Midnight Booty Calls

Chloe hauls her ten-ton bag down the stairs. Phillip wonders what she is doing. He steps up to help her, "What do you have in here, bricks?"

"Uh... yeah," says Chloe, "That's it... bricks. Just don't go looking for the silverware for a while." She hands him the house key. Phillip begs her to keep it.

"What," asks Chloe, "so I can come in for midnight booty calls? I don't think your dad would approve." Phillip insists she keep it. He tells her he missed her last night. Chloe missed him too, "But you have to pick your battles and apparently I'm not worth fighting for." Phillip begins to understand why Brady turned to drugs.

Lucas is on the phone. He tells the guy he's got cash. Sami overhears, "What do you need money for?"

John gets a call, "Ava! Of course the offer still stands. 7:30 at my mansion." He hangs up as a figure stands over him. John looks up, "I wasn't sure you were gonna show."

"All that stuff about the drugs is just a bunch of rumors," says Paul.

"My sources say you are associated with Phillip Kiriakis," says John.

"Your sources are wrong."

"Then my sources are lying," says John, "And I don't like liars."

"You picked the wrong town to live in," says Paul.

John asks, "Are you the one who planted those drugs on my ship?"
Morgan comes in and soaks it all in.

Pete tells Stephanie Max is at the bank and should be back soon. Dean Robbins walks in and Stephanie goes over the top with the compliments, "Oh your talk last night was absolutely great. And I'll bet I would have liked it better if I would have understood a single word of it."

Max walks in and gets in Robbins' face, "What the hell are you doing here?"

Phillip tells Chloe she is worth fighting for. He asks her not to do this. Chloe says Victor would go ballistic if he found her there. Phillip asks if they are still on for dinner. Chloe is looking forward to it. So is Phillip. Smooch.

Paul insists he didn't plant any drugs. John says Victor was a kingpin in his day and the apple doesn't fall from the tree. Paul protests, "I could've dropped a dime on you a dozen times but didn't." John tells him that would have been a big mistake.

Morgan interrupts, "Just what are we talking about?"

Lucas orders a pizza. Sami stares disapprovingly, "You know I don't like anchovies." He asks about EJ and Sami tells him he's working. Lucas broods. Sami grovels and apologizes for all the horrible things she has said and done to him. Actually, it's the Reader's Digest version, or this episode would now be over. Sami wants them to work together and not fight any more. Lucas wants to drop it. Sami wants them to be together and to be a family with Allie.

Johnny yells from the other room, "What am I, chopped liver?"

Sami takes her groveling to a new level, "I choose you Lucas. I love you. You're right. We have all made mistakes, can't we just gat past that?"

Lucas says, "I'm sorry, but I don't fool around with married women." Sami moves in a little closer. Closer... closer... Hard-hearted Lucas backs off.

Max tells Robbins to get out. Robbins says he came to see Max, "The man who had the audacity to discredit my book." Max tells Stephanie Robbins is a total fraud. "What I want to know," says Robbins, "is how a beer boy knows about forward thinking scientific applications." He turns and leaves.

Stephanie wants to know why Max is behaving like this. Max snorts, "Because he thinks I am a brain-dead bartender."

"That's not true," says Stephanie, "You're a brain dead former race driver. Why don't you tell him the truth?"

Lucas says, "I want you, Sami. I want everything we have talked about, but I didn't know EJ was a part of the picture."

"You didn't know my husband and father of one of my children was part of the picture," asks Sami, "You didn't rot in prison – your brain did. I want to grow old with you. We're halfway there. You already act like you have Alzheimer's. We can have that."

"I don't think so," says the grumpy old snort. He walks away.

Paul tells Morgan he was just thanking John for helping make him a free man. John says not only that, but Paul will also have his old job back soon. Morgan doesn't want that. She wants her dad to have something with less stress. Paul reminds Morgan she isn't going to college by saving cereal boxtops. She turns and tells John to stay away from her dad.

John smirks, "That's touching. I don't have that kind of bond with my daughter. As you wish. Daddy's all yours." John leaves.

Paul tells Morgan that was unnecessary, "I can take care of myself."

"I'm not so sure about that," says Morgan.

Phillip and Chloe smooch. He tries to give her money for the room. She refuses because her first alimony check has arrived. Phillip thinks that money won't go very far. Chloe says she might be leaving Salem soon. Phillip says something but all the cheering from the audience drowns it out. He gets a call and goes into the next room. Chloe turns and leaves.

Stephanie and Max bicker about Robbins. Max says he's happy with his life the way it is. Stephanie says it looks more like he's unhappy. She wants to help, "If you're unhappy now, wait until I start meddling."

"I have to pour some beer." He walks over to the bar.

Stephanie gasps, "Max, pour it INTO the glass." Max gets distracted by his mind challenging job, so Stephanie sneaks upstairs.

The caller tells Phillip there are brain waves on the disc. "Brain waves," he repeats, "That's pretty uncommon in Salem."

Morgan barges in, "I know I should have called first, but I didn't have anywhere else to go."

"What about the sorority," asks Phillip.

"They're all at band camp," says Morgan, "This is about John Black. Somebody needs to stop that man."

Lucas and Sami continue to have the same tedious, annoying discussion. Lucas snorts, "Until I see the divorce papers, we have nothing to discuss."

"Then why do you keep running off at the mouth," asks Sami.

John rushes in. "Good, Sami, you're here. I need a woman's feedback but I'll settle for yours." He takes out two bottles of cologne and sprays one on each wrist, "Which one of these releases your feminine desires?" Sami sniffs and makes her choice. He tosses the other one to Lucas, "Happy birthday, kid." John plans to use the irresistible aphrodisiac on his date tonight.

Sami is shocked, "You can't be serious! You're married!"

"I could say the same thing for you," says John.

Lucas just can't resist opening his mouth, "Good point."

John tells them he wants privacy when his lady friend arrives. He walks off. Sami blows her stack, "Every man in here is completely insane!"

Stephanie comes back to the bar and gives Max her sheepish pouty little girl look. Max wants to know where she has been. He sees Stephanie is holding a picture, "What is that?"

She hands it to Max, "Who is she?"

Max nukes, "You were in my room!" They bicker back and forth and Max finally says, "That's my real mom. Are you satisfied?"

John rushes back in as Lucas sits at his computer and registers for a membership at dweebs.com. John asks, "Man, did you get a whiff of that kitchen?"

"All I can get a whiff of," says Lucas, "is that cologne. Do you really think you should be dating?"

John says, "A man needs a little... social intercourse. I don't want any children around when my date arrives. That goes for Johnny and Allie, too."

He walks off. The doorbell rings, and Lucas opens it. A shady character stands there, "Lucas Horton?"

Lucas steps outside, "You got that thing?"

"You got the cash," asks Mr. McShady. Lucas pays.

Sami discovers Chloe at the Java Café and turns on the bitchmode afterburners, "Having dinner for one?"

Chloe informs her she's having dinner with Phillip. Sami piles on. She says she saw her bags and wonders if Phillip kicked her out. Chloe says she moved out on her own. Sami just can't stop, "And I thought it would be Nicole who got voted off the island next. Well, if you're homeless, you could sing in the subway for money."

"Why are you being so mean," asks Chloe, "I didn't force Brady into drugs." Sami goes into meltdown. Chloe remains calm and asks, "Did you ever stop to think about how this affected me? I want Brady to get better."

Beelz-she-bub asks, "If you care so much for him then why didn't you stay in Europe and fight for him?"

Morgan tells Phillip she ran into her father and John at the Java Café. She's worried about her dad. Phillip tries to reassure her. He gets a call and woks away, "Make it quick."

Paul is on the line, "John is on to me. I want the rest of my money."

Phillip asks, "What makes you thing you deserve it?"

Paul yells, "I planted the drugs! You owe me big time, Kiriakis!"

Stephanie says she isn't leaving until Max forgives her. The audience chants, "FORGIVE HER! FORGIVE HER!" She wants to know why he's so angry at dean Robbins. She asks to see the picture again. He hands it to her. She takes another look, "The baby must be you. He's wearing a T-shirt that says 'When I grow up I want to be a looser bartender.' Your mother is really pretty. Tell me about her."

Paul wants the money. Phillip hangs up. Morgan has decided she has to leave. Phillip takes her hand, "I'd like you to stay."

By now, Sami is in an uncontrollable spiraling vortex of bitchiness. Chloe decides maybe she should leave town or should have tried harder with Brady. Sami softens. She says she talked to him last week. Chloe guesses Brady won't be coming back to her. She just wants to be happy, that's all, "And if you talk to him again, will you tell him I said hi? Also, I think you should try to work things out with Lucas. Not everyone gets a second... I mean... five thousandth chance." Sami flashes back to a time long, long ago and far, far away. It's one of the ten billion times she told Lucas, "Our love is strong enough to get through anything." Suddenly, Sami has a hangnail and they break up again.

Lucas finishes the deal and goes back inside. He opens the package and uses the device to work on his monitor.

Max talks about his memories of Mama, "One time she took me to the park. I wanted to go on the merry go round, but I had just eaten and Cruella deMommy wouldn't let me because she thought it would make me sick. So I did what any red-blooded American kid would do. I threw a tantrum."

"And you've been throwing them ever since," says Stephanie.

"Everything turned out OK because she bought me ice cream on the way home," says Max.

Stephanie says, "So the main thing you learned from your mother was if you throw tantrums, people with give you ice cream. That explains a lot." Max isn't sure if that memory is real or not.

"This is DOOL," says Stephanie, "Nothing is real." She thinks Max should try to find her. Max says no.

John can't believe Sami brought the twins home. He's concerned they will disturb his hot date.

"Don't worry," says Sami, "I just put them down."

"You didn't have to kill them," says John.

"I can't believe you're dating," says Sami.

"A man like me has basic... needs," says John. Sami gasps. John stands in front of the mirror and unbuttons his shirt, "Do you think I should show a little chest hair?"

"You're making a big mistake," says Sami.

"Huh? I thought you ladies liked that."

Lucas wanders by the docks.

Morgan tells Phillip she has no plans for the evening. "What," says Phillip, "No date?"

"It's been a bit of a guy drought," says Morgan, "Not many guys show up at the sorority since we implemented the policy that each one of them has to supply his own water heater." Phillip offers her a drink. Morgan half chokes, and then accepts. Chloe just happens to come back in and finds them giggling and drinking. She leaves her key and goes.

Stephanie tries to encourage Max to find his mom. "Don't even go there," says Max. He doesn't want her to tell anyone about it.

Stephanie is glad he finally opened up to her, "No more secrets between us, until I have something I want to keep from you."

Morgan says she feels kind of weird about this, "Your girlfriend wouldn't approve."

"I thought this was just between friends," says Phillip, "If you're up for it we could try dinner sometime."

"Humpf."

Lucas hides as Chloe walks up to the edge of the dock and bawls. The audience chants, "JUMP! JUMP!"

Sami asks where Lucas is. John says he didn't hear any alarms, so Lucas must be around somewhere, "I want him out of sight. And the same thing goes for you, Tink."

"Belle was Tink," says Sami.

"Sorry," says John, "It's hard to tell the dumb blondes apart without a scorecard."

Lucas watches Chloe.

Sami searches for Lucas. She gives up, picks up the TV remote and accidentally on purpose drops it. As she picks it up, she finds the brown paper bag with Lucas' monitor in it. Her jaw hits the floor.


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