Valentine’s Day in Salem Means Romance Is in the Air for a Few Couples

Thursday, February 11, 2020

On today’s full episode recap of Days of our Lives, Steve plans a wedding for Kayla, Ben and Ciara both dream about Romeo and Juliet, and Kate and Jake learn Vivian’s alive!

Val and Abe await Lani and Eli’s return home with the twins. When they arrive, they’re welcomed home with open arms. Val and Abe snuggle the kids. Eli and Lani kiss and wish each other a Happy Valentine’s Day. They discuss Ivan and Vivian and the reason Ivan kidnapped the kids.

Tripp arrives at Steve and Kayla’s condo. He’s helping Steve plan a surprise wedding for Kayla and says the yellow roses will be delivered to the hospital and the florist will deliver the bouquets to the pub. He hands over a box with boutonnieres in it. Steve sighs. The wedding’s off because Laura Horton died and he can’t have a wedding when Jack and Jennifer are in mourning. Jack calls. Steve’s sorry about Laura and asks what he can do to help. Jack tells him to go ahead with the wedding. Life’s too short. They disconnect and Steve updates Tripp. He wants him to be his best man but Tripp doesn’t feel deserving. “I’ve known you five years and I keep screwing up your life.” Steve denies that to be true. His son has given him so much and he and Kayla love him. He won’t take no for an answer. Tripp relents and agrees to stand up for his dad.

Ben sits on his bed thinking of Ciara. He holds a card for her in his hand he had been planning on giving her for Valentine’s Day.

In her cage, Ciara reads Romeo and Juliet. Ciara swoons, wishing she could be kissed by Ben. She has a dream where she and Ben are reenacting Romeo and Juliet. They meet outside Juliet’s window and wind up in bed together kissing. After making love, they hear a bird’s song. They argue on whether it’s the lark singing at dawn or the nightingale at night. (Juliet argues that it’s the nightingale, though Romeo thinks it’s the lark. Romeo must leave since it’s the lark or stay and die but Juliet argues that it’s the nightingale’s song, which means he can stay longer. She’s not ready to let him go.) Later, Romeo finds Juliet laying on a slab. He thinks she’s dead and can’t bear to be without her, so he takes poison and dies beside her after a final, loving kiss goodbye. Juliet wakes up and sees that Romeo has poisoned himself. She kisses his dead lips, hopeful to get poison into her system and when that doesn’t work, she stabs herself with his kife.  Ciara wakes up in her cage as Ben wakes up alone in his room, each from having the same dream.

At the mansion, Kate is in bed with Jake when she gets a call from the press office from SPD letting her know something shocking. “No!” She says, wondering how that’s possible. Jake questions her. Kate needs to tell Laura. She tells Jake to prepare himself. “Your mother is alive.” She explains that she was behind the twins’ kidnapping and Jake’s disgusted. Kate texts Abe with the news and then relays to Jake that she saw Vivian dead in the casket. “I should have thrown holy water on her to make sure.”

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Eli goes to SPD to interrogate Vivian, though his mother and wife don’t think it’s a good idea. Abe takes off to get a special cake to celebrate the return of the kids. Meanwhile, Val soothes Lani’s worries about motherhood. Lani’s able to breastfeed both babies at once and Val’s proud. Val talks about her demanding career and Dana, Eli’s nanny. Val felt guilty for all the time she spent away from her son, especially when he hit adolescence. Lani thinks she did all the right things, “Because, Valerie he couldn’t be more wonderful.”

At SPD, Vivian pretends she doesn’t know Eli and asks why she’s in jail for kidnapping her own kids, Stefania and Jacob. “They need their mother,” she pleads.

At the hospital, Kayla gets ready for a date with Steve at the pub. Sarah asks to tag along. She’s picking up a chocolate cake for Xander for Valentine’s Day.

At the pub, Steve and Tripp stand outside wondering what to do since there’s nobody to marry them. Marlena and John have food poisoning and can’t make it. Marlena can’t officiate. Abe strolls up and tells them the news about the twins’ return to their parents. Steve’s thrilled. He tells Abe about remarrying Kayla and asks him to officiate. Abe doesn’t have his book but agrees to it. The men clasp hands and Steve’s relief shows on his face. Soon, Kayla and Sarah arrive. Steve welcomes her to her surprise wedding. Kayla swoons. Steve’s sorry but Jenn and Jack can’t stand up for them because of Laura’s passing. Tripp’s standing up for them and Kayla says she has nobody. Sarah says, “What am I, chopped liver?” Kayla accepts and Steve tells Kayla that he almost lost her because he decided she was better off without him. He couldn’t wait any longer to marry her, and it is Valentine’s Day. He’s been reminded of why they need to cherish each day. For him, that means cherishing her. He professes his love and Kayla knows she could never love another man the way she loves him. She loves his courage, kindness, passion. She thinks he’s smart, funny and so sexy. She loves his devotion to his family and her and won’t get tired of looking at his handsome face. “This is the last time I am doing this,” she says. They laugh. She’ll never let him go. They exchange rings and are pronounced husband and wife. They kiss.

Kate and Jake show up at SPD. Eli tells them that Vivian claims the twins are hers. Kate snipes. She’s faking it! Kate assumes Vivian wants a cushy sanitarium rather than a jail cell. She’s going for an insanity defense so Eli allows Kate to push Vivian’s buttons. “You’re going to find out who your mother really is,” Kate says to Jake. Kate visits Vivian and Viv pretends not to know Kate. Jake appears and Kate asks if she’s going to say hello to his long lost son.

Eli returns home and tells Lani that Vivian’s going for an insanity defense. Kate will try to get her to crack. Eli kisses his wife and they profess their love.

On the next full episode of Days of our LivesCharlie threatens his mom.

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