If Kristen is an adult’s nightmare, then in the younger generation, Sophia Choi and Rachel Black are becoming Salem’s new “little devils.”

Bayview should have been a place where Rachel could receive treatment, learn to control her anger, and atone for her series of crazy actions, but Sophia’s arrival has turned it into a training ground for two intelligent but deviant teenagers.

From the outside, Sophia appears frail, bedridden, and soft-spoken; but viewers soon see this is just a facade.

She has recovered more than the doctors thought, deliberately maintaining her “illness” to stay and continue influencing Rachel.

Rachel, meanwhile, is in the most dangerous phase of her teenage years. She has just had to confront the fact that she actually pointed a gun at EJ, nearly killed someone, and almost killed Sarah. That trauma, coupled with the feeling of being “betrayed” by her parents for sending her to Bayview, made Rachel the perfect breeding ground for Sophia to sow seeds of hatred. Their conversations, initially just sharing that “adults don’t understand me,” gradually shifted to a “if they hurt me, I have to do something to get revenge” kind of approach.

Outside, Brady struggled between being a father and a man trying to love again. He was torn between the responsibility of being firm with Rachel to prevent her from sinking deeper into despair and the guilt of watching the child suffer psychological torment in the institution. The more pain he felt, the more he turned to Sarah, seeing her as a support system to keep from going insane. Sarah understood all too well the risks of entering Brady’s life: behind him lay not only a tangled romantic past, but also a daughter prone to emotional outbursts.