Sunday, May 6, 2018

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SalemDay 1 began on Wednesday, January 3, 2018.
  • Stefan makes an awkward play for Chloe Lane.
  • Vivian taunts Kate.
  • The DiMeras are peeved when Sam Maitland is proven to be an actual DiMera and is confirmed by the DiMera Board as new CEO.
  • After admitting that he is attracted to another man, Will decides to divorce Jackson.
  • Rafe figures out that Ciara knows about his one-night-stand with Samanther.
  • Anna Fredericks Brady DiMera DiMera DiMera appears in the pub after ringing in 2018 with her first ex-husband.
  • Ousted from his role as CEO, Chad quits.
  • After hearing Rafe's explanation, Ciara decides to not tell her mother about his night with ex-wife Samanther.
  • Abigail convinces her husband to return to DiMera Enterprises.
  • Vivian meets up with her secret ally Andre DiMera.

SalemDay 2 began on Tuesday, January 9, 2018.
  • After three whole SalemDays, Will moves out of the Kiriakis Mansion.
  • Steve has a sudden dizzy spell.
  • Lani has a sudden dizzy spell.
  • Kayla matchmakes Jennifer with Dr Shah.
  • Jackson heads to London for a break from The Will Drama.
  • Kayla tells Lani she is one month pregnant.
  • Anna invites The Tony Urn to join everyone for lunch.
  • JJ quits the Salem PD, then overhears Lani's surprising news.
  • Brady manhandles Vivian, teasing a return visit to the sarcophagus
  • Roman and Anna rekindle old moments.
  • Eli sexes up Gabriella.

SalemDay 3 began on Tuesday, January 16, 2018.
  • Lani decides to lie about her due date, unsettling Dr Johnson.
  • Mayor Abe accompanies Theo to the South African clinic.
  • Anna breaks up with Roman.
  • Lucas returns from rehab.  Again.
  • Andre fires Gabriella on the eve of her big launch.
  • Vivian muses that a Dead Andre would be helpful for her plan.

SalemDay 4 began in the middle of Friday, January 19, 2018.
  • Chloe abruptly heads to Vienna for an opera gig.
  • Abigail finds a Dead Andre on the floor of his office.
  • Will moves into the Martin House, right across the hall from Paul Narita.
  • The Tony Urn is found on the floor of Andre's office.
  • John drugs Steve.
  • Anna is questioned about the night Andre died.
  • Roman lies to give his ex-wife an alibi, allowing them to continue searching for the truth.

SalemDay 5 began on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
  • Valerie Grant mentions that Celeste Perrault and Dr Cameron Davis are in South Africa with Theo.
  • Widow Kate recalls her final days with Andre, including the moment he dumped her and vowed to divorce her.
  • Steve gets glasses and finds them helpful.
  • Will files for divorce.
  • Valerie steals a glance at Lani's medical records and discovers that Lani is not two months pregnant, but instead only one month along.
  • John administers another dose of poison to Steve, leading to further, almost immediate vision issues.
  • Roman and Anna are arrested.
  • Dr Shah diagnoses that Steve has a debilitating immune issue.
  • Ciara and Claire squabble over memories of Theo, enraging Tripp, who forces a truce.
  • Jennifer again dines with Dr Shah.
  • Carrie arrives in Salem to serve as attorney for her incarcerated parents.
  • Abigail has wild dreams about Andre's death.
  • Hattie Adams impersonates Marlena to crash Andre's Memorial Service.
  • Abe returns from South Africa.
  • Stefan re-thinks Andre's decision to fire Gabriella.
  • Brady and Eve decide to re-launch Bella magazine as an online publication.
  • Steve's test results prove inconclusive.
  • Pushed by an ultimatum from Dr Valerie Grant, Lani tells Eli that he is the biological father, but that the child will be raised by JJ.
  • John meets with his ISA contact to obtain additional poison and, despite decades of experience as an international spy, fails to notice his son and grandson trailing his every move around Salem.
  • Hope sends Hattie back to Statesville once it is confirmed that she did not kill her "Alfie".
  • Steve convinces Kayla to let him spend the night at home, after which, he collapses, stops breathing, and is resuscitated back to life by His Sweetness.
  • Gabriella is arrested, despite everyone believing that she didn't kill Andre.
  • Will confronts John about poisoning Steve, only to be taken hostage by John at gunpoint.
  • Paul arrives at the mausoleum, just as a gunshot is fired.

SalemDay 6 began on Monday, February 12, 2018.
  • District Attorney Melinda Trask offers Gabriella a plea deal, which is refused.
  • Billie arrives at the DiMera Mausoleum.
  • It's suddenly Valentine's Day in Salem.
  • Julie goes on an anti-Gabriella screed.
  • Eric declares his attraction to Jennifer.
  • JJ proposes to Lani, who accepts.
  • Chad posts bail for Gabriella.
  • Billie kills the rogue ISA contact holding John at gunpoint.
  • Stefan cozies up to DA Trask.
  • John admits the poisoning plot, and delivers the antidote, courtesy Billie Reed.
  • Stefan is startled to meet a black-wigged "Gabby".
  • John blames ISA Director Pamela Van Damme for the poisoning plot.
  • Pamela Van Damme arrives in Salem, takes Tripp and Ciara hostage, and is killed when Trip injects a "triple dosage" of the poison during the Horton Square standoff.

SalemDay 7 began on Wednesday, February 21, 2018.
  • Claire returns when her flight to South Africa is derailed by weather and scheduling delays at OHare Airport.
  • Victor returns from a VD Holiday with Maggie in Chicago, expressing doubts that Brady can successfully fool Eve Donovan Larsen Kiriakis.
  • Eric and Jennifer re-launch their romantic intentions.
  • Billie recovers from Pamela Van Damme's stray gunshot, already plotting her exit from Salem.
  • Maggie figures out the Eve Deception being plotted, insists that both Brady and Victor reveal their intentions and halt the charade, then moves to the Salem Inn when neither speaks up.
  • Abigail gets a sudden headache, and transforms into Gabby.
  • Rafe and Hope decide to forgo their Rehearsal Dinner and spend the night before their wedding together at the Horton Cabin on Smith Island.
  • Desperate to learn the secret which Tripp and Aunt Ciara share, Claire secretly records their conversation, which includes a brief discussion of Rafe's indiscretion while he and Hope were "apart".
  • Vivian makes a final play for Victor's attention, arriving at the mansion wearing just a faux fur and spewing dreams of a Titan-DiMera merger.
  • Hope surprises Rafe with an impromptu wedding at the Horton Cabin, plotting that they will keep it a secret until right before the nuptials are scheduled at Doug's Place on the Square.

SalemDay 8 began on Tuesday, February 27, 2018.
  • Abigail has nightmares about Andre.
  • Stefan reads Kimberly Brady Donovan's memoir on multiple personality disorder.
  • Gabriella is arraigned on murder charges.
  • Vivian encounters Gabby in the DiMera Living Room.
  • Secretly married, Hope and Rafe go through the motions in front of friends and family at Doug's Place.
  • Despite objections from Ciara and Tripp, Claire decides to tell her grandmother about Rafe's rendezvous with Samanther.
  • A stunned Hope calls off the wedding celebration and flees.
  • Eli tells Gabriella about his XMAS Eve encounter with Lani, but lies about being the father to her unborn child.

SalemDay 9 began on Wednesday, March 7, 2018.
  • Stefan tries to explain multiple personality disorder to Gabby.
  • Brady declares his love for Eve, then abruptly proposes that they get immediately married.
  • Victor tries to woo Maggie, who demurs when pointing out that Eve is still being manipulated by the Kiriakii.
  • Frustrated that Gabby isn't understanding how precarious her situation has become, Stefan de-wigs Mrs. DiMera, unleashing third personality Dr Laura.
  • Hope flies to Hong Kong to visit Shawn and Belle.
  • Brady and Eve are over the moon as they plan their sudden nuptials.
  • Gabriella discovers her coat, gloves, ID card, and the lid the Tony's Urn in Arianna Grace's overnight bag and races to dispose of the evidence in a Salem Alley Dumpster.
  • Dr Laura explains to Stefan that she is the gatekeeper and has everything under control.
  • JJ studies for his EMT exam.
  • DA Melinda Trask gets a tip about Gabriella's Dumpster Adventure and sends Lani to arrest her.
  • Acquiescing to his wife's demands, Victor calls Eve and reveals the plot to force her out of Basic Black.
  • Paul and Will have a moment and start to make out, just as Jackson arrives to visit.
  • Eve stops the wedding in middle of exchanging vows, reveals that she knows everything has been a scam against her, fires Brady from Basic Black, and declares that she wants nothing to do with her former brother-in-law.
  • Maggie moves back into Kiriakis Mansion and believes Brady when he declares that his affection for Eve was legit.

SalemDay 10 began on Wednesday, March 10, 2018.
  • Abigail awakens from another nightmare-ish dream about Andre's Death.
  • Ciara and Claire vie for Bella Magazine's Face of the Decade contest.
  • Lucas returns to Salem and declare 102 days of sobriety, despite heading for rehab only 13 SalemDays earlier.
  • Chloe returns from Vienna after 6 SalemDays.
  • Hope dines with her son in Hong Kong and avoids Rafe's continued attempts  to reach her.
  • Stefan discovers the Salem Tunnels. learns that Abigail/Gabby/DrLaura are using them as her homebase, but honors the request to not explore them.
  • Abigail senses that something is "off" and that she is exhausted all the time, leading her to undergo some standard medical tests.
  • JJ passes his EMT exam.
  • Jackson makes a feeble pass at the out-of-his-league bartender at the Brady Pub.
  • Vivian plots her takeover of Titan by catfishing Jackson with a dating app.