Episode #188

• John laughs, pessimistically. He throws the picture back at Aidan, saying he was a pawn of Stefano’s too, and he is not falling for this. Aidan asks who Stefano is and why John keeps bringing him up. Marlena cries. She asks Aidan to go on…tell them more.
• Jeremy urges Georgia to get some revenge on Hope. Georgia flashes back to her “father” telling Georgia she needs to start standing up to Hope. Georgia is so confused by her “father’s” comments.
• Jenna asks Mike out on a date, but he turns her down, realizing she is trouble.
• Aidan explains he has had that photo his whole life and always looked at it. He says by the time he got to the age to understand being an orphan and wanting to know his parents, all of the nuns who worked there at the time Aidan arrived had passed away. Aidan always assumed he would never see his mother ever…until he saw a woman on the streets of Spain last week who had a striking resemblance to the woman in the picture he’s been looking at his whole life.
• Mike has an emotional night when he loses one of his patients.
• Aidan tells John and Marlena it took him some time to track them down to Salem, but he had to land a job at their hotel in Spain in order to break into the computer files and find out who they were and where they came from. John calls Aidan resourceful…Aidan says he must get it from John…from what he hears.
• Mike heads to the Cheatin’ Heart to take his mind off of what happened with his patient. Jenna arrives, and Mike is blown away by her straight forwardness.
• John and Marlena are unsure what to do with this news. Aidan says he doesn’t expect anything from John or Marlena. John and Marlena try to think this through in their head…they wonder if Marlena could have been pregnant when Stefano lifted her from Salem. John and Marlena recall how they thought John was Roman then. Marlena and John realize if Marlena truly is Aidan’s mother…there IS a chance someone else…someone she met after she went missing could be the father. Marlena tells John she could never cheat on him, but John says she may not have known what she was doing.
• Marlena deduces that if she was so distraught and devastated to leave Aidan at the orphanage and if she knew enough to leave baby Aidan with a picture of her and John then she MUST not have had amnesia then…she must have known exactly what was happening.
• John informs Aidan that they’ll have to get some kind of tests done to corroborate Aidan’s story. Aidan agrees. He says he wants proof as to whether or not he has met his parents or not.
• John catches Aidan staring at him. John asks him what he is looking at. Aidan explains that he has been looking at this picture for a long, long time…imagining this man…John…to be his father. He says he always wondered if he was like his father or his mother…but he says everyone who ever saw the picture explained that Aidan took after his father in the looks department. Marlena agrees there is a strong resemblance between Aidan and John. Marlena tries to take this all in. She calls Kayla and asks if she can do some emergency tests for her. She says she’ll explain when she sees her. Marlena turns quickly to see Aidan staring a her…very suspiciously…looking at Marlena…with one eyebrow raised. Marlena smiles to herself at the very familiar mannerism.
• Meanwhile, at the Dimera Mansion, Stefano looks at Nicole who sleeps soundly on the sofa…and Peter who has fallen asleep due to exhaustion not far from Nicole. He smiles to himself. It is a smile of comfort. He signals his glass to his children. He drinks. Then sits down at the table where a game of chess is in the process of being played. Stefano moves his black pawn and knocks out the white queen. He laughs to himself.