The Young and the Restless had a special New Year's Eve episode. Billy Abbott seems to care more about drinking and his magazine business (Restless Style) than his family and friends. In this special episode, Billy is confronted with a possible future, as the spirit of his deceased father John pays him a special visit.
Outside in the snow, Billy is playing with a snow globe it breaks on the ground and his father appears. His father (Father Time) shows him what may happen in the future. It is six years in the future; Lily is cancer-free, happy, and spending the holiday with Cane and Mac. Mac is wearing a wedding ring, and we later find out it was from Kevin, who is now the head of Restless Style.
Delia and Chloe are with the Chancellors and her celebrating the holiday season and Delia’s recital. Chloe is still with Chance. The Newmans were running Restless Style again. We see Billy’s older siblings, Jack, Traci and Ashley in the future mentioning Billy and how he isn’t with them. They are happy though as they have gotten Jabot back into the family.
Well into the future, Billy visits with Jill and Kay. They cannot see him as no one outside of John can. Jill is finally retiring from Chancellor and gives Cane the good news that he will be running the company. He’s family and will be the perfect one for the job.
The last flash way into the future was to little Cordelia’s wedding day. Everyone is there, except for Billy. The women give Cordelia the traditional gifts. Billy tries to talk to Chloe, but again she cannot see him. Cordelia wishes her father was there, but he abandoned her. The flashes have ended and Billy is back in the snow.
At the end of the episode, his father, who told him he died, leaves Billy alone. Victoria appears and drives Billy home. The audience is left wondering whether or not Billy will take what he saw in this potential future and change his life.
As someone who seldom watches Y&R, I felt this episode gave a good idea of the relationships among the characters. We were given reasons, why people in town cared for and missed Billy, and also an explanation of how things went wrong. It was a traditional style holiday episode, in the sense we saw how Billy’s life took the wrong turn, and how others perceived him. Unlike “A Christmas Carol”, there wasn’t a moment of eureka like Scrooge had that made Billy completely change himself into a new person.
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