The Day After - DOOL Needs To Give Me A Job.

It's the next day. Sami stands in the living room of the mansion looking worried.She finally picks up her purse and turns to walk out of the room and runs face first into EJ, who is walking in.


EJ: Going somewhere?

Sami: Um..yes. I have to go out, and do some shopping. I need to get some things for Ali and Johnny.

EJ: Wonderful! Give me a few moments and I'll join you. We can drop the twins off at the pub and have lunch before we head out.

Sami: NO! I mean, no thank you, I just..I mean....I can do it myself.

EJ looks at her skeptically.

EJ: Samantha as talented a liar as you are, I can still tell when you're attempting to hide something from me. Now where are you going?

Sami: (getting irritated) I don't have to answer to you. I can go wherever I want, I don't need your permission. And I don't have to tell you everywhere I go.

Sami pushes past EJ and gets to the door. Before she can open it, EJ is behind her and puts his hand on the door holding it closed.

EJ: You're going to see Lucas aren't you?

Sami: No. I mean...I thought about it...but....

EJ: Darling, if you need to see Lucas, I am not going to try to stop you. I can hardly expect you to forget about the man. You have two children with him, you were married to him. You don't need to explain your reasons, I trust you.

Sami: (shocked) You TRUST me? Look EJ, I don't know what you were expecting after last night, but it was a mistake. I don't know what I was thinking, or why I let you get to me, but it didn't mean anything.

EJ cuts her off by taking her into his arms and kissing her. Sami starts to resist but it's no use.

Sami: (breathless) EJ, please, let me go. This is all just happening so fast, I need more time.

EJ: Take all the time you need darling. But you can't deny how you feel about me. And I refuse to pretend I don't care about you any longer. Now you go do what you have to do, and when you return we will continue this discussion.

EJ lets Sami go so quickly she almost falls. She stares after him and flashes back to the previous night. The two of them in bed. She shivers and walks out the door.


The scene changes to the visitation room of Salem's prison. Sami is waiting at the metal table as Lucas enters. The guard uncuffs him and leaves.

Sami stands and starts to hold her arms out, but Lucas ignores her and just sits down. Sami is baffled but sits anyway.

Lucas: Why are you here? I told you I didn't want to see you.

Sami: I know, Lucas, but...

Lucas: (interrupting her) And yet here you are. Sami don't you get it? I didn't want to see you because it hurts too bad. I just can't do it.

Sami: (getting angry) YOU can't do it. It's all about you isn't it? You don't think all this is hard on me? Raising two babies alone.

Lucas: (interrupting) Oh but you aren't alone are you? How is your loving HUSBAND? Are the two of you getting ready to move into your own little cottage with a white picket fence?

Sami: Stop it. I didn't come here to fight with you about EJ. In fact I came to tell you he's found a way to help you.

Lucas: Help me? How? Is he going to turn back time? Is he going to change the past. Sorry Sami, I don't think even the great EJ Dimera can do that.

Sami: Lucas, EJ is a lawyer. He's working for Mickey Horton now and he's found a way he can have your conviction overturned. You'll be able to come home.

Lucas: HOME? Home to what? To you living across the hall with EJ? To me having to sit in our old apartment waiting for you to decide to let me see my daughter?

Sami: We aren't living in EJ's apartment. We're living in the Dimera mansion with John and Marlena.

Lucas stands up knocking over the chair he's sitting on, and pounds his fist into the table.

Lucas: YOU HAVE MY DAUGHTER LIVING UNDER STEFANO'S ROOF?? MY GOD SAMI HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?

The guard raps on the door and gives Lucas a stern look. Lucas picks up the chair and sits back down.

Sami: It's not Stefano's home anymore, Lucas. John has control over everything that was Stefano's and he's taken the mansion. EJ and I moved in with the twins so we could save money..

Lucas: (sarcastically) SAVE MONEY?? What happened to all of EJ's money. His famous trust fund? I thought he was the rich playboy.

Sami: John ended EJ's trust fund payments when he took over Stefano's estate. And until Mickey hired him, we weren't even sure how we were going to pay the rent. But none of that matters Lucas, don't you understand? You can get out of here you can come home!

Lucas: I don't want EJ Dimera's help. I'll stay here for the rest of my life before I let him help me.

Sami: (shocked) But how can you say that? How can you not want to get out of here and come home? What about Ali? She needs her father. What about Will? He can't live with Carrie and Austin forever.

Lucas: I notice you there's one person you didn't mention Sami. You. Aren't you going to tell me how much you need me? Or is it that you don't need me?

Sami: Of course I need you Lucas. I love you.

Lucas: (interrupting) Do you Sami? Do you love me? Or is this just another one of your schemes? Another elaborate plan to somehow make everything right. To save your family, and defeat the evil Dimeras forever. Is that what this is Sami? Tell me now because if it is, then count me out.

Sami: (eyes welling with tears) How can you say that? I need you Lucas, I've always needed you,

Lucas (angry again) STOP LYING SAMI! You never needed me. I was just another in a long line of men you had to have. And you didn't care who you stepped on or hurt along the way. As long as you got your man. And then what? Once you had him, you weren't happy. You just kept him around long enough to destroy his spirit and then you just moved on to the next.

OH Sami, I should have figured you out long ago. But NO, not me. Not stupid, dumb old Lucas. Yeah I played right into your greedy little hands didn't I? Every time Austin rejected you, there I was. Just like your little lap dog. Waiting for the scraps you tossed me.

But this last time, oh this last time you really had me. I thought you'd changed. I bought your "new Sami" routine hook line and sinker.
I really thought it was going to be forever. What a FOOL I was. And what a good laugh you and EJ must have had at my expense. But not anymore Sami.
I'm done. It's over. We're over.

Sami listens to him, sobbing. She breaks down and puts her hands over her ears like a child.

Sami: No no no no no! I won't hear this. I won't listen to you.

Lucas grabs her arms and pulls her hands away from her ears. He stares into her eyes and gets eerily calm.

Lucas: (quietly) Yes Sami, you will hear this. You need to hear the truth for once. You can't play with people's lives and not expect to pay the consequences. You can't lie and scheme your way out of a situation just because you don't want to deal with it. Sami, you can't always get your way.

Sami stops mid sob and stares at Lucas. She pulls away and turns her back on him. Lucas waits a few seconds, then goes to her, and puts his hand on her shoulder.

Lucas: Sami. Look at me.

Lucas turns her around, and lifts her chin with two fingers. Sami stares at him not speaking.

Lucas: Sami look me in the eye and tell me, honestly. If I take EJ's help. Get out of prison, and come home. Would you be willing to give up everything, and leave with me? Leave Salem forever and not look back? To start an entirely new life. You, me, Will and Ali.

Sami: And Johnny....

Lucas: No Sami. You have to understand what I'm saying here. You'd have to leave Johnny with EJ. He's his father. And I won't live the rest of my life with EJ in the picture.

Sami: But he's MY son Lucas. You expect me to choose between you and my son?

Lucas: Yes Sami. I do. You can't have it both ways. It's me or EJ. And if it's me, then there can be no more EJ. And if his son is part of our family then we'll never be free of him. So decide Sami. Right here, right now.

Sami stares at Lucas and flashes back to Ali and Johnny's birth. How happy Lucas was with both of them. Then she flashes forward to the apartment, and Lucas never wanting to hold Johnny. Long nights of him holding Ali while she tended to Johnny. She turns away from Lucas and her mind moves ahead again. This time to EJ. Sitting up with Ali long into the night as she struggled with the croup. Of EJ playing with both babies. Showing them the same amount of attention and love. Then again. To the night before. Of her, lying in EJ's arms. His hands in her hair, his lips on hers. His fingers almost burning her skin with his touch. His voice saying her name over and over...Samantha....Samantha....Sami...

Lucas: Sami? Are you listening to me?

Sami turns around realizing Lucas has been saying her name. She stares at him for a second.

Sami: No Lucas. I won't choose between you and my son. I can't do it. And you have no right to ask me to. So if that's the only way we can be together then you're right. I don't love you. I could never love someone who would ask me to make that choice.

Lucas: (sarcastically) Oh of course not. Tell me Sami, does this mean you'll finally stop saying EJ raped you and just admit you're a cheating slut?

Sami gasps and slaps Lucas across the face.

Lucas: Good bye Sami.

Lucas turns and knocks on the door behind him. A guard opens it and he walks out without looking back. Sami stares after him for a few seconds when the door behind her opens and she looks up to see EJ standing in the doorway waiting. She dissolves into his arms sobbing.

Sami: Take me home EJ, please. Just take me home.

EJ: Yes darling, let's go home.