Well, Trey is out like a light.
Yeah, he had a big day.
Much more stressful day than we thought it was going to be.
For us, that is.
Yeah, but at least it had a happy ending.
It's just too bad that we had to cancel the adoption party.
Yeah, well, you know, aside from the fact
that we are both completely emotionally exhausted, I--
I don't think my family would have been
in the mood for a party today with Rachel
being sent back to Bayview.
Yeah.
God, that is just so sad.
Yeah.
I mean, I feel terrible for my Aunt Kristen,
for Brady, for Tate.
I'm just thankful that Trey had absolutely
no clue about all of the things that went sideways today.
Our little angel doesn't have a worry in the world.
No, he does not.
And if it's up to us, he never will.
Hey, stranger.
I think this goes here.
Hey, what's wrong?
You seem upset.
It's my sister.
She has to go back to Bayview.
Hi.
Hi, honey.
How are you?
I'm all right.
I'm concerned about Rachel.
Well, she was in Bayview, and then she was out,
and then she was back in.
That's a lot of change.
Yeah, but it's what's best for her in the long run, right?
Oh, yes, absolutely.
I-- I just feel bad, the trouble everybody's
gone through.
It smells weird in here, like, like overripe bananas.
Honey, I know you don't want to be here.
I get that, but--
Stop talking like it's a done deal.
Mommy's talking to Dr. Gregory right now,
and she's going to get me out of this stupid place again.
Rachel, I know that your mother told you that,
and she will fight for you, as she always does,
but even she understands this is a battle she can't win.
Yes, she can.
What are you doing?
I'm manifesting going home.
Baby, the judge has said that you need to be here
at Bayview a little longer.
If you try to leave, it will be breaking the law.
So I'm a prisoner then?
No, pumpkin, you're not a prisoner.
This is not a punishment, baby.
This is where you need to be to get better.
Well, that's not going to happen.
Not here, because this is a horrible place, Daddy, with
bad food and crazy people.
I hate it here.
It's OK.
I know.
Sophia, I know this wasn't the outcome you were hoping
for, but remember what I told you before we
went through this that the odds of us winning
weren't very high.
Well, maybe they would have been
higher if you hadn't let EJ DiMera ruin any chance
that we had.
You barely even put up a fight.
That is not true.
I did everything that I could, but Mr.
DiMera had a stronger case.
Sure he did.
You know what?
I have an idea.
Why don't we grab a bite before we head back to Bayview?
We can go to Buddy's.
No way.
You're not hungry?
No, I am.
And I will go to Buddy's, sure.
But I'm not going back to Bayview.
announcer: Like sands through the hourglass,
so are the "Days of Our Lives."
Your dinner is served, my love.
That is really sweet, Johnny, but I don't
have much of an appetite.
My stomach's still kind of in knots over what happened today.
I get it.
But listen, you're not just eating for you.
Right?
You're also eating for Quatro.
Who?
Well, look, I know we both agreed
on Trey because it means three in Italian.
- Mm-hmm. - And Spanish too, I think.
Mm.
Anyway, for John III.
But I realized that it also has a double meaning, because he
made us a family of three.
Ah, and Quatro will make us a family of four.
Yes, he will.
Aw, that's actually kind of cute.
- Yeah. - Kind of like you.
Yeah.
And I know that I should just let it go and, you know,
just be grateful that all the drama of today had a happy
ending, but, Johnny, I just, I still
cannot believe that we came this
close to losing Trey again.
I mean, the nerve of Sophia showing up like that.
Look, hey, hey.
Trey is here now with us.
And he is our son, officially and forever.
And there is nothing that Sophia or anyone can
do to take him away from us.
Oh my God.
Rachel has to go back to Bayview?
Is it because of what happened with the pills?
I don't know.
Honestly, I haven't talked to my dad yet,
but I'm guessing if my little sister is capable of giving you
drugs that could hurt you, then yeah, Bayview is
probably where she should be.
I just--
Just what?
Before the trial, I looked at her,
and I told her that I promise everything's gonna be OK,
and I just--
I don't want to be another adult
that just lies to her to make her feel better, you know?
Tate, she's not gonna think that.
You're her big brother, OK?
She absolutely looks up to you.
Yeah, well, using me as a pawn in a plot
to drug my girlfriend, yeah, that's
not really giving me little sis who looks up to me vibes.
I'm just, I'm angry at her, Holly.
I know.
I am too.
But she's just a little girl,
and she's had a really tough year.
Yeah.
No, I know.
I-- I just miss how it used to be.
You know, we-- we--
we used to make each other laugh all the time,
and we bonded over so many things.
Like, I mean, losing our Grandpa John.
She was so broken up over that and so sweet,
and we comforted each other.
Just-- I just want my little sister back.
Mom, none of this is your fault.
Do I really have to remind you that Kristen is the reason
that we're all in this mess?
Had she not taken Rachel out of Bayview,
then you wouldn't be in a position
of having to put her back in.
I mean, honestly, Kristen put both you and me in a very
difficult position, and honestly,
I'm very afraid that I'm--
oh, never mind.
I don't want to make this about me.
What were you saying?
What are you afraid of?
That my career is going to suffer for it.
Did you say you're not--
Not going back to Bayview.
Yes, that's exactly what I said.
My mom only signed me in there because I was basically a mute.
And now that I've suddenly found my voice again and lost
my last chance to stop the adoption, what purpose
would it serve for me to go lie low in that gloomy old
loony bin?
And just to double check, I'm not required to be there, am I?
Because I'm an adult.
No, you're not required to be there.
But, Sophia, I really do think it's
what's best for your recovery.
I'm going to be the judge of what's best for me now, OK?
My whole life, everyone else has been deciding for me
what role I play--
the cautionary tale, the victim, the villain,
the good daughter.
But I'm done letting other people write my stories for me.
And if I don't even get a say over what happens
to my own son, then I at least get a say
over what happens to my life.
Look, baby, I know.
I know you don't like this place.
I don't get it.
I've done everything I'm supposed to.
I've been going to therapy every day.
I've been super nice to Sarah.
And you heard what the therapist said,
that I'm making an effort.
Like, what have I done wrong?
You really don't know?
No.
You want to tell me about the pills that you gave to Holly?
What about them?
What about them, honey?
I know that you haven't been taking your meds, OK?
Yes, I have.
Don't you do that.
Do what?
Don't you do-- don't you lie to me this way.
I'm not lying to you.
Really?
Then why don't you tell me how those pills got into Holly's
skin supplement bottle.
What?
Dad, I had nothing to do with that.
Tate, listen, I'm sure once Rachel's back at Bayview
and she's actually taking her meds,
then I'm sure she's going to get better.
Yeah, I hope so.
Speaking of Rachel's meds, how are you doing?
I'm good.
I'm fine.
I had a physical with Sarah, and she basically
said can't cold turkey off these anti-psychotic meds,
so she's prescribing me a slightly lower dose.
I'll take those for a few more days,
and then the meds should be completely out of my system.
And I shouldn't need to taper off because I just
took the pills once, right?
Right.
God, I'm just so relieved to understand why I've
been acting so weird lately.
Yeah, that it can be fixed by just stopping the meds.
Yeah.
It's just too bad I can't fix the damage to my reputation
or my friendship with Ari.
You know, I never thought that I'd say this,
but I'm really grateful that your father
showed up when he did.
He really came through for us.
Yeah.
Yeah, he sure did.
And look, Chanel, I just, I wanted
to say to you, after everything that my father has done
and knowing how you feel about him, it was--
it was really big of you to thank him.
Well, I was--
I am grateful for everything that he did for us today.
And look, in my eyes, the road to redemption for your father
is a long one.
OK?
But today, he made some headway.
What do you mean your career is going to suffer?
Honey, what did the judge say to you after I left?
Judge Dabney threatened to charge me
with prosecutorial misconduct for the actions
I took to protect Rachel.
What?
How could that be?
Well, I should have recused myself,
but I cared more about my family than my job, obviously.
And what is wrong with that?
Well, it could cost me my career.
Not to mention it almost bit other family members.
You know, when I was representing Johnny and Chanel
in their adoption hearing, Judge Dabney
barely let me get a word in.
Well, I thought the adoption hearing was a formality.
It was, until Sophia Choi and her esteemed attorney,
Melinda Trask, decided to make a surprise appearance.
Look, Sophia, I get it, OK?
It's only natural that you want to reclaim
power over your life.
Exactly.
Ever since I got pregnant, everything that I've done
has been a natural and normal reaction
to the trauma that I've been through
and people trying to have control over my life.
And now all I want to do is just
move on and move on from Tate, move on from my mother,
from all of this.
And I'm going to go someplace else without all the baggage,
and I'm going to go somewhere where I can be myself
and I get to live the life that I'm meant to live.
I want that for you, too, Sophia.
But to get that life, you need help.
So I think that checking yourself out of Bayview today
is a terrible idea.
I'm going to say this to you one more time, sweetheart.
Don't lie to me.
I'm not lying to you, I swear.
Then explain to me--
explain to me why you gave Tate a bottle
of vitamins to give to Holly.
I was just trying to do something nice.
Sweetheart, just because you have medication that works
for you doesn't mean that medication
is going to work for others.
It is not OK to pass off your meds as vitamins.
What?
I wasn't passing them off as--
I really thought they were vitamins.
Rachel, are you telling me that you just out of the blue
thought it would be a fun idea to give Holly a bottle
of vitamins as a gift?
That's a pretty strange gift.
I know, but it wasn't my idea.
Sophia asked me to do it.
Sophia?
Yeah.
She said she wanted to do something nice for Holly,
so I was just trying to be a good friend, that's all.
Holly, it's not your fault that you were being drugged.
I mean, people have to understand that.
Yeah, but will they?
I mean, I doubt anyone's going to believe
my boyfriend's younger sister was drugging me.
Though I don't want to get Rachel in any more trouble,
so maybe we just leave her name out of it.
Great.
Yeah.
We should.
Thank you for being so forgiving of her.
Yeah.
I mean, I care about her, too, and I
just want her to get better.
Yeah.
Even so, I'm just so sorry that she put you through all that.
I don't understand why she would do something like this.
Yeah, I've been wondering that myself.
So Sophia asked you to give those pills to Holly?
Yeah.
And she was all excited about it, too.
She said she wanted to do something nice for her.
OK.
I need to back up.
I need you to tell me everything that
happened from the beginning.
Well, after I came home from Bayview,
Sophia mailed me the supplements
and asked me to give them to Holly,
but she didn't want me to tell anyone that it came from her.
Didn't you think that was a little suspicious, honey?
I mean, kind of, but she just said
it was a random act of kindness,
that she didn't want any thanks for it.
Plus she kept bugging me about it.
How could she bug you about it if you were already at home?
She called me.
She used her phone.
Excuse me?
How did she-- how did she have a phone, Rachel?
I'm sorry, Daddy.
I took money from your wallet, and she
snuck out and bought one.
When you-- when you pretended to be her at bed check, right?
But I swear I have been taking my meds.
I believe you.
But I think that those pills that you gave to Holly
were actually Sophia's.
What?
But that's so, like, gross and messed up.
Why would she want Holly taking her pills?
Sweetheart, it's very common knowledge that Sophia
does not like Holly.
And that medication made Holly act very strange and very
much not like herself, and Sophia
knew that that would happen.
But I thought the medication was supposed
to make you feel better.
Only for people who actually need it.
Oh.
And Holly didn't?
Is she OK?
She's OK now.
Yeah.
Well, listen, I know Nurse Netty is ready for you,
and you have to do your intake meeting--
I don't want to go to intake.
I know you don't want to go, but you have to do it.
Daddy, S'mores was just getting used to me being home.
He didn't understand why I had to say goodbye.
Honey, S'mores is going to be fine.
He's going to miss you.
I'll take care of him.
I will miss you, too.
You're not going to be here for long.
I will make sure I will do everything I possibly
can to make sure that you are here for a very short time,
and we'll get through it together, OK?
OK.
You know I love you, right?
I love you, too.
Honestly, hearing you say that about my dad is--
is a huge relief.
I mean, don't get me wrong, OK.
I have no desire to be close with him ever again.
But I have been thinking, and especially after today,
I feel like it would be nice to have some kind of relationship
with him.
Yeah.
I'm guessing that'd probably be easier for you than shutting
him out completely.
It would, yeah.
But look, Chanel, you are more important to me
than anything, anyone.
So if I'm going to do this, I need to know
that you're OK with it.
So EJ swooped in and saved the day, huh?
Was he wearing a cape or that tiresome three-piece
tweed he's so fond of?
OK, listen, I'm just telling you what happened.
And besides, isn't that a good thing, you know,
that he saved the day, as you put it?
Brady.
Brady, how's Rachel?
She's OK, but you're not going to believe this.
Rachel wasn't the one that gave Holly the meds.
Well, what do you mean?
Of course she was.
No, she physically gave them to her,
but she didn't know that the pills had been switched.
Switched?
Who switched them?
Sophia Choi.
Look, Sophia, I know what happened in that courtroom
was very disappointing, but do you really think now
is the right time to be making such a big decision?
Actually, Melinda, I--
I think that right now is exactly the right time.
I disagree.
We both know that your not being able to talk with just
the tip of the iceberg.
So here's my advice.
Drop the ruse.
Talk to the doctors at Bayview.
Let them help you.
Help me do what?
Stare blankly at a watercolor painting with saliva
dripping down my shirt? - Oh, come on.
Don't be so dramatic.
Dramatic?
Why don't you go spend a few months living in that hellhole
and then report back to me.
OK, OK, say you do go out on your own.
You got to go home, right?
You don't have resources to do otherwise.
So here's my advice.
Go back to Bayview, finish your treatment,
and then take time to figure out what's next.
You are a smart, capable young woman with a bright future
ahead of you.
Don't-- don't run from yourself, Sophia.
Look, like I said before, I never
want to make you feel guilty for having a relationship
with your father, with, of course,
clear and well-established boundaries.
Right, right, of course.
And I guess if having EJ on the periphery of our lives
prevents him from trying to be in the center of it,
then I'm on board.
And those-- those boundaries, I want us
to figure them out together.
OK.
We will do that.
OK.
All right.
And, Johnny, I really appreciate
you being so mindful about how this potential relationship
could affect not just you, but us and our family.
Well, you you're partly to thank
for that, for getting me that book on mindfulness
by, uh, Eckhart?
- Tolle. - Right.
Yes.
Well, anyway, whoever wrote it, it just kind of wakes you
up to the fact that, like, hey, other people exist too,
which has also made me appreciate
you so much for being so understanding.
Yeah.
Well, while I may be understanding,
I'm not sure my mother will be.
Oh.
But you know what?
That's a conversation for another day.
Thank you.
Hey, since your break's are almost over,
you want to talk about something more cheerful?
Yes, absolutely.
I'm all for that.
How was the party for Trey?
Well, not such a cheerful topic
after all, since the party didn't actually happen.
What? Why not?
Wait, were Johnny and Chanel not able to--
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Trey was officially adopted, but I think Johnny and Chanel
were just emotionally drained.
Weird.
I thought they'd be really happy about it.
Yeah.
Uh, they were happy with the eventual outcome,
but Sophia tried to sabotage the adoption again.
Sophia?
You've got to be kidding.
No, unfortunately, I'm not.
Melinda had Sophia furloughed or whatever from Bayview,
and they showed up in court and tried to get the judge
to stop the adoption.
What?
How?
Did she, like, show up with her whiteboard or something?
Oh, no.
She's apparently speaking now.
What?
Since when?
Oh my God.
I don't know, but I'm just, I'm really glad her messed up
little mission was unsuccessful, but yeah,
Johnny and Chanel were really shaken up about it.
Oh wow.
Oh my God.
You know, I honestly thought Sophia was trying to put
all her grudges behind her.
I mean, remember how she invited me back to Bayview
just so she could apologize?
I mean, I was skeptical about her motives, but I don't know,
her apology seemed pretty sincere.
Although now I-- wait a minute.
What?
Tate, you know how all of this
started when my skin supplements fell
out of my purse at Bayview?
Yeah, that's when we figured Rachel must have switched them.
Well, that's the thing.
I dropped them in Sophia's room.
So the pills that Rachel gave Holly were
actually switched by Sophia?
Apparently so. Brady.
Hey.
Rachel is at her intake meeting,
so I thought I would come by, and I actually just wanted
to talk this through with you.
OK, well, I hope you don't mind if your sister is part
of the conversation, considering I'm the district
attorney and I'm just hearing about this,
like, five minutes ago.
Belle, I just found out about it myself.
OK?
Oh.
Well, I think we should be pretty grateful that Judge
Dabney is none the wiser and that, you know, this
didn't affect the hearing.
It did.
I mean, Marlena, you testified that Rachel should
go back to Bayview partly because of this whole pill
fiasco, right?
Yes, that was part of it.
OK, well, turns out this whole thing
was a big misunderstanding, and I, look,
I could kick myself for not asking Rachel about it before,
but the fact is, now that we know what actually happened,
can we undo this?
Can-- can you get my daughter home?
Come on.
It's just one last word before you make it to level--
no, 17.
Chill, OK?
I'm thinking.
I got it.
Jejune.
Jejune?
What does jejune mean?
It means naive, simplistic.
Oh, well, sorry, I apologize for being
a bit jejune during this game.
But to be fair, I'm--
I'm a little tired.
Yeah, well, me too.
You know, I do have to admit that I do love that we get
to spend our evenings together now that Trey
is sleeping through the night.
Well, most of it, anyway.
Were we, uh, were we expecting someone?
No, I don't think so.
I'll see who it is.
Brady, I wish it was that simple,
but Mom's testimony is on the record,
and the judge's verdict has been rendered.
Besides, Judge Dabney didn't even know about the pill swap,
and she still sent Rachel back to Bayview.
You're saying there's no way we can fix this?
I mean, from a legal standpoint,
it would be very difficult to undo what's been done.
I don't think we should.
So your skin supplements, you think you
dropped them in Sophia's room?
I don't think.
I know I did.
Well, look, we know that Rachel
befriended Sophia in Bayview.
You know, Sophia kind of saw Rachel as, like, her life raft.
Yeah, and now that we know Sophia was able to speak,
I doubt she had many nice things to say about me.
In fact, she probably ripped me to shreds.
So do you still think that Rachel did this?
Because Sophia painted me out to be a raving bitch?
I don't know, maybe.
Or maybe they could have done it together.
These are all possibilities.
Yeah.
But Tate, the more I think about it,
I get the sense Sophia must have been involved.
I mean, she's the one who asked me to come back to Bayview.
She-- she's the one who knocked over my purse.
Oh my God.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
She knocked over your purse?
Yes, and she made it look like an accident,
helped me pick up everything, but what
if she did it on purpose?
Tate, I don't think it was an accident.
Oh, hey, Tate.
Holly.
What do you-- what do you mean?
I thought that believing that Rachel was involved
in that pill swap, I thought that was the reason
you testified the way you did.
That was part of the reason.
But even if I hadn't believed it,
I still would have testified the same way.
Brady, I think that Rachel can benefit by more time
spent in treatment at Bayview.
Look, she is a bright, brave, resilient little girl,
and she is hurting.
You're right.
It's just hard as her father to--
it's painful for me.
I know she needs the therapy.
I told her that very thing earlier.
Brady, she will get through this,
and we're all going to help her.
I know.
As far as Sophia is concerned, as angry as I am with her
about using my daughter the way she did, I understand that she
is a broken and troubled girl herself, and I do pray
she gets the help she needs.
What are you doing here?
I'm sorry to show up unannounced.
Um--
I just wanted to apologize for what happened in court.
I wanted nothing to do with it, but my client,
she was calling the shots.
You don't get to pick your clients anymore?
Of course I do, but I--
OK, so is that it?
You knock on our door, wake up our baby just to say, my bad.
You're sorry for being Sophia's lawyer.
No, actually.
I'm here to warn you.
Sophia signed herself out of Bayview.
What?
How?
Well, she wasn't committed by the courts.
Her mother signed her into Bayview when she
was in a near-catatonic state.
And she's of age now, and now she can communicate,
so she can't be forced to stay there.
All right, but I mean, there's nothing Sophia can do,
right, about Trey anymore?
I mean, she can't--
Take Trey away from you?
No, Trey is yours legally.
OK, but still, Sophia loses to us in court,
checks herself out of Bayview the same day.
Johnny, I don't like this.
In fact, it scares the hell out of me.