Steve Crown, the patent attorney for Forrester, asked Eric where the patent that said Forrester Creations owned the BeLieF patent was. Eric explained that since Brooke was his wife at the time, she hadn´t had a contract while working for Forrester. Steve adviced Eric and Ridge to get Brooke to sign over the rights of the patent to the company since Forrester´s future profits hinged on BeLieF. Brooke started seeing Connor Davis, a high school rival of Ridge´s.
Stephanie invited Brooke to dinner with the family so she´d be amenable to sign over the patent. Connor grew suspicious towards Stephanie´s sudden kindness to Brooke. Eric asked Steve to ingratiate himself into Brooke´s life so they would know what she was thinking. Steve became Brooke´s masseur. Connor knew he had seen Steve somewhere, but didn´t know where. Connor requested a copy of the patent and Steve told Eric to get Brooke to sign immediately. Ridge took the documents over to Brooke and she signed them without wanting an explanation since she trusted Ridge. Stephanie gladly told Brooke she had lost both Ridge and the patent. But Connor realized that since Brooke only signed one document and the second was unsigned, Brooke still owned BeLieF. She now had the upper hand.
Brooke went to Forrester to tell them what she had found out. Eric took the blame for it. Brooke agreed to sign over BeLieF one the condition that Stephanie would apologize to her and the family promised to never deceive her again. Just as she was about to sign, Steve walked in…
All hell broke loose as Brooke found out Steve was working for Forrester. Eric took on the blame, but Brooke was sure this was all Stephanie´s doing. Connor and Brooke blasted the Forresters. Stephanie was furious with Brooke since the patent belonged to the company and that they wouldn´t have had to go to those lengths if Brooke was a person you could trust. Brooke and Stephanie had some harsh words for each other which led into a catfight right there in the office. Connor dragged Brooke out kicking and screaming as Steve and Eric held Stephanie back. Brooke screamed that she would take Stephanie down since the company was now hers!
Stephanie calmed down at home as Eric dropped by. Stephanie took on all blame but Eric told her it was a family blunder. They comforted each other as they realized they could very well lose the company to Brooke.