Aiden (Barry Sloane) dreams about his father and being the one who discovered him after he committed suicide at their own home. It was the easy way out for him, as he later tells Emily (Emily VanCamp) Colleen deserved a hero but he took the coward's way out. Nolan (Gabriel Mann) hasn't been able to discover nothing about his father or even Pascal (Olivier Martinez) and so Emily and Aiden end up in England. That's right, add some rain, a black taxi and we're across the pond. They go and see Aiden's mother, Harriet (Claire Jacobs) under the pretext of Aiden wanting to introduce his fiance to her. Well it was a pretext though we were meant to believe it might be true. She hadn't seen him for 8 years and must have been surprised at the rugged, unkempt look her son had adopted, ha. But at least Emily had an umbrella.
She doesn't want to talk about his father or the past since there's no sign of Colleen either and she thinks she's still somewhere out there after she ran away and doesn't know her daughter is dead. Aiden has the heart of a 12 year old boy and a broken one at that she tells Emily. Emily also tells her that her father died when she was also young.
Back in the Hampton's Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) is in awe, or in amore with Pascal and wonders why she wasted her time on Conrad (Henry Czerny) who turns up and tells him Victoria doesn't need to know of their conversation but he wants to go into the business deal with him. Pascal says his name is worth more than Conrad's now and people jump when they hear it. Pascal foolishly giving away the name of the publisher he's meeting with to go into the South American publishing market. Well not if Conrad can help it. He's off to Miami before Victoria's sheets have even cooled down and meets with Alberto Loya (Len Cordova) telling him Gideon, offspring of Pascal's is bragging about taking over the company reigns from Pascal in two years time. But Conrad has his own calling card and thus steals the deal from under Pascal's French derriere!! He's not much of a buisnessman is he, considering he's built up an empire and Margaux (Karine Vanasse) wants to be the one to run that empire. Pascal doesn't approve of her setting up home with Jack (Nick Wechsler) as he doesn't approve of women working.
Margaux is angry and Daniel (Josh Bowman) walks in at the right moment, right moment for him that is. He tells her that her hand will bruise when she bangs it on the desk and Jack catches him at that point. He tells her about Daniel clearly having things under control but she replies she doesn't like jealous men. Excuse me Frenchie, that goes double for you when she was jealous of Emily last ep. Think Jack should quit whilst he's ahead since she's not the right woman for him. She doesn't even take the key to the house Jack was giving her and just walks off. Should have stuck with Emily! Even Stevie (Gail O'Grady) realizes that Daniel is right and he is in love with Emily. Well you know, childhood friends/sweethearts and all that. Just like Daniel and Margaux, dare I say it. But hey they deserve each other, especially since they're as ruthless as one another. Daniel reminding Margaux how he would challenge her to ski the most highest peaks. Wake me up when Daniel's out of the scene!
Same can be said for Charlotte (Christa B Allen) as she stumbles in on the call between Jack, Nolan and Emily when he says someone's railroading her. Oh why do people have to mention the name of the person they are speaking with, I mean it wasn't for our benefit, but Charlotte is such a rat, of the sinking ship variety and had to get curious about that. Especially since she's spying for Daniel now and so much for saying she doesn't want to get involved in anything involving Jack.
Nolan is deserted by Javier (Henri Esteve) this ep as he's not in agreement with his partnership cut and even goes below the belt with his comment to Nolan about being in prison and probably being like that even before he was born. Oh ditch him Nolan and report him to his parole officer for several parole violations! Including making us squirm when we see him and Charlotte together. Hold on, they deserve each other, ha. She tells him Daniel can help him especially after he tells her about helping Jack out at a law firm. Curiosity peaked, of she goes scampering elsewhere Char!!
Victoria pays a visit to Mason (Roger Bart) in prison hoping to rake some dirt on Emily but he wants a deal, like being out of here by the end of the month. He calls Emily and tells her about Victoria's visit and he'll spill if she doesn't help him out. Thus she sends Nolan in after Mason lathers his face with shaving cream and apparently dies. Not long after Stevie paid him a visit with Emily's offer and he refused it, cos meeting between l lawyer and client can't be recorded. Nolan drives up in the coroner's van and not long after, well, 12 hours, Mason wakes in the van to find Emily had Japanese herbs in her cream which mimics death. He jets off to the Maldives and Emily will give him an exclusive best seller. Nolan asking him about Oscar Chapman, a fellow journalist.
His was the name Aiden found etched into the table he and his father worked on and thinks it's a clue left by his father for Aiden, but they don't know who that is, cos apparently he was meant to have died in a car accident. Most convenient, whenever a death is intended, it's always in a car accident in these shows. Emily and Aiden head back after he admits to his mother that Colleen was dead and was kidnapped, that's why his father planted the bomb. But he killed the men who killed her which is closure for her as she's glad. When they arrive home, they fall into bed with each other again and Nolan rings to tell her that Oscar faked his own death, so what's new?
Victoria tells Stevie about Mason's death and she blames herself, a little heads up from Emily would have been good, especially since she kind of was the last one to see him alive. But she is left a bottle of booze from Victoria and knows she'll go back on it. That's what I didn't like about Stevie, she came here all gung ho and ended up being drunk out of town again by Victoria no less. As if she'd thank Stevie for the deed to the house. Jack takes her back to LA but must return to help Emily since she has to see this through to the end.
Margaux is delighted her father is going to help her in business and groom her to take it over, so brings a bottle of booze over to celebrate with Daniel, of course it's obvious where that is heading even if she stops anything from taking place between them now. Seems like this ep was just to keep the show going to the end of this season, since all we seem to be getting are names and more names, like a wild goose chase not leading anywhere and not getting any closer to finding any answers.
Funny scene Victoria running off to Conrad to find out what Mason knows and thinking Conrad sent him to prison, wow Victoria actually in the dark about something! He laughs and tells her, " as long as Emily's your enemy, she's an ally to me." Or so he thinks. Also to Pascal: "Ah I sense the stench of romance is in the air."
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