Y&R Recap. Thursday, August 20th 2009

It’s Papa John’s deathiversary and the Brothers Abbott are commiserating over the loss and discussing Ashley’s tenuous grip on reality.
Meanwhile, Ash is in bed at the ranch recalling her hit and run. Victor leans over her and baby talks in that obnoxious way he does before heading to a meeting in town.

At some point Ashley gets dressed and meets up her brothers at the ranch. They want her to go to the cemetery with them but Ash is suspicious of their motives. She doesn’t believe that they’re only there for John’s deathiversary. She hisses at Jack for using their father’s death to manipulate her but Jack and Billy reiterate that they just want what’s best for her.

Ash’s already teetering over the edge when Sabrina appears in front of her, making her even more crazy. Jack and Billy try to ease her off the ledge but it doesn’t work. She can see that they’re questioning her sanity and she hates it. But to be frank, her crazy eyes aren’t helping matters at all. The brothers look sorrowfully at their sister and tell her that they love her and they just want her to be okay. They both leave the house and Jack promises Billy that he’ll figure out how to help her.

Jack makes his way over to the GCAC and has a heart-to-heart with his daddy about Ashley being out of touch with reality. He’s completely ignoring the fact that he’s currently talking to a ghost in the middle of a restaurant. Something tells me the writers didn’t exactly think this one through … which means it’s just another day at CBS.

Meanwhile, the Scoobies (spell-check, btw, desperately wants me to call them Scabies) are doing what they do best and that’s being utterly pointless. Kevin’s telling Daniel that Ryder’s legit and he also could be his brother. As they’re talking, Agent who-gives-a-beep walks into the coffee shop and informs Danny and Jana that the charges against them will probably be dropped. Kevin and Jana celebrate but Daniel wants to keep digging until he can uncover what Deacon really wants.

Speaking of Deacon, he’s in the middle of proposing to Amber. Sidebar: It’s incredible how Amber continues to fail as a soap heroine considering her name sounds like something straight out of a romance novel. Ambrosia Moore? She was either named by hookers or Johanna Lindsey.

As she and Deacon are discussing the state of their relationship there’s a knock at the door. It’s Danielle! I seriously cannot get over the shirt he’s wearing. Why does he love dressing like a teenage girl? He tells Deacon that he’s going to find out what Deacon really wants because he couldn’t be doing this just for Amber. Way to throw her under the bus there, Danny.

Abby and CC are chatting at the Brad house when CC asks Abby not to say anything about her macking on JT. Abby’s all, “It’s all good. I’d hit it too.” Abby leaves to go get her mother and CC heads out to visit John’s grave with Billy.

After Billy brings CC home they reminisce about John. He tells her that being with his first love (Mac) is the best thing that’s ever happened to him (Whatever writers. Maybe one day you’ll show us instead of telling us.) and as CC thinks about JT she says that she completely understands. You know, I quite enjoy Billy and CC’s relationship. Completely inappropriate chemistry and all.

Over at CL, JT and Boretoria are going through the motions pretending that they didn’t makeout with other people the night before. They bicker over the MJ debacle until Paul arrives. Boretoria leaves and Paul gets to business. He wants to see the note that MJ left JT. Paul thinks that there may be some connection between MJ and the ‘Stache. JT knows something’s off.

And what’s off is the fact that some skeezy paparazzo has taken pictures of JT kissing CC. The ’Stache buys the pictures and calls Boretoria in order to rat on her husband. And Boretoria is not impressed. To think that JT had the nerve to do exactly what she was doing the night before. Everyone knows that Newman’s are the only ones allowed to have extra-marital fun time. Victoria gets up and leaves the club to confront CC.

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