Philip got into Belle's car. She was not happy to see him. He said he just
wanted to talk. "Then call me," she sighed. "I have," he replied. He accused
her of being scared to be alone with him. She said she wasn’t and planned to
marry Shawn the next day. He insisted they belong together and declared his
love for her. “I know you love me, too,” he said. “I love Shawn,” she
replied weakly. Philip asked her to look him in the eye and tell him she
didn’t care about him. She said she couldn’t do it, but that Shawn means
more to her. “He always has and always will,” she said. She ordered him out
of her car. He told her to call him on his private line if she wanted to
talk more.

At the station, Roman showed Kate a gun and asked where she dumped it. She
said it wasn’t her gun. He told her her fingerprints are all over it.
“You’re lying, Roman,” she countered. She asked why she would shoot EJ since
he was doing what she wanted most: getting Sami out of Lucas’s life. Roman
began to read her Miranda rights. Kate insisted it wasn’t her gun. Roman
told an officer to book her. “Touch me and you’ll regret it,” Kate snarled,
then threatened to sue Roman. Roman excused the cop. Once alone, Roman
insisted he was trying to help his ex. He asked her what she did with her
gun. “So you were lying about my prints on the gun,” she retorted, then
stated again that she didn’t shoot EJ. Roman urged her to be honest,
promising to protect her. She admitted that she gave the gun to Philip and
asked him to get rid of it. Roman told her to call Philip to the station.

Bo caught Steve acting shifty behind the bar of the Brady Pub and spied him
hide something in his jacket. Bo asked him to turn it over. Steve gave up
the gun; Shawn came out of the shadows and apologized for telling Bo. “Did
you shoot Junior,” Bo queried. Steve danced around answering. He said he was
at an auto parts store when EJ was shot. “You buy anything? Anyone see you?”
Bo asked. Bo then told him that he knows the owner of the store and they
should go check the security cameras. Steve ’fessed up that he was at the
church and that he intended to shoot EJ but changed his mind once he got
there. Bo asked where he got the gun. “I borrowed it from the DiMera
mansion,” Steve replied. “So you stole it?” Bo said. “Your words, not mine,”
Steve shrugged. Bo took him to the station. Shawn stayed behind. Bo gave his
son a “Good work, man” before departing.

Sami comforted EJ at the hospital and told him she cared about him. She
kissed him as proof then cried that she was scared of losing him. He told
her he loved her. He then confessed he never thought she’d forgive him for
what happened the night of Lucas’s accident. She said it was in the past. He
claimed to be a different man now. “You changed everything for me,” he
whispered. “We changed each other,” she replied. She then urged him to find
his will to live. He said the idea of being with her and his son gives him a
reason to live. She kissed him again, then left. Outside, Stefano was
waiting. She dropped the act. “I think I’m going to be sick,” she spat. He
asked her to sit with him. “What happened?” Stefano wondered. She told him
that she did as he asked and gave EJ a reason to live. The Phoenix said he
wouldn’t forget it. Stefano went into his son’s room and learned that
Elvis’s fever broke. EJ felt well enough to eat, too. He told his father
that Sami had feelings for him. Stefano remarked that EJ seemed “strangely
subdued.” EJ said he was just confused about Sami since she had told him she
was only marrying him to end the vendetta, but hoped they could be a husband
and wife in the real sense of the word. “She makes me very happy, father,”
he smiled. Stefano announced that he and EJ would raise Johnny (or Gianni,
as he called him) to be a real DiMera. EJ pointed out if he hadn’t been
raised all DiMera, he might be more human. “Being human is overrated,”
Stefano noted.

Bo went to Roman’s office and told his brother that he caught Steve with a
gun. Roman admitted that the gun is his and that Steve was lying to protect
him. Steve came into the office and they told Bo what happened. “Bo, I
didn’t shoot EJ,” Roman told him. “But you went to the church with the
intention of killing the man,” Bo seethed.

Philip joined Kate at the station. She revealed that she told the cops that
she asked Philip to hide her gun. “Are you out of your mind?” Philip asked,
pointing out he’s now an accessory after the fact. “You think that I shot
EJ,” she realized. Philip went into Roman’s office and invoked the Fifth
Amendment, then advised them to call the Kiriakis lawyer if they needed any
further info. “I’m going to have to bitch slap that brat one of these days,”
Bo fumed. Philip then quietly lit into his mother.

Belle went to the Pub and showed Shawn the dress she bought Claire for their
wedding. He reported what happened with Steve earlier. “It doesn’t look
good,” Shawn reported. Belle told him he’d be a great cop. “More
importantly, I want to be a great husband and father,” he replied. She said
he was already. He smiled that things were going their way. Belle got
uncomfortable and said that she was supposed to go to Hope’s. “Shawn, I want
to marry you,” she blurted. He said he never said she didn’t, but asked if
someone told her not to go through with it. He asked if she ran into Philip
and wondered if she was having second thoughts. She brushed it off and
smiled that she was fine. Shawn took the dress to put it on Claire so Belle
could see her in it. Belle pulled out the card from Philip that contained
his private number. Shawn returned with Claire. Belle was thrilled. “I can’t
wait to marry you,” she enthused. He told her he would do anything to make
her and Claire happy. “Everything’s going to be perfect,” he promised.