days-recap-Monday, June 24, 2013

 

Friday, June 21, 2013

by ChickenGrrl

At the DiMera mansion, Sami playfully thanked E.J. for helping her take a shower. She announced that she was going to kiss the kids one more time before she went to the hospital to check on Will and the baby. After Sami scampered up the stairs, E.J. called Sonny to ask him not to tell anyone about the video of Sami attacking Bernardi.

Sonny declared that he wasn't going to keep the truth from the man he loved, noting that keeping secrets hadn't exactly gone well for E.J. and Sami. He asked if E.J. had told Sami about the video. E.J. replied that he had not, because Sami was likely to do something ill-advised. "You can handle it however you want -- and so will I," Sonny declared before hanging up abruptly.

When Sami returned downstairs, E.J. sat her down and gently told her about the video. Although E.J. tried to reassure her that both copies had been deleted and Sonny had promised not to say anything to Justin, Sami freaked out. When E.J. warned her that Sonny was going to tell Will, Sami grabbed her purse and ran out, determined to prevent that from happening.

Maxine watched while Will cuddled Arianna in his hospital room. Maxine declared, "One thing I've learned: there are all kinds of ways to make a family. I think Arianna's going to have a good one." Will reluctantly handed the baby over to Maxine so she could take Arianna back to Gabi. Sonny beamed when he walked in and saw the baby in Maxine's arms. He kissed the infant on the forehead as Maxine left.

Will sensed immediately that something was wrong, but Sonny assured him that everything was fine. Sonny placed a duffel bag of Will's clothes on the bed and offered to help Will get dressed. "You're better at getting me undressed," Will countered mischievously. After Will had put his clothes on, he cautioned Sonny that their lives were going to change when they got home with Gabi and the baby -- and he wouldn't blame Sonny if Sonny had second thoughts.

Sonny pointed out that it had been his idea to move Gabi and Arianna in with them -- and there was no way he was going to let Will's daughter be raised elsewhere. Just then, Sami burst noisily into the room. She hugged Will enthusiastically while she tried to judge whether he knew about the video yet. E.J. arrived and asked to speak to Sonny privately. Sonny sat down on the bed and asserted that he wasn't going to change his mind.

"What does everybody know that I don't know?" Will asked. Sonny vowed to tell Will if Sami and E.J. didn't. E.J. slowly, grudgingly, filled Will in about the video. Will asked his mom, "Before you met [Bernardi] in Rafe's hospital room, obviously, you had a confrontation with him in public. May I ask why?" Sami wouldn't say why, so Will wanted to know when. Sonny informed Will that the date on the video was May 7.

Will quickly put the pieces together that Bernardi had been the man Stefano had hired to steal the evidence against Will from the police station -- and then Sami had killed him. Sami tried to reason with her son, but he declared, "I've had enough. I can't take this anymore." Will declared that he was going to handle his own problems from then on. Sami insisted, "I didn't mean for any of this to happen!" Will pointed out, "Mom, you went off on a crooked cop in a public park, and then you shot him in a hospital. How did you think it was going to work out?"

Just then, Maxine entered and informed Will that his release had been delayed because Abe Carver wanted to talk to Will and Sonny. After Maxine left again, Will wondered why Abe wanted to talk to them. "Abe is working as a special consultant to the police, William," E.J. explained, imploring Will not to do anything stupid. Will argued that the stupidest thing he'd done so far was not owning up to shooting E.J. years earlier.

Will continued that he had been a kid when his dad had gone to prison for him, but he wasn't a kid any longer -- and he wasn't going to let his mom go to prison for him, too. "This is insanity. This has got to stop. That's enough -- and I'm going to tell Abe everything that he wants to know," Will declared.

Maggie arrived at the Kiriakis mansion with Parker just as Jennifer was leaving. The lad eagerly rushed up to Jennifer and gave her a hug. Jennifer admitted that she missed Parker -- and his daddy. "Then I suggest you get over yourself and do something about it," Maggie said, acknowledging that she knew the problem involved J.J. Jennifer maintained that J.J. was angry and in a lot of pain. Maggie urged Jennifer not to allow J.J. to pressure her into shutting Daniel out.

Inside, Brady wondered aloud if what Jennifer had told him -- that Kristen's feelings for him had been real -- could be true.

In Eric's hotel room, as Kristen filled a syringe from the vial Dr. Chyka had given her, she told an unconscious Eric that he had to "take one for the team." She removed her black wig and shook out her hair, then prepared to stick the needle in Eric's arm -- but a call from Brady to her cell phone interrupted before she could finish. "Hi," she answered, her voice full of hope.

When Brady didn't respond, Kristen asked if his calling meant that he still cared about her. Grimacing, Brady replied, "It means I dialed the wrong number. I didn't want to call you." Kristen told Brady that she loved him and tried to keep him on the line, but he hung up. She immediately tried to call him back. Brady sent the call directly to voicemail. "So you do hate me?" Kristen muttered through gritted teeth, slamming the phone down repeatedly on the desk.

A little later, Maggie led Parker into the Kiriakis living room as they looked for his bunny. Brady produced the missing stuffed animal and gave it to Parker. Maggie could tell that something was troubling Brady. He confessed that Jennifer had told him that she believed Kristen had really loved him, and a part of him still wanted to believe that he hadn't been played for a fool -- so he had called Kristen. Maggie admitted that made her really scared for Brady.

Maggie encouraged Brady to keep busy and stay in touch with his friends, but she flipped out when Brady mentioned that Nicole had been very supportive. Brady reassured Maggie that the important thing was that he had learned what Kristen really was -- so Kristen could never hurt him or anyone he loved again.

A little later, Maggie was trying to persuade Parker to go to bed when she realized that his blanket was still in the dryer. Brady agreed to keep an eye on the tot while Maggie went to retrieve the blanket. As he held Parker in his lap, Brady recalled how Kristen had pleaded with him to stay together for the sake of the child they had planned to adopt. Maggie returned, and Brady somewhat abruptly walked out of the house.

Harold answered the door when Brady showed up at the DiMera mansion, looking for Kristen. Harold informed him, "I'm very sorry, sir. She left earlier today -- and she had a suitcase with her." Harold didn't know any more than that. Brady wondered where Kristen could have gone -- and what she was up to.

Nicole was dismayed when she found a folder on Eric's desk, containing notes for his meeting about the school. She tried to reach Eric but got his voicemail instead, so she left an urgent message for him to call her. Nicole then called the hotel where Eric was staying. The desk clerk, George, explained that he couldn't connect anyone to the room phones because there was a problem with the phone system.

Nicole described the situation to George and asked him to get a message to Father Eric as soon as possible. George refused. He rudely told Nicole that she could send a fax, then hung up. Irked, Nicole put the notes on the fax machine and punched in the number George had given her. When Nicole called the hotel to confirm that they'd received the fax, the other desk clerk, Martha, answered.

Martha looked at the fax and told Nicole, "I can't read a word of it." Nicole asked if Martha would take the fax up to Eric's room to see if he could read his own handwriting. Martha explained that she couldn't leave the desk, and she was under strict orders not to disturb Father Eric. Frustrated, Nicole hung up, grabbed the file and her purse, and headed out.

A little later, Nicole arrived at the hotel, where George was back on the front desk. Nicole demanded to see Father Eric, but George repeated that the priest had left strict instructions not to disturb him. Nicole reacted with anger at first, then tried changing tactics and turned on the charm -- but George still refused to give her Eric's room number.

After George left the front desk, Nicole kept trying to reach Eric's cell phone, to no avail. When Martha appeared behind the desk, Nicole rushed over and tried to plead her case, but her words fell on deaf ears. Nicole produced a twenty-dollar bill and tried to hand it to Martha, who complained, "The other woman gave me a hundred." Forcing a smile, Nicole said, "Well, I don't have a hundred to spare, so why don't you just take the twenty and give me the stinkin' room number?"

Upstairs, Eric moaned and began to stir, much to Kristen's horror. "One dose was supposed to put him out for half an hour. Thanks a lot, doc," Kristen grumbled as she climbed back onto the bed next to Eric. After calling Eric's name a few times to make sure he wasn't regaining consciousness, Kristen injected the remaining solution into his arm.

Smiling down at Eric, Kristen quoted Goethe: "Life is for the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." She replaced the vial and syringe in their case and watched as Eric writhed on the bed. His face turned red, and he moaned in a strangled voice, "Help me! Please, God, help me!" He rolled over on his side and fell unconscious again. Kristen slipped into the bathroom and changed into a black and white lace negligee.

Eric struggled to push himself into a seated position. Confused, he looked around the room, asking, "What's happening? What's wrong with me?" Kristen sat next to him and stroked his shoulder. "Who are you?" he inquired in a raspy voice. Murmuring words of reassurance over Eric's weak protests, Kristen kissed the priest. Grasping the cross that he wore around his neck, she pulled him closer to her and ran her hands over his body.

"This isn't happening. It can't happen," Eric mumbled foggily. "Why not? I want you, I need you, and you need me too. You know you do," Kristen replied, kissing him persistently. Eric returned her kiss but then tried to pull away. Kristen continued kissing and caressing him. When she removed the towel from around his waist, Eric kissed her and pushed her back onto the bed.

When Nicole arrived outside Eric's room, she heard moaning from inside. Puzzled, she double-checked the room number. Just as Eric began removing Kristen's negligee, Nicole knocked on the door. "Oh, my God!" Kristen exclaimed, pushing Eric away. The unlatched door swung open at Nicole's knock, so she pushed it open and entered the room -- and gasped at what she saw.

J.J. found a prescription pad in Cameron's desk in the residents' room at the hospital and chuckled to himself as he swiped it. Just then, Daniel walked in and caught J.J. rifling through the desk. J.J. claimed that he was waiting for Cameron, but Daniel demanded to know what was in J.J.'s hand. He added that J.J. shouldn't have been in that room alone because there was confidential information in there. J.J. asserted that a resident who knew his mom had given him permission to stay.

Daniel ordered J.J. to show him whatever was in his hand. After J.J. reluctantly turned over the prescription pad, he lied that he had been looking for something to write on. Showing J.J. that there was a legal pad in plain sight on the desk, Daniel informed J.J. that taking a prescription pad was illegal. Just then, a resident entered, and J.J. bolted.

Daniel chased after J.J. and caught up with him near the nurses' station. As Daniel confronted him with the prescription pad, J.J. asserted that Daniel had just been waiting to find something to use against J.J. "And now you have it -- so go for it. You know you're dying to," J.J. dared Daniel. Daniel asserted that wasn't the case, pointing out that he had forgiven a lot of J.J.'s past misdeeds.

"But there is only one reason to pocket a prescription pad, and that is to write a phony script to take or to sell prescription drugs," Daniel declared, reiterating that it was a criminal offense. "Are you gonna tell my mom?" J.J. asked petulantly, just as Jennifer got off the elevator. Daniel replied that J.J. could tell her himself.

Jennifer asked what was wrong. Daniel handed her the pad and instructed J.J. to tell Jennifer why he'd had it. After Daniel left to check on his patients, Jennifer looked down at the pad and gulped. "This is Cameron's prescription pad. What are you doing with it?" she asked, trying to maintain her composure. J.J. insisted that he had just been waiting for Cameron.

J.J. spotted Joanne, the resident who had been there when he had arrived, and told Jennifer that Joanne had given him permission to wait in the residents' room. Jennifer called Joanne over, and Joanne confirmed J.J.'s story. After Joanne left, J.J. continued that after waiting a while, he had wanted to leave a note for Cameron, and he'd just grabbed the first thing he'd found. "Oh, and you can't tell the difference between regular paper and a prescription pad?" Jennifer demanded skeptically.

J.J. defensively argued that his dad would know that he wasn't dumb enough to steal a prescription pad from his sister's boyfriend. Jennifer warned J.J., "This is it. Do you understand me? No more accidents, no more mistakes, because you already used up that explanation. Do you hear me?" She emphasized that taking a prescription pad, no matter what the reason, was a serious offense, and then sent J.J. home.

Daniel returned as J.J. was headed for the elevator, and the two glared at each other. After J.J. had gone, Jennifer informed Daniel that Joanne had given J.J. permission to wait in the residents' room -- although J.J. should not have taken the prescription pad, even if he'd just been looking for a piece of paper to leave a note. After she explained that she knew that J.J. had been there to talk to Cameron about Abigail, she asked if Daniel were going to report J.J.

"I'm not required to. It's not really my place. But if it were my son, yeah, I'd report him," Daniel declared, adding that J.J. needed to face the consequences of his actions. He insisted that it had nothing to do with the friction between him and J.J. Jennifer argued that it wasn't Daniel's call. "I can't talk to you about J.J. right now," Jennifer stated.

Giving up, Daniel walked away. As he did, he dropped the card he'd bought for Jennifer. Jennifer called after Daniel, but he didn't hear her, so she picked up the card and read, "Dear Jen, I miss you. If we can have a do-over, I promise I'll let you win the next round of darts. Love, Daniel."

At the Horton house, J.J. called Rory and declared, "It was stupid, man! Jonas could've called the cops on me. That's the last time I'm listening to you." J.J. ruled out doing anything else that involved the hospital or Daniel to make money, but then announced, "I just got a brilliant idea about how to get some cash and have some fun, too."