Not only did they address the loss of Femperial, they remembered Jeff is terminally ill.
This episode took place about a week after Adam got blinded at the house party. Cristal hires a therapist-type named Nadia who will be tasked with helping Adam get acclimated to life without sight. The implication is that Cristal and Nadia worked together at the spa in Sedona, but given the way they've augmented Cristal's background and shown her ability to scheme, her time as a lowly employee at a spa now seems like an out-of-character job for her. Whatever the case, Adam is deeeeep into the whiny self-pity and it is eye opening for the viewers who've never seen him totally in control of his surroundings.
Though Liam decided to stay away from Fallon in the previous episode, he realizes that his passport and several personal items are still at the manor. He calls to ask Fallon to send them to him; she claims she'll have to look for them "when she gets the chance". Of course the passport is right there at her fingertips.
Fallon has decided she wants her company back (Femperial, that is). She marches over to make Kirby a low-ball offer to buy it back, making a crack about it being "take your unqualified daughter to work day". Kirby won't bite, even after Fallon doubles the offer. In fact, Kirby has someone lined up to be the new CEO. It's obvious from the staging that Kirby spent the night with Victor, the soccer player she met at the (still-unopened) hotel.
At the doctor's, Jeff is told that chelation therapy might slow the progression of his condition, but it isn't curable. Jeff has also apparently acquired a music streaming service, and Dominique hits him up for a job as a musician manager. Apparently she also worked in talent management when she was in NY. He's non-committal.
At the hotel, Sam is bemoaning the fact that Hootie and the Blowfish cancelled, so he has no musical act for the Grand Opening. (No big loss, I say) They claim that they chose the name La Mirage because
that was the name of the hotel back in the 1980s. The staff has been lined up, and we see the rooms are mostly complete. Dominique goes to the bar to get a drink from one of the new hires, Vanessa. Dom takes the drink and immediately flings it onto the girl's apron, scolding her step-daughter for coming to Atlanta when she was ordered to stay in NYC. Vanessa is an aspiring singer and announces that she wants to have her music on Jeff's streaming service, and hopes to get a record deal on Monica's label. Dominique tries to explain that these things take some time to manipulate into place.
Fallon consults an attorney regarding how she can undo the Femperial sale. The attorney is Evan Tate, naturally. He points out that though Kirby owns the company, Fallon owns the office building it is housed in, so Fallon can toss her out on the street if she likes. And yes, she likes. She also asks Evan if he would be her date to the Grand Opening of La Mirage.
Nadia is trying to get through to Adam that he needs to learn some basics for fending for himself unless he wants to be home-bound forever. Worse still, Adam overhears Cristal telling Blake that they should look at putting Adam in a 'facility' somewhere if his vision isn't improving. Nothing would please her more than
shipping him off to Shady Pines (
Golden Girls reference). Once Nadia gets wind of how Adam and Cristal don't get along, they seem to have bonding point because she doesn't have much use for Cristal, either. Why is that? Who knows. She also seems to perk up when Fallon refers to Adam as a psychopath. She seems....almost intrigued.
Cristal and Blake are worried that the judge assigned to his trial is going to send him to a 'facility' too, so Cristal hatches a plan to get the judge tossed off the case. She meets with the judge and shows him a photo (staged? doctored?) of the judge's son meeting with her brother Beto. Daddy Flores has apparently offered to make the world believe that the judge is in the back pocket of the infamous Flores family. It's not true, but the judge recognizes that the "air" of scandal is more than enough--so he ends up recusing himself.
Sam somehow learns where the singer Ashanti (honestly, I don't know her work, but apparently she's a big deal) attends yoga when she is in town, so he ambushes her there and gets her to agree to appear at the Grand Opening. He could have saved a wad of cash by just turning on the gas in Fallon's room and having her belt out a few tunes.
Also, Fallon makes some phone calls to get people to attend the GO. Dominique asks Jeff to go with her. Blake's on house arrest so he and Cristal can't go.
The GO: Fallon asks Kirby if they can call a truce. After Kirby gets a bit tipsy, she realizes Lauren, her top pick for the CEO position, is there (seeing her drunk). Kirby soon realizes that several of the other CEO candidates are also there, fuming because Kirby referred to Lauren as the "top pick" out loud. Turns out Fallon had invited all the ladies to the party just to cause this scene and make Kirby look like the amateur she is. Kirby angrily points out that Fallon only wants to keep Femperial because it's her only way to keep hold of Liam (which is true). Evan gets angry and leaves since Fallon's still hung up on her ex.
Vanessa brings a drink for Ashanti, who promptly gets violently ill and can't perform. Vanessa quickly steps in and starts singing. Jeff recognizes there is some kind of link between this singing bartender and his mother, so Dom claims Vanessa is a girl Dom represented as an agent back in New York. Jeff also immediately figures out the girl drugged Ashanti. In a moment of weakness Jeff confesses to his mother that his condition is terminal.
Kirby's soccer-player friend Victor comes downstairs to party (against Culhane's direct orders). He tries to keep any pictures taken of him from being posted to social media, but of course that's a fool's errand. The goons who have been looking for him now know where to find him, which they do; in the alley, they rough him up and hit his leg with a baseball bat.
Fallon, having realized Kirby was right about her attachment to Femperial, drops by Liam's to give him his box of things. She tells him she still loves him, but doesn't act all desperate about it. In fact, she goes back to the manor to find Evan on the doorstep and they go inside the house while (intercut) we see Liam back at his place, having some memory flashes as he pulls items out of the box.