Episode #278 - Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007:

• Mike Horton reveals to Bo and Roman that Celeste is going to survive. He says the assailant stabbed and poisoned Celeste much like the Salem Slasher did in the 1980’s. Mike tells the Brady Brothers that Celeste was drugged into a drug-induced coma.
• The Salem Police Department allows everyone at the Penthouse Grill to leave.
• OPENING
• Jan approaches Cassie, Jeremy, Max, and Abby. Cassie fears Jan is going to tell Jeremy the truth about him really being the father of her baby and not Max.
• Bo and Roman worry that they are in over their heads with this investigation. At first they thought they were dealing with a Salem Serial Killer Copycat, but now they are unsure.
• Jack and Billie recall how, at midnight, they were in each other’s arms.
• Greta continues her passionate night of lovemaking to her mystery man.
• Stephanie slaps Steve! Steve tells Stephanie never to raise her hand to him. Kayla defends Stephanie, telling Steve that they have been put through so much pain, heartache, and grief over the past fifteen years. She says when they found out he was alive, they all assumed it was Lawrence or the Dimera’s that were behind it. She explains that her hatred for them is off the charts. And now, she must transfer that hatred to Steve…the man she loves more than life itself.
• Billie tells Jack that she feels like Bo’s mind and heart are always somewhere else and now that he is going to be investigating this case, he is bound to be even busier. She says with their wedding coming up in six weeks, she knows Julie’s harassment of her is bound to get even worse, as well.
• Mike confesses to Carrie that he still has very strong feelings for her. Meanwhile, Jack cannot take it anymore and decides to be honest with Billie about his feelings for her. Jack tells Billie that lately he has thought of her as more than his best friend. He says he could not have gotten through Jennifer’s leaving him or her funeral without Billie. Jack tells Billie that he is in love with her!
• Bo and Roman run into their nephew, Andy, son of Kimberly and Shane, at the hospital while he is visiting Caroline. Andy explains that he is going to be staying with Kayla for a few months while Kimberly recuperates from a surgery.
• The room service of the Salem Inn delivers some strawberries and whipped cream to the hotel room of Princess Greta.
• Bo and Roman have no answers as to why the copycat would attack Alice, but they realize he or she just wanted to silence Celeste. Andy overhears and reveals to his uncles that he was studying criminology at Oxford in England before moving to Salem. The Brady Bros. are shocked when Andy says he remembers studying a case very similar to this. Bo and Roman are intrigued.
• Cassie is floored when Jan does not expose her! Instead, Jan manipulates Max and Abby into keeping the truth about their reunion from Cassie even longer.
• Abby and Max get into a fight when he says he fears the effect the truth about their relationship will have on the pregnancy and his baby.
• Stephanie tells Steve that feels gutted by his actions, and she was only a baby when he made this decision. Kayla and Stephanie say that Steve compounded the problem by lying to them for weeks. They both tell Steve that they can’t get past this. Steve reiterates that he did this out of his love for them.
• Greta and her mystery lover share the strawberries and whipped cream with each other as they feed one another. The question still remains as to who her mystery man is.
• Kayla breaks down in front of Steve. She says it always goes back to the fact that Steve doesn’t feel like he deserves her love. She says that has always been his problem…their problem. Kayla informs Steve that it won’t be their problem any more. She explains through tears if he just trusted in their love…Steve kisses away her tears and begs for another chance.
• Greta tells the mystery man that she waited thirty years for the right man to come along and that she could not be any happier in her choice of the man that she chose. The man kisses her, and they begin making love once again.
• Kayla tells Steve that she cannot give him any more chances. She cries that she had to live without him for fifteen years, and now she’ll have to do it again. Steve falls to his knees and begs her no. Kayla and Steve share a heartbreaking breakup. They share a tender kiss through their tears.