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Episode #79 - Thursday March 30th: - The future leaks bleak for the Carvers as Abe throws all of Lexie's things out...right after he does the same to her! - Phillip manages to break into Jan's parent's house, looking for clues. - Bonnie recalls her plan to make Maggie think she's drinking. - Celeste goes to the cemetary. She is shocked to see that the Grim Reaper is there, in the form of a homeless man. - Jennifer tells Jack that she doesn't want to see him until he's ready to tell her the secret. - Kate learns that she is the main suspect for the murder of Tony. - Bonnie taunts Kate. Kate slaps Bonnie. - Celeste faces the Grim Reaper in the Salem cemetary. - The Grim Reaper asks Celeste how far she is willing to go to save the life of someone in Salem. - Roman, Abe, and Jack are sent a mysterious package from Tony's killer. - Mickey tells Maggie that he doesn't believe that she hasn't been drinking again. He says the evidence is too overwhelming. Maggie realizes that she doesn't even know if she's been drinking...since she blacked out. - Lexie and Jen walk into Abe's office as Abe, Jack, and Roman open the mysterious package. - While alone, Carrie clutches her stomach in pain. - Phillip thinks he's found paydirt on Jan. - Kate and Bonnie get into a catfight on the roof of Shawn's building and teeter very close to the edge. - Thinking she's lost Mickey forever, Maggie gets drunk and gets behind the wheel of a car. NEXT ON DAYS: A tragic accident will mean the end of someone's time in Salem....

Episode #78 - Wednesday March 29th: - Jan continutes to work herself into the Horton foundation. - Sami realizes Carrie has a secret she's keeping from Austin. - Roman and Abe and Jack decide to target Kate in the murder of Tony. - Bonnie relishes in the fact that her plans for both Maggie and Kate have worked. - Abby, Max, and Cassie arrive in NYC and meet up with Lucas, Austin, Carrie, and Sami. - The feelings between Max and Abby intensify. - Maggie, Jack, and Lexie move in together. - Phillip is sure that Jan is still up to no good. - Roman, Abe, and Jack decide to set a trap for the killer. - Caroline continues to remain vigil at Shawn Sr.'s side. - Celeste sets out to try and stop the Grim Reaper from killing someone in Salem.

Episode #77 - Tuesday, March 28th: - Abby gets permission from Abe and Roman to leave town. - Celeste fears that someone's life will end by dusk. - Roman and Abe don't rule out Abby from their list of suspects but give her permission to leave town. - Kate tries to use her feminine wiles and her past relationship with Roman to deflect attention from her as a murder suspect. - Carrie, Austin, Sami, and Lucas hire a private investigator to help them with their plight to find Will. - Jack, Maggie, and Lexie grow further and further from Jennifer, Mickey, and Abe, who continue to shut them out of each other's lives. - Neither Belle, Shawn, nor Phillip can believe their eyes when they see Jan volunteering with Alice! - Bonnie pays one of her bartenders to lie to Abe and tells him that he saw Kate the on New Year's Eve after midnight and she was rattled and jumpy. - Maggie, Jack, and Lexie decide to stop paying the Salem Inn, pool their funds, and get an apartment together. - Abe and Roman decide to target Kate when they compare notes on the bartender's statement and how manipulative she was trying to be - which Roman saw right through. - Belle is disgusted and heartbroken when Alice tells her how much she has been bonding with Jan. - Maggie, Jack, and Lexie go apartment hunting. - Roman tells Abe that he always thought Kate had a weird connection to the Dimeras that he could never place his finger on. - Alice names Jan volunteer co-ordinator of the Horton Foundation. - Abby, Max, and Cassie board a plane that is NYC-bound. Abby continues to give Max the cold shoulder, while Cassie puts on a show for Abby. - Celeste gets a vision that the Grim Reaper has just arrived in Salem and will not be leaving until it claims a life.

Episode #76 - Monday, March 27th: - Belle moves into her parents' loft. - Shawn and Jan grow closer than ever. - Phillip plots to prove Shawn and Jan unfit and take Claire from them. - Shawn and Jan bond with baby Trey and baby Claire. - Austin, Carrie, Sami, Lucas, and Anna arrive in New York City, looking for Will. - Abby is bothered when she hears of Will's running away and tells her mother that she wants to help look for her younger cousin. - Austin and Sami wonder what Carrie is hiding. - Anna encourages Carrie to tell Austin that she's pregnant. - Caroline informs Cassie and Max about Will running away. - Jennifer and Abby arrive at the Pub and tell Caroline, Max, and Cassie that they are going to join Austin and Lucas in looking for Will since he is family, and since it will give them a chance to get away from all of the drama with Jack. - Max decides that he should help Abby. Secretly, he wants to protect her in case whoever tried to shoot her at the Valentine's Day dance tries to do it again. But he genuinely wants to find his neice's (Sami) son. - Cassie also invites herself saying that Sami is her half-sister and Lucas is her half-brother, and she, too, deserves to help look! - Jennifer backs out of the hunt, asking Max to protect Abby. Max agrees. Cassie's jealousy is sparked. - Phillip believes he's found a way to prove Shawn and Jan unfit. - Celeste predicts that someone in Salem will die by day's end!

Chris Gerse Out of DAYS! Chris Gerse has had his final airdate in the role of Will Roberts. Gerse was last seen in a scene this week with Sami during which he explained why he has downward spiraled into a life of drugs and alcohol and why he has run away. There are big rumors that the show wants to cast a name actor for a recast come summertime for a hot, new summer storyline.

Episode #75 - Friday, March 24: - Shawn, Trey, Claire, and Jan settle in at the loft. - Anna and Lucas try to figure out how to expose Sami. Lucas feels bad about deceiving Sami, but Anna urges him to do so. - Kate and Bonnie discuss how they tried to keep Belle and Shawn apart by keeping the paternity of Claire a secret, but it turns into an argument. - Jennifer informs a heartbroken Abby that she has asked her father to move out. - Cassie and Max steam up the bedroom...again. - Carrie comes close to telling Austin that she's pregnant with his child. - Jennifer explains to Abby that her father is keeping secrets from them. - Kate and Bonnie accuse each other of killing Tony. - Roman, Abe, and Jack decide to set a trap for Tony's killer. - Lucas, Sami, Carrie, and Austin decide to head to the east coast in order to search for Will. They decide to target big cities and decide on New York City first. - Kate and Bonnie each decide to try and frame the other for the murder of Tony. - Max thinks of Abby while he has sex with Cassie. - Phillip packs Belle's bags and tells her to get out. - Max recalls how he broke Abby's heart because he fears his past has caught up with him and he's responsible for her shooting. - Abby and Jennifer speculate who could have been the person who shot Abby at the Valentine's Day dance. - Kate vows to get revenge on Belle. - Phillip won't rest until Claire is back with him where she belongs. - Belle has no where to turn and ends up in the park alone and crying.

Episode #74 - Thursday, March 23: - Anna goes to Chicago to be with Carrie when she gets an urgent call from her. - Belle awakens and can't believe that Shawn has married Jan. - Phillip is heartbroken over what Belle has just said on the stand. - Will calls Sami! - Victor and Caroline both arrive at Claire's custody trial. - Carrie tells Anna that she is pregnant with Austin's child. - The judge awards custody to Shawn and Jan. - Kate tells Belle that she will get her for hurting her son. - Phillip tells Belle that he wants a divorce. - Caroline pleads with Shawn to tell her that what she's heard isn't true. She says that Shawn could not have married...JAN SPEARS!? - Will tells Sami that he will come home when he is good and ready, and he blames Sami for his running away. He tells her that she's never been able to provide him with a stable home. - Anna discusses how much she hates Sami to Lucas, who tells Anna how much he loves Sami. - Shawn tells Caroline that all of the evil things Jan did were because of a tumor and that his great-grandfather, Tom Horton's, good friend from the hospital has confirmed all of this to be true. He tells her that he has spent time with Jan the last few weeks and does believe she has changed. He also tells her that Jan gave birth to his child while she was in a coma and has the DNA tests to prove it. - Sami pleads with Will to tell them where he is in Chicago so they can meet and work this out. Will tells her that he's not in Chicago, but on the east coast. - Anna and Lucas both figure that Austin will leave Sami when he learns that Sami framed Carrie as the one who blackmailed Nicole into leaving town when it was, in fact, Sami. - Shawn tells his grandmother Caroline that he had Lexie run new DNA tests on Trey and that Trey is without a doubt Shawn's son. He tells her that he had no choice because he overheard Phillip and Kate plotting to tarnish his name in court. He also explains that Mickey said he had no chance winning custody of Claire againts Phillip and Belle. Jan says that she knows Shawn doesn't love her like she wants him to yet, but she thinks he will learn to, in time, as they build their family with Trey and Claire. Caroline is hesitant but gives them her blessing. - Sami and Austin panic when they realize that they are not even close to finding Will. - Lucas and Anna decide to team up and expose Sami in the hopes that Lucas will then be able to have Sami and Carrie and Austin can be together. - Shawn tells Belle that it's sad that it took being pledged under oath for her to realize who she truly loves. He says that he can't forgive her just yet for trying to take custody of Claire away from him. He says that he does intend on raising Claire and Trey with Jan whom he truly feels has changed.

Episode #73, Wednesday March 22: - The custody trial begins and Shawn is no where to be found - and neither is Claire! - Sami and Lucas remain baffled about Will's whereabouts. - The proceedings at the custody trial begin despite Shawn's absence. Kate and Phillip's lawyer slaughters Shawn's name. - Sami recalls how she once ran away, as well. - Mickey tries to fight to save Shawn's reputation. - Carrie continues to keep her pregnancy hidden. Austin refuses to give Carrie the time of day. - Kate and Phillip and Belle's lawyer paints Shawn as an unstable single parent and how the Kiriakis' are better suited for Claire. - Carrie suggests while they are in Chicago they should stop by and all talk to Nicole, but Sami turns Carrie's attempt at getting to the truth into making her look selfish in the eyes of Austin. - Shawn, Jan, Trey, and Claire burst into the courtroom mid-trial. Shawn whispers something to Mickey. - Lucas realizes the only way he can win Sami back is to make Sami look awful in Austin's eyes and break them up forever. - Mickey feels awful, but he follows his the advice of his client, Shawn, and he puts Belle on the stand. Belle admits, under oath, that her marriage to Phillip is not as perfect as it has been painted today. Once Mickey grills her, Belle confesses that she is still in love with Shawn and loves him more than she loves Phillip. Phillip is heartbroken and shocked beyond belief. - Lucas tells Carrie that he needs to know every detail about how she and Sami worked together to rid Austin of Nicole. Lucas tells Carrie that his first priority is finding his son, but he wants to split Austin and Sami up by revealing Sami's lies and how she framed Carrie. - Before the judge can make his decision, Shawn reveals that he and Jan have been MARRIED this morning and can provide Claire with a stable home enviroment with Trey than the Kiriakis' can! Belle faints.

Nothing is bad about Boston, but she's in Chicago looking for him.

Episode #72, Tuesday March 21: - Maggie, Jack, and Lexie all end up at the Salem Inn checking in around the same time. - Mickey and Jennifer comfort each other over the fact that they have kicked Maggie and Jack out of the houses. Meanwhile, Abe arrives looking for Jack to talk about Tony's murder. - Belle decides to tell Phillip that she is still in love with Shawn and always will be...once the trial is over. - Shawn Sr. wakes up! The doctors still declare him in criticial condition. - Carrie, Austin, Sami, and Lucas touch down in Chicago and head straight for the bus station. - Maggie tells Jack and Lexie her story about how she's started drinking again, but how she doesn't remember it - except for accidentally taking a sip of vodka at the Penthouse Grille. - Mickey opens up to Jennifer and Abe about the same. - The foursome are there when Will's bus comes into the station in Chicago, but - The doctors tell Caroline that Shawn Sr. looks like he will be OK in the longrun, but they need to proceed with caution. - Laura contemplates taking the stand in favor of Shawn and telling the courts about the sorry state of Phillip and Belle's marriage, but she realizes that she cannot break doctor/patient confidentality. - Jack opens up to Lexie and Maggie about how he is being forced to keep something from Jennifer and Abby in order to protect them, but how Jennifer has caught on and demands to know. He tells them that Jennifer and Abby's lives depend on him keeping this secret. - Jennifer tells Abe and Mickey about Jack and his secrets. - The countdown to the custody trial heats up and is only minutes away...but Phillip and Belle worry when Shawn nor Claire are no where to be found. - Victor and Caroline come to the conclusion that they are not meant to be together. They theorize that Caroline is meant to be with Shawn, and Victor is meant to be with Kate, but Caroline refuses with the latter. - Lexie tells Jack and Maggie about how she's cheated on Abe once again. She says that her latest indescretion is with Tek. She says that Abe will never forgive her this time. - Abe confesses to Mickey and Jennifer that he and Lexie are now separated becase she cheated on him once again. - Carrie continues to keep her pregnancy a secret, and it worries her when Austin and Sami grow closer than ever, and they share another passionate kiss. Carrie tries once again to get Austin to see that Sami has framed her for blackmailing Nicole out of town, but to no avail. Sami and Lucas fear for their son's life when they realize they truly have no idea where he is. Meanwhile, Will gets off a bus and enters a station. The front of the bus reads...."BOSTON."

Episode #71, Monday March 20: - Caroline tells Victor that she does not agree with his relationship with Kate. - Kate and Phillip meet with their lawyer who has hired a P.I. to dig up dirt on Shawn. He shows them pictures of Shawn crashing through the church on Phillip and Belle's wedding day, documents proving Shawn has driven under the influence of alcohol, and proof of Shawn's addiction to pills from 2003. - Carrie is shocked to discover that she's pregnant with Austin's child. - Victor tells Caroline that he has forgiven Kate for her trying to kill him all of those years ago during the coronation. - Shawn finds the documents that Kate and Phillip have on him. - Carrie resolves to keep this a secret for now in light of Sami and Austin's kiss and Will running away. - Belle has a hot and sexy fantasy about Shawn. - Jennifer confronts Jack and tells him that she knows he is keeping something. And she demands to know what it is. - Mickey informs Shawn that he will most likely lose custody of Claire when all of the things Kate and Phillip have on him hit the fan at the trial. - Belle confides in Laura that she has feelings for Shawn. Laura suggests that maybe Belle think about divorce. Laura says she could keep counseling her and Phillip to try and get their marriage back on track, but it is clear to her that Belle and Shawn are in love and belong together. - Jack refuses to confess to Jennifer. Jennifer says that she can't believe after all that they have been through that him lying to her will be their downfall. Jack says that he isn't hiding anything. Jennifer tells Jack to get out of her house and not to come back until he is ready to face the truth. - On the morning of the custody trial, Shawn says an emotional goodbye to Claire when he fears that he is going to lose her forever. Jan and Trey comfort Shawn. - Carrie rejoins the others in the apartment and brainstorms on how to find Will once they arrive in Chicago. - Caroline rejoins Shawn Sr. at his bedside, and a miracle occurs when Shawn Sr. awakens. - Lexie packs up all of her things and prepares to leave the house. She begs Abe to forgive her, but he refuses. He says that he loves her and he always will, but he demands she leave. They share an emotional goodbye. - Jack and Jennifer share a tearjerking goodbye as his packs his bags and moves out of the house. - Carrie, Lucas, Austin, and Sami board a plane bound for Chicago.

Episode # 70, Friday March 17: - Lexie confesses to having an affair with Tek. Abe is destroyed. - A distraught Sami and Lucas return to the apartment and prepare to fly to Chicago in order to search for Will. - Caroline continues to stay vigil at Shawn Sr.'s side. - Austin comforts Sami, and they share a kiss. - Carrie and Lucas spy the kiss between Sami and Austin and are visibly upset. - At Abe's insistance, Lexie fills him in on the details of her affair with Tek. She admits when it started, how many times it happened, and who knows. She confesses that Celeste knows. - Carrie is a little suprised when, while she is packing, she realizes that it is the first day of Spring already. - Austin and Carrie decide to go to Chicago with Sami and Lucas to find Will. Roman regretfully informs Sami that he can't get any more time off from the force to go with them to the windy city. Sami worries what this means for Anna and Roman, fearing they'll get back together if she's not in Salem to supervise. - Victor joins Caroline at the hospital and comforts her at Shawn's bedside. - Carrie stares at the calendar and is baffled by something. She quickly leaves the apartment and tells the others she has to run to the store to get items for the trip. - Abe says that he has suspected the affair for a long time so he is not surprised. Lexie is rattled by that statement. - Victor tells Caroline that he believes he and Kate are getting back together. Caroline is visibly shaken. - Abe informs Lexie that he wants her out of the house and away from Theo. She refuses. And he says that things can be easy or hard - Carrie returns to the apartment and immediately sneaks off to the bathroom. The others come up with a game plan for finding Will once they get to Chicago. Meanwhile, in the bathroom, Carrie stares at her watch. She waits and waits and finally she picks up a pregnancy test stick from the sink. She focuses on it...."Oh My God....This can't be!"....she exclaims.

As of right now, yeah, it's Gerse, but I think I am going to re-cast when I bring Will back. Just for my own state of mind!

Episode # 69, Thursday March 16: - Shawn and Jan return to the loft with Claire and Trey. - Roman and Anna stop their passionate kiss in order to help Sami, Austin, Carrie, and Lucas search for Will at the bus station. - Abe returns to the Carver house and awaits Lexie's return. - Belle is bothered to see Shawn warming up to the new Jan and to see Jan raising her daughter, Claire. - Sami is horrified when Roman learns from one of the ticket booth attendants that a young man fitting Will's description purchased a ticket for a bus bound for Chicago. - Phillip and Kate scheme to paint Shawn as a bad seed to the judge in order to tarnish his name in court so Phillip and Belle can win custody of Claire. - Lexie comes from the hospital and comes face to face with Abe, who has tears rolling down his face. Lexie assumes something happened to Theo and grows upset, but Abe grabs her and tells her he knows. Lexie is appaulled. - Roman commands the bus to Chicago to stop at the nearest station and make sure no one exits the bus. - Belle worries that she has once again fallen for Shawn. - Abe and Lexie argue back and forth. Abe tells her he knows about Tek. Lexie denies it. Abe angrily tells her to stop lying. He picks up the decanter and throws it against the wall. Lexie tells Abe that he's lost his mind and that she's taking Theo out of the house and away from him. Abe stops her and takes out the picture that was anonymously sent to him of her and Tek kissing. Lexie is speechless as she realizes that she is now busted. - Sami and Lucas become even more upset when Roman learns that there are no kids on the bus to Chicago, and even more puzzled, when Roman presents them with a surveillance tape showing that Will did indeed board the bus to Chicago. Sami, Roman, Lucas, Anna, Carrie, and Austin are destroyed when the police officers in Chicago say that they may never find Will if he doesn't want to be found.

"Passions" Star Joins "DAYS!" In an exciting turn of events, Kim Johnston Ulrich will be bringing her "Passions" character, Ivy Winthrop, to King Reilly's Days Of Our Lives this spring! The former Mrs. Crane will be sweeping through Salem and will be shaking up some storylines. The headwriter says..."I've been watching 'Passions' since day one and am a huge fan of Ivy and her portrayer. All of this really started when I began to conceive an idea of having a character come on who is tied to a few of our characters' shady pasts....since many of our characters right now have big secrets. The type of character I wanted was someone like Ivy...sophisticated, likable, but deliciously bad, and actress who can bring depth to the role and make even a short stint sweet. And there have been talks of doing an NBC soap crossover for a while now, and it all finally came together perfectly. [DAYS and PSNS] just thought 'Why not! Let's give it a shot!' This instance will work because you won't have to be a Passions viewer to understand her role on DAYS. It's really just going to be a nice treat for those who watch both shows." Winthrop is currently slated to do a six week stint beginning Friday, April 14 (which is also pegged to be the day Tony's murderess is revealed.) "She's going to be in Salem from mid-April through May Sweeps. Ivy is a complex character because she is a very rootable character but can also be a cold-hearted bitch, as well. We have seen her be a villainess in the past ,and recently, in order to protect her son, Fox. Unfortunately for Salemites, she is going to be that bitchy villainess during her time there. She's going to be interacting with alot of the cast. She's going to be a sounding board to some and just a nice, loving stranger to some. But she will most heavily be interacting with Kate, Max, and Celeste. Each of them have really big secrets. Ivy is going to shed some light on all three of them. It's going to be neat to show how Ivy knows each of these three. We've stayed true to their pasts and her pasts yet we've showed how she has intertwined with each of them. She's going to have a huge bone to pick with one of them. She's going to have a soft spot for one. But all three will regret the day Ivy came to town."

Episode #68, Wednesday March 15: - Lexie examines Jan and confirms her doctor's diagnosis that the brain tumor was causing Jan to act in the way she did. - Victor continues to try and figure out if Tony had anything on Kate since he thinks Kate had more of a motive than Chelsea's death. - Lucas and Sami panic and begin a hunt for Will. - Victor and Kate share a kiss. - Cassie puts the picture of Lexie in an envelope and places it on Abe's desk. - Carrie and Austin bump into each other on the street. They put their feuding aside when they see Will board a local bus marked for the bus station. - Lexie shows Shawn Jan's scars where she had her brain surgery to have the tumor removed. - Victor has champagne and a romantic dinner sent down to the boardroom from the Penthouse Grille. - Abe opens the envelope. - Austin and Carrie return to the apartment building and ask Lucas and Sami why Will is going to the bus station. Sami freaks out on Carrie, saying she should have stopped him! Austin says it's both of their faults and demands to know what is going on. Sami says that Will must be running away! Carrie and Austin both say they didn't think anything of it, saying they thought Will was going to go meet a friend or perhaps it really wasn't Will, afterall. - Roman and Anna go for a walk through the park and catch each other up on their lives. - Lexie runs DNA tests on Shawn Brady III (Trey). - Roman and Anna share a hot kiss but are interupted by Sami's frantic call begging Roman to meet them at the bus station. - Kate and Victor share a romantic dinner. Later, their kiss turns to passion, and they have sex! - Abe is devastated but not surprised when he sees the picture of Lexie and Tek kissing. His suspicions are now confirmed! - Lexie announces that Trey is indeed the child of Shawn and Jan!

Episode #67, Tuesday, March 14: - Kate recalls going to Tony's hospital room that night intent on killing him. - Jan tells Shawn that she and Trey have no where else to go. Shawn invites them to stay with him, but he warns Jan that he WILL have his own DNA tests done on Trey. And he wants Lexie to examine Jan to confirm what the doctor said. Jan agrees to be fully cooperative. - Maggie refuses to accept Mickey's separation. - Lucas and Sami scold Will for the alcohol and the drugs he has in his room. - Bonnie remembers leaning over Tony's hospital bed and his begging her for her forgiveness and begging her to spare him. - Cassie recalls Stefano's plans for Salem, including the destruction of all Brady's and the Carvers' marriage. - Phillip and Belle remain suspicious of Jan. They refuse to let Claire stay with Shawn and Jan and Trey. Shawn tells them to back off or he'll have them arrested for breaking the court's orders. - Will lashes out at his parents and blames them and their pasts for his being so messed up. He cites Sami's many lovers, his having two fathers, Lucas not being there for a huge portion of his life, Sami's being a murder suspect for as many times as she was, all of his relatives being killed and coming back, and the list goes on and on. But it reaches a climax when he calls Sami a whore. Sami slaps Will. - Mickey tells Maggie that she has no choice. He informs Maggie that he is moving in with Alice. - Abby flashes back to being in Tony's hospital room as he slept. She grabbed his machine's plug and then snaps out of her flashback. - When Cassie cannot get a hold of Stefano, she makes an executive decision to show Abe the photo of Tek and Lexie kissing. - Phillip and Belle retreat to their loft. Kate arrives and is shocked (and pleasantly surprised) by Jan's arrival and her having Shawn's child. Kate pulls Jan aside and hints that she is supportive of scheming to keep Belle and Shawn apart. Kate tries to proposition Jan into teaming up with her, but Jan will not have it. - Lucas pulls Sami away from Will, and he scolds them both! Lucas separates them and tells Sami that he understands what she did, but doesn't agree with it. He says Will is out of hand, and they need to get him help. Sami is devastated over Will's words. - Kate tells Phillip in the hallway that she thinks Jan has changed since she didn't take Kate up on her offer to keep Shawn and Belle apart. Phillip is outraged, but Kate says she didn't think she had anything to lose since Phillip isn't talking to her right now, anyway. - Cassie prints out the photo of Lexie's indescretion. - Lucas and Sami get caught up in the moment of his comforting her and share a passionate kiss. - Maggie is devastated over Mickey as Mickey opens up to Alice about what happened. - Lucas and Sami check in on Will to find that he is GONE! And so are the drugs and alcohol! - Shawn accidentally eavesdrops on Phillip and Kate. Phillip tells Kate that he will forgive her for keeping Claire's paternity a secret if she helps him and Belle win back custody of Claire. Kate agrees to do whatever necessary to do so, including tarnishing the blessed name of Shawn and the rest of the Brady's. Shawn is worried that he is going to lose Claire! Shawn vows to do whatever possible to keep Claire.

It's Curtains For Someone in Salem! DON'T MISS FRIDAY, MARCH 31st: It's the end of the line for someone in Salem as a core family member currently in a front-burner storyline will be written off in a shocking way. "Somewhere along the way, the writing for this character went terribly south. So, it really is a win-win situation. The twist is going to propel the storyline in an entirely new direction, and the fans will be getting what they want since this character isn't exactly a fan favorite right now. But there is nothing but respect and admiration for the actor or actress who plays the character."...says a source in the writing department. "It's definitely going to be a big shock to the audience. I don't think they'll predict this. When it's done, viewers might say they saw it coming, but they way it plays out...well, it should be a big shock when it happens." WHODUNIT!?!?! DON'T MISS FRIDAY, APRIL 14th: Tony's Murderess is finally revealed to the audience! "It's going to be very exciting. Abe, Jack, and Roman are going to set a trap for the killer to draw her out. We've been saying it all along, but the killer is one of the suspects that we've laid out for viewers from the beginning."...says the source. "YES, Tony really is dead! YES, it is either Abby, Bonnie, or Kate! And YES, the killer will pay for her crimes come May Sweeps when all is revealed. I don't think the fans will positively know who it is until the last five seconds of the episode that Friday. Up until that point, things really could go any way. Each suspect will genuinely have a 1/3 chance of being the killer. DAYS is really not taking the easy way out of this. All three characters are in the middle of hot front-burner storylines. We're going to lose a fascinating and a great character, and an even more phenomenal actress in May when all of this goes down!" PREGNANT PAUSE! DON'T MISS FRIDAY, MARCH 17: Baby for one Salem Lady! "Now, this story is really going to be interesting because it involves characters that have a deep and rich history. And this will only compound it. Not to mention, there is something else very big going on in their lives. And it's going to put the momma-to-be in close proximity with the father. She will try and keep this pregnancy a secret, and it's going to grow more and more difficult. It's going to be a normal pregnancy storyline. No paternity issues, no miscarriages, no delicate pregnancy, no scheming to get pregnant to land a man. And this is a couple that fans really want to see have a child. So, it's an old-fashioned pregnancy storyline. We haven't told one of those in years. Now, there will be a twist at the end of the story, but that is months off."

Episode #66 - Monday, March 13: - Mickey adds up the clues and believes that Maggie has been drinking again. - Kate and Bonnie run into each other at the police station where Abe has gathered them to interrogate each of them on Tony's murder. They discuss how they teamed up to keep Shawn and Belle from finding out about Claire's paternity. They each say their child hates them now and isn't talking to them. - Shawn and Phillip both rush to Belle's side after she faints. They speculate as to why she fainted as Jan stands with the baby in her arms. - Tek and Lexie run into each other at Salem Place. She tells him to stay away from her. She says that she'll never forgive him for sleeping with her mother. Tek says it was a mistake and that he was just drunk and it was a mistake. Lexie doesn't care. She says that she thought his feelings for her were real. Tek declares that they were. He grabs Lexie, pulls her into an alleyway of Salem Place, and kisses her. - Carrie continues to try and get Austin to listen to her. She says if he doesn't give her one chance, then she's through trying. He tells her to get out of his life. Sami is still shocked that Nicole vouched for her and said Carrie was responsible for blackmailing her into leaving town. - Mickey tells Maggie how disappointed he is in her. - Unfortunately for Lexie, someone is watching her and Tek kiss in the alley. - Abe interrogates Kate, and her mysteriousness and ambiguity in answering questions makes him even more suspicous of her. Kate finally reveals that she has no alibi. - Belle awakens and is shocked when they ask her why she fainted. She tells them that she fainted because Jan claims to have Shawn's baby! Phillip and Shawn are shocked since neither one of them really added up what was going on. - Austin tells Sami that Nicole is petrified of Salem and Carrie. He says he tried in vain to get her to return with him, but she wouldn't. Austin tells Sami that Nicole will most likely never return to Salem and that Nicole wouldn't tell him what Carrie had on her. They're interupted by a call from Will's favorite teacher. The teacher tells Sami that she needs to come in for a conference. - Maggie cannot believe what she's done. She concludes that she must have started drinking and then blacked it all out. She blames the incident at the Penthouse Grill when she accidentally took a sip of vodka, thinking it was her water. She begs Mickey for his forgiveness and his support, saying she can beat this addiction once again. - Bonnie uses humor to evade Abe's questions. But once Abe counters her dodginess, she also confesses that she has no alibi. - Shawn says this can't be. He says that he and Jan were safe every time. Jan reveals that the baby is indeed his. She looks to the doctor again to provide DNA tests that compare the baby's DNA to Shawn's. Shawn is floored. Jan hands him the baby and introduces him as Trey...otherwise known as Shawn Brady III. - Someone takes a picture of Lexie and Tek kissing on his/her camera phone. The person turns....it's CASSIE! - Sami and Lucas meet with Will's teacher who tells them both that she is concerned about Will because he has recently fallen into a very bad crowd. She says the crowd is heavily involved in drinking and marijuana and there are even rumors around the school and among the faculty about sexual activity among the students he is socializing with. Sami and Lucas are shocked! - Mickey tells Maggie that he feels betrayed. He compares her relationship with alcohol to her being unfaithful, since their love wasn't enough to keep her from straying. - Abe is sure that either Kate or Bonnie has murdered Tony and begins to remove Abby as a suspect in his mind. He wonders if Kate's only motive to kill Tony was the fact that he killed Georgia/Chelsea in the blast. Meanwhile, Kate recalls standing over Tony's bed and making a reference to the infamous kippers that Stefano left her in his will four years ago when he "died." - Mickey is devastated, but he tells Maggie that he must ask her for a separation. - Sami and Lucas find Will outside of the school, smoking cigarettes. Sami embarrasses Will in front of his friends by putting the cigarette out, screaming at him, grabbing him, and pulling him away from them and into Lucas' car. Once they get home, they search Will's room and are even further shocked to find alcohol and marijuana. - Jan explains that she was pregnant at the time Mimi put her in her coma and that she gave birth while she was in a coma, so her waking up and being a mother was just as much a shock to her when the doctors told her the news, as it is to him right now. Jan tells Shawn that she truly is a good person and that he saw that in her all of those years ago. She blames all of evilness on the brain tumor and asks Shawn to give her another chance to prove herself as a good person. The doctor vouches for all of this. He says that he used to be good friends with Dr. Tom Horton, and he'd never lie to Shawn about this. A tear rolls down Shawn's cheek as he bonds with his son, Trey.

Episode #65: Friday, March 10: - Belle, Shawn, and Phillip cannot believe that Jan cannot stand trial for what she has done to Shawn and Victor. - Mickey is shocked and appaulled to see that Maggie is passed out on the couch, wreaking of vodka. - Abby runs into Max and demands an explanation for his actions. - Kate and Victor continue their celebration of taking over Basic Black. And it leads to a passionate kiss. - Jan asks Shawn for forgiveness saying that she knows she really was out of control and insane, but she has changed now - she swears up and down. - Mickey carries Maggie to the shower and runs the water on her. She awakens. - Max tells Abby that he felt like things were getting very serious between them and its not what he wants right now. He also explains that considering Chelsea was her best friend and his girlfriend that things are still very awkward. He explains that things with Cassie are no strings attached and that is how he likes it. Cassie overhears and is hurt. Max secretly recalls how he thinks Abby's shooting is connected to his past. - Victor and Kate begin to have sex when Abe's call goes to her office answering machine and he says he wants to meet her to question her about Tony's murder. Kate immediately backs off Victor. - Jan says that she'll do anything to prove it to him and Belle that she's changed. - Mickey demands an explanation from Maggie. Maggie asks him what he means, and he explains how he found her. - Bonnie sneaks back into the house while Maggie and Mickey are upstairs to put the final nail in Maggie's coffin. - When Max leaves Abby, Cassie confronts Abby and tells her to back off Max. Abby tells her that she believes Max has stronger feelings for her than he does Cassie. Cassie turns the tables on Abby and asks her about her whereabouts the night Tony was killed. Cassie, still playing along with Stefano's plan to pass her off as a Brady, tells Abby that Tony once raised her and she says that will stop at nothing to find out who killed him. Abby panics. - Victor asks Kate why she is so rattled about Abe's message. Victor asks her if she murdered Tony. Kate tells Victor that she needs to be alone. - Shawn says if Jan turns around, walks out, and leaves them alone forever, then she'll have proved herself and they'll forgive her. - Bonnie exits the Horton's, but she is grabbed by the wrist by a neighborhood security watchguard. She talks her way out of it. His grab reminds her of standing over Tony's bed, wishing him death for killing Patrick, and him waking up and grabbing her wrist. - Maggie explains to Mickey that she accidentally drank out of a glass of vodka at the Penthouse Grille. She says that she came home and the last thing she remembers was drinking her glass of water. Mickey goes down to the living room and smells her glass of water. Unbeknownst to Maggie and Mickey, Bonnie has replaced the water with vodka while they were upstairs. - Victor recalls all of Kate's close calls with being a murder suspect - Curtis Reed, Franco, Sami's execution, the Salem Serial Killings, and the hit she had put out on him! He prays she hasn't done anything foolish to mess up her future...their future...by killing Tony. - Jan tells Shawn that she would leave him behind if she could, but she tells him that she has something to show him....Jan walks out to the hallway and walks back into the loft...with a BABY! Jan introduces the baby as Shawn Brady the Third. Shawn is in shock. Belle faints.

Episode #64 - Thursday, March 9th: - Stefano is shocked to see that his goon has knocked Jennifer unconscious. - Maggie returns home and is in tears when she realizes that alcohol has touched her lips for the first time in over twenty years. - Stefano blackmails Celeste into talking to her old friend, Caroline, about possibly pulling the plug on Shawn Sr. - Belle, Phillip, and Shawn are shocked when Jan presents them with mysterious papers. - Stefano calls Jack and tells him that his wife is at the mansion and to deal with her. Jack returns to the mansion and takes Jennifer back to the house. - Celeste discusses it with Caroline, but Celeste can see the deep love for Shawn Sr. so she backs away from Stefano's request. - Bonnie breaks into Maggie and Mickey's and puts drugs Maggie's water. - Shawn, Belle, and Phillip read on and are shocked when there is MRI and Cat Scan results from her doctor. Shawn reads a diagnosis from Jan's doctor. It explains how Jan was suffering from a tumor which caused her to have temporary insanity. - Celeste senses that someone in town is pregnant. - Jack must lie to Jennifer and tell her that her going to the Dimera Mansion all must have been one, big dream. - Maggie drinks her drugged water and passes out a few moments later. - Belle and Shawn tell Jan that if she thinks this is going to hold up in court and get her out of Victor's murder charges of Shawn's kidnapping charges then she should think again. Jan then reveals her doctor who is waiting in the hallway. He explains everything and says that Jan cannot be held responsible for her actions the year and half before she slipped into her coma. He explains that they found the tumor when she came into the hospital as a coma patient. - Bonnie pours vodka all over Maggie's clothes while she sleeps and trashes the room. She takes Maggie's keys and starts her car and parks it half on the driveway, half on the lawn and leaves the car door open. - Jack arranges for Jennifer's car to be brought back from the Dimera Mansion. - Belle and Shawn recognize Jan's doctor from the hospital. They realize how credible he really is. - Jennifer is more sure now than ever that Jack is keeping something from her. - Stefano leaves strict orders for Celeste, Jack, Cassie, and Tek to carry out separately and decides to retreat to the Maine estate for a few weeks to deal with John and Marlena's imprisonment. - Mickey arrives at his house and is baffled to see Maggie's car parked so hastily. Mickey runs into the house and is shocked by what he sees.

Just one character. And trust me, it's gonna be a good one. And it's just a tentative possibility.

RUMOR MILL: - Rumor has it that the show has taken an enormously risky move and given many vets and fan favorites simultaneous time off in order to feature some other stories more prominently. It looks as if Peter Reckell (Bo), Julie Pinson (Billie), Kristian Alfonso (Hope), Wayne Northrop (Stefano), Diedre Hall (Marlena), Drake Hogestyn (John), Farah Fath (Mimi), and Eric Winter (Rex) have joined Billy Warlock (Frankie) in being given some storyline-dictated vacations. Newcomers, Grant Aleksander (Liam) and Peyton List (Paige), are also rumored to be in the same boat. The show has no comment, but sources say that this has no indication on any of the portrayers' futures with the show, and they will be back and in full effect in a few weeks. "If you'll notice, all of the characters are ones who are positioned somewhere outside of Salem - be it New Orleans, Maine, D.C., or in Europe. The show is choosing to focus on the characters who are in Salem right now."...the source says. "They are all on journies or quests or imprisoned right now so it doesn't make sense to see them everyday. But have no fear, fan favorites will be back on-screen with new twists in their stories in April." - There are big rumors floating around that Paige is the long-lost daughter of a very familiar Salemite. - There will be more cast cutting. The cast still rests at over 35 contracts which is not what the show wants right now. - Don't be surprised if six more characters exit by July - one in early April, four in May, and a supercouple in July. - Rumor has it the show has let-go one of its younger lead actors but wants to keep it hush-hush until the dramatic exit airs in late March or early April. - The show is committed to keeping Ashford (Jack), Rogers (Maggie), Ingle (Mickey), Aniston (Victor), McCay (Caroline) in frontburner storylines. - The show is pulling out all of the stops for May Sweeps. - A supercouple might be exiting come summertime. May Sweeps is going to be a huge month for them. And July might be their last. It is sure to upset some fans. - Tony's killer will be leaving the show in May. It looks as if the time has come for Koslow (Kate), Evans (Bonnie), or Benson (Abby) to leave Days of Our Lives. - A vet has been fired from the show, but it won't be a suprise to the portrayer or the fans. Look for a big exit in May. - Another rumor is swirling that a young stud has been fired from the show, and his character will the show in a dramatic way in May. - Rumor has it that NBC is pushing to get a character from "Passions" to move from Harmony to Salem...permanently!

Episode #63 - Wednesday, March 8th: - Bonnie arranges it so Maggie thinks she is meeting Caroline and Alice for lunch at the Penthouse Grill. - Shawn and Belle scream and Jan and demand that she leave immediately. - Jack and Stefano meet. Stefano orders Jack to tell him what is happening in Tony's murder investigation. - Lucas and Carrie are both disturbed when it looks like Austin and Sami will get back together, eventually. - Bonnie dresses up in a waiter/bartender disguise and locks the real bartender in the janitor's closet. - Jennifer breaks into the Dimera Mansion. One of Stefano's goons sees her on the surveillance camera. - Sami brainstorms to try and come up with a way to get Anna back out of town. - Shawn, Belle, and Phillip temporarily come together to try and force Jan out of the loft and out of their lives - knowing Jan is nothing but a threat to them and will be to baby Claire. - Jack tells Stefano that either Kate or Bonnie killed Tony. He intentionally asks about Abby. Jack is shocked and commands Stefano to tell him if he knows the real killer. Jack asks Stefano if his daughter is the one who killed Tony! - Bonnie sneaks behind the bar and replaces Maggie's water with a glass of straight vodka when she isn't looking. - Anna shocks everyone, including Roman, Carrie, and especially Sami, when she reveals that she has sold her designs to Victor and Titan and will be staying her for some time to work with him. - Stefano confesses that he genuinely does not know who murdered his son, but he hopes for Jack's sake and the sake of his family that it is not Abby. - Bonnie escapes the bar as Maggie takes a sip of the drink and drops the glass in horror. She is shocked and appauled when she realizes that she has broken her sobriety after over twenty years. - Shawn tells Jan he's reconsidered and he wants her to stay....because he's calling Roman and Abe and wants her arrested for his kidnapping and Victor's attempted murder. - Once Jack leaves, Stefano recalls how he has Marlena and John captive at the estate in Maine and how Tek, Celeste, Cassie, and Jack are all working for him, some unwillingly, in his quest to ruin the Brady's. - Stefano's goon sneaks behind Jennifer and knocks her unconcscious. - Sami and Austin finally check their messages and receive word that Basic Black has gone under when they lost numerous accounts and investors to Kate, Victor, and Titan. They try, in vain, to contact John. - Jan tells Shawn to go ahead and call the police. Jan tells Shawn that he CAN'T have her arrested. Confused, Shawn and Belle demand to know what she's talking about. Jan hands over a folder of documents. Shawn and Belle read it over and look up, horrified.