Brady Black was once known as the exemplary father of Salem, but this week, things got out of hand.

As Rachel continued to get into trouble with Thomas DiMera, Brady decided to punish his daughter in an unprecedented way.

He declared: “From today, you are banned from leaving the house, from seeing your friends, from attending parties, until you learn the lesson about consequences.”

The scene of Brady speaking decisively, his eyes stern, Rachel standing still – made the audience shiver.

The girl who used to be defiant, confident that “she understands things better than adults”, now only knows how to clench her fists, tears welling up. But Rachel’s eyes still glimmered with defiance – which made the audience feel that this father-daughter war was not over yet.

The conflict in the Black family has been simmering for a long time. Brady feels that Rachel is slowly “losing control” because of the influence of the DiMera family – who always consider power as everything. He chooses to be tough, but that may push Rachel further away from him. When she closes the door, whispering “you will regret it”, viewers know: the storm is really coming.

The episode also reveals a scene where Brady vents his anger into the void – “I can’t let my daughter be dragged into the darkness like I was wrong.” A sentence that is both painful and foreboding of tragedy. Will Rachel fight back? Or will Brady lose the very child he is trying to protect? Salem has never been peaceful for too long.