Episode #279 - Thursday, January 4th, 2007:

• Jan and Cassie team up to discuss ways they can help Cassie pass off her baby as Max’s and ways Jan can land Jeremy’s heart.
• Billie flashes back Jack’s New Year’s Eve confession of love.
• OPENING
• Cassie asks Jan why she suddenly changed her mind and agreed to help her. Jan covers for her mother and does not tell Cassie that they are really cousins.
• Lucas recalls his kiss with Sami on New Years through the prison bars. Will and Lucas decide to stand by Sami during the trial. When alone, Will tells Sami that he won’t allow her to take the fall for Alan’s murder when he is the one who did it. Sami tells Will to shut his mouth and let her take the fall for this.
• Julie and Billie get into a very public argument at Salem Place…and Megan overhears.
• Jeremy bonds with Max. Jeremy explains to Max that he has a love/hate relationship with Jan. And he admits that he is very attracted to her.
• Carrie remembers her kiss with Mike. But she must snap out of it when Austin arrives. Austin begs Carrie not to turn her back on him because he is defending Sami in her murder trial. Austin pleads to Carrie to stand by her sister and stand with him at her side.
• Simone tells Sami that she needs the name of baby Keith’s parents because his health is failing. Sami refuses to tell Simone the truth - that she stole the baby.
• Megan flashes back to her kidnapping Hope and locking her up in a warehouse in London. She says that she will take Billie out, as well…and before her Valentine’s Day Wedding to Bo!
• Cassie tells Jan that she has arranged for her and Jeremy to be locked in the Dimera basement together.
• Carrie calls Austin a fool and a sucker for falling for Sami’s lies and deceit once again.
• Simone takes baby Keith to the hospital where Mike and Kayla tell Simone that things are not looking good for Keith. They tell him he has a rare disease among infants and that he is likely going to lose his life if they cannot find a compatible bone marrow donor. Simone immediately goes back to the prison and tells Sami she needs to know the identity of Keith’s parents or he will likely lose his life.
• Bo promises Billie that his love for Hope is in the past and that he is going to be commit to her at their wedding once and for all. Bo admits to his fiancée that this case is worrying him. Bo tells Billie that the attempted killer seems to be impersonating two famous serial attackers of Salem’s past.
• Sami struggles with whether or not to confess her crimes and come forward saying she stole Carrie’s baby and save the life of her nephew, Keith.
• Megan overhears Julie tell Doug that she needs to find Hope and bring her back in time to stop this wedding. Julie tells Doug that she will stop at nothing to make sure Bo and Billie do not marry.
• Shawn and Belle demand Jan tell them the identity of Trey’s mother. Jan refuses. She tells them that they need to forget about it and move on with their lives. Jan says she is finally over Shawn and that he and Belle need to be happy with Claire and Trey, but they say they cannot be happy as a family until they acquire legal custody of Trey. Jan still refuses to tell them the identity of the woman. Jan says the woman gave up her baby of her own free will and that is all that matters.
• Sami tries to scheme, manipulate, and come up with a way to get Keith his bone marrow transplant without exposing herself.
• Megan approaches Julie and tells her that she couldn’t help but overhearing. Megan says that she used to be the mother-in-law of Julie’s nephew, Shawn. Julie fires back that she knows who she is. Megan tells Julie that she would also like to see Billie out of Salem. Julie and Megan decide to work together to make sure Billie leaves Salem. Little does Julie know that she just made a deal with the devil.
• Carrie tells Mike that they need to talk about their kiss and his confession of love from the night before. Unbeknownst to them both, someone is listening to the conversation.
• Jan tells Shawn and Belle that even though they think of her as a terrible person that she is doing this for them out of respect and out of the kindness of her heart. Belle rolls her eyes. Jan says she swears on her life. Jan continues to say that the mother of Trey is not someone Belle and Shawn want to know…and certainly not anyone they want to mess with. Jan warns once the woman learns that her baby is in the possession of Shawn and Belle, that she will use Trey as leverage to get a whole lot of money from them. When alone, Jan flashes back to when she purchased baby Trey in order to pass him off as Shawn and her baby. Jan recalls traveling to Philadelphia to met a mother who was very desperate to fork over her baby for a load of money. The woman? Is Willow Espinoza. Jan snaps out of it and says, for Shawn and Belle's sake, she hopes they never track her down. Meanwhile, in a run down apartment in Philadelphia, Willow realizes she's blown through the last of the money Jan has given her. She decides to pay Jan Spears a visit!

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