This week’s climax belongs to Rachel Black – a woman who has experienced a terrible incident and temporary amnesia.

After years of being haunted, she finally remembers the “horrible night” that turned everyone’s lives upside down in Salem.

Spoiler: Rachel will suddenly wake up from a coma, muttering Sophia’s name.

Marlena, her mental health care provider, panics and asks: “What Sophia? What do you remember?” Rachel trembles and replies: “She’s not gone… she’s been taken.”

That sentence makes all the pieces of the puzzle start to fit together. Sophia – the girl who was thought missing – turns out to be the victim of a months-long cover-up, and Rachel is the only one who knows.

The plot gets even more complicated when Johnny DiMera and Chanel Dupree accidentally overhear the conversation between Marlena and Rachel. They decide to investigate, but they don’t know that it will lead them to… Bayview – a place that holds the darkest secrets.

In a particularly expensive scene, Johnny and Chanel sneak into the treatment area and open an old metal door. Inside, not a hospital room, but a neurosurgery room – where all the patient records are. A video file pops up: a captive Sophia, trying to scream: “Someone save me!” – and outside, footsteps are heard, getting closer.

Johnny grabs Chanel’s hand: “Run!” – but the door is locked. A loudspeaker booms through the hallway: “You know too much.”

The episode ends with Bayview on fire – it’s unclear who started it. Rachel sits in the treatment room, the fire reflected in her eyes, whispering: “I told you… they won’t let Sophia live.”
The audience held their breath at this open ending. Is “Bayview” a prison that not only holds Sophia but countless others who have been silenced? And who burned it down—to hide the truth or to free the souls trapped inside?

“Days of Our Lives” is literally “explosive” this week—not just because of the drama, but because of how each character is pushed to the limits of truth, lies, and sin. And until the smoke from Bayview clears, Salem will certainly never be the same again.