At the cliff house, Hope dropped by to hand over the swim goggles that Kelly had left behind. The goggles, Hope later admitted, provided a convenient excuse for her to check on Finn. Finn, shirtless from a recent swim, put on a shirt as he thanked Hope for her concern.

Hope and Finn sat down at the dining room table, and Finn relayed the details of Deacon's close encounter with a supposedly ten-toed Sheila at the crematorium. Hope insisted that Deacon had to have been mistaken. Finn suggested that Deacon's reaction might just be part of the grief process. Hope admitted to feeling sad for her dad.

Finn admitted that it had not been easy dealing with Sheila's death, but he quickly noted that "Sheila only had herself to blame." Wanting to be optimistic, Hope suggested that "the silver lining" in Sheila's death was that Finn and Steffy did not "have to worry about Sheila Carter ever again."

At Forrester Creations, Steffy thought back to the conversation she'd had with Finn about Deacon's belief that Sheila might still be alive. She was so lost in thought that she did not hear Liam knocking on the door of the executive office. Liam sensed that Steffy's mind was elsewhere, and he asked if she was okay.

"Just when you think that you're able to move on [and] close a chapter, some idiot just chimes in and yanks you back to where you were," Steffy said with a sigh. Liam wondered who the idiot was. Steffy told Liam about Deacon's theory that Sheila could still be alive. Steffy was insistent that Deacon was wrong, but Liam appeared more perplexed about why Deacon was "stuck" on Sheila.

Steffy wondered what was more plausible: "Deacon didn't see the toes correctly, or I -- I don't know -- I just killed a stranger in my house and told everyone that it's Sheila." Liam noted that there had been an investigation into Sheila's death, and he questioned how that could be explained away. Steffy repeated that Deacon was wrong. "She's dead and gone, and she's never coming back," Steffy said defiantly.

At Il Giardino, Deacon pressed Lauren for information about Sugar. Lauren was silent, her eyes darting from side to side. After some additional pressure, Lauren revealed that the Sugar she knew of was in jail. Calling it "ancient history," a clearly rattled Lauren said that she never again wanted to talk about Sugar or Sheila. "And I strongly advise you to forget about Sheila and anyone that she could be texting," Lauren snapped.

Lauren said it was "extremely crazy" for Deacon to believe that Sheila could be alive. Lauren resented being seen as the "resident Sheila expert." Lauren noted that Sheila faking her own death was proof of how dangerous and "truly insane" Sheila was. Deacon told Lauren that he had accompanied Sheila's body to the crematorium. He shared the story of the sheet uncovering the body's feet.

Lauren begged Deacon to stop torturing himself. Deacon, however, remained insistent that he had seen ten toes on the body. Lauren closed her eyes and gasped, "Sugar." Deacon realized that Lauren did know Sugar. Lauren told Deacon that Sugar had been Sheila's warden when Sheila had been in prison. Sheila had "worked her magic" and convinced Sugar to help her escape -- and then the pair had ended up in Genoa City.

"Sheila was in the mental ward, where she belonged," Lauren added. Deacon began firing off a series of questions for Lauren. She told Deacon to stop asking questions and to start listening because he was about to be "as blown away" as she had been.

Lauren sat down at a nearby table, and Deacon took her a glass of whiskey. Lauren told Deacon that Sheila had not been the one being cared for in the psychiatric facility. She reflected on a conversation she'd had with Sheila nearly two decades earlier in which Sheila had revealed that Sugar had "sacrificed her face for the cause" in South America.

Sugar, Sheila had told Lauren, had believed that she'd be getting a facelift. When the surgery had been over, however, Sugar had learned that she'd looked exactly like Sheila. Sugar had been drugged and recommitted to the psychiatric facility because no one had believed Sugar's claims that she had not been Sheila.

"I was right! It wasn't Sheila that got cremated. She's alive. My God, Sheila's alive," Deacon exclaimed.

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