While the DiMeras are busy covering up and counting missing members, another Days Of Our Lives front is erupting in Bayview – where scarred teen Rachel teams up with a seemingly harmless “sick sister” who may be Salem’s new time bomb.

Her name is Sophia, and after just a few episodes, the “Bayview besties” moniker has fans both curious and chilling.

After being pulled back and forth between Brady, Kristen, and a whole lot of adult drama, Rachel is sent to Bayview to “stabilize her.”

The idea sounds great on paper: remove her from the parental war, give her a professional treatment environment, and put her next to doctors, nurses, and healing procedures.

But with DAYS, no setting is truly safe. In just a short time, Rachel found an “ally”: Sophia – a patient described as being in a serious condition, unresponsive, but actually more alert than everyone else thought.

The danger is not that Sophia is a “knife-wielding villain” or a violent lunatic. The scary thing is that she has a mind, is observant, and has the ability to speak to the exact places Rachel is hurting. When the entire adult world tells Rachel “it has to be this way, it has to be that way”, Sophia whispers very easy-to-hear sentences: “Adults always lie”, “Only I understand myself”, “They lock me in here to control me”. For a girl who feels betrayed by her own parents, those sentences are like a sedative – and at the same time a super strong stimulant.

In increasingly dense conversations, Sophia not only listens, she gradually “orients” the way Rachel sees the world. From questioning Brady’s motives to planting the idea in Rachel’s head that true freedom comes only when she dares to break the rules, Sophia patiently builds a bridge, brick by brick, that leads Rachel out of the safe zone. That bridge could be a plan to escape Bayview, a foolish act to “prove herself right,” or worse, a revenge attack aimed directly at the people who put her there.