Young and the Restless Next Week: Phyllis Issues Dangerous Warning & Victoria Turns the Tables

Young and the Restless spoilers for next week reveal Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford) is returning to Genoa City furious and Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle) flipping the script with a bold new plan to get back the Newman’s assets.

We have the latest Y&R spoilers for the week of February 23rd, including Nate Hastings (Sean Dominic) and Devon Hamilton Winters (Bryton James) on a mission to find Lily Winters (Christel Khalil), and Daniel Romalotti (Michael Graziadei) in big, big trouble. Plus, the threat of Matt Clark (Roger Howarth) is looming.

Young and the Restless: Nate and Devon Search for the Missing Lily

All right, let’s start with the Winters family. At the end of this week, Nate is catching up with Devon at Society. They’re talking about Dominic Chancellor (Ethan Ray Clark) and being happy he’s home safe, but Devon and Abby Newman (Melissa Ordway) are really angry because Mariah Copeland (Camryn Grimes) is walking around free. That ankle monitor keeps her in Genoa City, but it doesn’t keep her away from Dominic, the kid she kidnapped.

The guys are also talking about Devon and Abby getting increasingly angry at the Mariah situation and debating whether she belongs in prison versus a mental institution. They’re just all worried about Dominic and any residual threat.

Turns out Devon is also increasingly worried about his sister, Lily. He tells Nate they haven’t heard from Lily in a while now. Devon thought Lily went to a spa, but it’s been weeks and they haven’t heard from her. So Nate and Devon are questioning: is it time to get worried about where she’s at?

Victor Newman’s Disappearance and Lily’s Secret Location on Young and the Restless

Next week over at the Chancellor Mansion, Nate and Devon check in with Abby and they tell her that they need to leave town. They think they have a lead on what happened to Lily and they want to go check it out. Abby says, “Do whatever you got to do. Make sure everybody’s safe.”

Here’s what I wonder. If you recall, Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) abruptly disappeared from Genoa City by the end of this week. Adam Newman (Mark Grossman), Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott), Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow), and Victoria—none of them knew where Victor crept off to. If you remember, he threatened Cane Ashby (Billy Flynn) again and said, “Get Phyllis to give back this stuff or else Lily pays.”

I wonder if Victor went to see Lily to talk things through with her. I agree with Adam in suspecting that Victor promised to give Chancellor to Lily if she did this, but Phyllis doesn’t even have that now—Billy Abbott (Jason Thompson) does. Not that I think Victor would have honored his word anyway, but maybe he went in person to tell Lily what’s happening and to say, “I need you to stay hidden longer.”

Young and the Restless: Is Victor Holding Lily Winters Captive?

Worst case, because Nikki is so worried about Victor doing a bad thing, maybe he went and changed Lily’s voluntary fake kidnapping into a real kidnapping and has her locked away. Lily might have decided, “Okay, this is enough. I’m not going to keep staying off the grid. If you didn’t get it done by now, that’s it.” Victor may say, “Oh, well, no, that’s not the end of it.”

I don’t put it past him. Everything they own and have and want is gone, so there are no depths to which Victor will not sink. What’s interesting is then Devon and Nate may find Lily somewhere that Victor has stashed her. That means the whole Winters family would be absolutely furious with the Newman’s family.

I think the rest of Victor’s family would be upset, too, because Nikki was telling Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) and Noah Newman (Lucas Adams) this week she’s very worried Victor is off doing something shady. And he might well be.

Nick Newman Spirals with Illegal Drugs and Aggressive Behavior

Speaking of shady, Nick just stepped onto a dark path. He took the first step. We knew it was coming, but as of the end of this week, it looks like Nick has popped his first fentanyl. If you recall, he was in a lot of pain and he told Nikki and Sharon that he needed to go home and take a pill because he said he left his bottle there.

Then Nick came back with a lot more spring in his step. He looked like he was in less pain, but he was acting way off-kilter. He told them he had one pill left in his bottle but said he needs to get more. But we know he lied to Sharon and Noah because he was out of the prescription pills. He’s got no refills and I bet the doctor won’t write it.

The thing that Nick had, though, was that big baggie of illegal drugs that Matt gave him. Sharon’s worried because Nick is not acting like he took a pain pill like she’s used to seeing. Instead, he’s twitchy and he sounds weird. Honestly, he’s being more aggressive than usual. Sharon mentions this to Noah and now they’re both on high alert and keeping an eye on Nick.

Victoria Newman Plots Revenge Against Billy and Phyllis

Meanwhile on Young and the Restless, the Newman’s family debated the timing of Victor jetting off because it came at the same time that Phyllis left Genoa City. At the same time, Victoria is cooking up her own vengeful plan to punish Billy and Phyllis and force them to give back what they took.

Victoria is going after their kids. She already hit out at Billy; she sent their kids off to boarding school and he was really ticked off about that. Next, Victoria is planning to get Daniel Romalotti and Summer Newman (Allison Lanier) on the Newman family side because she knows that will devastate Phyllis.

That’s kind of interesting because Cane already thought of that approach. He went to Daniel looking to get him to help force Phyllis’s hand to give stuff back. Plus, Cane is calling Phyllis to try and reconcile with her, which I find highly suspect. Nikki doesn’t think Victoria’s plan is going to work, but honestly, I think Nikki might be selling Victoria short.

Phyllis Summers Returns to Explode at Daniel Romalotti Jr.

I suspect that either Victoria or Cane’s plan to get Daniel as an ally is successful because next week Phyllis is back in town and she blows up on her son. Daniel and Tessa Porter (Cait Fairbanks) are at Crimson Lights playing guitar and chilling. Phyllis barges in there, fresh off her trip, and lays into Daniel.

She uses his full name, Daniel Romalotti Jr. That’s when you know your mom’s mad, when you get the full name. Phyllis is raging at Daniel next week that she won’t forgive him for this. I can’t wait to find out what he did to infuriate Phyllis, and I’m here for it.

Hot on the heels of her return, guess what? Victor is also back in Genoa City and he’s got bad, bad news for the Newman’s family. It has nothing to do with their business, which is all bad news. The new bad news that Victor delivers to the family is personal.

Matt Clark Escapes Custody as Nick Goes into Beast Mode

He tells everybody that Matt Clark has disappeared. The guy got out of police custody and took off. Nick, of course, goes into beast mode and says that Matt could be anywhere, even on the ranch property right now. Nick wants to know how this is happening and he’s going to come completely unhinged next week.

Between Matt getting loose and the fentanyl, it’s about to get crazy with him, basically just like Noah and Sharon were worried was going to happen. Despite Matt being on the loose, I don’t expect to see him for a couple of more weeks because Roger Howarth only recently returned to tape at Y&R and there’s like a four-week tape-to-air delay.

There is a lot of action going on next week. We also have the last three episodes of February Sweeps, which wraps up on Wednesday. So, check for that and be sure to watch our full weekly spoilers video that comes out this weekend, plus our predictions and two-week spoilers. It’s going to be good stuff the week of February 23rd through the 27th. Do not miss a minute of Y&R.