Victor Unleashes His Fury at Ashland for Lying About Having Cancer & Orders Him to Leave Victoria

In this episode of CBS’ The Young and the Restless, Victor goes after Ashland, Adam tries to stall Victoria, and Nick is livid, while Tessa and Mariah talk wedding plans. In the previous episode, Nick threatened Ashland’s life and Jack and Phyllis left Genoa City.

(The Canadian Y&R day ahead recap for Tuesday, March 1, 2021 episode airs in the USA Wednesday, March 2. Recaps live by 5:45 PM EST daily.)

In Adam’s office, Nick calls what Ashland did unforgivable. Adam agrees, but they need to handle this smart. Victor asks them to leave it to him. Nick doubts he can handle it without it blowing up in Victoria’s face.

Vic plans on dealing with “that bastard” one on one. Victor reminds them that they don’t know what else Ash has up his sleeve.

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In her office, Victoria balks when Nikki tells her to let Victor know about changing Ashland to Co-CEO as soon as possible. Ashland interrupts.

Victoria tells him that her mom is concerned of how her dad will take the news of his new title.

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Ash is hoping that he’ll be supportive but Nikki says it’s a big change and means a lot to him that it’s being run by his eldest child.

Ashland tries to smooth over her concerns and says they’ve a meeting with marketing staff in a few minutes. Nikki offers to cover it so they can talk to Victor now.

Ashland offers to go with Victoria to present a united front, a move that makes Nikki purse her lips. Victoria calls Victor and says she’ll be right over.

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Once they disconnect, back in Adam’s office, Nick’s upset that his dad wants to do this alone. He takes off and Victor asks if Adam will support him.

Back at the office, Ashland covers up about being upset at receiving a text. He tells Nikki and Victoria he’s going to make a call and they file out of the office.

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At Crimson Lights, Sharon offers a second croissant to Rey but he declines. He has to look hot for his sexy wife.

She looks over his shoulder for Mariah. She’s waiting for the women to come downstairs. Rey notes she has wedding magazines in a row on the counter. Sharon thinks they need to get moving.

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Rey is positive that their wedding will come together. Sharon agrees. She just wants to help. Rey’s happy that she doesn’t mind what kind of odd wedding they’ll have.

They talk about their own beautiful wedding and when  Nick walks in, they notice he’s upset. He doesn’t want to talk about it. Rey goes to check in at the station and Nick admits he’s not sure it’s better to discuss it or bottle it up.

She coaxes it out of him and he admits that Ashland did something horrible. Nick tells her about Victor sending Michael to Peru to check out that clinic Ashland was at.

It was revealed that Ashland bribed the clinicians to tell everyone that he was ill and in remission. “Ashland faked his cancer?”

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Sharon says, unable to wrap her head around it. Nick asks her to keep it confidential. He asks why he hasn’t told Victoria. Nick says his dad has a plan. Sharon calls what he did disgusting.

As a cancer survivor, she’s appalled. Victoria won’t be alright with this. Noah appears. Sharon thinks he looks like he just rolled out of bed. He smiles. She heard him come in late. He apologizes.

He was out catching up with a girl he knew. Just a friend, he clarifies, when Sharon fishes. Nick laughs. He tells them not to worry about him. Later, Nick takes off. He needs to do something…

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Upstairs, Mariah is on a call with Abby about Dominic’s procedure. She learns there’s nothing that can be done and once she disconnects, Mariah tells Tessa about the bone marrow transplant for his soap opera unknown blood disease.

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He’ll make a full recovery. She’s a little upset that they didn’t tell her what happened while it was happening. Tessa assumes they’ve an explanation. Mariah backs down.

Abby didn’t even tell the family. Tessa says that everything turned out okay. Mariah agrees. Tessa admits she wants to go with their top three ideas for a wedding: Art, music and costumes. They’ll do it close to home and get their favorite band to play.

Maybe they could dress London in the 60s. Mariah’s not 100% on board. Maybe they can give people a role or something. Tessa asks her to stop talking. She’s overthinking it in a way that makes her love her more.

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They laugh and reminisce about their break ups. Tessa thinks they’re destined to be together — beyond lucky. Mariah thinks she stumbled into writing a song.

They head to the coffee shop and tell Noah, Sharon and Rey that they’re ready for their input for their wedding. Rey suggests he can be security, and Noah can design artwork. Noah says they all want this to be perfect. The women grin lovingly at one another.

Victoria arrives at Adam’s office and he’s gone. Adam says he just left. Victoria doesn’t get why he’d do that when he knew she was coming. Adam offers to listen.

She shrugs him off and he reminds her that they’re on the same team. She calls it “too high level” for him to weigh in on.He keeps her there by asking her about expanding Newman Media. She’s impatient as he talks.

She calls his ideas overambitious and unfocused. She suggests he tell Sally. Adam says she’s busy working on the budget. He’s snide about her relationship with Ashland and she reminds him that they are married.

Victoria condescends to him and thinks he’d better get used to Ashland working for the company. Adam starts to enjoy the sparring since he knows who Ashland really is.

She asks why he’s so smug and he refuses to say. He tries to stall her some more. When Sally calls, he ignores her, but it’s too late, Victoria takes off.

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Victor arrives at Victoria’s office and tells Ashland he’s done playing games with him. It ends now. “The charade is over,” he tells his son-in-law.

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He locks the door, a move that Ashland calls over the top. Victor lets him know that he knows Ashland never had cancer. He faked the whole thing. Ashland acts innocent. Why would he do that?

Victor knows it’s because of the merger. He managed to make Victoria feel sorry for him. He played his game masterfully and now it’s over.

Ashland tries to deny it but Victor tells the man to “stop the bull.” He has evidence that he paid off the doctors in the clinic in Peru. Ashland smirks.

Victor admits he has people in Peru gathering more information. “You’re done.” Ashland shakes his head. He tries to tell Victor that it’s a set up.

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Victor yells at him that “No one uses my family as a pawn. You got that?!” H e refuses to let Victoria feel she was subject to a cruel hoax. He’d rather have her heart broken than her spirit broken. “I will tell you what you’re gonna do,” Victor snaps.

He’s to go down to Peru with a relapse. He’ll call Victoria and ask for a clean divorce. “No explanation. No argument. That’s what you will do and then you will revert control of Newman/Locke back to my daughter as part of the settlement,” before disappearing from his daughter’s life.

Ashland responds, “Why would I ever walk away from the woman I love?” Victor doesn’t believe he loves her. Ashland doesn’t think she’d accept it if he did that. Victoria arrives and when she can’t get in, she knocks and asks if Ashland’s inside.

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Nick goes back to Adam’s office and learns that Adam tried to keep Victoria there for their dad but she left. He doesn’t know what Victor is up to next. Nick tells his brother he’s in. He wants to help out.

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