THE ARGUMENT
Sami walks into the living room after taking a shower and getting ready for her picnic with Rafe. Sydney is in the play pin. Sami walks up to her. "Hey Sydney. What do you think? How do I look?" Sami asks her. She's wearing a short white dress with light blue flowers that ties up behind her neck with light blue heeled flip flops. Her hair tied up in bow. Sydney smiles. "I'll take that as a yes. Now it's time to find the perfect location for the double date tonight." Sami says she walks over to the couch and picks up the newspaper and opens it up then walks back over to Sydney's crib. "Okay let's see. We can go to midnight bowling. It glows." Sami suggests. Sydney frowns. "Okay what about wine tasting that will loosening them up." Sami says. Sydney throws a toy at Sami's head. "Ouch" Sami rubs her head. "You didn't let me finish. I know Lucas can't drink. Rafe and I will have to try that one out later." Sami smiles at Sydney. Sydney smiles back. Sami turns back to the paper and spots something else. "Oh perfect karaoke at Cheatin' Heart. That sounds like fun." Sami looks over at Sydney. She gets excited. "We have a winner." Sami jokes. The doorbell rings. Sami gets up to get it. She opens the door and it's Lucas. "So what's the good news?" Lucas asks. Sami smiles at him.
Chloe searches for her cell phone in her hospital room as she gets ready to go home, "Where is it?" Chloe says. Nathan comes in. "Here are your release papers. Just need your signature." Nathan says. Chloe stops searching and walks over to Nathan. "Thank you." She signs the papers then hand them back to Nathan. "Here you go. So glad to be leaving. No offense." Chloe says. "No offense, I don't blame you. Now you can go celebrate becoming pregnant." Nathan says. "Yep Daniel and I can't anymore happier." Chloe beams. "What about Philip? Isn't he going to be part of the celebration?" Nathan asks. Chloe frowns.
Mia walks along the pier. She looks out to the water. Suddenly a man walks up behind her. She turns around. "It's about time you get here." She says. "Excuse me for working on my plan." The man says. "I don't care. Why did you attack Will and Chad?" Mia asks. "Because they were in my way." The man replies. "How?" Mia asks. "Well they were in Madeline's safe deposit box." The man says. "Why would they be there? I don't get it. And more importantly I don't get why you were there." Mia replies. "It's all part of my plan to get back at Nicole Walker DiMera. Isn't that what you want too?" The man brushes Mia's hair softly with his right hand. "More than anything." Mia says. "Good then." The man says.
"It's more than nice, it's wonderful." EJ says to Nicole. "Yes it is. Miss Hernandez, how does it feel to be free?" Nicole asks. But before Arianna could talk, EJ jumped. "More importantly, how does she feel about finally being able to go after the person or persons that framed her?" EJ smirks. Nicole gives EJ the evil eye. "Do you have any proof of these allegations counselor?" Nicole asks. "We will soon." EJ says. "So while you're finding this proof, what makes you think that the person or persons aren't finding something on you or both of you?" Nicole asks. "Well because we have nothing to hide Mrs. DiMera." EJ says. "Are you sure about that?" Nicole asks. EJ and Nicole smile at one another. The Hernandez siblings observe.
"Lucas, finally you're here." Sami says. She moves out of the way so that Lucas can come in. Lucas walks in and sees Sydney in her play pin. "Hey Sydney." Lucas says as he waves to her. Sydney smiles and waves back. Sami closes the door then walks over to them. "I think that someone's got her first crush." Sami jokes. "Yep Sydney and I would be perfect, she already likes me." Lucas says. "Yep, but there is one little tiny thing she's too young for you." Sami says. "Age ain't nothing but a number. Ain't that right Sydney?" Lucas says. Sydney laughs. "I have someone just right for you." Sami tells him. "Who?" Lucas asks. "Alex Miller." Sami smiles.
"You mean Philip and Melanie? Yeah they probably will want to be there since Melanie is Daniel's daughter and Philip's his son-in-law." Chloe responds. "Isn't Philip just a little more than that?" Nathan asks. "What do you mean?" Chloe asks. "Well let me just put it out there that I saw you and Philip touching hands last night when I was doing your ultra sound." Nathan confesses. "What? I don't know what you're talking about." Chloe says. "Oh really do you really want to deny this Chloe?" Nathan asks. "What? There's nothing to deny Nathan." Chloe snaps. "Really? Like when you were on the phone talking about your affair. You denied that then confessed so let's do that now." Nathan says. "I don't have to explain myself to you, but since you can't let it go. Philip and I did touch hands. I don't know why maybe he thought it was Melanie's. We didn't really discuss it." Chloe explains. "Or maybe he's the guy you cheated on Daniel with." Nathan says. Chloe gets worried.
"Nicole doesn't believe that I can take her down." Mia says. "Well you're not, well not alone." The man answers. "With your help, she's gonna go down in flames." Mia grins. "And she won't know what hit her." He says. "So what's next?" Mia asks excitedly. "Nicole's up to something bad. Find out what it is. Call me later." The man says then walks away. "You have a dirty little secret Nicole and I'm going to find out what it is." Mia says to herself. She turns around and walks right into someone. She looks at their face. "Dr. Baker?" She says. "What do you want with Nicole?" He asks.
"Yes I'm very sure." EJ says. "Well let's hope that is true." Nicole says. "Cut! Okay that's enough I would like to get out of here." Arianna interrupts. "Right, let's go take care of your bail." EJ says. EJ and Arianna walk away. Nicole hands the camera man her mic. He then goes to pack up the equipment. "Interesting interview, I'm going to see you later Rafe." Gabi says. She takes off. Rafe and Nicole smirk at one another. "What was that all about? Do you have something on EJ?" Rafe asks Nicole. "Didn't I say stay out of my business or something like that?" Nicole asks. "I'm on your side. If you have something on EJ we can take him down together." Rafe says. Nicole laughs. "Really you want to help me bring down EJ? That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. I have nothing on EJ and don't want to bring him down as you would say." Nicole tells him. "Can we leave now?" The camera man asks. "Yes I'm ready." Nicole answers. They walk off. Rafe watches them leave.
"Alex really? You convinced her to go out with me? I'm impressed." Lucas says. "Yes well she doesn't really know it's you." Sami says. "Explain." Lucas says. "Okay well she thinks I have great taste in men." Sami starts. Lucas laughs. "Stop it. And I told her I had the perfect guy for her. So I described you to her and she loved what she heard, but I was afraid if I told her your name was Lucas she was going to run for the hills so I told her your name was Dell." Sami explains. "Dell? Well that's not sexy." Lucas replies. Sami laughs. "It was the first name that popped in my head." Sami says. "Whatever so when's this date?" Lucas asks. "It's tonight at the Cheatin' Heart." Sami tells him. "What's at the Cheatin' Heart?" Lucas asks. "Karaoke, it'll be fun." Sami says. "Karaoke? Really? There's nowhere else open tonight?" Lucas asks. "You're going Lucas or I'll call Alex and tell her that Dell's really Lucas." Sami says. "Well that will be you telling on yourself." Lucas reminds her. Sami thinks. "Yeah you're right, but come on Lucas it'll be fun. You don't even have to sing you can just play pool." Sami suggests. "Oh yeah let's play a game with sticks and balls. I can't imagine what she would do with those once I come in." Lucas says. "You don't have to worry about that because I'll be there and so will Rafe. It's a double date." Sami says. Lucas looks at Sami curiously.
"That's crazy. I wouldn't cheat on Daniel with Philip and Philip would never cheat on Melanie with me. Philip and Melanie are happy in love. The guy that I slept with is a no body. Someone I just met at the Cheatin' Heart." Chloe professes. "I don't know if I believe you." Nathan says. "Of course you don't want to believe me because you want it to be true. You want Melanie back and this is the perfect way. Make her believe that her husband slept with his ex-girlfriend. Then you can swoop in and pick up the pieces. Well I'm sorry Nathan, but you're not going to use me or Philip like that." Chloe tells him.
"I hate Nicole and I want to destroy her life." Mia says. "Really? Well good luck with that." Baker says. He starts to walk away then Mia stops him. "Wait." Mia says. Baker turns around. "Yes Mia." Baker says. "What do you know about what Nicole's been up to?" She asks. "Besides her being a TV reporter, nothing. I haven't seen her since I left Salem last year." Baker says. "Okay. Nice running into you." Mia says then walks away.
Brady sits at the Pub looking through his phone with a cup of tea in front of him when someone touches his shoulder. He pauses then looks up. It's Arianna. "What do you want?" He asks. "I wanted to tell you that we shouldn't see each other anymore." She tells him. "I got that loud and clear." He replies. He goes back to looking through his phone. "I really wanted this to work out." She says. "Oh really. It must be really tough to let go." Brady replies. "It is Brady. Why can't you see that I still love you?" Arianna cries. They look into each other's eyes. Brady's phone rings. He checks the id, it's Nicole. "I have to take this." Brady says. "It's Nicole isn't?" Arianna asks. "What's it to you?" He asks. She takes the phone and presses ignore. "How dare you?" Brady yells.
Nicole's outside of Java with a coffee when she leaves Brady a message. "Hi Brady its Nicole can you call me when you get this?" Nicole says then hangs up. "Brady's screening his calls now?" EJ asks as he walks up behind her. "Ah EJ bailed Arianna out already I see." Nicole says. "Yep. It's the least that I could do since you put her in there." EJ replies. "That's yet to be determined." Nicole replies. "What do you mean? I know you did it. You confessed as well as Baker. It's over." EJ says. "Well if it's over, then why didn't you tell the judge?" Nicole asks. "I'm doing this on my terms." EJ says. "Not anymore. You're on my terms now." Nicole tells him. "And how is that?" EJ asks. "I have proof that you kidnapped Sydney." Nicole informs him. "And what proof is that?" EJ asks. "A tape confession." Nicole tells him. EJ laughs. "You mean the tape recorder that I chucked into the river? What did you swam after it?" EJ jokes. "Nope I just had another one handy." Nicole says as she reaches into her purse and pulls out the tape recorder. "Would you like to hear your confession?" Nicole asked. She presses play. "I did it. I kidnapped Sydney." It played. EJ yanks it out of Nicole's hands and destroys the recorder. "I made copies. Lots and lots of copies and if you don't want them to get out you're going to need to find another way to help Arianna." Nicole says. EJ frowns.
"I don't want Melanie back so how am I using you and Philip?" Nathan asks. "You wanted to stop Melanie and Philip's wedding. So sorry if I don't believe that." Chloe reminds him. "But I didn't. I know now that the only person I want to be with is Stephanie. Melanie's with Philip and I'm happy for her, but I'm not going to stand back and allow him to hurt her or you." Nathan shouts. "Well we're not doing anything to her. I cheated with a complete stranger. Why can't you believe that?" Chloe ask. "Fine, I believe you." Nathan says. "Thank you." Chloe says. She grabs her things and leaves. "But I really don't." Nathan says to himself.
"You and who else?" Lucas asks. "Rafe of course." Sami says. "You and Rafe actually talked when I left? No more staring and smiles?" Lucas asks. "Yes we did and now we're back together." Sami tells him. "Oh let me guess your first words. Your stare is cuter. Then Rafe says your stare is cuter. And back and forth you too go." Lucas jokes. "It was not like that. We talked and now we're back together and living together here." Sami tells him. "No more DiMera mansion or EJ DiMera?" Lucas asks. "Nope. Rafe's the man that I want and Alex is the woman you want so why don't you agree and go to karaoke night?" Sami says. "Alright I'll go, but if Alex gets pissed and wants to throw things I'm ducking behind you." Lucas says. "Deal. So it's a date?" Sami says. "Yeah yeah." They shake hands as Rafe walks in. "You two are going on a date?" Rafe asks. Lucas and Sami look at Rafe then at each other.
On the next episode:
Melanie wants to get Brady and Arianna back together
Rafe and Sami go on a picnic
Alex and Lucas challenge one another
Cast
Nadia Bjorlin as Chloe Lane
John Callahan as Dick Baker
Bryan Dattilo as Lucas Horton
Galen Gering as Rafe Hernandez
Mark Hapka as Dr. Nathan Horton
Lindsay Hartley as Arianna Hernandez
Eric Martsolf as Brady Black
Gaby Rodriguez as Gabi Hernandez
James Scott as EJ DiMera
Taylor Spreitler as Mia McCormick
Alison Sweeney as Sami Brady
Arianne Zucker as Nicole DiMera