We open this episode with Eye Candy:
Liam emerging from a morning dip in the pool. Oh, and Fallon's in a bikini top too.
Their morning is of course spoiled by Adam, who apparently is now an intern at the soccer team while Fallon is officially running it...while also running Femperial. The protesters gather outside the Femperial offices to point out Fallon ought not be working with her father, who was "violent toward women" (the door slamming on Cristal's leg). Someone even dumps Pepto-Bismol colored paint on Fallon (wearing a white suit).
Anders supposedly had a mild heart attack, but is already trying to get out of the bed and go back to the estate. His absence will be noticed, he says. Meanwhile, Blake is too busy rolling around in bed with Cristal, recapping plot. Apparently everyone still thinks they are splitsville, and Cristal hates that they can't tell Fallon what they've been up to all this time.
Kirby says "Blake needs you...but don't think that he cares about you."
Keep an eye on the Guest Stars! (Or don't, because it might get your hopes up and take your eye off the ball).
Jeff's "recovery" isn't as easy as he made it out to be--the doctor tells him the neuro-toxicity of the paint fumes is still doing damage. He will start losing his memory, mobility, etc. He tells the doctor to keep it under wraps, but now has a much greater sense of urgency (and seems willing to take a lot more chances).
As if Fallon's plate wasn't already full, Liam has a ten year-old secret. Wonder if it's a boy or a girl? So Fallon confesses about her ten year-ago secret--a friend named Beatrice "Trixie" Tate fell over the balcony at the mansion. Too bad Adam was lurking once again and heard the whole story.
Jeff confronts Adam and points out that he and the other board members hate him, and Fallon (who absolutely despises him) now owns the team. Blake can't protect him, so Adam is FIRED entirely. Tantrum time! Was that
@Snarky's Ghost 's crystal skull that went flying, or some sort of homage to
Hamlet?
Shortly after, Jeff does the well-worn "What are you doing here?" scene in a deserted parking garage where you don't know who he's looking at, but you're pretty sure it isn't the Tooth Fairy.
Blake is still lying to Fallon about his breakup with Cristal, and uses his "losing everyone" (Celia, Steven, now Cristal) card to beg her to come work with him. Fallon is torn.
The scene from the preview with Liam and Fallon boating on the lake. I LOVE that get-up Fallon is wearing. Fallon proposes to Liam (again) and he says "Hell yes!" She accidentally drops the ring into the lake. The lingering, thoughtful shots of the lake throughout the scene seem foreshadow-y. Adam "offers to help" by hiring some divers to find the ring in the lake. [/cue Jaws theme] His overly-familiar act is really wearing thin with ol' Liam.
Stop the presses! Someone in the mansion is speaking with a Southern Accent!
It's the minister, who apparently was also at Tom's funeral and Fallon's infamous Confirmation party. Too bad the minister spills the beans about being there to marry Blake and Cristal.
Fallon realizes Blake and Cristal were lying to her, who then goes to Michael and they figure out Cristal and Blake have set.him.up. She wants to "right the wrongs" with him.
It was
Dominique in the parking garage! And she helped Jeff come up with a great plan to send Adam to jail for
killing Jeff. Well, not quite...he takes off for the Bahamas, having set up a 'crime scene' with evidence implicating Adam in his disappearance/death. Dominique then remembers removing the Adam evidence...because Blake isn't going to resume her payments unless she 'gets Jeff out of the picture'. So...mission accomplished. But why would she not leave the fake evidence to frame Adam? I'm now wondering if his 'prognosis' was a lie, too.
Alexis never seemed able to come up with and execute a plan that flawlessly (or quickly), so maybe there's hope, after all.
Liam confronts Adam about the ten year-old, having figured out Adam got the info from Laura. Adam attacks Liam with a flower pot and packs him in a disused room (in a definite homage to the Celia/Alexis scene in the last cliffhanger). Liam wakes up, breaks out and stumbles into the pool. No one notices because they're all at the lakeside....
Fallon confronts
Sid and Nancy at the altar, but now it looks like she's going to push it right back at him...but through a lot of complicated dialogue, everyone's businesses are now in different hands. Fallon was unable to undo the frame-up that Blake and Cristal staged, and Adam made it look like Fallon was part of the conspiracy somehow. Fallon had sold Femperial to Kirby for $1 with plans to go work with Blake...until she found out about Blake's latest betrayal. Kirby announces she isn't going to sell it back, either.
After all this, Anders announces he has had enough of their shit. Sam needs a guy like Anders at his hotel, and he might just get one.
The divers Adam hired have been working in the background the entire time, and
Adam has a flashback to his time with Steven, where Steven spoke of what happened to "Trixie". So Adam knew the whole time about the girl in the lake?
**James Mackay got a Guest Starring credit just for a ten-second flashback? Methinks the producers were just faking us out via opening credits and toying with our (ok, my) emotions. Oh, it was good to see him again.**
The divers announce they have found....two bodies! Mack, and then "Trixie" in rapid succession.
Line of the episode? Fallon to Cristal:
"What you don't deserve is that hair."
Th-th-th-that's all folks!
