EXCLUSIVE FRIDAY CANADIAN Y&R DAY AHEAD: A Hostage Situation, a Pill Popping Spiral, and Phyllis Summers’s Empire in Ashes!

PHYLLIS SUMMERS LOSES EVERYTHING AS GENOA CITY BURNS

TL;DR: On Friday’s The Young and the Restless, Matt Clark drags Sharon and Noah into a desert garage wired for surveillance and announces one of them needs to die while the other watches. Nick is spiraling on stolen pills in the car while Adam begs him to admit he is using. And Phyllis Summers watches her empire burn to the ground as Victor Newman and Victoria Newman walk into Summer’s Conglomerate with fabricated AI evidence, bought-off witnesses, and a new DA named Christine Blair ready to press charges.

Phyllis Summers Is Yelling at Her Own Portrait and the Newmans Are Laughing

Phyllis Summers is not having a good day. She is in her office at Summer’s Conglomerate yelling at her own portrait for giving her bad advice about handing Chancellor back. Reader. Reader. She is fighting with a painting. Victor Newmanand Victoria Newman walk in mid-rant and start laughing. Thanks. We hate it for her. We also cannot look away.

Victoria announces they have a deal Phyllis cannot refuse. Phyllis reminds them that Victor just screwed her on their last deal. Victoria drops the first hammer. Christine Blair is stepping into the DA’s office and they have evidence Phyllis illegally used an AI to conspire against them. Phyllis calls the evidence what it is, fake, and reminds them Victor is the one who built the AI in the first place. Victoria smiles and says truth is in the eye of the beholder, and the beholder will be Christine.

“I didn’t know Genoa City’s recycling program included re-hiring trash,” Phyllis fires back, and honestly, queen behavior. Thanks. We love it. Then Victoria calls in the division heads Victor bought off, who are all prepared to testify against Phyllis. The empire cracks in real time.

Victor tells her to have the transfer papers drawn up and leads his bought-off executives out of her own building. Phyllis turns back to her portrait and admits they might be in trouble. Then Lauren Fenmore walks in, and Michael Baldwin walks in after her, and Michael tells Phyllis the fake evidence is bad enough, but the Newmans have witnesses now and Billy Abbott and Cane Ashby are not going to protect her if they get subpoenaed. Phyllis asks Michael if he is saying she is screwed. Michael says yes. Phyllis refuses to believe it.

Thanks. We hate that her portrait saw this coming and she did not listen. Thanks. We also hate that Victor wants her behind bars and is probably going to get her there.

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Matt Clark Has Sharon and Noah in a Desert Garage and It Is Hell

Meanwhile, Matt Clark is taunting Sharon Newman and Noah Newman from the backseat of a car in the desert. Noah lunges at him. Matt whips out a gun, tells Noah not to do dumb things like his father, and marches them both into an abandoned garage wired with state-of-the-art surveillance. Thanks. We hate every second of this.

Matt confiscates their phones. He answers a call from Riza, who tells him the Newman brothers rejected her bait and are heading home. Matt assumes Riza is lying. Matt is wrong. Matt hangs up and laughs that “stupid” Nick has driven off in the wrong direction, which, to be fair, is happening.

Then Matt makes the threat that turns the episode into a horror movie. He tells Sharon and Noah that one of them needs to die while the other watches. He pouts about it. He pouts. Sharon begs him to leave Noah alone. Matt reminds Noah that he slept with his wife and stomped on his heart. Noah apologizes. Matt is not impressed. Thanks. We hate it. We genuinely cannot breathe.

This is the moment the storyline pivots from revenge tour to body count, and the person getting stomped on the pouty face accelerator is a man who has been plotting this exact garage scene for months. Matt wants Sharon to watch Noah die. Or Noah to watch Sharon die. Or both, if he gets bored. Port Charles has mobsters who have not earned the right to be this scary.

Nick Is Spiraling and Adam Is the Only One Who Can See It

Across the desert in a different car, Adam Newman is driving Nick Newman back to Genoa City and refusing to pretend he did not see the baggies. Adam tells Nick he is a mess. Nick refuses to talk about it. Adam presses. Nick shuts it down. Adam warns Nick that hiding this is going to make everything more dangerous for everyone.

Nick is twitching. Nick is not okay. Nick took pills in a Vegas hotel bathroom earlier this week and has been sliding ever since, and now he is driving his mother and his son’s lives into a garage full of surveillance equipment while he tries to pretend he does not need another one. Thanks. We hate every single inch of this.

The preview for next week makes it worse. Adam is going to tell Nick to go ahead and take what he needs. Nick is going to overdose on camera. Matt is going to watch it on his surveillance and laugh that “little rich boy Newman finally hit on the bag for the bad batch.” Nick’s overdose is not a surprise. It is the setup. And Matt has been planning it for longer than anyone in the Newman orbit has realized.

Riza and Chelsea Are Trading Grifter War Stories While the World Burns

In a much more delicious corner of Friday’s episode, Chelsea Lawson and Riza sit in a hotel room trading grifter origin stories like two women who both know the rules of the game and both refuse to pretend otherwise. Chelsea talks about scamming people as a girl guide. Riza tells Chelsea about her sexual chemistry with Adam and how she coached him into being a great poker player.

Chelsea does not flinch. Chelsea tells Riza she is Adam’s present and future. Riza smiles. Riza plays both sides. Riza just doublecrossed the Newmans and called Matt from the hotel room before Chelsea left to argue with her. Both of these women are lying to each other with style, and we are here for every second of it. Thanks. We love this. Give these two a spinoff.

Who survives Friday’s chaos, and who does not make it to Monday? Sound off below because this comment section is about to ignite!

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