Days of Our Lives' Phillip heads to Indianapolis in search of his son this week, after receiving a picture of a baby and a note claiming the child is his.

"At first, Phillip doesn't believe it. He thinks someone is messing with his head," says Jay Kenneth Johnson (Phillip) pointing out, "Phillip hasn't even been with anybody since he was married to Belle."

When Phillip shows Billie the baby's photo, she has it blown up and notices a prescription bottle for "Tyler Kiriakis." She uses her contacts to track down the attached address and phone number. "Phillip wants to get to the bottom of this," declares Johnson. "He calls the number, tells the woman who answers who he is. He says he is coming to see her with a detective."

Before leaving, Phillip fills in Shawn and Belle, prompting Belle to ask Shawn if he was in Indianapolis over the 4th of July. Shawn denies it but then Lauren confronts Shawn and begs him to act as a go-between to give Phillip his son.

Elsewhere, Phillip and Billie break into Lauren's Indy digs. "Nobody is there," says Johnson, noting that Phillip and Billie find a gym membership with a photo on it. Phillip is shocked to see it's Lauren, the surrogate."

And then everything falls into place. "Phillip concludes that Shawn is trying to keep him distracted and away from Belle by stirring things up with Lauren," explains Johnson. "It's a lot of information for Phillip to process, but if this is his child, he wants to take care of him. He wants him to carry on his name."

Back in Salem, Shawn confesses his part in the baby business to Belle, but swears he had no part in harassing Phillip. Belle insists they come clean, but it might be too late. "Phillip isn't going to be happy that Shawn kept this from him," says Johnson. "For somebody who calls himself your friend, this is something you might want to let them know."

Ya think?

I love this! Yay! I'm so glad the Lauren storyline will be dealt with! And it gives Philip, Belle and Shawn something interesting to do, IMO ...

Tyler? Damn! That's the first time a soap character has had my name. lol.

This is AWESOME!! This is such a nice twist. This is the stuff that is actually good, Hoagie!!

this should be interesting, i can't wait. Maybe lauren can be a love interest for Philip

This does sound great. I always had a feeling they would pick this up down the road.

It sets a great story in motion and it seems like it's taking Philip away from just being a Shelle interloper, which is good thing. I also LOVE the name Tyler.

Poor Phil Jr. <_<

Now this is going to be a Philip/Belle/Shawn storyline that I can enjoy. No one's being devious (aside from a little from Shawn), and no one is playing dirty. I can't wait to see how Philip handles this new baby situation. And I'm glad Hogan remembered the whole surrogate baby. Fans were complaining that it was just another dropped storyline. That's not the case. It just needed to flesh out and been given time.

Tyler Kiriakis, that's a great name as well.

Finally, something that sounds really good to me about DAYS!

And I like the spumor (?) that goes around that Steve and Kayla get involved in this storyline.

But, I've liked many spoilers that came out from DAYS/Hogan and I haven't liked the execution all that much, so I will wait till I see this, before I start praising this storyline.

But I'm thinking I will tune in to see this storyline... :)

I can't believe he forgot that he had a kid. I know he gave his rights away real fast like and he was going through a lot, but a baby, that is a big thing... I would think he would at least remember about it when he started to get those calls. Crazy, imo.