Days of our Lives: Xander Saves Titan with BLOOD MONEY?! | Soap Dirt

You're listening to Soap Dirt, the latest in television entertainment news. Hey Days for Our Lives fans, honky Xander Kiriakis is busy scheming to save Titan and the Kiriakis mansion and it looks like he is going to go to the dark side and do some dirty business to get the funds to save Victor's legacy. It's Belinda from Soapdirt, and it looks like Xander is up to his old tricks again, the ones from way back in the day. Even though he's doing it for the right reasons, Victor's son may use blood money to bail them all out. We have a lot to cover, so hit subscribe and let's dive in. Before arriving in Salem, it was back, I think, in 2015, Xander Cook, as he was known then, ran an international blood diamond smuggling ring out of Africa. And he was this high level smuggler and he was also a hired gun. And then Xander involved his former lover and partner in crime, Serena Mason, and got her involved in the clandestine and highly illegal smuggling operation. and she if you remember hid a bunch of valuable diamonds inside this elephant statue that she then gave to eric brady and later serena moved from africa to salem and she was trying to restrict retrieve the statue and the diamonds and xander basically bullied serena into handing them over not only that but back then xander also ran a pharmaceutical company and he used it as a front to launder the Blood Diamond money. And we found out later that good old Victor used Xander's muscle for all kinds of shady Kyriakas business. Victor was the brains behind it, and he had Xander doing all the dirty and deadly work. And that was a long time before he knew that Victor was his dad and that he was actually Xander Kyriakas which was his dream come true Meanwhile poor Eric had no idea until much later that the gifted elephant statue was used to smuggle blood diamonds So that whole ordeal if you were watching back then, culminated in violence, threats, and the eventual murder of Serena by necktie killer Ben Weston. And this kicked off Xander's tenure as one of Salem's most dangerous criminals. And then in 2018, Xander revisited the diamond dealings when he sold blood diamonds to a Mexican drug lord while he was trying to rescue Teresa Donovan. And again, that reinforced Xander's dark criminal side, even though he was trying to legit be a decent part of Titan industry. So fast forward to last year, Xander inherited the CEO role at Titan after learning that Victor was really his biological dad, not his evil uncle. Was it a year and a half ago? It's been a while. So now, after a series of unfortunate events set in motion by Philip and Vivian Alamein and exposed by Gabby Hernandez, we have the Kiriakis family on the brink of losing everything. And none of that was really Xander's fault. And now Philip is worried they cannot pay off the loan installment. And if they don't make the payment, they're going to lose the Kyriakos estate because it is collateral for the loan that they desperately needed to keep Titan afloat after the Demera disaster. And they had to pull the companies back apart. So last week, Xander was frantic, as was Kate, when they learned that Johnny wasn't going to pay for the copyright fiasco. If you remember, Kate and Xander did this whole clever scheme. They tricked Johnny into publishing Bonnie's questionable dirty book and they were hoping for a quick settlement from Demira and they could use that to pay the loan to save Titan, but then things didn't go according to plan. So Johnny and EJ decided to fight them in court Good thing that Johnny got a good lawyer because he said they being sued for plagiarism That not the basis for a lawsuit Copyright infringement is. Plagiarism is unethical, but it's not actually breaking any civil or criminal laws. But anyway, so right now, everybody, including Maggie, are all worried that they're about to lose their home and lose Titan. So Xander is getting his hands dirty to save all of them. save everything, even the people who don't like or respect him. So the other day, if you remember, he had this mysterious phone call and it was about moving $5 million and Xander had ordered somebody, my guess is Rita, to move money from some dodgy side of Titans books that nobody else knows about. And that way he can use it to pay the loan, keep everything running smoothly, keep the family afloat. so he is Victor's son and he knows all about his dad's dirty dealings plus his own dirty dealings and a lot of times they overlapped so I think Xander might have access to a long buried stash of blood diamonds maybe or he might have had an illicit stash of cash from past sales from his Africa days and that could be money that he didn't bring to the U.S. back when Victor was alive because it was too risky. So Xander, and it may be risky now, but Xander may save Titan and the estate, but then in the long run, he could risk exposing his family to either old enemies from the blood diamond trade or to international authorities if that's how he gets the cash to bail them out of this mess that frankly Philip got them into. So we may find out that Xander scrambled to find a way back into his old criminal ways to save them, thinking that he'd get in, get the cash they needed, and get out. You know, Sarah's ex-husband may have a just one more time mentality, desperate to save the family legacy. We know Xander wants to leave something substantial for his young daughter, Victoria, and of course for Sarah, but Xander understands that he needs to be sneaky or Sarah may never let him see their child again And he just finally got a little bit of custody back So the question is what will Philip and Maggie say if Xander goes this route and does something illegal to save them I think Philip would probably be OK with it. He's no stranger to operating in morally gray areas. Maggie, on the other hand, she would not want either of Victor's sons getting into criminality again. But if Xander's not using blood money, it might be laundered money. That $5 million that he talked about could tie back to that pharmaceutical company that he was using to launder his dirty diamond money. But using criminal money to pay a legit debt to a bank could trigger an audit or some sort of legal scrutiny. Now, one last option is that Victor might have had secret assets that were from less than legal activities, and only Xander knows about them because he and Victor were in that together. So the problem is that Xander may save the family legacy, but Sarah and Maggie may judge and punish him for it. now I'm sure Xander is fully aware that everything that Victor worked so hard for could come crashing down and it could be down to this loan payment they could lose everything and I just don't think Xander is going to let it happen I think he feels like he would be unworthy as Victor's son if it all fell apart on his watch so we're going to find out soon exactly what Xander's cooking up to save Titan and the mansion from the mask that Philip cooked up. But there's also a chance that Gabby might pitch in and try to help out. But if she does, Xander might wonder why. 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