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>> Liam: Where -- Where's Kelly?

Where's Kelly? Is that...?

[ Steffy laughs ]

There you -- Wait.

There you are!

>> Steffy: Yeah, we're home!

Paris was amazing,

but we're home.

>> Liam: Yeah, I know.

And I'm so happy.

Your daddy missed you so much.

>> Steffy: You love being in

Daddy's arms, don't you?

>> Liam: [ Chuckles ]

[ Lawnmower whirring ]

>> Hope: Hey, Mom.

>> Brooke: Oh, hey, honey.

>> Hope: Are those invitations?

Are we hosting something?

>> Brooke: Oh, no.

So many people sent condolences

about Caroline, and Thomas

finished writing his thank-you

notes, and he didn't have

everybody's address, so

I'm helping.

>> 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?

[ Cellphone chimes ]

>> Ridge: All right.

Steffy and the girls

are home safe.

>> Thomas: That's great.

>> Ridge: Cannot wait to see my

granddaughters.

[ Chuckles ]

Okay. What were we doing?

>> Thomas: You were about to be

honest with me.

Tell me what you think.

>> Ridge: Well, I think these

are very good.

Have you shown them to Hope?

>> Thomas: Eh, some of them.

Her attention's been divided

lately.

I want to make sure that,

whenever she puts the past few

months behind her, she's got

a collection ready to go for

Hope For The Future.

>> Ridge: Mm-hmm.

And she'll have you.

That's the plan, right?

>> Thomas: [ Sighs ]

Sure. She'll have me.

>> Ridge: And she'll have even

more of you when Liam is gone.

Right?

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>> Thomas: Let me put it this

way -- Hope knows her husband

better than we do.

>> Ridge: I'm sure that's true.

>> Thomas: So, what Hope wants,

and believes that Liam needs

most, whether he'll say it out

loud or not, i-is to be

under the same roof,

raising those two girls with

Steffy.

Do you disagree?

I didn't think so.

>> Liam: How'd they do on the

flight?

>> Steffy: Yeah, they --

They were good.

Takeoff and landing

were a little rough.

>> Liam: Yeah.

Well, 11 hours in the air.

I'm sure you're wiped.

Do you -- you can, um...

You can, like, go take a nap.

I can watch them if you want.

>> Steffy: Oh, thanks.

But I'm too excited to be home.

The girls will want to nap

once their bellies are full.

And thanks for picking us up

at the airport.

>> Liam: Sure.

>> Steffy: You know, I can --

I can take it from here.

>> Liam: Uh, well, you know,

I -- I can still stick around.

I can help you --

you get them down.

>> Steffy: Oh, it's --

it's fine.

I got a system.

>> Liam: I know.

>> Steffy: You just don't want

to let Phoebe go, huh?

>> Liam: Maybe partly.

>> Steffy: Is something else on

your mind?

>> Liam: Something kind of big.

>> Hope: It's pretty crazy,

isn't it?

After everything Steffy and I

have been through, we've become

friends.

>> Brooke: I would call it a

testimony to your character.

>> Hope: And hers.

>> Brooke: All right.

>> Hope: Steffy is a wonderful

mother.

She's a leader at

Forrester Creations, and she

brought Phoebe into all of our

lives.

And wanting what's best for her

family is...

It's what finally pushed me

to decide.

>> Brooke: Decide what?

>> Hope: I told Liam I am

ending our marriage.

>> Ridge: Hey.

I hear you. I do.

I-I just don't --

I don't know --

>> Thomas: How to take a

position.

I-I get it, Dad. Heh...

I mean, your son, your daughter,

your step-daughter, your --

your grandkids, your wife.

You love us all.

You want to do right by us all.

>> Ridge: [ Scoffs ] Yeah.

Thomas, not a day goes by

when -- when I don't wish a

better life for your sister.

>> Thomas: [ Sighs ]

>> Ridge: When I don't wish that

somebody would be there for

Steffy, to have her back.

So when you come up with this

idea of -- of repositioning

people in her universe, yeah,

I'm -- I like it.

It appeals to me.

But as a father, as a husband,

I've learned some things over

the years.

People don't listen.

They don't want advice

on their relationships.

They don't want you to tell them

what the right thing is.

They just want to do

what feels right.

There's no logic to it.

>> Thomas: Okay, but Hope knows

what she wants.

She's said it again and again.

She wants Liam and Steffy

to reconcile their relationship

and be there for the kids,

and she wants a steady,

nurturing woman there in

Douglas' life now that

Caroline's gone.

I mean --

>> Ridge: Yeah, no, it's --

It's very clean. It's very nice.

>> Thomas: [ Sighs ]

>> Ridge: And where does

Liam fit in?

What -- what about his

feelings for his wife?

And where do you fit in?

What about you?

Are -- are you gonna be there,

and Hope is gonna lean on you?

Has she made any indication

that that's gonna happen?

>> Brooke: Oh, honey.

You can't keep doing this to

Liam.

Hasn't he proven to you over and

over again that he has no

intention of leaving you?

>> Hope: He has.

>> Brooke: Okay.

Well, then, have a little

faith in him.

And in the future.

You're not always gonna feel the

way you do now.

>> Hope: Yeah, people keep

telling me that, and I keep

letting them talk me out of what

I know is the right decision.

[ Sighs ]

I love Liam just as much

as the day I married him.

But the circumstances of our

life have changed.

Things we can't control.

And that's just...

That's just the way it is.

You know, I'm -- I'm never

going to have another child.

>> Brooke: Honey, you don't know

that.

You're young, and you are

healthy, and you may want to

have a child someday.

>> Hope: I won't.

>> Brooke: Did you talk to Liam

about this?

>> Hope: I did.

And [Inhales sharply] he finally

understood that it's not just

the grief talking.

That continuing our lives

together with the same dreams

and the same promises as if

nothing has changed when

everything has is just --

it's too much.

And it's wrong

to keep allowing everyone else

to suffer because of my loss.

And I can't do it anymore.

I refuse to put my own needs and

desires ahead of the children.

>> Steffy: Oh, it's --

it's okay.

Kelly's gonna be down

for the count.

She did more looking out

the window than sleeping

on the plane.

>> Liam: [ Chuckles ] Oh, yeah?

What about Phoebe? How was she?

>> Steffy: You saw her in Paris.

That girl can nod out anywhere.

If she got enough sleep at

30,000 feet, she'll let us know.

>> Liam: [ Chuckles ]

This is nice.

You know, just being here.

Doing things with you and the

girls.

>> Steffy: Oh, uh, I forgot.

You had something to tell me.

Let me guess --

You went back to work for Bill.

>> Liam: Uh, no.

>> Steffy: Oh, sorry.

I just thought, since

Wyatt went back...

>> Liam: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Steffy: It's Hope. [ Sighs ]

How is she doing?

Is she okay?

>> Liam: Hope is, uh --

she's -- she's...

Well, she's getting her

sense of direction back.

>> Steffy: Oh, that's good.

That's good.

I'm glad to hear it.

>> Liam: Yeah.

Except the direction

she wants to take is

away from me and our marriage.

>> Thomas: You know how I feel

about Hope.

And -- and so does she.

But it's kind of irrelevant

now that she's in crisis.

>> Ridge: Hope being in crisis

seems to be the new normal.

But hey, maybe you're right.

Maybe seeing things from your

perspective is a good thing.

[ Sighs ] But --

>> Thomas: But?

>> Ridge: Hope loves her

husband.

You can't dispute that.

>> Thomas: She does.

But she sees herself as a thief,

stealing a father from his

children.

She's not gonna have any.

>> Ridge: [ Laughs ]

Wow. What is that?

You're a shrink now?

Did you learn that

from your mother?

>> Thomas: [ Sighs angrily ]

>> Ridge: I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to be dismissive,

I just -- I don't --

>> Thomas: Good.

Because I may not have

special training, but I know

how to listen to Hope.

Which is apparently more than

Liam can do.

>> Ridge: Just because Hope and

Liam don't have a child

doesn't mean that their

marriage is over.

And if childlessness is an issue

for Hope, then she needs to work

through that.

>> Ridge: Being a mother to

someone else's kid

can't be the answer.

>> Brooke: I know you believe

that you're thinking clearly

and unselfishly.

But what about the promises

that you made to Liam?

The dream of a lifetime

together?

You don't get married on the

condition that things are going

to work out exactly as planned.

Marriage is unconditional.

>> Hope: Okay, I am not saying

this to hurt or shame you...

but how many of your marriages

were?

>> Brooke: [ Sighs ]

>> Hope: You know, the idea of

marriage, that's one thing.

But real life is another.

You don't just magically turn

into someone else after your

ceremony.

You're still the same person.

You know, having the same

fears and dreams that led you

to that moment.

>> Brooke: You're right, honey.

>> Hope: And some dreams

can't come true.

And my body failed me

on the way to mine, but Liam --

he can still have his dream.

And Steffy can, too.

And the only thing in the

way of that is me.

>> Brooke: Have you asked

yourself why?

>> Hope: Why what?

>> Brooke: Why you're in the

way, as you put it?

Because Liam still loves you.

And his dream is to be with you.

It wouldn't be his dream

if you weren't in it,

sweetheart.

I think the only thing in the

way here is your fear

of not being enough.

But you are enough.

And you can't take away

his dream of wanting

to be with you.

And I-I don't believe

you want to, honey.

>> Steffy: Still?

>> Liam: Still.

>> Steffy: Whoa.

I thought my time away would be

good for Hope.

No comparing her life to mine,

no worrying about the girls.

A break from feeling that you

should be here with us instead.

>> Liam: Yeah.

I mean, that -- yeah.

I thought so, too.

But it seems to have had the

opposite effect, being away from

Phoebe.

Because you -- you remember how

Hope was with Phoebe, right,

how it gave her peace of mind?

Well, that was really

the only happiness she ever got

to have since...

And now, children are just

a forbidden subject for us,

with one exception --

Douglas.

>> Steffy: I wondered if the two

of them would hit it off.

>> Liam: They did.

It's -- they're great.

I mean, he -- he just loves her.

And the feeling is mutual,

and I think --

I think Douglas gives all of

Hope's pent-up maternal

instincts someplace to go.

The -- the problem is Thomas.

And I --

I know he's your brother.

I know you love him.

But the guy's got his own

agenda.

And all I can offer Hope

is myself as a husband.

What Thomas is offering her is

this little family that -- that

Hope has convinced herself that

she and I will never, ever have.

>> Steffy: Yeah, Thomas can be

full of himself and pushy, but

he can take no for an answer.

>> Liam: What if that's not the

answer she gave him?

>> Steffy: Liam, she's loved you

for so long.

>> Liam: Yeah, well...

When the person you tried to

build a life with keeps telling

you over and over again that

they don't want to be with you

anymore, it, uh...

It starts to sink in.

>> Ridge: Son, you can't look at

this like it's a giant puzzle,

where you just take one piece

from somewhere and hope that it

fits somewhere else.

>> Thomas: That's a cold way

to think about it.

>> Ridge: I'm not -- I'm not

trying to do that at all.

Just, you look at the world...

[ Sighs ]

...in a very traditional way.

You think that family is a unit

that makes up society,

and I guess --

I guess that's true.

But what about the individual?

What about their happiness

and their fulfillment?

Do you think you can

give that to Hope?

>> Thomas: Well, I-I think

that's for Hope to decide.

But all I know is that

she is very drawn to Douglas,

and I'm drawn to her.

>> Brooke: Are you seriously

telling me you can just turn off

the feelings that you've had for

Liam for so many years

and just walk away?

>> Hope: I will never love any

man the way I love Liam.

I know that.

But I also know what he wants

out of life, and I can't --

[Voice breaking] I can't give

that to him anymore.

We know that now.

>> Brooke: No, no.

You don't know that.

>> Hope: Yeah, but he can have

it with Steffy and his daughter.

And Phoebe, too.

And when you love someone, and

you can't give them what they

need, what is the most loving

thing that you can do for them?

>> Brooke: Honey, if you do

this, you're going to make a

terrible mistake.

>> Hope: The only mistake I made

was going to Catalina.

If Beth were here,

things would be different.

But the reality is, there are

two girls who need a father,

and there's a young boy who's

yearning for a mother.

>> Brooke: Oh, Hope --

>> Hope: I need

to put Kelly first.

I need to put Phoebe first, and

I need to put Douglas first.

It's the only way I can

live with myself.

You know, it's the only way

I can make sense of the tragedy

of losing Beth.

>> Brooke: Oh, honey...

>> Steffy: Are you telling me

you're giving up?

>> Liam: I-I want what's best

for Hope, but the more I fight

for our marriage, the more it

feels like I'm tormenting her,

and the more she accuses me

of not respecting her wishes,

and it's just like...

Maybe Hope's right, you know?

Maybe love is just not

a sturdy enough foundation

to build a life on.

Maybe it's not.

>> Steffy: You don't

believe that.

>> Liam: We don't lack for love,

Hope and I.

And yet, things just keep

falling apart.

[ Phoebe cries ]

>> Liam: Oh, well, you called

it -- Phoebe wants attention,

not sleep.

>> Steffy: Yeah, yeah.

I'll -- I'll be right back.

>> Liam: No, let me do it.

Let me do it.

>> Steffy: [ Sighs ]

>> Liam: Yeah, I know.

Oh, good call.

Thank you.

Hey, baby.

>> Steffy: Look, I-I know you

don't need me to say this, but

I never wanted to see your

marriage end.

>> Liam: I know.

>> Steffy: Yeah, I-I made peace

with the thought of you and Hope

living happily ever after

together.

>> Liam: It's funny.

I-I don't, um...

I don't know what the future

looks like anymore.

Maybe that's how Hope felt

after we lost Beth.

>> Steffy: Well, just know that

you have two little girls here

who need you and love you.

[ Phoebe exclaims ]

Isn't that right?

>> Liam: Yeah.

>> Steffy: [ Chuckles ]

Look, I'm -- I'm just gonna say

this -- you can spend as much

time as you want with them.

Put all your energy into Phoebe

and Kelly.

>> Liam: I'd like that.

I'm still, um...

still kind of trying to process

my marriage with Hope ending.

But, um...

I'm really glad

you guys are home.

I-I just -- I missed you all,

you know?

And, uh...

I don't know.

Maybe Hope's been right all

along.

Maybe the solution is just

so simple.

You just -- you just put your

energy and your focus into

what's best for the children.

And, I mean, when I'm here,

and I look at them,

it's like I don't want to leave.

>> Steffy: Nothing melts my

heart more than seeing you

with the girls.

They don't take to anyone else

the way they take to you.

I meant what I said.

Come here whenever you want.

The door is always open.

Where you choose to sleep at

night, that's up to you.

But just know...

this will always be your home.

♪♪

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