Days EJ smirks slightly as he listens to his phone

We’ll admit, before Shane stuck Cat with Rafe on Days of Our Lives and tasked them with finding out what EJ is really up to and who’s funding him, we never suspected his hospital bid was anything but on the level. We should have, but since his near death experience, EJ has truly seemed to be trying to be a better person. He’s slipping back into his snarky, less than altruistic ways, sure, but that didn’t mean he was up to anything shadier than making a name (and a nice chunk of cash) for himself as Salem’s hospital savior.

But as Shane pointed out, he had to get the funding for the hospital buyout from somewhere — especially if he was making an offer that could stand up to the combined Titan/DiMera resources. Still, we didn’t really think too much on who might have teamed up with him… until Gwen came back to Salem to “tie up some loose ends.”


After all, she’s recently come into a very sizable fortune having wrested the Von Leuschner money from her jailbird hubby, Dimitri. And the timing of her return, hot on the heels of EJ’s hospital purchase is awfully suspicious.

We know EJ and Gwen don’t exactly love each other, but they are kind of in-laws and could probably bond over hating Dimitri. Plus, they’re both practical enough to work with someone they find distasteful towards a mutual goal. And perhaps towards mutual profit. We know from spoilers that Tony’s about to give EJ a warning about something— maybe working with someone as duplicitous as Gwen?

Days Gwen sits across from Xander at a Bistro table, leaning in, hands raised and mouth open in a smile talking excitedly

And while Gwen’s talk and subsequent hotel romp with Xander on Wednesday was actually kind of touching as she opened up and admitted that he’s “the one who got away,” we can’t help wondering if it’s truly sincere. She did swear him off after being burned a few two many times by always being his second choice after Sarah. So what changed now? (Besides them both being filthy rich.)

 

That’s where we can’t help but wonder if she’s playing him as part of a deal with EJ to breakup Titan and DiMera once more. We’ll admit, we can’t quite figure out all the angles in this, but if everything was blindingly obvious, there’d be no mystery to solve here! And you know what they say: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire!