Rage Was All the Rage in Salem on Days of our Lives

Nhat NhatMay 31, 2024

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On the May 31 episode of Days of Our Lives, Nicole clobbered her baby’s kidnapper. Meanwhile, Bobby unleashed his scary, true personality on Jada and Stephanie.

Jessica Serfaty Upped to Contract Status on 'Days of our Lives' as Sloan Petersen

Sloan Showed up at the DiMera Mansion

Although she’s supposed to be hiding out in Italy with a new identity, Sloan (Jessica Serfaty) snuck into the DiMera mansion when Nicole (Arianne Zucker) was alone, apparently to apologize to her. Of course, Nicole would have none of it, and the more Sloan talked, the more EJ’s wife got enraged. The lawyer recounted the whole sordid tale of Dimitri (Peter Porte) showing up with the baby right after her miscarriage and felt it was fate intervening. That’s when Nicole hauled back and slugged Sloan in a most satisfying moment!

Sloan said she deserved it, and Nicole admitted that she initially felt bad and identified with the schemer because of her own miscarriages. But the more they continued talking, the angrier Nicole got, citing how she destroyed her and Eric’s (Greg Vaughan) lives with her lies. Sloan said, “Didn’t you do the exact same thing?” referring to the time when Nicole swapped Sami’s (Alison Sweeney) baby with Mia’s (Taylor Spreitler), passing it off as her and EJ’s (Daniel Feuerriegel) child. In a fit of rage, Nicole roared like an animal, and you could see the blind fury on her face. Never mind that this current story is something of a retread of Nicole’s past actions, this took the cake and made for exciting viewing. More, please.

Sloan would have had a good life abroad, but she just HAD to return to Salem. She, of course, bolted, but before she could exit, she encountered Eric in the doorway. It’s going to be fun to see him rip into her, also. Eric’s so on edge that he almost pounded Leo (Greg Rikaart) near the beginning of the episode, but Rafe (Galen Gerring) stopped him.

Scary Bobby Emerged

Meanwhile, a nervous Stephanie (Abigail Klein) joined Jada (Elia Cantu) at Everett’s (Blake Berris) place to stage an intervention. He had just come off of an erotic dream with Jada and was curious why both women were there. When it became apparent what they were up to, Bobby Stein emerged, and he immediately hit on Jada. The women tried to explain that he had a split personality, and he put on his creepy face, referring to Everett as another person. They pressed further until Bobby finally unleashed his anger and screamed at them to get out in an unexpectedly shocking moment.

This was another great piece of acting, as Berris really sold the concept of two identities living in one brain, and his anger was palpable. We finally got some solid answers when he stated, “There are ugly things from Everett’s past that the three of you cannot even begin to imagine. Things that he does not need to face again.” Steph tried appealing for Everett to emerge, and the stress caused him to clutch his head in pain and fall to the floor. Thankfully, Marlena (Deidre Hall) showed up and planned to get him help, and we could see his demeanor change back to Everett.

Obviously, something so horrible happened to Everett in the past that it splintered his personality so that one could emerge to protect him. Given that he recently thought Eric was slapping around Sloan (Jessica Serfaty), and reacted by punching him, whatever dark events that lay his past must have been similar. Overall, one of the more exciting episodes of DAYS in a while, and the show needs to continue the trend.

Pop Culture Reference of the Day

Leo was talking to Melinda and stated, “I just ran into Eric Brady, who told me that Sloan confessed to everything and then hit the yellow brick road to Nowheresville.” Melinda told him that not everything required a Wizard of Oz reference, and he replied, “And not everything requires a snark, Elphaba.” When she didn’t know what the name meant, he explained, “Elphaba. The Wicked Witch of the West played brilliantly by Margaret Hamilton.”