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Y&R: SID Victoria & Baby Spoilers; Hamner Previews Show Happenings
Topic Started: Nov 26 2007, 03:51 AM (497 Views)
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Courtesy Lynn @ The Colonnade Room


Will Victoria Die?

This week on Y&R, Victoria and her baby's lives hang by a thread while Victor and Nikki take their war of wills to the courts. While the Mustache believes an emergency C-section could save his daughter's life, Nikki fears such an action would come at too high a cost--her grandson! Yet as the minutes tick by and Victoria's situation worsens, could an even greater nightmare be on the horizon... one in which Nikki and Victor will lose both daughter and grandson?

Tragic Decision


"This is really an impossible situation," previews co-headwriter Scott Hamner. "Victoria has something called preeclampsia, which is a very serious condition pregnant women can face. Sometimes it becomes so severe that the only way to save the woman's life is to terminate the pregnancy. But [at this point, Victoria's baby] is very premature, so the question of whether it will even survive [if a C-section is performed] is facing all these characters. And a decision must be made."

Much to Victor's frustration, the court appoints an advocate to listen to both his and Nikki's arguments over whether Victoria should undergo a C-section. Fearing that each second may be the last for his comatose child, the mogul becomes even more enraged when Nikki suddenly is nowhere to be found when a deputy arrives at the hospital to serve them with subpoenas that will force them to hash it out in court.

Indeed, Nikki does consider skipping town in order to give the fetus more time in utero but gets no further than the Neman conference room, where Victor eventually finds her. Their face-off is anything but friendly. Yet the fight isn't only with each other--they must also battle their own raging emotions! "As a mother, everything in Nikki is telling her to try to save her daughter," Hamner insists. "But she is also trying to do what she believes Victoria would want her to do. Even as she says what her decision is--to not do a C-section--she can't believe that it's coming out of her mouth, because it means possibly losing Victoria."

While Victor comes across as much tougher, he is equally conflicted. "He is very focused on saving Victoria, because the baby may not even live," the scribe shares. "But he desperately wants this granchild, too. So this is not easy for him. Because Victoria's personal wishes for this were not expressly made clear, both parents are just doing the best that they can."

A New Development

However, the battle lines unexpectedly shift when Brad petitions the court to become the guardian of the fetus--an action that throws him directly into Nikki's corner. "It's interesting that after all of their conflict over the last year, they now find themselves on the same page," Hamner says. Natch, the unborn baby's other possible father, J.T., is backing Victor.

While Brad's action is a bold one, the real question may be: Does he have Victoria's best interests at heart? Or is he willing to risk his ex-wife's very life in order to save the child he thinks is his? Hamner says that despite some of the contention that existed between Brad and Victoria before their divorce, the dark-haired hunk isn't such a cad that he'd sacrifice her in favor of a son that may or may not be his. "He deeply cares for Victoria. And when they were married, they desperately wanted a child," the wordsmith reminds. "He knows what this child means to Victoria, especially since he was with her at the time she miscarried and saw how devastated she was by that.

"So he has a very concrete experience of just how important this baby is to Victoria," he continues. "He truly believes in his heart that she would do anything to save the life of this child. But it would be a mistake to think he doesn't care about Victoria. He just really wants to do what she would want."

The Ultimate Battle

While the primary opponents in this battle are Nikki and Brad against Victor and J.T., Hamner says that such a life-and-death situation has a way of affecting everyone on some level. "There are a lot of people involved emotionally in this. Nick, for instance, struggles terribly because he so desperately wants to save his sister's life and completely sees the logic in Victor's argument, in trying to convince everyone of the best way to treat Victoria. But Phyllis doesn't feel it's her place to express an opinion about Victoria. It is interesting because there is a polarization of two groups of people, and a lot of people who fall in this gray area of ethical ambiguity where they can see both sides. We're telling this story from many points of view."

The courtroom soon becomes ground zero, as an urgent Victor tries to persuade the judge to sign off on a C-section while Nikki and Brad argue against the procedure. And just to ratchet up the pressure a few more notches, Phyllis receives a frightening phone call from Nick, who has stayed behind at the hospital. The news isn't good: Victoria's health is quickly reaching a flashpoint, with her kidneys on the verge of failure and her blood pressure soaring!

The judge tells Nikki that unless she can offer proof that Victoria would have sacrificed herself for her unborn child, he's leaning toward Victor's side of the argument. Yet before he's able to make a ruling, Brad produces the desired substantiation--a handwritten letter by Victoria herself, explaining that she loves her baby more than life itself!

"As the situation with Victoria becomes more and more dire, the fighting between everyone keeps escalating," Hamner previews. "They are not so much at each other's throats, because they recognize how tragic this is, but they are in a legal battle about her life."

When the judge orders a recess to mull over the latest evidence, J.T., who has rushed to be at Victoria's bedside, calls with the terrible update that the baby is now in distress and a decision must be made ASAP--or else they'll lose both of them! "I'm not going to tell you exactly how this is resolved," teases Hamner, "but I will tell you that it is not as simple as Victor wins and Nikki loses [or vice versa]."

In other words, buckle up because there's a bumpy ride ahead!
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