10-24-2017 (Tuesday) Found and Lost

Rolf recollects coming to see Will at the morgue, wearing a mask; he was posing as the Medical Examiner.  As Hope argues with Sammi over giving her the gun, foam starts coming out of Rolf’s mouth; a cyanide tablet.  Sammi starts to freak out; Hope arrests her.  She has her officers dust the room for prints; she tells them she needs any information pointing to who Rolf was talking to.

Sonny goes to visit Will’s grave; Lucas shows up, getting drunk again.  Sonny tells Lucas about Dr. Rolf; he says if they can track him down, they can get the answers they need.  Adrian calls Lucas; he can’t believe it when he hears her say, “this is Adrian.”  Bonnie gives a recitation of her past, her version of how Maggie hurt her, and why she felt she deserved to marry Victor.  Justin tells her she is surrounded by people who know what she did   Maggie asks Bonnie how she got released; Steve says maybe she didn’t.  He suggests Adrian is in prison serving her time.  Bonnie admits that she is in Statesville; she throws her bouquet at Brady and runs out of the room.

The guard comes back and sees Adrian on the phone; he grabs her and says she is going to solitary.  She pleads with him not to lock her up again; Justin walk in to find her fighting with the guard.  She smiles as she sobs.  She hugs him and thanks him for finding her; she sobs and sobs as she hangs on him, then she kisses him.

Maggie gets up to call Lucas; she says he has to know.  She says watching him drink himself to death is killing her and she has to try.  Brady comes back in the mansion and tells Victor and Maggie that he lost Bonnie; she’s fast, he says.  Bonnie calls for a cab; she is somewhere in the park.  Sheila steps in front of her; Eli is talking to Gabi about an ex?  He says it’s time he told someone what went down between Sheila and him.

10-23-2017 (Monday) "Stop!"

Steve tells Kayla that Hattie “knows more than she was saying.”  Kayla suggest they sit down for a little while and think about this; he says okay, but then they are doing this his way.  He says Adrian never even liked Victor; there’s no way she could be in love with him.  He is sure something else is going on now; they realize that “Maggie might be the key.”  They talk more about all the weird stuff people have been saying about “Adrian” and suddenly Steve gets it.

Maggie says she is “putting an end to this charade.”  Bonnie tells her they have plans and “this time” Maggie is not going to screw it up.  Maggie is suspicious after this and insists “Adrian” tell her what she means by it; she says she just means that so many weddings get interrupted in Salem.  Maggie says no… she personalized it.  Bonnie tells her to leave; she says she’s not budging.  Bonnie says she can watch then, telling Sheila to “skip to the vows.”  Sheila is nervous, never having “married people before” and fumbles with the paper book.  Maggie tells her it’s okay; “Victor and Adrian aren’t getting married,” she says.  Bonnie says they are to, and tells Victor to tell them how much he loves her.  Justin nods his head at Victor; Victor says, “to hell I do.”  Bonnie is stunned.  He makes it clear that he wants nothing to do with “Adrian” – she quietly asks him if he really wants to do this – he does; Bonnie turns and tells everyone that Victor is going to prison for putting a hit out on his own brother.  Maggie tells her, they all know this… they’ve been talking behind the scenes for a while and figured out her scheme (Victor told Maggie about the blackmail threat) and they support him.  Maggie says she is standing by Victor; the divorce papers were fake.  Bonnie says she still has Xander; Victor tells her that Xander is gone… free as a bird and vanished in a puff of smoke… just like her dreams.  Just as Justin says, “you are not the Adrian I know and love, Steve and Kayla walk in; Steve says, “You’ve got that right.”  He says there’s a long list of things that don’t add up about her; he tells every one “this woman is not my sister.”  He says her name is Bonnie Lockhardt; Bonnie smirks.

Sammi storms over and yells at Andre for not calling her when he found Dr. Rolf; Kate sides with her, saying she had a right to know.  Sammi wants to know when he heard from this Dr. Rolf, and what he said he did with Will.  Andre says she doesn’t have to worry; he tells them both, he has placed the whole matter in Hope’s capable hands now.  Dr. Rolf is shocked to see the woman who shot the “great Steffano DiMira in cold blood; she tells him to imagine what she’ll do to him, if he doesn’t tell her what happened to Will Horton.  The doctor pretends not to know what Hope is talking about, but she tells him not to play games with her.  Sammi isn’t sure Hope can handle this Rolf; Andre said he wanted to handle this himself, but someone convinced him the authorities would better handle it.  Sammi asks what “moron would say that” and Kate admits it was she.  Just as Hope is about to put cuffs on Dr. Rolf and escort him to the station, Sammi comes rushing in, grabs her gun and says Rolf isn’t going anywhere until he tells her what he did with Will.  Hope tries to stop her, but not real hard.  Sammi steps forward and smacks him across the face with the gun; he falls to the floor.  She tells him, “now, start talking.”  Hope calls for backup; Sammi tells Rolf that he better talk before she hears sirens or they are going to come in and find a dead body.  She asks Rolf about his “intervention” with Will; he tells her, things aren’t always as they appear.  He brags about his ability to do something like bring Will back; Sammi is pretty sure he admits to Steffano putting him up to this.   He says "Steffano wasn’t behind Will’s resurrection"; Sammi calls that an admittance of the act.  Will must be alive, it appears.

Eric tells her that Nicole was determined to tell Brady the truth, then come back and be with him.  He says he fears Brady had something to do with the change in her heart.  Jen tells Eric that Nicole told her they really wanted to be together, but she couldn’t bring herself to tell Brady and break his heart like that, so she figured the best thing to do was leave; she says she had the feeling that Nicole was leaving town right away.  Eric tells Jen about Brady trying to force him to fire Nicole; he’s pretty sure he did the same thing to Nicole.  He says, all his dreams came true, and morphed into a nightmare the same day.  Jennifer tells him he will get through this; she tells him he still has her, and a lot of other people who love him and won’t let him down.  She asks him to come back to Salem.  He says he isn’t really ready for that yet; she fills him in on the current news about Ben’s claim.  She says his parents need him, and the Center needs him; he agrees that he can’t lock himself up again.  He hugs Jen and kisses her forehead.  As he starts to pack his things, he pauses over a picture of Nicole; he puts it in the box with the others and leaves it on the desk.

10-20-2017 (Friday) Coming and Going

Hope breaks the news to Jen about Dr. Rolf supposedly reviving Will after he was pronounced dead; Jennifer says, “Ben is psychotic!”  Hope knows this but believes Steffano may have had something to do with it, if it’s true; Hope says she has found nothing on Steffano’s whereabouts though, or Rolf’s.  Jen says all she remembers about Dr. Rolf was that he was “Steffano’s Mini-Me.”Andre tells Kate he has “wonderful news about Will.”  He tells her there is a chance that Will is alive; he projects excitement and asks why she doesn’t seem happy about it.  Andre goes to see Hope; he tells her he doesn’t particularly need to see her, but he says Kate insisted.  He says he hopes he’s not making a terrible mistake.

Sammi forces a “party” upon Eric for their birthday; she brings a cake and lights one candle on top of it.  She tells him they can’t waste it on something they can never have; Eric says she must be thinking of Will; she is quiet, but nods.  She tells Eric that Andre is going to lure Rolf out of retirement, and “make him feel like he’s being summoned by the old man.”  Sammi asks if she shove a piece of cake in Nicole’s face; Eric told her there’s been a change of plans.  She cheers when she thinks he dumped her; she gets mad when he tells her she dumped him and calls Nicole “that bitch.”  He tells his sister it was weird; she left to go get her baby, and when she came back, it was like somebody “flipped a switch.”  Brady talks to Nicole in the park; he tells Nicole that he is getting “satisfaction” out of this.  She asks why he is trying to control the rest of her life; he snaps back that it’s because she ruined the rest of his.  She pleads with him to let her be with Eric; Brady says if he finds out that she leaves town with Eric, he will call the cops immediately.  He tells her, “you Can’t be with the one you love” and adds, “welcome to my world.

Sammi jumps up and tells Eric she has to go somewhere; he asks what she’s going to do.  She says maybe something, but promises not to get into any trouble; she leaves.  Eric looks through a box of old photos, then recollects the recent good times, and bad; he stands frozen.  Nicole bumps into Sammi in the Square; Sammi tells her Eric is “in shreds.”  She says they both know she was never good enough for her brother; she is grateful she dumped him, she says… Nicole tells her to wait, saying she has no idea what she’s talking about.  (Personally, I’m a little annoyed by this whole storyline; Nicole seems like a flip-flopping slut, who can’t control her urges and can’t make up her mind.  Not the Nicole I love.)  She tells Sammi that what she did, she did for her daughter and says she won’t explain it to her; she tells her she would have done the same thing.  Sammi wishes her luck; Jen sees Nicole, asking if that was Sammi.  Neither one knew she was back in town; Sammi asks what Sammi said to her.  Nicole says it wasn’t her.  She sits down and holds Holly for a minute, saying she isn’t giving up on Eric; she says to herself, “with God as my witness, I will be back” and heads out of the Square, pushing the carriage and pulling her bags.“

Adrian” insists Justin answer his phone; she says it’s driving her crazy.  Justin starts to answer his phone, but sees Maggie struggling to get down the stairs with her suitcases.  He sits the phone down on the tabletop; “Adrian” sees “Statesville Prison” calling and grabs it, dogging into the other room.  She answers as “Adrian Kariakis.”  Adrian says, “no you are not.”  She tells Bonnie she is on to her, and Steve will soon be on to her too; she says Hattie told her everything and it’s only a matter of time.  Bonnie looks worried.  Adrian demands Bonnie put Justin on the phone, but then turns desperate sounding, pleading and Bonnie hangs up on her; Justin comes in and she tells him it was just some jailbird who got his number from the phone book.  She goes to get ready for her wedding; Victor hires a Justice of the Peace, and upon meeting him, Bonnie fires him.  She brings in Sheila, who has apparently been ‘ordained’ to perform the ceremony; she pays her in cash.  Just as Victor asks about a witness, Brady walks in and asks what’s going on; Victor explains the situation very briefly, sounding obviously ‘not right’ and tells Brady if he wants to stay in his “good graces” he will stand as a “silent witness to this whole thing.”  Sheila starts to stumble through the preamble, laughing at marriage being called an “institution.”  But they are interrupted by Maggie bursting in the door, yelling, “stop!”

Kate stands, looking out the window. She turns and hugs Sammi when she sees her walk in; she reminds Sammi the chance of Will being alive is still “highly unlikely.”  They talk about Lucas and how concerned they are about him; Sammi promises to try again.  Kate tells Sammi that Andre has found Rolf; Andre tells Hope this same news.  Sammi gets mad that Chad didn’t tell her; Kate says he didn’t know.  She says Andre just told her.  A note is slipped under a hotel room door; a man sees it and opens the door.  He is surprised to see Hope Brady; Hope asks if he was expecting someone else.  Jen walks into Eric’s to find cake all over the wall and him, on the floor, holding his arm out of the coffee table.  I think there’s a necklace in his hand.

10-19-2017 (Thursday) I Don't, I Do...?

Abigail walks in to see Sammi kissing Chad; Chad pulls away and says she caught him by surprise.  Abigail asks Sammi if that was “payback” for the affair she had with EJ; Sammi just smiles.  Chad suggests they just forget it happened; Sammi apologizes and agrees.  They talk about this Dr. Rolf; Chad says he’s checking on it.  Andre walks in and asks why he should help her; he says he wouldn’t have agreed if he’d known it was “this woman” they were helping.  He wishes her luck and says it will be on her own dime and not theirs; Abigail tells Andre to stop as he tries to leave the room.  She asks him to do it for her, not for Sammi; he agrees.

Steve goes to the prison to talk to Hattie; she comes in and asks him “what’s shakin’?”  He asks her what she did to his sister; she plays dumb.  She denies doing anything; he says “it’s like someone has taken over her body or something.”  He tells her what she’s been doing, now “hooking up with Victor, a man she’s hated her whole life.”  Hattie asks what’s so strange about that; she says, “she could end up with a lot of dough.”  He asks Hattie about their little “therapy session” and demands to know the “real story.”   She still insists she doesn’t know anything; Steve storms out.  Adrian sees him as he disappears through the doorway; she runs after him and calls out to him, but is stopped by the guards of course.  Hattie tells Adrian what Bonnie is doing with her life; Adrian says it doesn’t make any sense.  She begs Hattie to please help her stop this; Hattie goes back to playing solitaire.  Adrian says Steve is going to figure it out anyway; it’s only a matter of time.  Hattie recalls that “Patch” said he would make her pay… she agrees to help Adrian. She gives Adrian her phone card; Adrian makes a call.

Justin asks “Adrian” to explain her self; she says she can’t. She says she just woke up the other morning and said to herself, “wow, I’m in love with Victor.”  He asks if Victor actually feels the same way; if she is sure of his feelings.  She tells him to go ask himself, and walks back in the room to see Victor and Maggie kissing; she screams, “what in the hell is going on?”  Victor looks guilty at first, then plays along, telling Maggie to “get off” him, saying he told her it was over; Adrian sits down next to Victor.  He says they “all know why this is happening, so let’s just get on with it.”  He pulls out a folder with divorce papers in it; Maggie begins to cry when he asks her to sign them.  “No time like the present,” he says.  Maggie refuses to sign them; she says he’ll get a divorce over her dead body.  She asks Justin to represent her; he looks over the papers and says Victor was “more than generous” and suggests she just sign the papers; she does.  After she leaves, Bonnie asks Victor how much money he gave her and why so much; he asks what her problem with Maggie is anyway.  She just tells him all he needs to worry about is her; she says she wants to get married TODAY and tells him she is going to get ready.  Justin tells “Adrian” that he knows something is going on; she shrugs her shoulders.  His phone rings, but he ignores it; Adrian, on the payphone, pleads for him to pick up the phone.  “Adrian” asks if he isn’t going to answer his phone; he just stares at her.

Theo and Claire talk about making love again; she tells him that Tripp is “at work.”  Theo is a little upset when she says she put in a good word for him at the diner; Kayla sits at a table in the Square, and Tripp asks if he can get her a cup of coffee.  She ends up telling him that she doesn’t want things to be uncomfortable for him anymore; she is going to tell Steve that she accepts him as part of their family.  Theo tells Claire that he doesn’t want her working with Tripp and gets pouty; Claire tells him to stop and swears he is the only one she wants to be with.  He tells her she’s the only one for him too; they decide to make love right there on the couch.  Steve finds Kayla at the table; he says Hattie stonewalled him, but he knows that she knows why Adrian hasn’t been her self lately.