41 minutes. The fan favorite “who will run DiMera?” is a hot topic today.
Ava returns to the community apartment and runs into Tripp. They discuss why Ava is moving out. Tripp wants to know what kind of trouble Ava is in now?
Stefan interrupts EJ pouring a drink. Stefan has returned from prison, visiting Gabi. He thinks a bottle of bubbly is in order. EJ snarks that two convicted criminals (Stefan and Gabi) celebrating, how great. Stefan calls EJ Captain Cynicism. Stefan has a new leaf on life. Kristen joins the conversation.
Alex is at his desk. Theresa comes in begging to be told it’s not true. No, it’s true. The magazine is failing AGAIN. Theresa whines there has to be something we can do. Alex pulls the plug on Bella today.
Replay of Maggie asking Konstantin to marry her. He claims he is speechless but 1000 words later he is still talking, but claims he cannot accept her proposal. Yeah, I don’t buy it either.
Wendy walks in on the Tripp/Ava conversation. Tripp is concerned that his mother is moving out for the right reasons. Ava blah blahs that she’s taking her relationship with Harris to the next level. It’s for the best for everyone. She grabs a box and leaves.
The trio of crooks discuss the deal EJ made to keep Stefan out of the crossbar hotel and was about to return to Stefan all of his worldly possessions that EJ tried with such zeal to purloin. EJ claims only half of the possessions. Kristen is confused. Takeover of DiMera Enterprises. Kristen makes a Wall Street (movie) reference, but it goes over both EJ and Stefan’s heads.
Meanwhile back at Titan, Theresa wants another crack at the client who pulled out of the magazine. She’s sure she can convince them. Alex says no, he tried. Theresa has plans for the magazine but Alex says we are spending more money on this than we will ever make. He is going to kill the magazine now before any more money gets thrown in. Alex is going to find Theresa another job. She says don’t bother, I quit.
Maggie tells Konstantin it will be a marriage in name only. She feels she needs to make up after all the terrible things her husband did. IF her friends and family can’t accept it then fie on them.
Oh lord, more Tripp and Wendy sipping tea. This is an amazingly dull conversation. Tripp’s spidey senses are tingling. Wendy thinks that Ava living with a Navy Seal will be great, safe even. Wendy’s first day back was in a word terrible.
Harris and Ava sit in the pub drinking beer and wine, Ava wine and Harris beer, blanket hogging, fresh starts.
Kristen wants to know what’s going on? She claims to be a DiMera, EJ says nope blood is thicker than water. What do you say Stefan? Kristen gets indignant and rightfully so, of the 3 losers having this conversation she is the most DiMera of them all. EJ tells Stefan that a statement is going to be released shortly from Stefan saying that he is resigning the DiMera CEO-ship because he’s a convicted felon, as is EJ, but hey let’s not muddy the waters. EJ gloats about the Bistro’s issues and Stefan’s losses. Then he leaves, smiling and air kisses to all.
Alex takes the blame for the magazine failing. He did it to prove Maggie wrong and to make his father proud. Theresa cracks and crumbles. She is going to make a fresh start somewhere else.
Maggie is happy to be officially engaged. She hopes that in some small manner it will make up in for his rivalry with Victor. Until Maggie speaks with her attorneys, she tells Konstantin she wants this to be kept quiet. Konstantin mutters about the card after Maggie leaves.
Wendy thought work would be a distraction but she couldn’t concentrate. She was looking for a lead on Clyde on the internet. Whine, whine, I really wish I could like this version of Wendy. I want the other the strong Wendy back. Tripp talks her down from a panic attack.
Ava and Harris continue to talk about looking for the book for Clyde. Harris has it all figured out, find the book, return it to Clyde, arrest Clyde, put Clyde behind bars forever. A terrific plan if only.
Maggie looks at a picture of Victor and says I hope I’m doing the right thing. Theresa comes in, she needs help from Maggie since Maggie is her sponsor. Theresa tells Maggie that the magazine has been shut down and she feels like a complete failure. Maggie tells Theresa that she knew the magazine would fail. But Alex had to learn the hard way and Maggie is sorry that Theresa was harmed.
Maggie is shocked that Theresa has quit. Theresa spends a bunch of words on what a failure she is, lack of experience, a charity hire and so forth. Maggie tells her to stop it and reminds Theresa that she ran the magazine before. Theresa said that it failed before too. She thought that she was going to be rich, successful and happy. But nope. Maggie thinks that Theresa is a smart, talented blah blah young woman. Then she leaves to talk to Alex. The girls will meet at the meeting tonight.
Konstantin wanders in as Theresa tries to leave.
Tripp thinks the apartment is chilly so he puts a blanket on Wendy. She is worried that Ava is going to find trouble again and Wendy is going to be caught in the crosshairs.
EJ wanders up to Harris and Ava and gloats. He accepts Ava’s quitting and tells of Stefan running the Bistro full time as he is no longer involved with DiMera Enterprises. By the way Ava, may I have the keys? Ava and Harris stare at each other.
Kristen can’t believe that Stefan is going to let EJ walk all over him take away the company he worked so hard to control. Stefan doesn’t see any other way around it at the moment. It's either resign or get fired. The board doesn’t want a CEO that’s a convicted felon. Kristen is a pardoned felon, so there is no way that she can't be a CEO. They dirty, stupid talk, ending up with Stefan working to get Kristen the CEO job.
Maggie walks in on Alex and they discuss Bella.
Konstantin and Theresa discuss things. Konstantin is happy to tell Theresa that Maggie just proposed to him. Theresa can’t believe a woman as smart as Maggie would fall for him. The plot set last August is retold, in case you’ve forgotten in. Now Konstantin puts a death threat in his threat to Theresa.
Wendy and Tripp talk in circles about family. Mr. Shin is riding his bike, taking interest in his garden, but her parents are still very fragile. Wendy is tired of waiting for bad things to happen to her.
Ava tells EJ she doesn’t have the keys to the Bistro. EJ claims to be trying to save Ava the awkwardness of meeting with Stefan after the deal Detective Harris floated to Stefan, cop to all drug charges, keep Ava’s name out of it. EJ thinks that was an egregious dereliction of duty on Harris’ part, sacrificing an open and shut case to save this one. Harris wants to know what Stefan is holding over EJ’s head?
Stefan and Kristen discuss Kristen’s lusting after the CEO job. Stefan wants Gabi out of prison.
Maggie won’t gloat. She does thank Alex for making the right decision. She wants to be brought back to Titan as she thinks they can right the ship.
Theresa and Konstantin talk about how everything that Victor amassed should be Konstantin's. He has to avenge a great loss; he can’t leave till he does.
Wendy talks of being afraid all of the time. Tripp tells her that he is there for her always. There may have been more but I dozed off.
Harris has figured it out that Stefan has something on EJ, and he's going to figure it out. EJ threatens Harris. (per closed captioning EJ whistles strangely) EJ leaves and Harris rolls his eyes.
Kristen thinks that they’d have better luck digging up Jimmy Hoffa. (a very corrupt teamsters boss, believed to be killed and buried in Giant’s stadium or any number of other sites) Stefan sweet talks her into getting Gabi out of prison. Kristen says she will think about it. She asks is Gabi innocent? Stefan and his PI have come up empty on who killed Li. Kristen will find out. I’m sure it will be earth shattering when we do find out.
Ava returns to the community apartment and runs into Tripp. They discuss why Ava is moving out. Tripp wants to know what kind of trouble Ava is in now?
Stefan interrupts EJ pouring a drink. Stefan has returned from prison, visiting Gabi. He thinks a bottle of bubbly is in order. EJ snarks that two convicted criminals (Stefan and Gabi) celebrating, how great. Stefan calls EJ Captain Cynicism. Stefan has a new leaf on life. Kristen joins the conversation.
Alex is at his desk. Theresa comes in begging to be told it’s not true. No, it’s true. The magazine is failing AGAIN. Theresa whines there has to be something we can do. Alex pulls the plug on Bella today.
Replay of Maggie asking Konstantin to marry her. He claims he is speechless but 1000 words later he is still talking, but claims he cannot accept her proposal. Yeah, I don’t buy it either.
Wendy walks in on the Tripp/Ava conversation. Tripp is concerned that his mother is moving out for the right reasons. Ava blah blahs that she’s taking her relationship with Harris to the next level. It’s for the best for everyone. She grabs a box and leaves.
The trio of crooks discuss the deal EJ made to keep Stefan out of the crossbar hotel and was about to return to Stefan all of his worldly possessions that EJ tried with such zeal to purloin. EJ claims only half of the possessions. Kristen is confused. Takeover of DiMera Enterprises. Kristen makes a Wall Street (movie) reference, but it goes over both EJ and Stefan’s heads.
Meanwhile back at Titan, Theresa wants another crack at the client who pulled out of the magazine. She’s sure she can convince them. Alex says no, he tried. Theresa has plans for the magazine but Alex says we are spending more money on this than we will ever make. He is going to kill the magazine now before any more money gets thrown in. Alex is going to find Theresa another job. She says don’t bother, I quit.
Maggie tells Konstantin it will be a marriage in name only. She feels she needs to make up after all the terrible things her husband did. IF her friends and family can’t accept it then fie on them.
Oh lord, more Tripp and Wendy sipping tea. This is an amazingly dull conversation. Tripp’s spidey senses are tingling. Wendy thinks that Ava living with a Navy Seal will be great, safe even. Wendy’s first day back was in a word terrible.
Harris and Ava sit in the pub drinking beer and wine, Ava wine and Harris beer, blanket hogging, fresh starts.
Kristen wants to know what’s going on? She claims to be a DiMera, EJ says nope blood is thicker than water. What do you say Stefan? Kristen gets indignant and rightfully so, of the 3 losers having this conversation she is the most DiMera of them all. EJ tells Stefan that a statement is going to be released shortly from Stefan saying that he is resigning the DiMera CEO-ship because he’s a convicted felon, as is EJ, but hey let’s not muddy the waters. EJ gloats about the Bistro’s issues and Stefan’s losses. Then he leaves, smiling and air kisses to all.
Alex takes the blame for the magazine failing. He did it to prove Maggie wrong and to make his father proud. Theresa cracks and crumbles. She is going to make a fresh start somewhere else.
Maggie is happy to be officially engaged. She hopes that in some small manner it will make up in for his rivalry with Victor. Until Maggie speaks with her attorneys, she tells Konstantin she wants this to be kept quiet. Konstantin mutters about the card after Maggie leaves.
Wendy thought work would be a distraction but she couldn’t concentrate. She was looking for a lead on Clyde on the internet. Whine, whine, I really wish I could like this version of Wendy. I want the other the strong Wendy back. Tripp talks her down from a panic attack.
Ava and Harris continue to talk about looking for the book for Clyde. Harris has it all figured out, find the book, return it to Clyde, arrest Clyde, put Clyde behind bars forever. A terrific plan if only.
Maggie looks at a picture of Victor and says I hope I’m doing the right thing. Theresa comes in, she needs help from Maggie since Maggie is her sponsor. Theresa tells Maggie that the magazine has been shut down and she feels like a complete failure. Maggie tells Theresa that she knew the magazine would fail. But Alex had to learn the hard way and Maggie is sorry that Theresa was harmed.
Maggie is shocked that Theresa has quit. Theresa spends a bunch of words on what a failure she is, lack of experience, a charity hire and so forth. Maggie tells her to stop it and reminds Theresa that she ran the magazine before. Theresa said that it failed before too. She thought that she was going to be rich, successful and happy. But nope. Maggie thinks that Theresa is a smart, talented blah blah young woman. Then she leaves to talk to Alex. The girls will meet at the meeting tonight.
Konstantin wanders in as Theresa tries to leave.
Tripp thinks the apartment is chilly so he puts a blanket on Wendy. She is worried that Ava is going to find trouble again and Wendy is going to be caught in the crosshairs.
EJ wanders up to Harris and Ava and gloats. He accepts Ava’s quitting and tells of Stefan running the Bistro full time as he is no longer involved with DiMera Enterprises. By the way Ava, may I have the keys? Ava and Harris stare at each other.
Kristen can’t believe that Stefan is going to let EJ walk all over him take away the company he worked so hard to control. Stefan doesn’t see any other way around it at the moment. It's either resign or get fired. The board doesn’t want a CEO that’s a convicted felon. Kristen is a pardoned felon, so there is no way that she can't be a CEO. They dirty, stupid talk, ending up with Stefan working to get Kristen the CEO job.
Maggie walks in on Alex and they discuss Bella.
Konstantin and Theresa discuss things. Konstantin is happy to tell Theresa that Maggie just proposed to him. Theresa can’t believe a woman as smart as Maggie would fall for him. The plot set last August is retold, in case you’ve forgotten in. Now Konstantin puts a death threat in his threat to Theresa.
Wendy and Tripp talk in circles about family. Mr. Shin is riding his bike, taking interest in his garden, but her parents are still very fragile. Wendy is tired of waiting for bad things to happen to her.
Ava tells EJ she doesn’t have the keys to the Bistro. EJ claims to be trying to save Ava the awkwardness of meeting with Stefan after the deal Detective Harris floated to Stefan, cop to all drug charges, keep Ava’s name out of it. EJ thinks that was an egregious dereliction of duty on Harris’ part, sacrificing an open and shut case to save this one. Harris wants to know what Stefan is holding over EJ’s head?
Stefan and Kristen discuss Kristen’s lusting after the CEO job. Stefan wants Gabi out of prison.
Maggie won’t gloat. She does thank Alex for making the right decision. She wants to be brought back to Titan as she thinks they can right the ship.
Theresa and Konstantin talk about how everything that Victor amassed should be Konstantin's. He has to avenge a great loss; he can’t leave till he does.
Wendy talks of being afraid all of the time. Tripp tells her that he is there for her always. There may have been more but I dozed off.
Harris has figured it out that Stefan has something on EJ, and he's going to figure it out. EJ threatens Harris. (per closed captioning EJ whistles strangely) EJ leaves and Harris rolls his eyes.
Kristen thinks that they’d have better luck digging up Jimmy Hoffa. (a very corrupt teamsters boss, believed to be killed and buried in Giant’s stadium or any number of other sites) Stefan sweet talks her into getting Gabi out of prison. Kristen says she will think about it. She asks is Gabi innocent? Stefan and his PI have come up empty on who killed Li. Kristen will find out. I’m sure it will be earth shattering when we do find out.
