Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Did EJ DiMera Make Vivian and Ivan Vanish to Control Salem From the Shadows?

EJ DIMERA’S SURPRISE FOR GWEN HINTS HE MADE VIVIAN VANISH AS SHAWN BRADY WALKS INTO A DEADLY SHOOTOUT

TL;DR: EJ DiMera may have made Vivian Alamain and Ivan disappear to protect himself and Gwen on Days of Our Lives, potentially destroying Leo and Dimitri’s entire ISA case before it even gets off the ground. Paulina Price is lying to Abe Carver about Lexie being alive, and a professional gunman puts Shawn Brady in immediate, deadly danger.

He Is Not Surviving Salem’s Chaos. He Is Building It.

Here is what Salem keeps underestimating about EJ DiMera.

The secret lab got blown open. The revival pod is sitting there in plain sight for anyone to examine. On the surface, that looks like a catastrophic unraveling, the kind of exposure that should end a man. Except spoilers are pointing in a direction that suggests he already knew this was coming and made his first offensive move before anyone in Salem even processed what they were looking at.

He has a surprise for Gwen Rizczech. The source lays out two possibilities. Either Lexie Carver is finally waking up inside that stasis pod and their resurrection experiment actually worked… or EJ personally arranged for Vivian Alamain and Ivan to vanish before either of them could become a liability. Cleaned up Gwen’s latest disaster. Neutralized the single biggest threat to the entire operation. Walked away holding information the rest of Salem does not have.

If it is the second option, this is not a man scrambling to contain damage. Not even close. This is a man who counted the moves three turns ahead and acted while everyone else was still figuring out what game was being played.

Leo Stark and Dimitri von Leuschner are about to feel exactly how devastating that is. They came back to Salem carrying the one argument that could save them: Vivian framed Dimitri by manipulating the DiMera crypt video feeds, and the evidence to prove it exists. But that entire case depends on Vivian being findable. On Ivan being reachable. On a trail that leads somewhere a court would actually listen to. If EJ DiMera quietly made both of them disappear before Leo and Dimitri could get to Andrew Donovan with their story, that trail is gone. The spoilers already call their ISA pitch a tough sell. Without Vivian, it is not a tough sell. It is nothing.

Something tells me that is exactly how he needs it.

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Paulina Is Lying to Abe and Shawn Brady Is Walking Into a War Zone

The Lexie situation is its own slow-burning catastrophe, and Paulina Price is right in the center of it.

She has answers. She knows Lexie Carver is alive. She knows Abe Carver has spent fourteen years grieving a woman who was being kept underground in a DiMera-funded stasis pod. And on Thursday, she looks her husband directly in the eye and says nothing. Spoilers confirm she is actively lying to Abe’s face, and the source makes it plain: this Lexie problem is not going anywhere.

There is no clean exit from this. Fourteen years of grief. A marriage built entirely on the assumption that Lexie was gone forever. The moment that truth surfaces, and it absolutely will, Abe is going to realize his wife was sitting on the most devastating secret of his life and chose silence. That confrontation will be unlike anything Paulina has ever had to face on this show.

And while all of that ticks quietly in the background, Thursday throws something far more urgent into Salem’s lap.

Vivian may be gone but her operation is still running on its own momentum. A gunman named Klaus has Liam in his crosshairs, and JJ Deveraux and Shawn Brady step directly into the middle of it. Full shootout. The spoilers do not soften the language here: things are not looking good for Shawn. That is specific. That is the kind of phrasing used right before someone ends up in a hospital bed or does not walk out at all.

Every thread running through Salem right now traces back to the same source. EJ DiMera may have cut the head off the snake, but Vivian’s operation is still moving, Klaus is still pulling triggers, Shawn is still walking into a fight with no idea how deep this goes, and Leo and Dimitri are heading into an ISA meeting with no witness left to call. One man is holding information the entire city does not have. And he has a surprise for Gwen.

Keep up with everything happening in Salem through our ongoing Days of Our Lives coverage, and stream every episode on Peacock.

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@soapoperamag I loved seeing Rafe and Steve work together…but… I really wish John was there. It's moments like this that show me just how much I miss him in Salem. Did you watch these scenes and find yourself missing John too? #Days #DOOL #DaysofOurLives ♬ original sound – Soap Opera Magazine