The BEST episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful season 17

#1 - Ep. #3984

Season 17 - Episode 140 - Aired 2/13/2003

Amber tearfully tries to explain that she was just a child when she made that video with Rudy back in Furnace Creek, but Rick is disappointed and Eric is furious.

#2 - Ep. #3974

Season 17 - Episode 130 - Aired 1/29/2003

C.J. is ecstatic to have his sister alive and back in his life, and feels no anger -- he, Clarke, Sally, and Darla welcome Macy's new husband with open arms.

#3 - Ep. #3975

Season 17 - Episode 131 - Aired 1/30/2003

Ridge asks Tricia for her advice on Brooke when she comes over looking for news on Thorne, and although Tricia encourages him to make his own decision, she's not sure if Brooke is the right one.

#4 - Ep. #3976

Season 17 - Episode 132 - Aired 1/31/2003

After being threatened by Eric yet again, Deacon decides he's tired of playing the game by the Forrester rules -- he interrupts Ridge's proposal with Brooke to reveal that he is Hope's father.

#5 - Ep. #3977

Season 17 - Episode 133 - Aired 2/3/2003

Amber is shocked to see the X-rating on 'Ambrosia Undressed', and watches the tape in horror. She immediately phones Rudy, demanding answers as to how this tape even got out.

#6 - Ep. #3978

Season 17 - Episode 134 - Aired 2/5/2003

Ridge cannot hide his disgust that Brooke would betray Bridget by sleeping with Deacon, and Brooke tries desperately to convince Ridge that she only slept with Deacon because she couldn't have him.

#7 - Ep. #3979

Season 17 - Episode 135 - Aired 2/6/2003

A tearful Brooke tells Eric and Stephanie that Deacon told Ridge the truth, and Stephanie tells her that it's all for the best, because lies can only hurt people.

#8 - Ep. #3980

Season 17 - Episode 136 - Aired 2/7/2003

Thorne creates a media furor over Macy's return, believing that it's the only way to keep her in town. He calls her in the middle of it all, assuring her he loves her.

#9 - Ep. #3981

Season 17 - Episode 137 - Aired 2/10/2003

Massimo finds a cigar-smoking Deacon at his desk who assures him that he's taken care of Brooke, and muses that Massimo destroyed Brooke and Ridge to gain points with Stephanie.

#10 - Ep. #3982

Season 17 - Episode 138 - Aired 2/11/2003

Brooke wants Bridget to explain why she didn't defend her with Ridge and isn't trying to help her get him back, and Bridget can't believe her mother is trying to get her to lie for her.

#11 - Ep. #3983

Season 17 - Episode 139 - Aired 2/12/2003

Thorne tells Macy that they're meant to be together and begs her to leave Lorenzo, proposing marriage. Macy tells him that he's just using the same arguments Brooke did years earlier.

#12 - Ep. #3973

Season 17 - Episode 129 - Aired 1/28/2003

Sally tells Macy that unless she is willing to stay permanently she wants her to go, and Macy agrees to stay just as C.J. barges into the room and is shocked to see his 'dead' sister.

#13 - Ep. #3985

Season 17 - Episode 141 - Aired 2/14/2003

Massimo arrives with a surprise for the kids (floor seats for the Lakers), and when Ridge is out of the room, Mass tells Brooke to leave, and to go destroy someone else's life.

#14 - Ep. #3986

Season 17 - Episode 142 - Aired 2/17/2003

After hearing that Thomas has called out for Bridget, Mass heads over to her place, but before he can explain what's happened Stephanie tells him Bridget isn't going anywhere with him.

#15 - Ep. #3987

Season 17 - Episode 143 - Aired 2/18/2003

Brooke acknowledges to Ridge that she feels responsible for Thomas's condition, but Ridge isn't interested in hearing her apologies. He tells her that they can't hash this out between them right now. His first priority needs to be his son, and hers should be her daughter.

#16 - Ep. #3988

Season 17 - Episode 144 - Aired 2/19/2003

Macy is shocked and horrified when Thorne produces paperwork proving that they are still married because they never actually filed the divorce papers due to her 'death'. Thorne is determined to make her his wife in more than name only, but Macy reminds him that she wants Lorenzo, not him.

#17 - Ep. #3989

Season 17 - Episode 145 - Aired 2/20/2003

After making arrangements with Bill to have Bridget appointed to his pharmaceutical program, Stephanie tells Eric that she's found a way to let Bridget lead her own life. But rather than be pleased at the thought of going to Copenhagen, Bridget thinks Stephanie is trying to get rid of her.

#18 - Ep. #3990

Season 17 - Episode 146 - Aired 2/21/2003

Massimo visits Ridge, and is pleased to hear how much Ridge likes Bridget, and how glad he is that Bridget was there for Thomas. Massimo begins to think that maybe his plan to hook them up will work, and he is furious to learn that Bridget may leave Los Angeles.

#19 - Ep. #3991

Season 17 - Episode 147 - Aired 2/24/2003

Sally begs Gladys for help in finding a way that they can check out Thorne's living arrangements in disguise, just so that they can verify Tricia's role in his life. Tricia realises it's them in the workman's overalls, and stages a sexually explicit conversation with Thorne on the phone.

#20 - Ep. #3992

Season 17 - Episode 148 - Aired 2/25/2003

Desperate to keep Bridget from leaving town in an effort to keep Brooke from landing Ridge again, Massimo tells Ridge that he, and not Eric, is his father, and that Bridget is leaving town because she knows the truth and she has fallen in love with him.

#21 - Ep. #3993

Season 17 - Episode 149 - Aired 2/26/2003

#22 - Ep. #3963

Season 17 - Episode 119 - Aired 1/14/2003

When C.J. probes Bridget about her reasons for not wanting to move back in with Ridge, he figures that since she loves the children, it's Ridge she's trying to get away from.

#23 - Ep. #3915

Season 17 - Episode 110 - Aired 10/31/2002

While lamenting to Dr. Cooper that he was not able to save Taylor Forrester, Mark flashes back to a conversation he had with his mother before he came to town, where Margo expressed her concern that Mark would get his heartbroken if he was coming to L.A. to get to know his father, Clarke.

#24 - Ep. #3916

Season 17 - Episode 111 - Aired 11/1/2002

As the Forresters and the Spectras gather to pay their respects to Taylor, Stephanie tries to comfort her grief-stricken father Jack. When Jack sees Brooke show up to the funeral on Ridge's arm he explodes; his daughter is barely in the ground and Brooke is already trying to move in on her husband!

#25 - Ep. #3956

Season 17 - Episode 112 - Aired 1/3/2003

Stephanie tells Bridget that Ridge can never find out that Massimo is his father, but Bridget feels like she's betraying him by lying.