We're Through, Brady

Kate and John struggle up the stairs. Kate says maybe things will be better in the morning – maybe they will find Phillip. John changes his mind, “Who am I kidding? I can’t sleep with this going on.” He turns around and goes back downstairs. He promises Kate they will find Phillip. He’s going to hack into their communications and find out what’s going on, then notify Shane Donovan and organize a search mission. He sends Kate for coffee. This gives him the golden opportunity to pull out his bag-o-pills. He selects a hypo for his evening's enjoyment and jams it into his leg, “Aaahhhhhhhh...”

Bart drags Jack to the back of the house. As he goes, Jack thinks, “Jennifer heard me. But Lockhart kept her outside. He must still be on the DiMera payroll. If she comes in right now, we’re both as good as dead. Whatever you do, Jennifer, don’t open the door.”

Jennifer comes inside, “JACK! He’s alive! He’s here!”

Bo tells Hope she can’t ask him to choose between his sons and his daughter, “We can’t keep having the same conversation.”

“Then,” says Hope, “maybe you should stop making the same [dumb] choices. Why do you always decide Billie needs you more than Shawn, Zack and I do?”

Bo rolls his eyes, “Not again.” Billie smirks in the background.

Shawn and Belle love each other. Belle can’t help it, but “God help me, I do want to be with you, Shawn.” He rolls her over in the clover.

“We’ve waited so long to make love,” he says, “tonight we finally belong to each other.”

Amidst the writhing, she flashes the big rock on her finger. When she sees it, she says, “No. We can’t. I’m still married.”

He asks, “How did things go so wrong?”

“Because we made mistakes.” What you mean “we” Kemo Sabe, he didn’t marry someone he doesn’t love.

Shawn says things got complicated, “But this isn’t complicated. This is love. It’s you and me. And all we’ve wanted is to spend the rest of the Days Of Our Lives together.” Belle is afraid that’s never going to happen.

Billie barges in, “We got new information about Georgia.” They tell hope about the phone call. The guy said Georgia was suffering. She was watching Days Of Our Lives and it wasn’t on tape. So she couldn’t fast forward through the Shawn and Belle crud. They show Hope the drawings and tape. Hope stares.

OK. Jennifer can feel Jack’s presence. Toying with the audience again. She yells for Jack and Abby. She goes upstairs to check. Patrick checks the kitchen.

In the limo Bart says, “Whew, we got outta there just in time. If they ever make Jack-dragging an Olympic event, I’m going for the gold. Come on, Jack, tell me. What was it like with the fake Jennifer? Was it better or worse than with the real Jennifer or has it been so long you just forgot?” Jack’s eyes shift.

Stoner John hacks, “They knew what they were doing. It’s impossible to find the location. Damn, it’s hot in here.” He removes his coat. Kate takes it to hang it up. On the way, she discovers his stash.

She hangs the bag-o-pills in front of his face, “You lied to me. You are still using drugs.”

All Shawn has ever wanted is to live the rest of his life with Belle. Now the thought of not being able to do that scares the hell out of him. It scares Belle, too. “So why isn’t that enough,” asks Shawn.

Billie plays the tape for Hope.

One potato, two potato, three potato, four
My mother is a dirty whore...

Hope says she has never heard anything so cruel. Not to mention lame.

Bo says this is why he couldn’t come over to Shawn’s. Hope asks, “Why? When was the last time you even had a conversation with him?” Bo says the last few times he even tried to have a conversation with Shawn, he didn’t want to talk to Bo. So it wouldn’t have done any good if he were there.

“Well,” says Hope, “we’ll never know. Billie has plenty of other people she could depend on, but you think you're the only one.” Hope brings out the big artillery, “Of course, you did have to leave to get that special necklace for her, didn’t you? You should have been there to stop Shawn from getting on that damn motorcycle. Your son is in danger. Why do you have to baby-sit Billie?”

Billie decides to join the happy little chat, “My daughter has been missing a hell of a lot longer that Shawn. And I will not stand here and let you minimize the pain I am going through. I’m gonna get the hell out of here right now.” Billie storms out.

“Do you realize what you’ve done,” asks Bo.

“Me,” asks Hope.

Jack struggles to ask Bart if Lockhart works for Tony. “You’re going back to the castle,” says Bart, “so I guess there’s no harm in telling you everything now.”

No one’s at the Devereaux house except Patrick and Jennifer. She picks up the Salem Business Journal, “He was here, and this magazine proves it, Patrick.”

Bart says he really doesn’t know if Lockhart is on the DiMera payroll. It’s a mystery. Not to Jack. Bart says Jack should be a little worried with Jack living at his house that he might come down and try to take Jennifer for a test drive. On the other hand, Jack should be grateful Patrick is there to fix toilets and things.”

“Y-y-ou a-and T-t-o-ny g-g-o t-o h-ell,” stutters Jack.

“Hey, the Count has been good to you. He could have picked you up the minute you got to Salem, but he let you spend all that time here.”

“W-w-ith a w-w-o-man w-w-ho w-w-a-sn’t J-j-e-n-nifer.”

“Yeah, that’s the best part,” says Bart, as Jack flashes back to the house where he was reading the Salem Business Journal.

Jennifer says Jack would dog-ear pages of magazines to mark articles he wanted to read later. This is a new copy of the Salem Business Journal and it’s dog-eared, “This proves Jack is alive.”

John tells Kate she has it all wrong. “You lied to me,” says Kate, “You broke your promise, but I’m not going to break mine. I told you I would turn you in and that’s what I am going to do.” John grabs the phone from her and crushes it with his cane.

Shawn tells Belle about true love. His parents have it, even though their marriage is on the verge of collapse. They are still happy and Shawn thinks he and Belle can be, too. “Your mom thinks so,” says Belle, “we had a little woman-to-woman talk.” Shawn wants to know if Hope had any ideas how to make that happen. Belle thinks he should talk to his parents. He thinks he has to make his own stupid mistakes instead of listening to them. It’s time for him to start his own life with a wife and kids someday. He asks if she doesn’t want that, too. “More than anything,” she says, “but not with Phillip gone.”

Shawn says Phillip could be held for a long time, even forever, “And when he comes home, what are you going to say to him?”

“I took vows,” says Belle, “before God.” And the big motorcycle in the sky.

Shawn asks if God really wants them to be apart. He wants to be together and she does, too, “Phillip is not your fault.”

“If Phillip dies over there, I will never be able to be with another man, not even you.”

Bo wants to know how Hope could throw Billie out like that. Hmmm... If I saw things right, she walked out under her own power. Bo is going after her. In one of the great surprises of the century, this starts another argument. Bo is tired of having this conversation, “We’ve had it a hundred times.” One hundred thirty-seven to be exact. He says, “This is not about Billie, this is about my daughter, Georgia. I just found out our daughter is alive and there are people out there messing with us. Can you have just a teeny bit of compassion?”

“I’m fighting for our son and I’m doing it alone,” says Hope, “Why can’t we just hire a PI to search for Georgia?”

Bo works his jaw, “Billie won’t accept that. She wants to be there when we find our daughter.”

“Then let her be there,” screams Hope.

Billie wanders down at the dock. She flashes back to the tape. She hears Georgia calling her.

Bart drinks champagne. Jack works to loosen his ropes.

Patrick tells Jennifer anybody could have dog-eared the magazine. Jennifer says they have not found Jack’s body and she knows she heard his voice tonight. These are the kind of articles Jack reads. Patrick says, “So just for argument's sake, let’s say Jack was here. Why didn’t he let you know?”

Jennifer is confused, “Maybe it’s just wishful thinking.” Patrick thinks so, too.

John needs the drugs. “What you need,” says Kate, “is help. You are in denial.” John denies it. He changes direction. He begs for another chance. Kate says she is going to flush the drugs.

“You get rid of those drugs and it will be the biggest mistake you have ever made in your life.” Kate stares. John seethes.

Jennifer is worried about Abby. Patrick will go look for her. Jennifer will stay and brood. Patrick leaves. Jennifer leafs through the magazine, “Jack... no, Patrick is right. If you were here, why would you have left?”

Jack lunges at Bart. Bart points his gun and says, “Jack, I thought we were friends.”

“Well,” says Jack, “as Tony says, thinking is not one of your strong suits.” Jack vows to escape if they take him back to the castle.

“If you even think of escaping, your family is in mega-danger,” threatens Bart. He drags Jack out of the car. This episode has been a drag for Jack. Please tell me I didn't say that.

Kate says she won’t let John stay on his path of self-destruction. She cares about him too much. John plays the trump card, “Then how much do you care about Phillip? If you flush those drugs, you are signing his death warrant.”

Georgia torments Billie. Just like a teen-ager. “Why don’t you come and save me, Mommy?”

Bo insists Shawn is just blowing off steam, “He’ll be all right.”

“You better hope that’s true. Because if something happens to Shawn tonight, I’ll never forgive you. I mean it. If Shawn gets hurt tonight because you chose to stay with Billie instead of coming with me to help him, we’re through, Brady.” Hope walks off.

Shawn and Belle have it easy. They haven’t had to memorize new lines for weeks. They just keep dragging out the same ole dialogue. Shawn thinks Belle can’t make their happiness dependent on whether or not Phillip comes home. Belle says she has no choice. No brain, no choice. This would haunt her forever. Shawn, like the rest of us, can’t take this any more. He’s gotta get out of there. I swear I can hear The Leader Of The Pack kick in as Shawn’s motorcycle revs up.

Vroom-vroom, “SHAWN! SHAWN! NO!” KEERRAASSHH!!

OMG. There must have been a stained-glass window right there. FF on Belle staring in horror.


Previews
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“Whoever you are,” says Stami, “You are the evil-genius of all time.”

Billie tells Patrick, “So I am lying to my mother, to Bo and to Hope.” She says to herself, “I wanna be with Bo now, more than ever.”

“This time,” cries Hope, “Our love isn’t strong enough to hold this family together, Bo.”

Kate says, “I risked John’s life to save Phillip’s.”

John screams, “DAMN YOU, WOMAN,” as he smashes a vase with his cane.