Episode Report Card Pablo G: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Fire & Ice
By Pablo G | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.15.2012
Charlotte arrives at Grayson Manor and looks out the window at her mother who is out in the courtyard directing traffic for the party. Grandpa startles Charlotte and immediately asks about her plan to see a therapist. He tells her he thinks therapists usually do more harm than good. He really needed to add, "I am not a crackpot," to the end of that sentiment. The family's reputation is at stake if she spills her feelings about Victoria's affair. Grandpa asks if she'll gamble her future since she could devalue the Grayson name. Very bluntly, Charlotte says she doesn't care about any of that. The business man comes out in her grandfather. He offers to help get Dec into school since he failed the entrance exam. There's no negotiation needed. Grandpa asks for the therapist's number, which Charlotte hands over on a little slip of paper. Grandpa Grayson walks off with it.
Tyler paces outside his car in a parking garage with his phone and gets Emanda's voicemail. He starts to be pompous in his message, but Ems appears behind him and puts a gun to the back of his head. She zip-ties him to a nearby chainlink fence because she wants to make sure he's brought everything without having to worry about any funny business. She orders Tyler to put Amily on the phone. While Emanda rummages through the trunk of Tyler's car to make sure everything is there in the infinity x infinity box, Tyler talks trash about how loyal Amily has been to her. When Ems walks up to Tyler, he springs the trap. Amily appears behind Emanda with a gun. She tells Emanda that she took away the one thing that mattered to her, obviously overlooking that she was in her stripper prime before all of this mess. Emanda fires back that she did what she thought was best to protect Jack. Amily corrects Emanda about the one thing that mattered; she meant their friendship. She cuts Tyler free from his zip-tie and hands him her gun. Emanda is forced to hand over the cashier's check at gunpoint while Amily starts up Tyler's car. Before he gets into the passenger seat, he tells Emanda to have fun at the party tonight. "I hear there's going to be fireworks," he slimes her. Tyler and Amily drive off.
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Casa Emily. Emanda cocks her gun in front of Nolan. He advises that she just cancel the party, which is entirely logical now that Amily has turned against her. There's a knock at the door. Emanda hides the gun before being greeted by Jack outside her glass door. We're transported out to the porch after Jack has finished telling Ems and Nolan about his plan to sail to Haiti. Nolan can't believe it's as simple as one call from a benefactor and Jack's gone. Jack reiterates his belief that this might be a sign that he needs to get his life together. Emanda needs to deflect the impact of this, so she asks what's going to happen to Sammy. That's the reason Jack stopped by. He wants to leave Sammy with Emanda. Oh. My. God. This show is not going to make me cry. Not. Going. To. Jack tells Sammy to be good one last time. Emanda embraces Jack, and then he turns to Nolan where there's a barely perceptible awkward hesitation, and then he pats Nolan's chest before going into a full hug. Aww... and Jack's gone. As soon as he's out of earshot, Nolan is crying and completely heartfelt when he tells Emanda to go after Jack. Nolan: "Sail away. Fall in love. Go have... little volunteer babies."(<3 Nolan) Emanda has had so much practice not chasing after Jack that she is able to calmly tell Nolan if he really intends to be helpful, he'll just make sure Jack gets on his boat safely tonight. Nolan goes after Jack grudgingly as Emanda pets Sammy.