Shawn, increasingly desperate, tries in vain to threaten Jen once he manages to get free. She still denies that he never loved her, but Mendez raped her and she keeps imagining a loving marriage with a baby. Brady doesn't buy Nicole's claim that she commiserates with him rather than celebrates that Marlena can no longer point her out as Victor's killer, when she tells him about the shooting. Philip sees Belle cling desperately to Shawn's memories and literally lends her his strong shirtless shoulder to lean on. John refuses to let the mortician to get to work on Marlena's body. It seems to twitch when nobody watches. Brady stops him grilling Nicole, who is urged and threatened by Crystal to deliver. The funeral preparations keep stirring emotions, even more so when Sami gets convinced that Marlena is alive in her coffin. Nicole gets scared when Crystal looses patience, and runs for help to Jan. Thus she stops her from finally unchaining Shawn, who decided to play along as romantic lover, and now tries to steal the key.
—KGF Vissers