The Young and the Restless Recap for Tuesday, February 25, 2025: Sharon and Phyllis talk to their kidnapper

On the floor of an apartment, Sharon awoke to a loud siren coming through a speaker on the wall. She looked around and realized she had been taken again. She made it to her feet and called out, asking if anyone was there, but the siren began again. “Okay, you’ve got my attention! Tell me who you are!” Sharon yelled.

Sharon didn’t recognize the apartment she was in and wondered how she got there. Her head hurt. Finding the door, she banged on it when it wouldn’t open and called out for help. She begged whoever was listening if they could hear her to tell her what they wanted, and she could make it happen. Sharon wondered if it was even real, if she was still on drugs, or if she had lost her mind. She decided it was really happening, and she had worked too hard to get better for this to take her down. She started calling out again to whoever could hear her that she would help them, then got angry and threatened them.

Sharon saw a window high and moved towards it, but that was when she saw Phyllis lying on the ground. She gasped and immediately compared it to when she woke up at Heather’s apartment and found her lying on the ground. Sharon rushed to Phyllis and checked to see if she was alive. Sharon woke up Phyllis, who was horrified when she saw Sharon.

Sharon helped Phyllis to her feet and told her it was disorienting for her, too. “What did you do to me?” Phyllis gasped. Sharon told her that she didn’t think it was real at first, but someone put them there, and she didn’t know why. “You got rid of Heather in the most despicable way. Drugs or no drugs, you want to do the same to me right now,” Phyllis accused. Sharon wondered if Phyllis was lying and if it was her revenge to make her pay.

Phyllis reminded her she had been unconscious. She tried the door but realized they were trapped. She still thought Sharon knew as she wasn’t freaking out, but Sharon told her she was numb at that point and that it was really happening. Sharon started yelling that, of course, she got trapped in a room with Phyllis, of all people, because nothing in her life could be normal for two weeks. They argued and accused one another, then relented that neither was behind it all.

Just then, the siren started again, debilitating them momentarily. Sharon explained it had happened before, but Phyllis had slept through it. Phyllis said whoever was behind the siren could hear them and started yelling at them. She asked Sharon who could have done this to them. “Ian? Or Jordan? But I thought they died, didn’t they?” she asked. Sharon assured her that Nick saw Ian die and that Jordan killed herself. She suggested it could be an old cult member of Ian’s carrying out a mission. “But why me? Let me go, keep her!” Phyllis hollered.

Sharon told Phyllis she needed to calm down, but she was freaking out. She yelled to no one that she was calm. Sharon told her they needed to figure out why they were there, who did it to them, and why they locked them up together. “It’s definitely not because we’re friends,” Sharon noted. “Maybe that’s the point. Maybe they just want to watch us kill one another,” Phyllis suggested.

Phyllis tried to pick the lock, but the clip broke and jammed it. She and Sharon continued to insult one another as Sharon began looking at the books on a shelf. They all said it was the property of Havenhurst Psychiatric Clinic and realized that was where they were. Sharon said they weren’t going to get out unless they figured out who brought them there and why that place. “Problem-solving is my superpower, jerk,” Phyllis grinned sarcastically at the speaker.

Sharon and Phyllis took a seat. Sharon said she had been at Crimson Lights and had gone to run errands, but it was dark outside, and she wondered if it could be the same night. Phyllis didn’t think it was, either. She said she had been in her suite having some really wild dreams. “Realy wild. I had to wake up and shake it off,” Phyllis added. “I was having strange dreams, too,” Sharon recalled. She wondered if they had both already been drugged at that point, as they had to knock them out to get them there.

Phyllis noted she was supposed to have breakfast with her kids the next morning. Sharon thought that was good as they would know she was missing, but Phyllis worried that Daniel and Summer would think that she just took off again. Sharon tried to reassure her, but Phyllis got defensive and told her not to act like she cared about her. Sharon wasn’t sure how long they had been gone but thought Faith was away, but Mariah may have tried contacting her about Cassidy first. They agreed that doing this to them was one thing, but to upset their kids angered both of them.

As they tried looking for their phones, Phyllis and Sharon began insulting one another again. Phyllis was taking digs at Sharon for her mental health issues, and Sharon diagnosed her as a narcissist. Phyllis wondered if the game was to get them to kill one another or work through their issues. Sharon found a bag of food under a table. They wondered how long they were going to be there. There was a case of water bottles and some cans of food with a can opener. Phyllis just wanted water, but Sharon stopped her from drinking it. She said there was PCP in her water last time, and she drank it before she realized it.

Sharon said it may have nothing to do with Ian, and it could be someone from her past. Phyllis said if that was the case, they could drink the water. “We have to work together to get out of here so we can drink water from normal people,” Phyllis told her. “Agreed,” Sharon said. She went back to unpacking the grocery bag with canned goods. Phyllis asked if Sharon had been this calm in the sewer, noting it must have been horrible for her.

“So Ian’s game was to get rid of you so he could be a father figure to Mariah again?” Phyllis asked. Sharon explained it was a plan that only made sense to Ian and Jordan. She said at least Ian was where he belonged, in hell. Phyllis noted that Heather died for no reason because of some vendetta that had nothing to do with her. “I hate it. It’s like this hand around my heart. It’s always there, squeezing. Some days more than others. Daniel had to lose the woman he loved; Lucy lost her mother, and you had to watch the people you love suffer,” Sharon shared.

Phyllis pointed out that Sharon helped them carry out their crazy plan and cover their tracks. Sharon explained that every day, she thought she was being responsible for her illness, taking her meds, but she was poisoning herself. Sharon admitted that she did some horrible things when her sense of judgment and decency were taken away. “I told lie after lie, and that stain will not wash off of me. I’ll never get over it,”

Sharon added. “Good. You shouldn’t,” Phyllis told her.

Sharon told Phyllis to think whatever she wanted and didn’t care about her opinion anymore. Sharon pointed out she was having hallucinations and talking to people who weren’t in the room. Phyllis knew Sharon had been drugged, but she still went after her family. Phyllis cried that the hell that Sharon went through was nothing compared to what she put all of them through and that, ironically, if they had left town like Sharon told them to, Heather would still be alive. “Lucy lost her mom because of Ian Ward, but she almost lost he father because of you,” Phyllis said pointedly.

Phyllis told Sharon that she had so many opportunities to speak out, and she didn’t do it. “It’s like human decency took a back seat to Sharon’s need to attack her family. “So, all of your tears and regret, I don’t care. You earned it. Choke on it,” Phylis cried. “So right here and now, at this moment, it’s more important to you to tear into me than to find a way out of here?” Sharon wondered. Phyllis told Sharon she didn’t care about her. “I know. You don’t even see me as a person. To you, you see me as a target or a mark,” Sharon agreed. She added that Phyllis loved to tell everyone how weak and pathetic she was but also that she was the devil incarnate. “So which one is it, Phyllis? Am I helpless, or am I a supervillain?” Sharon wanted to know. “Both,” Phyllis replied. She explained that she had watched her, and depending on what Sharon wanted or who she wanted it from, she would cry and be demure, but she was also able to take a body and throw it into the river.

Sharon said that Phyllis could be using that energy to help them find a way out of there, but she was helpless and had to take it out on Sharon because she was a bully. Sharon noted that Phyllis didn’t have the excuse of PCP in her system, this was just who she really was. She compared it to when Phyllis faked her death because her spite was more important to her than her children. Sharon yelled that she was capable of holding contempt, but it took poison in her blood for it to come out. “But with you, you are the poison!” Sharon hollered. She asked Phyllis if she wanted to get out of there so they never had to speak to one another or not. Phyllis said there was nothing she wanted more than to get out and take Sharon out, but she thought that was what “they” wanted.

Phyllis cried that she wanted to get out of there and see her kids. Phyllis agreed they needed to work together, but the siren started again and then switched to a song. Phyllis began yelling at whoever was playing it, but Sharon tried to get her to stop so they could listen and thought it could be a clue. Phyllis freaked out again and said she didn’t care, but Sharon wanted her to think about where she had heard the song before. She said they picked the music on purpose, but Phyllis lost it, banging on the door and screaming that when they got out, she would dismember who was doing this to them.

The music stopped, and Sharon gasped. She told Phyllis that she’d made a mistake threatening like that. “If this is a game, what are the teams?” Sharon asked. Phyllis told her it was them against whoever took them. “They don’t know what we’re capable of,” Phyllis said. “Then we’re going to have to show them. What do you say, Phyllis? Do you want to play?” Sharon asked. “Yeah, why the hell not,” Phyllis agreed.

They walked together to the middle of the room and looked up at the speaker. “Okay, we’re listening. What are the rules? Let’s get started,” Phyllis called out. They gasped as they heard a man chuckle and say through the crackly speaker, “Now we’re getting somewhere.” Phyllis asked what their name was. “Not important. This is about the two of you. And yes, you have to work as a team in this game,” he said. Sharon asked what the goal was and how they would know when they won. “What’s the prize?” Phyllis asked gravely. “Staying alive,” the voice said.

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