Back to 95 - Her Big Comeback

Fiona, a top designer whose brand was worth over ten billion dollars, was the youngest winner of the national award and the tyrant who ruled New York Fashion Week. A chandelier fell on her during an interview and killed her. She woke in 1995 inside the body of a fat wife in Oakridge, with Derek on top of her. She shoved him off and saw herself in the mirror. The original Fiona gave Carter's monthly paycheck to Derek, the mill owner's nephew, and Derek was engaged to Megan, an Oakridge socialite. Megan and her people broke in, accused Fiona of drugging and seducing Derek, and had her stripped and thrown into the mud.

Carter Hayes, the maintenance supervisor and Fiona's husband, arrived. Seeing him, Fiona remembered Carter arguing with a shop clerk, and the original Fiona smashing the store and leaving Carter to apologize. In the present, Derek threatened to have Carter fired, and Carter knelt. Between the memory and the kneeling, Fiona saw how long Carter had been cleaning up after her. Carter told Fiona he wanted a divorce. Fiona refused and promised to change. Carter slept at the workshop and left living money under the door. In the workshop, Carter remembered his childhood: Derek bullied him, and Fiona stepped in and promised to care for him for life after her parents died.

Fiona cleaned the house and faced a debt collector who broke in: the original Fiona owed eight hundred dollars for a gold Rolex she bought Derek, and the man threatened to break Carter's legs. Fiona asked for three days and used her future fashion sense to design clothes. She sold a dress to a country club girl, then met Sophia, the editor in chief of New York Chic magazine, who challenged her to make ten looks in three days for five thousand dollars. Megan poured juice on Fiona's designs, and Fiona fought her. Megan called security. Carter arrived just as a guard was about to strike her.

Carter left for a three-month factory assignment. Fiona kept designing and running. Three months later, she had lost weight and looked like a different woman. Carter had a factory accident. A machine crushed his leg, and the factory froze his insurance. Surgery cost thirty thousand dollars, and without it they would amputate. Barbara, Carter's mother, could not raise the money. Megan and Derek celebrated. Fiona arrived at the hospital and paid thirty thousand. Carter said he did not want her money. The surgery saved his leg, though rehabilitation would decide his recovery.

Fiona came back with food and apologized to Carter and Barbara. Barbara did not trust her. Carter said, "You're not Fiona."