At Il Giardino, after he finished his call with Hope, Deacon saw a serious Liam storming toward him. "Why do I get the feeling that you're not here for a slice of my vegan tofu pizza?" Deacon quipped. Liam lashed out at Deacon for not "understanding the gravity" of the threat posed by Sheila's return to the living.

Deacon asked why Liam did not believe that people could change. Liam countered that he did believe in change but did not believe that someone with a lengthy pattern of hurting the people he cared about could change.

At Forrester Creations, Hope sat in the executive office, reflecting on her conversation with Deacon about his wedding. While she was deep in thought, Deacon called her on her phone, hoping that she might have some good news for him. Deacon professed his love for his daughter and how much it would mean to him to have Hope be part of his wedding. "I'm still not sure," Hope replied weakly.

As Deacon continued to press Hope to give an answer that he wanted to hear, Steffy entered the office, and Hope told him that she had to go. When Hope hung up the phone abruptly, Steffy asked if Hope's "gullible father" had been on the line to express "how excited he is that that nine-toe psycho is back."

Hope told Steffy that she would have to make an appointment if she wanted to talk. Steffy questioned Hope's attitude, which Hope chalked up to Steffy breezing into the office and immediately criticizing Deacon. More than that, Hope also laid blame for Thomas and Douglas being halfway across the globe squarely at Steffy's feet.

"Are you coming at me now?" Steffy asked. She seemed surprised that Hope was still upset about "the whole Thomas situation." Steffy called Hope "a little unhinged" and said that she had not wanted "that energy around Thomas." In return, Hope advised Steffy to focus on her own life and husband. Hope said that it was "a little insensitive" for Steffy to "discount [Finn's] complicated feelings for his birth mother."

An exasperated Steffy didn't understand why she had to explain the way she felt about Sheila to Hope. She was resolute in her belief that Finn would never again see Sheila.

In his office at the hospital, Finn thought back to the night he'd found Sheila in the abandoned building. Without warning, the door to his office swung open, and a giddy Sheila jokingly asked if the doctor could see her. Sheila closed the door behind her and shared that she'd just gotten great news on her follow-up examination.

Finn was glad to hear that Sheila was in better health, but he did not think that it was a good idea for her to drop by his office unannounced. Sheila wondered if that was how Finn truly felt or how Steffy felt. Sheila did not believe that Finn had suddenly decided that he didn't want to be around her, especially after all the kind things he had said in the previous few days.

Sheila acknowledged that it had to be hard for Finn to be torn between his wife and his mother. Finn suggested that Sheila should considered seeing and speaking to a counselor to help make sure that she never went back to the woman she had been before. Sheila pledged that she would never revert to the woman she'd been because she had so much to look forward to.

Later, Liam dropped by Forrester Creations, hoping to find Hope. Steffy told him that Hope had already left. Asked if he was okay, Liam admitted that he was rattled by Deacon and Sheila's relationship. Steffy was certain that Sheila had not changed. She repeated her belief that both she and Finn were on the same page when it came to wanting nothing to do with Sheila.

Sheila tracked down Deacon at Il Giardino to give him the good news about her checkup at the hospital. Deacon jokingly asked if Sheila had avoided contact with "the female Dr. Finnegan." They sat down at a table to chat more. Sheila beamed about how she and Finn had grown closer -- and grumbled that they would be even closer if it were not for Steffy. Sheila assured Deacon that she would not "lash out" at Steffy.

Deacon said that he was relieved to hear Sheila say that because any misbehavior on her part could mess up his "master plan." He smiled broadly as he told his bride-to-be that he had asked Hope to be Sheila's maid of honor and wanted Hope to convince Finn to be his best man.

Hope dropped by the hospital to talk to Finn. "Your birth mother and my father... they're engaged," Hope said with no windup to allow Finn to prepare for what she was about to tell him. Finn wasn't sure how he felt about the news and said that he was surprised that Sheila had not mentioned the engagement to him when she'd dropped by his office. Finn asked how Hope felt about the news. "Honestly? I'm conflicted," Hope replied with a slight smile.

Hope then dropped another bombshell: Deacon wanted her to be Sheila's maid of honor. Finn appeared a bit amused by the awkwardness of the ask. Hope told Finn that Deacon had had another ask -- he wanted Finn to be his best man. "What?!" Finn asked as he covered his eyes with his hand and ran his fingers along his brow. Finn said that there would be no way that Steffy would understand him taking part in Deacon and Sheila's wedding. Hope confessed that she wanted to be at the wedding for her dad but said it would be easier if Finn were there, too.

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