Episode #286 - Tuesday, January 16th, 2007:

• Frankie, Bo, and John continue to try and save Greta while Jack, Melissa, and Sarah look on, helplessly.
• Rae tries desperately to save baby Keith’s life.
• Vivian and Simone make a pact never to tell anyone about how Simone shadily got the baby from Sami.
• Jan and Jeremy remember when they were locked in the basement and the guttural moans they heard coming from the depths of the catacombs beneath the Dimera Mansion.
• Eric, Andy, and Kayla gather by Caroline’s side as she comes to! Caroline asks Kayla to call Victor, and she reluctantly agrees.
• Philip, Kate, and Victor’s family bonding is interrupted by a call from Kayla, telling Victor that Caroline is awake!
• Rae informs Simone and Vivian that the bone marrow transplant apparently did not work and baby Keith is going to die unless he receives another from a donor who is a better match. Simone breaks down in Vivian’s arms.
• OPENING!
• Georgia arrives at Felicia’s Modeling Agency for more lessons with Roo on how to perfect her Runway Walk, how to embrace her look, and how to give a photographer what he is looking for in a shoot.
• Sarah starts to take notes on Greta’s attack and begins piecing together a P.O.V. for the article, but Jack stops her saying that Greta is his friend, and he won’t write an article that ruins any privacy or confidentiality for Greta. He says he is going to wait and see if she is all right until he begins writing and that Sarah to do the same. Sarah tells Jack she is a reporter and her #1 priority is informing the public not protecting the woman who broke her sister’s heart. Jack is shocked, as is Melissa.
• Vivian tells Simone she might have to give up Keith in order to save his life…and Simone realizes she has a big decision to make.
• Belle and Shawn go to Victor’s to pick up Claire, and both of them are shocked beyond words to see Philip answer the door…with Claire in his hands!
• Roo tells Felicia she has never worked with such a naturally gifted and such a quick study as Georgia is. Felicia says she is hard on her, but she agrees that Georgia is going to be an amazing model one day, and Roo says she already is!
• Melissa tells Sarah she should respect Greta and the situation, but Sarah tells Melissa that she is going ahead with the story because that is her job.
• Vivian convinces Simone that she must find Keith’s real parents in order to save his life and that is more important than Simone raising him.
• Victor has a touching reunion with Caroline.
• Belle reaches out and grabs Claire from Philip. Belle asks if this was some plan in order to get Philip to spend more time with Claire, but Philip simply says he happened to come home to Salem for Bo’s wedding early…during Victor’s visit with Claire.
• Abby is horribly devastated over her break up with Max.
• Max and Cassie have a small ceremony to bury their baby. The only people in attendance are Cassie’s mother, Marlena, and Jan. The four share a touching goodbye with the baby as Cassie recalls to herself that Jeremy is really the baby’s father.
• Bo and John tell Frankie to give up trying to bring Greta back to life, but he refuses. John grabs Frankie and tries to pull him back from Greta, and Frankie blurts out that John is Greta’s father! John is shocked, and he is the only one to hear it. Frankie tells John not to give up on his daughter!
• Frankie finally succeeds in breathing life back into Greta! Greta awakens with a big puff and gasps for breath. Everyone is shocked at the miracle that has just occurred.
• Felicia scolds Georgia and demands she lose five pounds by the end of the month.
• Belle and Shawn refuse to believe Philip and tell him to stay away from their daughter. Shawn informs Philip that the days of him spending time with Claire are over. When alone, Philip tells Kate that he did not like the way Belle and Shawn treated him, considering he raised Claire for the first year of his life. Kate eggs her son on…asking him if he is going to sit and talk about it….or do something about it! Philip looks like a Kiriakis for the first time ever and gives her a very aggressive look.
• John is FLOORED by Frankie’s confession about how John is Greta’s father!
• Max and Cassie grieve their baby and grow closer than ever over the circumstances.
• Simone goes to Sami’s jail cell and demands Sami tell her every detail as to where and how Sami got baby Keith. Simone informs Sami that Keith is dying…and he is going to lose his life unless he receives the bone marrow from a direct kin, which in this case can only be his parents! Sami is devastated, but she tells Simone she is not going to tell her the identities! Simone asks Sami if she stole the baby, and Sami says no. Simone calls Sami a liar! Simone gives her one more chance to tell her. Sami says no. Simone tells Sami she is going to make Sami pay for putting Keith’s life in danger. Simone says she has heard Sami is the badass of Salem…the resident witch, but Simone tells Sami that she has just f*cked with the WRONG person, and she is going to PAY!