Three Reasons Why DAYS’ Everett Lied About Being Bobby

Detective Jada Hunter definitively proved that Everett Lynch is really her cheating ex-husband Bobby Stein in the Thursday, February 22 episode of Days of our Lives. Despite fingerprint evidence confirming his true identity, he remains firm on one point. He doesn’t remember anything about Jada or his life with her. This leaves a few options to explain what’s going on with The Spectator’s editor-in-chief.

Bobby Stein Or Everett Lynch?

#1: Bobby Stein is a straight-up lying liar who lies.

Jada (Elia Cantu) said it herself. During their marriage, he was all the bad descriptors for a husband who didn’t exactly follow the letter of the law of his vows. He cheated, he lied, he spent her money. Clearly, this is something that affected the cop. From the minute she spotted “Everett” (Blake Berris) with her friend Stephanie (Abigail Klein), she reacted like a woman triggered.

All that trauma she experienced rose to the surface, and she’s having trouble bottling it back up again. So, is he lying like the dog that he is? If he is, he’s good because it feels like he believes everything he’s saying.

#2: Bobby Stein suffers from a strange amnesia — an illness only soap opera characters experience.

Apparently, this retrograde amnesia is a special breed of condition. Because it completely blocks out a single (as far as we know) aspect of Everett!Bobby’s existence. According to him, post-coma, he remembers nothing about his wife, only his life with Stephanie. In fact, he knows almost every detail of their relationship, from the engagement ring he bought for her to what birds were flittering up above them when they took a walk in the park that one sunny day in Seattle.

Does Everett!Bobby really have Soap Opera Amnesia? If he does, when will his memories return? Has any of what’s currently going on caused any flashes of recognition when he sees Jada?

#3: Bobby Stein has a mental health condition that causes him to manifest multiple personalities.

This show has tackled dissociative identity disorder before. Abigail Deveraux DiMera, anyone? It’s a go-to mental health condition on soaps, so this is as good a reason as any to explain Everett!Bobby’s situation.

Maybe Bobby Stein is a personality that’s simmering beneath Everett’s psyche. Or is Bobby the primary personality? Right now, there’s no way of knowing. According to the Mayo Clinic, “dissociative identity disorder usually also includes bouts of amnesia and often includes times of confused wandering.” Since he hit town, Everett has sometimes looked confused, and in today’s episode, he looked pale and confused before he collapsed. Stephanie had to take him to the hospital.

If he does have DID, which identity is the primary personality? Does he have more identities that could potentially surface? And if Bobby does reveal himself, is he the kind of guy that would mess with the masses in Salem?

What are your thoughts on DAYS’ Everett Lynch/Bobby Stein? Is his coma story just a cover (like Soap Hub theorizes here)? Is he a lover and not a liar? Does he have amnesia or a multiple personality disorder? Leave a comment below and let us know.