Episode #284 - Thursday, January 11th, 2007:

• Cassie doubles over in pain as Abby rolls her eyes at Cassie’s latest desperate attempt to garner some attention from Max. Max falls to his knees to help Cassie, and he screams and begs Abby to call an ambulance. Abby humors Max and does so, even though she thinks Cassie is faking.
• Jan and Jeremy continue to bond as he comforts her over her rape. She explains that she was so obsessed with Shawn was because he was there for her at her darkest hours, and no one else was.
• Kate and Victor plot to bring down Shawn and Belle and their happy little family. Kate and Victor discuss how devastated Philip was when he learned Claire was not his. But Victor predicts that Claire will be his, once again.
• Julie and Megan realize Billie and Jack are hiding something, and THAT is what they are going to use to stop Bo and Billie’s wedding.
• NEW OPENING!
• Bo tells Shawn about his wedding to Billie being on Valentine’s Day, and he asks him to be his best man. Shawn replies… “Over my dead body!”
• Roman, John, Steve, Shane, and Andy realize Stefano must be behind the copycat attacks.
• Cassie is rushed to the hospital. Max is by her side, and Abby swears to herself that she is not going to stay with Max if he keeps falling Cassie’s transparent ploys.
• Victor recalls for Kate how he called Philip and told him that he needs to return for a family emergency.
• Shawn tells Bo there is no way in hell he is going to stand up for Bo and approve of his wedding to that whore, Billie. Bo grabs Shawn and angrily reminds him that Billie had a big hand in raising him and getting him through some rough years when Hope was thought to be dead. Shawn replies that he only remembers when Billie ruined his parents’ marriage over and over and over again. Julie walks in on the conversation and agrees with Shawn. Julie begs Bo not to marry Billie, as does Shawn, and Billie walks in on it all!
• Georgia and Roo discuss how Felicia told her she had to lose a lot of weight and fast. But Roo tries to convince Georgia that her body is fantastic, and she does not have any weight on her body to lose! Roo tells Georgia that Felicia is a washed up supermodel who is well past her prime so she takes it out on up and coming models she sees potential in.
• Now that Frankie has told Melissa about him and Greta being an item, it’s Greta’s turn! Greta breaks Eric’s heart when she tells him that she and Frankie are a couple now.
• Roman, Shane, Andy, Steve, and John realize if the copycat attacker copied the Salem Serial Killer and the Salem Slasher, then the other most famous serial attacker in Salem might be next - The Salem Strangler!
• With Cassie unable to let them out of the basement, Jan and Jeremy end up staying down in the Dimera basement way longer than Cassie or Jan intended. Jeremy opens up to Jan about how his mother and father never got their acts together, and how they had him way too young. He says he blames himself for their divorce and talks about how rough it is being a child of divorce.
• Max stands by Cassie’s side in the emergency room as the pain and agony grows.
• Kate asks Victor how he is going to keep Philip here once he arrives in Salem, but Victor predicts that Belle and Claire are going to do that all on their own.
• Billie asks Shawn and Julie what she’s ever done to them, and Shawn counters, asking where he should begin. Shawn reminds her that the latest break up his parents are going to started when she and Bo drunkenly kissed last winter. But Billie says it was because Hope was keeping a secret from Bo - that she was married to a man during her time as Princess Gina. Shawn says his mother has made mistakes too, but they would have worked it out if Billie wasn’t always waiting in the wings with open legs trying to trap his father. Billie storms out emotional and upset.
• Despite Roo’s comforting words, Georgia refuses to eat when she goes to dinner with Will.
• Jeremy explains to Jan how hard it was growing up a Horton, always feeling the pressure to be perfect and upstanding. Jeremy says that his bad boy demeanor and delinquent ways were never good enough for the Horton’s.
• Eric shocks Greta when he flashes back to his having sex with Kristen and tells Greta that she is better off without him anyway.
• Kayla works hard to try and save the life of Cassie’s unborn baby.
• Bo tells Shawn and Julie how disappointed he is in them and how if they make him choose between them and Billie, he will choose her because she loves and understands him enough not to make him choose, regardless of how crappy they treat her.
• Billie runs into Jack, and he wonders why she is so upset and crying. Billie informs Jack of Julie and Shawn’s harsh words for her. Jack comforts Billie, but she realizes that she should be the one comforting him since he has lost Jennifer so recently.
• Jan listens to Jeremy attentively, and he laughs as he recalls how much he hated her when he first met her. She laughs back and says she hasn’t forgotten about how he tricked her and deceived her as a way to help his cousin, Shawn, get the goods on her in order to take Trey from her in court. But Jeremy calls her on her act, declaring she does not give a crap about Trey and never did. He says, matter of factly, that she was using the child as a way to nab Shawn and never cared about the baby.
• Victor and Kate meet at the mansion…a car pulls up to the mansion. Kate runs to the window and pulls back the drapes. “Victor, he’s here! Philip’s come home!”…Kate exclaims.
• Jan confesses to Jeremy that he’s right and that she never really loved Trey. But she says it’s for the best because she’d be a terrible mother, and it's in the baby's best interest that he is with Belle and Shawn now. Jeremy asks Jan where Trey came from, but she refuses to say. Meanwhile, Willow Espinoza arrives in Salem hell-bent on finding Jan and shaking her down for more money…recalling how Jan paid her big bucks for her baby.
• Jack and Billie spend the day together and bond over what is going on in their lives. They ignore the fact that Jack has recently confessed his love for her. But they can’t ignore it when the both of them get closer and closer and end up sharing a hot and steamy kiss!
• Kayla shocks Cassie, Max, and Abby, especially, when she informs them all that, despite her doing everything she could to save the baby, Cassie and Max's baby has died.
• Bo receives a phone call...and he is taken aback at how deep, dark, and mysterious the caller's voice is. The person is using a voice distorter. Bo is in shock when he finally realizes that he is on the phone with the copycat attacker!