Or Shawn and JJ together! Working to bring down Dimera through the Salem PD while Cat/Rafe (it should really be Eli and Lani or Andrew and Paul tho) work the case through the ISA. But no. Not this show. Always the least interesting choices.

Making him a sad sack to service EJ and Sami’s pairing was certainly a choice, then having him kidnap Sami was really a nail in the coffin for Lucas’s character arc.

wtf kind of response is this?

Realistically, I'd add a Salem Inn lobby (like the old Metro Court on GH) or a non-HTS cafe space. Somewhere people aren't sitting at either the bench or that one rickety table.

In my wildest dreams: let Marlena and her family move back into her Penthouse set.