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00:00I love you, I love you, I love you
00:30Hey.
00:53Sean, I thought you got home for the night.
00:56What, leave my boss all by herself to figure out who tried to rid the world of E.J. DiMera?
01:01Come on. No, not a chance.
01:03You're all hurt.
01:10I see you put Ava right there at the top.
01:12Mm-hmm. Any love tracking her down?
01:15No, she's in the wind.
01:17But the good news is, we've got plenty about the suspects to investigate right here in Salem.
01:26Hey, roomie.
01:31What the hell's this?
01:34Where did you find that?
01:36Well, I was looking for my phone, and I found this tablet under a hoodie, which I assume is yours?
01:43Uh, yeah. Yeah, that's definitely my hoodie.
01:49And, um, it's just some notes for a story I'm working on.
01:54A story, huh?
01:56Because it looks like a list of suspects in E.J.'s shooting, and both my name and my sister's name are on it.
02:04You wanted to see me, Primo?
02:17Damn right I did.
02:19What the hell is this?
02:22It's Gabby Sheik's Q3 sales projections.
02:26You asked me to prepare this for your meeting with Sandra and Philip tomorrow.
02:29I'm well aware of what I asked you to do, but why does it look like it was written by your third grader?
02:34It's riddled with typos.
02:36It is?
02:38I-I apologize. I-I thought I had a spell check.
02:42Just fix it, okay? Now.
02:45Okay.
02:48Gabby, I'm-I'm sorry.
02:51But are you really this mad over a couple of spelling errors, or is something else bothering you?
02:59Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
03:14Come in.
03:34Hi.
03:35Tate.
03:36Your mom said it was okay to come up, I just wanted to check on you.
03:48What are you feeling?
03:50How do you think?
03:52The way I see it, my life is pretty much over.
03:56Look, I'm sorry.
04:03I'm sorry for snapping at you.
04:04I-I just have a lot in my mind today.
04:06No worries.
04:07With Titan taking over Demira,
04:10how'd you freak out?
04:11Gabby Sheik's your baby.
04:15I'm not just worried about Gabby Sheik.
04:17I'm worried about myself.
04:21My freedom.
04:23Knowing that both my boyfriend and yours are trying to tie me to EJ's shooting.
04:34What are you up to, Leo?
04:36I'm not up to anything.
04:37I'm only doing my job.
04:38Your job?
04:39What is your job, hmm?
04:42Gossip columnist?
04:44So brighter?
04:45Are we maybe...
04:46It's home-wrecking grifter?
04:50Wow.
04:51Okay, that was like...
04:53Extremely aggro and super unpleasant to hear,
04:56so I will respond in a way that is very earnest and even keeled.
05:01I am none of those things any longer.
05:04I am now a journalist for The Spectator on a mission to find out which Rapscallion shot Elvis
05:08Aaron Demira.
05:11Well, word of warning, Leo.
05:14You can feel free to investigate me.
05:18But you stay the hell away from Gabby,
05:20because she has been to prison not only once,
05:22but twice for crimes that she did not commit.
05:27So I will be damned if I am going to sit back
05:30and let her be railroaded a third time
05:33by some two-bit hack who has been given
05:37carte blanche to spread libelous garbage.
05:42If my sympathetic nervous system wasn't so activated right now,
05:45I might compliment you on your scathing verbiage.
05:48But unfortunately, I am in the fight-or-flight response.
05:51Oh, yeah?
05:54Well, then I will leave you with this.
05:56If I hear that you have been rifling through my sister's belongings again,
06:01you will be in flight.
06:03From our house and from our lives.
06:05I have to say, it's pretty damning
06:10that even J.J. considers Gabby a suspect.
06:14Yeah, well, I mean, she's fiercely protective of her brother.
06:17I mean, I can only imagine how she felt
06:18when she found out that E.J. had him replaced
06:20with that two-bit look-alike Finnegar.
06:23But again...
06:24I know exactly how she felt.
06:27Yeah.
06:28Yeah, I guess you would.
06:29Is there something you want to ask me, detective?
06:47And while we're on the subject of your ridiculous boyfriend,
06:50I can't believe that you defended him
06:52after I caught him rifling through my purse.
06:54Look, I'm sorry about that.
06:56I know that Leo could be a bit extra.
06:59A bit extra.
07:02Look, it's a good thing you're not a lawyer
07:04because I don't think a judge would be impressed by you saying,
07:07oh, I'm sorry, my client's just a bit extra.
07:11And in case it's not clear to you,
07:14the man that you supposedly love
07:16is trying to pin me to the E.J. shooting
07:18just so he could write about it in The Damn Spectator.
07:20Gabby,
07:21please do not let Leo get to you or J.J.
07:25for that matter,
07:26because we both know
07:27that you did not shoot E.J. DeMiro.
07:33I need to take a break.
07:38I'm going to go get something to eat.
07:39Uh, you get started on turning the sales report
07:43into a power point.
07:46Will do.
07:47Here, just take your time, okay?
07:49Okay.
07:49It's open.
08:07Surprise!
08:14It's open.
08:15Surprise!
08:17hey it's me i just wanted to make sure you weren't sleeping on the park bench another night
08:28uh give me a call back okay
08:31all right doug here's the application uh fill it out and uh then we can take it from there
08:44thanks mr brady so you you want like uh just you know past experiences any jobs you might have had
08:54um what it costs you if you put down the yankees or your favorite team
09:00probably not gonna go well for it got it no yankees
09:06something wrong it's the um the address part i don't exactly have one at the moment
09:18well um where are you living well i'm staying at the homeless shelter downtown okay i see
09:28look i understand if that means you don't want to hire me so i'll just uh sit down son
09:36sit down
09:38look first of all there's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of staying at the shelter there are a lot
09:48of folks out there starting to keep a roof over their head i know i just uh
09:53yeah it's just let me finish okay first secondly brady pub is not just advertising for a new server
10:06brady pub has room for that
10:12sorry i know it has to be rough finding out you have to spend the rest of your senior year you know
10:19taking it easy well i have to do more than just take it easy i have to be on a moderate bed rest
10:32i just
10:35i'm just so frustrated like we were this close to the adoption and now
10:40do you know what my mom said to me she said that johnny backing out of the adoption was a sign from god
10:51tate i just i just want to make one single decision about my own life
11:00hey maybe you can
11:02what do you mean
11:06i mean you're gonna be 18 soon right yeah so so that means that you're gonna be a legal adult
11:19i mean don't you see like once you're no longer a minor your mom can't stop you from doing anything
11:26including putting the baby up for adoption
11:37no it's uh it's nothing no i don't have anything to ask you oh i think you do so let's just address
11:46the elephant in the room you want to know if my name should be on this list of suspects right under
11:51raves don't you jada it's a look sean it's okay you wouldn't be doing your job if you didn't ask me
11:58the tough questions so go ahead
12:04ask me if i shot e.j damara
12:06that's generous of you mr brady but i can't take the room right now i can barely afford a side of fries
12:24let alone first and last month's rent you know what doug you are not first young man to walk through my
12:31family's doors looking for help but you remind me of my younger brothers frankie and max once upon a
12:39time they were two very young kids who had no place to go until my parents adopted
12:50yeah well the more i think about it i doubt you want me under your roof or working for your pub
12:57honestly i'm more trouble than i'm worth so thank you for your time mr brady hey sit back down
13:07you hear me sit down
13:10you don't want to talk to me
13:20like you don't just need a job you need some guidance as well you're right about that okay well no matter how many mistakes you've made or
13:34how much trouble you think you are i've been there so have a lot of people but the good news is doug you are a very young man
13:45you've got all the time in the world to turn this around but it starts now
13:51the job is yours if you want it and so is the room
13:56but how will i pay you i will loan you first and last month's rent i'll take it out of your check
14:05weekly a little bit of time till we're all squared away
14:14i uh
14:17i don't know what to say well just say you'll accept it
14:21i do yeah i i accept
14:24thank you mr brady you won't be sorry i better not be
14:33so you want me to to what to define my mother
14:38go against her wishes
14:40only if if putting the baby up for adoption is what you want to do sophia i just
14:45i thought that i would you know point out there is another option once you're legally an adult
14:54no i i understand what you're saying tate it's just that
14:58well
14:59in my almost
15:0118 years on this planet i've i've never defied my mother
15:05at least not for for anything that really matters
15:08so what does that mean do you you don't want to do it no
15:17i do
15:24you do
15:27we have our whole lives ahead of us both of us and maybe i i can't go to prom or or finish
15:37my senior year but but i want to go to college and i want to have a life my life
15:43and i know that you want that too
15:48we can't let one mistake take all of that away from us
15:52so
15:57i'm gonna do it
16:01for the first time in my life i'm gonna stand up to my mother
16:12yo what are you doing here you just missed gabby oh good the last thing i need is another running
16:17with one of your cousins why are we whispering because you are like very not welcome here
16:28did something happen with you raffer well he sort of found my list of suspects and went postal when
16:34he saw that both his and gabby's names were on it seriously i am sorry javi look i am an investigative
16:40journalist that means i am duty-bound to seek out the truth and as we have discussed the truth is
16:45that both rave and gabby had strong motives for wanting ej dead i'm just doing my job that's
16:50some job you got there trying to prove that your boyfriend's family is full of like
16:54whoopee killers can you believe that stupid bending
17:01what the hell are you doing in my office
17:04i was just bringing some food for you and javi see
17:08you're a delivery guy now come on be nice be nice why should i be nice to this grifter this
17:19sleazebag and if it wasn't bad enough that i already caught you going through my purse
17:25now you're using my cousin to gain access to my office oh that's so not true the hell it isn't
17:30i want you out of here now okay everyone i think that we need to chill yeah
17:39well i'm not feeling very chill in fact i'm feeling less chill by the second
17:45i want him out of here after me is that clear
18:00well that went well god working for gabby is becoming a nightmare then just quit
18:07i can't leave gabby like that but not after she was kind enough to take me in and give me a job
18:13but listen i know you don't want to disappoint her because you are loyal to a fault and although
18:20that is an insecure attachment style it is one of the many qualities of you that i find
18:25very endearing because your heart is so big but javi sometimes i worry that it's too big and
18:30if you continue to work for salem's answer to miranda priestly aka the proud of wearing devil
18:35played by the one and only divine meryl streep it could ruin your relationship with gabby forever
18:43all right i'll admit that the night of the shooting
18:52i um look i was troubled when i found you a small bar without your gun in its holster
18:59but but my heart tells me that you didn't do it because i don't think you're capable of doing such a thing
19:16and that's where you're wrong sean
19:19what do you mean after what that son of a bitch did to me i was more than capable of killing ej
19:26demira jada what are you what are you trying to tell me look i was furious that night not only with ej but
19:43rafe and i had it out earlier after i told him that you and i slept together
19:47and then i went to the small bar to drown my sorrows which you're aware of since you found me there
19:57i just had all this rage and pain and i just just wanted to feel nothing even if it was for just a
20:08little while did you take your service weapon out with you that night
20:16no i locked it in my drawer like i told you
20:20i didn't trust myself having a weapon on me not not in that kind of headspace
20:26so like many of the fine citizens of salem yeah i wanted ej dead
20:32but no i am not the one who put that bullet in his chest
20:46yeah what do you want sean hey rafe i'm uh i'm here with jada
21:01hmm what a surprise no no it's not like that oh really then uh what is it like
21:11well we were just wondering when you were planning on turning in your service weapon
21:14i think you mean arnold fenninger's service weapon since the salem pd did in fact issue it to him
21:22while i was being held in captivity and yeah i'll get it back to you as soon as i can
21:29just been a little busy being processed back in at the fbi got it okay well um well thanks
21:37that was awkward
21:53hey tate what's going on holly hey i was wondering if uh maybe we could talk i i actually i just got some
22:15really really really great news oh okay um i yeah i mean sure great um do you want to meet maybe at
22:25the pub say half an hour or so uh yeah yeah i can make that work great all right i'll see you soon
22:36hey
22:44what's up what do you mean
22:49i just i mean you're not like having second thoughts are you no this adoption is what's right for us
22:57yes and for our baby
23:06thank you it is yeah for sure
23:13all right well uh i should be going where are you going
23:18you're probably excited to tell holly about the adoption
23:33that doesn't bother you does it no not at all go ahead and uh give her my best
23:40i will all right i'll see you later later
23:58thank you sean for calling rafe and taking the heat for me
24:02i was not looking forward to that conversation yeah yeah no worries
24:11so this is what it feels like walking into salem's cop shop without being in handcuffs
24:17not that i'm on handcuffs on vacation what do you want start okay look despite what you are both
24:21thinking i have not come here to rescue some hot convict my therapist and i have been working very
24:26hard for me to not have that particular complex anymore i've come here for a comment
24:33a comment about what my readers have a right to know when the salem pd is going to stop chasing
24:38its proverbial tail in search of eva vitale and finally arrest the actual perp who shot ej dimera in
24:44cold blood by my estimation it's either ray fernandez his sister gabby or you commissioner hunter
24:52ah hey
25:06you are not gonna believe the day i've had
25:08that first xander and philip demand at the 11th hour that i magically produce the sales projection
25:16for gabby chic and then i find that little creep leo stark in my office with javi
25:24rafe are you listening to me
25:35i need to ask you a question gabby
25:39okay ask
25:43did you borrow my gun to shoot ej dimera
25:54well i'm here what did you want to tell me
26:05i actually wanted to talk to you about the adoption
26:09i thought there wasn't going to be an adoption i mean didn't johnny change his mind he did
26:14but sophia and i haven't
26:20i'm not following
26:24we decided to place the baby with an adoption agency once she gives birth
26:28and her mom is okay with that no and doesn't matter actually
26:35sophia will be 18 soon which means legally she can make her own decisions and she decided well
26:42we decided that this is what's best for the baby for everyone
26:49that's definitely news all right yeah yeah it is
26:59um
27:07i uh
27:10look i just want to say i'm pretty nervous uh asking about this and i know you're pretty upset with me
27:16after i ratted out doug to mrs williams but since the adoption's back on do you think
27:25maybe there's a chance for us still
27:28hi
27:32hi holly mr brady nice to see you good to see you
27:37take my man can i borrow you for a sec this washers acting up again i need you to hold it
27:44steady while i screw a bolt back in there sure thing absolutely
27:51i'll just uh i'll be a minute
27:58excuse me i'm sorry was i not clear you're a suspect commissioner let's assess shall we did
28:23you have a motive yes do you have a gun are you likely an excellent shot yes and yes
28:27were you capable of going through with it i mean that's debatable but i'd say yes you know what
28:31that's it you're out of your okay easy blue eyes unless you want me to decry that the salem pd
28:37is a foe of the free and independent press let him go sean
28:44if you ask me somebody needs to download a meditation app they're all for you okay i am
28:49losing my patience here and you are working my last nerve leo and regarding your little so-called story
28:56the salem pd has no comment the salem pd has no comment now go
29:02seriously fine i'll go but be warned i am nothing if not persistent you have not seen the last of
29:10me seriously right if not you too i mean how many more times am i going to be accused of attempted
29:18murder this week i'm gonna lose my freaking mind the night that ej was shot i know that you took my
29:26service weapon i know because i was looking for it but it was gone and so were you now eventually
29:37you did return back home and so magically did my gun return to this safe
29:46i checked there weren't any bullets missing obviously you could have replaced them
29:53just be honest with me did you go to the dimera mansion that night with my gun
30:02you
30:15yo you're back i'm back and this time your wicked cousin is not going to steal our sustenance
30:22yes
30:23it smells yummy good please javi for the love of god tell me you are going to quit this miserable job
30:30well i have to admit you did make a pretty compelling argument and if i'm being honest i'm not
30:36exactly passionate about being a fashion assistant okay good well then what are you passionate about
30:43besides me of course and naked pictures of orlando bloom on a beach in the south of france
30:49leo you have to stop going through my browser history yes you do
30:54and uh to answer your question uh before i left texas i thought that i found a career that i'd be
30:59passionate about and it's like you are about writing oh yeah tell me more maybe after we eat so
31:08what is in this bag that smells so yummy braised pork chops smashed potatoes from the bistro what no dessert
31:15i was saving dessert for when i get you home hmm well who says that we have to wait till then
31:33okay i admit it
31:41i went to go confront ej the night he was shot and i took your gun with me
31:45why because i was just so furious with ej i was tired of him getting away with messing with people's
31:53lives i couldn't take it anymore anyway as i was approaching the doors to the gloomy horrible mansion
32:10i overheard him arguing with someone so i took a step back to conceal myself i was afraid that someone
32:16would see me who was arguing i don't know but it was definitely a male voice
32:27is your gunshot no i decided to get out of there before someone caught me in the jimera grounds
32:35okay so okay so you're saying that you did not treat ej namero what no absolutely not
32:53please tell me that you believe me
32:55okay okay i believe you honey thank god for that yeah just wish that you had told me all of this a
33:15little bit sooner but there was something else when i was tiptoeing off the property i saw ava
33:31standing by the front door what she didn't see me but i think she heard me because she suddenly
33:37turned around and ran to her car and sped off oh
33:41so then she couldn't have been the shooter
33:48i suppose that she could have gone back
33:52or maybe it was the guy i heard arguing with ej
33:57yeah
34:00whoever it was just glad you and i are in the clear
34:04just when i thought solving this case couldn't get any more complicated now we have to deal with leo
34:15stark roving reporter listen i'll have a talk with chad see if you can read him no don't do that
34:22why why not well because we don't want to look like we're hiding something we're the police we're
34:28supposed to be transparent okay that's a good point very good point i guess that's why they pay you the
34:34big bucks huh yeah right look about earlier jada listen i uh want to apologize for doubting you for
34:46even a second i know you would never take the law into your own hands you're too good of a person
34:51the same goes for you detective
35:00hello again holly mr brady
35:04thug everything all right is your room yeah it's great thanks wait your room you're living here
35:11i just moved in yeah and mr brady gave me a job too i'm gonna be uh waiting tables oh my god that's
35:19amazing thank you well don't thank me i'm gonna work this guy's butt off all right i'll see you
35:26bright and early in the morning i'll see you good wow so i start brady to the rescue huh he's the nicest
35:36guy on earth i swear and now i'm pretty psyched to be able to start paying off my debts and finally
35:43have a place to call home yeah i bet although i do wish you told me before you left my grandma's house
35:50i knew you'd try to talk me out of it and well i didn't want to cause any more trouble for you
35:57i don't consider being your friend trouble i'm just so happy to see you i'm happy to see you too
36:03sorry didn't mean to interrupt no you're not interrupting it's just it's cool i should probably
36:11get back to sophia anyway she was pretty bummed that i was coming to see you so sooner i get back
36:16better but you two have fun okay tate wait hey sorry about my bad timing feels like that's a theme in my
36:37life no it's it's okay seems to be the theme for tate and me too bad timing misunderstandings
36:47whatever i'm not gonna let it spoil my mood not when things are finally starting to look up for you