At the DiMera mansion, Chloe urged E.J. to talk to Nicole and Sami at Sami's apartment, but she would not say why. "The sooner you get there, the sooner you'll understand," Chloe said before running out of the house.

With anger burning in her eyes, Sami blocked the doorway of her apartment, barring Nicole from leaving. Backed into a corner, Nicole yelled at Sami that she was Sydney's mother and would not let Sami take the girl away simply because she was Sami's "property." "I will not let you stop me," Nicole bellowed as she grabbed a heavy glass decoration and made a motion as if she were prepared to hit Sami with it.

As the argument grew to a feverish pitch, Rafe walked in the front door with Sydney in his arms. Both women fell silent, and Nicole dropped the glass object to the floor. Nicole asked Rafe to give her "her baby," but Rafe corrected her and said Sydney was Sami's. Rafe gently handed Sydney to Sami, who wept tears of joy. Overwhelmed, Nicole cried in the corner of the room as she watched Sydney coo in Sami's arms.

"My beautiful little girl," Sami whispered. "She's mine," Nicole cried out and reached out to Sydney. Rafe stepped in front of Nicole and gently pushed Nicole away. Nicole begged Rafe to let her have her daughter, but Rafe quietly urged her to give up the fight. "I'm her mommy," Nicole countered, barely able to speak through her grief.

As Sami quietly held Sydney, a emotionally broken Nicole ran out of the apartment and straight into the arms of E.J. as he strode down the hallway. E.J. asked Nicole to tell him what was wrong, but Nicole could only shake her head and weep. Rafe walked into the hallway and said, "Go on and tell him. Or would you rather Sami do it? Maybe the cops should fill him in?" Scared, Nicole ran down the hall with E.J. in pursuit.

Rafe went back inside the apartment and sat on the couch with Sami. "You're back where you belong. I can tell you're happy," Sami said to Sydney. Sami confided in Rafe that she had always felt a warm feeling whenever she was around Sydney. Noting the sad expression on Rafe's face, Sami asked whether he was thinking of Grace. "It actually makes me feel closer to her," Rafe said. Rafe explained that he felt like Grace played some part in reuniting Sydney with Sami.

"It's because of you that I am holding my daughter in my arms right now," Sami said, noting that she could have lost her daughter forever if not for Rafe's help. Sami apologized for not trusting Rafe, and thanked him for not giving up on investigating Nicole. Rafe explained that he was happy to take away some of Sami's pain, and that he felt like a family again. "I love you, Sami," Rafe said as he pulled Sami and Sydney into his arms.

At the Kiriakis mansion, Hope and Ciara were coloring when Ciara demanded to return home. "Why can't we stay with daddy?" Ciara asked. Hope explained that even though they were living apart from Bo that they were still a family. Hugging her daughter tightly, Hope assured Ciara that everything was going to be okay.

At the police station, Justin looked over a fax and shook his head. "I don't get it. Why would you lie to us, Carly?" Justin said. After receiving a quick phone call from Justin, Bo arrived at the station with Carly in tow. With a smile on his face, Justin announced that Carly was not going to be deported, since someone had stepped forward and confessed to killing Lawrence.

Confused, Carly told Bo that she was the one that had killed Lawrence and no one else. After thinking about it for a moment, Bo theorized that someone was playing mind games with Carly and doing this to "toy with her life."

In the Java Café, Gus told Vivian that her plan to have another person confess to Lawrence's murder was complete. Unsure of Vivian's reasons for letting Carly get away with murdering her nephew, Gus asked her why. Vivian explained that she wanted to be the one to punish Carly.

At the Brady Pub, Mia cautiously walked up to Will and said hello. Will politely greeted her and asked about the paternity results. Mia told Will that Chad was not Sydney's father. "That's what you wanted the whole time, right?" Will said. Before Mia could say anything else, Will said that he needed to study. Nodding, Mia rushed outside.

In front of the Brady Pub, Mia ran into Maggie. When Mia told Maggie that Will hated her, Maggie assured Mia that Will was upset because there was a lot of information about her that he did not know. Maggie encouraged Mia to remember that she had done everything she could to protect her daughter. When Mia still looked unhappy, Maggie urged Mia to tell her the whole story. Mia admitted that there was more to the story but that she had promised Nicole that she would not talk to anyone about it. With tears welling in her eyes, Mia ran off down the sidewalk.

Back at Bo's house, Carly announced that she was going to pack her things and leave Bo's house. Bo urged Carly to realize that someone was attempting to flush her out and grab her. When Bo ordered Carly to stay, Carly told Bo that she would stay if he would take the time to repair his relationship with Hope.

Justin arrived home at the Kiriakis mansion and informed Hope that Carly was cleared of murder charges. Hope noted that under the mysterious circumstances of the murder confession that Bo would be worried about Carly and want to continue to protect her. Annoyed, Hope added that Bo had not told her about the news yet and that she was worried that Bo had chosen Carly over her.

Unsure, Justin told Hope that she was losing perspective. Hope argued that because Bo failed to call her with the news about Carly, it was evidence that things were not okay between them. Worried, Hope wondered aloud whether her marriage was ending. Scared, Hope hugged Justin as Bo watched from the doorway. "You have me and you always will," Justin assured her.

While Carly typed on the computer in the living room of Bo's house, there was a knock at the front door. Thinking it was the guard, Carly opened the front door to find Vivian instead. "Long time no see," purred Vivian.

Down on the docks, E.J. caught up to Nicole and grabbed her. Nicole struggled to get away, but E.J. demanded to know what was going on. "I'm being punished over and over again. And I've lost everything I've ever loved when all I was trying to do was to give you what was rightfully yours," Nicole cried out as she sank to her knees.

"What is rightfully mine?" E.J. asked. "Your daughter," Nicole whispered. Overcome with tears, Nicole clutched on to E.J. and pulled him close. Softly stroking her hair, E.J. told Nicole that although she was grieving, he did not want her to lie and say the child was his. Nicole told E.J. that she was not lying and that when he learned the truth, she hoped he would "see that I did the right thing."

"What are you talking about? You never do the right thing," E.J. said. Wiping away tears, Nicole told him that she was reuniting him, "with the daughter that Sami was never going to let you keep." Nicole admitted that she took Sami's daughter and gave her to E.J. Confused, E.J. reminded Nicole that Grace was dead. Nicole explained that Sydney was the daughter that Sami gave birth to and not Grace.

E.J. resisted believing Nicole, but Nicole explained that Sami also gave birth at the clinic that night. Angry, E.J. demanded to know all the details of the night of Sydney's birth. Nicole told E.J. that she learned from Chloe that Sami was pregnant and where she was hiding. Nicole continued that when she went to the convent to confront Sami that she heard her praying aloud that she would never tell E.J. about the baby.

Nicole explained the rest of her plan and how she switched the babies. "I knew it would all be worth it in the end because you would have your child," Nicole pleaded. "The child that Sami was gonna keep from you. I did this for you," Nicole said as she reached out to E.J. "You did this for me? You're gonna pay for what you have done," E.J. growled.

As police sirens filled the air, E.J. looked down at his wedding ring and noted that he must have held on to his ring out of "misguided loyalty." After flinging his ring into the river, E.J. turned on Nicole, grabbed her arm, and demanded to know where Sydney was. Nicole begged E.J. to let go of her arm so that she could run, but E.J.'s grip only grew tighter.

Crying out, Nicole admitted that Sydney was with Sami. "Your precious Samantha. The same Samantha who is always gonna keep you from your child and never let you have anything to do with her. The same Sami who will always want to be with Rafe and not you. That Samantha," Nicole screamed. As a hysterical Nicole grabbed her head and cried out about what could have been, the police arrived and handcuffed her.

After learning from the police that Nicole was being arrested down on the docks, Rafe and Sami arrived with Sydney. Stunned to see Sydney since he knew she was his real daughter, E.J. started to rush toward Sami, then stopped and turned to look at Nicole weeping.

Inside the Brady Pub, Chloe asked Will for Lucas' phone number at the rehab clinic. When Will objected, Chloe explained that she and Lucas shared a secret about Sami and that she needed to talk to him about it. When Will refused to give Chloe the phone number, Chloe changed her mind and said that she did not want to burden Lucas. Chloe told Will that the news was good and that he should find his mother.

After Will left, Chloe called Nicole's cell phone and left a voicemail message telling her how hurt she was by Nicole's lies. "It was one thing to think that you'd adopted a baby and pretended like it was yours and E.J.'s, but now to find out that the baby that you were trying to pass off as your own is Sami's, that Sydney is Sami's baby and not Mia's," Chloe said.

"Sami's baby?" Mia asked worriedly as she walked up behind Chloe. Mia pressed Chloe to tell her what was going on. As Maggie walked into the pub, Mia demanded to know why Chloe said that Sydney was Sami's baby. "Where is my baby, Chloe? Where is she?" Mia asked. Uneasy, Chloe remained silent. Maggie intervened and asked Chloe to tell Mia what was going on. "Tell her it isn't true, Chloe," Maggie said. Caught, Chloe turned and looked at Mia silently.