DOOL Spoilers: Ava’s Testimony Could Send Rachel to Foster Care?

THE DIMERAS STRIKE AGAIN: SALEM’S JUSTICE SYSTEM FAILS THREE INNOCENT VICTIMS

Oh honey, grab your popcorn because the DiMera dynasty is getting away with EVERYTHING while three of Salem’s most vulnerable souls are caught in their web of deceit!

Salem’s power players are at it again, and this time they’ve orchestrated a perfect storm of injustice that’s left Ava Vitali, Rafe Hernandez, and Jada Hunter paying for crimes they never committed. Meanwhile, the actual villains? Sipping champagne and plotting their next move without a care in the world.

AVA’S DEVIL’S BARGAIN: Brady or Justice?

Let me spill this steaming hot tea—Ava is backed into the most impossible corner of her life! That off-screen visit from Child Protective Services has changed EVERYTHING. Thursday’s episode showed her ready to sing like a vengeful canary about her kidnapping, but we all know what she’ll ultimately choose.

Brady Black is practically begging her to stay silent, knowing his daughter Rachel could be whisked away to foster care if Ava tells the truth about who held her captive. Can you imagine the weight of that choice? Press charges against your kidnappers and watch an innocent child suffer, or swallow your pride and let your tormentors walk free?

When Ava inevitably keeps quiet about the Aremid nightmare, it means Little Rachel, Adult Rachel Blake, Kristen DiMera, and EJ DiMera escape scot-free for a serious felony. Those two Rachels desperately need therapy, while Kristen and EJ deserve matching prison jumpsuits! But in typical Salem fashion, the guilty parties slide by while the victims suffer in silence.

RAFE’S LIVING NIGHTMARE: When Memory Loss Becomes a Death Sentence

If you thought Rafe’s luck couldn’t get any worse after the coma, kidnapping, and memory serum—honey, you were WRONG. The man’s entire identity is being erased before our eyes!

First, EJ arranges his abduction. Then he’s injected with Dr. Rolf’s experimental serum and loses every single memory. Now—in the cruelest twist yet—he’s been arrested as his own doppelgänger! Jada and Shawn have no idea they’ve got the real Rafe in custody while the actual criminal, Arnold Feniger, roams free.

When those DNA results come back, they’ll “prove” he’s Arnold since the sample was swapped. The memory loss that EJ caused is now being used against him as evidence that he’s lying. I mean, is there any justice in Salem at all? The poor man can’t catch a break! If I weren’t seeing it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe this level of misfortune could happen to one person.

JADA’S EMOTIONAL WHIPLASH: When Truth Comes Too Late

Jada Hunter deserves so much better than this emotional rollercoaster she’s been strapped to! She’s operating a million steps behind the reality of what’s actually happening, and my heart is breaking for her.

She’s interrogating the very man she’s desperately searching for, convinced he’s a criminal mastermind faking amnesia. Meanwhile, she’s just learned that Rafe never cheated, never betrayed her, and never abandoned her at the altar. He didn’t frame her for corruption—that was all Arnold and EJ’s elaborate scheme!

But here’s where it gets messier than a Sami Brady revenge plot—Jada has already slept with Shawn during this nightmare. The guilt and confusion must be eating her alive. How do you process learning your fiancé was faithful while you’ve already moved on with someone else? Especially when that fiancé is sitting across from you in an interrogation room and doesn’t even recognize your face? It’s heartbreaking, truly.

THE DIMERA DYNASTY CONTINUES TO REIGN

What makes this entire situation so infuriating is that we’ve seen this pattern play out in Salem time and time again. The DiMeras commit heinous crimes while innocent people pay the price. EJ has manipulated evidence, framed Jada, kidnapped Rafe, and been involved in Ava’s abduction—yet he’s walking around free as a bird while serving as the District Attorney!

Kristen has managed to reunite with her long-lost mother, Rachel Blake, only to pull her into criminal activities rather than build a healthy relationship. And now she’s using her daughter as a human shield to escape justice! The manipulation is next-level diabolical, even for a DiMera.

And let’s not forget about Belle Black, caught between her morals and her heart. She’s sleeping with the enemy while her ex-husband Shawn is unwittingly helping that same enemy’s scheme succeed by arresting the real Rafe. The irony is almost too much to bear!

Is there anyone in Salem powerful enough to bring the DiMeras down? At this point, I’m starting to wonder if justice will ever prevail, or if we’re doomed to watch Ava, Rafe, and Jada suffer while EJ and Kristen continue their reign of terror. Something’s gotta give, and soon—before there’s nothing left of our favorite characters to save.

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