Photo Credit: CBS The Young and the Restless recent storyline featured Phyllis making Patty recall the time when she almost killed her daughter, Summer. At the time, Patty underwent plastic surgery and assumed a new identity, Mary Jane, to impress Jack. However, Phyllis was also interested in Jack, so she initially pretended to be her friend and even babysat Summer.
She then devised a plan to bring Phyllis and her ex-husband, Nick, back together, hoping to remove her as a romantic rival for Jack. Ultimately, driven by her obsession with winning Jack, Patty crossed a dangerous line and put Summer’s life at risk. Here’s what Patty did to Summer on The Young and the Restless At the Restless Style office one day, Summer wanted some cookies.
Noticing that they contained peanuts, which her daughter was dangerously allergic to, Phyllis threw them in the trash. While Phyllis was distracted, Patty retrieved the cookies from the garbage and bit into one, deliberately scattering crumbs across her lips. Mary Jane then tried to leave, but she first asked Summer for a goodbye kiss.
The innocent little girl happily kissed Mary Jane right on the lips. Moments later, Phyllis discovered her precious child passed out on the floor and became distraught. Phyllis frantically called 911 and contacted Nick to alert him to the situation.
As the paramedics worked to revive Summer, Phyllis realized that her daughter had eaten one of the cookies she had thrown away. At the hospital, Summer fell into a coma, and Nick and Phyllis begged her to wake up. Meanwhile, Mary Jane dropped hints to the district attorney, Heather Stevens, suggesting that Phyllis had deliberately exposed her daughter to peanuts to get Nick’s attention.
Soon after, authorities arrested a horrified Phyllis. Eventually, Phyllis and others, including Jack, began to suspect that it had been Mary Jane who had given Summer the cookie, but they could not figure out what the woman’s motive could possibly have been. Summer awoke from her coma, and tests showed that any brain damage from the experience was minimal and would likely resolve itself over time.
Meanwhile, Patty committed more crimes while trying to elude the police, and Victor, who had been Patty’s co-conspirator but was also Summer’s grandfather, put out a million-dollar reward for her capture. Eventually, police chief Paul Williams caught up to his sister and realized Mary Jane’s true identity. She confessed to causing Summer’s allergic reaction but insisted she had never meant to severely harm the girl.