Amidst the chaos of Salem’s funerals and Stefan’s mysterious death, a horrific kidnapping takes a dramatic turn.

At midnight, Stephanie Johnson is attacked in her own home.

A chloroform-soaked cloth, a slamming door, then silence.

When her boyfriend, Alex Kiriakis, returns, he finds an empty room with strange shoe prints and handprints on a glass of water.

Police investigate, but their only lead points to an old name: Owen Kent – ​​the man who had haunted Stephanie years before. However, when Steve Johnson (Stephanie’s father) arrives at the abandoned house suspected of being the holding place, Kent has vanished. Inside the room, Steve discovers a phone containing a video – showing a laboratory with a resuscitation tube similar to the one EJ DiMera had found earlier. Two events – DiMera’s funeral and Stephanie’s kidnapping – seem horrifyingly connected.

EJ then receives an anonymous letter with the words “The dead are never gone.” He seeks out Kristen, demanding an explanation, but she only smiles enigmatically. In a preview for next week, EJ will open the resurrection tube in DiMera’s vault – and his stunned expression drives the fandom wild. The person inside the tube – according to inside sources – could be Lexie Carver, or even Stefan Dimera.

Meanwhile, Stephanie remains missing, Alex searches desperately, and Steve vows “not to let another member of the family be taken away.” The drama spills over from DiMera’s family to Johnson and Kiriakis, creating a complex web of tragedy that only Days of Our Lives could possibly write.