In the abandoned brewery, Ava called 9-1-1 while Steve and John performed CPR to revive Tripp and Wendy. Rafe and Harris arrived on the scene, and Rafe called dispatch to expedite the EMTs.
Harris went over to Ava, and he put his arm around her as she whispered to Tripp, "Baby, please come back to us. You're my life. You're my heart." Rafe checked Wendy, and he confirmed there was a pulse. As Steve continued to work on Tripp, he told his son that Wendy had a pulse, and Steve asked Tripp to fight his way back to them. Rafe held Wendy's hand, and he asked her to squeeze. Wendy softly squeezed Rafe's hand.
"She did [it]! Wendy's back!" Rafe yelled. John encouraged Wendy to wake up. As Wendy started to sit up, John gently pushed her back down. "You're doing good. You're okay," John said. "Where's Tripp?" Wendy stammered. "He's right here. His dad is helping him," Rafe said. Wendy's eyes fluttered open, and she looked over at Tripp. "Is he okay?" Wendy asked. Steve continued to do chest compressions on Tripp.
"The way you can help is to get stronger. And the way you're going to do that is focus on me. And we're going to breathe together," John said. John coached Wendy through some deep breaths. "I got a pulse!" Steve shouted. "Baby, can you hear me?" Ava yelled. "Mom," Tripp whispered. Sirens filled the air as the EMTs arrived on the scene. Steve rubbed Tripp's chest as Tripp asked about Wendy. "Where's my wife?" Tripp said. Ava crouched next to Tripp and assured him that Wendy was fine.
"You called her your wife," Ava said. "He just said that because he hoped someday she will be," Steve said. Tripp smiled faintly. Jada called Rafe's phone, and he confirmed that Wendy and Tripp were fine. Rafe groaned. "What happened?" Harris asked when Rafe ended his call. "Clyde Weston escaped from Statesville," Rafe announced. John asked if Jada had any information about the escape. Rafe said he had no information yet. "You think he had help from Goldman?" Harris asked. "Yeah. Who else?" Rafe muttered.
In Holly's bedroom at the DiMera mansion, Tate begged Holly to tell the truth about the drugs. "This is my life we're talking about, right? Right now, I have no life. I'm stuck in some halfway house for no reason, even though I didn't do anything wrong," Tate said. Holly refused to admit that they had been her pills, and she offered to swear that the pills had not been Tate's. With a shake of his head, Tate argued that everyone would still believe he had been to blame.
"We can make up another story," Holly said. "Why do we have to make up a different story? Why can't you just tell the truth?" Tate asked. Holly told Tate about how she could not bear to disappoint her mother after all Nicole had suffered. "Plus, she would never trust me again," Holly added. Tate sighed.
"So, you are going to sacrifice me? You are going to totally ruin my life so that you can, what, Holly? Keep up appearances? Pretend that you are just this little golden child?" Tate asked. Scared, Tate begged Holly to help him. "Please don't make me do this," Holly countered. E.J. burst into the room to inquire about the noise.
"What the hell?" E.J. said. "It's not what it looks like," Holly pleaded. Despite Holly's protestations, E.J. took out his phone to call the police. Holly begged E.J. not to call, and she asked E.J. to give them a chance to explain. Reluctantly, E.J. put away his phone.
"I'm sorry to disrupt your evening. I just wanted to see Holly. I've been so worried about her," Tate said. E.J. smirked. "I bet you were. Since you're the one who pushed the drugs on her that caused her to OD. She nearly died because of you," E.J. growled. Tate explained that the drugs had not been his. Nicole walked into the room to ask about the noise, and she stopped dead when she saw Tate.
"What are you doing here?" Nicole asked. "Breaking and entering into Holly's bedroom window," E.J. grumbled. Tate said he had missed Holly and had wanted to see her. "I've heard enough," E.J. said as he started to call the police. As E.J. walked out of the room, Holly begged Nicole to stop him. "I can't do that, honey. And Tate, I'm going to call your father," Nicole said.
In the square, Brady ran into Sarah on his way to the gym. Brady asked Sarah if a coma could affect Holly's memory. "I can't discuss that with you," Sarah said. Brady rephrased the question as a general hypothetical. Sarah stressed that although she was not a neurologist, she could confirm that memory loss was a potential side effect of a coma.
"But her memories could come back?" Brady asked. Sarah hesitated, and Brady noted that his son's future depended on whether Holly remembered what had happened the night she had overdosed. "I understand, Brady. And I am so sorry because I can't even imagine how hard that must be. Like I said, neurology is not my specialty. But what I do know from my limited experience, once a coma patient regains consciousness, their memories could come back quickly, gradually, or sometimes not at all," Sarah said. Brady nodded with understanding, and he thanked Sarah for her time.
After Sarah walked away, Brady thought about his conversation with Tate about the proof of his innocence. "It's my word against hers," Tate had said. Brady's phone rang with a call from Nicole. Nicole told Brady that Tate had broken into the house to see Holly. "And E.J.'s calling the police right now," Nicole added.
When Brady arrived at the DiMera mansion, Nicole, E.J., Holly, and Tate were in the living room. "You called him?" E.J. said. Nicole argued that Brady had a right to know about what Tate had done. "I swear, all I wanted to do was see Holly. I hadn't seen her since she got back. I wanted to make sure that she was all right," Tate said. E.J. argued that Tate's only motivation had been to make sure that Holly would lie to protect Tate and claim the drugs had been Holly's.
"I heard what you said before when I opened your door. You said, 'Tate, don't make me do this,'" E.J. said. "All I wanted her to do was tell the truth!" Tate countered. As E.J. went to open the front door for the police, Tate begged Holly to tell the truth. "They're going to take me back to jail. Please, Holly," Tate pleaded. Holly looked down at her feet. E.J. returned with the police, and E.J. ordered them to arrest Tate. Brady asked E.J. to talk first, but E.J. refused.
"Your son has been a plague on my family from the moment he arrived in Salem," E.J. complained. E.J. argued that Tate had left the halfway house without permission and then had broken into E.J.'s house. "He broke into your house because he was falsely accused and he's desperate. He's a good, honest kid. He wouldn't have risked everything to break in here if he wasn't telling the truth," Brady countered. Brady and E.J. argued about who was to blame for the overdose.
When E.J. yelled that Tate had broken in "to cover his own ass," Holly objected. "That's not true!" Holly yelled before she passed out. Nicole caught Holly. Tate attempted to help Nicole ease Holly to the ground, but E.J. pushed Tate aside. E.J. lifted Holly to carry her upstairs, and he ordered the police to arrest Tate. Brady pleaded for help, but the police handcuffed Tate as Nicole and E.J. rushed upstairs with Holly.
In Holly's bedroom, Nicole confirmed that Holly's pulse was normal. "I told you, I'm okay," Holly said. Nicole wanted to call Sarah, but Holly insisted she was fine. E.J. asked Holly if she needed anything. "Please don't send Tate to jail. I promise you, he didn't do anything wrong," Holly said. Nicole told Holly that they would talk in the morning. Holly protested, but E.J. insisted that Holly rest. After Nicole and E.J. left, Holly thought about how Tate had warned her not to take the pills on New Year's Eve. Holly then thought about when Tate had asked her to tell the truth.
Downstairs, Tate pleaded with Brady to check on Holly and make sure she was okay. "I'm sure E.J. and Nicole have taken care of her," Brady assured Tate. Tate asked what would happen to him. As Brady started to explain that Tate would need to go to jail, Tate begged to return to the halfway house. "I can't help you here because my hands are tied. You broke into the D.A.'s house," Brady said. Tate asked Brady to talk to Nicole, but Brady noted it would not help. With a nod, Tate apologized. The police escorted Tate out of the house.
At the hospital, Steve, John, Ava, and Harris stood in the waiting area as the doctors attended to Tripp and Wendy in the ER. Rafe called Jada and confirmed that Tripp and Wendy were doing well. Rafe asked Jada to make sure that there was a thorough investigation at the prison before the night was through. "Any update on Clyde?" Harris asked. Rafe confirmed there was no news.
As Rafe and Harris stepped aside to talk about the investigation, Steve assured Ava that their son was in good hands. "We've got to trust the doctors," Steve said. "Speaking of trust, what the hell, Ava? We had a plan here," John muttered. Ava argued that Tripp and Wendy might have died if she had not "thought like Clyde."
Sarah interrupted to tell Steve and Ava that they could visit Tripp and Wendy. As Steve and Ava went in to visit Tripp, John went to check on Wendy. Sarah told Harris that she wanted to check on him. "Go talk to Wendy, and then meet me in exam room C," Sarah said.
In Tripp's hospital room, Ava and Steve were relieved to see Tripp was awake and alert. "How are you doing?" Ava asked. With a chuckle, Tripp said he was glad to be lying in a bed. "I don't think I've ever been that scared in my life," Ava said. Ava noted that Steve had saved Tripp's life. "It was a group effort," Steve said with a shrug. Steve caressed his son's face, and Tripp smiled at his father with tears in his eyes.
"You know, toward the end there, Wendy and I were for sure that we were going to die in that tank," Tripp confessed. Steve told Tripp that Wendy's ASL clue had tipped them off on where to look. Tripp noted that Wendy had acted on her own. "Thank God she did," Tripp added. "She's a very brave young woman," Ava whispered. Steve said he was thankful that Goldman had not noticed the signal, and he admitted that he had overlooked the signal at first.
In Wendy's hospital room, she said hello to John and Rafe when they walked into the room. Wendy thanked them for having saved her and Tripp's lives. "All in a day's work," John said. "Having you alive and well is all the thanks we need," Rafe said. Rafe offered to contact Wendy's parents for her, but Wendy said she had left her mother a voicemail to call her back. "And Tripp? He's okay, too?" Wendy asked. John confirmed that Tripp was okay and that he was with his parents. Harris slipped into the room.
"You feel up to talking about what happened?" Rafe asked. Wendy nodded yes. "Officer Goldman found Tripp and I at the geocaching event on Valentine's Day. And she told us that Tripp was in danger, that we had to follow her to a safe house for protection. She said it was a direct order from you, Commissioner," Wendy said. Rafe grunted with dismay. "We just learned that she was a bad cop," Rafe said. With a shake of her head, Wendy said she had been certain that Goldman had been a good cop.
"Kudos on that clue," John said as he made the ASL sign for beer. Wendy chuckled. "Well, it was one of the first words I learned to sign in my college ASL class," Wendy said. John joked that Wendy had earned a lifetime of free beer. Rafe laughed awkwardly, and he asked what he had missed. Wendy explained that she had signed the word beer in the background of the video that Goldman had recorded of Tripp.
"Wendy's quick thinking is what led us to the brewery," John said. Rafe was impressed. "Then again, maybe we would have found you sooner if Ava had just shared the video with us from the beginning," Rafe complained. Wendy asked Rafe not to be upset with Ava because Goldman had warned Ava not to tell the police. "But Ava knew she could trust me," Rafe said. Harris interjected to note that everything had worked out.
"I know that you're close with Ava. But if I find out she had anything to do with Weston's escape," Rafe said with a shrug. "Where is this coming from?" Harris asked. Rafe argued that it was suspicious that Clyde had escaped when Tripp and Wendy had been found. Harris asked Rafe if he had any proof to support his theory about Ava. "Not at the moment, but we both know what Ava is capable of," Rafe said. Behind Rafe, John sighed.
Harris met up with Sarah, and she examined him to make sure his stitches were intact. Sarah gave Harris prescriptions for an antibiotic and pain medication. "I would also prescribe bed rest, but I feel like I would be wasting my breath," Sarah said. "You would be," Harris confirmed. Sarah told Harris that she hoped he would get to the bottom of his shooting.
"You know that Xander has been held in jail without bail ever since you were shot," Sarah said. Harris averted his eyes, and he apologized. "I'm sure my fellow officers were just following the trail of evidence," Harris said. "The evidence that lined up perfectly to point a finger at Xander?" Sarah said. Sarah asked Harris if he had remembered who had shot him. "So far, I don't," Harris lied.
With a nod, Sarah wished Harris well, and she said, "I hope you do remember soon, because Victoria really misses her dad." Sarah noted that Xander was missing a lot of his daughter's firsts. Harris apologized again. "From a medical perspective, I do understand that your memory of that night might elude you, but you're a really experienced detective. So, I have every faith you'll keep investigating until you figure out who really did shoot you so that Victoria and I can bring her father home. Where he belongs," Sarah said.
After John talked to Wendy, he met up with Steve at the coffee cart in the hospital. "Those kids sure are resilient, aren't they?" Steve said. Steve noted that they could talk to Tripp and Wendy about their ordeal soon. With a shake of his head, John argued that they needed to move quickly. "No one knows who was involved in Weston's escape," Steve argued. "Rafe is suspicious of Ava," John said. Steve agreed that Rafe's investigation could implicate them. "We let the devil loose. God only knows what's going to happen next," John said.
In Wendy's empty hospital room, Rafe met up with Harris to talk about the case. "This investigation is going to be massive," Rafe said. Harris was eager to get to work, but Rafe ordered Harris to go home and rest.
Over in Tripp's room, Sarah wheeled Wendy in to see him. "You didn't think that they would keep me away from you for long, did you?" Wendy said as she stood up and hugged Tripp. Sarah left to give the couple privacy. With a grin, Tripp suggested a trip to Paris. "I would go anywhere with you, Tripp Johnson. But right now, I think I'm just fine being here. Looking into your eyes. Not having a panic attack. Not struggling to breathe," Wendy said. Tripp promised to make sure Wendy never had to experience that kind of trauma again.
In the hallway, Ava rushed into Harris' arms. "Thank you for everything that you did for my son," Ava said. "I know you were there for me a lot when I was unconscious," Harris said. Harris told Ava that her presence had helped him recover. "How are you feeling?" Ava asked. Harris said he looked forward to sleeping in his own bed. "How about my bed?" Ava asked. Ava told Harris that she wanted to make sure he had someone to take care of him. "I'd like to be that someone. Will you let me?" Ava asked.
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