It’s been a minute since The Bold and the Beautiful had Deacon pay a visit to the frontburner, much less a visit with daughter Hope. But that’s about to change in a big way. When a fan on social media asked Sean Kanan, “Dude, are we ever going to see any scenes with you and Annika [Noelle] again? Hope needs her dad more than ever!” the actor replied that we’d be getting “a ton of them.

“Filmed seven shows last week and three this week,” he added, “Just you wait.

If we must wait, we will. But we don’t know if Hope is going to be able to. The fan was altogether right in saying she needed Dad in her corner. For a while there, everything was going her way. She had a devoted new boyfriend in Carter and thanks to the coup he staged, basically the run of Forrester Creations. Heck, she even get a chance to tell Ridge what a [bleep] he was being for forgetting that they had many times been family.

But with Carter having second and even third thoughts about stabbing his bestie in the back to seize control of Forrester, it seems like only a matter of time before the wheels fall off the car. Who will be Team Hope, then? If Carter backtracks on the takeover, Hope will likely see it as a terrible betrayal and break up with him. Mom Brooke wants nothing more than to get back together with Ridge. (Why, we’ll never understand.) Steffy can’t stand Hope. Finn will want to steer clear, lest she fall on him again.