♪♪
>> Eric: Look as Steffy.
You'd never know she's been
through what she has.
>> Ridge: Our daughter's
amazing, isn't she, Doc?
>> Taylor: I've never known
anyone as strong and resilient.
And I know I'm biased, but what
mother isn't?
>> Ridge: Hey, thank you for
this...
little get together for Steffy.
Love it.
>> Taylor: Count our blessings
things turned out the way they
did.
If Luna had gotten her way--
>> Ridge: All right.
But she didn't.
She's here...
surrounded by friends, family,
Finn.
Nothing else matters.
>> R.J.: I don't know what I
would have done if Luna--
>> Steffy: Hey, hey, it's...
it's okay.
I'm okay. It's over now.
>> R.J.: No, it's not okay.
Steffy, this is my fault.
I'm responsible for this. No,
I gave her access to our family.
>> Steffy: You didn't know, R.J.
None of us knew.
So please don't do that to
yourself, okay?
I love you.
>> R.J.: Love you too.
>> Steffy: [sighs] I should, uh,
I should go check on the kids.
>> Hope: Oh, I just--I checked
on them. They're doing great.
Kelly's actually reading a story
to Beth and Hayes right now, and
she is acting out every single
part.
It's very cute.
>> Donna: Sounds like you could
have a budding actress on your
hands.
>> Finn: Well, given the
constant drama in our family, it
only seems fitting.
>> Brooke: So...how are you,
really?
>> Donna: I mean, you look
amazing, really, and nobody
would ever guess that you've
been through hell and back.
>> Steffy: Well, thank you.
I-I feel fine.
My husband, who's a doctor, he
thoroughly checked me out and
gave me a clean bill of health.
>> R.J.: Really? Is that true,
Finn? She's okay after being in
the cage for that long?
>> Zende: No food, no water?
>> R.J.: Yeah.
>> Steffy: I-I couldn't risk
Luna poisoning me.
>> Ridge: You know, it's funny.
You think you know somebody.
Not-not funny. I'm sorry, R.J.
But [sighs] if kidnapping Steffy
was the worst thing she did--
>> Taylor: Well, two men paid
the ultimate price with their
lives.
>> Carter: Someone else paid a
high price too.
>> Finn: My Aunt Poppy.
>> Carter: Set up to go to
prison by her own daughter.
>> Zende: potentially for the
rest of her life.
>> Eric: Betrayed like that by
our own child?
>> R.J.: And I know Poppy.
She was...
[sighs] she was genuinely very
proud of Luna.
And it's gotta be killing her to
know that the daughter she
thought she knew and loved
wasn't who Luna was at all.
♪♪
>> Bill: I apologize.
Call took longer than I
expected.
>> Poppy: I understand.
Business first.
>> Bill: So how are you?
>> Poppy: Um...
I'm grateful...
that I am out of jail.
Uh...
thankful that you know that I
didn't do all the things that
I was in jail for.
>> Bill: I'm sorry you had to go
through all that.
>> Poppy: I'm sorry I put you
through it.
>> Bill: You didn't.
Your daughter did.
>> Poppy: Yeah, I'm still trying
to, um, process
all the horrible things that my
daughter did, and...
as her mother, I know that I
bear a lot of the
responsibility.
>> Bill: You can't blame
yourself, Poppy.
You didn't know how disturbed
Luna was.
None of us did.
>> Poppy: I'm her mother.
I'm the person closest to her,
and I should have known that
something was terribly off with
her, and if I had, then none of
this would ever have happened.
♪♪
>> Bill: You didn't see what was
going on because Luna was so
good at hiding it.
You didn't fail her, Poppy.
>> Poppy: Not intentionally.
But if I had been a different
kind of mother--
>> Bill: [sighs]
Parenting doesn't come with an
instruction manual.
We do the best we can, and God
knows I've made mistakes with my
boys.
>> Poppy: It's not the same,
Bill.
I truly believe that Luna and I
were as close as any mother and
daughter could be.
And then, uh, to learn that she
had all these...resentments
against me in how she was
raised...
And then I can't help but ask
myself what I did that helped
turn my daughter into the
tragically lost soul that just
harmed so many people.
♪♪
>> R.J.; Steffy, tell me you're
joking.
>> Steffy: Of course I'm gonna
come into the office tomorrow.
>> Finn: I tried talking her
into taking a few days, but you
know your sister.
>> Steffy: I just wanna get back
to my life and do what I do
best, and for me that's being a
mom and a wife.
>> Ridge: And a kickass CEO.
>> Steffy: [laughs] Thanks, Dad.
>> Brooke: In case you haven't
noticed, your father really
missed you.
>> Finn: We all did.
I'm gonna get you some coconut
water from the kitchen.
>> Steffy: Okay. Thanks.
>> Eric: Where's, uh, where's
the good doctor off to?
>> Steffy: Oh, more of the same.
Pampering me.
>> Eric: Well, he should, after
everything you've been through.
>> R.J.: I just wish I had some
kind of clue or something--
>> Ridge: Hey, hey.
You're not to blame for any of
this.
>> R.J.: It just doesn't change
the fact that I was the person
that let this murderer and this
kidnapper into our family.
I did this.
>> Steffy: Luna was a master
manipulator--no way we could
have seen this coming.
>> Hope: [clears throat]
Look who's here, everyone.
>> Deacon: Look, I'm sorry I'm
late. I got held up at the
restaurant.
>> Eric: Steffy asked me to
reach out to Deacon, and so I
did.
She felt he should be here.
>> Deacon: Uh, if it's a problem
for anyone, you know, I can--
>> Ridge: No. You should be
here.
>> Brooke: You lost two good
friends.
>> Deacon: I did. Yeah. Um...
they're gone now because of
Luna, but, uh, thank God you're
okay, Steffy.
♪♪
>> Bill: You're going through
your own hell, Poppy.
>> Poppy: It's nothing compared
to what Steffy endured...
being locked in a cage, thinking
that she was going to die.
All because she saw a kiss that
she wasn't meant to see.
>> Bill: I realize you already
know this, but after Luna kissed
me the first time, I made it
very clear that that couldn't
happen again.
>> Poppy: And then it happened
again.
>> Bill: Yeah.
In retrospect, I should have had
her leave, but I thought the
behavior was a result of the
emotional stress she was under,
especially with her mother being
locked in a jail cell.
>> Poppy: Yeah. In jail because
my own daughter set me up.
A daughter just filled with
years of suppressed rage and
resentment towards me.
>> Bill: Misdirected anger, for
sure.
>> Poppy: And it cost two good
men their lives.
And it almost cost Steffy hers.
>> Bill: Thank God that didn't
happen.
That building was gonna be
demolished in a couple of days.
>> Poppy: Yeah. Luna would've
taken another life.
Well, thank God Steffy's okay.
>> Steffy: You can imagine my
shock, seeing Luna kiss Bill.
I mean, right then, that's when
I knew something was off.
>> Donna: So you followed her?
>> Steffy: Well, yeah, I-I
didn't realize that she was a
murderer.
>> Finn: Soon to be kidnapper.
>> Steffy: She went back to her
apartment.
I followed her and I confronted
her.
>> Zende: How'd she handle it?
>> Steffy: She poisoned me.
She gave me some iced tea, and
it was spiked.
>> Donna: Oh...my God.
>> Eric: And then after you
drank it, what?
>> Steffy: It--[sighs].
It was a terrible mistake on my
part.
>> Taylor: Oh, sweetheart.
>> Steffy: And then I-I blacked
out.
And when I came to, I saw
someone standing over me.
>> Ridge: Luna.
>> Steffy: Yeah.
>> Brooke: You must have been so
confused...
wondering where you were, why
Luna was there.
>> Steffy: Yeah, it was awful.
I-I woke up and I was like in
this...
this horrific cage.
I felt like I was some kind of
like dangerous animal.
>> Hope: Well, it's because
maybe you were dangerous to her
at that point because you knew
the truth.
>> Steffy: No, not-not all of
it.
Actually, I started pressing her
even more--I wanted to know the
truth, and that's when she
blurted it out.
>> Deacon: Steffy, you realize
you could have wound up like
Hollis and Tom.
>> Carter: You could have been
killed too, Steffy.
>> Finn: Well, not "could have."
Would have.
Luna planned to keep Steffy in
the cage until the building was
demoed.
>> Zende: She intended to cover
her tracks, leaving you buried
under a pile of rubble.
>> R.J.: Never to be heard from
again.
>> Deacon: Hollis and Tom didn't
even stand a chance.
Those two men...
Hollis wasn't just an employee.
He was a friend.
He was a damn good friend, and
Tom, I mean, the way he came
into my life, I--
Look, I know what you all think
of my wife, okay?
But Tom was a hero to me.
I mean, he helped save Sheila
from certain death, and then he
married us, and how did I
repay him?
>> Brooke: You gave him a job.
You were in his corner.
You were there for him.
>> Taylor: Well, obviously, Luna
is a very disturbed young woman
in need of serious psychiatric
help.
>> Hope: We all worked very
closely with Luna, and at the
time, we thought very highly of
her.
I don't think any of us could
have suspected this.
But I think I speak for everyone
here when I say that we are just
relieved that you're okay,
Steffy, and that you are home
with Finn and Kelly and Hayes.
♪♪
>> Poppy: Luna has caused so
much carnage, Bill.
And I don't know that I can ever
come to terms with any of it.
As her mother, I want to try and
protect my daughter.
But there is a part of me
that's just so hurt...
and angry.
My own daughter was willing to
let me rot in prison for the
rest of my life, all so she
could keep you and the life that
you could give her.
How could any daughter do that
to their own mother?
>> Bill: I don't know, Poppy.
I wish I had an answer for you.
Clearly, Luna is very broken.
You did the best you could.
You gave her love.
>> Poppy: Well, it wasn't
enough.
She needed more from me and...
no, she never said anything, but
as her mother, shouldn't I have
known?
Shouldn't I?
Is this all my fault?
♪♪
>> Zende: I'm sorry.
You're telling me that--
>> Steffy: Luna admitted it.
It was all a setup.
What happened between you and
Luna in the guest house--she
knew exactly what she was doing,
Zende.
She wasn't on her mother's
drugs.
It was a lie.
It was just an act to get what
she wanted.
You didn't take advantage of
her, Zende.
You never would.
Luna took advantage of you.
I'm so sorry.
I know this is really hard for
you, but I--you deserve to know
the truth.
>> Brooke: Well, I'm sorry too,
'cause I-I took a hard stand
with you, defending my son.
And it turns out that Luna was
manipulating the both of you.
But thank God you're okay.
Who knows what was going on in
her crazy head.
But I'm sorry. Sorry I did that
to you.
>> R.J.: Hey.
I'm sorry too.
>> Finn: All right, thanks. Bye.
>> Hope: Hi.
>> Finn: Hey.
>> Hope: Uh, look, I know how
relieved you must be having
Steffy home safe, unharmed,
and I know you probably don't
wanna hear from me, but I-I just
wanted to say one thing.
I understand that Luna tried to
take something precious from
you.
But you stopped her.
You rescued Steffy, and...
all I'm trying to say is that
that makes you a true hero.
In every way.
>> Donna: No, I didn't meet--
why would I meet her mother?
[indistinct chatter]
♪♪
>> Poppy: How can I not blame
myself?
I shaped Luna.
I shaped her world.
So the warning signs must have
been there, so why didn't I--
>> Bill: Don't do this to
yourself.
You are not to blame.
>> Poppy: You've been so
wonderful, Bill...
to both Luna and me.
You know, even now, you could
have refused to see me.
Especially after all the things
that my daughter...
It makes me love you even more.
If that's even possible.
Li and I have been talking.
It's...it's the one good thing
to come of all this.
A better relationship with my
sister.
I've been leaning on her and,
uh...
I'm going to spend more time
with her.
[whispers] I really need my
family right now.
>> Bill: I think that's a great
idea.
I'm glad for both your sakes.
>> Poppy: You truly are
remarkable, Bill.
And no...
we didn't make a child together
all those years ago...
but it was still a magical
moment in time for me.
And it's one that I will cherish
and remember forever.
Just know how grateful I am to
you for your kindness, your
generosity.
And I will always hold you
close to my heart.
♪♪
>> Taylor: As a parent, you do
anything to keep your child from
any harm...
even when they're grown, with
spouses and families of their
own.
The need to make sure your
child's safe never goes away.
Only this time--
>> Ridge: Only this time, Finn
stepped up, and he figured it
all out.
And you rescued our daughter.
You brought her home.
Thank you.
>> Taylor: We love you so much.
>> Brooke: Clearly, there's a
lot of love in this room,
especially Finn's love for
Steffy.
>> Steffy: And mine for Finn.
I mean, you never gave up.
Even when things looked grim,
I always believed in our love
for each other...
love that's overcome so many
obstacles in the past
like it did now.
Finn, you are the strongest,
bravest man I know.
No, you really are.
[soft murmuring]
>> Brooke: Look at the
connection that Steffy and Finn
share.
They're in love, honey.
And it's a love that can never
be broken.
♪♪
>> Ridge: Hey, come over.
♪♪
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