Hi. Can I get a scotch, neat?
Thank you.
Well, looky here!
Look who is back from captivity
like a shiny new penny.
Okay, Phyllis, I don't wanna talk, please.
That's okay. I'll talk.
Although...
from what I hear, I think
I'm the only one in town
who's willing to talk to you
after what you did.
How can you live with yourself?
Seriously?
Torturing your family,
torturing Cane by faking your kidnapping.
I'm sure your family will forgive you
in like, uh...
well, in like never.
♪♪
Ah.
[phone rings]
Hey.
Nick! I'm so glad I reached you.
Hey, Nick, it's Chelsea.
I'm here too.
NICK: Hey, what's going on? What's up?
Um, did we call at a bad time?
Nope. It's fine.
Well, we haven't heard from you all day,
so we were both feeling a little anxious
just wondering if there's any update on Matt?
Why? I-is everything okay?
I-is Noah and--and Sienna-- are they safe?
Yes, Nick, everything's fine over here.
Well, where are they? Are they with you?
Noah and Sienna are back at the house.
They're waiting for word just like we are.
I think we're all a little on edge
just because we don't know where Matt is,
and those horrible texts that he's been sending them--
they haven't stopped either.
Son of a bitch!
-What? -Nothing. Don't worry about it.
Look, we are--we're...
We're gonna find him. We're getting closer.
Where's Adam? Is he with you?
No. He's, uh, he's with Riza
at a private poker game that she set up for him.
Oh.
That's why he's here, Chelsea.
No, I-I know, I know that's why he went there.
I just--um, how's Adam doing?
Honestly, he's...
he's doing great.
He's, uh, he's convincing Riza
that he is the best poker player in the world
and, uh, you know, it's working, um...
If she knows anything about Matt, then...
Adam is gonna get it out of her.
You know, I don't think I've ever seen Cane so worried,
so frantic.
I want you to know I did everything I could
to console him, Lily.
Everything I could to convince him,
although, yes, Victor is a bastard,
he would never have done anything to Neil's daughter
and grandkids.
But, I mean, Cane was still so worried.
You would feel the same way in that circumstance, right?
Okay, Phyllis, you know what, I'm either gonna sit here
and enjoy my drink in peace,
or I will leave, and you can talk to yourself,
which I'm sure you have plenty of practice with.
No, I'd just follow you.
No, I wouldn't. You're not that important to me.
You know who else you don't seem to be
that important to anymore?
Cane. Yeah.
I mean, he didn't openly say that you duped him.
He wouldn't do that. But...
he did sort of insinuate.
He did tell me that somebody stabbed him in the back.
Who do you think that was?
-Um, probably you, right? -Mmm!
No, not me!
You! You, Lily!
It was a punch to the gut for Cane
to realize that the love of his life,
his precious, beautiful Lily, had betrayed him like this
with his kids' blessing.
My goodness.
But you got him back! Well done!
And what for?
For...him...
loving you?
Is that what?
Listen. I wanna make a toast to you.
Can I have a scotch for my friend?
Another scotch. Thanks.
Um, a toast to Queen Lily...
queen of broken hearts.
Look, I know it's frustrating. I'm frustrated as hell.
But Adam has got to get Riza to trust him.
He still is convinced that she is our best shot,
so that's where we're at.
Have you met her?
-Her? -Riza.
I-I'm just curious what your take is on her.
Oh, no, I-I didn't meet her. Um...
Adam didn't want us to meet.
He didn't want anything to happen that might chase her off.
-Well, that makes sense. -Yeah, but that means
Adam's doing everything alone.
And if I'm being honest, Nick, that scares me.
You said Spider is playing poker.
Look, if you're worried about him, don't, all right?
He showed me some of his skills as Spider.
He's good. He's completely locked in.
Yeah, okay. That--that's exactly what I was afraid of.
I know, Chelsea. It's why I didn't want him
to come out here in the first place,
but he insists that he's fine, and...
We just have to trust him.
And I wanna believe that too.
And I truly know he's committed
to helping you find Matt Clark, Nick,
but I don't think it's gonna be as easy for Adam to...
go back to that dark side of his life as he says it is.
You mean you don't want Spider coming back home.
Is, uh, that my reward for...
cleaning these guys out at the poker game?
[chuckles]
Let's call it my way of saying,
"Nice to see you again, Spider."
[laughing]
Watching you take those marks down one by one tonight...
reminded me of the old days
when you and I were the team that couldn't be beat.
Well, I'm glad I passed the test.
You, uh, you did have me worried for a while there, though.
-Really? -[scoffs]
You played those first few hands like an amateur.
I was setting them up, Riza.
I was letting them think that they had a guy
that had lost his touch,
that they were gonna walk away with all my gold.
-Mm. -It's a strategy.
And I'd say it worked out okay, wouldn't you?
You were probably a little rusty too.
I don't think Adam Newman plays a lot of high stakes cards
in dark, smoky rooms.
No, he does not.
Spider, on the other hand...
Is the best I've ever seen.
Nobody I've ever worked with has even come close.
Well, that's something, isn't it?
It's more than something.
So is it enough for you to, uh,
roll the dice on us working together again?
Might be.
"Might be"?
I thought you just said I was the best in the world,
so how are you gonna turn that down, hmm?
-Uh... -Oh, that's right. Your partner.
So am I ever gonna get to meet this guy?
Eventually.
What does that mean, tonight?
Next week? A year from now?
What?
Soon.
How do you know that I'm gonna approve of this guy?
Oh, I think you two will hit it off just fine.
I don't know, Riza.
I mean, there's a lot of shady characters in Vegas.
I think for my own protection I'm at least gonna know
who is this guy... what's his angle?
Can you at least give me his name?
[scoffs] You know, I think it is so hypocritical
that you are lecturing me about hurting Cane
when you're the one who double-crossed him.
-I had no other choice. -[laughs]
He was still stuck to some ridiculous fantasy
that his family cared about him.
He was gonna throw everything away.
Right. And you took advantage.
So don't pretend like you care about his well-being
when you stole Newman right from underneath him.
I have reasons for what I did and very good reasons.
Your reasons--I can't wrap my head around why you did this.
What, to teach him a lesson?
Well, you succeeded. Very well done, Lily.
He is a shell of a man. He is a mess.
I don't have to explain anything to you.
Of course you don't, because everything you do
-is so good and righteous. -Well, at least it doesn't
start in the gutter like yours do.
Although you know what, actually?
Cane should share some of the blame
because he was attracted to whatever...
fading allure you might have.
Oh!
Is that what upset you?
That Cane finds me alluring?
That we have chemistry...
-in business and other places? -No. You know what?
It actually makes me physically ill,
but you can call it whatever you want.
That's what's at the bottom of your outrage.
-It's jealousy, isn't it? -[laughing] Jealousy!
You think I'm jealous of you?
You have slept with half this town.
Oh, you're hardly the Virgin Mary.
Okay, well, at least I don't use my charms
to pick someone else's pocket.
Is that what you think I did? Really?
Yes. You seduced him in business and in bed,
and then you stole Newman
and everything that came along with it.
But actually, I really should hand it to you
because, I mean, I don't think anyone else
would stoop that low.
I got where I needed to go, Lily...
and I'm not apologizing for that.
I saw a chance, and I took it. Yeah.
So you can judge me along with everybody else in this town.
I'm in the big chair now, and I'm killing it.
Chelsea, I'm sorry. I should not have said that.
Um...
I know you're really worried about Adam, right,
but he's different now.
I don't think a few... poker games out in Vegas,
you know, with his old friends,
are gonna turn him back into Spider.
But isn't that what you were worried about too?
[sighs] Yeah.
I mean...I guess.
[scoffs] What do you mean, you guess?
It was the whole reason you wanted Adam to stay home
in the first place. Don't you remember?
[chuckles] No.
Let's just say I've seen the light.
Sharon, uh, how's Mariah doing?
Um, she's okay.
I just dropped her off at the hospital.
She's nervous, but she's determined to get better.
That's good. Th-that's good.
We're gonna get her all the help she needs.
It'd be nice to put all these nightmares behind us, right?
Nick, are you okay?
What?
It's just...your voice sounds different.
Yeah, I hear it too, Nick. What's going on?
Um...
nothing, nothing's wrong, I just, uh, you know...
I'm tired. I'm tired of, uh, waiting.
If you're sure that's all it is.
Well, what else could it be? There's a lot going on out here.
I don't know. I'm not attacking you, Nick.
I know. [exhales] I know.
Uh, what you're hearing is me just...
...really ready to be done with this.
I just...
I wanna find Matt,
and I wanna come home and then...
Everyone can relax again.
Well, we want that too.
How are Noah and Sienna holding up?
Noah's very angry.
He feels he should be in this fight too.
And between me and Nikki and Sienna,
we've all taken turns trying to talk him out of
going to Vegas to be with you.
Sharon, no, all right?
I don't want him coming anywhere near this place.
Not until we find Matt.
Well, we've told him that, but he still wants to go.
[haltingly] Well, then you tell him
that his father will have him on the first flight home
if he comes out here.
It's dangerous.
Nick, do you have any idea when this will be over with?
Yeah, soon, soon. It'll--soon, I hope.
Well, that's not saying a lot.
Mm-hmm.
I'm, uh...
I'm expecting a call from Adam any minute now, so, um...
Yeah, I--I'll, um...
I'll, uh...
[exhales]
NICK: [steady breathing]
When did I tell you my partner was a man?
You didn't.
Then how do you know he isn't a she?
From the way that you spoke about him.
-I don't know. -[laughs]
So I have...
a tell?
-Is that what you're saying? -Well, everybody has a tell,
Riza, and I wouldn't get to be a great poker player
if I didn't learn how to read the table.
So am I right?
You are.
But...what I don't understand
is why you're so curious about him.
What, are you, uh... jealous or something?
Ha.
Maybe.
[laughs] Nah. That's not you.
So what's with all the questions?
I just wanna know who I'm dealing with, that's all.
I mean, you know I come from a wealthy, powerful family.
Mm. Not so...wealthy and powerful these days.
That's true. But it's kind of become second nature to, uh,
be careful with new people I come in contact with.
You're in contact with me. Not enough for you?
[whispers] Plenty.
So why worry about him?
He's not involved in my day-to-day business anyway.
I'm not worried about him at all, okay?
You're the one that said that I need the guy's approval.
And I think that part of it is looking pretty good right now.
All right, well, maybe I'm looking out for you
a little bit too.
-Me? -Sure.
I mean, you've always had my back,
back when we were running our game, back in the old days.
I wanna return the favor.
I wanna see if this guy's on the up and up.
Aw, Spider.
I'm touched.
But here's the thing.
All these years you've been gone,
I've done pretty well for myself.
And after you leave, I'll be okay too.
So you don't have to worry about me.
I didn't get to where I am by being...
you know.
What, vulnerable?
Good guess.
Well, just so you know,
I'm not planning on leaving for a while.
So you're in this for the long haul, huh?
I mean, w-would you like that?
I would. If it's on the level.
'Cause you see...
here's the other thing, Adam.
I can read the table too,
and I've watched you play poker long enough
to know when you're bluffing.
So why don't you just come clean
and tell me why you really wanna know who my partner is.
And since, as you say,
everyone has a tell,
I'll know if you're lying to me.
Nick? Are you still there?
Yep.
-[clang] -Yep.
I'm right here.
I was asking when you were expecting to hear from Adam.
[sighs]
Yeah, well, I, uh, I got a call from Adam, and, um,
I-I have to take it.
So...[exhales]
I'm gonna call you back, okay? We'll--we'll touch base then.
Bye.
You think you can read me, huh?
[chuckling]
Like a book.
Well, you better go back to school, Riza,
because I'm tougher to figure out than you think.
Oh, I don't think people change that much.
I remember you enough to know that, um,
you were my loyal partner until...suddenly you weren't.
So you can forgive me if I'm not real anxious
to reveal too much about my life
in case you decide to cut and run again.
Okay, well, that is not the plan.
So you say.
You see these chips?
That should show you how serious I am.
All that tells me is that
you're still a great poker player.
What it doesn't tell me
is why you're really here or what you want.
Okay, this isn't complicated, Riza.
You ask me what I want. I want more.
I wanna build my bankroll,
and I wanna have a little fun doing it.
All right? Being back here,
seeing you...
beating these chumps at poker
reminded me of how much I miss this.
So if you and your partner give me the green light,
we can all walk away with a small fortune.
I don't know.
Sure, you do.
That kiss convinced me that you were all in.
And I'm sure this partner, whoever he is,
is not gonna wanna miss out on that business too.
We'll see about that.
So I have a question for you.
Where do things stand between you and Victor right now?
They don't stand anywhere.
You were in on the kidnapping.
I mean, he must have promised you something.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Okay. Play it that way.
He ripped Chancellor from you, Lily.
I mean, you must have asked for some big, big favor in return.
You know what, Phyllis? You can fish all you want.
I'm not gonna bite.
-Sorry. -Okay. I'll figure it out.
No big deal.
I would think that you'd be happy
that I took Newman from Victor and Cane.
That you'd be happy that they got...
they got what was coming to them.
I'm not saying they didn't get what they deserve.
I'm just not celebrating how you went about it.
Oh, I'm just smarter than everyone else.
I won, they lost.
Oh, my God.
Do you really think that you won?
Really?
You really think Victor's gonna let you just steal a business
that he spent his whole life building and not fight you
with every last ounce of strength that he has?
Well, he would have to accept it, wouldn't he?
I think we all know that every time Victor is down,
he always gets back up.
And people who think they won
usually end up where they started
or worse.
I'm not afraid of Victor Newman.
[laughing]
Mm.
Well...
maybe you should be.
Ohh...
Oh. Good evening.
How are you both?
Victoria. When did you get back?
Uh, this afternoon.
-From where? -I went to Milan.
I went to see Summer
to convince her to come back home
and talk some sense into her mother.
How did it go?
Not exactly how I would have wanted it to.
Summer's not ready to deal with Phyllis face-to-face.
But she did write a very strong letter
basically cutting all family ties.
That must be why she seemed a little down
when I ran into her earlier.
[scoffs] Down? Not down enough, as far as I'm concerned.
Why? Did she say something?
No. Not directly.
But you know Phyllis.
She always wants to pretend that she's on top of the world,
but I could tell it's upsetting her...
this power play that she's made,
how it's affecting her relationship
-with Daniel and Summer. -Good.
I know. I know you've made peace with her, Sharon,
but she brought all of this on herself.
I'm not disagreeing with you, Victoria.
I have tried talking to her and telling her
family is most important.
I thought I was making some progress, but...
Greed won out.
But she is conflicted about this.
I know she is.
She's also very stubborn,
and she feels that she's been held to a higher standard
than anyone else.
There is no such thing as standards
when it comes to Phyllis, all right?
She would swindle anyone to get what she wants.
And I'm sorry to say that it's also her own family.
She doesn't care about them unless she's down and out
and she needs their support.
Otherwise, Phyllis's number one priority
is always herself.
Look, I'm sorry.
I don't wanna talk about Phyllis anymore.
So what is the latest with Nicholas and Adam?
We actually just got off the phone with Nick.
He says that Adam is making progress.
They've tracked down Matt Clark?
Not yet. But Nick does sound very hopeful.
Good. Well, if you speak with them before I do,
would you please reassure them that my father and I
have the situation in Newman at hand?
And we will knock Phyllis off of her little fairy tale throne.
[beep, buzz, click]
ADAM: [clears throat]
Hey.
How'd it go?
Um...Spider's back.
-So you won? -Oh, I cleaned up.
I mean, it was like I never left.
After a few hands, I was pretty much on auto pilot.
Poor saps thought they had a washed-up guy on their hands.
I forgot how good I was.
Did, uh, Riza give you any information?
You know what? Why don't we just talk about this tomorrow.
You look a little wiped out.
-No, man, I-I'm fine. -Listen, Nick.
You were passed out when I walked in here.
What'd you do, you hit the minibar a little too hard?
No.
I, uh...I went to the gym.
And, uh...
-Yeah. -You did?
-Mm-hmm. -Uh-huh.
I really got after it, you know? I think I overdid it.
Ah. Maybe.
What did Riza tell you?
We're gonna talk about it tomorrow.
Not tomorrow.
Look, if this is about Matt and finding him,
I need to know about it right now.
Okay.
How 'bout we get a pot of coffee?
That way you can remember what I'm about to tell you.
I don't need any coffee.
I'm gonna go in the bathroom, splash some water on my face,
and when I get back here, you're gonna tell me everything.
Lily!
Victor isn't coming back from this.
Oh, yeah. Famous last words.
Let me tell you something. There is absolutely nothing
that Victor Newman can do to me--zero.
Besides, like I said.
Summers Conglomerate-- we're killing it.
We are soaring to new heights. When I'm done,
no one's even gonna remember Newman Enterprises.
[laughing] Sorry.
Summers Conglomerate?
I-is that what...
-you're calling it? -Yeah.
-That's what I called it. -Oh, my God.
That's so bad. You know what?
You should just call it Phyllis in big gold letters.
-Phyllis. -Right?
Yeah! That's a good idea.
Yeah, same thing. I give it three months.
-Oh. -Three months
before you're running to Cane asking for help.
I won't be running to Cane. I don't need his help.
-Oh, yes you do. -No.
Because you can't run a corporation like this
by yourself, that's for sure.
-I can, and I am. -Oh, okay. [laughing]
And besides, I have a great second-in-command.
-Lauren Baldwin. -Really--oh!
-Lauren Baldwin. Really? -Mm-hmm.
[laughs] Okay.
So, sorry, wait. What do your kids think about this?
-What you've done? -Why do you wanna know that?
Well, I mean, I just wanna know.
Are they proud of you stealing Newman?
Are they like giving you high fives?
They're no longer speaking to her.
-LILY: Oh! -Well, I mean,
-at least Summer isn't. -Oh.
-Hi, Lily. -Hi, Victoria.
-Nice to see you back. -Nice to see you.
I hope it wasn't too hard of a time for you and the kids.
Oh! Ha!
"I hope it wasn't too hard of a time."
My God. So you weren't really kidnapped. I was right.
Wow! I'm the bad guy.
I've got nothing on you two.
Do you need a refill?
No, thanks.
Okay.
You've been kind of quiet.
Have I? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize.
It's okay. I get that way too
when I have something on my mind.
Is it Adam?
Mostly.
I can't help it. I just want him to be home and safe,
and I want this whole thing to be over with.
I feel the same way for Nick.
It's like a part of me almost doesn't want him
to find Matt Clark for fear of what he'll do.
Did he sound okay to you on the phone before?
-Nick? -Yeah.
He was like so revved up at first and then...
got really tired, almost like...exhausted.
And it happened so quickly.
Uh, maybe a little.
What do you think it was?
Well, it's like you said. Nick is exhausted
and he's anxious, and he's probably very frustrated
that this nightmare with Matt is ongoing.
I know he thinks about it all the time.
He doesn't get a lot of sleep, so...
I worry about him too, but...
Well, maybe it's all just too much for both of them.
Is that your head talking or your heart?
I guess a little bit of both.
Well, I don't know about Adam,
but Nick will never give up.
Especially when the safety of his family is at stake.
He will do whatever it takes to power through.
You know as well as I do, Chelsea, that's...
who he is.
[breathing hard]
Wow, Victoria, I have to hand it to you and your daddy--
bringing Lily on board to convince Cane
that her life was in danger.
My goodness. Genius. Genius.
Diabolical, certainly.
But I guess you gotta do what you gotta do, right?
Is that what you think happened?
That's what I know happened.
I think you're just paranoid, Phyllis.
It's your paranoia again.
Okay, you two try to gaslight me all you want.
It's not gonna work. That's child's play.
Your plan didn't succeed. I still have the goods.
-For now. -Forever.
Oh, really. Wow.
That's a really long time.
You know, you may think that you've won,
but you should think about what it's cost you.
You've lost your children.
I mean, at least one.
Summer will come around. So will Daniel. They always do.
VICTORIA: No, they won't.
They won't, because they know you're a liar
and you didn't do this for them.
You did it for yourself and yourself alone.
And you know what? It's all gonna be for nothing
because you can't keep any of it.
Keep dreaming.
You know, I don't see this as a dream at all
because I can see your demise as clear as day.
Do you wanna know how?
Because my father never loses.
Look at his track record. Look at the corporate graveyard
of anyone who's ever tried to beat him.
That's gonna be you, Phyllis, and very soon.
Unless you wanna save yourself and get your family back,
do the right thing for once in your life.
If I were you, I would think really hard about it
because this might be your last chance
to escape this mess
that you've made for yourself.
Looks like that splash of water did the trick.
Welcome back to the land of the living, Nick.
What are you talking about?
All right, look, don't get defensive.
I'm just, um...admiring your recuperative powers.
Just tell me what happened. Did you and Riza make a deal?
Not yet.
But I'm close. I can feel it.
What are you talking about? You said you won
and that you just cleaned everyone out.
And I did, okay? It was actually shockingly easy
to slide back into my role of Spider.
All right, well, then what's holding things up?
For this to go forward,
Riza needs to run this by her partner.
-Her partner? -Yes. And I'm thinking
the same thing that you're thinking.
What if her partner is Matt Clark?
[beep, buzz]
How was poker night?
Wow.
All this belongs to your pal, huh?
He was good, if not better than before.
Looks like we have a winner.
You know what? Victoria's right.
Just take the high road for once, you know?
Don't make the same mistake that Cane did
by waiting too long to make things right.
You should choose your children, Phyllis,
because everything else is just a bunch of stuff.
-Doesn't matter in the end. -LILY: Exactly.
I mean, is it really a victory if you have
no one that loves you to share it with you in the end?
Is that the life that you want?
It's kind of a helpless feeling, isn't it?
What's that?
Worrying about the people we love.
You're worried that this is really going to
plunge Adam into a war with his past, aren't you?
He's worked so hard, Sharon, to be the man he is today.
The--the partner, the husband.
I didn't even think it was possible.
I'm sure you didn't think it either
when you two were together.
But I always knew it was there.
Beneath all of the anger and the pain,
the real Adam would show himself often enough to give you hope.
But it took you and Connor to pull him out for good.
It took a love so strong that he could never go back.
And I believe that will save him now
from any of the dark places that he has to visit.
He's not gonna stay there, Chelsea.
He can't. He has a family now.
Thank you for saying that.
Well, I mean it.
I think we're all destined
to have that one person in our lives
who makes us feel whole
if we're lucky enough to recognize it.
And you are that person for Adam.
And he's it for you.
I know you're right, and I do believe in him.
It's just...
-Riza? -Well, it's not her.
It's who Adam was with her.
The old Adam he was escaping in that town.
You know, and I'm trying not to worry, Sharon,
but I can't help it, because you're right.
We have so much more we could lose now.
Is Riza open to you meeting her partner?
She was the one who insisted on it.
Okay, then this is it. You find out when and where,
-and then we go grab him. -Okay, okay.
Hold on a second, cowboy.
Okay, we need to take this one step at a time, Nick.
We're not even sure that Matt is Riza's partner.
Oh, it's him. I can feel it.
I've been sitting in this hotel room,
imagining what's gonna happen when we finally meet,
and it's here! I'm ready for this! I'm ready.
So...you're vouching for your pal Spider, huh?
He can make us a...
a lot of money.
Well, I do love to make money.
You know that.
But you also know that I won't work with anybody
that I haven't met, so tell me, when am I gonna meet this guy?
He's ready if you are.
Yeah, set it up. Private meeting. Him and me.
Time for everybody to put their cards on the table.
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