DAYS Recaps Week of April 11, 2005

Friday, April 15, 2005
Stan/Sami (or is it Sami/Stan? Stami?) fixed his jaunty mustache as the Mysterious Caller informed him of his newest target: Brady and Nicole, assuring him/her, “And the fun is just beginning.” “Fun,” however, wasn’t happening at Ghoul Girl’s Clinic of Horrors, where Nancy continued to try and convince Chloe to fight for Brady without resorting to risky surgery. Chloe was determined to sign the release papers and go through with it. She couldn’t let Brady fall into Nicole’s clutches! At the Kiriakis mansion, the clutcher in question was wondering if she’d really seen Chloe alive at St. Luke’s. Clad in a lovely purple dress and looking like a prom princess, Nicole shared a tender moment with Brady, telling him that she loved him. Their moment was interrupted by Shawn and Rex…who had arrived to hit Brady up for cash to finance their Stolen Super Secret ISA Plan. At the Black penthouse, John was trying to lift weights and collapsed so Kate distracted him with kisses and a slightly different workout. At the strangely empty Deveraux house, Abby and Jennifer had a long talk about missing Jack and never giving up believing in miracles. But over at Castle DiMera, a miracle was exactly what the Doc ordered as she, Roman, and Jack crept about the hallways bent on escape and forgetting to speak in their “inside voices.” The sound of someone crying and a gunshot panicked Marlena and Roman, and they realized that Cassie was nearby, behind a closed door. As a wayward Jack found his friends again, they got through the door and reunited with a desperately-in-need-of-a-dye-job Cassie.

Meanwhile, back at Castle Kiriakis, Prom Princess Nicole ran out to do an errand and a suspicious Brady settled in to listen to Shawn and Rex’s sales pitch about an advance on Shawn’s inheritance. He refused to help unless they spilled what they were up to. Outside, what Nicole was up to…was about two feet in the air when Stami leapt out from behind some bushes to offer help keeping Chloe out of Brady’s life…”permanently.” Shawn and Rex caved under pretty much no pressure at all and told Brady of their plan — which led to much mocking on Brady’s part. After he finished laughing, he told them to cool their heels while he checked on John to make sure his dad was on top of the situation. Speaking of being on top, Kate pulled back from their hot-and-heavy make-out session as the audience was treated to an unflattering close-up of John’s underarm hair. Kate’s worry for Phil was getting in the way of “helping John with the pain.” Since mention of Philip’s predicament was a mood killer, John decided to check and see if his Super Secret Plan had been approved by the ISA, but Kate brought his mind back to her, thanking him for everything he’s done for her. As the two embraced, Brady burst in. Awkward! Brady managed not to look too embarrassed as Kate said she’d been helping his dad with “therapy.” And then John’s computer chirped. His SSP had been turned down by the ISA! Oh, no! A crushed John was determined to go ahead with his plan! His vehemence taxed his strength and he doubled over. Kate suggested he go take a hot shower and then Kate revealed her fears about his ability to Brady…who took her words to heart and returned to Shawn and Rex. He would pull funds from the Kiriakis corporate account on one condition: that he join them in their rescue of Philip. Shawn agreed as long as Brady pinky-swore not to tell John. Game on! They’re a team!

At the Castle of Imminent Escape, Roman, Jack, and Cassie scuffled a little over their departure plan and knocked something over. The men hid with Doc as Cassie, holding a lit candle, assured the arriving guards that she’d broken the vase accidentally. As the lead guard leered at Cassie and asked for a goodnight kiss, an enraged Roman rushed him. A fight ensued with the guards and Jack was shot — just as Jennifer and Abby spoke of him and of the importance of having faith. Faith was in short supply in a car as Stan/Sami drove Nicole towards an undisclosed location (the clinic!) and wondered if Nicole would like to meet her living nightmare, handing her a paper with detailed instructions about a very-alive (and scarred!) Chloe. Nicole wondered if she was dreaming and Stami pinched her. Ow! A surly Chloe signed the release forms against Nancy’s advice. Jennifer and Abby finished up their heart-to-heart and Chelsea and her parents arrived to take Abby out to dinner — a smokescreen for Abby’s surprise 17th birthday party. Jennifer murmured, thankfully, “everything’s going to be okay.” Except…it wasn’t. The car Abby, Chelsea, and her parents were riding in swerved violently on the road…and, elsewhere, Jack was still shot and very bloody. As Marlena tended to him, saying in a very Monty Python-ish fashion, “it’s just a flesh wound!” Cassie put down her taper next to a very flammable tapestry. Just as they all moved to escape, the tapestry went whoosh. Up in flames!

A gleeful Stan/Sami came back to his/her motel room and flashed back to a time when John and Brady were really mean to her and she was still played by a woman. “Screw with me and you’ll pay,” he/she promised. At the clinic, part of that payment seemed inevitable when Chloe and Nancy resolved to get Brady back in her life as soon as possible…and a shocked Nicole came out of the closet (no, not THAT closet). She’d overheard every word! Chloe was alive and after her man! Meanwhile, Marlena’s man, John, was over at the penthouse asking Kate to move in with him permanently, saying “you’ve given me hope.” Kate accepted without reservation. And without Roman…who was out of luck when Cassie ran back in to her burning room for a bracelet Caroline had given her and Doc ran in after her. The door locked behind Marlena as the flames burst up between her and Cassie. Roman and Jack were outside, watching as their dreams of escape went up in smoke.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
At the DiMera Castle of Comfort Sex, Doc and Roman were intrigued by the sound of digging. Roman pulled out a box of sharpened utensils and broken bowl pieces that he’d been hoarding for a rainy day and the two began to dig at their side of the wall. After some creative time-lapsed video, they had made amazing progress, pulling out a big cement chunk to reveal…Jack, who had been hoping to get to the outer wall. Roman and Marlena widened the hole to pull him through. “Luckily, I’ve been on the DiMera Deprivation Diet,” quipped Jack…just as the tunnel collapsed on him. Doc and Roman dug him out and he revealed his intention to escape ASAP. Patrick Lockhart was probably moving in on Jen in his absence! Roman and Marlena reminded him that Cassie was trapped in the castle somewhere, too…and maybe others. Did you not hear me, Guys? Patrick and Jen! He had to get to her or die trying! Roman and Jack shoved some furniture behind the ginormous hole and proceeded to draw the guards in from the hall with some noise. Jack hit hapless Guard #1 on the head with a chunk of rock (no, not Jan’s rock). Guard #2 wasn’t quite so easy. He pulled his gun on the trio. When Marlena feigned wooziness, he got distracted and Roman knocked him out. Marlena smiled hopefully. They were finally going to escape…

Meanwhile, back in Salem, Jennifer was packing away some of Jack’s things and she remembered Jack wearing eyeliner and dressing up as a Native American. Her kinky recollections were cut short when Hope arrived, still clad in her cute black and red warm-up suit, to vent about Bo and Billie’s kitchen lap dance. Hope told her cousin that she and Bo had always been in sync with each other…but, apparently, Bo was more interested in being Billie’s backstreet boy. Over at Casa Brady, Bo and Billie were sheepishly discussing the latest wacky incident. Bo’s t-shirt had the telling logo of “easy come, easy go” while Billie’s said “fresh.” Indeed! The Horton cousins got out the carton of ice cream that signals a good Girl Talk session and continued to kvetch about Hope’s problems despite the fact that Jack was probably dead and Jen had two kids to parent without him. As Hope groused about Bo’s attentiveness to Billie, Bo was telling Billie how much he loved his wife and his boys. (What “boys”? Shouldn’t Zack’s face be on a milk carton by now?) A regretful Bo asked Billie to move out and she told him she’d expected this and made arrangements to live in Sami’s apartment. The two shared a hug and Billie urged him to be happy. Of course, Hope walked in. At Chez Deveraux, Jen was feeling Jack’s spirit watching over her as she rifled through some of his old newspaper clippings. She asked him to watch over Bo and Hope just like he watched over her and the kids. Judging by how Hope was bristling at Bo and Billie, they needed all the help the could get. A sheepish Hope realized that Billie was moving out at Bo’s request. She forgave Bo, revealing that she’d feared Billie would steal him away. A wistful Billie stood outside the closed door, knowing that it was closed to her for good…or at least the next few minutes.

At the Loft of Daring Rescue Plans, Rex and Shawn, hackers extraordinaire, continued to evade John’s notice with a nifty virus scan pop-up. Their efforts were helped along when Belle went to the penthouse to tell John about Jan’s unfortunate meeting with the rock. Distracted by this piece of news that has no bearing on his life, John proceeded to rant about Shawn and pat himself on the back for being way smarter than Shawn and Rex. Kate prickled at the mention of Belle’s favorite boytoy and she and her Swiss Miss skirt noticed that something strange was happening on John’s laptop. As Shawn and Rex successfully downloaded the Super Secret ISA Plan, Kate realized that she didn’t mind if Belle’s boytoy launched this mission as long as Philip came home safe! Meanwhile, Candy Striper Bonnie caught Mimi in Jan’s ICU room again. Cue a flashback! The rock has now had more airtime this week than Alice Horton has had in months. It even appeared to have a rock-hard body double as Jan’s head hit it from a few different angles. Mimi continued to wring her hands over her predicament and blame herself for putting it all into motion with her lies to Rex. Jan’s eyes creepily flashed open and Meems, her mom, and the entire Days viewing audience, jumped six feet in the air. A nurse told them it was only a reflex and Jan would probably never wake up. “You are not confessing nothing to nobody,” ordered Bonnie as English teachers everywhere cringed. Mimi stood firm. She had to confess. Between the fingernail and creepy Stan as a witness, the cops would have everything they needed to convict her. That’s what always happens on LAW & ORDER.
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Birds flew outside Tony’s Castle o’ Fun as, inside, Marlena flashed back to her and Roman’s night of we-used-to-be-married passion, chock full of regrets. Back in Salem, Kate was doing some flashing back of her own in a fetching Swiss Miss spokesgirl skirt. Both men gave both women some pretty satisfied smiles and John blissfully wondered, “How the Hell did I get so lucky?” Instead of having Kate explain the basic mechanics of S-E-X, the twosome talked about Basic Black and the fate of poor Philip…while a decidedly less Swiss Miss-ish Doc tried to distance herself from an unrepentant Roman, who saw no problem with their hook-up — probably because he was hoping for Round Two. As the exes went back and forth on the moral implications of their actions, John and Kate watched some touching archive footage of themselves on John’s laptop. It featured Roman and Marlena and a lovely cake with green icing that would make Martha Stewart proud. The pretty cake didn’t make John or Kate proud…it made them very sad about their sexcapades. Sexcapades which Roman was using at Chez DiMera to excuse his and Marlena’s own mattress tango. Marlena was mortified, thinking, “If John and Kate jumped off a bridge, would you?” Roman insisted that when — not if — they got home, nobody would ask about what they’d been doing in the castle anyhow (playing Parcheesi?) so it was a moot point. As Doc continued to look scandalized, a scratching sound came from behind the wall. Somebody was digging and getting closer…somebody who could rescue them?

At Let’s-Rescue Philip-So-I-Can-Be-With-Belle Central, Rex agreed to help Shawn despite his still-slightly-wussy misgivings. Belle and Mimi arrived from the hospital and gave the boys a quick recap of Jan’s condition. Given their collective amount of Jan-hate, Shawn concluded, “We could all be suspects.” Meems fidgeted but, thankfully, didn’t have a flashback. Instead, she quickly changed the subject to Shawn’s favorite…the rescue of his uncle Phil. Shawn jumped for joy when Belle mentioned her dad had an all new Super Secret ISA Plan and suggested that Rex use his mad hacking skillz so they could read it. Hacking made the gals thirsty and they went to grab sodas and talk some more about Mimi’s predicament and the odds of her being fingered — or acrylic nailed — as a suspect. Rex sounded very hackerly and intelligent as he talked about firewalls and Mimi continued to have non-flashback-y concerns about losing him. And just as Rex successfully got in to the Super Secret Plan, John checked his laptop and realized that something wasn’t quite right. Would he discover Rex’s hack?

Meanwhile, at Our Lady of the Prosthetic Scar, Nancy was thoroughly moved by Brady’s proposal to the chicken bones and told him so. She also told him that “beautiful women can have ugly souls” and made him defend his feelings for Nicole….who, right outside the chapel, was fainting away at the sight of scarred Chloe alive and not-so-well. Brady told his would-be mother-in-law to take Chloe’s chicken bones…er…ashes… home and hoped that this day had brought them some closure. Out in the foyer, Chloe waited for Nicole to come around, wondering if her horrific visage had caused the other woman to pass out. Nicole came to…and promptly passed out again. Oh, yeah. It was totally the scar. When Nicole finally came to again, it was to the Nice Nun’s ministrations and Brady and Nancy emerging from the chapel. Nicole insisted she’d seen Chloe and pointed Brady towards the door. Brady confronted a woman in a black hoodie outside while the real Chloe was strategically hiding behind some foliage. He went back inside and spent quite a while patronizing Nicole and convincing her she was seeing things. When Nic admitted that Brady being hung up on his dead girlfriend hurt her, the insensitive clod apologized and assured her, “That doesn’t mean there can’t be a future for us.” The two tentatively came to the realization that planning to be with Chloe in Heaven didn’t mean he couldn’t be with Nicole in the here and now (Are they commenting on Nicole’s chances of getting Up There? Decide for yourselves.). After another thoroughly obvious confrontation with Nancy right outside St. Luke’s in broad daylight, a distressed Chloe ran for the clinic…where Nancy caught up with her and set about cleaning off Isabella’s ring in case Chloe got a clue and needed it at some point in the future. Clue, meet Chloe. Chloe, meet clue. To Nancy’s surprise, Chloe called in the doctor and announced that she wanted to have the radical surgery that would remove her scar and make her pretty for Brady again — no matter the risk.Tuesday, April 12, 2005
At St. Clueless’…er…St. Luke’s, an incensed Brady turned towards the sacristy when Chloe sang to cover for a faulty audio system. His songbird’s warblings didn’t seem to sound recorded! So, a beaming Nancy figured that Chloe subconsciously wanted Brady to hear her and told Brady that Chloe was really there, in the church with them! Scarred Chloe leaned against a pillar and continued to warble, “you’re the wind blowing through me…” despite the possibility of imminent discovery. Nancy’s enthusiasm came off as craaazy to Brady, who apparently wouldn’t get statements like “she’s singing with the recording!” if they hit him in the head. Nicole stormed into the vestry to investigate but Chloe finished up her solo and hid. The service commenced and as Nancy caressed the urn of chicken bones and spoke movingly, Chloe tried to ignore Nancy’s passive-aggressive digs at her cowardice. Then, it was Brady’s turn. He told the urn, “You were truly my soulmate” and compared Chloe being with him to his mom always being with him. Oedipal much? “No one will ever replace you in my heart,” he promised, pulling a ringbox from his coat. As Nicole’s face fell, Brady proposed to the urn with Isabella’s ring. Nancy shielded the urn’s contents with a lame excuse as Brady tossed the ring inside, saying “with this ring, I thee wed.” As a heartbroken Nicole ran from the chapel and an equally crushed (and scarred!) Chloe ran out of her hiding place, they came face-to-cut-face…

At Casa Brady, Bo was sacked out on the couch since Hope was still peeved over his reaction to Patrick and Billie’s bed-breaking sexcapades. “Can we have a new beginning here?” Bo wondered in the kitchen as Billie listened from the next room. Bo tried to assure Hope that Billie was his past and that his concerns were about Patrick’s potential for evil DiMera hijinks. Hope didn’t buy that and told Bo to give Billie the heave-ho and went for a run…after which, in her cute flowery pajamas, Billie helped Bo with some broken eggs and they had a Moment — sunny side up! The exes chatted it up. Meanwhile, at the Deveraux chateau, Jennifer noticed the wildcat scratches on shirtless Patrick’s back and he stammered something about working out against the garage wall while flashing back to the hot lovin’. Desperate to change the subject, he told Jen about Abby being at Alice’s and as the frazzled Jen panicked about trying to raise Abby and Jack, Jr. without Jack, Patrick comforted her…probably glad he had no hickeys because even Jen’s not naive enough to buy the curling iron excuse. Hope interrupted and didn’t waste any time giving Jen the 411 on Patrick and Billie’s late night activities after Patrick hightailed it out the door to make a cryptic phone call. “Jen, Jack’s gone,” Hope murmured, urging Jen to move on to Patrick if Jen was ready for it. After Hope left, Jen picked up a picture of Jack and asked for a sign. As Patrick engaged in cryptic phone call #2, Jen contemplated his picture. Over in the Brady kitchen, as they talked about the search for Georgia, Billie tripped and fell into Bo’s lap. Naturally Hope walked in at that very moment, spelling yet another night on the couch for Bo…

Meanwhile, Shawn told Rex he was determined to rescue Philip using his inheritance and help from Brady. Rex continued to waffle and Shawn implied he was a big wuss. “Why can’t we just run it by your dad…?” Rex reasoned. When Shawn compared his love for Belle to Rex’s for Mimi, his impassioned words began to sink in and Rex finally signed on to the project. Outside Jan’s hospital room, Tek questioned Mimi and we were treated to another lovely rasslin’ flashback (the third one this week so far, complete with sound effects!). Belle pointed out that the found acrylic fingernail was like one of Mimi’s. With friends like Belle, who needs a trial? Mimi told Belle that she’d cut her nails and managed to promote Countess Wilhemina products, too. As Tek beamed at the prospect of finding trace DNA evidence under the acrylics, a candy-striper uniform-clad Bonnie came up and chortled about Jan deserving to die — clearly Meems needs new friends AND new relatives. Mimi spilled the truth about Rocky & Janwinkle to Bonnie after Tek and Belle strategically left to Do Things. A bit later, the DNA tests on the nail came back inconclusive and Tek asked Belle and Mimi about being at Alice’s around the time of Jan’s accident. Mimi had yet another rock flashback — do NOT playing a drinking game, folks — as Bonnie covered for her with Tek. After a temporarily satisfied Tek wandered away, a horrified Mimi revealed her intention to confess and Bonnie tried to talk her out of it, giving her yummy jellybeans to seal the deal. But Belle started to catch on, remembering that Meems DID have her acrylic nails on the night before. Belle urged Mimi to tell her version of events to Tek, but Mimi pointed out she would lose her Rex if she spilled about the blackmail — and the abortion.
Monday, April 11, 2005
At the hospital, Lexie noted that Jan had a skull fracture with possibility of brain damage and inside said damaged brain, Jan remembered arguing with Mimi and smacking into the rock. Ow! Detective Tek Kramer arrived and looked surprisingly peppy as he and Lexie talked about Jan’s condition. They traded small talk about Abe over Jan’s unconcious body with inappropriate hand-touching and long glances before Tek informed Lexie that he was hoping to ask Jan a few questions. “Tek, she’s lucky to be alive,” Lexie pointed out….

Meanwhile, Mimi packed, and discovered scratches on her arm from her Wrestlemania encounter with Jan. Cue another flash to When Janny Met Rock-y. “It was an accident! Who’s ever going to believe that?” Mimi muttered right before Belle arrived, cheerfully wondering where they boys were. In the next room, the boys in question were deeply involved in an argument about whether or not to try rescuing Philip. “You and I don’t even have a bow and arrow!” Rex told Shawn, hoping to dash Shawn’s two-man commando team dreams by pointing out their obvious lack of firepower. “I have to do this for Belle,” Shawn retorted fiercely….

Chloe had a stylized black and white dream where she reunited with Brady as her hot non-scarred self but Nicole stepped in and reminded her that she is, in fact, not hot and still scarred. Chloe awakened, depressed, forgetting that Brady knew her when she was Ghoul Girl and isn’t that shallow. “I can’t believe you’re going ahead with this farce,” she said, crabbily, to Nancy, of her impending memorial service. “This is your last chance to come clean with Brady,” Nancy told her, holding up an urn….

At St. Luke’s, an unhappy Nicole watched Brady clutch a rose and mournfully ask, “How am I suppose to say good-bye to the only woman I ever really loved?”….

Back at the clinic, Nancy showed Chloe a fetching blue-green urn, warning her that once the memorial was done, Brady would accept she was dead and move on….

Which is exactly what Nicole hoped for as she told Brady, “I know what it’s like to say good-bye to someone you loved.” After a touched Brady walked away to speak to clergy about the service, Nicole blew out the candle Brady lit for Chloe. “Lights out for you Chloe,” she promised. “Finally, I’m going to get everything I deserve.”….

Back at the hospital, Tek showed Lexie the fake fingernail and after using some lingo they may have learned on last week’s episode of CSI, they concluded that Jan probably knew her attacker….

At St. Luke’s Nicole chatted up a nice nun and realized that the service was a set-up. Nicole smiled, feeling like she was sitting pretty since Nancy obviously wanted to keep Chloe buried. As the very-much-alive Chloe continued to complain at the clinic, Nancy used dirt from a flower arrangement and chicken bones from the lunch tray to simulate Chloe’s remains….

Belle, Rex, Shawn, and Mimi watched, transfixed, as Guy Smiley newsguy and newsgal for Action!News talked about Jan and Stan/Sami, looking oddly hot and smirky, made a statement on air about seeing women fighting. An unsettled Mimi decided she really needed a caffeine fix and spilled hot coffee all over Shawn…who suddenly remembered Jan’s kinky hijinks and his time in the cage. He told the others that Jan held him prisoner and looked pained…probably because the coffee scalded the Brady family jewels….

Scarred Chloe ran around in the open, confronting Nancy at St. Luke’s, but the strong-minded Wesley women each stood firm in their beliefs. Nancy went on inside, bringing out the urn and, tactfully, not dumping the contents on a snarky Nicole’s head. “Brady, would you like to hold her?” Nancy asked and Brady spent a tender moment with Chloe’s leftovers. He felt like Chloe was actually there…probably because she was lurking in the vestibule. After he kissed the urn and put it down, Nicole comforted him….

Still hovering over Jan, Lexie gave Tek the dirt on Mimi and Jan from their high school days. “You just have the 411 on everything,” Tek twinkled at her shamelessly. As a blushing Lexie turned to leave, Tek appeared to be checking out her…labcoat.The twosome blushed and hugged and when Lexie finally left the room, Tek gave a very telling Heavy Sigh….

As Shawn slowly regained his ability to father children, Mimi told the gang she saw the cage. Recovered from the Coffee Incident, Shawn filled in the gaps, gasping, “I cannot believe that I’m finally remembering!” To no avail, however, because all the the talk of Jan being totally psycho and keeping her and Shawn apart didn’t stop Belle from feeling sorry for her. “No one deserves to be beaten like that” she proclaimed, and she and Rex convinced a squirming Meems to go to the hospital and visit the poor, abandoned, Jan….

Back at St. Luke’s, Brady and Nancy and Nicole reveled in the lovely music spilling from the church’s sound system, but wondered where the vocal track was. Apparently, the accident that left Chloe scarred also scrambled her brains, because she decided to sing to cover for the snafu. Brady, however, was no dummy. He recognized that it was a live singing voice, that it was Chloe’s voice, and stormed towards the source….

Outside Jan’s hospital room, Belle and Mimi arrived to earn their karma points for the week…but Tek pointedly asked Meems what she could tell him about Jan….

“Um…she’s NOT the girl in the First Response pregnancy test commercial?”