Another Year Bites The Dust

SalemDay 25 began on Friday, September 2, 2016.

• Chad hires Belle Black to work at DiMera Enterprises.
• Jennifer proposes that Adrienne and Lucas take care of Thomas.
• Laura arrives in Salem to comfort her daughter.
• Clyde Weston summons Marlena to prison.
• Orpheus meets Clyde.
• Deimos invites Maggie and Victor to move back into the mansion in order to facilitate her ongoing rehabilitation.
• Eve Donovan returns for the wedding of Brady and Jeannie Theresa.
• Victor figures out that Kate took Tate.
• Kayla collapses.
• Adrianna leaves Salem.
• Belle gives back her portion of the money that Samanther stole from the DiMeras.
• Aiden re-opens the investigation of Stefano's death.
• Xander Cook meets Orpheus.
• ShawnDouglas agrees to accompany Belle to her new posting in Hong Kong.

SalemDay 26 began on Tuesday, September 13, 2016.

• Maggie and Victor host the Wedding.
• Orpheus, Xander, and Clyde escape from a Prison Transfer Bus when Eduardo causes an accident by killing the man though responsible for attacking Gabriela in Horton Town Square.
• Kayla recovers from brain surgery.
• Orpheus crashes the wedding.
• Xander attacks Jeannie Theresa.
• Clyde surprises Kate, who escapes when Chad comes to her rescue.

SalemDay 27 began on Monday, September 19, 2016.

• Maggie suddenly starts walking with crutches
• Chloe sends Parker to be with her parents in NYC.
• Deimos hires Dario to follow Chloe and learn about *his* baby
• The escaped convicts cause a massive Salem Blackout, leading to riots, looting, and fear for all of the town.
• Orpheus takes Joey and Claire as hostages.

SalemDay 28 began on Friday, September 23, 2016.

• Jeannie Theresa and Brady declare that DJ Wear is bust.
• Deimos forces Chloe to take a paternity test.
• John saves Marlena and Kate from Orpheus and Clyde.
• The convicts argue amongst themselves.
• Aiden secretly records Hope's confession
• Mayor Abe tries to settle the town hysterics, only to end up being shot by Clyde Weston, who was aiming for Aiden, but missed.
• Claire escapes from Orpheus.
• Chloe realizes that Daniel is the father of the baby and heads to NYC.

SalemDay 29 began on Tuesday, October 4, 2016.

• Titan Industries in freefall, given that all the Kiriakii haven't been paying attention to their business interests.
• The Kiriakis family remains in disarray as they argue about the company.
• Orpheus demands $20M.
• With Claire freed, Joey successfully manipulates Orpheus.
• Aiden manipulates Hope into renewing their relationship.
• Salem plots a counter-attack against the Escaped Convicts.

SalemDay 30 began on Tuesday, October 11, 2016.

• Salem goes into lockdown as the Escaped Trio crashes the power grid and water systems.
• Hope confides her feelings for Aiden to Jennifer.
• Andre initiates a negotiation with Clyde Weston, who is gullible enough to fall for the ruse, leading to his capture.
• Deimos attempts a negotiation with dimwitted Xander and assits in his escape.
• Orpheus plants a bomb at the Brady Pub, but *dies* after Steve rescues the Bradys.

SalemDay 31 began on Thursday, October 20, 2016.

• With the Siege of Salem ended, Victor decides to retire, designating Deimos as his successor.
• Nicole reluctantly tells Deimos about her baby.
• Roman and Rafe join forces to save Hope from Aiden.
• Maggie is suddenly on crutches, her surgery apparently successful.
• Eduardo remains smitten by Kate and makes his move on the great-grandmother.
• Valerie Grant returns to Salem after 30 years in DC.
• Hope dissuades Aiden that a reconciliation isn't going to happen, leading him to resign his short-lived position as District Attorney and to move to Portland to be near Chase.
• Andre is thrilled to have a recording of Hope's confession.

SalemDay 32 began on Thursday, October 27, 2016.

• It's suddenly Halloween in Salem.
• Jade returns to Salem.
• Marlena and Kayla disappear during a Halloween Trick gone awry.
• Andre plays his recording of Hope's Confession to the Horton Town Square.
• Salem is rocked by Hope's declaration, after which she expresses a desire to plead guilt, accept responsibility for killing Stefano DiMera, and protect Rafe and Roman from possible implication.

SalemDay 33 began on Wednesday, November 2, 2016.

• Maggie stops using her crutches and can walk on her own.
• Shane arrives in Salem to warm his daughter.
• Philip visits Nancy for news about Chloe.
• Adrienne decides to buy The Spectator.
• Jeannie Theresa is startled to run into Mateo.
• Chloe recalls her secret in vitro plan.
• Kimberly joins forces with her husband to protect Jeannie Theresa.
• Confused by Deimos' manipulation, Nicole brings him to see Chloe, who refuses to talk about the in vitro plan.
• Steve proposes to his Sweetness.
• Realizing she has to leave Salem, her son, and her fiance behind, Jeannie Theresa fakes boozing it up.

SalemDay 34 began on Wednesday, November 9, 2016.

• Adrienne and Lucas prepare for their wedding day.
• Abe meets up with Valerie.
• Jade desperately attaches to an indifferent Joey Johnson.
• Abigail secretly lurks around Salem, keeping tabs on her family.
• Victor joins forces with Shane and Kimberly to help Jeannie Theresa, who accidentally overdoses.

SalemDay 35 began on Tuesday, November 15, 2016.

• Hope goes on trial for killing Stefano, puts up a minimal defense, and is sentences to 25 years at Statesville.
• Abigail reveals herself to her mother, then takes up residence in the Horton Attic.
• Jade reveals that she is pregnant with Joey's baby.
• Jeannie Theresa leaves Salem.
• Justin abruptly declares his love for Adrienne, stopping her wedding to Lucas.
• Chad and Gabriela get closer.
• Adrienne flees St Lukes and hides away in her hotel room.
• Abigail realizes that Chad has moved on with Gabriela.
• Anne consoles a devastated Lucas, who begins to drink again.
• Andre is revealed as Abigail's support system.
• Abe and Valerie go on a date, upsetting Theo.

SalemDay 36 began on Monday, November 28, 2016.

• JJ finds Abigail in the attic.
• Hope begins her sentence at Statesville and is startled to meet Hattie Adams.
• Theo remains virulently anti-Valerie.
• While arguing about her future with both boyfriends, Adrienne collapses.
• Laura arrives in Salem, revealing her role in protecting and treating her granddaughter.
• Anne decides to pursue Lucas Horton.
• Abigail sneaks into the DiMera Mansion to see her son.

SalemDay 37 began on Monday, December 5, 2016.

• Rafe and ShawnDouglas investigate Stefano's last few days. 
• Hattie protects Hope.
• Deimos protects Hope.
• Ciara attempts internet dating, ending up with Rory as her First Date.
• Nicole returns from Titan duties in Paris, then reluctantly tells Deimos about the failed IVF procedures.
• Adrienne learns that she has breast cancer.
• Dario Hernandez finds Abigail and is persuaded to keep the secret.
• Roman visits Hope, which delights Hattie.
• Eve returns for the holidays.
• DiMera butler Harold recalls that Stefano had a gun.
• Deimos figures out that Chloe had a second round of IVF.

SalemDay 38 began on Wednesday, December 14, 2016.

• Chad dedicates a memorial to his late wife.
• Abigail doubts that a reunion with Chad is possible.
• Julie probes Valerie Grant about her life over the past 30 years.
• Lani returns to Salem.
• Kate guides Adrienne through her first rounds of chemotherapy.
• Again turned down by Chloe, Philip decides to leave Salem.
• Andre takes Abigail to be with Chad, but she flees upon seeing Chad with Gabriela.

SalemDay 39 began on Wednesday, December 21, 2016.

• Abigail plans to remain "dead" and leave Salem.
• Stranded in a motel with Nicole after a XMAS Snowstorm, Chloe gives birth.
• Gabriela realizes that her future is with Chad, so she ends her relationship with JJ.
• The Hortons decorate their XMAS Tree.
• Chloe urges Nicole to name her baby, decides to tell Nicole the truth, then has a debilitating stroke.
• Hope's appeals are all denied.
• As she heads out of Salem, Abigail makes one final visit to see Thomas and is discovered by an incredulous Chad.

SalemDay 40 began on Monday, December 26, 2016.

• Gabriela insists that she and JJ have no future.
• Chad is furious with his wife.
• The inmate protecting Hope is murdered in prison, upsetting her and Hattie.
• Shane reports rumors that Stefano is alive and kicking in Europe.
• Nicole cares for Baby Holly while Chloe fades into a coma.
• John goes to Louisiana to be with his ailing mother.
• Nancy returns to Salem.

On And On And On

SalemDay 16 began on Friday, June 10, 2016.

• Aiden delivers a marriage certificate to the Widow Kiriakis.
• Hope explains her decisions to her family.
• Deimos washes ashore downstream.
• Julie encourages Jennifer
• Joey is shot while defending Jade at the Desert Sect and undergoes surgery.
• Belle and ShawnDouglas meet to work through their issues.
• Chloe nurses "Robert" back to health.
• Blanca settles into the Hernandez Hacienda.
• Kate names Philip as co-CEO.

SalemDay 17 began on Friday, June 17, 2016.

• Abigail imagines visits from Jack and Ben before Shady Hills has a fire emergency.
• Deimos (aka Robert) meets Parker Jonas.
• Claire is elated that ShawnDouglas and Belle have reconciled.
• Eduardo buys TBD and plans to run it with his son Dario.

SalemDay 18 began on Tuesday, June 21, 2016

• Before heading away for a romantic night at Green Mountain Lodge with a reluctant Hope, Aiden hatches a plot to free Andre from jail.
• Kate fires Nicole.
• Abigail continues to have visions of Ben Weston.
• Deimos suggests that he, Chloe, and Parker travel away to begin a new life as a family.
• Dead Clark's sister arrives in Salem and demands answers from Summer.
• Nicole and Chloe chat.
• Maggie tosses Victor from the mansion, leading him to the Brady Pub, where Caroline shows him no solace.
• Brady and Jeannie Theresa set a wedding date.
• Andre moves into the DiMera Mansion.

SalemDay 19 began on Wednesday, June 29, 2016.

• Nicole visits Chloe and Deimos
• JJ finds a diary in which Abigail scribbled her confusion.
• Andre manipulates Kate.
• ShawnDouglas is peeved when he interrupts drunken Belle and Philip bonding.
• Aiden has nightmares that Hope rejects him.
• Hope has nightmares which confirm her fears about Aiden.
• Steve and Kayla bring a post-surgical Joey to Salem University Hospital.
• Kate tries to salvage her "marriage".
• Chad is counseled by Stefano's image.

SalemDay 20 began on Friday, July 8, 2016.

• Summer makes a desperate play for Brady, and fails.
• ShawnDouglas and Rafe join forces to prove the timeline of the "Aiden Switch"
• Tate Black is kidnapped.
• Claire notices that Ciara is crushing on Chad.
• Andre claims that Abigail died in a plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Hope and Aiden return to Salem, their relationship ended.
• Jennifer and Chad argue about what is best for Baby Thomas.
• Armed with news of his blood test, Hope arrests Aiden for attempted murder.
• Jeannie Theresa makes a desperate TV plea for her son's return.
• Hope saves Rafe.
• Rafe saves Hope.

SalemDay 21 began on Thursday, July 21, 2016.

• Jeannie Theresa and Brady locate Summer and return with her to Salem.
• Adrianna Hernandez rants about Hope.
• Marlena counsels Kate, as Andre plots.
• Ciara moves out of the DiMera guesthouse and back home with Hope.
• Chloe hires Claire too be her personal assistant.
• Jackson Kiriakis returns from successfully running the Paris operations.
• Jeannie Theresa lashes out at Summer, who flees Salem again.
• Deimos returns to Salem and returns 50% of his holding to Victor.

SalemDay 22 began on Monday, August 1, 2016.

• Chad hires Belle to retain custody of his son.
• Jennifer hires Aiden to gain custody of her grandson.
• Chloe realizes that she is pregnant.
• Deimos sets his sights on a skeptical Nicole.
• Hope decides to sleep with Rafe.
• Dario arranges an "attack" on Gabriela to blame on his father.
• Chad gets proof that Abigail Deveraux DiMera died.
• Aiden is named new District Attorney, replacing the disgraced Justin Kiriakis.

SalemDay 23 began on Monday, August 22, 2016.

• Nicole declines a marriage proposal but agrees to run Basic Black.
• Maggie undergoes risky reparative surgery, arranged by Deimos.
• Brady and Jeannie Theresa find Tate in an Indianapolis hotelroom.
• Aiden begins his term as DA by having Victor arrested for the babynapping.
• Visions of Jack Deveraux prevent Jennifer from a drug relapse.
• Claire kisses Theo, startling them both.

SalemDay 24 began on Friday, August 26, 2016.

• Upset that his family is endangered, Eduardo decides to leave Salem.
• Steve reluctantly agrees to Couples Therapy to repair his relationship.
• Jade is upset by Joey's indifference.
• Kate finally gets a home, buying out Doug and Julie's bed and breakfast, kicking out all the guests, and moving into the renovated Martin House.
• Philip agrees to support Chloe, announcing *their* pregnancy.
• Salem mourns Abigail DiMera
• Jackson and Gabriela bond while at Will's gravesite.
• Chloe finally admits the pregnancy truth to a persistent Nicole.

June Swoon

SalemDay Two began on Wednesday, January 13, 2016.

• Melanie returns to bury her father.
• Eric and Brady slowly recover.
• Hope nearly admits the truth to Andre.
• Rafe nearly admits the truth to Lani.
• Kayla is abruptly called to DC to justify the decision to give Brady the heart of dead Daniel Jonas.
• Steve confides to Kayla that he believes that Ava is truthful about their son.
• A smitten Joey freaks out when Ava ignores him and feigns disinterest.
• Hope decides to plead guilty to killing Dr. Malcolm, after which Justin determines that no charges will be filed due to Hope's state of mind and self-defense.
• Philip makes a play for Belle, inviting her to Las Vegas for a sexcation.
• John "Robichaux" meets his elderly "mother" in New Orleans, who turns out to be a fraud.
• Claire is thrilled when her father returns to Salem and takes a job with the Salem PD.

SalemDay Three began on Friday, January 22, 2016.

• Released from the hospital, Jennifer continues to have back pains.
• Andre searches the abandoned warehouse and finds Stefano's body just as the building implodes, knocking him unconscious.
• Claire crushes on the troubled Chase Jennings.
• Chad decides to buy the DiMera Mansion.

SalemDay Four began on Wednesday, January 27, 2016.

• Eric is arrested.
• Kate meets Deimos Kiriakis, who has been released from Greek Prison after a thirty year sentence for killing his secret girlfriend Helena, who happened to be Victor's fiancee, despite the fact that he was on his way to Salem at that time and was romancing both Caroline and Kimberly.

SalemDay Five began on Thursday, January 28, 2016.

• Salem mourns as Daniel Jonas is buried.
• Steve agrees to join Ava in her search to find their son.
• Hope and Rafe take Chase and Ciara to the Horton Cabin on Smith Island, but return to Salem only a few hours later.
• Andre staggers back through the Salem Tunnels and into the DiMera Mansion, then sneaks into Hope's house, where he is nearly discovered by Shawn Douglas.
• A devastated Eric stumbles to AA.
• Ava tries to charm Steve as they await a flight in Maui.
• Philip and Belle hookup.
• Steve reluctantly beds Ava to get the location of Kayla's captivity.
• Claire goes to NYC for a Julliard audition.
• Joey rescues Kayla from Ava's hiding place.

SalemDay Six began on Friday, February 5, 2016.

• JJ suddenly graduates from the Police Academy.
• Jennifer takes plenty of painkillers to attend the graduation.
• Steve and Ava are told that their baby died in the Indonesian orphanage.
• An irritated Victor fires Philip after learning he was in cahoots with Deimos.
• Andre taunts Hope and Rafe.
• Claire returns from a failed NYC Julliard audition, but has her spirits lifted when Belle buys Edge of the Square for her "singing gig".
• Andre senses an opening and befriends a moody Chase.
• A small fire sends Hope, Ciara, and Chase to live with Jennifer at the Horton House.

SalemDay Seven began on Monday, February 15, 2016.

• Dr Fynn Thompson tells Brady to slow down and not over-exert, but the recent heart transplantee insists on going to LA to explore the dreams he believes that Daniel's "heart" have triggered.
• Lani and Belle snap at each other about Shawn Douglas.
• Hope and Rafe decide to frame Andre for Stefano's "murder"
• Runaway Chase is found, returns to the Horton House, and rapes Ciara.
• Eric continues to drink heavily.
• Ava returns to Salem and sends video of her sexathon with Steve.
• In Malibu, Brady sees Summer walk into the surf, then rescues her as Nicole arrives on the scene.
• Former Salemite Dario Hernandez has returned from Titan Argentina, grown 6 inches, gained 40 pounds, grew stubble, and now tends bar at a dive-ish trendy beach bar.
• Andre bonds with Chase and hides him in the Salem Tunnel system.
• Belle is disheartened when her purchase of Edge of the Square fails to impress her daughter, then bankrolls Philip's new record company.
• Drunk Joey smothers Ava in her hospital bed.
• Roman figures out that Andre did not kill Stefano.
• Belle beds Philip again.
• Gabi beds JJ.
• Steve confesses that he killed Ava.

SalemDay Eight begins IN THE MIDDLE OF Monday, March 1, 2016.

• Abigail plans a quick wedding at the DiMera Mansion.
• Jennifer skips another AA meeting.
• Ben escapes from the psychiatric facility.
• Salemites celebrate Stefano's demise.
• Summer arrives in Salem.
• Steve is released from custody when he claims Self-Defense.
• Claire figures out that Chase raped her Aunt Ciara.
• Belle rebuffs Philip's marriage proposal.
• Eduardo's research on John's past reveals that Petrov is still alive.
• Marlena and her great-grand-daughter are kidnapped.
• Deimos beds Kate, then gives Petrov the formula that Philip stole.
• After the teen crowd threaten Chase, he is arrested for rape.
• John and Eduardo get a lead on Marlena and Arianna Grace.
• Brady proposes to Jeannie Theresa.
• While rescuing Marlena and Arianna Grace, Eduardo is shot, taking a bullet intended for his son.
• John is kidnapped by Yo Ling, who wants his blood after revealing that he has the same disease that affected Caroline and mimicked Alzheimers.
• Nicole and Maggie bond in their grief.
• Abigail imagines Ben at her wedding and freaks out.
• Deimos replaces Maggie's medication, leaving her weak and unstable.
• Lani sets her sights on Shawn Douglas.
• Joey tells Jade that he murdered Ava.
• Ciara has an 18th Birthday Party at Edge of the Square.
• Armed with blood evidence secured by Daniel, Summer reveals to Maggie that she is the daughter born while Maggie still lived on the farm, despite being at least a decade younger than the egg-baby, who was presumably born only a few years before Sarah Horton was sired by Dr Neil Curtis.
• Joey tries to confess to Roman, but fails.
• Yo Ling reveals that he will take Paul's blood and brainwash him as John's replacement soldier.

SalemDay Nine began on Tuesday, March 22, 2016.

• John manages to escape, frees Paul, and discovers Adrianna Hernandez being held captive in the compound.
• Maggie reveals that Summer was the result of her "childhood" romance with a mystery ranch hand, who moved away long before she even knew that she was pregnant and that she believed that her baby was born dead.
• Yo Ling commits suicide.
• Abigail continues to hallucinate Ben's appearance at the DiMera Mansion.
• Brady and Jeannie Theresa attempt to celebrate their engagement with an unenthused family.
• Maggie grows weaker and weaker, collapsing at the Edge of the Square and then falling down the stairs at the Kiriakis Mansion.
• Chase makes bail.
• Deimos reveals that he has an antidote for Maggie's illness, which he trades for all of Victor's fortune.
• Fynn reveals that Maggie is likely paralyzed, though the antidote is helping.
• A furious Victor plots revenge against his brother, only to suffer a heart attack.
• Nicole saves Victor
• Deimos and Kate celebrate their good fortune at his newly obtained mansion.

SalemDay Ten began on Tuesday, April 5. 2016.

• Victor and Maggie remain hospitalized.
• Rafe arrests Chase when he breaks into the Horton House.
• Steve refuses a plea deal when his self-defense case collapses.
• ISA Director Pamela Van Damme arrives to save Steve from prison by "revealing" that he was on duty and that Ava was under investigation for extensive criminal activity.
• Ben arrives at the mansion and confronts Abigail DiMera.
• Maggie reveals to Summer that she knew her baby lived and opted for adoption since she felt that she had no life to offer her child as a disabled teen farmgirl.
• Jennifer's addiction intensifies and she throws herself at Eric.
• Abigail tricks Ben into thinking that they will be together, only to restrain him in the bed, douse him in lighter fluid, and then set him afire.
• Hope confesses to Caroline that she killed Stefano.
• Maggie has surgery.
• Hope robs the cradle and kisses Rafe.
• Ben is saved by Chad and JJ, then sent off to a prison hospital to recover from his extensive burns.

SalemDay Eleven began on Friday, April 15, 2016.

• Jennifer and Eric awaken post-binge in a cheap motel.
• Lani pursues a mildly interested Shawn Douglas.
• Jailed Andre taunts Hope that he knows the truth.
• Eric goes to prison.
• Victor tells Maggie about Deimos' plot.
• Kayla collapses and is diagnosed with a hematoma, which could burst at any time.
• Belle signs divorce papers.
• Abigail runs away with Thomas to a cheap motel, her sanity fleeting.
• Hope learns that Deimos was the one behind Bo's captivity, intensifying her guilt about blaming Stefano in cold blood.
• Jade convinces Joey to leave Salem.
• After being found by Chad, JJ, and Jennifer, Abigail decides to leave Salem and get help at a psychiatric facility.

SalemDay Twelve began IN THE MIDDLE OF Monday, April 25, 2016.

• Hope and Ciara move home.
• Abigail reluctanctly begins her counseling sessions, while still imagining Ben at every turn.
• It's suddenly Senior Prom for the Teen Scene, which ends with the kids being arrested for vandalizing the car of a judge, whose son had taunted Ciara about Chase.
• Kate sells Basic Black to Deimos and is named CEO of Titan Industries.
• Victor and Nicole negotiate a vengeful plan against his brother.

SalemDay Thirteen began on Friday, April 29, 2016.

• Newlywed Chad struggles as a father.
• Victor and Maggie move to the same condo complex where John/Marlena and Brady/Theresa call home.
• Deimos remains infatuated with Nicole, offering her Basic Black, which infuriates Kate.
• Summer/Cindy is confronted by "Clark", whom she and Dario scammed in LA, who demands $50,000.
• Hope and Rafe have a second date.
• Aiden arrives in Salem, telling the story of his months-long captivity.
• Brady gives Summer the cash she needs and threatens Clark to leave her alone.
• Paul and Gabriella are overcome with a virus.
• Summer kills Clark and begs Dario to help her bury the body.

SalemDay Fourteen began on Thursday, May 12, 2016.

• Abigail regresses with family visits, so opts to keep them away.
• The virus is traced to Paul's brainwashing via Yo Ling and multiple Salemites are hospitalized, including several models from a photo shoot, who die
• Aiden confesses his love to Hope, who is distracted by conflicting memories.
• Victor makes Summer feel unwelcome at the condo.
• Steve heads to LA to find Jade and Joey, who have arrived at her Aunt Simone's desert compound.
• Maggie becomes angry when Summer presses her about her father "Noah".
• Kate proposes and plans a Las Vegas wedding.
• Nicole begins her seduction plan for Deimos and is torn by guilty feelings.
• Jennifer finally hits bottom when Chad won't let her have her grandson for an overnight visit.
• Joey drives the getaway car after Simone's clan orchestrate a robbery.
• Jennifer dreams about Jack and after a torturous night, attends an AA meeting.
• Kayla insists on joining the search for her son, but since she is unable to fly due to her cranial bleeding, agrees to let Fynn drive her cross-country.

SalemDay 15 began on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.

• Ciara and Claire both get community srvice for their prom night vandalism.
• Theo is angry when Ciara insists that they just remain friends.
• Aiden visits Chase.
• John joins Steve to search for Jade and Joey.
• Summer moves out of Victor's townhouse, recalls memories of LA with Dario, has a nooner with him, then apologizes to Brady for complicating his life.
• Kate convinces Deimos to marry her in Las Vegas.
• Steve arrives at the commune only moments before local authorities investigating Simone's criminal ring.
• Nicole meets with Deimos, realizes that he is on to her plan, and decides to give up her seduction of Deimos.
• Kate secretly videotapes the secret meeting between Deimos and Nicole in the park, at river's edge
• Victor remains unfazed by Nicole's failure, instead focusing his revenge plans with Justin, who must orchestrate the release of a Deimos henchman as proof that he is trustworthy.
• Wheelchair bound Maggie is furious when she learns of Victor's plots.
• Rory gets arrested and JJ wrongly offers an untenable plea deal.
• Joey gets arrested.
• Hope remains distracted and heads to Smith Island for a quiet getaway.
• After watching Deimos and Nicole argue, Kate confronts him, argues with him, and pushes him into a tree, causing him to stagger and fall into the river.
• Hope dreams of Bo, Larry, Stefano, and Zach, all of whom lead her to believe and trust in herself.
• Kate reports Deimos' "murder" to Roman, pointing the finger at Nicole.
• The Widow Kiriakis arranges to buy a Marriage License from Aiden, for $250K.

New Year, Same DOOL

Salem Day 35 began on Tuesday, November 10, 2015.

• Chad is released once everyone believed Aiden was the Necktie Killer.
• John is fired from the ISA for refusing an assignment, then considers going into business with Steve as "BlackPatch".
• Held in the cabin by a deranged fiance, Abigail has labor pains.
• Hope returns home.
• Chase is rocked by news of his dead father's rampage.
• Jeannie Theresa is thrilled after spending a night with Brady.
• Reconnecting with his family, Bo passes out twice, forcing his son to take him to the hospital.
• A bitter Victor tosses Jeannie Theresa from the mansion.
• A shocked Kayla makes a shocking diagnosis for her ailing brother.
• Prompted by Chad, Rafe begins to investigate Abigail's disappearance from Salem.
• Caroline hosts a surprise party for her returned son.
• Andre admits that he has Samanther under wraps.
• Abe tells his son about the daughter he had with Tamara Price.
• Bo calls Chelsea, not hinting that his days are numbered.
• Marlena hypnotizes Chad to get information about his battle with Ben.
• Hope and Bo have a quiet afternoon in Murder Park, after which Hope's greatest fear materializes and her ex-husband dies in her arms.
• Chad finally remembers all the details and works to trace Abigail's phone.
• John and Marlena insist that Andre take them to Samanther, who has escaped after breaking into the DiMera bank accounts and wiping them clear.
• Ben brings Midwife Wendy to the cabin to help deliver the baby boy, then kills the midwife in the snowstorm.
• Hope turns her devastation into vengeance.

SalemDay 36 began on Wednesday, November 25, 2015.

• Salemites celebrate a somber Thanksgiving.
• Belle and Claire return to reunited with the Bradys and Blacks.
• Hope has visions of Bo as she plots against his captors.
• JJ and Gabriella have a tentative first date.
• Basic Black hires Paul and Gabriella to launch their new fashion line.
• Belle and Shawn Douglas announce their plans to divorce.

SalemDay 37 began on Wednesday, December 2, 2015.

• Salem attends Bo Brady's Funeral.
• Chad finds Ben's contact info at Midwife Wendy's office, leading him to the cabin.
• Samanther gives Belle access to the DiMera Millions.
• Jeannie Theresa seduces Brady again, getting a new townhouse in the process.
• Chad finds Ben, Abigail, and Baby Colin in the cabin, loses a battle with Ben, and ends up chained to a burning bed with Abigail as Ben takes Baby Colin on the run.
• Worried that Hope has lost all control, Roman suspends her, taking her badge and gun.
• Lani and JJ stumble upon Ben at Midwife Wendy's office and place him in custody.
• Hope goes vigilante, kidnapping Dr Seth Malcolm for info on Bo's captors.
• Chad and Abigail manage to free themselves from A Burning Bed.
• Belle realizes that Samanther gave her $250M and shares the info with Brady.
• Colin Rogers Weston is found abandoned in a motel and becomes Thomas Jack Deveraux upon his return to his mother.
• John meets with Eduardo Eddie Larson Hernandez about secretive Winterthorne Academy.
• Philip returns to the Kiriakis Mansion to lead Titan Industries.
• Ava urges Joey to plot his parents' reunion.
• Steve and Kayla give in to their memories and hookup.
• Ciara is kidnapped.
• Jeannie Theresa offers Anne a position at the relaunched Basic Black.
• Hope delivers 500K ransom to gain Ciara's release.
• Dr Malcolm is shot dead in Murder Park.

SalemDay 38 began on Wednesday, December 16, 2015.

• XMAS decor suddenly appears all throughout Salem.
• Launching a ridiculous plot to regain the DiMera fortune, Andre drugs, kidnaps, and braiwashes Chad to romance Belle Black.
• Jeannie Theresa wants Belle to invest her new fortune in Basic Black.
• Steve moves in with Kayla and Joey.
• Belle wants to donate her ill-gotten gains to charity.
• Eduardo reveals to John that he was assigned to kill him.
• Ava taunts Kayla with an evocative visit.
• Hope is arrested for killing Dr Malcolm when her gun is ID'd as the weapon used in Murder Park.
• Abigail brings her son home from the hospital and senses a distance from Chad.
• Ava fakes leukemia.
• Chad abruptly ends his flirtations with Abigail and begins an awkward, very public romance of Belle Black
• Abigail becomes morose and depressed when Chad ends their relationship.

SalemDay 39 began on Tuesday, December 22, 2015.

• It's suddenly Christmas Eve in Salem.
• Eve charms Claire.
• Ava charms Joey.
• Chad charms Belle.
• Kate charms Eduardo.
• Maggie comforts Lucas on his first holiday without his son.
• Jeannie Theresa clashes with Kate as Nicole plays peacemaker.
• The Horton Ornaments are proudly displayed.

SalemDay 40 began on Friday, December 25, 2015.

• Christmas at the Kiriakis Mansion is highlighted by Caroline's arrival as houseguest.
• Kayla agrees to re-marry Steve.
• Ava continues her plot by revealing baby photos.

SalemDay 41 began on Monday, December 28, 2015.

• Kate berates Jeannie Theresa in the run-up to the re-launch of Basic Black, only to have Brady and Nicole quickly defend the mother/designer/partner.
• Belle is surprised by divorce papers and rebuffs Chad's advances.
• Andre continues to push a brainwashed Chad toward Belle.

The Final SalemDay of 2015 (#42) began on Wednesday, December 30, 2015.

• It's suddenly New Years Eve in Salem as the town prepares for the Basic Black Launch Party and Fashion Show, which is a wild success.
• Baby Thomas runs a fever, causing Jennifer and Abigail to fear aplastic anemia.
• Andre again manipulates Chad ro romance Belle and regain the DiMera Fortune.
• Brady admits his feelings for Jeannie Theresa, who shines at the Launch Party.
• Eric drinks like a fish at the Basic Black event.
• Joey gets upset when he sees Ava flirting with Aussie doctor Fynn Thompson.
• Abigail learns that Chad fathered her son.
• On the way home from the Launch Party, a drunken Eric causes a multiple car accident, injuring Jennifer and Brady, and killing Dr Daniel Jonas.

The First SalemDay of 2016 begins on Thursday, January 4, 2016.

• Devastated after the death of her egg-baby child, Maggie faces the impossible decision as to whom will receive Daniel's donor heart:  the injured Brady or the heart-infected Eric.
• Hope becomes increasingly obsessed with making Stefano pay for Bo's demise.
• Chad comes to his senses, overcomes Andre's brainwashing, and chooses Abigail.
• Julie and Caroline console a heartbroken Maggie, who decides that Brady should receive Daniel's heart once she learns that Eric's condition is responding well to medication and treatment.
• Chad warns Belle that Andre will seek revenge.
• After Stefano taunts Hope with crude remarks about dead Bo Brady, she shoots him dead, then seeks help from Rafe to hide the body in an abandoned building designated for implosion on the edge of town.
• Ava teases Steve with news of a potential love child.
• It's suddenly the first day of the school semester for the aged teen scene.

And That's Fifty

SalemDay 26 began in the middle of the show on Friday, September 11, 2015.

• Adrienne and Justin have an uncomfortable date.
• Clyde buys a house for his son and bride-to-be, visits Jennifer in her living room, and spots JJ meeting with Roman at the police station.
• Ben reveals that he activated an app in his fiancee's cellphone, removing it once he comes clean.
• Gabriella is released from prison after Aiden discovers a "sentencing guideline imporperly applied" and most of Salem seem to forget she shot and killed Nick Fallon.
• Abigail sneaks Chad into see Marlena for a hypnotic session.
• Stefano has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital.

SalemDay 27 began on Monday, September 21, 2015.

• Steve makes plans to fly to Cancun to find Bo's trail.
• On his first day at Salem High, Joey is suspended, frustrating his mother.
• After having a second secret session with Chad, Marlena is attacked by a dark-clad man wielding a red necktie.
• Andre returns to Salem, ostensibly to help his father manage Chad's situation.
• At Ben's insistence, Abigail agrees to leave Salem immediately.
• Steve meets Britta Englund's "daughter" Claudia, who reveals her hired role in sending Bo to Mexico.
• Stefano fires Aiden, who becomes frantic about his money issues.
• Lani Price arrives in Salem, begins working at the police station, and stares loviingly at Mayor Abe.
• Adrienne receives news that her mother, Jo Johnson, has operable breast cancer, leading the daughter to undergo genetic testing.
• In his Mexican prison cell, Bo feigns illness, overpowers his guards, and manages to escape, only to be quickly recaptured and moved to a new, fortified location.
• A desperate Aiden confesses his money woes to Hope, who reluctantly gives him $100,000.00 to resolve the issue.
• Steve arrives at Bo's original cell only hours after it was vacated.
• Abigail takes Chad to the Kiriakis fishing cabin to hide out.
• Packing for his move from Salem, Ben recalls killing Serena and Paige.
• Aiden remains frantic that 100K won't solve his problem.

SalemDay 28 began on Tuesday, September 29, 2015.

• Jeannie Theresa disses Anne, losing her only friend in Salem.
• Alone in the fishing cabin, Chad finally recalls an alibi.
• Ben continues to be racked with memories of Serena and Paige.
• Andre solves Aiden's financial problems by paying off all his debts, making Aiden in debt to the DiMeras.
• Dr Salinas arrives in Salem as Caroline falters.
• Ben asks Will to serve as Best Man at his wedding.

SalemDay 30 began on Friday, October 2, 2015.

• Paige has a private funeral, bringing together her parents.
• Steve returns to Bo's abandoned cell, only to be captured himself.
• After Caroline fails to remember her, Kayla agrees to let Dr Salinas use the experimental serum to help her mother survive.
• Victor finally reveals that Bo disappeared after locating the serum.
• Eduardo Hernandez (AKA Eddie Larsen) wants to remain amicable with ex-wife Eve.
• JJ sets up Clyde, who is taken into custody for running the Salem Drug Trade.
• While being brutally tortured by his captors, Bo fakes a seizure and manages another escape.
• Abigail asks her cousin to wait at the apartment for the cable guy.
• Adrienne dumps Justin.
• Experiencing writer's block, Will accidentally discovers one of Ben's red neckties in the garbage and starts to put the pieces together.
• Ben kills Will
• Samanther returns to Salem.
• Chad figures it all out and heads to Ben's apartment, where the two men battle, with Chad getting pummeled into a coma.

SalemDay 31 began on Wednesday, October 14, 2015.

• Salem mourns the murder of William Horton.
• Samanther gets a stack of mail from her mother.
• Chad lingers in a coma, and most of Salem believe he killed Serena, Paige, and Will.
• Eric drinks heavily.
• Stefano realizes that Rafe does not believe that Chad is the murderer.

SalemDay 32 began on Monday, October 19, 2015.

• Samanther discovers a letter from Elvis.
• Jackson returns from Paris to bury his estranged husband.
• Lucas is devastated by the death of his son.
• Will Horton is buried.
• Andre arrives at the Brady Pub, startling the residents of Salem, who learn he has secured a blanket pardon from the outgoing governor, freeing him from his past crimes against the Hortons and Bradys.
• Hope urges Aiden to ask Rafe to serve as Best Man at their wedding.
• Chad remains comatose.
• Andre gives Aiden his new marching orders:  Kill Hope Brady.

SalemDay 33 began on Wednesday, October 21, 2015.

• A desperate and exasperated Ben reveals that he is the Necktie Killer to his imprisoned father, who is extradited to Florida.
• Chase Jennings is suddenly 17 years old.
• A delusional Bo is found in a rural town and nursed to health by a Mexican Hope Look-alike.
• Dr Salinas recommends a second dose of serum for the improving Caroline, who returns to work at the pub despite her daughter's concerns.
• Aiden obtains a life insurance policy on his fiancee and plots her murder.
• Jackson abandons his daughter and returns to Paris.
• Adrienne decides to run TBD, distracting her from health issues, as well as her romantic triangle.
• Steve remains captive, and is joined by a re-captured Bo.
• Shawn Douglas Brady arrives for his mother's wedding.
• Ben manhandles Abigail, vows to claim the $100K reward for "catching" Chad, and leaves an unsettled fiancee in their apartment.
• Bo and Steve manage to escape and board Victor's jet for a flight back to the USA.
• Hope senses that Aiden is distracted and just misses a phone call from Bo.
• Chad awakens from his coma, but doesn't recall anything about the night he fought with Ben, and is promptly arrested.
• Samanther gets information about Elvis and the DiMeras in Switzerland.
• Marlena is furious that John has re-joined the ISA.

SalemDay 34 began on Monday, November 2, 2015.

• Ciara ages a whole decade in order to co-host a Morning Brunch with Chase for their parents.
• A frantic Aiden tries to back out of the DiMera plan to kill Hope.
• Steve and Bo endure a crash-landing into an Iowa corn field, eventually enduring local jail time, repairing a motorcycle, and speeding off toward Salem.
• Jennifer is furious  that JJ applied to the Police Academy.
• Eric drinks at the Salem Bicentennial Gala.
• Stefano and Andre crash the celebration, leaving only when the citizens of Salem protest their attendance.
• Caroline has visions of Bo.
• Abigail suddenly realizes that Ben is dangerous, and likely the killer.
• Ben admits it all to his fiancee, accidentally knocks her unconscious, sends bogus texts to the other Deverauxs, and takes Abigail away to a wintry cabin, where he handcuffs her to the bed.
• As Hope's wedding to Aiden begins, Caroline gets a phone call from Bo and tries to stop the wedding by feigning illness.
• A furious Kayla takes her mother back to the hospital, allowing the wedding to occur.
• Abe confronts Lani, revealing that he contacted Tamara, who told him the truth.
• Bo and Steve arrive at the Martin House after all the celebrants have headed to Murder Park for fireworks.
• Caroline sneaks away from her hospital room and reunites with her son.
• Andre learns that Samanther is back in Salem and kidnaps her.
• Aiden and Hope have Wedding Night Sex, after which he excuses himself to don the black catsuit, retrieve a red necktie, and complete his assignment.
• Hope battles with her attacker, un-masking his identity during the struggle for her locked firearm.
• Bo arrives home just as Aiden attempts to strangle Hope, saving her and then battling Aiden for Hope's service revolver, which goes off, killing Aiden.

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.

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.