You didn't come all this way
to watch me troubleshoot menu issues.
I love it. It's a bonus
watching my brilliant daughter troubleshoot,
watch you in action. It's amazing.
Thank you. So how is Uncle Jack doing
now that he's home from the hospital?
[sighs] Can you believe that woman?
I mean, how many times has she put my brother
-in the emergency room? -It's over now. Done.
Is it? Is anything really over
where Patty Williams is concerned?
Because her obsession knows no bounds.
No, it's great. It's the best and smartest move
selling the Newman Media components back to Adam.
I'm in. But...
No! No "but." There are no "buts."
You still need to talk to Billy about pawning his gift
back to his sworn enemy.
Not in those words.
Okay, well, what words do you think
won't piss Billy off?
I don't know, but I have time to think about it
because he's gonna be in London for a while with Jill
and then when he gets back,
he'll be calm and serene, hopefully,
and they'll have put most of their issues to bed
and it will be the perfect time.
[door opens, closes]
No! No, that's not--
What's not what?
I gotta go. I gotta call you back.
Hey!
What happened?
What happened? Um... Hmm. Not a lot.
But Jill and I fought the entire flight to London,
so after about eight hours, I figured that was enough.
I came home, so here I am.
What'd you fight about?
The son she wishes she had,
the one and only Cane Ashby.
Even though he's a fraud and a liar and raised by a criminal,
he'll always be more than I will ever be.
With every word, every syllable, she made it very clear
that I will always walk in that guy's shadow.
♪♪
What's up, Devon?
How was the trip? Lily said you just got back.
Did she?
And you just had to let me know
you've been spending time with Lily, right?
Just trying to make conversation.
I wouldn't read too much into it.
Sure. You wanna have a conversation?
I know what we can talk about.
You convinced Lily to bring you in to Chancellor,
and I hear that you're making hires.
You're bringing on Billy and Holden. Is that right?
Moves that Lily approved.
It's not bad enough that you're running my grandmother's company
but now you're gonna load it up with even more half-assed losers
like yourself that nobody trusts?
I mean, come on.
When's this clown show of yours gonna end, Cane?
-Right. Billy-- -No. I know, I know.
You're gonna tell me that I'm wrong
and that Jill would never pick Cane over me,
but she would.
She does. She has for over 20 years.
Is that what she said, or is that what you heard?
It's always there in the subtext.
Chiseling away at my ego, my psyche, everything.
Okay, so it sounds like that's not what she said.
Can you tell me what she actually did say?
Okay, she started with Chancellor
and she said that I should never be a part of anything Chancellor
and that I should just start something on my own
so I don't butt heads with anybody.
That's not the craziest thought.
And then she went on and on about how brilliant Cane is
and how great he'll be for Chancellor
and how he and Lily are getting along so well
and how Lily brings out the best in him
-and blah, blah, blah, blah. -I mean,
that does sound like, you know,
that's true, and I know that it stings
'cause you used to run Chancellor with Lily, but...
I mean, are you sure she meant it as a jab?
There's something more.
It was a little bizarre.
What do you mean?
We were fighting and she got worked up
because I wasn't just accepting what she was saying as right.
And she blurted out that...
Cane should be the only one to deal with the complexities
inside Chancellor.
-I don't understand. -Exactly.
She doesn't want anyone to understand.
There's something there. There's something big.
There's a secret inside Chancellor,
and Jill is terrified that I'm gonna figure out what it is.
I'm just so grateful that our family is okay
and that Patty Williams is behind bars awaiting trial
and she can't hurt us ever again.
You know what does make me furious?
Patty and Martin. I mean...
they don't seem to want to get well.
It's almost as if they enjoy their mental illness.
And I'm not comparing myself to either one of them, believe me,
but I am working so hard at getting better
and getting healthy and making sure that nobody
gets hurt in the process.
I'm so proud of you.
I know that you've been working so hard.
I'm not gonna lie and say it's been easy.
I'm getting it done.
Is there something else that happened,
something that you haven't told me about?
No. I was walking around Paris one day
and I ended up at a café that I used to go to with Alan.
And I realized that the last time I was there
I was actually with Martin, who was pretending to be Alan,
and he's such a horrible human being,
I mean, how much he enjoyed deceiving me.
Ugh. Another person who deserves to be behind bars
and that can never hurt anyone ever again.
Why are we talking about these horrible people?
I'm here to enjoy my daughter and her beautiful family.
You know the flowers in your room?
-Dominic picked those himself. -Oh, I know!
Believe me, I know. He explained every single one of them to me
-in great detail. -Oh, well, that kid can talk.
Yeah, I wonder where he gets that from.
I hope you never stop talking to me.
Mom, I-I...
I need some advice about Devon.
I'm really worried about him.
CANE: You really wanna do this, Devon,
go off on me like this in public?
I mean, I'm fine with it. Have at it if you want.
But you think these nice people wanna hear all about it?
I wouldn't be saying anything
that people in this town didn't already know about you, Cane.
You're an opportunist,
[loudly] and you only do things for yourself.
Everybody knows. Which makes me ask the question
why are you making these hires for Chancellor?
Is it to suck up to Jill or to try and impress Lily?
'Cause it's clearly not for Katherine's benefit.
So what do you want, then, Devon?
Hmm? You want Chancellor? You wanna call the shots?
'Cause it's Lily's company, not yours.
I'm aware of that. This isn't about me.
Well, it seems like you're making it about you.
You're making it about your hate for me
and your dislike of Lily's decisions.
No, just this decision.
Just this decision's what I'm talking about,
because it's the wrong one. You ruin everything you touch,
and this isn't gonna be any different.
So what do you think, I wanna ruin the company
that Lily's trusted me to lead?
No, I don't think you want to. Of course not.
I think you're not gonna be able to help yourself.
Your track record in business has been a disaster
up until recently, and any success you had as Dumas--
that all blew up, which is why you took a handout
-from your ex-wife. -Well, the only person
that's gonna blow things up, Devon, is you.
If you keep on this rampage that you're on,
you're gonna ruin your relationship with Lily.
Is my rampage me trying to protect my sister
and my grandmother's company from you?
Well, Katherine left me Chancellor when she died.
I know that. And you didn't deserve it then either.
Right. So then it's not about Katherine's legacy
or her wishes or Lily's decisions.
It's about you and what you want.
That's not it either. You're wrong again.
This is about me being able to see you clearly, Cane.
All right? I can see you as clear as day,
and I have since day one.
And the same goes for Billy, same goes for Holden, all right?
You are a con artist, Billy's obsessed with himself,
and Holden hasn't been anything more than a glorified gofer.
So the three of you at Chancellor together...
you're gonna bury the company.
So Jill said there are issues at Chancellor.
Complexities, not issues. She said the word complexities.
Okay.
That still doesn't definitively mean secret.
No, there's a tone. It's the context.
Of all of it. Her keeping me away from Chancellor
after all these years-- it never made sense to me.
Okay, but that's not entirely true.
You've worked at Chancellor plenty of times.
Sure. And when I think back on that,
it's clear that I was meant to stay in a lane.
Even with Lily, there was boundaries there.
She was there to check in when Jill wasn't available
to give me power, but just not enough.
Okay, but checks and balances are completely usual--
Sally, trust me, it all clicked, okay?
There's something there. I know it.
Can we just think about this logically for a second?
You don't get it. It's okay. I don't expect you to.
Look, Billy,
if there were complexities to hide,
why would she sell it back to Victor?
I mean, Nikki ran it for a while.
Phyllis had it for like two seconds.
They never found anything.
Of course. They were busy running the company, you know?
It's a multinational conglomerate.
There's a lot of moving parts.
I mean, the Maltese Falcon, the Rosebud, the...
Ark of the Covenant could be locked away
in some warehouse somewhere, and nobody would look for it.
Wow. Okay, movie props. That's what she's hiding.
My point is we don't know what we're looking for,
but she's keeping something secret, okay?
She knows that I would find it.
No one else would even know how to look.
Okay, look...
I know it feels like Jill chooses Cane a lot of the--
She does.
But that's not what this is about.
I know I sound a little crazy,
but there's something there, Sally.
And now that I know, I have to go find out what it is.
Chancellor is going to end because of me?
Okay. Well...
just for a second, let's--let's forget about
all the rest of the staff or the fact that Lily's in charge
and she's actually making the decisions.
And let's forget about the fact that Chancellor's been around
for well over 50 years under different leadership.
You think that I'm gonna be the one who kills it.
That's right. You, Billy, and Holden, yeah.
All right, well, Billy hasn't accepted the job offer yet,
and Holden is Lily's brother.
-I'm well aware of who he is. -But you don't care.
So what happened to all that devotion
about the family business? Only if it's your family?
Do you think just because he and Lily share DNA
you should trust him automatically?
Again--so it only counts if it's your DNA, Devon?
See, Lily didn't think that you were gonna give him
an offer to go to Winters, which is why she thought
it was a good idea for me to bring him into Chancellor.
It's a dumb idea to give someone like that power
when they haven't done anything to prove they deserve it.
I worked with him. I trust him.
-Oh, you're a great reference. -Okay, well, I'm not
making him CFO, Devon. I'm giving him a job.
A job where he's gonna learn the business.
And if he learns the business well enough,
he will be promoted. But you understand that.
You're just looking for another reason to unload on me.
I don't need any reason more to unload on you, okay?
You stuck around this town
without anybody wanting you here.
You're with my sister now,
and you got my grandmother's company.
I loved Katherine, and she loved me back,
whether I deserved it or not.
She did. You're good at fooling people.
-You're really good, Cane. -Will you just use your head
for two minutes? Wh-what would I gain by destroying Chancellor?
Of course you don't wanna destroy it on purpose.
It's who you are. Everything you touch gets ruined.
Look.
We don't have to be friends, okay?
But your sister's everything to me,
and she's worried about you.
I don't need you telling me how my sister feels about me.
She's worried about you.
She's worried that you're making up all this noise
to distract from something else.
This is none of your business. Can you leave this alone?
Devon, you need to figure it out
before you start pushing people away.
ASHLEY: What's going on with him?
You said he's shutting you out?
Yeah, and it's not because he's worried about my feelings
or that he doesn't wanna worry me, I mean...
it's something else. I just--I don't know what it is.
-You're sure it's not Dominic? -I think it started that way.
Yeah. He and I had very different reactions
to Mariah being sentenced to a psych facility.
Yeah, you mentioned that he was petitioning
for different sentencing?
Without even bothering to talk to me about it.
That doesn't sound like you at all.
I mean, the two of you have always had great communication.
I know, 'cause we were best friends
before we were ever a couple,
and that's what makes this so hard.
So you talked to him about it. What did he say?
Well, I talked to him, and I felt like he heard me.
He even went to go see Mariah at that facility.
It didn't help?
It did for a little bit.
I mean, he said that he found some relief
in talking to Mariah... and he was fine for a few days.
-What happened then? -The mood swings came back.
And even worse, I just--
I don't think this is about Mariah and Dominic.
It's something else. It feels like this has escalated.
And you actually talked to him already about all of this?
Yes, and he says that everything's fine,
that he's all right, but...he's not.
When he's not angry, he's withdrawn and depressed.
Even when he's with Dominic?
I mean, he puts a smile on for Dominic,
but Dominic's smart. He sees that something is wrong,
that something is different. This is not like Devon.
I don't know how I can help him unless I talk to him.
Are you okay with that? I mean, maybe he'll open up to me.
-I love you... -Oof.
-The most ominous preamble ever. -You know what I'm about to say?
That I'm paranoid?
-Okay--no. -No?
Cane offers you a job at Chancellor to work for him.
He's working for Lily in a place that you used to call the shots,
and now...you think your mother has some ulterior motive
and wants to keep you far away from Chancellor.
So I'm irrational
-and obsessive. -No, I didn't say that.
-Those are not my words. -You kinda said that.
Your mother thinks I'm fixated, by the way.
Hey, no. Let's not bring the baby into this.
This is between you and me. That's not fair.
Of course our baby would want me to say this.
Say what, exactly?
I saw the dynamic between you and your mom yesterday.
And I get it. Everything that you're feeling, I saw it.
I get it.
But...
I...wasn't with you and Jill on the plane, okay?
Maybe I would or wouldn't have heard the subtext that you did
even if I was there, but regardless...
I do think you found another way to fixate on Chancellor.
What you're saying makes sense.
-Don't really have an argument. -Mm-hmm.
But you're gonna argue anyway?
We're talking about Katherine.
Katherine and my mother's relationship.
It was very intense.
Lot of love and hate. In the end, it was mostly love.
-I know. -But there were secrets.
Mostly on Katherine's side.
A concealed deed, hidden necklace,
a mysterious music box.
Those were all Katherine's,
so maybe my mother learned from the best, okay?
Because she does have secrets.
Trust me. Finding out how I was conceived?
That was a doozy. That was a...fun one to learn.
Sally, there's a secret inside Chancellor.
And I have to find out what it is.
-No, no, you can't talk to him. -Well, if you want me to help,
I mean, at least let me try.
I'm just afraid that he's gonna think that I ran to my mommy
and that I'm sharing our personal family issues.
Well, with a family member.
I know. I'm just-- I'm afraid that I'm gonna
push him away from me even more.
Okay, well, whatever Devon's going through,
I mean, obviously it's painful for him, right?
I know it is. Yeah.
Okay, so these feelings--maybe he's ashamed of them, right?
And maybe it's keeping him from getting the help he needs
when he needs it the most.
Do you...do you know something?
Have you already talked to him about--
No. It's just familiar territory for me.
I know what it's like to have thoughts that are spiraling
that are overwhelming, and you think that it's too much
for you to handle.
I just don't want that for either one of you.
-You love him too. -Of course I do.
I mean, I wanna help him for his sake and for yours.
I'm afraid it's gonna make things even worse.
You really think I'm gonna go to Devon and say,
"What the hell are you doing to my beautiful little girl?
You're not the son-in-law I signed up for"?
You think I'm gonna say that?
No. I-I know that you would be subtle.
You're afraid that maybe he'll take it that way.
He's just been so sensitive recently. Yes. Yeah.
I understand. It can be a little tricky
when you confront somebody who has rather erratic behavior.
I have been that person.
I know what it's like to push people away.
But thank God Jack and Traci wouldn't let me,
and they made sure that I got the help that I needed.
I mean, honestly, you've tried.
Why don't you let me? I mean, maybe I can help.
Okay.
Yes, please talk to him.
I mean, I don't want him suffering
any more than he already has.
I'm fine.
Lily doesn't think so.
Well, that's between Lily and me.
-It's none of your business. -Yeah, well,
she made it my business when she confided in me.
See, me personally, Devon-- I don't--I don't care about you.
I don't care about your feelings.
Believe me, I know. You don't care about anybody's feelings
-except for yourself. -That's not true.
No, I care about Lily. Very much.
And whatever's going on with you has her worried.
Is this your way of deflecting from what I just said to you
about not being good for Chancellor or Lily?
-You're turning it around on me. -If Lily's this upset
how is Abby dealing with it all,
and how is your relationship with your son?
Cane, don't you ever, and I mean ever
bring up me as a father or me as a husband.
-You understand that? -Why? Because I was the worst?
-You're damn right. -Yeah, you're right, I was.
I destroyed everything, and I paid a high price for it,
and I had to fight like hell to fix it--I still am.
But believe it or not, Devon, you could learn a thing or two
-from my example. -Oh, really?
We have nothing in common.
Isn't it hard, Devon, to carry around all that rage?
You know what?
Would you like to help me with it?
Yeah.
Why don't you allow Lily and I to fold Chancellor
into Winters like we should have done a long time ago?
And then you can go and park your train
-a couple states away. -Okay.
-And make me real happy. -All right.
So that's what this is about then? Chancellor?
2 1/2 billion isn't enough for you?
We're done.
-What, I hit a nerve? -I said we're done.
[chair scrapes loudly]
So the baby wanted you to say all that, huh?
-You were changing the subject. -Just trying to shake off
the Jill vibes, okay?
I'm sorry if I'm talking smack about your grandmother.
-I don't do it very often. -[laughs] Wow!
Already fibbing to the baby!
-I can't believe you. -Let's talk about you.
-How're you feeling? -Billy--
Oh, come on. I'm not trying to change the subject.
I just think we should get off of the Jill topic.
I think it's better for you, for the baby, for everyone.
I am...
I don't feel as sick as often, which is great.
-Good. -Yes, but little Hector
or Electra Spectra-Abbott really wants a milkshake.
Well, that baby deserves a milkshake and a better name.
[laughs] Yeah, I agree. I do. But I have to watch my sugar.
Which is fine. Totally worth it.
-But... -But milkshakes are amazing.
I know. Maybe I can watch you drink one.
Okay. It's a little weird, but I'm into it.
I'll sacrifice anything for you.
Aw. That's why I love you.
We okay?
Yeah.
Look, I can worry about you and Chancellor
and a million other things, and we will always be okay.
You're a unicorn. You know that?
-One I don't deserve. -Why, 'cause I love you
-no matter what? -Fixations and all.
I'm gonna keep checking in on you.
Okay. Good.
And I'll keep checking in on you.
Actually, let me do that right now.
How's Spectra-Charles going?
Anything new?
Uh-oh.
What happened?
Spectra-Charles is run by a unicorn
-and a brilliant partner. -Yeah, I know that.
-So what could go wrong? -But you made a face.
I-I always make faces.
No, but this-- you made that face,
you know, where you kind of froze for a second.
What if I said the baby kicked?
-Is that what happened? -Maybe. Could have been.
Look, Spectra-Charles is in great shape, okay?
Audra and I are always three steps ahead.
We work really well together
and we feed off each other's ideas and energy.
And you never argue, and cute little birds bring you tea
and finger sandwiches, and milkshakes
-don't raise your blood sugar. -Oh, my God.
-That sounds like a dream. -Everything's perfect.
Um, no. We do disagree. We do.
And we just talk it through. We pick our battles,
and in the end we, you know,
make a choice that we both believe in.
That's a really big deal.
It is. It's a very big deal.
And I am jealous that she's your partner.
Well, you're my partner in everything else.
-You heard that, right? -Ha ha.
You know, I was on the phone with Audra
-when you came in earlier. -When I stormed in
-and freaked you out? -Oh! Is...
Is that--was that what you did? You stormed in?
'Cause I thought the wind just slammed the door.
I'm sorry that you had to cut your call short because of me.
It's fine. We were pretty much almost done anyway.
So was it something big?
Well, big is relative.
It's not small.
So there's news?
Eventually, yeah.
Okay, what I'm hearing is you don't wanna share it with me.
No, no, no, I do wanna share it with you.
-Yeah? -I do. Yeah. I just, you know,
maybe later when I watch you drink your milkshake.
So you're using me? Is that what you're saying?
-That's exactly what I'm doing. -I'm okay with it.
Okay, well, do you wanna meet at Society later?
Do they have milkshakes there?
-Damn. -No?
No. But we can get one after.
-I'll save some space. -Thank you.
In the meantime...
I'm gonna go check in with Cane.
Mm. Chancellor and your mother's secrets?
He deserves to know.
And I'm excited to hear your big news.
I'm excited to tell you.
-Hey, hey. -Hi!
-Aw. -Hello.
-How are you? -Good.
Thank you for this invite.
I was assuming it was just a mother-daughter breakfast.
Well, Mom took Dominic to art class this morning,
and I was just hearing about what a genius he is.
Is it just me, or is he the most incredible child ever?
-And he's hilarious. -He is!
-And he's loud and he's goofy. -Little bit.
And he's messy. But he's also sensitive and confident,
and he knows that he's loved, and it shows.
And that's a testament to the both of you.
I hope you're proud of yourselves.
I'm very proud of you.
-Thank you. -Well, keep being proud of me,
please, um, because I have to go deal with
a fish delivery.
So I--I'll be back soon, yeah.
-Okay. Bye, honey. -Bye.
Bye.
That didn't seem preplanned at all.
[laughs] Yeah.
I wanted to connect with you.
You and Abby have been through a lot
in a short amount of time, and, uh...
I'm very sorry that I wasn't able to be here for you.
You have nothing to apologize for at all.
And we're doing okay too.
Under the circumstances, okay is...okay.
But what happened with Dominic was terrifying.
And how have you been since all that?
Hey. Good timing.
-Is that sarcastic? -No. No.
I'm being very serious,
because if you were here a few minutes ago,
it would have got pretty messy.
-Devon was here. -Oh, yeah?
Letting me have it. Yeah. He didn't care who heard.
Talking about how much he hates you or how much he hates me?
Both. Yeah, both.
And about how much he hates Holden Novak.
You can tell Lily's new brother to get in line.
He hated us first.
Yeah, so, she was, uh, she was wrong to put me in charge,
and I hire all the worst people.
Well, Devon's a ray of sunshine. You know that.
Oh, and, uh, we're gonna destroy Katherine's legacy.
I'm sure you handled yourself with class.
Yeah. I mean, it's Lily's brother, so what am I gonna say?
Tell you what, though. Makes me wanna go fast and hard
at making Chancellor an even greater success.
Well, you might not have Devon's approval,
but you sure as hell have Jill's.
Speaking of Jill...
what are you doing back from London so soon?
Whatever fight you think we had, downplay it
by about two notches, but, yeah, that happened.
-Wanna talk about it? -No, I don't.
But it is nice to know that I was right.
She's got a secret agenda
to keep me as far away from Chancellor as possible.
She doesn't want me anywhere near the place.
There's something deep inside that place, Cane...
the secret or mystery of some sort
that she does not want me to know.
So you give me that contract. I'll sign on the dotted line.
I'll be your new hire. I'll knock it out of the park,
and I'll find out what she wants to keep hidden from me.
When you care about somebody and they betray you
the way that Mariah did, it's devastating.
And I know she's not Martin and she wants to help,
and she's trying to... get better.
But still, it's a broken trust.
And I would imagine you start asking yourself questions like,
"Who is this person I trusted?" And, "What's wrong with me?
Why did I trust them? How did I not know?"?
-I mean, that's normal. -Yeah.
Listen, I appreciate what you're trying to do.
I mean that, 'cause you're 100% right.
It was--it was a nightmare going through Dominic being gone,
and the worst part of it was watching Abby
struggling with everything. But...
He's back, and like you said, he's doing great.
And that's because of you and Abby.
That's because of you being there for him.
And everybody deserves that level of support.
Not just children.
And sometimes it can be very difficult
to ask for what you need,
and hopefully the people that care about you,
that surround you, are there to offer you help,
which is... what I'm doing right now.
I appreciate that. What did Abby say to you?
She said she loves you.
-She's worried about you. -Okay.
I'm gonna tell you what I tell her every day,
and that's I'm fine. I'm fine.
I have such regret
that I wasn't here for you
and my daughter and my grandson.
I'm so, so sorry.
And I have been working so hard to get healthy.
And I want to be present
for the people that are important to me.
Do you think that I'm not showing up for the people
in my life? Is that what you're saying to me, or--
I'm not reprimanding you. I'm certainly not judging you.
I know, with every fiber of my being,
that trauma changes you.
And it can be very difficult...
to come back from it.
And it can be very difficult
to even admit that it has changed you.
You are gonna love René.
Is that the owner of the agency?
-That's the one. -Man René or woman Renée?
Man René. French-Canadian, but he bounces between
New York and Los Angeles all the time.
So he has built this agency for content creators
from the ground up.
And he wants to work with us?
-Of course he does. -[giggles]
He's reviewing my pitch right now,
checking with his legal team,
and said he's gonna get back to me ASAP.
Wow. Must have been one hell of a pitch.
I focus on Spectra-Charles assets
rather than anything to do with Newman Media
because that's bye-bye.
But--whatever. He adores us. He thinks we're superstars.
So he's gonna pitch us some content creators,
and we're gonna have a love fest with or without Newman Media.
Well, it's definitely without.
But that is not public knowledge.
Yeah, no, don't worry. I didn't say anything.
But Adam, I'm sure, is gonna...
blab to anyone he comes across very soon.
Let's just hope he doesn't speak to anyone in London
who might run into Billy.
Okay. That would never happen.
You never know.
Well, Billy's not in London anymore. He's back.
-Oh, you saw him? -Yep. He rushed right home.
-Which is why you hung up on me. -Yeah.
Did you tell him about the sale?
No. I had the chance. He could tell that there was news,
and I...I just kept my mouth shut.
Okay, well, where is he now?
He's meeting with Cane.
-Sally. -I know.
This is bad, okay? Not the whole selling Newman Media thing,
but the not telling Billy thing.
Well, even though you agree with this sale, like--
Yes, I do. It was the right thing to do.
I have no regrets.
Okay, well, the right thing to do is also to tell Billy.
How much longer do you think you can keep this from him?
Jill doesn't want you at Chancellor
because of some unidentified buried secret?
Yeah. That doesn't sound paranoid at all, Billy.
There's something in there, Cane. I know it.
Okay, but you don't know what it is.
Is it a person, place, or thing?
No idea.
Okay, then why do you believe this?
Because Jill got worked up and she blurted it out.
Worked up when you were arguing?
-Essentially, yes. -What did she say exactly?
It doesn't matter. It was the look on her face
-when she started to backpedal. -Billy--
You know Katherine just as well as I do.
There's a lot to unpack there, all right, with Jill and Colin
and the tearing down of Chancellor Place--everything.
So then what, you think Katherine was hiding something?
I don't know. Maybe.
What are you doing, Billy?
I can't offer you a contract when you're acting like this.
What do you care? Gimme the contract.
I'll do the job, and you know I'm gonna do it well.
But I'm not offering you a job so you can go have
a treasure hunt inside Chancellor--no.
I didn't say anything about treasure, Cane. no.
-Yeah. Yeah, you did. -No, I did not.
Do you know what Jill's hiding?
Have you known all along?
Ashley, I know that you're right.
You're completely right
that it takes time to get back to normal.
And I promise you that I've gotten there
when it comes to what happened to Dominic. I really have.
And I'm there for him. I'm completely there for him,
and I'm there for Abby. It's...
Abby's there for you too. You know that.
Of course I do.
-Of course. -Then lean on her.
I get that you're concerned about her, but I--
-I'm concerned about you. -I know. And I'm good, though.
Okay. You don't wanna talk to me.
Well, there's nothing to talk about.
I'm an expert at pretending that I'm fine
when it couldn't be further from the truth.
And I learned the very hard way
that that's not a very good strategy.
Can't you find some way of just opening up
and letting her be there for you?
She's got so much to deal with in her life.
-Nothing is more important... -She's got her work.
...than you and Dominic.
I mean, whatever you're feeling, Devon, I mean...
whatever your feelings are, if they're confusing
or if you feel unsettled...
-she will understand. -I don't think she will.
I don't know how she would, 'cause I don't even know
how I can articulate what I'm feeling.
I don't know what I'm feeling.
Well, maybe if you just... start opening up to her,
it would mean the world to her.
And you don't know what direction that would go in.
You just need to take the first step.
I'll think about doing it. I'll talk to her.
She's given you so much. She just wants to give back.
No, and I will always look out for her, too.
I know. I know. You promised me that on your wedding day.
And I mean it.
Just try to open up to her.
She really wants to be there for you so badly.
-I know. -It was just a question.
I didn't mean to nag.
No, it's just...
I know that I should have told him, okay?
But I've been here before like this with you.
-Oh, you mean me being right? -Yeah. Probably that part too.
But, no, you're the one who brought me the pregnancy test.
Okay. What does that have to do with this?
Well, Billy was really upset that I told you first
and it launched us into this whole conversation about...
honesty and trust and confidence,
and now, I mean, look at me.
I'm scared to tell him again. What--what's wrong with me?
Well, why didn't you tell him when he got home?
Well, I was going to, but he got into another argument with Jill
and he was in a mood, and then when I talked him down,
-he was still distracted. -With what?
I can't get into it, you know, but it's just more of
how he doesn't think Jill's being honest with him
or trust him and--ha--here I am not being honest with him.
Yet.
Okay? You were just waiting for the right time
to talk to him about it, about something very important.
And you would have told him earlier if it wasn't for
one of his damn moods.
Okay, sorry.
I just--I just don't like hearing you blame yourself
-for the guy's behavior. -Yeah, I know.
But I can take responsibility for how I respond
-and my actions. -Sure. Which is...
why you should tell him, the sooner the better.
Yes, and I'm going to.
I will. At lunch.
Okay, and you'll tell him about
giving back Newman Media then?
Well, yeah. Do I have a choice?
You couldn't go five minutes, Billy,
without accusing me of something?
So you're not gonna answer the question?
Is it that impossible for you to just come to Chancellor
and work for me and just do the job?
-I already said yes, Cane. -Yeah, but for your own reasons.
And they have nothing to do with why I wanted to bring you on
and everything to do with
why people told me not to hire you, Billy.
Listen to me. Jill is hiding something.
I know it. I am not the screwup she says I am.
She's allowed me to stay angry with her for many years
because she has something
that she wants to keep hidden from me.
And it's big.
Next week on "The Young and the Restless."
You made me CEO of Chancellor,
and now you've invited me over.
If I didn't know any better,
I'd think you were starting to like me.
You look like you could use a friend.
Settle for me?
We did it. We got it off.
You're free as a bird.
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