We’ve been intrigued ever since the Woman In White appeared on our screens, haunting Days of Our Lives‘ Aremid once more. Though the show hasn’t admitted just yet that she is, in fact, Kristen’s mom, Rachel Blake, they keep dropping more and more hints at it being her true identity. If she is, though, she’s a whole lot less kind and much more dangerous than she ever was before.
She’s not only helping her potential granddaughter, Rachel, scheme to reunite Kristen and Brady, but she’s keeping Ava captive and keeping it vague as to whether the former mob princess is getting out of this alive. And that, in turn, is giving us a greater understanding of just what little Rachel is capable of.
She’s clever, resourceful, conniving and more than a little cruel. Kristen was hoping she’d take after her mom, more than Stefano, but it seems she’s gotten more than little DiMera supervillain in her. (And if the Woman In White is Rachel’s grandmother, she’s no saint either.)
Fortunately, unlike her Nonno, Rachel doesn’t have plans for world domination. Instead, Eric Martsolf told Soap Opera Digest, her “hunger” is “to have her parents together. She’s aware that, ‘How do I get these two people in the same room to realize that they actually do care for one another? Oh, I know I’ll be a source of contention, and they will inevitably fall in love again and want to be a family.'”
But has she bitten off more than she can chew with the Woman In White? They’ve clearly got a plan in mind to take her out of the equation long term, but Brady and Kristen popped up and interrupted it. Or at least, they interrupted one version of it. Because the Woman In White still has Ava hostage. And Rachel just used her nemesis’ phone to break up with Brady and claim Ava was staying in Hong Kong indefinitely.
We aren’t sure what the final plan is for Ava, but the options are either keep her a prisoner forever or just kill her. And the latter seems a lot more likely. If that’s the case, maybe Rachel just doesn’t realize how serious this whole game is or what the Woman In White plans. Or… maybe she does.
She could be far, far more aware of what she’s doing and what it means that we think. There’s no way Rachel could have known someone would be waiting in the house for her, but clearly, she was all too happy to find an ally to use to achieve her goals. She might be masterminding more than we realize to create a crisis so grave, it forces Kristen and Brady to come together – even at her own expense.
What could be more serious than a child taking part in murder? She’s young, and she’s clearly got issues. At worst, she’ll be sent away for a time for treatment and come back a “new” person, happy in the knowledge that even if Ava had to die, Mommy and Daddy are together where they belong.
As Martsolf said to SOD, “She’s a smart cookie. She might be the smartest person in Salem at this point.” God help us all.
