Episode Report Card Pablo G: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Feast or Famine
By Pablo G | Season 1 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.08.2012
Ashley shows up at Conrad's room at the South Fork Inn to pick up the list of invites for the Fire & Ice Ball. Conrad stops her before she leaves to ask what her endgame is. He can't figure out where Ashley's ambitions lie, and he thinks she's hitching herself to the wrong Grayson since Conrad is so confident Victoria is going down. Ash doesn't necessarily disagree with Mr. Grayson.
Jack arrives at Amily's motel. She can't even look him in the eye when she answers the door and he angrily barges in the room, accusing her of planning their getaway trip as an alibi. Amily can't stand the confrontation any longer, so she readily admits to being an arsonist. Jack isn't appeased. He says he's keeping the tape because he wants to see what was worth her throwing everything they had away. He leaves. Ems comes out of hiding from the bathroom to tell Amily she needs to go after him. It's what's best for him. But Amily is done. She sits down on the motel bed and tells Ems that if she wants the tape she has to go after him herself. She gets up and slams the bathroom door behind her.
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Fortress of Solitude. Emanda catches Nolan up on what happened with Amily. Nolan doesn't understand what the big deal is about Jack watching the tape and learning the truth. The big deal is Ems wants Jack's memory of Amanda to be of the girl he left behind. Nolan thinks it's more about Emanda moving on than Jack. Touché. In any case, the current agenda for Ems is now dinner with Grandpa Grayson and pitting Victoria's lies against her. She maintains Charlotte deserves to know the truth. "Who's going to tell her?" Nolan asks. "Our father is," Ems replies.
Emanda arrives at Grayson Manor and hands the package addressed to Charlotte to the help. Grandpa Grayson arrives shortly after, and is totally an attention whore. He has that whole brazen old man thing going. He immediately takes a shine to Dec because he senses the young man is a fish out of water. Later at dinner, he poses the question to Emanda and Daniel, "How did you two lovebirds meet?" FLASHBACK: Back in the college bar, Daniel's conversation with the bar girl has spilled over to Amanda. Daniel asks for advice on how to make a name for himself if he wants to be a poet despite being rich and famous. She advises he be better than his parents. Nothing more poetic than that. /FLASHBACK. Conrad arrives and excuses himself for a call. He asks Charlotte to come with him. Later, Grandpa slow dances with Victoria and asks if her marriage could be salvaged. He doesn't want for her and Conrad to end up alone like he did. Most importantly, he asks Victoria to promise the divorce won't get ugly. Again, too late for that, old man.