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by Brent Kellogg
August 22, 2008

This being Friday, and me always wanting to get a head start on the weekend, coming into possession of some very "psychological intrigue", I thought why write in detail about what happened today in Genoa City when I can pass it along? It's not like you weren't expecting that Victor Newman will be "presumed dead" and this would drive Nikki Chow back to drinking.

The clue comes on Monday when a drunken Nikki phones home. She calls Katherine Chancellor and slurs her words so much Katherine asks if she's hitting the sauce.

Of course she must be. It was written on the tea leaves. Someone so close to falling off the wagon, Nikki doesn't have an AA sponsor she can call. She doesn't go to AA meetings. She dabbles with her addiction alone and it just doesn't work that way. Not even in crazy Genoa City.

Still in Mexico with clueless PI Paul Williams on a mission so dangerous she was advised not to get involved in when Paul got word today that his daughter Heaven Stevens had nearly fainted and taken to the God Have Mercy Hospital, when thanks to a satellite phone he'd brought along in the event conventional cell phone towers in Mexican might be hit by lightening, and one was, when he was told that the Mob has put out a hit on Walter Palin, the mobster known to frequent the Mexican coast, Paul took off. He left a fragile, know to hit the bottle when her life is in crisis as it always is, Nikki alone.

With little hope to go on, imagine Nikki's good fortune when the local Federallies showed up to personally inform her that the boat Victor was thought to be aboard had washed up on shore and the news about Victor wasn't good. It rarely is.

Calling her goofy son again, Nick Newman had finally got off his ass and was aboard a plane when the call came in. Nikki said that Victor was "presumed dead" because she, nor the Federallies, or anyone else it sees was aware that Victor had disguised himself before taking over the role of captain of the ship which it might be safe to say was not the Minnow.

We're told that this time it'll be "different" than the other times. Last time there was the burned out shell of a Mercedes and little else. This time there is "concrete evidence" that he's dead. Unless Walter Palin had Victor fitted for cinder block shoes, maybe cut of his middle finger and sent it to the family, don't expect any definitive identifying body parts.

The family, of course, will cope. The Newman kids will fret. Nick, and Victoria Hellstrom were written out of the will leaving Victor Adam Newman the beneficiary with the most to gain.

So, as the world awaits the outcome, there will be other pressing events to consider. Like the Cane Ashby/Chloe Mitchell/Lily Winters love triangle. Secrets and lies will be revealed. It won't be what we expect because we fully expect Lily and Cane were meant to be together.

Daniel Romalotti was meant to be an "artist". There was never any indication a year ago that Daniel could craw more than stick people in crayon, but now he's replaced Van Gogh. With his tin ear, Devon Hamilton would have been the better choice, but that's another story. A hunk in demand, Daniel has his own love triangle. Who to choose? The baby Colleen Carlton, or the hot in bed, much older Amber Moore.

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Brent's coffee courtesy of Speeder & Earls, Burlington, VT.