Episode #293 - Wednesday, January 24, 2007:

• Sami sits on the ground - blooded by Carrie’s slaps and punches, crying from the words of Roman, Lucas, and Austin, and having been spit on by her mother. Sami Brady was just told by both of her parents that she is dead to them and that she has no one left in her life.
• OPENING.
• Eric, Caroline, and Belle each take their turn telling Sami how disappointed they are in her and how they can’t believe she has stooped to his level.
• Caroline tells Sami she is a widow because she has lost her husband to death. She says if you lose your parents to death, you’re an orphan. But Caroline says losing a child is so damn awful, there isn’t even a word for the parent that is left behind! Caroline cannot believe Sami has inflicted this type of pain on Sami! Caroline gives Sami a stern licking. Eric and Belle wash their hands of Sami. Sami asks Caroline to forgive her and help her with that discipline she always give her when she messes up. Caroline tells Sami to go to hell and asks if she can’t stop manipulating…even now!
• Carrie approaches Sami and rips into her again, telling her she is the most awful person the face of the earth and that she hopes Lucas has the good sense to take Will and get far away from her because SHE is the one who deserves to have her child ripped away from her!
• Since this is a sensitive issue for Sami, she stands and faces Carrie. She tells her Will is 18 now and he can do whatever the hell he wants! Sami says Will loves her, regardless of all the terrible things she does, and HE will stand by her, even if no one else will!
• Will enters the conversation and informs Sami in no uncertain terms that he is done with her forever! Sami has a breakdown.
• Carrie approaches Sami with tears streaming down her face. She explains she doesn’t have the energy to throw another punch or be angry anymore. Carrie wants to know why she would stoop to this level.
• Sami explains the evolution of her plan. She recalls how in the springtime, she and Carrie teamed up to rid Austin’s life of Nicole, and in order to do this, Carrie had to talk to Victor to get the goods on Nicole. Sami recounts how they successfully blackmailed Nicole into leaving town. Sami flashes back to how she framed Carrie for being the one to blackmail her out of town, even thought it was really both of their idea, but Sami made sure all the evidence like Victor would be traced back to Carrie. Sami reveals how in May (during episode #200) Carrie and her mother, Anna, exposed Sami for being the one to orchestrate the plan to get Nicole out of Austin’s life. Sami remembers how Anna, Roman, and Carrie took a strong stance against her, and Sami says if SHE couldn’t have the family she always wanted with Roman, Eric, and Marlena, then she would be DAMNED if she saw Carrie have her parents together, Austin, and a baby to boot! Sami says she felt her father slowly slipping away from her and into the web of Carrie and Anna, and she confesses she wanted to make Carrie pay for taking Austin and Roman from her life. She also explains how when she went to Sunset Beach in May to bring runaway Will back home to Salem, she met Annie who revealed experience with baby snatching. Sami explains she always had reservations about doing it. She says she really solidified the deal when Carrie bonded with Will after he came out of the closet when all she (Sami) could do is push him away.
• Carrie, Austin, Lucas, Will, Roman, and Marlena confess they don’t know why they are shocked…but they are. They all cast her out of the Brady Family.
• Willow and Jan continue to fight and struggle. Jan tells Willow to go to hell and that she won’t tell her where baby Trey is!
• When Shawn and Belle leave the courtroom, they are served with papers informing them that temporary custody of Claire is going to Philip!
• Simone begs Austin and Carrie to leave Sami, the b!tch, alone and focus on what is important! THE BABY! Simone explains if baby Keith….she corrects herself….baby Roman does not get a bone marrow transplant from direct kin immediately, he will not make it through the night!
• Austin, Carrie, Lucas, Will, Bo, Hope, Roman, and the rest of the Brady’s rush to the hospital to see the baby and get tested to be matches for the baby.
• Sami is left alone and crying in the courtroom. Kate approaches her. Kate tells Sami that after fourteen long, long years, Sami is finally done for. Kate reveals to Sami that if she weren’t going to prison for the rest of her life, she’d be calculating revenge right now. Sami tries to grab Kate, but she is held back by the prison guards. Kate is the sole remaining person in court, and she now leaves.
• The judge asks Sami how she pleads to the kidnapping of Roman Roberts Reed. Sami says “Guilty.” The jury asks the judge for a brief recess to intake this recent information. When they return, Sami, who now sits alone, hears the verdict. The judge explains that since Sami confessed to the murder of Alan, but her defense was justifiable homicide, her case hinged on the fact that she is a good person and Alan was too evil to live. The judge says in light of all of this, however, the jury is not convinced Sami is a good person. The judge reveals Sami has been found guilty of 1st Degree Murder and Kidnapping. He sentences Sami to Twenty-Five Years to Life in prison. Sami collapses to her knees, crying.