Episode Report Card Pablo G: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Feast or Famine
By Pablo G | Season 1 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.08.2012
Porter Bar. We're reminded Jack is still pretty banged up by seeing him shirtless with his ribs still bandaged. Nolan shows up along with some delivery men who are carrying a giant (seriously huge) HDTV. Jack tries to decline the gift, but Dec enters the scene, which means Jack's effortless humility buckles to Dec's effortless grubbiness. Noting his brother's pain, Dec figures he might as well hand him Emanda's engagement announcement now so he can deal with all the pain at once. Jack's still focused on Amily, though. He wants to know if maybe Nolan knows something about where she could've gone since he supposedly knew her father. Poor Jack confides to Nolan he thinks he's the reason she thought she was in trouble and left. You can see Nolan's cold, awkward heart break just a little bit before he tells Jack he should just rest right now. Left alone, Jack contemplates the engagement party invitation, and tosses it at his trash can, naturally missing it. He goes to pick it up and spots the Mason Treadwell cassette tape Emanda accidentally dropped under his bed. He picks up the tape and reads the label, which indicates it's one of Mason's interviews with Amanda. Jack's mind races with the realization his girlfriend might be an arsonist.
South Fork Inn. Conrad and Dan are having a business lunch together. Dad Grayson takes the opportunity to tease his son about the choice of "Fire & Ice" for the engagement party since it matches Victoria's dual personality. Dan's not too amused, and cautiously brings up Charlotte's paternity now that Victoria let him in on the secret. Conrad suggests Daniel can expect the same type of lying and secrets when he's married to Emanda. Just then, Grandpa Grayson shows up. Daniel's definitely happy to see him, but he has to leave to go meet Emanda for the photo shoot. Now that he's alone with Conrad, Grandpa Grayson's demeanor changes. He heard from Victoria about the divorce. Conrad notes that Gramps was always closer to Victoria. Concerned the company and their name is in trouble because of this public divorce, Grandpa Grayson asserts to his son that he didn't build the Grayson Global empire just to watch Conrad ineptly tear it down with poor family values. A little late for that, old man.
Back at the Stowaway, Jack sits in a chair with his phone to his ear and the cassette tape in his other hand. He gets Amily's voicemail, and begins leaving another message, but this one is angry. Jack tells her he's holding the tape as ransom until she agrees to meet face-to-face since he figures it's evidence she torched Mason's house. We cut to Emanda listening to the end of this voicemail. She's pensive hearing her destined-not-to-be soulmate demanding answers she owes him.