Victoria, Conrad and pretty much the rest of the cast are skeet shooting because of course they are, and also it's dramatic. Victoria is concerned about Daniel but Conrad is confident that Nolan's company will fight the takeover and give him time to clear his name. Aarrently the reason for this skeet shooting is for Conrad to encourage a wealthy Latino (thanks to his wife) called Grobet to vote for him. Daniel has a plan regarding Grobet too, that is to trot out Ashley, "an exotic beauty". Ummm, Ashley is beautiful and has an accent and sort of darkish skin but I'm not sure I'd go straight to 'exotic', but anyway. Nolan mutters to Emily and Aiden that he's not totally happy with this situation but he has a plan of his own but he isn't going to tell them what is and how do they like that 'hmmm?'. Victoria and Conrad discuss how Daniel has played his trump card by bringing Ashley and Daniel calls for a 'skeet' (is that what they are called? Who knows, I've never shot anything in my life!) but Emily takes the shot and then tries to convince Grobet to vote for Daniel. The initiative show up and threaten Daniel from a black car with the windows rolled down. After being menacing for several minutes, Victoria screams at them over the phone but the Initiative lady rolls up the window and speeds off.
Over at the subplot it's christening time and Jack, wisely (not), invites the Ryan brothers to the event. Anders from Battlestar Gallactica and Kenny of the stupid name give each other meaningful glances. Somehow this goes unnoticed by Jack. He really is so dim.
Meanwhile at Grayson Global, Nolan and Padma show up to talk to Daniel who is sans Aiden. Nolan isn't too happy with this state of affairs but Daniel gets out his ace card, Marco. Nolan keeps his cool but you can tell he is inwardly (metaphorically speaking) shitting himself. Gabriel Mann really had a lovely performance here didn't he? They talk business and basically Nolan is black mailed into giving Daniel a controlling interest in the company as to avoid explaining the millions of missing dollars. I'm not sure I believe that Daniel has this in him, but it was certainly well played on his part.
Ashley tells Daniel that she needs to cut Aiden out and Daniel believes her, I guess because she is an exotic beauty and all. Aiden witnesses this via camera and laments that they have a problem. Emily laughs evilly (not really) and produces a video of Ashley and Conrad having sex. I must say Ashley seems very...excited in this video. Faster than you can say 'sex scandal' the video is sent to Victoria. Victoria looks pretty shocked, although, doesn't she know she's on a soap opera?!
At the christening, a remarkably well done scene and a good excuse for more white outfits, Emily looks on wistfully as she vows to protect the baby. Then, thanks to some convenient timing, Matt Duncan shows up. He was the one we saw last episode shooting Mr. Ryan the elder. He advises Jack to stay away from the Ryan brothers because they are ' no good'. Duh, I mean, we all witnessed that exchange of glances in the bar. Jack, miraculously, believes Duncan.
Meanwhile at Casa Grayson Victoria shows the video to Conrad and the two discuss their various extramarital affairs before agreeing that they have to be united if they want to protect Daniel from the evil Iniative. Victoria shows the video to Ashley who apologizes profusely and vows to make it right. Uh-oh, Victoria has an idea about how to make it right. Ashley will sleep with Grobet and convince him to vote for Conrad and in exchange, I guess, Victoria won't show the video to Daniel.
Back at the christening Charlotte gives a speech ( yawn! Still, I miss Charlotte, where has she been? )and Amanda asks Emily when enough will be enough. Nolan is having a nice drinkie when Jack, finally using his brain, asks Nolan to look into the Evil Ryan Brothers. Then Marco appears and comments on how the millions of dollars that were meant to have gone to Amanda seem to have vanished. He doesn't know the real story and he threatens to release the information unless he is given his job back.
Meanwhile, Aiden and Emily are upset by Ashley's attempt to erm ' sway Grobet's vote' so Aiden heads over to the hotel and calls a meeting with Daniel. After acting hurt for a bit he directs Daniel to Grobet's rooms. Ashley appears in a bathrobe and Daniel pulls out his phone to instagram this wonderful moment. He threatens to blackmail Grobet unless he gets his vote. Ashley seems devastated. Yikes, Emily is a relationship ruiner. The time for the voting arrives and Conrad and Victoria confess that they set Ashley up and beg him not to take over as it will put him in danger. I'm sure they're regretting not letting him be a poet now! Daniel takes over the company and ousts Aiden. Padma feels bad about the company being taken over but Nolan admits he has a plan. Then Marco shows up. It's a love triangle and I love it!
Duncan shows up at "The Amanda" where Declan has been living? What? This plot is so boring and now, also, stupid. He, Duncan, acts suspicious for a while then walks off where he is cornered by the evil Ryan brothers. Uh-oh, we know where this was going. Still, Duncan knows how dangerous they are and kind of walked right into this. Nolan calls Jack to tell him that the Ryan bros are up to no good and then Charlotte comes in screaming that someone has been beaten up. It's Duncan of course who reveals that he killed Mr. Ryan Sr. and hid the gun on the "Amanda"
Later the Ryan's threaten Jack and reveal that they took Jack's dad's diary or dayplanner or contact list or something. They've crossed out Duncans name. Yikes, does everyone have a revenge diary on this show? I don't know, I kind of thought the Ryan's had a better plan than this. They totally just gave themselves away which doesn't seem that smart. Although, what am I saying? Everything about this subplot is stupid.
Daniel is looking through pictures of him and Ashley and him and Emily. He picks up his clock and it's a camera! The Iniative are spying on him!
Victoria calls Emily and says that she will need help protecting Daniel. Is this going to turn into a love triangle too? I hope so!
I did love this episode, and I especially loved the song that was playing at the end during the montage. Here's a link, the song is called "Tunnels" by The Hundreds in the Hands and I also recommend "Recognize" and "Keep it Low" by the same band.
Tunnels
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