she hopes it’ll go viral.  abby needs the image of her confession to circulate. the DA doesn’t believe her and her parents want to keep her quiet.  before the hack-director abby hired as the naked heiress director can upload the image, victor steals the tape, kidnaps abby and ships her off to rehab (not the same facility as nikki, this one is in conneticut).

but there are other ways abby’s confession may find suitable hosts.  catherine’s suspicious.  deaon was bar-tending at gloworm (where and) when abby’s image was captured.  and what happens when tucker remembers?

–why not?

–because victor didn’t want us to.

sued by his own children for 1.5 billion dollars, victor newman must take his company, newman enterprises, public.

adam newman—after having conspired with diane jenkins to fake the death of his father and her (twice) ex-husband, victor newman, on the day victor took his company public—now owns a significant portion of newman enterprises.  with word of victor’s death the price of stock fell, allowing adam (and jack abbot, thanks to a tip from diane) to acquire enough stock to demand a seat on victor’s board of directors.  i may even appoint myself co-chair, adam says to victor (after showing victor a number representing stocks adam now owns of newman enterprises written on a small yellow paper).  just imagine that, father and son running newman enterprises together . . .

victor, already upset hearing that the SEC may not even investigate adam for stock price manipulation, decides to show adam what he thinks about adam having a seat on his board:

throwing a chair out the window of the ceos office may seem strange until we remember a scene y&r flashed back to a couple months ago:

for the context:

the future scenes of newman enterprises’ board meetings are gonna be good.  so far there’s victor, catherine chancellor, lauren fenmore, adam (unless victor can somehow get him thrown into prison).  and, who knows, maybe nick and victoria newman (especially now that phyllis was awarded custody of lucy), jack, tucker (provided he wakes from his coma) . . .

that means, the home shopping network exists in both the regular world and the world of young and the restless.  but guess what they’re going to start selling on the home shopping network (both in the regular word and the world of y&r)?  the new jabot line.

i guess that means katherine is going to appoint jack ceo of jabot again.

watch it unfold from 11:16 on.

"i'm gonna make sure that you become consigned to a dark and lonely hole for the rest of your miserable existence."

but meggie’s got other plans than to stay in jail.  she’s trying to blackmail deacon sharp into helping her break out.  if he doesn’t, she’ll tell nikki everything (about how deacon helped spike her drinks before he fell in love with her).  she’s got this jailbreak idea on her mind quite a bit.

"isn't there anything better on -- like the great escape?"

i hope they have it on demand for the inmates.

"my empire has not shattered; newman enterprises is not for sale; and my company is as strong as ever."

billy abbott heard about the press interviews and insisted on getting one as well.  victor says, “i love my children.  i don’t want this to be happening.”  but billy isn’t “buying what [victor is] selling.”

"i know the man with the heart-warming platitudes really just has an ice cold heart. and your act -- it's not that good."

meanwhile meggie is back in genoa city.  as katherine explains, some of the evidence in alaska got dismissed on a technicality so she was extradited back to wisconsin.  murphy and kay decide to confront meggie.

"trying to read here!"

meggie continues, “look who’s standing upright.  oops!  still can’t talk?  it’s alright, you can just tap out a message on the bars.”  murphy is cool and collected: “i’m just enjoying the view.”  but meggie’s been spending her free time (in prison) working on her wit.

"i'm 10 times easier on the eyes than that old bag you're married to."

murphy isn’t even phased: “it’s been a long time coming — you rotting behind bars.”  meggie just keeps them coming: “it’s only temporary.  i’ll be outta here before you can swallow another nitro pill.”  but kay is lurking in the shadows.

"this old bag is gonna make sure you spend the rest of your life in jail."

everyone is stuck at the hospital awaiting the outcome of the chance-ronan-kidney-exchange (or was it a liver?).   since time on the y&r is always confusing (according to jill, it was only yesterday that she was married to collin while cane was murdered), it’s unclear if the surgery is lasting days or if it’s only been 20 minutes.  regardless, heather and her dad go off in search of food and drink . . .

chloe chose the can of diet soda

nina's favorite kind of chocolate bar!

later, katherine and jill say a duel pray . . .

katherine never once closed her eyes

after chance’s part of the surgery turns out well, katherine gives i sly look up (to god, i guess) and whispers “keep up the good work”.  so what does god do?  cut to dr nick hastings, the surgeon informing the family of ronan’s post-surgical condition: “ronan didn’t make it”.

in another storyline, adam spends the entire episode talking to himself (or maybe talking to the ghost of skye) as he scourers the internet looking for skye’s hidden accounts and po boxes . . . (i think his plan is to pretend to be an online skye — booking hotel rooms at her favorite resorts, buying bottles of her favorite discontinued perfume, getting po boxes under an old alias of skye’s  — to try to get sharon’s murder charges dropped.)

this was an actual conversation between katherine and chloe:

katherine (motioning towards chloe’s phone): i havent seen you twittering or whatever you call it.

chloe: i can’t post anything about chance.