By the hardest, The Young and the Restless’ Cane has fought his way onto Victor’s chessboard, and though he’s a long way from putting the Black Knight in check, much less checkmate, he’s also not about to throw in the towel. “He has a huge game plan,” executive producer/headwriter Josh Griffith tells Soaps.com. And neither Victor nor anyone else can be entirely sure of Cane’s motives. “The question that everyone will be asking is, is this [all] to win something back, or is this pure revenge? Always.”

Visit Advertiser websiteGO TO PAGENow that Cane’s reveal as Aristotle Dumas is in rearview, the plot just continues to thicken. “All of our major players will find themselves caught in his web for most of the summer,” says the scribe. Whether they’ll all make it back out of his web remains to be seen. Cane is sure that an attempt is about to be made on his life, but he isn’t necessarily the one who’ll be shipped back to the States from France in an urn. (Right, [Spoiler]?)

One thing about which we can be sure is that while Victor may take a licking, he’ll keep on ticking. “He meets a very worthy adversary” in Cane, Griffith says, but “I don’t think Victor ever will lose. He will always win.

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“He may face challenges, he may seem to stumble, but the great thing about Victor is that he always then reveals that he’s been five steps ahead the whole time.”

No kidding. Just check out all of the foes Victor has stared down — and taken down — in our new photo gallery. And get a sneak peek at what next week holds in store in our brand-new preview photo gallery below.