Episode Report Card Pablo G: B+ | 159 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Scorn on the Fourth of July
By Pablo G | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2011.10.26
Emanda made good on her promise to make Dan late for work. He gets to the Stowaway and goes up to an angry Jack to apologize. Jack's still giving Daniel an out and doing the whole, "If you're not serious, I can find someone who is," thing, but Daniel says he simply got caught up in personal business. Jack sees lipstick on Daniel's neck. Uh huh. Personal business. Jack ignores it and introduces Dan to Bartender Bull, who'll be showing him the ropes. Outside, Declan is accosted by two grimy fishermen who claim he poached their lobsters. They're about to beat him up when Jack comes rushing over there with a baseball bat. Shades of Carl Porter. Jack makes Dec give them the money he made and they're still angry because he sold the lobsters for only half of what they would've made with that harvest. They're ready to brawl, but Daniel comes outside and offers to pay the men the difference plus a little more for their trouble. What have we learned here? The solution to all of life's problems is money. Jack takes Dec inside to lecture him about knowing better than to mess with guys like that. Dec says at least he's trying to fight for his girl, unlike Jack. They look over at Daniel across the bar and Dec tells his brother he's twice the man Dan is. Jack has had enough of his squirrely little brother talking trash. He calls out to Bartender Bull to ask if he thinks he and Dan can handle the bar tonight. Jack and Dec have a party to go to.
At Lydia's apartment building, Frank is watching surveillance footage from that night with the security guard he's bribed. He spots Nolan going into Lydia's apartment.
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Fourth of July party time. Emanda finds Victoria right away, as she always does. Victoria asks about Emanda not having Daniel on her arm so she can hear it from the source that he is working a crappy job because of his girlfriend. Victoria hugs Emanda and walks away after saying her piece about Daniel hopefully coming to his senses. Emanda finds Ashley to apologize for the way she behaved at dinner and asks for Tyler so she can supposedly apologize to him as well. According to Ashley, Victoria dispatched Ty to pry Dan away from work to come to the party. Jack and Declan enter the party with Nolan. The party planner in Ashley drones on, wondering what they're doing there since they're not on the guest list, while Emanda stares at Jack.