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Outside the pub, Sami accuses Nicole of using her unfortunate dog to try and get EJ into bed. Refusing to stand by and let that happen, she yanks EJ into a kiss. Everyone has a shocked expression at this. "I have some breath spray and it's anti-bacterial," Nicole offers. Sami wonders what she was thinking. EJ thinks she was just reacting. "No no!" she screams before running away. She runs into the pub and begs her grandmother for some water or rubbing alcohol. Caroline laughs and wonders why she looks like she's on the verge of a nervous breakdown. "I need to talk to Lucas," Sami panics, pulling out her phone. She makes the call but he refuses to talk to her and she starts to cry. Caroline suggests that he may just feel too guilty for ruining their lives. Sami thinks he needs to get over it so they can see each other and start moving on.

EJ thanks Nicole for helping him with Sami. She's livid; she was actually upset about her dog, Sami just happened along. EJ starts to probe her about Sami's reaction: Does she seem genuinely jealous? "The way she threw herself at me was wonderful!" he oozes. Nicole cringes. Sami's bad news, she thinks, and she'll do anything to get what she wants. At least Nicole doesn't pretend to be good. EJ still wants Sami. "If you're that stupid, maybe you shouldn't be my lawyer," she bites before lambasting his twisted relationship with Sami. Why does she care so much about it? EJ wonders. She cares about him... as his lawyer; she doesn't need him getting googly-eyed. He keeps his personal and business lives separate and suggests that she is jealous and doesn't want Sami happy. She doesn't, but she's more worried about Pookie right now. He begins analyzing her needy relationship with her dog and she calls his verdict on her emotional health "manure" before stomping away.

In the middle of the night, Philip drinks a glass of milk and paces around the mansion. Henderson comes in with a package and offers him something to eat. Philip's not hungry. He opens the package and remembers his confrontations with John over the docks. The package contains the stolen disc. He promptly puts it in his computer and discovers that the disc is encrypted and he can't read it. Immediately, he calls the computer department. Before things can get anywhere, Chloe announces her presence. He jumps up. "Where's Brady?" he asks. She looks uncomfortable at this. "I came back alone," she says, explaining that Brady is in rehab and making progress. He wasn't thrilled to see her though and still blames her for his addictions. Philip wonders why she came back; why didn't she stay to work things out? Brady wants a divorce, she says. "There's one person to blame for our marriage ending and you and I both know what that is," she states. He doesn't think she can blame Victor for everything. She rants about what Victor has done to her. Philly wonders what other reasons she's had for coming back. He suggests she's come back to get revenge on Victor by using him. What they had was a long time ago, she reminds him. He understands, but she's back and in the game. "I'm good at the game and love to play it," he smiles. She thinks he's conceited and insists that she just wants a friend. He nods his head and smiles deviously. He offers her a room in the mansion. Reluctantly, she agrees and tells him that he's right about the best way to get revenge on Victor. After ripping his shirt open, she starts kissing him. "I like being friends with you," he smirks. Before she can start rubbing his abs, they're interrupted by Nicole: "Oh please God! Let me be hallucinating!"

EJ walks into the pub and watches Sami crying to her grandmother about Lucas refusing to see her. None of what Samantha Jean says makes sense to her grandmother. Sami has no idea what's going on anymore. EJ creeps over and whispers: "How can I help?" Caroline starts telling EJ about her problems, much to Sami's consternation. "She's desperate to hold onto what she used to have," EJ smirks. She's not desperate; she still has true love with Lucas, she insists, something EJ will never know anything about. She stomps away. He explains to Caroline that Sami caught him comforting Nicole and flipped out. She reminds him that Sami still loves Lucas and he's only part of her life because Lucas can't be. "Tell me something I don't know," he admits grimly.

Sami goes back to the mansion and thanks Rolf for looking after the twins. He's exhausted and covered in baby vomit. He asks her for a drink and reminds her that rocking babies is not in his job description. Sami tells him that she's misjudged him; she used to think he was a creep. He had to be that way to work for Stefano, he explains before bringing up her worried expression. "What happened to freak you out?" he queries. She doesn't want to talk about it. "What do you think of EJ?" she asks. Rolf thinks he's finally becoming his own person, for good or bad. What does Sami think? "He's trying," she sighs. "Trying to be a better person or trying your patience?" he jokes. Rolf's tired and goes to bed, but before he can get away, she asks him if he thinks John and Marlena will get back together. Rolf thinks there's as much chance of them reuniting as there is of her forgetting about Lucas and falling in love with EJ. As he walks out, EJ walks in and Sami jumps. She tells him he can check on the twins and walks off.

Chelsea follows Daniel into the steam room to confront him about his wife. "Hands off, seriously," he warns. She assumes that they could have had something if he didn't have "the dark past thing" hanging over him. He tells her she'll have one too when she gets older. She accuses him of using his past to let her down gently. As she prods him, he tells her to bail. She insists there is something between them and he shouldn't resist. "You think what happened to your wife will happen to me," she explains to him. As she gets wet from the steam, he tells her he's uncomfortable and she should leave. They keep arguing and she taunts him for his fears. He refuses to make the same mistake twice. She starts lashing out at him, accusing him of being a coward. "I'm not going to change who I am," he says. He's not good boyfriend material, he suggests, before he starts to talk in circles. She begins kissing him and caressing his shoulders. He finally admits that he feels something; that's the problem.

Tuesday
May 13, 2008
Before I do Something Stupid

Stephanie hurries down to the docks. Max is clearly uncomfortable having her there. She needs to know what he really did to Nick's grant proposal. He tries avoiding this, but finally says that he was just fixing the financial accounting etc.. Stephanie doesn't believe him and doesn't understand why he won't trust her enough to tell her what he's really up to: None of this makes sense. He tries to change the subject and kiss her but she pushes him away. She wants the truth, not a distraction. He says he's given her the truth already. She doesn't believe him and walks away. Max sighs and remembers bringing beer to his father's grave and telling him that Nick makes mistakes and needs guidance. He told his father that he was cool with running the pub, but he still wants something else, something more.

At the pub, Nick is busy at work when a student, Alicia, starts badgering him with questions. Agitated, he brushes her off. Moments later, he walks over to her table and apologizes. He explains that he is just under a lot of pressure. They begin talking about his grant and how worried he is about his deadline. With a confused grimace, she explains that it was already delivered to the administration building. He's confused by this. She explains that she works in the Dean's office, sorting his mail, and Nick's stuff arrived already.

Steve walks into the pub for a meeting with EJ. He reminds Mr. Wells about their past and that it's not easily forgotten. EJ starts to ask about Steve's past "interesting couple of weeks" as Ava's prisoner, but Steve just wants to get down to business. After settling some details, EJ offers him a handshake but Steve still doesn't trust him. EJ promises him that he won't regret getting into business with him. Steve looks around nervously. When EJ offers to buy him breakfast, Steve ignores him and glares around strangely as a mysterious man looms outside the pub door. "Are you okay?" EJ asks. Stephanie walks in and asks her papa what he's doing there. They start talking about Kayla and the pregnancy.

Stephanie wanders over to Nick and asks him how he's doing. He says that he's okay, but he's clearly not. When she sits down, they talk about Chelsea; he still doesn't know why they broke up. When she inquires about his proposal, he explains how it suddenly appeared in the Dean's office. Before he can say anymore, Max arrives and jumps into the conversation. He plays dumb as Nick talks about what a disaster his work was and how he can't understand why someone would send it in rather than simply give it back to him. Stephanie tries to come clean but Max cuts her off, telling Nick that they looked, but couldn't find it. After he walks away, Stephanie burbles some condolences about Chelsea and walks away. Nick flashes back to his strained arguments with Max over the grant but he still can't understand his friend's behavior. Meanwhile, Stephanie corners Max and tells him that she can't lie to Nick anymore. Immediately, she hurries back to Nick's table and finally comes clean with him. "You and I need to talk," Nick announces to Max who promptly explains that he was only trying to help. Nick blows up at him and storms away, leaving Stephanie to demand some answers. When she doesn't get any, she leaves as well.

At the station, Roman hands Bo a new file when Sami rushes in panicking. She tells them that Lucas has refused to talk to her. That's nothing new, Roman points out. Sami insists that she needs to talk to him right away, "Before I do something stupid," she explains. She thinks of kissing EJ and tells Roman how worried she is about Lucas. He'll talk to Mr. Roberts/Horton, but can't promise anything; if Lucas still refuses to see her, there's nothing anyone can do about it. Later, after Roman has talked to Lucas, he tells Sami not to get her hopes up. Lucas still refuses to talk to her, but he may call. Sami gets her hopes up so Roman tries to dampen them. He thinks that she left a lot of things unsettled with Lucas and she easily owns up to this. A cop walks in with an email for her from Lucas. She's surprised at the quick and rather impersonal reply. The men leave her alone to read it. The note tells her to forget about him and move on with her life. She starts to cry.

At home, Hope serves Kayla some tea and offers to take her to her doctor's appointment today. Kayla is sure that Steve put her up to this, since he's still worried about the Vitali clan. Although Kayla insists that she can look after herself, Hope thinks she chould could still use someone watching her back. Even if Ava's behavior was all thanks to her being drugged, she is still a Vitali and dangerous. She encourages Kayla just to focus on her baby and they leave for her appointment.

At the hospital, Angelo tracks down Ava in the hallway to get an update on her health. She's doing well and wants to start living in the present again. She tells Angelo that Nussbaum must have been drugging her to keep her as his patient and bleed her father for all he was worth. Angelo shrugs. Hope and Kayla walk in. They have an awkward moment with their former captor before Ava thanks Kayla for figuring out that she was on the wrong medication. Hope and Kayla walk away. "You don't have to thank her," Angelo groans. He starts to blame everything on Patch and says that her father thinks he's to blame for everything too. "What else do you know Angelo?" she asks. He starts to stutter as she interrogates him but he continues to assert that her father is doing nothing against Patch and his family. They go over to the pub. She notices Stephanie and tells Angelo how pretty she is. "She's not as pretty as you twinkle toes," he smirks. They sit down and she asks him how he knew she had an appointment today. They dance around it until she demands to know why he's keeping tabs on her. He's reluctant and she threatens to walk away. Grabbing her hand, he tells her that she's right: Her father wanted him to keep her busy today because he didn't want to risk her getting in the way of what he had planned.

After her appointment, Kayla and Hope return to her place. Kayla's agitated and doesn't want to follow the doctor's orders to go back to bed. Hope tells her that her only job right now is to worry about her baby and take care of her. When Hope leaves to get some pie, Kayla starts to get a twinge. Meanwhile, Patch walks down to the docks while the man who has been following him all day clings to the shadows and prepares a sniper rifle. Patch starts to play harmonica and stays behind some barrels. Clearly aware of the threat, he slips out of sight and calls Bo with some news about his dangerous situation.

EJ goes home to the mansion to get caught up on some work. Sami stumbles in. "Are you alright?" he asks. She says she's fine. "It doesn't look that way," he suggests. She snipes at him and says she hasn't slept well. "Because of what happened between the two of us?" he asks. Nothing happened, she insists. He asks if he can help out. She asks him to drop Nicole. He won't. She seems very sad, he observes, but she refuses to talk about that as well. When he offers her a hug, she cringes. She swallows some booze and cries, avoiding him and trying to leave. As she runs to the door, his phone starts to ring. After a delay, he picks it up: It's Nicole. Sami stays in the doorway and listens in.

Wednesday
May 14, 2008
The Concept of us is Just not Happening.

Nicole arrives at the mansion but, when she sees Chloe and Philip eating dinner, she loses her appetite. She starts sniping at Chloe and her lackluster opera career. It doesn't take long before the 's' word starts coming out. Philip watches as Nicole lays into Chloe over Brady and lambastes him for jumping all over his nephew's lady, "Chloe Lame". He doesn't remember when she joined the morality police and brings up her various infidelities to Victor. She admits to these and doesn't see why she should even care about this when Pookie is in the hospital. She's just trying to help Philly. "Despite what you think, I really do care about you," she admits. He smirks. She still has feelings, she begins, but her phone starts barking (Pookie's bark is her ringtone) before she can finish. It's EJ setting up a meeting with her. She leaves "the kids" behind. He tells Chloe not to let Nicole get to her. She admits that Nicole is actually right and they shouldn't be fooling around. Chloe has trouble letting Brady go, even if she has Philly as a distraction. He reminds her of how much she wants to annoy his father and tells her to stop thinking so much. She still doesn't think it's right for them to hook up. They start kissing. He tells her to admit to what she wants: She really came back to Salem for him. "No," she says, moving away. "Call me what you want, but you can't deny what's between us," he says. She's lost her appetite and leaves the dining room. He shrugs and pulls out John's memory disc.

At the mansion, Sami finds EJ in his exercise outfit, leaving for the gym. After he walks out, Sami asks her mother to look after the twins while she trudges off to the gym. Marlena wanders into John's office while he continues to search for who broke into his home. She's put out some feelers herself. "I'm helping," she says perkily. He's not that impressed. Daniel walks in and John calls him the "Big Kahuna" and begins talking about his surfing career. John soon drifts out of the conversation and Daniel tells Marlena he needs some personal advice. Marlena asks John to step out. He refuses, reminding her that they were in the middle of something. "Please?" she asks. "Make it quick," he barks before leaving. Daniel sits down with Marlena and she begins to probe. He tells her how he's been traveling the world looking for an adrenaline rush to get over his loss and stay detached, but he doesn't know if he can avoid it anymore. "Are you saying that you're getting involved with patient?" she asks. He needs her to tell him how to fall out of love and move on. Marlena doesn't know how to help him. John eavesdrops as they talk. Daniel wants a guarantee, but Marlena doesn't think there are any. She tells him to imagine his wife. He closes his eyes but can't get the vibe. He tries again and imagines his wife telling him that he should allow himself to love someone. "That's very good advice," Marlena says. He doesn't want any more questions, just some more solid advice. His problem is that he doesn't know what he wants, she explains. He has intuition in the operating room, but he would rather surf than think about his personal problems. She thinks he knows what he wants, he's just afraid of the risk and needs someone to tell him it's okay to go ahead. "Damn... you're good," he smiles. She cautions him to go slowly so that he's comfortable and it feels right.

After Marlena walks Daniel out, John steps out of the shadows. She asks him why he was eavesdropping. It's his house, he'll do what he pleases, he asserts. They return to the topic of his missing disc. She says that she's gotten Roman involved in the search. He doesn't want her involved. "That's too bad because I love you very much," she says. He smokes his cigar.

Sami follows EJ to the gym and spies on him, knocking over protein supplements while he helps a woman exercise. As she starts to exercise, the man next to her, Chris, starts calling her a cutie before noticing EJ. "that tall drink of water", and the woman who seems to be into him. It's Nicole. She and EJ wander over and taunt her. "Instead of doing laps, let's work out a few kinks in the steam room," Nicole suggests. She takes him away and Sami asks Chris to follow them into the steam room to eavesdrop. He high fives her and jogs off. EJ and Nicole lock themselves in the steam room and start to make out as Chris runs down the hall. He listens at the door and gasps. He runs back out to Sami and tells her that he heard a lot of moans. "It sound like he was really good," he comments. Sami grumbles. She runs down the hall to the steam room but stops herself from barging in. Inside, EJ stops making out with Nicole. "You're a beautiful woman but I love Samantha," he reminds her. "Who said anything about love," she says, pulling him into more kisses.

Kate takes Chelsea out for dinner at the pub. Chelsea is feeling better now that people have stopped asking her how she feels. Kate wonders how she is doing emotionally. Chelsea wants some advice: How do I make a guy realize that he loves me? "I have a feeling that you're not talking about Nick," Kate assumes. Chelsea wants a relationship with Daniel: He's hot and smart and she's dumped Nick. Unfortunately, Daniel has problems and she explains what happened with his wife. Kate tells her that a relationship with Daniel isn't what she needs, she should actually get as far away from him as she can. That doesn't sound like good advice to Chelsea. Kate is sure that Chelsea would always take a backseat to his dead wife. Chelsea begins mocking Kate for her past and brings up Martino, who suddenly walks in. Kate assures her that Martino wasn't a hood when she was with him. "I have known enough men with issues that prevented them from being in a relationship," she explains. Daniel has to deal with what happened or he will never be ready to move on. Daniel drifts in and sits at the bar. Kate repeats that she'll never be happy running after Daniel. After she leaves, he sits down with Chelsea. He tells her that, "The concept of us is just not happening right now." That's what Kate told Chelsea too, but she thinks that she is wrong. She won't argue and play games though. "I hope you figure all your stuff out," she says. When he does, he can call her. She walks out.

Across the pub, Ava starts to demand some answers from Angelo. "Your father wanted you out of the way today so he and some of the fellows could take care of Patch," Angelo confesses. She wonders why he's admitted to this. He's sick of being treated like a puppet and he's sick of how her father has been treating her. "Daddy's days of controlling me are over," she says. Martino arrives and sits down. She asks him what he is going to do to Patch. He plays ignorant. "You better call it off daddy or you will be sorry," she threatens.

Hope and Kayla are drinking tea when Bo calls. He tells her that Steve is in trouble but she can't tell Kayla about it. Hope leaves her friend behind and rushes away. At the docks, Steve plays the harmonica while a sniper takes aim at his head. Before the sniper can take his shot, Bo interrupts him, levelling a gun at his head. As he reads the guy his rights, Hope searches him and finds something. They hurry over to the pub and arrest Martino for murder and attempted murder. Meanwhile, Kayla gets bored waiting around and decides to call Steve. When she stands up, she has a spasm before collapsing on the couch. "Oh God! This is it!" she screams, getting on the phone for an ambulance: She's gone into labor.

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