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
At Grayson Global, Dan watches the TV news in the aftermath of the power outage. A technician enters the room to inform Daniel that he's going to be working to get their server back up and running. After Dan asks to be informed as soon as they know their data is secure, Victoria briskly enters the room and asks for a private discussion. When they get into Daniel's office, the TV news anchor begins talking about unconfirmed reports that the outage was caused by a coordinated cyber-attack originating in Tunisia and Bahrain. Victoria notes that those are the same countries where Aiden was acquiring companies, but that's not really why Victoria's there. She wants to talk about Emanda being pregnant -- the pregnancy test was in Daniel's garbage, after all.
Victoria manages to launch into the beginnings of a tirade about a doomed marriage for Dan and Ems before Daniel sternly says the pregnancy test wasn't Emanda's. Victoria stops in her tracks and looks at a photo of Dan and Charlotte on his desk. Victoria: "Oh, dear God." Yes, that was her actual reaction.
Campaign headquarters. Conrad returns, and before he's been in the door for a minute, his communications director intercepts him. Ash informs him that the press wants to move up his speech by an hour, but Conrad sticks to his guns. He said four o'clock, and dammit, they're doing four o'clock. Also, Conrad tells Ash that he doesn't want that pesky Jack Porter coming around anymore. Ashley does her best to not be visibly disturbed by this development. Conrad also doesn't want anyone alerted that this has become necessary, asking if he can trust Ashley to not even alert Jack. She assures Conrad she won't, but then immediately pulls out her phone to text Jack as she's walking away from Conrad. Zero restraint, Ash. Zero.
At the Stowaway, Jack's hunched over his desk when he gets this text from Ashley: "Call me when you get this. It's about Conrad." Jack immediately tries to call her, but the network is still down. Jack goes back to poring over documents from the file on Amanda that he got from Victoria. He stops when he finds records of a flight she took to Japan.
Aiden's packing up his things at the revenger hideaway. Emanda comes rushing in on a wave of emotion, heading straight for a hug. She tells Aiden that Takeda was murdered. He pretends it's news to him and gives a tiny bit of credence to Emanda's belief that the man in the photos she found at Takeda's home might be responsible. Sensing that he's about to be found out, Aiden suggests that they just pack up and leave. When he passes over a passport to Ems, she notices a cut on his wrist. She snatches his hand and lifts up his jacket sleeve to reveal a larger cut across his forearm from Takeda's sword. Emanda flies into a rage. She slams Aiden against the wall, demanding to know why he would betray the only man who believed in them and why he would lie about it. Ems punches Aiden and throws him to the ground. He tries to make her believe that Takeda was out to get him and wasn't going to allow her to finish out her plan because he had his own agenda. Takeda's fiancée was on Flight 197. This doesn't ring true to Ems because she knew the flight manifest so well, but Aiden rattles off info about Takeda's fiancée who was a flight attendant who didn't show up on the manifest because she was a last-minute addition to the flight. Aiden didn't tell Ems about any of this before because he knew she would just assume Takeda's mantle out of obligation. Aiden was just trying to protect Ems because he loves her, he says.