A World Class Bottom Feeder

To start with, here's a recap of yesterday's "lost" episode:

Sami comes to see Rafe in his office. Rafe thinks she made up an excuse to come and see him. She tells him she'll be staying with EJ. Rafe flips out and that is the catalyst for their argument du jour. Sami says EJ told him he loves her and deserves another chance. She says she agonized about the decision for weeks, but not nearly as much as the viewers did. Sami gets an eyeful of Rafe's assistant and gets upset because Rafe gets an eyeful of her every day. Rafe asks if Sami loves EJ. "I've made my decision. I just want you to respect it." Sami returns to the DiMera mansion.

Arianna comes to see EJ and fires him because she feels she's a burden to him and he's leaving Salem. EJ says he's not going anywhere. Neither is the plot. Arianna doesn't want to be a distraction or a burden but does everything she can to be a distraction and a burden. And a nuisance. She does, however agree to keep him as her lawyer.

Nicole and Brady discuss his feelings for Arianna. He doesn't feel he can get involved with Nicole right now. He vows to prove Arianna's innocence. Nicole thinks he should back off. She thinks she could put the terrible things behind her if he would just give her a chance. Brady takes the wind out of her sails with the dreaded f-word, "friend."

Hope slips Bo a Mickey. In a strange twist, Maggie accuses Hope of killing her husband. She claims Hope slipped Mickey a Bo. Hope stalls and makes things up while the poison sets in and weirdo music plays in the background. Bo reminds her she is the one who left. She reminds him he's not taking any responsibility in this and just happens to be boinking Carly. Bo wonders if Hope would give their marriage another chance if he broke off with Carly. Hope thinks that over but flames out and insists Bo betrayed her, "Hell hath no fury like a whacked-out vengeful fire-breathing expletive-snorting shrew."

Hopeless goes to see Baker for her BO-nfire supplies. Baker begs her to burn her hairdo along with Bo.

Back at Bo and Hope's house, Hope prepares for the reenactment of the big bang.

Nicole meets EJ at the pier. Nicole tells him his days of threatening her are over. Threats fly. EJ thinks Nicole doesn't want Brady chasing after Arianna, because if he does then he will find out Nicole framed her. Rafe eavesdrops as Nicole talks about a truce.

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And, if you aren't asleep yet, here's today's feed:

Hopeless pours gas on Bo's lifeless body. She gets into her sack o' goodies and pulls out a box of matches, "Finally I'll be at peace." She lights a match, holds it in front of her face and contemplates...

Rafe shows up at the DiMera mansion. Sami answers and gets huffy. He says they weren't done talking. Sami thinks they were. Rafe says, "You said something about there being a chance..."

Sami says, "I said if I knew we could get back together I'd walk away from EJ in a heartbeat." Rafe kisses her.

Sami wakes up, "It was a dream. Rafe and I are over. Really over."

Nicole and EJ are at the pier. She makes him a deal, "You keep the information you have about Arianna to yourself and I'll do the same with what I know." EJ says they have a deal as Rafe walks up and listens.

Chloe finds Carly at the hospital. She asks if Carly has seen Daniel. Nope. Chloe wants to make sure the paternity test is kept secret. Carly assures her it will. "So I have to wait," says Chloe, "If it even matters."

"What does that mean," says Carly.

"Oh come on," says Chloe, "This is your doing. You held a gun to my head and made me sleep with Phillip."

Hope lets the match go out as Daniel comes to the door.

Nicole assures EJ she can keep a secret. They both leave. Rafe crawls out of the woodwork, "What do you know? It all just fell into my lap. I've been beating my head against the wall for nothing." AHA! That's how he got to be that way!

Hopeless rants about Ciara, Bo and life. She lights another match. Daniel knocks.

Baker is on the phone in the poker dive. Nicole interrupts. She says she has good news, "We are off the hook for setting up Arianna for the muggings. I made EJ an offer he couldn't refuse. I offered to stay away from him. No one will be the wiser."

Sami remembers her dream, "What kind of woman are you? She looks at a picture of EJ and Johnny. The doorbell rings and she answers to find Rafe. Dream come true?

Chloe and Carly go off to talk in private. Chloe tells her about the wedding delay and why. Carly gasps, "Lies on top of lies!" Chloe tells her Father Matt is back and Daniel knows she's lying again.

Carly blames herself, "This is because of me."

In a rare moment of lucidity, Chloe gets a clue, "I'm the one who slept with someone else."

Daniel knocks but the door to Bo and Hope's house swings open. He discovers Bo. Cancel the Salem High homecoming bonfire. Dan smells gas, "What the hell?" Hopeless watches from the next room with her gun pointed toward the ceiling. She fires. Across the room, a picture of Kayla explodes into a million pieces.

Sami lets Rafe in. He asks if EJ is there. Sami says he's at a meeting. "Who is he with," says Rafe. Inquiring vacuums want to know.

Sami says, "He was going to see the investigator in charge of Arianna's case." Rafe says he saw him with Nicole and they were talking about keeping a secret.

Carly says she doesn't want to cause more misery, but she's too young to die. She says if the baby is Daniel's, she will forget about the whole thing, until her next snit with Chloe. "It may be too late," says Chloe, "Things are out of hand. Even if the baby is Daniel's he may not want to be with me any more." Perhaps Daniel, unlike Bo, finally woke up.

Nicole says EJ will keep quiet because she can be persuasive. Baker thinks she has something on him. Nicole insists he doesn't. "Except that you agreed to the deal," says Baker.

"Right...," says Nicole, "So I guess I'll just have to settle for the satisfaction of watching EJ trap Sami into a life with a world class bottom feeder." Baker says he'd love to chew the fat with Nicole but has to go. Nicole asks if he's expecting his mystery partner in crime.

"I don't know after tonight," says Baker.

Nicole feigns concern, "Oh... did you two have a falling out? No more fun bashing strangers in the park?"

"I was trying to protect her," snorts Baker.

"Don't tell me there is a heart under that cynical hide of yours," says Nicole, "I'm gonna miss you. This is it. Take care." She leaves.

Baker wonders, "Hope, where are you and what are you up to now."

Daniel tries to revive Bo. Sirens wail in the background Hopeless ducks behind a door.

Chloe's new BFF Carly says she changed her mind about the situation when she found out Vivian was involved, "How do I help you?"

Chloe dunno. She wonders if she and Daniel are meant to be together, "I doubted him."

Maxine finds them and says they require Carly in the ER, "The patient in there might live and we can't have that since the hospital is full." Carly leaves.

Chloe zones out, "I did this. There has to be a way to keep it from getting worse." There is. Talk to Hope and see if she has some gas and matches left.

Sami doesn't believe Rafe. He assures her he knows what he heard. Sami defends EJ. Rafe wonders why she's covering for him, "You want EJ to be a better man, but clearly he is not."

Sami wonders if Rafe is saying EJ and Nicole are back together, "Why are you telling me about this?"

"I care."

"But not enough to make me a part of your life," says Sami, "Well EJ does."

Daniel barks orders at the paramedics. Roman investigates, "Burned matches on the floor, the room smells like gasoline... Bo appears to have been drugged... I think someone might have been trying to harm him." The man is a forensic genius. They wheel Bo out. Roman asks Daniel if Bo will make it.

"It depends on if I got here in time," says Daniel.

Hopeless watches the (ahem) drama, "You weren't supposed to die from the drug, but I guess it'll have to happen that way."

Rafe says he just didn't want to screw things up for Sami. Sami insists she's fine and he didn't, "You're relieved of your duty. Go back to figuring out what corsage to get Tiffany for her prom."

Rafe defends himself, "There is nothing between us."

Sami goes in for the kill, "There is noting between you and me either." Rafe tells her if she wants to screw up her life she can and it's fine with him. He leaves. Sami huffs.

Chloe meets Father Matt at the pier. He lectures her about lying. Chloe tells him she's pregnant. "Thank God there are only ten commandments for you to break," says Father Matt. Chloe wants to know if Father Matt will continue to keep her confidence.

Hopeless meets Baker. She says she's shocked he's still there. She lectures him, "You tipped off Bo's brother."

"Someone had to save you from yourself, Duchess," says Baker, "You off your husband and you're going away for a long time. I helped you with some of those muggings. I think you're a nice lady who's been pushed too far. I'm not standing around while you go down for killing your ex."

Daniel and Maxine are in Bo's room. Carly runs in, sees Bo in the bed and panics. Daniel explains it's an overdose. Carly takes panic to new levels, "Just save him. FOR GOD'S SAKE, CALL A DOCTOR!"

Sami looks at the picture again as EJ comes in. He asks if everything is OK. Sami lies and asks about his meeting. He says it didn't go well. She asks whom it was with. He lies. He also says the evidence against Arianna is circumstantial. Sami says he was gone too long for a meeting that pretty much yielded the same information as before. He tells her he bumped into Nicole. Sami gives him that look women give men when there is no lethal weapon handy.

Rafe walks into the pub, stomps up to the bar and orders a bourbon. He asks the bartender, "You know that thing about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome being the definition of insanity? Today I finally got sane." Nicole comes in. She sits at a table and Rafe stares at her.

Hopeless tells Baker she thought he was the one man on her side. He insists he is. "That's what you all say," she yells, "Someone got to the DA."

Baker tries to calm the waters, "Honey..."

Hopeless screams, "Don't 'honey' me. You called Roman — the brother of my ex. Then the cops show up. It all goes to hell because of you."

"That's right," agrees Baker, "because of me. But this isn't funny any more."

Hopeless orders, "You stay out of this."

Baker says, "Let me help you."

Hopeless asks, "What, you think I'm too weak?" She smacks him and leaves, "I'm going to finish what I started."

Dan and Carly monitor Bo. "Bo didn't do this to himself," says Daniel, "The room smelled like gasoline and there were burned matches on the floor." The man is a forensic genius. Bo flatlines. That does it — Carly panics again. Daniel grabs her as she flails around and tells her she has to trust him. He orders her out. Maxine pushes her out the door. Carly watches through the blinds as they attempt to resuscitate Bo.

Sami reacts to EJ telling her he saw Nicole, "What were you looking under rocks for?"

"I've got to find all my women somewhere," says EJ. He tells her he found Nicole at the pier. He says Nicole told him she wants to make things right between he two of them. He says he didn't buy it, "I went along with what she was saying and don't think she has anything." Sami thinks Nicole is up to something.

Rafe watches as Nicole rants into her phone, "We had a deal and I won't let you out of it! My lease says I get a parking spot. Have that car towed or there will be hell to pay!"

Rafe declines a refill on the bourbon, and tells the bartender, "But I could use a favor."

Father Matt asks if Daniel knows about the pregnancy. Chloe tells him he does and assumes it's his. "I see," says Father Matt, "So you want to delay the wedding because you don't want to enter into the sacrament of marriage under those conditions."

"Marriage is a sacred thing," asks Chloe, "Who knew? But the fact is Carly says she will tell if the baby isn't Daniel's, and she doesn't know the other man is her and Daniel's son-in-law."

"The people in Sodom and Gomorrah were amateurs compared to you," says Father Matt, "I don't know what to say."

"You can say what I do," says Chloe, "You can ask what I was thinking. I'm not worthy."

"That kind of thinking got you into this mess," says Father Matt, "You are a child of God. Even He makes mistakes. You're worth it. You know, Daniel could find out the truth from someone else."

Chloe whines, "If I lose him I don't think I could go on."

"Then we've got to find a way for you to lose him."

Daniel comes out. Carly rushes up for news. Daniel tells her, "Bo is stable. At death's door, but stable." Hopeless watches.

Carly wonders who could have done this to him, "I almost lost him." Daniel has her sit. Hopeless leaves.

EJ says he thinks Nicole's life is boring. Sami reminds him Nicole has a glamorous TV job. "It's in Salem," says EJ, "Not Hollywood or Baghdad or even Podunk." He thinks Nicole knows she has gone too far and won't give them any trouble, "Trust me."

Sami whines, "I hear every member of my family telling me not to, but now it seems right."

EJ smiles, "You have no idea how happy that makes me."

Irma Farkle who coincidentally happens to be from Podunk and also a staunch Ejami stands up in the audience and screams, "And you have no idea how happy that makes me."

Sami tells him she talked to Marlena, who asked if she could sell the townhouse, "I told her that would be OK with me."

EJ asks, "So, do you know where you will live?"

"Funny you ask," says Sami, "I was hoping the kids and I could stay here. With you." EJ smiles. Sami smiles. Ejamis smile. Safe's... not so much.

Pete clears the table and spills wine on Nicole's white top. He apologizes and invites her to the kitchen to help her clean it up. She goes off with him. Rafe jumps into action. He goes over to Nicole's table and looks at her cell phone, "Hmmm... She hasn't called EJ since she left the pier." He tears into her purse and pulls out some papers, "This will tell me where she lives." He rushes out.

Father Matt thinks Chloe should tell Daniel everything. She asks if he thinks Daniel will understand. Father Matt says he knows Daniel loves her, "You don't want my advice, you want me to promise I'll keep quiet — and I will. I just hope you tell him the truth and I'll pray for you."

"Pray Daniel forgives me."

Roman comes into the hospital. Daniel tells him Bo is stable, "We flew Chelsea in for another pancreas transplant."

Roman speculates, "I think someone wanted to burn Bo alive." The man is a forensic genius.

Carly whines, "What kind of person would do something that awful to Bo?"

"I don't know," says Roman, "In most cases where the man has dumped his wife and moved in with some slut, it's almost a certainty the wife would do something like that, however I have no idea where to look."

Hopeless walks into Bo's room, "Surprised to see me? I know the hospital pretty well, so it was easy to find you, especially since the place only has one room. The best part is there is there's no one in the room next to you. It's like I'm meant to be here." She checks him out, "Still unconscious. Good, but not good enough."

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