This week in Salem, it’s like someone turned on “self-destruct” mode: before EJ and Cat could even process the forbidden kiss, the entire DiMera family was plunged into a new nightmare when Theo suddenly disappeared and woke up in… the family crypt.

On one side was the fire of love, on the other side was the darkness of the crypt, in the middle was an entire powerful family on the brink of collapse.

Everything started from the moment EJ, in a moment of weakness or too “sober”, decided to rush in and kiss Cat.

The girl who used to read to him in Italy, who used to drug him, who used to be a name no one wanted to mention again, suddenly became the one who made DiMera’s heart flutter.

Remembering his days at the medical facility, EJ realized he couldn’t deny the strange bond with Cat. The problem is: it wasn’t a clean relationship, and in the DiMera household, nothing “gray” can’t turn into a scandal sooner or later. Cat was on a fine line: half attracted to the man with whom she had vague memories, half consciously aware that EJ was using her memory loopholes to drag her into a new vortex.

That kiss, if it had happened in another household, would have been a “love triangle” at best. But this was the DiMeras. Every kiss involved power, money, and a history of sin. EJ knew full well: if Susan, Chad, Kristen, or any of the family saw this, he would immediately be labeled a “traitor”—not just a traitor to his family, but also to his own plan to rebuild his image.