DAYS Diabolical Decision: EJ DiMera Is Caught Between Paulina Price and a Secret That Could Destroy Lexie and There Is No Clean Way Out

EJ DIMERA IS BEING ASKED TO PLAY GOD AND BOTH DOORS HE CAN OPEN LEAD SOMEWHERE TERRIBLE

TL;DR: On Days of Our Lives, EJ DiMera knows that Versavix has a problem and that Lexie Carver is deteriorating as Patient Zero. Paulina Price has marched straight to him and demanded the drug for her daughter Chanel, who has aggressive breast cancer and is pregnant. If EJ gives Paulina the drug, he could kill Chanel, his son’s wife. If he explains why he cannot give it, he tells Abe’s current wife that Abe’s first wife is in serious danger. There is no version of this that ends well.

What EJ DiMera Actually Knows

EJ DiMera is sitting on a catastrophic secret on Days of Our Lives. Versavix, the drug that Dr. Rolf developed and that EJ has been leveraging for personal, political, and pharmaceutical gain, has a problem. Lexie Carver is Patient Zero. She is the only person who has been through what she has been through, which means there is no road map for what is happening to her now, no prior patient data, no precedent for the weakness and tremors that have started becoming noticeable. EJ knows. Rolf knows. And they are not telling anyone.

Soon, her appearance will tell everyone for her..

Paulina Price forced the conversation with EJ. She left her daughter’s side and walked straight to him to demand Versavix for Chanel, operating on the reasonable assumption that a drug capable of curing Lexie’s terminal brain tumor should be capable of fighting her daughter’s breast cancer. Paulina did not ask. She demanded. And EJ is now standing at an intersection with no good turn.

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The Two Doors and What Is Behind Each One

If EJ DiMera gives Paulina the drug, he administers an experimental treatment with known emerging complications to a pregnant woman with cancer. Chanel has already decided to move forward with chemotherapy, knowing her bodily fluids will become toxic to everyone around her, knowing she cannot breastfeed. The side effects are already punishing enough without adding an untested pharmaceutical with undisclosed failure data into the mix. EJ handing over Versavix without disclosing what is happening to Lexie would not be medicine. It would be an experiment. One he would be conducting on Chanel and Johnny’s child, who is his own grandchild!

If he refuses without explanation, Paulina does not accept that. She came to EJ because her daughter is sick and she believes he has the answer, and a flat refusal is going to generate a level of pressure and scrutiny that EJ cannot afford.

If he tells Paulina the truth, that Versavix is showing dangerous complications in its only patient, he tells Abe Carver’s current wife that Abe’s first wife is in serious and undisclosed medical danger. Lexie Carver came back from the dead and has been managing a situation that is already complicated enough without Paulina knowing the details. The last person in Salem Lexie would want informed of her deteriorating condition is the woman who took over her marriage.

The Abe Carver Problem at the Center of All of This

There is yet another domestic geography here that makes EJ’s position even more impossible. Abe Carver is married to Paulina. Lexie is Abe’s first wife, returned from the dead, currently navigating her resurrection and a drug complication she has not disclosed. Paulina made room in her life and her relationship with Abe for Lexie’s return, and that is not a small thing. She has been gracious about a situation that would test anyone.

But gracious has limits. A woman who finds out that her husband’s first wife is seriously ill and that the information was being withheld from her is not going to respond with continued grace. She is going to respond as someone deliberately kept in the dark about something that directly affects her family.

EJ DiMera has been playing Stefano for months. He has been maneuvering and staying three moves ahead of everyone around him. This is the situation that does not reward calculation. This is the situation where every move available to him costs something real, and Salem will find out whether he has the humanity to make the right one.

Does EJ give Paulina the drug, tell her the truth about Lexie, or find a third option nobody has thought of yet? And does Lexie find out Paulina came to EJ? Sound off below.

Where Do You Land?

Should EJ tell Paulina the truth about Lexie and let the consequences fall where they may, or does he protect Lexie’s secret and find another way to help Chanel? And if Abe finds out EJ kept this from Paulina, does the whole family fracture? Head on over to our Facebook page and drop your verdict, let’s hash it out.