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
Declan's reaction to this news is so innocently perfect. There's certainly shock, but no panic or horror. He actually thinks there must be a mistake, which Victoria says would most likely be him if there was one. Victoria: "Stay away from my daughter, or your ability to procreate will be nothing but a distant memory." Declan sees that he has lost, and just walks away. Conrad comes over to ask what that was all about, but Victoria doesn't want to bother her husband with such trivialities as their daughter being knocked up. Besides, he really only cares about his damn speech right now anyway, as well as keeping Jack Porter away. On achieving the latter, Conrad says he thinks Victoria greatly underestimated her husband. Victoria, cheerfully: "Well, it's a habit of mine."
Back at the Stowaway, Jack packs up a bag with his audio recorder. He gets another text from Ashley. "At Campaign HQ. Not safe to call. Meet me at Grayson Global, 27th Floor, at 4pm. Spoke to Victoria. I have Conrad's computer." Jack starts heading for the door. Cut to Ashley's phone in Conrad's hand. A text from Jack pops up, saying he's on his way. Conrad deletes both texts and puts the phone back in Ashley's purse. He has this weird sort of sexual release on his face in anticipation of snaring Jack in his trap as we head into break.
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Aiden waits for Nolan in the halls of Nolcorp. Surprised to see him, Nolan's pretty gung ho about getting on his laptop to try and track down Takeda's killer. Calmly, Aiden tells Nolan to stop looking because he's the killer. Nolan's visibly rattled by this news. He begins backing away from Aiden until he nervously backs into a sofa. As non-threatening as possible, Aiden asks that Nolan just give Ems an envelope. Aiden thinks it was foolish to think Emanda would give up revenge for love. Without thinking, Nolan lets it slip that she pretty much did that exact thing last year. After pressing Nolan to know who caused Ems to walk away from it all, he arrives at the answer himself: Jack Porter. Aiden thanks Nolan for being an unexpected friend, shakes his hand and leaves.
Outside of Grayson campaign HQ, Charlotte stares at Regina like she's trying to work through a complex math problem that killed her family. Regina asks why she's being examined this way, which gets Charlie speaking her mind. She doesn't think Declan would flip out and become physically violent. It's not like him at all. Regina tries to write it off as him showing his true colors, then takes a couple steps backwards in winning her case by suggesting she could help raise Charlie's baby. It's really creepy. Lucky for Charlotte, her phone rings with a call from Dec. He's understandably upset and trying to explain everything all at once. Declan relates that he thinks Regina's in love with her or obsessed and mentions the paparazzi video she has downloaded to her phone, but none of that matters. He knows about the baby and just wants to see the future mother of his child. When he asks if Charlie's with Regina, she lies and says she's with Daniel. Then their call drops. Charlotte walks straight over to Regina and asks if she has the video downloaded to her phone. She, of course, denies it, so Charlotte asks to see her phone. Regina refuses. In fairness, everybody has a right to privacy, but when you're supposedly besties, that's called being shady. Charlotte says good-bye to Regina and walks off. For someone's who's an obsessed stalker, Regina doesn't protest at all.