Episode Report Card Pablo G: C+ | 359 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Tyler Burden
By Pablo G | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2011.12.07
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There's a knock at the door at Casa Emily. It's Amily. She apologizes immediately for telling Jack she's Amanda. She follows Emanda through her house a little manically while Emanda remains calm and collected, saying she only cares about Jack not getting hurt. That's what Amily's saying! She says Jack is the best thing that's ever happened to her aside from Emanda. Ignoring the audacity of this stripper, Emanda changes the subject to Amily's problem with keeping up with Jack's memory of their supposed shared childhood. She offers Amily a diary she kept when she was still in foster care. Daniel walks in, so Emanda introduces him to Amily -- extra emphasis on the "Amanda Clarke." Amily runs off, happy to have secrets about her beloved Jack. Dan is disturbed, though. He asks if she's the daughter of David Clarke. Emanda does an uncharacteristically bad job of playing dumb: "Wait. You're not talking about that David Clarke?" But you don't have to try particularly hard to fool Daniel. They sit down on the couch and Dan spills that he knows David Clarke was working for Conrad when he was arrested. The subject changes to Daniel deciding he isn't going to tell his dad about Tyler's underhanded (bad visual) dealings with Nolan. He wants to beat Tyler on his own merits. He'll have a chance to do just that tonight because he's got a dinner meeting with Mr. Takeda. Emanda agrees to be Dan's translator for the night.
Nolan sits by himself among the night crowd at the Stowaway, swirling his sad glass of scotch. Amily hops/skips into the scene and tosses Nolan a cheerful greeting. Nolan's not having it. He sidles up to her stool and puts on his menacing whisper. He doesn't get why she's at a dive bar where obviously nobody wants her when she could be living it up in Paris. Amily corrects Nolan that Jack obviously wants her there and even Emanda has given her blessing. Nolan is thrown for such a loop by this revelation that he looks hurt. Amily teases him for it.
Upstairs, Dec is finishing up a phone conversation about an apartment lease for him and Charlotte, but Jack walks in and catches the tail end of it. He freaks out when Dec admits he's trying to move out to live with his girlfriend. He's not even eighteen yet. Jack gives a typical dad/guardian speech, but one thing he says is out of the ordinary and definitely sticks with Declan. In addition to telling Dec he needs to finish school and take care of his work obligation, he suggests that these things will go toward making him the type of man that a girl like Charlotte deserves. That's parenting. Jack goes back downstairs, leaving Dec to sit in contemplation of this wisdom.