Back to the Future

SalemDay 15 began on Monday, June 9, 2015.

• Arianna Grace turns two.
• John and Paul bond.
• Adrienne and Lucas go public with their relationship.
• Stefano returns to Salem, disheartened and distracted.
• Hope and Rafe use Will's information to further investigate Clyde Weston, which upsets Aiden, who presses Hope to drop the matter.
• Daniel counsels Jennifer.
• Daniel counsels JJ.
• Daniel counsels Paige.
• Eric finally figures out The Great African Elephant Escapade.
• Justin decides that Paul would be a great spokesman for Mad World's new men's designer fragrance and clothing line.
• Realizing that Nicole has been secretly researching his criminal past, Xander goes on a rampage at the studio, eventually blocking Eric and Nicole into a tiny hidden crawlspace, blasting the heat in an effort to burn them alive.

SalemDay 16 began on Thursday, June 25, 2015.

• With Serena's help, Daniel saves Eric and Nicole from being burned alive
• Victor's henchmen apprehend Xander.
• Jeannie Theresa moves into the Kiriakis Mansion with her son.
• Jackson discovers that his husband had sex in LA.
• Abigail moves in with Ben Rogers Weston.
• Feeding her anger toward Jennifer, Eve researches Laura Horton's mental lapses.
• Justin officially files divorce papers.
• Recovering from the crawlspace ordeal, Nicole chooses Daniel, who invites her to move in.
• A startled JJ is "arrested" by the DEA, who want to recruit him to bring down the burgeoning Salem Drug Trade, an offer he refuses.
• Paige fakes a sexual liaison with a man nearly 3X her age to swindle Eve out of $5K.

SalemDay 17 began on Wednesday, July 9, 2015.

• Victor and Stefan commiserate over Clyde Weston.
• The Salem Summer Picnic is celebrated on the lakefront.
• Abigail has a meltdown when she realizes that she may be pregnant.
• Paige flirts with druggie Kyle Southern.

SalemDay 18 began on Friday, July 17, 2015.

• Stefano reveals to Chad that Abigail is slated to inherit lucrative lands in Ireland.
• Adrienne signs the divorce documents.
• Abigail gets confirmation of her pregnancy from Kayla, who arranges a paternity test upon learning that the father could be wither Ben or Chad.
• After seeing Paige getting cozier with Kyle Southern, JJ decides to work with Agent Watts of the DEA.

SalemDay 19 began on Wednesday, July 22, 2015.

• While having lunch at a swanky new Salem restaurant, Daniel proposes to Nicole, who eagerly accepts, despite knowing that Eric still pines for her.
• Kayla is excited to take part in planning Salem's upcoming Bicentennial Event.
• Jennifer is unable to get through to Paige, who continues on a destructive path for all to see and who snarks that JJ is back to his old tricks.
• JJ makes a cash run for Kyle, then reveals the whole plan to his mother.
• After visiting with Marlena, Chad decides to come clean with Abigail, profess his love, win her back, and live happily ever after.
• Clyde puts the pieces together, realizing that Abigail is pregnant, most likely with a Baby DiMera, leading him to threaten a red-headed lab tech into faking the result of Abigail's paternity test.
• Serena overhears that Eric and Nicole were intimate in the crawlspace and races to tell Daniel.
• Will plots to hook-up Derrick with Paul Narita.
• At Clyde's urging, Ben proposes marriage before Abigail has a chance to reveal that she is "eight weeks" pregnant, despite being fertilized by Chad just five SalemDays earlier.

SalemDay 20 began on Monday, August 5, 2015.

• JJ trains with Agent Watts of the DEA
• An upset Chloe arrives, squealing that Nicole will make a lousy unreliable stepmother to Parker, relenting once she realizes that her bestie really has changed.
• When his Uncle Victor drains all his financial worth, Xander is installed as the Kiriakis Junior Gardener, alarming the extended family.
• In a desperate attempt to remain in the mansion, Jeannie Theresa fakes a broken foot, donning a thick white cast, hobbling the property on crutches, and conspiring with Anne and Eve.
• After learning that the paternity test shows that Ben Weston is the biological father of her unborn child, Abigail agrees to marry the student/bartender, sending Chad into a drunken snit.
• Stefano continues to plot a way to get Abigail's Irish land inheritance.
• While seated just outside Horton Town Square, Caroline has a stroke.

SalemDay 21 began on Wednesday, August 12, 2015.

• After learning that Will provided clues to Derrick, Paul drops the ex-bellhop and then confronts Will about telling Jackson.
• Kate is not pleased with Clyde's neanderthal behavior.
• Ben wants to move to California with Abigail and the baby.
• Jackson is furious after learning that Will plotted with Derrick, announces that he needs a break, and takes up his Uncle Victor's offer to check in on the European Kiriakis holdings.
• Clyde is angry that Aiden is looking into his past, dons a black outfit/mask, and beats the man to a pulp.
• Julie forces Hope to remember her time with ex-husband Bo.
• Paige saves JJ from Kyle.
• Marlena learns that John is leaving the Salem PD to re-join the ISA, is not pleased, and then acquiesces during a late night stroll through Murder Park.
• Victor visits Caroline in her hospital room.

SalemDay 22 began on Monday, August 24, 2015.

• Nicole launches a surprise lawsuit against Xander and against Serena, winning $250,000 settlements from each as a default judgment.
• An angry Chad tells Abigail about Stefano's failed plot to swindle her out of the rich Irish land she is destined to inherit.
• Jeannie Theresa hatches her latest plot: throwing herself at Xander then screaming assault during the moment, forcing Brady to save her and sending Xander to jail.
• Aiden works to gain Gabriella's release from prison.
• After planting a listening device in the Horton Living Room, Eve lerns that JJ is working undercover and tells Kyle Southern.
• Serena hands over her $250,000 judgment to Nicole, who promptly donates it to charity.
• After learning that Abigail will have Ben's baby, Chad gets drunk, finds a co-hort in depressed Serena, knocks back a couple bottles of pricey liquor with her, and gets slapped by her before she drunkenly storms from TBD.

SalemDay 23 began on Thursday, August 27, 2015.

• After being told that Serena hasn't shown up for work at the hospital, Eric searches Salem for the woman, finding her body in the brush at Murder Park.
• Multiple media outlets suddenly speculate that JJ is running the Salem Drug Operation out of the Horton Center, forcing Jennifer to resign from the board.
• Rafe is reinstated to the Salem PD.
• Kayla worries when her 16-year-old son Joey fails to show up at military boarding school in Ohio.
• Caroline begins dreaming about Bo.
• Suddenly under financial duress, Aiden proposes to Hope.
• When the current un-named mayor abruptly resigns, the city council appoints Abe as Interim Acting Mayor, who in his first official action fires the current DA Melinda Trask and hires Justin.
• Steve Johnson returns to Salem and delivers Joseph to his mother.
• John decides to sell Basic Black.
• When her boss wants her to interview a grieving Eric about Serena's murder, Nicole abruptly quits the television station.
• Kate dumps Clyde and commiserates with her ex-husband Roman.

SalemDay 24 began on Wednesday, September 2.

• An angry Clyde removes Kyle from his drug operation and "promotes" JJ with threats to Jennifer/Paige/Abigail.
• Hope has memories of her history with Bo and declines Aiden's marriage proposal.
• Both Caroline and Victor are suddenly unhappy that Aiden is in Hope's life.
• Indicating that she has important information, Paige invites JJ to her dorm, where he arrives to find her dead body in the shower.

SalemDay 25 began on Thursday, September 3, 2015.

• Chad hires Aiden and confides the gaps in his memory to a sympathetic Abigail.
• Steve presses Victor for information about Bo and dis-believes the letters allegedly written from him.
• Ciara gives her blessing, prompting Hope to reconsider her decision.
• A stressed Aiden visits Stefano.
• Bo struggles in captivity in a dark cell, faking weakness.
• Eve visits her daughter in the morgue.
• JJ blames Clyde for Paige's death.
• Adrienne decides to reunite with Justin.
• John moves back into the townhouse with Marlena.
• Eric gets drunk, while Eve seeks solace from Justin.
• Caroline sees her late husband's image in a hallway mirror at the Martin Mansion.