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Most of the week was devoted to Valentine’s Day continuing on from last Friday. Steve and Kayla, Alex and Stephanie, Leo and Javi… You get the drift. But once we finally got to February 15th, things moved fast — though they’re far from wrapped up!

I don’t see any world in which Mrs. Choi will be remotely OK with Johnny and Chanel adopting her grandchild. Heck, I got into that inevitable mess last week! And even if she somehow was, as they pointed out, they’re family, they live right in town and Amy is going to make life for them hell by constantly butting in. They jumped from “may not be able to have a baby” to “let’s take my cousin’s” way too fast, and I think it’s time to step back and just… think about it for a bit.

I can understand Sarah being upset at Philip moving in. They’re going to be talking about the letter left and right out in the open now, and there’s only a good dozen times Xander can almost overhear them before he starts catching on. And that’s about the only way I can see this coming out. Philip is spot on that the longer Sarah keeps this quiet, the less likely it’ll be she’ll talk. “You knew for a year and never said anything” is so much worse than “You knew for a week and didn’t tell me??”

Mind Eraser

Earlier this week, I got into why Ava will, inevitably, not press charges about what happened to her, and her overly empathetic response to Kristen leaving her there (“She was doing it for her daughter.”) convinced me even further that she’ll keep her mouth shut about what happened to the authorities. Rafe, though, is a wrinkle I wasn’t expecting.

With Kristen bursting onto the scene at the end, I’m going to guess she ends up injected with the super memory erasing serum. Next week’s spoilers are vague enough with Kristen needing help with a problem, that she could very well be the one who gets stuck. Except we’ll find out it’s too strong and it wipes all of her memory. EJ, meanwhile, will re-subdue Rafe (again), then get Kristen home and play dumb about why she’s a blank slate.

After that, I’d say little Rachel’s going to find out what happened, blame Uncle EJ for her losing her mommy and shoot him. (If not, we’ve got a handy list of potential suspects we’re going to keep updating and adding to until the shooting plays out.) Maybe with EJ and Kristen out of commission, that’ll be what brings Tony and Peter Blake back to Salem. Yes, I’m convinced Peter’s coming back.