As detailed in previous post, JJ found the transcript of Lawrence Alamain's trial for raping Jennifer; and during that trial, Jack admited that he had raped Kayla.

So anyone who was at Lawrence's trial knows about Jack raping Kayla. It wasn't private info (unless there was testimony in a private room or judge's chamber).

Edited Sunday at 05:17 PM2 days by janea4old

8 hours ago, cody_1990 said:

The one thing that I noticed this week, probably more than before is how low stakes this whole show is. Both the custody battle and this stalker story for example is just scene after scene of people talking ad nauseam about these things, but there is little action involved. The show built this brand new courtroom set last summer, they should of trotted it out and had a real custody battle between Chad and J&J. This could have been a huge story for the Horton family, and the 60th anniversary. During that mediation, when Chad brought up Jennifer's addiction, I literally said out loud, what isn't Chad bringing up Jack raping Kayla? Why isn't J&J bringing up Stefano and EJ? Chad literally is the last person to call out any horrible behaviour with in his own family lately, why wasn't that brought up? I just kept imagining the scenes we could have gotten of this going on in court. Imagine having Horton's and DiMera's testifying on the witness stand, and all their dirty laundry being aired out.

The same with this stalker story. We get scene after scene of Stephanie and Alex in that apartment now with Steve, talking about how dangerous this stalker is. What has the stalker done that is dangerous? Posted disturbing messages about Stephanie. Do any of these writers read social media. People post vile and disgusting comments all the time about celebrities, it doesn't mean they need police protection and criminal investigations. This stalker should have been doing horrible things, not just posting messages about it. Literally the worst thing that has happened at this point is Alex has huffed some powder sugar, and Stephanie and Alex had to go stand in the HTS for 5 minutes, not exactly the type of material that leaves you on the edge of your seat. My advice to these writers is amp up the stakes here. Less talk and more action. I know the budget makes it hard to write a lot of things, but be creative. It's not really that hard, Chat GPT could probably help lol

Agreed.

There needs to be much higher stakes in both of these storylines. When it comes to the conflict, it's like the writers only scratch the surface a little instead of really going there with high stakes drama. I wouldn't mind all the scenes of talking, if a lot of those scenes just dissolved into full on arguments or fights. And I was hoping we would get a full on custody battle as well, if anything, just to use the courtroom set again, which at this point, seems like just a waste of money on an already cash strapped show.

And honestly, the stalker thing should be tearing Alex and Stephanie apart, not bringing them closer together. You could've gotten so much drama out of Stephanie eventually coming around and thinking that Jeremy isn't the stalker, while Alex becomes more and more determined to prove that he is. Alex could even like use Sophia's mother or someone in order to get Jeremy fired from his teaching job.

Even with the excuse that the writers gave us about basically being in a holding pattern until they heard news about the renewal, I don't get why their choosing not to go there with any storyline. It can't be a budget issue.

4 hours ago, janea4old said:

I don't know who is currently aware that Jack raped Kayla. But the year it happened, Kayla filed charges. I don't know if that went to court or not.

He pleaded guilty to a lesser assault charge and got like community service or something.

10 hours ago, cody_1990 said:

My advice to these writers is amp up the stakes here. Less talk and more action. I know the budget makes it hard to write a lot of things, but be creative. It's not really that hard, Chat GPT could probably help lol

💀💀💀 I’m dead! Yes please do something!

With how Days tapes so far ahead hopefully this isn’t what we’re getting for the next half of the year.

On 1/21/2026 at 7:02 PM, Vee said:

Dude has only 2 purposes on this board. 1) Telling you ad nauseam that he has famous daytime friends, for real and 2) "subtly" baiting for negative engagement via his flopsweat compliments of SON's anti-favorites at every possible opportunity. Did you know how brilliant JFP is? How amazing Carlivati is? I met them at a party and they laughed at my jokes. Don't you know how fantastic and fun Leo is every day? SON just doesn't understand the real audience. Believe what you want!!

I've had him on block for years but it cracks me up any time I stumble across something like this and it is always the same 3-4 talking points. Once people stop biting he'll move on to defending McTavish or Stephen Miller or something. Gotta get the clicks!!

@Vee loves me! Always claims to ignore yet always knows what I say. Vee’s jealous of my connections. Research absolutely ranks Leo at the top.

Welcome back, EJ!

Too bad today was mostly about everything going on with the lab. I have mixed feelings about all of this, and I still stand by what I've said about Johnny being the one who should be trying to take down EJ. It just makes sense for it to be him based on everything that's happened between them. And while I enjoyed Johnny and Chanel today, that would be a much better storyline for the two of them than Chanel being pregnant again. Plus, if Johnny did end up taking EJ down, it could've led to more conflict between him and EJ, and the rest of the Dimera's as well.

But it's always good to see Dimitri interact with other characters besides the two worst ones that he often gets stuck with. That needs to happen a lot more often. Peter Porte is too talented for the nonsense that he's given, both now and in 2023.

EJ and Gwen's plan to try and frame Dimitri as being Peter's accomplice in the kidnappings could be interesting though. As pointless as the kidnapping ultimately was, I do like the idea of it having some kind of effect on future storylines.

But I had no use for Kristen today, despite her scenes with Dimitri. She really needs to take her awful kid and leave Salem for good.

As for Rafe/Cat, it did seem a little like they were chem testing the two of them again. I don't think it's gonna work though, if that's what the writers are actually going for lol but I am a little interested in seeing what happens once Rafe and Eli go to Alamainia. Btw, the cliffhanger ending would have been a lot better if it hadn't already been spoiled by the weekly promo 😂

20 hours ago, janea4old said:

Found it on the archive.org version of soapcentral recaps.
Last week of September 2013 and the first week of October 2013.
Info behind spoiler tag: details of JJ learning about Jack raping Kayla, and who else knew

(Somewhere over this batch of episodes, I forget where, it's clear when Abigail and Jennifer are talking, that Jennifer had already told Abigail about Jack/Kayla rape years ago, but they had decided not to tell JJ back then. The implication is that the Jennifer/Abigail conversation had been offscreen because it happened when the characters were living in another country and not on the show.).

JJ learns this in 2013 when Jack was supposedly dead. JJ was annoyed that Jennifer was dating Daniel, and he felt Jennifer had gotten over Jack too quickly. He was fighting with Jennifer and wouldn't stay with her. He was planning on sleeping at the park or crashing with Rory and hanging out with Bev, etc.

He encountered Kayla and asked if he could stay at her home. Kayla tried to convince JJ to work things out with Jennifer. JJ ranted to Kayla about Daniel. Kayla blurted out "well your father was no saint". JJ said what do you mean by that? Kayla changed the subject by telling JJ to reconcile with Jennifer, and then Kayla walked away.

Abigail walked up and shows JJ that Jack's book has been published and is now on sale, and he's thrilled. He mentions his conversation with Kayla, and asks Abigail what Jack might have done, but Abigail simply agreed that Jack hadn't been a saint, without giving details.

JJ then tried to get info out of Adrienne by visiting her at the K-mansion and Adrienne thinks he's looking for a place to crash. He started mentioning something about Kayla and Jack -- and Adrienne dropped her coffee cup and it shattered. He knew that Adrienne knew something and he got her to start talking; and she said Jack had deeply regretted it (but Adrienne didn't say what "it" was. ) JJ said "I already know" but Adrienne realized he was bluffing, so Adrienne didn't tell him.

The recap says that JJ broke into the Horton house (he didn't have a key) and he searched. He found the transcript of Lawrence Alamain's trial for raping Jennifer. Within that transcript of Lawrence's trial, it says that during the trial, Jack was forced to admit that he (Jack) had raped Kayla. JJ freaks out.

JJ goes to see Kayla at the hospital, and tells her he read Lawrence's trial transcript and what Jack had testified. JJ asks if Jack lied on the stand to help Jennifer in some convoluted way, but that he didn't really rape Kayla. Kayla says what Jack testified is true.

Meanwhile Jennifer returns to the Horton house and finds the Lawrence trial transcript laying out, and she realizes that JJ read it and found out. Abigail and Kayla arrive and they all discuss this. Just then JJ gets arrested for smashing the window of the store where Jack's book is on display.

Thank you for the detailed response. I guess the assumption would be that Chad would know through Abigail. Well, that seems more relevant than Jen's pill addiction, but I suppose the concern for Chad would be Jen harming the children if she relapsed where Jack has been a changed man for years.

Days is SO bad! Nothing happens. Cwiky and Ford are inept. Days USED to be in the Top 10 on Peacock. Not anymore.

It was bad enough having one man-child in EJ but now we have a second one with Dimitri.

This week marks Lauren Koslow's 30th anniversary with DAYS.

I'm a huge fan of hers, as most on this board will know, and hope she gets a little recognition for the consistent work she's put into the role of Kate.

Another boring show today.

-- The baby story with Johnny and Chanel is so bad. Just deadly boring. No one cares about her baby rabies.

-- Now Dimitri has joined EJ in the as$hole column.

-- Cat has been chem-tested with everyone in town.

-- Kristen needs to move away. For good.

Edited 19 hours ago19 hr by ranger1rg

So, I guess now that it's finally official, RIP Stefano.

As insufferable as EJ and Kristen were yesterday, I thought they did a better job today as they absorbed the news, and also how it was tied back to their current feelings for each other. The dialogue kinda hinted that there may be a little growth coming for the character of Kristen, and there really should be. There has been a little change in her character since the new writers came in but if we're gonna be stuck with her, there needs to be more. And as annoying as EJ and Rafe get sometimes, their sparring wasn't all that bad either... until Rafe started to be a dick again lol. And now that Cat knows that Rafe helped Hope cover up Stefano's "murder", something interesting might happen.

As for Cat and Chad, I admit that I probably would have enjoyed their scene together if I actually liked them as a couple. It's almost like they're in a classic soap dilemma. Btw, if they're gonna keep mentioning Andrew, and the work that he's doing, he really should be onscreen full time.

I do wonder who put the bones in the crypt though. But hopefully, this is it for Stefano. It's well past the time to let him rest. And honestly, as much as I like the trope, the days of the soap supervillain are over, in general.

I enjoyed Theo and Johnny's scenes as well. I have mixed feelings about the whole Bonnie's book thing, but I'm interested in seeing what happens if Johnny goes ahead and has it published, and it ends up hurting Dimera. Maybe we'll get a Theo/Johnny feud lol

But I definitely don't know about Johnny wanting to be the one to plan a fitting memorial for Stefano. He should be the one most against it, if anything, just because of everything that Stefano did to John/Marlena and the Bradys. It just makes sense for him to basically be the "anti-Dimera", which could lead to a lot of good conflict for him and everyone around him. It would be like a natural story transition for him, based on everything that happened last year, in addition to him trying to take down EJ and what he's planning at the lab, which we learned more about today. I don't understand why the writers chose not to do it.

And we saw Liam again! We got more insight into his character today. And while he and Abe do work well together, he needs much, much more to do. Having him appear once every few weeks was just weird. Maybe this all would've worked better if he had been more of a sexy bad boy type. And also got involved in some kind of feud with Theo, with Abe caught in the middle. Hopefully, that backstory hasn't been dropped either.

But I'm very interested in seeing what happens if it turns out that Liam actually was the one who was helping Peter with the kidnapping.

I would say it's odd it seems like the show had no initial plans for Liam/Nortrop, but it's Days. Maybe they did, but it got stalled by the way the show tapes? At least the show didn't go the cheap route and tie him to Roman (yet).

So is the woman EJ plans to awake

Abigail?

Incredibly BORING episode! Joe Mascolo has been dead for years so now Stephano is dead. Stupid stupid stupid. I want my Days back. Terrible writing.