Young and the Restless: Victor Paid Markham to Free Unhinged Patty from Lockup!

Young and the Restless revealed that Dr. Laurence Markham (Jere Burns) said he let Patty Williams (Stacy Haiduk) out of the psych hospital because she did the work. She was rehabilitated and was as sane as he is at the time. That made me doubt Markham’s sanity when he said that.

And I was sure that he was lying about Patty because it never made sense for a reputable doctor like Markham to let her go when Patty is clearly still crazy. However, it makes perfect sense if Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) was behind it and was paying the guy off. So, we’re going to talk about why Markham really released Patty.

Young and the Restless: Patty Still Looney

So, from the minute Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) woke up on the yacht to find Patty Williams was his captor, it was quite clear that she was nowhere near sane. Everybody expected Paul Williams’ (Doug Davidson) sister to spend the rest of her days in a mental ward because she was not only unhinged, but she was dangerous. But Patty kept saying she was reformed and she was a changed woman. Of course, Jack didn’t believe it for a moment. Why would he?

Patty is clearly still deeply obsessed with Jack and has an unhealthy fixation on him. And don’t forget, Patty tried to kill Jack before. There is no shred of sanity in that woman. But when Markham met with Jack and Patty at the mansion to discuss Diane Jenkins’ (Susan Walters) alleged breakdown, Jack asked Markham why he released Patty since they know that he was treating her at the mental hospital.

Young and Restless: Markham’s Suspicious Release and Victor’s Manipulation

And Markham blathered about Patty showing genuine remorse for her actions. And Markham said Patty was ready to be a member of society again. Of course we know that’s a whole load of bull because she kidnapped Jack and then Patty molested him and then she had Diane kidnapped.

So, there’s a few options here. One is that Markham is not who he says. Maybe he’s not the real deal. Or Markham is who he says, but the guy is crazy as heck. Or Patty paid off Markham to release her and become her partner in crime. The thing is Patty doesn’t have the money to do that. But there’s somebody in Genoa City who wanted to ruin Jack’s life and marriage and who didn’t care if Patty tried to kill Jack. And as we saw, Patty did try to kill both Jack and Diane. So, there’s no way that Patty could fool a noted psychiatrist into thinking that she’s sane.

And even if she did fool Markham, that doesn’t explain why he was helping her after she was out. And we know that Patty was paying him. That’s something else she couldn’t afford. The money trail is the big clue here. Victor gave Patty a bag of cash for kidnapping and sexually assaulting Jack and ruining his marriage. But I don’t think that’s the only time that Victor put his gazillions of dollars to work to do bad things to wreck Jack.

Victor Behind it From the Start on Y&R

I suspect Victor might have approached Markham personally. It would be very easy for Victor to find out who was Patty’s doctor at the psych ward and then Victor might have offered Markham a huge bribe to let her loose because I don’t think Markham let Patty out for legit mental health reasons because she is not remorseful. She is not reformed and she’s always been dangerously obsessed with Jack. She’s done insane things to be with him.

If you recall, Patty had plastic surgery to look like her psychiatrist and then later she came back to Genoa City under the name Mary Jane Benson and she seduced Jack. We all know Patty’s been crazy for decades. Back then, if you remember, it was actually Victor also working with Patty at the time. So, this is a repeat offender thing. He helped her infiltrate the business so that she could get close to Jack back in the day.

Young and the Restless: Victor’s Pattern of Manipulation

And it’s already been confirmed that Victor’s working with her again this time, but we’ve only seen that in the context of the yacht kidnapping. We did see Victor pay Patty for that. The subsequent stuff with Diane, Jack, and Markham. We haven’t seen Patty and Victor having a conversation about. We haven’t seen where Patty explicitly confirmed that Victor asked Patty to do these things, but Victor asked her to do the kidnapping specifically, you know.

And he might have also encouraged Patty to continue to create chaos in Jack’s life. Since we know Markham is lying about Patty being reformed, there has to be some reason the psychiatrist would let a homicidal lunatic out of the psych ward. And what motive would get Markham to do a bad thing like that? Greed. Money greases the wheels of the world.

Victor’s the Only One Who Wants Patty Free on Y&R

And literally nobody else on the face of the planet would pay to have Patty released aside from Victor. This is Occam’s razor. You know what that means? The simplest explanation that fits the facts is the best one. And yeah, I know on soaps motives are usually convoluted and unexpected, but in this case, I don’t think so.

I think it’s a straight line from Victor to Markham to Patty to Jack on Young and the Restless. And Eric Braeden said in an interview not that long ago why Victor is still furious about the night of debauchery. He really thinks Jack and Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott) had sex that night.

Young and the Restless: Victor Wants Revenge

So, of course, Victor’s furious. They didn’t do that, but you can’t change his mind. And since he thinks Jack took his wife to bed, Victor thinks all bets are off and he can destroy Jack any way he wants. Letting Patty out of the mental hospital is like loading a gun with Jack’s name on all the bullets. And I’m betting that Victor lied and said he was on a business trip.

Then he went to the mental hospital to visit Patty and to talk to Dr. Markham. I suspect Victor offered Patty the chance to get her heart’s desire, which is Jack. And all Patty has to do was to kidnap him and ruin his marriage to Diane. Then Patty could have her way with him.

And of course, all Markham had to do was accept a big old bribe to look the other way. But if he did this, then Patty would have leverage on Markham, knowing he took a big payoff. So that could be a way that Patty could have forced Markham to become her partner in crime. Or Victor might have just kept directly bribing the guy to get him to do whatever Patty told him to. And we know that Markham’s affection for Diane was unplanned. Then Markham was telling Patty that he wanted to change the plan.

Young and Restless: Exposure and Consequences

So, I suspect that Markham was supposed to kill Diane or shove her in some dark corner of a mental ward as a Jane Doe and keep her there. But then Markham decided he wanted Diane for himself. And I also suspect that Victor’s role in all this is going to come out. Markham is clearly dodgy and he’s hiding out. He’s off the grid. But Diane and Jack are hunting for him, and I think they’re going to find Markham before too long.

I expect that Traci Abbott (Beth Maitland) is going to get the info from Martin Laurent (Christopher Cousins) to help them find Markham. And once they hand the guy over to the cops, I bet he’s going to sing like a bird. Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) is already talking to Patty about getting her a plea deal with the DA if she rolls over and blames Victor. But Patty might be a harder nut to crack because she is a nut.

Young and the Restless: Markham Throws Victor Under the Bus

Markham, though, I suspect he’d tell everybody if Victor was paying him so that he could avoid prison. And since Markham’s crazy about Diane, she might even be able to get a confession out of him that Patty and Victor are both involved in this plot against her and Jack. Patty planning it and Victor financing it makes a whole lot of sense.

And if it plays out this way, and Victor did bribe Markham to bring Patty back to Genoa City, I think it’ll ruin Victor and Nikki’s reunion, which is really amping up this week. But if Nikki finds out Victor paid Markham to discharge Patty to target Jack, I think that could be a marriage-ending deal breaker.