Oh well shall wait and see
Kimberly
TV Reality Mom
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
by Mike
At the Horton house, Jennifer handed Cameron a prescription pad and
told him about J.J.'s visit to the residents' room at the hospital the
previous day. Jennifer apologized for J.J.'s poor judgment, stressing
that he had been planning to deliver his apology personally, but had
apparently been delayed. Since none of the prescription pad's pages were
missing, Cameron reasoned that it wasn't a big deal.
Meanwhile, Abigail entered the house, prompting Cameron
to abruptly excuse himself. After a brief conversation with Jennifer,
Abigail decided to chase after Cameron, managing to catch up to him in
the park. Cameron wondered when Abigail had been planning to tell him
about what had happened between her and Chad the previous night. Abigail
claimed that Chad was just a friend, but Cameron wasn't convinced.
Cameron said that, while he believed that Abigail truly cared about
him, it simply wasn't enough anymore. Cameron added that he and Abigail
needed to always be honest with each other. Abigail insisted that she
had never lied to Cameron, but he believed that she was lying to
herself.
"I'm not gonna hang around if you continue to play these mind
games. You know how I feel. You know how Chad feels. It's time for you
to figure out how you feel. I mean, if we're serious, then we're
exclusive...'cause otherwise, we're done," Cameron said before walking
away. Abigail chased after Cameron and admitted that he was right -- she
had been lying to herself, although she hadn't realized that until he had pointed it out.
Abigail tried to assure Cameron that her conflicting feelings had
nothing to do with him, but he didn't seem to appreciate the clichéd
"it's not you, it's me" speech. Abigail started to ask Cameron to give
her a break, since her family had been dealing with a lot recently, but
she quickly decided that was just a really lame excuse.
"Listen, Abigail, you have to do what's right for you, okay? You
can't commit to somebody because you don't want to hurt them or because
you want to be decisive, okay? You do it because they are the person
that you want to be with. Because you are sure...there is no one
else that makes you feel the way they do," Cameron said. Cameron urged
Abigail to give the matter some thought and let him know once she had
made a decision.
At the Horton Town Square, J.J. and Rory raced out of one of the
stores, with Cole -- the guy who had purchased the painkillers that J.J.
had stolen from the hospital earlier -- and Bev -- Cole's girlfriend --
in tow. Once the group was a safe distance away from the store, they
paused to brag about the thefts that they had each just committed.
Each person in the group had used a backpack to smuggle a few
stolen goods out of the store. Rory had stolen a small stack of CDs and
other miscellaneous items, Bev had stolen a handful of DVDs, and Cole
had stolen a newly released video
game that he seemed to be particularly excited about. Most notably,
J.J. had stolen a cell phone that he believed that he could sell to
someone on the docks for at least three hundred dollars.
As the group tried to decide how to spend the rest of the day, Bev
openly flirted with J.J. Cole pointedly wrapped his arm around Bev and
pulled her toward him, brushing his head against a branch of the tree
that had been planted next to Alice and Tom's memorial plaque in the
process. "You know what? I've just always hated this tree. Plastic rich
people think they own it. Come on, everybody -- grab a hold. Take a
piece of it home," Cole suggested.
Rory and Bev eagerly rushed over to help Cole break off a section
of the tree, but J.J. wasn't amused. "Hey, man, that was my
great-grandfather's tree. He was important; that's why the plaque's
there. Get the hell away from it," J.J. said as he shoved Cole away from
the tree, knocking Cole's backpack to the ground in the process. Cole
mocked J.J. for thinking that the plaque somehow made J.J.'s family
special.
J.J. warned Cole to back off, but Cole ignored the warning,
breaking off a large section of the tree and tossing it aside as he
continued to mock J.J. J.J. gave Cole another warning, but Cole -- who,
according to a passing remark that J.J. had made earlier, was "wasted"
-- continued to antagonize J.J., dumping a slush drink on the plaque and
declaring that the tree was stupid.
Seething with rage, J.J. pushed Cole against a nearby wall and
punched him in the face. As J.J. and Cole continued to fight, two police
officers intervened, separating the young men. J.J. tried to explain
that Cole had been vandalizing the memorial, but the officers were more
interested in the two backpacks that were laying on the ground.
Cole and J.J. willingly claimed their respective backpacks, unaware
that stolen merchandise had slipped out of each one during the
struggle. The fight had attracted a small group of onlookers, including a
store owner who identified the items as stolen goods from her store.
The woman announced that she wanted to press charges against J.J. and
Cole, and the cops quickly placed the young men under arrest.
At the Brady Pub, Marlena received a phone call from Roman while
she and Caroline were talking about Eric's hospitalization. After ending
the call, Marlena informed Caroline that Eric was being released from
the hospital later that day. Caroline and Marlena each agreed that,
while they were glad that Eric was all right, it seemed strange that his
mysterious illness had completely vanished in such a short amount of
time.
Caroline guessed that John was probably doing everything that he
could possibly do to support Marlena while Sami and Eric were both
dealing with difficult situations. "Well, no, uh...no. I just got a text
from John saying he was out of town for a couple days. And...that's
fine," Marlena said with a shrug.
In one of the hospital break rooms, a nurse delivered Eric's test
results to Daniel. After reading the results, Daniel left the room
without offering an explanation to Brady and Nicole. As Brady complained
about Daniel's abrupt departure, he nervously observed that Nicole
looked like she was formulating some kind of scheme. Nicole reached for
her cell phone as she cryptically stated that she had the answer.
Nicole placed a phone call to someone and asked to speak to Hanley
right away, identifying herself as Nicole Walker, the Titan TV reporter.
Through gritted teeth, Brady reminded Nicole that she no longer worked
at Titan TV, but she shushed him. As she waited to be connected to
Hanley, Nicole turned on the speakerphone so that Brady could listen to
Hanley's end of the conversation.
"Hanley, hi. Nicole Walker. Look, uh, I know you're a busy man, so
I'll cut right to the chase, okay? We're about to go public with a story
about how you almost killed Father Eric Brady. Are you aware of that?"
Nicole asked. Hanley wanted to know what Nicole was talking about.
"Well, I'm gonna take that as a no, so here's the header -- a young,
courageous Catholic priest, desperately fighting for the life of his
school, has to travel to the capitol because Charles Hanley of
the budget bureau is in a turf war with the Department of Education and
is holding up certification for Father Eric's school. Are you with me
so far?" Nicole wondered.
Hanley insisted that Nicole's claims were outrageous. "Good, well,
I'm not finished. Sadly, Father Eric became ill and almost died because
of Hanley's lust for petty power. Ooh -- I like that alliteration --
'petty power,'" Nicole added. Hanley protested that he had done nothing
wrong, but Nicole disagreed, pointedly asking an imaginary assistant if
the station still had incriminating footage of Hanley that was just
waiting to be uploaded to YouTube.
Playing the role of the assistant, Brady confirmed that the station
still had the incriminating footage. Nicole pressed Hanley for a
statement, but he stammered that he would have to consult with some
people first. Nicole wondered if that meant that she should go ahead and
run the story. Hanley begged Nicole to refrain from running the story,
assuring her that the school would be approved later that day.
In Eric's room, Kristen innocently greeted Eric, who informed her
that he knew what had happened. Eric observed that Kristen really
enjoyed messing with people's lives. Startled, Kristen turned away from
Eric and claimed that she didn't know what he was talking about.
"I know exactly what this is about. I didn't support your
deep, crazy love for my brother, Brady. I wouldn't attend your wedding. I
wouldn't hear your confession when your crazy scheme blew up in your face. Those are the facts,
Kristen! You have a ton of vindictive reasons to be angry with me, but
now -- now that you heard that the new school may be in trouble because
I've taken -- I've taken ill, and I didn't have time to meet some very
important bureaucrats, and that the DiMeras -- oh, the DiMeras -- they gave a ton of money for this new school -- you are here to tell me the funds can be withdrawn!" Eric angrily summarized.
Kristen assured Eric that the DiMera family's donations had been
given to the church without reservation. Kristen claimed that she had
heard about Eric's illness and had simply wanted to check on him.
Unconvinced, Eric guessed that Kristen had been hoping to run into
Marlena at the hospital so that she could try to push Marlena's buttons.
"I know you, Kristen. When it comes to my family, you always have a
plan, don't you?" Eric snapped.
Kristen continued to feign innocence, assuring Eric that she was on
his side and had no desire to cause problems for him or his family.
Eric started to lash out at Kristen again, but he stopped himself
mid-sentence and turned away from her, breathing heavily. Meanwhile,
Daniel entered the room and asked if something was wrong, prompting Eric
to reply that something was definitely wrong.
Daniel started to ask Kristen to leave so that he could talk to
Eric privately, but Eric asked her to stay. Eric explained that his
illness had apparently made him extremely irritable. Eric apologized for
lashing out at Kristen and acknowledged that she wasn't responsible for
what had happened to him the previous night. Kristen accepted Eric's
apology and excused herself, breathing a sigh of relief as she left the
hospital.
After hearing the news about his latest test results, Eric seemed
willing to accept that he might never figure out what had really
happened to him the previous night, but Daniel wasn't satisfied with
that possibility. Daniel wanted Eric to give the hospital regular blood
samples so that Eric's antibodies could be studied. Daniel hoped that
studying Eric's antibodies would help the lab technicians figure out how
Eric's body was fighting the unidentified poison, which might also
enable them to identify the poison itself.
Eric protested that he didn't have time for that sort of process,
since he still needed to worry about getting the school project
approved. As if on cue, Brady and Nicole entered the room and announced
that the school project had already been approved. Eric stared in
disbelief at an article on Nicole's cell phone that confirmed the
announcement, and Brady showed Eric a Twitter message that the governor
had just posted.
Brady started to tell Eric why the school project had suddenly been
approved, but Nicole interrupted and summarized that the only thing
that really mattered was that the bureaucrats had finally done something
right for a change. Meanwhile, Roman entered the room and said that he
had just heard the good news on the radio.
Roman announced that some of Eric's loved ones were headed to St.
Luke's to celebrate, so Eric excitedly gathered his belongings and
started to leave. Daniel stopped Eric and pointed out that time
constraints would no longer prevent Eric from giving the hospital
regular blood samples, but Eric replied that he just wanted to move
forward instead of dwelling on the past.
After Eric left, Daniel asked Brady to try to convince Eric to keep
a journal of any memories that he managed to recall from the previous
night. Brady agreed to do so, but he wasn't convinced that Daniel needed
to worry about Eric, since Eric had seemingly recovered from the
mysterious illness without any lingering side effects. Daniel started to
tell Brady about Eric's earlier outburst, but Brady interrupted when he
realized that Kristen had visited Eric.
Surprised that the mere mention of Kristen's name had irritated
Brady, Daniel asked if Brady wanted to talk about what had happened with
her. After insisting that he never wanted to talk about Kristen, think
about her, or even hear her name mentioned again, Brady abruptly walked
away. Later, at the Kiriakis mansion, Brady briefly wondered why Kristen
had been at the hospital in the first place, but he quickly decided
that he didn't care.
At the Horton house, Jennifer received a phone call from someone at
the police station, who informed her that J.J. had been arrested. When
Jennifer arrived at the police station, J.J. told her about the fight
and what had started it. "Mom, I'm sorry, but weren't your grandparents,
like, really special? I mean, that's why the tree's there. I remember
you telling me stories about them -- all the great stuff they did," J.J.
said.
Jennifer replied that Tom and Alice had been two of the best people
who had ever lived, adding that she had always tried, but sometimes
failed, to live up to their example. J.J. muttered that hanging out with
Cole, who was always getting into trouble, had been a huge mistake.
Ignoring J.J.'s statement, Jennifer approached a nearby officer and
demanded to have her son -- a minor who never should have been arrested
in the first place, since he had simply stopped someone from vandalizing
public property -- released right away.
J.J., who had been trying to interrupt Jennifer, finally managed to
stop her for long enough to sheepishly inform her that he hadn't been
arrested for fighting. J.J. failed to elaborate, so the officer revealed
that J.J. had been arrested for stealing several hundred dollars' worth
of merchandise from a store.
At the hospital, Anne told Daniel that she hadn't realized that
Jennifer's son had returned to Salem. Feigning concern, Anne guessed
that Jennifer was probably worried sick about what had happened.
Confused, Daniel wondered what Anne was talking about. "Well, let's not
spread it around, but I have a friend at the police station, and
Jennifer's son was arrested," Anne innocently revealed.
Outside the Brady Pub, Kristen sweetly greeted Marlena and
Caroline, hoping that they were both doing well. Caroline explained that
she and Marlena were headed to St. Luke's to celebrate Eric's release
from the hospital. Failing to take the hint, Kristen said that she was
glad that Eric had made a full recovery. Kristen guessed that Sami's
ordeal was weighing heavily on Marlena's mind.
With a slight cringe, Kristen added that she hoped that Sami's
murder trial would go well. Marlena found that hard to believe, but
Kristen insisted that she was being sincere, citing E.J. as one of the
main reasons that she was on Sami's side. "Our families are close. You
know, because of your daughter and my brother. Intertwined. We're so
connected. I think we will be till the day you die. Bye," Kristen said,
smiling as she walked away.
Later, at St. Luke's, Roman, Marlena, Caroline, Eric, and Nicole
celebrated Eric's release from the hospital and the approval of the
school project. Nicole read some of the positive Twitter messages that
had been posted about the school project aloud. "Everything's so fast
today with tweets, beeps, and YouTubes, and for myself, I'm really from
the smoke signal era," Caroline joked.
Caroline mentioned that she and Marlena had encountered Kristen
earlier, and Eric revealed that Kristen had also visited him at the
hospital. "Oh, that girl goes everywhere she's not wanted," Caroline
dryly observed. Roman pulled Marlena aside and protectively encouraged
her to let him know if Kristen ever bothered her again. Later, after
ending a congratulatory call from the bishop, Eric proposed a toast to
St. Luke's Academy.
At the DiMera mansion, Kristen told Chyka about her earlier
encounter with Eric. Chyka confidently assured Kristen that Eric would
never be able to remember what had occurred the previous night, since
those particular memory cells had died and would never regenerate. With
Kristen's fears calmed, Chyka wondered if she would soon put the next
phase of her plan into motion, and she confirmed that she had every
intention of doing so.
Later, after Chyka left, Kristen watched some of the video clips
from the earliest stages of her seduction plot, when a clearly
disoriented Eric had offered some initial protests about the situation.
"Oh, man. Poor guy. Trying so hard to do the right thing. Such strong
principles. Gone. Gone. Gone," Kristen said as she deleted those
particular clips. Kristen spliced the remaining parts of the video
together and leaned back to admire the finished product.
"Oh, Eric. Something tells me that not everybody's gonna be so understanding about this. I have a funny feeling," Kristen said, emphasizing her final words in a singsong voice.
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