Days of our Lives begins in the dimly lit church.  John ( Drake Hogestyn ) is still lurking about in the shadows.  Everyone has left already.  Anna (Leann Hunley) sneaks over there and tells John that Stefano is awake. Speaking of Stefano ( Joseph Mascolo ), he is in the hospital, telling his two sons EJ ( James Scott ) and Tony ( Thaao Penghlis ) that Marlena is the one who put him in a coma.  Sami ( Alison Sweeney ) walks in the door and learns that Stefano is awake and that he has done something terrible to Marlena. Indeed, Marlena ( Deidre Hall ) has just been pumped with a drug by one of Stefano’s henchmen and she is slowly being paralyzed.

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