Days of our lives: 1 – 15 May

1 – 7 May

Melanie is helping Philip get into a body bag in order to sneak him into the morgue when Brady walks in. Brady tells the two of them that he is going to help them and Philip agrees because Melanie can’t do it all on her own if something goes wrong.

Stephanie convinces Owen to untie her and tries to grab Owen’s gun.

Kate arrives back from London to hear the news about Philip and Stephanie. Owen forces Brady and Melanie into the Kiriakis tomb where they can’t get any cell reception. Maggie comforts Mia when she finds her crying.

Philip and Stephanie realize they are in body drawers next to each other. Owen lets Stephanie out and announces they need to leave but Stephanie tries to stall and Owen realizes she is up to something and pulls his gun out. Philip hears the exchange and begins to kick his door open.

Kate catches Daniel and Chloe hugging and wants to tell Lucas but Daniel convinces her not to. Lucas is starting to suspect that people are keeping things from him.

E.J. is released from jail and Nicole informs him of Rafe’s intent to adopt Grace. E.J. becomes angry stating he doesn’t want Johnny to have another surrogate father but Nicole thinks it is jealousy over Sami.

Rafe surprises Sami with all the forms to adopt Grace. After Rafe leaves, Sami makes an appointment for Grace because she is still running a fever but drops everything when she sees Grace has taken a turn for the worse.

Sami dials 911 after noticing that Grace is having a seizure. Sami leaves several messages for Rafe but he has turned his phone off because he started his new job. Rafe gets visits from Arianna, who tries to warn him about adopting Grace.

Lucas continues to warn Will to stay away from Mia but he refuses. Mia overhears and she tells Will that she is moving to Minneapolis. When Maggie arrives, Will asks her if she knows anyone Mia could stay with but Maggie can’t think of anyone.

8 – 15 May

Daniel tells Sami that he needs to do genetic testing to rule out other things that could be wrong with Grace.  E.J. comforts Sami as Nicole looks on.

Nicole attempts to evade Stefano’s announcement that he knows about the baby switch but eventually realizes that it’s no use. Daniel tells Sami that Grace has bacterial meningitis and that things do not look good for her.

Stephanie has trouble sleeping due to the trauma of what she went through with Owen. Will gathers up the family to come to the hospital to support Sami. Sami and Rafe are in the Church’s Chapel when Daniel finds them.

Sami and Rafe talk to Grace about how happy she made them and Grace’s monitor flat lines. Daniel comes in and turns the monitors off and tells the family in the waiting room that Grace has passed.

Rafe consoles Sami when she insists Grace’s death is all her fault because she was so wrapped up in her own drama to notice Grace’s fever. Sami tells Rafe she needs to see Johnny and Allie to tell them about Grace.

Stefano tells Nicole she made the right decision switching Sami and Mia’s Babies.

Sami has a nightmare about Grace and she wakes up. E.J. arrives to check on her and Johnny. Sami ends up telling E.J. that Grace was their child. E.J. is confused and Sami tells him to do the math from the time Grace was born and he realizes that two slept together nine months prior and that Grace is his daughter.

E.J. loses it on Sami after realizing that Sami never would have told him if Grace had not of died.

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