( Thursday 23rd April 1998 in NZ)
Kristen gives into John's persistence and they kiss again. They sit down and have some champagne and Kristen sees the wine-cooler monogrammed with a B. John tells her it was a gift from the kids when they all thought he was still Roman. He says they were a family and he was really committed to them. He tells her but then Roman came back, but you can't turn those feelings off overnight. It's been a long process and he's not altogether sure he's over it yet. Kristen asks so what about Marlena, she's sure he loved her too? John looks quite upset and nods his head mouthing yeah. Then he turns away and has a drink of his wine. Kristen asks if he still loves her and then apologizes and tells him not to answer that. She sounds kind of possessive and she has no right. John says he's alright, he can talk about it - he still loves the memories that he and Marlena have together, but that's all they are - memories. (Boy who's he trying to kid? - Oh and the plane background music cuts in nicely in here.) Kristen doesn't look so sure. They cut to the bedroom and do the nasty. Afterwards, they talk about John's tattoo and he tells her he'll keep it as a reminder until he gets all his memories back. Marlena is bewildered and says Sami can't have known. Sami says she did because she saw them the night of the Titan party. Marlena sits down on the sofa in shock as Sami screams that she'll never forgive her for this. She wants to know how Marlena could do this - especially to Dad. She went behind his back and she cheated on him. And yet she smiles at him and she hugs him and she looks him in the face and she sleeps next to him every night, knowing what she did. She turns away from Marlena and says she used to look up to her, she used to think she was just about the most perfect person in the world. That hits hard and Marlena begins to cry. And then Sami turns round and tells her she's just a slut. Meanwhile Roman goes down to the pier and Carrie sees him there. Roman tells her he's tried to make up the time he lost with his kids, to be a good father and Carrie tells him he has. Roman asks really? So why is everyone keeping everything from him? He tells her he knows about Sami's bulimia and Carrie tries to explain to him that Sami refused to go and see a therapist if Marlena told him. She adds that Marlena probably would have told him anyway - but with Richie dying she felt he had enough to deal with. Roman says but what about her - she's pregnant and dealing with this problem all alone? He says he's going to go and apologise to her and that they'll all help Sami. Back at the house Marlena is holding herself up on a piece of furniture as Sami continues tearing into her. She wants to know if Marlena is shocked that she called her a slut? Because she is. A tear rolls down Marlena's cheek as Sami tells her she has no morals at all - she didn't even care where she did it. They didn't even lock the door, she and John were so anxious to get at one another. Sami accuses her of not even thinking about her family for one minute. She asks if John is more important than them. Marlena immediately says no, she loves her family. Sami yells then how could she *do* this. Not once but *twice*? Marlena looks shocked. Sami says - the day of your anniversary Mom, remember? I heard you and John talking about it. Marlena can't say anything, she has tears falling down her cheeks and she turns and walks away from Sami shaking her head. Sami follows her screaming why? She's gotta tell her, she's gotta know. She says that all this time she's been thinking that maybe she had a reason, maybe John forced her or she had too much to drink and it just happened. But that's not true is it? Marlena finally turns round, absolutely devastated and whispers no. She shakes her head and tells Sami that it's over, she swears that it's over. Sami, almost as upset as her mother, asks what difference that makes? She did it. Marlena reaches out to her but Sami brushes her off and storms away. She says Dad loves her so much, he'd do anything for her, and she betrayed him. Marlena says that she can't justify what she's done, she can't justify any of it, but she loves Sami's Daddy, she loves this family, and she loves her. Sami whirls around and puts her hands over her ears, *screaming* that she doesn't want to hear it. Marlena is almost beside herself as Sami tells her she's just a liar. Marlena's tears increase as she says - Oh my God, Sami, All you've gone through, all you've suffered with, and this bulimia. Oh God, it's my fault. She puts her hands over her face and then goes to Sami, saying she'll make it better. Sami brushes her off Marlena tells her there'll be no more secrets - no more lies. She cries that she'll tell Roman everything. Sami turns around in shock saying What? You can't do that. Marlena says she has to tell Roman, Sami has suffered too much. If she tells him then they can work on this together as a family. Sami hits back saying they won't *be* a family, he'll hate her for what she did and he'll hate Sami for telling her. Just then Roman pulls up and Sami begs Marlena not to tell him. She threatens to make herself sicker if Marlena tells Roman and rubs it in by saying that she fainted today at the hospital. Carrie and Roman come in and Roman hugs Sami and tells her everything is going to be okay. He has to admit he was a bit thrown when Jamie come and told him about this. Sami asks *Jamie* told him and turns and looks at Marlena. Roman apologizes to Marlena for being angry with her and she apologizes for not telling him. Roman says the most important thing is no more secrets - they can forget about it and move on. Marlena and Sami look at each other. Roman asks if she's okay, she looks a little pale. Marlena say she and the baby are just fine but then she has to sit down. Sami tells Roman she's sorry, she didn't want to see him get hurt. Marlena suggests that Sami goes to bed and Carrie goes up with her. Roman tells her that everything will be okay and Sami says she hopes so as she looks at Marlena. Marlena, tears in her eyes, says she hopes so too. Lawrence thinks that Katerina is dead but Dr. Wu tells him she's just asleep and she's going to recover. Vivian tries to blame her actions on the herbs again. Lawrence isn't having any of it and tells Viv she's going to jail. Vivian gets his attention however when she tells him she knows of a way to keep Carly from Bo once she regains her memory. She wants Lawrence to manipulate Katerina before she regains her memory but Lawrence won't have a bar of it. However, things aren't so easy when he goes to talk to Carly who has woken up and still has no memory. Bo and Billie kiss some more and then find a lounger. They make out until Bo pulls away. He says he can't do this to Billie, he can't use her like this. He tells her it could only be a one night stand and she's his best friend and he can't do that to her. He apologizes about a billion times and leaves the patio. Back in the hotel room he comes and apologizes some more and then leaves, saying that he's sorry for kissing her again. He goes to the room he's booked next door and Billie says that she's not. She goes to bed and looks at her brass ring and says she doesn't care what he says, there's still hope (tee-hee) and she'll help him get over Carly, and then maybe he'll love her. No, he will love her...
(Friday 24th April 1998 in NZ)
Austin goes down to the University sign-up which seems to be at Salem Place and Carrie sees him there. Then later she and Lucas run into Lucas's old military school friend Alan Harris. When Carrie goes, Alan reminds him that he used to be after every new girl and Lucas says he's changed now - Carrie is the only one for him. Later he meets up with Carrie again and they go to the hospital so she can get the verdict on her graft. Jenn overhears Jack (boy Matt Ashford had gotten skinny here) on the phone talking to Vern about the disks and asks him not to go after Victor. Her hair is driving her crazy and after Jack goes she takes the scissors to it. Austin turns up and finds her with a beret on and she tells him what she's done. She goes upstairs to get some stuff and JO turns up. It's Jenn's birthday and they decide to surprise her. Jenn and Austin go off to see Frank Galway from haematology who is doing his own study of environmentally related child illnesses.. However Austin pushes Jenn into the hair salon on the way and goes to see Frank on his own. At the Spectator Victor lets Jack keep his job on condition that he doesn't move against Vic. Jack agrees but when Vic goes he makes it clear to us that he's not backing down. Back at the house Vern gets there with a birthday cake and Austin comes back with some flowers. Jenn arrives home with a great new short haircut and heads upstairs. They set up the living room and Jack arrives back home and realizes what's going on. Jenn comes back downstairs and they shout surprise! ;0> Frank Galway comes and asks Jamie if Sami will be in today as he needs that book from her. He says he'll go by her house and pick it up on his lunch break. Jamie calls Sami to warn her but Sami is less than thrilled about her ratting to Roman. However she tells Jamie to stall Frank and she'll get the book there as soon as she can - she can't let Marlena know that she was snooping around the paternity tests. She throws everything in her bag but then worries as to why Marlena and Roman aren't downstairs yet. Upstairs Marlena has a dream, but it's actually a memory of what happened last night. She wakes in tears and Roman is concerned. He tells her she can't blame herself for everything that goes wrong in this family and she can't carry around all this guilt. He tells her that he wants there to be no more secrets and sees that she's uncomfortable. He asks her if there's something more about Sami that he doesn't know. Marlena says it's not about Sami. He asks what then? Marlena says she thinks he knows how much she loves him and he tells her it's her love that keeps him going. She tells him she feels blessed by his love and she doesn't deserve it. Roman gently asks her what's going on and she prepares to tell him. Except Sami is listening at the door and bursts in saying that she had the urge to eat and she was afraid that she would binge. Later downstairs Marlena arranges to take Sami to the hospital and they talk about the baby. Marlena tells Sami that she knows it must have been traumatic for her but she hopes that she can put this indiscretion behind her. She wants Sami to know that it's been hell for her, keeping this secret and it's worse now Sami knows. But she reassures Sami that this baby is Roman's and she's telling Sami this because she doesn't want Sami to bear the baby any grudges. Sami tells Marlena that she will be the best big sister. Marlena tells her she doesn't want her to worry that the baby is John's - she had tests done and it *is* Roman's. Sami doesn't exactly look surprised or over the moon about the news. They hug and then head for the hospital. Sami rushes up and gives the text to Frank, but Frank sees Marlena and tells her that he wanted to talk to her about Sami. Marlena says oh? Frank tells her that he thinks Sami is a very special young woman and does Marlena know that in her spare time, Sami has been learning all she can about haematology? Marlena says no she didn't, and what is all that about?....
(Monday 27th April 1998 in NZ)
Bo and Billie fly back from LA. AT the airport, Billie offers to buy Bo lunch, but he says that Shawn-Douglas is back from camp and he wants to go see him, and there's also someone else he has to see. Billie heads home and tells Austin about her trip. Meanwhile, Bo heads for the cemetery which is conveniently all misty. At the Alamain house, Carly comes downstairs and discovers she's not in Paris. Lawrence tells her that they brought her to the United States for her health. She wants to go out for a walk, but Lawrence takes her back upstairs and tells her that when she is stronger he will tell her everything that has happened. He goes downstairs and is talking to Vivian again when Katerina sneaks out in her nightgown and an overcoat. She heads for the cemetery too and sits down on a bench that Bo has been standing by moments before. Marlena asks Sami again what this is about and Sami passes it off as Frank exaggerating. Marlena apologises for pressuring her and tells Sami she's always harboured a secret desire that one of her children will go into medicine. Austin sees Carrie and Lucas kissing and Lucas gets pissed off. He tells her he'll wait for her while she gets the bandages off. Marlena comes in with Carrie to see Dr. Phelps. Meanwhile Lucas dins Sami in the staff lounge eating a large sandwich. He asks her about her diet and Sami tells him to get lost. Jamie comes in and tells him to get lost too and he leaves. However he stands outside the door and hears Sami and Jamie talking about the bulimia. He comes back into the room and apologises, but Sami is upset that he knows and tells him to leave her alone. Austin talks to Frank Galway who has results of his research on these childhood diseases. Frank tells him he'll print it up and send it to him. Austin heads off home and Frank says to himself that someone else may want to know these results. In Dr. Phelps office, he removes Carrie's bandage and tells her that the graft has taken very well. She and Marlena are thrilled and she rushes off to tell Lucas. They head up to lookout point where they start making out. Marlena finds Sami and tells her the news. Sami is thrilled but then says she at least has one perfect daughter now. They are interrupted by a nurse who tells Marlena that Dr. Galway is looking for her. Sami finds Jamie again and Jamie tells her that she had to tell Roman about the bulimia because she was afraid for Sami. She tells Sami she's never told about any other of the secrets Sami has told her - like Marlena and John and Sami trying to find out whether the baby was John's or her Dad's. She looks at Sami and asks if the baby *is* her Dad's. Sami says of course it is. Marlena finds Frank Galway in the staff lounge and he tells her that he's been doing some research and he has reason to think that she should take some more blood tests.
(Tuesday 28th April 1998 in NZ)
Carrie and Lucas get a little hot and heavy but then Carrie asks him to stop. She tells him she's not ready yet, this is going too fast and also tells him that she's still a virgin. He respects her for that and says that as long as they are being honest, he has something to say too. He tells her that he has done a lot of things he's not proud of, things that she wouldn't like. Then he tells her about his advising Sami to diet and says he feels really guilty about it. Carrie tells him not to, there are a lot of reasons why Sami became bulimic, and she's really angry about something, but Carrie doesn't know what. Lucas takes her back to the apartment and they kiss again but as soon as Carrie closes the door, she pulls out a picture of Austin. Ivan discovers that Carly is gone and Vivian and Lawrence go out to find her. They see that Carly and Bo are only 20 yards apart and Lawrence distracts Bo while Vivian gets Carly back to the house. Back in the attic Carly tells Lawrence that she saw a man, but not his face but he seemed familiar, like the park. Lawrence sets in motion his plan to keep Bo out of Salem, he's planning to keep Bo away until Katerina is well enough to travel to Europe. Roman comes to the hospital where Marlena tells him that Frank wants to do more blood tests to ensure that the baby hasn't been harmed by environmental factors. They're both worried, but they don't say anything to Sami and Jamie. Jamie thinks that Sami is lying about the paternity test blood results but Sami tells her everything is fine now, the blood tests are out of the way, Roman is the father and it's fine. Marlena and Roman head for the Brady pub. Billie talks to Curtis on the phone and he tells her he's planning to stay in rehab and make her proud of him. She goes out and runs into Bo in the park and they head for the pub together. There, Bo talks to Marlena about his guilt about the feelings he's having for Billie, even though he loved Carly so much. Marlena tells him that the guilt will pass, and he can't run away from this, he has to work through it with the help of his friends and family. Bo gets a phone call form an informant who says that he has heard the gunman is in Chicago and has plans to head back to Salem. He decides to go to Chicago himself and tells Billie he has to go out of town for a few more days. Meanwhile, Curtis is buying a one-way ticket for Salem....
(Wednesday 29th April 1998 in NZ)
My FF button got a pretty good workout on today's' ep, so it's a short summary... Victor discovers that Jack is working on the files that were supposed to be destroyed and sets a trap for him. A disk is left on Jack's desk which makes Jack think that all the original files are still in Titan's basement. Victor catches Jack going through them and fires him. Which of course is a major problem because they need the medical insurance for Abby. At the hospital, Austin gets the info. from Frank Galway about the children that have gotten ill. He and Jenn plot all these cases on a map and discover that they all occur within a certain radius in Jenn's neighborhood. Lucas talks Carrie into going for a picnic with him. He tells Kate he has real feelings for Carrie and Carrie goes off on an errand. She meets Carrie back in her apartment to give her some make-up samples. When Sami is in the bedroom, Carrie pulls out a box of condoms. She heads off and meets Lucas at the pub and they go off to the river. Lucas tells her he is serious about her and if she wants to go he'll understand. She doesn't though and they end up kissing. Back at the apartment, Sami and Jamie find the box on Carrie's shelf in the bathroom. Kristen wakes up with John and is upset because he turned off the alarm. He wants to know who Peter is as she said that name in her sleep. She won't tell him and he gets all upset because he can't deal with her keeping secrets from him. He goes down to speak to Caroline and Kristen gets dressed up and goes to see her father. She wants to know why he hates John so much and she knows that he'd hate her if he knew who her father was. She takes his hand and we see that it's Stefano....