Desperate to prove himself, André agreed to help track down Dr. Rolf, who had revived Will after Ben had murdered him. André lured Rolf back to Salem, and on Kate's advice, agreed to let Hope handle it. André as suspected in being behind the event hacking going on at DiMera, leading to Theo being shot, and Chad accusing André of getting Theo shot, and kicking him out of the mansion. Kate confessed to André that she had sent Theo to the building where he had been shot. André initially planned to tell Chad the truth, but changed his mind when Abby convinced Chad not to kick André out. Kate would later be exposed by Steve, but André stood up for Kate, leading Abby to realize that André had fallen in love with Kate, which he confirmed. On Abby's advice, André kissed Kate on New Year's Eve, but the festivities were interrupted by the arrival of Vivian Alamain and her long lost son with Stefano, Stefan. André confessed his feelings to Kate, and she reciprocated them, but André was revealed to be working with Vivian and Stefan, so he could be the de facto head of DiMera. After firing Gabi, and stealing her company through a legal loophole in Gabi's contract, André is murdered by being hit in the head with the urn that had Tony's ashes in it, and his body is found by Abigail. It is later revealed that Abigail killed him partly in self-defence, but she later suffered from multiple-personality disorder and Dr Laura, one of her alters, had blocked it out of her memory for protection. André last appears as a hallucination to Kate, where he taunts her over shooting Vivian.