{"id":58622,"date":"2024-08-11T19:48:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T00:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=58622"},"modified":"2024-08-11T19:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T00:48:59","slug":"days-transcript-friday-august-2-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/11\/days-transcript-friday-august-2-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Transcript Friday, August 2, 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><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style3\">THIS STILL NEEDS EXTENSIVE EDITING!<\/p>\n<p><i>[dramatic music]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Steve, I know it&#8217;s late in Greece, but I haven&#8217;t heard from you. And I want to hear your voice. So will you call me, please?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do you one better, Sweetness.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hey, Marlena.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Hi, Paul. Thank you for joining me.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, sure. No problem. I was hoping my dad might be with you.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no. I&#8217;m sorry to disappoint you. He&#8217;s still in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, that&#8217;s too bad. Yeah, Andrew&#8217;s about to wrap things up with his sister, and I was hoping that I&#8217;d see my dad before we left. Do you have any idea when he&#8217;s gonna be back?<\/p>\n<p>No, actually, I haven&#8217;t spoken to him for a little while. But Steve is over there looking after him, and I&#8217;m&#8211; I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s just fine. Fact is that I&#8217;m actually a little more worried worried about your brother.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[groans]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Wow. We really went to town, huh?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And you&#8217;re sure that Xander&#8217;s mom hasn&#8217;t checked out yet? OK. Yeah. OK. Thank you, Phyllis. I appreciate the intel. [chuckles] All right.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[sighs] [echoing] If you are really against inviting your mom, then I understand, and I will drop it. But I just think it might be nice for Victoria to get to know her paternal grandmother.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You know I&#8217;ll do anything for our daughter. All right, I&#8217;ll agree, but only for Victoria&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>[squeals] Thank you. I actually think that this will be good for all of us, not just Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, if I were you, I&#8217;d lower my expectations, OK? You know, I&#8217;m not convinced this is the best idea, but I do appreciate the gesture. I know your heart&#8217;s in the right place about it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thank you for understanding.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I do. However, I reserve the right, if this turns out to be an enormous disaster, to say I told you so.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Great news.<\/p>\n<p>Mm.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Our daughter&#8217;s kidnapper has officially pled guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. So Theresa did the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>Only &#8217;cause I had the cops breathing down the back of her neck. I mean, she knew there was no other choice. It was basically a matter of time.<\/p>\n<p>Is her brother still trying to work out a plea deal?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but there&#8217;s no way she&#8217;ll avoid prison now.<\/p>\n<p>Good. Good, now we can put that whole nightmare behind us, and we can focus on the future.<\/p>\n<p>Mm.<\/p>\n<p>Namely, rescheduling our wedding.<\/p>\n<p>The sooner, the better, my love.<\/p>\n<p>I agree. And hopefully we can do it before your mom flies back home.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>That was quite the flight.<\/p>\n<p>Yup. Let&#8217;s hope that turbulence wasn&#8217;t a bad omen, that this isn&#8217;t just a wild-goose chase.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, Clyde could be lying. But if Abigail is alive, it makes sense that he&#8217;d want to stash her away in his hometown. So now we just got to figure out her location.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>[soft orchestration]<\/i> <i>announcer: Like sands<\/i> <i>through the hourglass,<\/i> <i>so are<\/i> <i>the &#8220;Days of Our Lives.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>[dramatic music]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why you&#8217;re so eager to have my mom attend our wedding. I mean, didn&#8217;t she tell you that she doesn&#8217;t even think I should be getting married right now?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yeah, but only because she was concerned that you&#8217;re still processing this revelation, not because it was anything personal about me.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I should think not. Because you&#8230; are the best thing that&#8217;s ever happened to me.<\/p>\n<p>Obvi! [laughs] And like I said, I think she&#8217;s just&#8211; I think she&#8217;s just worried about you. It&#8217;s a lot to take in, being Victor&#8217;s son, coming into all that money. You know, she flew all this way for a wedding, so I think it might be nice to do while she&#8217;s still in town.<\/p>\n<p>And is she still in town?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Yeah, I just spoke to Phyllis at the Salem Inn. Your mom hasn&#8217;t checked out yet, which means there&#8217;s still time for you to go and work things out with her.<\/p>\n<p>And why do you assume that I want to?<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s the right thing to do. She is your mom, and she is our daughter&#8217;s grandma. I think it would be really nice for you two to have a decent relationship with her.<\/p>\n<p>When you put it like that&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I knew you would come around. So why wait? Just go tell her that you want her to stay for our wedding.<\/p>\n<p>But I really don&#8217;t want her to.<\/p>\n<p>Xander, you literally just agreed that it would be good for you and our daughter for you to go mend fences. So go to her while she&#8217;s still in Salem. You won&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Cheers.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<p>You know, when I invited you over yesterday for a drink, I didn&#8217;t anticipate it turning into a -hour bender.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, me neither.<\/p>\n<p>You were really knocking back the drinks. I wasn&#8217;t sure I could even keep up with you. And that&#8217;s really saying something.<\/p>\n<p>Well, look, I was dealing with a lot when I got your text. I had this lovely interaction with my ex-wife.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the dreadful Theresa woman, the one who tried to swindle my son out of his fortune.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the one.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s her. Believe it or not, I thought we were actually on the path to reconcile, and&#8211; no, no. Yesterday was&#8211;was the nail in&#8211;in our coffin.<\/p>\n<p>Mm, so my text came just at the right moment. Or the wrong moment, depending on how you look at it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this lovely headache I have, I don&#8217;t have a single regret. Not at all. I needed to drown my sorrows, and you, lovely lady, are a hell of a drinking partner.<\/p>\n<p>Same here. Although just to be clear, no one can know about this.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t tell if you don&#8217;t tell.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>So Brady&#8217;s not answering his phone and he&#8217;s not replying to texts?<\/p>\n<p>Right. Tried to reach him to invite him to his brother&#8217;s going-away party, and it was a last-minute thing, but&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>But?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t come home last night.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not&#8211; not the only time that&#8217;s happened recently. And I start to wonder if maybe he&#8217;s been keeping secrets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I am so happy to see you. But why didn&#8217;t you call me and let me know you were on your way back?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, there wasn&#8217;t time. I booked a last-minute flight, and then I made a beeline to the airport, and I didn&#8217;t get to the gate until they were closing the door.<\/p>\n<p>And so you came right here after you landed?<\/p>\n<p>You were my first stop, Sweetness.<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>Well, second. Luckily the gift shop downstairs had your favorite.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s lovely, as always. So tell me, how was Greece? Did you find John? Did he come back with you?<\/p>\n<p>No, he didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>So John stayed in Greece? Why? What happened?<\/p>\n<p>Well, when I got there, I tried reaching out to him several times. He wasn&#8217;t responding to any of my calls or texts, so I decided to go to the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Where Konstantin&#8217;s daughter was buried.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Took me a long time to find it, but when I finally did, I went to Catharina&#8217;s grave, and on the grave were fresh flowers with a note attached.<\/p>\n<p>From John?<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>What did it say?<\/p>\n<p>Well, what you would expect, that he felt tremendous guilt for taking her life and he didn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d ever be able to forgive himself.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, poor guy. He was brainwashed. None of this was his fault.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, John still doesn&#8217;t see it that way.<\/p>\n<p>Well, were you able to talk to him about it?<\/p>\n<p>No. That&#8217;s the problem. <i>[dramatic music]<\/i> I still don&#8217;t know where he is.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Is it possible Brady&#8217;s involved with someone new and he&#8217;s just not ready to open up about it?<\/p>\n<p>No. No. Brady knows that I would be happy for him to have someone in his life. He knows that I&#8211; I fret about him being lonely. And in fact, he texted me last night to say that he was going to be sleeping at the office.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, then that&#8217;s what it is. Makes sense, doesn&#8217;t it? He&#8217;s probably very busy launching a new line for Basic Black, which is why he couldn&#8217;t make it to Eric&#8217;s party.<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Why? You don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s telling the truth? I mean about being in the office.<\/p>\n<p>Brady has been in a funk lately about Theresa. I mean, it was a very toxic relationship.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I just think, after what&#8217;s happened, he&#8211; well, he could be in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>You mentioned before that you&#8217;re supposed to be sober.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;ve had a couple almost slipups, but I haven&#8217;t had a drink in a couple years.<\/p>\n<p>Ooh. So I&#8217;m your enabler?<\/p>\n<p>No. No, Fiona, you&#8217;re not. It&#8217;s just that all this stuff with my ex-wife has just gotten into my head. Usually I would go to a meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ooh.<\/p>\n<p>Right, but&#8211; well, I&#8217;m not in the mood to go to a meeting. So how about you?<\/p>\n<p>Mm. No, those meetings are not for me. I find them tedious, all those sad little people whining about their insipid little lives. Makes me want to drink more. Now, of course, if they had an open bar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[chuckles] Yeah, that&#8211;why didn&#8217;t they think of that?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, just saying.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I sometimes find the meetings to be very useful and helpful. But you got to go in with the right attitude.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I see they&#8217;ve done you a lot of good.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t have said that.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s all right. It&#8217;s all right. You&#8217;re not wrong. Relapsing was not in my plans. But like I said, no&#8211;no regrets.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at the risk of furthering my bad influence, I have to say that I am doing just fine. Some people might say I&#8217;m a functioning alcoholic, but I&#8217;d say the key word there is &#8220;functioning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mm. Then why all the secrecy?<\/p>\n<p>Xander and his fianc\u00e9e wouldn&#8217;t approve. I have to pretend to be completely sober if I want to have any chance of getting back into his good books.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We have been through this, Sarah. I mean, my mum lied to me my entire life. And I&#8217;m sure you can understand why I might not be ready to forgive her just because, after abandoning me decades ago, she suddenly shows up in Salem for our wedding that didn&#8217;t even happen.<\/p>\n<p>I know. I know. She has to earn back your trust. Of course she does. But I&#8211;I do think that she is willing to try, and I hope that you give her that chance, especially because she has cleaned up her act. She&#8211;she&#8217;s sober, and she feels&#8211; it feels like she&#8217;s committed to that.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re really going to bat for her, huh?<\/p>\n<p>I think&#8211; [sighs] I think it&#8217;s just because I&#8217;m a mom now, too, and I can empathize with wanting to have a good relationship with my child.<\/p>\n<p>And for the record, you are ten times the mother Fiona Cook will ever be.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Yeah, I suppose you make a few valid points. So maybe I&#8217;ll go and see what my mum has to say for herself. Who knows? Maybe she&#8217;ll surprise me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[exhales heavily] Well? What do you think? Think that&#8217;s the same billboard we saw in the video?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. I didn&#8217;t get a clear shot, but&#8230; based on this partial image, the&#8211;the&#8211; the numbers for the skating rink, the font, and the color&#8211; I don&#8217;t know. Seems pretty close. Now we just have to figure out which one of these buildings has the same vantage point as the video, and we should find her.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] That may be easier said than done.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>So let&#8217;s say, judging by the distance and the angle, that the building has to be right over here.<\/p>\n<p>Right. Well, there&#8217;s only one building in that direction that seems to have the right height. <i>[dramatic music]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>All right, let&#8217;s get started.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Oh. Mom! These are so adorable.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I just saw them in the store window, and I couldn&#8217;t resist. You know how grandmas are. Anyway, plus, I thought it would be a good excuse to come over and see our little angel.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you never need an excuse. But I&#8217;m so sorry. I just put her down for a nap.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, I can come back another time.<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no, no. Stay, please? I&#8217;ll make us some tea, and we can catch up.<\/p>\n<p>That would be lovely.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Mm. Oh, so I assume that you&#8211; you heard that Theresa turned herself in.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I&#8217;m the one that took her to the station.<\/p>\n<p>What? Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, she asked me to, so I drove her. I mean, you know, she said she was afraid that she would&#8211; she wouldn&#8217;t; she would back out if someone didn&#8217;t go with her. And there&#8217;s a part of me that&#8217;s&#8211; that respects the fact that she&#8217;s finally taking responsibility for her actions.<\/p>\n<p>You always did have a soft spot for her.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was her sponsor, so what can I say? My instinct is still to pull for her.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Even if she kidnapped your grandchild?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no. I&#8211;no&#8211;believe me, I remember that, and I&#8217;m very&#8211; I&#8217;m still very angry with her. Now, what she did was terrible, but I&#8211;I can&#8217;t help but feel for her just a little bit, especially since&#8211; I don&#8217;t know&#8211; she seems to be truly remorseful.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Well, don&#8217;t expect that kind of grace from Xander, &#8217;cause he is so angry. He wants Theresa to fry, and I can&#8217;t exactly blame him. She completely screwed with his life.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I understand. So where is that husband-to-be, anyway? [chuckles]<\/p>\n<p>Well, at my urging, he went to go see his mom.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let housekeeping do the bed.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I should probably change and get out of your hair.<\/p>\n<p>No, don&#8217;t do that. It&#8217;s getting close to dinnertime. You should stay. We could have room service again. You could even stay the night.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the offer, but I don&#8217;t&#8211; I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a good idea. And I&#8217;m sorry to have to ask you this again, but nothing happened between us last night, right?<\/p>\n<p>No. Twice you&#8217;ve slept in my bed, and twice nothing untoward has happened. Hmm. Perhaps the third time&#8217;s the charm. [both chuckle] [knock at door]<\/p>\n<p>Mum? It&#8217;s me, Xander. I know you&#8217;re in there, Mum, so please, open up.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, you&#8217;re right. I mean, Brady was pretty upset about Theresa marrying Alex. I mean, as soon as they tied the knot, he took off.<\/p>\n<p>Where did he go? Do you know?<\/p>\n<p>A meeting, apparently?<\/p>\n<p>Ah. So he&#8217;s feeling tempted to drink.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I would assume so.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m glad he went to a meeting. I just wish he had contacted me.<\/p>\n<p>Has he done that in the past?<\/p>\n<p>He has. We&#8217;re very close. And he knows that I will be there for him. You know, I&#8217;m wondering if&#8211; has there been a red flag? Have you noticed any questionable behavior?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[echoing]<\/p>\n<p>What you up to there, bro?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>So you&#8217;re saying that John is missing?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I sure couldn&#8217;t find him. I did find out where he was staying. The hotel manager said that he never checked out, but he hadn&#8217;t been back to his room for several days. And there&#8217;s something else.<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>About the note. <i>[tense music]<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This&#8211;is that blood?<\/p>\n<p>It is. I had the ISA check it against their records. It&#8217;s a match for John&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Wow. If this is John&#8217;s blood&#8211; I mean, we all know how despondent he&#8217;s been over Catharina&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Despondent is one thing, but I really don&#8217;t think John would do harm to himself. Just in case, I checked with the local authorities. There are no reports of unidentified bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Well, thank God for that. But I mean, what could have happened to John? And with that blood on the note, I mean&#8211; <i>[tense music]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaning toward foul play.<\/p>\n<p>Ah. Well, what did Marlena say?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t told her yet.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I asked you a question, Paul. Have you noticed anything unusual about Brady&#8217;s behavior? <i>[dramatic music]<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[echoing]<\/p>\n<p>Gonna be OK?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, I&#8217;m not gonna drink this thing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need it. Just a weak moment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go pour this out.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, man. I&#8217;m really glad to see you. Come on.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I know Brady&#8217;s been going through a lot. But to the best of my knowledge, he hasn&#8217;t been drinking.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Good. That&#8217;s a relief. I guess, you know, with John out of town, I&#8211; I worry about you two so much.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. And look, I get your concern. And if it&#8217;ll make you feel any better, I&#8217;ll track down Brady, and I&#8217;ll make sure he&#8217;s OK. And I bet I&#8230; can still catch him at work.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;d be great. That&#8217;d be great. Thank you. And if you learn anything at all, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thank you for this. We miss you so much.<\/p>\n<p>Same here. And if you hear anything from my dad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I will let you know immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Bye, honey.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[sighs]<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll lead to too many questions.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, I&#8217;m in no mood to deal with Xander either right now, so why don&#8217;t we just be quiet? He&#8217;ll go away.<\/p>\n<p>Mum? I know you&#8217;re in there. [chuckles] The front desk told me that you haven&#8217;t left your room all day. Mum! [knocking]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here, darling. Just give me a minute. I need to throw on a robe. Go out the bathroom window.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re three stories up.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, well, you look very fit. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be fine. Now, go! Go. Oh-oh-oh, here, here.<\/p>\n<p>Mum, what&#8217;s taking so long?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m coming. [groans] I&#8217;m sorry. I was trying to clean up a bit. Please, do come in.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this is certainly a lovely surprise.<\/p>\n<p>But not totally unexpected, right? I mean, you did ask Sarah to speak to me on your behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I did. I thought perhaps you&#8217;d be more receptive to my story if it came from her.<\/p>\n<p>And what a story, yeah. Sarah told me all about your mental breakdown, how you were committed to a mental institution against your will, how you never intended to abandon me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You sound like you don&#8217;t believe me.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure I do.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it. The building that we checked out isn&#8217;t tall enough to match the view that we got from the video.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s the tallest one in the area. None of the other buildings make sense.<\/p>\n<p>And something else I didn&#8217;t think about. None of the buildings there have windows that match the window in the video. I mean, it doesn&#8217;t make any sense. [sighs]<\/p>\n<p>Well, unless&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>What? What is it?<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] There&#8217;s another billboard in town for the skating rink. It&#8217;s&#8211;got to be at the wrong place.<\/p>\n<p>All right. Let&#8217;s start looking again.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Well, it sounds like Xander&#8217;s mom has been through quite a lot.<\/p>\n<p>She has, yeah. She&#8217;s definitely been to hell and back. But&#8230; hearing her story changed my perception of what happened between her and Xander.<\/p>\n<p>Mm. Well, I have to say, I can certainly relate to the grief that Fiona felt by the loss of her husband. Mm. Not to mention her battle with addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, of course you can. <i>[dramatic music]<\/i> But it sounds like&#8211; it does seem like she&#8217;s done a lot of work on herself. And it would just be a shame if Xander didn&#8217;t give her another chance.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just so very convenient. All those years of you being a distant mother, being a&#8211; an absent mother, actually, turns out, none of it was your fault.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I didn&#8217;t say it wasn&#8217;t my fault. The point of telling you about what my life has been like these past years, it isn&#8217;t to absolve myself of my responsibility. I fully admit that I handled things terribly when your fath&#8211; sorry, when Titus died. [sighs] I mean, my God, I turned my back on my only child. I found comfort at the bottom of a bottle.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As I explained to Sarah, I&#8217;ve cleaned up my act. I truly have.<\/p>\n<p>Right. Meaning that you&#8217;re not drinking anymore?<\/p>\n<p>No. I&#8217;m totally committed to my sobriety. I even go to meetings, which are wonderful, by the way. So many interesting and caring people.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry. You&#8217;re in a -step program?<\/p>\n<p>I am, of course. It&#8217;s terribly important to me. You see, I want to stay clean and sober for you, my precious son, so we can finally have a good relationship, so you can be proud of me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hey, bro. I just was on my way to find you.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Paul. How you doing?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s with the limp?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, man. [chuckles] Twisted&#8211; twisted this ankle bad.<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>And the hair accessory?<\/p>\n<p>Hair&#8211;oh. Oh, man. [chuckles] I fell in a&#8211; twisted my ankle, fell in a hed&#8211; it was a hedge or bush or something over there. It was pretty embarrassing, actually, to be honest with you. Why are you looking for me? What&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was just with Marlena, and she&#8217;s a little concerned about you not coming home last night.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you know, I didn&#8217;t come home last night. I was&#8211;I was at the office all night. I was swamped with work. I texted her.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah. I mean, she told me. But yeah, I&#8217;m just a little&#8211; a little worried about you.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, no, I&#8217;m fine. Why wouldn&#8217;t I be fine? [both chuckle]<\/p>\n<p>Brady, I know you&#8217;ve been struggling because of Theresa.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, come on.<\/p>\n<p>And so much so that you were tempted to drink. And if I hadn&#8217;t shown up&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>No, hey, it was a mistake. I know that it was a mistake. It&#8217;s cool.<\/p>\n<p>I know you do, OK, and I just&#8211; I just need to say, OK, seeing you like this? You need to be honest with me, Brady, please. Do I need to worry about you?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[sighs] If John is missing, if something happened to him, you have to tell Marlena.<\/p>\n<p>I know. I just kept holding off, hoping I could bring her some good news. The ISA is still looking into it. But I figured I should come home and give Marlena an update in person.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s gonna be horrified by this news.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. She was counting on me to look after John. Now I&#8217;ve let them both down.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, stop it. You did everything you could to find him, come on.<\/p>\n<p>[sighs] Well, I&#8217;m not giving up. I&#8217;m gonna go back to Greece. I&#8217;m gonna keep looking. But first I have to break the news to Marlena.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll call her, get her to come over here right away.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This has to be the right building. It&#8217;s the perfect height and angle in relation to the other billboard outside. And the windows, look, they&#8211;they match the windows in the video.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s locked.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>All the other ones have been unlocked. [knocking] Hello! Is anyone there? [dull banging]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>So have you and Xander set another wedding date?<\/p>\n<p>No, not yet. But we both agree that the sooner, the better.<\/p>\n<p>And I assume it&#8217;s safe to say that your fianc\u00e9 is done with double weddings.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. [laughter] Yeah, we both are.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>W we just want it to be small and intimate, with one bride and one groom. So it&#8217;ll probably just be you and Victoria and hopefully Fiona.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I wonder what&#8217;s going on over there.<\/p>\n<p>I know. I&#8217;m dying to know. [laughter] But Xander isn&#8217;t back yet, so I think it&#8217;s safe to assume that he at least didn&#8217;t immediately storm out of there, which&#8230; has to be a good sign, right?<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>[laughs] <i>[dramatic music]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And I know you have every reason to doubt what I&#8217;ve told you.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you did lie to me about my paternity my entire life. And you only came forward with the truth once it became clear that I would inherit Victor&#8217;s fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Darling, I am not after your money. All I want is for us to be on good terms again, for us to possibly have a relationship moving forward. Xander, you&#8217;re my son, and I love you. So please, tell me you believe me. Tell me you can find it in your heart to forgive me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What the hell is that?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason to worry about me, OK? Honestly, I&#8217;m fine. I&#8217;m fine. I appreciate your concern, though. 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Just want to let you know I talked to Brady.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that was fast.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I just actually ran into him in the square on my way to Basic Black.<\/p>\n<p>And how was he?<\/p>\n<p>Well, he&#8211; he says he&#8217;s fine. Yeah, he&#8217;s just&#8211; he says he&#8217;s been really busy with work the last few days, which is why he slept in the office. So there&#8217;s nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s a relief. Thank you for checking.<\/p>\n<p>Anytime.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll talk soon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>[tense music]<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[echoing]<\/p>\n<p>He heard Konstantin&#8217;s voice in his head, telling him to shoot you. He went as far as actually picking up the gun. Then he said he&#8211; he felt disoriented, wasn&#8217;t sure what to do.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I remember John holding the gun. And Sarah said something to him, and it was like he didn&#8217;t even hear her. 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