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Daniel pulls away from a passionate kiss with Chelsea. He says it's wrong and he can't do it. She reminds him that he is staying in Salem for her. "I don't want to hurt you," he repeats. She tells him to go. Things seems too complicated to him. As he tries to leave, she pulls him into another kiss. They stop kissing and she starts to feel bad about Nick. He doesn't deserve what she is doing to him... Daniel tells her she's beautiful and kisses her again before repeating that he can't get involved with her, not now. She thinks it's just bad timing, but it's more than that. He says they can never be together and pulls the age card. "Are you married?" she asks. He needs to be alone; that's his life and that's the way it's going to stay. Chelsea doesn't understand and offers to help him with his problems. What's wrong with him can not be fixed, he insists. She tells him about Zach's death but he already knew the story. He's jaded, he admits, but hearing her talk about it is sad. They sit down and she says that that was the worst thing that ever happened to her; now she has let him in so, maybe, he could do the same? That's not going to happen. He tells her that she doesn't want to know him and gets up to leave. She won't beg him to stay so he walks out.

"Why does life have to be so hard?" Nicole pouts as she strides into the middle of Abe and Roman's interrogation of Ava. She starts to rant about Victor continually throwing her out of the house. Roman has to escort her outside while she moans. Abe tells Ava that she's free to go. She doesn't have anywhere to go. They tell her not to leave town. A call comes in: Bo just attacked Martino at the pub. Ava runs off and the cops follow behind.

EJ returns home after a meeting. Sami accuses him of seeing Nicole. He pretends not to be in the mood to be baited about this. He asks her what she's been doing while he's been gone. She fed the kids and then put them to sleep. When she brings up Nicole again, he explains that Mickey has thrown him a few more clients so, now, he can buy Sami something pretty. If he has money, they need to save it to move out of her parent's house, she insists. She explains her "strange encounter" with John last night and the way they bonded. Now she feels guilty about telling him certain things.

In the mansion's main room, Marlena looks out into the garden and then turns to see that Stefano's portrait has been replaced by one of her. "Well Blondie? What's the verdict?" John prods. She thinks it's a little much and she's embarrassed. When she asks him to take it down, he refuses and tells her it's a monument to their history, something he's learned a lot about lately. She's worried. He refuses to tell her who has been filling him in on the details. Sami walks in and confesses that it was her. "What were you thinking?" Marlena demands. John was curious and expected Sami to be more objective; at least she didn't worship the old him. Marlena wishes that she hadn't said anything. He smiles and says that what she said was very entertaining; he found out that he could be a real jerk when he put his mind to it... "And so could you," he adds. EJ and Sami want to run at this point and Marlena almost hyperventilates. John starts repeating the gory details of their sex life, like the time they had sex on the conference table. Marlena tells him not to say these things in "public". She's angry with her daughter but will deal with her later.

Marlena changes the subject to EJ and his Immigration problems. The fax suddenly rings. "Oh goody! Am I just in time?" Nicole asks as she sticks her head in. Sami grabs the fax away and accuses EJ of having a "devil's pact" with the skinny one. "Are you having sex with Nicole or what?" she demands. Nicole starts to tease her but EJ tells her to admit that they aren't actually having sex. She's just there to talk to her lawyer, she admits, is that a crime? "Just about everything you do is a crime!" Sami snipes. She continues to be difficult and refuses to give him the fax. He has to pry it away from her. "My visa's been renewed," he sighs as he reads it. Nicole is thrilled and Sami starts to lash out at her again. Sami continues her string of insults and paranoid suggestions until Nicole walks away after a devious nod from EJ. EJ smiles, amused by Sami's temper tantrum. He tells her that her jealousy is warming his heart. EJ wants champagne to celebrate. Sami only wants to celebrate getting closer to an annulment and stomps out. "She likes me... she really likes me," he laughs. Moments later, left alone, Marlena asks John about his sly little smile. "I was just thinking... about how hot we must have been together," he says before kissing her. The violins play. "So where's that conference table when you need one?" he says. She asks him why he went down memory lane with Sami. He explains what happened the other night and she asks to see the disk. When he looks for it, he realizes it's gone.

At the pub, Bo is punching Martino around but he's not staying down. Bo grabs the "scum sucking pig" by the collar and claims that, if it wasn't for him, his pop would still be alive. Martino's goons rush in and Max pulls out his shotgun. Martino stays calm and says that Bo has a right to question him. As Bo starts to cuff him, Ava walks in with some questions of her own. Bo shoves his gun in Martino's face and starts to read him his rights. Roman arrives and orders him to stop. Ava asks her father why he got her out of jail and why he paid the doctor to drug her for all these years. She can't take the guilt of what she's done and demands an answer. Bo starts to fly off again so Roman and Abe take him aside and remind him that they have nothing on the guy yet. They "calm" him and Bo instantly starts threatening Martino again. Roman tells him that this isn't the right way to deal with things. Abe uncuffs Martino and he quickly takes his daughter aside. She doesn't want to talk; she wants time away to figure out where her life has gone. "I'm finally starting to see you for who you are," she says before turning her back and walking away. Everyone empties out of the pub and Kate goes to Martino's side. She asks him if he's really a heartbroken father. He insists that he only did what he had to in order to protect his daughter. "Now let's finish breakfast," he suggests. She's lost her appetite and doesn't think that he should call her again. Alone, Martino and his goons wonder about their strategy. "They wanna mess with my family, they're gonna pay," he says. Patch will be first and Bo will follow.

Abe and Roman bring Bo back to the station. They try to figure out what to do next when Ava walks in. She needs to know what the truth is. If they help her learn what her father really did to her, maybe she can help them too. Later, Bo goes home with Roman. He looks for Chelsea but she's vanished. Roman urges him to calm down before he burns himself out. Bo will slow down when they get Vitali behind bars and suffering. Roman reminds him that his family needs him to stay healthy. Bo wonders how he can help his daughter deal with her new problems.

Chelsea arrives at the pub. Steph and Max greet her before she takes Nick aside and across the room. Stephanie suspects this can't be good and Nick will need some friends. "I think I can be a good friend to Nick," Max says rather strangely. Chelsea and Nick sit down but he already knows what she's going to say. She thinks it will be better this way for both of them. "Not for me. I can't deny the way I feel just because you feel differently," he explains, but he still wants her to be happy, with or without him. "Friends?" she asks. He walks out and Steph and Max walk over to her to pay their condolences.

Next on Days of Our Lives:

Nicole cries to EJ as Sami watches.

Daniel tells Lexi what happened the last time he got involved with a patient.

Marlena jumps to the top of John's "suspect list".

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