorry.<\/p>\n<p>No, you don&#8217;t&#8211;you don&#8217;t have to apologize. You&#8217;ve been through something really traumatic. But you don&#8217;t have to worry about Gil. He can&#8217;t hurt you anymore.<\/p>\n<p>[sinister music]<\/p>\n<p>So what? You going to&#8211; you&#8217;re going to shoot me now?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. Depends on whether you make a move.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] Why don&#8217;t you go ahead? Try me. Test me. See how much I want to blow you away.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want to do that.<\/p>\n<p>You so sure about that?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Yeah, because if you shoot me&#8230; your son is dead.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re wrong. Gil can still hurt me&#8230; badly.<\/p>\n<p>Ava, I don&#8217;t&#8211; I don&#8217;t understand. I mean, Gil&#8217;s dead. How can he still hurt you?<\/p>\n<p>Look&#8230; what if nobody believes me, that I killed in self-defense? I mean, come on, look at my history. And I just got out of a mental institution where I shot someone.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, also self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>There is no proof of this.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, your sleeve is torn, right? You said the guy was assaulting you.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Right. CSI is combing the scene as we speak. They&#8217;re going to find physical evidence to back up your story.<\/p>\n<p>And what if they don&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>Then you&#8217;re going to have to trust the legal system.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Or at least&#8211;at the very least, just trust me. I will find a way to prove that you&#8217;re telling the truth&#8230; because I believe you.<\/p>\n<p>Gabi trusted the legal system. And her brother, the commissioner, he made promises, too. Where did it get her? She is still sitting in a cell.<\/p>\n<p>Her case has not gone to trial. She could still be found innocent.<\/p>\n<p>No, not with our new DA. EJ hates her guts. And he is going to exploit his power to keep her locked up forever.<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs] And you want to know who EJ hates even more than Gabi? Spoiler alert&#8230; it&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t you call me last night? I would have came over right away.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry. Uh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] There was just a lot going on. It&#8217;s all a&#8211;all a bit of a blur, really.<\/p>\n<p>Right. So how are you holding up? I know that&#8217;s a stupid question&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>With Nicole being in the accident and&#8230; and losing&#8230; Oh, my God. It&#8217;s just&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. My God. But it&#8217;s Nicole I&#8217;m worried about. I just don&#8217;t know if she&#8217;s going to be able to pull through this. She won&#8217;t eat. She&#8211;she barely even looks at me. And poor Holly&#8211; she stopped by, only to have Nicole snap at her.<\/p>\n<p>[somber music] I want to be there for her, but I also don&#8217;t want to push. Chad, I don&#8217;t know how to help her.<\/p>\n<p>All right, EJ, listen to me, okay? When I lost Abby&#8230; I was in shock, you know, in the first few days at least. And there is nothing that anyone could have said or done that would have made any difference.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>And everyone was trying to help. I was oblivious. All right, I just wanted to be left the hell alone.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>I was mired in grief. And I didn&#8217;t want to be rescued from it. I just shut myself off to the world&#8230; From everyone&#8230; even the people that I love. That&#8217;s what Nicole is doing right now. Okay? So you just need to give it time. And when she&#8217;s ready, she will let you know. And when she is, you will be there for her. And you will be strong for her&#8230; for both of you.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;re right.<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs]<\/p>\n<p>[monitor beeping]<\/p>\n<p>Nicole&#8230; I&#8217;m so sorry for your loss.<\/p>\n<p>Eric, I&#8230; I asked you to stay&#8230; Because I know you&#8217;re a man of God. And I need to know why. Why did this happen?<\/p>\n<p>[inhales deeply] Why&#8211;why would God bless me with a child&#8230; and let me carry him for all these months and love him and give birth to him&#8230; And then just rip him away?<\/p>\n<p>[inhales deeply]<\/p>\n<p>I know this isn&#8217;t&#8230; an answer&#8230; Because there isn&#8217;t one. It just&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>[breathes deeply]<\/p>\n<p>We just got to believe that this is God&#8217;s will. And we got to trust those who love us.<\/p>\n<p>[sobbing softly]<\/p>\n<p>Hey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[cries softly] It&#8217;s not your fault. You&#8217;re not alone. You, Nicole&#8230; are not alone.<\/p>\n<p>[sobbing]<\/p>\n<p>Does it bother you that Eric went to go see Nicole?<\/p>\n<p>Yes. But it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m jealous. It&#8217;s&#8230; it&#8217;s not what&#8217;s upsetting me now.<\/p>\n<p>Then what is? He&#8217;s obviously just there to comfort her.<\/p>\n<p>Over something that I did.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, Sloan, as I&#8217;ve told you many times, guilt is corrosive, and it&#8217;s a big waste of time. What&#8217;s done is done, and we made a decision, and there&#8217;s no going back. Look, eventually Nicole and EJ will adjust to this new reality.<\/p>\n<p>You really think so?<\/p>\n<p>Of course they will. They are very privileged people, wealthy and powerful. They&#8217;re not going to wallow in misery forever. They have too much to live for. And as far as Nicole&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs] I don&#8217;t want to sound cold, but it&#8217;s not like she&#8217;s childless, right? She still has her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] Sorry. I didn&#8217;t mean to make this all about me.<\/p>\n<p>No, hey, it&#8217;s all right, okay? Holly&#8230; your mom loves you, okay?<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs]<\/p>\n<p>And&#8211;and what you did with the pizza, that was very thoughtful and caring, which is not surprising, because that&#8217;s&#8211; that&#8217;s who you are.<\/p>\n<p>You think I&#8217;m thoughtful and caring?<\/p>\n<p>I do, because you are.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Johnny. I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;d do without you.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I&#8217;m not interrupting anything, am I?<\/p>\n<p>No. No, not at all.<\/p>\n<p>Chanel, hi. I-I didn&#8217;t realize you were home. I thought you were visiting your sister still.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I just got back, actually. And Johnny told me about what happened with your mom. I&#8217;m so sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, Johnny and I, we were going to make dinner and take it over to your mom at the hospital, if you want in on that. There&#8217;s all the ingredients for lasagna.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, um, Holly was just saying that her mom doesn&#8217;t have much of an appetite right now. So maybe we save that idea for another day.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, o-okay.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Um&#8230; okay, well, I&#8217;m just going to go upstairs and listen to some music or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>You sure? You can&#8211;you&#8217;re welcome to&#8211; I don&#8217;t know&#8211;stay down here and hang out with us if you want.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, that&#8217;s okay. But thanks for the pep talk. I&#8217;m feeling better, really.<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n<p>Bye.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, God. Holly&#8217;s so upset about her mom. I just&#8230; I hope I was able to help.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I-I think you definitely did, because, uh, when I walked in here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>Mm. It seemed like her mind was on something other than her mom.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that mean?<\/p>\n<p>It means I think Holly&#8217;s got a crush on you.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>I know you&#8217;re, um, focused on Nicole right now, but what about you? You taking care of yourself?<\/p>\n<p>[slaps knee] I&#8217;m fine.<\/p>\n<p>EJ&#8230; you&#8217;re not fine. You just lost your baby.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you&#8217;re right. I&#8217;m not fine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[inhales deeply] But nor am I grieving.<\/p>\n<p>[somber music] I don&#8217;t know. Maybe because, uh, I haven&#8217;t fully processed that my son is gone. It just seems too cruel&#8230; That an innocent little baby could have its life taken away like that. That is so strange, so&#8211;so terribly sad&#8230; That he existed in this world and I never even had a chance to meet him.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs deeply]<\/p>\n<p>[groans softly] You know, I, um&#8230; I went through the same thing with Grace. Before I even knew she was my daughter, she left us. I never got to be a&#8230; a father to her. I never got that chance. And I can&#8217;t help it but&#8211; but think that, um&#8230; you know, if I just got to&#8230; meet her and spend a little time with her, even if&#8211;if it was just for a few fleeting seconds that it&#8211; that it would have brought&#8230; some comfort&#8230; To be able to&#8230; you know, carry&#8211; carry on in memory of her.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[inhales deeply] I&#8217;d have given anything for that, anything at all. Hold my son in my arms.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] Tell him I love him.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] No, that was a fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re already in love with him, aren&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Totally. The way he&#8217;s looking into my eyes right now, it&#8217;s almost like he already knows that I&#8217;m his mama.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] See? I&#8217;m being positive.<\/p>\n<p>Good girl. And you have to stay positive because this little one is now your son, and you and Eric are going to give him a wonderful life.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>[baby coos]<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve gone so above and beyond for me.<\/p>\n<p>Ah.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t want to get sappy here, but I did it because you&#8217;re my friend. In fact, you are&#8230; the only friend I&#8217;ve had in a very, very long time.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; you&#8217;re kind of my only friend, too.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] I&#8217;m just glad that one of us is getting everything that she wants.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, even if it comes at the expense of other&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Beh.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, sorry. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] I&#8217;m going to try and focus on the positive and say that&#8230; thanks to you&#8230; and this beautiful little baby boy&#8230; I do have everything that I want.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music] Everything.<\/p>\n<p>[baby cooing]<\/p>\n<p>[monitor beeping]<\/p>\n<p>EJ, I&#8230; I just stopped by to check on Nicole&#8230; And offer my condolences&#8230; to you as well.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Eric. I appreciate you stopping by.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me.<\/p>\n<p>[door closes]<\/p>\n<p>EJ&#8230; I hope you don&#8217;t think that&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to explain. I want you to know that, um&#8230; I&#8217;m here for you, too&#8230; If and when you need me.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, uh&#8230; EJ may have it out for you. But you have the truth on your side.<\/p>\n<p>You got a lot more faith in the justice system than I do.<\/p>\n<p>Well, actually, I have some news that could help your case.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that?<\/p>\n<p>Well, since I had a bad feeling about Gil since day one, I did a background check.<\/p>\n<p>And?<\/p>\n<p>And he has a record.<\/p>\n<p>Sexual assault?<\/p>\n<p>Drug offense&#8230; which could lend you credibility, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] A drug offense, uh, versus my past as a Mafia princess.<\/p>\n<p>[cell phone beeps]<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the CSI team at your place. They want to talk. Hopefully it&#8217;s good news. I&#8217;ll keep you updated.<\/p>\n<p>[ominous music]<\/p>\n<p>[door opens, closes]<\/p>\n<p>[cell phone vibrating]<\/p>\n<p>Statesville Prison&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[vibrating continues]<\/p>\n<p>[cell phone vibrating]<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>[cell phone beeps]<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, hello.<\/p>\n<p>Statesville Prison with a collect call. Do you accept?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;ll accept the call.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] Okay, what makes you think that Holly has a crush on me?<\/p>\n<p>Well, when I walked in, she was hovering off the ground, staring into your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] Okay, come on.<\/p>\n<p>No, trust me. I know that look. I used to give the same look to Zac Efron every night before bed. I had a poster of him in my room.<\/p>\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n<p>Mm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>All right. Look, I know that you know and I know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>That I&#8217;m irresistible.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs]<\/p>\n<p>Okay. But I promise you, Holly does not have Efron eyes for me, okay? She&#8217;s like my little sister. In fact, she is my little sister now that our parents are married.<\/p>\n<p>Mm-hmm, but are you sure she sees you that same way, as just her older stepbrother?<\/p>\n<p>Yes. I&#8217;m positive, and do you want to know why? Because she was very recently crushing on somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>Who?<\/p>\n<p>Uh, my dad.<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] I know. She&#8211;she admitted it right before the wedding. Um, so, yeah, it&#8217;s him. It&#8217;s not me.<\/p>\n<p>Mm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>[inhales deeply]<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. Look, just please don&#8217;t say anything, okay? She said she&#8217;s totally over it, and I&#8217;m sure she would be mortified that I told you.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, I&#8217;m not going to say anything. But are you sure that her crush was on your dad and not you?<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, he&#8211; he is old enough to be her father.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m positive, okay? It is my dad. It&#8217;s not me.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[monitor beeping]<\/p>\n<p>Um, Chad dropped by to offer his condolences. He only just found out about the baby today.<\/p>\n<p>[somber music]<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t tell him last night?<\/p>\n<p>No. In fact, he asked why I never called. I just said we were busy, there was a lot going on&#8230; Which is the half-truth. Honestly, I didn&#8217;t call him because I didn&#8217;t want to be comforted. I feared that talking about it would&#8230; Make it real.<\/p>\n<p>I know exactly what you mean. I thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[sobs]<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve had your bottle, little munchkin, it&#8217;s time for Auntie Melinda to have hers.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] Oh&#8230; I was so impressed with you today&#8230; the way you looked at your new mommy. You were so good with her. And she is so excited to bring you home so you can meet your daddy.<\/p>\n<p>[scoffs] Oh, yes, little fella, you guys are going to make a beautiful family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music] As long as Mommy&#8217;s guilty conscience doesn&#8217;t torpedo the entire plan.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>[door opens]<\/p>\n<p>Hey.<\/p>\n<p>Hey.<\/p>\n<p>Did you start without me?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no. 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