Days of Our Lives (DOOL) spoilers recap for Friday, December 15, reveals that Stephanie Johnson (Abigail Klein) woke up in Harris Michaels’ (Steve Burton) bed and had an “oh no” moment as she realized where she was.
Harris Michaels (Steve Burton) seemed sheepish over the situation on Friday’s Days episode, but he had to delay their conversation about it since there was an emergency at work.
At the DiMera mansion, Nicole Walker-DiMera (Arianne Zucker) seemed to be in good spirits as she told EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel) that she was going for a walk by the lake.
However, Nicole turned somber again as she saw the spot where she scattered the baby’s ashes with EJ.
At Sloan Petersen-Brady (Jessica Serfaty) and Eric Brady’s (Greg Vaughan) place, they were both exhausted since Jude Brady had kept them up most of the night crying.
Sloan decided a walk might conk Jude out, so she loaded him up in the stroller and left so that Eric could sleep.
In the town square, Sloan took a call from Leo Stark (Greg Rikaart), who was furious over Dimitri von Leuschner’s (Peter Porte) transfer to a supermax prison.
Leo reminded Sloan of his leverage and demanded money as well as power, but Sloan needed time to figure things out.
Once Sloan disconnected, she realized she’d accidentally left her wallet in Sweet Bits. Sloan left Jude’s stroller unattended while she ran back inside to grab it.
DOOL fans saw someone wearing black gloves approach the stroller and wheel it away from the square.
Afterward, Stephanie did the walk of shame and snuck out the back of the pub. As Leo watched and grew curious nearby, viewers could see that he had the stolen stroller.
Stephanie ran into Tripp Johnson (Lucas Adams) at the park, where she admitted she was hungover after doing something stupid last night.
Although Stephanie didn’t want to talk about that, she did open up about moving out of her place with Chad DiMera (Billy Flynn) after his jealousy issues.
Stephanie what happened with Everett Lynch (Blake Berris) and how Chad bought Gwen von Leuschner’s (Emily O’Brien) half of The Spectator to fire him.
Stephanie mentioned how Everett was going to propose before his accident left him comatose, so Tripp wondered if she’d get back together with him now.
After Stephanie expressed concern for Chad’s kids, Tripp said they were resilient and suggested Stephanie had to do what was right for her.
That said, Tripp didn’t think Stephanie should throw away what she had with Chad so easily and urged her to hear him out.
Once Stephanie thanked Tripp for the brotherly advice and parted ways with him, she called Everett and hoped that they could meet up for coffee.
Back in the town square on Friday’s Days episode, Sloan was a frantic mess as she called Eric about the baby snatching.
Sloan also got the cops over there, so she recapped what happened to Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering) and broke down crying in his arms. Harris interviewed witnesses at the scene, but nobody saw anyone take the baby.
Once Eric called Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall) and Roman Brady (Josh Taylor) with updates, he joined Sloan and got the latest news on the kidnapping situation.
Rafe wondered if Sloan and Eric knew anyone who might do this, so Sloan said she couldn’t think of anyone.
Eric stepped aside with Rafe and admitted that he hated to even think this, but he considered the idea that it might’ve been Nicole.
At the Salem PD, Harris asked Sloan more questions before Leo showed up with the stroller. Sloan immediately accused him of stealing the baby, but he insisted he simply found the empty stroller behind the pub.
Even so, Sloan bickered with Leo privately and remained convinced that he must’ve stolen Jude to blackmail her.
That led to Sloan deciding she had to come clean to Eric, so she said there was something she needed to tell him.
Back at the DiMera mansion, EJ called Nicole’s phone since she’d been gone a long time and wasn’t responding to his attempts to get in touch.
Rafe showed up and heavily implied that Nicole might’ve snatched Eric and Sloan’s missing baby, but EJ acted like that was preposterous.
According to EJ, Nicole had finally found peace, so he told Rafe about how she bought a gift for Jude and apologized for all the drama.
EJ pushed Rafe to leave them alone and focus on finding the real culprit, but Rafe still needed to speak with Nicole.
After EJ used an app to find the location of Nicole’s phone, he realized she’d left it there at the house.
Nicole’s car was also outside, which EJ found odd since she said she was going to the lake.
Rafe pointed out that the lake was adjacent to the town square, where the baby was snatched from.
EJ countered that Nicole couldn’t get very far without her car and her phone, so he kept downplaying the idea that she kidnapped Jude.
In fact, EJ raised the possibility that someone had kidnapped Nicole to get back at him and pressured Rafe to find his missing wife.
Once Rafe left on Friday’s Days episode, EJ went down in the DiMera tunnels to see if Nicole was there.
When EJ opened the door to the secret room, he found Nicole sitting there with Jude in her arms.
EJ moved in close to hug Nicole, who said she was sorry.
Days of Our Lives spoilers say EJ will have to navigate a tricky dilemma, so stay tuned to DOOL.
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