Date Bait

Brady meets EJ outside the pub and they call each other a bundle of nasty things. Brady ain' afraid of no stinkin' EJ.

Victor and Nicole meet inside the pub and call each other a bundle of nasty things. Nicole insists she's a DiMera, "And they take care of their own... and their enemies."

Stefano huffs and puffs his way into the hospital. He walks up to Lexie, "You have to help me."

Lexie continues to work, "What arrange another murder?" Stefano tells her he has been poisoned.

Mia tells Dr. Baker she saw her baby today but something wasn't right, "It was like she wasn't mine."

Baker drops the bomb, "There is a reason you didn't feel anything and it's time you knew why. SHE'S NOT YOUR BABY!"

If you haven't figured out this is a setup, please reread chapter 3 of your DOOL 101 textbook, "How To Empty You Mind So You Can Understand DOOL."

Rafe and Sami share an uncomfortable moment at the airport. Sami whines and grovels, "I just want to tell you what you mean to me before it's too late."

Cold, cruel Rafe isn't interested, "Sorry, Sami, but it already is too late."

Sami Brady is now at a crossroads. She can either choose to act like an adult and respond as one, or throw a childish fit and smack the crap out of him.

If you thought Sami would act like an adult, you have a few more chapters of your textbook to read. Sami reaches deep and pulls out one of her crap-smackin' personalities, pummels the poor guy and screams, "You make me so mad! I called you and you never returned my calls and then I called again and your phone was disconnected and blada-blada-blada-whine-simper-sob." She comes up with a chain of names to call him, "You are a cold and heartless SOB!"

Sami didn't bring her A-Game or she would have called him a poo-poo head, too.

Rafe says there might be a reason why he didn't return her calls, and the "conversation" they are having is it.

KABLOOIE!

In the aftershock of her pyroclastic flow, Sami snorts, "The least you could do is listen."

"No matter what you say," he says, "it's not going to change anything. I'm still leaving."

Mia takes the bait. Baker tells her she's not emotionally connected to Mia because she gave her up, "She's Nicole's baby, not yours."

"So," says Mia, "it doesn't mean I'm a bad person?"

"No," says Dr. Baker, "Just a bad actor."

Mia gets defensive, "Hey, it's the writing. I don't have much to work with. Now I'm worried Sydney will grow up with a bunch of murderers."

Stefano continues to hyperventilate. Just before he drops dead in front of her, Dr. Lexie finally figures out something is wrong and moves into panic mode. Stefano describes his symptoms, "I have been poisoned."

Lexie asks, "Do you know what you were poisoned with?"

Stefano says, "No, but I know who did it. Since I don't know what poison it was, do you have some kind of universal antidote? "

Lexie says, "As a matter of fact I do have a good one: Two men and a mule walk into a bar..."

Stefano interrupts and booms, "I SAID ANTIDOTE, NOT ANECDOTE!"

Victor and Nicole. Victor tells her the wedding was a charade, "Stefano and EJ needed a cover for the crime they were committing at the time."

Suddenly, Nicole sees Brady and EJ outside, "OMG! They'll kill each other."

Nicole runs out and referees. Brady leaves. She tells EJ they are being taunted. She tells him she was just inside fencing with Victor. EJ goes in to talk to him and Brady comes back. Nicole tells hyped-up Brady to calm down, "You're twitching like a live wire." She asks about his facial.

Brady asks, "Are you sure you wanna know?"

EJ confronts Victor. He says he's sorry for what happened to Phillip.

Victor hits him back with sarcasm, "Sorry about what? That he survived? Please, don't worry about Phillip. Worry about your father."

Sami stomps and holds her breath. Rafe starts the countdown, "Three.. two... one..."

"What are you doing," screams Angelica Pickles.

"Counting down to the tears."

Sami blows again... don't worry it's just an aftershock, "Are you intentionally being horrible because you want me to go away?"

"At this point," says Rafe, "I'll try anything that works. I know the drill, first the temper tantrum, then the tears." Rafe calls her on her act. He tells her they don't work as a couple. He rants about her telling EJ he's the father. Sami says she didn't tell him anything.

EJ says the DiMeras don't fear the Kiriakis family. Victor gives him a fictional history lesson, "Odysseus conquered Troy and killed the cyclops not with power, but with cunning. Have you spoken to your father lately?"

"What do you mean?"

"If you see him," says Victor, "tell him I said yamas... to your health."

Brady tells Nicole she doesn't want to know what happened to his face, "You want to live in blissful ignorance from now on.

"I'm used to the ignorance part already," says Nicole.

Brady says, 'You don't want to know... that person who was holding your daughter has so much blood on his hands."

Stefano grimaces as Lexie comes into his room. He wants her to call the police but for a change Lexie wants to find out what is wrong with her patient. She asks about his symptoms. Stefano rattles them off, "Nausea, lethargy, chills."

"Sounds like you've been watching DOOL in a cold room," says Lexie. Stefano says this all started last night. He's certain Kiriakis did this and vows he will pay. Lexie tells him she's only talking to him because he's a patient, "I saw what you did to Phillip first hand. Nice work." Lexie decides to get another doctor, "I can't do this. If you think this war honors Tony's memory then you are more corrupt than I ever imagined."

Victor tells EJ, "The Trojan war lasted nine years but the Greeks won because they never stopped fighting."

"Or talking."

Victor leaves and EJ calls and leaves a message for Stefano. Then he calls a henchman and tells him to find Stefano now.

Brady wants to know if Nicole has gone through everything like losing her baby just to wind up with a guy like EJ as Sydney's father, "What EJ did last night was deplorable. That's Sydney's father."

Victor is on his phone, "Tell me when it's done."

Lexie comes back and finds Stefano in a coma.

Sami says she couldn't tell EJ about Grace. She calms down, "So I'm getting to the part where you were right and I was wrong." She whispers about EJ putting a hit on Phillip. She says she can't believe he showed up at a church knowing he had ordered someone's death, "Now you can say I told you so."

Rafe piles on, "And that you didn't listen." Rafe softens. Sami softens. She says she's glad she found him before it's too late.

Dr. Baker says the DiMeras are dangerous and Mia should realize what will happen if she crosses them. He says Nicole has bonded with Sydney and Mia's decision to give her up was an unconscious decision not to connect with her. Mia agrees... "There is this other baby. There is something about her that makes you want to take care of her. She's the sister of a friend of mine." Baker wants to know more but Mia leaves.

Baker wonders, "Who is your friend, Mia?"

Lexie examines Stefano as he hovers near death, "Wake up." Stefano wakes. Lexie is amazed that she actually brought a patient back to consciousness.

Stefano is kind of dazes, "I am so tired." Lexie wants more blood and another CVC. "What's that," asks, Stefano.

"I have no idea," says Lexie, "But it sounds good." Lexie assures him he will not die, "I've seen to it that you'll get a new doctor." Stefano says he wants to talk to Elvis. Lexie says OK and leaves. She calls and tells EJ Stefano is at the hospital.

EJ asks, "Is he all right?"

"I don't know," says Lexie, "So far, I'm the only one who has examined him." EJ rushes off.

Brady wishes Nicole good luck with her life and walks off. EJ catches her and they run for the hospital.

EJ and Nicole rush in and meet up with Lexie. She tells them about Stefano's speculation that he has been poisoned. Then she rants about the Kiriakis-DiMera war and stomps off. EJ leaves to speak with Stefano, "I want to speak to him privately."

Lexie turns and tells Nicole, "Privately – get used to that."

Baker comes out and finds Nicole, "What are you doing here? Did Mia call you..."

"She called me a lot of things."

EJ tells Stefano about Victor gloating. Stefano rants, "He did this but he will not get away with it."

Brady is on the phone, "Call me when he wakes up. Phillip is lucky to have you as a nurse." Brady hangs up and updates Victor on Phillip's condition. Victor cautions Brady about talking to Nicole. Brady says he told her goodbye. He asks about Victor's chat with EJ. Coy Victor says they were talking and EJ was called away for an emergency, "Isn't that a shame?"

Mia shows up at Will's place. Will invites her in and tells her he was just at the batting cage practicing, "I need to work on my swing. Maybe you can come and watch sometime."

Mia isn't exactly thrilled, "Oh, yeah, seeing someone getting better at hitting a ball with a stick is my idea of heaven." She tells him about her rusty nail injury. She's there to see if Will talked with Sami about Mia possibly babysitting Grace.

Will is devastated, "You didn't come to see me? You came to see my little sister?"

Rafe is glad Sami can see who EJ really is. They decide they don't need to fight any more. Sami suggests they go home and do something fun. Rafe says he's not going with her. He's headed for New York, "We don't work together. I want to be a bigger part of your life than you want me to be."

Sami nearly panics, "That's not true!"

"We both know that it is."

Mia says she came to see Grace, "Tell your mom I'm available to babysit." Will invites her to go to the pub. Mia declines.

Will grasps at straws, "Grace is going to be there." That does it. Mia agrees. Will asks, "Did I just use my little sister as date bait?"

"Yeah."

Baker tells Nicole Mia said she felt no connection to Sydney, "And we both know why."

Stefano says he thinks Victor usually doesn't gloat unless he knows what is going to happen.

Baker tells Nicole to chill.

Will and Mia are at the pub. He brings Grace over to Mia and hands her off, "You're crazy about her. Apparently her real mom couldn't have felt that way, since she gave her up."

Mia doesn't agree, "Giving her up must've been the hardest thing she's ever done."

Victor tells Brady they can fix it so EJ never smiles again, "But you have to stay out of it – leave it all to me."

Lexie comes into Stefano's room and announces she got the results back.

Baker thinks Mia is no longer a threat to Nicole, "Thanks to me." Nicole is silent. Baker digs, "THANKS TO ME."

Nicole reluctantly thanks him, and then turns her attention to Sami, "We both have to make sure you and Sami never meet again."

Lexie says, "You weren't poisoned but there is something seriously wrong with you."

John and Marlena tinkle music plays as Sami tells Rafe she wants him in her life. They call Rafe's plane to board. When Rafe turns to go, Sami takes her last shred of dignity and tosses it down the toilet. She throws herself at him, "I'm not letting you go."

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