Tuesday - 8/13
DIMERA MANSION
ANDRE: Elvis is in England?
MEGAN: That is what I said, yes.
ANDRE: And you didn’t think to mention this earlier?
MEGAN: Must have slipped my mind. Oops.
André took a deep breath.
ANDRE: This is a bit more than an “oops”, I think.
MEGAN: Oh André, don’t be so uptight. I believe, given some time, some perspective, you’ll come to see this as a good thing.
ANDRE: “Perspective”?
MEGAN: Think about it. What has Elvis done for us recently? Hmm? Apart from fail to convince young Sydney to join us, and temporarily get Johnny back on our side, though we all know how that turned out, I can’t think of much of anything that he’s done.
ANDRE: Elvis is our man on the inside. My concerns are not just causing the Bradys pain, they are about preserving the legacy of this family. That includes the family business. Since I am persona non grata both upstairs and at the company, Elvis has been keeping me abreast of developments there.
MEGAN: There are other ways of keeping up on current events within the family and the business. Elvis has been holding us back. He is a branch that needed to be pruned, just as Kristen was. If he is content to stay in the old country, let him. Think, dear brother, of what we could achieve, just the two of us.
SAMI & LUCAS’ APARTMENT
PHILIP: Do you even have the slightest idea what you’ve done? You have effectively started a war, the next big DiMera-Kiriakis war.
SAMI: Have I, indeed?
PHILIP: Yes.
SAMI: Funny, because the way I remember it, I didn’t actually do anything except have a conversation with you. Yes, I came to you asking for your help getting E.J. away from Johnny. Yes, I suggested that he might need to visit his mother. What I did not do was tell you to have one of your goons kidnap E.J. and ship him to England-
PHILIP: Uh, you did, actually. You told me that sending him to England would be a good way to get him out of town, that it would be breaking his parole, which would lead to him spending time behind bars. Well newsflash, Sami, he’s not behind bars, he’s still in England, and Melanie is missing!
SAMI: And I’m sorry to hear that, but that is not my fault! I didn’t tell you to do anything, I made a few suggestions. You are the one who went through with it. You are the one who ordered E.J.’s kidnapping and shipment to his mother.
PHILIP: If anything happens to her-
SAMI: It will be because of what you had done to E.J. I’m sorry, I know that’s probably hard to hear, but it’s the truth. I’m not going to sugarcoat things with you like so many other people would.
PHILIP: Oh, you wanna talk about the truth, do you? Well here’s the truth, Sami, you are as responsible for what’s happening now as I am.
SAMI: Did I force you to do what you did?
PHILIP: Excuse me?
SAMI: It’s a simple question, you should be able to understand it. Did I force you to do what you did?
PHILIP: Oh, come on! If I didn’t agree to help you, you would have just kept badgering me until I eventually gave in!
SAMI: So you admit that you did it just to get me to shut up? So I didn’t force you to have E.J. kidnapped and shipped off to England?
Philip sighed.
PHILIP: No. However-
SAMI: Good. Then maybe you can stop yelling at me and focus on the real problem here. The DiMeras. No matter what either of us did or didn’t do, they are the ones who are more responsible than anyone for this situation. They are the ones who kidnapped your wife. So I say that we put our petty differences aside and work together to see what can be done.
Philip scoffed.
PHILIP: I’m not teaming up with you! Not again, not in a million years!
Philip’s phone rang.
PHILIP: That’s Shawn, I should take this.
SAMI: Go right ahead, I’ll wait.
Philip picked up his phone.
PHILIP: Shawn, tell me you’ve got good news. What?
Philip went pale.
PHILIP: When? You’re sure. Okay, I’ll be right over.
He hung up.
PHILIP: They found Melanie, she’s at the hospital now.
LUCAS: Well, come on, let’s go! I’ll drive.
Lucas put an arm around Philip and they walked out the door. Sami followed close behind.
