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[mellow music plays]
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All right,
as per your instructions,
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I have sent the press release
to my niece.
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Good. It's only professional
to give Hope the heads up.
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There's nothing professional
about what's happening here.
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I certainly don't like
your tone.
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It's only the truth.
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Okay. What Hope did
was unprofessional, Katie.
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Come on.
Put yourself in my shoes.
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If there was a woman who was
making a play for your husband,
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and then you walked in
and she was in lingerie,
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what would you do?
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I would consider
that it was a misunderstanding.
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Oh, my goodness.
No, you would not.
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Hope has disrespected me and
my family far too many times.
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KATIE: Steffy, if you would
just for a moment--
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STEFFY: The topic is closed.
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Hope is no longer allowed here.
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What am I interrupting?
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I was just telling Katie
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that Hope is no longer
allowed to set foot
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inside of Forrester Creations.
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She's done.
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And there's nothing she
or anyone can do about it.
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CARTER: So we're doing this?
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[Hope exhales]
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You signed your name
on the dotted line,
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named yourself as the person
running the company.
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I mean, I do think
that is the first step.
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Yeah, but are we taking
another one?
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[exhales] Ohh.
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So you're saying that
if-if these are filed...
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that you will then be
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running Forrester Creations?
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I mean, Ridge and Steffy,
they still have to sign, but...
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You're sure they won't notice
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that anything is amiss
in these documents?
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No. Because they trust me
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to make sure everything's
in order.
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Hmm.
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Can I betray their trust?
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Are we taking over
Forrester Creations?
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[dramatic music plays]
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[door opens]
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Sorry for intruding.
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Looks like you just got back
from surfing.
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Yeah, I, uh, needed to cool off.
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I know why you're here.
Ridge was just here too.
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He was? Why?
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He wanted to talk about
how out of control Hope is.
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This is what you sent to her?
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I can only imagine what Hope
must be feeling right now.
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She's given so much of her life
to the company.
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-This'll be quite a blow to her.
-It's a blow to Forrester too.
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Hope chose
to go after my husband.
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Nobody forced her to do it.
Choices have consequences.
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[sighs] Yep. I just wish
none of this had ever happened.
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Sounds like your opinion of Hope
is shifting.
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You listening to Brooke?
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BROOKE: Hope hasn't been
out of control.
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She made one mistake
at Eric's party, and that's it.
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Yeah, well, it's a pretty big
mistake, Brooke,
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and my wife seems to
think so too.
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Okay. Well, she apologized
several times,
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said it would never happen
again, and it hasn't.
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But it did. She threw herself at
me wearing nothing but lingerie.
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What happened
in the design office
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was an unfortunate accident.
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No offense, Brooke,
but there's no possible way
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you can know what happened--
you weren't there.
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Hope pinned me to the desk.
Steffy walked in.
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How do you expect Steffy
to react?
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[sighs] You and Steffy
are wrong.
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It's all a misunderstanding.
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Hope is not interested
in you, Finn.
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Are you sure you should be
reading that again?
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I guess a part of me
still can't believe it.
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It's just a few sentences
and poof, you know,
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my legacy is gone.
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Steffy finally got
what she wanted.
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She didn't waste any time.
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It's like everything that
I've contributed to Forrester,
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all of my hard work,
it just, it meant...
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nothing.
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And you have a right to feel
wronged and disrespected.
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[sighs] So do you.
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Yeah, but, uh...
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Does that justify a coup
at Forrester Creations?
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Am I listening to Brooke? Of
course I'm listening to Brooke.
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She's an important person
in my life.
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Her daughter's hurting, so...
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yeah, it-it's upsetting her.
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It's upsetting her a lot.
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Look, I am completely
justified in what I did.
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That's not the point.
The point is...
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not what you did
or that Hope is involved
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or Brooke is involved--
this is about the company.
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And getting rid of Hope
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and getting rid of
Hope for the Future, that's--
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that's hard,
those are big decisions for us.
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Hope is not just some employee.
She's Brooke Logan's daughter.
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I mean, this is gonna
send shockwaves
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through the entire industry.
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And that's why we're gonna
wait on this press release.
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KATIE: Sure.
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Yeah. No problem.
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Think you need to clarify
where you stand on this.
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Because you said
you were on my side,
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that you were gonna support me.
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I am and I do.
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It doesn't sound like
you're defending me.
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Sounds like you're defending
Hope and Brooke.
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Steffy's wanted Hope out of
the company for a long time.
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You have to admit
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she might have other motivations
for firing her.
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Okay, what I can admit is that
it was pretty big of Steffy
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to let Hope stay on
after she kissed me.
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Okay, what she did
at Eric's party was wrong.
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We all know that.
But this is different.
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How can you say that?
Brooke, look at the facts.
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[sighs]
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I know what it's like
to be accused
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and punished for something
that you didn't do.
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It stings.
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I bet it does, but
that's not what happened here.
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There was no injustice.
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What Hope did was wrong,
and honestly,
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what she needs to do is
take responsibility for this
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and move on.
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Denying it--it's a bad look.
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Let me make something
perfectly clear.
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Hope does not want you.
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She's moving in an entirely
different direction.
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She has no interest in you
whatsoever.
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I can see that you're torn.
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I mean, I-I am too.
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This isn't--
this is not something
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I thought we would
ever be contemplating.
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I've always valued loyalty.
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Lived by my conscience.
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It's a part of who I am.
I'm proud of that.
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And you should be.
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But...
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sometimes loyalty
can be misplaced.
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Is this one of those times?
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We have both been trying so hard
to play by their rules,
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only, how can we...
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when the game was always
designed for them to win?
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We've been overlooked.
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Undervalued.
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Discarded.
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Steffy has been given
too much power.
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She calls the shots.
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And it doesn't matter if it's
good or bad for the company.
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No one even questions it.
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Look, your idea for Forrester,
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turning it into
an international luxury brand,
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I mean, that is something
that Steffy and Ridge--
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I don't think they would have
been able to dream of,
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let alone have the nerve
to pursue.
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And-and Carter,
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the only reason
they are shutting you down
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is because they didn't
think about it first.
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You've been
taken advantage of too.
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All the Logans, for years,
for decades,
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if we're talking about Brooke.
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And think about everything
you've given this company,
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to be discarded,
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disrespected.
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And my mom has been given a
shell of an executive position,
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and we all know that her line
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is dependent on Ridge's support.
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Katie is head of PR,
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but if Steffy wanted to,
on a whim, she could fire her,
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and no one would
even do anything about it.
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And me--well...
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I no longer have a line
or a job.
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Carter, it might just be
a matter of time for you too,
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especially
if you're supporting the Logans.
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If you continue down this road,
Steffy--
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she's going to want you out,
and Ridge,
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your best friend?
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Who do you think
he's going to support?
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You...
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or his beloved daughter?
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I think we both know
the answer to that.
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We need to defend ourselves.
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If only to protect
our life's work
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and everything we have poured
our heart and souls into.
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I mean, is it really that bad
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that we-that we are finally
standing up for ourselves,
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that we're fighting back?
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If we do this,
there's no going back.
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You realize that, right?
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There'll be ramifications
for all of us.
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I'm conflicted too, I mean,
this isn't really like us.
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We're not usually the ones
fighting back.
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Carter, do we...do we really
wanna go down this road?
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They left us no choice.
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Look, I'm meeting with Ridge
and Steffy,
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and I'll try one more time
to get through to them.
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Maybe Ridge can get his daughter
to back off.
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And I hope you can
get through to them,
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but Carter, if-if you don't...
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We follow through with the plan.
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We take a leap of faith.
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And I can do that
if I'm with you.
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CARTER: Hmm.
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Wait for my call.
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By the end of the day,
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our lives could be changed.
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Carter.
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I believe in you.
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[softly] Always.
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[edgy music plays]
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BROOKE: You and Hope
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-were friends once.
-Yeah, you're right.
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We were friends.
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Then she took it too far
and crossed the line.
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And it's sad,
because there's no way
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I was gonna betray my marriage,
all right, my family.
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She is not a homewrecker.
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And you know that.
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She did cross the line when
she kissed you at Eric's party,
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but she knows
that that was a bad mistake,
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and it's never gonna happen
again.
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She shouldn't have to be
punished
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for the rest of her life
because of that
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or lose everything
that she's worked so hard for.
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Steffy's made mistakes too.
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Disparaging my wife
isn't gonna help your argument.
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Well, she should be careful,
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because once the press
finds out about this,
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they're gonna wonder why
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Steffy's making such
a foolish choice of firing Hope.
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Steffy's a brilliant CEO.
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I trust she knows
what she's doing.
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It could blow up in her face.
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And even if you think this isn't
the right thing to do for Hope,
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it is the right thing
to do for Forrester.
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You need to protect the company.
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So talk to your wife
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and tell her to back off--
before it's too late.
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♪ ♪
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Let me know what you think.
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Steffy.
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Can you please look at me?
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I have your back.
I always have your back.
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You know that.
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Do you?
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Yes!
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And Hope not being here
right now,
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that-that's the right thing,
so I sent her away.
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Then why do I feel like
you're wavering?
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Look, I'd be lying if I said
this wasn't personal.
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But I would never put
my feelings above this company.
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But what message
would I be sending
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if I have Hope back here,
after everything she did to me?
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I understand why you did
what you did--I do.
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But we gotta do this
the right way--this is delicate.
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And I think going to the press
and telling them about Hope
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and Hope for the Future--
it's not-not the right time.
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So you think everything
with Hope
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will just sort itself out?
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CARTER: That's what I'm hoping.
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Look, I think we can, um,
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that we can resolve this before
things escalate out of control.
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CARTER: Believe me when I say
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that you deserve the very best.
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And that best is on its way.
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CARTER: They're not
getting away with this.
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Hope?
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Mom.
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I, uh, didn't hear you come in.
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Are you okay?
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Yeah, it's just...
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it's been a lot to process.
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Yeah. What Steffy did
is just not right.
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I really haven't had
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much time to think about
anything else, really.
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We both know you weren't
wearing lingerie for Finn.
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I went to talk to him.
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And how did that work out?
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Not so great.
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I just wish he'd believe
that you were innocent
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and you weren't making
a play for him.
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[chuckles] Certainly wasn't.
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My heart belongs
to someone else.
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Carter stole your heart.
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Well, I wouldn't say
that he stole it.
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It's more like I...
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I gave it to him.
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Anyway, I told Finn
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that he's gotta convince Steffy
to change her mind
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and not fire you
or cancel your line.
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And she's gotta do that
before it's too late.
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Yes. Before it's too late.
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I'm not here to litigate what
happened in the design office.
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We have to agree
to disagree on that.
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I'm here because of business.
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And business dictates
it's not smart to fire Hope
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and cancel her line.
The optics are terrible.
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Oh, okay, I should be
worried about optics
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when Hope threw herself
at my husband--got it.
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You should be worried
about doing what's best
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for this company.
That's what a CEO does.
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Okay. Easy. That's exactly
what she's doing.
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She's moving this company
forward.
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Mm, well, I'm concerned about
this company moving forward too.
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I love this place.
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I've dedicated over a decade
of my life to it.
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We all have something
at stake here.
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Are you really gonna fire Hope,
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Brooke's daughter?
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How's that gonna play
to our buyers, to the press?
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Carter, we're always in
the press, every single day.
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It's gonna be old news tomorrow.
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You're like grasping
at straws here.
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You say that you-you
support Hope--
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You're right. I do.
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Hope and the Logans
have been sidelined for years.
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Even though they contribute
so much to this company,
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they're discounted
and dismissed.
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And I get it, Steffy, I do.
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You have a lotta wounds
where it comes to Hope.
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But that's no excuse
for what you're doing.
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Firing hope has nothing to do
with business--it's personal.
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You're damn right,
it's personal.
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Hope has zero respect
for me and my family.
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But it is also business.
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I can't trust her.
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How am I supposed to
work with her, Carter?
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Why is this so hard
to understand?
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Steffy, I'm saying this
as a friend.
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Your issues with Hope--
it's holding you back.
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You need to heal yourself.
You need to do something.
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Because all of this
is interfering
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with your business decisions.
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Ridge, you know
I'm right about this.
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I think you need
to take a breath.
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-I need to take a breath.
-RIDGE: Uh-huh.
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Okay, I'll take a breath.
How 'bout this?
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I am concerned
about this company.
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I'm fighting for the future
of Forrester,
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and believe me,
I wouldn't be fighting this hard
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if I wasn't certain
you misread what happened
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between Hope and Finn.
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Now, Ridge, you know me.
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We're not just best friends.
We're brothers.
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Trust me when I tell you
that Forrester Creations
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will never be the same
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if you don't reinstate Hope
and her line.
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And I get it, Steffy,
she's your daughter.
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But this company runs through
your veins too--protect it.
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Make it right.
Say that Hope for the Future
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will always have a place
at Forrester.
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You have no idea
what's at stake if you don't.
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