A Gestation Device

Carly stands at Bo and Hope's door face to face with Hope. She sees the steam coming out of Hope's ears and decides this might be a good time to leave. But, no, Hope tells her not to go. She invites her in to witness the coming smackdown.

Vivian is at the Java Café. She reaches for her coffee, but Kate snaps it out from under her. They argue about who's coffee it was.

EJ accuses Stefano of taking Sydney. Rafe and Sami join in the Stef-bashing session. EJ steps in as things quiet down, "Father, where is our daughter?"

Nicole lies in her hospital bed. She zones out and calls for Sydney, "Be safe honey, oh, God please be safe."

EJ lectures Stefano. Rafe wants to know if it's true that Stefano might know where Sydney is. Stefano says, "Well, I do have an idea where she might be." EJ, Sami and Rafe suck all of the air out of the room as they gasp in unison.

Mia comes into Maggie's kitchen. She says she's done with her shift but has to Bo back and fill in for Karen, "I really had to say I would do that since she's filled in for me a zillion times."

"If you actually go to work you'll never fit in with everyone else in Salem," says Maggie. She encourages Mia to eat and offers to make her a sandwich. We find out when Mia was pregnant all she could eat was chicken and she got sick of it, so instead she orders liverwurst and sauerkraut with jalapenos on rye. Mmmmmmm... She reminisces about Grace. Maggie jumps in with her two-bit advice and suggests she try to get back together with her mom. Mia doesn't think that can ever happen. Maggie chirps, "Family is the most important thing in anyone's life."

"Then how come we never see your husband or kids around here," asks Mia.

Carly tells Bo moving in with Maggie is a no-go. That gets Hope's attention. She gets nasty and wonders why Carly is trying to cozy up to her family. Victor arrives, "It looks like I interrupted just in time."

"No," says Bo, "You should have interrupted a long time ago. You know, like at our wedding when the preacher asked if anyone knew a reason why I shouldn't marry her..."

Vivian and Kate cluck around the Java Café. Vivian moves in to snipe a bit. Kate gives her both barrels, "I thought with advancing age came a softening but I guess some never change. You are not Phillip's long lost mother." She mocks the way Vivian gushed when she first Phillip at Victor's and continues to rant, "You were just a gestation device and Phillip knows it."

Vivian reminds Kate she married the man who tried to have Phillip murdered. Kate fires back, "Yeah, well, you've got Victor on your 'must have for Christmas' list."

Vivian says, "Well, Stefano owns your soul and what's left of your body."

"And you," says Kate, "think I'm out of the picture and Victor is just right for plucking."

Stefano insists he would never harm Sydney. He says the only person who could know where she is would be Nicole.

Nicole flashes back to moments with Sydney, "I hear you crying. Mommy is coming."

Even though it's been a long hard ride, Sydney decides she can't afford to stop and rest. She kicks her Harley into high gear and heads for the outskirts of Whitehorse.

Vivian says her relationship with Victor is her business. Kate sneers, "If you're moving in on Victor to get close to Phillip, then it's my business, too. Vivian, go to hell." Kate leaves. Vivian chuckles.

Victor growls, "Bo... get this intruder out of your house. It's Christmas, for God's sake."

"I thought the intruder was living with you," says Bo. Ciara comes down and provides the adult supervision. Victor invites her home to open her early Christmas present.

Ciara gets all-excited, "Mommy, let's go!"

Hope declines, "Mommy has to stay and talk to Daddy and THIS WOMAN." Victor takes Ciara away from the bull ring.

Carly apologizes for coming by, but Hope is about as gracious as a wolf standing in the middle of a herd of sheep. She continues to badger Carly, "Why don't you want to live at Maggie's? Just one more secret you don't want to share?"

Maggie continues to spew. Mia thinks Maggie is the only person who will tell her the truth.

Nicole babbles, "Sydney... Mommy's coming... I have to find her."

EJ isn't buying what Stefano is selling. Stefano says he knows Brady is in love with Nichole and he has conned all of them into believing her lies. Accusations fly back at Stefano. Rafe gets a call and leaves. Sami goes into high gear. EJ turns on the afterburners. Sami says she knows Stefano hates her and wants to keep her away from his granddaughter, "Just tell us the truth!"

Carly tells Hope not everything is a secret, "I can't live here. Maggie had a room for rent and offered it to me." Hope says Maggie wouldn't do that if she knew the truth. Carly says she has decided to live at the Salem Inn, "I'm leaving so you two can go back to whatever you were talking about."

Hope snorts, "We were talking about you."

Bo clarifies, "Actually, Hope was doing the talking."

Gus brings Vivian an envelope and says Lawrence had a secret lock box in Switzerland. Gus, of course, has the contents since Vivian was Lawrence's next-of-kin and she gave Gus power-of-attorney. Vivian opens the letter and reads, "Well, there is someone else who needs to read this... right now."

Nicole decides she has to find Sydney. She struggles to get up.

The Brady bunch... well, I guess more of them are DiMeras... continues to bicker. Stefano tells Sami he would never take Sydney and wants to help her get her back. EJ jumps in and says he doesn't believe anything Stefano is saying. "I have an idea how we can find her," says Stefano.

Rafe gets off the phone as Roman comes in. Rafe tells Roman the Syd-napping might have been a professional job.

"Maybe not," says Roman, "The Cleveland PD might be on to who took Sydney. Translation: If the Cleveland PD is anything like the Salem PD, we'll know where not to look.

Bo declares the conversation is over, "Carly is trying to move on. Can't we do the same thing?"

"How can we do that," asks Hope, "if you don't trust me with information you have about Carly?"

Carly jumps in and tells her she and Bo won't have any more contact. Hope jumps on that one, "So, you stopped by to tell him where you will be living, which could have been accomplished with a phone call. You are invading my house."

"If this is your house," asks Bo, "why did you leave?"

OMG! BACK-TALK! THE ULTIMATE SIN! Hope decides to go.

Sami thinks they should hear Stefano out. EJ babbles but Stefano jumps in. He says he had his people tracking Sydney, "And Elvis did the same thing — no matter what he denies."

Shocked Sami turns to EJ, "Did you?"

"Sure," he admits, "I don't see that this has anything to do with where Sydney is."

Stefano suggests combining their resources and doubling their chances of finding her, "Double your pleasure, double your fun. Get yourself two mobs instead of just one."

Roman tells Rafe he knows Fay helped Nicole. Rafe wonders if Fay took Sydney. Roman says that's a possibility. Rafe isn't convinced, "But do you think Fay would smash Nicole's skull and leave her for dead?"

Roman is so impressed with this great revelation and magnificent display of detective work that any two-year old could have thought of, "That is why the FBI guys had mush for brains when they asked you to resign."

"They had mush for brains, all right," says Rafe, "After all, they're the ones who hired me in the first place."

"So," says Roman, "Fay may not be the perp, but she is still a person of interest."

"That's good," says Rafe, "At least there's something interesting on this show." Roman says the cops have Fay's house staked out.

"That baby could be anywhere by now," says the ever-astute Rafe.

Nicole unwraps herself from all her gizmos and gadgets. She starts to stand, but can't.

Hope says it was a mistake to come there or to think they could rebuild their family. She leaves. Carly says they have to tell Hope about her daughter.

Maggie encourages Mia not to be bitter. "I already am," says Mia, "That's what happens when your baby dies."

"Apparently wallowing in self-pity also happens," says Maggie. Mia leaves to go back to work.

Sami wails, "We all have to work together."

Rodney King sticks his head in the room, "Can't we all just get along?"

EJ doesn't join in as they all sing "Kum Bay Ya." He doesn't want any part of this stinkin' togetherness. He thinks Stefano would turn that around to make sure they never would find their daughter.

Sami does a 180° — she turns to Stefano, "How could you do this to your own granddaughter?" Bipolar Sami strikes again.

"Fine," growls Stefano, "if you two want to act like idiots, go ahead, but without my help you will never find that child!" He storms out.

Nicole tries to get up again and this time she succeeds. She staggers to the door, cracks it open and sees a cop standing there. So she closes it and looks around the room. She staggers to another door, but it's locked, "NO! Blubberblubberblubber..."

Hope is at the Java Café bugging Mia about life at Maggie's house. "Today," says Mia, "A Carly Something-Or-Other almost moved in."

"That would be Carly Manning," says Hope, "So why didn't she move in?"

Bo thinks there is more to this than the secret they are keeping from Hope. He assumes Vivian is back in Salem because of the little incident with Lawrence and she has her sights set on Carly. "And," says Carly, "If she knew I had a daughter, that's exactly where she would strike."

"So your secret has to remain a secret," says Bo. Carly agrees and decides to go to the Salem Inn. "Can you afford that," asks Bo.

"I know," says Carly, "$29.95 a day is pretty steep, but they do change the sheets and give you a fresh can of bug spray once a month." Bo thinks the Salem Inn isn't a good idea. He thinks she should stay at Bo and Hope's house.

Victor meets Vivian in the den. Vivian orders vodka rocks, "It's irresponsible of Bo to expose Hope to a heartless murderess." She tells Victor she's sure Carly killed Lawrence. Victor thinks Vivian came to Salem for revenge. Vivian agrees.

Roman hugs Sami and tells her to stay strong. He tells Stefano the cops need his statement. Stefano says if they want to talk they can talk to his attorney. On his way out, Stefano takes one more shot at EJ, "No one is going to turn me into the villain here. I just want my granddaughter back."

Rafe comes to Nicole's room and the cop tells him she can't have any visitors. Cagy Rafe buddies up to the cop and tells him following orders doesn't get a case solved.

Nicole uses a hairpin or something to pick the lock on the side door.

Carly tells Bo she can't stay at his house. Bo wants to know what happened at Maggie's. Carly just says she shouldn't have tried to rush things, "Now she hates me."

Hope leaves Mia a big tip and asks a few more questions about Carly. Mia wonders how Hope knows Carly. "She used to live in Salem a few years ago," says Hope, "What did you think of her?"

"It's not nice to talk about people you don't know," says Mia.

"Live with Maggie long enough and you'll get over that," says Hope.

"My first impression of her was you can't trust her."

Hope leaves, "Smart girl."

Vivian thinks extradition and execution isn't enough punishment for Carly. She wants Victor's support so her revenge can be long and painful, "I need your help."

"You have to ask?"

Stefano calls Kate and tells her Nicole claims she doesn't know what happened to Sydney. Kate says she doesn't want Stefano getting all worked up. Stefano gets all worked up, "Elvis, Nicole and Samantha are trying to keep Sydney away from me and they will pay for it!"

Roman says he has a meeting with commander Hogan so he leaves. Sami turns to EJ, "Tough day, eh?"

"We didn't make it to Canada," says EJ, "So I'd appreciate it if you speak English. It's hard to know whether Nicole has Sydney or Stefano is behind all this."

Sami whines, "And everyone says the more time goes by the harder it will be to find her..."

"Trust me on this," says EJ, "We're going to find our daughter. Don't doubt that."

"AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER-AFTER," shout the Ejamis.

The Safes and Lumis gang up on them, "PUT A SOCK IN IT!"

The cop lets Rafe in. He goes in and finds the room empty, "Nicole!" He opens the side door, "Nothing. Dammit!"

Out in the audience, things degenerate into a full-fledged donnybrook.

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