Sami Reveals She’s Engaged to a Member of the [Spoiler] Family — and Cat Remembers Why She Recognizes Her

Kate embraces Lucas at the Pub but warns that Sami is also coming home. Lucas knows she doesn’t want to see him and plans to avoid her. Cue Sami entering, looking for her father. She learns he’s not there and allows Lucas a minute of her time. He needs less than that to clock the diamond on her ring finger. She admits she’s engaged and that no man has ever made her this happy. Lucas sheepishly says she deserves it. They grow emotional as she states they’ll never be best friends again, but she knows he’s sorry for kidnapping her and blaming EJ. However, she knows about regret and doesn’t want to bring their darkness into her new chapter. She forgives him.

Cat comes to EJ’s office and overhears his phone conversation with Kayla about Thomas’ accident. She blames herself because Thomas saw her and Chad hugging. EJ assures her his nephew will be fine and it’s not her fault. If anyone’s to blame, it’s Clyde Weston. They commiserate over the villain wreaking havoc on all three of their lives.

After Cat leaves, Sami surprises EJ with a visit. They exchange genuine pleasantries before she says she’s throwing Johnny and Chanel a baby shower. She’s only telling him because she doesn’t want him to crash it. Also, she’s engaged to Dante Vitali, as in Ava Vitali’s cousin. However, Dante doesn’t even know the mobster side of his family in Pennsylvania, since his family stayed in Italy. EJ doesn’t think that makes him less dangerous and smugly accuses her of marrying Dante to prove she’s moved on from him. She playfully accuses him of being jealous. He bets she doesn’t make it down the aisle. Sami points out that vindictive streak is why he’s not invited to the baby shower and why Rafe is Little T’s honorary grandfather.

When Thomas says he won’t go home from the hospital with Chad, Jennifer says she’ll take him. That, of course, leads to another round of yelling (in the lobby, far from Thomas, fortunately) over her threats to sue for custody. Chad accuses her of wanting her grandchildren because she can’t have her daughter. “I lost her, too, Jennifer!” But you don’t deal with loss by taking from someone else, he shouts. “There is no way in hell you are taking my kids!” Jennifer defends her stance, confident she has enough evidence to convince a judge, and lands the most hurtful blow: “Your son doesn’t feel safe with you.” A distressed Cat watches from across the nurses’ hub as they argue about her and how Chad is supposedly putting his kids’ lives in danger.

After infuriating Philip with news of using the Kiriakis mansion as collateral for a much-needed Titan loan, Maggie visits Julie at the Horton House. Julie relays how Holly and Tate’s interview brought up memories of the past, and she and Maggie reflect on their respective love stories with Doug and Mickey.

Philip arrives at the Pub for a “screwed up brothers” reunion with Lucas. Philip slams a drink as they sit with Kate. He confides that if he can’t turn Titan around, they’ll lose everything his father worked his entire life to build. There’s no way in hell Kate will let that happen. She once loved Victor and shared a child with him, whose legacy is now being threatened. Philip reminds her that Vivian did the heavy lifting by birthing him. Kate doesn’t want to hear that name again, especially after recent events. She steps away to handle Pub business, leaving Philip to confide in Lucas about the forged letter.

In EJ’s office, Sami tells her ex that he brings on his own misery and isolation, and it breaks her heart. She wants him to fix things with their son, but they have to work it out themselves. Since she might not get a chance to see him before she leaves after the party tomorrow, she earnestly says, “Goodbye, EJ.” “Goodbye, Samantha,” he responds. She chokes up and leaves.

Chad comes to see EJ for legal advice. “Please tell me Jennifer doesn’t have a case.” EJ fears that when a legal dispute involves children, anything is possible. Until they see how things play out, EJ invites Chad back to the mansion to put distance between himself and Jennifer.

When Jennifer brings Thomas to the Horton House, she privately tells Julie that she is hiring Justin. She hopes she has her support to sue Chad for custody of Thomas and Charlotte.

Seeing Sami in the hospital lobby, Cat says she feels familiar to her. Sami agrees they may have bumped into each other in the past, but brushes it off and leaves. Cat flashes back to wearing a patient’s gown and robe in a clinic. She stands in a doorway as an emotional Sami sits at a bandaged man’s bedside. (Fair to assume it’s EJ?) Another time, Cat reads Wuthering Heights to the still bandaged and seemingly comatose man. In the present, Cat’s unsettled expression darts.

Quick on the heels of famously sassy, phrase-turning R&B singer and reality TV star Tamar Braxton’s announcement her recently released album, “Bluebird of Happiness,” will be her last — at least for a while — and news that her husband, music executive husband Vincent Herbert, founder of Streamline Records, was legally ordered to pay Sony more than $3.7 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2013 advance, the couple hoisted their grandly proportioned and glamorously appointed Mediterranean mansion in Calabasas, Calif., up for sale at $15 million.

The Herbert-Braxtons, married in late 2007 after about five years together, purchased the 13,716-square-foot mansion inside the double-gated Estates at The Oaks enclave in April 2013 for $10.5 million and public records show since then there have been several notices of default filed and subsequently canceled against the two-acre spread that provides a total of seven bedrooms and nine full and two half bathrooms between the main house and poolside guesthouse.

Wrought iron and glass front doors open to an entry vestibule and foyer with black and white floral-patterned inlaid floor and a floating, wrought iron railed staircase that curves up to the bedrooms on the second floor. The main living and entertaining space makes a great sweep across the rear of the residence with gleaming wide-plank hardwood floors laid in a classy chevron pattern.

A central gallery with glossy grand piano is flanked to one side by a lounge with semi-circular sofa in front of an ornate fireplace and to the other by a “champagne bar” modeled after The Dorchester Hotel in London with tufted velvet sofas and a stately wood-paneled ceiling.

Arched French doors open the vast space to an immense, stone-paved loggia with retractable canvas shade awnings and a bowling alley-length dining table that easily seats at least two-dozen al fresco diners. With elaborately carved cabinetry, granite countertops and a super-sized commercial-style range under a hand-hammered copper hood, the kitchen is open to a spacious informal dining area that, in turn, opens to a family room with fireplace and French doors to the backyard.

The three-story mansion’s creature comfort also include a home theater, a game room, an office, a wine cellar with tasting room and, unsurprisingly, a recording studio along with an elevator, an camera-equipped security system, a gentlemen’s lounge with authentic barber chair, a mirror-walled gym and a subterranean parking garage that will accommodate over a dozen cars. The mansion makes a U-shaped embrace around a broad and grassy courtyard with swimming pool and spa beyond which a soccer pitch-sized lawn gives way to a panoramic view over rugged ravines and undeveloped mountaintops.

Some of the other, equally sized and similarly luxurious estates in The Estates sections of The Oaks are owned by reality television’s Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian, Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine Jackson, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Jay McGraw, elder son of extraordinarily well-compensated TV therapist Dr. Phil McGraw, and his Playboy model wife Erica Dahm.