This week on The Bold and the Beautiful, Finn goes from zero to hero, RJ loses his super-human ability to solve mysteries, and Li brings down a murderer with her bare hands.
RJ loses his superpowers
From the moment RJ Forrester came back as a young man, he was central to what seemed like every storyline. He became the resident relationship counselor, inserting his unsolicited advice to everyone from Ridge to Hope. I’d include Finn, but Finn actually solicited RJ for his inexperienced opinion.
Suddenly, RJ is at a loss for thoughts. All he knows is his girlfriend isn’t that into him anymore but he can’t think past that. Did it blow his mind that he wasn’t the center of someone’s world? Funny he didn’t go to Zende and see if Luna was hanging out with him instead.
Maybe he thought that Finn owed him one, and he would hit him up for advice for a change. But when Finn told RJ how he knew that Luna was somehow involved in Steffy’s disappearance, for once in his life, RJ couldn’t follow the bouncing ball.
Usually, RJ grabs the ball and runs with it all over the field. There isn’t anything anyone can tell him that isn’t immediately repeated as fact to others. The guy who ran away from family drama is the town crier who can deduce a mystery with facts pulled out of thin air. This time, when he might actually know something helpful, but RJ can’t seem to remember what he ate for lunch.
Steffy’s plan for release
After being locked in a cage for days and hearing Luna reveal every detail of how she murdered two men, framed her mom, and then got Poppy out of the way so she could go after Bill, Steffy appeals to Luna’s conscience.
Looking at the woman who is letting her starve to death, Steffy gasps for air as Luna tries to poison her again and finish her off. If Luna was tired of hearing Steff talk, she could have just left her to die, and gotten on with her plan to seduce Bill. Instead, she wickedly grins as she tries to speed up Steffy’s murder.
Obviously, Steffy’s looking for anything that will work to get her out of the cage. Rattling the bars isn’t working, she couldn’t pull more than Luna’s arm into the cage, and relying on Finn to figure it out in time is hopeful but unrealistic. What’s a girl to do?
Steffy tries to dig deep to find Luna’s inner kindness and compassion. She asks Luna if this is really who she wants to be, and what about…her mother? I thought right there that would have made Luna snap but instead, she continued to listen to Steffy list off all of the reasons that would resonate with anyone but a sociopath psycho killer.
Heeeeeeeere’s Finn!
Despite years of ignoring everything Steffy said to him, Finn managed to piece it together that Luna was involved in Steffy's disappearance. He jumped hurdles of conversations trying to explain his theory to Bill, Li, and RJ, and went rogue with a plan.
Well, we think he had a plan. Finn managed to show up to the apartment long before the police did, and burst through the door like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, with Li hot on his heels. Did they agree to meet there? Was there a reason he thought to kick the door in rather than knock?
Speaking of Li, she thought about what Finn told her and went directly to the condemned building. Did she call the police or even Finn, for that matter? Why did she go there instead of talking to Luna, Bill, or Poppy? I’ll cut Finn some slack for his decisions since I rarely understand them anyway, but Li usually has more common sense.
Li takes down Luna
Li chases Luna downstairs, where Luna momentarily pauses at a chain link fence, giving fans a brief moment of karma to see her on the wrong side of the bars. Despite ordering her aunt to get out of her way, Li body slams Luna and declares “Nozawa Power” as she strikes the superhero landing pose.
Just then, Sgt. Baker and the police arrive. Why did they go straight to the basement? No matter when it was that Finn called them, he wouldn’t have known to direct them there. Regardless, Luna is hauled to the police station and destroys any chance of a not-guilty plea for herself.
Elsewhere in L.A.
Ridge and Taylor had a lengthy conversation about Steffy, what she’s been through, and where she could be. It gave us a chance to spend some time with the “new” Ridge and Taylor, and they needed to catch up on their daughter’s situation as parents and bond.
But…I couldn’t help but wonder what Ridge was doing. As calm and caring as the conversation may have been, he had to know that discussing Hope kissing Finn would be firing up Taylor inside, and refueling the rivalry with the Logans.
As for Bill and Katie, she has been way too riled up following her obsessive research into bringing down Poppy. Now that she thinks that mission was accomplished, she has a calm and soothing tone about Bill that comes across a little like feigned innocence. She was sympathetic and gave Bill grace for being hurt in this situation, but there was no acknowledgment of her role in it. Katie has been barking at Bill for weeks that he was being used — she just had the wrong Nozawa to blame.
Meanwhile, Steffy can't be kidnapped and killed without Hope complaining that Steffy runs away from Finn. Brooke seems to understand that Hope's obsession with victimizing Finn is a problem, but will she do anything about it?
What do you think? Will Bill and Poppy’s relationship survive once she swaps places in jail with Luna? Will Finn hold onto his new title as Steffy’s hero or go back to his usual of finding ways to put his wife in second place behind others? Is this the end of Luna’s rampage, or is she the new Sheila who will escape, and then relocate to Genoa City?
Until next time!
