document: Will: [exhales, sniffles]
  [Somber, emotional music]
  [sniffles]
  Marlena: I was so honored to be asked to officiate here today. It isn't often that we get to be part of such a completely joyous occasion. This wedding in particular holds a unique place in our lives... and a very, very special place in my heart.
  [Soft, emotional music]
  Abe: Do you, marlena, take john to be your lawfully wedded husband, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, forsaking all others... for as long as you both shall live?
  Marlena: I--
  Woman: Don't! [Running footsteps] No...no, you can't! You can't!
  [Commotion]
  Marlena: Sami!
  Sami: No...you can'T. Mom, you can't marry him.
  Marlena: What's going on? What is the matter with you?
  Sami: [Breathing hard, crying] You have to listen. Please listen. You have to listen--you have to listen to me.
  John: What kind of stunt is this?
  Marlena: What are you talking about?
  Sami: You can't--
  [Panting]
  Will: What are you doing here?
  Sonny: I was just going to get my car. Are you all right? Are you crying?
  Will: No. I'm fine.
  [Sniffles]
  Sonny: That's clearly not true, will. I mean, what are you doing here? Why aren't you at the wedding?
  Will: Just needed some... I just needed some air.
  Sonny: Well, I-it's an outdoor wedding--
  Will: Yeah, I know. I needed some, um... well, I'm dehydrated or... I feel weird or something--
  Sonny: Okay.
  Will: That's all. [Stammers] I'm gonna get some water.
  Sonny: Okay. But I'm gonna go with you.
  [Sami grunts]
  Marlena: Sami! Sami, what are you doing here? Y-you said you couldn't make it.
  Sami: I had to stop you.
  Marlena: What is this? Are you drunk?
  Sami: Y-you ca--you can'T... get married.
  Marlena: Oh, that's--this is old. It's old. You can't have a problem with john after all these years.
  Sami: No--no, no! No, it's not--it's not-- no, abe, y-you can'T...you can't pronounce them...[Gasping] Husband and wife, or sh--or she's gonna die.
  [Dark, off-key notes]
  Male announcer: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the "days of our lives."
  [Soft orchestration]
  Marlena: Sami. Sami! You're not making any sense.
  Sami: She thought she outsmarted me, but I figured out her plan!
  John: What--whose plan?
  Sami: And...and...she thought she tied me up and that she could stop me, but she didn'T. I got away!
  Eric: Sami, sami, I want you to calm down.
  Sami: No--what? What? No! [Panting] No, y-you have to go. She's here! She's here somewhere! You have to...go mom!
  Marlena: Sami, please--
  Sami: She's gonna kill you!
  John: Sami, who are you talking about?
  Eric: Everything's gonna be okay. Why don't you and I--we're gonna get outta here, all right?
  Sami: No! What? Do you think I'm drunk? I'm not drunk! I'm not crazy, I'm not drunk, eric. She drugged me!
  Kayla: Sami, sami, sami, why don't you let valerie and me take you to the E.R., Okay?
  Sami: What? No, no! I can't go, 'cause I have to stop her. She's here, and I have to stop her before she...does something. [Overlapping comments] She's gonna...do something to you.
  John: All right, no, you're right, you're right. I believe you. Now just tell me: Who exactly are you talking about?
  Sami: John, john, john, she's here! She is here!
  John: Who is she? What is--
  Sami: She's here somewhere!
  [Overlapping voices]
  Marlena: Stop it!
  Eric: Sami, stop--
  Sami: Take her out of here, john!
  [Overlapping voices, commotion] [Sami muttering] Oh, god!
  Marlena: Sami, please!
  Sami: She's here!
  Eric: Sami--
  [Overlapping shouting]
  Sami: She's gonna get away. Oh! Oh, it's you! I told you you are not gonna get away with this!
  ["Susan" shrieking]
  Eric: Sami!
  "Susan": Get away with what? Dr. Evans, your daughter--I know I shouldn't say this, but your daughter's out of her mind!
  Sami: What?!
  [Overlapping shouting, commotion]
  "Susan": Dr. Evans!
  Sonny: Feeling better? You need me to...take you to the hospital or anything?
  Will: No. I'm fine. Um... why don't--you know, you--you should probably go back, 'cause I'm gonna--I'm--I'll be fine.
  Sonny: Will.
  Will: What?
  Sonny: I know you don't remember us being together... but I do. And when something is really bothering you, you keep looking away... like you're doing right now. And when I knew something was really bothering you, I would not back down until I figured out what it was. One way or the other. Hey...why don't you save us both a lot of time and just tell me... what happened?
  Will: [Sniffles] I remembered our wedding.
  Sonny: [Exhales] Wow.
  Will: Yeah. Wow.
  Sonny: Just now? [Sniffles] You...were at the-- at the wedding, and--and it triggered something?
  Will: Yeah. I was looking at my grandmother...and... she looked so happy. Just as happy as she was that day.
  Sonny: The day she married us.
  [Both laugh]
  [Soft, stirring music]
  Will: Oh, I got--I gotta go. I'm sorry. I'm sorry if I'm worrying you.
  Sonny: No, no, will, no, please, please, don't--don't go, okay? You have to tell me everything you remembered--all of it!
  Will: I can'T. I can'T. I can't right now. I can'T.
  Sonny: No, this is--hey, will, this is what I've been waiting for! This is what we've been waiting for.
  Will: I know, look, sonny, i can'T. I can't right now. Can we talk about it later?
  Sonny: No! What if you lose it? You have to stay with it, because I--
  Will: No--[Stammering] I'm not gonna lose it, but I'm telling you I can'T. This is not the right ti--
  Sonny: No, this matters! This matters, you--okay? I'm sorry...but it matters.
  Will: I-I know it matters. But I just left my grandma's wedding. She's gonna be wondering where i am, you know?
  Sonny: You mean paul. Paul's gonna be wondering where you are.
  Will: Yeah. Paul too.
  Sonny: Okay, okay. So it's bad timing...okay? But think about it. Why did you remember right now? Why did it freak you out so much that you had to leave?
  Will: I don't know.
  Sonny: Why are you scared to talk to me about this?
  Will: I don't know.
  Sonny: Why are you scared to tell me what you remembered?
  Will: I-I-because it's-- it'S...sonny, it's still, it's-- it's fragments, that's all. That's all it is. It's fragments.
  Sonny: You know what I think? I think you remembered what happened, but not only that... you remember what you felt... about me.
  [Intense emotional music]
  [Susan shrieking]
  Marlena: Everybody, please, please calm down.
  Susan: Calm?! Calm! She's trying to kill me!
  Sami: I'm trying to stop you! Get her out!
  Eric: Sami, it's me! I want you to let go of susan. Nothing's gonna happen to mom. You're ruining the wedding!
  Sami: Ruining? You're trying to kill the bride, and I won't let you!
  Susan: No, I'm here to make amends! [Screaming] I was invited!
  Marlena: Sami, it's true. She was invited. I invited her. I spoke to her doctors. She's okay now. It isn't the same susan that you know.
  Sami: But she's not susan at all!
  Will: [Sighs] Okay. O-okay. I'll tell you. But--but--but... but if you're asking how I--how I feel--I feel lucky. Because I love paul, and paul loves me.
  Sonny: Okay...I know. A-and I might be--I might be treating you a little unfair right now, okay, but what happened to you wasn't fair. You were robbed of your own past, and that is different than running from your past, will. And that's what you're doing right now. I mean, does loving paul depend o-on forgetting about me?
  Will: Bastard.
  Sonny: Only when--only when i have to be.
  Will: Okay. Okay. Like I told you, I-I was looking at marlena, a woman who I met very recently. But then...all of a sudden, i was looking at my grandmother who... who I've known my whole life, and who I've loved and who's loved me since I was a baby. And yeah, her at our wedding... and I felt the love. I felt her love and all the people who were there, I felt... their love.
  Sonny: And?
  Will: And... and you.
  Sonny: [Laughs, sobs]
  Will: I-I felt your love... a-and I felt my love for you.
  Sonny: Ohh... what? Just tell me. Did you--did you remember... that you didn't think you could find any kind of love... let alone the love you found with me?
  Will: E.M. Forster once described love as two imperfect souls coming together to create something close to perfection. I feel like that every day. And I'm pretty sure I carry most of the imperfection in this equation.
  Sonny: Not true.
  Will: I respect you, I admire you, and I adore you. And most of all, I love you, sonny. I, jackson, take you, will...
  Will: To be my lawfully wedded husband.
  Sonny: I promise to love and honor you through good times and bad...
  Will: Through sickness and health...
  Sonny: For richer or poorer...
  Will: As long as we both shall live.
  Sonny: As I give you this ring...
  Will: So I give you my heart.
  Marlena: May the love you share be a bond... that brings you strength, comfort, and joy all the days of your lives. It is my pleasure to pronounce that jackson steven kiriakis and william robert horton are husbands for life.
  Will: Husbands for life.
  Sonny: [Emotionally] Yes. You remembered. Ohh! So y-you remember what happened after that, then, right?
  [Soft music]
  [Sami and susan screaming]
  "Susan": I'm susan! I'm susan! The one that brought your son back from the brink of death! Huh? Sami, I-I'm sorry if you don't like the sight of me. I know what it's like to not be in your right mind--I do.
  Sami: No, mom, you can't believe her--she's crazy!
  "Susan": You're the one who's crazy. You are! You sicced a serial killer on your own son. No one's gonna believe a word outta your lying mouth!
  Sami: I'll show them--
  John: Hey, hey, hey, hey!
  Steve: Whoa!
  [Overlapping shouting, commotion]
  [Escalating voices, yelling]
  [Whack]
  [Crowd gasps]
  Brady: Sami!
  John: Whoa!
  [Suspenseful music]
  Marlena: Oh! Oh!
  John: Oh, my god.
  [Suspenseful music]
  Marlena: Kristen!
  Kristen: Yes, that's right, ladies and gentlemen. Kristen dimera is back.
  [Dark, suspenseful music] Got directions to the nightclub here.
  Kristen: Yes, I am back...
  [All gasping, exclaiming]
  John: Hey, hey, hey.
  Kristen: [Chuckles] Wow! [Chuckling] I just, see, I thought to myself... "a wedding. What do I bring, hmm?" Something borrowed, something lethal? And I realized that you might not welcome me in my true persona, and I remember how salem's graying secret agent men are always ready to spring into action, so I brought this to level the playing field.
  Eric: Kristen.
  Kristen: Eric. Wow, long time no see.
  Eric: Listen, let me get her out of here.
  Kristen: Oh, no, that's not gonna work for me.
  Eric: She needs a doctor!
  Kristen: She's just on some drugs--she'll bounce right back. Just like you did, remember? Jennifer... ya love his birthmark, or what?
  Sami: [Whimpering]
  Belle: Can you get to the phones?
  Shawn: No. Kristen--or susan or whatever her name is--she took them out. I saw her.
  Kristen: Excuse me. If you have something to say, we say it to the whole group! My guess is you were talking about the basket of phones. Yeah, I overheard the kid tell shawn and abe that marlena--she wanted everyone to give up their phones. I couldn't believe my ears! She didn't want to have her ceremony interrupted, and i didn't want anyone calling for backup. That is so great. We both got what we wanted! [Sighs] Isn't it nice? It's nice, isn't it? Talking to old friends, no one sneaking a peek at their screens and no one saying, "oh, I'm sorry, I have to take this." [Women screaming] Easy...cyclops. Easy. We don't want anyone to get hurt. We don't want anyone to get hurt unintentionally.
  Marlena: So kristen dimera... back from the dead. Like father, like daughter, hmm?
  Kristen: Well, thank you.
  Marlena: That wasn't a compliment. You came by my house. You played some mind games. That is so like stefano.
  Kristen: No, that really was susan. Dear, delusional, orthodontically challenged susan.
  Marlena: Then you played her. You manipulated her.
  Kristen: Well, I-I did, uh, pay a visit to her on new years eve.
  Marlena: Then what she said was true. You were the reason for her relapse.
  Kristen: Well, it's not that hard. Her reality is, what, a little tenuous?
  Marlena: Oh, I get it. You're the poster child for mental health.
  Kristen: Sticks and stones, doc. Does he still call you that? I saw you up there droning on about the nature of love, sweet... [Laughing] Nauseating love. Oh, and the endless parade of weddings. So tell me, how many fondue pots do you two actually have?
  John: Get to the point. What do you want?
  Kristen: Ask sami. She's been trying to tell you.
  Marlena: Oh. You're after me.
  Kristen: The astute dr. Evans does it again. Yes, that is right. You pushed me out of that tower window. You left me there for dead, but I survived. You, however... will not be so lucky.
  [Murmuring, soft exclaiming]
  [Suspenseful music]
  [Soft music]
  Sonny: Are you--are you okay?
  Will: Yeah, I'm okay. It's just like the memories... keep coming, though. Like, I remember the whole wedding. I remember our reception. I remember grandma caroline. Oh, my god, I can see her face so clearly. [Stammering] I remember the beautiful speech she--she--she made... oh, I-I can feel all the love for my family and their love for me.
  Sonny: What?
  Will: [Whispers] My mom.
  Sami: Oh, my gosh, we are so proud of you.
  Will: Oh, for what? I mean, I just got lucky, so...
  Sami: No, you didn'T. You are a fantastic person, and that's how you ended up with a great partner and... and such a special little girl. It's because of you. Despite your dad and I, you--
  Will: All right, come on, hold on, [Laughs] Hold on.
  Sami: No. No. You don't have to try and make it okay for your dad and me. This is your day. This is your day for us to tell you how incredibly lucky we are to have you as a son and... and despite everything--
  Will: Okay, okay--I'm sorry. Can I say one thing? Since it's my...my day?
  Sami: [Laughs] Fire away.
  Will: Um... one thing that I learned from you and dad is...is how important family is. And that it's worth fighting for.
  [Sami laughs softly]
  [Quiet, emotional music] It's worth fighting for.
  John: Kristen. Did you listen to what you just said? You survived. You got your life back. I don't think you really want to go through with this anymore.
  Kristen: Actually, I kinda do.
  John: Just put the gun down. Come on.
  Abe: Look... we can end this peacefully without anyone getting hurt. Just...just let it go.
  Kristen: You won't let it go. You will never let this go.
  Marlena: If you put down the gun, I will not press charges.
  Kristen: How dare you? You won't press charges after you threw me to my death? [Scoffs] You didn't give me one thought after that. You are the worst excuse for a human being that I have ever met in my entire life. It's time for payback. It's finally time you got yours. I chose this day, specifically your wedding day, to end your life. You and john are on the verge of happily ever after? [Sighs] It ain't gonna happen, lady. Not ever.
  [Voices rise]
  [Intense music] With uncontrolled moderate-to-severe eczema,
  Sami: Do you believe me now? She said--she said she was gonna kill you as soon as you were married, and that is why--that is why I had to stop the wedding.
  Eric: All right, sami
  Kristen: Sami, I have plenty of bullets...so if you don't get out of my way, I will take you out too.
  Sami: I'm not going to let you kill my mother.
  Kristen: You can't stop me. No one can stop me.
  Brady: That's not really true, is it? You could stop this anytime you wanted to.
  Kristen: Brady. I hoped you'd be here.
  Will: [Laughs] It's hard to imagine anyone forgetting my mom.
  Sonny: Yeah, I mean, she's, uh...formidable.
  Will: Yeah. She's so much more than that. I remember coming out to her. I remember how disappointed she was...and scared.
  Sonny: I mean, she--she did come around.
  Will: Yeah... she did, I remember that. That's because my dad-- oh, my god! My dad! I remember my dad! I-I-I remember how--how supportive he was about me coming out. Until...until he found out about us.
  Sonny: Yeah. My mom was the the same way--she wasn't that big of a fan of us. I don't know if you remember that part or not, but...she also came around.
  Will: Yeah. So did my dad. He ended up...being really happy for us.
  Sonny: That's the important thing.
  Will: Man... I took so long figuring things out, I didn'T... didn't make it easy on them.
  Sonny: Well, I mean, it wasn't easy on you...being their kid.
  Will: Yeah. I remember blaming them my entire childhood for not being the perfect couple. All I wanted...was for my parents to be together. You know, I wanted that... that perfect, happy family. But now I know that there's really no such thing as... perfection, you know? At least not when it comes to family.
  Sonny: Well, perfection could be boring.
  Will: Yeah. My folks were-- [Laughing] My folks were never boring. [Sniffles] My...my dad's an alcoholic. He's been married a bunch of times, and...my mom is...
  Sonny: She'S...sami.
  Will: Ha. Oh, my god, I was horrible to her. I was--I was not--not big on forgiveness where she was concerned.
  Sonny: Yeah, but she also did some things that are...kinda hard to forgive.
  Will: Like...having ben strangle me a second time so that maybe I'd get my memory back?
  Sonny: Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's vintage sami.
  Will: She did it 'cause she loves me.
  Sonny: Fiercely.
  Will: Fiercely. Like I love her.
  Brady: You're doing that thing again, kristen...that dimera thing where you list all the terrible things that everybody has done to you, but you kinda skip over what you've done to everybody else. Like stealing someone's child.
  Kristen: My child.
  Brady: And how about the second before you went out that window, you had that gun aimed at marlena just like you are now, yet you wind up being the victim every time. You know that I know you better than anyone in this room. I even know the piece of you that's trying so hard not to come out right now-- the woman that just wants to be loved, that just wants to be a mother. That just wants...love herself. But what screwed all that up? Hmm?
  Kristen: You did.
  Brady: You sure?
  Kristen: [Softly] I did.
  Brady: Your need for revenge did. You remember, don't you, when we talked about adopting our own child and having a family? We were that close.
  Kristen: Till you changed your mind.
  Brady: Why? Why did I change my mind?
  Kristen: Because of what i did to eric. [Crowd gasps, exclaims] Eric.
  [Intense, suspenseful music] You just made a very big mistake!
  [Suspenseful music]
  Kristen: I was here to get marlena...and that's all. But you, brady, you just...took me down painful memory lane to distract me from father doofus here. So I'm gonna... [Crowd gasps, whimpers] Widen my scope of operation... to a bloodbath.
  Abe: Kristen... you're never gonna get away with this. There are just...too many of us here... and that means witnesses. You're going to spend the rest of your life in prison.
  Kristen: You all think you're so smart, don't you? You...thought you were a genius to work with brady against me. But brady always betrays everyone in the end.
  Eric: Kristen, we've all done terrible things. It's never too late to change.
  Kristen: Spare me the homily. You're not even a priest anymore. Brady hasn't changed. You're still weak and self-serving as ever... doing whatever it takes to get whatever you want, hmm? Hey, eve. How's your sister doing? The mother of his child? Should have been my child. But you see, I'm a dimera, and i can live without getting what i want... if my enemies don't get what they want either. Especially you, marlena. You and john are not gonna live happily ever after. Okay, move, sami!
  Sami: No, I am not letting you do this. I am not gonna let you hurt my mother!
  Kristen: You know what? I'm not gonna shoot any of you. You are.
  [Overlapping exclamations]
  [Sami panting]
  Will: And I...I got a pretty interesting to-do list. Gotta find...everyone and... tell them that I remember them and how much I love them. My mom, my dad... my--my daughter.
  Sonny: That's a pretty nice list.
  Will: I remember the first time...I held arianna. Do you remember nick? He--he like wanted to be with gabi, and he hated me 'cause i was gay and I was arianna's father, but he... he--he put her in my arms. And then I remember looking down at her and her looking up at me. She was so warm, so fragile. I remember smelling her, like, sweet baby smell. I remember my daughter. I-I... I remember our daughter.
  Marlena: No--sami!
  Sami: What the hell are you talking about?
  Kristen: I know you're never gonna kill your mother. It's--it's obvious. [Giggles] I wonder if you have the same sense of attachment to john? See, I was gonna let john live and watch his beloved doc bite the dust. But I think we could do the opposite. John dies, marlena watches. Don't you like that? [Giggling] Oh, come on! Come on. Don't you remember? You found john having sex with your mother on the conference table all those years ago? Oh, that memory should just-- that probably shook you up. Broke your father's heart. Broke your family apart and ruined your lives. Oh...sami.
  Sami: John and I worked that out...years ago. And even if we hadn't, I would never do that, 'cause my mom loves him.
  Kristen: And you love...ej.
  Sami: Wha... what does ej have to do with any of this?
  Kristen: I'm sorry, didn't I tell you? [Laughs] He's alive.
  [Crowd gasps, murmurs] What?
  [Soft, edgy music]
  Kristen: That's right, sami. Ej is alive. [Whispers] I can take you to him.
  Sami: I'm not letting you use me. You held me captive for weeks, and you could have told me this and you didn'T. You wait till now when I have a gun?
  Kristen: A gun I gave you.
  Sami: I'd like to use on you.
  Kristen: I don't think you want to shoot me, otherwise you won't find out what happened.
  Sami: I know what happened. Ej was shot... and then he died.
  Kristen: Ej was shot, and my father called me to go to the hospital. And just before he was about to die, I injected him before we lost him.
  Sami: No. No, I don't believe you.
  Kristen: I'll tell you the rest of the story... everything, where he is, how i got him out of there--all that stuff.
  Sami: No, you are just-- you're just trying to...save yourself. I wanted so desperately to believe that ej was alive. I combed the--the world for him!
  Kristen: Well, everyone thought that will was dead... except for ben weston. Everyone here thought he was... was crazy. Nobody believed him. You believed him. You went out looking for will. And he was alive. Guess what. So is ej.
  Sonny: Thank you for saying that, saying our daughter.
  Will: Well, how could she not be? You delivered her.
  Sonny: [Laughs] You remembered.
  Will: Yeah.
  Sonny: Ohh...
  Will: I think I remember everything. I think I remember my whole life.
  Sonny: It's a good feeling, isn't it?
  Will: The best.
  Sonny: We did it. We're married.
  [Both laughing]
  Will: It's a good feeling, isn't it?
  Sonny: It's the best.
  [Soft, stirring music]
  Paul: Will went to get water, and he hasn't--
  John: Easy, easy.
  [Crowd murmuring]
  Paul: He hasn't come back yet--where is he?
  Kristen: That little scamp slip off again?
  Sami: Answer him!
  Kristen: I don't know where will is, and I really don't care. I'm trying to talk to you about ej.
  Marlena: Don't listen to her, sami.
  Kristen: If you do as I say, I will take you to him. All you have to do is pull that little trigger.
  Sami: No.
  Kristen: That's it!
  Sami: I won't! I won't do it!
  Kristen: You don't wanna see the love of your life? Your soul mate? I did everything I could, but he still loves you. He wants me to take you to him. And I will do that.
  Marlena: Don't do it, sami. Don't do it.
  Eric: Sami. Sami, give me the gun.
  Kristen: Sami, come on. Pull the trigger. [Sami whimpers] If you don't, you will never see ej again. Pull the trigger.
  [Intense music]
  Eric: Sami, don't!
summary: Will told Sonny that he remembered the wedding. Sonny was happy, but Will didn't want to deal with it. Will thought Marlena and Paul would want to know where he was. Sonny wanted to know why he was scared to talk about it. Will said it was fragments. Sonny thought he remembered what happened. Sami and Susan struggled so Eric tried to stop Sami. Marlena yelled at Sami to calm down. Sami yelled that Susan wasn't really Susan. Will and Sonny continued to talk about their wedding. Sonny was happy that Will remembered what happened after their vows. Susan said that she was Susan. Sami snatched the wig off her head and knocked her fake teeth out of her mouth. The teeth ended up in Marlena's bouquet. Kristen announced that she was back.