 Stefano provides her with enough money to start her own business called "Kate's Hearth and Home", a Martha Stewart-like brand of housewares.She hires Stefano's son Tony DiMera (Thaao Penghis) to do the advertising.Kate no longer worries about Lucas and Sami, because Stefano has blackmailed Sami into a marriage with EJ, and Sami has fallen for him.