Days of our Lives LEAK: Dominic Is Marlena and Stefano’s Hidden Child — Town Reels

Days of Our Lives fans, we got an update from our trusted leaker couple of days ago that Dominic Marino is indeed the long-lost son of Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall) and Stefano DiMera (Joseph Mascolo). And the leaker also said that Dominic takes after his diabolical late father.

Days of our Lives: Dominic & Dante Two Different People

We have been wondering based on timing if Dante Vitali (Franco LoPresti) was going to be the guy in the Phoenix ring. And of course, we also wondered if Dominic might have just been an alias. But now that we’ve seen Dante in the room with Dominic, it’s clear that Dante is cooperating with Dominic. But they are not one and the same person.

All summer long, Belle Black (Martha Madison) and Chad DiMera (Connor Floyd) have been following breadcrumbs tied to the chess set that Stefano gave them was missing upon and Belle and Chad found that significant. Now, it was initially thought to be linked to Belle’s late father, John Black (Drake Hogestyn). But was later theorized to refer to somebody else. And since new mystery man Dominic is handing out the clues, he might have taken the pawn from the chess set as a nod to John being off the board because he died.

DOOL LEAK: The Clues Start Coming

That’s one way to look at it. But I think it’s something else entirely. So, a while back, Theo Carver (Tyler Joseph Andrews) found the key hidden in a secret panel on the chess set, and that little skeleton key fit a keyhole hidden on the chess set. Belle opened the box in Salem and found a hidden drawer with an old Italian LRA note featuring composer Verde, who was Stefano’s favorite composer. Later, when Chad and Belle were in Rome, they took a closer look at the note and saw serial number seven thirty-seven, and that matched an address.

Meanwhile, Marlena had found a golden coin on John’s grave. And Marlena told Belle the coin reminded her of her time in Italy with John. So, Marlena later gave Belle the coin before her trip to Italy as a good luck charm to remind her that her dad John was always close to her even in death. And let’s not forget the program a stranger handed Belle at the outdoor concert under a black light they found a Celtic knot. And Marlena later had a flashback of seeing the same Irish symbol when she was held captive on Stefano’s island. She’s got very spotty memories of that time.

It’s also known as a trinity knot by the way. So, Belle and Chad left for Italy and EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel) showed up hijacking their trip claiming he needed to go see Sydney DiMera (Sydney Malakeh). But also EJ was worried about them. So, the trio panicked when they realized the champagne didn’t come from EJ and the letters Dom on the champagne bottle had been altered to look like initials and that pointed Belle and Chad to a hotel Dom in Rome but later to the name Dominic.

Everything Falling into Place on Days of our Lives

Also, the word Verde, in addition to being the composer’s last name, means green. And Belle and Chad located a palazzo with green exterior and stairs. So, that ties back to the LRA note. Belle’s ISA agent brother, Paul Narita, confirmed the Palazzo was formerly the convent of the Holy Trinity, which tied back to the Celtic knot. And that Palazzo is owned by Dominic Marino. So, I give the writers credit for tying all these convoluted clues together.

And Dominic is the elusive Italian hedge fund founder who’s buying the Kiriakis mansion. And get this, Belle and Chad found the exact chess set, same as the one Stefano bequeathed to John and Marlena in his house. This one had all the pawns. So to me, the other pawn is Dominic. So EJ then stumbled onto Chad and Belle when they were at the Palazzo. And EJ said he was there because he wants to know why Dominic is buying the Kiriakis mansion. Because, as you know, EJ wants it. And as Dominic watched them via hidden camera, EJ noticed other things. Stefano’s favorite liquor.

Major Clues Drop on DOOL

And EJ also saw Stefano’s fancy cigars that he liked, and they’re not even made anymore. The most telling clue, though, was a photo of Stefano smiling and holding a young boy. The kid looks about three years old and the year 1992 was written on the back of the photo with no other identifiers. Chad, Belle, and EJ are wondering if the kid in the photo is a young Dominic Marino.

And ever since Chad, Belle, and EJ were in the hangar waiting to fly to Italy, Dominic has been watching them on surveillance cameras wearing that Phoenix ring that Rita Lesley (Maggie Carney) stole and sent to him. Our leaker told us Dante’s a red herring and Dominic is the one who’s Marlena and Stefano’s son. And once Belle’s back to Salem, she’s going to tell Marlena what they found at Dominic’s house. And Marlena tells Belle Marino means of the sea, which is the same meaning behind the name DiMera. So, Marlena’s worried about the Pandora’s box effect of opening the cursed chess set.

Another Days Hint Drops

And the fall preview for Days of Our Lives hints at this. It mentions a stranger coming to Salem that’ll turn everything upside down with a lasting effect on several families. And I believe those families are the DiMera and Black families and also the Kiriakis family. Given the 1992 date on the photo of Dominic and Stefano, if you look back three years before that, that would put the kid’s birth at about nineteen eighty-nine.

And if you look further back at Days of Our Lives history, Marlena was missing from Salem from 1987 through 1991. Bad guy Orpheus kidnapped Marlena in eighty-seven for revenge on Roman Brady (Josh Taylor).

Then Orpheus staged a plane wreck and Marlena was presumed dead for years. However, she didn’t die in the crash and Stefano had his queen of the night taken and he was holding Marlena on one of his many islands. So, she spent a lot of time in a coma and under Stefano’s influence via brainwashing and Marlena was off the canvas for years. But then she finally returned home to Salem in summer of 1991 after waking from the coma and escaping Stefano.

Days of our Lives Writers Follow History

So, given this window of time where he had Marlena all to himself and she was offscreen, Stefano had an opportunity to force Marlena to conceive his child. So, the writers are sticking with what’s plausible with known history.

And when EJ wondered aloud if the boy in the photo was Dominic, the mystery man in the ring said ciao, which in Italian means hello, but it also, by the way, means goodbye, which is probably what most of you know it as. I did, too. But I looked it up and it’s like the word aloha in Hawaiian, hello and goodbye. So, even without the leak we just got, we suspected Dominic was going to be Stefano and Marlena’s child.

And now with the photo and all the clues and Rita shifting loyalty over to Dominic and Marlena recovering memories, it all fits. I know there’s a lot of fans that are annoyed at the idea that they’re retconning a kid for Stefano and Marlena. Many fans say they just don’t want to hear about Stefano again, but his portrait looms large at the DiMera mansion, same as Victor’s over at the Kiriakis mansion.

Days of our Lives Legacies Honored

So, I think the writers feel like they’re honoring these legacies. And yes, they’re rewriting history. But they’re inserting it into places where there’s room for retcon. No matter the reason, fact is Dominic seems to be another child of the Phoenix. And there’s still a lot of speculation about Dante Vitali and what’s going on with him. He really is Ava Vitali‘s (Tamara Braun) cousin. Our leaker also confirmed that to us. And since Dante grew up in Italy, he may have grown up alongside Dominic.

They might be friends from boyhood. And so some of the reasons we thought Dante was pursuing Sami and other things that EJ wants may still hold true because it looks like Dante is a co-conspirator with Dominic. And in fact, if Dante goes ahead and marries Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney), which seems to be part of a greater plot, then he would be family to Dominic through marriage because Sami and Belle are both Dominic’s half-sisters and introducing him ties their families in bizarre ways. Can’t wait to see more.

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