Salem has been suffocating these past few days, as the mysterious Cat Greene suddenly became the trigger, pulling EJ DiMera into a dark spiral.

No one expected Cat to be so strong as to dare to “attack” EJ’s mind — not with drugs, but with the deep memories that he himself had buried for years.

Just one small detail: Cat mentioned a research room in Europe, where EJ was once locked up as a living experiment.

From that moment, EJ was thrown straight back to the past.

He looked at Cat with a face full of panic, and Cat smiled faintly, as if she had touched the right nerve that EJ did not dare to name.

EJ began to feel unstable. Fragments of memory were broken: the sound of metal clashing, the sound of heavy footsteps in the hospital hallway, the cold light of the laboratory… all rushed back. His hands trembled, and he dropped his glass of wine when he realized Cat had information that even his relatives had never known. It seemed that Cat had prepared carefully, observing EJ for weeks, trying to trigger memories with small words, harmless questions, and then exploding into a “fatal blow”.

No one knew what Cat wanted. Some thought she wanted EJ to fall into her hands. Others guessed that Cat needed EJ to confess the secret of a character’s death in the past. But clearly, Cat was not a puppet. She was the one pulling the strings. EJ, once fierce, cold, master of all games — now became a psychological victim, wavering between truth and doubt.