Days of our Lives spoilers for Monday, March 23, prove that EJ still has control over Paulina, as long as he still has Lexie.

Key Takeaways

• EJ uses Lexie against Paulina.
• Stephanie buys what EJ is selling.
• Jeremy has news for Julie.
• Leo whines to Marlena about his love life.

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To keep Mayor Price from calling him out for excessive electricity usage, EJ (Dan Feuerriegel) showed Paulina (Jackée Harry) Lexie’s (Nikki Crawford) revived body and asked her what Paulina wants EJ to do about filling in for Abe (James Reynolds) and Theo (Tyler Joseph Andrews). Paulina isn’t sure yet.

Which means that, as long as Paulina isn’t sure, EJ has her under his thumb. And she’d better do what EJ says.

Not Me

Our EJ has a lot of plates he keeps spinning in the air. In addition to Paulina, he has to convince Stephanie (Abigail Klein) that EJ had no idea she and Jeremy (Michael Roark) were being kept prisoner by Owen (Wes Ramsey) in EJ’s hospital basement.

Which, up until the last day, was actually true. Of course, Stephanie knows that Rolf (Richard Wharton) found them there… and left them there. But that doesn’t incriminate EJ. Does it?

Back to Stay

Now that he is no longer Salem’s favorite fall guy, Jeremy has decided to stick around for a while. Julie (Susan Seaforth Hayes) is happy to hear it.

But what happens the next time the good citizens need someone to blame for anything? And what happens when Alex (Robert Scott Wilson) decides he doesn’t like his wife’s ex hanging around?

Tales of Woe

Leo (Greg Rikaart) is back in town, and he decides that Marlena (Deidre Hall, who welcomed a new co-star) is dying to hear about how Javi (Al Calderon) called while Leo was with Dimitri (Peter Porte), and now Leo can’t have everything he wants, and this upsets him. We hope Marlena is being paid to listen.