Days of Our Lives Early Spoilers July 21-25: Gabi’s Desperate Panic, Melinda’s Sinister Scheme

Days of Our Lives spoilers for July 21-25, 2025 see Gabi Hernandez (Cherie Jimenez) is panicking and Melinda Trask (Tina Huang) is plotting.

And as we always do on early edition day, we start with what’s coming the rest of this week and then talk about what’s ahead in the week of the 21st through the 25th.

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Victoria’s Fussy Day and a Potential Deal

All right, getting started. On Wednesday, July 16th, little Victoria is fussy at the office. Xander Cook‘s (Paul Telfer) multitasking, taking a very important phone call while rocking her stroller back and forth, but she is not having it. This is not where she’s used to being. And Gabi may actually help out because she shows up to talk Gabi Chic to Xander while she’s up at the office and she loves little babies.

EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel) and Gwen Rizczech (Emily O’Brien) may strike a deal about her moving into the mansion. After all, you know, they are related through marriage. Dimitri von Leuschner DiMera (Peter Porte) is EJ’s nephew, right? Because his mom Megan Hathaway (Miranda Wilson) is EJ’s sister. I’m doing the family tree while I’m sitting here making sure I have the math correct.

Intrigue and Investigation: Rafe’s Suspicions and Stephanie’s Surprise

Cat Greene (AnnaLynne McCord) and Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering) meet at his office to look into EJ’s finances using ISA and FBI resources. He gives Cat an earful about EJ’s very colorful past. I mean, Chad DiMera’s (Billy Flynn) already told her a little, but Rafe is going to tell her a lot. Meanwhile, after this talk with Cat, we have Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering) heading home.

He runs into Gabi who says Ari Hernandez (Marissa Reyes) left for the senior lake trip, and uh-oh, she’s going to find out very soon that Ari didn’t make it there. Stephanie Johnson (Abigail Klein) gets a surprise from Alex Kiriakis (Robert Scott Wilson). He had her book published, it looks like, electronically. He’s showing her the ebook cover.

Kayla Brady (Mary Beth Evans) gets a peep at it, too, but she doesn’t know it’s Stephanie that wrote it. And obviously, she’s going to freak out when she finds out her mom and dad were doing sexy things from the pages of her book. That is just so gross to me. I don’t even know why Days of our Lives is doing that. That just gives me the ick so bad to think about just writing sexy stuff and your parents acting it out. Like that’s just gross.

Anyway, Thomas DiMera (Christopher Cary) asks Cat if she will play ball with him and his dad Chad in the park, but Cat probably knows or is assuming that Chad doesn’t want her there. So, it’s like, oh, you know, should she stay? Should she go?

Jurors, Lies, and Kidnappings: The Drama Intensifies on Days of Our Lives

Thursday, July 17th. Belle Black (Martha Madison) and EJ are choosing jurors for Johnny DiMera’s (Carson Boatman) attempted murder trial. Now, they both think he’s innocent, but Belle is mad because she thinks EJ was getting sexy with her to get her to drop the charges. I don’t think so – I think EJ was getting sexy with her because he wanted to get sexy with her.

I think he made her the eggs benedict to try and get her to drop the charges and it didn’t work. But Belle’s cooled off since then, and she makes a suggestion to EJ when he says he wishes he could remember the shooting so he could find the real shooter and exonerate Johnny. So, I’m wondering if Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall is going to hypnotize him.

Sophia Choi (Rachel Boyd) and her fake belly continue to lie to her mother Amy Choi (Shi Ne Neilson) about being pregnant and pushing forward with adoption plans. She’s getting ready to make a trip out of town with Melinda to try and wrap this up and tie off the loose ends. The kidnapper is really scaring Holly Jonas (Ashley Puzemis) and Ari. They need to remain calm and use their heads to stay safe.

Meanwhile, Tate Black (Leo Howard) and Doug Williams (Bill Hayes) get into a physical altercation over the girls. Doug insists he doesn’t know where Holly is, but Tate thinks he might know. So Doug absolutely knows who has them. He just doesn’t know where he has them. And Doug is going to try again to get into Gwen’s room this week. He’s desperate to get the necklace, but she seems to keep it on her and she may be moving out soon. So we’ll see if he gets it away from her.

Missing Girls, Awkward Encounters, and a Chickening Out: Days of Our Lives Cliffhangers

On Friday, July 18th, Gabi gets some much-needed comfort from Xander after she finds out Ari is missing. Our leaker says, “Don’t read too much into Gabi and Xander that there’s not going to be real sparks there. She is headed in Philip Kiriakis’ (John-Paul Lavoisier) direction instead.”

Chad and Cat are feeling even more awkward. Is this still about the Thomas incident, or is Cat feeling a little more awkward because she’s investigating Chad’s brother, EJ. She really can’t tell him, right, because it’s ISA business. And the search gets underway to find Ari and Holly. Hopefully they’ll get there in time. Their lives are at stake. Rafe pitches in and he’s with Doug and Tate as they start looking for the girls. So maybe Rafe arrests the mustachioed kidnapper soon.

And on Friday, Sophia is chickening out of the plan. She may be losing her nerve and doesn’t want to go to Chicago with Melinda to do the fake adoption thing, but I think Melinda may talk Sophia into sticking to the plan because of what happens soon with Tate.

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Kidnapping Aftermath, Trial Turmoil, and Corporate Coups

The week of July 21st through the 25th. I’m wondering if Doug comes out of this kidnapping unscathed. I mean, there’s really unless he’s caught stealing the necklace, there’s nothing to get him arrested. It’s not his fault that bad men are pressuring him. You know, he paid off the original debt and then they came back with extra interest. That’s what lone sharks do. And Doug was really trying to protect Ari and Holly. He wasn’t doing anything bad to them. He was just trying to stop the trouble. But now that the girls have talked to each other, I do think Doug may be out a friend in Holly and out a girlfriend in Ari.

Sami Brady’s (Alison Sweeney) back soon to support Johnny during the trial and she needs to see Marlena as soon as possible because they never got to grieve John Black (Drake Hogestyn) together. And Hurricane Sami probably is not going to be good for Bell and EJ’s relationship. She may be livid that her little sister is still with EJ after she basically warned her off while he was shot and in a coma. Kristen is stressed out about Rachel Black (Alice Halsey) having to testify in court.

She’s not happy that EJ was suggesting that Rachel could be manipulated to change her testimony about what she saw going on between Johnny and EJ DiMera. Kristen was definitely hoping she wouldn’t have to bring her daughter to the courthouse, but she is going to have to go on the stand and that means Belle Black is going to have to grill her niece Rachel. I’m sure she will do it as gently as possible, but she has to ask tough questions about the night Uncle EJ DiMera was shot.

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Tony and Gabi Plot

Tony and Gabi start cooking up plans for their corporate coup to take back DiMera Enterprises and get it away from Philip and Xander. Gabi has a lot of info to give Tony about Xander and Philip. And it looks like they’re going to try and pit the brothers against each other when honestly they really are already pitted against each other. But at some point soon, Xander and Philip are going to find a path forward.

Sophia is soon going to tell Tate that she gave birth to a baby girl, and the adoptive parents took the little girl straight from the hospital. Obviously, Sophia’s going to stun Tate when she tells him this because he really wanted to meet the baby before the adoption happened.

A custody battle continues to loom unless Sarah and Xander can find a way forward. Leo Stark (Greg Rikaart) and Javi Hernandez (Al Calderon) love little baby Toro, and I’m wondering if they’re going to try and keep him. Gwen under the same roof as Kristen and EJ DiMera could be calamitous. And on the stand as the trial kicks off, we’re going to see not only Rachel), but also Marlena and Paulina Price (Jackee Harry) all on the stand, among others.

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