Jen flies to Chicago where Ivan tells her that Viv and Laura are both still inside. A fireman tells them that two bodies were found inside. There were nametags identifying them as Laura Horton and Vivian Alamain. Later, Viv and Laura are seen hiding in a drain, thankful they had escaped. The guy in the ski mask attacked Carrie. She put up a fight and started screaming. When Austin returned from the airport, Carrie told him of the attack. Austin believed Lucas to be the attacker when he saw Lucas with a bloody lip. Austin then hit Lucas. Carrie had a flashback to the attack when Austin tried to comfort her. Kristen questioned Stefano about Marlena's behaviour in the restaurant but Stefano denied obtaining pleasure from seeing her beg. John told Victor about Stefano's threat to hurt Belle if he did not stay away from Kristen. John also told Kristen about the ultimatim but she refused to believe him. Stefano and Peter saw John and Kristen together and Stefano vowed to let everyone know about Belle's paternity.
John tells Marlena he will try and stop Kristen's wedding as he believes that Stefano would not keep his word and not urt Belle. Marlena wishes him luck in stopping the wedding. When John visits Kristen he sees the sketch and has a memory of a woman calling "save me Johnny". He and Kristen go to Stefano for an explanation. Earlier Kristen tells Peter she is having doubt about becoming a DiMera. Peter encourages her to go ahead with the wedding. Tony discovers in Stefano's files that Stefano did indeed kidnap John and brainwash him. Tony asks Stefano why he had done this but Stefano tells him it is better that he do not know. Stefano tells Peter that he will reveal the truth of Belle's paternity very soon. Sami starts to destroy her diary as it is the oly way, she believes, that anyone will find out the truth about Belle. Marlena sees her do this. Later Marlena apologises to Sami for her affair. Billie remembers that the shell from her dream was on a pair of shoes that she saw in the alley on the night Curtis was murdered.
Roman gets legal separation papers for he and Marlena. This devastates Marlena. Caroline urges Roman to give his marriage and Marlena another chance. He agrees to do so for the children's sake. Caroline later tells Marlena that Roman was on his way to see her and that he was considering reconciliation and marlena becomes filled with hope. Stefano denies any knowledge of John's past to John and Kristen. John has a flashback of a woman saying " Save me Johnny, save me from Stefano". John tells Stefano it is only a matter of time before he remembers all of his past and uses it to destroy Stefano. Later John begs Kristen to call of her wedding and to marry him instead. She refuses but suggests to Stefano she postpone the wedding. He convinces Kristen to continue with the wediing that evening as planned. Stefano tells Peter that he may have to disappear to keep John from remembering his past. Sami finishes destroying her diary. Stefano goes to Roman and tells him that John is Belle's father and shows him a copy of Sami's diary. Jennifer, Alice and Mickey are all mourning the death of Laura. Laura and Vivian arrive at the Alamain mansion where Ivan is mourning Viv. Viv reveals to Ivan that she and laura are alive. She explains that they will stay dead for the time being as she has a plan to destroy Kate, with Laura's help. She also asks Ivan to buy her lots of turbans!
Bo asks Abe for a search warrant for Kate's house, to look for the shoes with the shells on them. Abe refuses this request. Bo calls all the shoe store owners in Salem to the police department and questions them about the shoes. One owner reveals that the shoes were used in a Bella magazine shoot. The shoes were never returned. Carrie is still upset over her attack. She tells her doctor that she was not raped but the attacker tried to rape her. She makes Austin promise not to tell anyone else about the attack. Roman does not believe Stefano's claim that John is Belle's father. Sami denies that Stefano has a copy of her diary. Stefano insists and Roman is forced to believe him and Sami does a bad job of denying it. When marlena arrives, Sami yells at Marlena and tells her that she hates Marlena and Belle. Marlena asks what prompted that and Roman tells Marlena that he knows Belle is John's daughter. Abe hears that Fred Harris (Stefano's police guard at the hospital) is in Salem. John and Abe wait for him at his apartment. On the pier Fred rings Stefano and asks for more money. Peter and Stefano plan to kill him.
Marlena denies that John is Belle's father but Sami explains how she changed the blood test results. Roman says he has no reason to try and hold on to the marriage. Marlena suggests she, Roman and John can work something out but Roman wants no part in Belle's life. Kate throws out her shoes with the seashells just before Bo arrives with a search warrant. He searches the mansion while Kate insists that he will not find anything. As he is about to leave he remembers that he did not search the trash. Billie and Jen help Kristen prepare for the wedding. Billie questions whether she should go ahead with the wedding, considering her feelings for John. Kristen says she is sure she loves tony and wants to marry him but confides that she has her doubts about Stefano. Jen and Billie think that John would be able to convince her to call off the wedding. Peter and John find Fred Harris. He denies working for Stefano. After scaring him, Fred agrees to talk but only to Roman. John goes to get Roman and is met by an upset Marlena. Stefano makes Tony agree to going ahead with the wedding no matter what happens.