>> Quinn: Oh, I have an idea.
>> Eric: What?
>> Quinn: Why don't we have lunch together later?
Somewhere near the office?
>> Eric: I'm not available.
I have an appointment.
>> Quinn: Are you going to the club again?
>> Eric: Yes, I am.
>> Quinn: Oh. Okay, well, normally, I would be
disappointed, but I love how committed you are to exercising
and pickleball, and--and you're still wearing the ring
I gave you.
>> Eric: Yes, of course I am.
It was a gift from my beautiful, talented wife.
>> Quinn: Well, I guess I'll just see you later at the office
then.
>> Eric: Okay.
>> Quinn: I love you.
[chuckles] [door closes]
[door opens] >> Eric: Brooke, hi.
>> Brooke: Hi, Eric.
>> Eric: If you're looking for Ridge, he's not here.
>> Brooke: I know.
I came to speak to you.
>> Taylor: I'm still trying to understand
that, you know, you knew what Sheila did to Brooke
but you didn't tell anyone.
>> Thomas: Yeah, I regret keeping that secret.
[sighs] Look, I didn't-- I-I did not wanna keep
Sheila's secret, but I saw how close you and Dad were getting,
and, look, I'm not saying-- that doesn't justify anything.
>> Taylor: I-I know that you see that.
You know, you've done such a good job putting
your life back together.
I would...
I would hate to see you-- >> Thomas: No, no, no.
I'm not... [chuckles] I'm not gonna backslide
into old Thomas.
>> Taylor: I know.
>> Thomas: So, um...
have you seen Dad since he moved back into Grandpa's?
♪♪♪ >> Paris: You want me as much
as I want you, don't you?
>> Carter: What have we done?
>> Paris: Exactly what we're about to do again and again.
>> Carter: And again.
♪♪♪ >> Grace: Hey, Tootlebug.
I hope that smile means you're thinking about Zende.
♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
>> Zende: Got a minute?
>> Carter: Yeah. Yeah, sure.
What's up?
>> Zende: I've been putting this off, but I realized
I can't do that anymore.
>> Carter: Okay.
>> Zende: Paris told me she's got a thing for you.
♪♪♪
>> Paris: [gasps] I, uh...
didn't realize you were stopping by.
Can we not do this right now?
I have a lot of work to do.
>> Grace: Well, that won't be easy, will it,
daydreaming like you just were?
>> Paris: Mom, please.
>> Grace: Yes, okay, I would like to think that you are
thinking about Zende, not Carter.
>> Paris: Do you-- Do you ever stop?
>> Grace: No, not when it comes to my daughter's happiness
and well-being.
A mother never gives up.
I just don't want you to make the same mistakes I made,
and I don't want you to have to struggle like I've had
to struggle.
I just want the best for you.
>> Paris: Look, as I've said many times, Zende is
an amazing guy, and I cherish his friendship,
but that's all it can be.
As much as you don't wanna hear it, Carter is the guy
I wanna be with.
>> Zende: Paris came to me.
She was very honest about her feelings, and now I wanna be
honest about mine with you.
>> Carter: Go ahead.
>> Zende: I thought I still had a chance with Paris, that she
would come around and things would work out between us.
But that's not happening anymore because she's interested in you,
something that I'm sure you're aware of.
>> Carter: Look, Zende-- >> Zende: Now let me finish.
I suppose that I could make things very awkward for both
of us.
I could make things really awkward
for all three of us, really, and I'm not gonna do that.
If you wanna pursue things with Paris, go ahead.
>> Carter: I appreciate what you're doing.
You're putting your feelings aside, but the reality is,
Zende, that I can't be with Paris, no matter what
she might feel.
>> Zende: I don't understand.
Why do you say that you can't be with Paris?
Is there another woman in your life?
♪♪♪ >> Thomas: Yeah, I'd hate to
think of Dad going back to Brooke for the hundredth time,
but he'd be so much happier with you.
You know that, right?
>> Taylor: Thomas, I-I do not need you or Steffy trying
to get me back together with your father. Okay?
Especially not the lengths you went to.
>> Thomas: You're right.
I never should have done that, and I'm sorry.
>> Taylor: You know you can always talk to your father
and me, right?
>> Thomas: Yeah. I do.
>> Taylor: Cheers.
>> Thomas: Cheers.
>> Brooke: I waited outside till Quinn left.
I hope that's okay.
>> Eric: Of course it is.
You're always welcome here.
You know that.
>> Brooke: Thank you.
>> Eric: Yeah.
>> Brooke: You're always my biggest supporter,
especially when it comes to Ridge and my relationship
with him.
That's why I'm here.
I need your help with Ridge.
♪♪♪
>> Taylor: Your father isn't halfway across the world.
He's just over at Eric's.
>> Thomas: Yeah, think about what he wants to do next
in his life, whether he wants to stay in his marriage
to Brooke and all of the drama that that will invariably
always bring, or he could, you know, be with you--
someone who actually brings peace and joy and love
into his life.
>> Taylor: Mm, good old Saint Taylor.
>> Thomas: You can't just sit back. Go to Granddad's.
Yeah, see Dad.
We're talking about your future and Dad's.
Okay, you can't let Brooke dictate how this is gonna go.
Don't let her win, Mom, not this time.
♪♪♪ >> Paris: Look, Mom, just please
accept the fact that Zende and I are not meant to be.
>> Grace: If you just give you two a chance.
>> Paris: I did. I tried.
>> Grace: Try again.
Don't give up on a good man like Zende.
>> Paris: Carter is a good man, too.
>> Grace: Oh, honey, how can you say that?
He cheated on your sister.
Honey, when people show you who they are, believe them.
>> Paris: Mom...do not get in the middle of this.
You're supposed to care about me and what I want.
And what I want is Carter.
>> Grace: [sighs] >> Paris: And I'm gonna
have him, too.
>> Zende: Are you seeing someone else?
>> Carter: There's no one.
>> Zende: Then what's the deal?
Obviously, Paris is really into you.
I can't say I'm happy about it, but I want her to be.
So if it's you, go for it, Carter.
>> Quinn: Sorry, Zende.
Didn't mean to interrupt.
>> Zende: It's okay.
He's all yours.
[door closes] >> Quinn: Wow.
Zende's giving you permission.
>> Carter: Hmm.
Yeah, and I told him I can't be with Paris.
It would never work, feeling the way I do.
>> Eric: Brooke, I'm so sorry for what you've been through.
I mean, it was all so diabolical even for Sheila.
>> Brooke: If it weren't for Sheila, I really believe
that I would still be with Ridge.
>> Eric: I don't disagree.
Big question is what are you gonna do now?
>> Brooke: I don't mean to put you on the spot, Eric. I don't.
It's just that all that time that he spent over at Steffy's
with Taylor, I just feel that now he needs to be with me.
Then how else are we gonna work through all these things,
unless he comes home?
So it's time.
Ridge needs to come home to his wife where he belongs.
>> Eric: Instead of being here with Quinn and me, you mean?
>> Brooke: Well, yeah, I mean, I know he said that he wanted
his space and time to figure things out, but...
[door closes] >> Taylor: But you think
you know better.
Right? Is that why you're pleading your case with Eric?
Hi, Eric.
You trying to enlist him in convincing Ridge
to move back home with you?
That's what you're doing, isn't it, Brooke?
♪♪♪
>> Quinn: I gotta say, I didn't expect that.
I mean, I know Zende's a class act, but...
to give up so easily?
>> Carter: Zende still has feelings for Paris,
and he's putting her happiness and what she wants
over what he wants.
>> Quinn: But what she wants is you.
>> Carter: But that's not in the cards.
>> Quinn: Okay, well, then the question remains,
did she hear you, or is Paris still on the prowl?
>> Carter: [chuckles] You don't like her very much, do you?
>> Quinn: For all the obvious, very good reasons
you already know.
>> Carter: And some I don't know.
So how are you and Eric?
>> Quinn: We're good.
We're good. I wanted to have lunch with him today,
but you know, he is off to the club again.
>> Carter: Mm-hmm, and he doesn't know about the, uh,
the special ring you designed that tracks his health and his--
>> Quinn: No. No.
I wanna keep it a secret.
I don't want him to think that I'm worried about him.
>> Carter: But you are worried.
>> Quinn: I know that he's in great shape for a man
his age, but you know, I just want him to stay that way.
I want him to be fit and healthy and happy.
>> Carter: How can Eric not be happy?
You're everything a man could want, Quinn,
and so much more.
♪♪♪ >> Eric: Ladies,
there's no reason for things to get contentious.
>> Taylor: No, and they won't, as long as we give Ridge
the space that he needs and allow him to decide
what his future holds.
>> Brooke: We? You mean me.
>> Taylor: Uh-huh, yeah, 'cause you've never been one
to leave things to chance, Brooke, and you've never been
shy about asking Eric for help when it comes to you and Ridge.
You know, maybe you think that if you can get Eric
to help you gang up on Ridge, then--
>> Eric: Uh, wait, wait.
Taylor.
Brooke.
You've both come over here where Ridge is staying,
and you both have an agenda where Ridge is concerned.
Fact is, so do I, truth be told.
But I'm not gonna take sides here.
>> Taylor: Okay.
Okay, well, that's good, but Brooke would really
appreciate it if you would.
>> Eric: All right, I have to get--
I have to get to the gym.
>> Taylor: Oh.
>> Brooke: All right.
>> Eric: Um...play nice.
>> Brooke: Of course.
>> Eric: Play nice.
>> Taylor: I will.
>> Brooke: [sighs] >> Taylor: I see what
you're doing.
You're--You're putting Eric in the middle.
>> Brooke: Oh, come on.
If Stephanie were still alive, you would have her pleading
your case with Ridge.
>> Taylor: I don't know.
She wanted you there with her in her final moments, so...
Look, I don't need anyone to plead my case, Brooke.
Ridge knows how I feel about him, and he knows the life
that he can have with me if that's what he chooses,
but again, no one should pressure him, not me, not you,
not anyone.
>> Brooke: Nobody is pressuring him.
>> Taylor: Ugh.
>> Brooke: Unless, of course, it's your two grown children
who have been pushing their parents together
ever since you arrived back in L.A.
Regardless, none of this changes the fact that
Ridge and I are still married, and I don't think I need
to remind you of that.
>> Taylor: [scoffs] >> Brooke: Or maybe I do.
>> Taylor: [scoffs] ♪♪♪
[door closes] >> Paris: I sense I'm
interrupting a private moment?
>> Carter: Paris.
>> Quinn: Why would you say that?
>> Paris: Are you saying I'm not?
>> Quinn: I'm saying that you're insinuating something
is going on between me and Carter.
>> Paris: Oh, there's no need to get defensive, Quinn.
>> Quinn: No, no, no, no, no.
I'm not getting defensive.
Carter and I are friends.
We're co-workers, nothing more.
>> Paris: That wasn't always the case.
If anyone should know, I'd--I'd be--I'd be the one.
>> Quinn: Yeah, you're the one who went and blabbed to Brooke
about my affair with Carter and then made sure everyone
found out about it at my vow renewal ceremony.
>> Paris: I didn't blab to Brooke.
>> Quinn: You don't need to justify, Paris.
I haven't forgotten what you did.
>> Paris: I just--I just can't help but wonder
behind closed doors, with you two, is there
something still going on?
>> Quinn: That closed door, you mean?
The one that you just walked through that wasn't locked
and found me and my co-worker having a conversation?
Yeah, wow. [gasps] Scandalous.
>> Paris: Talk about scandalous.
That's something you know a lot about, huh, Quinn?
Scandal, betrayal.
Wow, poor Eric.
He would never be unfaithful to you, but--
>> Quinn: Wow, you should be careful, Paris.
You're an employee here.
Maybe you're valued to some people, but it doesn't
give you the right to get yourself involved in things
that are not of your concern, especially where the boss' wife
is concerned.
I love my husband.
We're happily married, and what happened between
me and Carter is in the past, and that's where
it's gonna stay.
Do you get it?
>> Paris: Oh, I got it.
I hear you loud and clear.
I just hope you're telling the truth.
Both of you.
♪♪♪ >> Taylor: [chuckles]
You don't need to remind me that Ridge is married to you,
although I know you like to.
>> Brooke: I'm not lording it over you, if that's what
you think.
>> Taylor: Well... [chuckles] >> Brooke: It's just that
the role that Sheila played in my drinking and turning
to Deacon...
>> Taylor: Right, that Ridge never would have walked out
on you.
He never would have come to live with me and Steffy,
yada, yada.
I know. I know that's what you think.
>> Brooke: I thought that's what you thought, too...
unless you weren't being sincere last time we spoke.
>> Taylor: Brooke, I was being 100% sincere.
What Sheila did to you was awful, but...
You know what? Let's just thank God she's behind bars
where she belongs.
>> Brooke: Yeah, it was awful.
She upended my life, all of our lives,
especially Steffy and Finn's.
>> Taylor: [sighs] >> Brooke: But... [sighs]
if she didn't do what she did, Ridge and I would still be
living together, happily.
>> Taylor: [scoffs] Brooke, Sheila was merely
a catalyst in your separation.
>> Brooke: Okay.
I do take responsibility.
I let Ridge down.
>> Taylor: Mm-hmm.
>> Brooke: I let myself down.
I let our marriage down.
>> Taylor: Yes, yes.
I'm--I'm glad you see that.
>> Brooke: Yes, I do.
>> Taylor: Mm-hmm.
>> Brooke: And I have owned up to it, but because of
the extenuating circumstances-- >> Taylor: You think that
everything should go back to the way that it was before,
that Ridge should come home to you, that I should just
go away.
It's not gonna happen.
Ridge knows how I feel about him. He knows I love him.
I'll always love him.
>> Brooke: You're talking about my husband.
>> Taylor: Yeah.
And he hasn't come back to you.
He hasn't come back home.
He's taking time to figure out what he wants for his future.
I don't know.
Maybe it's happiness and stability.
Maybe that's what he wants.
I think I can provide that for him.
>> Brooke: And I can't, I suppose?
>> Taylor: Well...
>> Brooke: Okay, maybe you can provide stability
and predictability, but you know what?
He'll never really love you, because what Ridge wants,
what Ridge craves is passion.
He is an artist, and I understand that side of him
completely, and our love and our life and our passion
will survive.
Ridge will come home to me.
He will come back to his wife.
♪♪♪