Days of Our Lives Preview: Lani Is Devastated After Eli Is Shot — But Has No Idea [Spoiler] Pulled the Trigger
Saturday, March 12th, 2022
Some people never change and their true colors are eventually revealed.
In the latest Days of Our Lives preview for the week of March 14 – 18, it’s a life or death situation for one Salem PD officer. Read about the details and watch the latest preview below.
Lani was stunned to learn that not only was Abe not her father, but Paulina and not her sister Tamara was her birth mother. After the initial shock, Paulina explained her history with a man named Ray, who was abusive. She escaped him before he learned she was pregnant, but fearing for her unborn baby’s safety, made a deal to have her sister Tamara raise Lani as her own. Imagine Paulina and Lani’s shock when Ray, now going by Terrel Raymond Coates, or TR for short, showed up in Salem. He happened to be the movie producer behind Johnny’s film and was stunned to find Paulina in town. He was even more shocked when he realized Lani was his daughter. Even though he claimed to have become a changed man after Paulina left him, Lani still wanted nothing to do with her biological father.
In the preview for this week, Shawn discovers Eli shot and left for dead in Salem Park. He calls in that an officer is down with a gunshot wound to the head. Lani races to Eli’s side and performs CPR until the paramedics arrive.
In a flashback, we learn that Eli confronts TR, who tells him to get his hands off him. Eli asks if that’s what he told Beth and Paulina before he beat them. Beth is TR’s ex-girlfriend played by Donielle Artese. This week’s Days of Our Lives spoilers tease that she comes to town with information for Eli. We’re guessing by this preview, that TR’s claims to have become a changed man were nothing but BS! TR draws a gun, a fight ensues and the gun goes off.
Eli is rushed to the hospital, where TR lurks nearby as Lani, Paulia, Eli’s mother Valerie and his grandma Julie wait for news. Later in his room, Eli convulses. We then see Valerie begging her son to come back to her. Will Eli survive and be able to point the finger at TR?
Also, be sure to check out the Days of Our Lives spring preview, teasing the return of Eric Brady to Salem. Then take a look at our latest photo gallery of the most beautiful soap portraits ever below.
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<p>… “patching” in a 1992 stopover in <em>Santa Barbara</em> between stints as Steve Johnson on <em>Days of Our Lives. </em>Great photo, but despite appearances, it was not a purple reign.</p>
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<p>… serving more cloak than dagger — as far as we could see, anyway! — as Bobbie Spencer on <em>General Hospital. </em>Apparently, there was a time when nurses’ uniforms were super chic.</p>
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<p>… holding up a wall in most elegant fashion early in her legendary run as <em>Young & Restless</em>’ Sharon Newman. Or was she lying down, and we’re looking at this picture all wrong?</p>
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<p>… in the <em>Guiding Light</em> days that preceded his gig as Carter Walton on <em>The Bold and the Beautiful. </em>Or, as we think of him, the world’s hottest wedding officiant.</p>
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<p>… turning heads — her own here — during her early-1990s return to <em>General Hospital</em> as Holly Sutton.</p>
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<p>… reporting for duty as <span style="text-decoration: line-through">one of soapdom’s great missed opportunities</span> Sarge on <em>The Young and the Restless</em> in 2010 before reprising his iconic role of Jesse Hubbard on <em>All My Children.</em></p>
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<p>… defining the term “teenage dream” as Blackie Parrish on<em> General Hospital</em> decades before Katy Perry would climb the Top 40 charts with her song of the same name.</p>
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<p>… striking the kind of sweet pose that could almost make you forget what a troublemaker Rachel Davis was in the late 1960s on <em>Another World.</em></p>
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<p>… against an altogether apropos background color as <em>Days of Our Lives</em>’ John <em>Black</em> in the early 1990s.</p>
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<p>… reminding us in the mid-1990s that every rose has a thorn — and on <em>Guiding Light</em>, Dinah Marler was kinda both.</p>
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<p>… as <em>General Hospital</em> supercouple Luke Spencer and Laura Baldwin in the early 1980s. Ice Princess not included.</p>
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<p>… as <em>The Young and the Restless</em>’ Mariah Copeland. Or is it a future vision of her late sister, Cassie? Either way…</p>
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<p>… daring us to a history’s hottest stare-off as Dusty Donovan on <em>As the World Turns</em> in 2005. You win, Grayson! You win! We must look away, at least if we want to check out the next image of…</p>
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<p>… looking suitable for framing as Kate Roberts and Sami Brady on <em>Days of Our Lives</em> in 2014. Not that that guilty-as-sin scheme team has ever <em>needed</em> to be framed.</p>
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<p>… giving us blue steel as Jason “Stone Cold” Morgan on <em>General Hospital. </em>We’re sure he smiled later. <em>Much</em> later.</p>
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<p>… judging us in 1975 as only <em>Ryan’s Hope</em>’s righteous Jillian Coleridge could. Dakota Smith, ma’am. That’s all we’re gonna say. Dakota. Smith.</p>
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<p>… changing her stripes as Lily Winters on <em>The Young and the Restless</em> in 2009. Of note: This was <em>not</em> the character’s outfit during her unfortunate stay in prison.</p>
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<p>… as <em>Bold & Beautiful</em> ne’er-do-well Deacon Sharpe. That is, he’s a ne’er-do-well at everything but taking stunning pictures; he kinda nails that.</p>
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<p>… reminding us that after Robin Strasser left the role of Rachel on <em>Another World</em>, she kinda became the soap’s heroine — butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-her-mouth smile and all.</p>
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20/75
<p>… going turtlenecking in the early days of Erica Kane on <em>All My Children. </em>As if we didn’t all know that the vixen’s favorite kind of necking didn’t involve turtles at all.</p>
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<p>… doing undercover work as <em>Days of Our Lives</em>’ Brady Black in 2011. Aw, sheets, that was funny… wasn’t it? A little? No? Moving on…</p>
Image: EJ Carr/CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
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<p>… striking gold as Carly Tenney on<em> As the World Turns</em> in the mid-1990s, years away from her <em>General Hospital</em> stint as Ava Jerome.</p>
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23/75
<p>… challenging us to make a move as Victor Newman on <em>The Young and the Restless</em> in 2021. Erm, we’ll pass on that, sir; we are hereby conquered, now and forever.</p>
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24/75
<p>… putting the “beautiful” in <em>The Bold as the Beautiful</em> as Steffy Forrester in 2009. And hey, it’s always bikini season <em>somewhere</em>.</p>
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<p>… making us miss<em> Santa Barbara</em> supercouple Eden Capwell and Cruz Castillo anew by reminding us that they photographed as well as they loved back in 1989.</p>
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<p>… with a devilish gleam in her eye as <em>Days of Our Lives</em>’ Marlena Evans in 2008.</p>
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<p>… hiding his washboard abs as Curtis Ashford on <em>General Hospital</em>. We know they’re there, though. We <em>know</em>. OK?</p>
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<p>… giving us the kind of side-eye as <em>Young & Restless</em>’ Phyllis Summers that we never get in real life: the sexy, sexy kind.</p>
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<p>… sitting <span style="text-decoration: line-through">pretty</span> handsome as Ridge Forrester on <em>The Bold and the Beautiful.</em> Side note: It’s OK to “stair.”</p>
Image: Bob D’Amico/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
30/75
<p>… giving us a clue why <em>General Hospital</em> ratings must have (cough) dipped after he was killed off as Duke Lavery, thereby separating the irresistible Romeo from dance partner Anna Devane.</p>
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<p>… warming up to play <em>Guiding Light</em>’s Reva Shayne by scheming her way through <em>The Doctors</em> as Nola Aldrich.</p>
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<p>… going from good to downright <em>Great Gatsby</em> as Lily and Holden Snyder on <em>As the World Turns</em> in the late 1990s.</p>
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<p>… sharing a laugh as <em>Days of Our Lives</em>’ Chad DiMera in 2017. About what? We only wish we knew; it was just the laugh that he shared, not the reason.</p>
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<p>… doing something her saintly <em>General Hospital</em> character Robin Scorpio never would: lie.</p>
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<p>… making “Shirts or skins?” a rhetorical question as <em>Young & Restless</em> heat miser Michael Baldwin.</p>
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<p>… in 1994, the year that yeah, pretty much <em>everybody</em> on the show was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. It was and they were <em>that</em> good.</p>
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<p>… serving Vargas Girl realness as Katie Logan on <em>The Bold and the Beautiful</em> in 2009. (Eat your heart out, Bill!)</p>
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<p>… as Caleb Morley on <em>Port Charles</em> and John McBain on <em>One Life to Live</em>. Different flavors, same intensity.</p>
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<p>… getting into the swing of things as Maggie Horton on <em>Days of Our Lives</em>. If only this were the only way we wound up “seeing red,” so to speak.</p>
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<p>… deciding how much don and how much Don Juan to put into his portrayal of Sonny Corinthos on <em>General Hospital</em>. </p>
Image: Al Levine/NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
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<p>… managing to make herself, not the big hair or colorful outfit, the most compelling thing about this 1983 portrait of her as Felicia Gallant on <em>Another World.</em></p>
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<p>… classing up the joint as <em>Young & Restless</em>’ Jack Abbott, born with a silver spoon just waiting to be knocked out of his mouth.</p>
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<p>… reminding us what young love looked like in the early 1990s — at least if you were mega attractive and into one another — as Tomas Rivera and Maggie Cory on <em>Another World</em>.</p>
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<p>… practicing the arched-eyebrow seduction technique at <em>The Young and the Restless</em> that he’d later perfect as <em>Days of Our Lives</em>’ Eli Grant. Ya know, on second thought, he appeared to have had it down pat at <em>Young & Restless</em>, too.</p>
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<p>… proving that as far back as her early-1990s days as Jessica Griffin on <em>As the World Turns</em> that there wasn’t a dazzling pair of earrings or complicated dress that could distract from her stunningness.</p>
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<p>… making sure <em>Young & Restless</em>’ Nick and Sharon Newman would always have Paris in 2015. Not pictured: the best parts of Paris (unless you were really into this balcony).</p>
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<p>… contemplating a “brooch” of etiquette as Stephanie Forrester on <em>The Bold and the Beautiful</em> in 2007.</p>
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<p>… playing doctor as Tom Horton on <em>Days of Our Lives</em> in 1965. Not <em>that</em> kind of doctor, obviously. His character really <em>was</em> a doctor. But you knew that.</p>
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<p>… passing through <em>Days of Our Lives</em> as Belle Black in 2003 before joining <em>General Hospital</em> as Maxie Jones.</p>
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<p>… in a 2003 portrait that makes us miss him and <em>Young & Restless</em>’ Neil Winters all over again. As if we’ve ever stopped.</p>
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<p>… putting her own spin on “stairing” during her stint as Bridget Forrester on <em>The Bold and the Beautiful</em> in 2008.</p>
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<p>… turning the charisma up to 11 during a 1990s photo shoot for <em>Days of Our Lives</em>, where he played and still plays Abe Carver.</p>
Image: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
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<p>… leaning into her role of<em> General Hospital</em> firebrand Brenda Barrett.</p>
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<p>… embodying the term “pretty in pink” as <em>Young & Restless</em>’ Hilary Curtis (before twin sis Amanda Sinclair hit the scene).</p>
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<p>… giving in to temptation as <em>Bold & Beautiful</em> lovers Owen Knight and Jackie Marone in 2009. Missing from this image: the snake. But you just knew he was around there somewhere.</p>
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<p>… wearing his best “The doctor will see you now” expression as Steve Hardy on <em>General Hospital</em> in 1963.</p>
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