J-Unit
01-05-2007, 04:53 PM
When we last visited Salem, Victor told Kate that he wanted to “put Max and Mimi on ice” just long enough for Victor to have time to bring MummyPhillip to Canada for face transplant surgery. Mimi got a call from Max telling her that Kate told him she found out what Victor’s plans are for MummyPhillip and instructed the pair to meet her at Max’s garage pronto. When Mimi arrives she finds the phone lines cut and a mysterious black van in the parking lot (which Abby had already warned Max about). Full-scale paranoia has set in, the electricity goes out and Max heads out of the office to check things out.
Today we pick up, apparently after some time has passed. Abby heads back to the garage with Nick only to find no lights and no sign of Max and Mimi. Abby is worried they are being set up to walk into some sort of a trap. But when they get the electricity back up and open the door they just find that the place has been totally ransacked. Abby gets a disgusted look of doom on her face, kinda like the one she gets in real life when she realizes the character she plays is always just “the friend” or “the daughter” and has never had a good story line for the entire 3-ish years she’s been on the show.
Back at the Mythic offices, Lucas is telling Sami that if they were in a real relationship i.e. having sex, he would be totally jealous of Sami and E.J’s working relationship. EJ enters the room and tells Sami to pack her bags, they’re heading to….wait for it….wait for it…not Paris, not Milan….ALABAMA! Here Sami thought that being the face of Mythic would mean traveling to the most glamourous cities in the world! They have to go to Talladega for some business conference. Shake and Bake, baby! Lucas knew EJ would pull something like this scheme to get Sami to go away with him at the last minute. He’s convinced that EJ just wants to get Sami in the sack, which is exactly right. Now, I love to hate Sami as much as the next person, but why someone would want to knock her up on purpose is beyond me. We will just have to wait and see what is up EJ’s sleeve.
Next, we visit the (for) now happy couple, Bo and Hope. Bo sees the tickets and trip itinerary for Mexico that Patrick dropped off for Hope earlier. Not surprisingly, Bo is POed that Hope agreed to go on this trip with Patrick and he will do anything to protect her. Bo is worried that Patrick is going to take off with her and he will not let her return to Salem. Hope tells him to back off and asks him to trust her in her dealings with Patrick. Bo just asks Hope to call him if she ever feels uncomfortable around Patrick (which occurs on a daily basis in Salem already anyway.)
Bo and Hope’s misguided son, Shawn sure has his hands full with the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold, Willow. Shawn point-blank tells Willow its over. He definitely didn’t dance around it as I expected him to do once again. I really liked how Shawn laid down the law with her this time. She pulled the only two weapons she has: sex and adventure and told him if he gets back with Belle he is doomed for a sexless, adventureless existence. ZING, you go girlfriend! Not really, but good try Willow. Crazy storms out and tells him “he will get exactly what he deserves!”
The conversation about the business trip to Talladega continues. Shake and bake! (Sorry, I really can’t help myself.) EJ tells Lucas that he is welcome to come on the trip and Lucas most definitely will. Afterall, Will is at camp…the camp for mopheads with mommy issues. Exit EJ. Sami tells Lucas that he is NOT welcome to tag along. She doesn’t want to look like the pathetic executive with a jealous boyfriend attached to her. Sami tells him if he wants a “real adult relationship”, i.e. to be allowed to have sex with her, there has to be mutual trust. Lucas reluctantly obliges and tells her alas, he is tired of her giving him blue balls. But when Lucas exits he promptly phones Victor asking for a couple days off work so he can spy on Sami in ‘Bama.
After his meeting with Sami, EJ goes to Chez Rouge to meet Shawn. Cue EJ’s pompous British accent. Shawn questions what is written in the messages he is asked to pass between Patrick and EJ and before he can get an answer out of EJ, he quits. Umm, Shawn, if he wanted the whole world to know what the messages were then they would simply meet, phone, or email. Clearly what is going on here is shady AND illegal. But I guess Shawn needs this all spelled out for him. EJ actually let Shawn take a peak at the contents of the message he was to deliver to Patrick. It was just some numbers and business-y looking stuff. EJ calls Shawn weak for doing whatever his daddy tells him to do. But also warns Shawn that he must keep all of their transactions confidential. Shawn agrees…as long as he doesn’t find out that EJ is involved in anything illegal. He then made the mistake of telling EJ that he will spill the beans (as much or as little as he knows) to the cops if he finds out he is involved in any illegal activity.
We venture back to Max’s garage where Abby and Nick have called Roman and the Salem PD. Abby is worried that Max is dead and she will never be able to apologize to him about the jealous way she acted before she left. Is it just me or has Abby always seemed a little hostile towards Max? I’m not surprised by her revelation that she does indeed have feelings for him, but still. She just has this way of emphasizing the negative, which doesn’t exactly make you a guy magnet. Abby also spills her guts to Nick by divulging that she’d “rather DIE with him than live without him!” OK… I guess the feelings run pretty damn deep, huh? Their conversations turns creepy when Nick tells Abby that if they weren’t cousins, he’d be all over her like white on rice. He didn’t say it exactly like that but you get the idea. But since when does being cousins stop anyone in Salem?
In a rather bizarre turn of events, Willow obnoxiously bursts into Bo and Hope’s love nest. She asks the million-dollar question: “What are you going to do about Shawn dumping me?” Whaaa…*chirping crickets*… Willow, might I remind you, an ex hooker who slept with their son for a mere 2 months is asking for her john’s parent’s help after he kicked her out of his apartment! What the hell planet is she on? The Brady’s are known to be an accepting family, but come on! I do not understand what Willow expected here. Bo and Hope tell her they are not interfering in Shawn’s personal life and she storms out, giving them the same warning she gave Shawn, “you’ll get what you deserve!”
Willow returns to Shawn’s apartment to presumably get her things and leave. We see her gather her things in a big, messy pile in the middle of the living room floor. Oh, wait! No, those look like men’s clothes and photographs! Willow then makes her way to the kitchen cabinet for a cheap bottle of vodka. She must want a nightcap before she leaves Shawn’s for good. Wait again! She proceeds to dump the bottle of vodka on the pile of things on the floor! LIQUOR! MATCHES! ACTION! I think we all know where this is going… Shawn comes home to find smoke billowing out of the bottom of his door.
Today we pick up, apparently after some time has passed. Abby heads back to the garage with Nick only to find no lights and no sign of Max and Mimi. Abby is worried they are being set up to walk into some sort of a trap. But when they get the electricity back up and open the door they just find that the place has been totally ransacked. Abby gets a disgusted look of doom on her face, kinda like the one she gets in real life when she realizes the character she plays is always just “the friend” or “the daughter” and has never had a good story line for the entire 3-ish years she’s been on the show.
Back at the Mythic offices, Lucas is telling Sami that if they were in a real relationship i.e. having sex, he would be totally jealous of Sami and E.J’s working relationship. EJ enters the room and tells Sami to pack her bags, they’re heading to….wait for it….wait for it…not Paris, not Milan….ALABAMA! Here Sami thought that being the face of Mythic would mean traveling to the most glamourous cities in the world! They have to go to Talladega for some business conference. Shake and Bake, baby! Lucas knew EJ would pull something like this scheme to get Sami to go away with him at the last minute. He’s convinced that EJ just wants to get Sami in the sack, which is exactly right. Now, I love to hate Sami as much as the next person, but why someone would want to knock her up on purpose is beyond me. We will just have to wait and see what is up EJ’s sleeve.
Next, we visit the (for) now happy couple, Bo and Hope. Bo sees the tickets and trip itinerary for Mexico that Patrick dropped off for Hope earlier. Not surprisingly, Bo is POed that Hope agreed to go on this trip with Patrick and he will do anything to protect her. Bo is worried that Patrick is going to take off with her and he will not let her return to Salem. Hope tells him to back off and asks him to trust her in her dealings with Patrick. Bo just asks Hope to call him if she ever feels uncomfortable around Patrick (which occurs on a daily basis in Salem already anyway.)
Bo and Hope’s misguided son, Shawn sure has his hands full with the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold, Willow. Shawn point-blank tells Willow its over. He definitely didn’t dance around it as I expected him to do once again. I really liked how Shawn laid down the law with her this time. She pulled the only two weapons she has: sex and adventure and told him if he gets back with Belle he is doomed for a sexless, adventureless existence. ZING, you go girlfriend! Not really, but good try Willow. Crazy storms out and tells him “he will get exactly what he deserves!”
The conversation about the business trip to Talladega continues. Shake and bake! (Sorry, I really can’t help myself.) EJ tells Lucas that he is welcome to come on the trip and Lucas most definitely will. Afterall, Will is at camp…the camp for mopheads with mommy issues. Exit EJ. Sami tells Lucas that he is NOT welcome to tag along. She doesn’t want to look like the pathetic executive with a jealous boyfriend attached to her. Sami tells him if he wants a “real adult relationship”, i.e. to be allowed to have sex with her, there has to be mutual trust. Lucas reluctantly obliges and tells her alas, he is tired of her giving him blue balls. But when Lucas exits he promptly phones Victor asking for a couple days off work so he can spy on Sami in ‘Bama.
After his meeting with Sami, EJ goes to Chez Rouge to meet Shawn. Cue EJ’s pompous British accent. Shawn questions what is written in the messages he is asked to pass between Patrick and EJ and before he can get an answer out of EJ, he quits. Umm, Shawn, if he wanted the whole world to know what the messages were then they would simply meet, phone, or email. Clearly what is going on here is shady AND illegal. But I guess Shawn needs this all spelled out for him. EJ actually let Shawn take a peak at the contents of the message he was to deliver to Patrick. It was just some numbers and business-y looking stuff. EJ calls Shawn weak for doing whatever his daddy tells him to do. But also warns Shawn that he must keep all of their transactions confidential. Shawn agrees…as long as he doesn’t find out that EJ is involved in anything illegal. He then made the mistake of telling EJ that he will spill the beans (as much or as little as he knows) to the cops if he finds out he is involved in any illegal activity.
We venture back to Max’s garage where Abby and Nick have called Roman and the Salem PD. Abby is worried that Max is dead and she will never be able to apologize to him about the jealous way she acted before she left. Is it just me or has Abby always seemed a little hostile towards Max? I’m not surprised by her revelation that she does indeed have feelings for him, but still. She just has this way of emphasizing the negative, which doesn’t exactly make you a guy magnet. Abby also spills her guts to Nick by divulging that she’d “rather DIE with him than live without him!” OK… I guess the feelings run pretty damn deep, huh? Their conversations turns creepy when Nick tells Abby that if they weren’t cousins, he’d be all over her like white on rice. He didn’t say it exactly like that but you get the idea. But since when does being cousins stop anyone in Salem?
In a rather bizarre turn of events, Willow obnoxiously bursts into Bo and Hope’s love nest. She asks the million-dollar question: “What are you going to do about Shawn dumping me?” Whaaa…*chirping crickets*… Willow, might I remind you, an ex hooker who slept with their son for a mere 2 months is asking for her john’s parent’s help after he kicked her out of his apartment! What the hell planet is she on? The Brady’s are known to be an accepting family, but come on! I do not understand what Willow expected here. Bo and Hope tell her they are not interfering in Shawn’s personal life and she storms out, giving them the same warning she gave Shawn, “you’ll get what you deserve!”
Willow returns to Shawn’s apartment to presumably get her things and leave. We see her gather her things in a big, messy pile in the middle of the living room floor. Oh, wait! No, those look like men’s clothes and photographs! Willow then makes her way to the kitchen cabinet for a cheap bottle of vodka. She must want a nightcap before she leaves Shawn’s for good. Wait again! She proceeds to dump the bottle of vodka on the pile of things on the floor! LIQUOR! MATCHES! ACTION! I think we all know where this is going… Shawn comes home to find smoke billowing out of the bottom of his door.