The episode starts by rerunning Hope and Rafe about to announce that they are already married, when Claire runs in followed by Ciara and Tripp and says she needs to talk to Hope. Once again Hope is reluctant to go with Claire until she knows what this is about. Ciara tells Rafe that Claire knows and he tries to pull Hope when Claire blurts that Rafe had cheated. Same shocked reaction from everyone in the room. Gabi tells Eli that Rafe would never do that. Ciara claims that Claire is lying just to get attention. Julie tells Claire that she must have misunderstood something. Hope just stares at Rafe in confusion he stares back guiltily. Julie tells Claire she's sorry that she's upset but she can't be allowed to ruin this day. Claire elaborates that Rafe cheated with Sami and is about to play the recording when Rafe grabs her hand and tells her she doesn't have to do that. He tells Hope that he slept with Sami, and Hope slaps him across the face and Rafe tries to apologize. Hope thrusts her bouquet into his chest and flees from the club. Rafe wordlessly follows her.
Julie asks how Claire knew about this and Ciara said it was because Claire couldn't stand that she and Tripp had a secret that she wasn't a part of and recorded their private conversation, because "she's a sneak and a creep." Claire angrily replies that she isn't a creep and that she did what she did because Hope deserved to know the truth. The girls start to go back and forth and Doug tells them to stop it. Claire runs from the club with Ciara and Tripp in hot pursuit.
Julie tries to go find Hope but Doug stops her telling her that the best she can do for Hope is give her a bit of space. Eli steps forward to tell Julie he's sorry about what just happened, She tearfully tells him that she thought Hope had finally found some happiness after everything she'd been through. Then her gaze falls on Gabi and she demands "How could your brother do this to her?" Gabi says that she's sorry
"You're sorry?" Julie asks sarcastically "That's not going to cut it because sorry doesn't mean anything coming from a Hernandez, not from your brother and not from you." Eli tries to step in and Julie yells at him to leave her alone then turns back on Gabi. "I wish you would just get out of my sight because the last thing I want to deal with right now is any member of the Hernandez (putting an accent on the name) family. I thought he was different from his criminal father, your criminal father, your thug brother and you, you little murderess. You murdered my precious Nick and you murdered Andre. I don't know why I thought he was any different from the rest of you."
Doug steps in and takes Julie by the shoulders apologizing to Gabi saying Julie doesn't know what she's saying and starts to lead her towards the office. "I know exactly what I'm saying." Julie shouts, "and I meant it. Everywhere Gabi goes disaster follows!" Gabi and Eli silently leave the club passing Lani and JJ who wryly remarks to Lani, "You were right, it wasn't a double wedding but it was still a disaster."
Jennifer tries to go after Hope but Eric stops her echoing Doug that Hope probably needs some alone time.
Doug is giving Julie a drink in the office she continues to rant about being taking in by Rafe . Then she starts in on Doug for apologizing to Gabi on her behalf when he knows all she wants top do is "wring her neck." "Julie," Doug says quietly but firmly, "Stop." Which she does.
Tripp and Ciara return to the loft to find Claire on her cell phone trying to book a one-way flight to Cape Town. Ciara grabs her phone and tells her she's not running away. Claire says she's not trying to run away she's just needs to be with Theo because he understands the importance of honesty. She says she was sorry that Grandma was hurt but she couldn't just let her marry a cheater. Ciara tells Claire she didn't do it for Hope, she did it because she wanted attention and congratulates her because now she has it.
Eli and Gabi are at the Martin House and she's saying that Rafe is one of the best men she knows and she doesn't understand why Rafe would do that. Eli said it probably just happened. Gabi counters that sex doesn't "just happen" it's a choice that two adults make. Eli says maybe people would be less mad if they knew the circumstances.
Rafe finds Hope on the park bench and she tells him to go away. He says he needs her to understand what had happened. Hope says that she understands what happened. Rafe had cheated on her and she had been humiliated. She says she had been such a fool and should have known something had happened when Rafe ran off to help Sami in Memphis. Rafe tells her that it didn't happen in Memphis but it was after they had their big fight and Hope had called off the engagement.
She's shocked and says that he had just thrown them away. Rafe insists that he didn't think there was a chance they would work it out. Hope insists that it was just "a rough patch." She asks if he had been drunk he tells her that he and Sami had a few drinks but they weren't drunk. He tries the "it just happened" argument and like Gabi, Hope counters that "sex doesn't just happen." She asks him if he wanted it to.
Jennifer and Eric are straightening up the club and she's going on about how hurt Hope must be. She says she knows Rafe's a good guy but doesn't understand how he could cheat on Hope and Eric's stance is basically he made a mistake. Jennifer says she doesn't totally blame Rafe and starts in on what a disaster Sami is.
Eli tells Gabi that he knew about Rafe and Sami. Gabi is surprised that Rafe would confide something like that to Eli since they weren't very close. Eli says they are still partners and partners just tend to tell each other things and he could see it had been eating at Rafe. Gabi wonders why he didn't talk to her since they had always been close. Eli shrugs it off as a "guy thing." He then asks Gabi if she can understand that even though Rafe made a serious mistake it doesn't mean he loves Hope any less.
JJ and Lani are walking in the Horton Town Square talking about Rafe and Hope. Lani comments on however everybody looked like they hated Rafe. JJ said he didn't, he knew that Rafe was still a good guy. He says he's in no position to judge saying how he had been a dog himself. Mentioning he had cheated on Gabi with Lani and had been too drunk to remember it. Lani looks uncomfortable.
Rafe tries to explain that both he and Sami were hurting and neither of them meant for it to happen. Hope wants to know how Claire knew and Rafe admits that Ciara knew. Hope realizes that was the reason why Ciara had been acting out, showing up drunk on New Year's Eve. She wants to know what he did to get her daughter to agree to keep a secret that. Rafe tells her it wasn't like that they just both thought that after losing Bo and everything she went through with Aiden, it was best to keep it secret. Hope tells him to not use that as an excuse.
Eric and Jennifer continue to argue over Sami, with him reminding her that Sami was his sister. Jennifer continues to call Sami a walking disaster, mentioning how she had gone after Abigail. Eric points out Abigail had been sleeping with Sami's fiance. Jennifer says Abigail was young and naive. Eric counters that Sami was vulnerable because Will was angry with. her. Jennifer says that Will being alive was a miracle, instead of celebrating that, everyone had to feel sorry for Sami because Will was mad at her.
She brings up Sami breaking Ben out of the asylum to recreate Will's "death." "No offense," Jennifer says, "but that's warped." "I am offended," Eric snaps, "because if she's warped then that means I'm warped too." "Now I'm offended," Jennifer says "because I don't know if I want to date someone that warped." Eric tells her "Then don't." They stare at each other sheepishly realizing they just had their first fight.
Ciara continues to go off on Claire. Tripp finally tries to intervene to calm things down and Ciara tells him "Not until I'm finished." Ciara tells Claire that she always has to be the center of attention with all eyes on her every minute. She says "You broke my mom's heart you little b-word." And punches Claire in the face.
Gabi asks Eli if he had encouraged Rafe to tell Hope the truth. He says no because he understood how hard it is to be honest with someone you love when you know how much that may hurt them. He starts to get choked up. Gabi asks him if he's still talking about her brother, he admits he is not.
Tripp asks Claire if she is okay and helps her to her feet. He tells Ciara that the truce between her and Claire is hanging by a string. Ciara scoffs the "truce" if it ever existed is now over that it's "all-out war" between her and Claire.
Eric and Jennifer apologize for getting so carried way. Eric says that the best part about having their first fight is the making up and they kiss. A much calmer Julie blames herself for not pushing Claire to tell her what was bothering her. Doug says he's sure she pushed as hard as she could. Julie says she does that because honesty is important her. Doug says the bright side is that the truth came out before Hope and Rafe actually went through with the ceremony. They clink glasses in agreement.
JJ assures Lani that his cheating days are over. Now that he's going to be a father he is a one-woman man now and forever. She continues to look uncomfortable.
Gabi asks Eli if he's not talking about Rafe who is he talking about. With his eyes starting to water, he admits he is talking about himself. He cheated.
Rafe continues to apologize to Hope and pledge his love but she remains unmoved. He says they are married. There is a few seconds of silence then she simply says "We are no more" and walks away. He watches her with tears filling his eyes. *The End*
