Xander: Zoe. You’re gonna have to explain to me what I just heard.
Zoe: I can’t.
Xander: Beth is alive? Hope and Liam’s little girl is alive? Why would you say that? I-I mean, is that why you’ve been so upset? Look, you know you can tell me anything, so just tell me what’s going on.
Hope: Hey. I didn’t wake them?
Steffy: N-no, no. No, we just got through breakfast and bath time, and now everyone’s pretty tired.
Hope: Aww. Well, I don’t need to disturb them. Are you settling back in?
Steffy: Uh, yeah. Just some empty suitcases and a mountain of laundry.
Hope: Um… are any of the guest rooms made up? You know where things stand with Liam and me, and I think this might be the night.
Steffy: For…?
Hope: The night when it would help if you allowed Liam to move back in.
Thomas: I hope I’m not overstepping. Kissing you. Telling you I love you. But, I mean, my cards are on the table, so there’s no sense in being coy.
Hope: You can’t have expectations of me.
Thomas: I don’t. Not beyond what you can give me right now. Ending things with Liam, that was a huge step for you. And I know it has to hurt. But it’s how everything can shake out for the good of the kids. Liam with Steffy, Kelly, and Phoebe, and you, me, and Douglas.
Hope: Look, Thomas —
Thomas: I know I’m getting ahead of you. But I have to believe that we’re gonna be in perfect sync one day. And I’ll do anything to make that happen. Ok everyone!
Wyatt: So, I promised you a date, didn’t I?
Flo: Yeah.
Wyatt: I-I mean, I could make good on that. Like, we can go to a-a restaurant, and see what bands are playing afterwards or something.
Flo: Okay.
Wyatt: Just — just okay? I thought you’d be more excited about that.
Flo: Well, normally I would, but — I don’t know — seeing as this is my new house and everything…
Wyatt: Right. You never want to lea–
Flo: Well, we are alone. And there is a huge chef’s kitchen that nobody is using.
Wyatt: Right. Yeah. You do not have to cook us dinner.
Flo: Oh, it could be fun, though.
Wyatt: Okay, fine. Dinner — dinner would be fun. Under one condition. Dessert is on me. Hmm?
Hope: A little Logan. How cool is that?
Steffy: It still blows my mind that Phoebe’s birth mother is your uncle’s daughter. But it kind of makes sense.
Hope: Because of how attached I’ve been?
Steffy: You’re genetically linked. It’s nice that you two have that bond.
Hope: It’s amazing. We’ll always be a part of each other thanks to Flo.
Hope: Well, I’ll come back when you’re not busy.
Brooke: Oh, no, no. Heh. This isn’t busy. Oh! Ridge said that Steffy’s coming back in town today.
Hope: Yeah, I’m — I’m happy she’s home with the girls. Liam missed them a lot. So did I. Actually, um, Liam, uh, should be with them right now.
Brooke: Oh. You didn’t want to go?
Hope: It felt right to let them have their own reunion.
Brooke: It’s a homecoming. It’s not a reunion. What is it? Is something wrong?
Brooke: Honey, you’ve got to stop thinking this way.
Hope: What way? Putting the children first, taking care of their needs?
Brooke: Breaking up your marriage isn’t taking care of the kids.
Hope: How could you say that? I would be giving Kelly and Phoebe their father.
Brooke: Liam isn’t Phoebe’s father.
Hope: Well, it’s as close to one as she can have. And if Steffy and Liam get back together, then…
Brooke: Liam is a fine father, as is. And he would be with the woman that he loves, the woman that he’s married to — you.
Hope: But it could be so much more.
Brooke: Oh, honey.
Hope: Mom! It is better for the girls if Liam is there full-time, and it’s — it’s not just better for them. It’s better for Douglas, too. You know, I — I would be more available if Liam went back to Steffy.
Brooke: And — and, what, you’d be in a loveless relationship with Thomas? That wouldn’t be good for Douglas! Not at all. Honey, you can still be there for Douglas. You can be a mother figure. You don’t have to sacrifice your marriage. Liam is the man that you are meant to be with, not Thomas.
Flo: I don’t know, mom. I am just having a really hard time with all of this. I-I can’t stop thinking about Hope and everything that I was involved in.
Shauna: Honey, Hope is so happy that you’re part of the family. And she gave you an incredible opportunity at Forrester. Plus, we’re living in this incredible mansion. You’re allowed to enjoy all of this.
Flo: How can I, mom? How?
Shauna: How can you not? Baby, you have so much to be excited about. You heard Quinn. She really thinks that there’s a real chance for you and Wyatt.
Hope: It’s almost as if Caroline knew the — the woman she describes.
Thomas: Read it again.
Hope: “But if something happens to me and I can’t be there for Douglas, I have a dream that there’s a woman out there that needs a child, who needs my son as much as he needs her.” I mean, that — that gives me chills. And then there’s this — there’s, um, “a woman who will bring him love, as he will bring her love. That is my hope for my son’s future.” I feel like Caroline wrote this about me. That I’m the woman she had in mind.
Thomas: I can see how you’d read it that way.
Hope: When did she write this?
Thomas: I can’t tell. I mean, based on some of the other things in the box, a couple years after Douglas was born, if you can go by that.
Hope: She wrote this just in case. But then the unthinkable happens. I lose my baby. And then Caroline is taken away from us, leaving Douglas without a mother. And now you’re both here. It’s like…Caroline knew.
Thomas: She knew?
Hope: All of it. The future.
Liam: So, I just talked to Steffy.
Wyatt: Yeah?
Liam: Uh, she and the girls should be home any day now.
Wyatt: That’s great.
Liam: Yeah.
Wyatt: Yeah. I’m — I mean, I can’t even imagine how much you miss them, especially after I had to pull you away from your visit.
Liam: Well, I mean, who knew what Thomas really had in mind when he said “Oh, Hope’s gonna be in good hands” while I was in Europe. Thanks for the heads up, by the way.
Wyatt: Of course. I just — I can’t believe he honestly thought he could get away with it. I mean, using how much you miss your girls to, like, twist that somehow into convincing Hope that — that Thomas and Douglas are better suited for her. It’s — it’s just ridiculous.
Liam: 100%. The guy’s not even trying to hide it. He’s full on making a play for my wife.
