Days of our Lives: EJ and Gabi Weaponize Kristen’s Secret Affair!

Days of Our Lives excites as EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel) and Gabi Hernandez (Cherie Jimenez) just figuring out that something is up between Xander Cook Kiriakis (Paul Telfer) and Kristen DiMera (Stacy Haiduk) when they saw her slip Xander her room key for the Salem Inn.

Days of Our Lives: Kristen’s Steamy Fling with Xander

So, we all know that Kristen wants EJ dead and she really, really wants Xander to do it, but he’s made it clear he is not interested in doing anything murdery for her. Yet, those two are still hanging out. So, EJ recently confronted Gabi about trying to get her hands on his late brother Stefan DiMera’s (Brandon Barash) share of the inheritance from Stefano DiMera (Joseph Mascolo).

And we know that EJ paid to have a handwriting analysis of their divorce papers done. And EJ was really smarmy with Gabi when he pointed out the analyst insisted that Stefan’s handwriting was legit. But Gabi had her brother Rafe Hernandez’s (Galen Gering) FBI contacts analyze those samples of Vivian Alamain’s (Louise Sorel) handwriting that Philip Kiriakis (John-Paul Lavoisier) got and they reached a different conclusion.

Days of our Lives: Gabi Brings Proof

So, Gabi now also has a written affidavit from Ivan Marais saying he witnessed Vivian forging Gabi and Stefan’s divorce documents. So, Gabi’s ready to fight and obviously she thinks she’s going to win what’s rightfully hers as Stefan’s widow. Plus, she has Theo Carver (Tyler Joseph Andrews) on her side as the executive of his late uncle Stefano’s will. And even though Theo’s mad that Gabi thought he was the one who told Philip that she planted the bug, I’m sure Theo will still do the right thing as the executive.

And Gabi knows EJ wouldn’t be offering to settle with her if he didn’t think that she was going to win. So, Gabi may be getting a payday soon. And she already offered Philip a lump of that DiMera dough to pay off the Titan loan that’s causing them so much stress. But he was so mad he told Gabi no. And Philip doesn’t want to grovel when it comes to his now ex-girlfriend. And that’s not even really groveling because she offered.

Days of Our Lives: The Room Key Revelation

But Xander just found out about this missed windfall and he’s mad that Philip refused her offer. And Kate Roberts (Lauren Koslow) is not pleased about this mess either. But everything is about to change because after Gabi and EJ finished bickering and talking about inheritance matters, that’s when they spied Kristen doing something unexpected. Gabi and EJ both saw Kristen slipping her room key into Xander’s shoulder sling. And Gabi and EJ were a bit perplexed about what they were even seeing.

If you recall, Kristen first invited Xander to her room at the end on Days of our Lives. It was several weeks ago to try and hire him to assassinate her brother EJ. But since then, Xander and Kristen have been having a steamy fling and they really haven’t been talking business or about killing EJ. In fact, getting frisky with Kristen is how Xander hurt his elbow during their first encounter where they got way too aggressive.

Days of Our Lives: EJ and Gabi Plot Their Leverage

So now I wonder whether it will be Gabi or EJ who is trying to leverage the fact that they spotted Kristen slipping Xander that room key. We all know their wheels are turning because they are both plotting when they saw Xander and Kristen obviously getting ready for a hookup. So first of all, we know that EJ would love to have leverage against Kristen. And so, EJ may use this info to undermine Kristen’s position in the family.

So, EJ might, you know, have one of his minions record them or take pictures of them entering and leaving the room. Hopefully he wouldn’t, you know, make a tape of his sister, but get some kind of proof of their sneaky rendezvous or, you know, he could have somebody dress up as a bellhop and get into the room to spy on Kristen and take some pictures.

Days of our Lives: EJ Has Several Options

But if EJ did that, that would probably just give Kristen more ammo to try and convince Xander that EJ needs to go and he should be eliminated. And then there’s the fact that EJ could casually drop hints to Xander that he knows about his affair with Kristen because EJ may suspect Kristen of selling DiMera secrets to the Kiriakis enemy and threaten both of them if they don’t come clean about what they’re up to.

EJ could also threaten to tell Sarah Horton (Linsey Godfrey), who would be furious and would might never forgive Xander for that because of what Kristen did to her. And of course, EJ has no idea that this all started because Kristen wanted Xander to kill him. Or EJ could get the info on Kristen and Xander and plant it with another DiMera to create family chaos. So EJ’s siblings will be busy infighting while he deals with Lexie Carver’s (Nikki Crawford) new medical crisis. EJ has other fires to put out besides who his sister Kristen is playing tonsil hockey with at the Salem Inn.

Days of Our Lives: Gabi’s Strategic Moves

And then of course there’s Gabi. She could use this as ammo to further tarnish Kristen’s reputation and any hold she might have on Xander. I could see Gabi actually going and confronting Xander with enough information to make him sweat a bit. Gabi could even offer to keep quiet in exchange for Xander allowing her to keep Gabi Chic over at Titan because she wants to stay close to Philip.

You know, she’s hoping for a second chance. Gabi might even use the situation with Kristen to get closer to Xander. You know, a forced relationship built on leverage because we know Gabi wants Philip back and she may think getting leverage on Xander could put him in a position where she can demand that he talk her up to Philip. maybe encourage him to take Gabi back, which is her endgame, I think, because she still loves Philip. Or Gabi might anonymously leak Xander and Kristen’s affair to social media. Or might leak it to Leo Stark (Greg Rikaart) and it winds up splashed all over the Salem Spectator pages.

That way, it makes Kristen look like, you know, a sketchy seductress stealing corporate secrets. It might make Xander look bad, but then maybe she thinks that he would step aside and Philip would have sole control. You know, Gabi’s always scheming and she might think Philip might like that when I think he’s happy as is other than the financial problems. So, all of that would be ironic because Gabi really did do corporate espionage. But she could damage both Xander and Kristen’s already sketchy reputations.

Days of Our Lives: Will Gabi Seek Redemption?

I don’t know if it’s going to go that way though because Gabi really wants to make amends for what she did to Philip and to Titan. And of course, we know Gabi really did love Philip. She still loves Philip. You know, in a crazy twist, Gabi might use this to leverage Xander to play flirty games with her to try and trigger Philip to get jealous so that he might come back to her, you know, if she got flirty with Xander. Obviously, Philip wouldn’t like that. But I don’t know if Xander would do that because he and Philip have a good relationship, you know. So, we’ll see. That might be a bros before something situation.

I just know either EJ or Gabi or maybe even both of them are probably going to look for a way to leverage this juicy tidbit of Xander sleeping with Kristen to each of their advantages. The DiMeras play dirty and they don’t blink an eye in double crossing one of their own.

Plus, we know that EJ soon finds out that Kristen tried to have Johnny DiMera (Carson Boatman) killed and he rages at her. So, this information might come to him from somebody else, maybe even Xander if he and EJ get into it because they are sparring this week. And we’ll see. But EJ is on the path to get this information. And that may be because of what just happened with Kristen dropping Xander that room key.