Days of Our Lives - Wed., Dec. 28, 2016

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Days of Our Lives
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Today we deal mostly with a baby, and a pregnant girl, and it is definitely rinse and repeat for quite a bit of the show. At the cop shop, Andre has refused to allow the exhumation of Stefano. Marlena tries some common sense, Andre says absolutely not, talks of taking the ring off his father's finger. Kate mentions the discrepancies in the foreign accounts, with only Andre or Stefano able to do so. Andre claims Chad is CEO, he could do so. They have tried to reach Chad who is not answering calls. Andre finally, after mentioning the ineffective Salem P.D. who have accused 3 people of this so far, says go ahead, going to love to see mistake #4.

Joey is working part time at the Pub, is bringing Jade all the "right" kinds of foods she should be eating, including his gramma's special sweet potato recipe. Jade's father comes in, ranting and raving at Jade, calling her names, accusing her of sneaking into the house, stealing all his money. She denies, he grabs her purse, the envelope is there, money intact, along with a pic of Jade & her father. Joey has been standing up to him, telling him to back off, leave Jade alone. They argue. He finally tells the father to go before he calls his uncle the cop. The father again calls her names, takes the money from the envelope, throwing it along with the pic back at Jade, saying he has no use for this. He leaves.

Jade is embarrassed, Joey thinks she should have come to him, she did not want to be a burden. He talks of quitting school, she says no, she can get a job. He promised his mom, cannot go back on his word. They have a nice talk, as he talks of growing up without his father who just could not be there, tho he wanted to, she talks of baby sitting so wonderfully when she was younger...he is looking forward to the baby, thinks she will be a great mom, she thinks he will be a fantastic dad.

At the hospital, Nancy wants Deimos to leave the room, Chloe would be upset to find him there. She mentions the woman in the background, Estelle, is the social worker helping her with temporary custody. Nicole has walked in, happily greets Nancy with a hug, but is not to happy to learn Nancy is taking the baby home. Oh, not to NY, to Salem Inn. Nicole offers to come help, maybe babysit Holly while Nancy is here with Chloe. Nancy claims that is not necessary, but loves the name, their Christmas miracle. She goes back into Chloe's room, Nicole goes to freshen her face, she'd been crying. Brady has called Marlena over, explains the situation, Marlena advises he not tell Nicole unless or until he has proof. People can only handle so much heartbreak, and Nicole has already reached her limit.

Deimos realizes Nancy wants no part of him, Brady says he always got along with her, will go talk. Deimos did not get the DNA sample. Brady goes in the room, talks with Nancy a bit, after she gets off the phone with Craig. She intends to stay until Chloe is well. Brady leaves the room, Nancy is talking to Chloe, begging her to wake up, that Nicole needs to know she is the mother, she obviously loves the baby so much. Nancy doesn't know what to do now.

Nancy comes out of the room, carrying the baby, wrapped in a blanket. Nicole asks to hold her, she does, says her heartbreaking goodbyes. Nancy assures her she can come visit any time. She starts to leave, Deimos tells her to wait. He knows she & Chloe don't think much of him, but he will do whatever he can to get the top specialists to come there for Chloe.

Nancy looks at him (loved this), says with a slight snarl, that her husband was Chief of Staff here, and those "top specialists" are our friends. They will be here, your assistance is definitely and obviously not needed. She turns on her heel and leaves. Nicole goes to check on Chloe, Brady tells Deimos what Marlena said, he wonders how they will get proof when Nancy took the baby away.

At the cop shop, Steve, Kayla, Marlena are waiting while Rafe is off getting the body exhumed. Kate talks with Andre, who feels if his father was alive he would contact him. Kate reminds him that though he & Stefano were close, he never told Andre he had cancer. She was married to him, and he kept things from her as well. She is giving Andre food for thought.

Rafe returns, they got the DNA sample. First test in the lab proved without a doubt. The body in that grave is NOT Stefano.
 
@Robin, the cops have figured that the previous DNA identification WAS tampered with, thus digging up the body. But this time, they stayed with the sample (or maybe Shawn did it) but they had it done very quickly, as they wanted the results immediately.
 
My thoughts on today:

Andre was my favorite today. Loved his line about the police putting him in jail for a crime he didn't commit just to cover their own and now they want his help.

I also wish I liked Joey more, but the storyline is boring. How many times can we listen to the same conversation:
Joey: I had great family dinners/traditions growing up.
Jade: Oh yeah? I was happy if I got cereal/new socks/a hug, etc.

And it's amazing that the body is exhumed immediately after getting the go ahead, tests are run and confirmed not to be Stefano, all within a few hours. I'm sure this was to open the door for him to return. Sad that it's a storyline we won't get to see.
 
As noted, the Stefano not being dead story was written and filmed months before Joe Mascolo (Stefano) died, so...it is possible there may be a shot of him sitting, listening to classical music....no dialogue, just the one shot.

A couple years ago, they had a dark and stormy night, Stefano sitting in a big chair, listening to opera, a figure fires a gun into the back of the chair, and Stefano was dead.

But then, we got new/different writers, and it turned out some bad guy had a lookalike sitting in for Stefano, who was being held prisoner.

So, writers can do what they want. And in this case, the actor may have had the scene filmed to be used far in the future. (They did it for Sami when the actress was pregnant. Had her film a whole long storyline of being in witness protection, so they could use the scenes as the actress went on maternity leave.
 
I'm not a fan of Deimos but I will say that much like his beloved big brother he occasionally lands some real zingers like today.

Brady:*about the baby* She has a real set of lungs.

Nancy: *seeing Deimos* I wish you would get the heck out of here.

Deimos: The baby isn't the only one with a set of lungs.

I just got a real chuckle out of it. LOL

Joey and Jade: Okay I admit now that Jade is no longer so intent on proving to herself and everyone else what a "tough chick" she is I'm starting to be won over by her. I felt bad for the way her creep of a father was going at her.And I give Joey points for standing up for her. But on the bright side now that both Jade and Joey have admitted they are looking forward to be parents we can be confident that absolutely nothing bad is going to happen. :sarcasm:
 
Andre was my favorite today. Loved his line about the police putting him in jail for a crime he didn't commit just to cover their own and now they want his help.

I have to agree with this. It's a sad day when Andre Dimera is the one actually making sense.

But on the bright side now that both Jade and Joey have admitted they are looking forward to be parents we can be confident that absolutely nothing bad is going to happen.

I have to agree here on as well. Anvil after anvil. I'm actually surprised Hal didn't cause a miscarriage today. Speaking of which, I have a hard time believing he would be so nasty to Jade but not do anything to Joey. We've seen much worse violence on this show.

Today was just downright awful. Again, Deimos does absolutely nothing for the storyline other than to annoy the audience. Maybe just maybe Nicole could be rootable in all this if Deimos weren't involved but it's really hard to root for her right now as long as he is around. I enjoyed Nancy going back at him. He does have no right to be there. I wish she would have called hospital security to remove him. And we get it, Nicole is attached to Holly. Let's move on now. No need to keep playing this trope in every single scene.

And I hated the conversation with Brady and Nancy where they basically were skirting around the fact that he and Chloe used to be married. I do think it was foreshadowing for a reunion but the writing was terrible.

Also hated the group at the police station. So basically they were all throwing Shawn under the bus for not staying with the lab results 24-7. Because you know Rafe and Hope and Andre are perfectly innocent in all of this. It's not like any of them committed a crime or tried to cover it up. Let's all blame missing in action Shawn instead. Heaven forbid he takes away from Deimos' air time.

Why is Kate even there? She and Stefano divorced a long time ago. I did like how they mentioned Chad was unreachable. For once continuity that makes sense.

I also liked the albeit brief Marlena/Brady scene even if seemed misplaced.

Today we were supposed to get a trip down memory lane from Marlena, Steve and Kayla. We did not get that. Victims of cuts again. Heaven forbid they cut one of Deimos or Nicole's scenes or cut a scene of Jade eating sweet potatoes or her day player father popping up out of the blue.
 
I agree with you, Heather. I do want Nicole to have her baby but Deimos is really putting a damper on my potential joy for her.

I wouldn't have such a problem with there being a Deimos on the show, if he would be removed from Nicole's space, and if he didn't go rooting around, inserting himself into everybody's business, then plowing over them like a bulldozer, determined to either control their lives or play the hero, whichever one suits his purpose in any given situation. He is both annoying and tiresome. He needs to butt out and get some purpose other than meddling in the affairs of others!
 
I'm disappointed they cut the flashbacks scenes.

The best part of the show was when Nancy told Nicole she could
visit Holly.

I enjoyed Nancy's banter with Deimos.

I thought it was interesting Shawn was there for the DNA test. I thought he
said yesterday he wasn't working at the cop shop now.
 
Rafe passed a comment yesterday about getting him access to the lab if he does it on the down low. I just wish they would have showed him bringing in the results today.

I liked pretty much all of Nancy's comments today but I especially liked it when she told Deimos that Craig used to be Chief of Staff and they didn't need his help accessing specialists. That sure quieted him in a jiffy.
 
Thanks for the write-up.

It was a decent show. I don't mind the Joey and Jade storyline, but I do wish they'd speed things up a bit more and have the conversations be about something else

Andre had some neat comments/zingers today, but I have no use for this storyline, and found Kate's presence there to be as pointless as Deimos' at the hospital. I did like seeing Marlena today, and her conversation with Brady. Please--more of this. I'm shocked Nancy knows the truth about the baby but relieved she doesn't want to keep it from Nicole. I just hope this whole thing doesn't drag out too much.
 
Today we were supposed to get a trip down memory lane from Marlena, Steve and Kayla. We did not get that. Victims of cuts again. Heaven forbid they cut one of Deimos or Nicole's scenes or cut a scene of Jade eating sweet potatoes or her day player father popping up out of the blue.
OMG, yes. Instead of Jade's dietary habits and hard-hearted Hal being his usual boorish self, it might have been nice to give the viewers some Steve-Kayla romance and some flashbacks to when they were young and newly in love. As for Deimos, just by being in the hospital, he messed everything up. If he'd let Brady handle getting the DNA, Nancy's guard would likely have been down and an opportunity to get the evidence might have presented itself. As for the Stefano nonsense, the less said the better. It would be a fine joke on the Salem P.D., if Andre had expected the current foolishness and interred his father's body elsewhere. After all, everyone thinks EJ is in an urn at the DiMansion when, as Stefano said, he's with "la famiglia."
 
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Brady: I've known Nancy a long time and she's a decent person.

I think Mike Horton would have to disagree with that statement.
And her own actions now disagree with it. She KNOWS this is Nicole's baby, and she's fighting for custody. Stupid.
Anvil after anvil.
I hope we're all surprised by the writing talents of this regime.
 
Nancy said "temporary custody", until Chloe comes out of the coma. As to the secret, Nancy may know it, but feels it is Chloe's secret to tell Nicole. Chloe is very worried about Deimos & his bully tactics. Too bad something always happened as Chloe was about to spill the beans.

Oh, even when Chloe wakes up, I am guessing it will be a long, long while before (if ever) she tells Nicole. But I truly wish she would tell her quickly what Deimos did to Philip.
 
I'm pretty sure we can all jump on the guessing train and take yet another overused trip to "When Chloe regains consciousness she's lost her memory" excursion.

Oh lord, will these writers ever again have the ability to WOW us with fresh new unpredictable script?
 
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