Young and the Restless spoilers indicate that Damian Kane (Jermaine Rivers) could be dead. Cane Ashby (Billy Flynn) is a suspect, among others, and Chance Chancellor (Conner Floyd) is investigating. There are some intense new spoilers to talk about.

We’re going to dive into whether Cane killed his romantic rival Damian, or if somebody else did it, and who Chance is grilling as part of the murder mystery that we were promised and they’re delivering on. We’ve got lots of good stuff for the week of July 14th on Y&R.

Young and the Restless Spoilers: Cain’s Jealousy and Lily’s Rejection

So, by the end of this week on Young and the Restless, Cane is really losing it because he wants to be with Lily Winters (Christel Khalil). She keeps rejecting him, and then even worse, Damian, his former employee, winds up in bed with Lily. She is moving on without Cane. He doesn’t stand a chance with her. He never did. But then everything’s going to shift.

Y&R Spoilers: The Necklace and a Moment of Sorrow

So, after Lily kissed Damian again in front of her ex-husband Cane, that seemed to kind of break something inside of him. Lily took Damian off to her train car, slid into the sheets with him, and Cane pulled this necklace out of his shirt.

And I saw some people on Soap social media asking what’s the significance of the necklace he had. It’s not the chain, it’s what was on it. After watching Lily leave with Damian, Cane pulled out a chain and it had his wedding band on it.

They showed it just for kind of a brief second, and some of the screenshots and pictures is not terribly clear, but it is distinctly a wedding band. The band he wore back when he was married to Lily. So, it was kind of like Cane was just having this little moment of sorrow, and then the implication is that he completely snaps in jealousy because then next week things take a turn.

Did Cane Poison Damian? Unraveling the Y&R Murder Mystery

Damian and Cane run into each other in the maze. They are having a drink, and Damian asks Cane if he’s trying to poison him because he’s jealous about Lily. Cain reassures Damian and says, “No, we’re both drinking the same stuff.” And then Cane says, “No, no, cuz I’d be poisoning us both.”

Then Damian seems to have some sort of reaction to what he drank. And it looks like he’s maybe losing consciousness. Cane’s like, “What’s going on?” At a glance, it does look like he poisoned Damian while the two men were alone in a fit of jealousy over Lily. But there’s a few things to consider. One, Damian’s not really dead.

You know, this is just one of those cleverly edited promos and you know, he’s fine and somebody else is killed. So, two, the poison or whatever it is was meant for Cane not for Damian. That’s another thing to consider. If you remember, Cain brought Chance there because he said somebody’s trying to kill him.

And since Cane told Damian they were drinking the same thing, the poison, if indeed someone is poisoned right there, might have been in the glass, not in the liquid. You know, maybe Cane just happened to grab the non-poison glass and Damian grabbed the one that was actually meant for Cane. Of course, if it is Damian that dies, it looks bad because he just slept with Lily and everybody knows that Cane wants Lily back. But the fact that Cane brought Chance there because of a potential death threat calls everything into question.

Young and the Restless Spoilers: The Newman’s Knowledge and a Plan B – Exploring Cane’s Motives

I do have to mention, you know, Damian might not be dead for a couple of reasons. Now that Cane knows that the Newman’s know that he left and went to Genoa City and was buying up real estate properties and he has a minion there. And of course, Cane knows all this because Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford) told him, the Newman’s know that could be the big motivation for what’s turning into a murder mystery next week.

So Cane might have already had this as like a plan B or a plan C in his back pocket to buy more time to keep everyone trapped there at the chateau while he’s got Holden Novak (Nathan Owens) doing his dirty work back in their hometown.

You know, I mean, it’s not for nothing that Chance is there and that Cane brought him. It all feels like a big setup. He’s supposed to be this master manipulator and all this. So, you have to think a little deeper and wonder if the Y&R writers are being, you know, clever with these edits on the promos and things like that.

Young and the Restless Spoilers: Chance’s Investigation and Cane’s Scheme – A Convenient Setup?

So, Chance is starting up a full-blown murder investigation next week, which means nobody at the chateau can leave. So, that feels pretty convenient for Cane right? We’ll see if it is or not, but that’s what it feels like. What’s crazy about this also is that Chance has no jurisdiction in France be investigating anything. He is a Genoa City cop. Nobody in France has to listen to him or stay there to be questioned by him. But this is what we’ve got. So if this is some sort of scheme by Cane to keep his unwilling guest there longer, a couple of things could happen.

The promo’s misleading and somebody else has died or Damian appears to have died, but he’s not dead, you know. And it could be that Cane gave Damian something to knock him out. Has his henchman Carter and Amanda Sinclair (Mishael Morgan) stash him somewhere? Maybe he is going to blackmail Damian to stay quiet and play dead. Cane might have some sort of leverage he can hold over Damian. Some sketchy business thing from his past when he was Dumas.

Maybe Cane has access to some special cancer treatment that would be some kind of big help to Damian’s mom. Amy Lewis (Valarie Pettiford) tells him, you know, play dead for a week and I’ll get you this experimental treatment or something. Cane’s dad, Colin, was sick and died not too long ago, so Cane may have built up some medical connections.

You know, I think Damian could be talked into playing dead for a week or so, but we’ll see how it goes. Uh, you know, we’ll know when the full roster of our spoilers is out next week. It would kind of suck for Lily to finally get a a new man in her life and in her bed and then he dies right after they do the deed. That’d be terrible.

Peeping Through the Bushes: Who’s Watching Kane and Damian?

Also, next week when Cane’s with Damian and the other man appears to have some reaction to whatever he drank, somebody is watching Kane with Damian. They’re nearby. They’re peeping through the bushes at the hedge maze.

And again, this could be contrived. It may be Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow) because next week he’s having this confrontation scene with Phyllis. And Nick’s telling Phyllis, “Stop with all the stall tactics.” And she’s asking what he saw. So maybe Nick was peeping at them. Maybe Cane wanted them to be peeped at. I mean, he’s controlling everything and he has cameras everywhere.

Agatha Christie Style: Chance Gathers the Suspects

So later on, Chance gathers everybody in the train car, murder mystery style, Agatha Christie style, and Lily asks if Chance is calling this a murder, and he says, “Yeah, that’s what they’re looking at.” But Lily at the same time doesn’t look like she’s distraught, like her new lover just died. That’s why I’m kind of like, weird, you know? So, at the back of my mind, I’m also wondering if Damian’s fine and somebody else is dead and they just didn’t show him in the promo because in the promo, I also don’t think I saw Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) and some others.

So, could be somebody disposable like Carter, the guy who’s Cane’s assistant. And again, we’ll know more when we get the full roster of weekly Y&R spoilers. I like Damian. I hope he’s not pushing up daisies at the chateau next week. Chance tells the assembled guest they’re going to that he’s going to talk to everybody privately about where they were, what they were doing over the last hour.

That appalls Abby Newman (Melissa Ordway), who’s asking her ex-husband, Chance, if he’s going to interrogate them. Devon Hamilton (Bryton James) starts complaining that they’re all basically suspects in a murder investigation.