Chapter Twenty-Two: Planting Seeds (Not That Kind)
Sami shows up at the police station and is escorted by her Uncle Bo to her dad's office. She goes to give him a hug but he puts his hands on her shoulders and shoves her down into the chair in front of his desk. Bo stays behind her, leaning on the office door. "What da hell were you thinking, Sami?" he yells at her. She looks completely lost. "What are you talking about, Daddy?" she asks him. "I'm talking about this!" He throws an unmarked cassette tape on the desk. Sami looks at it blankly. "What's that?" she asks. Bo laughs behind her. "Can the innocent act, Sami. You can't fool us." "Wanna bet?" she thinks to herself, fighting to keep the smirk off her face.
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Lucas sits in his cell, thinking about what Kate said the last time he saw her. "My mom is the cause of all the misery I've ever had in my life," he says to himself. "If only she had butted out, Sami would have never turned to EJ. Now I'm going down for attempted murder, but I'm not going alone. So, they wanna know about Franco Kelly, huh? Well, I'll just tell them all about it. All." Lucas' thoughts are interrupted by the guard announcing he has a visitor. He's brought to the visitation room and sees who's inside. "What are you doing here?" he asks, disbelievingly.
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EJ sits at his desk in his office rapping his pencil against his desk, unable to focus on work. Kate shows up at work from her five martini lunch and goes into his office unannounced. She takes a seat on his desk and leans forward to straighten his tie. "EJ, you have to know how sorry I am that Lucas tried to kill you. I can't believe he took it that far." EJ pulls his tie from her hands and walks over to the window. She sits up and looks at his reflection on the windowpane. "Well, surely you don't think I had anything to do with it?" she asks him indignantly. "Should I?" he replies. "Really, EJ! What reason would I have to want to see you dead?" He turns to face her. "I could think of a few."
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"I cannot believe you had evidence that Kate paid Roberto to confess to Franco's murder and never came forward with it." Roman gives her his 'I can't believe you're actually my daughter' look. "You know, Dad, Brandon and I went through hell and back just to get that tape. That was my redemption. Give me a break! I was on death row, I was given a lethal injection, and I wanted to prove once and for all that I was framed. Then, once I had it, I decided not to use it, and it was my decision to make. You shouldn't have it now, as far as I'm concerned." Bo moves from the door and comes and sits on the desk in front of Sami. "Why wouldn't you use it? I mean, I don't get it." "Big surprise there," Sami thinks to herself. Out loud she says, "Because of Will. As much as I wanted to get him away from Lucas back then, I knew that it would destroy him to know that about his father. I decided to protect my son." "Protect him from the knowledge that his father was a murderer. Now, Lucas is at it again. If he had succeeded in killing EJ then EJ's death would have been on your head!" Sami shudders at the thought. "You don't think I know that! Trust me, Dad, if EJ had died I would have felt totally responsible." Roman puts his hand on Sami's shoulder. "You know I could charge you with obstruction of justice for this." Sami thinks, "Yeah Dad, I know how fond you are of seeing your daughter in jail." She tells him, "Look Dad, I don't care. Do what you've gotta do, that's what I did for my son. I don't regret it." Bo sighs and crosses his arms in front of his chest. "Sami, no one's charging you with anything. I just can't believe you didn't come forward with this yourself, and that you sat on it for so long." Sami shrugs her shoulders and looks up at him. "Did you ask Jack the same question, why he didn't come forward when I gave him that tape years ago?" "Of course not," Bo says as though he can't believe she even asked. Sami collects her purse and stands up. "It was a pleasure seeing both of you," she says and walks out the door. Bo looks over at Roman with his eyebrows raised. "So, you think she knows that Wells came to see Lucas?" "Nah," Roman leans back in his chair, "and I'll just let him tell her himself."
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"I'm here to do your psychiatric evaluation, of course," Marlena replies as Lucas takes his seat. "Aren't there any other shrinks in this town?" he mutters under his breath. "Apparently not. Now, let's get started."