Emily: "penance is a sacrifice. A voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self- inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others it is simply a means to an end."
Lots happening this episode beginning with Kara (Jennifer Jason Leigh) sneaking up on Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) or rather scaring her in the process, to tell her she's leaving and needs a credit card, obviously Victoria volunteers thinking the sooner she's out of her hair the better. Mason (Roger Bart) confronts Emily (Emily Vancamp) with the revelation that she and Amanda (Margarita Levieva) were at juvvie together, is that all, would have thought it would have been the revelation everyone was talking about, that Emily is really Amanda. He thinks she and Amanda were lovers. So he will expose everything in his next book which will make the New York best seller list as did his first one. Emily threatens him with a libel suit when that happens, but he doesn't give up there.
Aiden (Barry Sloane) plans a meeting with Daniel (Josh Bowman) and will give him the ammo necessary to prove David Clarke had a large share holding in NolCorp and provided finance for it, thus Grayson Global is entitled to a large chunk of the company and more importantly profits. Daniel wants to use this to take over Grayson Global with a no confidence vote in Conrad (Henry Czerny). The plan is skank Ashley (Ashley Madekwe) will ensure Conrad is held up at the meeting with investors whilst Daniel will reveal his plan to the other investors, including Helen Crowley (Wendy Crewson) from the Initiative. Little does Daniel know who she is. Victoria listens to Daniel's plan and tries to tell Conrad, but Kara holds them up in their room. She demands questions and answers about David and how they framed him. Conrad attempts to stall until Victoria can get her gun, taking the blame for everything, cos David was stealing his wife and he wanted him to hurt as much as he did. Think Victoria was a little shocked at that. Too late the gun's not there.
Kara takes them into their dressing room and Victoria tells her Gordon killed David as she has the other half of the photo to prove it. Yes that photo that everyone has seen, well Emily at least and found its way into Victoria's possession. Kara makes them wear blindfolds and get down on their knees. Victoria and Conrad manage to hold hands in what they believe is their final moment. So how did Kara arrive here...
Well Mason was to blame for that and partly Emily too, as he contacts Amanda for the truth on Emily. She can't talk to him at the bar but she will at his house as Amanda plans to get rid of him once and for all, you know, using her old tyre iron ploy as weapon. Before that she confronts Emily about Mason and how she hasn't told her anything about him. She tells Amanda to cancel lunch with him and to threaten a restraining order if he doesn't oblige. Emily arrives in the nick and wants Amanda to go home and think of how lucky is she is with what she has.
Daniel tries o get info from Kara about David and his investments before she leaves but she tells him he was very secretive and hid things so there might be something. Emily arrives with a present for Victoria and she has it placed with the rest of the unopened gifts. Wonder if Emily bought her an empty box just as she did when Emily was engaged to Daniel.
We meet up with Ryan's (JR Bourne) brother Nate (Michael Trucco) this episode and how they're trying to get all the ships and other businesses in the area, er, out of business cos they're nasty people, including Jack's (Nick Wechsler) father. But Ryan tries to tell him that Jack and Declan are good. Nate meets Jack. Oh no Declan and Charlotte missing this episode and I didn't even notice, maybe they ran off together, ha!
Aiden needs Nolan's (Gabriel Mann) help since he wants to help Emily, saying he wronged her and wants to make it right, when Nolan asks him why he's here, considering he took away his best friend. That's aiden's penance. Aiden reminds him of how forensic accountants will be able to locate the extent of the shareholding, including that of Emily's. So Nolan gives him David's cheque for NolCorp so Daniel can use it to take over Grayson Global.
Funny moment when Victoria finds Conrad on the beach, thinking he was going to end it all, did that last episode too. He's not going to do that since there are enough people gunning for him. Victoria suggests they play along with the Initiative for now. Amanda tells Mason that Emily is stalking her and is obsessed with her since her first day inside and is about to hit him with a tyre iron when Emily stops her. Finally admitting she's the real Amanda Clark and needs his help. Suppose it was only fitting that Emily should reveal her own real identity instead of Mason or anyone else doing it for her. Mason calls Kara and whilst he meets with her to give her Gordon's pocketwatch, Nolan plants evidence at Mason's implicating him in Gordon's murder and conspiring to frame Conrad. Well that's one way to skin a writer.
Emily gets Aiden to rescue Conrad and Victoria by using chloroform on Kara and taking her out. She's allowed to leave and her message for Amanda, she "tried to be a good mother." Well at least Emily got to heat that, kind of meant for her ears only. Conrad and Victoria think the Initiative have more uses for them which is why they probably saved them from Kara since she's disappeared.
Nolan asks Padma (Dilshad Vadsaria) if she still wants him if tomorrow everything changes and he's no longer who he is. Wish they'd get on with that storyline cos I for one would like to see the back of her! Jack also tells Emily he's proposed to Amanda and Emily gets to use Mason by getting him to confess to Gordon's murder and that she holds the real evidence for getting him out of prison, i.e her confession. Which she will do when she's ready to. Also he can now write his second book about her and David.
Emily: "To properly do penance, one must express contrition for one's sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions. It is only when these acts are complete that the slate can truly be wiped clean. And amnesty gives way to a new beginning." Emily can resist Aiden no longer as they passionately kiss, surprised no one was watching them from the famous balcony!
Seems Emily's plans get side tracked quite a bit in her quest for revenge, whereas she was firmly of the belief that the Graysons were her true enemies and the ones she had to bring down, lately she hasn't really been concerned with doing just that. Here she even says that Conrad isn't her endgame and the one she wants to bring down. Other people keep getting in her way and she always finds she must come up with some other plans to salvage what she can of a bad situation, or to save someone and then leave her schemes for another day. Here she enlists Nolan once again to help and he will do anything for his real family as he puts it, which doesn't include leaving Padma though, he's still enamoured of her for some reason. Well I'm still waiting for the ultimate betrayal from her! Oh loved Nolan's matching blue shoes! Matching his jacket that is!
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