Philip?
Gabi.
I wasn't expecting you.
What are you doing here?
Is everything OK?
That depends on what you don't want me to see.
Mrs. von Leuschner?
Mm.
Oh, you must be the process server.
I've been expecting you.
Um, I don't know where my soon-to-be ex-husband is.
Uh, I don't think he's home.
Actually, ma'am, I have something for you.
Me?
You've been served.
No, maybe--
Come on, Leo.
How long are you gonna make me wait?
I told you you wouldn't find anything.
Now, would you please leave?
We actually did find something.
Remember that camera that we told you about,
The one we found in the DiMera crypt?
It's been sending a signal back to this house,
but more importantly, this tablet.
Where did you find that?
Upstairs in the guest room at the end of the hall.
Oh, that's interesting.
I've never seen it.
Mm.
Let me guess.
You're going to say it belongs to one of your servants,
or maybe your late son, Stefan.
No.
No one's been in that bedroom except, ugh,
Dimitri von Leuschner.
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Whatcha hiding, Philip?
Nothing.
Correction, nothing important.
Just work.
Mm.
I heard about Brady leaving Titan.
Are you planning on doing something with Basic Black?
Something that competes with Gabi Chic?
What?
No, nothing to do with that.
Then what does it have to do with?
I mean, Philip, you practically broke
the world's record by shutting a laptop when you saw me.
So I'd like to know, what is so not important that you
don't want me to see it?
Valentine's Day.
I was planning a special Valentine's Day surprise.
For you.
Aw.
This is a mistake.
You're supposed to be serving him with divorce
papers, Dimitri von Leuschner.
Do I look like a Dimitri to you?
I got two summons to be served at this address.
My god, the bloody bugger.
Well, I don't want it.
No can do.
Have a nice day.
You go to hell!
I guess I was wrong.
You're not coming back.
OK, so you're saying Dimitri von Leuschner was here?
Yes, he was.
When Stefan was ill, my nephew Nicholas brought
his reprobate cousin to visit.
For what reason?
It seems that Dimitri was at loose ends.
Something to do with his wife stealing his money.
And you didn't tell him to leave,
even though you hate him?
My son was dying.
I didn't have the energy to protest.
And he just happened to leave his tablet behind?
I suppose.
OK.
Look, from what we understand, Stefan died in October.
And was that when Dimitri left to let you mourn in peace?
Ha, I wish.
So he stayed?
For weeks,
until I put my foot down, had my private jet
deposit him in Salem.
I didn't even give him a chance to pack.
As a matter of fact, you can see his clothes
are still in the closet.
Yeah, we did see that.
Nonetheless, we're gonna need to talk to your staff,
just so we can corroborate your story.
Ugh, I have given you permission
to talk to anybody you want.
I have told you the truth.
Liam.
Abe, I--
I just want to--
Leave.
You're not welcome in my home.
Just please, please.
I just want to say how bad I feel for the part I played
in your son's kidnapping.
Valentine's Day?
Aw, that is so sweet.
I'm sorry I was suspicious.
Hey, it's OK.
So come on, what are you planning for V-Day?
And how would it be a surprise if I tell you?
But maybe it shouldn't be, since if I don't tell you,
your expectations may be too high,
and then you'll be disappointed.
Philip, I won't be disappointed no matter what.
But still, I am an impatient person, so I want to know now.
OK, then.
Ring... toss.
I'm sorry?
Since you were so into cornhole, I signed
us up for a-- get this--
Valentine's Day ring toss tournament.
It's a bunch of couples.
Every couple is a team, and for two straight days,
you just toss those rings like crazy.
Grand prize is, like, 500 bucks.
I'm just messing with you.
Thank god.
What I was thinking is, we could go away for the weekend.
But if that's too much too fast--
No, no, no.
I'd love that.
Phew.
Because the look on your face--
I was just messing with you.
I can't wait for our weekend getaway.
Is that everyone?
Yeah.
Fraulein Strauss was the last staff member on the list
we got from Bo and Hope.
And they all confirmed that Dimitri was here.
As did Nicholas Alamain when I called him.
I mean, is it possible?
Is it really possible that Vivian is telling the truth?
She knows nothing about the crypt kidnappings?
It's hard to say.
I mean, but her story tracks.
And if the DiMeras were rescued on Christmas Eve,
and then Dimitri was in Salem a week later, I mean,
it's very possible that he teamed up with Peter.
Peter is a direct heir.
And so is Dimitri's mother, Megan Hathaway.
And a bunch of other DiMeras.
That's right.
So if all the DiMeras--
the other DiMeras die in the crypt, Peter gets half the pie,
Megan gets half the pie.
She gives some to her son.
Or hell, she's MIA and doesn't want to be found.
Maybe she gives him all the money.
Yeah, but is Dimitri that greedy that he'd get involved
in a multiple homicide?
I mean, he already has the von Leuschner fortune.
Yeah, and look how hard he worked
and how far he went to get it.
I mean, I'd be happy with a fraction of that money.
Some people, give 'em all the money in the world,
and they're still not happy.
"The respondent has no claim to the petitioner's assets
or spousal support."
No claim?
Who the bloody hell does he think he is?
Mr. Von Leuschner?
Yes?
You've been served.
Thanks for saving me a second trip.
Hold on, what is--
"Equal division of all assets and $100,000
a month in spousal support?"
Over my dead body.
You're only sorry because you got caught.
Look, I needed the cash, OK?
Some guy asked me if I wanted to make some easy money.
He said all I had to do was put a bunch of food and water
in the DiMera crypt.
And move a sarcophagus.
Yeah, that too.
So some guy asked you stock a crypt
and move a concrete coffin, and that didn't
raise any red flags for you?
Look, I just wanted to get paid, OK?
I had no idea what was really going on, I swear.
But you figured it out eventually.
That kidnapping was all over the news.
It was-- damn it.
Damn it, Liam.
How could you?
How the hell could you?
Looking back, I do.
I see it was really stupid.
But at the time, like I said, it was easy money,
and all I could think about was providing for my kid.
Look, you have every right to hate me.
If someone had done this to my son, I'd--
I understand your anger, Mr. Carver,
and I know I've caused your family a lot of pain.
For that, I sincerely apologize.
Mm.
So where are we going on our romantic little trip?
Well, it's been pretty cold here,
so I was thinking somewhere with sun, sand, sea.
That sounds fabulous.
Any specific destination in mind?
How about the Beach Haven?
In Miami?
Is that a problem?
It's just, I once had a bad experience there.
Oh.
No worries.
Then we'll go somewhere else.
Plenty of places have sun, sand, and sea.
No, no, no.
We won't go somewhere else.
It would be great to replace those memories
with happy new ones with you.
You sure?
Yeah, I've always wanted to go to the Beach Haven.
And to be there on Valentine's Day with someone special?
I can't imagine a more wonderful way to celebrate.
Neither can I.
Well, you've conducted your search and your interviews.
Are you satisfied I'm telling you the truth?
Guess we don't have a choice.
We'll be in touch once we have the forensic analysis
from Stefan's grave.
Oh, no need.
I already know what the results will be.
OK.
Oh, before you go, I understand
that my only surviving son is dating your sister?
Philip and Gabi are seeing each other, yeah.
Well, that makes me very unhappy.
Mm.
Well, if that's because of what happened between Gabi
and Stefan, you should know that Gabi did nothing but love
him with her whole heart.
Let's go.
With pleasure.
Goodbye, Vivian.
Auf wiedersehen.
Oh, my.
Ugh.
It looks like you've dropped something.
Look, if there's anything I can do to make up for what
I've done, just tell me.
There's not.
But I understand the police want
you to come down and describe the man who
hired you to a sketch artist.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I'm gonna do that.
With any luck, getting this guy's face out there
will lead to his arrest,
keep him from hurting other people.
I'm going down to the station right now.
Don't play the hero with me, Liam.
I know that Rafe said he'd arrest if you don't show up.
I'd go even if he did.
You've been good to me, Abe.
I owe you and Theo at least this much.
I should probably let you get back to work.
I'm glad you stopped by.
But you never said why you did.
Right.
I got distracted, obviously.
So what's going on?
I have a favor to ask.
And I thought that I should do it in person.
OK.
I need you to call Vivian.
Oh.
No, no, no.
Anything but that.
Klaus, I've decided against tea.
I want champagne.
Those are a joke.
Honestly, you think you're gonna
leave me penniless after you lied
and cheated and humiliated me?
You-- you've got another thing coming, Dimitri.
You owe me.
You know, there was a time I would have agreed with you.
Oh, really?
Yes, we discussed this, don't you remember?
I could have divorced you right away
and kept the entire inheritance.
But I didn't, because I felt sorry for you--
and I thought you should enjoy some of the money.
Oh, wow.
How very charitable of you to just toss a few dollars
my way after you broke my heart.
You know, having an affair with some rando,
well, that was bad enough.
But with my best friend?
That was the ultimate betrayal.
That was unforgivable.
Fine, I admit it.
Hurting you the way that I did was--
well, it was horrible, and I had a lot of guilt over it
for quite some time.
But I don't regret being true to myself and who I really am.
Hang on a second.
Did you just say you had guilt?
Past tense?
Did I stutter?
Yes.
Any ounce of remorse that I might
have felt for you, any trace of pity or compassion,
it's all gone.
It vanished the moment you robbed me
of my freedom, my fortune, and the man I love.
We'll have forensics analyze everything
we got from Dimitri's room, get it dusted
for prints to back up Vivian's claim
that all the items were his.
Yeah, listen, I know we have to follow the evidence.
But if this guy's trying to pull off a mass murder,
it doesn't really make sense that he's gonna
leave all his stuff behind.
Vivian said she kicked him out in a hurry,
and the staff backed up her claim.
Yeah, but can we trust Vivian's current employees
to tell the truth?
Let's see what a disgruntled former employee has to say.
Why-- why do you want me to call Vivian?
Well, remember I told you that Rafe was going
to Alamainia to question her about the DiMera kidnappings
and to try and confirm Stefan's death?
Of course.
He went with Eli, right?
They took the red-eye last night,
and I'm sure that Rafe will fill me in as soon as he can,
but this is Vivian Alamain we're talking about.
I mean, what are the chances that she's
gonna tell him anything?
But if you were to ask her about Stefan,
you and Vivian have such a special relationship.
That's one word for it.
Look, Gabi, I know how much you want closure.
And if it were anything else, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
But this, Gabi, I can't.
Why not?
Well, because Vivian and I aren't exactly
on speaking terms since--
You told Xander the letter was a forgery?
Why the hell would you do that?
Because I thought you needed to be reminded that Mommy
Dearest calls the shots.
You and Vivian aren't exactly on speaking terms since what?
I have returned.
Oh, hello, sweetheart.
Ah, ha-ha.
So how's our boy doing?
I just checked on him.
He's sleeping.
Oh, well, when he wakes up I have a surprise for him.
His favorite ice cream.
Got some sprinkles, too.
Oh, Theo's gonna love that.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, I just hope he doesn't get brain freeze.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, Abraham.
I know I shouldn't joke about things like that.
It's-- it's fine.
It's all right.
I just-- after everything that's been going on,
I'm just not in a laughing mood.
Oh.
Well, what happened? Is it Theo?
No, no.
Theo's fine. Theo's fine.
Liam Selejko was just here.
What?
Why?
Came to apologize.
Oh. Ooh.
The only thing that makes me
madder than that-- that lowlife came to our home
was that I wasn't here to give him a piece of my mind.
I hope-- I hope you put his punk behind out the door.
Well, not before I gave him a piece of my mind.
And he wanted to know if there was any way he
could make up for what he did.
Yeah, he can do a nice long stint in Statesville.
Well, the first order of business
is for him to work with a sketch artist,
and he's down at the station as we speak.
Put this in the freezer.
I got somewhere to go.
Paulina.
Oh, one last thing.
The guy had a scar on his left cheek, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
Definitely on his left cheek.
Is this the man who hired you?
Bro, it sure is.
Klaus.
Here you go, Madame.
Thank you.
Congratulations on a job well done.
Oh, I saw the FBI agents depart.
Did they believe your story that Dimitri was staying
here as your cousin's guest?
I don't think they wanted to.
I could see the wheels turning in those tiny little brains
trying to poke a hole in my story.
But this, uh, Gwen woman was very clever.
She had shipped all Dimitri's things
here from his actual location.
Very fortuitous.
Mm.
That tablet among them will have
his fingerprints all over it.
So they fell for it?
Hook, line, and sinker.
It's unfortunate, though, that they
found the camera in the crypt.
Yes, but you see, Gwen and I have interests that
are aligned, so they'll never be able to prove
I had anything to do with it.
Oh, god.
For the millionth bloody time, I didn't rob you of anything.
I haven't known where you are and I haven't known what you've
been up to, nor do I care.
Brava, pretending that this is all just so boring
when we both know that you are sweating
bullets because you have been cut off
and you are broke as a joke.
I'm not sweating anything, love.
Have you read my petition for divorce?
Oh, yes.
Equal division of assets and $100,000
a month in spousal support?
You must be out of your mind.
Out of my mind with the pain and bloody suffering that you
just admitted you caused me.
There isn't a judge in the world
who would deny me that money.
And there is no judge in the world
who would deny me after they find out that you kidnapped me.
Oh, god.
Will you just get over yourself, give me what I
deserve, and be done with it?
What you deserve is to be locked up in a cell.
And once that's completed, I will be done with it.
Dimitri, you need to listen to me, OK?
You need to stop beating this drum, because you are making
an utter fool of yourself.
There is not one person, and I mean not one person,
who believes this ridiculous story that you've
spun up for yourself.
She's late.
This is another one of Vivian's games,
and she's jerking us around?
No, I don't think so.
Bo and Hope tracked this woman down, vetted her,
said she's on the level.
Besides, evidently there's no love lost between her and her
former boss.
Lydia Bauer?
Are you the agents I was told to meet?
Yeah.
I'm Agent Eli Grant.
This is Agent Rafe Hernandez.
Uh, we just want to ask you a few questions.
First, you must promise me that Madame will never find out
I spoke with you.
She can be extremely vindictive.
Yeah, trust me, we know.
And we promise you that you will be protected.
All right.
Go ahead.
When was the last time you were at the Alamain estate?
About a year ago.
That's when Madame fired me.
For what reason?
Fell and broke a tea set.
Never mind I tripped over a pair of shoes
she left in the middle of the room, or that I broke my arm.
It was just, get out, don't come back.
Mm.
Sounds like Vivian.
And so what do you know about Dimitri von Leuschner?
Uh, who?
A man Vivian claims was staying with her about
a year ago, possibly against his will.
There was a man staying against his will.
But his name wasn't Dimitri.
What was it?
Stefan DiMera.
Looks exactly like him.
So you're the degenerate snake who was
ready to have my stepson die?
Aren't you the mayor?
Yes, I am.
I am also Abraham Carver's wife,
and I suspected from the jump you were bad news.
But my husband, he gave you the benefit of the doubt.
He believed in you, only to have you deceive him, take
advantage of his kindness--
I-- I apologized.
Too damn little, too damn late.
You knew Theo had been kidnapped along
with all those other DiMeras and didn't
say a word to the police.
In my book, that's aiding and abetting.
And if it were left to me, I'd have you locked up right now.
But I'm cooperating.
See, look, I did this sketch.
This is the guy who paid me.
What else do you want from me?
A pound of flesh would be nice.
Ugh. So what happens next?
We'll run this through our database
and see if we get any hits.
Well, that's a drawing, not a photo or fingerprints.
What's the likelihood of a match?
Well, Liam gave a pretty good description.
If he's got a criminal record, we'll find him.
Just hope he doesn't find me first.
So you're certain no one saw you in Salem?
- Yes, I'm certain. - Mm.
And you don't think there's anyone who
would connect this back to us?
Especially me.
I was careful, I swear.
Trust me, no one in Salem knows of Madame's involvement.
Mm.
Because I don't want any loose ends.
Understood?
Understood.
I don't care if anyone believes me.
In fact, I am done begging idiotic law enforcement
like Rafe Hernandez to do their job,
to investigate what happened to me.
I don't need them.
I don't need anyone.
I was an ISA agent, for god's sake.
I know exactly what I'm doing.
Oh, goody for you.
What are you gonna do?
You're gonna go buy a little magnifying glass
and go around everywhere looking for clues?
I'm going back to Alamainia, and I'm going to find
the estate that I was held on.
You can't be serious.
Oh, yes.
And once I pinpoint the exact location,
I will find a witness who saw me there,
and then I will hire the world's greatest
forensic accountant to trace exactly where
the payments were coming from.
I will devote every single last waking
moment to making sure that you pay for what you did to me.
And now that the investigation is in my hands,
it's gonna move a hell of a lot faster.
So if I were you, Gwen, I would start
saying my goodbyes, because your life
as you know it is over.
Let's just say Vivian and I had a big falling out.
And if I call her, she'll think I'm
open to communicating with her again, which I am not.
So you cut her off completely?
What happened between you two?
It wasn't one specific incident.
I just had enough of what a crazy, toxic bitch she is.
Mm.
I hear that.
Vivian is like this black cloud of negative energy
and I don't need that in my life.
I don't need her in my life, so I closed that door for good.
Makes sense.
I just wish Stefan had done the same.
If only he had closed the door on her, too.
Stefan DiMera?
Vivian's son? Are you sure?
He was staying in the guest room upstairs,
the one at the very end of the hall.
OK.
So he was being held there against his will
by his own mother?
Stefan told the staff the witch kidnapped
him from his hometown.
Um, a place called Salem.
OK.
So-- so how did this, uh, imprisonment work?
Was Stefan being restrained?
No.
He was free to move about the estate,
but someone was watching him at all times.
And he wasn't allowed any outside contact whatsoever.
No phone, no email?
No talking to anyone--
well, except for the people that worked for Madame.
I felt so bad for him.
Was he in poor health?
He seemed fine the last time I saw him.
He was eating well, exercising.
That was about a year ago.
Uh-huh.
Are you aware that Stefan passed away a few months ago?
What?
No.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
He was such a nice man.
I was praying he'd make it home to his wife.
His wife?
Well, Stefan said his mother hated her,
was determined to keep them apart.
So Stefan didn't want to leave Salem, or Gabi.