{"id":53093,"date":"2024-01-22T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=53093"},"modified":"2024-01-23T23:07:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T05:07:45","slug":"days-transcript-monday-january-22-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/days-transcript-monday-january-22-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Transcript Monday, January 22, 2024"},"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>[soft dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[slurps]<\/p>\n<p>[gulps, exhales deeply] Come on. What&#8217;s it all mean?<\/p>\n<p>[exhales]<\/p>\n<p>[yelps] Stop!<\/p>\n<p>[dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>Will someone answer me? What&#8217;s going on here?<\/p>\n<p>Just in time, Maggie.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently so. Steve, may I ask why you were about to attack this man?<\/p>\n<p>Yes. Why indeed?<\/p>\n<p>Maggie, you have got to know that this man is not here in Salem to live a peaceful existence and reminisce with you about your late husband. He&#8217;s here to take advantage of your kindness and your generosity, and he has to be stopped. I will not stand by and watch you get hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me, Detective, are you able to have a life these days, or is your caseload in Salem pretty all-consuming?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. My caseload is all-consuming&#8230; thanks to you and your drug ring.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] My drug ring? Good Lord, I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about. I&#8217;m a strong proponent of drug abstinence and sobriety, and have been ever since I joined the program a few years back. I could recite the serenity prayer for you, if you&#8217;d like me to.<\/p>\n<p>I would like you to go to hell, you lying son of a bitch.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>Drink.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>[gentle music]<\/p>\n<p>You know, I know things blew up between us, but we still had some good times together, didn&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>Mm, yeah. Yeah. We really did.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. We did.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>Except for I screwed up royally, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I thought that you were going to&#8211; I thought you were going to hate me forever and that you wouldn&#8217;t be my friend, but yet here you are, being my friend. So kind and understanding. Thank you for being my friend, Brady.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell?<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Alex, it&#8217;s&#8211; it&#8217;s not what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no, no. It is exactly what I think.<\/p>\n<p>[soft orchestration] announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the &#8220;Days of Our Lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steve, I appreciate your concern about me, and you know I consider you and Kayla my dear friends. But I&#8217;m also insulted nonetheless that you would think I was so naive and such a poor judge of character that I wouldn&#8217;t know if someone was taking advantage of me.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t mean to insult you, Maggie. It&#8217;s the last thing I want to do. I care about you.<\/p>\n<p>As do I. You saved my life. You&#8217;ve been more than a friend to me, and I can&#8217;t thank you enough, Maggie.<\/p>\n<p>Will you cut the crap?<\/p>\n<p>Steve.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie, this man is dangerous, and he&#8217;s conning you. Listen, I know you&#8217;re smart, and I know that you are generally a good judge of character. But you&#8217;re in a vulnerable place right now.<\/p>\n<p>Steve, I don&#8217;t want to hear it. Not that I haven&#8217;t heard it before when I first got involved with Victor. Everyone said that I was being naive and that I was going to get hurt. And just like back then, and, fortunately, as it turned out, I didn&#8217;t listen, and I&#8217;m not listening now.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Doc. I didn&#8217;t mean to scare you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay. After all these years, you would think I would be more accustomed to your sudden moves.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you would think. Hey, I missed our morning kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>Did you sleep okay?<\/p>\n<p>I did. You didn&#8217;t. Again.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know. I didn&#8217;t want to bother you, so I just brought it down here to the couch.<\/p>\n<p>That was sweet of you. What&#8217;s got you so agitated? I know we have a lot to worry about these days, but I&#8217;ve never seen you lose sleep before. So why don&#8217;t you tell me what&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>[mysterious music]<\/p>\n<p>Whoa. You have a short fuse, don&#8217;t you, Detective? I wouldn&#8217;t think that would serve you well in your line of work.<\/p>\n<p>It serves me just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Huh. I thought it was important to be, you know, cool and collected when confronting dangerous criminal types. Not that I&#8217;m one of those myself, you know. Not anymore. I am truly reformed. A model prisoner is what they say. So much so that my main mission right now is just to set a good example for my fellow inmates. Because, you know, I&#8217;m what you might call a people person.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve heard.<\/p>\n<p>I bet you have. And that trait makes me real good at assessing who&#8217;s got potential to thrive in here and, you know, in general, really. And, Detective, in spite of your short fuse, or maybe because of it&#8211; I&#8217;m not sure&#8211; I got a good feeling about you. So I&#8217;d like to offer you my feedback on Salem&#8217;s current state of affairs, if you&#8217;d like to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>All right, I&#8217;m listening.<\/p>\n<p>Good. Now, what you might see as a crisis, I see as an opportunity to grow a substantial enterprise. Hypothetically speaking, of course. And if I were to venture into a particular line of business, you, Detective, would be exactly the kind of individual that I&#8217;d be seeking to employ.<\/p>\n<p>Alex. Alex, listen to me. This&#8211;this was not Brady. It was me who kissed him. It was the drugs, I swear. It was just a momentary lapse that I had. The kiss meant nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, it sure as hell didn&#8217;t look like nothing.<\/p>\n<p>But, Alex, I know what it looks like. She&#8217;s telling the truth, all right? And I don&#8217;t take advantage of people in pain, all right?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true. Alex, it&#8217;s true. Brady is not at fault here. I made a really poor decision last night, and that just led to a really poor decision again right now. But you&#8211; you have to believe me. I want to be with you. Alex, I&#8211; I just want to be with you. Only you.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not compare this guy to Victor, okay?<\/p>\n<p>Fine. Let&#8217;s compare him to you. You worked for Victor on multiple occasions over the years. And was your behavior always ethical?<\/p>\n<p>I was a different man back then.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s my point, Steve. You saw the error in your ways, and you turned your life around yourself. You found the love of your life, and you settled down and had a family. And just like then&#8211; well, you know Victor. He changed his ways too. And even though you think ill of Konstantin&#8211; which I know you do&#8211; why can&#8217;t you give him the benefit of the doubt? Why can&#8217;t you believe that he can change too? And he has changed.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. I became a better man thanks to Kayla. Victor became a better man thanks to you and your relationship with him. But let&#8217;s talk about the present and what&#8217;s going on right now with this lowlife.<\/p>\n<p>Would you please stop with the name-calling?<\/p>\n<p>He has an agenda, Maggie. He has an agenda. He didn&#8217;t come to Salem randomly. He came here to take advantage of you.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re entitled to your opinion, Steve. I can assure you that Konstantin has been nothing but open and honest with me, and I&#8211; and I believe, your accusations notwithstanding, he has a good heart. And aside from all that, whatever happens or doesn&#8217;t happen between him and me, that&#8217;s frankly none of your business.<\/p>\n<p>[soft dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Maggie, there&#8217;s so many people in this town who care deeply about you, and I&#8217;m one of them. Now, all I can say right now is please, please be careful.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your concern, Steve. Please give my best to Kayla.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to let this go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fine. Just been thinking a lot about Tate and Brady, that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>We all have. We&#8217;re all concerned. Is there something more going on, something that&#8217;s keeping you up at night?<\/p>\n<p>Nope. That&#8217;s it. And I&#8217;m sure that I will sleep a lot better tonight. So you don&#8217;t have to worry about me, Doc. I&#8217;m good. And you have to get to work, right?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>I do, so&#8211; I love you.<\/p>\n<p>And I love you, pretty lady.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. I will talk to you later.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, honey. Be careful.<\/p>\n<p>And you might want to introduce yourself to a comb.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>[ominous music]<\/p>\n<p>A new job, huh? You know you would have to offer a hell of a compensation package to get me to abandon my line of work.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m capable of offering exactly that. But let&#8217;s be realistic here for a moment, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>Mm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>In this situation that we are hypothesizing about, it wouldn&#8217;t all be easy. You know what I mean?<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t expect it to be.<\/p>\n<p>If I decided I wanted to hire someone like you with certain life experiences, you would have to be fully vetted, of course. And the thing of it is, Detective, I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;d make the cut. +- Please, Alex, you have to forgive me. I was just caught up in the moment, and Brady was here. And because he&#8217;s the father of my son, I just&#8211; I needed, I don&#8217;t know, comforting. And so I just kissed him. It was stupid, and I was wrong. And I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m sorry. It was unfair&#8211; it was unfair to him, and it was unfair to you. And it was unfair to me. But it wasn&#8217;t Brady. It was me. It was my fault, and it won&#8217;t happen again.<\/p>\n<p>[somber music]<\/p>\n<p>Theresa&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You know, when I was high&#8230; I was a completely different person. There was just no more pain, and&#8230; I was just hurting so much because of Tate. I&#8217;ve failed our son. I threw away years of sobriety.<\/p>\n<p>Theresa, Theresa, no, you didn&#8217;t. You fell. You took a fall, but it&#8217;s&#8211; it&#8217;s about how you pick yourself up, remember? You&#8217;re going to recover, and you&#8217;re going to do it for your&#8211;for your family. And for Tate. But mostly, you&#8217;re going to do it for you. You hear me?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I will. Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Theresa, you know what&#8217;s next. What is the next step?<\/p>\n<p>Okay. I&#8217;m going to go to a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to do that. I&#8217;m going to go to a meeting every day. I will get a sponsor. I will devote myself % to becoming sober and to becoming a better person. I will not let you and Tate down again, I promise.<\/p>\n<p>[grunts] Thank you for being my advocate. It is not every day someone so intelligent and magnificent would defend what little honor I have so eloquently.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m sorry about all this. Steve means well. His concern comes from a good place. Konstantin, I can&#8217;t help but feel that this harassment of you is not going to stop because my friends are being overly protective and overly concerned. I appreciate it, but I resent it. Because I don&#8217;t like being treated like a naive child.<\/p>\n<p>Of course not. I&#8217;m sorry that&#8217;s happening to you.<\/p>\n<p>I can handle it. Like I told Steve, I&#8217;ve been subjected to this before when I first got involved with Victor. But it didn&#8217;t faze me all that much.<\/p>\n<p>Because you have the courage of your convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I suppose I do. And I know you do as well. But you being continually harassed this way&#8211; it worries me. For you. I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if Salem is the best place for you.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] That is not what I want to hear, Maggie.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hi. My son and my grandson.<\/p>\n<p>[whispering] Hi mom.<\/p>\n<p>[whispering] Oh, oh, oh. I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m sorry. Is he asleep?<\/p>\n<p>He is.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. You know, in a minute or two, we can talk normal.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>I know. I used to have to do that for you and Sammy when you were babies too.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>Oh, he is just so adorable.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. He is.<\/p>\n<p>And you? How are you?<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, not great. I just want to apologize for how things happened last night.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. No apology necessary. I just&#8211;I felt bad for Sloan.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Me too. She was&#8211;she was nervous, and she wanted to make a good impression. So she thought she&#8217;d have a drink to calm herself down.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know. You know, I don&#8217;t have a patient for an hour. Why don&#8217;t we get a cup of coffee and catch up some?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a great idea. Let&#8217;s go. Okay.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you what. Why don&#8217;t you just make me an offer I can&#8217;t refuse?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s the thing. I was speaking hypothetically, so there won&#8217;t be an offer. And I must confess, I&#8217;ve been amusing myself a little, watching you play along, trying to squeeze some intel out of me, thinking that I&#8217;d be foolish enough to trust you. But here&#8217;s the thing. You&#8217;re the fool. So why don&#8217;t you just go on back to Salem, and you&#8217;re going to find out how powerless you really are.<\/p>\n<p>Do not push me, Weston. I know it&#8217;s you. I know you&#8217;re behind the drugs that are killing people in Salem, and I&#8217;m not going to stop until I find the proof to shut your ass down and hold you accountable!<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be really careful about making threats and promises you can&#8217;t keep. I mean, look what happened to poor Lucas Horton.<\/p>\n<p>God, I can&#8217;t believe I was so weak. I&#8217;m so ashamed.<\/p>\n<p>Theresa, don&#8217;t. You know that beating yourself up is not helpful. You have been through hell lately.<\/p>\n<p>I just succumbed to my addiction. How is that not weak?<\/p>\n<p>Because when&#8211; we&#8217;re not going to characterize it as weak. What you&#8217;re going to do&#8211; what you are going to do is recommit to sobriety, all right? That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re going to do. And you&#8217;re going to show yourself some compassion. And, yes, you gotta get to those meetings, okay?<\/p>\n<p>I will. And, well, like I said, I will. And I know that I shouldn&#8217;t care about what people think. It shouldn&#8217;t matter to me, or at least it should not matter to me so much, but it does. I&#8217;m so&#8211;I&#8217;m so embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p>[somber music] I really hate that you had to see me this way, Alex.<\/p>\n<p>Theresa, it&#8217;s okay. You know, I get it. I&#8217;m not judging you. I am concerned about you.<\/p>\n<p>And, Theresa, nobody knows what happened here besides us and Jada. And Jada is not going to say anything.<\/p>\n<p>What about you, Brady? Are you going to tell Tate that I slipped?<\/p>\n<p>Why would I do that? I don&#8217;t want to hurt you. I don&#8217;t want to hurt our son. No, I&#8217;m not saying anything. But I&#8217;ll tell you what. If you&#8211; If you get those feelings again, if you start to get overwhelmed, feel like you might slip, will you do me a favor? Will you reach out to me? Will you reach out to Alex or reach out to Maggie? You&#8217;ve got to lean on people right now, do you understand? Do you understand?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Okay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here for you, Theresa. You know, I want to help you any way I can.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. God, I&#8217;m so tired.<\/p>\n<p>I bet you are. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>[clears throat] We&#8217;re all tired. Why don&#8217;t we all get some sleep? Hey, call me, please. Either of you, if you need anything.<\/p>\n<p>[soft dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>[exhales deeply] And here you thought that I was low-maintenance, huh?<\/p>\n<p>I never thought that.<\/p>\n<p>I know you didn&#8217;t. But I&#8217;m guessing you weren&#8217;t expecting this. Alex, if you want out, if you want to end things, I understand.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell happened to you?<\/p>\n<p>Well, good morning to you too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, man. You&#8217;re just&#8211;you&#8217;re looking really haggard. Is everything all right?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, everything&#8217;s fine. Just didn&#8217;t sleep very well again last night.<\/p>\n<p>Why not?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Damn dreams. More like nightmares. Just feelings I can&#8217;t shake that something&#8217;s off here.<\/p>\n<p>So do you recall any of these nightmares?<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t. Come on, man. You know how it is. You remember something for a second, you try to grab on to it, and it just&#8211; just disappears. It&#8217;s kind of like nature doesn&#8217;t want you to remember certain dreams or nightmares. But I have learned that when my mind starts going to these dark places, it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s trying to tell me something, and it&#8217;s not good.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-huh. Well, speaking of not good, I just had another run-in with that son of a bitch, Konstantin.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, Konstantin. I didn&#8217;t mean to offend you.<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no, no, no. You did not offend me, Maggie, dear. It&#8217;s just that I am sad that you a so distressed on my behalf that you are advising me to actually leave Salem. Because I have grown fond of this town, and I&#8217;m frankly not quite ready to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>Are you sure? I mean, Steve treating you so badly, and John Black, he also has his suspicions about you.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, let them be. That&#8217;s their problem. I will be fine. Just as long as you will keep looking out for me.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that won&#8217;t change. Well, let&#8217;s go. On second thought. You know what? Brady just went into the pub, and I need to speak to him. I&#8217;ll see you back at the mansion.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] See you at home.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me, how is Sloan this morning?<\/p>\n<p>You mean besides being completely hungover? She&#8217;s embarrassed and upset with herself.<\/p>\n<p>Ah. The drinking&#8211; is that something that happens frequently?<\/p>\n<p>No. No, not at all. I mean, Sloan&#8211; she&#8217;ll have a glass of wine, but getting drunk like she did last night? I&#8217;ve never seen that at all.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Please tell her she does not have to be embarrassed. You know, John and I completely understand. And, well, she&#8217;s part of our family now.<\/p>\n<p>[gentle music]<\/p>\n<p>So what happened with Konstantin? You gave him hell, I assume.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Yeah, I gave him hell. But then Maggie showed up.<\/p>\n<p>And she had her blinders on, I assume.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Unfortunately, she did. I tried to talk some sense into her, but she wasn&#8217;t having it. And then she was quick to remind me that back in the day, people were warning her about Victor. She didn&#8217;t listen about him. And she&#8217;s not listening about this dude, either.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Well, you know, Victor was&#8211; rest his soul. Victor wasn&#8217;t always the most honorable man, but he did have his redeeming qualities. Plus he loved his family desperately.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he did. But this guy? Man, he is nothing but a lying buffoon, really. And a dangerous one. And unlike Victor, who genuinely loved Maggie, it&#8217;s pretty obvious that she has nothing but a giant payday for Konstantin Meleounis.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, well, partner, I think you and I just need to face that we are not achieving the results we aimed for with this buffoon, so I think maybe it&#8217;s time that we approach this situation from a different angle.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m open to suggestions. What do you have in mind?<\/p>\n<p>I think that it&#8217;s time we just back off.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want out, Theresa. Not at all. I just want you to be okay.<\/p>\n<p>[tender music]<\/p>\n<p>Sit with me, please? I really hate that I put you through that. Scaring you.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in this together. Right?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s really nice of you to say that. Oh, and I hate that you had to see me kissing Brady.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you explained why that happened, so we&#8217;re not going to talk about that anymore.<\/p>\n<p>No. Right, yeah. No, we&#8217;re not going to talk about it because that kiss was nothing. What? Say it.<\/p>\n<p>You and Brady&#8211; you got a kid together. You&#8217;ve both struggled with addiction. And I can see how happy it made you that he came here to help you tonight. And it just feels like&#8230; you just really needed him.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8211;I did. I admit that. And the truth is, I don&#8217;t know if I could have gotten through this without him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a damn shame what happened to Lucas in here.<\/p>\n<p>You son of a bitch. You&#8217;re lucky Lucas is alive.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I don&#8217;t think luck had anything to do with it. The whole point of that attack on Lucas was to send a message outside these walls. And here you are, sitting across from me. And lo and behold, I&#8217;ve got a message for you.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>How did you hear about Theresa?<\/p>\n<p>I ran into Alex. He told me she had a slip.<\/p>\n<p>She definitely did.<\/p>\n<p>Mm.<\/p>\n<p>She did. And it&#8217;s actually pretty understandable, Maggie, given what we&#8217;ve been having to handle with our son. It&#8217;s just&#8211;I mean&#8211; and, look, I haven&#8217;t been tempted. But I can certainly relate to wanting to escape from the stress and the anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. As do I, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s with Alex now, but I&#8217;m worried. I&#8217;m worried about her. I think she could relapse again, just like&#8211; Wait. I&#8211;oh, wait. Dad and Marlena have a&#8211; they have an extra room at their place. I mean, I could move her in there, and then I could keep&#8211; I could keep an eye on her.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely not, Brady. That would be the worst thing that you could do right now.<\/p>\n<p>And now, update me on your photography business.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Well, it&#8217;s doing better than I expected. I reactivated my website, and I updated my social media. And I kind of went old-school, and I put out a few flyers around town.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Any inquiries?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, a few. You know, some family portraits, a Valentine Galentine event.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s great. I&#8217;m so glad you have a creative outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Making a little bit of extra money is nice too, especially after Christmas got a little lean. But that&#8217;s the cost of having a kid, right?<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it adds up.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs]<\/p>\n<p>Anytime that you want John and me to babysit, we&#8217;d be happy to.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, message received. You will definitely be babysitting that guy soon.<\/p>\n<p>[gentle acoustic music]<\/p>\n<p>Man, this lack of sleep must really be getting to you.<\/p>\n<p>I know.<\/p>\n<p>You want to back off Konstantin?<\/p>\n<p>Hear me out. Hear me out. Hear me out. I&#8217;m thinking that if we keep pushing Maggie too hard, especially with him around, she&#8217;s not going to not only not listen to us, she&#8217;s going to start resenting us more and more. And Konstantin, he obviously wants to play the victim. And as long as he plays that role convincingly with Maggie, we&#8217;re stuck with him, partner.<\/p>\n<p>And then Maggie&#8217;s stuck with him.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, look. He&#8217;s playing a long game, just like you said. I mean, he&#8217;s in this marathon con. So if we just give him the distance but keep feeding him just enough rope, he may hang himself.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music] Okay. We&#8217;ll try it your way, for Maggie&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah. Maggie&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I gotta get going. I&#8217;ll check in with you later. So, partner&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Go get some sleep, okay?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the plan.<\/p>\n<p>All right.<\/p>\n<p>Theresa, I need you to be honest with me.<\/p>\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n<p>Do you still have feelings for Brady?<\/p>\n<p>[soft dramatic music]<\/p>\n<p>Alex, Brady is the father of my son. That is the extent of our relationship. That is it. I have no romantic feelings for him at all. Not anymore. And, yes, we are both recovering addicts, so he understands how I feel. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that I want to be with him. And that kiss&#8211; That kiss was reckless and impulsive, and it was a big mistake. Okay? You don&#8217;t believe me, do you?<\/p>\n<p>And the message you have for me?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more of a mandate, really.<\/p>\n<p>A mandate? What the hell does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>It means you need to focus your attention elsewhere. Surely you have more important things to do than to squander precious time and resources on the likes of me.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I have plenty of time to squander, Weston. &#8216;Cause I&#8217;m the lone wolf. Ex-military, no family.<\/p>\n<p>[ominous music] So here&#8217;s a question for you. Do you really want to come after somebody who has nothing to lose?<\/p>\n<p>Lone wolf and impressive resum\u00e9, I&#8217;ll buy that. But &#8220;nothing to lose,&#8221; I kind of doubt that. Surely there are people that you care about. Maybe&#8211; maybe one special person who means a lot to you, whom you would hate to see something bad happen to. Because if it did, it&#8217;d be on you. You know, if that special person got hurt&#8230; man, you&#8217;d have no one but yourself to blame. Right, Detective?<\/p>\n<p>If you push me, if you come after anybody I care about, it doesn&#8217;t matter how many bars surround you or how many guards stand watch. It will be the last thing that you ever do.<\/p>\n<p>Nice meeting you, Detective. I really did enjoy our chat.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been warned, Weston.<\/p>\n<p>[tense music]<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>Brady, you and Theresa are in a very fragile state right now because you&#8217;re worried about Tate. And I think for, you the stress of&#8211; of helping Theresa maintain her sobriety, I think it could end up putting you at risk. Let me&#8211;let me reach out to her, take her to a meeting, find her a sponsor. And if I need any additional support, I&#8217;ll talk to Roman and Kayla and get them involved in helping her.<\/p>\n<p>That makes sense. That makes total sense. I actually did tell Theresa to contact you, Maggie.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad. And if she doesn&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll contact her, as I said. You know, frankly, I think I&#8217;ll call her today.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] You&#8211; I appreciate you so much for doing this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here for you, Brady, and for Theresa.<\/p>\n<p>[mellow country music]<\/p>\n<p>Alex, listen to me. Brady and I, we have been over for a long time. We co-parent Tate. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>[soft dramatic music] And, you know, right now, I really need to focus on my sobriety. And while I do that, I need to know that you trust me. Do you trust me? Because if you don&#8217;t trust me, I think that I should move out.<\/p>\n<p>What? Theresa, no&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I think it would be for the best, if&#8211; if I moved out for the both of us. Because I think&#8211; I think I should go back to California, and I should be with my mom. 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