Aiden (Barry Sloane) escapes and a hooded person lies in a pool of blood.
"They say the best laid plans often go awry, because no matter how detailed the preparation, a plan will always have a weak point and there will always be those looking to exploit it. To doom a plan to failure and the perpetrator with it."
Two Days Ago Aiden returns to the beach house and tells Emily (Emily VanCamp) about Helen (Wendy Crewson) and Coleen is still alive. She tells him he needs proof otherwise she could be lying. Either way Helen wants him to do something so they come up with some plan of drawing her out and for Emily to meet her. Emily invites Daniel (Josh Bowman) and other investors to a charity wine auction and overhears a call from Helen wanting him to acquire Stonehaven.
Conrad (Henry Czerny) meets with Jason Prosser (Dylan Walsh) an old rival of his and Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) interrupts to tell Conrad about Daniel's plans, after Emily tells her about this. He reminds her how the Initiative acquires dead weight companies and then makes then their slaves. The end result being another plane crash as Victoria tells him. She's going to prevent this from happening and will use Jason to sabotage the acquisition. Victoria wants Emily to invite Jason to the auction. When Emily is with Daniel she mentions getting another investor to the event and she mentions Helen. Cue untimely phoncecall from her, thus giving Emily a chance to meet her. Emily suspects the office is bugged as she looks around the room.
Helen also tells Daniel about 'Carrion' which was an R'n'D by NolCorp which Daniel says he hasn't found anything on. Daniel relying this to Nolan (Gabriel Mann). He wants this file. Does Helen have nothing else to do than to perve on Daniel, ha, the way she was watching him with Emily was just plain creepy. What did she do before the office was wired?
Mario (EJ Bonilla) still wants Nolan to trust him but Nolan has his doubts. Enter Padma (Dilshad Vadsaria) just at the trust word was being floated around. Well don't trust her and haven't since she was introduced on day 1. She's here to throw a spanner in the works and begs Nolan for a job. He invites her to the auction. Which gets underway with Daniel and Jason vying for the same bottle of wine, with Nolan upping the ante by bidding half a million. Daniel wins the bid with a million which is just what Victoria wanted. She later tells Jason about the Stonewall bid and lets it slip, actually. SO he's going to steal the company from under Daniel.
Nolan calls Aiden '007' this time as he calls him Q and actually pays Nolan a compliment of sorts. Emily is introduced to Helen and she gives her a cheque but doesn't want a bottle of wine since it clouds her judgement. See Daniel's back on the bottle again. Nolan dims the lights, cue for Emily to get ready. Helen and Aiden enter a lift together and soon the lift comes to a sudden stop. Gas pours through the ventilation shafts. Padma arrives late and blames Mario for making her work late, as well as letting slip she overheard him talking with Daniel.
Aiden and Helen come too in hoods and a gunman, who is Emily of course, threatens them both. Aiden gets the better of her, pretends to shoot her and releases Helen who is eager to lift the hood. Just as another gunman enters. Shots are fired and they escape. Clearly a bid to get Aiden into Helen's good graces. Does she even have any? Silly question.
Nolan returns to the office to have it out with Mario and he insists he should look at his e-mails, of course Padman would have altered them and the ghost leads back to an e-mail sent to Daniel. He denies it was him and Padma was smirking too much. Wait, Nolan why would he tell you to look at e-mails if he's just been contacting Daniel, a bit stupid. Later we see Padma calling Helen and telling her Nolan is hiding 'Carrion'. AT least she's revealed to us but it's no good if we already knew what she was up to, it's Nolan who needs to know!
Amanda (Margarita Levieva) pays a visit to Jack (Nick Wechsler) in prison and tells him to let Emily or Nolan pay his bail. He doesn't want their friends involved and tells her about the gun and the drugs. He suspects the police were involved and warned Nate (Michael Trucco) about the raid. He also tells Declan (Connor Paolo) the truth too. Amanda tells Charlotte (Christa B Allen) who says her mother won't help even if Victoria publicly welcomed Amanda into their family. Charlotte suggests her father who owes her. But he refuses to help. Offering Declan a safe haven at their house instead. Amanda takes his watch. Ashley (Ashley Madekwe) has reared her ugly head again and has gotten her job back, helping Conrad make a vie for public office in his political career. She thinks it would be good for his image to help Jack.
Nate offers to buy the bar for a dollar and Kenny (JR Bourne) doesn't want Declan to interfere with Nate, so what's his game. Amanda uses the watch to buy a gun but just as she threatens Nate, Ashley walks in. Jack's been bailed by Conrad since it would be a good idea to root out corruption in town.
Daniel comes over with the wine and it tastes off. As does Aiden to pick up his bags. Helen doesn't tell Aiden who she thinks was behind the kidnapping though she has suspicions. Ashley had to worm her way back in threatening to expose Grayson secrets she has learned over the years. Conrad running for public office, won't that give Helen another chance to get her hands in vying for favours. It had to be Emily in the mask since they showed the double infinity tattoo, no one else has it.
Emily: "Every plan has a fatal flaw. Sometimes it's the heart. Even in those who are supposed to be the most careful. But a careful nature doesn't always ensure success. When a plan is built on an unstable foundation, failure is not only a possibility, it's a certainty."
Didn't find this ep half as exciting as the one before, it just seemed to be setting up more plots for the future. Aside from the reveal about Padma which was an anti-climax anyway and Daniel wanting Emily has also been building up for a while. Just wish they'd get those Ryan brothers over with and gone.
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