07-04-2017 (Tuesday) Once More a Bride

Roman asks Eric how he is doing; he is worried about a relapse, since Demos drugged him.  Eric tells him he’s fine, but, he says, he thinks he made a mistake with Nicole when he was under the influence.  Roman says he doesn’t need details, but asks whether they talked it over or not; he says yes, but they agreed not to say anything to Brady about waking up next to each other.  Brady and Nicole stroll through the Square with Tate; Eric tells Nicole they need to talk about what happened at that house when she was under the influence.  She tells him she just doesn’t remember anything that happened; they talk about Deimos, and how, with all those people under the influence anything could have happened.  He promises her that nobody and nothing will get in their way again.  Nicole suddenly begins not feeling well; she says she thinks she’s just exhausted.  He asks again what she remembers from that night; she flashes back to waking up next to Eric, but tells him she thinks those memories are buried forever.  Nicole goes for a stroll with Tate and Eric finds Brady in the park alone.  He asks Brady if Nicole told him; Brady says, “yes.”  Eric soon realizes they weren’t talking about the same thing; Nicole comes back by and ends up confessing to Brady that she remembers stumbling into Eric’s room and waking up on the bed with him.  For drama’s sake, she leaves out the fact that they were fully-clothed until a little later in the conversation; Brady says he completely understands.  He tells them both that he trusts them, and says it’s all good.

Kayla thanks Tripp once more for catching her mistake; she tells him she is really proud of him for caring so much.  She goes to check on a patient; Tripp calls Jade.  He tells her that he “did it again” but says it almost went horribly wrong; he tells her he could have killed somebody.  She reminds him that Kayla (supposedly) killed his mom; he says he is going to try one last time, but says he has to be more careful.  He gets into Kayla’s patient records again; Kayla comes back.  He lays her tablet down on the front desk; she invites him to go back home with her and says, later, they’ll go downtown to watch the fireworks.  They leave.  When they get home, Steve has the BBQ grill going; Kayla asks Tripp if he’d like to learn how to bake her famous apple pie, and they walk into the Pub; Tripp tells Joey he wants to know about his memories of Ava.  He tells Tripp that he met Ava when she came back to town for revenge, only she told him she was an old friend of his parents; he leaves out the fact that they became lovers.  Tripp says every time anyone talks about his mother, he feels like they are holding out on him; he asks Joey if he is holding something back.  Enter Steve and Kayla; dinner is ready.   They laugh and talk; after dinner, Jade calls.  Tripp goes outside and tells her that he thinks he wants to call things off; he says he doesn’t want to hurt Steve and Joey, and Kayla is actually really nice, and he doesn’t want to lose this family now.  Kayla gets a call from the hospital; the hospital director wants to see her ASAP.

Chad asks Abby if she is seriously getting married right now; he says the ink isn’t even dry on their divorce papers yet.  He brings up JJ being charged with murder and asks Abe if he is really okay with this; Abe says Abigail has made her decision.  Chad says he hasn’t heard her say anything yet; Gabi walks in and asks what’s going on.  When she is told it is a wedding, she asks why she wasn’t invited; Abby and Dario say they didn’t invite anyone.  Gabi says, if this is what they both want, then she is happy for them; Chad is pissed and asks if she can’t see the little strings attached to Abigail that Dario is pulling.  Abigail gets pissed at that comment and tells Chad she is no one’s puppet; she says she makes her own choices and tells him to leave.  Gabi tells Chad they should get going; he says he isn’t going anywhere.  Abigail says okay, if Chad thinks he needs to see this to know it is real, then he can stay; Dario invites Gabi to stay.  Abigail asks her if she would actually take a few photos for them so they have the memory; she says sure.  Abby resumes position, and Abe asks her to repeat after him; she does, …but she gets frustrated halfway through and asks if they can just skip the formal stuff.  Abe moves on to the rings; they each vow to honor and love “in all ways and forever.”

Momentarily, Chad jumps up and says, “stop” telling Abigail that he can’t let her do this because he loves her; Gabi asks if he is alright, and he (still sitting next to her) says, “yeah, I’m fine.”  Abe pronounces Dario and Abigail husband and wife; they kiss, and Chad looks away.  Dario tries to talk to Chad, civilly, after the ceremony, telling him that they both want the same thing – for him to be happy with Gabi and for the good of Thomas.  But Chad wants nothing to do with him; he tells Dario that his son isn’t going to have anything to do with him either, and Abby reminds Chad that she is Thomas’ mother so it’s not just up to him.  Chad remarks, “when you’re here.”  She tells him that was a low blow.  Gabi hugs Abigail and giggles over the fact that they are sisters-in-law now; Abby says she always thought of her as a sister anyway.  Dario brings out a bottle of champagne; Gabi tells him she’s happy for him, but asks why the rush.  He simply says, “it was time.”  She tells her brother she is going to go talk with Chad and try to calm him down; she tells him to go be with his bride.  He says he likes the sound of that; he takes the bottle and two glasses and leaves.  He makes a toast to Abigail, promising to be a good husband to her and a great father to Thomas; they click to their marriage.  When they get home, Gabi asks Chad if he wants to talk; he says no, adding that the ceremony just solidified what he already knew – that Abby is his past and “this” (as he grabs Gabi) is his future.

07-03-2017 (Monday) Over My Dead Body

Chad gets a text from Abigail, asking him to keep Thomas a little longer.  He replays the memory of asking Abigail if she wants to be his wife again, and her saying yes, then kissing her; he asks himself why he can’t stop thinking about her.  He goes to the station to talk to her.   JJ tells his mother and Abby that he would think he’d remember shoving that knife in Deimos’ chest; Jen says he doesn’t remember, because he didn’t do it.  JJ tells her as much as he hated the guy, he thinks it is possible he did kill him.  Gabi tells Rafe that she doesn’t believe JJ killed Deimos, and until someone can prove it to her, she will never believe it. She asks if he thinks JJ did it; Rafe says he doesn’t know, but if he did, it was under the influence of a powerful drug.  She tells her brother, the guilt of killing a living soul would devastate JJ if he did, because she’s seen how upset he was when he couldn’t help a victim; Rafe tells her it sounds like she still has feelings for JJ.  She tells him they danced that night, but that is all; he tells her he and Hope danced too.  He also tells her he proposed to Hope, and says he wants to do it again (not under the influence), but he needs her help.

Dario comes in to the station and asks if he can interrupt, telling Abigail it’s important; Jen says this is important too.  Abigail tells her mom and JJ she’ll be right back.  Dario tells Abigail he needs her to come with him; he says it’s a matter of life and death.  He takes her to the Club and tells her that immigration is coming after him sooner than he thought; he says it would be best if they were already married.  She says she can’t marry him while her brother is being accused of murder, because she needs to be there for him; he says a five-minute ceremony won’t stop her from being there for him.  She agrees, but then argues that it just seems wrong to do something that is supposed to be so meaningful, while he is being held.  Dario tells her it’s okay if she’s changed her mind; she tells him she hasn’t changed her mind.  Abby says they can’t just walk into the courthouse without an appointment; Dario sees Abe enter the Club.  Abe asks if Dario would take his order; Dario asks him if he would pronounce he and Abby, husband and wife.  Dario says they’ve been in love for a while; Abe asks to hear that from the bride-to-be as well.  Abigail tells Abe that marrying Dario is what she wants to do.  Abe says he wants to talk to Jennifer first; Abigail protests that she is an adult, but Abe says he won’t do it without talking to her mother first.

Sonny sees Chad in the square; Chad confronts him about taking the amulet.  He says the party last night was proof that the amulet was bad luck; Sonny says, if that’s true, Deimos was it’s last victim.  Chad says that’s not true, because JJ is now being accused of murder.  Sonny says he is confidant JJ will be cleared; thanks to Deimos, he says, no one really remembers anything.  He says it’s fitting that his own actions provide a cover for his murder.  Chad brings up the amulet again, saying he never bought into his dad’s superstitions, but now he is starting to think we don’t have as much control over our lives as we like to believe.  Gabi and Rafe run into Chad and Sonny in the Square; Sonny asks if they can schedule a play date for Ariana soon and says he’ll call her.  Chad asks where they are going; Rafe says she is helping him with a surprise.  Chad and Gabi agree to meet later.

Hope tells JJ that the only evidence they have is Lani’s testimony and the blood on his shirt; all circumstantial.  She says they will have no choice but to let him go, if nothing else comes to light in the next few hours.  Justin tells him he’s pretty much off the hook; JJ wonders, if he didn’t stick that knife in Deimos’ chest, which one of them did. Sonny is on the phone; he sends a message to his employees.  Justin says he is proud of him, despite firing the 50 employees he fired the first week; he tells his father, with Deimos gone now, nothing will stop him from achieving everything he has put his mind to.  Sonny recalls his struggle with Deimos again; he asks himself, “is it possible that I…?”  Paul asks, “that you what?”  Sonny asks how long he has been there; Paul says long enough to see that something is bothering him.  He claims it’s just work; then he confesses that he remembers fighting with Deimos in the hall.  Paul points out that Deimos was found dead in the living room; he tells Sonny they should keep this quite unless something changes.  Hope comes back in and tells JJ she is sorry; she hands him a record of new evidence in the case against him.  He sits down to read it.  They have found JJ’s DNA under Deimos’ fingernails; Hope lovingly recites his Miranda Rights and places him under arrest.  Sonny has flashbacks of him, standing over Deimos’ dead body; it isn’t evident whether or not there is blood on his hands.  He gasps, “oh my god.”

Abe tells Abigail that her mother gave her blessing, begrudgingly; he says she didn’t sound too happy about it.  Abby says she will be, eventually.  They begin the ceremony, with Dario asking if he can say a few words and he talks about how wonderful Abby is, always putting others’ needs before her own, making sure those she cares about are protected, safe and happy, no matter what it costs her.  He vows to love her with the same generous spirit she has always shown him, and to put her first, proving to her every moment of every day that he is worthy of all the times she has done that for him.  Abby says she wants to say something too; she tells Dario he did everything for her, he says she did for him.  She says she never felt the need to explain herself to him; he just let her be and that meant a lot to her.  Dario recites his promise to love, honor and keep her all the days of his life; she begins to recite hers, and Chad walks in.

06-30-2017 (Friday) All's Well that Ends Well

Chad is on the phone with Gabi; he says he can barely believe Deimos is really gone.  He says, at least he won’t be hurting anyone else; he hangs up and his mind flashes to the memory of kissing Abigail in her room after saying their unofficial vows and putting the ring on her finger.  Joey is at work at the Pub; Steve tells him to sit down with them.  Joey says he has to close out some customers and then move some kigs; Tripp offers to help him move them.  He jokingly says, “as long as it doesn’t hurt my thumb” and then asks Joey if they are going to have a rematch tonight; they invite Steve to join, but he declines, saying he’s only interested if “Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde” are involved.  They have no idea he is talking about Pac Man.  Still sitting in the square, Chad looks at pictures of him and Abigail on his phone, including the same one Abigail has in her drawer of them with Thomas.  He calls Abby; he claims he is calling to check on JJ, asking if he is still being interrogated.  She says yeah, and he apologizes for bothering her; he asks her if they can meet later, to talk about what happened.

Lani waits nervously in the station; Eli tells her not to worry.  She says she basically implicated him in a murder; Abigail comes in.  The commissioner asks JJ if he is sure he doesn’t want an attorney; he says he doesn’t need one – he insists he just doesn’t remember anything because of “the damn drug.”  Abigail gets made at Lani for making JJ a suspect; she says she has an obligation to tell the truth.  Abby apologizes and says she knows.  Commissioner Raines says he thinks he has a way to jog his memory; Lani and Abigail go in to talk to JJ after the commissioner leaves.  JJ pushes Lani to remember anything she might have heard he or Deimos say; she says she just recalls seeing the fight.  Lani takes Eli aside to make sure he knows that the kiss between them shouldn’t have happened; he says they were out of their minds on the drug and didn’t know what they were doing.  She goes to get a drink of water.  The commissioner comes back, with Marlena; she sits down with JJ.  She works with him, through hypnosis, to take him back to the Martin House and his confrontation with Deimos; she asks if he remembers.  He says he does; he starts to breathe heavily.  He says he remembers a struggle and then, he jumps in his seat, thrashing about; Marlena decides to end the session and commands him to open his eyes.  She the commissioner, although he remembers attacking Deimos, JJ has no memory of killing him; the commissioner walks her out and Lani comes in.  JJ tells her it’s a pretty safe bet he is the one who killed Deimos.

Hope is seizing; now in the hospital, Kayla asks Rafe what happened.  He tells her about Deimos slipping into the party and drugging everyone; she asks if they caught him, and he says they didn’t have to because he was murdered.  She asks for explanation; he says they were all just out of their minds on the drug.  Hope starts to seize again; Kayla sends him out of the room.  Steve and Tripp come into the hospital and ask what’s going on; Rafe tells Steve, briefly, about the drugging and Deimos’ death.  Tripp watches through the window, as Kayla works with Hope; she comes out and says she got Hope stabilized.  She says this new version is very different, so Hope isn’t having as intense a reaction to the drug; she tells Rafe she is going to be fine.  Tripp says she’s lucky to have Kayla as her doctor.  Steve offers to take Kayla to lunch while Rafe sits with Hope; the nurse leaves the station again.  Tripp grabs Hope’s chart; he sees 2.5 mgs of Visteral ordered… he changes it to 25 mgs instead.  He looks through the window and tells Hope he will be back to catch Dr. Johnson’s mistake before she administers the drug, and he heads back to help Joey.

Rafe tells Hope he remembers asking her to marry him and swears that wasn’t the drug talking; he says nothing would make him happier than spending the rest of his life with her, and kisses her on the forehead.  He goes out and asks if anyone is going to give Hope a sedative because she seems like she could use it; the nurse says she’ll head in there now.  Tripp tells Joey that Hope is going to be alright, and says she has the benefit of having the best, most competent doctor around; Joey agrees.  He talks about how happy Kayla is at work, and how great she is with the staff; Joey says he’s happy he is enjoying his experience with her.  He brags about how she worked, saving lives all day, and coached little league all summer, saying she did it all; he says she checked out books on baseball and learned everything she could to do it.  He says the league was short on coaches that year, and they wouldn’t have had a team if she hadn’t stepped up.  He then apologizes, realizing he is being insensitive to Tripp not having a mother at all; Tripp says it’s okay, admitting he can’t imagine what it would have been like, because even his adopted mom died when he was young.

Steve sees a picture in Kayla’s office of her and Tripp; she tells him one of her favorite pediatric patients took it the other day.  She says Tripp is kind and considerate and caring with the patients; she really thinks he could have a career in medicine.  Steve tells her that makes him happy, they are getting along so well.  Tripp comes back to notice Hope’s chart missing; he sees the nurse in her room, runs in and yells, “stop.”  He tells her that Kayla was supposed to let him watch her inject the Visteral; she says okay, and starts to show him how it’s done.  Tripp tells her to wait, looking at the chart, and says Doctor Johnson said she was supposed to have a low dose because of the Halo in her system; Kayla comes back and confirms that the dosage on the chart is wrong, saying that’s not what she ordered.  She thanks Tripp for catching her mistake.

Chad and Abigail meet, and talk about renewing their vows (in their drug-induced blissfulness) last night; he says he remembers kissing her and asks if she remembers anything else.  They agree nothing went any further, since they both woke up with their clothes on; they talk about Deimos murder and their concern for JJ being a suspect.  Chad says he just wanted her to know that what happened… Abigail interjects, “doesn’t matter.”  She says it’s okay, she knows he is with Gabi now and she is with Dario; she says she’s always gonna care about him, and this evening solidified that for her.  She says he is the father of her child, so – she laughs, and says, “I’ll talk to you later.”  Chad says okay.  Rafe goes back in to see Hope; she wakes up.  He says she gave them quite a scare; she asks what happened.  He reminds her that Deimos is gone; she pulls him down on the bed beside her and cuddles up to him.  Kayla frets about how she could have entered the orders incorrectly; Steve says she’s been under a lot of stress.  She condemns the thought, saying this is not the kind of mistake she makes and if she was that stressed, she should have had someone covering for her.  Steve tells her it’s okay; she says, “only thanks to Tripp.”

06-29-2017 (Thursday) Deimos is Dead!

JJ and Gabi are passed out in a chair, still at the party; Eli and Lani are passed out in another.  Hope and Rafe are passed out on the ground in the park; Sonny is passed out, still in the hallway, leaning up against the wall.  Nicole wakes up in Eric’s arms (fully dressed) and asks why she is in bed with him; she starts to cry.  Eric tells her he is sure nothing happened; she says, and nothing ever will, saying she wants him to leave.  He reminds her this is his room; she goes downstairs to try to get some answers.  Chad wakes up in Abigail’s room; he’s in the chair, and she is on the bed.  He wonders what the hell is going on; he steps out into the hallway and finds Sonny on the floor.  Sonny wakes with a start, asking what’s going on; Chad says he doesn’t know.  Last Sonny recalls, Eric was giving the toast; Chad says that was one hell of a toast.

Abby wakes up to find Chad gone, sees the ring on her finger and looks confused.  Rafe and Hope come back into the house; Hope laughs when she sees everyone passed out, but then realizes how much time is missing.  Rafe wakes up Gabi, who looks over to see Chad; she asks what’s going on here, as Chad stares at her, curled up in JJ’s arms.  She tells Chad she can’t explain; Chad says he thinks it happens to all of them… he tells her he woke up in Abigail’s room and tells Gabi nothing happened.  Hope wakes Rafe and Lani; Lani asks why everyone is staring at her, then jumps up when she sees she is sitting across Eli’s lap.  She says she doesn’t remember anything after Eric’s toast; they all swear they didn’t have very much to drink.  Paul appears in the doorway and tells them that Deimos was the one behind this; he says he noticed that one of the waiters was Deimos in disguise.  He tells them he followed them but got knocked out; he woke up behind the gazebo just now.  Sonny tells Paul that they all just woke up; Hope realizes it’s not a big leap to assume that Deimos drugged them all.  Lani says the effects were a little different than the last time she experienced it, but she is sure it was Halo.  Chad says if he took that risk, it must have been something Deimos wanted; Paul reaches up to Sonny’s chest and says he has to tell them.  Sonny admits that he had the amulet around his neck, and now it’s gone.  Chad can’t believe he dug it back up and took it; Hope asks how Deimos knew about it, and Sonny explains about their run-in at the hospital.

Nicole and Eric come into the room, asking what happened; Hope tells her it was Deimos.  Gabi notices lipstick on Chad’s collar and asks how it got there; his mind flashes to he and Abby kissing.  He reminds Gabi that she woke up next to JJ; Abby swears she doesn’t know how the lipstick got there either.  JJ tells Gabi he remembers dancing with her; she has a short recollection of the dance, and asks how many times Deimos is going to do this to them.  JJ Lani go to call this in; Rafe promises Gabi that they are going to find Deimos and make him pay for this.  She doubts it and says she needs some air; she pulls the curtain open to the terrace, and Deimos is behind it.  He has been stabbed; he falls over on top of her, and she screams, “get him off me.”  Rafe pulls Deimos off; Hope checks for a pulse, and says he’s dead.  Abby wonders if one of them killed him; Eli finds a light blood trail from the curtain to the center of the floor.  Rafe says, “whoever killed him, did it in this room.”  Hope calls it in.

The commissioner tells everyone there, they are all suspects in this murder; he tells them all they may go anywhere on the grounds, but they are not to leave the property.  He says whoever did this will be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; he apparently doesn’t care about the extenuating circumstances.  Rafe explains what he remembers to the commissioner, who concludes that a missing chunk of time and memory sounds suspicious and says Hope is his prime suspect.  She tells Rafe that she isn’t sure she didn’t do it.  She giggles and tells him she think the drug is still in his system; she says she thinks she needs to go see a doctor, and then passes out in his arms.  Abby calls her mom to tell her what happened; she assures her she’s okay.  Chad asks if Jen is okay watching Thomas; Abby says as long as they need her to.  Abby asks Chad who she thinks did it; he says he doesn’t know, and doesn’t care.  She says she hopes nobody has to go to prison over this; she picks up flowers off the floor, and has a flash of memory.  She starts to tell Chad, but Gabi comes in the door, asking what’s going on; they have no answers.  Gabi notices the rings; Chad scoffs at her response to them.  She tells him Abby and Dario might really be in love, adding, after all people don’t just say vows to each other if they aren’t in love.  She asks Gabi where Dario was anyway; she explains, he had a problem at the Club.  They then discuss Deimos and try to remember the events of the night; Chad says the three of them need to stick together.

Nicole and Eric discuss what happened; she says she vaguley remembers coming out of the bathroom and finding him gone.  She asks where he went; he says he doesn’t know.  He has a flash of memory, coming back to find Nicole sitting on the bed; he tells her he thinks he did something bad.  Nicole can tell he remembers something, but he tells her it was nothing.  They go back downstairs.  Lani tells JJ she remembers seeing him with Gabi; he says she probably just saw them dancing.  Eli asks her what she did after she saw that; a memory flashes and she tells Eli she remembers kissing him.  JJ looks pissed.  Eli reminds him they were all drugged; he says it made them do things they didn’t realize they were doing.  JJ says he wants to know if Eli remembers kissing Lani; he says yes, adding it’s not something easily forgotten.  Lani assures JJ that the kiss meant nothing to her; Eli kind of looks disappointed.  Paul asks Sonny to try to remember if he saw Deimos; he has a flash of memory, of Deimos choking him, but denies seeing him at all.

The commissioner notices a spot of blood on JJ’s sleeve; he asks how it got there and JJ says he has no idea.  Lani’s memory flashes; she sees JJ holding Deimos by the collar and struggling with him in the room.  She says she thinks she saw JJ attacking Deimos; JJ says he doesn’t remember that.  The commissioner asks JJ to go with them to have the blood tested to see if it belongs to Deimos Kariakis.