-NICK: How's Mom doing? -Mom is doing, you know,
well under the circumstances.
Victoria's with her now.
Chelsea wanted to know if Nikki would be up for some visitors.
She and Connor made those lemon bars that she likes.
They wanted to stop by with the goods
and, uh, lend their support.
Well, there's no better medicine in life than lemon bars
and I know Mom would like visitors,
but let's give her a couple days.
She just got home from the hospital this morning.
She really needs the rest right now, okay?
Dad, it...
just means the world to me
that you allowed Mom to come home to recuperate.
Only place she should be.
That's right. And I know being at the ranch
will help her recovery that much more.
And, who knows.
Maybe this will force you and Mom
to find your way back to each other.
NIKKI: One...two...
three, four,
-five, six... -Almost there.
Seven, eight,
nine, ten, eleven.
-Okay. -NIKKI: [sighs]
It's gonna take a lotta getting used to.
KYLE: Help! Can I get some help?
-Kyle-- -Mom, just save your strength.
-Don't talk. -[laboring] Whatever...she
injected me with, my-- it's my heart.
Mom, just--okay, okay.
Just hang tight. Help!
Can I get some help, please!
♪♪
Hey.
Hi.
Any news on Jack?
No. Not yet.
And my mother just left.
Well, nothing is broken. That mean it meant well?
We got into it. More than usual.
I'm really sorry.
It's not surprising, though, is it?
Do you ever think about...
finding a way to heal the rift for good?
That's very funny. I was just thinking about that very thing.
You were?
Any particular reason why?
Partly because of what's gone down with me and my mom.
And also because of Jack.
KYLE: Take it easy.
-Oh, God! -You're gonna be okay.
Can I get some help, please?
-You're gonna be okay. -Kyle...
what if we got to Jack too late?
-What if Patty-- -Mom, I saw him.
I promise you, he is okay,
but you are definitely not fine right now.
What's happened?
My mother was injected with whatever's in this.
You need to find out what it is and fast.
-What are your symptoms? -She's dizzy, she's nauseous.
Her heart feels like it's skipping a beat.
Let's take a look.
Diane! What's going on?
-Patty was here. -What?
She was in Dad's room. She was trying to get to him.
My God, when? When? What about the guard?
Patty was dressed like a nurse. She slipped right by the guard.
When she recognized me and Mom, she ran.
We ran after her. When Mom confronted her,
she injected her in the neck with something,
and now Mom needs help before it's too late.
Oh!
Here, please!
[moans, labored breathing]
What is it? Do we have any idea
what my mother was injected with?
We'll need to draw blood, do a toxicology panel.
Okay. I'm coming with you, Mom.
Jack is awake, honey.
Before you go, he--he remembers everything.
He's a little shaken. He's asking lots of questions.
So when you can, I know he would like to see you.
Honey, I'm so glad he's awake. You need to go to...
go to your father.
-Are you sure you'll be okay? -Yeah, I'll be fine.
-I love you. -I love you too, Mom.
Dad?
Hey, son.
You came back to us.
You were really worried you were gonna lose me?
You don't know the half of it.
There you go. There.
Is that comfortable?
-Comfortable? -Yes, darling, I'm fine.
Okay. Can I get you anything to eat or drink?
-Maybe your favorite tea? -What I'm supposed to sit here
sipping tea as if nothing has changed?
I can't do that.
Okay, look. I know it might be a little awkward at first,
but I think it's important that you get comfortable
doing the things that you like.
Well, seeing is at the top of the list of what I like.
That will happen. It will. But...
in the meantime, you need to figure out
how to find your way around the house.
And how to drink a cup of tea without spilling it all over me.
Yes, Mom, something like that.
But you should be proud. You got all the way over here
with just one little bump along the way.
It's a good thing I'm staying in a guest room on the first floor.
Can you imagine if I had to navigate stairs?
I'd stay in my room most of the day.
Well, we would just get you a little bell
so you could ring it anytime you needed anything.
Oh, yeah. Your father would have loved that.
You know he would do anything for you.
Did you know that Claire set up
accessibility features on my phone?
Apparently, I can navigate by sound.
So I have my phone. I can count my way around the house,
and I will be just fine.
You will be. You will.
But, um, I'm still gonna move in and help you
until the bandages come off, until you get your vision back.
-That is not necessary. -Mom, listen to me.
You are killing right now--you really are. You're doing great.
But I don't want you overdoing it
and falling and hurting yourself,
so there's no argument. It's happening.
-You are so stubborn. -Oh, really?
Well, I wonder where I get that from.
I think it was the right decision
for you to sleep on the ground floor.
I really do, but, um...
you think there's any hope that you might
move back into Dad's room with him?
-Victoria! -No, seriously, Mom.
When is the last time that you and Dad talked about
where things stand with you?
VICTOR: I'm aware how much some of you
want me and Nikki to reconcile.
But I have made the temporary arrangements
for her to get well, okay?
Okay. But we all know you still love her, Dad.
So, um...
let's talk about Newman Enterprises
and what we should do to fix some of the problems
that we obviously will encounter.
And I'd also like to discuss what comes next for me
now that Newman Media doesn't exist.
Adam, we will get to that, all right?
Now...
Some of you may have heard
to what degree Phyllis has done damage to our company.
Uh, yeah. For some reason, she sold off
-several lucrative divisions. -Yeah.
It's gonna take a small fortune to reacquire them
and integrate them back into the company.
What about all the department heads that Phyllis fired?
I've hired most of them back.
You know what is of utmost importance right now
is that we show as much strength and stability as we can, okay?
You know, we certainly took a hit
when it comes to infrastructure.
But we took a sizeable hit when it comes to public perception.
But I've come up with some killer ideas
that I think will help us regain the ground we've lost.
And in due time, I want to hear about them.
And meanwhile, I need to inform both of you
that I've appointed Victoria to head up our company.
[huffs]
Is there something we can do for you, get you?
Yeah, you can get me out of this bed.
I think it's a little soon for that, don't you?
Yeah, actually, there is something you can do for me.
Traci tells me that Patty framed Diane for stabbing me.
I can't let that stand for another second.
I want you to get Michael Baldwin
and Christine or anybody from the DA's office in here.
I wanna make a statement.
I want the charges against Diane dropped
and I want it known that Patty is the one--
-the one who stabbed me. -Dad. Dad, Dad, Dad.
You just woke up. You need to rest.
There'll be plenty of time for all of that.
Kyle, Kyle, this can't wait.
I don't want Diane to suffer any more than she already has.
Traci tells me that the two of you
went home to freshen up.
I assumed Diane would be with you. Where is she now?
There's something you need to know, Dad.
-Patty was here earlier. -What do you mean, she was here?
She was disguised as a nurse.
She came to finish what she started.
She not only wanted Mom in prison,
but she wanted you dead so you couldn't reveal the truth
about what she did to you,
and she came very close to succeeding.
Patty was in this room?
She planned to inject something into your IV,
but she was interrupted and took off.
Where is she now? Tell me she's been caught.
Patty is in police custody.
She'll never hurt any of us again.
My mother brought up her mortality.
She's healthy again, right?
Yeah, she is, but...
I mean, her mortality's staring her in the face,
no question.
I don't know.
She just wants to heal this rift between us so badly and...
you got me thinking, you know, with Jack...
we've been at each other's throats for years.
Thank God we were able to heal that pain and...
focus on what's most important, you know,
and that's the love that we have for each other.
Because now that he's laying in that hospital bed,
not sure if he's ever gonna wake up,
I can't help but think...
how I would feel if we didn't.
What's next then?
Well, she's gonna go back to London,
and she asked me to go with her
for a few days.
What'd you tell her?
Told her I need to think about it and I need to talk to you.
'Cause I'm not crazy about
leaving you and little bump behind.
Well, little bump and I are great.
We're on the right track. We're thriving.
So if you wanna go, I really think you should.
-Yeah? -Definitely.
I've seen how much you and your mom
wanna heal your relationship.
You've tried so many times,
and maybe getting into a new environment,
no distractions from Genoa City life, is exactly what you need.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but your father and I
have not talked about anything other than my condition.
And I'm fine with that.
-But if you could maybe just-- -What? Talk?
You know how that ends up.
Voices being raised. Doors slammed.
I'm dealing with enough as it is.
Here's your water.
Oh, thank you.
So, what, the two of you are just gonna avoid each other?
I prefer to think of it as a peaceful coexistence.
Your father has been very accommodating.
He said he will do anything he can to help,
and I believe him.
Maybe that's why I feel so safe when he's close by.
Well, that's progress, right?
Darling,
this détente, or whatever you wanna call it,
is not going to erase our issues,
and I'm sure your father agrees.
I'm...not so sure.
That's your hope talking.
No, Mom. No, it's not.
I...I see how affected Dad is
by everything that you're going through,
and I really believe that he wants to find a way
to resolve the conflict between the two of you.
Wouldn't that be so wonderful?
I don't get it, Dad. I just assumed
that I would go back to running the company with Victoria,
which is what we both wanna do, by the way,
and run the company as equals.
It'll happen.
Once you have finished the process
of recovering from your addiction.
Once you have done that, you will resume your position.
I'm ready now.
Dad, I need this job, all right? I need...
to be engaged, to do this job that I'm good at.
If you sideline me, it's the worst thing you could do.
That is not what I'm suggesting.
NICK: That is exactly what you're suggesting.
Son, you've got to trust me. I've lived longer than you have
and rebuilt many a company.
I know what stress comes along with that, okay?
I don't want you to push yourself to the point
of getting to the edge again...
and starting to use again.
Well, maybe you should have some confidence in me.
I have all the confidence in the world in you!
Is there anything I can do to change your mind?
Give it a few months.
A few months? Dad, are you serious?
My decision is final.
I know when I got here
I was wondering what happened to the guard.
He was chasing after that lunatic. We all were.
Oh, Jack.
That she came so close to killing you--again!
That woman is just relentless!
GUARD: Hey--what the hell?
I'll find out. I'll find out.
-What's going on out here? -She nearly bit my cheek!
Ha ha. Kitty got sharp teeth. You better watch yourself.
How dare you come after my family.
Save the sermon for somebody who gives a damn.
Hey. What did you inject my mother with?
Oh! And spoil the surprise?
JACK: Patty!
I wanna talk to her right now. Is that her?
Five minutes. It's important.
You think you can behave yourself, Patty?
Oh. [ahem] You heard the man. Take me to him.
Jack.
When I said that I would see you again,
I was referring to the eternal light and love of the afterlife.
This is just so disappointing.
Oh, trust me, I will see you one more time...
in court when the judge pronounces your life sentence.
Well, the only life sentence that I am consigned to
is loving you forever.
A knife in the gut is a strange way to prove that.
Well, if only you would have
given into what could have been, Jack,
how happy we would have been.
If I survived still another attack on my life?
What is this, three or four? I've lost count.
You didn't leave me much choice.
Patty, this is over. You are not bringing Diane down.
Well...ha. Maybe I already have.
What the hell does that mean? Have you done something
-[strains] to Diane? -Jack, please don't
-upset yourself, please! -Answer me!
Can't blame a girl for wanting a little justice.
Get her the hell out of here.
BURROW: Let's go.
Till we meet again, Jack.
And we will.
Come on.
Okay, what the hell is going on?
Something has happened. Where is your mother?
Don't look at each other that way.
Tell me what has happened. Start at the beginning.
Jack!
Oh, my God.
I'm so glad you're okay.
Can I have the, uh, salt?
Please?
Hey!
Hi, sweetheart. I thought you were with your mother.
I was. But Mom decided to take a nap,
so I thought I'd join the family meeting.
-Oh. -Yeah.
Ma'am, would you kindly get another chair for my daughter?
Thank you.
And...apparently, I missed a lot.
Well, let's see. You've missed Dad putting you in charge
of Newman by yourself.
Really? You want me to run Newman on my own?
-Mm-hmm. -Why?
Doesn't think I can handle it.
Son...
that is obviously not what I said.
I asked you to take your time
recovering from your drug problem.
You know Daddy's right. Nothing is more important
than your recovery, and you know the job is
always gonna be waiting for you when the time is right, Nick.
Good to know.
So...what else do I need to be caught up on?
Well, we're talking about moving forward,
and since we don't have Newman Media anymore,
I thought there was a chance
that you might slot me in at Chancellor,
but I got screwed out of that when you gave it to Lily.
So given that we don't have either company anymore,
where do you see me fitting in?
Hey, Mom, I thought about it
and I talked to Sally about it,
and I would very much like to accompany you to London
at least for a few days.
-[beep] -Uh, hold on one second.
Hey, Mom, let me call you back. Traci's on the other line,
and hopefully she has some news about Jack, okay?
I'll call you back and we can work out the details.
Okay. Bye.
Trace. How's Jack?
Great news. He's awake. He's weak but alert.
And better news--Ashley's back.
Great. Okay, thank you for letting me know.
I'm on my way, okay? Bye.
Hi, uh, that was Traci. Jack woke up.
He's out of the coma and Ashley's here.
So maybe things are finally looking up for the Abbotts.
We're glad you're here, Ash.
I couldn't agree more.
-Hi. -I came as quickly as I could.
Well, you came just as I was on the mend.
-I'm sorry you wasted a trip. -Yeah.
No time with my family is ever wasted,
especially when we came so close to losing you.
Yeah. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon.
Oh, I'm gonna hold you to that.
All right, I wanna hear it all right now.
How did that maniac come so close to killing you again?
[knock on door]
-I'll be right back. -I'm gonna go too.
-What was that about? -I'm afraid that's about Diane.
-What do you mean? -I don't know.
Something happened, and they're not telling me
and I don't like it one bit.
Did you find out what drug Patty injected my mother with?
Massive dose of digitalis.
Digitalis? That could cause a heart attack!
Fortunately, we were able to administer the drug
to counteract it in time.
-So she's gonna be all right? -She'll be able to go home soon.
[exhales] That is the best news. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Doctor.
[chuckling] Oh!
What...a day this has been.
And it is still not over.
-Shall we? -Let's.
Okay. Tell me what happened!
And don't look at each other that way.
I wanna know what happened, from the beginning.
Not only did Patty try to finish you off earlier...
she nearly killed Mom too.
JACK: Patty almost killed your mom? How? When!
Where is Diane now? I wanna see her.
Soon. She's being monitored, but she'll make a full recovery.
It is an absolute miracle that Diane is still with us.
Would you please tell me what happened exactly?
And leave nothing out.
Patty had a syringe full of digitalis.
She planned to inject it into your IV
so you would go into cardiac arrest.
-Oh, my God, she is evil! -Apparently, once she realized
you were gonna survive being stabbed, she wanted to
get rid of the only person who could expose her.
And Diane would go down for her crimes.
Okay, so what stopped Patty from dosing Jack's IV?
She was interrupted by the guard.
Mom and I got here just as nurse Patty was leaving your room.
Mom ran after her. So did the guard.
I came in here to check on you. I called Detective Burrow,
but by the time I got to the basement,
Mom was all over Patty, and she wasn't about to let go.
I begged Mom to back off and let the guard handle it,
and that's when Patty pulled out that damn syringe
and stabbed Mom in the neck.
Oh, my God.
Luckily, the guard was able to restrain Patty
until Burrow and the other cop got there.
I raced Mom upstairs for medical attention.
Diane could have died.
But she didn't. This has a good ending.
You and Diane are recovering,
and Patty's behind bars where she belongs.
Yeah, I agree, but I am not going to rest
until I see with my own eyes that Diane is all right.
-VICTOR: Thank you. -So you thought that you would
run Chancellor if Daddy kept it? You and not my mother.
That's a little presumptuous.
Well, it's a moot point now, isn't it?
Look, I've been thinking,
I'm eager to get back in the game,
and I knew Chelsea is too.
We have been thinking about
rebuilding Newman Media ourselves.
-Starting over? -Well, not necessarily.
I think we have come up with the perfect solution.
-And what's that? -Let us pull Cane's old company
out of the ashes... rebrand, revitalize,
make it strong again.
I mean, I know it'd be a hell of a challenge,
but I know Chelsea and I are definitely up for it.
We're excited.
There's not much left to Arabesque.
But there is potential there.
I think it's a solid option, and I think you should go for it.
It's not possible.
Why not?
Arabesque is now controlled by Phyllis.
-Phyllis? -Are you kidding?
How did she get her hands on it?
I gave it to her.
Victoria?
Come on, Nikki. You can do this. It's just counting.
One, two,
three, four,
five, six,
seven, eight.
-[thump] -Oops.
Victoria, are you here?
Keep going. Keep going, Nikki.
One, two,
three...
This must be the couch.
So much for my counting.
[sighs]
Hi. Well, that's quite the party.
You are fashionably late.
Yeah, well, back at you. Welcome home.
Oh, I'm so happy to be here.
You, man, you, uh...
You gave us quite the scare. How you doing?
I'll be doing a whole lot better
once I find out that Diane is okay.
Let me check on her. I'll be right back.
What's going on with Diane?
Short version...
Patty snuck into the hospital dressed as a nurse,
and she tried to inject digitalis in Jack's IV.
-What the hell? -Exactly.
So she got interrupted, she ran, and Diane chased her
and got the syringe in her neck for her trouble.
Diane almost died.
And where's Patty now?
She's been arrested. Hopefully, she's miserable.
But can we please just focus on the miracle that is our brother?
BILLY: Yeah, um...
Well, you know,
it's been a few days seeing you there, unconscious,
not knowing if or when you were gonna come to. That was, uh...
I am feeling better with every passing moment.
Yeah, actually, I can vouch for that,
because he hasn't stopped bossing people around
since I got here.
Telling everybody what he wants and when he wants it.
I only want one thing.
I have waited far too long
to set things right with the woman I love.
Now I hear this whole thing about Patty almost killing her--
I thought I'd lost my chance.
Now I have her back, I don't know if it's just too late.
Jack, Diane is gonna be fine.
Physically, yeah.
But after everything that's happened,
does it all just go back to what happened on that yacht?
Is there no getting past what I allowed to happen
between Patty and me?
You gave Arabesque to Phyllis
after what she did to this family?
-Why would you do that, Dad? -VICTOR: Sweetheart...
I loathe what Phyllis has done to us...
but I do admire how she pulled it off.
By rewarding her for stealing from us?
She didn't only steal from us. She gloated.
She twisted in the knife whenever she got the chance.
This doesn't make any sense, Dad.
I watched you die in front of my eyes.
You know who saved your life?
Phyllis and Matt Clark.
I shall never forget it.
VICTORIA: Yeah, okay. You're grateful.
-We're all grateful for that. -It's a moot point right now.
But it doesn't mean that you give her an entire company.
We have gotten Newman Enterprises back.
Everything else is peripheral.
Even me?
Or do you have a consolation prize for the, uh,
black sheep of the family?
I know I left my phone here. Where could it be?
Mrs. Newman, can I help you?
Oh, Laura, um... I was just gonna start learning
the accessibility features on my phone,
-but I can't seem to find it. -Oh. It's right here.
Oh, thank you.
Are you all right? What can I do for you?
No, I-I'm fine. I just...
wanted to see if I could manage getting around on my own.
It turns out it's more difficult than I thought it would be.
Jack!
Diane just risked her life to protect you.
What better proof do you need
that the love you share is still very much alive?
I hurt her very deeply, Traci.
You did. But nobody fights harder for something they want
than you do, Jack.
And nobody has got a bigger heart.
Diane knows that. She'll come back to you.
BILLY: Look, this has been a lot for Diane.
There's no question.
She almost lost you, again. She almost lost her own life.
Nothing reminds us of what's important
more than our own mortality, so I'm with Traci on this one.
She risked her life for you, okay?
There's no question that that love is still there.
Regardless of whether she'll have me, I...
I just wanna know that she's okay.
[door opens]
Look who I found.
TRACI: [laughing] Oh!
I think we should all clear out
and give them a little time together alone.
Come on.
You came back to us.
You're okay. I'm--
I'm so glad.
I'm glad you're okay too.
I guess the big question is...
After everything that's happened...
are we okay?
Well, since Victoria must have gone out,
I think I'll go to my room.
Let me help you.
No, I'm okay, but just stay close, okay?
Because I wanna try to see if I can do it on my own.
One, two,
three, four...
Let me help you around the end table.
Five, six,
seven, eight,
nine, ten...
eleven, twelve,
thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen, sixteen...
You said that there was gonna be a place for me,
but you're so busy handing out companies to Phyllis and Lily,
I mean, there's not a whole lot left, is there?
You are not understanding any of this, okay?
We are going after Spectra-Charles.
Once we have that, you'll get back Newman Media.
I don't want to go after Sally.
Why's that?
She's expecting a baby.
I've hurt her enough already.
I'm not gonna be part of some hostile takeover.
Phyllis didn't give this to Sally.
She gave the company to that useless son of a bitch
Billy Boy Abbott.
We will get it back from him.
Is it seriously possible
that we're over this whole Patty nightmare?
Could we finally be rid of her for good?
Oh, there is nothing that I want more.
But how many times have we thought
that she would never hurt us again,
only to find that she's wormed her way back into our lives?
Yeah, but this time, after the hell that woman has caused,
are you kidding me? She's not gonna see the light of day.
I hope you're right, but I can't help but think
Patty still wins if my parents can't work out
the damage that she's done to their relationship.
Uh, where's Patty now. Do you...you know?
At the police station.
Good.
Kyle told us what happened.
You took quite a risk going after her.
Yeah, I just-- I just didn't want her
to be able to hurt you again, and I just wanted to
get her out of our lives once and for all.
Yeah, that's what I was trying to do too, but I...
didn't do so well, did I?
Are you still in pain?
I'll be fine.
I think this is where it hurts the most.
Same.
I'm sorry I hurt you.
You did, more than I ever thought possible.
But...
I was hoping there might be a "but."
I love you, Jack.
I've never stopped loving you.
When I saw you on the dining room floor
and there was all that blood, and I was just...
I was just so scared that you weren't gonna make it.
And then the idea of that, of...
of my life without you in it--
I just...I just couldn't even picture
what that would look like.
And then that's when I realized that...
There is nothing I want more...
nothing that I need more...
than to spend every day of the rest of my time on this planet
with you.
You have no idea how much that means to me.
-After what I did-- -Stop.
Look at me.
I forgive you.
It's in the past.
I've made peace with it.
-Are you sure? -Yeah, I am.
I think my heart just needs a little mending.
I will fix that.
You know that might take a lifetime.
-I guess I better get started. -[tearfully] Yeah.
Oh, I love you.
Next week on "The Young and the Restless."
Am I an honorary Abbott now?
-ASHLEY: All in favor. -ALL: Aye.
-[laughter] -Yes!
Just give us six months to put our plan in action,
and then you can do whatever you want.
VICTOR: I make you an offer.
Take it or leave it.
Victor is a big target, and yet we all seem to miss him.
-Not this time. -What do you got planned?
You are not the Abbott I was hoping for.
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