Overview
- Victor publicly challenges Kyle’s intentions toward Claire at Nikki Newman’s birthday celebration, denying his bid for the Newman patriarch’s blessing.
- Michael Baldwin’s resignation from Newman Enterprises intensifies tension in his marriage to Lauren Fenmore as they face the fallout.
- Victoria Newman grows increasingly alarmed over Cole Howard’s unexplained health problems and his reluctance to discuss them.
- Aristotle Dumas’s abrupt firing of Damian and Holden fuels Lily Winters’s concern that he may have uncovered her allies’ plans against him.
- Lily Winters accepts Dumas’s invitation to his French chateau to confront him and seek answers about his true motives.