Young and the Restless Next Week: Cole’s Death Stuns & Adam’s Extreme Revenge Unleashed

Young and the Restless spoilers for June 30 – July 4, 2025 see Cole Howard (J. Eddie Peck) being on his deathbed and Adam Newman (Mark Grossman) going to extremes to stop a bad thing from happening to his family. We’ve also got scoop on Cane Ashby‘s (Billy Flynn) secret weapon and Devon Hamilton‘s (Bryton James) darkest fears.

We’ve got your latest Y&R spoilers for the week of June 30th and some info on holiday preemptions for the CBS soap.

The Aftermath of the Storm: Victor, Nikki, Billy, and the Gang’s Return from France

So, we are wrapping up this week with Victor Newman (Eric Braeden), Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott), Billy Abbott (Jason Thompson), and the gang stuck in France because of the storm.

But it looks like they’re all going to be back home, including Cane, next week at some point. So Josh Morrow promised us a murder mystery. He didn’t say if it was going to be in Genoa City or in France, but he said it was coming. So we’ll see where it manifests. It’s looking now like it’s going to be back in their hometown.

Cane’s Plan B and Nikki’s Worries: Chancellor Industries and Revenge Plots

So as this week on Y&R wraps up, Victor and Nikki are irritated because they can’t leave Cane’s French estate. And Victor is worried that Cane may have a plan B for getting a hold of Chancellor Industries and that they are being kept there sequestered for a reason. All true.

Nikki’s worried about Lily Winters (Christel Khalil), still wanting revenge for her and Victor doing Lily dirty when they snatched Chancellor, but Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) talked them down off that and says no, Lily doesn’t want anything to do with Cane. So that’s off the table. Not on the roster of concerns.

Lily’s Rejection and Retcon Dialogue: Exploring Relationships on Young and the Restless

It is painfully clear Lily despises Cane and she even kissed Damian Kane (Jermaine Rivers) at the end of the week to send a clear message to her ex that she’s moved on. And actually what’s really funny is that they are doing retcon stuff in the dialogue. If you listen on Friday’s episode when Cane is talking to Lily about a reconciliation and she’s talking about how they are not the young kids they used to be. Uh what?

She was 18 and he was like 30 or 31 when they were getting together. So they are trying to like dial it back because Billy Flynn is significantly younger than Daniel Goddard. You know, maybe when he lost that Australian accent, he lost years. But they’re definitely trying to restructure history when I think it’d be better if they just didn’t mention it instead of contradicting it.

Victor’s Concerns and Phyllis’ Nonsense: Alliances and Opportunities in Genoa City

Anyway, Victor is also worried that Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) might team up with Cane against him, but Nikki thinks Diane Jenkins (Susan Walters) is more likely to do that. Meanwhile, Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford) is talking out of her backside, telling the Newmans that she’s in on this big opportunity with Cane and how they’re going to be working together, blah blah.

Typical Phyllis’ nonsense. Although, I do think it’s going to manifest. It’s just that she’s making it up right now. Cane also tells both Victor and Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow) that, you know, he made the offer to buy Chancellor. Victor turned him down, so that’s that. It’s cool. No problem. They can relax. Not true.

Young and the Restless: Cane’s Real Co-conspirator and Adam’s Discovery – Unveiling the Nefarious Plan

Meanwhile, next week, Cane is back in Genoa City and meeting with his real co-conspirator, who is not Phyllis. Cane did an end run and he fired Damian and then made a side deal with Holden Novak (Nathan Owens) and he’s the one who’s been buying up all the real estate around the Newman and Abbott business holdings for some nefarious reason.

Cane wanted Holden doing it, so his name’s not on it. And Kane is asking Holden next week if anybody suspects what’s going on and he says no, they’re in the clear. That’s not quite accurate because Adam has figured out after doing some digging that somebody’s buying up all that real estate.

He tells Chelsea Lawson Newman (Melissa Claire Egan) he’s got to go tell Victor. I don’t know if he knows it’s Holden or he just suspects it’s Damian because at this point he doesn’t know it’s Cane because no phone service yada yada. So Adam’s got to go tell Victor because nobody in the Newman family is answering his calls and that’s because of that bad storm and possibly because Cane is jamming cell signals.

Adam’s Valiant Efforts and Devon’s Worries: Unraveling Cane’s Distraction

So, next week, watch for Adam to basically hike his way through torn up train tracks that were ravaged by the storm to get to Victor and drop the bombshell about what Kane is doing back in their hometown. By then, though, despite Adam’s valiant efforts, it may be too late. We’ll see. Next week, before everybody leaves for home, we’ve also got Devon telling Amanda Sinclair (Mishael Morgan) that he’s worried Cane is using this big party as a way to distract them from something. That’s accurate.

Devon is then pumping Cane’s lady lawyer for info, but he gets nowhere because Amanda claps back on Devon and says, “Even if that was the truth, why would I ever tell you?” You know, Amanda walked in on Devon banging Abby Newman (Melissa Ordway) in their living room and Abby’s husband Chance Chancellor (Conner Floyd) was with her. So, they both got an eyefull. So yeah, Devon’s right to be worried because Amanda hates him and has Cane’s ear and doesn’t like Abby and you know Cane has given Amanda the means to clap back on him if she wants to.

Potential Payback and Foreshadowing: Cane’s Revenge and Claire’s Choice

And if Lily keeps rejecting Cane as I suspect she will then you know Cane might take aim at Winters and Chancellor both for payback. I think Amanda would love to take a shot at Devon. Also, we had Claire Grace Newman (Hayley Erin) suffering that panic attack and Holden coming to her rescue this week and they’re doing some bonding and I think that’s foreshadowing who Claire is going to turn to if Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) does a bad thing and does that bad girl Audra Charles (Zuleyka Silver) in France.

Cole’s Battle with Legionnaire’s Disease and Holiday Preeemptions: Spoilers and Updates for Young and the Restless

So, next week we’ve got more on Claire. She and Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle) head back to Chicago to see Cole who is battling Legionnaire’s disease. He’s happy to see Victoria and Claire again and was afraid they wouldn’t make it back in time. What he means by that is he thinks he is dying. Cole is glad that they’re there to say goodbye before he kicks the bucket.

For the record, out of curiosity, I looked up to see how fatal Legionnaire’s disease is. Not very. It’s very treatable. It’s got like a 90 to 95% survivability rate in somebody Cole’s age who’s basically healthy. And even among high-risk individuals that are older or have co-morbidities, it’s like 70 to 80% survivable.

Young and the Restless: Cole the Victim?

So if Claire’s dad kicks the bucket, it would be against the odds. But it’s Y&R. I’m not entirely sure they know how to spell Google up in the writers room to check stuff out before they put it in scripts. The one thing I can think of is maybe Cole is our murder mystery victim and he’s been intentionally infected with some terribly virulent strain of something.

I don’t know why people would pick on Cole though because I’m also wondering if Chance is going to be the one to get a dirt nap because Connor Floyd quit Y&R. I don’t know why they would recast the role of Chance Chancellor because they barely use him anymore in storylines. It seems like that would be kind of a waste of budgetary resources.

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And also, so Friday is July 4th, the Independence Day holiday. It’s a complete and total tossup of whether we get a new or a rerun episode of Young and the Restless. last year, 2024, it was brand new on July 4th, but most years before that, because I was thinking it wasn’t new, that it was typically a rerun, and I dived back in just to double check, looking at recaps, and sure enough, it’s almost always an encore.

So, it’s very important that you check your DVR, you know, late Friday on Saturday, and if it is a rerun, delete it or your Monday episode might not record because they encode it with the episode number and the season number.

And if you already have one sitting on your DVR with that info, it won’t record the next one. It doesn’t actually know the content that’s aired. It only knows how it was listed in the program guide. Just if you wanted to understand the technicalities of why that happens because you’ll notice if you’ve got a preemption a lot of times your next day doesn’t record and that’s why.

Be sure and check back tomorrow for your full roster of Young and of the Restless spoilers. I’ll have dated daily spoilers for the entire week of June 30th through July 4th. And even if they tell us it’s a new episode, that doesn’t mean that it will be. So check your DVR.

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