As the episode began, we picked up with Steffy re-, re-re- and re-re-re-reiterating to Luna that her baby is a child, not an escape plan. In

turn, Luna called Steffy self-absorbed to think she was still a threat and insisted that her stepmother would be the last thing on her mind

once she got sprung. What’s more — but of course — she remained confident that Bill and Katie wouldn’t let their grandchild be born behind bars.

 

 

“You think you know Bill? You don’t,” Steffy informed Luna, adding that the baby didn’t make the nut job a Spencer, it just made her a predator. Still, Steffy didn’t go so far as to call what Luna did to Will what it was: rape. Why will this show admit so freely that she’s a murderer but not that she’s a rapist? Strange.

 

 

At the Spencer mansion, Will fretted that the Luna situation was asking too much of Electra. Bill assured him, though, that the Luna of it all would be over in nine months; at that point, she’d have no contact at all with Will or the baby. The millionaire added that he’d been talking to a lawyer and was confident that the custody case would be open and shut. And with those words, could he possibly have jinxed himself more? Talk about tempting fate!

 

 

Once Bill took off, Katie and Will recapped everything that had happened to upend his romance with Electra. Somehow, Katie managed to pull off the pretzel logic to cut her ex-husband slack for having been conned by Luna. He feels very guilty, Katie said. “He’s not gonna let her brainwash him again.” Foreshadowing? You betcha!

 

 

Bill Lights Into Luna
After Steffy left the prison, Luna was surprised to find that she had yet another visitor: Bill. “Is it just you?” she asked. Yep, she’s so delulu, she really thought Will would’ve come to see her. As if.

Bill, sounding like the Dollar Bill of yore, gruffly explained that Luna’s pregnancy didn’t create any bond between her and his family. In fact, he continued, as soon as the baby was born, he was going to take it from her. “The biggest mistake of my life,” he growled, “was seeing any glimmer of redemption in you. I should have left you in here to rot.”

It doesn’t happen often, but when he’s right, he’s right.

Bill wasn’t done yet, either. The same influence that he’d used to get Luna freed, he would now use to ensure that she never stopped pressing license plates. Her response? The Luna version of the sad-face emoji above.

At the cliff house, Ridge and Taylor burst in looking for Steffy, only to learn from Finn that their daughter went directly to prison to confront Luna. While waiting for Steffy to return, her husband and parents discussed her reaction to the Luna news and how understanding she’d been that no one had warned her about the shocker to which she’d be coming home.

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When Steffy got back, she was stunningly unreactive to the fact that, while she was abroad, her father dumped her mother and instantly remarried Brooke. At first, that is. Shortly, Steffy did express her disappointment — although in much gentler terms than we might have expected (or, for that matter, hoped). Daddy sure gets away with some [bleep].