In the early days of December 2025, the name Rachel Black once again became the center of attention in Salem.

Not because of her exploits, love, or rebirth — but because of her brutal mental decline.

Rachel, after a series of past mistakes, was finally admitted to Bayview Psychiatric Hospital.

The crowd may think she “deserved it,” but inside those sterile walls, Rachel was struggling with fears, obsessions, and sins she had never told anyone.

In the middle of Bayview, Rachel met Sophia DiMera — a girl who had been immobile for a long time, now just waking up, her expression unusual, her sharp eyes seeming to pierce through others’ souls. Sophia sat next to Rachel for hours, listening to every sob, every heartbreaking confession. Rachel cried. Sophia held her hand. Two broken souls met, leaned into each other and breathed. But it was that same synchronicity that gave DAYS fans goosebumps: Sophia was no ordinary person. She was a DiMera, and every DiMera handshake always had hidden meaning.

Rachel confided things no one else knew, recounted the night of mistakes, the secret calls, the wrong decisions. Sophia listened, and sometimes just tilted her head, smiled slightly — a vague smile, like someone holding the key to open the door to the dark. During sleepless nights, Rachel was startled by nightmares, by shadows passing by the door, by the sound of metal tapping lightly on the bed. Bayview was not quiet. Bayview was a pan of intrigue.

People began to whisper: Was Sophia “setting” Rachel up? Or was Rachel becoming a pawn in something bigger? Sophia asked deeply, digging out every memory, every word. And Rachel — in her most vulnerable moment — gave all her trust to the only person who would listen. Danger had never been so close.

In the coming episodes, if Rachel lets slip a clue that has rocked Salem, or reveals a secret that could upend the DiMera family’s power base—Bayview will no longer be a place for her to lie low. It will become a chessboard. And Rachel, already fragile-hearted, could be the first pawn to fall into the abyss.