Photo: All of Salem is abuzz for Nick & Gabi’s wedding. But will it go through as planned?

‘Wedding wallop’

Everyone nearly falls out of their pews when Chad shows up at St. Luke’s to proclaim that Nick isn’t the father of Gabi’s baby. Rafe is furious and the traditional Salem wedding charades begin. Will watches his friend get beaten into the carpet until he finally decides he’s seen enough. He steps up and announces that he is the father. Sonny is shocked and runs away. Will is about to run after him when his dad demands some answers. He’s not the only one. Rafe doesn’t know what’s going on, but he’s not happy to catch Sami tearing into Gabi, accusing her of bamboozling her son. Sami and Rafe get into a brutal fight after she nearly clobbers his pregnant little sister. Sami runs off to cry on Elvis’ shoulder. Meanwhile, Lucas and Will babble all about Will’s past crimes and Nick just happens to overhear them. He assures Gabi that he’s got all of the ammunition they need to get what they want.
In the aftermath of the fiasco, Will attempts to mend things with Sonny. The Kiriakis admits that he still loves him, but that isn’t enough. Will mopes, finally running into his mother. They have an unpleasant conversation about what future he foresees for his child. Meanwhile, Chad picks his face off the floor and tries to apologize to Abby. She tells him to forget it. Cameron backs her up.
Marlena moans to Hope about how her relationship with John is in a shambles. She wonders how to fix it and make sure that Brady can see the truth about Kristen. Hope gets a brilliant idea. She decides to equip Marlena with a wire. The shrink heads straight for Kristen’s room. The DiMera lets her in and easily out-maneuvers the doctor in her head game. Kristen manages to sound innocent and sad, but is sure to flash a little note stating that she knows what Marlena’s up to. Marlena storms off. John winds up hearing the recording, which doesn’t make Kristen sound bad at all. However, it happens to include the doctor admitting that she knew Kristen was sleeping with Brady for some time and kept it a secret so to keep the DiMera out of John’s bed. He’s disgusted that she let his son be seduced because of her own insecurity and decides to leave town. Meanwhile, Brady finds the torn shreds of Kristen’s little note and wonders what the hell it is. He tries asking her but then passes out (!) She takes him to the hospital and Cameron reminds him that he recently had head his head kicked in. His girlfriend slips away to pay off the dudes who did it.
Chloe and Brady quickly reconnect. She’s shocked when she learns that he has hooked up with Kristen DiMera. The diva has a lot more pressing things to be annoyed and worried about. She finds Daniel kissing Jenn and that really makes her cringe. The doctor takes a break from the blond and uses his mouth to suggest that Chloe give Kate access to Parker. Chloe doesn’t like that idea, not one little bit. While she gets busy overreacting, Kate is already busy trying to find a way to get access to the child again. She tips Jenn off that there’s something the doctor ought to know: Chloe used to be a call girl. Jenn decides not to tell the clueless doctor. However, Chloe knows that she knows and decides to exploit it to her own advantage. She hooks up with Anne the Jenn hater to destroy the Horton’s career. Meanwhile, Kate kicks up her vendetta to have Chloe declared an unfit mother.
Updates:
Lisa Rinna was supposed to have exited the show a few months back. Look for her on the Apprentice TV show this March on NBC.
There had been fears that the last remaining soap on NBC would be cancelled this year. But Days of Our Lives has been renewed. Its new contract will expire in September 2014.
Twins Isabelle and Sahara Roberts filmed their last scenes as Sydney in December.
Darin Brooks is contemplating a return to Salem as character Max.

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