EJ’s Life Hangs in the Balance—Who’s Lying About Their Alibis? The Truth May Shock You!

The cops are combing through the DiMera living room as JJ shows up, only to be told Jada’s MIA. Kristen comes rushing downstairs in her robe, asking if it’s true that someone shot EJ. She doesn’t look terribly upset. “Is he dead?”

No, JJ tells her. But before Kristen can rush over to her brother, JJ stops her to question her. “Where were you tonight?” Brady’s, Kristen says, but she doesn’t know how long. Yes, she says, she and EJ spoke briefly when she got home, but he was in “one of his moods.” She neglects to mention her gun.

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She went upstairs, took a shower and was drying her hair when a cop knocked on her door. “Why were you taking a shower?” Um, she always does before bed. And she doesn’t appreciate JJ insinuating she was washing off blood or gunshot residue. “My God! I would never try to kill him! Or anyone else for that matter!”

JJ points out all the people she tried to kill. So she points out all the people who’d want to kill EJ, and JJ thinks back to Gabi pulling a gun on him. She tells JJ to catch the attempted murderer and he warns her not to leave town. She wasn’t planning on it. She goes up to check on Rachel, pausing in the living room doorway.

Shawn Finds Jada In Rough Shape

Jada’s three or four rounds in at Small Bar when Shawn shows up and she happily says she hates drinking alone. She needs someone to celebrate the big news: Rafe kicked her out. She fills Shawn in on Rafe’s problem with her and blames herself for not figuring Arnold out. She’s really glad she ran into Shawn, though!

Yeah, about that… He tells her about EJ’s shooting. Jada sobers up fast as Shawn fills her in. Or she seems to until she almost falls over getting up. As Shawn grabs her to steady her, though, he notices her gun is missing. “Jada. Where is your gun?”

She’s not sure. Oh, wait! She locked it in her desk and… forgot to take off her holster? She hasn’t been thinking straight since Rafe kicked her out. Shawn tells her she’s too drunk to show up at work. It’ll be fine. Go home and sleep it off. She points out she has no home, so Shawn offers to take her back to his place.

Gabi Makes Leo Suspicious

Leo almost literally runs into Gabi rushing through the square, so she takes the time to passive aggressively insult him. Leo tells her to be extra vigilant, “there’s a killer amongst us. Somebody tried to murder EJ DiMera.” Gabi’s mouth drops open and asks what happened.

Leo says he didn’t get much out of the police, but they aren’t sure he’ll make it. “Good!” He deserves a ticket to hell. Wow. Leo’s surprised she hates him that much, so Gabi launches into every reason she detests EJ. Leo asks who she thinks did the deed.

“Whoever it is, they’re a hero in my book.” Leo wants to quote her for the paper, and she shuts down the “depraved Muppet,” saying he can’t or people will think she shot EJ. When Leo asks for an alibi, she just insults him until he agrees to keep her name out of it and heads home.

Alone, she calls the hospital asking for an update on EJ. But they won’t give her any info despite being a former in-law… and sleeping with him.

Javi Tries Talking Sense Into Rafe

Rafe gets home, cracks a beer and thinks about Gabi blaming everything on EJ. Javi dances into the kitchen, a bit happier than Rafe has the mood for. Rafe claims he went out to get beer, but Javi points out they had plenty. Javi sits down and asks his cousin what’s wrong.

“Nothing’s wrong,” Rafe shrugs as he drinks. Javi breaks out the cheesecake, not believing Rafe, so he admits he’s got something terrible on his mind, “That involves EJ DiMera.” But it’s not the shooting, he just tells Javi about Jada and Shawn.

Javi’s shocked, but he says it makes sense after what Arnold put her through. “She was devastated!” Her heart was shattered. “You need to forgive her.” But Rafe doesn’t know if he can. He goes through his “Why didn’t she know it wasn’t me” shtick, refusing to listen to Javi saying no one did.

They’re both still in love with each other Javi says, don’t take everything out on Jada. Direct his anger at EJ DiMera. “I already have.” But Rafe doesn’t want to talk about what he did, which is Leo’s cue to rush in and tell them about EJ’s shooting.

Rafe recalls planting the bug in the DiMera living room when Leo says that’s where EJ was shot. “I just remembered, I’ve got to go take care of something.” He leaves Javi and Leo wondering what’s going on.

EJ Takes a Turn for the Worse

Kayla fills Chad in, saying EJ’s stable, but not out of the woods. The bullet caused a lot of internal damage, but just missed his heart. She lets Chad in to see EJ, while Cat and Kayla talk about how difficult it must be for him. Cat thinks it’s just because of Abigail, but Kayla tells her about Clyde shooting and supposedly killing EJ before. Cat’s horrified to learn Chad already mourned EJ before.

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Chad sits by EJ’s bedside, reassuring him as he’s unconscious that Chad’s there and will always be there for him. “You’re my brother and I love you.” He called and left a voicemail for Susan, and spoke with Sydney and Johnny. But then EJ starts seizing as Chad falsely assures him Johnny will be there soon.

Kayla rushes in and kicks Chad out. He heads back to Cat, worrying that his presence upset EJ and blaming himself for printing the article that probably instigated someone to shoot him. Cat tells him to knock it off — EJ’s actions are responsible, not Chad. She hugs him when he says he’s just scared of losing his brother.

In the Show’s Final Moments

Jada thanks Shawn, but doesn’t think Rafe would like her going home with him. But Shawn points out that it’s a little late to tick Rafe off. He kicked her out and she has nowhere to go. So she agrees to go home.

Javi and Leo ponder where Rafe went and how strange he’d been acting. Javi says everything was off, from his body language to saying he’d make EJ pay. Leo wonders if he shot EJ, then mentions Gabi seemed happy to hear about his shooting, too. Gabi keeps checking her phone, hoping EJ died, when JJ finds her in the square. She asks if he has any idea who shot EJ, but JJ says it’s too early to know for sure.

Kristen looks in at the blood on the floor after everyone’s gone from the mansion. When she leaves again, Rafe sneaks in and grabs his wire from the statue. He, too, looks down at the blood. Chad gets a text from Kristen, but he doesn’t know what to tell her. Kayla returns, saying they had to put EJ in a medically induced coma to keep the seizures from happening.