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The Stalker was soon on the prowl and many of her friends were being murdered. John became suspicious of her but tried to pin everything on Tony. All the time, Tony had been drugging Marlena and manipulated her into killing the town residents. She even admitted to John that she was the killer and, after a fight with him led her to fall from her balcony, she began accusing him of being the murderer.

She was charged and sent to prison. When she attempted to escape she was shot. John carried her dead body around town until he was finally persuaded to put her to rest. In reality, she wasn't dead.

She was brought to a desert island where all of the dead residents were residing. As time went by, the residents of the town came down to rescue their friends and family. Tony, who had masterminded the whole thing, wouldn't let people escape so easily and caused a volcanic eruption. Most of the captives escaped on ragged rafts to be rescued out at sea by the coast guard.

Marlena was not rescued. Along with Roman and a few others, she was abducted by Tony and taken to his European castle. There, he forced Marlena and Roman to watch videos of John and Kate being intimate.

Eventually they gave in to each other but Jack soon found a way out and helped them escape. When they returned, they found John and Kate engaged but didn't tell them of their infidelity. She also realized that she was pregnant and that Roman must be the father. The truth came out and John didn't take it well.

As he fought with Roman, they knocked Marlena down the stairs and she had a miscarriage. Upon awakening and hearing the news, she went into a violent seizure from which she awoke with amnesia.

Alex North, a specialist, was brought to Salem to care for Marlena, a choice which soon began to bother John when Marlena became affectionate toward her doctor. John confronted him and Alex came clean that he had been married to Marlena but was presumed dead. This made all of her other marriages invalid. Soon another person from Marlena's past appeared, Lois Banks.

She told John that Alex had been abusive and had come to hurt her. Unfortunately he wasn't the only one. Lois had come to try and kill Marlena himself. After numerous attempts, John trapped her and shot her up with truth serum.

She confessed that she and Alex were working together to take Marlena out. Discovering this, Alex killed her and framed John for the murder before renewing his wedding vows with Marlena.

He then tried to kill John in an explosion but this accidentally caught Marlena. As she recovered in the hospital, she regained her memory. Alex discovered this, drugged her, erased her memory again and ran off with her. John went in pursuit and managed to shoot Alex off of a cliff. As Marlena recovered, her memory returned and she and John left Salem.

She returned to town later, on a separation from John, so that she could sort her life out. In Salem, the Brady's were being tormented by the Gloved Hand and she tried to help. She received a strange job offer in New Jersey and went to investigate. She vanished but John later discovered her bound up in a cart. Returning to town, they found that Kayla and Steve had been poisoned and jetted off to Canada for a cure. Their plane went down and she jumped from it to be rescued by Smokey Robinson.

John found her and they managed to get a hold of the drug in time to save Steve and Kayla. They tracked evidence back to Italy where they renewed their vows again and discovered Stefano deathly ill in bed. He had enough strength to deal John the death hand tarot card though. Once the couple returned to Salem, EJ shot John and he fell into a coma.

Since then, she had continued to communicate with him through their dreams while she tried to help Kayla and Steve battle EJ. With Marlena by his side, John finally came out of his coma and the two were happily reunited until a few months later when John was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver.

This was a great loss for Salem and many mourned John's death. Marlena tried to stay strong but she also worried about Brady Black, John's son, who hadn't shown up for the funeral and was reported missing. Marlena learned that one of Sami's twins was father by EJ, the man she held responsible for John's death. Marlene confessed to a worried Hope that she had thought of taking revenge on EJ.

Sami went against her family's wishes and reluctantly married EJ, who was shot in the back during the ceremony. He survived but Marlena was arrested for his attempted murder.

She was later cleared of the charges. During the holiday season, Hope helped a grieving Marlene clean out John's belongings. It was then that Marlene discovered a photo of a boy and a woman, but the photo was torn at the woman's head. Marlena went on a mission to figure out who the woman in the photo was, which lead her to a psychic named Crystal Miller, who told her that John was still alive!

Eventually, when EJ revealed that he had seen someone suspicious in the basement, Marlena, Bo, and Hope found John alive. Stefano was arrested and Marlena was overjoyed but saddened to see that John had no memory and was a completely different person on a "mission. Overtime this proved impossible, and Marlena grew disappointed and frustrated.

She vowed to take revenge against Stefano, and when she visited him in prison, she injected him with a drug that put him a catatonic state, permanently. When Chloe Lane Black returned to Salem, Marlena sought after her for information on Brady's disappearance, but Chloe wasn't forthcoming with helpful information. Meanwhile, although John tried to keep Marlena at a distance, she was relentless in her efforts to bring the John that she loved back. John soon revealed that he had to go to Ireland to complete his mission.

Marlena, along with Bo, Hope, Shawn Sr. Colleen had Claire with her and returned Claire to her parents, but Brady was still a mystery. Marlena encouraged John to embrace his mother, but John was indifferent.

Unfortunately, Colleen confessed that she was terminally ill and died shortly after. Everyone left Ireland to head back home but they faced a traumatic plane crash, due to plane sabotage. Unfortunately, Shawn Senior died a hero on the plane, and Marlena tried to console the heartbroken Brady's. John was able to crash land the plane in Greenland, where everyone waited for rescue.

While waiting, Marlena and John got closer and made love, and while Marlena thought her old John was back, she soon realized that it was just physical attraction on John's part. Marlena notices the negative changes in John as he gets into a shipping war with Philip Kiriakis. Marlena returned to work and tried to help her friends Abe and Lexi Carver as their son, Theo was diagnosed with Autism. Charlotte Taylor.

This unsettled Marlena and she demanded an explanation. Charlotte informed her that her father Kenneth had recently passed away and she was taking over the treatment of his patients. John found himself drawn to Charlotte and accepted her help, yet Marlena remained skeptical of her newfound colleague. Marlena's suspicions of the "other" Dr. Things soon grew tenser when Charlotte informed Marlena that, not only had she moved to Salem permanently, but she was hired by University Hospital and would be sharing a receptionist and waiting area with her.

Marlena was bothered by the abrupt change, but didn't have time to talk things out with Charlotte as John showed up for a therapy session. Coincidentally, Kayla showed up at the same time to deliver the same news that Marlena had already heard from Charlotte.

Sensing her friend was upset, Kayla tried to sooth things over with Marlena. During her conversation with Kayla, Marlena admitted that she wasn't jealous of Charlotte and didn't see her as a romantic threat to her relationship with John, but she was jealous in the sense that she wasn't the one helping John as she had done in the past.

Kayla sympathized with Marlena and offered her any help she needed. Their talk seemed to put Marlena's doubts about Charlotte to rest for the time being. In fact, Charlotte herself relieved many of Marlena's concerns when she claimed that her main goal was to help John get his memories back so that he and Marlena could reunite.

Charlotte also expressed hopes that she and Marlena would not only be colleagues, but friends as well. Cautiously, Marlena agreed. Marlena and Charlotte's "friendship" was short lived. In , despite celebrating at Chez Rouge on New Year's Eve together, Marlena couldn't shake the feeling Charlotte was up to something - something that concerned John. She began researching Charlotte online. At first, she found only outstanding credits "a mile long" and a plethora of journal articles Charlotte had written.

But, before she could follow a lead that would help crack the mystery, Marlena's suspicions turned to shock and appall when John arrived with startling news. He informed her that, after only one hypnotherapy session, Charlotte thought proceeding with them would be a waste of time and suggested he would never get his memories back. Marlena was infuriated and confronted Charlotte.

During their confrontation, Marlena noticed Brady snooping in Charlotte's office and tried to distract her so that she wouldn't catch him. Unfortunately, Charlotte turned the tables on Marlena and scorned her for questioning her skills as a psychiatrist. She also said it was unethical to talk about John's sessions with Marlena and she should know that as a doctor.

Their battle became so heated that Kayla, the acting Chief of Staff, showed up to mediate. On route to Kayla's office to sort of their disagreement, Charlotte abruptly apologized for overreacting and headed back to her office. Fortunately, Brady had already left, but Charlotte knew someone had used her computer.

Later that day Marlena was at her penthouse when Brady showed up. She questioned his motives for being in Charlotte's office, but he told her to hold her thoughts while he showed her something he emailed her.

What he showed her was the recording of John's first hypnotherapy. In it, John had started to remember his past! Marlena was simultaneously thrilled, infuriated with Charlotte, and worried about Brady as his actions could get him into trouble. Marlena told Brady to cool off; she would take care of Charlotte! The contact there told her that Charlotte had left abruptly understand mysterious circumstances. Just as Marlena was ending her phone call, Charlotte showed up to confront her about receiving the email with John's session attached.

She taunted Marlena and once again gave her the ethics speech on how unethical it was to steal a patient's confidential record. Marlena retaliated by telling Charlotte she stole John's hope of ever regaining his past by lying to him about his progress. Yet, things went from bad to worse when Marlena commented that Kenneth would be so disappointed by Charlotte's behavior.

Charlotte's metal stability finally snapped and she told Marlena that Kenneth was dead, she didn't need his approval. Knowing Charlotte had a personal vendetta against her, Marlena urged her to tell her the truth. And Charlotte did! She not-so-sanely explained that she had left Lehman University to take care of her ailing father and that Marlena would have known that had she kept in touch with Kenneth. Charlotte then confessed that Marlena had ruined her life by taking her father's attention away from her.

Charlotte said Kenneth always had time for his favorite student, but never his own daughter. She was also hurt Marlena didn't remember her from the times they met while she was working with Kenneth. Knowing she could never get those times back, Charlotte declared she was going to take time away from Marlena and pulled out a hypodermic needle filled with a large enough dose of muscle relaxant that it would kill her.

Despite the danger, Marlena remained calm and refused to take the responsibility for Charlotte's troubled past. Marlena even suggested that perhaps Charlotte just wasn't that good of a psychiatrist. This caused Charlotte to snap and she lunged at Marlena with the syringe. Marlena was eventually able to push Charlotte away. Unfortunately, she pushed her near the door and, when John came through it moments later, Charlotte lunged at him with the needle and impaled him in the back.

John told Marlena "she was safe now" and then collapsed. Fortunately, Bo, Hope and Brady arrived a few seconds later. John was soon rushed to the hospital where Kayla revealed that John had a stroke because of the injection.

After filling Kayla in on John's recent memory gains, Kayla encouraged Marlena to talk about the past with John as that often helps stroke victims. Marlena did just that and even kissed him. She was in for another surprise when he finally uttered the words she had waited over a year to hear. John weakly proclaimed, "I remember I remember all of it, Doc, especially you. Marlena was overjoyed, but, unfortunately, Kayla returned with John's latest test results.

They concluded that John was paralyzed from the neck down and it could become permanent if he's not immediately transferred to a clinic in Lugano, Switzerland that specializes in cases like his. Despite John's attempt to get Marlena to move on without him, she agreed that they would both go to the clinic that evening and, through thick and thin, they would be together.

When she went out to get Brady so he could see his father, Marlena ran into Stefano. When Stefano tired to explain to her that he had nothing to do with John's condition, she calmly and confidently replied that he couldn't hurt them anymore, turned and walked away.

When Marlena returned to John's side and he had one request before they left Salem - he wanted to remarry her.

Happily, she agreed and they had a very quick, but intimate wedding at his bedside. Even Stefano gave his old advisories a nod of approval through the window before he left.

When Father Jansen pronounced them man and wife, Marlena leaned in and kissed her husband. After their lips parted, they shared one last longing glance into each other's eyes knowing it was the end of their time in Salem, but the beginning of their new life together.

John's therapy had been a success and he was able to walk again. John and Marlena enjoyed catching up with their friends and family. But, during the party Rafe received a call and was told to arrest John on charges of corporate embezzlement and fraud. But, within a few weeks, Rafe and Carrie proved that evidence against John had been fabricated and John was released from jail in time to spend the holidays with his family.

Now a free man, John set about returning money to all of the people who had lost money in the embezzlement scheme. He decided to rebuild Basic Black. To help with the household expenses, Marlena accepted a job at Salem U as head of their psychiatry department.

Around the same time, Bo and Hope were investigating a secret safe deposit box that Alice had. It turns out that the box contained two secrets- one about the DiMeras and one about the Hortons. The Horton secret was that John and Hope were still legally married from the days when Stefano had brainwashed the two of them. Thinking this was just a legal technicality to deal with, Bo, Hope, John, and Marlena headed to Alamainia to file for divorce.

But Bo and Marlena were denied entry into Alamainia. Instead, Marlena stayed behind to care for her family and wait for John to return. When he returned, John reunited with Marlena and the two settled in for a nice life together. But a few short months later, John and Marlena's nemesis, Kristen arrived in Salem during the fall of Kristen kept saying that she wanted to make amends and that she had gone through a lot of therapy.

John didn't believe her at first, but eventually he started to see that she had changed. Marlena never believed Kristen and as a result, Marlena and John drifted apart; and Kristen was able to set her plan into motion.

Kristen was out for revenge on John and Marlena. And she had decided to use John's son, Brady, to do it. She and Brady started dating and Kristen arranged for John to walk in on Kristen and Brady having sex on top of Brady's desk.

John was furious. When he told Marlena, he was angry to learn that Marlena knew about Brady and Kristen but didn't tell John. This drove the wedge between John and Marlena even further. John moved out of the penthouse. Marlena focused her attention on keeping Kristen away from Brady, but Kristen was always one step ahead of Marlena. But finally, Marlena got her hands on a photo of Kristen paying off the henchmen who attacked Brady.

Marlena showed the picture to Brady on the night before his wedding to Kristen. Brady dumped Kristen on the spot and Marlena gloated. With Kristen presumably out of the picture, Marlena turned her attention towards the rest of her family.

She served as a man confidant for her grandson, Will, during the time he was coming out. And, she was thrilled that her son, Eric, was back in town and loved spending time with him. But Kristen was determined to get revenge on Marlena.

When Eric went out of town on business, Kristen followed him. She snuck into his room, shot him with a memory-erasing drug-filled dart, lured him into bed, and raped him. She video taped their sexual encounter and had it edited to look like Eric was a willing participant. She planned to show the video at the consecration of St. Luke's Academy, the school that Eric worked so hard to get built. But on the day of the consecration, Brady informed Kristen that he learned that she was the one who stopped things from going further with John.

Brady wanted to give their relationship another chance. Thrilled, Kristen agreed and kept the video hidden. Brady told a very disappointed Marlena and Victor that he and Kristen were back together. Kristen became worried though when she thought that she might be pregnant.

She bought a pregnancy test and ran into Jennifer on her way home from the drug store. Jennifer saw the test and asked Kristen if she and Brady were pregnant. Kristen confessed that she had slept with another man when she and Brady were apart, but didn't tell Jennifer who the man was. Jennifer was supportive of Kristen and after she took the test, Kristen called Jennifer to say that it was a false alarm. Kristen asked Jennifer to keep quiet about sleeping with another man.

Jennifer agreed. However, Marlena was in the hallway of the DiMera mansion picking up Sydney when Kristen was making the phone call. Marlena heard Kristen confess to sleeping with another man. Marlena teamed up with Victor and Nicole to find out Kristen's secret. An uneasy alliance with Nicole soon formed as well, and Nicole told Marlena about a flash drive that Kristen was adamant to be kept secret.

Marlena knew that she had to find the flash drive. Nicole helped stage a confrontation where with Kristen where Marlena was able to steal the flash drive from Kristen's purse. When Kristen learned that Marlena had the flash drive with the video on it, Kristen hired a man to attack and rob Marlena.

He failed at his task but lied to Kristen that he threw the flash drive into the river. However, the flash drive was on the ground in the park where Marlena was attacked. Parker happened to pick it up when he was playing and showed it to Daniel. Daniel took it, thinking that it belonged to someone, and intended to open it to see if he could find out who's drive it was. But, before he could do so, he was called away from his desk. Marlena came into Daniel's office to leave him a note.

At the same time, Kristen was arrested for what she did to Eric. She told Marlena that she could give John a cure if the charges against her were dropped. Making a deal with the devil, Marlena convinced Eric to drop his testimony against Kristen, and get her released.

John received the cure, and woke up from his coma. Marlena soon started counseling baseball player Paul Narita, who was struggling with being gay. She later was caught in the middle when Paul admitted to sleeping with Marlena's grandson Will Horton, even though he was married to Sonny Kiriakis. To make matters worse, John found out that Paul was his son. Marlena was at odds with John, in an attempt to protect her grandson. Will enlisted Marlena's help, wanting Paul to leave him and Sonny alone.

In an attempt to help Will, Marlena ended up heading to Italy by accident, and found Kristen. The two ended up in a struggle, and Kristen fell out of a window; she was presumed dead. Marlena returned home, but was soon captured by Stefano, who wanted revenge for Kristen's death. He planned to kill Marlena in Italy, but she was saved at the last second by Stefano's son, Chad.

Marlena returned home to John and her family. Marlena was devastated when Will was murdered by the The Necktie Killer , and things got more complicated when Andre DiMera returned alive at Will's funeral. Sami wsd kidnapped by Andre, and Marlena believed Stefano had orchestrated the kidnapping, but she soon realized he had no idea.

Stefano's body was found in a warehouse a few months later, and Marlena along with the rest of Salem celebrated the end of their most hated enemy. Marlena would later have bigger problems to deal with when a prison break that involved Orpheus had occurred.

Orpheus and his associates terrorized Salem and were ultimately apprehended, but Orpheus faked his death, and kidnapped Marlena and Kayla and locked them in coffins that he lit on fire. Steve and John saved them, and Orpheus appeared to die for real in the resulting shootout,. Hattie Adams returned to Salem, and posed as Marlena while keeping her drugged up. John would eventually join her, and so would Andre, who had hurt Hattie in the past, and Hattie took revenge on Andre by making him think she would help him as Marlena only to declare him insane.

Marlena and John were about to undergo electric shock therapy when the truth came out, and Marlena and John were set free along with Andre. In , Marlena sat down for a session with Doug, who wasn't acting like himself. He was getting names mixed up and touched Paulina Price 's butt. He also locked Julie in the freezer. When Marlena calls it an accident, Doug retorts that was no accident and that he locked that bitch in the freezer on purpose. Marlena is shocked and tells Doug be doesn't mean that, but Doug says he did and chuckles that it is the most fun he had all week.

Marlena tells Doug he is confused, but Doug retorts that Marlena is the one who is confused, and says that he isn't Doug. Marlena says he is Doug, but Doug insists he is not. He then speaks in a deep voice and says that it's been twenty five years, but did Marlena really think he wouldn't come for her again. Marlena can't believe it and refuses to believe the devil has returned to Salem. The devil tells Marlena it has come back for her, and is disappointed that Marlena isn't glad to see it.

As Marlena struggles to deny it, the devil demonstrates its power by causing the lights to flicker. The devil demands Marlena let it into her, but she refused. The devil then threatened to harm Doug. Marlena begged the devil not to hurt Doug, saying be doesn't deserve it.

The devil agrees and says Marlena will be hurting him cause of her selfishness. It then proceeds to make Doug feel intense pain as Marlena begs him not to. Julie comes in and finds Doug passed out on the floor. He is taken to a room as Julie asks Marlena what happened, and Marlena retells what Doug said while leaving out the part where he was possessed. When Marlena gets home, it is revealed that Marlena had let the devil enter her as she hugs John.

For the most part, Marlena remains in control with the devil only taking over at various times even though it wants full control of her body. Confused at Doug's current predicament, Marlena plays back the tape of her session with Doug, and the devil speaks to her through the recording, saying they are disappointed that Marlena forgot their reunion. Julie is in the room with Doug, so the devil knocks her out and then goes to kill Doug, who stands up to confront the devil.

All the while Marlena also tries to fight off the devil's control from within. Kayla arrives to see Doug and Marlena tussling and Julie unconscious. The devil switches tactics and says Doug attacked Julie, and recommends he be sent to Bayview. That way, he is isolated and can't tell anyone. Ben goes to talk to Marlena because Ciara wants to have a baby, and he has concerns about being a father because of his own history. The devil tells Marlena she has to convince Ben to have a baby, and threatens Doug's life if she doesn't comply.

Marlena reluctantly talks Ben into agreeing to have a baby, and the devil says that Ben's baby is vital to it's plan as the son of a serial killer. It also says that Clyde himself comes from a long life of villains. Marlena protests the baby won't be evil just cause of it's lineage, and the devil agrees, saying that it will foster the child's evil nature. Days of our Lives Wiki Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?

Marlena Evans. View source. History Talk 0. In , Marlena takes in John Black as her patient; he has amnesia and she is determined to help him recover his past. John and Marlena spend a lot of time together, and the pair fall in love. However, John seems to know a lot about Stefano, leading Marlena to suspect he is Stefano. Later, Marlena finds a plastic surgeon's file containing before and after shots of both Roman and John. Marlena becomes convinced that John is Roman, and, over time, John took on the role of Roman.

Marlena is later trying to talk down a suicidal jumper when she falls from a window ledge. Marlena lays in a coma, near death for a month. When she finally recovers, she and Roman renewed their vows on August 22, Roman accidentally killed Orpheus' wife while on assignment.

To get back at Roman, Orpheus kidnaps Marlena and fakes her death. Roman shoots and kills Orpheus, but before he could rescue Marlena, she is presumed to have been killed in a plane crash. John begins seeing Dr. Charlotte Taylor to regain his memories. Charlotte is the daughter of Marlena's mentor, but it doesn't take long for Marlena to see that something was off about Charlotte.

When Brady returns to town, he helps Marlena discover that John is remembering, but Charlotte is actually keeping him in the dark. Charlotte comes to Marlena's apartment and tries to kill her, and explains that she is jealous of her because of how her father seemed to favor Marlena over Charlotte.

However, John bursts in at the last minute, and ends up getting attacked by Charlotte. Charlotte is arrested while John is rushed to the hospital. He wakes up with his memory restored. Marlena finds out that John is paralyzed, but he can be treated at a clinic in Switzerland. John and Marlena reunite, get remarried, and head off to Switzerland to treat John's paralysis on January 23, Steve and John saved them, and Orpheus appeared to die for real in the resulting shootout, Hattie Adams returned to Salem, and posed as Marlena while keeping her drugged up.

Marlena goes to call Ben to warn him, but the devil threatens Doug's life again to get her to back off. That night, John plugs in a noise machine to help Marlena sleep. The devil speaks to her through the machine and Marlena starts to levitate as the devil says it feels Marlena giving in and soon they will become one again. Hattie has Marlena committed.

Marlena shoots Stefano. The Devil has returned for Marlena. Marlena is spooked by the devil inside her. Devil morphs back into Marlena. Stefano fights the devil after he transforms Marlena's body. MarDevil sets fire to St.

Luke's church.