Genoa City had barely caught their breath after the rescue when the nightmare took on a different form. Matt didn’t flee like a loser. He vanished like a predator—retreating into the shadows to plan how to crush both Newman and Abbott with the most vile weapon: suspicion.
Because once trust is poisoned, a city can break itself without another shot being fired.
Matt Escapes Nick: Not Running Away, But “Rebirth”
Matt escaped Nick’s pursuit not by brute force, but by a cold, calculating survival instinct. He carried a sense of victory like a second heartbeat: Genoa City was within his grasp. Not Victor. Not Jack. Not the families who always considered themselves “invincible.”
And from that moment on, Matt no longer just wanted to survive. He wanted revenge as a ritual. He wanted the two empires to kneel. He wanted them to stifle in the illusion of power they had used to imprison others.
The Newman House is in “Pursuit” mode: Victor gives orders, Nick is exhausted.
While Matt calmly orchestrated the plot, the Newman household operated like a hunting machine. Victor issued orders like a general with every battlefield already mapped out in his head. Nick was exhausted both physically and mentally, torn between duty and anger. There was only one thing he couldn’t accept: Noah and Sienna had to live, and Matt’s shadow had to be crushed.
Noah and Sienna clung to each other like the last remaining stable piece of land. But they didn’t know the worst was yet to come. Matt wasn’t going to attack them with his fists. He was going to stain their lives with the fingerprints of crime.
The “Burner” Call and Demand for Money Are Not About Money.
Matt contacted them using a device that was difficult to trace, making a huge ransom demand — not to get rich, but to humiliate Victor in a way no corporate battle could. Matt wanted Victor and Nick to experience the feeling of being pushed to the brink of helplessness.
And he was even more ruthless: even though Sienna had been rescued, Matt still declared it was “not over yet.” He had one last card that could “tear Genoa City apart.” It sounded like a threat… until he started orchestrating a kind of “sick performance” meeting, where everything was under his control.
The Dirtiest Trick: “Proof” Allie Was Murdered… and Noah and Sienna Were Framed.
Then Matt dropped the bomb.
He produced what looked like forensic documents, footage, files—all “pointing” to Allie, Jack’s beloved niece, having been murdered. And worse: Noah and Sienna were blamed for it.
The things Matt created weren’t clumsy. They were “perfect”: fake digital data, manipulated photos, meticulously reconstructed sequences of events—enough to send shivers down your spine because… they were eerily logical.
In an instant, the atmosphere in the Newman house exploded. Nick screamed in disbelief. Victor was as cold as steel, his rage locked behind his jaw. Noah felt his identity being torn away—as if the ground beneath his feet had vanished.
Jack Abbott Collapses Over Bad News: Grief Needs a Target
The blow actually reached Abbott’s mansion.
When Jack received the news that Allie “may be dead,” his mind was deprived of oxygen. Even without verification, without confirmation, grief doesn’t wait for formalities. Grief only needs a name to cling to. And Matt gave Jack that name: Noah and Sienna.
It wasn’t because Jack believed Noah was the murderer. Rather, when a heart is torn apart, it demands justice immediately, even if that justice might be a trap.
Genoa City Contaminated: Rumors Spread Faster Than the Truth
The news spread like wildfire: from whispers to panic, then to a media storm. People asked “what if” even before they had answers. They doubted even before they had evidence. And that’s exactly what Matt wanted: no need to kill anyone, just to make people tear each other apart.
Victor must fight on two fronts: protect Noah from potentially life-threatening accusations, and prove Matt orchestrated it all. But Matt has built such a sophisticated labyrinth that even the best investigators are lost in the web of contradictions he meticulously planned.
Noah and Sienna Isolated: When Gaze and Silence Become a Sentence
The harsh truth is that “faith” saves no one when the whole city starts looking at you differently. Gazes linger longer. Reassurances come slower. Friends hesitate. And love, however strong, begins to show tiny cracks that no one dares to name.
Sienna wondered if Noah resented her for all the danger she brought. Noah wondered if he could protect her when he himself was dragged into the mire of crime. They didn’t speak. But Matt didn’t need confessions. He just needed silence to let the poison spread.
Jack vs. Noah: Rage Erupts Right at Jabot’s Door
And then Jack couldn’t take it anymore. He stormed towards Jabot like a whirlwind, shoving the “evidence” straight at Noah, demanding an explanation of every timeline, every detail. Noah panicked and protested. But that very panic only confused Jack more.
Jack recoiled as if burned—trapped between the Noah he once believed in and the “Noah” Matt had created. Unable to find certainty, Jack turned to Sienna for help. But Sienna, traumatized and disoriented, reacted defensively, stammering and stuttering… only deepening Jack’s feeling that “something was hidden.”
The most painful truth: victims of trauma can look like the culprit if someone deliberately uses trauma as a prop.
Matt is holding the “final fuse”: Where is Allie really?
Genoa City is now like a pressure chamber. Newman and Abbott stand on opposite sides of an abyss, their history so steeped in animosity that one push is all it takes to plunge them into war. And Matt sits in the shadows, relishing turning their pain into a dramatic scenario.
Is Allie safe or has she been harmed? Matt holds the answer like a fuse. He doesn’t need to detonate it immediately. He just needs to let them fall apart on their own—at the speed he wants.
And Jack… after withdrawing into solitude, not because he surrendered, but because he was gathering his strength for the next storm. Once he plunges back into the investigation, Genoa City may witness the most terrifying thing: justice driven by despair.