07-21-2017 (Friday) Xander's Denial

Claire tells Theo she knows he still cares about her, because she found the blanket over her when she woke up.  She asks him why he can’t give them another chance; he says he feels weird being with her around Hope and Rafe because they saw the video.  She asks how being ‘friends’ instead is supposed to fix that; she tells him she can’t just flip a switch like that and stop loving him.  He says he has to go; Marlena steps off the elevator.  Claire runs to her grandma and hugs her.  She tells Claire she can either try things Theo’s way or break things off with him completely; when Claire sees Theo again she tells him it wouldn’t hurt to give the ‘friends thing’ a try.  He says he’d really like that.

A man brings John more footage; he tells Paul they are going to go through it frame by frame and look for evidence that it was Xander that murdered Deimos. They find no indication on the footage that Xander ever left his cell; Paul says he had hoped to take good news back to Sonny.  John says they are still missing something.  He tells the man they would like to see Xander for themselves now.

Hattie still fidgets with Marlena’s clothing; Angelika tells her she needs to get comfortable with it, to which Hattie scoffs.  Angelika reminds her that if she isn’t able to pull this off, she is going to be right back behind bars.  She says its not enough to look like Marlena, she has to act like her; she reminds her of all she has at stake here.  Hattie nods in agreement.  She tells her the next phase is making a return trip to see her friends at Statesville prison; Hattie says that’s cool.  There’s someone there she’d like to look up.  Angelika tells her recruiting this particular person is crucial to the plan; Hattie tells her “it’s in the bag.”  Hattie goes into the prison as herself; she says hi to the guard.  He tells her to sit down; says they are bringing down her friend now.  Her friend says she is a sight for sore eyes.

Hope tells Rafe, “it’s Dario.”  He looks disappointed.  She says the FBI as connected Myron and he has already made a deal; he told them he and Dario were in on this together (so Myron is lying to Dario).  Rafe says he prayed this would be a wake-up call for Dario; he shakes his head and says he hoped he had changed.  He says he should have known when he pulled that stunt on Abigail; Hope asks, “what stunt?”  He tells her about Dario’s immigration issue.  Hope is mad, saying she could have had a chance to talk Abby out of making the biggest mistake of her life.  Rafe says he didn’t tell her because he didn’t want her to be part of another cover-up; he says Raines would fix it so she’d never be a cop again.  She reminds him he is in on it too; they agree this is a disaster.  Rafe is frustrated that his Abby put her life on the line for Dario and he couldn’t even shape up for her.Xander mocks John and Paul when they arrive; he says he’d like to dance on Deimos’ grave. He says he didn’t think Sonny was man enough to do that; Paul grabs him by the shirt and tells him not to talk like that.  John pulls Paul off and tells them to “cut the crap” and get to questions – they tell Xander about the phone charger and the magazine.  He says he’d have to be Houdini to get out of there… or Victor Kariakis, he says.

Chad goes to the club and tells Dario that he wants what he stole from him; he tells him the clock is ticking.  Dario says he wouldn’t make threats if he were him; he fidgets with his phone in his hand.  Chad asks, “why is that?”  He shows Chad the picture and tells him if he makes him pay, Abigail will pay too, as his wife; he says it would hurt Gabi too, and he knows he would never do anything to hurt them.  Chad tells him, what he took from him, he will get back; he leaves.  Andre refuses to believe that Dario has any proof that Chad killed Deimos.  She swears he does.  Kate asks if she is being melodramatic again; she says everyone despised Deimos.  Abby tells her about the picture Dario has… Chad, wiping his fingerprints off of the knife in Deimos’ chest.    Kate asks what Chad said when she told him; she says she hasn’t told him yet.  Kate asks why not; Abigail says she’s afraid he will go to the police and confess.  They begin to wonder where Chad is right now; Kate says she hopes he isn’t with Dario.  Andre asks how Dario could think he’d get away with blackmailing her; Abby says he is desperate… his whole life is falling apart.  They mock the marriage, like theirs, as a business arrangement; Abigail tries to deny it.

Kate says Dario told her the truth; she her he could have handled his immigration issues all by himself – he didn’t need to marry an American citizen – he just wanted her (Abby).  She says all he had to do was re-file some paperwork.  Abby looks devastated, knowing he lied to her.  But, she says, the story about the drug gang trying to kill him is true; she had it checked out.  Andre says their focus should be on getting that picture off of Dario’s phone; Andre says he may know a way to eliminate the threat permanently.  He calls someone and says he needs to see them right away.  It’s Theo, who shows up promptly.  Andre tells him to hack into Dario’s phone and find this certain picture; Theo says he can do that, and offers to delete any extra copies from the Cloud.  Abigail says he doesn’t have to do this; Theo says as long as it will help Chad, he’s fine with it.  He promises he won’t say anything to anybody this time; they thank him and he goes home.  Chad comes home; he says Theo passed him in the driveway and acted like he didn’t see him.  Kate says maybe he didn’t see him.  He says it seems like something is going on; Andre and her insist its just business as usual.

Dario is surprised to see Rafe and Hope when they walk into the club; Rafe pulls out his handcuffs.  Dario asks if this is a joke; he pulls away.  Rafe tells him not to add resisting arrest to the charges; Dario says whatever Myron says, he’s lying.  Abigail asks what’s going on when she comes back and sees Dario in handcuffs; they say they are taking him downtown.  He tells them, just so they know, he could give them a way “bigger fish” than he.  Abby looks very worried.

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