Of all the names playing the tightrope game in Salem, EJ DiMera is always at the top.

He is a lawyer, a businessman, an heir, and a man who tries to maintain a cool, in-control image.

But this week, that facade is cracked when EJ’s “burning” past with Cat is suddenly pulled back, and he finds himself caught in the most confusing situation possible.

Cat enters EJ’s life like a shadow he’s too familiar with but doesn’t want to look directly at.

Their history is filled with smoke and fire—literally. EJ’s buried memories begin to surface: a fire, a burn, a night when things got out of hand. He’s not sure if he was the victim, the one who caused it, or the one who stood by and didn’t save him. Cat, meanwhile, refuses to accept any “black hole of memory.” She pushed EJ into a corner with very direct questions: what did he do, what did he know, and who was he trying to hide.

The tension between the two reached its peak in a heated conversation at DiMera Mansion. Cat moved closer, EJ stiffened, between them was a secret heavier than air. At that moment, Susan appeared like… fate. With an imagination that was always ten steps ahead of reality, Susan saw the two standing close together, high and low voices, burning eyes, and immediately filled in the entire scenario of “EJ cheating on his ex”. Without needing to hear an explanation, she had fully prepared the expressions of shock, anger, pain, and of course, ready to tell the whole world. This “caught red-handed” scene promised a chain of misunderstandings. In Susan’s eyes, Cat was now not only the woman involved in the old burn incident, but also a direct threat to EJ’s current life.