Conrad (Henry Czerny) and Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) are at a skeet shooting party and Victoria inevitably excels in this, as does Emily (Emily VanCamp). Infact most everyone turns up here, all who are plotting that is. Where introduced to us is Salvador Grobet (Joaquim de Almeida) [may as well have called him Grab-it - the way his name was pronounced, ha] has a bit of a wondering eye for ladies (used loosley where Ashley (Ashley Madekwe) is concerned) and who Daniel (Josh Bowman) wants to side with him in the takeover for the Grayson Global board. Thus Daniel brings skank Ashley to the fore, a big mistake on his part especially since Grobet is a womanizer, having problems with his wife and also since further down the track it will be revealed just how much of a schemer Ashley really is.
Emily and Aiden (Barry Sloane) root for Daniel to become CEO and so they'll have a line to the initiative with Aiden having a place on the board. Nolan (Gabriel Mann) is there too with the NolCorp takeover being on the agenda and he tells her he's got an ace up his sleeve but doesn't tell her what that is exactly. No to mention Conrad getting a call from Helen (Wendy Crewson) who tells him Daniel will be in danger if Conrad and Victoria prevent him taking over as CEO. She hangs up when Victoria grabs the phone. Aiden kisses Emily's cheek when he leaves and Nolan points to his own cheek too but he doesn't get a kiss. In fact he gets a surprise instead when he turns up at Grayson to lose 51% of his company to Daniel and he has to oblige cos of Marco (EJ Bonillo) who hasn't all but told Daniel where the money disappeared to. Instead he's angling for a job, his old one as CFO, which we know has been taken over by Padma (Dilshad Vadsaria).
Marco continues to harass Nolan even at the bar, infact to the point of blackmail and Nolan later tells Padma he's looking for a position for Marco. She's livid about that but I wouldn't trust her either so I didn't like him telling her how how Nolan intends to be a Trojan horse inside the company. I find it remarkable that Marco was also able to piece together that Amanda (Margarita Levieva) never got any of the money judging from the Stowaway and he has more ammo to hold over Nolan. So maybe she likes to live in poverty and is miserly, did he think about that? Apparently he and Mason would have had a goo,d seedy double act going.
It's Carl's christening and Jack (Nick Wechsler) foolishly invites the Ryan's too. Foolishly since it's not until later that Matt (Jonathan Adams) turns up and warns him about the brothers and how they are Joe Ryan's sons and he needs to get out from under their thumbs. Emily is envious of Amanda and how she's got her hands on Jack and has a family too and Amanda notices this as she tells Emily she too deserves a family and should give up on this revenge business, asking when it's going to be enough.
Matt is beaten up by and Nate, mostly Nate (Michael Trucco) and when he's found by Charlotte (Christa B Allen) he tells Jack that he shot Joe and their father hid the gun on the boat. So what's he going to do with that now. Their father's little black book goes missing and later Nate brings it back with Matt's name crossed out in red. I was surprised that it took Jack that long to spell out the connection between the Ryan name with that of Joe Ryan. There can't be that many Ryan's about in the same place and conveniently stumbling into the Stowaway too. Jack asks Nolan for help on info on the brothers and he finds they're nasty people. Nate having a criminal record and Kenny (JR Bourne) doesn't even own a house here.
Emily and Aiden spy on the Grayson's and watch Ashley as she tries to poison Daniel against Aiden. Thus Emily comes up with a plan of sending Victoria footage of Ashley and Conrad together. This she shows to Ashley and Conrad who claims it was when they were divorced and she adds it only happened once. Victoria tells him he has "wormed your way into the very nadir of repugnance." Oh those classy lines Victoria! Conrad tells Victoria she can get revenge on him after they save Daniel.
Daniel however is in no mood to be saved as he follows in daddy dearest footsteps showing he's a Grayson through and through. Victoria attempts to use Ashley to seduce Salvador into siding with Conrad but that backfires when Emily finds out and Aiden shows Daniel the footage of her dirty deed. Thought Daniel would have had more brains and would have figured out Ashley was doing the dirty on him with Conrad, I mean she was working for him, and providing other 'favours' for him wouldn't be that far removed. Eeww, especially after she was also with Tyler. Gosh, talk about cast offs!!
Danie turns up courtesy of Aiden and takes a photo of Salvador and Ashley in bathrobes to use as leverage against him. If he doesn't side with him then he'll send it to his wife. Victoria attempts to force Daniel's hand and tells him not to go through with the takeover since he'll be in danger but she can't elaborate. Thus he gets his way and becomes CEO. Breaking the news to Aiden that there's no place for him on the board since he has acquired NolanCorp and so their profits will increase and no one wants to vacate their place. Well that was a turn up for the books. After all that. However they got Daniel in with the initiative. Later Daniel deletes photos of him and Ashley but keeps the ones of him and Emily. Then picks up a card with the message, "welcome to the fold." And a clock, which contains a camera and none other than the initiative watching.
Taking leaves out of Emily's books are they?! Ha. Oh come on, would you keep a clock from a stranger? It didn't even look expensive. Victoria slaps Conrad and he can "take your pick" for whatever that was for. Victoria calls Emily for help with Daniel but sees her with Aiden and will call her back.
Emily: "Revelations can help us accept the things we need the most. Expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, revelations are windows into our true selves, both the good and the evil and those wavering somewhere in between, with the ultimate power to destroy all that we cherish most."
Plenty of backstabbing going on here, using Nolan's phrase of "come to remove the knife from my back" and Emily having to come up with countermeasures to counteract the countermeasures so they can get their own way in the end. About Ashley, has she so very little memory or bairn cells, how come she doesn't recall Aiden as the bartender from that Russian bar, where perhaps she should have been left. Let's face it, the Hamptons has done very little for her. Oh that look she gave when she was preening herself in the mirror when Victoria spies on her. Was she trying got mimic Madame Victoria. Sorry love, you failed miserably!
Daniel's prob on a mission to get Emily now and maybe his refusing to have Aiden on the board was his way of getting one up on Aiden as far as she's concerned. Daniel does have a shady side to him but don't think it's any match for the initiative or indeed whatever Nolan has planned for him and I can't wait for him to continue his Trojan horsing around!
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