The screen glows with a feverish glow as Salem’s secrets begin to spill, one after another, like coins tumbling from a locked safe. This week’s Days of Our Lives spoilers unfold with the weight of a hundred whispered confrontations, a week where goodbye messages carry the sting of unfinished business and plans hatch in the shadows, waiting for a moment to strike.

We begin with a truth that feels both cold and monumental: Stefano Deara’s memory, once a living thunderbolt that rattled the entire city, now rests in a crypt that holds the town’s breath. The bones in the crypt—once hailed as the patriarch’s final curtain call—are identified, and with that identification comes a brutal, undeniable finality. For years, Salem balanced on the edge of believing he might still rise, that the Phoenix could lift its head again and rewrite every painful chapter. But the memorial season has arrived, and the Deara family—gaunt with grief and bruised by power—must face a farewell that feels more like a reckoning.

Yet even as people grieve, the town’s gears keep turning, turning, turning toward the next move. Monday arrives with a storm brewing between Kristen and Brady, two people whose shared history makes their clashes feel like a battlefield where every argument scores a point in Rachel’s uncertain future. Kristen, driven by a fiercely impulsive love and a belief that she’s safeguarding a child’s fate, locks horns with Brady, who longs for structure, safety, and a life that doesn’t keep yanking the rug out from under him. The tug-of-war over Rachel isn’t merely about possession; it’s about who gets to write the child’s story, who gets to decide what dawns for her tomorrow when the players in her life are all capable of dramatic, self-serving moves.

Meanwhile, Susan Banks—Salem’s resident oracle of uncomfortable truths—faces a raw, blistering moment: the hard realization that she was wrong about Stefano’s fate. The psychic who has built her life around a living Stefano now confronts the hollow ache of false certainty. Her faith falters, her identity trembles, and the audience watches as a woman who once read the town’s future like an open book now stares into a mirror that reflects her own vulnerability. If Stefano is truly gone, the world she believed in tethers on the edge of reality and illusion, and she must navigate the emotional aftermath that threatens to redefine who she is to the Dearras and to herself.

Across town in Alammania, Lumen-shaded whispers twist around Vivian and her carefully controlled web of information. Rafe and Eli, ever relentless in their pursuit of the truth, zero in on Vivian with questions that cut to the heart of every lie she may be hiding. By Wednesday, Vivian delivers a story that sounds almost impossibly airtight, the kind of tale that could stall even the most seasoned investigators. Time, as Salem knows, is a currency more valuable than money, and her lie buys her time, but at what cost? The truth, when it stares back with a brutal glare, usually pays with someone else’s heartbreak. For Gabby, the once-glued-and-gnawed heart of the Deara saga, that cost could be devastating. If Stefano’s death was real, her carefully laid plans and sacrifices might be thrust into a new dimension of pain, and rage could surge like a storm breaking over a fragile shoreline.

As the week deepens, Dimmitri’s schemes and Gwen’s ambitions collide in a dangerous symphony. Gwen, sharp and precise, tells EJ of a master plan to take Dimmitri down, a plan born of the years she’s spent learning to anticipate every move others think they’re making. Her resolve is clear: she will control the chessboard, time the traps, and tilt the outcome in a way that favors her own hidden agenda. Yet Dimmitri is no fool. His mastery lies in charm and manipulation as well, and his attempt to seduce Leo is a calculated distraction—an invitation to drift into a dangerous orbit where information becomes leverage and vulnerability a liability.

Thursday marks the moment when Gwen’s trap begins to unfold in a way that cannot be ignored. Once the plan is set in motion, it becomes a living thing, a contagion that cannot be snuffed out by a single breath or a single lie. Secrets spill when a trap snaps shut, and the town’s delicate balance begins to tilt toward chaos. Jealousy and power collide as Kate catches Roman reaching out to Marina—an old flame who still stirs something in the man who should be moving toward a steadier horizon. The air crackles with the memory of what was, and the fear of what might still be, as jealousy sharp