Episode Report Card Pablo G: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Arrested Development
By Pablo G | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.29.2012
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Ashley fields questions again, growing ever more adept. She says the Graysons respect the justice system and view Daniel being denied bail as just a minor setback. Cut to Jack watching on the TV at the bar. He mutes Ashley, thankfully, and Nolan calls out to him because it's obvious Jack isn't thinking about going anywhere. Jack says he needs to look out for Dec. Nolan doesn't really buy that. At an impasse, Jack asks if Nolan wants a drink. Nolan: "Make it a double. It's going to be a long fall." Nolan stares up at the muted TV while Jack fixes his drink. He pulls out his phone and dials his IT department at Nolcorp to have them find out the origin of the photos of Daniel that were leaked to the media.
Grayson Manor. Ems silently sits at a somber dinner table with Conrad, Victoria and Charlotte. Emanda voice-over: "Adversity creates unexpected alliances. But treaties of this nature seldom form with an equality of power."
Ashley enters the Stowaway to meet with Nolan. He pulls up the photos of Daniel on his iPad. He tells Ashley he sourced them, asking her to guess where the trail ends. Ashley asks who else knows. Nolan replies, "Just us... for now." with a devilish grin. Ems VO continued: "Loyalties forged in apprehension and mistrust are tenuous at best." Conrad looks in on Victoria putting on hand cream in her bedroom. She meets his glance coldly. Ems VO: "Easily broken when held up to the unforgiving light of the truth." Jack stares out at the water from the docks, thinking. Ems VO: "But in the darkness of our most desperate hours, it's often these loyalties that give us the strength to do what must be done." Dan stares out through his prison cell bars.
48 hours earlier. Ems rushes into a dark Casa Emily and heads straight for the compartment in the floorboards. Takeda is there waiting in the darkness. He says she should've heeded his warning. Emanda swings at him and Takeda gets the best of her, pinning her up against a pillar. "Your lack of discipline brought chaos," Takeda scolds in Japanese. She demands to know what happened on the beach. He shows her the Grayson Global group photo and tells her Daniel was going to expose her. FLASHBACK: We're at the beach the night of Tyler's murder. Daniel's being walked down the beach with Tyler having the gun trained on his back. Dan makes a move, slapping away the gun. They struggle on the ground until Dan manages to grab the gun and get the drop on Tyler. Takeda watches this from further up the beach and picks up a large rock. Tyler charges at Daniel, who lets off a round into Tyler's chest. Dan's immediately hit in the back of the head with Takeda's rock and falls forward in the manner we saw at the beginning of the last episode. Takeda picks up the gun in his gloved hand, ignores Tyler's pleas for help and pumps two more rounds into his back before picking up the Grayson Global photograph and dragging Daniel's body up the beach. Takeda voice-over: "But there were others. The girl you call 'Amanda.' She's been taken care of." We see Amily running down to the beach, and Takeda watching her and Jack discover Tyler's body. /FLASHBACK. Takeda: "And then..." Emanda lets out a panicked, "Jack," in a gasp. Takeda continues, "The other boy you have feelings for. You cannot save them both." He drops the Grayson Global photo on the floor and walks out of Emanda's house. Emanda voiceover: "A conflicted heart feeds on doubt and confusion. It'll make you question your path, your tactics, you motives." Ems picks up the infinity x infinity box, lifts it above her head and screams as she smashes it on the floor. VO continued: "And you stare ahead, and darkness is all you see. Only reason and determination can pull you back from the abyss." Emanda is alone in the darkness of Casa Emily again.