Episode Report Card Pablo G: B+ | 25 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Natural Election
By Pablo G | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.12.2013
Stowaway. Can you imagine the awkwardness of being alone in a power outage with the woman who's responsible for your wife's death who doesn't know you know she's responsible for said death? Yeah. Jack and Victoria. That. But what's really awkward is this plot hole: Jack says that because of how busy he's been with Conrad's campaign, baby Carl is at his grandmother's house for the week. Um... would that be Mrs. Porter who abandoned Jack and Dec as children or the non-existent mother of Jack's dead loner wife with a fake identity? With how convoluted everything has become, I guess a slip-up like that was inevitable. Victoria wants to get back to deliberating about Jack's evidence against Conrad. She doesn't think it's much of a smoking gun. More so, she wants to know why Jack suddenly trusts her. She could easily alert Conrad to his intentions. Apparently, the knowledge that Victoria loved David Clarke has given Jack the confidence to divulge his aspirations to her. He doesn't know enough about what's on the evidence laptop to know that he's playing right into Victoria's interests. Jack is not a revenger. He admits to Victoria that he's searched their home for the laptop and has only come across the safe in Conrad's office, which he can't get into. Victoria offers to help him get into it.
Back in the city, Regina and Declan remain trapped at the ATM where they were trying to raise bail money to spring Charlotte. Declan picks up a metal trashcan, trying to break the glass door with it, but only succeeds in smashing his own hand. Regina scoffs. "What does Charlotte see in you, anyway? I get the forbidden fruit thing, but you are particularly low-hanging," she prods. Somebody sounds a little jealous. A vagrant starts banging on the door, but can't get in, much in the same way that they can't get out. Regina quips that Dec's dad is out there and he should go with him so she doesn't have to see his face anymore. Sometimes Regina is very clever; sometimes she's not clever at all. Dec makes the observation that, unfortunately, neither of them are going to get to take their leave of each other any time soon.
At Grayson campaign headquarters, Conrad's minions all huddle around him with flashlights. He commends them on their willingness to "soldier on," but he orders them to all go home to check on their loved ones. Conrad pulls out his phone and puts it up to this ear, which Ashley spots and finds odd since everyone's cell service should be out. Awkwardly, Conrad says he was just leaving himself a voice memo with notes on his upcoming press conference speech. Ash asks about their plans for the next 24 hours now that the world seems to be ending. Conrad was planning a party tomorrow, but right now all he wants to do is take his helicopter to pick up Victoria so she'll be by his side throughout the election (if the power comes back on), and he wants to take a nap right now. Being slimy saps your energy like nothing.