The Beat Goes On

The first SalemDay of 2015 began on Tuesday, January 6, 2015.

• Brady and Melanie experience all sorts of awkward as they attempt to navigate a change from besties to sexies.
• John visits Theresa to advise her that he is staying in Salem and that she will never get her hooks into his son again.
• Kayla still has misgivings about Aiden.
• Rafe's role in Gabriella's underground tunnel fiasco comes to light, but Aiden is able to help him avoid jail time, instead forcing him to leave the Salem PD.
• Will asks Paul if he is gay, who turns the tables, then tosses Will onto the bed for mad crazy sex.
• Victor checks out an abandoned nightclub, buys it, offers it to Jackson -- who turns him down, hires Rafe, and opens it to Standing Room Only crowds, all in one SalemDay.
• While searching for old photos for Adrienne's scrap book, Jackson finds the Home Run Ball that Paul gave him.
• Jeannie Theresa has flashbacks when she sees a baby rattle at the hospital.
• Abraham re-hires John.
• Jordan discovers that Clyde was the secret donor to fund her hospital outreach project, sending her into a tailspin and leading her to his hotelroom, where he taunts and taunts about killing her mother and the baby she was carrying.
• Jackson arrives at Paul's hotelroom, but is intercepted by Bellhop Derek, who advises that Paul may be "entertaining" a guest.
• Will showers in guilt.
• Jennifer grills her son to divulge what happened with Paige, then is startled when he admits that he hooked up with someone else while she was in LA for 1.5 SalemDays.
• Maggie is not happy when she discovers Brady and Melanie in a romantic moment.
• All the couples of Salem visit the Grand Opening of Victor's new nightclub.
• Jeannie Theresa hooks up with ne'er-do-well Clint.

SalemDay 2 began on Wednesday, January 21, 2015.

• Jeannie Theresa wakes up with "Cliff" AKA Clint.
• Jennifer asks Daniel to help JJ resolve his issues.
• Brady and Melanie ineptly plan an official First Date.
• An exasperated Nicole tries to find dirt on Serena Mason.
• Fresh out of rehab, Cole apologizes to Paige and learns that she is single again.
• JJ warns Eve that her daughter is relentless, then nearly sexes her up in the Horton Living Room.
• Aiden is thrilled to have an offer on his Puget Sound beach house.
• Victor arranges for Clyde to meet his maker.
• Damon shoots Clyde and leaves him for dead in Murder Park, as the first heavy snow of the season hits Salem, burying the hillbilly.
• Kate gets Will to admit that he slept with Paul Narita, after which she convinces him to not mention the one-time tryst to his husband.
• Melanie overhears Clint report in to Dr Mandrake
• Eve encourages JJ to leave Salem.

SalemDay 3 began on Monday, February 2, 2015.

• Aiden, Hope, Ciara, and Chase arrive at the Puget Sound beach house.
• Will finishes his article and observes as Paul comes out to his mother and grandfather via phone call.
• While flirting with Jackson at Club TBD, bellboy Derek blithely comments that Will Horton is bedding the former start pitcher, leading a distracted/furious/distraught Jackson to head across Horton Town Square to confront his husband.
• Serena covets Eric's identical elephant.
• Jackson Kiriakis is stabbed just outside Horton Town Square, his wound smothered in cocaine dust.
• Lucas and Adrienne bond while babysitting their granddaughter.
• Daniel decides there is no future with Nicole and breaks up with her (again).
• Brady and Melanie skip their date planning, head to The Salem Inn, and sex it up.
• After sending the kids to a lavish field trip in San Francisco, Hope finds herself stranded on the resort island due to sudden bridge damage, cancels out her foray to Tahiti to visit her son and granddaughter, senses that Aiden is not pleased about her continued stay, and surprisingly locates Meredith Jennings' video diary, hidden away in the desk over five years earlier, when no one had tablets.
• JJ and Eve have sex yet again.
• Kate expresses her displeasure that Lucas is bonding with the married Adrienne.
• Clyde resurfaces, his wounds far from fatal thanks to a bulletproof vest, and reveals to Victor that other family members are at risk like great-nephew Jackson.

SalemDay 4 began on Thursday, February 12, 2015.

• After a sleepless night, Hope remains frazzled about Aiden in the Puget Sound Beach House.
• Paul goes to see Marlena and is not interested in her probing of his family dynamic.
• Melanie begins a secret search for Dr Mandrake.
• In an effort to keep his family safe, Victor relinquishes control of certain marginally legal business endeavors to Hillbilly Clyde.
• Justin returns to Salem as Jackson begins to recover.
• Eric boinks Serena twice in one day, once in her hotelroom, and once in his apartment, where she hysterically notes that his elephant is missing.
• Hope and Aiden have a terrifying confrontation, after which he reveals that Chase accidentally shot Meredith and that the evidence is sealed away in a plastic bag behind wallboard in the Puget Sound beach house living room.
• JJ sexes up Eve a fourth time.
• Jackson realizes that Will and Paul were sex partners and seethes with anger at the betrayal.
• Lucas kisses Adrienne.
• Aiden and Hope are suddenly back in Salem.
• Tori Norita arrives in Salem.

SalemDay 5 began on Tuesday, February 26, 2015.

• In a desperate attempt to derail Paige's determined reunion, JJ drags out an old galpal from London Boarding School, who conveniently lives in Chicago.
• Tori is startled to see John Black.
• Marlena tries to calm an increasingly deranged grandson Will.
• Adrienne and Lucas continue to bond.
• Parker suddenly has a fascination for carved elephant statues.
• A jealous Eve chases away Roxanne, JJ's galpal excuse.
• Jennifer arrives at the Salem Inn to see Roxanne and instead sees her son sexing up Eve Donovan Larsen.
• Jordan leaves Salem to work on a New York charity.
• Released from the hospital, a disillusioned Jackson flees to Phoenix to visit his brother.

SalemDay 6 began on Tuesday, March 10, 2015.

• Rafe worries about Victor's apparent depression, unaware that he is manipulating his foes behind the scenes.
• Stefano unleashes a plan to unseat DiMera Enterprises CEO Kate.
• Paul meets Arianna Grace.
• Will begins to investigate Paul's mother, who appears to have lied about never visiting Salem, especially given the photograph of her at the DiMera compound just months before giving birth to Paul.
• Stefano sneaks into Salem, orchestrates Kate's ouster, reclaims the CEO title, and flees town before the Salem PD can arrest him.
• Justin admits his affair, leading his wife to slap him and storm into Lucas' arms.
• Tori Norita panics when she is confronted by Will, who threatens to reveal the fake truth that Paul is a DiMera.
• Jackson returns exactly one SalemDay after leaving.
• Serena finally gets to swap out the elephants, retrieves the diamonds hidden in the wooden base, and hides them in fireplace of Daniel's apartment.

SalemDay 7 began on Tuesday, March 24, 2015.

• Paige and JJ reunite after Jennifer forces Eve to step back and let them reconcile.
• Xander Kiriakis Cook arrives in Salem, pays a courtesy visit to his Uncle Victor, threatens Serena Mason that he needs the diamonds ASAP, flirts with Nicole at TBD, and reconnects with Eric Brady, whom he met in Africa while running a "charity" that appears to be mostly focused on international diamond smuggling.
• Paige mentions Daniel's ugly brown coat, leading Daniel to put all the pieces together and realize that JJ and Eve had been sexing it up.
• Will goes off the deep end regarding Jackson's past with Paul.
• Melanie starts putting together a theory that Kristen stole Jeannie Theresa's embryo.

SalemDay 8 began on Tuesday, March 31, 2015.

• Jackson and Will's First Anniversary coincides with John's big fundraiser at Horton Square, featuring Paul Narita, who agrees to stay in town for a promotional appearance.
• Marlena calls out her increasingly crazed grandson for trying to tie Paul to the DiMeras.
• Melanie seeks out some of Jeannie Theresa's blood plasma, which is still stored at the hospital, due to her donations for Eve's cancelled surgery.
• John sees Tori.
• Will realizes that John is likely the father of Tori's baby.
• Adrienne and Lucas have a steamy roll in the hay at the Kiriakis Mansion.
• Marlena freaks out when she realizes that John is Paul's father, but remains unable to tell her ex-husband the news.
• Acting on a tip from Bellhop Derek, a reporter for the Spectator exposes Paul's affair with Will Horton as he celebrates his anniversary with family and friends at Horton Town Square.

SalemDay 9 began on Monday, April 6, 2015.

• Jeannie Theresa drools over Xander Cook, who meets with his Uncle Victor.
• Marlena confronts Tori, reveals she know the truth about John, and urges her to be truthful with everyone involved.
• Kate fumes when she realizes that Lucas is sexing up Adrienne Kiriakis.
• Jackson tells Paul about Will's now-spiked article and urges him to confront his mother.
• Tori has a dreadful afternoon, as all her secrets are revealed, in front of all.

SalemDay 10 began on Tuesday, April 14, 2015.

• Melanie gets proof that Jeannie Theresa was pregnant.
• Despite promising Xander that he would get his diamonds, and after he gives her $200,000, Serena is unable to retrieve them from the Daniel Jonas fireplace.
• Living in a DiMera Italian Villa, Kristen DiMera coos and giggles with her baby Christopher.
• JJ and Paige reconnect, and have sex in his bedroom.
• Melanie convinces Brady that he has a son, leading him to jet off to Italy, unaware that Melanie has stowed away in a safety closet.
• Kate purposely tips off Victor that Lucas and Adrienne have hooked up, leading him to fire Lucas and hire her as the President of MadWorld.

SalemDay 11 began on Tuesday, April 21, 2015.

• Aiden and Hope wake up together after spending all night at the Salem Inn.
• John finds Paul in San Francisco.
• Clint returns to Salem, under orders to bring Jeanie Theresa to Italy for a bone marrow transplant for Baby Christopher.
• Brady arrives at the Italian Villa.
• JJ dreams about Eve, then has sex again with Paige.
• Jennifer and Eve have another battle, as Jennifer realizes that Eve may have strong feelings for JJ.
• Serena finally gets the diamonds, but is nearly discovered by Nicole and spills the small packet in Daniel's living room couch.
• Melanie announces herself as a nurse to Dr. Mangrove, who shoos her away.
• Clyde learns that Will is writing a cover story on him and is not pleased.
• Jeannie Theresa and Clint arrive at the Villa, where she finally realizes that he has brought her to Kristen DiMera for a medical procedure
• Chad kisses Abigail, professes his love, and then demurs when she bolts away and proceeds to sex-up Ben at his apartment.
• Nurse Melanie finds the secret panel and discovers a baby.
• Having found "Paul's Address" scribbled on Victor's desktop notepad, Marlena arrives at the Italian Villa and is startled to meet an even-more-startled Kristen at the door.
• Ciara announces her intention to become an umpire.
• Justin arrives in San Francisco and introduces himself to Paul Narita.
• Jeannie Theresa overpowers Mandrake and meets her son.
• Brady kills Clint in a struggle for the gun.
• Marlena and Kristen struggle near a window, with Kristen losing her balance when Brady storms into the room.
• Laura has emergency surgery, sending Jennifer out of town for an overnight visit, allowing JJ and Paige to hook up again.
• Off-balance, Kristen crashes through the glass and falls 100+ feet into the bay below.
• Jeannie Theresa and Brady bond over their new son.
• Stefano mourns his daughter from afar.

SalemDay 12 began on Friday, May 1, 2015.

• Stefano secretly returns to Salem and tells Chad that Kristen has died.
• Victor asks Xander to stay in Salem, for "security reasons", incensing the man.
• With the diamonds delivered and 200K in her bank account, Serena wants to take a job in Hawaii and urges Erick to join her.
• The Salemites are released from custody in Italy and sent back to the USA.
• Caroline learns about Will's affair and counsels her great-grandson.
• Justin returns to Salem, advises his son that he encouraged Paul to return to Salem, and discovers Adrienne wrapping up a tryst with Lucas at the Salem Inn.
• Clyde bullies Will into writing a "positive" article.
• Stefano flees Salem and heads to the Italian Villa.
• Jennifer returns from visiting her mother and tries to reach a truce with Eve.
• JJ is thrilled that he has been accepted to San Jose State, allowing him to be near Paige while she attends Stanford.
• Jeannie Theresa and Brady bring Baby Christopher to Salem University Hospital.
• Eve plots with Cole, who takes the lead and plants a bag of marijuana in JJ's backpack, then phones in a "tip" to the Salem PD, leading Roman to pay a courtesy call to the Horton house.
• Nicole sees a plot between Xander and Serena and orchestrates a public breakup with Daniel so she discover what they are planning.
• Melanie begins to distance herself from Brady, as he focuses on his new son.
• Lucas agrees to run Countess W.
• John learns that Brady has a son and the awkwardly reveals that he also has a "new" son when Paul, Brady, and Jeannie Theresa have a tense meeting.
• Abigail comforts Chad on his loss and nearly gets naked with him.
• Marlena and John briefly reconnect at the Kiriakis Mansion, after which "The ISA" escorts her to a waiting plane.

SalemDay 13 began on Wednesday, May 13, 2015.

• Will researches Clyde Weston in Poplar Bluff, getting angry reactions from all, except Clyde's local enforcer, Jeremiah.
• After being drugged by "The ISA", Marlena discovers that she has been flown back to the Italian Villa.
• Ben Rogers consults with Aiden to re-become Ben Weston, a change that unsettles Abigail.
• Stefano confronts Marlena at the Italian Villa.
• Jeannie Theresa and her son undergo a successful bone marrow transplant.
• After re-living some of their greatest moments, Stefano decides to end her life by having his henchmen toss her from the same window where Kristen met her fate.
• Baby Christopher DiMera is re-named Tate Black.
• Jennifer and JJ plan a birthday party for Paige, which goes horribly wrong when Paige reveals the Eve-JJ sexcapades.
• Serena plants doubts about Xander with Daniel.
• Will returns home to see Paul holding Arianna Grace.
• Adrienne chooses Lucas.
• Kimberly returns to Salem to meet her grandson.
• Chad stops Stefano from killing Marlena, who is delivered safely back to Salem.
• Melanie declines Brady's proposal.
• Nicole is upset about Eric's plan to go to Hawaii with Serena.
• Kimberly and Victor have an unsettled reunion.
• Victor stops Justin from leaving Salem by installing him as president of Mad World.

SalemDay 14 began on Friday, May 29, 2015

• Serena and Eric argue about her past with Xander.
• Melanie leaves Salem.
• Abigail visits the DiMera Mansion and spends the night with Chad.
• Kate has a cancer-free checkup.