[ Knock on door ] >> Victor: Come in.
>> Nikki: I am taking a lunch break, and I'm hoping you can
join me. >> Victor: Hi, sweetheart.
I wish I could, but I need to deal with something before,
okay? >> Nikki: What's in the
envelope? The way you're handling it,
could be gold or it could be a bomb.
Which is it? >> Victor: These are the
documents I asked Michael Baldwin to send from
Peru. And I think they will show
without a shadow of a doubt that Ashland Locke has been deceiving
our daughter. >> Nikki: [ Sighs ]
The it's definitely a bomb. What do you intend to do with
it? >> Victor: I think she deserves
to find what's in here. >> Nikki: Victor, please handle
this carefully. You know how upset she is
already. Do you really want to risk
alienating her further? >> Victor: Sweetheart, this is
the last thing I want to do, believe me, but he has pushed my
hand. Victoria needs to know...what
kind of a man she's married to. >> Jack: I'd like to talk to you
about Hao Nguyen. I knew him as Keemo.
He was my son. >> Allie: Look, you guys must be
mistaken. Hao -- Hao is a common name, and
as is Nguyen. You guys have him confused with
someone else. >> Jack: No, I'm certain I'm
right. >> Allie: What is it that you
guys want? He's dead.
>> Jack: I came here in search of answers about my son.
>> Allie: Look, Hao couldn't possibly be your son.
Because he's my dad, and he never mentioned you.
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>> Victor: We need to talk. >> Victoria: Well, unless you're
here to apologize...and to take back those disgusting
allegations about Ashland, then we have nothing to discuss.
>> Victor: You don't even know how much I wish I were wrong
about Ashland. You need to see this.
And I won't leave until you do.
>> Ashland: Nikki, no, wait, please, don't leave.
Can't we just sit for a moment and talk?
I need you to hear me out.
>> Allie: You must be mistaken.
My dad never knew his father. He was born after an affair that
his mother, my grandmother, had in Vietnam.
>> Jack: Her name was Luan. He told you that he never knew
his dad, he never even knew his name?
>> Allie: Yes. Are you claiming that you're
that man? And you're here tracking down
your son after all of these years?
After he's died? >> Jack: I'm afraid your father
didn't tell you the complete truth.
I did have a relationship with Luan.
Hao was our son. Keemo was his given name.
>> Allie: But my dad told me that he never knew anything
about his father growing up. >> Jack: Actually, that is true.
I didn't know of his existence for many years, until he was a
young adult. That's when Luan and I were
reunited, when I met him, but we were reunited.
>> Allie: Why should I believe anything that you're saying to
me? >> Jack: Allie, I have no reason
to lie about something like this.
>> Allie: Do you have any proof? >> Jack: Um...
Have you ever seen this picture
of your grandmother?
>> Allie: No, I never met her. She died before I was born.
But I do recognize her from other photos that my dad had.
This is you and my grandmother. >> Jack: On our wedding day.
And your father was our best man.
>> Nikki: I'm sorry, I don't have a lot of time.
I'm just picking up lunch. >> Ashland: [ Sighs ]
Well, please, I realize how all of this must look to you.
I'm sure that Victor has filled your head with all kinds of
accusations about me. >> Nikki: Nobody puts any
thoughts or ideas in my head that I don't think I deserve to
be there. >> Ashland: I'm sorry if it
sounded that way, but, see, this is exactly the reason I was
hoping for the opportunity to talk to you directly, alone, so
I could tell you my side of things and you could decide for
yourself. See, I have a sense that you
are not as convinced as Victor is by the word of one
unscrupulous doctor. >> Nikki: Alright.
What do you have to say for yourself?
>> Ashland: Well, uh, you and I have been working together for a
while now, and I think you know me pretty well.
You -- You see how profound my love is for Victoria and how
happy I have made her. Certainly that must be enough to
at least give me the benefit of the doubt.
>> Nikki: What makes you think I haven't done that already?
>> Ashland: Well, if you have, then you must realize that I
would never, ever mastermind the kind of plot that Victor is now
accusing me of. I would never hurt Victoria in
that way. You must know that.
>> Victoria: I've seen
everything that I need to see, Dad.
And I have already faced the truth.
That you are so single-minded in your need for control and power
that you would stoop to anything, including trying to
destroy my marriage. All because you feel threatened
because another man has a controlling say in the Newman
family business.
>> Victor: Sweetheart...I don't want to hurt you.
I really don't. But this man has been lying to
you about his illness this entire time.
>> Victoria: Did you really think that you could blackmail
Ashland with these outrageous lies and that he would just
disappear into the night and leave me, with no questions
asked? >> Victor: I thought he would
realize it would be the sensible thing to do.
>> Victoria: Dad, how could you plot to destroy my life like
this, all for your own hubris? >> Victor: I understand your
anger at me. And I understand that you prefer
to be angry at me rather than be enraged about what Ashland has
done to you. >> Victoria: Oh, come on,
please. I can't stand being patronized
this way. Maybe you're forgetting -- this
is my office, so just go. Just -- Just leave, please.
>> Victor: Sweetheart, I'm not telling you this to hurt you.
I'd rather be at the receiving end of your anger than not tell
you what I know. I will not stand by and watch
you be deceived by that man any longer.
I can't do it.
>> Victoria: I am really so sick and tired of all of the men in
my life who proclaim that they love me so much, and then they
cause me so much pain. >> Victor: Sweetheart, I'm not
trying to cause you any more pain.
I'm really not. I just am trying to prevent you
from suffering more pain, okay? >> Victoria: [ Scoffs ]
>> Victor: It breaks my heart to tell you what I've learned about
Ashland. >> Victoria: Yeah, you've
learned lies, Dad, spread by someone who has it in for my
husband. >> Victor: Who would come up
with such a complex web of lies? Who and why?
>> Victoria: I don't know. I don't know, Dad, and I don't
want to spend one minute of my time trying to figure it out.
>> Victor: There's an overwhelming amount of evidence.
>> Victoria: Evidence, really? Really, what evidence?
What evidence -- some shady video of a disgruntled and angry
doctor? That -- That hardly proves
anything. I even reached out to
Michael Baldwin. He hasn't called me back.
You haven't me shown me one shred of credible evidence.
>> Victor: Michael Baldwin sent this to me this morning from
Peru. All the evidence is right in
here. >> Victoria: Why?
Why would you go to such lengths to prove something so hurtful?
>> Victor: Sweetheart, I'm trying to protect you and
protect the company. Do you understand that?
>> Victoria: Oh. I see. There you go.
You've admitted it. >> Victor: What?
>> Victoria: This is all about Newman/Locke, right?
Well, I have to tell you something, Dad.
Ashland is now the co-CEO of the company.
We've signed the contracts. So it looks like you've lost
the game.
>> Nikki: You're right about one thing.
I don't want to believe that you're capable of coming up with
a plot that could so callously hurt Victoria.
>> Ashland: Then trust your instincts.
>> Nikki: Victoria desperately wants to believe that -- that
somebody is out to get you. But according to Victor, there
is too much evidence to the contrary -- evidence that he
does not believe could have been fabricated.
>> Ashland: Oh, and yet he's willing to believe that I
fabricated mounds of evidence to somehow fake an illness I don't
have? Do you not see the contradiction
there? >> Nikki: All I see is that
someone concocted some very ugly lies, and nothing would make me
happier than to find out that person is some disgruntled
doctor at the clinic. But it's becoming harder and
harder for me not to think it's you.
>> Ashland: Hold on, are you saying that Victor has found
more of this so-called evidence against me?
>> Allie: This -- This doesn't prove anything.
If my dad knew who his father was, why didn't he tell me?
Why would he lie to me and my mother like that?
This picture -- This picture just shows that you married my
grandmother. It does not mean that you're
my... >> Jack: Your grandfather.
Here, I want to show you
something. This is a gift I gave your
father the day of the wedding. It legally and personally
acknowledges that I am his father.
>> Allie: Why would he -- Why would he keep this from us all
these years? >> Jack: Your father and I had a
major falling out. When Luan fell ill, she didn't
want anyone to know, even family.
She never told me. I found out my accident, and I
never let on that I knew. I thought I was being true to
her wishes...by not telling Keemo that his mother was dying.
>> Allie: You never told him? >> Jack: I know now that was a
mistake. When he found out he never would
have a chance to say goodbye to his mother, he was devastated,
and he was furious with me. And I tried to fix that, I -- I
worked hard at it. I thought I had bridged the gap
between us, but then I started receiving very bitter e-mails
from him, and it was clear I was wrong.
He just could not forgive me. He cut himself off.
He changed his name. He refused to communicate with
me. >> Allie: If this is all true,
then clearly my father wanted nothing more to do with you.
He denied your existence to me and my mother.
So why have you come here? What are you after?
>> Victoria: Daddy, what is
this? What is it supposed to prove?
>> Michael: These are records of the money sent to the doctor in
Peru, before he disappeared. He received much more money than
he would have earned in years. >> Victoria: Well, that's
because whoever this is that is trying to bring Ashland down
obviously paid the doctor to make those slanderous
statements. >> Victor: I didn't want this to
be true. If anything, I was hoping I was
wrong about my presumptions about Ashland Locke.
That's why I sent Michael Baldwin down to Peru to
do a thorough and discreet investigation.
And he traced the money back to an account of a shell company
belonging to Locke Communications.
The papers are in there. They were sent to me by
Michael Baldwin this morning from Peru just before he
disappeared. >> Victoria: Wait, what?
What do you mean "disappeared"?
>> Nikki: What kind of proof do you think Victor could have come
up with? >> Ashland: You know what?
It doesn't matter. I'm not gonna begin to try to
out-guess what's going on in the mind of Victor Newman.
And I don't want to spend another minute listening to the
possible crimes I could be falsely accused of.
I'm just trying to figure out a way to get past this.
>> Nikki: So you think we should just forget about them?
>> Ashland: [ Sighs ] I know it's not that simple.
>> Nikki: What exactly do you expect from me?
>> Ashland: I need someone to be on my side.
Nikki, I need you to be on my side.
Victoria believes me now, but Victor is gonna be relentless
about this. You know that.
He's not gonna stop until he has poisoned my wife's mind against
me and destroyed our marriage. >> Nikki: Why would Victor do
that if he was convinced that the evidence against is
authentic? >> Ashland: I don't know.
[ Sighs ] Unless, uh -- Unless he's being
motivated by the threat level he feels now that I'm recovered.
>> Nikki: Oh, oh, please. Stop that right now.
That theory is completely baseless.
Victor is not easily threatened, certainly not by you.
All he cares about is protecting Victoria, period.
He has no other agenda. >> Ashland: All I care about is
protecting Victoria, period, and our marriage.
Nikki, be honest. Have you ever seen your daughter
happier or more in love?
>> Jack: Allie, when I came here, I had no idea what I was
getting into. I had received a series of texts
from someone who refused to identify themselves, giving me
this address and telling me to get here quickly.
>> Allie: So you've been going through the house, searching
through his private things? >> Jack: I understand you're
upset. Believe me, I have been
conflicted about this myself. I've been wandering in the dark.
I didn't know what the right thing to do was.
I came here to try to find some closure.
My son died. I wanted to know what kind of
man he became. And I found some answers.
Not always the answers I wanted. In fact, some were very painful.
>> Allie: What are those? >> Jack: These are letters your
father wrote. >> Allie: How dare you read his
private letters. What gives you the right?
>> Jack: They're addressed to me.
Go ahead, look.
Go ahead.
>> Allie: [ Sobs ] No, sorry. I can't do this.
Just -- Just tell me what they say.
>> Jack: They reveal that your father was thinking of
connecting with me again. He wasn't quite there yet.
He didn't have a chance to reach out to me before he died,
and...with his death, any chance of us reuniting...came to an
end.
>> Allie: [ Sobs ] God, seeing his handwriting
again...reading little snippets of what he wrote...hearing his
voice in my head... >> Jack: I know.
It's a lot to take in. >> Allie: I can barely face the
fact that he's really gone. And now this is a side of him
that I have no idea even existed.
>> Jack: Tell me something. Is there someone in your life,
someone who you can turn to, someone who can give you the
support you need to get through all of this?
>> Allie: Well, my parents divorced a few years ago.
My mom, she moved to the East Coast.
We really haven't been able to spend much time together since.
But, you know, at least she came for the funeral.
Of course, she couldn't stay long.
Claimed that she had to get back to work.
>> Jack: I realize I'm probably the last person you would turn
to for comfort, but...it just kills me that you're alone.
>> Allie: Don't worry about me. I'll be fine.
>> "The Young and the Restless" will continue.
>> Phyllis: Um, Allie -- Allie,
um...is it possible that your mom knew the truth and maybe
she's the one who's sending the texts to Jack?
>> Allie: I doubt my mother had anything to do with those texts.
She believed my dad's story about his parents.
>> Phyllis: When we arrived here, that box was here, and it
has... Well, it just has a lot of your
father's belongings. You helped clean up, so is it
possible that you knew the box was here?
>> Allie: Are you suggesting that I was the one who sent
Until today, I had no idea who Jack Abbott was.
I mean, I d-- I still -- that name still has no meaning to me.
>> Jack: I believe you. But someone thought we should
meet. >> Allie: And I have no idea who
that person could be. [ Scoffs ]
Look, I'm sorry, alright? Whoever sent those texts clearly
wasted your time. I got -- I got to go.
I -- I have grad school, I have a life I need to focus on.
If my father couldn't bring himself to reconcile with you,
well, then I have no reason to either.
I think you and your friend should just go back to where you
came from, and please, please do me a favor and pretend that this
encounter never happened. >> Jack: Allie.
Allie, I'm sorry, there's just no way I can do that.
>> Victor: Michael Baldwin has
completely fallen off the radar. >> Victoria: Since when?
>> Victor: We used to communicate at least two or
three times a day, either by e-mail or text.
Now nothing. Silence. I know that Lauren is very
worried about him, as well. She's heard nothing from him.
>> Victoria: Well, surely he couldn't have just disappeared
off the face of the earth. >> Victor: I should have found
him by now. >> Victoria: What are you
implying? >> Victor: Ashland Locke knew
that we were onto him. We were on his trail.
He knows that the only way you would buy into this story is if
I showed you hard and cold facts.
Now, suddenly, the man that I sent down there to find those
hard and cold facts disappeared. >> Victoria: I think you're
making a lot of assumptions right now.
>> Victor: So what do you think happened?
>> Nikki: Ashland, you know how
supportive Victor and I have been of your marriage and of
your happiness. Do you recall that beautiful
wedding we planned at the Tuscan villa that we gifted you and the
went to to protect your past from destroying your reputation
and your company? >> Ashland: Yes, yes, I'm --
I'm thankful for all of that, but it -- it -- it's why it's --
this sudden turnaround is so puzzling.
>> Nikki: Don't you see? After everything we have done
for you, for you to then betray us, it just makes it that much
more devastating. It is an unforgivable act.
>> Ashland: [ Sighs ] The most unforgivable thing
about all of this to me is the precious I'm losing with
Victoria. I am not lying about my illness.
The treatment has given me a reprieve, but no one is
promising me that it's some kind of magical cure.
>> Nikki: Well, what have your doctors been promising you?
You've been a little bit vague about your condition.
>> Ashland: Only that, for the moment, my cancer is in
remission, which makes it all the more horrible that instead
of spending this time, this extra time that I have with
Victoria, working side-by-side as equal partners, I'm spending
that time having to fight for her, having to fight for the
love of my life.
>> Nikki: Well, based on your argument, it is crucial that we
get to the truth, isn't it? >> Ashland: My thoughts exactly.
>> Nikki: Good. If you're being honest,
you'll have to prove it. >> Ashland: I'm working on it.
>> Nikki: Ashland, you -- you can't just expect us to take you
at your word. You're going to show us your
evidence to the contrary. If you can do that, I promise
you Victor will apologize and back off.
>> Ashland: [ Sighs ]
>> Victoria: It's insane to think that Ashland would harm
Michael in any way. >> Victor: I don't know that
Michael Baldwin has been harmed. But he's missing.
Maybe Ashland has him locked away so he can buy himself some
time. >> Victoria: No, Dad, I won't
hear this anymore. This is just nothing but lies.
I am telling you right now, my husband is innocent.
And no matter what you say, I am sticking with him.
>> Victor: [ Sighs ]
The proof is in here.
Read it. Okay?
But know that I have copies of this, hmm?
[ Sighs ]
Sweetheart, I really am deeply sorry that I'm the bearer of
such bad news. I really am.
And I hate that this is happening to you.
I want you to know that I adore
you and I love you. You're my daughter.
And I only want what's best for you.
>> Jack: I'm sorry, there's no
way I can walk away now and pretend we never met.
I know this is hard for you. Learning of my existence,
learning that your father misled you about his past.
I've had a lot of trouble accepting a lot of things I've
learned. And I'm sure that's only a tenth
of what you've dealt with. And I hope you take all the time
you need to process it. But, Allie, somebody wanted me
to come here. And as painful as it has been to
find out about all that I lost, I'm so glad I came.
I got to meet you. No one knows better than I how
difficult it is that you can't go to your father now and ask
for answers. I know that feeling.
I can't either. But I'm hoping, maybe in time,
you and I can find those answers in each other.
I know I'm a stranger to you right now, but I want very much
to be a lot more than that. >> Allie: I'm sorry.
I'm not interested. >> Jack: Okay, okay.
You have my phone number. If you change your mind, please,
please, don't be afraid to pick up a phone and call --
>> Allie: Thank you for the offer.
>> Jack: Allie, there's one other thing.
I -- I need to ask a favor. All of these things that were
your father's, I'd like to keep them if I may.
>> Allie: I don't see anything
in here that I would want. You're welcome to it all.
>> Jack: There is something here that I'd like you to keep.
This was your grandmother's.
I gave it to her as a gift.
>> Allie: No, thanks.
I am so sorry for this waste
of everyone's time.
>> Jack: [ Sighs ]
>> Jack: Maybe that wasn't goodbye, maybe Allie just needs
time to process. >> Phyllis: Okay, you know what?
Enough about Allie. Let's talk about you.
Your mind must be racing. You just found out you have a
granddaughter. >> Jack: Yeah.
Quite a surprise. I came here because my son died,
and...I found a granddaughter. >> Phyllis: Yeah.
She doesn't want a relationship with you yet.
>> Jack: No, not yet. She's as stunned as I am.
I can't expect her to embrace me.
She didn't know I existed. >> Phyllis: Right, because Keemo
kept your identity from her. >> Jack: I can't really blame
him for that. >> Phyllis: Alright, Jack, it's
me. It's me.
Don't suppress your emotions. >> Jack: Red, I don't want to
dump all this on you. >> Phyllis: That's why I came
here. That's why I'm here, so you can
dump all of this on me. I came here to help you.
>> Jack: It's all pretty
overwhelming. >> Phyllis: I'll bet.
You know, she doesn't want a relationship with you yet --
not yet. Okay?
But maybe that will change. I mean, it seems like Keemo has
passed along his bitter feelings to the next generation.
>> Jack: You know, I think she was just honoring her father's
wishes, and I admire that kind of loyalty.
I'm...I'm glad they had a relationship.
It sounded like they were close. And it gives me a lot of comfort
to know that, in the end, Keemo was loved.
He wasn't alone. >> Phyllis: Well, that's lovely
and it's very optimistic. But, you know, you can tell me
how you really feel. Again, that's why I came here.
>> Jack: You want the unvarnished truth?
Yesterday, I learned that my son was thinking of...repairing our
relationship. Today, I learned...that Keemo
didn't even have a name for his father when he spoke to his
daughter, a daughter he never wanted me to know, never wanted
me to meet. And that's heart-breaking.
>> Phyllis: I know.
You can't undo that, right? >> Jack: No, I can't.
I got to focus on the here and now, and here and now is Allie.
That sweet young woman who's... dealing with the loss of her
father on her own. I could hear in her voice when
she spoke about her mother that there was a lot more strain
there than she wanted to reveal.
>> Nikki: I have the food. >> Victor: Perfect timing.
[ Exhales sharply ] Just came back from seeing
Victoria. >> Nikki: Did you present her
with Michael's evidence? >> Victor: [ Sighs ]
She was furious with me, understandably so.
>> Nikki: I worry that this is causing irreparable damage to
your relationship, after the two of you have come so far.
>> Victor: I know, and I also know that her anger wasn't
directed at me. I didn't take it personally.
>> Nikki: You sure about that? >> Victor: She may not believe
it yet, what's in those documents, but I think, slowly
but surely, we'll find out that she would be on my side of the
issue. She'll find out how
devastatingly deceitful Ashland Locke has been to her.
And it will be...very traumatic for her.
>> Nikki: And you have no doubts about this?
None at all? >> Victor: No.
>> Ashland: Hey. I'm back. Lunch time.
[ Clears throat ]
What's wrong? >> Victoria: I had a very
unpleasant visit from my father. >> Ashland: Fantastic.
What did he want? >> Victoria: He wanted to let me
know that Michael Baldwin has disappeared in Peru.
>> Ashland: And, of course, he's accusing me of somehow being
responsible for that, too. >> Victoria: That is his theory,
yes. >> Ashland: Okay, what's he
saying, that I kidnapped Michael Baldwin, killed him,
hacked him up into tiny pieces, threw him in a river, something
like that? >> Victoria: He brought
print-outs of bank statements. Ones that document money being
sent to that Peruvian doctor's account.
It was well camouflaged, but... ultimately, it traced back to
a small and obscure radio division owned by
Locke Communications. One that you would have to look
really hard to find. Which is apparently what Michael
did. >> Ashland: Is that so?
>> Victoria: Tell me something, Ashland.
Why would a small company that we own, that's barely on
anyone's radar, be sending a steady stream of money to a
doctor in Peru who was connected with your treatment?
>> Next week on
>> Jill: Why the hell are you throwing away the chance of a
lifetime? >> Victoria: I don't know what
to believe anymore, Nicholas. >> Nick: Sounds like you're
having doubts about Ashland after all.
>> Ashland: I would suggest you think long and hard before you
do anything rash. >> Nate: Are you threatening me?
>> Phyllis: Is that the texter? Hey, what does it say?
Don't keep me in suspense.
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