Days of our Lives: Dante Vitali’s Hidden Plot to Bring EJ Down

Days of Our Lives delivers hunky actor Franco LoPresti makes his debut as Dante Vitali on Monday, September 14th. So, just a few days to wait But he may already be plotting against EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel). Is this a case of secret sibling rivalry? Because we suspect Dante might be a secret son of Stefano DiMera (Joseph Mascolo) with a vendetta.

Days of our Lives: Sami Shocks Everyone

All right, so late last November, Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney) announced to Salem and her ex-husbands that she had a new rich Italian fianceé and said his name was Dante Vitali. And of course, jaws dropped when Sami said that last name.

But she reassured everybody that although Dante’s a Vitali and is Ava Vitali‘s (Tamara Braun) cousin, Dante himself has no mafia ties. Or, you know, maybe none that Sami knows about because she’s been tricked by all of her past husbands. I think we just heard from Dante’s soon-to-be stepdaughter, Sydney DiMera (Sydney Malakeh), that Dante’s hosting the high-stakes poker game in Monte Carlo.

So, we should be seeing him in scenes next week with Philip Kiriakis (John-Paul Lavoisier) and Gabi Hernandez (Cherie Jimenez) and Sydney. But the question is whether Dante is really who he says he is. Is it suspicious that he’s the one hosting the poker game that Philip entered trying to save the Kiriakis mansion and to keep Titan Industries afloat and out of EJ’s filthy hands. So, we may also find out Dante is the Italian billionaire who made the offer to Xander Cook Kiriaki (Paul Telfer) to buy the Kiriakis mansion.

EJ after the Kiriakis Mansion on DOOL

We know EJ really wants that house and he was grilling Rita Lesley (Maggie Carney) on her finding out who bought it. She gave EJ a name. But I doubt that’s the truth because Rita is clearly in contact with Dante or whoever the mystery man is because she sent that Phoenix ring to them. And Xander has agreed to wait till Philip gets back from his trip to close the deal on the mansion. So, Philip’s really hoping to be the family’s knight in shining armor.

But as the host, we could see Dante somehow rigging the game in Sydney’s favor to make sure Philip can’t save the Kiriakis mansion or Titan because Dante might want them. This may be a significant defeat for Gabi and Philip. And this may be all about Dante getting things that EJ wants. I suspect Dante already has a beef with EJ. And since the mystery man has Stefano DiMera‘s (Joseph Mascolo) picture on his desk, if that is Dante, him being another DiMera offspring makes a lot of sense because think about it, Stefano had so many baby mamas.

Days of our Lives: Stefano’s Many Ladies

There was the unknown woman that he had Andre DiMera (Thaao Penghlis) with. He had Renée DuMonde with Lee DuMonde.  And then another unknown woman gave birth to Stefano’s daughter, Megan Hathaway. And of course, Lexie Carver’s (Nikki Crawford) mom is the late Stefano’s personal psychic, Celeste Perrault (Be Stefano had a son, Benjy Hawk (Jim Lunsford) by Ellen Hawk. We all know he tricked Susan Banks (Stacy Haiduk) into conceiving Elvis Jr. Stefano dressed up like an Elvis impersonator for the sole purpose of getting her pregnant.

In addition to liking psychics, Stefano also had a thing for prostitutes. He sired Chad DiMera (Connor Floyd) with Meline Peterson Woods. And of course, Vivian Alamain (Louise Sorel) hid her twin sons Stefan DiMera (Brandon Barash) and Jake Lambert DiMera (also Brandon Barash) from Stefano for most of their lives, but those were retcon kids. As you know, he adopted Kristen DiMera (Stacy Haiduk) and Peter Blake (Dan Gauthier) as well.

And he adopted and raised Tony DiMera (Thaao Phenglis) as his own after his wife Daphne had an affair with the gardener. So Stefano really got around and he prided himself on having a lot of offspring. So it would be no surprise if he had another secret baby with a Vitali lady as the mom or Stefano impregnated somebody else and the Vitalis adopted the child fathered by Stefano.

Days of our Lives: Stefano’s Secret Heir

This is clearly some sort of retcon kid that they’ve invented. So Days of Our Lives can do absolutely anything with Dante’s character. The man in the Phoenix ring is behind the chess set clues in addition to having a photo of Stefano on his desk. So, there’s a slim chance the ring guy and Dante Vitali aren’t one and the same.

But, I think it’s a long shot based on the timing of upcoming events because he debuts on Monday and all this stuff with the ring is happening simultaneously. So Dante might be playing games with Belle Black (Martha Madison) and Chad DiMera (Connor Floyd) to keep them distracted while Dante focuses on taking everything from EJ.

Clearly Rita’s loyalties have shifted, which is another sign the man in the ring is a secret DiMera because Rita is ride or die for Stefano and his family. The most disturbing speculation is that somehow Stefano had a child with Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall) because the chess set scavenger hunt was meant for John Black (Drake Hogestyn) and Marlena and it might have been intended to lead her to a son she had with Stefano that she had blocked from her memories.

Days of our Lives: Belle May Discover the Truth

So leading Belle to find the man who could be her half brother is almost as good because Marlena would still find out. It would be insane all this time later to give Stefano and Marlena a son. But I put nothing past the Days of Our Lives writers. As you know, nothing is off limits in that writer’s room. And I hope if Dante is that child that Marlena was maybe just a surrogate when she was captive on the island rather than a biological parent to a child of Stefano.

All that aside, if Dante is our mystery man who’s pulling the strings, he’s sure taking a whole lot from EJ because Dante is engaged to Sami, who is EJ’s ex-wife, and he wouldn’t mind having Sami back in his life. EJ and Sami shared two kids, Johnny DiMera (Carson Boatman) and Sydney, and Dante’s really close to Sydney now. And in fact, Dante might have specifically gone and romanced Sami knowing it would hurt EJ.

Days of our Lives: Dante Targeting EJ

Plus, Dante could be buying the Kiriakis mansion, not only to have a nice big home in Salem. But to stick it to EJ so he can’t get the Kiriakis estate for himself. And the one thing that’s even worse than this for EJ is that Dante could have Rita’s full loyalty as well. And maybe Dr. Wilhelm Rolf (Richard Wharton)’s loyalty also.

Rita already lied to EJ and shipped that Phoenix ring off to the man who’s watching EJ, Chad, and Belle on surveillance cameras. I personally cannot wait to hear more about Dante when he shows up on the scene on Monday’s episode. He could very well be one more of Stefano’s many children and ready to make a splash in Salem even before he and Sami say I do.

Days of our Lives: Timing is Off

And also the very timing of Dante showing up now is a huge red flag because Alison Sweeney is not going to be back on Days of Our Lives until summer two thousand twenty-seven. So, not quite a year from now, a little less than that. And that begs the question, why are we getting Sami’s fiancé Dante this far in advance, months and months before she shows up?

We know Sami, Carrie, Lucas, and Will are all coming for a big arc. And according to spoilers, the plot will include a lot of family history. So, we’ll see exactly whose family history it is, because it may tie back to the DiMeras. And I suspect that Sami and her son and her siblings and her ex-husband may all be back for her wedding to Dante or something surrounding her fiancée.

But the real question is how much does Sami actually know about this guy she’s marrying? Because from where we are sitting, if Dante is the man in the ring who’s leaving the clues who’s bought the Kiriakis mansion, it certainly looks like he’s out to destroy EJ, which is a very DiMera thing to do.