The Re-Launch Fizzles

SalemDay 12 began on Wednesday, February 29, 2012.

• John and Hope file divorce papers in Alamainia, however must turn over their passports to the authorities while the matter is resolved.
• Samanther tries to talk with her son, who doesn't believe she truly cares.
• As Madison continues to press for a divorce, Ian reveals to Kate that Madison placed Samanther undercover at Countess Wilhelmina.
• John is working for the ISA and under intense questioning by Hope, reveals that he had never left the secret organization.
• Elvis offers Alexandra a job in his administration, which she seriously considers.
• Lucas returns.
• Stefano surprises John and Hope in Alamainia,  hours before John's ISA contact is found murdered.
• While planning an arrest of the Moroni Crime Family, Bo and Roman are attacked, leaving Bo in a medically induced coma.

SalemDay 13 began on Friday, March 9, 2012.

• Abigail stalks Austin when he and Carrie arrive for their private getaway at Green Mountain Lodge.
• Kate introduces Billie as the new co-CEO of Countess W at the photo shoot for the new ad campaign featuring Gabriella and Chad.
• After Ian threatens to send Brady to jail, Madison calls off the divorce, confusing Brady once again and leaving him heartbroken.
• Carrie walks in on Austin as he comforts Abigail and learns that he was her secret romance.
• Billie sits vigil at Bo's bedside, receiving a call from a desperate Hope, who can't flee Alamainia without her passport.
• Melanie realizes that Abigail has lied about her romantic night with drunken Austin.
• Jackson opens his coffeehouse in the former Cheating Heart.
• Rafe learns that Nicole is pregnant and helps her.
• Kate urges Samanther to find the mole working at Countess W.
• John and Hope break into the local courthouse to retrieve their passports, only to learn that Stefano has possession of the documents.

SalemDay 14 began on Thursday, March 22, 2012.

• Evis is inaugurated as Mayor Of Salem, with his first act as mayor being to have Abraham and Jennifer arrested for election fraud.
• Urged by Melanie, Abigail decides to tell Austin the truth.
• Stefano detains John and Hope and plots to convert them back into Princess Gina and The Pawn to recover lost items stolen by the two years earlier..
• Kate reveals to Samanther that she knows Samanther is the mole.
• When Abigail finally tells Austin the truth, the conversation is overheard by Jack, Jennifer, and Carrie, all of whom are furious with the young woman.
• Lucas warns Will that others will perceive him as gay when he kids around so closely with Jackson, infuriating Will.
• Kate reveals to Will that she knows he is gay and will always love and support him, a conversation that unsettles Will and leads him to deny it further until he meets with his other grandmother and theorizes that he could possibly be gay.
• Ian plans a dinner for the Salem Fashion movers and shakers, leading to awkward moments with Madison, Brady, Kate, and Marlena.

SalemDay 15 began on Wednesday, March 28, 2012

• Will tries to convince Marlena that he isn't gay after all, insisting that she doesn't understand and that he won't disappoint his family.
• Alexandra pays bail for her husband, invites him to move home, has a mid-morning marital relation, then reels from an unexpected explosive headache.
• Nicole finally files the divorce papers that Elvis signed and plans to depart Salem.
• Carrie tries to make peace with her sister.
• Stefano's hypnotist, a dead ringer for Dr Rolf, transforms John and Hope into The Pawn and Princess Gina to locate a lost "egg" that was stolen/hidden by the duo.
• Caroline, Kayla, and Lucas worry about Samanther, who is enthralled by the stunning apartment that Elvis arranged for her and the children.
• Princess Gina and The Pawn escape Stefano, only to be found hours later.
• A mere three SalemDays after fainting and learning she is pregnant, a careless Nicole accidentally reveals her pregnancy to Elvis as he wanders by her luncheon with Rafe.
• While meeting with Marlena, Carrie recounts her romantic obstacles with Austin and wonders if she really belongs with him.
• Rafe announces that he is the father of Nicole's baby.
• Alexandra has yet another severe headache after she and Abraham celebrate their anniversary.
• Samanther throws herself at Lucas, enraging Kate and Will.
• John and Hope find the egg, locate a secret compartment holding a half-coin, arrange to have a duplicate fake coin made, deliver the egg/coin, and are released by Stefano, who remains unware that the duo are no longer The Pawn and Princess Gina.
• Will calmly announces to his grandmother that he is a "gay man".
• After Celeste insists that Alexandra go to the hospital, the chief of staff learns that she has an inoperable brain tumor.
• Jack and Jennifer reunite.
• Feeling rejected by a still-missing Stefano, Kate succumbs to Ian's charms and spends the night wth him.

SalemDay 16 began on Thursday, April 12, 2012

• Billie finds secret files in the DiMera Living Room.
• Nicole reveals to Elvis that Stefano stole the election for Abraham, only to have the plan backfire when irregularities were researched.
• John and Hope return to Salem, having escaped Stefano with the help of the ISA.
• Stefano returns to Salem, dines with Kate, and dumps her.
• Marlena remains upset that John is working with the ISA.
• Once Hope returns to Salem and arrives at his bedside, Bo wakes up from his beating-induced coma.
• In an effort to cheer a broken-hearted Gabriella, Will tells her that he is gay and their breakup was entirely understandable.
• Madison is startled when Ian offers an uncontested divorce and when Stefano fires Kate.

SalemDay 17 began on Friday April 20, 2012

• When Lucas declares he will be in Salem for a bit longer, his fiance Autumn cancels their engagement.
• Stefano names Samanther as CEO of Countess Wilhelmina Cosmetics, where her first act in charge is to hire Lucas to be her second-in-command.
• Carrie fantasizes about Rafe,
• Alexandra is given only weeks to live and informs her father that she is dying.
• Nicole has pains, sending her to the hospital
• Bo is released from the hospital, but heads directly to an ISA safehouse, where he, Hope, John, and Marlena can lay low while Shane builds a case against Stefano.
• Alexandra tells Chad that she is dying.
• While helping at the safehouse, Rafe discovers the entire building is wired as a bomb, trapping Carrie and him with the Blacks and Bradys.
• Shane manages to help John defuse the bomb, only to have a secondary device triggered.
• Elvis finds the paperwork declaring that Stefano is not his father, leading to a confrontation where Stefano admits that he stole the swindled Basic Black funds and disowns the younger DiMera.
• Shane and Roman are stunned when the safehouse is leveled, with no sign of life, only to discover that the six captives escaped though a basement trapdoor which Carrie and Rafe discovered while lifting up the carpet.
• The safehouse survivors decide to remain "dead" so that a plan can be hatched to catch Stefano once and for all, giving roman the task to travel to Salem and break the devastating news to their families and the media.

SalemDay 18 began on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

• The Brady Pub hosts a wake for the dead six Salemites, allowing Elvis and Stefano to see how devastated both families are at the sudden deaths.
• After services are held, Roman secretly takes a handful of blind-folded Salemites to see the very-much-alive family members, who apologize for the pain they have caused, but remain adamant that the  ruse must continue.

SalemDay 19 began on Friday, May 11, 2012.

• Bo and Hope depart the safehouse to meet with Shane and Billie, who reveals that she has learned that Stefano swindled Elvis, then dodge Agent Harmon, who sneaks into ISA headquarters to steal the half-coin.
• Will accidentally reveals to his mother that he shot Elvis, that Lucas went to jail on his behalf, and that Elvis counter-blackmailed him in order to keep him out of jail.
• Hope discovers a secret flaw in the engraved coin, which is stolen from ISA custody from Agent Harmon.
• Austin convinces Roman to return him to the safehouse in order to reconcile with Carrie, who has just declared her undying love/lost/admiration for Rafe.
• John repeats his threats to kill Stefano once and for all, as Shane sets a plan in action to catch Stefano conducting an illegal international arms deal, a scheme which actually works and leads to the man's arrest, only to have the CIA insist on an immediate release, as the arms sales was part of a covert government plan to remove arms from the market, a scheme under which Stefano was given total immunity .
• Maggie buys the spa, plots an ad campaign featuring Chad, hosts a private birthday celebration for her husband, overhears a "secret" comment to Henderson, and confronts Victor, who finally reveals that he helped Daniel's birth mother steal her frozen embryos 3+ decades earlier.
• Alexandra makes a scrapbook, films a tearful video for her son to watch once she has died, announces a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Paris, inviting much of her family to join her on the DiMera plane, only to have her physician cancel the plans as travel could be problematic in her condition, leading Abraham and her three brothers to transform the Salem Town Square into a mini-Parisian theme park.
• Gabriella continues to fabricate a stalker to win favor with Chad.
• After Samanther critically points out to her son that some day he will have to make tough decisions and lie to protect the ones he loves, Will declares that he is nothing like her, that he won't ever live a life of lies, that he has been keeping a major component of his life under wraps, and that he is gay, shocking both of his parents.
• Ian secretly drugs Brady's smoothie, leading everyone to think Brady is taking drugs again.
• After her son's declaration, Samanther is speechless, then flees the apartment, running into Elvis at the Town Square for a quick heart-to-heart, returns to her apartment just as Will reveals that his grandmother was instrumental in helping him come to terms with his identity, leading her to become furious again, driving Will from the scene.
• Marlena believes that Carrie is pregnant.

SalemDay 20 began on Thursday May 24, 2012.

• Freed from the safehouse and angry that Stefano has escaped his fate yet again, Bo and Hope celebrate their anniversary in a hotel suite.
• Stefano orchestrates a lunch for his dying daughter, bringing together all of his extended family.
• Carrie confirms her pregnancy with an impromptu drugstore visit and continues to fantasize about Rafe rather than her husband.
• John and Marlena try to lift Alexandra's spirits with a New York themed picnic, while later on Bo and Hope vow to remain a part of Theo's life.
• Will reveals to Elvis that Stefano made him reveal the grief-sex between Elvis and Samanther to Rafe,

SalemDay 21 began on Wednesday May 30, 2012.

• Alexandra meets quietly with her father and brother as her health fades, then learns that her tumor was likely caused by her underground imprisonment by Andre DiMera.
• After Elvis and Rafe provide DNA samples, Nicole swaps them, only to be discovered in the act by Dr Jonas, who reprimands her but purposely does not switch the samples back.
• Elvis fires Will.
• A sudden rainstorm hits Salem as Gabriella hires Andrew to stage stalking her, enabling her to seek protection from Chad in the hopes of undermining his burgeoning relationship with Melanie.
• After Roman warns Salemites to not take matters into their own hands, Elvis, Abraham, John, Hope, Will, Kate, Bo and Marlena all sneak into the DiMera Mansion, handle Abraham's abandoned gun, and confront a weary Stefano about  his varied misdeeds.
• As the storm rages, Stefano is shot dead in his private library.

SalemDay 22 began on Tuesday June 5, 2012.

• Roman reveals that seven sets of fingerprints are on the murder weapon, questions each of the suspects with Officer Kent taking copious notes, arranges for all the suspects to take gunpowder residue, clears six of the suspects, and is shocked when he has to arrest grandson Will for the murder of Stefano DiMera.
• Elvis and Rafe are startled when Rafe is confirmed as the father of Nicole's unborn child.
• Jennifer is ecstatic when she learns that Jack will publish his memoir, detailing his year of captivity in Afghanistan.
• Will is shocked when Elvis pays his bail.

SalemDay 23 began on Wednesday June 13,  2012.

• Alexandra joins her family in bidding farewell to dead Stefano at a private wake in the DiMera Living Room, just hours before his body is whisked off to Italy for private burial.
• Rafe is named to lead the investigation into Stefano's murder.
• Annoyed that Madison doesn't believe that he remains drug-free, Brady volunteers to take a drug test.
• Chad and Melanie argue about Stefano as stalker Andrew watches from a distance.
• Confused that Elvis paid his bail, Will theorizes that Elvis killed Stefano.
• Victor pleads for Maggie's forgiveness over the decades-old embryo swap and when she refuses to consider that, he decides to set her free, announcing that he will not contest a divorce, all of which makes Maggie reconsider her options and decide to stay married to him.
• Justin and Carrie visit Will to plan his defense, just as Neal arrives at the police station to provide Will an alibi, explaining that he was with Will on the night of the murder at Salem's previously-unknown gay bar, The Spot.
• Andrew kidnaps Melanie, hiding her in a basement.
• Austin tells his mother about his wife's pregnancy.
• Will is cleared of all charges.
• Kayla reveals that her marriage is in shambles and that Steve has rejoined the ISA.
• After a delightful quiet picnic with her husband in her well-manicured flower garden, Alexandra dies, a mere seven SalemDays after being diagnosed with her fatal tumor.

SalemDay 24 began on Friday June 22, 2012.

• Agent Spenser arrives in Salem to oversee the investigation into Stefano's murder.
• Kate takes Carrie on a shopping extravaganza, then threatens her with a gift of a silver knife if she should ever stray again from Austin and rekindle her relationship with Rafe.
• As Will shies away from all the media publicity about his alibi with Neal at The Spot, Jackson confides to Lucas that he has developed strong feelings for Will, but that he realizes his newly-out friend is not ready to start any type of long term serious relationship.
• Brady is stunned when his drug test is returned as positive.
• Will notices that Elvis is distracted by a letter, which he later finds on the living room floor, but is unable to read it as Elvis returns and retrieves the document, all the while warning Will that he owes his freedom to Elvis and that that freedom can all be taken away with one phone call.
• Kate begins to believe that Ian has orchestrated Brady's relapse.
• Alexandria's memorial is held.

SalemDay 25 began on Monday July 2, 2012.

• Melanie is upset to learn she is missing Independence Day festivities and attempts an escape.
• After Elvis not-so-discreetly hides the letter from Alice Horton in his desk, Will stumbles upon it, reads it, realizes what it means, steals it, stores it in the safe at the Brady Pub, returns to the DiMera Mansion, reveals that he knows the truth about Elvis' parentage, and successsfully demands a return of his sportscar and apartment, along with a paid official position at DiMera Enterprises.
• After a shopping tour with Marlena, Carrie is confronted by her sister, who is furious that Carrie withheld news of her pregnancy, then hints that either of their husbands could be the babydaddy, enraging Marlena and causing Carrie to continue to agonize over her unresolved feelings for Samanther's estranged husband.
• As Melanie dreams about a rescue by Chad, Andrew mocks Gabriella for not taking their plan seriously, which confuses her as there is no plan.
• Brady confronts Ian, then arranges a drug buy, and disappears.
• Cameron accepts a job in Salem.
• Gabriella sees Melanie being held captive, freaks out at what Andrew has done, and then determines that it isn't a bad idea after all to keep her friend locked up in the basement while she gets closer to Chad.