Episode #253 - Wednesday, November 29th, 2006:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqQc5sKx0tc

- Steve wrestles with whether or not to tell Kayla the truth behind his missing years.

- Marlena and John have an awkward meeting in order to exchange Gabe. John says they can’t keep going on like this, but Marlena says they have no choice because she is not ready to forgive him for his atrocious error in judgment!

- Frankie begs Melissa for a chance to explain his newfound feelings for Greta, but Melissa doesn’t want to hear it.

- Eric awakens in the motel room with very little memory of what happened. He finds a trashed room and condom wrappers…

- Meanwhile, Kristen saunters about the Dimera Mansion with malicious glee. She sips on a glass of wine and takes much pleasure in knowing her plan to seduce Eric Brady worked.

- Stephanie (recurring guest star Lauren Ambrose) gathers Steve and Kayla for a big announcement.

- Marlena has a strange hallucination that she is seeing Kristen almost everywhere she goes.

- Kristen remembers her sex session with Eric in general.

- Greta and John run into each other at Salem Place. She tells him she needs fatherly advice, and John is taken aback.

- Steve and Kayla ask Stephanie what is going on. She tells them how happy and grateful she is to have her parents back together again. She is happy nothing can ruin their lives together now. Steve is perturbed.

- Greta realizes that she’s said too much and backtracks in order to save the secret that John is her father.

- Marlena tries to talk herself out of the tricks her mind seems to keep playing on her. She realizes that she needs to toughen up and not be paranoid about Kristen.

- John calls in a favor at the I.S.A. and has a tale placed on Marlena in order to protect her.

- Greta realizes that she still has feelings for Eric!

- Stephanie goes on to tell Steve and Kayla that she is going to be heading back to Los Angeles now that Thanksgiving is over, but she would like to come back to Salem one day and be a family with them. Steve and Kayla say a touching goodbye to Stephanie.

- Kristen has a fantasy about Marlena's reaction when she finds out that Kristen has slept with her son, Eric!

- Marlena gets the feeling she is being followed…little does she know it is John’s friend from the ISA who was assigned to protect her! She believes it is Kristen and grabs a letter opener to protect herself from her “stalker.” Marlena waits at the corner to attack her “stalker”….the officer turns the corner. *FREEZE FRAME.*