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Days of Our Lives is moving us into the next phase of a number of stories. Holly and Tate are done, Marlena and Steve’s investigation finally takes off, Xander’s now alone in a sea of liars and EJ’s shooting is nigh. So let’s get into it before April takes off at a run. 

So, Orpheus is involved in John’s disappearance. That’s not a huge surprise, especially with how prevalent he’s been in Days of Our Lives the last few years. But he’s also a villain that goes back four decades to John’s earliest stories as “Roman,” so if this is all one big farewell tour of John’s time on Days of Our Lives, there’s no way they could have ignored good old Milo.

There’s also no way he killed John, though. It’s way too early in the story for that. But I am kind of hoping for a web of John’s villains and allies woven into this story from the past 40 years. Orpheus, hopefully, is just the start, and the easiest to bring back first since he’s been on and off over the years.

Sarah Is Horrible

Can we all agree Sarah was the absolute worst this week? (Though she’s kind of been the worst since this all started.) Yes, her and Xander’s relationship is deeper and longer-lasting than Stephanie and Alex’s, but she got herself into this mess. And now, Sarah’s just trying to throw everyone but herself under the bus to save her own relationship that she chose to jeopardize.

Good for Stephanie. Sarah asking her to throw her life in turmoil, destroy her relationship and lie even more to everyone around her was so out of line — and using little Victoria to guilt Steph made it even worse! This secret needs to end, even though I’m sure it’ll mean Philip leaving town with his tail between his legs.

I’m glad Stephanie balked and told Alex the truth, but of course he was convinced at the last second to keep the secret. I have a sneaking suspicion/worry that this is going to destroy all of Xander’s growth and maturity. Now pretty much the entire family that he feels protective towards is lying to him. His wife is lying to him.

When it comes out, he’s going to turn on everyone and stop trusting them all. Xander versus the world. And Sarah’s worry over him going off the deep end will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Sigh.

Doug and Sophia… a New Scheme Team?

I speculated earlier in the week on the show zigging instead of zagging and pushing Doug more towards the villain than redeemed man. Then Days of Our Lives gave us that scene with Sophia and suddenly I could see the two of them plotting to make sure Tate and Holly don’t get back together. And I’m kind of here for it.

This is the first time in ages I got the feeling that Sophia is still a schemer. And I liked seeing Doug with a little more edge as Sophia tried insulting him and he pushed back.

Let’s do this. Plus, it’ll keep Holly and Tate apart. She was wonderfully mature when she pointed out to Tate that relationships aren’t supposed to be constant drama and struggle. If they are, it’s probably unhealthy. And honestly, I don’t know what the right thing to do would have been, but he was obnoxiously petty, tattling to Julie without any regards to how it’ll hurt her.

Julie’s already worrying about Doug, though, so I don’t see their estrangement lasting long.

Get a Clue

I’m starting to feel like I’m watching one long Clue movie here. Suspects toying with guns, eyeing up knives, making threats in different places and different rooms. Aha! It was Mr. Green in the study with the revolver! Someone call Tim Curry!

Days of Our Lives has hit practically every angle it can at this point.

I really do think this is going to end with EJ surviving and turning his life around to be less of a vindictive snake. Will it stick? Probably not. This is EJ. But it would be cool if after this, he set about trying to offset all his bad deeds with good ones. But maybe still keep his sharp tongue. We can’t have him turn boring.

Either way, it’s finally here. Spoilers have EJ’s shooting next week! Hallelujah! Let’s see if they can eke out a few more suspects before then.

Stray Thoughts…

• Kristen’s angry with her mom disappearing, but she’s still remarkably calm over the fact that she’s clearly been kidnapped, if not outright murdered…
• Is there anywhere in the world Steve doesn’t have connections? I’m not sure how secretive the ISA is if no matter where he goes, he knows operatives there.

• Could we please let Paul and Andrew actually stick around after this? Salem can always use more heroes.
• After all that talk of Marlena playing the hero now, she’s sidelined while the guys go all Rambo in Tallinn. Facepalm. But I’ll admit it does make sense from the “she’s not trained for a strategic strike” standpoint.
• We got two gems of wisdom from unlikely sources this week. Alex’s “Shouldn’t Sarah be able to trust her own husband?” was spot on. And Holly’s “I don’t think it’s supposed to be like this,” when talking about her and Tate’s nonstop drama was shockingly mature. If only anyone listened to them…

• So where did Melinda dispose of the necklace? I’d question if she’s lying, but she’s too shrewd to want to keep stolen property. No matter how much she loved it, it’s just a headache she doesn’t need.
• Kate warned Philip about EJ’s threats, which I’m hoping isn’t just a throwaway bit of humor to get Philip griping over favorites. It potentially brings two of the major storylines together: The Kiriakis boys’ DiMera takeover and EJ’s shooting.