This episode of The Young and The Restless airs Thursday, April 27 2023 in the USA. We provide early Y&R recaps daily! Today’s Young and The Restless recap’s episode airs one day ahead in Canada.
Last Episode
On the last episode of Y&R, Phyllis revealed to Summer that she’s alive, Victoria invited Nate to L.A., and Victor offered McCall Unlimited to Adam.
Chancellor Park
Summer hugs her mother and cries. She asks her if this is real.
Phyllis says it’s real.
Society
Audra asks Nate if there’s anything she needs to know.
Nate says he’s heading to L.A. to pick up some new companies to fold into Newman Media and she’ll be left in charge.
Audra thanks him for the opportunity and asks if she can come along with him to learn from him.
Nate says he’s acting as second to Victoria, and she’ll be going with him.
Newman Enterprises
Nick walks in and says that Victoria needs to hear the latest from Victor.
Victoria asks if it’s about McCall and Adam.
Nick says that it is and that Victor wants him to leave Newman Enterprises as CEO and help Adam with running McCall.
Victoria says that’s what Victor meant when he said she’d regret not buying McCall.
She says that Victor wants to steal her entire team out from under her.
Crimson Lights
Michael meets Jack in the coffee shop and tells him that he has news… But it’s not good news.
He says that one of his contacts will share the cause of death with him and that Stark’s death appears to be a homicide.
Chancellor Park
Phyllis says that she knows it’s a shock.
Summer says that she got a phone call saying that there was news about her mother. She says they should call Daniel.
Phyllis says that Summer is the only one who can know that she’s alive.
Summer asks if Phyllis thinks he’s not trustworthy.
Phyllis says that he might mess up and tell someone that she’s alive, that Summer is the only one she can trust and who can know what she needs to do from this moment forward.
Summer says she doesn’t understand, Phyllis needs to come home now.
She says that Daniel and Summer need their mom, and it won’t matter to the people who love her.
Summer goes on to say the only thing that matters is that Phyllis is alive, and she’s going to come home with her.
Society
Audra says she forgot that Nate was still learning too, and she’ll keep the ship afloat while he’s gone.
She asks if Elena will join him.
Nate says he didn’t think about inviting Elena, he thought it would be unprofessional if he invited his girlfriend along to work.
Audra says that he wanted to bring Elena the last time he went to L.A. for business.
Nate says it’s a good thing she couldn’t make it, he was too busy to do anything personal while he was there.
Crimson Lights
Jack is surprised that Stark’s death is a homicide and wonders what happened.
He says it’s a lot to wrap his head around.
Michael says that there will be an investigation, and he doesn’t have a lot to go on, but in terms of Diane’s defense, this is a double-edged sword.
Jack says that Stark’s death should show that Diane isn’t involved.
Michael says until he learns more about Stark’s murder, he won’t know what it means.
Jack says that at least Jeremy can’t testify against Diane in court.
Michael says that he also can’t exonerate her.
Newman Enterprises
Victoria asks if Nick turned down Victor’s offer.
Nick says of course he did. He’d never leave Victoria and go to Adam’s company.
He says that McCall seems to be in shambles, and Victor said that he’d need the whole family to fix the company.
Victoria says that Victor loves to manage people’s lives.
Nick says the more Victor pushes Sally away, the more he risks being shut out of his granddaughter’s life.
Chancellor Park
Phyllis says she’d love to come home, but she can’t.
She says she made mistakes and trusted the wrong man.
Summer says to tell her what happened.
Phyllis says he manipulated her and played on her fears.
She says he convinced him to marry her and had a plan to put Diane in prison for life.
Summer asks what she’s done.
Phyllis says she was out of her mind and wasn’t thinking. She says that when she told Stark that she didn’t want to go through with the plan, he threatened to kill her.
Crimson Lights
Jack says that Stark’s death proves Diane didn’t kill Phyllis.
Michael says he doesn’t understand where Jack’s coming from.
Jack says that Phyllis is murdered, and Stark is murdered days later, there must be someone else who killed them both.
He says that Stark was a money launderer who was hanging out with dangerous people who were experts at hiding evidence, and his past caught up with him and Phyllis.
Michael says that Stark could have been murdered by a crony, but why Phyllis?
Jack says it might have been about money.
Michael says that if it was about money, Stark would have taken Jack’s money when it was offered.
Jack says that maybe they killed Phyllis because she was mistaken for “Taylor Jenkins”, which was actually Diane.
Michael says that there’s a mountain of evidence that points to Diane as being the murderer.
Jack says that Diane didn’t do it, he has to defend her.
Michael says that they’re both committed to the same cause… Justice for Diane and Phyllis.
He says that Diane is the only one alive that can talk about Jeremy Stark.
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Crimson Lights
Nate walks up to Elena. She asks him what news he has for her.
He says he’s going to L.A. for business.
Elena asks what he’s doing that for.
Nate says that there are streamers that they want to bring on board at Newman Media. He says he’d like to go on vacation with Elena when he comes back.
Elena asks who the “they” are in that sentence, and asks if he’s going to L.A. alone.
Newman Media
Victoria says that when the baby arrives, Nick won’t be able to keep her from Victor.
She says that she’s going to L.A. for a couple of days and needs him to take the reins.
Nick asks if Nikki is going.
Victoria says that she’s not.
Nick asks why Nikki’s not going to run the company while Victoria is gone… After all, she’s the co-CEO.
Victoria dodges the question and says she’s not going to be alone in L.A.
Nick asks if she’s bringing Nate with her.
Chancellor Park
Phyllis says she was forced to do something stupid.
Summer says that she and Daniel have been a wreck since the night Phyllis “died”.
Phyllis says she knows, she was watching and had to let Summer know that she was OK.
She says that she understands if Daniel and Summer hate her.
Summer says that they’re on her side, no matter what.
Phyllis says when she finds out what she did, she won’t be on her side then.
Summer asks how guilty Phyllis is.
Newman Enterprises
Victoria says that she needs the CEO of Newman Media to be in L.A. with her, surely Nick can understand that.
Nick says she knows it’s a bad idea to bring Nate with her.
Crimson Lights
Nate says he’ll be alone in California.
Elena says she’ll think about where she wants to go while he’s away and asks if he has any preference.
Nate says to surprise him, he’ll be happy as long as she’s with him.
They kiss.
He leaves to pack his bags.
Chancellor Park
Phyllis says that what she did wasn’t important, but Stark manipulated the situation to implicate Phyllis for everything.
Summer says that none of it was real, then… The ambulance, the poison… She says that if that’s all fake, then Diane is innocent.
Phyllis sneers and says that Diane isn’t innocent. She lies, manipulates, and drives wedges between people.
She says that the worst was that Diane let her son think she was dead for years.
Summer says Phyllis did the same thing with her and Daniel.
Phyllis says that she would never do that to a child, her children are adults.
Summer says that she has to come home with her, and Stark is dead, so he can’t hurt her anymore.
Phyllis says they found Stark… She thought she had more time.
Summer asks what she means.
Phyllis says that Stark is the reason she can’t return to Genoa City, she’s the reason he’s dead.
Genoa City Police Department – Visitor’s Room
Jack comes to visit Diane who is escorted into the room.
Diane asks why he’s come to visit, she told him not to come.
Jack says that he has some news that might get her out.
Diane says she doesn’t want him there, she wants him to go away.
Jack tries to tell her something, but she interrupts him.
Diane says the sooner he leaves, the sooner he can move on.
Jack says she can’t just give up.
Diane says that it’s not about giving up. She says that he has to move on with his life.
Chancellor Park
Summer sits down on a park bench and asks if Phyllis killed Jeremy Stark.
Phyllis says she’s afraid she did.
Summer asks why and how.
Phyllis says she couldn’t go through with the plan, and he said he’d kill her, which would be a victimless crime.
She says that Stark put his hands on her, said she was his now, and that the whole thing would cost Phyllis her life.
Phyllis explains that he came at her with scissors and was going to kill her, and she fought back.
She says he was strong, but she was desperate, and she scratched his face, grabbed the scissors, and… She says she can’t remember what happened next, but she looked down and he was lying in a pool of blood.
Phyllis says killed him to protect herself, she didn’t want to die.
Summer asks what she did then.
Phyllis says she cleaned up and wrapped him in the shower curtain and made it look like one of his criminal associates from prison did it.
She says she sealed her fate and can never go home. She has to come up with a plan to fix it.
Summer says they can go to the police and let them know what happened.
Phyllis says that’s not going to happen, and Summer can’t tell a soul about it.
Newman Media
Nick says it’s a mistake to take Nate on the trip, it’s obviously not just business.
Victoria gets flustered and says he’s wrong, it’s all business.
Nick says they both know that when she mixes business with pleasure, it never goes well.
Victoria says to not bring up Ashland.
Nick asks how long before people notice that she’s in a relationship with Nate.
Victoria retorts that it didn’t take long for them to notice him in a relationship with Sally.
Nick says there are differences between her and Nate and him and Sally. He says she’s playing with fire.
Victoria tells him not to be ridiculous. He asks if she’s working toward a relationship or whether she’s just having fun.
Nick says he cares about her.
Victoria says she cares about him too, but he’s a knucklehead.
Nick says he doesn’t want this to blow up on her. He leaves.
Crimson Lights
Elena finishes her coffee and as she’s getting ready to leave, her phone rings. It’s Audra.
Elena says that things have been getting better between Nate and her. He’s packing to go to L.A., but she’d love to get together with Audra for a coffee and to catch up.
GCPD Visitor’s Room
Jack says his purpose in life is to have Diane walk out as a free woman, and he won’t stay away.
He says it’s not because she needs him, he needs her.
Diane shakes her head.
Jack says that she should marry him, they’re already engaged. He says she needs to trust him.
Chancellor Park
Phyllis says that if Summer tells anyone she’s alive, Diane will get off scot-free, and the authorities will hunt Phyllis down and put her in prison.
Summer says she doesn’t want to lie to the people she loves, and she needs Phyllis in her life.
Phyllis apologizes that she put Summer in this position, it’s not fair.
Summer says she’s scared that if Phyllis doesn’t come with her right now, she’ll never see her mother again.
Phyllis says that’ll never happen. She says Summer can either save her mother-in-law, Diane, or she saves Phyllis.
She says that if she reveals herself, her life will be over. She asks for time to come up with a plan.
Phyllis says that whatever she decides, she loves her.
They hug tightly, and Phyllis says she’ll never stop loving her, but she has to go.
Summer cries as Phyllis leaves her alone in the park.
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