09-16-2016 (Friday)

Roman calls John, who just finished getting his gunshot wound taken care of at the hospital.  Kate looks for her car keys and Clyde holds them up.  Chad is quietly entering, does something with his phone (?) and stands there, listening.  After some discussion about why she didn’t want to be with him anymore, Kate asks Clyde how it felt to use a belt on a kid, “like a real man?”  He raises the gun.  Kate doesn’t back down and they continue arguing; he grabs her and shoves her against the wall, she screams and Chad makes his move.  He tackles Clyde and they both go to the ground; a gunshot rings out.  They continue fighting, so no one was shot; Clyde shoves Chad down and tells Kate this isn’t over, and leaves.  She thanks Chad for not listening to her; he hugs her and tells her goodbye when the police arrive.  

Nicole shows up with Tate; Brady and Teresa are happy to see her (and him).  Teresa is worried, though, that Xander is not playing games – she says he’s out for blood this time.  They sit down at a table with Deimos and Nicole.  Deimos tells them all that he wants to protect them, and asks them all to move in to the mansion; Brady is against it, but after Teresa tells him she doesn’t hate the idea – it’s a fortress – he concedes and agrees to move in.  Nicole still refuses, no matter how hard he tries to convince her.  She tells him she wants to take their relationship (whatever it is) at a snail’s pace.  He arranges security to escort her home.  

Kayla wakes up from her surgery to find Steve there, holding her hand.  He comforts her.  He tells her how worried he was about her, thinking she could die, and his priorities became very clear to him; he wants nothing more in this world than to be with her, and he says he is determined to prove it.  She is still not sure she can believe him.  When he comes out of Kayla’s room, he sees John and Marlena; Marlena goes in to talk to Kayla.  Steve asks John what the wound is from; he tells him about the events at the would-be-wedding and that Orphius is on the run.  Marlena tells Kayla about everything and she tries to get up out of bed, saying she needs to take care of things as chief of staff of the hospital.  Steve comes in and tells Kayla that he thought about calling her doctor and telling him to keep her longer, but he decided he needed to talk to her and give her a say in that; she smiles.  She asks him to move back home when she is released from the hospital.  

John has a black and white ‘flashback’ of Orphius, having shot Marlena with a tranquilizer – John starts to lift her up and he is told that if he moves her she will be shot dead.  They settle down at home, making sure the doors are locked; everyone else locks their doors as well.  Steven makes himself comfortable in the chair next to Kayla’s bed, with gun in hand.  The three convicts convene in an empty storage building, which Xander complains about; they all decide that they need to work together from now to make the entire town of Salem pay.