>> Hope: Liam...
what are you saying? >> Liam: I don't...
I d-I don't know. I'm just-I'm just...
[exhales] I'm just thinking like
everything we've been through, you know, all the...the
heartache and the pain and the good stuff, the love and the
joy... you look at it all, and you're
like... did we really
go through all that...
...to live our lives apart? ♪♪♪
>> Steffy: You probably think I'm overreacting worrying about
Mom, but it would give me peace of mind if you were just there
for her. Look, I know that something's
off with her and she just needs a...a little
extra love. >> Ridge: What are you asking
me? I will always be there for your mom.
You know what she means to me.
>> Brooke: Hi. >> Ridge: Hey.
>> Brooke: Is everything all right?
>> Ridge: It is now that you're here.
Hey. >> Brooke: Hi. I meant is
everything all right with Taylor?
Couldn't help but overhear. [phone rings]
>> Ridge: Oh. That's her now. It's, uh, it's your mom.
Hey, [exhales] Doc, hi. >> Taylor: Hi. I'm, uh, I'm so
glad you picked up. Um, are you available?
>> Ridge: No, I'm just here with Steffy and Brooke.
We were talking about you. >> Taylor: Not about my--
>> Ridge: No. Not about that. >> Taylor: Well, um, I'm at
Steffy's. Do you think you could stop by?
>> Ridge: I'll be right over. >> Taylor: Thank you.
I'll see you soon.
>> Steffy: Is Mom okay? >> Ridge: Yeah, she's fine.
Um, I'm gonna go see her. >> Brooke: Right now?
>> Ridge: Yeah. I'll be right back.
♪♪♪
>> Hope: Okay, um...[laughs] I am surprised that your mind is
going... well, I'm not even sure where,
exactly...it is going. >> Liam: Is that surprising?
>> Hope: [laughs] >> Liam: I don't know, it's me,
right? I'm kinda surprised... I haven't had these thoughts
sooner. It's just that [stammers].
We're still... we're still connected, right?
We're still us, you know. We're still Beth's parents.
We're still friends.
You ever think we just gave up too soon?
>> Hope: Oh, what I would have given to have heard that years
ago. But now...
>> Liam: Yeah, it's-it's too late, I know.
I'm sure you've... you've got someone
in your life? >> Hope: Uh...
Uh, I mean, no, not exactly. Not yet.
>> Liam: Hope, I don't, um... I don't think Finn is ever gonna
leave Steffy. >> Hope: No. No!
>> Liam: Oh. >> Hope: No, I--[huffs]
I know I can't be with Finn, obviously.
>> Liam: I miss you.
Um... yeah, I miss you.
♪♪♪ >> Brooke: You know what that
was all about? >> Steffy: With my father, you
mean? >> Brooke: Yeah. It's kinda
strange, don't you think? Your mom calls and your dad
rushes right out of here. >> Steffy: Doesn't seem strange
to me. >> Brooke: Is there something
going on? >> Steffy: With my mom?
Honestly, I don't-I don't know. >> Brooke: Really.
I didn't just walk in on you telling your father how worried
you are about her. >> Steffy: Okay, yeah, I-I am
worried about my mother. I don't want her to leave
Los Angeles, and I'm gonna do everything in my power to make
sure she stays here. So, yes, I encourage my father
to spend some time with her, urging him to communicate just
how much we need her in our lives.
♪♪♪
>> Ridge: Got here as fast as I Could.
>> Taylor: Thank you. I-I didn't mean for you to leave
work. I'm sure you have more important
things to do. >> Ridge: Nothing more important
than you right now. So what's happening? You're
having more symptoms, or-- >> Taylor: No. No, nothing new.
I'm just, uh... I'm just having a hard time
accepting this--this, like, new diagnosis.
♪♪♪
>> Brooke: Look, I don't wanna start an argument, but I do need
to be clear. My relationship with your father
is just as important as yours with Finn.
>> Steffy: As far as I can tell, your relationship is getting a
lot of respect. Hey, it's not like anyone's
kissing Dad at family events, right?
>> Brooke: Well, that's true. But you are pushing him to hang
out with your mother, spend more time with her.
>> Steffy: [whispers] Oh my God. >> Brooke: So I have to question
your intentions. >> Steffy: I am not trying to
bring them back together, Brooke.
>> Brooke: Well, consciously or not, it just feels like you're
undermining my relationship with your father.
I'm just sensing kind of an old pattern here,
and with your mother as well. She's making all these excuses
to hang out with him. Just need to know that I am the
woman in Ridge's life. He is committed to me.
And the sooner your mom realizes that--the sooner you realize
that--the better. ♪♪♪
>> Taylor: It's just, you know, it's the last thing I expected
to hear when Grace said broken heart syndrome?
>> Ridge: It's scary. I get it. Never heard of it before.
It's just such a weird thing to call something, you know, but
it's still better than what you heard before--heart failure.
At least it's not that. >> Taylor: Yeah, yeah, no, I
know, I know. And even though my reaction was
otherwise, I am relieved. But still, it's just-it's a lot
to wrap my head around. Especially given I'm a doctor.
I mean, I know this disease. >> Ridge: Emotions can really
affect you physically. I mean, as a doctor, you know
that. And as a doctor, you know that
sometimes the best way to help with that is to be surrounded by
family and-and talk to them. So why don't you do that?
>> Taylor: Ridge. >> Ridge: Why don't you talk to
your children? I mean that's-- why not?
>> Taylor: No. We've been through this.
>> Ridge: We have not been through this at all--this is
different, this is new information.
It's not fatal, so why don't you talk to Steffy and Thomas and
give them a chance to help you through this, make you better?
I'm not gonna say anything if you don't want me to--
>> Taylor: No. Not the kids. That's how I want it.
Not anyone. Please. Including Brooke.
What, you've--no. You've already told her?
>> Ridge: No, I have not told her. No, and I don't like it.
I don't like keeping things from her, but it's your story, so--
[sighs] I'm here for you, all right?
♪♪♪ >> Liam: I just think do you
ever wonder what it would have been like for us--not even us--
for-for-for Beth if we just--[laughs]...
made different choices, you know, and stayed together.
>> Hope: [laughs] I mean, yeah, I thought about it, but Liam, I
mean, everything that we have been through--
>> Liam: I know a lot and it's even a lot to think about.
There were so many-- [sighs]
so many painful moments, so many obstacles.
You know, we-- look at us.
We survived thinking that our daughter had died.
The hell we were in. And-and still, we-we made it
through together. I mean, do we really...
Do we really let that go?
Do you think we... even had to?
>> Hope: Liam, just say it.
Why are you here? What are you asking?
>> Liam: I'm asking if you...
...would ever try again. ♪♪♪
>> Ridge: Here you go.
So what does this one do? >> Taylor: Mmm. Helps lower my
blood pressure and fight inflammation, and this one helps
slow my heartrate. >> Ridge: Okay. But-but no, uh,
no surgery at all, right? >> Taylor: No.
There's no surgery for this. It's not-it's not like a heart
attack. There's no arteries to fix.
Grace said she'll do another echocardiogram in four to six
weeks, and hopefully we'll see some improvement.
It's kind of a waiting game. >> Ridge: Yeah, but maybe we
could do more than wait. Maybe we can find a way to...
dig a little deeper and see what happened and make sure it
doesn't happen again. >> Taylor: Well, I can
definitely see the benefit of that, but it's just difficult
to know what triggered it. I didn't have a traumatic
accident, I wasn't shocked by a recent death.
I haven't experienced intense fear like, I don't know, being
held up at gunpoint or something?
None of the sudden, emotional stressors.
>> Ridge: Okay, so that's what I'm saying--maybe we can dig a
little deeper and see what we can come up with.
I mean, I, um... Okay, I made some phone calls,
and I may have found someone that could help us if-if you
would consider that-- help you mend your broken heart.
♪♪♪ >> Steff: It is so interesting
to me that you want your relationship to be respected
with my father, but didn't my mom ask that of you all those
years ago with my father when they were married?
Look, what I don't understand is that there's been so much time.
Like, why do you care that my mom and dad are hanging out now?
>> Brooke: It just bothers me that you're pushing them
together. >> Steffy: I am not pushing them
together, Brooke. I am trying to get my father to
convince her to stay in Los Angeles.
>> Brooke: Okay. Even if that were true, you still need to
respect Ridge and me. >> Steffy: Oh, my goodness.
All this talk about respect is wild.
You know, there is one person in this building who has zero
respect, and that's your daughter Hope.
>> Brooke: Hope made a mistake. She feels horrible about what
happened, and she's committed to never doing it again.
>> Steffy: Oh, she's definitely not.
Look, I think she just needs somebody else in her life...
someone to distract her. >> Brooke: [sighs]
Well, I mean, it doesn't have to be somebody new.
It could be somebody from her past.
Like...Liam. Liam could be that new man in
Hope's life.
>> Liam: Okay, uh, I can see
you're a little thrown. That's your thrown face.
>> Hope: Yeah, maybe just a little.
>> Liam: Didn't the good outweigh the bad?
Didn't... didn't we have this...
this special thing?
>> Hope: We did. But for you to just...
come here to my work with pizza and then to tell me this out of
nowhere-- >> Liam: I'm not saying this
because I wanna reminisce about the good old days.
I'm saying this because of who I am now.
And it took a lotta work to get here.
But we're doing it, Hope. We're already doing it.
We're a family, we're friends, we're partners.
What if we just--what if we do it in reverse this time?
What if we start with our family and we just built something
beautiful from there? ♪♪♪
>> Taylor: Broken heart syndrome.
I'm a psychiatrist. I should have questioned my
first diagnosis more. >> Ridge: You listened to your
doctor in Europe--why would you question him?
>> Taylor: I mean, people who've had anxiety or depression may
be at higher risk--I knew that. >> Ridge: You depressed now?
Were you depressed? What-- >> Taylor: It should have been
on my radar. >> Ridge: There it is.
Put guilt on top of everything else--that makes it so much
better. Nice work, Doc. >> Taylor: I don't know that I'd
call it... depression,
but I can't deny all the pain that I've carried around all
these years. The times that we were together
as a family were the best of my life.
Phoebe's gone. You know, Steffy and Thomas have
lives of their own, and sometimes I feel like...
I just don't know where I belong.
>> Ridge: That's easy. Right here. With your family.
♪♪♪
>> Brooke: Oh. Hi, Carter. >> Carter: Any work getting done
here? >> Brooke: Uh, did you overhear
us? >> Carter: Yeah. Yeah, talking
about Hope and Liam. >> Brooke: Yeah, well, I could
see that. >> Steffy: I really just want
Hope to find a new man. >> Carter: Hey, I think that'd
be best. There's a lotta baggage with
Liam and it would be nice if she found someone new...
leave the past in the past. >> Steffy: Carter, has she said
anything to you? I-I don't mean to put you on the
spot or anything. I know that you work closely
with her--I just wanna know if she's confided in you.
>> Brooke: Uh, no offense, Carter, but I think she would
confide in me first, 'cause I am her mom, and she does share
everything with me, so... But you're right.
You're right about the baggage. Hope and Liam have gone through
a lot, but they had a wonderful relationship and they share a
daughter together. >> Carter: Yeah, you know what?
My sense is telling me I should leave the speculation to you
two. I love talking about Hope's
future, but I think I should focus on Hope for the Future.
[chuckles] 'Scuse me.
♪♪♪ >> Liam: I was just thinking
about...Beth-- that's how it started--
and, um, how thrilled she'd be-- well, how thrilled she always is
when it's the three of us together.
She loves it--she loves it--and I do, too.
And it's not just about Beth. It's about you, it's about...
who you are and what you've had to suffer through and just...
the back and forth with me and Steffy...
...all those years, and you knew that I had a child with this
other person and you just had to accept a divided heart and
divided time. And I know--like, I knew, but I
didn't really know...
...how difficult that had to be for you for so long.
>> Hope: Thank you. For saying that.
It's nice to hear that... coming from you.
But Liam...
We've moved on. And the thought of revisiting
that-- >> Liam: I hear you.
It's okay. Um... >> Hope: [whispers] I'm sorry.
>> Liam: No, I-- As much as, uh, you know, your
fingers crossed you were on the same page, I-I-I knew it's-it's
a lot. It's asking maybe too much.
Um, and I'm good, um... I just want you to know how I
feel, and you do, and that's all that matters, so we're cool,
okay? We're good, we're good.
>> Hope: [whispers] Sorry. ♪♪♪
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