Days of our Lives: Gabi & Tony’s Seductive Scheme to Seize DiMera!

Days of Our Lives sees Gabi Hernandez (Camila Banus) and Tony DiMera (Thaao Penghlis) are just about to launch a big plan to take back the family business. And it all centers on a honeypot scheme.

And if you don’t know what that is, I’m going to lay it out for you while I give you these spoilers. We’re going to talk about why Gabi and Tony are the best ones to get DiMera Enterprises out of Kiriakis’ hands.

Days of Our Lives: Gabi’s Risky Plan to Reclaim Gabi Chic

So, if you have been keeping up with today’s episodes. And I know some of you do and some of you don’t, you just listen here, which thank you. You know by now that Gabi is super stressed out that Gabi Chic is under the Titan umbrella of companies and that she is under Xander (Paul Telfer) and Philip Kiriakis’ (John-Paul Lavoisier) thumb.

She has tried several things to wiggle her fashion and lifestyle brand away from Xander and Philip, but nothing works so far. She talked to Alex Kiriakis (Robert Scott Wilson). She’s talked to Brady Black (Eric Martsolf). She’s tried different things.

Tony DiMera’s Strategy: Saving DiMera Enterprises from Chaos

And you might have seen that Tony really wants to get control of his father’s legacy back away from the Kiriakis’. But at the same time, I think that he’s unsure that his brother EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel) is the best one to involve in this because Tony wants the family business to be legit.

And EJ wants it to be business as usual but with Johnny DiMera (Carson Boatman) as CEO. And we know business as usual is dodgy. So, right now, while EJ is distracted, manipulating Belle Black (Martha Madison) with edited video footage and getting Johnny off on murder charges by any means necessary, I think Tony is going to take a totally different approach to saving DiMera Enterprises while EJ is busy elsewhere.

Fighting Fire with Arson: Gabi and Tony’s Explosive Strategy

So, in the summer promo, Gabi and Tony are talking at the DiMera mansion. And she talks about fighting fire with fire, which is of course an age-old cliche. But then Tony flips it on the ear and tells Gabi, “No, they’re gonna fight fire with arson.” As in, Tony wants him and Gabi to burn down the Kiriakis’. Not fighting fire with fire. He wants to put accelerant on it and just really blow it up.

Targeting the Kiriakis Brothers: Xander and Philip in the Crosshairs on Days of our Lives

So, specifically, Tony is cooking up a scheme with Gabi to target the Kiriakis’ brothers, Xander and Philip. Those two have already had a lot of problems already because Xander found out Philip lied and stole part of his inheritance and then Xander beat him almost to death and then Sarah Horton (Linsey Godfrey) dumped Xander and he was arrested and he was released because Philip is covering for him.

So honestly it’s a total chaotic mess at the house of Kiriakis’ and Philip and Xander are still at odds but they are determined to make a success of Titan DiMera but they’re at each other’s throats. It’s just very problematic.

Gabi’s Honeypot Scheme: Seducing Xander and Philip on Days of our Lives

It looks like Gabi is going to try to take everything away from them. She is going to go all in on Tony’s plan and she is toying with Hunky Philip and Hunky Xander to ruin them, possibly ruin their lives to get her fashion brand back under her own control and help Tony get DiMera back.

So Gabi is soon locking lips with both Xander and Philip. She’s going to be pitting one brother against the other. That’s all part of her and Tony’s game plan. The brothers are already shaky and then Tony’s got Gabi as his secret sexy weapon.

Titan DiMera’s Fragile State: Blackmail and Tension

Xander and Philip used EJ shooting if you don’t remember and Kristen DiMera’s (Stacy Haiduk) issues keeping control of the company and her own sketchy background to convince Li Shin (Remington Hoffman) on the board that he should let Titan Industries take over DiMera. And that included its subsidiary Gabi Chic.

They gave him a big incentive, but now Li Shin is a little worried. Things haven’t been great at Titan DiMera. Not since Xander kicked Philip’s butt and almost killed him. And now Xander and Philip are kind of mutually blackmailing each other. So things are fragile. Alex is feeling the tension. Johnny is feeling it as the newest employee. As I said, it’s a big mess.

Tony’s Vision: Rehabilitating the DiMera Legacy

But now we’ve got Tony back in Salem with a more level head. still a devious DiMera, but he is trying to do the right thing by the family. He wants what rightfully belongs to the DiMeras. Now, Tony doesn’t love that DiMera Enterprises was a front for a bunch of criminal activities over the years.

You know, their dad, the late great nefarious Stefano DiMera (Joseph Mascolo) was a villain. He was a criminal. So, Tony wants it back, but he wants to rehab that image. So, I’m curious to see if Gabi drops by to conspire with Tony or he invites Gabi over to test the waters. Tony may have heard that Gabi’s very dissatisfied with what went down and thinks that she might be the person to help him defeat Xander and Philip.

Decoding the Promo: Gabi’s Kisses and Sarah’s Reaction

So Tony and Gabi plan to pour gasoline on the dumpster fire that these siblings have going, you know. And we actually had to pause and look at the new big super promo about four times to see Philip with Gabi because they were in this little horizontal bar and they were getting horizontal, but it was you had to kind of pause it to look at the cheekbones because Philip and Xander both have these very dramatic cheekbones and you know they don’t look a lot alike but when you’re looking at them in profile So, we ran that back several times.

We’re like, “Okay, yeah, it’s both brothers.” And looks like with Philip, she may be doing more than just locking lips. As for Gabi and Xander, they’re at the bistro. Gabi pulls him in for a kiss right in front of Sarah and Brady. And I am curious to find out if Gabi knew that Sarah and Brady were going to be there and she sat this up on purpose on Days of our Lives.

Sarah sees Xander kissing Gabi and then Sarah decides to smooch Brady in front of Xander who then decides to punch Brady. Clearly that Titan HR anger management course isn’t having the intended effect. Or maybe Xander ditched and never went even though Philip told him to go get some help with his anger issues.

Honeypot Dynamics: Will Philip Fall for Gabi?

And some days fans are actually wondering if Philip and Gabi are going to fall for each other during the honeypot plot. And if you’ve not heard that phrase before, a honeypot, sometimes it’s also called a honey trap. It’s usually in like secret agents, spy films, and real life as well. It’s when a usually a female agent is working undercover using sex or romance to compromise the person or persons they’re targeting to take them down or get information out of them or, you know, weaken them in some way.

So, I do think Philip is far more likely to fall for a honeypot than Xander because Sarah still has Xander’s heart. But Philip is single. He’s never dated Gabi before and she’s undeniably gorgeous. And she dumped Jack Junior (JJ) Deveraux after he accused her of shooting EJ, although JJ had good reason.

So, she’s single, too. And in the end, Gabi and Tony could win back DiMera, but Philip could win the girl. However, if he finds out Gabi was honey trapping him, he might be angry. Maybe, you know, then again, Philip’s a schemer, too. So, I don’t know if he would actually hold it against her at all or for too long. He might just be too happy to have a a woman in his life like her.

Days of our Lives The Ultimate Showdown – DiMera vs. Kiriakis

So, needless to say, I don’t know about you guys, but I’m super stoked to see Gabi and Tony fight fire with arson and pit Xander and Philip against each other. We’re going to see if the brothers win or if the ex-in-laws are going to pull off a big scheme, rip apart this Titan DiMera merger and bring DiMera back home to the family.

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