Monday, May 30, 2005

Who Says The Enemy Can't Be Thoughtful?

Bo and Billie wander out of the scene and Hope tells Jen she doesn’t begrudge Bo and Billie their attempt to find their daughter, ‘cause she’s going to get her son back. Jen, “I just know that from now on everything is going to be just fine.” As soon as they say that, you know everything is going to go to hell in a handbasket in about two or three more scenes.

Jack carries champagne into the dining room. Marvels at his palsied hand and faints. In the foyer, Bo and Billie rehash the need to get Tony to talk. Bo cautions Billy not to get her hopes up. Billy refuses to give up hope and leaves.

Outside, she sits on a bench and stews. Inside, Hope tells Jen (and I can’t believe she’s saying this with a straight face) that Bo has learned his lesson after this last scare with Shawn. That as important as finding GA is, Bo knows his priority is with her and the boys. Outside, Bo has followed Billy to tell her that they will find GA one way or another. A tear trickles down Billie’s cheek.

Shawn, Brady, Rex wander the bunker. Shawn wants to talk to Belle. Rex jumps on him about wanting to talk to Belle while Phil is back out with his unit, risking his life. Shawn isn’t going to pressure her, he just wants to talk to her. The other two guys give him the business about wanting to spill the beans to Phil. Shawn pouts and stomps off. Rex & Brady discuss their mutual agreement that Belle is making a huge mistake dumping Phil for Jr. However, they aren’t sure what they could do about it.

Belle gets a call from Shawn. Belle doesn’t want to talk to him, she wants to talk to Phil.

Out in the war zone, lots of dust and noise. Isn’t it ever daylight over there? Phil and a couple other soldiers (probably Tony’s goons without their black masks, saving the number of extras the show has had to hire) are behind some rocks. Phil sees ‘em and is GOING IN. It’s SUICIDE but he is going to get close enough to launch a grenade. The arm he was cradling the entire time he was in the bunker is now strong enough to carry a heavy field piece. What a man!!

Lucas looks for Sami. She’s disappeared. Lucas talks his way into Tony’s cell to ask him where Sami is. Tony, tied to a chair with several lengths of chains, denies knowing anything about where she is. Lucas is afraid that Stan has Sami and may hurt her. Tony breaks into peals of hysterical laughter.

Sami is out in the middle of the war zone too. As she is wont to do, she talks to herself about what the good folks of Salem will do if they find out she is Stan. Namely, burn her at the stake.

Hope just knows that things are going to be better with Bo. Hope has to keep her eyes on Billy. Both ladies discuss how low Billie will go to get her hooks into Bo. Jen assures her that she has nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, Bo assures Billie they’ll get Tony to tell the truth. Yeah, dream on.

Tony assures Lucas that he is no threat to Sami. He says that Stan & Sami have spent a lot of time together. This drives Lucas crazy. If anything happens to Sami, Lucas warns, he’ll kill Tony. (Seeing as how every person in Salem has told Tony this at one time or another, I don’t think Tony is too shaken up at the prospect.)

Sami continues to cower and talk to herself. She thinks that maybe if she tells Lucas first that she’s Stan, before Tony rats her out, then Lucas will forgive her and make everyone else forgive her. She has a fantasy about how that will go. She tells Lucas all. Can he forgive her? He smiles. Cut to commercial.

Brady tells Rex that if Belle decides to dump Phil, he won’t interfere. He’ll just stick his nose in if Jr tries to tell Phil before Belle does. Rex is down with that.

Shawn explains to Belle that Phil isn’t there. Before he can tell her that Phil is back in combat, Belle laces into him about going over to the war and dragging the other guys into it. She’s also mad that he lied to her.

Under cover of his squad’s fire, Phil heads toward the enemy’s mortar position.

Jack lays on the dining room carpet and moans for Jen. He passes out again. Jen tells Hope that tonight has restored her faith. Once the boys get back, Jen suggests everyone go on a family vacation together at the Horton cabin. Jen finally realizes that Jack hasn’t come back yet and goes to look for him.

Bo, “This is the end of the line for Tony DiMera. The ISA ‘has ways’ of getting info out of monsters like that. MWAHAHAHAHA When they do, we’ll get our daughter back.” Hope comes to the door, “I hope you do.”

Jen screams. Everyone runs in. Jack has a gash on his head and claims he just slipped and fell, that he’s fine. Billie rats him out about his earlier fainting spell. Jen insists on taking him to the hospital.

Belle knows that Jr is a hero, but she was worried about him. Shawn was scared he’d never see or hold her again. He asks if she forgives him. (Now don’t peak at the next paragraph yet. I’m sure you’re on the edge of your seat. WILL Belle forgive him??)

Belle forgives him. (Bet that shocks you.) Belle made him promise he won’t tell Phil about “them”. Shawn finally gets around to telling her that it will be longer than they thought before that will happen, since Phil is back out in the combat zone. OH MY GOD, NO!

Between snipers and the mortar, the Happy Warriors are all pinned down. Phil sees where the sniper is and is going to TAKE HIM OUT. The squad leader warns that it is INSANE. He’ll be a perfect target. Phil stands up. He IS the perfect target. POW, and down he goes. Oh, the HORROR! The camera pans in on Phil’s cold, dead body.

Tony suggests that if Lucas wants to find Sami he should go out and look for her. Lucas leaves the cell. He tells the guys that he doesn’t know why Sami is always doing this. She gets into trouble and he has to go and save her.

Sami continues with her fantasy. Despite the typical pre-commercial tease that Lucas will forgive her, it doesn’t go well. Lucas will not only turn her over to the police and to the ISA, he’ll see if they’ll let him administer the lethal injection himself. Sami decides perhaps that isn’t the route to go. She starts to hope that one of the mortar shells will hit her and get it over with.

Bart sneaks into the computer room where Tony is being held. He’s dressed as a Marine and apologizes for taking so long. As soon as he put on the uniform, the soldiers tried to get him to go out on a mission. But, ole Silver Tongue Bart talked his way out of it. Tony finally gets Bart to stop babbling and to use the bolt cutters he’s brought to get him out of the chains.

Lucas tells Rex & Brady that he couldn’t get Tony to spill the beans about why Sami was out there with him. “We’ll see about that,” huffs Brady, pulling his pistol and cocking it. (Oh for Pete’s sake. You telling me that the REAL soldiers have let these civilian idiots walk around with guns??? Give me a break!) The guys burst into the computer room which is conveeeeniently no longer guarded by a Marine. Oops! Tony isn’t there any longer. They rush out the back where the hidden panel is standing open. Lucas spies Sami, hiding behind a dune with shells dropping all round her. He goes to rescue Sami and sends the other two off to chase Tony.

Rex/Brady go back through the computer room and disappear down a hallway. Tony comes out of the computer room behind them and starts down the opposite way. A real Marine shows up and stops him.

Sami starts to recite the “Now I lay me down to sleep” prayer, but stops herself. She figures the Big Sleep is what is in her future. She’s always sworn she’d mend her evil ways so she could go to heaven, but it never seemed like the “right time”. Now look where it’s gotten her. She prays for one more chance and she’ll REALLY REALLY change. Just then Lucas rolls over a sand dune. Sami tells him that she got scared that the bunker was going to be hit when the shelling started, so she ran out. Lucas gets her to run back with her. Gives her a big kiss and wishes her luck.

Belle is stunned that Phil went back into combat. Shawn doesn’t understand why he did it. Belle ‘splains that it’s because Phil took an oath as a soldier. Just like she took an oath to be loyal to him as a wife. She chastises herself for not living up to HER oath. Shawn ain’t happy with this turn of events.

Philips unit keeps calling for him. After a few minutes, the cold, dead soldier gasps a few breaths and comes to. He’s taken one in the flak jacket. He’s broken a rib, but is all right. The unit commander tries to get him to come in. No way, Jose. Phil is TAKING OUT THAT MORTAR.

Belle continues to blather about Phil honoring the vows he made to protect his country while Shawn is trying to get her to dishonor the vows she made to Phil. Jr tries to calm her down. Shawn tells Belle that as soon as this offensive is over, Phil is coming home if Jr has to drag him onto the plane himself. Then Belle can break the bad news and she and Shawn can be together forever. That is what she wants, isn’t it? Belle stares.

Phil pulls the pin on a grenade and throws it. Huge explosion. Phil, once again, lies cold and dead on the ground. (I think he’s just protesting the stupidity of this plot line by having a “lay-in”.)

Ho and Dope discuss how worried they are about Jack. Rehash about what Jack’s been through. Rehash about how happy they are that Tony is finally in custody. IT’S PAYBACK TIME. Rehash about getting GA back. Hope runs the idea about the family vacation by Bo. Sounds good. Kissing and mush. Everyone is happy for a minute or two.

At the hospital, the great doctor Lexi is consulted about Jack’s condition. Jack claims everyone is over-reacting. Lexi is skeptical. She slaps on her rubber gloves and examines him right in the middle of the hallway. She’s going to clean up the cut and then run some tests. Jack heads off with Lexi. Billie & Jen discuss what could be wrong with Jack. Billie postulates that perhaps it’s posttraumatic stress syndrome, given all he’s been through.

Lucas & Sami make it back to the bunker. Lucas tells Sami that she’s a heroine for saving the guys. Sami says she couldn’t let them die. She starts to plant the idea that Tony, the MONSTER, would do anything to get back at someone that crossed him. He’ll do anything to destroy people’s happiness. Lucas says he knows that Sami was a prisoner like everyone else. Sami’s afraid that he’ll make up some story to make sure everyone will keep hating her. Lucas assures her that no one will believe anything that Tony says. Tony would have to have rock-hard evidence before anyone would believe him. Sami flashes back to Tony’s threat that he has evidence that she was Stan. Rex & Brady show up and have to admit that they couldn’t find Tony.

Bart shows up and tells the Marine holding a gun on Tony to “Stand down”. He tells the soldier that he’ll take care of the prisoner. The soldier takes off and Tony congratulates Bart on his quick action.

As counterpoint to all of this drama, they inject some comic relief. Bo comes back in the house with a bouquet of flowers that he’s ripped out of Jen’s garden. Hope has a cow. These were the flowers Jen has been growing for the spring flower show. Clueless Bo utters those fateful words, “Oh man.” Yeah, replies Hope. Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man. Bo suggests that they replant them. Hope points out that he CUT them, they can’t be replanted. They decide they’ll call Gran to find out what to do. Before picking up the phone, there is more mush.

Billie, Jack, Jen impatiently wait for the test results. (They have one damn fast lab in that hospital!) Right on queue, Lexi pops in with the results and asks the ladies to leave so she can run one more quick test. This, of course, was a ruse. Once the girls are gone, Lexi lays the results on Jack. In the time-honored tradition of all soaps her first words are, “It’s not good.” They both stare.

Rex/Brady head out again to look for Tony. Sami is still pretty shaken up, so Lucas stays with her. She asks him if his feelings have changed since they split. He admits that he’s been doing a lot of thinking and they “have to talk” when they get back to Salem. Sami wants to know if they still have a future. He doesn’t want to talk about it, but he’s glad she didn’t die out there. Lucas hopes they catch Tony and make him pay. Sami thinks to herself that she hopes he gets away and keeps on running. Lucas warns Sami that the ISA will want to speak to her since Tony said she spent a lot of time with Stan. Rather than saying she hardly saw Stan at all, that Tony was lying, Sami stands there and looks guilty.

Bart & Tony split up (for reasons unknown) and Tony manages to run right back into Brady. Brady sticks a gun in his face. Tony tells him that if Brady lets him go, he’ll make it worth his while. The noble Brady declares that there’s nothing Tony could give him to make up for all the misery he’s put the families through. Tony demurs. There is one thing – Chloe. Tony tells Brady that he’ll bring her back from the grave if Brady helps him out.

Belle assures Shawn that she does still want to be with him for all the Days Of Our Lives. But, especially since Phil is back in combat again, if anything happens to him, she and Shawn can never be together. Not ever.

The producers have threaten Phil that if he doesn’t get on with it they’ll drag this war stuff on for another five weeks, so the cold, dead Phil comes to life and starts yelling for his buddies to send up a flare. He’s disoriented and can’t tell where he’s at. He crawls along on his belly. The red flare goes off. Phil stares up at a sign that the enemy has thoughtfully posted to warn people, in English no less. “DANGER!!! MINEFIELD!”

FF on Phil with a skull and crossbones forming behind him.

Previews:

Still in the bunker, Lucas & Sami are going to use a computer to let Will know they are OK.

Tony sneers, “Chloe is still very much among the living.” Brady, “Why hasn’t she told me she’s still alive?”

Shawn, still on the phone with Belle, “Phil is in trouble. He’s under fire and he’s trapped.” Belle reels in horror at what the roaming charges on this phone call are going to amount to.

Marine commander tells his troops to fall back. “That’s a negatory, commander,” yells Phil. “Private Somebody-or-other and I are trapped in a minefield!”

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