Steffy and Taylor beamed over the progress they felt they'd made with Ridge and talked about how Stephanie was Taylor/Ridge Fan No. 1. Steffy had hoped everything would automatically go back to the way she remembered after the evening of reminiscing and was bummed that it hadn't. She wanted to call her dad and speed up the Taylor/Ridge reunion process. She was shocked to hear from Ridge that Rick is walking now.

Eric asked Ridge to co-run Forrester with Rick, but Ridge couldn't do it. Eric railed about Ridge disconnecting him from life support. "Rick tell you all this?" Ridge wondered. "I never wanted you to die, Dad," he explained, talking about how awful that day had been and how he'd heard Eric say, "Let me go." "You gave up on me," accused Eric, insisting he'd never give up on Ridge. Well, Ridge certainly felt like Eric had given up on him now. He couldn't and wouldn't share with Rick.

Rick hastily made excuses when Brooke caught him standing, revealing Eric believed in him and wanted him to be president of Forrester and the joy had propelled him to his feet. Eric and Ridge came in, and Ridge was decidedly skeptical about the "miracle." Eric and Brooke ensconced Rick back in the bed as he raved about finally being out of Ridge's shadow and looking forward to his first day as Forrester CEO. Alone, Rick dubbed Ridge "an insufferable egomaniac" and reminded him he's Massimo's "bastard son." This was his time, with HIS father. "If you cross me... I'll destroy you," he warned, as Ridge just smirked and called him a whiny brat.