{"id":51627,"date":"2023-11-27T15:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T21:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=51627"},"modified":"2023-12-07T00:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T06:25:47","slug":"days-transcript-monday-november-27-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/days-transcript-monday-november-27-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Transcript Monday, November 27, 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>You&#8211;you want to hold him?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, just for a moment. I thought maybe if I held him in my arms, it might bring me a little solace.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole, I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s such a&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8211;never mind. I&#8217;m sorry. You&#8217;re just getting to know him, and I shouldn&#8217;t have asked.<\/p>\n<p>No, no. It&#8217;s OK. Of course you can hold him.<\/p>\n<p>[exhales]<\/p>\n<p>[poignant music]<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes, scarfing down a sandwich alone in the pub. What the holidays are all about.<\/p>\n<p>[clears throat] EJ, heard about what happened to you and Nicole. I&#8217;m so sorry for your loss.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want your condolences, commissioner, I want you to find the bastard who ran my wife off the road.<\/p>\n<p>Dimitri, what are you doing here? Have you forgotten that you&#8217;re a fugitive? I thought you were leaving town.<\/p>\n<p>I thought you were helping Leo. But I suppose our expectations don&#8217;t always align with reality.<\/p>\n<p>I am helping Leo.<\/p>\n<p>Really? Huh. Then why is it that I just heard that he&#8217;s being charged with murder? And I think we both know that if anyone should be facing those charges, Sloan, it&#8217;s you.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>Is your lawyer on her way?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, she is not. She was otherwise engaged. But she will be here eventually, and she will prove my innocence. I had nothing to do with the untimely demise of that sweet little baby. In fact, I had everything to do with the opposite&#8211; with bringing him into the world. For which I am very proud, though heartbroken, that his stay here was so tragically brief.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, thanks to you and your boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Would you not say that? Anyway, if you&#8217;re just going to stand there and take pot shots at me, please leave so I can mourn that sweet little creature and wallow in self-pity.<\/p>\n<p>Wallow away.<\/p>\n<p>[door shuts] Hey.<\/p>\n<p>Hey. I just heard what happened to that Carter guy. How&#8217;s Ava?<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll be OK, provided DA DiMera doesn&#8217;t drop the hammer.<\/p>\n<p>Well, knowing how EJ feels about her, I wouldn&#8217;t place any bets.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>Missing something?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, my keys. You haven&#8217;t seen them, have you?<\/p>\n<p>So how do you want to decide who breaks into this evidence room? Rock, paper, scissors?<\/p>\n<p>What are you, six years old?<\/p>\n<p>You want to come up with something?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not coming up with anything because I&#8217;m flat-out not gonna do it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the one who made a copy of these things.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m the one who swiped them. Which, I might add, is a hell of a lot riskier than sauntering into a hardware store.<\/p>\n<p>Riskier?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my face on the security footage.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, then why didn&#8217;t you wear a Guy Fawkes mask?<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] OK, so neither of us wants to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] Someone&#8217;s got to break in and steal that evidence, or Clyde is gonna be very, very unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>Just got an idea. Why don&#8217;t we let Mr. I Cannot Tell a Lie decide for us?<\/p>\n<p>[soft orchestration] announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the &#8220;Days of Our Lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Did you lose your keys?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll turn up.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you should probably find them sooner than later.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Any luck with Stark?<\/p>\n<p>Well, he swears up and down that he&#8217;s innocent, but he&#8217;s having a little trouble tracking down his lawyer, so I figure I&#8217;ll just let him stew in the interrogation room for a while and maybe he&#8217;ll get interested in making a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Mind if I take a crack at him?<\/p>\n<p>Be my guest.<\/p>\n<p>EJ, believe me, our department wants Dimitri found just as badly as you do. I have my best detectives on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, while you sit here enjoying a turkey dinner.<\/p>\n<p>EJ, you are well aware of your family&#8217;s resources. Now, with that said, there is a pretty damn good chance that your nephew is setting up a hammock in a Caribbean tax haven.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care if he is hang gliding over the Caspian Sea, I want him found. And when he is unceremoniously frogmarched back into Salem into police custody, I am going to throw the book&#8211; actually, no, the whole library&#8211; at him and his boyfriend Leo Stark.<\/p>\n<p>Heard about that. Pretty steep charge.<\/p>\n<p>Do you take issue with how I decide to prosecute criminals?<\/p>\n<p>Alleged criminal. And no, in this case, I do not. But I am curious as to what you&#8217;re doing with Ava Vitali.<\/p>\n<p>[exhales deeply]<\/p>\n<p>So you want to decide who breaks into the evidence room by flipping a coin?<\/p>\n<p>Better than rock, paper, scissors, no?<\/p>\n<p>Ugh. I guess! All right, but if we&#8217;re doing this, I&#8217;m calling it.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Fine.<\/p>\n<p>Heads.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>You think I should be charged with murder? Whose?<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s how you want to play this.<\/p>\n<p>Play what? What are you talking about?<\/p>\n<p>OK. You remember when I stopped by here a couple of days ago with a premature but otherwise perfectly healthy baby boy in my arms, and you assured me that you would deliver said baby to the hospital? Well, now I am hearing&#8211; and please do correct me if I&#8217;m wrong&#8211; that that baby is, how shall I put it, dead?<\/p>\n<p>Dimitri, listen.<\/p>\n<p>Sloan, no, you listen. Now, I know that there was no love lost between you and Nicole, but I mean, god, do you despise her that much?<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me, do you think that I killed Nicole&#8217;s baby?<\/p>\n<p>Well, didn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>What? No! Listen, Dimitri, I&#8217;m no doctor, but as you said, Nicole&#8217;s baby was born prematurely on the side of a road after a car crash. The baby was&#8211; the baby wasn&#8217;t doing well. That&#8217;s why I took it to the hospital. But by then, it was too late. The baby didn&#8217;t even stand a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Mm. I see. Well, then, tell me&#8211;may I&#8211; why is it, if Nicole&#8217;s son is dead, that your apartment looks like you ransacked the baby department at Saxton&#8217;s?<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>Oh, he&#8217;s so beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Oh, are you trying to smile? I think he&#8217;s smiling at me, yes.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs]<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, he likes you.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a sweet little boy. He&#8217;s so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[baby coos] Precious.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Wait. How could this be?<\/p>\n<p>How can what be? Nicole, what is it?<\/p>\n<p>This is my baby.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[breath catches]<\/p>\n<p>[phone rings]<\/p>\n<p>Hey.<\/p>\n<p>Hey. I wasn&#8217;t expecting to see you again today. Is everything OK?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, everything&#8217;s fine. I just thought I&#8217;d stop by because, um, I have something for you.<\/p>\n<p>We just got the forensics back. My team found fibers underneath Gil&#8217;s fingernails consistent with those which we got from Ava&#8217;s blouse, which obviously lends credence to Ava&#8217;s story and the fact that he did, in fact, attack her.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t think Ava is clever enough to falsify evidence?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible. But why would she? From what I can tell, and based on the evidence we have so far, she had no motive to kill him except in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Mm. Then if you are satisfied with the facts of the case as presented by Ava and substantiated by the evidence at the scene of the crime, I see no reason to press charges.<\/p>\n<p>Nor do I.<\/p>\n<p>And now I must attend to my wife. And you, Commissioner Hernandez, must find the bastard who killed my son.<\/p>\n<p>[laidback rock music]<\/p>\n<p>Detective Hunter, you&#8217;re looking lovely today. You didn&#8217;t happen to bring me a turkey dinner, did you? Or better yet, a tofurkey. I consider myself a vegan at heart. You know, just one that eats meat from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, no turkey or tofurkey. And I&#8217;m afraid, Leo, that you&#8217;re the one whose goose is cooked.<\/p>\n<p>Ooh! I do love a clapback with some spicy wordplay.<\/p>\n<p>Cut the crap, Leo. I heard that you were up for murder felony charges for the death of Nicole DiMera&#8217;s baby. Which, believe me, is no laughing matter, and especially is not funny to the DA.<\/p>\n<p>What is&#8211;well, &#8220;funny&#8221; is not the word. I&#8217;d say the word is &#8220;disturbing&#8221;&#8211; is that the DA happens to be Nicole&#8217;s husband. So if you&#8217;re done trying to twist my arm and spread good cheer&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be happy to leave you in peace, but not until I tell you how I can make these charges go away.<\/p>\n<p>Really? How?<\/p>\n<p>Simple&#8211;by throwing your boyfriend under the bus.<\/p>\n<p>What? This? Well, this is all for my baby.<\/p>\n<p>Your baby?<\/p>\n<p>Mm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, really. If you must know, Melinda Trask has been helping Eric and yours truly in the adoption process. That&#8217;s why she was here the other day when you showed up. You see, we were dotting our I&#8217;s and crossing our T&#8217;s in some of the paperwork. Actually, we just received our bundle of joy today. He&#8217;s out with his father right now.<\/p>\n<p>He. I&#8217;m sorry, he. So it&#8217;s a boy.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a boy.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. Well, I think congratulations are in order.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] But let me just get something straight. Uh, just a few days ago, I leave you with a perfectly healthy baby boy who then suddenly somehow dies of heretofore unknown internal injuries. And then as luck would have it, you find yourself the recipient of a perfectly healthy infant, a boy, nonetheless, who is born, as it seems, the exact same time as the baby that I dropped here with you just days earlier. Now, Sloan, how stupid do you think I am? You took the baby for yourself. Didn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>Nicole.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>What do you mean?<\/p>\n<p>Just as I said&#8211; this is my baby.<\/p>\n<p>[breathes shakily]<\/p>\n<p>Nicole, I&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine the kind of pain you&#8217;re in right now, but this isn&#8217;t your baby.<\/p>\n<p>[exhales]<\/p>\n<p>[eerie notes] It&#8217;s a boy.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s so adorable. That teeny little nose and all those little fingers.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s my precious baby. It&#8217;s a little miracle.<\/p>\n<p>[breathes shakily] Right after he was born, Leo put him in my arms and I held him for the first time, and I saw his sweet little face. I&#8217;ll never forget. Eric, this is him. This is&#8211;this is the baby that I gave birth to. This is the baby that I carried inside of me for months. This is him! This is my son.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>You have something for me?<\/p>\n<p>I do indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Mm.<\/p>\n<p>Mm. Since you are stuck here all night, I thought you might be hungry.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, you&#8211;you made me Thanksgiving dinner?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, it&#8217;s&#8211; it&#8217;s linguine carbonara. I know it&#8217;s not very Thanksgiving-y, but, uh, I didn&#8217;t think you&#8217;d mind&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;you know. It&#8217;s what I had on hand.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t&#8211; I don&#8217;t mind at all. Thank you. This place gets so crazy sometimes, I just forget to eat. I&#8217;m so hyped up on caffeine and reading these witness statements, it&#8217;s no wonder I lost my keys.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs] I&#8217;m starting to think if my head wasn&#8217;t attached, I&#8217;d lose that, too.<\/p>\n<p>[both laugh]<\/p>\n<p>[mysterious music]<\/p>\n<p>Come again? You want me to throw the love of my life under the bus? Very tired cliche, by the way, &#8220;under the bus.&#8221; Dead phrase walking. I would prefer &#8220;sell him down the river&#8221; or better yet, &#8220;forsaken.&#8221; A bit musty, but not nearly as tiresome.<\/p>\n<p>How about you stop trying to be funny and call Dimitri? Wish him a happy turkey day. Tell him you&#8217;re out on bail and you&#8217;d like to meet up with him.<\/p>\n<p>Let me guess, he shows up to meet me, you and another gumshoe jump out of the foliage with a butterfly net and cuffs, spouting his Miranda rights to him.<\/p>\n<p>Mm, something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m not going to do it.<\/p>\n<p>You know, Leo, there&#8217;s no reason why a man so stylish and witty as you&#8211; a man of letters, no less&#8211; should be cooling his heels in a stuffy room like this, especially since you&#8217;re not the one we want.<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>We want the big fish.<\/p>\n<p>Oh! Well, now I&#8217;m insulted on top of everything else. Are you saying I&#8217;m not a big fish?<\/p>\n<p>In this case, no. You&#8217;re a guppy, a minnow. And yes, it might seem like you and Dimitri are partners in crime equal, but it&#8217;s clear that he&#8217;s the mastermind behind this operation.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I would agree he does tend to be the assertive one.<\/p>\n<p>Mm, he&#8217;s also the criminal, evil, and despicable one who tried to kill Stefan and Gabi and who assaulted a police officer. And the most appalling of all, he was the one driving the car that ran Nicole DiMera off the road. So, uh, why don&#8217;t you give Dimitri a call and I can have you out of here in time for turkey and gravy?<\/p>\n<p>Of course I didn&#8217;t take Nicole&#8217;s baby. You know, Dimitri, it is possible for two babies to be born on the same day. In fact, I presume that it&#8217;s possible that thousands of babies are born on the same day in this country alone.<\/p>\n<p>Right, but we are talking about a baby that I brought to you on the same day that you&#8217;re claiming that Nicole&#8217;s baby died<\/p>\n<p>So what? Never heard of coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but this is a pretty convenient coincidence, don&#8217;t you think, Sloan? Look, I really don&#8217;t care either way if my beloved uncle and Nicole get to raise this baby. But what I do care about is Leo, and right now, he&#8217;s being charged with the murder of a child that is still very much alive.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me, what are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I thought I&#8217;d give Salem PD a quick call, get this mess sorted out.<\/p>\n<p>[dialing]<\/p>\n<p>What&#8211;wait, wait.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole, what&#8217;s&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Huh.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s going on? Whose baby is this?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mine. Sloan and I adopted him today, but&#8230; Nicole thinks that he&#8217;s hers. I mean, I&#8217;m sorry, yours.<\/p>\n<p>Because he is. I swear he is. Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole, sweetheart, look at me. This&#8211;this baby isn&#8217;t ours.<\/p>\n<p>[exhales] EJ. Yes, he is. After the accident, I cradled him just like this. And I saw&#8211; I saw him. I saw his sweet little face, and I could never forget it. I would know it anywhere. Just look at him. Isn&#8217;t he beautiful?<\/p>\n<p>Mm.<\/p>\n<p>[breathing shakily] This is our boy, EJ.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>This is our boy!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, sweetheart. I wish&#8211;I wish it were. I&#8217;d give anything for this to be our baby, darling. He&#8217;s not. This baby is&#8211; this baby is Eric and Sloan&#8217;s. They adopted him today. Yeah? And I think it&#8217;s time we gave him back to his father, OK?<\/p>\n<p>[breathes tearfully]<\/p>\n<p>Hey.<\/p>\n<p>[poignant music]<\/p>\n<p>Rafe, thank you, man. That is great news. Thanks again.<\/p>\n<p>[beep]<\/p>\n<p>What was that all about? What was the great news?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about you.<\/p>\n<p>You kidding?<\/p>\n<p>Rafe told me that EJ&#8217;s decided not to charge you in Gil Carter&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my&#8211;oh my god. Oh my god.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a free woman.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my god, wow. Oh my god, I have to&#8211; I have to go tell&#8211; I have to go tell&#8211; OK. Oh, here&#8211;here&#8217;s your carbonara, and, um, don&#8217;t&#8211;don&#8217;t work too hard.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs]<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Hey. I got you, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>[sniffs] I&#8217;m sorry. I guess my mind is just playing tricks on me and I thought&#8211; I&#8211;I was so sure he was mine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s OK.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, Eric.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole, it&#8217;s OK.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not OK. I mean, this&#8211; this is your baby, and I&#8211; I should have been happy for you. And I&#8217;m&#8211;I&#8217;m really sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Sweetheart, enough with the apologies, OK? Look at me. You&#8217;ve been through a lot these past few days, more than most people could handle. And Eric understands.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I do.<\/p>\n<p>Here, let&#8217;s go. Let me take you home. Come on.<\/p>\n<p>Everything OK?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Everything&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t seem that way.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, actually, it&#8217;s just&#8211; it&#8217;s sad. Nicole seemed to think that this is her baby.<\/p>\n<p>Huh.<\/p>\n<p>So I shouldn&#8217;t call the cops.<\/p>\n<p>No. You shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So you admit it&#8211; that this little baby you&#8217;re claiming that you and Eric adopted is in fact Nicole&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is. He&#8211;he is. It&#8217;s not&#8211;I didn&#8217;t plan to take him, it&#8217;s just&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You know, I&#8217;ve actually used that line before, when I was caught shoplifting at the mall, and that excuse didn&#8217;t even work for a pair of rollerblades.<\/p>\n<p>Could you stop joking, OK? This isn&#8217;t funny.<\/p>\n<p>Who said anything about jokes? You think telling me that you didn&#8217;t plan to steal a baby somehow exonerates you?<\/p>\n<p>Dimitri, you don&#8217;t get it, that&#8217;s not&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Then what&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like that.<\/p>\n<p>What is it?<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] Eric and I, we&#8217;d been planning for a while to adopt a baby. And right when we found out that it was happening, that we were about to get a child of our own, Melinda called and said that the mother, she had changed her mind. Apparently, my reputation precedes me. But the mother didn&#8217;t think I was fit to be a parent. And I thought, if one prospective parent could find out the truth about me, who&#8217;s to say that all the rest couldn&#8217;t? And that is when I realized that me being a mother was going to be an uphill battle&#8211; a battle that I quite possibly would lose. When you showed up at my door unannounced and you have that beautiful baby in your arms&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You thought, finders keepers? No. No! Sloan, no. Wait. So that&#8217;s why you agreed to help Leo, because you knew that that was the only way to get me out of town. And if I&#8217;m out of town, then I&#8217;ll never discover your nefarious little plot.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I did agree, didn&#8217;t I? Isn&#8217;t that what you care about? Isn&#8217;t that what you want?<\/p>\n<p>Are you kidding me? The only reason that Leo is even in this mess is because you decided to play Mommy Dearest with someone else&#8217;s kid!<\/p>\n<p>Please try and understand, Dimitri.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no, no, I understand, Sloan. I understand that you are void of conscience to do something so underhanded, not to mention criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Dimitri, just listen.<\/p>\n<p>No, you listen to me now, Sloan. You&#8217;re gonna have to do a whole lot more than help to get yourself out of this one, lady. You are going to have to get these charges against Leo Stark dropped, and I mean tout suite, or I swear I am going to sing like a canary.<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>You know, this is a tough call.<\/p>\n<p>[gasps] This reminds me of that time I worked as a stagehand in that off-off-off-Broadway production loosely based on &#8220;Sophie&#8217;s Choice.&#8221; Then we got that nasty letter from the lawyer and they were forced to change the name to &#8220;Hannah&#8217;s Choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Damn it, Leo, I am so tired of your half-assed comedy standup act or whatever this is.<\/p>\n<p>What? I can&#8217;t explain my thought process.<\/p>\n<p>OK, how about this for a thought process&#8211; if you don&#8217;t call von Leuschner in the next five minutes, you will have no choice. The deal will be off.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another idea. Let&#8217;s say the two of us head down to the pub and I mull over your very tempting offer over spiced hot chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>Damn it, Leo.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, come on! You&#8217;re asking me to betray someone I care about, someone I love to the depths of my soul. Do you know how many people I&#8217;ve loved in my life? Not counting that yappy little Pomeranian that belonged to my former roommate\/yoga instructor&#8211;not a person, true, but closest you could get. Mm.<\/p>\n<p>I know you think you are deeply in love with von Leuschner and believe me, I know that love can sometimes blind you to the other person&#8217;s failings. Well, in your case, the fact that he is a disgusting dirtbag&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not helping your case, Detective.<\/p>\n<p>OK, then ask yourself this&#8211; do you even think a guy like Dimitri is even capable of love? The guy&#8217;s a sociopath, maybe even a psychopath. I mean, do you think he even cares about you, let alone loves you?<\/p>\n<p>Cares? Of course he cares. He just&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>He just what? Left you holding the bag?<\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not how it went down, and there was no bag.<\/p>\n<p>OK, however it went down, bag or no bag, just look around. Not exactly the Chateau Marmont now, is it?<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ve never stayed there. I hate Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>OK, well, you&#8217;re going to hate a prison cell a lot more. And DA DiMera, he is out for blood. The question is, do you want it to be yours?<\/p>\n<p>[beeping] I have to take care of something. I&#8217;ll expect an answer when I return.<\/p>\n<p>[thoughtful music]<\/p>\n<p>Ugh, come on, how many Sikowskis have been arrested in the last day or so?<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m in the evidence room now. What are we looking for again? Sure, of course. Uh, it should be right over here.<\/p>\n<p>So this is your new baby?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m&#8211;I&#8217;m sorry. It&#8217;s just&#8211; I was just a little rattled.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, that&#8217;s understandable. Nicole thinking that this is her baby, like you said, that&#8217;s, um, really sad.<\/p>\n<p>[exhales] Damn. I still can&#8217;t believe her baby didn&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, me neither. You know, EJ said that their child, their&#8211; their son was accidentally cremated. He and Nicole never really got a chance to say goodbye to their baby.<\/p>\n<p>Whew.<\/p>\n<p>Darling, I am going to run you a bath, I am going to put on some nice classical music, and I want you to relax, OK?<\/p>\n<p>EJ, I was so sure. I was so sure about the baby. I mean, his&#8211; his little face and&#8211; and the look in his eyes, and the way I felt when I held him. I&#8211;I was so sure he was mine.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s all that surprising, given what you&#8217;ve been through, the unimaginable trauma your body has experienced these past few days, coupled with the grief that you and I both feel. Your mind was just playing tricks on you, that&#8217;s all. Like you said.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, I know I said that. I know I did. But the more I think about it, I&#8211; it&#8217;s just his face, EJ. He looked just like him, the baby I gave birth to. And not only did he look like him, it was the way I felt. It was the way I felt when I held him.<\/p>\n<p>Sweetheart, when you held our son, you had just been in a terrible accident. You were badly hurt. I mean, even when I got there, you were still in a daze. And from what I gathered, you hadn&#8217;t&#8211; you hadn&#8217;t held the baby for very long.<\/p>\n<p>No, I hadn&#8217;t. But even though I held him a moment, I&#8211; Come on, EJ, will you just hold me, please?<\/p>\n<p>Of course. Of course.<\/p>\n<p>[sobs]<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s OK.<\/p>\n<p>OK, fine. I&#8217;ll find a way to get Leo out of this mess, but you have to hightail it out of here. Like now, before Eric comes back and sees you.<\/p>\n<p>Shake on it.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music] Sorry, before I go, um, I&#8217;m a little bit short on cash.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. You really are unbelievable. Here, just take it and get out.<\/p>\n<p>Ah. Pleasure doing business with you, ma&#8217;am. One more thing&#8211; uh, I would highly recommend you to use every trick in the book to get Leo out and fast. Otherwise, I promise you, I will make certain that this little baby-stealing scheme of yours is the biggest piece of news of the st century, and this whole beautiful, perfect life that you&#8217;ve built for yourself will blow up in your face.<\/p>\n<p>I think the box is right here. Oh, it&#8217;s Terence Smith, not Lawrence Smith? Ah, I see. Found it. Bringing it right over.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>[thoughtful music]<\/p>\n<p>[phone rings]<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s it going to be, Mr. Stark? Are you going to call Dimitri and give us the big fish so you can swim away free?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought about it, Detective, and&#8230; I&#8217;m not calling anyone. I can&#8217;t&#8211;I won&#8217;t betray the man I love.<\/p>\n<p>[exhales] I&#8217;m going to get you out of this mess, Leo, if it&#8217;s the last thing I do.<\/p>\n<p>So you got it? You got the evidence?<\/p>\n<p>I did, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we have it, we have to find somewhere to offload it.<\/p>\n<p>You sure you got all of it?<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure, yeah, but considering I was this close to getting caught, no way in hell I&#8217;m doubling back. How about you? How&#8217;d it go on your end?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, I made sure that Harris would get his keys back. That was the easy part. But slightly harder lying to his face.<\/p>\n<p>Well.<\/p>\n<p>[phone rings]<\/p>\n<p>Hey, just the man I&#8217;m looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner, what is going on?<\/p>\n<p>Well, someone from the sergeant&#8217;s desk found these downstairs and I recognized the keyring.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-huh.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a relief. I&#8217;ve been looking all over for these. But you know, I don&#8217;t remember leaving them down near the sergeant&#8217;s desk.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you dropped them somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, here we go.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs]<\/p>\n<p>Aw. Hi! How&#8217;s our little guy doing?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, he&#8217;s doing great, actually.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Aw, you just love spending time with your daddy, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he does, and he&#8217;s much better now that he&#8217;s got a pacifier.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, he is. Aw.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Sloan, there&#8217;s something that I need to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah?<\/p>\n<p>Um, I ran into Nicole. And&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and&#8211;and&#8211; what?<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8211;she just got released from the hospital and, well, when she saw the baby, she said that it was hers.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>[sobs]<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m guessing you&#8217;re not terribly hungry, so I&#8217;m going to put these sliders in the fridge for later. Why don&#8217;t I put on a pot of tea, hmm?<\/p>\n<p>OK.<\/p>\n<p>Love you.<\/p>\n<p>Love you.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Mm. Nicole, uh, thought our baby was hers? Doesn&#8217;t make any sense.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I know, it&#8217;s just&#8211; I mean, she obviously was just overwhelmed with grief.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, well, what did you&#8211; what&#8217;d you do? 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