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THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS: Victor is Shot; Ray Wise Delivers Tour De Force Performance
The Young and the Restless over the last year or so, has given viewers major episodes where the action stays within the “A” storyline and does not venture out of it, and on the Wednesday, January 29th episode, the top-rated soap stayed with the story. In it, Ian Ward’s reign of terror reached a stunning climax, and Ray Wise reminded us all why he is one of the best to ever play a truly dangerous, rotten to the core, and deeply-troubled man.
The entire episode featured an epic face-off between Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) and Ian Ward with his gun-toting antics, anger, cruelty and his madman agenda. As the scenes play out, Ian recalls how Victor’s goons woke him up and brought him to the ranch. So, he views his gun merely for self-defense, as he had no clue whether the Newman family would attack him, assault him or kill him.
Victor tells Ian that he is a “sick man.” Ian won’t talk and make any deal with Victor until the entire Newman family is called and shows up in the living room including; Adam (Mark Grossman) and Abby. Ian announces he is taking down the entire clan and points his gun at Nick (Joshua Morrow) demanding Victor getting everyone to the house now. Ian wants to get the party started. So, Nikki, Claire (Hayley Erin) and Victoria (Amelia Heinle) are summoned downstairs.

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Ian goes completely off the rails on how he loved Jordan (Colleen Zenk), and blames Claire and the Newmans for her death. He screams, at the very least, “There will be justice for Jordan!” Nikki says she doesn’t deserve justice after hurting her and killing her friend and that Jordan was pure evil, just like him. Claire tells Ian that her aunt only pretended to love him to get what she wants, she was using him, she didn’t care about him. Ian says Claire needs to be punished for Jordan’s death.
When Adam arrives, he walks in on a terrorizing scene, and sees Ian, who harkens back to when they were partners in crime. Victor asks Ian again if they can make a deal. Ward assumes he’s offering money. Victor says he would give up his whole empire to save his family. Then, Ian asks if Victor would give up his own life to save his family. Victor says he would happily do so.
Victor gets up from his chair and tells Ian, that just the two of them should go for a ride off the property to discuss the money he will give him. Ian refuses. Victor offers him a fortune, but Ian doesn’t care about the money. After Ian goads Nikki about Abby being Victor and Ashley’s child and not hers, and Victor admitting Abby’s not showing up, because he never called, Ian becomes even more unhinged.

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Next, Ian tells Victor to pick who dies first. “No one dies but me,” Victor responds, and calls Ian a coward. Then, Ian fires a bullet at Victor. Now wounded, Victor somehow manages to attack Ian and the two have a fight on the couch with the gun going off and a bullet hitting Ian, who is also badly bleeding. While Nick holds a gun on Ian until the police and the paramedics arrive, Victoria and Nikki try to keep Victor awake so he does not lose consciousness.

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As far as bad guy’s go, there really is none better than Ray Wise, and this could have been so completely over the top, yet somehow Wise has us believing just how scary, menacing, twisted and disturbed, Ian Ward truly is. Wise’s lengthy career, which includes his turn as Jamie Rollins on Love of Life, and Leland Palmer/Killer Bob on Twin Peaks and of course, Y&R’s Ian, prove that he is such a masterful performer.

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Now the question becomes, what will happen to Victor? Is this the end of the line for Ian? What did you think of Ray Wise’s performance on today’s episode of Y&R? Let us know in the comment section. In case you missed it, here’s a clip below.
I absolutely love Ray Wise – he could recite a nursery rhyme and I would watch!
There are some villains that you don’t care what heinous acts they do because of their portrayer – Ray Wise is one.
Linden Ashby is another.
Unfortunately, we have to lose them from our screen.
But, but but Ian opened his eyes in the ambulance. I guess he’s not done. The paramedics are either idiots ( can’t tell if someone is dead??????) —-or, they are part of Ian’s well—planned scheme.
not the paramedics, the writers. just like nikki is with victor in the ambulance….what…..he’s lost a ton of blood, he is not stable….but put nikki in the back with victor and leave the paramedic up front???
The whole damn thing is very disappointing and nerve wracking . They’ve ruined the whole SL as far as I’m concerned, especially Claire’s part in it all.
Ray is fantastic. I have enjoyed his return and his collab with Jordan.
Ray Wise MUST get an Emmy nom for Outstanding Guest Performer in 2026. He should just use yesterday’s episode as his Emmy reel. He was brilliant!!
It was dumbfounding watching today’s episode. Victor nearly fatally shot, and there are his kids and grand kids, sitting around, casually having some coffee, so relaxed….what the heck is wrong with this show??? Only at the end you see Nick and Adam driving every nonchalantly to the hospital. Y&R upper management, your head writer doesn’t know how to write!!!
Y&R has never aired down here in Hell, but I’m a fan of Ray Wise’s past work, especially when he played ME on the old CW show “Reaper”.
A good show that was canceled far too soon.
Can’t you get it on UTube either?
I just wish they could have given us a real and truthful story. Is Jordan really dead, how about Ian opening his eyes? I don’t like leaving a story so doubtful and up in the air like this has been.
So we know Ian and Jordan will return ! Rays performance was a tour de force but what’s with Clair,the actress has to go just delivers the lines half asleep! She needs to watch Camryn grimes who was amazing
General Hospital
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Ethan Burns Delilah’s Photo with a Promise in Touching Turn from Nathan Dean
General Hospital fans were reminded on the Wednesday, May 6 episode of the ABC daytime drama, just why Nathan Dean’s Ethan Lovett always had a special place in our hearts. After all, not only was he the son of the iconic Luke Spencer and Holly Sutton, but Ethan was always the guy who was great at running a con, but with a heart of gold. It was on full display in key scenes that locked Ethan back into a major storyline since Dean’s return.
Here’s what went down in the pick-up: Ethan is chatting with Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase (Josh Swickard) after having met baby Phoebe. The couple explain what happened to the woman they found needing medical attention, Delilah. Brook Lynn goes to explain how they tried to track down Phoebe’s family, but it proved fruitless, and now after becoming Phoebe’s foster parents, they have hopes to adopt her.
When Brook Lynn revealed how they found the unconscious Delilah, a devastated Ethan, who is trying not to let on he has any tie to the woman, asks if she had been attacked. Chase said she had no identification in her purse, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that she was hiding something.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO DELILAH?
As Ethan subtlety tried to nudge Chase for more intel, he reveals that the PCPD found Delilah’s luggage, and it was full of high-end clothes and a list of art galleries, but her fingerprints did not show up on any database. Chase is convinced that Delilah was covering her tracks.
Poor Ethan is gut-wrenched as he looks at baby Phoebe, after hearing how Delilah’s life ended, and when Brook Lynn and Chase talk about how thrilled that baby Phoebe just dropped into their lives, considering they were considering adoption anyways. Ethan says, while struggling to hold back tears, that it’s very clear how much Brook Lynn and Chase love Phoebe. Later, after Ethan left, Brook Lynn tells Chase she is scared that the state will take Phoebe away from them. Chase assures her that won’t happen.

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TEARS AND A VOW
Then, in the heartbreaking conclusion of the episode, an emotional Ethan heads back to the pier. In tears, he pulls a photo of Delilah out of his pocket. He cries that she should have been there for her and he apologizes, crying that his hope was for her to be safe in Port Charles.
Ethan tells Delilah that he’d seen the baby, and she is beautiful. Next, Ethan takes out his lighter, and sets fire to Delilah’s photograph promising her that he’d keep their secret to himself and no one would ever have to know.
So, what do you think the connection is between Ethan and Delilah? Was she working with him on a con? Were they at one time lovers and she had his child? Are they related? What did you think of the performance of Nathan Dean in the emotional scenes? Let us know in the comment section, but first, you can watch it again below and then weigh-in.
General Hospital
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Ethan is Rocked at News of Delilah; Is Baby Phoebe His Child?
The return story of Ethan Lovett (Nathan Dean began to unpeel itself on all new episodes of General Hospital, when on Tuesday May 5, he is seen on the pier talking on his phone and clearly calling a woman named “Delilah,” and in what seems like concern for her, tells her on voicemail, “you need to show up.”
As viewers know, Delilah (played by Lily Cardone) was the pregnant woman that Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase (Josh Swickard) found on the side of a road and managed to get her to the hospital. Once at GH, Delilah died, but her baby was born. Brook Lynn and Chase then went to efforts to become the little one’s foster parents, since no other family ties for the baby girl have been found.
Their happiness at finally having a child, may be very short-lived. First, Brook Lynn is a key suspect as the other driver that may have caused the accident that burned and put disfiguring lacerations on Jordan’s (Tanisha Harper) face. At that time, Brook Lynn had a bit of wine with Lucy (Lynn Herring), and had rushed out of the Quartermaine mansion to try to get to Gio’s (Giovanni Mazza) performance with Trina (Tabyana Ali) at the reopening of Charlie’s.

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Fast forward to now. Ethan turns up at the Quartermaines and runs into Brook Lynn and Chase along with baby Phoebe. Brook Lynn introduces Ethan to her husband and then they explain they are foster parents to Phoebe.
Brook Lynn then tells Ethan, that sadly, Phoebe’s mother had died, and all they knew about her was her name: Delilah Wilson. As soon as Brook Lynn mentions Delilah’s name, it’s clear Ethan is stunned, although he tries not to let on anything to Brook Lynn and Chase. Previously, Brook Lynn told Chase that it was recommended to her that they try to search on their own for Phoebe’s family. Well, is this her dad starring her in the face?
All this begging the questions: What is Ethan’s relationship to the deceased Delilah? Were they working on some kind of con together? Were they in love? Is Ethan the biological baby-daddy to Phoebe, which would really throw a wrench into Brook Lynn and Chase’s dreams of starting their own family? And, will all of this dovetail into Michael’s plan to get Chase and Willow to hit the sheets? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
Recaps
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS: Matt Clark Has Amnesia Setting Story Turning Point for Roger Howarth
The latest soap opera amnesiac is none other than The Young and the Restless supervillain, Matt Clark (Roger Howarth).
As revealed on today’s May 5 episode of the CBS daytime drama series, Matt is suffering from seeming brain trauma after being hit over the head by Sienna (Tamara Braun) during their struggle, after Matt set the explosion at the abandoned gas station outside of Las Vegas to kill the Newmans.
While killing the Newmans failed, now it seems that an isolated Matt can’t figure out who the hell he is. The telling moment came when Matt was shown at a diner in Vegas. He finds a Genoa City Athletic Club keycard in his pocket and asks the waitress if she knew were Genoa City is.

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The waitress informs Matt it’s thousands of miles away. Stunned, Matt says to himself, “I gotta figure out what the hell happened to me, and who the hell I am.” The turn now makes sense as a way to keep Matt in the story and Daytime Emmy winner, Roger Howarth still on the show, plus it allows for him to build essentially a whole different life interfacing with other characters.
In fact, when Howarth returned to the soap back on April 1, he teased to Soap Opera Digest some changes were afoot without actually spelling it out. Roger explained, “There’s a shift coming up in the story that’s been a lot of fun. They’ve given me some new people to bounce off of and I really appreciate what Josh Griffith (executive producer and head writer) is doing. I hope the fans like it!”
So, are you ready for what could be a redemption story? A story where the people in Matt’s new life are fond of him and he likes them? A way he can restart his life without all the crimes and misery he has perpetrated on others from his past?
Eventually, Matt will remember he is the evil Matt Clark, and then what happens? Clearly, he would go back after the Newmans, just when they think the guy is dead long enough. After all, Sienna believes she killed Matt.
Share your thoughts on Matt Clark having amnesia on all-new episodes of The Young and the Restless, and if you are here from the story which keeps Roger Howarth on your screens for some time to come. Comment below.
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