Episode #259 - Thursday, December 7, 2006:

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

- Jan and Jeremy scheme and plot to keep Shawn and Belle away from each other, but little does Jan know that Jeremy is really plotting AGAINST her to expose her ruin her even further in the eyes of Shawn and Belle.

- Megan is upset when she returns to Salem and learns that she has successfully kidnapped Hope…but now she must contend with Bo’s finacee, Billie!

- Doug and Julie interrupt Bo and Billie’s night of passion with news that they think Hope is missing. Billie is upset that their night is ruined.

- Shawn and Belle continue their passionate lovemaking.

- After her bitter catfight with Melissa, Greta finds John. She longs to tell her father the truth about her paternity so that he can help her through this time.

- Lucas learns that the murder weapon that shot Alan was found in Sami’s apartment. Lucas confronts Sami in her jail cell.

- Marlena hallucinates seeing Kristen once again!

- Carrie and Austin grieve their baby, Roman Robert Reed. Carrie is finally ready to put her theory that her baby is alive to rest.

- Billie and Jack grow even further as he comforts her when Bo runs off to find Hope.

- Megan has another letter forged on Hope’s behalf.

- Doug, Julie, Bo, Shawn, the kids, and the rest of the Horton’s get a Christmas card from “Hope” telling them all she will return to Salem after the Holiday’s. Doug and Julie’s suspicions are laid to rest.

- Lucas and Sami HAVE IT OUT! An emotional Lucas breaks down at her cell saying that he can’t believe she could…would kill Alan! Lucas explains that he was upset too…hated him…wanted to kill him, but he could never send himself to prison like that and hurt her and Will like that! Lucas reprimands her for being the same old “Shoot Now, Think Later” selfish Sami Brady!

- Bo is once again very upset when he catches Jack and Billie hugging. When alone, Billie explains that she and Jack are best friends, and that is it.

- Will is tortured over the night of Alan’s murder that he can’t remember! He recalls having an argument with Alan, a blank couple of hours, and then standing over the body with blood all over him. He also recalls how Sami took his clothing, burned it, and has taken the fall for him. Will hears Lucas and Sami arguing in his cell. He decides to come clean!

- At the Green Mountain Lodge, Austin and Carrie decide to move forward with their engagement. They realize that they are more in love now than ever. Meanwhile, a man steps off of a plane at the Salem Airport. He walks the long distance of the airport and exits the building and steps into a taxi. He tells the taxi driver his destination. The taxi driver asks him if he is familiar with Salem. The man replies…. “Oh, yes. All Too Familiar.”