Episode #266 - Monday, December 18, 2006:

BRAND NEW OPENING!

• Mickey is rushed to the hospital. Maggie, Mike, Bill, Laura, Jack, Abby, Alice, Doug, Julie, and Melissa all come running in behind the stretcher. Kayla, Bill, and Mike go straight into the E.R. and help the attending physician to work on Mickey. The rest of the Horton’s try to comfort Maggie.
• Max leaves Cassie once again in order to be with Abby through this difficult time.
• Frankie comforts Melissa over her father’s hospitalization. Greta walks into the hospital and is taken aback by how close Melissa and Frankie are. Greta runs out of the hospital.
• Jeremy arrives at the hospital and finally receives word that his Aunt Jennifer has passed away and that Mickey is critically injured. Laura and Bill reprimand their grandson for being so selfish and careless and for going on a partying binge like this. Alice tells Jeremy that he has a lot of growing up to do. In rare form, when alone, Jeremy shows guilt and emotion over not being there for the Horton's.
• Kristen and Stefano have a pow-wow over her plans to destroy John and Marlena. Stefano tells her that he must continue to keep a low profile in Salem, but he urges her to destroy the lives of John and Marlena.
• Marlena stumbles across the Horton’s in the hotel waiting room and joins them in comforting Maggie and waiting for news on Mickey’s health.
• Abby tells Max that she has re-thought their situation, and she thinks they should be together despite the baby he is having with Cassie. Cassie overhears!
• Marlena and John remain estranged.
• Kayla, Bill, and Mike do everything they can to save Mickey while Maggie awaits word in the lobby with Alice and Julie.
• Megan confesses to Stefano that she has kidnapped Hope and is keeping her in a warehouse in London. Stefano is, at first, outraged at this turn of events, but he later is pleased and urges Megan to keep Bo and Hope apart no matter what the cost.
• Eric and Greta run into each other at Salem Place. She says she can’t vent to him about what is bothering her because it involves Frankie, and it isn’t fair to him, but Eric tells her it is OK. Greta opens up to Eric about Frankie and Melissa’s closeness.
• Mike, Bill, and Kayla emerge from the E.R. Maggie awaits. Kayla tells Maggie that she doesn’t have good news. Maggie and Melissa are both devastated. Kayla explains to the Horton’s that Mickey has suffered a major stroke, which is when the blood supply in the brain is interrupted, and not only that, but he apparently suffered a major blow to the head on a gravestone when he fell. Kayla tells Maggie and Melissa that Mickey is stabilized, but things do not look good for him. And the chance is very likely that Mickey will remain unconscious for a very, very long time. Bill comforts Alice who cries softly. Maggie and Melissa break down in each other's arms.

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