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00:09there's my beautiful bride
00:12when did you get back
00:15I would say about a half hour ago
00:19but why didn't you call me
00:20because I wanted to surprise you
00:22you did surprise me
00:23this is the best surprise
00:27what is this
00:28oh well why don't you sit down
00:32take it and open it up
00:34thank you
00:35sure
00:40oh I love it
00:41it's beautiful
00:42I thought you might like it
00:45I love it
00:47wait when did you have time to shop for me
00:50ok well
00:51I didn't actually have time to shop
00:53ok ok here's the deal
00:55it was in a swag bag
00:57at the private concert
00:58I did in Barcelona
00:59and I thought
01:00it would look really nice on you
01:02I'm going to put it on right now
01:04look at this
01:04ok
01:05ok
01:08super chic
01:09super hot
01:12oh hey by the way
01:14there's more where that came from
01:15yeah
01:15I've got upstairs in the bag
01:17I've got perfume makeup
01:19a tablet
01:19a camera
01:20oh stop
01:21well I think even a small little pony
01:23ok
01:24the hotel's not happy about that
01:25no
01:26well listen
01:26I am so grateful for these
01:30fancy freebies
01:31but
01:31yeah
01:32the gift I'm most happy about
01:34is that you're home safe
01:35I really really missed you
01:38I love you when you say that
01:40because I missed you
01:44hey um
01:45yeah
01:47I have a little surprise of my aunt
01:50uh well
01:53actually it's kind of a big surprise
01:57yes
01:57all the kids got dropped off at school
02:01it was no trouble at all
02:02I promise
02:03alright good luck at your interview
02:05keep me posted okay
02:06alright bye
02:12hey
02:15can you afford me forever
03:04knock knock
03:06hey
03:07I thought you'd like some blooms
03:09for your office
03:10oh my goodness
03:11did you rob a funeral
03:13or a wedding
03:15no
03:15my husband wanted to surprise me
03:18on my first day at work
03:19and he went a little overboard
03:21oh my goodness
03:22well that's a good sign
03:23I know
03:24he's so sweet
03:25and romantic
03:26I wasn't talking about him
03:27being a good husband
03:28although of course he is
03:29but I'm talking about
03:31maybe
03:31this means
03:32that he is
03:33uh
03:35he's in in favor
03:37of our partnership
03:38and maybe
03:39Victor Newman
03:40is in the rearview mirror
03:41for him
03:42and fading fast
03:43don't know about that
03:44but I do know
03:46that I am ready
03:47to dig in
03:48and work
03:49great
03:49well there is a lot
03:51of work to do
03:51there's also
03:52a lot of really great
03:54things that are happening
03:56we've had so many wins
03:57so far
03:59summer's conglomerate
04:00we're off to a really
04:01really good start
04:03there's nothing
04:04but blue skies ahead
04:08is it raining?
04:10oh well
04:10the weather forecast
04:11calls for bright sunny skies
04:13but I got a sneaky feeling
04:15that uh
04:15dark clouds
04:17might be rolling in
04:21Benmore signed me up
04:22for an online comedy class
04:23pretty good huh?
04:24kind of so dumb
04:26yeah
04:26okay
04:29I called you here
04:32to tell you that I have plans
04:33to reclaim Newman Enterprises
04:37all right
04:38well uh
04:39are you sure you want me
04:41to be a party
04:42to any of those plans?
04:43I know that you may have
04:45a conflict regarding that
04:46yeah
04:47the fact that my wife
04:48is Phyllis's business partner
04:50at the moment
04:51you got it
04:55am I here to be warned?
04:57I just want you to know
05:01that I planned to force Phyllis
05:04to return Newman Enterprises to me
05:09the plan is in operation right now
05:20Devon I just
05:21I don't want to do this
05:22right here right now
05:23I don't want to do what?
05:24have a conversation?
05:25not here in public
05:26no
05:28well you're doing a pretty good job
05:29of avoiding me in private too
05:32did you get the text message
05:33that I sent you
05:34I'm only home from work last night
05:35about Lillian Holden?
05:37yes I did
05:38you did?
05:41didn't make you want
05:42to ask any questions
05:43about Lillian
05:44or about
05:45how I feel
05:46having a new family member?
05:49I was in bed
05:50when you sent a text
05:51okay
05:52what about this morning?
05:53you were asleep
05:54when I left the house
05:56you left a lot earlier
05:57than usual
05:57I had to bring Dom
05:59and his friends
06:00to school Devon
06:01okay
06:01what about
06:02afterwards
06:03you could have sent
06:04a text message
06:04you could have
06:05called me
06:06I mean the news
06:07it's a pretty big deal
06:09don't you think?
06:10of course it is
06:11I know that it is
06:12you know it is
06:13but
06:13okay
06:14I guess it's just
06:15it's
06:17disappointing that my wife
06:18didn't figure
06:18to even acknowledge it
06:20well then why didn't you
06:21wake me up?
06:23why didn't you
06:23initiate a conversation
06:25Devon?
06:26I mean what?
06:27and now with that
06:28we're on the subject
06:29of avoiding people
06:30why were you in the office
06:31so late last night?
06:32I mean
06:32don't do that
06:33don't do what?
06:34come on
06:34don't turn this around
06:35alright
06:36you've been voiding me
06:37and I think I have
06:38a good idea why
06:42this was out of the blue
06:43alright
06:44completely unexpected
06:47apparently the DA
06:49is stepping down
06:50health reasons
06:51I guess
06:51and
06:52they want to know
06:53if I will finish your turn
06:56well
06:57this is
06:58this is great
06:59yeah
07:00no yes yes
07:01I mean
07:01I'm completely flattered
07:03that they'd even
07:03consider me
07:04and it's not like
07:05I haven't done the job
07:06yeah
07:06and you were spectacular
07:07okay
07:08says you
07:10not everyone
07:11loved my role there
07:12but you know what
07:13I won more than I lost
07:15yeah so
07:16um
07:17alright so
07:19are you gonna accept it?
07:22I'm honestly not sure
07:24what's holding you back?
07:27I mean you
07:27are
07:28me?
07:28our life together
07:30I sort of
07:31like being a
07:32semi-retired
07:33wife of a rock star
07:36Cricket
07:36hey
07:37come on
07:39this is
07:41this is your forum
07:42alright
07:43law is
07:45your passion
07:46as music is my passion
07:47alright
07:48and
07:48you know
07:50and I remember
07:51how incredibly
07:53selfless you were
07:54about
07:54you know
07:55going on tour with me
07:56and that meant so much to me
07:57it wasn't selfless
07:58I didn't make sacrifices
07:59it wasn't anything like that
08:01I loved every minute of it
08:03but that's the thing
08:04if I take this
08:05I can't just fly off
08:08to a tour
08:09or
08:09a concert
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09:02be fellas thinks that she has smooth sailing she's gotten rid of all the employees that she
09:08thought were too loyal to us and kept on all the high-level executives who have pledged their
09:13allegiance to her and it returned for some very hefty raises and bonuses but sadly for her it
09:20wasn't enough you offered them more that was the first mistake to assume that i wouldn't
09:27spend all kinds of money to get my company back phyllis will lose three-fourths of her workforce
09:33in a matter of days those people they're going to leave that sinking ship and then the press is
09:39going to have a corporate funeral for poor poor phyllis and then i shall execute the second part
09:44of my plan aside from crippling summer's conglomerate whoa whoa whoa whoa don't you ever
09:52say that word again it's newman enterprises you got that aside from crippling the company
10:02what more is there if it is the second big mistake was that she gave me back control
10:08of transfer industries and i should use that against her
10:13oh i spoke to the head of accounting this morning oh my goodness okay what are the numbers
10:19they are actually great and projections are even better amazing lauren we are doing really great
10:28in six months we're going to crush it and as per your request i also emailed you some ideas about
10:35revamping the company's brand yes yes i saw a little bit of that i want to get into that with
10:40you
10:40great my goodness this is so great
10:45what is it
10:48you spoke to the head of accounting yes this morning why he said he's leaving effective immediately
10:58what wait a second wait a second
11:02there are all these emails from the other department heads
11:09oh my gosh i think i'm gonna get sick what's going on no everybody's leaving
11:15everybody all the department heads they're all jumping ship
11:19this cannot be by accident of course it's not by accident has victor newman written all over it
11:31i don't know what to do uh one minute i'm excited to get back in the game and the next
11:38i'm thinking why am i even considering this i have the perfect life with the perfect man
11:46wow the perfect man okay i like that i don't know i've heard that for quite a while you know
11:52what i mean
11:53okay okay let's let's let's let's work this out okay let's weigh the pros and cons
12:00right so no jetting off with your uh perfect man husband to some fabulous locale where you hear him
12:09sing his heart out that's a con exactly what i said yes but
12:16what if i were to cut back on some of my overseas concerts and you know spend more time at
12:24home with my
12:25beautiful da wife now there is a pro right there home yeah would be general city exactly right now the
12:34son and a granddaughter wow there's another pro this is incredible good for us
12:46okay so when do you have to let them know i'm sure pretty soon yeah
12:56you really want me to do this yeah i want you to do whatever makes you happy
13:00that's all i care about i'm happy here as long as i'm with you
13:10well i tell the two of you to get a room but i'm pretty sure you've already got one upstairs
13:14daniel come here you oh how are you and stuff i'm good i'm good you just get back yeah how's
13:21the
13:21concert fantastic great crowd you were missed you and tessa would have wowed them yeah but i mean you
13:29know why i had to stay here right of course things were just different once mariah came back in the
13:35picture yeah okay fine you want to do this let's sit down thank you
13:46okay yes i am still hurt and angry that you decided to go after mariah behind my back
13:54again i apologize for that okay but you knew where i stood because i told you that i was going
14:00to do
14:00everything i could to look into mariah's plea deal to see what our rights were no no no you didn't
14:05tell
14:05me that you were going to try to get the plea deal reverse no you didn't say anything like that
14:09don't
14:10you think that that should have been something you told me that you gave me a heads up about
14:13yeah yeah and let's talk about it right now it's a little late for that no it's not it's not
14:21at all
14:21because i would love to get to the bottom of why you really have a problem with what i did
14:26i am your wife we should have made that decision together i understand but beyond that i get the
14:33feeling you don't want to do anything at all i don't understand that because we're both dom's parents
14:39okay and am i wrong to assume that that his safety is our number one priority that's not the
14:45issue and you know it it's the issue it's issue for me i will always put dominant first always
14:53but how does this accomplish that how does it accomplish anything you must know that you don't
15:00have a great chance of overturning her plea of course i know that the lawyer told me that it's a
15:04long shot but it's our only option it's the only thing we can do and i feel like it's worth
15:09it
15:09so why would you even try to do that if you know you're gonna fail what is it to try
15:15to force mariah
15:17into doing something desperate oh my gosh let's just say you're what you want to force mariah so far off
15:29the rails that they have no other choice but to take her out of the hospital and put her in
15:35jail okay
15:36first of all nobody's hoping that that happens but if it does i mean is that the worst result
15:52don't tell me you're using that damn ai program again
15:58not the old one the new one i hired an ai from the moment i lost newman
16:06enterprises what exactly does this program do
16:11it'll prove phyllis's illegal activities against me in the midst of my company
16:16it'll prove there was an exchange of emails and texts between phyllis and billy boy abbott and k
16:23nashfield it proves that she used ai to sabotage my company and all the evidence will be foolproof
16:32with dates and digital signatures all appearing to have been executed while phyllis was still running
16:39chancellor so you've signed up for this too victoria what do you expect michael it's my family's
16:45company you kneecap the company you threaten phyllis with a prison sentence that's a nice day's work
16:52if i knew you were sincere i would consider that a compliment oh i am being sincere as far as
16:57part
16:58of it goes because if everything is as you say it is phyllis is in trouble it's not as if
17:04phyllis won't
17:05have a choice michael she could fight a losing battle for a company that will soon no longer have
17:11a workforce and also be mired in scandal or and newman enterprises back over to me and then maybe
17:24maybe i'll let phyllis go unscathed
17:29this is okay this is okay well we'll just let victor overpay all of those stooges and lackeys no
17:36big deal you know what this is a really good lesson for us it's a good lesson the minute i
17:41walked in
17:41here i should have fired every single person i didn't do that but we need to replace them and fax
17:47no
17:47problem i i have a file of resumes in there from the best people in the business don't worry and
17:52you
17:53don't think that victor anticipated that and cornered the market we we will just overpay to
17:59get people don't worry about it that's a good idea i'm not gonna let victor roll over us i'm not
18:06gonna
18:06do that i'm not suggesting that but you know what we knew this was coming we knew that victor wasn't
18:12just gonna walk off and lick his wounds and this this is the first strike there could be more listen
18:19this
18:19is just a bump in the road that's all okay victor underestimated me once and i got the best of
18:27him
18:28i'm gonna do it again no one's gonna take this away from me do you really trust this new ai
18:35program
18:36victor yeah i do it was designed for me personally i'm one of the best software engineers in the world
18:46yeah i'm sure you brought it the best you bet what if it doesn't do what you ask it to
18:52do it will
18:53do exactly because i asked what you do okay then what if it does more than you ask it to
18:59meaning what
18:59meaning what if you lose control of it victor
19:08look daniel i know that you and tessa broke things off when moriah came back into town and
19:15i was pretty insensitive you know pushing you to to to come out of town and do the show with
19:20me
19:20uh no no i i mean it i i don't even know what i was thinking i mean you tessa
19:26and barcelona i mean
19:27could i have rubbed it in anymore okay look i appreciate the offer and tessa did too but you
19:33were invited to come alone uh i know actually thought about it but i also thought that it might remind
19:43me of
19:43how great things could have been between the two of us so i just figured it was better for me
19:47to stay
19:47here there was that and then i'm sure another reason for staying was to be here if tessa needed your
19:54support yes that is also true i thought so
20:02so um devon still hasn't backed down from challenging mariah's plea deal his feet are firmly dug in
20:11her why i think it all comes down to one thing he doesn't think mariah's being punished enough
20:23so is vengeance what you want is that what's going to satisfy you this isn't about revenge
20:29happy it's about justice by locking mariah away for years if the court says that that's what should
20:36happen i don't know we didn't even get a chance to get there because the judge and the d.a
20:40threw her a
20:40lifeline and gave her an easy way out who are you right now i have never seen you like this
20:46before
20:46abby i'm sorry i've never lived through having my son kidnapped before i didn't get the manual or the
20:51pamphlet that tells me how i'm supposed to act did you get one can you just let me lower your
20:56voice please
21:00is it is it that bad to you for me to want to see the person that took dominant experience
21:06something
21:07that actually makes them think twice about doing it again i'm not talking about some therapy sessions
21:13at some cushy hospital i highly doubt that mariah would find her hospital say cushy or that her time
21:20there is not punishment well i feel like that that's how i take it and i don't really care what
21:25mariah
21:25thinks too much about anything right now yeah and you obviously don't care what i think either that's
21:30ridiculous to say you know that's not true i care very much about what you think in fact i'm very
21:35interested to know why you think we should let more after look and why you're not as angry as i
21:39am
21:43is this wishful thinking only a part of genuine concern it's concern it's the same concern i had when
21:52when kane first unleashed that ai monster it he thought he could use it as an ultimate weapon too but
22:00look
22:00what happened to him his problem was he couldn't make up his mind as to what he wanted michael the
22:07ai genie is already out of the bottle it's not going away it's just changed hands okay okay i guess
22:17my next question is why are you telling me all this i don't work for you anymore victor and you
22:22know that
22:23my wife is currently phyllis's business partner so i know you're not expecting me to keep this news
22:28from lauren so what is it why the heads up has it occurred to you that in deference to our
22:34past
22:34friendship i might want to spare your wife unnecessary pain all right that that sounds like a bit of a
22:44threat you interpret them as you will you should have warned lauren not to side with phyllis you knew
22:52i will prevail i warned her and now i'm warning you this manufactured evidence you're cooking up to
23:03hang phyllis and billy and kane better not involve my wife she was brought into the business long after
23:09that i am telling you to tell your wife to resign be finished your own fate
23:21i'll pass along the news good
23:26and by the way don't forget your damn umbrella because the storm is brewing as we speak
23:45oh oh no there's more bad news how could it get worse well it's not just the executives that are
23:53handing in their notice it looks like the whole building is heading out the door
23:59you know what we're gonna do replace those traders we can try and we could start by you convincing michael
24:06that he needs to come on board as our head of legal oh i uh i don't know if that's
24:12gonna happen
24:12no no no no he can name his price it's not money phyllis are you kidding me he still has
24:19loyalty toward victor
24:22it's very complicated well you need to uncomplicate things by making sure that he comes here come on lauren we
24:31need him so bad we need him oh it's a message from michael uh he asked if i was free
24:40for lunch
24:42that that that is the universe telling you that you need to get him to come work here that's what
24:50that
24:51is okay and that's what you need to do lauren you need to do whatever it takes to get him
24:59here
25:09thought i heard your voice look at that the product rockstar return good to see you here yeah looking
25:15good thank you um i didn't want to interrupt your family reunion but i heard the most interesting
25:21rumor that you had been offered the d.a position what what news travels fast they called me less than
25:29an hour ago who do you think recommended you for the job uh so you're behind this yeah well you
25:39know i
25:39might have tipped the scales a bit but why not after me there is no better attorney in town oh
25:46i'll be
25:46some honest yeah thank you michael like i really hope you take the job not only because genoa city needs
25:52you but because lauren and i would selfishly like to see more you guys oh that goes for me too
25:59since i
25:59basically disowned my mother at this point it'd be nice to have dad around a lot hey hey listen i
26:04know
26:04you're angry with phyllis this goes way beyond anger dad i mean i'm through with her at this point
26:10summer's through with her and she's got what she's always wanted so why don't just let her enjoy it
26:15alone oh but she really isn't alone is she michael i will never for the life of me understand why
26:24lauren
26:24would go work for phyllis and why you didn't stop her have you met my wife i'm not the boss
26:31of her
26:32she's not the boss and i understand that and i should probably keep my mouth shut but
26:37we both know this can't possibly end well doesn't she see that
26:45how do you think our talk with michael went that depends on him delivering the message
26:52you know the things are moving quickly now i thought it was very nice of you to give him a
26:57warning
26:59maybe there was a little part of you that felt like you owed it to him
27:08let me put it this way i think lauren made the mistake michael did not
27:14well i just want you to know that i'm proud of you for doing that
27:21so you no longer think i'm the meanest man in the world i never thought that you can be stubborn
27:30sometimes like now with mom i don't want to discuss that dad we're about to get everything back
27:40she should be here for that so can't you just put aside your hurt and your anger and
27:47make things right with her i know you don't want to lose her i know you need each other
27:58i'm sorry i probably shouldn't have said something it's okay it's just that
28:03everything phyllis touches hey hi hi how are you oh my we're just discussing yeah um how the
28:13romulatis may be permanent residents of genoa city right darling oh that's so great i can't
28:18wait to hear more i will explain everything it's good to see everyone come out talk to you later
28:25sure bye you really gonna take the da job uh i don't know yet it's tempting
28:37listen i know you might not be able to answer this but if you were the da
28:43would you have any pull with the courts about reversing mariah's plea bargain
28:50thank you so tell me more about danny and christine later
29:03michael
29:06what's wrong
29:09all right there's no good way to come out with this so i'm just gonna say it
29:12summer's conglomerate is going down
29:30okay leave leave go go i don't need you go damn you victor
29:44uh no the da isn't involved in reviewing mariah's plea deal it's up to a panel of judges who
29:51are meeting today anyway so i thought just had to ask hey we understand why yeah listen if it's any
30:01consolation i don't think devon has a chance of overturning mariah's sentence
30:07still possible though right it's it's possible but unlikely i just i wonder if mariah's gonna
30:14freak out when she finds out devon's trying to do this you know she's not exactly in a great place
30:19right now starting to wonder if that's his ulterior motive what to drive her further over the edge
30:27i i'm just running out of explanations a civil suit won't get devon what he wants and
30:32his lawyers must have told him this appeals a long shot it just doesn't sound like devon at all it
30:38isn't but sometimes when people get angry or scared it changes them usually not for the better
30:50why are you doing this
30:53i i don't know another way to say it i'm doing it for our son's safety it's as simple as
30:59that
31:00and you honestly believe that if mariah goes to jail it will accomplish that you know what you keep
31:05asking me that question abby and i'm gonna keep telling you the same thing i only care about what
31:09happens to my son our son our son don't you think i have a stake in this too obviously obviously
31:17you're
31:17just not acting like it with me right now why huh please please enlighten me devon what am i supposed
31:24to
31:24it i you know nothing i guess right just like what you're doing that is so unfair abby what's been
31:33fair lately you tell me is it fair that dominic got kidnapped or that lily and the twins disappeared
31:39and we had no idea what the hell happened to him is it fair that mariah get released from a
31:44hospital
31:44and still be a threat to our family probably the fact that i have a new family member that i
31:48don't trust
31:49at all like nothing has been fair but you know what would help if my wife had more understanding
31:54for me than she does for the person that put our son in literal danger and if you don't think
32:00that's
32:00how close it got you can yourself your mother knows how to make things right and so far she has
32:15decided
32:16not to do it what admit she was wrong she doesn't want to be here
32:30and you and i and the family have to adjust to that and move on
32:39michael it's been a very long very weird morning so if you know something please tell me
32:49all right i promise but you can't go back and tell phyllis you gotta swear to that you know what
32:56a loose
32:56can and she can be and i don't want you pulled into this situation any deeper than you already are
33:01i don't like the sound of this we're not gonna like the rest of it either
33:10i think the consensus is that everybody wants you to take this gh
33:14i mean that's really sweet i just still have to think about it how about this i will decide by
33:21tomorrow okay all right well i'm gonna leave you to it then oh no no wait wait hey i didn't
33:26mean
33:26that well what'd you have in mind um well why don't we go upstairs and see what else is in
33:34that little
33:35goodie bag you brought home for me yeah sometimes it's good to distract yourself well your mind works
33:41on the problem yeah you do something else yeah what are we doing sitting here uh let's go right after
33:50wow so this is just all about you is that what i show pretty much about me yeah it's about
33:58you
33:58you did all the worrying you did all the suffering you you all right hey if that's the only point
34:04that
34:04you took from everything i said i mean what what do i say well that and that mariah should just
34:09get
34:09whatever is coming to her this is about trying to prevent her from doing what she did again
34:16devon i i don't just see mariah as the woman that took our son she also gave us our son
34:24riah is a close friend of ours and now she needs help okay oh well you know what then abby
34:30let's help
34:31let's help her let's invite her to dinner tonight oh no here better off let's go on a date and
34:37she can
34:37babysit dominique because she's our friend you're being such a jerk right now i'm not trying to be a
34:41jerk i'm not i'm trying to be on my wife's side here you want to protect the kidnapper i want
34:46to
34:46protect our son no you want a pound of flesh and you're not going to be happy until everybody's as
34:51miserable as you are hey hey vaughn you got a minute to
35:09what's going on abby why is your man still trying to punish mariah
35:16i don't know it's not right i know it's not right but he won't listen to anyone
35:23janiel i i love my husband but i don't know what to do i've never seen him like this before
35:32i don't want to start a fight with you dad the only people who can solve this are you and
35:37mom and
35:39i'm hoping that you can oh have you heard from nicholas and adam nope and i'm trying not to take
35:48that as a bad sign i have my people in las vegas look into it i guess we're just gonna
35:56have to trust
35:57that adam and nicholas are handling their business so that we can take care of ours
36:02and we will handle ours we're gonna get newman back okay and have pennies pay for it
36:13okay michael you've prepared me now tell me what the bad news is
36:21by the end of the week summer's conglomerate will cease to exist phyllis will lose control of it
36:31and what's left of her mind well you know when i said name your prize i wasn't kidding
36:38you can highly recommend it right oh well we're prepared to
36:45what do you mean you can't
36:49has victor newman gotten to you too
37:09so
37:12you
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