The Days Roll On

SalemDay 23 began on Thursday, August 1, 2013.

• Jeannie Theresa lusts after Daniel Jonas.
• JJ and Lucas bond over their dislike for Dr Jonas.
• "Susan" visits the private investigator researching DNA samples left behind in Father Eric's hotelroom at the state capitol and successfully destroys all his paperwork before fleeing from the scene via restroom window.
• Jennifer decides to fire Jeannie Theresa, then decides to stop seeing Dr Jonas, and prepares to host a book club meeting.
• Jeannie Theresa bonds with Anne Millbauer, meets Nick Fallon, thinks he is a successful, wealthy techie, and is disheartened upon learning he is instead a jobless, murderous ex-con.
• Chad sees a specialist regarding the mass in his brain.
• Elvis, Kayla, and Justin are excited to exhume Officer Bernardi's body to determine whether the single gunshot actually killed him, only to be shaken when Marge reveals that she had her husband's body cremated.
• JJ makes a special batch of donuts, which Adrienne mistakenly swaps out for the better-looking ones made by his mother, leading to a buzz-free non-high in the park for the druggie gang and a hilarious giggle-laden book club meeting with Jennifer, Kayla, Adrienne, Nicole, and Julie.

SalemDay 24 began on Wednesday, August 14, 2913.

• While sexing up Brady, Kristen fantasizes about Father Eric.
• Samanther is denied bail.
• Father Matt guilts Kristen into working with Father Eric on the scholarships she is sponsoring.
• Jordan Ridgeway arrives in Salem to manage Rafe's rehabilitation.
• Kate and Samanther realize that Stefano wasn't trying to kill Rafe and are horrified that the mutilation nearly happened.
• Despite pushing 60, Kristen has a pregnancy scare, confides to Jennifer that she had a one-night, one-time fling post-Brady-Breakup, and swears her bestie to absolute secrecy when the test logically comes back negative.
• Jeannie Theresa meets Vargas, whose free-wheeling, free-spending, drug-crazed lifestyle leads her to agree to a date later that night at the opening of Club TBD.
• Victor and Marlena decide to join forces to reveal Kristen's psychopathic behavior to love-is-blind Brady, a partnership that gets its first lead when Marlena overhears Kristen discuss her secret affair in a telephone chat with Jennifer.
• Chad and Jackson celebrate the opening of Club TBD, which is marred when Vargas makes a drunken, coked-out scene by fighting with one of Jeannie Theresa's unnamed admirers.
• Gabriella feels trapped and alone as a single mom and decides impromptu couch-sex with her devoted ex-husband is a good idea. 
• When Vargas is arrested, Jeannie Theresa breaks into his apartment and steals his thousands of dollars.

SalemDay 25 began on Friday, August 23, 2013.

• After spending her fourth SalemDay behind bars, Samanther rejects a ten-year plea deal, but secretly proposes a briefer jail term if she gives up the goods on Elvis, who in turn, would provide evidence to the state about his father's illegal dealings.
• Nick is happy to be off parole, although Victor boots him from the mansion as a reward.
• Abigail chooses Chad after he charms her and Cameron behaves erratic and disinterested.
• Elvis arranges for thousands of dollars to be found in Timmy Bernardi's secret college fund, but suddenly worries that if the plot is uncovered, the scheme will only make Samanther appear even more guilty to the just-selected jury.
• Daniel receives an updated birth certificate for Parker and while trying to share the good news with Jennifer, realizes that it is best that they stay apart and separately raise their respective sons.
• When Kristen turns down an offer to jet off to Kauai, he surprises her with an impromptu luau in the park, during which he proposes marriage.
• After spending all night with a dying parishioner, Father Eric attempts not one, but two afternoon naps, both of which are unsuccessful as his wild erotic dreams about a leggy blond bimbette stir him from a restless sleep. 
• Jackson and Will are furious that Gabriella is starting to reconnect with Nick, especially when Jackson finds a condom wrapper under the sofa, confirming that she is sleeping with ex-husband Nick Fallon.

SalemDay 26 began on Wednesday, September 4, 2013.

• Adrienne bumps into Marge Bernardi at the Horton Town Square, inadvertently sees Timmy Bernardi's bankbook with over $100,000, and races to tell her husband.
• Stefano visits Rafe in his hospital room and taunts the injured man.
• Eric continues to battle his memories.
• JJ gets arrested for a marijuana drug deal.
• Salem Prosecutor Melinda Trask is startled that Justin doesn't fight for a continuance, but presses her case and calls witnesses Rafe/Will/Kate/Jackson/Chad.

SalemDay 27 began on Thursday, September 12, 2013.

• JJ celebrates his eighteenth birthday in the Salem Jail.
• Marlena joins forces with Nicole and with Victor to break up the burgeoning romance between Brady and Kristen.
• Nick Fallon testifies that Samanther stole his $30,000, pulled a gun on him, and threatened to kill him.
• Melinda Trask has Marge and Adrienne testify against Samanther, then with help from the FBI ultimately proves that the $100,000 in Timmy Bernardi's account was recently deposited, and only made to appear like it was deposited while his father was alive.
• Abigail visits Chad's new apartment and promptly has sex for the first time.
• While Nicole diverts Kristen's attention with a faux drunken rage, Marlena rifles through Kristen's purse to secretly upload files from her phone, a task which fails when Kristen suddenly becomes suspicious and spots Marlena with her purse.
• Once his $100,000 plot is foiled, Elvis pleads with Stefano to save Samanther.
• Eric returns to the capital city hotel room and has intense partial memories of sexing up a blonde woman.
• While visiting Rafe, Hope and Abraham receive a flurry of new leads about the Bernardi Death, sending them on a wild chase to collect evidence, all of which were prompted by new tips secretly supplied by Stefano's henchmen.
• Jennifer fires Theresa.
• JJ is released from jail and decides to host a party at Daniel's apartment while he is away with Parker visiting Chloe in Chicago.
• After Abraham makes a detailed presentation of new evidence -- including the razor with Bernardi's fingerprints -- the judge drops all charges against Samanther and she is set free.
• In an effort to put his partial memories into a coherent recap of what happened at the state capitol, Eric agrees to be hypnotized by Marlena and one of her associates.

More and More

SalemDay 17 began on Friday, June 14, 2013.

• Kristen resolves to move on and hatches a new plot to destroy Marlena. 
• Stefano leaves Salem. 
• Adrienne is upset that Jackson is being drawn into Will's "family drama" and later argues with Marlena over the Jackson-Will romance. 
• Justin agrees to represent Samanther, much to Jackson's joy and Adrienne's anger. 
• Samanther is attacked in jail. but recovers quickly. 
• Chad is stunned to realize that he has recorded video of Samanther wildly attacking the now-dead Officer Bernardi on his cell phone. 
• JJ steals drugs from Cameron's free sample stash. 
• Jackson realizes that Chad has shared the Samanther-Bernardi dustup on his phone, but forgets that he also shared it with his mother shortly after Chad took the video a mere three SalemDaze earlier.
• Nicole beds Brady twice, helping her forget Father Eric and him forget Kristen, who proceeds with her new plot.
• Kate fires Nick for losing a secret anti-aging cream to Samanther, unaware that the concoction was actually stolen by Samanther when she broke into Nick and Gabriella's room at the Kiriakis Mansion.
• Eric checks into a divey hotel near the state capitol, where the telephone system doesn't work, the fax machine died in the 1990s, and the staff bounce between inept and idiotic.
• Kristen dons a black wig and a French accent, checking into the same hotel under the pseudonym "Fay Taylor".
• Nicole discovers that Eric has left behind some of his notes for his meeting at the capitol and races to deliver them in person.
• Kristen tranquilizes Eric, then drugs him before videotaping a wild sex romp with the horned-up priest, who will not remember a thing once the drug wears off.
• Nicole finds a shaken and nearly unconscious Eric in his hotelroom and rushes him via ambulance back to Salem, where Dr. Jonas is perplexed by the sudden illness.

SalemDay 18 began on Wednesday, June 26, 2013.

• Lucas bonds with his granddaughter.
• Brady realizes that Nicole loves Father Eric.
• Abigail ping-pongs between Chad and Cameron.
• Nick files for an annulment from Gabriella.
• JJ is arrested for shoplifting, but successfully claims to his mother that it was all a big misunderstanding.
• Jennifer decides to "take a break" from her relationship with Dr Jonas.
• Kristen dabbles in video editing, then hires a pro to make her encounter with Father Eric appear flawless.
• Jeannie Theresa meets JJ in the park and wants him to score drugs for her.
• Eric is released from the hospital, but suffers periodic relapses back at the rectory.

SalemDay 19 began on Friday, July 5, 2013.

• Salemites hold a holiday picnic at the park beach.
• Jeannie Theresa continues to flirt with JJ to get drugs.
• Adrienne's phone auto-plays Chad's video of Samanther and Bernardi battling in the park, but no one sees the video as they are distracted by the festive party.

SalemDay 20 began on Monday, July 8, 2013.

• Stefano and Cecily return to Salem.
• Kayla brings Rafe out of his coma, prompting hallucinations from the injured man.
• Elvis wins his battle to take over DiMera Enterprises, forces Stefano to move out, and encourages Chad to move in.
• Father Eric continues to convulse erratically, leading Daniel to run additional tests.
• JJ tries to sell "cocaine" to Jeannie Theresa, but the vial breaks in his skintight jeans.
• Both Adrienne and Samanther are furious that their husbands secretly conspired to overthrow DiMera, each fearing that the old man will exact revenge on their families.
• Jeannie Theresa visits her grandmother and plays the meek good girl.
• Brady overhears Kristen discussing her failed relationship and feels sympathetic.
• After several near misses, Adrienne finally sees the Samanther-Bernardi Video.
• Jackson is excited about the new liquor license for his coffeehouse.
• John admits to Brady that Kristen is the one who stopped their encounter.
• Marlena advises Will not to push Jackson away.

SalemDay 21 began on Thursday, July 18, 2013.

• Brady fantasizes about Kristen, then visits her to investigate re-starting their relationship.
• Eric and Nicole both prepare for the dedication of the new school at St Lukes.
• Jennifer decides that she doesn't want to take a break from seeing Dr Jonas.
• After securing immunity for her son, Adrienne turns over the Samanther-Bernardi videotape to the police and prosecutor, leading to Samanther's arrest at the St Lukes Dedication.
• Will comes clean and tells Justin everything about Samanther arranging for Stefano's dirty cop to steal incriminating information about his shooting of Elvis years earlier.
• Adrienne feels threatened by Elvis.

SalemDay 22 began on Thursday, July 25, 2013.

• Brady and Kristen secretly re-start their romance.
• Nick and Gabriella's marriage is annulled.
• Rafe is finally told about Samanther shooting Bernardi dead in his hospital room.
• Justin is furious that details were withheld, drops Samanther ass a client, but re-enlists as her attorney after pleas from his son.
• Samanther fails to make bail and remains behind bars, where Marge Bernardi visits to taunt her.
• After Rafe's doctor's acknowledge his long rehab plan, Kate steps up and decides to hire a private therapist to help rehabilitate the injured man.
• Jackson's ex Brent helps Jackson and Chad plan renovations to the coffeehouse.
• Cameron thinks he has discovered that Chad has a brain tumor.
• Kayla reviews medical documents and believes that Bernardi did not die from gunshot wounds.

Time Flies

SalemDay 05 began on Tuesday February 5, 2013.

• Nick starts having prison flashbacks and plots to get proof that Lucas lied to save Will from prison.
• Jennifer plans a couples getaway to Chicago's Club Android with Kristen and Brady.
• At his mother's insistence, Will requests that Gabriella get a paternity test.
• When Lucas receives a vague-ish text regarding the shooting of Elvis DiMera, he seeks out his son and unwittingly gives Nick all the audio evidence needed, thanks to tiny microphone hidden on Will's backpack.
• Parket gets a 105-degree temperature, seizes, and is rushed to the hospital while Chloe frantically tries to find Daniel at a Salem nightspot.
• Nicole fantasizes about Father Eric.
• Stefano taunts Marlena about her separation from John.
• Chloe finally reaches Daniel, who is irate that Jennifer intentionally misled his ex-wife.
• Kate and Rafe share cocktails, then share a bed.

SalemDay 06 began on Wednesday, February 13, 2013.

• Elvis toys with Samanther, misleading her into thinking he will propose.
• Jennifer and Daniel continue to bicker over her Chicago Deception.
• Valentines Day arrives in Salem.
• Victor had a holiday luncheon with Caroline.
• Upon receiving a gift of music, Will thinks that Sonny wants to reunite, only to discover that the man is actively flirting with Brian.
• Chloe taunts Victor, who proceeds to ban her from the mansion, sending her racing to move in with Daniel, just as she had planned.
• Kate and Rafe bond again, then spend a second night naked together.
• Under pressure by Samanther to get a paternity test, Gabriella has contractions and must be hospitalized.
• Kristen suggests to Brady that they move into the DiMera Mansion.
• When Eric is attacked by a burglar, Nicole interrupts, only to be temporarily taken hostage until Eric manages to set her free before he is knocked into a bloody heap.

SalemDay 07 began on Monday, February 25, 2013.

• Eric insists on helping the druggie who attempted to rob him by starting up a prison assistance program.
• John visits Stefano.
• Chloe manipulates Abigail into a near fistfight in the Salem Town Square.
• Brady figures out that Kristen has been lying to him, only to be re-convinced that she is true to him.
• Nick confronts Will, Lucas, and Jackson with news that he will reveal the truth about the 2007 shooting of Elvis DiMera unless Will signs away his parental rights, which he does, as his parents look on in sadness and disbelief.
• Nancy Wesley returns to Salem!
• Upset that Daniel refusing to excise Chloe from his life, Janneifer issues an ultimatum and Daniel decides that they should "take a break".

SalemDay 08 began on Tuesday, March 5, 2013

• Her options limited, Samanther sexes up Elvis to get him to "get rid of Nick Fallon".
• Father Eric meets prisoner Vargas as part of the Prison Outreach Program.
• Will doubts Jackson's theory that Nick is anti-gay, then gets proof when Nick proselytizes that gay people cannot be fit parents.
• A clueless Gabriella is released from the hospital, unaware that her fiance is blackmailing her baby's father.
• After Nancy orchestrates a major argument between Jennifer and Daniel, Chloe races to his apartment, makes romantic overtures to the the drunken man, is rebuffed by a drunken Daniel, then returns to drug him with her mother's sleeping pills and to fake a liaison with the doctor just as Jennifer arrives at his apartment. 
• John returns to Salem, visits his son at the DiMera Mansion, gives Brady a golden plaque from a Venetian Gondola that Isabella adored, then discovers Marlena at t eh coffeehouse in a brief friendly hug with her ex-husband.
• Samanther and Lucas break into the Salem Police Department evidence room, only to be discovered by Rafe, who thinks that they are trying to access information about the Trent Robbins' murder by Nick.
• Stefano returns to Salem and welcomes Brady to the DiMera household.

SalemDay 09 began on Thursday, March 14, 2013.

• Rafe begins yet another day waking up with Kate.
• Brady and John meet for breakfast.
• Chad visits Stefano.
• Gabriella marries Nicholas Fallon in an early-morning ceremony at the Horton House, with his cousins Jennifer and Hope as witnesses.
• Abigail notices that Dr Cameron Davis is stressed and frustrated
• Brady overhears his father tell Marlena that he has faked his support for Brady's new paramour, argues angrily with the couple, and then races to the DiMera Mansion to propose to Kristen in the foyer.
• Daniel races to Smith Island, explains Chloe's manipulations, reunites with Jennifer, and spends a romantic night in front of a roaring fire.
• Gabriella is upset when she learns that Will has signed over his parental rights.
• Samanther agrees to move into the DiMera Mansion with her children.

SalemDay 10 began on Monday, March 25, 2013.

• Samanther moves into the DiMera Mansion.
• Abigail has a miserably inept breakfast date with Cameron.
• Rafe and Kate wake up together again.
• Jackson discovers that Rafe and Kate are a romantic couple, leading Kate to initiate a breakup with her new BF.
• Chloe continues to plot after secretly seeing Daniel and Jennifer in naked splendor when she raced to Smith Island.
• Vargas meets up with Nick, who is unsettled by the man's sudden appearance in Salem.
• Stefano introduces his latest romantic conquest, Cecily, to his family.
• After Chloe threatens to keep Parker forever from Daniel, revealing that she has had her mother take the boy to Brazil, Jennifer tearfully breaks up with a confused Daniel.
• Abigail and Chad follow Cameron to Chicago and discover that he is working a second job as a male stripper.
• When Chloe insists that jennifer didn't break Daniel's heart enough, Jennifer orchestrates a brutal takedown of the man in the hospital lobby, tossing her necklace at him, berating him in front of his mother and co-workers, and announcing that she never wants to see him again, going so far as to quit her job at the hospital.

SalemDay 11 began on Monday, April 08, 2013.

• Nancy and Parker return from Brazil.
• For the fifth consecutive SalemDay, Rafe and Kate wake up together.
• After finding Nancy's passport and consulting with Nicole and Rafe, Daniel slowly puts together all the pieces of Chloe's plot to end his romance with Jennifer once and for all.
• Hope urges Brady and Kristen to review the Salem Mug Shot book and Brady recognizes Sy Miller as his attacker, while Kristen continues to spew doubt.
• Jennifer flees out of town to visit her mother, returning after a few hours to reunite with Daniel when Chloe finally admits everything.

SalemDay 12 began on Monday, April 15, 2013.

• Elvis proposes and Samanther accepts.
• Chloe gives up the battle, apologizes, and departs Salem for counseling, leaving Parker with Daniel.
• Rafe and Kate argue about their burgeoning relationship.
• Nicole lusts for Vargas.
• Kristen locates photos from her past with John and delivers them to her ex-fiance.
• Abigail and Jennifer bring the Men of Salem to dance at Cameron's strip club, foiling Anne's plot to have the young doctor removed from staff

SalemDay 13 began on Thursday, April 25, 2013.

• Ciara secretly admires her photo of Kristen paying off thug Sy Miller.
• Bo cancels his long-awaited return to Salem, upsetting his wife and daughter.
• A mere two SalemDays after quitting her job in front of the entire staff, Jennifer meets with hospital administrator Mr Seth Burns, who promptly reinstates her.
• Elvis plots to take down his father, secretly meeting with Justin Kiriakis.
• Vargas makes a play for Nicole, only to be foiled by Father Eric and them interrupted when she moans "Eric" while they are thrashing about Nicole's hotel bed.
• Kate begins to worry that Stefano will harm Rafe and ends their relationship.
• Stefano follows through on his commitment to Samanther and instructs Bernardi to get the Salem PD evidence on the shooting of Elvis DiMera by Will Horton.

SalemDay 14 began on Monday, May 6, 2013.

• Kristen teases Eric about his mother.
• Nick threatens Samanther, who returns the $30,000 she stole.
• JJ returns to Salem.
• Bernardi steals the evidence from the Salem PD archives, then gets into a comical fight with Samanther in the park when she tries unsuccessfully to gain control of the information and prevent Stefano from using it in the future against her family.
• While Rafe is headed to the pub, he is brutally attacked and left for dead in an alley, leading Kate to reveal her broken-not-broken relationship withe the detective.

SalemDay 15 began on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

• A frustrated Marlena gives up on John.
• Kate and Gabriella sit vigil over Rafe, who is placed into a medically-induced coma to preserve his health.
• Nick manages to triple Vargas' money in under 24 hours.
• Johnny slyly steals the photo from Ciara.
• Nick and Gabriella are startled in the Town Square by just-released ex-felon Jensen, who kidnaps them away to Smith Island and taunts Nick endlessly.
• Having followed Jensen and his captives, Will and Jackson manage to free Gabriella, but are unable to escape with Nick, leading Will to stay behind and plot a rescue, only to be shot by Jensen just before Hope arrives and kills the ex-felon.
• John and Kristen continue to plot the same event, with different goals in mind.
• Johnny confesses that he stole from Ciara and gives his grandmother the photograph of Kristen meeting with the mugger.
• As she finally gets John close to consummating her plan, Kristen collapses under the pressure, realizes that she doesn't want to hurt Brady, and calls off her plan, fleeing her hotelroom to search for her fiance.
• Marlena delivers the photo to Brady, who puts all the pieces together, realizes that Kristen has set him up, calls off the wedding, and leaves his fiancee sprawled on the floor of the DiMera Mansion in hysterics.
• After escaping from Jensen, Gabriella gives birth to Arianna Grace with Jackson as midwife.
• Brady is tempted by drugs, but doesn't lapse.

SalemDay 16 began on Friday, May 31, 2013.

• Salemites ponder the called-off nuptials between Brady Black and Kristen DiMera.
• JJ gets high with new pal Rory, hatching a scheme to sell product by hitting up Jennifer for some cash to secretly fund their enterprise.
• Stefano lurks outside of Rafe's hospital room.
• JJ and Rory trash Daniel's car in the hospital parking lot.
• Nicole cheers up Brady and vows to stand by him.
• While visiting Rafe's hospital room, Samanther shoots the man attempting to attack her ex-husband, later realizing that the man is Stefano's cop-on-the-take Joe Bernardi.
• Marlena is furious and disgusted when John finally reveals his now-ended plan to sleep with Kristen to destroy Brady's infatuation.
• Samanther is arrested after awkwardly consoling Marge Bernardi, the widow of the man she killed.

Salem Unleashed

The first SalemDay of 2013 began on Thursday, January 3, 2013.

• Brady and John recover from their no-holds-barred slugfest.
• Once again, Kristen taunts Marlena.
• Kate declares that she is heading out of Salem to visit Cassie (!), Rex (!), and Philip.
• As Marlena tries to reason with Brady, Kristen plants doubts in John's mind.
• Daniel prepares to host Jennifer for pizza takeout, but is interrupted by the arrival of Chloe Lane.
• Under intense questioning from her husband, Marlena admits that she knew about Brady and Kristen for "weeks" (even though it's only been a handful of SalemDays",
• Jennifer looks forward to a quiet night with Daniel, only to be interrupted by her brother, who needs her help to get Kate a hotel room in Paris and who then proceeds to trash the idea that she should ever get close to the man who stole Lucas' wife.
• Samanther throws a hissy-fit upon learning that her stepbrother has been hooking up with a DiMera.
• Out of the blue, Stephanie calls her mother to explain that her co-hort from two years earlier, Ian, had admitted to changing the paternity records of Parker Kiriakis, in an unrealistic tactic to somehow impress her.
• Chloe reveals to Daniel that Parker is actually his biological child, a confession that is backed up by documents/tests that Kayla received from her daughter.
• Gabriella meets with Dr Davis, both of whom remain unaware that their provate confidential conversation is being overheard.
• Nick Fallon agrees to work for Kate, then attends the world's worst bachelor party at the coffeehouse, with Will, Jackson, Lucas, and Chad as the only participants.
• The Bradys host a late-night rehearsal dinner at the pub for Nick and Gabriella.
• A stunned Daniel re-connects with two-year-old Parker at the Kiriakis Mansion.

The second SalemDay of 2013 began on Thursday, January 10, 2013.

• Jackson surprises Will with a key to the apartment and Will eagerly moves in.
• After being torn between two loves, Samanther decides to choose Rafe, although she remains focused on the Fallon-Hernandez shotgun wedding that she has put together.
• Will remains somber about his decision to step aside and let Nick raise his child, even as Gabriella and Nick meet at the altar to be married by Faither Eric Brady.
• Just before the happy couple is announced as married, Chad stands up and wonders aloud why Gabriella isn't marrying the father of her baby.
• Chloe meets up with old pal Anne Millbauer at the hospital, where they share their disdain for Saint Jennifer Rose Horton Deveraux.
• A frustrated Will reluctantly announces to the churchgoers that he is the biological father of Gabriella's unborn baby, sending both Samanther and Rafe into separate tizzies over the revealed secret.
• Billie jokes to her mother that Will's child will make her a great-grandmother.
• Jackson storms from the church, with Will in hot pursuit, only to be stopped by his father, who berates Will for trying to hide the secret and reveals that he "didn't do jail time for him" in order for Will to screw up, a revelation that Nick secretly overhears.
• Samanther berates Gabriella and upsets Rafe.

The third SalemDay of 2013 began on Wednesday, January 16, 2013.

• Chloe meets Kristen DiMera and mocks Brady for dating his almost-step-mother.
• In an effort to get Parker back to Philip, Kate manipulates Jennifer into attacking Jennifer, only to have the plan backfire.
• Chloe's plan to reunite her family fails when Daniel chooses to remain with Jennifer and declares that he has no interest in Chloe's romantic overtures.
• Gabriella has a sonogram with Dr Davis, who reveals the baby is a girl to mother, father, and Nick.
• Upset with Rafe's defense of his sister, Samanther toys with choosing Elvis.
• Jackson rejects Will outright, telling everyone that their romance is over.

The fourth SalemDay of 2013 began on Friday, January 25, 2013.

• Kristen gleefully updates her father that her Salem Plan is going well.
• John announces that he is leaving Salem, breaking Marlena's heart and cheering Kristen's spirits, and then visits Stefano in his European chalet, warning the man that Kristen's antics will backfire on the entire DiMera Family.
• Kate is upset when Billie quits, announces a move to Europe, and criticizes the way her mother runs her life.
• Chloe tries to make Jennifer angry/jealous by greeting her in one of Daniel's shirts and then interrupting a romantic overnight getaway with a frantic call, faking an inconsolable Parker hysterical outburst.
• Bryan returns to the coffeehouse, makes a play for a distracted Jackson, who eagerly reciprocates, only to bail once they start to get naked at Bryan's apartment.
• Justin encourages Will to not give up on Jackson and to prepare for an intense custody fight with Gabriella and Nick.
• Samanther discovers that Gabriella and Nick have planned a quickie city hall wedding, which adds further fuel to her battles with Rafe, who manages to get his sister to postpone the quickie wedding.
• Determined to "help" Brady, Nicole secretly downloads private documents from a Titan laptop, plants the info on Kristen's computer, and has the whole scheme blow up in her face when Brady figures out the timeline and that Nicole is only person who could be responsible.
• A mere two Salem Days after choosing to be with Rafe, Samanther goes all in on becoming Mrs. Elvis DiMera again.