As Brady begins his own investigation, Sarah Horton finds herself caught in a dangerous spiral between ethics and professional duty.

As Sophia’s doctor, she is obligated to keep her medical records secret.

But when she witnesses too many signs of abnormality, Sarah can no longer keep silent.

She turns to Kayla Johnson – her longtime colleague and best friend – for advice.

In a quiet but suffocating scene, Sarah and Kayla sit in a hospital office. The dim light reflects on both of their tense faces. “If you knew the truth could destroy someone’s life, would you tell them?” Sarah asks, her voice choking. Kayla looks at her and replies slowly, “I kept quiet… and almost lost everything. Sometimes, telling the truth is the only way to save someone.”

That advice leaves Sarah reeling. After many sleepless nights, she decided to access Sophia’s obstetric records – something that only a few people with authority are allowed to see. When she saw the DNA test results, Sarah was stunned: the father’s name was clearly not Tate Black, but Aaron Greene – a man who was involved in a financial scandal in Salem.

Sarah understood that if this information was revealed, Sophia would lose everything: reputation, job, relationship, and even the unborn child. But if she kept silent, Brady and Tate would continue to be led by the nose in a cruel drama. Sarah’s internal struggle began.

Meanwhile, Kayla sensed that Sarah was hiding something. She decided to find out more on her own, checking the hospital system logs and discovered that Sophia had “intervened” to edit patient data – which was completely illegal. The scene of Kayla standing in front of the screen, the blue light shining on her face, her eyes trembling, made fans choke.

A backstage leak revealed that Kayla might become a “whistleblower” – sending a copy of the DNA profile to Brady in an anonymous envelope. If that happened, the truth would explode like a time bomb, with a series of irreversible consequences.