Rocky Road Ice Cream And Anchovy Pizza

"That witch has her, I know," says the Queen of Bipolarity. She, Shawn and Phillip plan their next move. Bipolar Belle thinks if they follow Evelyn the authorities will stop them, "I didn't come this far to lose her again. Belle hugs her little troglodyte and gives that cute little thousand-yard stare of hers. Suddenly, she steps off the edge of the cliff with her "Noble Duke of York" routine. Shawn and Phillip desperately try to pull her out of the black hole of her own mind, to no avail. A baby cries. In the distance, that is... not Belle. Little Miss Loon stops her chanting, "That's Claire!" Shawn and Phillip are convinced. As they rush out, Phillip turns and tells Belle she may now continue her journey into darkness.

"When you're up, you're up, and when you're down you're down, and when you're only halfway up, you're neither up nor down..." Evelyn stands behind her and wonders if she really wants a kid spawned by this dingbat.

Lucas calls the cops and complains about not having any police protection yet. Unfortunately the idiot forgot to check first to see if anyone was out in the hall. They tell him the officer should be there. Lucas opens the door to find one of Salem's finest standing there. He also finds a cop from the Salem PD. He introduces himself as Officer Daniels. Lucas describes him to the person on the phone, "Tall... blue eyes. He should be on a soap."

"If you had to be tall to be on a soap, Mr. Roberts, we wouldn't be having this conversation." Officer Daniels tells him he will be on guard and wishes him and Sami a good evening.

Sami comes out. She's happy to know she has her own bodyguard outside, "And now, you can do it. Lucas, it is time for you to satisfy my craving." Mr. Satisfaction dives in. Miss-communication stops him, "Seriously, I need some rocky road ice cream and an anchovy pizza."

EJ comes out of his apartment and heads for Sami's. Officer Daniels stops him. EJ insists he should be allowed in, "I'm family. You see, Mrs. Roberts is carrying my child."

Bo discovers a bomb in the lopsided ballerina music box. Hope yells up for Doug and Julie to hightail it. Doug offers to pull them up before the bomb goes off. Hope refuses, she says the bomb is set to go off in about a minute and she's not going anywhere without Bo.

"OK, honey," says Doug, "You'll be out soon. I have a feeling Bo is about to go somewhere in one minute."

Julie thinks they should call for help. Doug says he already did. John and Marlena come in. Doug tells them about the bomb. John orders Marlena to get Doug and Julie as far away from there as she can. Doug and Julie insist they aren't going anywhere until they know Bo and Hope are safe. "Don't argue with me," says John.

Bo and Hope waste precious seconds arguing about what they should do. Hope screams, "Brady, you know how to diffuse the bomb? You remember don't you?"

Bo says, "We're about to find out."

While EJ tries to talk his way into the apartment, Lucas tells Sami he thought she wanted something disgusting, but had something in mind other than anchovy pizza and ice cream. Lucas is disgusted about other things, too. He lectures her for getting into trouble every time he turns his back. Lucas is desperate. His marriage to Sami has lasted almost as long as his marriage to Carrie. He's in danger of breaking that record, so he has to pull out all the stops by acting like a complete ass. Sami begs him to satisfy this one craving and she promises to develop another one. Lucas makes her promise to be good while he is on his mission of mercy. Sami wants a large pizza so she can have leftovers tomorrow, with marmalade. "I'd better go before I get sick," says Lucas.

The audience walks out, "Us, too."

Lucas steps into the hallway to find EJ and the guard arguing. EJ sees Lucas and says, "Thank God. Lucas, will you please explain to this dimwit that I am not likely to hurt Samantha."

Lucas asks the officer to step away. As Officer Daniels steps back, Lucas hauls off and slugs EJ in the solar plexus. It was as high up as he could reach, or he would have slugged him in the jaw.

Bo takes a break. Hope asks what he is waiting for. "That chapter of my training manual to come back to me. All I have to do is cut one of the wires. But if I cut the wrong one, the bomb will detonate instantly." Suddenly, Bo's intensive bomb training comes back to him, "Eenie, meenie, miney, mo..."

With about three microseconds left before the birth of Salem Crater, John argues with Doug, Julie and Marlena about who should go and who should stay. Finally John convinces Doug and Julie to go for help. They run out for mops and buckets.

Marlena tells John she isn't going anywhere. She flashes back to telling the doctor she would stay right by John's side during his coma. She may be about to stay by his side during his next coma and, as an added attraction, be in her own coma, too. In the flashback, Marlena also tells John she will stay right by his side. She pops back to reality (I use the term loosely), and vows that after about another minute, pieces of her will always be beside pieces of him.

John walks over and yells down the shaft, "Hey, Bo, can you believe San Antonio won another championship last night?"

Bo strolls over and looks up, "Yeah, but Cleveland almost had 'em at the end." Bo and John discuss the game."

Hope covers her head and whimpers, "eeeeek."

With thirty seconds remaining until the cartographers can remove Salem from their maps, John and Marlena argue for ten minutes about whether or not he should go down there. "Wish me luck," says John. Marlena wishes him luck with the longest kiss in soap opera history.

Bo Brady, crack Salem cop, decides to cut a random wire. He chooses yellow. Hope screams for him to stop. She wants him to cut the blue wire because it matches her outfit. Bo agrees. Hope stops him again. She decides he should cut the red wire because it matches her shade of lipstick. Bo agrees. He ignores the instructions pointing to the black wire which say, "CUT HERE TO DIFFUSE BOMB."

Bo cuts the red wire. Nothing happens. Par for the course on DOOL. Bo and Hope whoop it up. Hope falls into her hero's arms.

Lucas tells EJ he hopes that delivered the message. EJ says it's important for him to talk to Sami. Not only is Lucas not going to let EJ talk to Sami, but he also changed their phone numbers. As Lucas leaves, he instructs Officer Daniels to shoot EJ if he gets anywhere near Sami. Officer Daniels advises EJ to back off.

Sami comes out of her bedroom carrying a garbage bag and calls for Will. He comes out and Sami asks him what the bag is. Will is clueless. He goes back to texting his girlfriend. As Sami approaches the door with the mystery garbage, Will comes back out and tells her she got a text message on his phone, "Elvis is not only in the building, but he's desperate to speak with you."

Rod Serling describes what we are about to see next, "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call the Belle Zone."

Belle is beyond bipolar. She has more poles than Kraków. She takes us on another trip with the Duke of York. This is the first documented acid trip without LSD. Suddenly, a little kid yells, Mommy, Mommy and runs into the room."

Belle stoops down and holds out her arms, "Claire!"

Evelyn stoops down and holds out her arms, "Jeffrey!" The kid runs into Belle's arms as Evelyn tells Belle to get her hands off her kid. Mad-Dog Belle tells Evelyn to back off or she will kill her. She turns and screams, "Shawn! Come here!" Shawn runs in.

Belle turns around with Claire, "Look who's here baby. It's Daddy."

"DADDY," yells Claire. Belle sends her over to give Daddy a kiss. Shawn stoops down as she runs to him in slow motion.

Oops. Detour. She runs to Phillip. He scoops her up, "Oh, my little angel, I thought I had lost you and it was my fault."

Will shows Sami the text message and tells her EJ texting him to reach Sami is pathetic, "EJ – What a loser!" He walks off.

Sami goes outside and asks if the guard has seen EJ. Officer Daniels tells her about Lucas performing the gut-ectomy on EJ, "I can't really say I blame him, under the circumstances."

"What does that mean," asks Sami, "...never mind." Sami tells the guard she has to talk to EJ.

Officer Daniels approves it, "As long as you stay where I can see you, and hear every juicy detail." Sami knocks and EJ comes out. Sami tells him if he says one word about paternity or stem cells, she will finish what Lucas started. Officer Daniels turns up his hearing aid.

Bo and Hope celebrate their stroke of random luck. John comes down and they fill him in on what happened, "I cut the red wire," says Bo.

John inspects the bomb, "It looks like a DiMera job."

Suddenly, a red light flashes.

KA-BOOM!

Once upon a time, there was a town named Salem...

Gosh, if EJ had been there, we could have said, "The building has left Elvis."

The explosion rocks the building. Marlena is tossed across the room. She gets up, runs to the shaft and yells down for John. Doug and Julie come running into the pile of rubble that used to be known as Doug's place. Marlena tells them what happened and then turns back to the shaft and screams for John.

Down in the tunnel of doom, debris rains from the ceiling. Hope chokes and clears the rubble off of her. She yells for Bo. She finds him trapped under the Lucas Roberts Memorial Beam.

Hope finds John under another pile. John struggles over and yells up to tell Marlena they are OK. She says the EMTs and police are on the way.

John tells Bo help is on the way, "How're ya feeling?"

"Exactly how Stefano wanted me to feel," says Bo, "Like a damn fool."

"Stefano didn't have to go to all that trouble. It doesn't take a bomb to make you look like a fool," says John.

Belle takes Claire from Phillip and hands her to Shawn. Shawn goes to get a balloon to play with. He gets one for Claire, too. Phillip apologizes for rushing in and scooping her up. Belle understands. She was reacting to the only father she knew for the first year of her life. Phillip says he accepts the fact Shawn is her father.

"Well," says Claire, "I'm having a little problem with that, though."

"But we can't erase the past any more than Claire can," says Phillip, "We can't pretend we don't remember."

EJ tells Sami what happened at the warehouse was the last straw. The threats against her aren't just threats. They won't stop until someone takes action or Sami winds up dead. Sami knows what action EJ thinks she should take, "You think I should take Stefano up on his offer and move in with you. I don't care who did it, I don't want to spend all the Days Of Our Lives with a freaking cop outside my door.

The freaking cop tips his hat, "At your service, ma'am."

EJ says he is gong to stop the man behind this. He's going to turn states' evidence against Tony. Sami asks, "You're gonna turn your back and betray your own brother?"

EJ says, "To protect you? Yes." Sami thinks he's working a scam. He tells her he's never been more serious. Sami tells him Stefano will never tolerate EJ betraying Tony.

"EJ," says Sami, "This is going to blow up in your face."

"Be careful, Samantha" says EJ, "You almost sound like you care."

"You're stirring up a rats' nest. Of course I care."

"You're in danger and I feel responsible for this," says EJ.

PIZZA DELIVERY! "Well, you're not," screams Lucas, "And we need to get that through your thick head."

Phillip walks in and tells Belle the police caught up with Evelyn. She is in custody and awaiting arraignment. On of Belle's quieter personalities comes out. She hopes Evelyn spends the rest of her miserable life in jail. Phillip promises Belle he will never let anything happen to Claire.

Shawn swoops in with Claire. Phillip fills him in on Evelyn. Shawn says, "I can't believe this nightmare is over."

Phillip asks, "You mean they cancelled DOOL?" Shawn thanks him for everything he has done. From somewhere beyond Pluto, Belle stares.

Lucas joins Belle on Pluto. He lectures Sami and EJ. He claims it's his job to protect Sami, not EJ's. Sami tells them she can take care of herself. She'd better be able to, with these two nuts trying to protect her.

Lucas blows up at the guard for letting EJ get to Sami, but Sami defends him. Sami just wants to go inside and eat the food, but first she has to throw away the garbage.

"What is that," asks Lucas.

"DOOL scripts," says Sami. Lucas insists on going with her for this important event. Sami claims she can take the garbage out by herself. She walks off.

"I tired," says EJ, as he goes back into his apartment. Lucas hands Officer Daniels the pizza and ice cream and tells him he will be back.

John and Hope pull the beam off of Bo, who thinks his leg might be broken. Bo thanks John. Hope tells Bo he saved their lives. Bo claims their lives were never in danger, "If Stefano wanted us dead, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now."

Doug and Julie conduct the EMTs into the room. John crawls out of his hole and tells them Bo can't make it out on his own. He tells everyone Hope is in one piece. Marlena asks what kind of a bomb it was. John says that's a good question. He says it reactivated itself after Bo diffused it. It wasn't meant to kill, "It was meant to send a message – Stay away."

Belle twirls Claire around the room as Shawn comes in. She tells Shawn it's time to put Claire down for the night, "She seems a little stuffy." Shawn hands her the room key and says he will go get some children's' cold medicine just in case. Belle leaves.

Phillip comes in and tells Shawn he didn't try to encourage Claire in any way when she chose him over Shawn. Shawn says it's no big deal.

Bo thinks Stefano is just trying to scare them. Hope thinks he's doing a good job of it but they have to keep going.

Lucas walks up behind Sami as she tries to stuff the huge garbage bag into the incinerator door, which is about one quarter, its size. They decide they have to take stuff out of it to get it all in there. He wonders what she put in there. She tells him she didn't put anything in it; the bag isn't hers. Lucas says it isn't his either.

Sami looks at the mystery garbage, "Do you hear that? It sounds like ticking."

"It's in the bag," says Lucas, "There's a bomb in the bag." FF Sami.

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