Episode Report Card Pablo G: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sour Grapes
By Pablo G | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.13.2013
Helen's still making her way out of the auction. She gets into an empty elevator, looking pretty exhausted. There's always room for more exhaustion, though, when Aiden's about. He stops the elevator just as the door's closing and hops in with her. He calmly asks how she knows so much about him, to which Helen admits the Initiative really doesn't know much more than his rampage against the man he thought had killed his sister. Just then the elevator jolts and comes to a stop. They both frantically try phoning for help with no success. Gas begins to fill the elevator. They both eventually succumb to the poison and go unconscious.
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Out on the terrace, Jason continues his ham-fisted courting of Victoria. She helps him lick his wounds a bit about his loss in the auction by reminding him of past victories, but that just leads Jason to admit that he always coveted her. Victoria changes the subject to Daniel's recent success, and then pretends to accidentally divulge insider information about Grayson Global hoping to acquire Stonehaven. She bids Jason goodnight and waits around the corner so she can overhear him placing a call to his business associates about looking into acquiring Stonehaven before Daniel. Victoria smiles to herself.
Helen and Aiden have been tied up to chairs and had their heads covered with hoods. A masked, armed figure with a voice-altering device demands to know why Helen is so interested in Stonehaven. Aiden advises her not to talk, so the figure puts a gun up to Helen's forehead and pulls the trigger. It wasn't loaded. The figure says it will be loaded the next time, and then asks Aiden who he's spying on Daniel for. He refuses to answer and gets pistol whipped as a result.
Amily pops a quarter into the coin slot of the Stowaway jukebox to play some loud rock music. What jukebox only costs a quarter these days? She gets everyone riled up in the bar, and then heads for the storage room where Nate's moving boxes around or something. Ams is in pure cold-blooded stripper mode. She tells Nate she's going to give him a chance to leave tonight with Kenny or she's going to make him bleed. Seriously. That's what she said. Nate looks like he thinks this must be a joke until Amily reaches into her bag. She's about to produce her gun when Ashley suddenly bursts into the room to whisk her upstairs where Jack is waiting. Ams is so excited to see Jack that she doesn't notice Conrad in the room. It was Conrad who called in a favor and had bail reduced for Jack. Try as he might to convince Amily that he did it out of civic duty, she's not buying it. Conrad comes clean that he intends to run for public office and this sort of thing would be good for his public profile. He'd like to help them if they'll accept his help, knowing it's to this end. Jack and Amily say they need to think about it.