Days of Our Lives -Mon., Oct. 3, 2016

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Days of Our Lives
Monday, October 3, 2016

Not too much going on in Salem today. John comes to the cop shop, gets a big hug and greeting from Claire. He & Steve want to talk to her, so she can tell them everything that happened. She is upset that Joey was gone when they got in there. Hope arrives, another hug for her, (but no calling her Gram, lol). Marlena also has arrived, more hugging. Later, John, Marlena & Claire arrive home, Claire expecting to get scolded, no they are relieved she is o.k. But Claire berates herself for not staying inside, WI FI is not that important, her own fault she was taken, etc. She promises to stay inside.

Kayla had arrived at the police station, learns about the blood spots, gets upset, Steve reassures, they go home. Roman has sent a team to the warehouse to go over the place and see if anything is there. Kayla takes Joey's pic, is all upset, Steve holds and comforts her.

At the Pub, Deimos is on phone with Dario, arranging to meet him. Nicole has come in, overhears, tho Deimos doesn't realize it. He hangs up, she pretends she just arrived, they were to have dinner, he begs off, something with business, has to take care of it tonight. She smiles, tis o.k. but when he leaves, she follows him, as he meets Dario, pays him for his services. When Dario leaves, she walks up...Gotcha! LOL. Deimos tries to wiggle out, nope, she heard it all, he lied to her. He wants them to start anew (now back at the Pub), but tho she knew he was having Chloe followed, he had not said it was Dario, or that he broke in to her apt. Back and forth they go nicely argue. He is no saint, he says.

Philip comes to see Chloe, wanting to know exactly who the father is, but Chloe manages to not say, more or less talking in circles. He protests how much he did for her, willing to raise this child as his own, lied to everyone. (she wants them to "break up"). They argue, he talks of perhaps a one night stand, she gets ticked as he means she is a *bleep*....(sorry, ridiculous conversation). Upshot is, she is going to New York, be with her parents, Parker already there, loves it. She tells Phil she is moving out of the Kmansion, will get settled, send for her things.

She goes to the Pub, spots Nicole, asks Deimos for a few minutes alone. Nicole insists Deimos has something to say, makes him tell Chloe he had her followed, that her room was broken into, found her calendar, so he knew about her dr. appt., and he is sorry. Chloe is ready to call the cops, Nicole convinces her not to do so. Chloe doesn't trust Deimos, Nicole gives her Deimos's song and dance about wanting a child so bad, and then not having it. Yada, yada, Chloe doesn't understand how she can trust the man, but tells her the situation has gotten rather tricky now, and because Nicole is so devoted to Deimos, she can't tell her anything. Only that she is leaving town, going to NY, parents, etc. They hug, promise to keep in touch.

Chloe leaves, Nicole tells Deimos that Chloe & Philip broke up, Deimos is rather wary, can't believe Phil would let her leave with his baby. Nicole only says..."for now".

Aiden has called Hope insists on seeing her now, they meet in that private park area. He again accuses her of shooting Stefano, she denies, he whips out the phone, plays the recording. Hope is not saying anything, and in fact doesn't really have much to say. He recites his entire thinking process about what made him suspicious, then convinced she had done it, thought she would never let Monahan take the fall, but she did. She asks if she should now speak into the microphone. No, he is not recording.

What does he want. Well, her, of course. They loved each other once, were getting married, be a family, give him another chance.

She already did that, when he came back. But he lied to her, misled her, etc. She talks of confessing, he reminds her she would be taking Roman & Rafe down with her. He wants her, thinks she could love him again. She says they are over. He gets upset, warns her to never ever say that again. They ARE going to be together. His smile vanishes, as he threatens that he will put her, Roman & Rafe all behind bars, if she refuses. Now he smiles, is sure they will be together again. He walks off, smiling. Hope stands still, turns slightly (facing the camera) a somber expression on her face.
 
Good job today by Arianne Zucker (Nicole) expressing the pain of realizing that one is not going to be a parent after all. Speaking of Nicole why was she following Deimos into the bad side of town when revenge-minded Xander could pop up around any corner or from behind any trash can or box? Similarly, why is lovelorn Aiden roaming free now that he knows that Clyde was targeting him with a sniper rifle? Doesn't he realize that Mr. Poplar Bluff could literally be lurking anywhere? Only in Salem. Regarding Aiden, he's now hit bottom in the spurned lover's category -- a woman would literally rather go to prison that be with him. Elsewhere, Chloe shouldn't make such a big deal over "not trusting" Deimos. After all, how many men in Salem are really trustworthy? Finally, it was another low for the Salem P.D. -- escaped hostage Claire was debriefed not by its officers, but by private citizens John and Steve. Why doesn't Roman just go ahead and give the Black Patch team badges since they seem to be assuming the role of his detectives and uniformed officers?
 
What does he mean by "were" getting married? I know Aiden is sticking to his story that he was kidnapped long before the wedding, but they are married.

I caught that as well but that is indeed what the dialogue said. Thank Melissa Salmons for that. I'm thinking that similar to how Jack and Jen were divorced at the time of his death yet they never mention it, they want us to now believe Hope and Aiden are not legally married. It actually would be a better twist if Aiden were holding that over her head, especially if he can't testify in court.

Nice to see Claire getting back to being herself. Hopefully she was being sincere. It seemed it. I was also shocked to see follow up with Hope, even if brief. I'll accept Claire running over to her and hugging her in place of "Gran" today. LOL.

I always like seeing Rafe in cop mode but I agree that jealous Rafe is not appealing. Give him some other cases to work on instead.

As painful as this Hope stuff is, we need to get through this in order to move forward.

Definitely think Chloe is lying. I think she knows who the father is and I don't think it's Deimos.
 
Aiden is threatening to put Hope, Roman & Rafe behind bars, using his recording as a basis to reopen the investigation, etc. However, he now claims to 'KNOW' that Hope shot Stefano, covered it up, etc.

Is not the fact he is keeping that info to himself, not informing the STATE biggie, police, governor, or whoever, that he is an accessory after the fact?

Inasmuch as this is dealing with 2 detectives, and their boss, the Chief of Police or Commissioner (NEVER sure what Roman's title is) I think one has to go to higher up the ladder, and that would be state. (Salem's mayor is currently incapacitated)
 
Oh, nearly forgot. Deimos is playing the "lost a baby" card with Nicole, and that is a lot of horse hockey. He is "poor me" because he learned he was not the daddy of a baby a woman was carrying, one that he was told repeatedly was not his, but he had talked himself into being sure he was right. So, this lasted a couple weeks, maybe a month.

Nicole was pregnant with her babies, felt them move, kick, talked to them, for months and months. And in both cases, she lost those babies. She had named them (well, at least one) and Deimos has the colossal nerve to compare his "loss" to hers?? Commenting she knows what it is like....His "poor me" act is only to play on her sympathy and let him get away with his "secrets" after she finds out. Grrrrr.
 
What a "meh" episode. I just didn't care much about anything that happened today.

Although Claire reuniting with John and Marlena was nice. I was particularly happy to see that she finally gets it and just think all it took was being held hostage by three psychopaths and repeatedly having a gun pointed at her. And you all were probably thinking she was hopeless. LOL

The Steve and Kayla scenes were nice as well. So today wasn't all bad.

But the on the flip side we had the Philip/Chloe/Nicole/Deimos mess, The bright side I suppose is with Chloe joining Parker with her parents in New York it looks like we may be getting a little sabbatical from this and if so I much appreciate it. But unfortunately we still don't know who the baby daddy is and I just don't care.

Poirot summed up my feelings about the manipulative garbage Deimos pulled on Nicole today: "Grrr" indeed.

Hope/Aiden/Rafe: *sigh* What can I say about this one other then it's dead in the water as far as I'm concerned. You could give me a map; a compass; and the latest state-of-the-art GPS system and I still wouldn't be able to find my way back to caring.

But as Heather so wisely said we have to move forward to get out of this swamp the writers have stranded themselves and us in. We can only hope (no pun intended) that there will soon be a light at the end of the tunnel.
 
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Thanks for the summary. I actually liked the show...until the end with Hope and Aiden. LOL. I never thought I'd say this, but I would rather watch the soft porn of Eve & JJ and Kristen & Brady romping in the sack all day long than see this garbage. I just can't bring myself to care about it. Helpless Hope--can we just call her Hopeless?--is not appealing. This isn't the witty and caring detective we've seen over the years. Ditto jealous Rafe. And Aiden is such a pathetic villain!

Now that that's out of the way, the scenes with Nicole/Deimos/Chloe/Philip may perhaps be a bit silly on the surface, but still good because of all the interacting with the characters. Will Chloe really leave Salem? I'm surprised if she will, because she just got back! At least it feels that way. I do hope we get to see Nicole confront Dario about his spying on her. As for Patch/John/Kayla/Claire/Marlena, nice to see those scenes, and I'm glad Claire finally "gets it".
 
An interesting episode.

I'm glad Claire admitted she was stupid. I wondered why she was going to call Theo and
not her parents.

Aiden must have found some crazy juice or something to think Hope will actually be with him
to keep her, Roman and Rafe out of jail. I hope Clyde gets another opportunity to shot him.

Chloe was on the phone first with Dr Wright and he confirmed who the daddy is.... I wonder
if it's someone in town since she was able to give him the "daddy" sample :)

I feel sorry for Philip. I think he's still in love with her.
 
I agree with Poirot. There is literally ZERO comparison between Nicole's real heartache and loss to Deimos' manufactured "loss". I can understand his disappointment since he was so convinced he was the father but there was NO loss here. The baby was never his and is still alive for crying out loud! I think there is all sorts of foreshadowing going on here with this baby story. There have just been too many mentions of Nicole's losses and continuous yearning to be a mom. We'll see where this goes but it's obviously not over since we the audience still don't know what Chloe apparently has now figured out. It sounds like she had some other DNA test done of some sort because she was on the phone with someone asking if they were sure of the test (or something like that) when Philip walked in on her today.

I still for the life of me cannot fathom why this show decided to abruptly ship Belle and Shawn out of the country and then practically a nanosecond later their daughter gets kidnapped. Not to mention all the chaos involving their families still in Salem re: the villains. How stupid.

Aiden is psycho and I don't think he's long for this world. I could see Hope or Rafe killing him and making it look like Clyde finally got the hit right, because you know, what's one more murder, coverup, and framing another person. :beat:But Hope and Rafe are the good guys. Yeah, ok. :fan:
 
I certainly wouldn't say they're bad, necessarily. It's shady, sure, but Aiden and Stefano are bad.
 
I don't think it's Deimos.
Deimos' dialogue with Dario seemed to indicate that he is NOT the father and now he knows/accepts it.

I want to know who the baby-daddy is before Chloe leaves. She can have a flashback and tell no one else but us.

My Claire is back. I hope she calls Henry.
 
Wait, so does Nicole know the baby isn't Deimos' or not? Does she still think the results were switched? I'm confused. If she doesn't know, wouldn't it be better to tell her, so she doesn't feel all guilty about 'the secret' and slip up? How hard is it to say "I shagged someone in Chicago and its actually his, didn't realise until the test that I must have been up the duff right before I slept with Deimos, so if he decides to rerun those tests its no biggie,"??

Aiden is nuts but I'd rather watch him be nuts with Hope than Rafe be a neanderthal and beat his chest. Hope's "You're insane!" face at the end was also funny. But I don't understand why she's forgotten about Meredith's death - either Aiden did it and lied or Chase did it and Aiden lied, but either way, Aiden lied and its something he doesn't want exposed either. So play that card, you destroy me I'll destroy you kind of thing.

Edited to add: So is this Nadia Bjorlin's (Chloe) exit for her maternity leave?
 
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This WAS Nadia Bjorlin's (Chloe) last day, as she went on maternity leave. Since the show evidently is giving us scenes AFTER something is said or done off screen, am guessing that Nicole may know that Deimos is not the father. But, whether she does or doesn't, she knows something happened with Chloe, who won't divulge it, since Nicole is so defensive of Deimos.

The thing is, Chloe did not say "paternity" test.....to Dr. Wright. She said "genetic test".
 
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