10-26-2017 (Thursday) The Search Goes On

Eric comes to the Pub; Roman wants to talk to him about getting back together with Nicole.  Eric tells his dad that it is already over; he says, “Nicole is out of my life.”  He tells his dad that Brady did or said something that forced her to change her mind about wanting to be with him; Eric says he wants to find out what it is.  Roman gets a phone call about Sammi; he says, she “did what?!”  Hope goes through files on her desk; Rafe comes in and asks, “why in the hell did you do that?”  He is talking about Sammi; Hope says she grabbed her gun and put a man’s life in danger – Rafe asks how she could let that happen.  She tries to explain how it all happened so fast; she says she had to arrest Sammi because somebody could have gotten hurt, saying over and over, “what if?”  She tells him that Rolf killed himself because of Sammi’s actions; Rafe says she couldn’t have known he was going to do that.  He asks Hope to give her a break, saying she was desperate; Hope tells him he is a hypocrite.  She points out what happened with JJ; he says there is a difference because JJ is a trained police officer.  Hope thinks he is just defending Sammi because he used to be married to her; he denies it.  What asks, “what if it was Zach?”  Hope can’t believe he went there; he asks her how far she would go… then apologizes.  She says Sammi went too far, and she wishes he would respect her decision; he says okay.  They call a truce; he hugs her and they kiss.  Rafe says, they must be looking for one scary dude if Rolf chose to kill himself rather than reveal him.

Chad brings Abigail breakfast in bed; chocolate chip pancakes.  He is trying to make their honeymoon special even though they had to stay home; Abby kisses him and pulls him down and they almost tip the tray over.  Jennifer comes to see Kate; she says Kate is “on the ropes” and she is there to ask some questions as a reporter.  Kate insists there is no story here; Jennifer says there has been ever since Andre called that press conference.  Abby and Chad come in the room and interrupting the yelling; Abigail gets her mother to leave.  Kate tells Chad Jen can really be “a witch”; he smiles.  They start talking business; Chad asks how her big idea is going.  She says not so well.  Kate tells Chad every time she targets a new company, it gets bought out from under her.  Chad says that’s an inside job; they both realize it’s probably Andre.  Kate says she knows he can console her with one hand and stab her in the back with the other; she tells Chad she will take care of it.  Jen talks to Abby over coffee in the Square, she talks about Eric.  Jen says maybe with Nicole gone, Eric can finally get past her; Abigail says maybe Jen could help him get past her.  Kate tells Chad they probably shouldn’t tell Abby because she is so close with Andre; Abigail walks in to hear Chad say that he won’t lie to his wife.  Roman comes to tell Kate about Sammi being in jail, and why; Kate is stunned.  She cries, realizing that they are no closer to knowing if Will is out there somewhere now.

Chloe comes to see Brady; she brings him a payment on the loan but admits that she wants to ask what happened with Nicole.  Brady just gets irritated and tells Chloe it’s always the same thing; he gives and gives and loves these women and he still ends up alone.  Chloe tries to find other excuses for his past relationships not working; he tells her not to do that.  He glances over at the decanter; Chloe notices and asks him not to even consider that.  She reminds him of how bad off Lucas has gotten and tells him to just keep focusing on Tate; she invites him to go to the pumpkin patch with her and Parker tomorrow.  He hugs her goodbye and then runs to the decanter and pours himself a drink; he pours it back.  Eric walks in; Brady tells him to tell him how it happened… he tries.  Eric says they wanted to be honest with him; they had a plan.  He demands to know what Brady did that made her change her mind; Brady just shrugs.  He finally says, if Eric “knew the truth” about what she is capable of, he’d be thanking him.  He calls her a “selfish, lying slut” and Eric punches him in the jaw.

10-25-2017 (Wednesday) Hattie, On The Job

Justin does his best to fill Adrian in on everything that happened since she’s been locked up; Hattie is brought to the head of the prison.  Hattie tells her side of the story; the man isn’t sure he believes it.  He says it’s all a little far-fetched for him; Kayla tells this man to review Adrian’s medical records and compare them against the prisoner they are holding as Bonnie Lockhardt.  Adrian is so happy; they tell her about Joey going to prison for killing Ava; she is sorry to hear that.

JJ does his best to crack the code to get into Rolf’s computer; Lani makes a list of all the things they need to find out, if possible: where Rolf went to med school for example.  JJ reminisces about their last adventure together, flying on the plane, etc. …he gets into the computer.  Lani says it looks like he was in to “algorithms and formulas.”  Hope looks at a bank register; Rolf has been receiving large monthly payments from somebody.  Lani says they’ll probably have to jump through hoops to get clearance; JJ says it could lead them to the person paying this money… Hope says, and to if Will really is alive or not.

Sheila tells Bonnie that she wants what she promised her; Bonnie says she ran out of that mansion with the clothes on her back.  She asks if she doesn’t have a friend she could call; Sheila says she thought she did.  Eli tells Gabi that he was a trouble maker when he was younger; he hung out with Sheila and her brother, named Russell, until his mom ordered him to stay away from her.  He says they moved on from petty theft to doing drugs; they were eventually arrested… by him.  He says, later, he got a file that had pictures of Sheila and Russell; he used his friendship to infiltrate a theft ring.  He goes on to tell her that Russell died in prison when a rival gang attacked him.  He says if he hadn’t stabbed his friends in the back, Russell might still be here today.  He says he had the chance to help her again the other day, but he just got hired at the Salem PD; he thanks Gabi for listening and letting him get that off of his chest.  She tells him she thinks h is a great guy.

Sheila and Bonnie talk about old times, forgive each other, hug and say goodbye; Eli finds Sheila standing in the park.  He tells her he wants to help.Kayla and Steve tell Adrian they “ran into a snag.”  They tell her about Bonnie getting away; Adrian agrees to a swab DNA test.  He then tells her that Will might still be alive; “oh my god,” she exclaims.  They are told Adrian’s release may take up to 24 hours; Justin worries that she might be in danger there.  Hattie is offered a job as Adrian’s private bodyguard. 

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.