Episode #287 - Wednesday, January 17th, 2007:

• Simone warns Sami she’s going to PAY for what she‘s done!
• Austin and Sami get ready for her second day of trial.
• John reels from the revelation that he is Greta’s father!
• Frankie stays by Greta’s side as she is rushed to the hospital.
• Bo and Roman realize there are no clues at the site where Greta was almost strangled to death. Bo and Roman both have no idea on how to handle The Fury.
• Sarah overhears Frankie and John talking about how John is Greta’s father, and no one can find out! Sarah, meanwhile, records the conversation while neither of them can see her! Frankie says that Greta came to Salem to tell him, but she backed out because of Marlena’s delicate pregnancy. John is reminded of Marlena and tells Frankie that no one can hear about this!
• OPENING
• Simone and Vivian begin plotting and scheming as to how they can figure out exactly how Sami got baby Keith.
• Lucas predicts to Sami that she is going to be get acquitted and will live happily ever after with her and Will.
• Carrie and Mike meet in the park, and Mike tells Carrie he wants to be with her no matter what. Carrie breaks his heart, however, when she tells him that she must try and work things out with Austin. He reminds her she showed Austin the door when he started talking over Sami’s defense for her trial. She tells him they’ve both made mistakes, and they need to start the healing process together.
• Austin reminds Sami how she needs to be on her best behavior in court because they need to be convinced she is a good person and that Alan ruined her life. He says she can get acquitted if they prove justifiable homicide.
• Rae tells Simone that time is running out for baby Keith.
• Kate is jealous as Victor and Caroline bond, but Kate secretly wonders what Caroline would be feeling if she knew he was responsible for the fire that almost killed her.
• Shawn and Belle worry about Philip spending that time with Claire.
• Mike tells Carrie when she realizes Austin isn’t the one for her, he’ll be waiting there for her.
• Simone and Vivian decide to break into the hospital computer records and do a cross reference between Keith’s DNA and find his true parents. And Simone says if that doesn’t work, they can find out who the anonymous donor was and find the real parents that way.
• Carrie informs Mike that even if she and Austin don’t make it…they will always be each other’s soul mate…and everyone else will just be a runner up. She says even if she and Austin don’t end up together physically, their connection goes beyond. Mike asks her if she thinks that is why things didn’t work out when she left Salem to go Israel with Mike. And Carrie thinks it is. Mike agrees.
• Simone and Vivian break into the hospital labs and try to find the name of the donor who was a match for baby Keith.
• Bo and Roman continue to search for clues on the pier. They find nothing. Shane, John, and Steve join them, and they also find nothing.
• Austin hit’s a home run once again when it comes to painting Sami as a good person whose life was sent array by Alan Harris. Marlena tells Austin and Sami she’s sat in on many trials in her day as a psychiatrist, and Austin is doing in excellent job in proving that Sami killed Alan due to justifiable homicide.
• Sarah struggles with whether or not to run the story about Greta being John’s daughter.
• Cassie and Max grieve their baby as Abby grieves her relationship with Max. Jack bumps into Abby who confides in her father about what has happened. Jack tells Abby that she is not to blame for what happened to Cassie’s baby and that she shouldn’t feel guilty. Cassie and Max stumble across them, and Cassie lashes out at Abby for being a baby killer! Abby tells Max if she takes Cassie’s side over hers, then she is done with him forever! Max says he saw Abby fight with Cassie and yell and stress her out! Abby says when Max finds out what a manipulative b!tch Cassie is not to come back to Abby because she is not going to take him back after this. Abby storms off leaving Max with a secretly delighted Cassie.
• Jan asks her mother, Megan, what is in the Dimera Basement or better yet…who! Megan is confused and knows nothing about this. Jan explains to her how she and Jeremy heard screams coming from the catacombs of the Dimera basement.
• Vivian and Simone hit pay dirt when they find Keith’s donor’s name - Georgia Brady!
• Mike and Carrie share a dance to “How Do I Live” by Leanne Rimes. It is heartbreaking as Mike shares his last dance with the woman he loves. Mike says he will always love Carrie. Carrie says there is a woman out there for him, and he is going to find her! Mike and Carrie finish their dance, and he tells her that she deserves to be happy…and she better fight for Austin with everything she’s got! And he jokes, through the tears, that Austin better not be foolish enough to keep pushing her away. Carrie breaks Mike’s heart as she says goodbye to him for the final time.