Young and the Restless: Lily Joins Forces with Victor in Ruthless Plot to Take Down Cane

Young and the Restless delivers Lily Winters (Christel Khalil) hitting Cane Ashby (Billy Flynn) where it hurts. This week, Lily texted Cane and said she will never forgive him, and neither will the kids. Meanwhile, Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) wants her found so he can use Lily as leverage to force Cane to make a deal.

It’s Belynda from Soap Dirt, and we’re going to talk about why Lily may join forces with Victor voluntarily to punish Cane for all the sketchy moves he’s made. But first, if you’re not following us, please click that subscribe button.

Cane & Phyllis Seize Newman Enterprises on Young and the Restless

So, this week, Cane and Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford) head over to Newman Enterprises to put them on notice that they are now the majority shareholders. Victor and his family have a week to vacate the Newman Enterprises premises, or they will toss them out and give all their leftover stuff to charity.

Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle) and Adam Newman (Mark Grossman) really stepped up trying to help. Victoria has been running point on damage control, and Adam’s been overseeing Newman Media and doing other bidding for Victor. Now, Victor has just assigned a big, important job to Adam.

Victor Tasks Adam with a Fake Kidnapping Plot on Y&R

Recently, Victor tasked Adam with locating Lily and the kids. Victor wants Cane to think Lily, Charlie, and Mattie have been kidnapped and are in danger. Now, Victor told Adam they won’t really be in danger, but Cane needs to think they are.

However, other Young and the Restless spoilers say that by Thursday, Adam is rethinking something. He has a change of heart. I doubt he wants to kidnap Lily, whether it’s in a non-dangerous way or not.

Adam Confides in Chelsea about Victor’s Scheme on Young and the Restless

Also this week, Adam tells Chelsea Lawson Newman (Melissa Claire Egan) what Victor wants him to do. Then Chelsea asks Adam if Victor is going to kidnap Lily and the twins. Adam is going to have to tell Chelsea, “Yeah, but Victor wants me to be the one to take them, or at least to oversee it.”

Of course, Adam will explain that Lily and the twins will be safe, but Chelsea won’t like it. On Tuesday, Adam gets an important text from the person he sent to locate his target. The message he gets says, “Lily and her children have been located.” They ask Adam to advise on the next steps.

The Risks of a Real Kidnapping vs. a Strategic Alliance

But let’s be real: Adam can’t just snatch Lily and the kids from their lives. That would really upset her, and it could be dangerous because Lily won’t know that the kidnappers are not intending to hurt her and the twins. She might fight whoever Adam sends, or even Adam himself, and something could go wrong.

There’s just a lot of potential for damage there, and that may be part of what Chelsea and Adam discussed this week. But I could see Victor handling this another way. Adam might go broker a deal, or Victor might reach out to Lily to offer a deal.

Lily Winters Seeks Revenge After Cane’s Betrayal on Y&R

We know Adam doesn’t want to defy Victor’s orders because he needs his dad’s approval so desperately. However, I know Chelsea is going to tell Adam he can’t go snatch Lily and the kids. So, Adam might stand up to his father and say, “I won’t do this.”

If Victor wants to kidnap Lily and the twins, he can do it himself or find somebody else. But I do think Adam may try to find a workaround. With that text that Lily sent Cane, it’s clear that she’s still salty, and their kids hate him too.

Lily was softening up on Cane a little bit, and they had that New Year’s kiss, but then she caught him with Phyllis more than once. Lily finally decided that he was beyond hope and she left Genoa City.

Will Lily Join Victor to Take Down Cane?

Now that she’s heard what Cane and Phyllis have done to Newman with the AI, she is even more done with Cane. Lily is totally over it. That’s why Lily sent that text saying she will never forgive him. She’s disgusted. I bet she would make a deal with Victor to make Cane pay and to punish him for letting her and their kids down so badly.

I know Lily and Victor both want Cane to get his comeuppance. Even though Lily doesn’t like how Victor treated her on the Chancellor deal, she has pretty much moved past it. Since Lily and Victor both see Cane as a problem, they might unite to deal with him and Phyllis.

A Fake Kidnapping Scenario to Stop the Newman Takeover on Young and the Restless

I’m wondering if Lily agrees to play along with a kidnapping plot. That way, Adam and Victor don’t have to do any actual kidnapping. We could see them talk to Lily, and Victor explains he wants Cane to think she and the kids are in danger so they can make him come to the table, cut a deal, and stop what he’s doing.

Victor knows he needs to do something extreme to get Cane to cooperate. Since Adam doesn’t want to kidnap or scare Lily and the kids, and Victor doesn’t want to hurt them either, they need a way to get Cane to believe it without actually doing a bad thing.

I could definitely see Lily telling Victor, “Okay, sure. Me and the kids will go off the grid for a few weeks. We’ll go to this cabin in the woods that a friend of a friend has that nobody knows about, and then you can say we’ve been kidnapped.”

Lily’s Disappearance and Christel Khalil’s Y&R Maternity Leave

That way, if Cane reaches out to them, their phones can all be turned off and they’re nowhere he can find. Lily might even pose for a photo where she’s tied to a chair looking frazzled and terrified. Really sell it, you know? That way Cane would think the kidnapping is real and Victor can scare the crap out of him.

If anything could stop him in his tracks and get him to stop the AI and the Newman takeover, it would be to protect Lily. We all know Victor is desperate, and Lily herself knows it would take something big to get Cane to stop what he’s doing and truly change his ways.

Despite their past issues, Lily doesn’t want to see the Newmans lose their legacy. Plus, Kane’s AI really needs to be destroyed so no other companies, including Lily’s family business, are at risk. I don’t think she trusts that Cane and Phyllis won’t turn it around and use it on Winters.

We know that Christel Khalil is out for a couple of months on maternity leave. I think this is kid number two. So maybe Lily agrees to be fake kidnapped. That would work since we don’t expect to see her for a while anyway.

Phyllis Summers: The Wild Card in the Newman War

I knew she was going to be leaving town, and it was just a question of what would drive her away. If you remember, she told Cane that she’s completely done with him and that she’s going to go be with Charlie and Mattie. None of them want anything to do with him.

The kids have texted, and now Lily has sent this final “it’s over forever” text because of the attack on Newman. The bottom line is Adam doesn’t want to kidnap Lily and her kids. No matter how careful or gentle they are, that’s still dodgy.

Maybe he can convince Victor to talk to Lily instead of targeting her. If she decides to work with Victor, they may trick him. It could be the wake-up call that Cane needs to be a better man and to get Phyllis out of his life because she is a psycho.

Everybody keeps saying to Cane, “Phyllis is going to turn on you.” If they pull off a fake kidnapping and it gets Cane to back down, the thing is, Phyllis won’t back down. I wouldn’t trust her. She could re-steal the AI.

We’ll see what happens and whether Lily cooperates with Victor to trick Cane. Best of all, it could all be done in the storyline while Lily remains off-screen during Christel’s maternity leave.