Days of Our Lives - Season 36 / Year 2003

Before Tony DiMera is brought in for questioning Roman questions Shawn. Sami tells Brandon she knows about his and Lexie's night together. Hope's condition has become worse and she sees Larry Welch practically everywhere.

John is interfering with the Colin Murphy case. Chloe suspects her leukemia is coming back.

Bradys and Blacks gather at Colin Murphy's wake, but do more badmouthing then mourning, as Belle points out uncomfortably while worrying about Shawn's silence, as he and Hope do about each-other's. When the twins find the DiMera family bible, Tony is relieved it's not Stephano's secret diary and insists the present, which they are, builds on the past, when John ruined several DiMera lives, but insists they should make the best of their own. Hope has another Larry-apparition, the real one watches outside, planning true grief for them; Marlena and Bo try to get her in therapy, she lies even to Shawn about overhearing Colin planning to shoot Bo. Brady can't stop Chloe worrying about her possible cancer-relapse. Shawn Sr rages at Tony DiMera who turns up with the twins (as Cassie couldn't wait to see Shawn), thinking Tony murdered Colin, so the old fool is told about John being his sibling and gets himself worked up to a heart-attack.

Roman and Bo try to convince Caroline that Shawn Sr. will recover, speculate about some link with the old secret in Ireland, and reproach John not to have told them he's Tony's half-brother. Cassie wants Belle's job, supporting Shawn; Tony warns the twins Bradys will always turn on DiMeras, and indeed John does so till Marlena pulls him away. Rex decides they still go to hospital, for Shawn's and Marlena's sake, but warns Cassie not to risk her friendship with Shawn by rivaling Belle. When Bart reports John no longer petitions to have Daphne dug up, Tony believes Marlena has become his unexpected ally and swears to destroy the Brady-clan, for one thing with the forged letter from Colin. Once the tests are conclusive, Dr. Craig Wesley releases Shawn Sr. to the family, stressing medication and no stress. When Marlena says she wants the feud with the DiMeras to end with her generation, John answers it's going to end soon, but that takes a war.

Lexie and Sami run into a difficulty at the hospital. Bo pushes Hope to tell him what's wrong. Chloe gives Shawn and Belle the news about her father. Kate and Roman find they have certain things in common.

Tony tries to use Sami to get to Marlena. Hope tells Bo about her problems. John has trouble accepting that he is related to a DiMera.

Marlena tells Tony she won't be a mother for the twins, who she believes to be ruthlessly abused as rarely ideal lab rats by Stefano and their own mother who probably sold them, nor neglect her own family; she is given a photo of the twins and runs off with it. Even in Jack's arms, Jen can't shake the memory of Colin kissing her, nor Hope the image of his corps; the two couples meet, still equally obsessed; Marlena joins them, hears both stories and accepts to help both women, but can't shake Tony's plea not to abandon the twins as their mother did. Meanwhile Larry enjoys spooking Hope in her garden, wearing corps make-up. Back home, Jen tells Jack she won't sleep alone, nor make love. Roman uses the handcuffs at Tuscany to force Kate into admitting she's attracted to him, she insists he's beneath her; once she's released, Tony sends her champagne, fishing for Stefano's secret, Roman 'coming to her rescue' makes her accept dinner with Tony, but when he resumes runs out on both men.