Stef’s IOU to Alice

"At the time of his birth, Susan was hired by Stefano to impersonate Kristen DiMera, Stefano’s adoptive daughter who miscarried John Black’s baby. Susan initially believed that Elvis Presley was her baby’s father, but the truth eventually came out that Stefano was the one who fathered her baby via artificial insemination. Kristen’s misdeeds were eventually exposed, and Susan fell in love with Edward Crumb and returned to England with little Elvis. E.J. was partly brought up by Susan, but Stefano also had a significant involvement in his upbringing at Maison Blanche. During much of E.J.’s childhood, Stefano enrolled him in English boarding schools, took him to operas, and molded him into the DiMera way of life.

EJ returned to Salem in 2006 and was introduced as E.J. Wells, a racecar driver. He moved across the hall from Sami Brady, who was involved with Austin Reed at the time. Unbeknownst to all of Salem, E.J. was Stefano DiMera’s son sent to Salem to do his father’s bidding. Most importantly, Stefano made it clear that E.J.’s sole purpose in Salem was to plant his DiMera seed into the Brady woman of his choice".  See:  About.com’s biography on E.J. DiMera.

  Patti’s Note:  At least this is how it was told in the beginning, but with Stefano’s character being what it is has always been, I can’t help but wonder…… are these truly E.J.’s bio-parents?   I’m not so sure!

help anyway.  All he did was give Bo and Hope some cryptic mumbo jumbo and they’ve taken it back to Carrie and Rafe who are just doing what they’ve been doing all along…following the clues.  They won’t owe Stefano a thing when this all gets sorted out…and he won’t pay any price along with EJ for what they’ve done yet again to John Black…stupid and disgusting!

she was talking to Susan Banks.  And I don’t know how John could possible be EJ’s father.  He never had any relationship with Susan.

 she would have been successful.  Let’s see, Kate and Roman had twins together that I’m guessing Roman knew nothing about.  John was held for a while by Stefano so who knows what he did to him to get ‘sperm’?  Maybe the real kicker would be that Hope and John were the biological parents of EJ and that Susan was just like "Vivian with Philip – the ‘carrier’ of the egg"?  I see the writers doing all sorts of things here.

I’m still sticking to my belief that either Stefano is not E.J.’s father, or Susan is not his mother.  Everyone has certainly seen what this man is capable of, and I would not put anything past him.  Otherwise, why is he trying so hard not to let Hope and Bo have any information on this stupid IOU?  There’s more to this than Alice saving E.J.’s life as an infant. 

I agree with your initial statements, but must wonder, WTH has Carrie and Team John been doing all this time? As I understood today’s show, an internet connection-or lack thereof- seems to be key. Why wouldn’t they have already double–triple checked–how John supposedly made these transactions? REALLY? Carrie isn’t much of an attorney, and Rafe cannot be called anything close to an investigator, if this had not already been checked out.

I got the impression it was Susan and not Stefano that went to Alice.  Stefano found out about it after the fact and he was grateful to Alice.