The Young and the Restless spoilers: Kyle and Audra’s trainwreck night at Aristotle Dumas’ party?

If you’re like us, then you’re looking forward to The Young and the Restless episode airing on Friday, June 13. That’s the day the mysterious business tycoon, Aristotle Dumas, is set to kick off his big party at his French home. Having invited nearly all the power players in Genoa City, the shindig is likely to be a must-watch event for a few reasons.

First and foremost, it sounds as if this party will be the first opportunity that Genoa City residents and The Young and the Restless viewers get to meet the man behind Aristotle. Given Aristotle Dumas is clearly an alias and the real person has been trying to do business with Billy (Jason Thompson), has seemingly intimate knowledge of the Winters family and has a gripe with Victor (Eric Braeden), it would be nice to finally see Aristotle unmask himself. While we suspect the big reveal will show Aristotle is Cane (possibly now portrayed by Billy Flynn), we won’t know for sure until the moment happens.

We have a hunch that you’ll also want to tune into Aristotle’s big event, as it’s being held on Friday the 13th. Call it superstition, but that’s a day that many associate with horror and disaster. The date may be an overall bad omen and foreshadow chaos. If rumors circulating on social media are to be believed, it’s possible Aristotle’s event could lead to a murder mystery of some kind. Given Victor has amassed a lot of enemies over the last year in his quest to reignite feuds, he might have the biggest target on his back.

Now, thanks to The Young and the Restless episode airing on June 5, we also have another reason to look forward to Aristotle’s party. In the episode, Victor meets with Kyle (Michael Mealor) and shows him the contract he’s had drawn up based on Kyle’s offer to leave town and pay millions if he were to ever hurt Claire (Hayley Erin). Although Kyle initially wants to have his lawyers look it over, after Victor suggests that Kyle just wants his attorneys to find a loophole, Kyle signs the paperwork.

Scenes later, Victor meets with Audra (Zuleyka Silver) and chastises her for not making any progress in her plot to break up Kyle and Claire. Audra claims this is a process, and it would go quicker if she could get Kyle away from Claire for a little while. That’s when Audra suggests Victor score her and Kyle invitations to Aristotle’s party, believing it will be the perfect opportunity for her to achieve her goal.

With all that in mind, we have a feeling Audra will get more than she bargained for in France. We can imagine her going to France with the plan to get Kyle in a compromising position and recording the endeavor to make it appear as if Kyle was coming onto her; but instead, the two get so drunk and flirtatious at the party that they wind up willingly sleeping together. And worse off, someone like Phyllis (who is actively working to get an invite to the party) spots them and resorts to blackmailing them later. Phyllis loathes Audra, and she’s not been the biggest fan of how Kyle treated Summer (Allison Lanier), so blackmail is certainly possible.

If Kyle and Audra are left carrying around the secret of a French hookup, that instantly puts a clock on when the information gets out. When it does, Nate (Sean Dominic) would likely dump Audra, Claire would probably dump Kyle, and Kyle would be “forced” out of town. But hey, Audra didn’t sign a contract to depart Genoa City if she breaks a heart, but if word spreads that she cheated on Nate, Lily (Christel Khalil) might make it her mission to see to it that Audra leaves town for good.

New episodes of The Young and the Restless air weekdays on CBS. Episodes become available to stream on Paramount Plus the next day.