So Malicious... So Evil

Nicole stands on her porch, calls Mia and leaves a message asking her to come back to the mansion ASAP.

Inside, EJ gives the butler instructions to give the staff the night off so he and Nicole can be alone this evening, "And take those irritating kids with you."

Nicole calls Mia again. She wants to know if she's heard from Chad.

At the pub, Stephanie tells Melanie she has a problem with her and Phillip.

Phillip stands in his den and swills liquor. He rants about Stephanie and throws the glass against the wall. Brady comes in, "Are you in a bad mood or are you christening the house?"

The cops hold Daniel back as he screams. Everyone watches as Lexie attempts to revive Chloe. She opens her favorite book, Medicine 101, and reads the instructions, "Step 1..."

Lexie barks orders, "Get me that electrical thingie! " The crash cart team rolls the defibrillator up and Lexie goes to work.

"CLEAR!" ZAP! "CLEAR!" ZAP! "CLEAR!" ZAP!

Kate stands outside and watches, "She has to make it."

Nicole is on the phone again leaving yet another message for Mia and grilling her about whether or not she told Chad about the baby. She wanders around the room as she talks and suddenly... HORROR OF HORRORS! She finds Sydney in her playpen.

Stephanie gives Melanie the third degree about her evening with Phillip, "Judging by your bedhead it looks like you and Phillip had a ball tonight! You pathetic little slut!"

That does it! Melanie hauls off and...

SLAP!

Clueless Stephanie holds her cheek and gives Melanie a look that says, "What on earth did you do that for?"

Lexie continues to work on Chloe. Maggie wails and prays. Daniel screams. Everyone degenerates into "If you can't act, be loud" mode.

"CLEAR!" ZAP! "CLEAR!" ZAP! "CLEAR!" ZAP!

Unfortunately, all the clearing and zapping doesn't work. Chloe flatlines. Daniel screams his love and begs her to live, "CHLOE! Come back to me." He continues to scream, and scream, and scream, and scream... you get the idea. As his blithering reaches crescendo level... MIRACLE OF MIRACLES, WE GET A HEARTBEAT!

Daniel turns to the cops who are holding him, "Could you excuse me for a minute? I have to go part the red sea and change some water into wine."

Phillip goes into the stretch and checks the runner on first. He rares back and fires... NO! Brady grabs his arm just as Phillip is about to throw and stops him. An umpire runs up, calls a balk and awards the runner second base.

Phillip is livid, "That's not a balk! He grabbed my arm! You're blind, ump!"

The umpire screams, "You talk back to me one more time and I'll toss you outta here. Arianna talked back to me and you know what happened to her. They tossed her out like yesterday's garbage. There are a lot more out of work actors on the Passions set just waiting to replace you guys."

In keeping with the trend set by recent cast changes, NBC has announced it will be changing the show title "Days Of Our Lives" to "Passions Part Deux."

Brady says, "Let me guess... This is about a certain woman."

Phillip says, "Make that two women."

Melanie and Stephanie face off. Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin' plays in the background. The audience chants, "CAT FIGHT! CAT FIGHT!"

Melanie denies sleeping with Phillip. She wonders if that is why Nathan blew her off. Stephanie says she told Nate to stay away from her. Melanie reminds Stephanie she is the one who left Phillip and Melanie tried to get them back to her.

Stephanie asks, "Why would I trust a conniving whore like you?"

Melanie screams, "You have crossed the line!"

The audience wants blood, "CAT FIGHT! CAT FIGHT!"

Nicole frets. EJ walks in, "What's going on?"

"It's Sydney," snivels Nicole.

Phillip tells Brady he not only blew it with Stephanie but also Melanie. He denies being drunk as Brady lectures. Phillip vows it won't happen again, "I'm swearing off women." Brady says he doesn't believe it and leaves.

Nicole tells EJ she is upset because Sydney was alone in her playpen.

Bo comes into Chloe's room. Lexie gives him an update and he leaves. I ask you, folks, where else can you find drama this intense?

It's high noon in the pub. Melanie rants, "You of all people should know what I went through as a child!" Stephanie says she knows Melanie had a terrible childhood and backs off. Melanie insists all she wanted was to have Phillip as her friend and not drive drunk. She turns to run out, but bumps into Brady. The needle on the Sob-O-Meter melts and black smoke pours out of it.

Maggie thinks this was a miracle. Kate isn't so enthused. She goes to call Phillip. Bo tells Daniel to calm down because he has more questions, "I suggest you call a lawyer."

"I'll call Mickey," says Daniel.

"No," says Bo, "I meant a lawyer who can do you some good."

Kate announces Phillip is on his way. "I'm just happy Chloe is still with us," blubbers Maggie.

That makes one of us.

Hearing that, Kate spills her coffee. Lexie comes out and Maggie thanks her for saving Chloe's life. Lexie says she can't take credit for that, "It was Daniel's miracle that saved her. Until he spoke up, thanks to me, Chloe was dead as a hammer."

Kate asks, "What about her prognosis?"

"Uh," says Lexie, "All of her major organs are fine. But there is a chance Chloe might never recover." Lexie leaves. Maggie beats herself up for judging Chloe. Kate encourages her. Maggie leaves. Kate waits for more news.

In the locker room Daniel asks if Bo really thinks he did this. Lexie interrupts, "I just want you to know, Chloe is stable."

"Now that's a miracle," says Bo.

Daniel rattles through a litany of medical procedures they should try next He starts to go with Lexie but Bo stops him and tells him to call a lawyer, "I'm your friend. I want to help you. But in order to do that, I need answers."

"I can see through your game," says Daniel, "You're playing good-cop/bad-cop with me."

"No," says Bo, "There are no good cops on the SPD."

Melanie falls apart. Brady asks what's going on. Melanie fills him in. He suggests Melanie tell Stephanie exactly what happened between her and Phillip.

EJ wonders why Nicole went off the deep end about the fact Sydney was in her crib. Nicole says, "She was alone. Someone could have just walked in here and taken her."

"That's ridiculous," says EJ, "No Hoodlum is ever going to waltz into a mansion and kidnap a baby."

"Ask Charles Lindbergh about that," says Nicole, "I want Mary fired for leaving Sydney alone."

Phillip meets Kate at the hospital. Kate brings him up to date on things, "Chloe is in a coma and there is no brain activity."

"Thank God she's all right," says Phillip.

"Lexie is in with her right now," says Kate.

"I'll notify the funeral home to come for a pickup" says Phillip.

Phillip asks how this happened, "She was poisoned," says Kate, "The brownies on the set were tainted."

"Those little sluts," says Phillip, "What's becoming of kids today?"

Hope comes into the locker room, "The druggist informs me leukocystine was picked up at his pharmacy by a Caucasian male."

"Good," says Bo, "At least we've nabbed Luke O. Sistine."

"A Caucasian male," repeats Daniel, "There must be a thousand guys who fit that description."

"Four point two billion to be exact," says Hope.

Bo shows Daniel the leukocystine prescription, "Is this your handwriting?"

EJ insists Mary is trustworthy and refuses to fire her. Nicole remains upset. EJ defends Mary and says he told her she could take a phone call from her sick mother. EJ wants to know what's behind all this. Nicole insists it's nothing and everything is fine. EJ presses. Nicole says she was watching a movie about a kidnapping and got a little paranoid. Things thaw and Nicole says she will try to relax.

Melanie whines, "Phillip made a pass at me, but I said no because he's just looking for someone to fill the void."

"In other words," says Stephanie, "You're saying this is all about his mind."

Melanie fires up the afterburners on her crying, "For the first time in my life friendship means more to me than some guy."

Nathan finds Maggie outside crying. Maggie tells him about Chloe. Nathan is sympathetic. Maggie tells him no one has been able to contact Lucas, "The poor soul doesn't know anything."

"Everybody knows that about Lucas."

Maggie says they now know Chloe was poisoned. She also tells him they are accusing Daniel of poisoning her. "My kitchen is all cordoned off. I don't even know if we can get in the place. If we go back to the house, don't eat anything."

"That's good advice even when things aren't poisoned," says Nathan. They hug and part. Nathan stares.

Kate tells Phillip this is her fault because she insisted Chloe do a segment on food, "I don't understand how anyone could be so malicious... So evil."

Daniel says the writing is similar to his, but claims he didn't write the prescription. Bo wonders how the vile vial wound up in his apartment, "Was anyone in your apartment this past week?"

Daniel hesitates, "I don't know... OMG!"

Nicole comes back in with a baby monitor. She says they have both been under stress, so she suggests they use the rumpus room for its intended rumpusing purpose.

Melanie whines like a cat with its tail caught in a blender and says she considers Stephanie her friend. Stephanie apologizes and the whole thing degenerates into a sickening mutual admiration society. Brady decides his work is done here so he leaves.

Maggie joins Phillip and Kate and says Bo and Hope are working Daniel over. Maggie fills Phillip in on why they are accusing Daniel.

Daniel tells Bo and Hope he asked Lucas to have someone drop by his apartment and pick up his suit.

Bo drops the bombshell, "Chloe and Lucas picked up your suit."

Daniel explodes, "Then why aren't you questioning Lucas?" Hope tells Daniel Chloe had made it clear she didn't want Daniel around. Bo wonders why she would say that if she were going to leave Lucas for Daniel.

EJ and Nicole have moved their rumpusing activities to the bedroom. We go through a bit of giggly pillow talk. The giggling stops and things get serious.

Brady comes back to the pub and sits with Melanie. Melanie gets a call from the hospital and learns about Chloe. She tells Brady someone tried to kill her. "About time," says Brady.

Kate over-defends Daniel. Maggie says, "Chloe is lucky to have you for a mother in law."

"I had to fill in," says Kate, "The bride of Frankenstein wasn't available." Maggie leaves to call Mickey and Phillip goes to check on Lucas.

Daniel screams, "No more questions! I'm done with all this!" Hope brings up the poisoned apple.

"I ordered the fruit basket," says Daniel, "But I didn't make it up myself."

"Someone did," says Bo, "Someone who wanted Chloe dead."

"That narrows it down to the entire town of Salem and all the viewers," says Hope.

EJ and Nicole smooch but Nicole's cell phone sitting across the room distracts her. EJ asks if Nicole is expecting a phone call. She claims she's not. EJ wonders why she keeps looking at her phone.

Phillip returns home. He asks Henderson to check the airline and see if he can track Lucas down. Henderson leaves. The doorbell rings. Phillip answers. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water... STEPHANIE!

Brady says he still cares about Chloe, but they are just friends now, though. Melanie thinks he should go to the hospital, so they head out together.

Lexie encourages Chloe to keep fighting. Lexie is better at encouraging people than she is at practicing medicine.

Kate tells Maggie she's really not holding up well, "This is going to affect so many lives. I want this nightmare to end."

A gal in the audience yells, "You're not the only one!" Kate walks off.

Bo, Hope and Daniel come into the waiting area. Bo thinks someone else must have had motive to want to kill Chloe.

Daniel flashes back to Kate telling him she knows about the affair. Then he flashes back to the time when Chloe was about to eat the apple. Kate comes in. Daniel walks toward her and they have a staredown.

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