"Rick has finally decided that he has had enough. He's like, 'We need to get married now! We've been engaged long enough,'" sets up Kyle Lowder, wryly noting, "He's very bold."
Especially given how he brings up the subject of wedding plans. "He's with her and she's feeling down about Jack," recounts Lowder. "So he's trying to be charming and whatnot and he says, 'I just want you to know you made the right decision. You have to know that. It's better for Jack in the long run.' Then when she says, 'You're right,' and goes into his arms, he whispers into her ear, 'By the way, we're getting married next week.'"
Taylor is floored. "She's like, 'What? Absolutely not. We haven't planned anything; we can't do this!'" says Lowder. "Rick tells her, 'Look, I took care of everything. It's going to be beautiful. All you have to do is be your beautiful self and show up.' She's completely thrown," admits Lowder. "She's like, 'I don't know if we can do this now. Come on.' He says, 'It's going to be exactly what you need right now,' and she ends up saying, 'Okay, we'll go through with this.'"
Taylor then makes a beeline for Brooke to tell her rival - and future mother-in-law - the good news. "Since this whole thing has started, Taylor has always taken the liberty of twisting the knife a little bit with Brooke," notes Lowder. "It's the fact that Rick is the one and only man that Brooke cannot take away from Taylor. Taylor knows that; Brooke knows that. Taylor finally got Brooke right where she wants her. That's what has been funny about this whole story, that Brooke has been driven nuts by this. She's like, 'Taylor finally has me! I can't admit it and I hate it!' and Taylor's like, 'Rick and I are going to get married! Rick planned the whole thing!'"
The awkward discussion of Rick and Taylor's love life then gets tabled, but not for long. "The very next morning he goes right over to Mommy's office and lets Brooke have it," assures Lowder. "They have a conversation and he ends up saying, 'Look if this is the way you're going to be, then I don't even want you at my wedding.' It ends up being a pretty bad situation. Ultimately, it just shows up this division between Brooke and Taylor's past and Rick's future."
Not that Rick will let Brooke's disapproval stop his wedding. "Rick is there. He's planned it; he's excited for it," asserts Lowder.