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>> Hope: Do you think she looks

like you or me?

>> Liam: I don't know.

She looks like...

herself.

[ Chuckles ]

>> Hope: And we look like the

family I thought could never be.

Liam, I'm so sorry.

>> Liam: No. Stop.

Stop.

Our miracle child.

I feel like I came back to life.

>> Hope: Oh, let me look at you,

sweetie.

Ohh! Hi.

That's right.

You were always so familiar.

Even when we called her Phoebe.

She already had a mother.

>> Steffy: Liam? Are you home?

>> Liam: Yeah, we're in here.

>> Steffy: [ Sighs ]

You'll be happy to know,

Dr. Andrews said that Kelly

is the poster child for

pediatric health.

[ Gasps ] Huh?

Look, Kelly.

We have company.

>> Zoe: If he's on an

assignment, then the

National Health should

know where he is.

Look, this is his daughter.

If you could just --

>> Ridge: No, you don't get to

leave a message.

Hey. Ye--

Just let me know

if you find something.

Thank you.

Now, what about the doctor that

signed the birth certificate?

He involved in this?

>> Flo: No.

>> Ridge: Zoe.

>> Zoe: I have no idea. Okay?

He'd gone back to London before

I found out what he had done.

>> Brooke: Is that the truth?

>> Flo: Yes.

>> Shauna: My daughter didn't

know, either.

>> Flo: I found out the night

before the adoption was

finalized.

Not the full story,

just parts of it.

But it was enough to know that I

wasn't helping anyone but Reese.

>> Brooke: But you went through

with it anyway.

>> Flo: He told me it was too

late to back out because I

already represented myself as

the baby's mother.

And I thought --

I-I know it doesn't matter

now what I thought.

But Steffy and Taylor, they

seemed like such good people,

and --

>> Brooke: But it didn't matter

that the baby you were selling

them was stolen?

>> Flo: Of course it did.

Look...

I'm just trying to explain

myself as best I can.

At that point, the birth mother

was just a random name to me.

Of course, when I met Hope,

everything changed.

>> Shauna: You know what,

blame me.

Actually, blame Zoe.

Flo always wanted to reunite

Hope with her baby, but we were

all just too scared.

>> Brooke: Well, the

consequences you tried so hard

to avoid are nothing to what

you're gonna face now.

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>> Ridge: You need to step away

from that door.

>> Shauna: Oh, I'm not leaving

without my daughter.

>> Ridge: I find that ironic.

>> Brooke: [ Sighs ]

I can't take this anymore.

If Liam hasn't found Hope yet,

I need to let her know

what's going on.

[ Cellphone beeps ]

[ Cellphone rings ]

>> Zoe: Oh, I-I completely

forgot what I came by here to

deliver earlier.

Um...

Apparently Hope had left this

behind in a hotel room.

They sent a driver to return it.

>> Brooke: Yeah. I'll take that.

[ Cellphone beeps ]

>> Steffy: Uh, can I get you

anything?

I really only have beer or

carrot juice, but --

[ Cellphone rings ]

>> Liam: Um...

It's your mom.

Hey, Brooke.

>> Brooke: Liam.

Did you find Hope?

Flo told us everything.

>> Liam: She's right here

with me.

>> Brooke: So she knows?

Put her on the phone.

I want to talk to her.

>> Liam: I don't think now

is a great time.

>> Hope: She -- she needs to

talk to me.

Let me. Okay.

Mom?

>> Brooke: Oh, honey!

I prayed for a miracle,

and it's finally happened.

>> Hope: Look, Mom,

Steffy just got home.

>> Brooke: So you're at

Steffy's?

>> Hope: Uh, yes.

We came to see her

and the girls.

>> Steffy: Do you want me to

take Phoebe?

If you're still gonna talk?

It's -- it's fine.

>> Hope: Uh... Uh, no.

That's okay. I got her.

Okay, so, uh, I'll see you soon,

okay, Mom?

>> Brooke: It might not be as

easy as you think, walking out

that front door with Beth.

>> Hope: I know.

Thanks.

[ Cellphone beeps ]

Uh, sorry about that.

>> Steffy: Um, well, Kelly's a

little worn out.

But I think I'm going to

put them both down.

>> Liam: Uh, well -- [ Sighs ]

Well, she was just getting up

from her nap when we got here.

Do you think it'd be okay

if she stayed out here with us

for a minute?

>> Steffy: Yeah.

I'll be right back.

>> Liam: I don't think it was

until she walked through that

door that I realized how

difficult this is gonna be.

>> Hope: Not as difficult as

what we already lived through.

>> Ridge: You heard

Steffy's voice?

>> Brooke: Yes.

I don't think they had

that conversation yet.

>> Ridge: Well, I'm going over

there.

But first I'm gonna call LAPD.

>> Brooke: Ridge, wait.

>> Ridge: What?

>> Brooke: Have you thought

about how we're gonna handle

publicity?

Because the minute you make that

phone call, you know there's

gonna be tons of camera crews

outside.

>> Shauna: You don't want that

for Hope or her baby.

>> Ridge: Let me have

your driver's license,

all of you guys.

>> Shauna: What? Why?

>> Ridge: Can't rent a car.

Can't get on a plane.

You're not going anywhere.

>> Steffy: I have to admit,

I'm confused.

Hope, didn't you leave here for

your mini-honeymoon with my

brother?

I'm not standing in judgment,

I'm just saying.

>> Hope: I'm sure Thomas

will explain.

>> Steffy: Will he, though?

Because I've been trying to call

him, and he hasn't answered.

>> Hope: Well, first,

is Douglas okay?

Because, uh, Tiffany said that

his friend's mother was picking

him up, and --

>> Steffy: Uh, yeah, yeah.

Before he left, he was acting,

um...

Well, you both were behaving

oddly.

So were you.

And could you please put my

daughter down?

It's not good for her to be

constantly carried.

>> Liam: It's -- she's okay.

I promise, Steffy.

>> Steffy: Then why are my

maternal instincts screaming

that something's wrong,

something's different about the

way you're holding her?

>> Hope: I understand.

I just, um...

I really wanted to see her.

And to be close to her.

Okay.

>> Steffy: I know you feel close

to Phoebe, but, um...

>> Hope: Nothing about

any of this is normal.

>> Steffy: You're a newlywed,

yet you're here without your

husband.

You were supposed to

go on your honeymoon.

And you -- you tore out of here

to see Flo.

>> Liam: Yeah, I did.

>> Steffy: And what did she say?

>> Liam: There wasn't much she

could say.

I mean, I-I -- I called the

doctor and the hospital where

she supposedly gave birth,

and they never heard of her.

Flo is not the birth mother,

Steffy.

It was an act.

She admitted it.

>> Steffy: This doesn't make

sense.

>> Hope: No.

But it's what she did.

>> Steffy: I'm gonna talk

to Flo myself.

You know, better yet,

I'm gonna -- I'm gonna call

Carter just in case we have to

take legal action --

>> Liam: Steffy, I don't

think you should make

any calls just yet.

>> Steffy: Why not?

>> Liam: Because --

and I -- I'm not inclined

to make excuses for Flo,

but she says she didn't know,

and I believe her.

>> Steffy: Flo didn't know

she was lying?

>> Liam: No, she --

No, she knew she was lying.

But she didn't understand

the scale of the lie.

She -- she had a friend,

a doctor friend, who asked her

to help him find a home for a

motherless child.

>> Steffy: A child from where?

>> Liam: He's a doctor.

He gets to plead

confidentiality, so Flo didn't

know.

But she assumed that the kid was

abandoned, and that she was

doing a good thing by finding

her a family.

>> Steffy: Okay, you -- you keep

saying "the kid," "this child."

You know her name.

>> Hope: We do.

>> Shauna: Do we at least get a

phone call?

>> Ridge: When I say so.

Carter Walton, he had nothing to

do with any of this, right?

>> Flo: No.

>> Ridge: All the documents that

were falsified -- nothing to do

with him?

>> Flo: No, that was all Reese,

or someone he hired.

>> Ridge: Steffy's gonna be

devastated by this.

>> Brooke: Okay.

Let's just give Liam and Hope

some time with her.

>> Ridge: What about Thomas?

Thomas just got married.

What about him and Hope?

Now that Liam's coming back, are

they gonna get back together?

>> Zoe: Oh, I wouldn't worry

about Thomas.

>> Ridge: No one is

speaking to you.

>> Flo: What Zoe means is that

you're not gonna have to explain

anything to Thomas, 'cause he

already knows.

He knows about Beth, where she's

been, the fake adoption.

He knows all of it.

>> Ridge: What?

>> Zoe: He's known for months.

>> Ridge: I don't believe that.

>> Brooke: So Thomas married my

daughter knowing that Beth was

alive, and he didn't tell her?

>> Flo: Yeah.

>> Zoe: Yes.

>> Steffy: Dr. Cortez,

that's who you spoke with?

>> Liam: Yeah.

So, the date on the birth

certificate, the doctor was

out of the country.

>> Steffy: What about

Thaddeus Foster?

It's Flo's Las Vegas attorney.

>> Liam: Uh...

>> Steffy: Call the number on

the letterhead.

Do you think the report of

Phoebe's medical exam is fake,

too?

>> Hope: May I see?

[ Special information tone

plays ]

>> The number you have dialed

is no longer in service.

>> Liam: "The number you have

dialed is no longer in service."

>> Hope: Did you show this to

Dr. Andrews?

>> Steffy: Y-yeah, I-I did.

But he did his own testing.

>> Hope: And he didn't find any

discrepancies?

>> Steffy: No.

>> Hope: Okay. So that's --

That's good.

But, look, it's not signed.

>> Steffy: You think it's phony?

>> Hope: Maybe this newborn

medical exam was his one

truthful contribution.

>> Liam: Steffy, don't you

wonder who the mother is?

>> Steffy: Her name is Phoebe.

And that's something

I never wonder.

I'm her mother.

And I'm done hearing about your

crazy theories.

I've heard enough of it.

>> Hope: I am so sorry,

but your adopted daughter,

she was stolen.

>> Steffy: What?

>> Hope: Kidnapped.

Taken from her mother.

>> Steffy: You don't know --

You don't know that.

If it wasn't Flo, maybe --

maybe another patient

gave her up.

>> Hope: No.

I mean, yes, it was another

patient, but...

>> Steffy: She was stolen?

Flo told you that?

>> Steffy: [ Sighs heavily ]

>> Steffy: So...

You're telling me that this

doctor just -- just took

a baby from a patient?

>> Liam: He was [Scoffs]

heavily into gambling debt,

and he needed a lot of cash

really fast.

But Flo didn't know this

at the time.

>> Steffy: Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

To go through that whole

delivery, only to find out --

Well, what did -- what did he

say?

>> Hope: That she died.

>> Steffy: Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh! If anyone took my girls away

from me...

Well, why -- why didn't she say

something?

Why didn't she demand

to see the baby?

>> Hope: She did.

>> Liam: There was, uh,

another patient earlier that

night whose baby was stillborn.

>> Hope: And that was the baby

that this doctor placed in the

new mother's arms.

>> Steffy: I'm gonna --

I'm -- I'm gonna be sick.

Um...

[ Sniffles ] Oh, my God.

[ Huffs ]

[ Exhales heavily ]

[ Inhales, exhales ]

If you know all of this

information, then...

they must know who the

birth mother is, right?

>> Hope: Steffy...

>> Steffy: So they do.

>> Ridge: So you've decided to

take down as many people with

you as you can.

>> Flo: We both knew

that we were wrong.

And we argued about it

almost every single day.

And then, one day,

Xander overheard us,

and he had no hesitation at all.

He went right to Hope.

>> Brooke: No.

My daughter would have told me.

>> Zoe: It was the day she and

Liam were finalizing the

annulment.

>> Flo: And Thomas stopped him

before he could get to her.

>> Ridge: He wouldn't do that.

>> Flo: Well, he did.

And then he came to me,

and he forced the whole story

out of me.

I told him all of it.

And when he left, I was sure he

was gonna go tell Hope

everything.

And I wanted him to, because

I had wanted to tell her

for so long.

>> Ridge: But you didn't.

>> Flo: He didn't tell her

because he knew that Hope would

go right back to Liam if she

knew the truth.

And he wanted her all to

himself.

>> Zoe: So he threatened us

within an inch of our lives if

we ever said a word to anyone.

>> Ridge: Oh, stop.

This is insane!

My son isn't a violent person.

He's a -- he's a good guy.

He's a father.

He's -- That's --

He doesn't do things like that.

>> Brooke: We all know that

Thomas has a dark side.

>> Ridge: I -- Okay.

I'm -- I'm gonna believe that

when I hear it from his own

lips.

>> Brooke: There will be more to

be told.

Let the details take care of

themselves.

In the meantime, the nightmare

is finally over, and Hope and

Liam have their daughter back.

>> Ridge: My daughter's

nightmare is just beginning.

>> Steffy: I-I-I got to --

I got to call -- call Carter.

We got to --

We have to figure this out.

>> Hope: Steffy.

>> Steffy: We have to hold

these people accountable.

>> Liam: My guess is,

that's being done.

>> Steffy: Well, what if -- what

if I have to prepare for a

lawsuit?

>> Hope: That's not going to

happen.

>> Steffy: Yeah, easy

for you to say.

>> Liam: Okay, can --

Can you just make the

phone calls later, and we -- we

just talk for a second?

>> Steffy: But my mother...

I-I just realized that

her colleague must have had

dealings with the doctor who

passed off Phoebe as --

as abandoned and adoptable.

[ Beth babbles ]

>> Hope: Steffy.

Her colleague was the doctor.

My mom wouldn't have

participated in this.

>> Hope: No, no, no.

No one thinks that.

>> Steffy: Flo must have known

the name of the doctor, then.

>> Liam: She did.

>> Steffy: Well, did she give it

to you?

>> Hope: Dr. Buckingham.

>> Steffy: Zoe's dad?

>> Hope: Yes.

>> Steffy: He and my mom...

It never went past the

flirtation stage, but...

>> Liam: Not unless you count

business transactions.

>> Steffy: I don't care about

the money.

My mom won't, either,

as long as Phoebe is here.

>> Hope: Steffy, you have been a

wonderful adoptive mother.

>> Steffy: I'm her mother.

The adoption papers, yeah,

they might be fabricated,

but the relationship is not.

>> Hope: Do you remember

that I was also a patient of

Dr. Buckingham?

On Catalina?

I was all alone that night.

Liam couldn't get to me

because of the storm.

The power was out.

I thought the clinic

was deserted.

But it turns out, now I know

there was another patient there.

I thought it was just

the doctor and me.

I started going into labor.

I was trying so hard.

I was pushing.

And then I passed out.

And I woke up to Liam sitting

on the side of the bed and

telling me that our Beth

didn't make it.

And that's because

he didn't know.

He never saw that second mother.

The one whose dead child

Dr. Buckingham put in my arms.

>> Liam: Flo verified

all of this.

Zoe knew, too.

And so did your brother.

>> Steffy: Th-Thomas?

>> Hope: All of this has

just been lies and secrets

and sadness.

It's like the darkness from that

night took over everything.

Until we all met this

radiant little girl.

And know we know why.

I understand that this...

this is such a shock for you,

Steffy.

But you -- but you can help

care for her.

You know, maybe, in a few days,

when you feel up for it.

Because -- because at this

point, you --

you know my daughter

better than I do.

Steffy...

This is Beth.

♪♪

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