07-28-2016 (Thursday)

As Teresa sleeps, she dreams of loosing Tate in the park; she wakes up as if she has had a realization. She gets out of bed; she goes to see Brady and tells him it was Summer (says she drugged her smoothie), she remembers what she was wearing.  Brady blows her off, she hugs him and goes to see Summer, telling her she remembers everything now.  Victor gives Sonny a hard time for not letting them know he was on his way back from Paris.  Sonny tells them he was taking care of a real estate transaction that took a while; he gives Victor an envelope with a check inside (he sold the club Victor gave to him in Paris and is giving the money back to Victor).  

Deimos talks to the doctor he is blackmailing to help Maggie; he wants to know why – he asks Deimos what his agenda really is.  He tells the doctor he doesn’t owe him an explanation for anything and tells him to come with him; the doctor goes.  Teresa describes what Summer was wearing that day; Summer denies even being there.  Brady tells John he really thinks that Victor may have done this (to try to break up him and Teresa, and gets to set up Summer at the same time); John says that doesn’t make sense.  He figures out that the backers of the kidnapper has connections to the Greek mob; they find an old picture with this mob boss and Deimos (so Deimos is behind it?) - Deimos walks in to Maggie and Victor’s condo; says he didn’t realize it was a family reunion – you must be Jackson, he says looking at Sonny, to which Sonny answers yes.  Deimos brings in the doctor and tells Victor that he has talked to him and convinced him to change his mind; Victor asks why, the doctor says his brother made him see the light; Deimos says he wants to prove that he has changed.  Maggie speaks out and tells Victor they can’t say no; she wants to let the doctor try to help her walk again.  Sonny tells him if he has really changed, he will give back everything he took; Deimos says that is the other reason he came today – tells Victor he wants to make him whole again.  He offers to give him back half his holdings; he wants to keep Basic Black, half the money, and the house.  He tells Maggie he is glad to give her back what was taken from her because she didn’t deserve it; tells Sonny he looks forward to getting to know him, and leaves.  

Victor and Justin question if the offer is on the level.  Sonny, his mom and his dad, go to the club Sonny used to own, TBD - Deimos follows them into the club and asks them to convince Victor to accept his offer.  When he walks away, Sonny tells them he didn’t trust him when he first saw him and now he trusts him even less.  Justin leaves and his mom tells Sonny that she and Lucas are engaged; he says he is happy if she is happy.  As he goes to pay the check, Sonny runs into Paul; he tells him he is home, where he belongs.  Maggie begs Victor to end the war with Deimos.  Summer and Teresa begin to wrestle, as Teresa demands she tell her where her son is… she says she already told her everything she knows.  She didn’t accept the offer; she says she is going to find Brady.  Teresa pushes her up against the door, telling her she’s not going anywhere.  Justin is called to the station about missing evidence from a couple months back; the commander says he caught a break and knows something about what happened to it.  Justin looks terrified.  

Deimos walks into the mansion to find John and Brady waiting there; they want to talk to him about the Chopan Group – he knows he is caught.  Teresa tells Summer she has hated her from the moment she laid eyes on her; calls her a pathetic loser and Summer gets really upset.  Teresa says to tell her where her son is or she will kill her; Summer returns the comment, telling Teresa to stop laying her problems on her or… Teresa turns and slips, knocking her head on the corner of a table and falls to the floor, bleeding.

07-27-2016 (Wednesday)

Blanca talks to Adriana about moving out; Adriana says she wants her to stay… Blanca says she is doing for her, in case some one else shows up on her doorstep, like Eduardo maybe.  She tells Adriana he looks at her the same way Rafe looks at Hope – she says that’s the last thing she wants to hear.  Blanca says everyone sees it; and they see that she still loves him too.  Steve sits at a table, at the club, hoping to hear from Kayla; she’s at work.  Fynn asks her if they can go somewhere private; she looks a little frightened.  He tells her he just didn’t want to discuss her medical condition in front of the other staff; he wants to take her for some tests… she is showing symptoms he doesn’t like.  There is definitely some discomfort between them.  

Eduardo brings Steve another drink; says it’s on the house.  Steve reminisces about the club when it was called The Cheating Heart; he taught Kayla to play pool there.  After checking her vitals, Fynn tries to convince Kayla that it is time to move on; tells her he’s ready for a real relationship…and thinks she’s the one.  They almost kiss; Steve walks in on them.  She says they’ll talk later, to Fynn, as she runs after Steve.  Joey and Jade talk, after making love again; she talks about how much his mom loves him and how she wishes her mom felt that way about her.  

Adriana considers giving Eduardo a chance; she goes to talk to him at the club and almost tells him, but finds the note that was left for him yesterday, calling him a murderer.  She leaves.  Joey wakes up to find Jade gone; she’s in the park, ignores his text.  Kayla follows Steve into the other room and thanks him for not causing a scene – saying, she is actually glad he walked in when he did.  He says he is too, because she can see that he can control his temper; and he’s taken a safer job (at the club with Eduardo).  She tells him he will be miserable; he says he is miserable without her, and asks her to let him try.  Still, giving her time, he walks away.  

07-26-2016 (Tuesday)

Eduardo gets a frightening note, calling him a murderer; he looks around but can’t see who left it.  Dario asks Nicole out on a date; they go to a shooting range - He gives her a picture of Kate’s face to use on her target.  She laughs.  He shows her how to shoot, giving instruction about hand placement, etc.  Nicole’s turn... she takes aim.  Deimos tells Victor he really wants things to change between then; Victor doesn’t believe him – Deimos says almost dying changed him.  He wants to learn to live without hatred; Victor does not look convinced.  He tells him no one in this town believes the crap he is shoveling; no one.  

Claire overhears Philip and Chloe’s conversation, and decides to interrupt and offer some of her song writing skills; Philip blows her off, telling her they need recognizable names for publicity (but no offense).  Claire is a lot nicer about it than I would be.  Victor’s on the phone with Justin; talking about Deimos and telling Justin to get the plan moving…they have to find out what Deimos is up to now, Victor says.  Deimos texts Nicole; she’s busy taking aim at Kate’s face – tells Dario how much she enjoyed it.  She thanks him, saying she needed this (but lets him know she doesn’t want to lead him on).  Justin asks Deimos to meet for drinks; tells him about Tate being kidnapped… Deimos seems stunned, and says anyone who would do that to a child deserves to burn in hell.  Nicole and Dario walk in to the bar; Dario asks her to come to work for him at Basic Black.  She declines.  He asks what he has to do to earn her trust again; she says he can’t.  He suggests keeping their business and personal relationship separate; she suggests not having any relationship at all.  

Belle and Shawn discuss Claire’s announcement that she is not going to college; she is pursuing her career.  They start to fight, but manage to come to an agreement (now they just have to figure out how to make it happen).  Claire tells Theo that she got Philip to give her a job ‘helping out’ and she’s sure she can get them to listen to her stuff when the time is right.  She thanks him for giving her the encouragement she needed to go talk to them.  He asks about Ciara but Claire says she hasn’t really been talking to her lately; she only knows she moved back in with her mom recently.  When he asks why, she tells him she got in over her head with Chad… she really liked him and realized he’s not going to get over Chad.  She realizes here that she probably shouldn’t have told him that; Theo excuses himself.  He goes to see Ciara.  

Justin tells Victor that he thinks Deimos has changed; he seemed sincerely concerned when he told him about Tate.  Deimos calls a retired surgeon, a specialist, demanding he come out of retirement to help a ‘friend’ of his; the doctor tells him, if he is talking about Maggie Kariakis, Victor has already offered him a king’s ransom and there isn’t enough money to get him to do it.  Deimos tells him he didn’t say anything about using money to get him to do it; threatens him with dirty information he has on him, showing him a folder.  The doctor concedes.  Belle goes to talk to Philip after Claire tells them about her new job.  She accuses him of using Claire to stay close to her; Philip tells her Claire asked for the job and Chloe is the one who said yes…he just watched it happen.  But he thinks it’s interesting that her first reaction was to think of him.

07-25-2016 (Monday)

Aiden goes to see Chase; lies about him and Hope.  Chase can tell he's lying.  He askes if something bad happened.  He insists his father tell him the truth; Aiden says that he decided, he needs to back off.  Chase figures Hope just doesn’t want him; then he tells his dad that he feels like he doesn’t exist anymore…he hates the hospital; everyone ignores him or avoids him; says he was better off in prison.  Ciara talks to her mother in the hospital now, so happy to see her; apparently she had a ruptured spleen.  She is lucky to be alive – and it’s all due to Rafe, Ciara reminds her.  She questions how she could have gone off with Aiden when Rafe loves her so much.  Hope tells her that it will never happen again; she told Aiden to leave town.  

Ciara tells her mom that her volunteer work has really opened her eyes to how important psychiatry is to people’s lives; and how its kind of sad that Chad says he just feels dead inside now.  At home, with his mother, Rafe grows tired of hearing her demean Hope (he defends her, letting her know that she is the one who saved him this time); he tells her she refused to leave him, saying she would rather die than leave him… she still carries on.  His sister comes in and tells their mother to quit yelling, hugging Rafe, saying all that matters is that they are alive.  Gabby gets her mother to go out on the porch with her; she asks her to back off of Hope, explaining that she is really a good person.  Regardless, Adriana still thinks Hope is trouble.  

Eduardo offers his help to Rafe, going after Aiden Jennings.  He declines, but Eduardo says the offer stands.  Mom and Gabby come back in and she starts up again about Hope.  Bianca arrives, overhears their conversation; Adriana, Eduardo and Gabby all excuse themselves… Bianca apologizes to Rafe.  Rafe apologizes to her; he leaves to visit Hope in the hospital.  He tells her he will get her anything she needs; she says she has everything she needs – him.  Gabby comes home to find Bianca looking for apartments online; talks to her about why.  Ciara sees Chase at the mental hospital; he says she is the only person who doesn’t treat him differently – and she’s the one person who should.  He asks her to tell him what is going on with his dad and her mom.  It’s hard for Ciara not to just blurt out what an awful person Aiden really is; she tells him they should probably talk.  She lets him know she is decent to him because it is her job; it doesn’t mean anything is better between them – he was his friend, and he raped her…throwing their friendship away, and he is not going to get it back.  Then, she brings up his dad.  Tells him that his mom found out the truth… he didn’t get kidnapped, everything was a lie – he is the one who married her and tried to kill her.  Chase says that can’t be true; Ciara assures him it is.

Aiden recalls Hope, in the interrogation room, telling him that the blood tests they did proved that the blood from the man that tried to kill her on their wedding night matches the blood from their testing for their marriage license.  The man that tried to kill her wasn’t an imposter – “it was you,” she says.  Aiden’s “double” walks in the door; says he is the part of him that he hides in front of the judge and on Sunday, at Mass; says he is a spineless jellyfish… tells him Hope will never want him – she’s on to you, he says.  He doesn’t want to move on without her; but his apparent ‘other self’ tells him he will never have her, because she sees him for what he really is and might just put a bullet in his head if she sees him again.  Says he screwed up, letting Andre make it look like he put a hit out on Rafe.  Arguing with himself, he says he is sure he can fix this; his double says he better hope so, or he is going to prison for a very long time.  He tells him he needs to find himself a position of power; then leans down and tells him he’s got his back… they are in this together.  He starts researching DNA testing and the legal system, and smiles.  I wonder how he thinks he is going to get out of this?