It was fire meets ice when Franco Kelly set his sights on Sami Brady as his green card. Sami was the perfect target. Teased about her weight and frustrated by her inability to receive positive male attention, this brash but unsure brat was ripe for the picking. He set about seducing her and got more than he bargained for; Sami actually had a heart, and she didn't want it to be broken. Even though he'd planned to just nail her and make her hot for his body, Franco ended up being the first man to ever make love to Sami (soaps use that term too often nowadays). Then he gave her an anklet which read in Italian: "Without trust, there is nothing." It can be taken to mean many things. Among them is the thought that because Franco most likely doesn't trust Sami at all, their relationship means nothing to him. But she accepts their union for what she sees it as: a man and a woman who care about each other and want to be with each other.
In Sami's eyes, Franco's positive points are numerous: he dresses better than country bumpkin, Duh-Boy, is taller and more sophisticated than Lucas, is better in bed than both of them, and is exactly the kind of man that would make Daddy wake up and realize his little pumpkin exists. (As in the case of Lucas engineering for Roman to find Sami and Franco in bed together.) He's also bringing about a change in her personal appearance. In case viewers haven't noticed, Sami's hairstyles, wardrobe and makeup have changed drastically from when we first got to know her.
So what's the problem you ask?
Sami's the problem. Even though she's more confident about herself and her looks, she's still a stone bitch inside. She just can't seem to soften up where some people like Lucas and Kate are concerned. She's as protective as a tigress in regards to her son, Will, and would dearly like to cut his daddy Lucas out of the picture forever. When Lucas started drinking, it was like a godsend to her. She had a reason to take him to court and sue for sole custody, claiming that in a drunken fit Lucas had hit Will. Even though Sami's schemes as a blackmailer came into play, the case was decided in her favor. Now Sami and Will get to stay at the Kiriakis mansion, and Duh-Boy has decided that Carrie and he are moving in with them. (It was Duh-Boy's idea, he wanted to be close to Will who still thinks of Duh-Boy as Daddy.) Meanwhile, Lucas has been shuttled off to Alice Horton's house for rehab and the prerequisite 12-step program. Sami's won, for the moment at least, and Franco's unsure of what life with a woman as capable of malice as she is will be like. Currently, he's dreading it.
Sami planned a big birthday bash for Franco at the Penthouse Grille, with a special surprise for him. His compliment that she reminds him of Marilyn Monroe sparked her imagination, and she crooned, "Happy Birthday, Mr. Franco" to him as an assasin leveled a gun at the birthday boy. Sami's was shot by a bullet meant for Franco and, but she survived. Franco took her home and put her to bed after checking out the Kirakis mansion's shrubbery for lurking assasins. Evidently, Franco's concerns are more for his mistress, Miss Candy. He's had to fantasize about her more than once to be able to, umm. . . "perform" for our girl Sami, and made a date with her after the incident.
Sami and Daddy have had a run-in over whether or not she gets to wed the Sicilian slimeball, and Daddy even went so far as to throw Franco out of the Kiriakis Mansion (which is not even his own house). Eric brought Roman around and is standing up with Franco as his best man. Sami's picked Nicole for her maid of honor. Marlena is being snowballed by her eldest daughter into picking out a wedding dress with her. That makes it 3 dresses Sami has gone through in two years!
Well, the wedding did not go off as planned. Kate got the goods on Franco after she hired Candy Lace, his stripper/mistress, to strip for his bachelor party, which had been combined with Smai's bachelorette party. Just after Sami mentioned something about wanting to name their first son "Eric," and witnessing his freaked out reaction, Candy jumped out of the cake. Candy recognized Franco, of course, and he had to weasel out of it claiming that Candy and his pal Roberto were the ones going at it hot and heavy. Roberto backed up his story. Then Kate attacked Franco on his and Sami's wedding day, intending for Franco to leave Sami at the altar, and she told him that she knew why he was marrying the mother of her grandson: he needed a greencard. Franco couldn't let Kate win by deporting him so he tried to off her with a poker. Lucas, in the midst of making off with Will, managed to get the gun Sami got from Franco and shoot him in the back. Meanwhile, Austin had just told Sami about the real nature of Franco and Candy's liason.
Sami came in ready to blast "that bastard," saw Franco lying in a pool of blood, and fainted. Kate dragged her body over to where Lucas had shot Franco, wiped her baby's fingerprints off the gun and put it in Sami's hand. When Sami came to she managed to curse Franco before she was taken to the hospital. Lucas then came into the hospital after being in a car accident with Will. (He'd been drinking, of course.) Sami went after Lucas for getting her son into an accident, strangling him and cursing him to high heaven. Lucas and Will were both in comas by the end of that day. Sami called a prayer service for Will and in the middle of it, Abe came to drag her off in handcuffs.
Thus ended the saga of Sami and Franco. . .
Or did it?!
