‘Days of Ours Lives’ Spoilers: What Happened To Ben & Victor On DOOL?

‘Days of Ours Lives’ Spoilers: Victor vs. Ben – Whose sin is greater?

‘Days of Ours Lives’ (DOOL) Spoilers finds that In Victor Kiriakis’s (John Anthony Aniston) time in Salem, he has done a lot of things. He started off as a family friend of the Brady Clan (Peter Reckell) but then the more we found out about Victor, the more we wondered how a fine, upstanding family like the Bradys ever got mixed up with a Hoodlum like Victor?

Apparently, he was born a resident Salemite but returned to Greece with his family when he was a young boy and that is where he made his fortune on both legal and illegal fronts. When he first returned in the 80’s, he was a quiet proprietor of the local drug and prostitution ring, however it was later found out that he was the actual Don himself! Now, later he recanted all his evil ways in order to earn the love and respect of his children and became a legitimate businessman, but it still begs the question…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJGh_kkq4k&t=35s

‘Days of Ours Lives’ Spoilers: Who is Victor to judge Ben?!

Arguably, all the things that Victor has done over the course of his life has been for profit. He was the one who brought John Black (Drake Hogestyn)  to Salem after outbidding the then corrupt ISA chief and then that kicked off the whole ‘will the real Roman Brady please stand up’ saga of the late 80’s/early 90’s. (I do remember being home from school and watching this with my Grandmother and being sorely disappointed with the outcome of it all.)

However, in comparison, when Ben Weston came to Salem, his primary drive wasn’t lining his pockets, it was get away from a bunch of bad things he had done in different states as a result of a bad childhood and turn over a new leaf. It doesn’t look like he came to Salem with the intent on killing anyone, however…

‘Days of Ours Lives’ Spoilers: Who’s the real villain here?

That’s exactly how things ended up. Shortly after Ben found out that Abigail Deveraux (Kate Mansi) was cheating on him, he secretly had a psychotic breakdown. Even before that, he had been previously diagnosed with a mental disorder as a child and while none of his actions are excusable, they are explainable due to his growing mental illness and its untreated state. However, as far as we know, Victor has made all of his nefarious decisions not based on any kind of diminished mental capacity but all on sheer willpower alone. Granted, all of Ben’s bad decisions were probably an eleven on a scale of Victor’s one-to-ten, but again, he had reasons. Victor didn’t have any reason but the almighty dollar to do what he did.

‘Days of Ours Lives’ Spoilers: Good Grandpa gone too far?

My guess is the Victor has known for awhile that Ciara Brady (Victoria Konefal) and Ben are together, so why the sudden interest in breaking them up now? Is it a last pang of conscience he’s having in his twilight years? That he wants to make sure that Ciara doesn’t make a bad decision and marry a horrible guy (or in Ben’s case a guy who could potentially go off the rails and kill her) and that’s the only way he will find good closure? And why does he feel he has to use violence? In order to accomplish it?

There’s all sorts of other things he could do to strong-arm Ciara into breaking up with Ben, he could offer her money (which technically he has through Brady’s job offer and she already tried to refuse, so Brady had to cover by saying that her relationship was a non-factor.), or he could introduce her to someone new, and we all know Victor has contacts, contacts that he’d probably much rather see his Granddaughter with – so why does he need to resort to such baser things in order to split Ciara and Ben up? What’s the deal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8TD7iQATYc

‘Days of Ours Lives’ Spoilers: Why not rehab him to death?

If Ben and Ciara are meant to be together, but Victor doesn’t want him to be, then maybe he needs to try a ‘kill him with kindness’ approach instead of outright murder. Ben is committed to trying to atone for his sins and being a better person, so why not have Victor really, really hold him to that? In the old one-toe-out-of-line-and-you’re-toast way? Victor seems to be old school enough to try this approach. He could give Ben opportunities, opportunities that he would know Ben would fail at, in order to discourage him and cause a rift in his and Ciara’s relationship and then they might be tempted to break up that way. I think maybe old school Victor would have done it this way, but…

‘Days of Ours Lives’ Spoilers: With age comes impatience

I think, in his old age, Victor has gotten impatient. He wants results sometime before he croaks. However, maybe hiring Xander Cook (Paul Telfer) to get the job done wasn’t such a hot idea. (I have never seen a mafia hit man flip flop so quickly on finishing a job before! What on earth?) When we last left Victor and Ben, Victor was trying to finish Ben off in the same way that Ben used to finish off his victims – via necktie.

Considering the access to guns and other means of elimination that Victor has, while poetic, this is ultimately kind of a stupid move. What will probably end up happening is that Victor will chicken out with the epic murder bit at the end and instead offer Ben a ‘get out of town’ deal that he can’t refuse. What will that be? His Dad Clyde is in jail and Victor wouldn’t hurt his own Granddaughter so what kind of leverage will he even be able to offer Ben? Guess we’ll have to stay tuned!

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