Week Link

Sami’s presence is felt all over Salem during Alison Sweeney’s first week back on DAYS.

- Stephanie Sloane

Sami arrives in Salem and sets off a week of explosive and emotional confrontations all over town.

Her first stop? The cemetery, where she shows up in the nick of time to stop Paul and John from digging up Will’s grave. “Off camera, she heard what Ben had to say at the wedding, and that’s what prompts her to come back to town,” begins Alison Sweeney (Sami). “So, she goes to visit her son’s grave to reflect on what’s going on, and lo and behold, she finds John there with his son with shovels. I think immediately she recognizes that they do not have permission to do it, and she’s already coming into it defensive and protective, ready to raise hell. John puts his arm back with the shovel in it and Sami’s hand reaches in and stops him. It’s a great moment.”

Sami calls the cops, and Rafe shows up. He lets Paul and John off with a warning, then catches up with his ex-wife. Once alone, Sami lets her pain show as she addresses her dead son. “It is Ron’s [Carlivati, head writer] way of really establishing where Sami sits with all of this,” explains Sweeney. “That after everything they’ve been through, it’s hard to let yourself even consider the possibility that he might be alive.”