Even without the time slot issue, it's stupid to even think of having a Monday episode like this. It sets the week off in a negative way, even if the episode wasn't that bad. The sad part is they have done this all summer with the exception of a few times and I think it has hurt the shows that follow after it, even if those episodes are really good.

So right, Phoenix... and I do agree. Just playing Devil's Advocate. :-)

Wait a sec!! Stephanie & Max are related??? Are Max & Kayla biological siblings?

I enjoyed the scene between Bo and Shawn except it made me NUTS that Shawn just charged into a crime scene and expected to chat with Daddy about his career plans. First of all, Shawn, if you're going to be a cop, you might want to respect the integrity of a crime scene. Second, being a cop means you can't always stop (what Shawn believed to be) a murder investigation to chat with your son. Those annoyances aside, I liked the bonding in the scene and I thought Bo did a good job in laying out what being a cop is all about. I also loved "We have this crazy habit of talking about our kids."

I really loved the Steve/Kayla scenes at the police station. I loved seeing the swagger back in Steve's step after getting a blow or two back at the Dimeras. And I loved the raw sexual tension between them when he said "I'm a dangerous man, baby. You'll have to feed me." That's the way to sell a scene. I was shocked to see EJ admit to Roman that he "made" Crazy!Steve. I guess he's not even pretending anymore that he wasn't a part of the torture and brainwashing.

ITA with most of the above and was happy to see the preview scene between Steve and EJ was hype and not how it played out. The way it was done wasn't offensive and Steve wasn't running his mouth (which is how the preview made it look). Wonder if the conversation with Steve and Kayla about how real the blood on his shirt looked was forshadowing. Regardless love both of them and always have.

The thought of Shawn joining the Salem PD is actually a bit frightening -- 3 bumbling Brady's on the force. I don't know what to even think of that except to shake my head and laugh. Granted Shawn needs a career and police work does run in the family, but these guys don't do so great as is and tend to mess up the majority of their plans. The whole crime scene situation just highlights how things tend to be done.

Only part that doesn't fit for me is EJ being directly involved in brainwashing Steve - triggering him yes, but not the initial mainly based on the fact a 15 year old is highly unlikely to look like EJ does today. I do think Steve hit it right when he said Stefano was responsible for it, and the more I think about it, it was strange to hear Stefano calling Steve a soldier right in front of Bo and Roman. That combined with EJ's comment to Roman just come off very un-DiMera.

Did Bradbury work with Sheffer before? I really don't like her writing and it seems (to me) that the days she writes are weaker than the others; plus she seems off on many of the characters (the ping pong personality thing).

Wait a sec!! Stephanie & Max are related??? Are Max & Kayla biological siblings?

No, they don't share any blood. Steve and Kayla took street orphans Frankie and Max in when they were younger. (Frankie was a teen-ager. Max was a little kid.) After Steve died, and Kayla left town with newborn Stephanie, Frankie and Max were legally adopted by Shawn and Caroline. (to make a long story short)

No, they don't share any blood. Steve and Kayla took street orphans Frankie and Max in when they were younger. (Frankie was a teen-ager. Max was a little kid.) After Steve died, and Kayla left town with newborn Stephanie, Frankie and Max were legally adopted by Shawn and Caroline. (to make a long story short)

Close. Steve and Kayla never actually took them in as they weren't really a couple yet, although the boys did hide out at Steve's place some. The Frankie/Max story was really the first storyline S&K were given together after he'd been paid to stalk her; it was used as a chance for Kayla to learn more about Steve's past as an abandoned/abused child. S&K found the boys living on the streets and were at odds over how to help them. Kayla wanted to contact social services, Steve wanted to help them without involving the system because he knew they'd be split up. Eventually (after social services got involved and did split the boys up), Kayla talked her parents into being foster parents for the boys but S&K both stayed very close to them, especially Steve. The Bradys adopted them about a year later, I think, before S&K were even married.

Close. Steve and Kayla never actually took them in as they weren't really a couple yet, although the boys did hide out at Steve's place some. The Frankie/Max story was really the first storyline S&K were given together after he'd been paid to stalk her; it was used as a chance for Kayla to learn more about Steve's past as an abandoned/abused child. S&K found the boys living on the streets and were at odds over how to help them. Kayla wanted to contact social services, Steve wanted to help them without involving the system because he knew they'd be split up. Eventually (after social services got involved and did split the boys up), Kayla talked her parents into being foster parents for the boys but S&K both stayed very close to them, especially Steve. The Bradys adopted them about a year later, I think, before S&K were even married.

Ahh... I stand corrected. :-) I was nine when I watched it. Guess it all kind of blurred together.

One thing that really bothered my about the Bo and Shawn talk - Bo was talking about all of the worry Belle would have to go through and compared to how Hope would kiss him good bye in the morning and wonder if he would be coming back, etc. WTH, Hope was (is?) also a cop - even before Bo was. It would have been interesting to have Bo talk in the first person how *he* would have to worry when Hope when off to work.