At Forrester Creations, Liam and Ridge were floored by Hope's declaration that Sheila was alive and that Deacon had been right all along. Ridge argued that it was "farfetched" to think that Sheila was not the person that Steffy had stabbed. While Ridge vented his frustration, Liam looked up Janet Webber on the Internet. Hope explained that she'd had a similar reaction to seeing Sheila alive and well with her own eyes.
Liam believed Hope's story, but Ridge was convinced that the situation was somehow another of Sheila's schemes. Hope filled in additional details, including how Deacon and Finn had found Sheila chained up in an abandoned building. Hope used the word "relief" to describe how Finn thought Steffy would take the news of Sheila being alive. "I don't think this word relief means what you think it means," Ridge yelled.
Ridge was unhappy about Finn's decision to welcome Sheila back into his life. Liam concurred and said that it would be impossible for anyone to relax with Sheila alive. Both men were unmoved by Hope's claim that Sheila had tried to stop Sugar from harming Steffy.
At the hospital, Li looked at the still-unknown patient's toes and swallowed hard. She asked why the patient had a sheet over their face. There was no response, but under the sheet, Sheila did her best to stifle her laughter. "I knew someone named Sheila. She had a missing toe, too," Li said calmly. Li demanded that the patient reveal themselves.
When the patient didn't comply, Li yanked the sheet off. Li screamed in horror as she saw Sheila Carter's face. Sheila mocked Li by feigning a scream of her own. As Li recoiled in horror, Sheila chuckled to herself. "This can't be. You can't be," Li gasped. Sheila's amusement turned to iciness. "You would have liked to see me dead and gone," Sheila snarled.
Li questioned how Sheila wasn't dead. Sheila replied that it wasn't "dumb luck or fate" but Finn that had saved her. "My wonderful son is the reason that I am here," Sheila said as she smiled. Li argued that Sheila was "nothing" to Finn. Sheila strongly disagreed. "He is happy to have me back in his life, and he never wants to be apart from me again," Sheila stated. Li began to sob when Sheila said that Finn had called her "Mom." That sadness turned to rage as Li lunged at Sheila.
Deacon arrived moments later and tore Li away from Sheila. A nurse entered the room and helped restrain Li. Sheila put her hand up to her forehead and announced that she'd like to see another doctor because "Dr. Finnegan's bedside manner [was] a bit harsh" for her. Li screamed several times that she would kill Sheila.
Later, the nurse gave Sheila some fluids intravenously. When the nurse stepped out of the room, a grinning Deacon scolded Sheila for playing a "not very nice" prank on Li. Sheila claimed the prank had been "harmless," and she began to laugh. Deacon warned Sheila that there would be a lot of interesting reactions once the world learned that Sheila Carter was "back from the dead once again."
At the cliff house, Steffy scowled as Finn explained the "enormous surprise" that had led to Sheila being found alive. Finn calmly explained that Steffy had not stabbed Sheila -- she's stabbed a look-alike name Sugar. Steffy plopped down on the sofa and asked Finn if he was hearing what he was saying. Finn admitted that his story seemed unbelievable -- plastic surgery, doppelgängers, and revenge plots. He even confessed that he would not have believed it, either, if he hadn't seen Sheila with his own eyes.
"You think you saw Sheila," Steffy replied, reminding Finn that he'd also had a nightmare about Sheila being alive. When Finn referred to Sheila as his mother, Steffy corrected him and stated that Li was his mother. Steffy got another shock when Finn said that he was "thankful" that Sheila was alive. Finn tried to explain that Sheila being alive was a good thing -- because it meant that Steffy could be freed of all of the feelings she'd had about taking Sheila's life.
It was in that moment that Steffy seemed to suddenly realize that Finn wasn't delusional. She exhaled deeply. "Deacon was right? Is this real right now?" she asked. Steffy turned away from her husband and said, "Sheila's alive."
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