With Christmas right around the corner this week, all of
Salem is celebrating. Nobody seems to
notice Chad’s strange behavior as he does his best to court Belle. Theresa and Brady are still playing house,
Lucas is desperately missing Will, Abby is moping around, Hope has been
arrested for murder, and all the old folks are reminiscing (week end 12-25).
Rafe is diligently trying to prove Hope’s innocence, while
keeping his feelings for her under wraps; Abby finally suspects that something
is wrong with Chad… she questions Stephano and Andre’, but gets nowhere of
course; and Theresa’s fashion show was almost a disaster. She pulls it off, though, of course. The New Year’s Eve party brings the town
together; Gabby and JJ are getting close, Steve and Kayla are a couple again,
Daniel and Nichole are engaged to be married - Eric doesn’t look happy about
that - and Basic Black is a success with the girls running it. Abby’s baby is sick; the tests ran in the
hospital revealed that Ben is not the father; that means Chad is the father
and Abby is elated about that, thinking it will change everything once she
tells him (week end 12-31).
Abby finally gets the chance to tell Chad that he is the
father, on New Year’s Day… he doesn’t believe her, though. Accuses her of lying, to try to get him
back. But once he holds the baby again,
he starts to remember – crying, he begs Abby to forgive him. Eric is rushed into the hospital, after
Brady and Abby’s mom (I forget her name, oops)… drinking and driving after
leaving the party, he caused a pile up; apparently, he really wasn’t happy when
he saw Nichole and Daniel kiss. Daniel
is brought in next. Chad and Abby bump
into each other in the elevator – he’s there to have his own paternity test
run. Apparently, Daniel is beyond
saving; his heart goes to Brady…they feel Eric could recover with other treatment. Kayla performed the heart transplant… so I
guess Daniel is really off of the show.
Brady woke up, pretty much; Rafe said Eric’s blood-alcohol level was “through the
roof” (week ending 1-8). Wow. What do they
have in store for us next?