I cannot believe that Matt Clark
is still alive.
How did he pull that off?
Well, we didn't ask him
to regale us with the details
of his triumphant return from the dead.
Oh, no, no. No.
Of course not. But I would have
loved to have seen Victor's face
when you and Kyle showed up with him.
You know Victor. He works very hard
at pretending he isn't fazed by anything.
Oh, I bet he was fazed tonight.
I mean, this is unbelievable, Jack,
to have a bargaining chip like that
fall right into our laps?
So, did Victor agree to call off the dogs?
Not exactly.
What do you mean?
Finding Matt was not the craziest part of the evening.
Victor is not calling off the dogs.
He's got much bigger problems.
It appears the dogs are coming after him now.
BILLY: To the fall of Victor Newman.
To Cane and Phyllis for pulling it off.
Never thought I'd say that.
How many times did you tell me
I was gonna crash and burn?
How many times did you wanna say
you'd love to see me twist in the wind?
Well, old man.
Joke's on you.
To Victor and to Newman Enterprises
going down in flames.
Are you coming to bed?
Yeah. Yeah.
I'll be there in a minute.
Are you drinking again?
♪♪
Yes. Look, we know that this is bad,
but right now I need you to calm down
and give me an assessment of what we've lost so far.
No, don't tell me that there is
nothing that you can do.
I mean, we pay you people
a fortune to troubleshoot
these security breaches.
All right? So just do your
damn jobs.
How could this have happened?
You had that program in your hands.
Who's controlling it now?
I-is this an inside job, somebody at Newman?
Who is doing this to us?
What is this, Victor?
Well...it's the key
to Newman Enterprises.
You won.
The company is yours.
Oh, wow.
No hard feelings, right?
No, no, no, no. You won fair and square.
Really. You know...
all these years, I thought Jack Abbott was my nemesis.
Instead, all along, it was you!
You, who were a true danger to everything I've built.
I mean, it's your determination, it's your...
power.
Some might even call her a genius.
Yes. Obviously.
No, no.
-No, no, boys! -Yes! Yes!
You flatter me!
I did have help.
No, no, no, no, no.
Give credit where credit is due.
You know I know a lot about business.
He amassed his fortune
by conniving with his con man father.
You...you, Phyllis,
are the true genius in this town.
You are the one person to really fear.
And the true heir to Katherine Chancellor's legacy.
I thought it would be me.
How wrong I was.
I'm sorry, sweetheart.
What are you doing, imagining the first thing
you're gonna do when all this comes out?
You know the only thing that would be better
is if we were in the same room with Victor
when he realizes it's...all gone
and it's [laughing] ours.
-[pop] -Well...
I think that calls for a toast.
All right! Yes.
You know what? I knew I was in the ride of my life
when I went to Nice.
I knew my whole life was gonna change.
But this--this is...
this is more than I dreamed.
I mean, this is...
this is more than I imagined.
-To new adventures. -Yeah, wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait. No.
[both chuckle]
This is to having it all.
It's nothing. It's really not a big deal.
I just, uh, you know,
wanted to take the edge off a little bit.
The edge off of what, Billy?
You've literally spent the entire evening
telling me that everything is great with you, me,
and Abbott Communications and that your thirst
for revenge on Victor is thoroughly quenched.
Yes.
That's all true.
Okay, so then what's the problem?
You're right.
There's no problem. There's no problem at all.
So...let's go to bed.
No, Billy.
-We need to talk. -Ooh.
The four most ominous words you can say to a man.
I'm serious.
Okay.
Okay, look,
the last few months, you have done...
done a really great job at picking yourself up, okay?
I'll be honest. I wasn't really sure if you could do it,
but you did, and I'm really proud of you.
Okay, well, I like the way this talk's going so far.
But I cannot ignore the fact that lately
you've been a little jumpy... and agitated.
I'm not just talking about having a little whisky
to smooth the edges. I'm talking about the fact
that it seems like every nerve in your body
is wired for action, and Billy, it's scaring me.
Sally, you know that's the last thing I wanna do.
Okay, then what is it? What is going on?
Nothing's going on.
Look, okay, I saw Phyllis and Cane talking
and their heads together,
coming up with this big, elaborate plan
and it got under my skin a little bit.
That's it, okay?
So it's not a big deal.
We'll go to bed, and I'll wake up my happy-go-lucky self.
Billy, I really think we need to get to the bottom of this.
Sally, there's nothing to get to the bottom of.
Okay? I don't know what the hell this is.
I don't know if you're... [sighs]
some kind of intervention or something?
Because everything's fine, okay? We're fine. I'm fine.
[objects clattering]
Can we move on, please?
So Victor was all set to make the deal.
We give him Matt Clark,
and then he hands over the AI program.
He was stalling. He was denying everything as usual,
but I knew I had him cornered, and he knew it too.
So what changed?
He suddenly got a text,
and all of the color drained from his face.
He was staring at his phone like it was a bomb.
So it had to be something big.
And at that precise moment,
I knew the earth had just shifted for us,
that everything had changed.
-What do you mean? -I don't think we're gonna
have to give up anything to get Victor to back down
from coming after us.
In fact, I think that's gonna be the last thing on his mind
-for a while. -God, Jack, I hope that's true.
I'm not saying the threat is over yet.
This is just a hunch, but it's a hunch based on
years and years of doing battle with that bastard
and knowing how he operates.
I'm telling you, Victor is scared.
-Scared? -I saw it in his eyes.
The doubt, the uncertainty.
More than that, more than any of that,
I saw fear.
Whatever went down, Victor did not see it coming,
and he--he was rattled in a way I have never seen before.
The town bully just got punched in the face.
Let's see if he can get up now.
I know this is very upsetting to you.
-Well, and it isn't to you? -Of course it is.
Trying to figure out who the hell...
could be responsible for this.
All I know is it's not an inside job.
Why do you think that?
Because no one at Newman Enterprises knows
that I have the software,
nor do they realize how powerful it is.
All right, well, then we're gonna make a list.
We'll go name by name,
and if we come across somebody that we know--
It will be somebody we know, I promise you.
I hope you're not suggesting it's Jack.
No. Jack Abbott doesn't have the resources
nor the intelligence to pull off something like this.
Well, then who do you suspect?
I suspect Phyllis.
I have a feeling she put something in the software
that allowed her to take control of it.
Or Cane Ashby put it into the software from the beginning.
So you think it's one of them?
Or both.
CANE: Are you happy?
I'm ecstatic! Are you kidding me?
When are we going in for the kill?
When are we gonna tell him that we did this?
He's lost everything, and we're responsible.
-When are we doing it? -Soon.
Soon? It can't be soon enough for me.
My God, this is crazy!
This is Victor Newman!
I cannot wait to see him fall
from his perch!
You know the face that he's gonna see on his way down?
-Mine. -[chuckling]
I can't wait to tell my kids what I accomplished.
I can't wait to see their face.
I'm sorry.
-For what? -No, I mentioned my kids,
-and it's so insensitive. -Stop.
With everything that's going on
-with your kids, I'm sorry. -Stop. Listen.
-Please forgive me. -No. There's nothing to forgive.
Listen, Mattie and Charlie have made it very clear
that they want nothing to do with me.
Apparently, amassing great wealth and success
is something to be ashamed of.
You should enjoy this with your family.
Yeah.
What are we gonna call it?
Call what?
The old Newman.
What are we gonna call the new Newman?
[both laughing]
I-I don't know. I haven't thought that far yet.
Yeah?
Has to be something grand,
something appropriate.
We slayed the dragon, Cane.
He has been running the show for a really long time,
and he has not been kind.
At all. Especially to me.
-So this is personal for you. -Yes. It is very personal.
He has treated me poorly.
I mean, and recently, welching on the deal.
Double-crossing me? Forget it.
No. It's over for him.
I kicked his ass. I did it.
I buried him. I did it.
And you. And I cannot wait
when the day comes and he realizes
everything is gone and he's lost everything...
Oh, and it's over...
I can't wait to stand in front of him
and tell him
who is responsible for that.
God, I wish I would have been there.
It was a very different Victor, all right.
At first I thought the bad news was about Nicholas,
that maybe he'd taken a turn for the worse.
Did you ask him about that?
Actually, Victor volunteered that Nick was okay,
which is another piece of proof that he is off his game.
-What do you mean? -It was a very convenient lie
that he could have used as an excuse
to get Kyle and me out of the house,
and boy, did he want us out of that house.
I mean, "Get out! Now! Now!" It was crazy.
Oh, gosh.
This was all Kyle.
This is all Kyle, and I could not be prouder of him.
Having the Newmans followed was genius.
It gave us the bargaining chip we needed
until I guess we didn't need it anymore.
Well, let's not celebrate just yet.
No, no, I know, I know. We are not out of the woods
until we know exactly what happened.
But you said it yourself. The earth has shifted.
Oh, come on. I feel a little lighter right now. Don't you?
I will take out the champagne when I know
Jabot is back up and running and that this threat is over.
In the meantime, we will keep a close eye
on what's going on with Victor.
What do you think really happened?
Kyle said he saw Victoria going up to the main house
as we were leaving.
That means Victor has called the troops in
for a family summit.
That means it's big.
But what is it?
I mean, what has the Newmans so freaked out?
I have an idea...
thanks to my little brother.
Look, I'm sorry, okay? I got a little short.
It's just been a long and complicated day.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. For both of us.
Yes, for both of us.
I talked to Jack and I told him
about the conversation I overheard
with Phyllis and Cane, and he seems to think
that's gonna be Victor pulling away from going after Jabot
to, uh, save his own ass.
-Mm-hmm. -Which is--which is good.
Which I agree. I think that'll happen.
Yeah, I know.
-What do you know? -I know that already
because I overheard the end of your conversation.
Oh. Okay.
I also heard you admit that you were jealous
of Phyllis and Cane, that they're the ones
turning the tables on Victor and not you.
I don't think I said that exactly.
No, you did say--Billy, you said it exactly like that
because I heard you.
Okay, and why are you upset?
Why am I upset? Seriously?
Yeah, seriously. Why are you upset?
I am upset...
because I just asked you if that was the case,
and you swore up and down that it wasn't.
I'm upset because you looked me in the eye and you lied to me.
It doesn't make any sense.
Cane's company was slowly being reduced to nothing.
If he had the ability to do something like this...
Then why the hell didn't they strike us immediately?
Exactly.
Are you sure he's the one behind this?
Along with Phyllis.
She's the one who stole the program in the first place.
And she's angry with me.
-Why is that? -Doesn't make any difference.
What is important is...
they're desperate enough to do this together.
And why are they desperate? Because...
Cane Ashby's company's in shambles.
And Phyllis can't pay her own damn bills.
Well, you know what? I don't care about their problems.
But I do.
It is their desperation that makes them work together.
But I care about ours.
I mean, what are our options?
Do we have to shut down Newman Enterprises
-like Jack did Jabot? -No.
We're much too big for that.
We're a much bigger company than Jabot.
I guess this all will come down to
good old-fashioned negotiating.
Well, if Cane and Phyllis despise you,
I doubt they will be willing to negotiate with you.
I don't give a damn if they despise me or not.
When you're successful in business,
you have people who envy you.
I don't give a damn about that.
But everyone has a price.
-What about the office? -What office?
Victor's office.
You know what office. It's horrible.
It's dark and dreary and he has statu--
What are those statues, like Greek goddesses or--
Those are out. I'm gonna redo it.
I'm gonna make it really cheery.
You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna invite him back so he can see it.
-You're into this, aren't you? -Yeah, of course!
I am. Success is the best revenge.
Okay, well, what if I want the office?
You want the office? I mean...
-I don't. -You don't?
-I don't want the office. -Okay, 'cause you can have it.
-I don't want the office. -I just need to sage it
to get his bad vibes out of there.
You can do whatever you wanna do to the office,
but if I may, I do think that we should keep the portrait.
Victor's?
As an homage to the founding father.
You wanna use it as a dartboard?
[both laugh]
[phone buzzes]
Wait, wait, wait, wait--
Ah!
Who is it?
You'll never guess.
Could he already know
-that this happened? -Who cares?
Let the Newmans sit around and stew for a while.
[phone buzzes]
Stew away, baby.
Stew away.
So Phyllis and Cane are really going after Victor?
That is what Billy told me.
Well, of course. Of course.
Phyllis must have stolen back Cane's AI program.
And they are using it against Victor
just as Victor used it against Arabesque.
-To destroy Newman Enterprises. -Phyllis has the skills.
They both have the motivation,
and from what I saw at Victor's tonight,
it has already started.
-[huffs] I can't believe it. -Well, those two have been
dancing around each other since Nice.
I don't think it's any stretch to imagine they're a team now.
Yes, that part I can believe.
But I never thought I'd utter this sentence in my lifetime--
Yay, Phyllis.
Ha! Come on, you've gotta admit it's sort of delicious,
Victor being brought down by his own evil plan?
I think that deserves some champagne.
I will pour the bubbly,
but we will still keep our eye on the ball.
Whoever has that AI program can target anyone--
including us.
And that was Cane's original plan,
to go after all the major companies in Genoa City.
That is my biggest worry, that the two of them
are motivated enough, angry enough to do just that.
We have to keep our guard up.
We can't let it down for a minute.
Jabot could still be in jeopardy.
But this is fun...
making Victor sweat.
-Isn't it? -It is.
Yeah.
Should we turn off our phones...
give him a sleepless night?
What do you think?
Cane.
Yeah?
Where'd you go just now?
-Nowhere. I'm right here. -Oh...
no, no, please.
Please, please don't be that guy.
Please don't be moody and brooding.
We're having too much fun. This is too amazing. Please.
Yes. It is fun sticking it to Victor.
-It is! -Yes, it is.
-Thank God for that! -It will continue.
Good! I'm glad.
But I'd be lying if I-- if I didn't say
that there was something that was bothering me from earlier.
Is it Billy?
Yes.
What? I mean, you're upset at him
because he was such an ass to me?
I mean, that's just how he is.
Yeah. Look, I-I-I know Billy pretty well,
and I can usually see through his bluster and anger,
and what I saw was sadness in his eyes.
It was like he knew what we were up to,
and it broke his heart.
[laughing] What?
Broke his heart?
No.
You're giving him way too much credit than he deserves.
This is what he was doing. He was fishing.
He was poking me so I'd flip out
and reveal secrets.
Okay. And what if he overheard us talking?
Who cares if he did? Who cares?
He can't stop us now.
Well, that's-- that's not what worries me.
You told me that you were always gonna be up front
and honest with me.
-I have. -No, Billy.
You haven't.
You haven't. Not this time. And you don't get to
pick and choose when you tell me the truth.
Are we--I don't--
I don't know what we're talking about right now.
The reason I was so upset about Adam and Chelsea's affair
wasn't just the fact that he cheated on me.
It was the fact that he lied to me
about his depth of feelings for her.
He made me feel like I was crazy and I was paranoid
and that I was imagining things,
and now you're doing the same thing to me.
Are you honestly--you're comparing what Adam did to you
and what Chelsea did to me the same as this situation?
Sally, that is crazy.
It's not about the depth of the lie, Billy.
And you cannot-- you cannot tell me
that your obsession with getting back at Victor or Jill
hasn't been an issue for us.
I almost walked out the door on you because of it, remember?
Yes, I remember, but can you-- my God--just give me
a little bit of a break here?
I mean, this man has had his boot on my neck
my entire adult life!
Yes, okay?
Yes, I am happy that that man is going down.
Yeah, okay, I get that, I do. That's not the point.
Then what is the point?
The point is that you feel like you have to hide it from me.
That's the point. And that you keep obsessing
over destroying people that have wronged you.
Okay, fine. I admit it.
I wish it was me.
God, I wish to God it was me that took Victor down.
But I didn't do it.
Is that not enough for you?
That's not what this is about, Billy.
This is not.
This is about all of the uncomfortable conversations
that you continue to refuse to have with me,
and then I continue to have to be the one to--
To what? To do what?
You have to be the one... to do what?
It doesn't matter.
Yes, it matters.
It matters because we're talking about it, okay?
Look, you saying that I'm the edgy one--
honestly, I think you have been too.
You just said you're constantly looking over my shoulder,
waiting for me to do what?
I mean, are you really upset because I had a sip of whisky?
No, Billy.
I'm not, because I don't think you have a drinking problem.
Good. Because I don't.
So what are you upset about?
I think you have an obsession problem.
And I know that you've worked really hard to fight it,
but this has made it very apparent
that it doesn't take much to pull you back in.
I just can't believe this is happening.
After everything we've been through with Nicholas and Noah
and Matt Clark coming back into our lives,
and now this? It's too much!
It'll all be taken care of.
Matt Clark will get what is coming to him.
And I promise you, we will not lose the company.
I know you wanna believe that.
-I do believe it. -Well, normally, I would, too,
but that program could destroy
everything we have spent our lives building.
Forget Phyllis and Cane. That is the real enemy.
All right, look, I know you don't appreciate hearing it,
but I actually care about Billy, all right?
It's one of the reasons I wanted to help him
before people even knew I was Dumas.
-Okay. So you feel guilty. -Yeah.
I-I don't know. Maybe I do, okay? You know,
-Billy's had a rough ride. -Has he, really?
He's had a rough ride. Well, I've had a rough ride.
Okay, well, then you should be more sympathetic, Phyllis.
Sympathetic to Billy? Are you kidding me right now?
For years, I was the only friend that Billy had.
The only one!
And you know how he repaid me?
By manipulating me and lying to me.
Billy's only out for Billy.
All right, well, why don't you tell me how you really feel?
You know I'm right. You know I'm right, Cane.
You know, he has a shiny new toy in Abbott Communications.
-He'll be fine. -That's Sally's thing.
You know that. That's not what Billy really wants.
It doesn't matter. That's not your problem!
He's not your brother.
He's not. I mean, I know you pretended
that he was your brother for a long time,
-but he's not your brother. -All right, well,
you know, maybe some of that connection rubbed off anyway.
Too bad for you then.
He's hurting, Phyllis, okay?
Jill kicking him out of Chancellor broke Billy's heart,
and he pretends like it doesn't, but deep down, it does.
And don't even get me started about the abuse
that he's taken from Victor over the years.
Okay, so what do you wanna do, help him?
Yeah, wanna help him. Is that such a bad thing?
Well, it will go unrewarded.
-I will tell you that much. -I'm not doing it
for the reward, Phyllis, I'm doing it
because I wanna help him, all right? Simple.
All right, then help him. Then do it!
I don't care. I'm out of that.
But I will guarantee you if you help Billy,
it'll bite you in the ass.
And you know what?
You're gonna end up with a broken heart.
Can we please not let our night end like this?
With us talking?
You know that's not what I mean.
I'm sorry, okay? I'm sorry if, for a second,
I made you question if you can trust me or not.
But let's not turn this into something
that it isn't, okay?
This is not me turning into the man
that almost made you walk out the door.
That's not what's happening here.
And I apologize for my momentary lapse
in wanting revenge on Victor.
But that's all that was.
I just wanna make sure that your feet are on the ground, Billy.
Feet are on the ground.
Solid. Right here.
Beside you. Okay?
So can we please go back to celebrating us?
I know a couple ways we could do that.
-One in particular. -That's not fair.
-What's not fair? -You can't do that,
-what you're doing right now. -I'm not doing anything.
-I'm just trying to be nice. -You're changing the subject.
Look.
I'm glad you brought this up.
Okay? I don't want anything hanging over our heads.
I think for, you know,
99% of the time, I've been pretty good.
I've been trying to really show you with my words
and my actions, so I apologize for tonight,
and we can keep talking about it if you want.
No problem.
But I'd much rather...do this.
How bad is it?
Our IT team can't stop it.
Tried everything. AI program is eating us alive.
Well, then we have to shut down immediately!
-Not yet. -I actually agree with Mom
on this one--I've already started transferring
some of our assets offline.
-You have? -We've been able to
camouflage the transfers to make it look like
everything's up and running,
but we won't be able to do that for long.
At least, though, it will buy us some time
to think of something else.
-What? Is there something else? -I don't know, Mom.
We're working as fast as we can,
but this program is even faster.
I've never seen anything like it.
Your father has. Haven't you?
You know exactly how this will end.
I hope all this help that you wanna give Billy...
I hope it doesn't interfere
with what we're doing with Newman Enterprises.
Yes, Phyllis.
You have nothing to worry about.
Okay. Well...
What grand prize does Billy get in all of this?
I don't know. I haven't...
figured that out. I'll let you know when I do.
You like a mystery, right?
I do. Yeah.
Thought that was one of the things you liked about me.
I don't like...
-being in the dark. -Yeah, but there are
so many fun things that you can do in the dark.
Are you trying to distract me?
I don't know.
Is it working?
Hold on.
What?
I need you to do something for me.
Okay. Anything.
I know I sound like a broken record...
but can you please, please promise me
that you're not gonna obsess anymore
over what Victor did to you?
Or Adam or Chelsea or Jill
or Cane or anyone else. Please, please, no more payback.
Can you promise me that?
If you allow me one more obsession.
What?
You.
Victor's not going to tell us the truth.
But Nikki might.
[scoffs] You know how I feel about that.
-And her. -If Newman is under attack,
I think she'll be honest with me.
And we need to know that.
-I suppose. -You suppose.
I just hate that you have to rely on Nikki.
But okay, okay, you're right.
If it were me, I'd probably be a little ticked off
that Victor had overplayed his hand.
And maybe that'll be enough to drag the truth out of her.
You know where this is going, Victor,
because it's already happened to Arabesque.
It will not happen to us.
I've set up an emergency meeting with the department heads
to go over options.
Good. Adam?
I can call in some favors.
Can have the other news outlets spin it our way.
For a while.
Good.
You all know Newman Enterprises is too big
to be swallowed up or be destroyed by a little bug.
End of story.
-I will sell it. -Good.
-Oh, no. -VICTOR: What?
What is it?
One of our divisions is-- is completely gone.
It's wiped out.
What?
All right, Cane Ashby.
This ends right now.
What are you looking for?
Oh, I was just checking the time.
Oh, that's such a lie.
You know what I'm doing.
I-I just wanted to see if it was too late
to go over to Victor's and...
stand there face to face
and tell him he lost.
It's over.
We won.
I'm sure you don't wanna do that.
We can do that.
-Really? -Sure.
-Uh, now? -[both laugh]
Why don't you go, uh, jump in the shower?
I'll check the progress of our attack,
and then we can head over there.
All right, great. I'll be quick.
Okay.
[phone buzzes]
Hello.
Something I wanna talk to you about.
Can you meet me in the morning?
I am furious with your father.
He's gonna come through, Nikki, okay?
-He always does-- -This is different, Adam,
and you know it. We've never dealt with
anything like that AI program before.
And now that Dad is gone, let's just be honest.
We don't have any real answers to it right now either.
And it was so unnecessary.
It was just to punish Jack.
And Victor wouldn't even trade the program
to get Matt Clark off the streets.
Whoa--wh-what are you talking about?
What happened with Matt?
-The Abbotts found him. -Really?
Jack brought him over to the house
to make the trade for the program.
Victor wouldn't do it.
Why on earth not?
Pride. Stubbornness.
Inability to admit when he's wrong.
I don't know. Take your pick.
Okay, well, to be fair to him,
I think he was moving towards taking the deal
before we learned about the AI attack.
But now he doesn't even have that.
The leverage is gone.
So Jack can rest easy.
I wish I could say the same for us.
JACK: [laughing]
-What's so amusing? -Oh, I don't know.
Everything. How quickly things change.
Just yesterday, our biggest problem
was stopping Victor from destroying Jabot.
And tonight, it's Victor who's going down,
and you can call it justice or karma
or anything you want, but you know what I say?
Hallelujah. It's about time.
-Don't count him out just yet. -No, I know.
I know. That man has more lives than a thousand cats.
But tonight, I'll be getting a good night's sleep
and Victor probably won't, so that's something.
Yeah. I wonder if Cane and Phyllis will rest easy.
Are you kidding?
If it's really the two of them bringing down Newman,
they'll be toasting the world, dancing on the ceiling.
I know I would.
Several times I thought I had bested Victor.
He came back meaner, nastier,
hellbent on revenge.
It's like a sickness with him. The war is never over.
I'm just not sure Cane and Phyllis know that.
All right, you ready to go?
I can't wait.
Oh, look at this.
I thought I'd find the two of you here.
My goodness. [laughs]
Phyllis.
You're all dressed up, ready to go somewhere, right?
So, Cane, what will it take to...
end this madness?
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