Matt Clark (Y&R)

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Matt Clark (aka Carter Mills) was a fictional character on the highly rated daytime serial The Young And The Restless. The role was originated by actor Eddie Cibrian from 1994 to 1996. In July 2000, the part was recast with Russell Lawrence, and in October the same year, Matt was again recast, this time with Rick Hearst. Hearst left the show in November 2001.

Contents 1 Character 2 Family, marriages and romantic entanglements 2.1 Parents 2.2 Romantic entanglements 2.3 Crimes committed

[edit] Character

Matt was a high school senior dating Sharon Collins (Sharon Case) when he was first introduced. Nicholas Newman (Joshua Morrow) ended up stealing Sharon away from Matt, who hated Nick and called him "Rich Boy". Nick and Matt got into a physical fight, with Matt ultimately winning, and Nick's father Victor (Eric Braeden) swore he would teach his son to box. To get even, Matt raped Sharon. Sharon told no one but a therapist, who tried to help her deal with it. Nick's former girlfriend, Amy Wilson (Julianne Morris), began dating Matt, even though Sharon confided that Matt had raped her. When Sharon and Nick beat out Amy and Matt as queen and king of the high school senior Polynesian dance, Matt again took revenge. He told Nick that Sharon had given up a baby for adoption when she was 16. Nick didn't believe him and they got into another fist fight, both ending up injured. Sharon admitted to Nick that it was all true, and Nick understood eventually.

Sharon and Nick were about to get married when Sharon admitted that Matt had raped her. Nick raced to Matt's apartment only to find him on the floor in a pool of blood. The police arrested Nick, who thought Sharon did it. When Matt came to, he said that Nick was the one who shot him. Nick was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Sharon and the Newman family were devastated. Victor tracked down Amy, who was suffering from a serious trauma. He was convinced it was caused by something that happened the night Matt was shot. Upon seeing Matt, Amy remembered she had shot him after he raped her. Matt fled, Nick was released from prison, and Sharon and Nick married.

Four years later, Matt Clark returned to town under the alias "Carter Mills", disguised by plastic surgery, and got a job at Nick and Sharon's coffee house, Crimson Lights. He teamed up with Nick's old cellmate Larry Warton (David "Shark" Fralick), both bent on revenge, plus Matt wanted Sharon for himself. Carter drugged Tricia McNeil (Sabryn Genet) into sleeping with him, and used her to help set up Nick and put him in jail for selling drugs. Carter became a trusted employee whom they even considered as manager of their next franchise, and Sharon's confidante while Nick was in jail. One evening Carter was invited to dinner at their home, so he arranged for Nick to be very late. While waiting for Nick to arrive, Carter put a date rape drug in Sharon's margarita. Nick arrived just in time as Carter was about to rape the semi-conscious Sharon. Thinking she had drunk too much, Nick sent Carter home and helped Sharon to bed. Weeks later, Tricia caught Carter attempting to rape Sharon at a cabin in the woods where he lured her, but Victor arrived and sent him running. Tricia picked Carter up and drove off a cliff expecting to kill them both. She survived with cuts and bruises, but the evil Carter had severe injuries and was expected to die. Carter deliberately pulled out his breathing tube, committing suicide to make Nick look like a murderer. With his dying words, he viciously told Nick that he had raped Sharon on "margarita night." But Nick was exonerated by the testimony of Tricia and Larry Warton.

[edit] Family, marriages and romantic entanglements

[edit] Parents

Unknown

[edit] Romantic entanglements

• Sharon Newman
• Amy Wilson
• Tricia Dennison McNeil

[edit] Crimes committed

• Raped Sharon Newman, Amy Wilson, Tricia Dennison McNeil
• Framed Nicholas Newman for shooting him, for selling drugs and for his own murder