We pick up from yesterday with Jada asking Rafe to have a seat. He encourages her, saying she can tell him anything, and she starts with, “I slept with another man.” Rafe is understandably shocked as she offers nothing else. Eventually, Jada lays out what happened and why, not wanting to tell Rafe who it was.

That’s enough for him to know it was someone they know. “It was Shawn. I slept with Shawn.” She tearfully explains all Arnold put her through and Rafe stands, throws his chair back and yells, “That! Wasn’t! Me!”

Jada keeps explaining how devastated she was and lost Shawn was, but Rafe thinks his friend just used Jada to get back at Belle. She insists that wasn’t what Shawn did, but Rafe is horrified that she didn’t tell him before now, and doesn’t know how he’ll ever trust her again.

“That’s so not fair. I’m telling you now, aren’t I?” She insists she’s telling the truth because she loves him and he deserves to hear what happened. She and Shawn were both hurting. She thought Rafe had turned on her, humiliated her, cost her her job and — “That wasn’t me, Jada!” She should have known that.

Rafe lets it all out, demanding to know how she thought so little of him that she believed he did all those horrible things, and she counters by asking how she was supposed to know he was replaced by a doppelganger. Arnold put her through psychological torture, but Rafe thinks she just gave up on him.

“Did you blame Sami the last time that Arnold pulled this stuff?!” Fine. But he blames her for not being honest from the start. Jada agrees, but this is where they are, so how do they fix this? They can’t, Rafe says. He needs space and time to figure things out. He chokes up a bit and says he’s going home. Alone.

Belle Tries Conning EJ

EJ’s happy to see Belle at his front door, especially after she tells him she missed him. (After thinking back to Jada asking her to wear a wire.) He pours her a drink, they toast and have a seat on the couch where EJ asks Belle what changed. She says her behavior when she threw him out was more a reflection of all the sad things happening in her life than EJ.

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“Whatever you may think of me, Belle, I wasn’t lying about my feelings for you.” He says he’d never hurt Belle, but she tells him it’s not simple after all the people he’s hurt who she cares about. She can forgive that, but no dishonesty. So time to admit what he did to Jada and Rafe. “Oh, we’re doing this again. I’m going to need another round.”

Belle keeps pushing that she needs to trust him. She wants him. She needs him. But she’s afraid of what he’ll do, so time to fess up. She dangles a future with him, but insists he say the words that he kidnapped Rafe.

EJ gets suddenly amorous, tries undressing her, then is stopped by Belle until he says the words. He leans closer to her and says he had nothing to do with Rafe, so she’s wearing a wire for nothing.

She tries denying it, but EJ tells her not to bother. It’s the only explanation for this heel turn. When she keeps denying it, he tells her to prove it by stripping. If he’s wrong, they’ll have a laugh and head upstairs — like she came over for, right? Except that’s not it. She’s just trying to prove to herself that she’s “still a good person.”

And the only way to rid herself of temptation is to get rid of EJ. He strokes her shoulder and says he won’t make it easy for her. He’s going nowhere. Even if he was in jail, he’d still be lodged in her head. “We’ll see about that.” Belle walks out

Kristen Checks In On Brady

Kristen pays Brady a visit to see how he’s holding up with John missing. “Do you care?” He asks tiredly. “You know I do.” He relents, tells her a bit, and Kristen promises John will be fine. But also, her mom’s missing, too. Because of EJ. She’s being held hostage somewhere, and Brady’s horrified to realize Kristen left little Rachel alone with EJ in that house.

Their daughter’s family, Kristen insists, so she’s safe, unlike Rachel Blake. Brady then breaks the news that he and Ava broke up because of EJ and Rachel(s), saying he’s sure it’s what she wanted.

Kristen lays out how convoluted her planning out everything that happened with her mom and daughter would be and Brady admits her being behind everything is ludicrous. He’s just worried about his father, and Kristen once again assures him John will come back.

Brady hopes she’s right and she finds her mother. Kristen heads out and they wish each other luck.

Steve and Marlena Get a Tip

Steve bursts into the office at the Tallinn facility, shoots the assassin and takes in the scene as Marlena rushes up behind him and sees the man who may be John, dead. Steve cautiously approaches as Marlena grows increasingly desperate, lifts up his head and realizes it is not, in fact, John.

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He’s also not dead. He manages to tell them who he is and Marlena asks if he’s seen John. Yes, he was there, but “they” took him with the device. He was shot for helping John, but the guy dies before he can say anything definitive, besides “Rosebud.”

Paul arrives just then, which is when the guys want to know what Marlena’s going there. She tells them about Orpheus and they head back to the reference room to see if there’s a file. They dig through the paperwork as Paul heads back to the hotel.

Marlena finds something and shows it to Steve. “Rosebud” is the only word not in code on the page she found, so Steve says he’ll send it to the ISA.

Orpheus Nearly Kills Andrew

Andrew calls for ISA backup by turning his back on Orpheus. The villain’s already out of his ropes, holding a gun on Andrew and mocking him for being a poor agent. Orpheus is about to shoot him, despite Andrew’s attempts to convince him he can’t get away. Orpheus agrees, so he’s just going to amuse himself with killing Andrew.

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As he’s squeezing the trigger, a gunshot goes off and he drops down, shot by Paul. Andrew’s relieved and thrilled, but asks what brought him back. Paul crouches down and demands to know what “Rosebud” is.

Orpheus laughs at the word, claiming that word means nothing to him. (Guess he never saw Citizen Kane.) Paul flies into a rage, threatening to kill Orpheus.

In the Final Moments

Marlena calls Brady to tell him John is alive as far as they know, but in a lot of trouble. Belle gets home a short time later, pulls the wire off and looks absolutely exhausted. Andrew talks Paul down from murdering Orpheus in cold blood, despite the villain’s best attempts to mock them both. The ISA arrives to take Orpheus in for questioning.

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Kristen gets home demanding to know where her mom is. EJ’s not in the mood, though, and yells in her face to back off, so Kristen leaves, swearing it’s not over. She gets out in the hall and pulls the gun out of her purse.