09-09-2016 (Friday)

Gabi tells Rafe that their mother left town; apparently she needed a sudden hip replacement and flew back ‘home’ to get it done.  She tells Rafe that he is her rock and he better not go anywhere; he assures her he is right there.  Belle tells Chad that she will take the job, but she needs to let him know first that she did have half of his family’s money… she has wired it to the Dimira trust fund; she tells him she will sell the club and turn over the proceeds from that as well.  He tells her she doesn’t have to.  He gives her, her first assignment, but he tells her she is going to have to relocate to Hong Kong, unless she wants to tear up the contract.  When she tells Claire, Claire gets upset.  She says she is not going; but she suggests that she and her dad go and she stay with her grandma and grandpa.  Belle makes one condition, that she reconsider going back to college.  She agrees to go to Salem U; Belle hugs her and excitedly mentions coming to visit her for Christmas, saying she’ll love Hong Kong (just as Shaun walks in).  He asks “what the hell” - looking very confused.  

I cannot believe that they have Aiden working in the PD with Hope just outside the office window, staring at her – and then he calls her in the office with him, to talk to him about a case.  Creepy.  She’s obviously uncomfortable.  He closes with the Steffano Dimira file, she gets out of there as soon as she can.  As Chad talks with Sonny in the square, Gabi comes over to offer her condolences to Chad about Abby; she tells him she was a good friend to her, even after she killed her cousin, Nick.  She encouraged her and said she could still have a life; and now she does, she is sad that Abby is not there raising her child too.  Shaun tells JJ he wishes he would have stayed closer to Abigail; he asks how he got mixed up with Ben in the first place.  JJ tells him Ben was “fine and first, then went off the rails.”  He talks to Shaun about the things he grandmother (who is a “shrink”) told him; another detective comes in demanding to talk to JJ, with an obvious chip on his shoulder.  

Chad fills in Sonny and Gabi on his ideas to reorganize Dimira Enterprises; Gabi says he needs to freshen up his own image in order to do that.  She offers to go shopping with him.  After their shopping trip, Chad offers Gabi a job as his image consultant.  Rafe and Hope have a glass of wine after work; she has a sore shoulder and he offers to rub it.  They start kissing of course; then she says they have to stop because Ciara could be home any minute, but they keep on.  Aiden is looking through Steffano’s file; his detective comes in to tell him that the phone call from Steffano’s phone came from a tower near Hope’s house.  He wonders, what if Hope did kill Steffano?