Episode #294 - Thursday, January 25, 2007:

• Sami is sentenced to twenty five years to life in prison. She is carried away by the bailiff, screaming, thrashing, and crying.
• Simone, Austin, and Carrie hurry to the hospital, and Dr. Rae says there isn’t much time to save baby Keith’s life.
• OPENING
• Shawn and Belle are floored when they are served with papers from the courts declaring Philip get custody of baby Claire.
• Sarah is ready to run the story on Sami, but Jack intervenes and tells her that he won’t do this to the Brady’s.
• Alice and Maggie inform Jeremy that his father, Mike, has left town. Jeremy is pissed!
• Willow and Claire continue to fight. Jan says she’ll never tell Willow where baby Trey is!
• Frankie is there to take Greta home from the hospital after her attack. On the way out, Greta runs into Eric, and things remain awkward between them.
• Sami is taken to her cold, dark cell and thrown in by the guards. Sami Brady has hit the absolute lowest point in her life.
• Eric, Roman, Austin, Carrie, Kate, Philip, Will, Bo, Kayla, and Caroline all give bone marrow donations at the hospital in order to save baby Roman.
• Marlena and Carrie bond while they see if the baby can be saved. Marlena says she wishes Carrie was her daughter so that she could donate to help save the baby. Carrie tells Marlena she will always be a mother figure to her.
• Billie and Jack refuse to acknowledge each other, and they co-exist in their awkwardness from New Year’s Eve.
• Marlena picks up on a weird tension between Greta and John! John fears Marlena might figure out that he is Greta’s father.
• Jeremy lashes out telling Alice and Maggie that his father has put him last once again, not even giving him the common decency of a goodbye!
• Sarah and Jack continue to clash over the stories at the paper. Sarah and Jack take their cases to their boss at the Spectator, and he sides with….SARAH! The boss man tells Jack he needs to stop it with the family politics and start covering the stories Salem wants to read or he’ll be out on his butt!
• Austin and Carrie finally manage to get two minutes alone. Their intense stares turn into slight smiles of relief. They both quickly run to each other, and he sweeps her up into his strong arms. They embrace.
• Willow and Jan get into a shoving match. They struggle until they get near the door where Jan throws Willow out! Jan tells her to go to hell! And to stay the hell out!
• Shawn and Belle cannot believe their eyes! Philip arrives with a police officer to take Claire.
• Sami flashes back to all of the harsh words her family had to say to her, casting her out of the Brady Family.
• Austin and Carrie cannot believe their baby is alive! Austin apologizes to her and regrets not believing her when she said the baby was alive. Carrie tells Austin it isn’t important now. The only thing that’s important now is saving little Roman. Austin says maybe Mike can help Dr. Choi. Carrie informs Austin that she asked Mike to leave town...telling him that Austin is the only man for her, and if she can't be with Austin, then she'd rather be alone.
• Eric comforts Roman over his devastation in regard to Sami. Eric is taken aback to see Roman break down into tears as he stares at his grandson, fighting for his life.
• Shawn and Philip begin to rough each other up. Shawn tells Philip that he isn’t even Claire’s father so why should he have any rights to raise her! Philip claims he is the only father Claire knew for the first year of her life and that she wants her back!
• Rae tells Austin, Carrie, and Simone the baby survived the surgery, and now, they just need to wait and see if the surgery took to his body. Austin and Carrie remain vigil at the baby’s side as they watch his little body hooked up to all of these tubes. Carrie and Austin break down in each other’s arms as they look on at their baby boy, fighting to save his life.
• Meanwhile…..The Fury sits in a dark, desolated, warehouse. Classical music plays faintly. The Fury places something into a big box on the desk. The box sits among other boxes on the desk. The Fury puts a label sticker on each box to address it. The Fury laughs maniacally. *FREEZE FRAME*

TOMORROW ON DAYS:

A vital character departs from Salem! Readers can expect a big press release tomorrow, detailing why the star was let go!