THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
NOVEMBER
Judge Moxley sentences Noah for his hit-and-run on Billy, and Luca tricks Noah into violating his probation. Luca warns Victor that Michael is planning to throw his case, and Victor tells Adam that he’ll plead guilty if Adam agrees to run Newman Enterprises. Jack and Neil unveil their project for building addiction recovery centres, while Hilary and Ashley fight over positions on the Abbott-Winters Foundation’s board.
DECEMBER
Luca divorces Marisa, and Victor fires Michael, disowns his family and is sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ian (Ray Wise) offers Victor an alliance after Victor is stabbed by another inmate, and Victoria tattles to Jack about Phyllis and Billy’s growing intimacy. Jack fires Billy as everyone squabbles for control of Passkey, and Shawn backs off from the adoption. Sharon and Sage learn that Nurse Stephens (Jill Lover) was a former patient of Dr Anderson (Elizabeth Bogush), and Patty (Stacy Haiduk) tells Paul that she stabbed Dr Anderson to protect “the baby”.
JANUARY
Natalie seduces Kevin, and Victor and Ian plot to use Dr Meredith Gates (Alicia Coppola) to get out of prison. Sharon and Sage learn that baby Sully is really Christian, but Sage dies in a car crash before she can reveal the truth. Max is then put in psychiatric care after Dylan gets evidence linking him to Abby’s fall.
PREVIOUSLY
Victor had Noah extradited for Billy’s hit-andrun accident, and Adam told Chelsea that he was Christian’s biological father.
9 – 11 NOVEMBER
Natalie is working for Billy and Phyllis after getting Victor to fire her, and Phyllis vows to Jack that they’ll bring down Victor together. Phyllis files a police report with Dylan, while Victoria is furious after Billy proves to her that Victor hired Marco to impersonate Jack. Victor collapses and is taken to hospital after Paul arrests him, while Summer visits Victor in jail and they imagine what life in Genoa City would be like without him: Phyllis would be in a coma and Nikki would be a homeless drunk.
14 – 18 NOVEMBER
Charges against Jack are dropped after Christine proves that the boat explosion he caused had no casualties, but Stitch rants to Abby that Jack still murdered Kelly. Hilary blackmails Ashley into making her boss, while Shawn the teen mom invites Nick and Sage to her ultrasound appointment but Nick fears that Sage is scaring Shawn off adoption by being too bossy. Max admits that he falsely accused Stitch of abusive behaviour, and Phyllis and Lauren pressure Michael to take Victor’s case but deliberately lose the trial. Judge Moxley later calls a press conference to announce that she’s stepping down from Victor’s trial because of their affair.
21 – 22 NOVEMBER
Victor makes Summer his proxy on the Newman Enterprises board but the board ousts him and votes Victoria in as CEO, and Adam tells Victor that he’s landed a job in New York.