The judge decides in Rebecca's favor. She can take Dougie to Japan! Johnny didn't ruin everything for her after all. She tries to be magnanimous in victory, but Robert cannot rise to that height. He is very depressed by the judge's decision. After a few days, however, he decides that the time has come to leave the doldrums behind ... perhaps a cruise to Mexico will do the trick.
Mike tries to get interested in Wendy, the girl he picked up at the bar, but he still loves Trish. He tries to call her, to apologize, but he always finds himself saying hurtful things. Trish won't talk to him now at all! And good old David is always there to hold her hand!
Val comes to Salem, in the back of her mind rehearsing the joyful reunion she and David will have ... until she learns, through, Toni, that David is taking Trish home from the hospital. She asks herself how she could have been such a fool and makes an immediate reservation to fly back to Washington. David will always be concerned about that baby and Trish, which is only right. He hears she is at the airport and rushes to prevent her going, to talk things over. This time, she tells David, it is over for real. Val's firmness dissolves into tears as her plane takes her so far away from the man she loves.
David becomes more and more solicitous of Trish and the baby. He wants their baby to have a good life and a safe one. It occurs to him that he and Trish could be a good partnership. If for no other reason than the baby. He suggests a weekend at the Stonybrook Inn, to give themselves a quiet chance, to see if they have anything in common. Trish; very reluctantly, agrees.
Their weekend proves to be a peaceful, lovely time. They laugh, they enjoy each other's company, but when David asks Trish to marry him, she cannot answer. What does her silence mean?
Bill decides to see a London doctor who has been working on a new technique in hand surgery. If there is the slightest chance that use of his hand can be fully restored.... He leaves, and Laura will join him very soon. Before she departs, he calls from London: no surgery. They decide to vacation for a while anyway.
Alice is far from relaxed. There is the idea of a hysterectomy to be contended with. Laura has convinced her that her fears, even though she is beyond child-bearing age-are quite normal. It helps Alice greatly. Then, despite Dr. Griffin's urgency about the operation, Alice postpones it until Bill returns from Europe. She is fearful of upsetting him unduly, considering his candidly expressed jealousy of Dr. Griffin.
Mickey and Marie are each upset by Dr. Griffin's diagnosis: it is completely different from Dr. Bailey's. Tommy reluctantly agrees to double-check with Bailey for his opinion.
NEIL IS CAUGHT
Neil goes one step too far when, drunk, he asks Mary about her love
life and begs her to resume their affair. Mary's refusal is overheard
by her mother, who had just been completely convinced (by Neil's
evasive tactics) that his affair had been with Brooke!
Don is chafing at the bit -- Sam is outwearing her welcome, as far as he is concerned. She is causing Marlena deep anxieties. Marlena knows that Sam is addicted to barbiturates, that she is careless about mixing them with alcohol. She thinks she has convinced Sam to submit to therapy, to stop and get control of her life, but perhaps Marlena has been outwitted. Sam is capable of great cunning. She has managed to out-smart Marlena at every turn-taking pills from the hospital where she posed as Marlena; asking for the loan of a great deal of money and a ride to the airport.... Sam, by "losing" and by being the poor, misunderstood but proud sister, is winning her battle very handily indeed.
Doug firmly declines a very strong "offer" for legalized gambling in his club (if the gambling is illegal so what, says the gambler). What will Doug do'? Larry Atwood seems determined to get his operation into Doug's place.
Despite her inner turmoil and her doubts, Trish agrees to marry David in Fayetteville. They manage to impart a simple beauty to their vows despite their surroundings: a seedy "marriage factor."
Julie, Of course, is thrilled at the news of their marriage. Her family is pleased, but very worried by the effect the news will have on Mike. When Trish does tell Mike, he is shocked, unbelieving. He then storms out, declaring his intention to wait for this marriage to end. He gives it three months! Trish is shaken, but David, by his calm support, his obvious caring of her welfare, a true closeness, begins to develop between them and they decide to look for a larger apartment -- and a double bed.
Dr. Griffin is besieged by Hortons all seeking information about Alice's prospective surgery. Even Tom begins to realize that something is afoot, that Alice is keeping something from him. Tom asks Marie what is troubling Alice, but it is Tommy who tells his father about, Alice's supposed precancerous condition, and Dr. Griffin's decision to perform a radical hysterectomy. Tom decides he must talk to Dr. Griffin himself. He does so, but -- after reading the lab results and reading her file he feels medically "rusty" and he accepts Griffin's diagnosis.
Bill, however, is a different story. When he returns to Salem he barges into Griffin's office to see his mother's X-rays and to read her file-no matter that Griffin is out of town, Bill storms ahead to get the information he wants. He is rather forcibly ejected by Dr. Peters, who admonishes him severely for a lack of medical courtesy, questioning Bill's ethics, to boot.
The next day, Griffin does some admonishing of his own, and he and Bill come to fiery words in the doctors' lounge. When Bill voices doubts of Griffin's diagnosis of his mother, Griffin has had enough. He resigns from the case, threatens Bill with dire consequences for his unethical behavior. Tom and Alice are surprised at Bill's conduct, but Alice agrees to take Bill's advice and get a second opinion.
Samantha has crossed the line that separates sick from evil. She concocts a fantastic plot to outwit Marlena, and she just might carry it off! Her departure from Salem blocked by Marlena's refusal to lend her the money to go; her plan to borrow the money from Don (he would do just about anything to get her out of Salem) stymied when Marlena finds out about it; feeling pushed to the brink by Marlena's being so right in her assessment of Sam's condition, Sam decides to play the role of her life. She slips Marlena a potent mixture of drugs, and while Dr. Evans slips in and out of consciousness, Miss Evans calls Bayview Sanitarium, posing as Marlena! She requests an ambulance for her sister. There was some trouble, she says, but Samantha Evans signed the committal papers. Sam has decided she and Marlena will play their old twin-game. She will be Marlena, the successful doctor; and Marlena will be her, the poor, demented, drug-addicted manic-depressive-schizophrenic Sam.
At Bayview, Dr. Powell does not suspect that he is not speaking to Dr. Evans when she tells him to keep her sister isolated for a few days and warns him that she may try to convince everybody that she is Dr. Evans. Don unwittingly aids Sam's scheme by taking Mickey's advice and let Marlena cool off a few days after their fight over his misguided attempt to lend Sam her getaway money.
Doug faces deep trouble. His liquor license has been questioned, and his past criminal record and name change discovered. He may lose the club.
Neil is also in trouble, although he may not yet know it. Phyl has discovered the truth of his affair: it was not Brooke, it was her daughter Mary. She almost kills herself in her car by driving recklessly when she decides he is not worth it. She will, however, make both of them pay for-doing this to her!
From Soap Opera Digest