In Eric's office, Hope looked at an online article about Sheila's death. Ridge and Liam arrived and noticed that Hope seemed disconcerted. Liam asked if she had been unable to talk Deacon out of his nonsense. "Except it's not nonsense, Liam. My dad isn't crazy. He's right. Sheila is alive," Hope responded, and Ridge frowned scornfully.
Ridge yelled at Hope, assuming she was doing the same thing as Deacon. Ridge said Hope had been sent to talk Deacon out of it. Ridge asserted that his daughter had put a knife in Sheila, and Sheila was dead. Hope told Ridge that she'd seen Sheila herself.
Later, Ridge said he'd heard the "stories" about Sugar, but Sugar wasn't part of that story. Hope persisted, telling Liam and Ridge that she'd been ready to dig in her heels to convince Deacon to give it up about Sheila, but then Hope had seen Sheila standing there in the flesh. Hope had passed out, but when she'd awakened, Sheila had still been there. Hope had even spoken with Sheila. Hope knew it was beyond belief, but Sheila was alive, whether they liked it or not.
Hope stated that she'd have a hard time believing it, too, if she hadn't seen it for herself. She affirmed that Sugar had been the one at Steffy's that night. Ridge asked if Hope was saying that Sugar had gone up in flames at the crematorium, not Sheila. Hope said that they'd all been relieved to get on with their lives, but "now to find that Sheila is a victim in all of this..." "Sheila was a victim? Is that what you just said?" Ridge asked.
Later, Ridge summarized that Sugar had kidnapped Sheila and chained her up in a warehouse. Hope said Sugar had planned to start a crime spree with the face of Sheila, starting with Steffy and the kids. Liam surmised that Sugar was just as insane as Sheila. Ridge asked if Hope heard how farfetched it was. Hope insisted that it was true: "Sheila Carter lives on."
At the cliff house, Steffy noted that she hadn't seen Finn that excited in a long time. "You won't believe it!" he beamed back. He stated that it all began with Sugar. Steffy looked confused, and Finn explained that Sugar was a person. Steffy had no idea what Finn was talking about.
Sitting Steffy down, Finn explained that the unfathomable had happened, and it would be hard for her to believe. It had been hard for him, too, but it was real. Finn explained that Sugar was a woman who looked exactly like Sheila. Steffy began to stammer, wondering what Sugar had to do with Sheila. "Everything, Steff. Everything," Finn responded.
Finn explained that Sugar looked so much like Sheila, it would be impossible to tell them apart. Finn had seen the photos and thought they could be twins. He said Lauren had told Deacon that Sheila had tricked Sugar into the plastic surgery so that Sugar would take the fall for Sheila's crimes, and Sugar had wound up in a mental ward. Steffy asked why he was bringing it up.
Finn stated that the only difference between Sugar and Sheila was that Sugar had all of her toes. Because Deacon had thought Sugar had had it out for Sheila, Finn and Deacon had tracked her down through credit cards to an old, abandoned warehouse. "You found Sugar?" Steffy asked.
"Sheila. We found Sheila," Finn replied. Steffy asked what Finn was talking about and asserted that Sheila had died "right there." Finn knew it was what they'd thought. Steffy assumed Deacon had gotten into Finn's head. Finn insisted that Sugar had been the one in the crematorium. Finn told Steffy that it meant she hadn't killed his birth mother. "My birth mother is alive!" he exclaimed.
At Deacon's place, Deacon proposed that he and Sheila make it official that night in Vegas. For him, the sooner the better. Sheila tried to pretend she had second thoughts, but she laughed as she said it. "Knife to the heart!" he exclaimed, knifing himself and falling on the couch.
Deacon said he'd been torn up inside when he'd lost Sheila, and he couldn't lose her again. Sheila promised she wasn't going anywhere, since she had that big diamond ring on her finger. She held up her bare hand and pretended to flash a big diamond. He promised he'd get her the ring he owed her, but she said she owed him and wouldn't be there without him.
Sheila kissed Deacon and felt dizzy. She claimed it was the kiss, but he told her that they were going to the hospital. He got Sheila some water, and she told him that she'd be fine. He reminded her that she'd spent weeks in a warehouse with little food and water, and he didn't want to play around with her health. He begged her to see a doctor for his sake because it would kill him if something happened to her.
Sheila promised that nothing would happen, but Deacon enticed her, saying after her doctor's visit, they could play doctor at home. After he put it that way, she agreed to go.
At the hospital later, Sheila was in her own room, laughing as Deacon blew a plastic glove up like a balloon. He went to retrieve his cell phone from the car, and the nurse asked how long Sheila and Deacon had been engaged. Sheila revealed that it had been a few hours, and the nurse figured it might be why Sheila felt faint. Sheila said they'd been engaged before, but that time, it would be different. Everything would be different.
Sheila heard Li in the corridor. Grinning to herself, Sheila asked if Li could be her doctor. The nurse went into the corridor and told Li a patient who was dehydrated and malnourished had requested to see her. Li blanched when the nurse said the patient was named Sheila.
Sheila grinned to herself, listening as Li composed herself, admitting that the name Sheila had once sent a shiver down her spine. The nurse offered to get another doctor, but Li agreed to see Sheila. As Li entered the room, Sheila pulled her covers over her head.
Li told the cloaked patient that she usually didn't take new patients, but she'd heard that the patient had asked to for her. Sheila was silent as Li inquired about her symptoms. "Are you okay, ma'am?" Li asked. Sheila stifled her laughs, and Li asked her to pull the sheet down.
Sheila pulled the covers off her foot, and Li shrank back. "Your toe," she uttered. She asked if the patient was there for her to examine the missing toe. In Sheila's silence, Li demanded that the patient show her face. Sheila continued smiling beneath the sheet.
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