Y&R Spoilers: Jack Abbott Is One Bad Decision Away From Bedding Patty Williams — Sober, Willing, and Without Diane to Walking In This Time

JACK ABBOTT IS GOING BACK TO PATTY WILLIAMS ON PURPOSE

TL;DR: Jack Abbott has a “change of heart” about Patty Williams on Thursday on The Young and the Restless and makes a “bad decision” Friday. The unhinged theory: Jack’s bad decision is sleeping with Patty again. This time sober. This time willing. This time without Diane around to walk in and end it. Patty has stalked Jack since the 80s. She is about to win the long con of her life.

Jack Has Been Building an Excuse, Not a Revenge Plot

Jack Abbott has been sitting in the wreckage of his marriage for two months on The Young and the Restless. Diane Jenkins caught him in bed with Patty Williams on Victor Newman’s yacht in March, walked out of his life, and has not come back. Jack has spent every week since pretending he wants revenge on Victor. He has been telling everyone that Patty is the weapon he is going to point back at the Mustache. Kyle Abbott has been begging him to drop it.

Spoilers say Jack has a change of heart about Patty Thursday. Spoilers say Jack makes a bad decision Friday.

The unhinged theory: Jack’s change of heart is not strategic. It is romantic. And the bad decision is going back to Patty’s bed on purpose this time.

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The Yacht Was Not a One-Time Mistake

Let us be honest about what happened on the yacht. Victor planted Patty. Victor planted the drugs. Victor planted the seduction. But Jack still kissed her. Jack still touched her. Jack still woke up the next morning with lipstick on his shirt and Patty’s hand on his chest. The drugs lowered his defenses. They did not invent the chemistry.

Patty knows. Patty has known since the 80s. She told Jack on that yacht that they had been alive in the moment provided by the universe. She told him she never could get enough of him. The yacht did not break a marriage. The yacht confirmed a connection Jack has been suppressing for thirty years.

Diane walked out because she saw what nobody else could see. The man she married is not entirely allergic to the woman who terrified him.

Jack Has Nothing Left to Lose

This is the dangerous part. Diane is gone. Diane has not come back. Jack has been alone in the Abbott mansion, drinking too early in the day, and telling Kyle that Patty is going to be his Newman-killer. Kyle is not stupid. Kyle is begging his father to drop it because Kyle sees what Jack is actually doing.

Jack Abbott is not building a revenge plot. Jack Abbott is building an excuse to be in a room with Patty Williams again.

Patty is helping Matt Clark navigate Genoa City this week. Patty has muscle. Patty has resources. Patty has a brand-new edge that makes her even more compelling to a man who lost his wife and wants to feel something dangerous. Jack is about to walk into a meeting with Patty thinking he is the one running the play.

He is not.

The Bad Decision Has Been Coming Since March

Friday’s spoilers say Jack makes a bad decision. The bad decision is not hiring Patty. The bad decision is not unleashing her on Victor. The bad decision is what happens when Jack finds himself alone with Patty in a room with a bottle of whiskey and no drugs, no captors, no Victor pulling strings.

He kisses her first. She kisses him back. This time he is not surprised. This time he is the one making the move. This time Diane is not coming through the door. This time Patty gets the man she has stalked since the 80s, and she gets him willingly.

Patty has waited her entire life for that scene.

What Patty Walks Away With

Patty is no longer Patty alone. Patty is connected to Matt Clark on this show. Matt has been hiding in Genoa City since December. Matt is a known killer. Matt is dangerous and broke and desperate. Patty is the one introducing him around. The unhinged theory branches: Patty walks out of Jack’s bed with the man she has wanted for forty years AND a partnership with Matt on the side.

Patty does not have to choose. Patty has Jack for the romance arc and Matt for the chaos. She becomes the most powerful unhinged woman in Genoa City overnight.

Diane Is Not Coming Back This Time

When Diane finds out, and she will, it is not going to be a yacht scene. It is not going to be a he-was-drugged defense. It is not going to be a Victor-set-it-up redemption arc. It is going to be Jack, sober, choosing Patty in his own bed, in the Abbott mansion, while Diane is across town picking up the pieces of the marriage she already walked out of once.

Diane has forgiven Jack for sleeping with women not under duress. Diane will not forgive him for sleeping with the woman who stalked him for thirty years. Diane will leave Genoa City. The marriage ends. Jack wakes up next to Patty on a Monday morning and realizes he has finally lost the only relationship that ever mattered to him because he could not stop himself from making the worst decision of his life twice.

Bring popcorn. Kyle has been warning him for weeks. Jack Abbott is about to find out his son was right.

Would Jack actually do it on purpose this time, or does Kyle pull him back from the edge? Drop your verdict in the comments on our Facebook page.

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