I was thinking - Bill and Katie enforce an employee agreement and Eric concocts a plan to design what he has to do for Katie/Bill/Logan - and agrees on the side to do designs for Forrester.
When the designs are complete, have someone switch them so that Logan/Katie - get the real ones; Forrester gets his second-rate ones. Ridge and Brooke, excited to review the designs, open them at home. Over the course of the next day, they decide to then have to revert to telling Eric he no longer has “it” for designing; that maybe retirement was the way to go. They will scramble to get good designs in time.
At an internal Logan show run-through - Eric sees his good designs on the runway that same day, and either starts to tell them the truth or must remain silent because he would be admitting his under the table deal with Forrester.
Katie and Bill both pretend not to know what’s going on. Eric goes to Forrester for their run-through, and Ridge cuts him off (and doesn’t let him speak, the way that they do), talks over him, so does Brooke - and before Eric can say that the designs got swapped, they bring up retirement again.
Eric now has not second thoughts but THIRD thoughts. “You were….ready to get rid of me again because I just had an average set of designs? You were already jumping at the chance again?”
Bill and Katie have snuck in the back listening in. They walk into the back of the room, still unseen.
Eric tells Brooke and Ridhe that he was at the Logan run through and THOSE were his real designs, that somehow someone switched them out.
Katie and Bill step forward - “switched what designs, Eric?” Regardless of what you were trying to do, the designs are still ours. You were under an agreement and were using the company laptop and email to communicate. They’re ours and will remain so. Eric doesn’t know how to feel because Bridge once again showed their true colors about his aging, and that has nothing to do with switching designs. They are ready not to believe in him regardless of the situation.
You could get years of story out of this. It may be a good time to kill Eric off. Not usually a fan of it but, given the character, no one else can play the role. Keep him on the show as ghostly memories or advice from time to time like YR did with John Abbott.
The very last designs that Eric Forrester created - were for Logan because Bridge repeatedly confirmed they didn’t believe in him. Donna agrees and she sides with Katie.
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