THE BIG REVEAL

Carly comes downstairs and tells Bo she doesn't want to be causing problems for him and Hope. Bo vows to deal with his problems with Hope today. Translation: "I've decided to turn to the groveling strategy. That seems to work best."

Hope finds Justin in the Kiriakis study. He tells her he's off to help Carly with her defense. Hope tells him he's doing the right thing – helping a friend. Justin leaves. Hope scowls.

Nicole grills Harold about Sydney's whereabouts. Harold tells her not only does he not know where Sydney is, he also doesn't know where EJ or Kate are.

Roman questions EJ. He wants to know why EJ saved Rafe's life against Stefano's wishes. Roman reminds EJ Johnny is his grandson and doesn't want EJ to follow Stefano on the road to hell.

Rafe tries to calm downs Hurricane Sami. He finally makes contact and says, "Your baby is still alive."

"HUHWHA?"

"She didn't die," says Rafe, "The baby you gave birth to is alive. I can prove it."

Nicole runs around the mansion yelling for Sydney.

To put it mildly, Sami is upset. She wonders why Rafe would say something like that. "I'm not talking about Grace," says Rafe, "I'm talking about Sydney. She is not Nicole's. She's yours. Sydney is your baby." Sami lets out a gasp of air.

Justin is at Bo and Hope's house. He tells Carly her case is tough and the extradition will still happen, "It's just a matter of when."

Bo arrives at the Kiriakis mansion carrying a few things. He hands hope a box, "It's a puzzle for Ciara. Can I come in?"

"Ciara isn't here," says Hope.

"Where is she?"

"I don't know. She said something about the Ringling Brothers and ran off."

"Well, I didn't come to see Ciara," says Bo, "I came to see you. Can I come in. I wanted to say I'm sorry."

Hope looks down at the bag Bo is carrying, "They're in the sack?"

"Yeah."

"Both of them?"

"Yeah."

Nicole continues to yell and search for Sydney. Harold tells her Sydney isn't there. Nicole asks for Mary's number. Harold tells her Mary left Sydney with Kate. "Why didn't you say that in the first place," yells Nicole, "Where is she?"

"I will tell you," says Harold, "If you promise to leave." Harold has grown very wise in his old age. Nicole promises.

A cop escorts Kate into Roman's office kicking and screaming. Kate kicks and screams, too. Kate is indignant but Roman tells her she's just there for questioning.

"I was manhandled," she screams. She looks up at the cop who brought her, "Would you mind doing it just one more time?"

Roman tells her he knows she helped Stefano pack for his unexpected trip and she might be an accessory to his crime. Kate protests. Roman says, "You are already in a hole, so keep digging. Stefano is gone. Flew the coop. You are alone. Are you ready for what's coming to you."

Chloe sings "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" to Sydney. She finishes up and Sydney stares. "What," asks Chloe, "No applause? People pay good money to hear me sing"

"I'll pay good money to have you stop," says Sydney. Chloe wonders what's keeping Nicole.

Sami asks if this is the case Rafe has been working on. Rafe tells her yes, "I know it sounds strange but it's true. I have the DNA test. Grace and Sydney were switched the day they were born. Grace wasn't your child."

Sami blows her stack, "How dare you? Grace was my child. No one will ever take Grace away from me. She is my little baby!"

Kate twirls her hanky and tells Roman that Stefano doesn't check in with her before he goes off on business. Roman turns to EJ and asks why he stopped the hit on Rafe. EJ clams up. A cop comes in and calls Roman out for important cop business, "The donuts have arrived."

Kate turns her wrath on EJ. He waits for an opening, leans forward and says softly, "Mommy, I'd like to know where Daddy is."

Nicole rushes in and explodes, "Kate! What did you do with her?"

Chloe sleeps. Sydney sits on the bed wide-awake. Daniel walks in and gives the baby a little smooch. He smooches Sydney, too. He picks up Sydney and walks her out of the room.

Maggie finds Mia at the Java Café. Mia's whine mojo is in fine form, "You want me to move out right? You want me out of your house – No sluts allowed." Maggie tells Mia she has done wrong but has also done something right, "You gave someone the most precious gift anyone can. Mia wonders what that is and we get our answer from the music that plays softly in the background.

I gave my love a cherry
That had no stone
I gave my love a chicken
That had no bone
I told my love a story
That had no end
I gave my love a baby
And that's when I figured out I should have stopped when I gave him the story that had no end.
Sami wants Rafe to drop it. Rafe says he wasn't suggesting anyone could replace Grace. He tells her the switcheroo happened at the clinic. Sami just can't wrap her mind around this. Of course Sami can't wrap her mind around a proton.

Rafe 'splains that Sami and Mia gave birth on the same day and runs through the switch scenario, "Grace wasn't your child. She was Mia's."

Justin tells Carly she could be extradited at any moment. Carly gasps, "I can't leave Salem until..."

"Until what?"

"Chloe's scars heal."

Kate claims she didn't do anything with Sydney. Roman interrupts before she can tell where she is. As she walks off with Roman, Kate turns to Nicole, "Hold that thought."

"It's hard enough for me to come up with a thought," says Nicole, "Let alone hold one. This is a nightmare."

Nicole softens and asks EJ what he's doing there. He tells her about Rafe's shooting at the pier. She hugs him and says she is glad he's all right. EJ pushes her away. Nicole moves back in and asks what happened.

EJ says he saved Rafe's life.

"WHY?"

Sami says she loves Sydney but knows she is not her baby, "You could be wrong about this."

"Not this time."

"It doesn't make sense."

"It's DOOL," says Rafe, "What do you expect?"

"Nicole didn't know I was pregnant," says Sami.

"I don't know how but she did," says Rafe, "That's why she went to Sister Teresa. Did Sister Teresa ever mention a woman named Mary?"

Sami gasps, "Oh, God!"

"Sister Teresa steered Nicole to Baker's clinic," says Rafe, "Nicole may have been helping him pay gambling debts." Rafe thinks Stefano was in cahoots with Nicole and hired a hit man to whack Rafe. He pulls out the DNA results. Sami reminds him DNA results can be faked. He swears they weren't and hands the results to her.

Sami insists Grace was hers. Rafe says, "Just because Sydney is yours doesn't mean you're kicking Grace out. Sydney is yours and it's time for you to take her back."

"BLUBBERBLUBBERBLUBBER!"

Hope tells Bo he doesn't need to apologize, "You just need to get on your knees and beg forgiveness." He tells her she had every right to be furious. Bo thinks he should have trusted Hope. Hope thinks she shouldn't have trusted Victor when she told him about Carly. She says she picked Victor's brain about Carly because Carly replaced her when she was gone, "I need to know if she's going to do that again."

"I probably won't be that lucky," says Bo.

Q: Whenever Hope is with Bo, what does he realize he misses most about her? A: Her absence.

Carly can't say anything, "It has to stay private." She tells Justin she wishes he could help but she can't.

Maggie asks about Mia's family. "You couldn't get my mom to talk to me if you paid her," says Mia, "She has a lot of problems. I had it all figured out. I was going to Japan to join a dance company."

"My dream when I was young," says Mags, "was to dance. Now it's to meddle."

Mia tells Maggie she had to face reality and come home, "I have failed as a daughter, dancer and a girlfriend. Good thing I didn't try to be a mother."

"Let the past go," advises Maggie, "I'll take you on as an apprentice and by the time you're my age you'll be the best busybody ever."

"By the time I'm your age," says Mia, "The Rocky Mountains will be known as the Hill Country. But I did do one thing right. I gave my little girl a chance at a life."

EJ can't believe Nicole asked why he saved a man's life, "Do you want him dead?"

"No," she whimpers, "I just thought you might get hurt or killed trying to save him." He asks if she knows why Stefano left. Nicole gasps, "My God, Stefano left? Did he take Sydney?"

Sami bawls, "How could I not know? I would have known if she were mine." She flashes back to Rafe telling her Grace doesn't look like her, "Do you remember how we were always asking ourselves who she looked like?"

"You had a special connection to Sydney all that time," says Rafe, "You couldn't keep your eyes off of her."

"Yeah, right from the start I..." She falls into his arms sobbing.

Kate comes in and interrupts EJ and Nicole. She tells Nicole she gave Sydney to Chloe. Nicole bolts. Outside, she calls Chloe. Chloe wakes. Nicole bellows, "Where is Sydney?"

"On the east coast of Australia," says Chloe. She looks around the room, "OMG! The baby is gone."

Nicole goes off the deep end, "What did you say?"

Daniel walks Sydney outside. He sits on the park bench and talks to her, "You need a good life. Lots of sunshine and happiness and a mommy and daddy that love you."

Sydney beams, "Please tell me another fairy tale."

Rafe reminds Sami the first words out of her mouth in the witless protection program were to tell him what a bitch Nicole was. Sami just can't believe all this. Rafe agrees that it's complicated, "But when you think about it, it makes sense."

"That would require thinking," says Sami. She tries to soak it in, "OMG! So you're saying it's true that Sydney is really mine?"

Rafe nods.

"Sydney is my own little girl?"

Bo tells Hope no one can ever replace her, "There is no one else in the world that mean. It always gets down to trust. So, how do we do that? Counseling?"

"More like complete subservience on your part," says Hope, "I want to come home." Bo's luck runs out again.

Justin tells Carly to sit tight and says he wishes he could have brought better news. He leaves. Carly goes to the computer and searches... click click click. She finds something and runs out. We pan to a picture of Bo and Hope. In case you can't see it clearly, Hope is the one with the bullwhip.

Nicole rushes in. Chloe says she found out Daniel took Sydney out for a walk in her stroller. "Isn't your stroller awfully big for Sydney," asks Nicole, "I want my baby back now!" She freaks out and tells Chloe to call Daniel right away.

Sami gets a clue, "So you think Sydney is mine? You are 100% positive?"

"I'm positive."

Hugs and tears... and smiles.

Bo is surprised Hope wants to come home. Hope says if they are going to rebuild their trust they have to start now not in the past. Bo wonders if this is just so Hope can keep an eye on Carly.

Carly finds Mia at the pier, "You look like you need a friend."

Roman tells EJ and Kate if they sign their statements they are free to go. EJ scribbles. Kate signs and hands her clipboard to Roman, "Go to hell."

"Call me cynical," says Roman, "but I don't think this is the last time we'll talk about this." He leaves.

Out in the audience, Mabel turns to Susie, "Call me cynical, but I think I can see them dragging a dead horse onto the stage right now."

"I take it Stefano didn't leave town on business," says Kate.

"Do you know where he went," asks EJ.

"No," says Kate, "He was livid because you interrupted an activity he wanted completed."

"I'm involved and staying involved," says EJ.

Daniel is at the pub with Sydney, "What do I have to do to win your heart."

"Aren't I a little young even for a perv like you," asks Sydney.

Nicole blasts in and lectures Daniel for taking Sydney, "You might be a brilliant physician but you are an insensitive jerk and an ass."

Nicole starts to grab Sydney, but Daniel stops her, "You're not touching that baby."

Rafe asks, "Ready?"

"Yes," blubbers Sami, "Lets go bring Sydney home."

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