- Abraham and Elvis negotiate details of their public debates.
- Marlena recalls her past with Samanther.
- Bo and Hope go to counseling to strengthen their marriage.
- Jackson announces that he is transforming The Cheating Heart into a new coffee house.
- Samanther begins work at Countess Wilhelmina.
- Carrie opens her own law firm and offers Rafe a position as her in-house investigator.
- Marlena gets mad at Will for taking a job as intern for the DiMera Mayoral campaign, then threatens Elvis that if her grandsom is harmed in any way, there will be devastating results for him and his family.
- Maggie recalls Mickey on his birthday.
- Daniel announces to his daughter and mother that he is leaving Salem to take a break and reevaluate his options.
SalemDay 2 began on Thursday, January 5, 2012.
- Maggie, Melanie, and Jennifer are heartbroken when Daniel departs Salem.
- Madison reveals to Brady that Samanther is a spy.
- Jackson's friends presume that Will is gay.
- Stefano taunts the Bradys when they meet at the bank to open Alice's safe deposit box, causing Hope to chicken out and refuse to unlock the box.
- Will taunts Elvis, only to be put in place by his boss.
SalemDay 3 began on Tuesday, January 10, 2012.
- Brady quits Titan to join his father in re-building Basic Black.
- Marlena is hired to run the Salem University Psychiatry Residency program.
- Victor wants Madison to run Titan.
- Will steals files from Abe's unattended person laptop at the pub.
SalemDay 4 began on Thursday January 12, 2012.
- Will expresses surprise that Jackson's parents are so supportive, an issue that Jackson, Adrienne, and Justin all indicate was not a major deal.
- Rafe and Carrie are overheated in their new office.
- Elvis rewards Will with a shiny yellow sports car for successfully completing his first assignment.
SalemDay 5 began on Tuesday, January 17, 2012.
- Elvis announces a jobs agenda, stealing Abe's ideas.
SalemDay 6 began on Wednesday, January 18, 2012.
- Stuff happens
SalemDay 7 began on Tuesday, January 24.
- Bo and Hope commiserate with Doug and Julie about Alice's secret pact with Stefano.
- Samanther finally tells her husband that she has been spying on Kate, upsetting Rafe.
- Jennifer successfully arranges to steal the debate questions, also ensuring that Nicole gets bogus questions.
- Madison turns down Victor's offer to run Titan, then calls her secret contact to repotrt that she has followed directions.
- Chad and Gabriella are hired to model for Countess Wilhelmina.
- Brady and John argue over business tactics, but find a happy medium to move forward.
- Jack goes to group therapy and meets others who are battling PTSD from their time in Afghanistan.
- Sydney has two birthday parties, with Will stealing his sister to attend DiMera Mansion festivities and with Carrie and Rafe tenderly portraying Prince and Princess at the pub.
SalemDay 8 began on Tuesday, January 31.
- Austin wakes up in his office after spending the night on the sofa after arguing with Carrie.
- John offers Samanther some advice on being a better parent, only to have her angrily lash out at how he ruined her family.
- Carrie is devastated when her Swiss law firm pulls the funding for her Salem office.
- While Abigail is thrilled that Madison wants her to model, Jennifer is upset that her daughter will live on cigarettes and breath mints.
- Will quizzes Jackson about coming out.
- Brady convinces Madison to stop using Samanther as a spy at Countess Wilhelmina, causing Samanther's bad day to get even worse, leading her to angrily quit Mad World and vow to destroy the company of her Colorado childhood bestie.
- While lounging at the DiMera Mansion, Will is upset when Elvis tells Nicole that Lucas did not shoot him, then while threatening to reveal the blackmail info he has on the candidate, is silenced when Elvis announces a new rent-free penthouse apartment overlooking Horton Town Square for the intern.
- Stefano and Hope finally open the safe deposit box that Alice secretly shared with her nemesis.
- Using the stolen questions, Abe handily defeats Elvis in their sole mayoral debate.
- Samanther arrives at the loft just as Will is preparing to move out, leading to a confrontation where he finally reveals that he saw her and Elvis in mad crazy sex moments on the couch of the DiMera Living Room when Johnny was found alive.
- Rafe and Carrie become excited over their first legal success and spontaneously kiss, just as Samanther arrives at their office.
- Stefano and Kate offer Austin advice on romance, after which, Stefano tells his wife about meeting the Bradys to open Alice's secret bank box.
- As Carrie and Rafe try to calm Samanther, Austin arrives and hears about their kiss, leading him to confront Carrie about her feelings,after which he storms out, gets drunk, and shows up at his office to relate the sob story to a quite attentive Abigail.
- Hope finally opens her envelope and learns that she and John were legally married during the time that she was kidnapped by Stefano and living as Princess Gina.
- As Marlena tries to calm/advise Carrie about her future, Austin drunkenly kisses Abigail.
- Samanther's long horrible day ends with Rafe moving out.
SalemDay 9 began on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.
- Marlena refuses to believe that her marriage is invalid, joining Bo, Hope, and John to confront Stefano at the Mansion.
- Abigail lets Austin believe that they had sex on his office sofa, when in reality, he passed out drunk after their brief moment.
- Brady asks Madison to be his wife, just as Ian McAllistair arrives in Salem to reclaim his wife
- Will moves out of the loft.
- Carrie and Austin discuss a return to Switzerland.
- Melanie learns that Austin is Abigail's secret crush.
SalemDay 10 began on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
- Salemites seem indifferent as Election Day dawns in Salem.
- Abigail gives her blessing to Chad and Melanie, then continues her delusional pursuit of married man Austin Reed,
- Samanther attacks Carrie.
- Abraham Carver is re-elected as mayor, only to have his wife furious that he orchestrated secret receipt of the debate questions.
- Victor introduces Ian as the new CEO of Titan.
- Bo, Hope, John, and Marlena are prevented from flying to Alamainia due to visa issues
- Stefano opens his secret envelope, cries, and flees Salem.
- The final election results indicate that Elvis DiMera has been elected and that Abraham and Jennifer are under investigation for vote tampering.
SalemDay 11 began on Tuesday, February 21, 2012.
- Jack orchestrates a reunion between Jennifer and Abigail, leading his ex-wife to express her reignited feelings, only to have him declare that he is setting her free.
- Austin insists that he and Carrie return to Zurich, only to have his wife reject the idea outright.
- Marlena and Will corner Samanther.
- Rafe learns about Samanther and Elvis when he overhears Will confide the story to Jackson.
- John and Hope finally depart for Alamainia
- As the election recount is confirmed, an ecstatic Nicole bonds with Elvis and declares that she will not go through with the divorce, only to become furious when Rafe shows up, reveals that Elvis and Samanther had sex on the very same sofa, and slugs the interloper.
- Jackson invites Sonny to join him with friends at the Horton Town Square, where Will gets tipsy playing beer pong, then frantically makes out with a stunned Brian, a scene which is viewed by an equally stunned Jackson.
- Daniel returns to Salem and finds Nicole at the Town Square, moments before she passes out.
- A confused Will races from the Town Square to his grandmother's townhouse, where he weakly asks "Am I gay?"
- Samanther calls Lucas as her world crumbles.
- Ian refuses to divorce Madison.
- Abandoned by his wife, Abraham gets drunk at the pub.
- Daniel confirms that Nicole is pregnant.
