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.