ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Link Only BELLE IMPLICATED IN DALE'S DEATH, JAN SPEARS SMUG AS A BUG! Beware of Copycats! These are my words. There is only one DaysCafe :) REAL SEQUENCE WITH KEY DETAILS! - Rafe is crossing suspects off his list. Trask pressures him to solve the crime ... Stylish Marlena is pleased to inform John he will not face assault charges from Jan cos Belle made a deal with her. But that also means Belle will not press charges against Jan. John drawls over his dead body. Belle - the girl in the red coat - gives Shawn the same news at the station. Rafe wanted him to arrest Spears! He warns his confident wife Jan will go after her again - or Claire. Meanwhile Claire comes into Jan’s room to return her crystal and rage to rot in hell for what she did to Belle ... Trask talks Sami. Rafe insists she is innocent. She gets sarcastic about his connection to the suspects and starts to focus on Allie. She warns him he must find proof she is no killer before crossing her off the list ... Pretty Allie arrives at the pub with Henry. Roman is happy to see her and she admits she was avoiding him given what went down. He hugs her, glad she told the truth in the end ... John gets jumpy about Jan Spears, whom he believes will go after Belle ... Shawn is determined to go arrest Jan for breaking the law regardless of Belle’s deal ... Rafe reminds Trask innocent until proven guilty. She blasts him for believing Sami’s story about Allie and wants to bring the girl in. Rafe knows this girl. She wonders whether he would risk his reputation on Tripp too ... Tripp greets Roman and Allie. Roman smiles. He can see he is sweet on her. Tripp places an order for Kayla and Steve, to celebrate his return to their home. Roman heads to the kitchen. Tripp sits with Allie. He looks foward to returning to med school. Allie woefully blames herself for him missing so much time ... Marlena informs John that Belle is busy with Shawn and points out he is protective ... - Belle stops Shawn, who hates that Jan is on the loose again. He fears for Claire, but Belle believes everything will be alright ... Mad Jan grabs Claire’s arm until she shouts she is hurting her. Jan lets go and adds she wanted to apologize. Claire blasts her. Jan believes she came out of her coma a new woman. Sadly, no one seems to care she woke up. She feels she is all alone except for friend Claire. Claire denies they are friends. Jan slyly brings up Ciara and wonders whether they got close again. Claire complains Ciara denounced her. Jan acts sympathetic and argues her case for forgiveness. She wants to go back to being Claire’s friend and confidant ... Allie regrets almost ruining med school for good guy Tripp. He assures her they are in a good place and suggests a fresh start. She likes the sound of that ... Rafe explains to tough Trask that Tripp’s mother saw him walking away from Charlie’s red door. Ava was upset when she found Charlie inside, but she was sure Tripp did not enter the apartment. Tripp stated he did not. Trask takes Rafe to task for taking the suspects' stories at face value. However, if Rafe is right, then they are missing a visitor who might have been the murderer. Rafe now holds up bagged evidence he thinks could lead them to the killer. The red button - the one missing from Belle’s red coat! - Belle drapes her beloved red coat over a chair. Shawn warns Rafe will be enraged he cannot throw the book at Jan now. The pressure is on since the curious case of Charlie Dale’s death is unsolved. Belle wonders what they have. Shawn sighs all known suspects have been eliminated ... John wishes Marlena were as bothered about Jan as him. She is but does not like to hear him talking about killing someone. He brings up his struggle to remember what he did during his missing moments and asks Marlena to hypnotize him. He must know whether he is a killer ... Tripp asks Allie about herself. She smiles these days are all about Henry. She praises Tripp for knowing his passion and admits she does not know hers ... Jan boasts she brought Charlie and Claire together. Claire quips he raped cousin Allie. Jan is aghast. Claire adds he almost attacked her too! Jan wants to bash him with the big crystal. Too late. Claire coldly states Dale is dead ... Trask examines the button she believes belongs to a woman’s stylish and costly red coat. Time to connect it to the killer ... - Rafe is en route to the evidence room when he sees Shawn and Belle. He assumes Shawn picked up Jan. Belle will explain ... John tells Marlena he might have pulled the trigger and caused the gunshot he keeps hearing in his mind. Marlena insists it is not the case. He reminds her of his DiMera pawn past. Marlena protests. He implores her to help him find his truth. Marlena agrees but hopes she is not making a mistake ... Tripp lets Allie know it took a long road to arrive at this place in his life. Allie wants to find a job, but she is busy with Henry. Tripp insists he can babysit. Besides, he plans to be part of his little nephew’s life. Allie gazes at him ... Jan acts horrified to hear of Charlie Dale’s demise and wonders who did it. Claire admits the cops do not know. Jan reveals she too was raped as a young girl. She has not been the same since. Claire is sympathetic. Jan believes his killer really deserves a heroic medal ... Heroic John takes his seat in Marlena’s office. She wants this session unrecorded but John goes by the book. Marlena reluctantly places her small recorder on the desk and asks him to deep breathe. John shuts his eyes. And so it begins ... - Allie does not want to take advantage of Tripp. He wants to hold the baby, who spits up on his shirt. Allie feels awful and starts to unbutton it. Roman returns with the takeout and his eyes widen ... Marlena takes John back to that fateful night. She went to make tea and asks what John did then. He reveals he was enraged about what Charlie did. He remembers driving to his apartment and parking. He gasps he got out of his car. Then he walked up the stairs and found Charlie’s door ... Belle has told Rafe about her deal to protect papa John from Jan. Rafe watches while she gets her red coat on and notices a button is missing. Ooooo ... Henry throws his pacifier to the floor. Tripp and Allie reach for it at the same time and their hands touch ... Jan wants to go for dinner with Claire to a burger barn. Claire believes she is heading to the slammer instead. Jan gushes thanks to Belle she is free aa a bird ... Belle has no idea what happened to her button. Rafe holds up the evidence bag from Charlie Dale’s place. Shawn is horrified to see the red button is from Belle’s coat ... John reveals to Marlena he heard a voice and saw someone shoot Charlie when he opened his door. Charlie went down. John flashes back to the killer’s familiar red coat and hood. He is shocked to his holy core! STAY TUNED! Luv Cathy |
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