Y&R Has Tried to Kill Nick Newman Twice in Las Vegas, and We Are Still Not Scared, and The Golden Boy Is Not Going Anywhere

NICK NEWMAN IS NOT DYING IN THE LAS VEGAS DESERT, AND Y&R HAS NOW TRIED THIS TWICE

TL;DR: The Young and the Restless has now attempted to convince fans that Nick Newman is dead or dying, not once but twice in Las Vegas. First, a bad batch of drugs was in a storage room at the “Montecito.” Now, an abandoned gas station in the Las Vegas desert, where Matt Clark and Nick trap Sharon and Noah, is heading straight into danger while still on the Smarties. Adam Newman made it back to Chelsea without Nick. Again. Y&R wants us scared. We have been here before. Nick Newman is not dying in the Las Vegas desert, and this is not our first day.

Let Us Recap What Y&R Has Already Tried

Nick Newman was in a storage room at the “Montecito.” He was running low on the pills he cannot function without. Adam Newman gave him the green light to take the drugs. The batch was bad. Nick nodded off. Matt Clark watched the whole thing on a CCTV monitor with zero sympathy and the energy of a man who considered this a personal victory.

Adam returned to Chelsea Lawson without Nick. Chelsea panicked. Genoa City held its breath.

Nick Newman survived. Of course, Nick Newman survived. The golden boy of Genoa City did not come all the way to Las Vegas to die in a storage room on a bad batch of pills while his captor narrated the situation from a security monitor. This is not how this story ends.

Nick is still on the Smarties. Nick is still standing. Nick and Adam are now heading into the Las Vegas desert to find Sharon and Noah.

Y&R is not done trying.

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The Second Attempt

Sharon Newman and Noah Newman are trapped at an abandoned gas station in the Las Vegas desert by Matt Clark. The situation is dangerous. Matt Clark has been executing his agenda against the Newman family with a precision that deserves acknowledgment even from people who find him deeply entertaining.

Nick Newman, who is still on the Smarties and has not fully reckoned with what his body has been through, is heading straight into that situation.

Adam Newman is also heading into that situation.

The preview footage shows Adam making it back to the hotel. Adam is hugging Chelsea. Nick is not with him.

Again.

Y&R has now deployed the Adam returns without Nick move twice in the same Las Vegas storyline. Adam comes back. Chelsea asks where Nick is. The answer is not reassuring. Genoa City is supposed to panic. Fans are supposed to worry. The cliffhanger is supposed to land.

We are going to need Y&R to understand something. We have seen this before. We saw it in the storage room. We are seeing it again in the desert. The move does not hit harder the second time. It hits differently because now we know the pattern.

What Nick Newman Surviving Actually Means

We want to be clear about something important.

Nick Newman hitting rock bottom in Las Vegas is a real storyline. The Smarties dependency is real. The bad batch was real. The danger of heading into an abandoned gas station in the Las Vegas desert while still dependent on pills and running on whatever his body has left is genuinely concerning from a narrative standpoint.

Nick Newman is going to have to reckon with all of it. Victor Newman is going to force him to come clean about every pill and every choice and every moment in that storage room and every decision that led him to a Las Vegas desert gas station in the condition he is currently in.

That is a story worth telling. That is a story that requires Nick Newman to be alive to tell it.

Joshua Morrow is not going anywhere. Nick Newman did not die in a storage room, and he is not dying at an abandoned gas station. Matt Clark has been one step ahead of this family since Las Vegas began, but he is not the man who ends Nick Newman’s story.

A Note to Matt Clark

Matt Clark has been extraordinary in Las Vegas. Three names. One agenda. Zero remorse. The man has outmaneuvered the Newman family at every turn and done it with a charm that has made fans genuinely root for him to stick around even while rooting against everything he is doing.

Watching Nick Newman nod off via CCTV and narrating it with satisfaction was chilling. Trapping Sharon Newman and Noah at an abandoned gas station is chilling. Matt Clark is operating at a level that Genoa City has not seen in a while.

Nick Newman is still not dying, though.

The golden boy is not going anywhere. Neither are we.

Do you think Nick Newman comes out of the Las Vegas desert stronger or is the road back longer and harder than anyone in Genoa City is prepared for? Sound off below because this one is far from over!

WATCH THIS: Victor is going to go full on MUSTACHE MODE!

@soapoperamag Oh, We Would NOT Want to Be #MattClark When #VictorNewman Finds Out What He Did to His Family! Matt pushed the button. Adam called Chelsea. Chelsea called Victor. Victor said "send me the coordinates." Matt has no idea what is coming. And now Sienna is claiming he’s dead? Sure, hun. Sure. #YR #YoungandtheRestless ♬ original sound – Soap Opera Magazine