Everyone at Jackie M was on pins and needles waiting to see what Owen would reveal. "Does it take Sherlock Holmes to figure it out?" he cracked cockily to the interviewer, before talking about how he'd hooked up with "an older hottie" connected to a fashion house in the rise. "It's a symbiotic relationship," he said, saying he and Jackie serviced each other's needs and that he didn't love her. "Surprise, Jackie! I had you fooled!" he said to the camera. "You got punked!" he guffawed. Jackie was stunned. Later, she showed up at Whip's apartment, swilling straight from a bottle of bubbly. "How could I have been so wrong about him?" she wept of Owen, insisting that there had been no sign that Owen felt this way. Whip assured her that it was Owen's mistake, not hers. Jackie then got a frantic call from Owen insisting he could explain everything. She tearfully hung up on him. Whip comforted her as she wept and ended up kissing her. Several times. Back in San Diego, Owen left Jackie a message assuring her that he loves her and was coming home ASAP.

James called Ridge from Big Bear, assuring him that he'd yet to give up on getting Taylor and Brooke to be pals. All cleaned up from their mud fight, the ladies awaited his next therapy technique: trying to talk things out, with the option to swat each other with stuffed mallet thingies as a last resort. There was more swatting than talking and then they thwacked James...just as Ridge walked in. James washed his hands of them and stalked out, while Ridge boggled at his women. They apologized and tried to talk to each other more civilly. They found some common ground talking about the kids. "We are a family here, forever bound by our children and our history," pointed out Ridge. Meanwhile, James came in, drowning his sorrows in booze and dubbing himself a failure. "We're having a breakthrough," Brooke assured James. "It's true," claimed Taylor. James asked them to prove that by hugging. So they did! And they apologized for everything they've ever done to each other, too! "Doesn't mean it won't happen again," Brooke cracked. "It sure does keep life interesting," Taylor smiled. (Yes, you read all of that right.)