Days of Our Lives

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Having failed to persuade rival Philip, Nathan tries to talk Melanie out of 'eloping' to Vegas. Vivian finds out, accepts that 'son' Philip refuses her wedding planner services or any part in his life but gets him to accept an heirloom jewel as 'something old'. Troy instructs his hit-man to find a silencer to eliminate Arianna. Victor and Brady scold each-other for consorting with bitches Nicole viz. Vivian. When Nathan an Melanie here about Mikey's demise, he offers to move back in and she to cut her honeymoon to support Maggie, but she insists not to waste precious marital quality time. Bo's affair with 'ex' Carly escalates into bed.

EJ assures Anna he'll soon be able to take Sydney home for good. Then he goes to Sami, and allows her, against reason, to tell Rafe about the ransom note, but that changes her mind to following his advice to keep the FBI out of the case. Nathan senses that the surprise kiss with Melanie proves they're not over, but she denies that and tell nothing to Philip, who lets her decides whether to cancel their honeymoon, against family advice. Rafe encourages Will at least to be friends again with Mia now they both mourn Maggie. Hope tells her father, Doug it's probably too late for her and Bo.

Troy stalks Arianna even in the pub, but Brady assures people he's harmless. She overhears Chloe tells Daniel her theory that Brady will only be interested in her while she needs a savior, just as happened to them in Europe and he became addicted. Philip and Stephanie sense that Nathan and Melanie are hiding something, but let her appease them. Lucas's hug clams Maggie's panic over Mickey's last message being deleted, but Hope screams to the gathered kin when she sees Carly with Bo, so the adultery is outed.

EJ spares no emphasis to talk Sami out of informing Rafe at the last moment, yet when they go to deliver the cash ransom, the FBI agent appears there too. Chad can invite three friends to his parents' Vancouver holiday house, so he asks Will, Mia, and surprised, hesitant Gabi. Victor isn't impressed when Vivian calls it near-certain that Mia is Carly's daughter, but considers it all the worse given her past with Nicole and orders Vivian to make sure and deal with them 'now'.

EJ realizes that Rafe guessed about the ransom and comes clean, tries secretly to warn Anna but can't reach her by phone. Roman calls Arianna from bed fun with Brady to warn that her undercover deal is about to be canceled and he can't prevent that. After two failed attempts to kill her, Troy calls off the hit-man, hoping to do it himself at a trap, so he promises her a meeting where the drug lord may attend himself. Vivian, slapped with a restraining order by Bo, urges Gus to find out if Mia is Carly's daughter and take over tailing her. Melanie openly despises meddling Carly as husband killer and gets Brady to accept giving her away to Philip.

Nathan is puzzled when Stephanie arranged his hospital shift to be covered for a pub meeting with her, pleased when it's to hand him a prize for saving Chloe which grandpa Mickey still got to admire just before his cardiac demise. Philip waves an effort from Vivian, whom Gus can't bring proof so fast, to have him inform 'mother' about Carly, but Brady dares not simply refuse.

After the ransom is collected, only a note delivered stating the FBI was warned, so Sydey isn't returned. EJ's fears as a woman was arrested give way when Rafe must acknowledge her alibi, so he scolds the FBI for 'ruining the exchange'. Preparing for the winter Olympics holiday with Tad, Chad seems happy with Gabi and to leave Mia to Will, but she wines at Grace's grave, feeling wickedly guilty for still desiring both lovable boys. Overheard that Melanie now wants a grand wedding, Philip again turns down Vivian's services as wedding planner. Hope absurdly considers proof that Carly never stopped wanting Bo and returned for him as 'proof' of him faking their wedding vows and allows comforting Justin to kiss her.

EJ is delighted that his plan works, surprising Anna that they don't keep the ransom but Sydney. Rafe is bitter over Sami's lack of trust, she because the FBI may have messed up the ransom transfer. Nathan claims to resign to Melanie marrying Philip. Vivian starts bonding with Melanie over the bridal dress choice but still wonders who is Carly's daughter and if her enemy perhaps returned to Salem just for Bo.

Troy's attempt to strangle Arianna is foiled by passing-by EJ, who pretends not to know Troy. Carly's absurdly-vehement hostility to Vivian for approaching Melanie, whose wedding dress gets coffee-stained in the turmoil, only arouses suspicion she may by Carly's bastard daughter, so Gus is instructed to make sure. Brady is not amused when Chloe insists that jailed Nicole, who told him to stay away, needs his comfort.

Troy is facing jail after cocaine was found is his car, but he promises EJ to keep quiet if protected inside. His outcry that Arianna, whom he saw whispering with Roman, must be a narc, aimed at EJ, arouses suspicion, notably from Brady, about her savior's part. Kate fails to appease Stefano's anger at his son's 'treason' and rekindles Philip's bitter attitude by suggesting he shouldn't allow his bride to consort with 'poisonous' Vivian. Voctor is not amused with the latest theory about Carly's daughter and warns Vivian he'll take over unless he gets results fast.

Rafe sadly reproaches Sami to have wrecked the ransom surveillance by being unable to truly trust him. To Philip's relief, Victors nearly chokes in laughter when asked if he loves seemingly inseparable Vivian. Informed that Roman can't prevent Arianna being jailed again now her undercover mission fell trough, Rafe blackmails the FBI to undo that or face a public scandal. Finding baby medicine in Elvis's coat, Stefano suspects foul play, but Sami helps him by confirming they use it for Johhny. Victor's mood turns grimly gloomy when Vivian shows proof, found by Gus, that not Mia but Philip's bride is Carly's daughter, so they must consider another vengeance object.

Rafe bitterly complains that EJ''s and even Sami's mistrust of the FBi, including him, caused the ransom note to be cleared off fingerprints except EJ's, but he retorts his people checked it and found nothing. While Carly has nightmares of Vivian executing her to avenge Lawrence, he appears to Vivian to insist on cruel revenge, not simple elimination as Victor demands for Bo's sake.

EJ is delighted, playing the worried-sick father, while the kidnapping causes a breakup between Sami and Rafe, who moves out after she reproaches him to help his drug-dealing sister, over whether the FBI had to be brought in. Nathan assures Stephanie ho no longer cares about Melanie or her marriage with Philip, nor objects to her meeting them. Daniel assures Melanie, to little avail, that he knows Carly as good and Vivian as dangerously evil. Chloe makes Stephanie promise not to tell Daniel she wants his baby desperately.

EJ is furious when he finds Arianna, who came to the mansion to thank him for preventing Troy from strangling her, answering his secured phone. Afterward, Anna is reprimanded for having identified herself. Rafe swears he won't rest until Sydney is found and hopes he and Sami may get back together afterward. Victor, after pulling from her that Melanie is Carly's daughter, forbids Vivian to carry trough the planned execution of, after all, Philip's bride. Brady demands that Roman saves and protects Arianna, won't listen and vows to do so himself. Carly wins Melanie's sympathy by confessing that she had and lost a daughter, not who or how.

Wounded Rafe is too weak to get up. The unconscious killer is found and hospitalized. Steve reports the the Salem PD he believes to have a link between the mayor's murderer and Stefano. Daniel manages to sooth Chloe, who came scold his change of heart, they even end up having hot sex again. Leaving his apartment when he's called to hospital, she's seems by Maggie. EJ is eager for news from Nicole, but gets only voice-mail. She's busy blackmailing Dr. Baker to help her switch Mia's baby with Sami's, against his better judgment.

Chloe convinces Maggie not to tell Lucas about her affair with Daniel. EJ arrives home from Italy sooner the Nicole expects so she has to hurry to pull off her plan. Kayla calls Hope to the hospital after recognizing a patient as the man who shot Mayor Marino.

The Killer takes Kayla hostage at the hospital. Bo rushes to stop his vision of Hope shooting Kayla from happening but he is too late. Sami isn't ready to leave witness protection just yet.

The Brady's are informed that Kayla surgery will requiring stopping her heart.

Hope begins pushing Bo away after learning he had a vision of her shooting Kayla and didn't tell her. Maggie confronts Daniel about his affair with Chloe.

Melanie makes a play to bring the alternative fuel project to the DiMera's.

Lucas firmly turns down Chloe's request trough Daniel for playing with his daughter as disruptive. Gus helps Vivian prepare the toxic gift trap after she and Philip's arrival convince the bride not to cancel the wedding on account of her feelings for Nathan. Brady proposes to Arianna. Kate's warning to Philip about Vivian only earns her a warning to shut up or be banned from the wedding.

Nathan wrongly believes to have calmed down Carly by promising he'll pass a message to the wedding, but before she can slip out, Gus intrudes, disguised as orderly, to drug Carly and wheel her out. Stefano retracts his initial refusal to accompany Kate to the wedding, anticipating an enjoyable disaster. Victor promises Philip, who waved Lucas's fraternal warning against precipitously marrying like he did, unconditional support, having accepted his choice of bride out of paternal love. Vivian insures that her poisoned comb gift will be worn, but the bridesmaids prevent her from fixing it yet.

Whiling wedding guests fill the church, Nathan arranges to be rostered in so he doesn't have to attend. Bridesmaid Stephanie doesn't give him the bride's note and pretends he wasn't even interested. So Melanie prepares for the altar, with Vivian's poisoned comb. Gus is overpowered by Carly, who tricks Vivian to come to them and calls the police. Vivian assures her it's too late to save her daughter

Philip's wedding finally goes ahead. Lucas bickers with Stefano, Nathan hesitates at the church gate. Gus wakes up, observes Vivian being held at gunpoint by Hope and Carly, pushes a heavy pile of crates over them and thus turns the tables. Hvaing heard Victor switched the poisoned comb, Vivian rushes back to murder the bride another way, but meanwhile Carly wrestles loose and takes unconscious Hope's gun. Elvis is furious to see that Rafe won back Sami, who refuses to acknowledge Rafe is to blame for the loss of Sydney or even that it's probably final.

Lucas clearly dislikes Will's crush on Mia, who is delighted by his gift, but the kids ignore him and leave, like Nathan and Stephanie, who go to a ski lodge for a new start together. EJ is determined that Sami must be utterly unhappy, not consoled by Rafe, who arranges a precinct interview with Anna. Brady nearly proposes publicly to Arianna, but she stops him shyly. After agreeing they want to know the baby's gender, Daniel must confirm the grim echo finding: Chloe isn't pregnant after all. By the time Carly arrives with Hope's gun, Vivian has lured Melanie to the balcony to push her to her death, and in the struggle Carly shoots her daughter, apparently fatally.

Brady's chest branding worries and puzzles everyone, but Hope, whose cop persona can't remember anything, believes to recognize it as a Celtic divine triad-symbol, which might suggest a female culprit. Stfeano nor Victor consider her capable to protect their mugged family, so they consider a joint alternative. To Elvis's horror, bickering with Kate makes Sami want to leave the mansion already. While Stefano assures Elvis Rafe can't find Anna, she's already confiding in her South American retreat spa to old friend Calliope Jones Bradford, who reports to Rafe.

Will makes crystal clear he refuses to let Sami back in his life, as she always wrecks everything for everyone, as lately by dumping Rafe and moving n with Elvis, who questions if Kate is really her motive for changing her mind about moving in, then convinces her to stay and pester Kate together. Rafe learns that Calliope's cover isn't very convincing and orders pressed calliope to wear a wire on her next meeting with Anna, who failed to charter a flight off the spa island. Chad refuses to be just told to stay clear from Will on account of the DiMera family and tells him so in their study group, then notices a picture Will accidentally picked up, showing Kate feasting with his mother, judge Peterson, now bitter enemies.

Rafe's plan seems to work: once Calliope confides in Anna about her tax troubles, she gets a flood of secret confessions about Sydney's kidnapping. Elvis is happy with Sami, Nathan with Stephanie, who meanwhile bickers over the pre-wedding letter with Melanie, whom maggie warns not to bottle up the crucial past.

Daniel fails to threaten the truth out of the sleazy motel clerk. Gus informs Vivian this may be the time to fully turn her against Carly and indeed she overhears Daniel telling her he just can't get head or tail of the incompatible stories. Dr. Baker is equally surprised as Nicole when hey bump int each-other and must admit he staged his alleged death.

Cued by Gus, Vivian starts to convince Chloe that Carly is poisoning her marriage with Daniel. Despite his practical protestations, Nicole blackmails Dr. Baker into helping her to set up Arianna as the mugger, hoping Brady will then take her back. Philip warns Chloe to remain discrete about their adultery, but she still resolves to owe up

When EJ sees Johhny's joy over an FBI vest sent by Rafe and hears how Sami's ex is missed, he fears his son will disown him for not being such a 'good guy'. Judge Madeline Peterson tries to convince D.A. Woods they should prevent any Dimera contact by sending Chad to a college out of state, even just four months before his legal majority, but after hearing from Mia she plans to study dance in New York, he tells his parents he wants to stay in Salem. Rafe's plan seems to work perfectly, but Anna gets suspicious enough to pull off Calliope's bugged broach. Understanding Daniel's apologetic attitude prevents Chloe again from confessing her adultery. Vivian is furious that Victor and Philip care more for sick Maggie then planning a society wedding with her and Gus, so she announces to speed it up.

Stefano assures worried EJ that he can prevent Will's rift with Sami from driving her away with the younger kids and accepts reluctantly that Johnny keeps the FBI vest Rafe sent. Will and Chad confer and confront Kate viz. Madeline about why they should be kept apart on account of their family, while the ladies were apparently good friends. Brady and jealous Arianna bicker over Nicole's hostile solo-interrogation of Dr. Baker. On the island resort, Anna catches Calliope's wire, but Rafe seems able to convince her she can't run from him but will be left alone, like her friend, if she betrays the kidnapping mastermind.

EJ tells baffled Stefano that he undid his water pipe sabotage, refusing to trick Sami into living with them. Johnny's romping in Rafe's FBI vest spontaneously brings his parents and even big brother Will together, laughing. Rafe frustrates Anna's attempts to escape or have well-tipped waiter Diego call the local police, but despite conceding to reveal the mastermind, she first claims it was Sami to spite EJ, then faints. Brady fails again to side with Arianna against Nicole, who now also targets her former pub management and collects her fingerprints for Dr. Baker to frame her with as the mugger.

To Rafe's shocked surprise, Anna isn't faking but actually poisoned, presumably by impostor waiter Diego, possibly fatally. Stefano is pleased to hear from an accomplice she won't be talking for a while. EJ is embarrassed by Sami's excessive praise for his paternal excellence and special bond with Sydney. Having found out that Arianna went to bed and shut off her phone after a row with Brady, she urges Dr. Baker to set her up with stolen fingerprints at the next mugging. Evil Hope overhears them and picks as next victim Roman. Maggie talks Mia out of leaving Salem high school to study dance in New York.

To concerned Daniel's dismay, Chloe refuses to continue therapy, which even made her feel worse, won't open up to him and can't have sex. Dr. Baker protests when he finds Roman hardly carried any cash and contests evil Hope's lead, to little avail. The branded victim is found, without grave injury, as well as the planted fake evidence. To Nicole's delight, Arianna left bed just to late to have an unexpected alibi and is indeed identified by her fingerprints as prime suspect. When Stephanie tells Nathan she stopped drinking, Melanie realizes she's pregnant, but later agrees with Philip they shouldn't throw stones, no even while both find Daniel and Chloe a bad match.

Philip worries that his misled adultery with Chloe will be exposed after learning Nathan knows, who in fact pleads with Chloe to tell Daniel herself. She refuses, confident she has pulled the wool over her dearly-concerned husband's eyes, but just that bickering is accidentally overheard by Carly, while Melanie is getting suspicious again about Philip's calls with his ex. To Brady's startled dismay, Arianna's fingerprints and DNA match, so she's arrested as multiple mugging suspect. Nicole plays concern to get back into Brady's good books. Dr. Baker wants to run from evil Hope but hasn't looted sufficient travel funds.

Will is far from amused that Sami, source of all his practical problems, dares lecture and grounded him for a slipping grade, as she chased his ideal tutor Rafe, yet EJ and Stefano appease the knave. Dr. Carrillo grants Rafe's urgent request to try an extremely potent stimulant on Anna. Daniel tells Father Matt he feels responsible for Chloe's condition. Nathan nor Carly can get the adulterous truth out. Stephanie publicly fights off Melanie's attempt to search her purse in hospital for the absence of birth control.

Dr. Carrillo refuses to administer the potent stimulant massively enough for Rafe to question Anna. Stefano reinforces his grip on EJ by pointing out Anna nearly betrayed the kidnapping and asking if his help is wanted, then arranges by phone for Rafe to be arrested as sole suspect, in a country which broke off diplomatic relations with the US, so his FBI status is no trump. Nicole arranges for the police the 'stumble upon' research into Arianna's past, including a closed file about a violent robbery conviction as a teenage junkie, which she claims was a set-up by the street gang leader. Craly having guessed her infidelity, Chloe prepares to owe up to Daniel, but he insists to speed up their church wedding.

Philip stops Nicole's sanctimonious attempt to plead on air for giving even Arianna the benefit of the doubt, Dr. Baker warns stopping his senior mugging partner while she's jailed may be impossible. Brady can't convince his jailed fiancée that he doesn't doubt her innocence. Victor makes clear to Vivian that their wedding plans practically ruin his family life.

Stefano enjoys playing step-grandfather for respectful Will, who even accepts the unwelcome advice to catch up with maths despite Sami's absurd punishment, which even she realizes was unfair. When Chad arrives, Will presents him to equally polite Stefano, but mother Peterson bursts in to 'ressue' her son, who refuses to accept such utterly unexplained public embarrassment any longer and leaves. Vivian's surprise wedding, to which she tricked the family into attending by faking messages from the butler that Victor be gravely ill, backfires as the unamused groom cancels the charade, stating only he must suffer it. Brady scolds Nicole, who hoped to snatch him up, for enjoying her ex's peril.

Given stacked evidence against Arianna, her fingerprints and juvenile criminal record, she remains arrested. The pro-bono lawyer warns her case looks hopeless, but mugging victim EJ decides to defend her. The Kiriakis kin keep wondering what drove Victor to remarry Vivian, whose bride's bouquet lands with Carly just when Hope arrives. In South American jail, Rafe is warned against the duly beaten-up alleged hired gun to kill the president, who turns out to be a Salem Brady relative and secret investigation veteran Shane Donovan.

EJ assumes jailed Ariana's defense, however dismaying to Brady. Insisting her best bid to get out quick is an alibi for one mugging, he learns that Nicole can provide one for Justin's case and guesses he must have a hidden agenda. Learning Daniel plans to wed Chloe the next day, Carly gives her an ultimatum to owe up her infidelity, but the bride convinces Daniel instead to go marry somewhere else that very evening.

EJ confronts Nicole, cleverly forcing her to admit she received Brady's check from Arianna, who she thus must provide an alibi, yet tells her smugly he plans not only to free his client but also to send the real culprit to jail, suspecting that's Nicole. Philip is startled when Daniel asks him to give Chloe away, but accepts as Melanie drops her objections to the hasty wedding. Only Gus knows that Vivian extends an invitation to Chloe, whom she recommends a helpful mystery man to solve the Carly problem if she lures her nemesis into an elevator for a ride to hell.

Nathan ponders in bed how to spend more time at home, maybe moving in with Stephanie, but is called away, like Melanie, for a regular cancer boy patient. Victor grudgingly parts on honeymoon with Vivian, after warning her if Carly comes to any harm in their absence. Chloe considers coming clean to Daniel before their wedding rather then having Carly murdered, but of nightmarish vision of Daniel dumping her rules out truthfulness.

Rafe and Shane Donovan set a trap to overpower their jailer and escape. Nathan is shocked when Stephanie finally owes up she has 'missed the pill a few times', insisting on a pregnancy test. Nicole arranges for D.A. Woods to overhear Brady doubting Arianna's alibi, which thus falls trough. Johnny asks both his parents to sleep with him. Chloe can't decide whether to hope she ca stop Carly from telling Daniel about her infidelity or let her die in the hospital elevator which Vivian's henchman 'Otis' already tampered with.

Chloe is recovering well, but Philip worries even more that Carly, who ignores his part, may still betray her infidelity to Daniel, who sort of overhears them. The demise of Hope's beloved grandmother paralyzes the mourning Horton clan. Mother Madeline Woods's obsessive opposition against Chad befriending Will again confronts her with Kate.

Philip helps fast-recovering Chloe cover up lies to Daniel by picking up an 'anniversary' gift, but is seen by nosy Adrienne. To her delight, Daniel offers to wed her in the hospital, but Carly insists he must learn the truth first. Nathan is furious at apparently jealous ex Melanie when she tells him about Stephanie's birth control cheating.

Stephanie ignores calls from Kayla thinking she is just harassing her about telling the truth about Parker's paternity. Later, Stephanie listens to Kayla's voice mail telling her that Caroline had a stroke. Melanie wants Daniel to seek custody of Parker but he refuses to take the baby away from Chloe. Kate pretends to know what Maggie is talking about when she runs into her at the Pub. Philip tells Kate that he is Parker's father. Sami and Rafe run into E.J. and Nicole at the Pier New Year's celebration where E.J. announces their engagement.

Bo makes a call to Carly at a nearby gas station. Bo tells Carly that she needs to get a message to Roman to call him at that number after Carly hangs up Bo hears a noise on the other end and realizes the hospital line was tapped. E.J. gives Nicole a bracelet and tells her it will track her every move. Mary relays information to Sami. Jennifer continues working undercover at the prison and Rafe sees her when he visits the warden. The Warden tells Dr. Walters that she can't get him any more organs until Bo and Hope are caught. Sami pretends to talk to Brady about using her apartment to be together just for Stefano to overhear.