Young and the Restless: Patty’s BREAKOUT & Reign of CHAOS Redeems Matt?!

The Young and the Restless anticipates that Patty Williams (Stacy Haiduk) escapes from that high security facility this week and shows up at Matt Clark (Roger Howarth)’s motel room talking about settling unfinished business.

But he wants no part of Patty’s chaos. But in the end, she may wind up unintentionally redeeming Matt, even though that’s the last thing she wants to see happen. We’re going to talk about who Patty is going to target now that she snuck out of prison. And in a weird way, I suspect this psycho could be the key to Matt’s redemption.

Young and the Restless: Patty Escapes Prison & Blindsides Matt

So this week, Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) gets an urgent call from Detective Burrow (Matt Cohen) who alerts him and Diane Jenkins (Susan Walters) that Patty escaped the high security facility that she was in. So Jack alerts his security team, but Diane says that’s not enough. She says they need to get rid of Patty once and for all.

Jack is on board to take her down, and he tells Diane that. And then Jack tells Billy Abbott (Jason Thompson) that they might need his help to smoke out the psycho stalker. Meanwhile, Patty is over at Matt’s motel room. She shows up disguised in a jumpsuit and sunglasses, and he notices that Patty smells minty.

So, she tells Matt she accidentally on purpose swallowed cleaning fluids so she could get transferred to the hospital and then she was able to escape from there. So, Patty’s trying to get Matt on her side and she wants to team up with him. And Patty talks about how she and Matt both have unfinished business in Genoa City.

Patty also says that she really needs to get to Jack, but Matt doesn’t want to help her with any of this. And of course, we know Patty has targets in her head already. But I think her list of people she wants dead has expanded during her time behind bars.

Patty’s First Target on Y&R

So, let’s talk about who Patty goes after and if her chaotic reign of terror legitimately redeems Matt. Now, first and most obviously, Patty’s going to go after Jack again. So, Patty just told Matt she needs to see Jack. And we know Patty is obsessed with Jack and has been for decades.

So, Patty may drug and molest Jack again as one last goodbye. And then Patty may just go ahead and try to kill Jack again. Alternately, Patty could just skip trying to sex Jack up and just kill him under the mindset that if Patty can’t have Jack, then nobody can, especially not Diane. But I do think Patty is going to try to get Jack into bed one last time just for reasons of closure.

I’m also feeling like Patty’s second target will be her longtime rival, Diane. And again, it’s because Patty still hates Diane for the affair she had with Jack when he was married to Patty back in the day. I mean, Jack was late to his wedding to Patty because he was in bed with Diane.

Young and Restless: Patty Wants Diane Dead

So, you can kind of see the point of why she hates her. So, I’m sure Patty would love to finish the job she started in the hospital when she injected Diane trying to kill her. Patty went nuts. Remember, she tried to kill Jack twice in recent months. Once with the stabbing and once when she planned to inject him and then she went after Diane instead. So, Patty may feel like there’s unfinished business with them both.

Another person to worry about is Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) first because Matt was always obsessed with Sharon and he still is in a different way. He went from being a pervert stalking and assaulting her to being remorseful and wanting her to forgive him. So, he’s obsessed with that.

Matt’s got a different type of fixation on Sharon now. Plus, Patty wants Matt all to himself. So, I still think there is a chance Patty might replace Jack with Matt as her lovesick obsession. So, Patty may target Sharon out of jealousy because Matt was obsessed with her before and her family and that went on for years.

Also, Patty may think that if she kills Sharon, then she can free Matt of the guilt that he feels whenever he sees Sharon. So, Patty may see this as some kind of twisted love offering to Matt, the guy that I think she wants to love. And in her mind, she may twist around, and Matt replaces Jack in her heart.

Young and the Restless: Sharon & Phyllis in Grave Danger

Plus, we’ve got Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford) setting up Sharon with this crazy redemption scheme that Phyllis roped Matt into. So, Sharon’s in the mix now and could very well cross paths with Patty. And that psycho may decide to do two birds, one stone. You know, Patty may harm Sharon and frame Phyllis.

That way Patty gets rid of both Phyllis and Sharon and then she can have Matt all to herself. But I do think that Sharon would be lower on the priority list and it would be more about sabotaging Phyllis than anything else. Another obvious target for Patty is Phyllis Summers herself.

And that’s even without Sharon in the mix. Since Patty escaped and ran right to Matt, it’s obvious where Patty’s attention has shifted to. And that means Phyllis is a huge target as the current woman in Matt’s life, just like she was targeting Diane over Jack. So, we know how Patty’s twisted brain works. We’ve seen it in the past.

Once she latches on to someone, Patty’s obsession just keeps growing over time. And even worse is that Patty wants Matt to be a criminal with her. Patty wants Matt to embrace his inner darkness instead of this boring redemption nonsense that Phyllis has cooked up. So Patty may try and take Phyllis out, or she could just get her sent away by framing Red for Sharon’s death or some kind of violent accident.

Young and Restless: Patty May Target Matt

As I mentioned before, I tend to think Patty would rather just kill Phyllis and get her out of the way to clear a path for her and Matt. And that would be a cleaner solution for Patty than trying to frame and send Phyllis away.

After all, Patty tried to send Diane away so that she could have Jack all to herself, and that didn’t work out. So, Patty might realize she needs to change up the pages in her playbook, bypass framing Phyllis, and go straight to just murdering her as a matter of convenience.

And last but not least, Matt himself might end up being Patty’s final target if he keeps on rejecting her. And I think he will. Just like Patty tried to kill Jack because he wouldn’t be with her. She just decided to stab him and was legit trying to murder him.

But I think if Patty came for Matt with murder on her mind, I think he might take Patty out. Matt seems to genuinely not want to hurt anybody now and he really likes Phyllis on Young and the Restless.

And so I think when Matt sees what Patty is up to that Matt’s going to step up and if he grabs Patty and turns her back into the cops or if he kills her, then I think that’s boom, instant redemption.

Young and the Restless: Matt Gets Truly Redeemed

And it would be Matt actually earning his own redemption organically and not something orchestrated in a half-brained plot cooked up by Phyllis. And then if that happened, Matt might genuinely earn everyone’s forgiveness and prove that he really is a changed man.

Because let’s be honest, everybody in Genoa City hates Patty. And this is one surefire way for Matt to show that he is not the same monster he’s always been, not the same kind of monster that Patty is. If Matt saves the whole town from Patty, that would be great.

It would be a much better way for Matt to prove himself than some fake scheme with Phyllis, that would probably wind up being exposed as fake anyway and make him look worse in the end.

So, I am excited to see what Patty does now that she drank some toilet bowl cleaner and got herself out of that high security facility. Jack is absolutely right to be on high alert, and Patty is also extremely devious and she knows her way in and out of the mansion. But hopefully Matt will stop her before it goes too far.