Screen clear so far....thanks Fallon!.
Liam received an enormous check from Laura's estate, along with a bitchy note. She apparently did not have time to cut him out of the will. Fallon wants to read Liam's new book, but he puts her off. After Fallon leaves, he rips up either the check or the note...maybe both. Fallon has taken off to help bail out the horse charity, which needs help since Patty deVilbis bailed on them. Rumor has it that Patty got cut off from her father's fortune (which Fallon
had something to do with). Sam and Fallon witness wet, shirtless Liam emerge from the pool and get a great idea for a fundraiser for the horse charity: a bachelor auction. Fallon decides to enlist every hot man within a ten-mile radius--namely Culhane, Liam, Sam, and Jeff, whether they want to participate or not. They. Do. Not. Mandy, a woman who works for the charity, is dead set against something so tacky, but Fallon gets her way as usual.
Dom is getting interviewed by
Vanity Fair, among other things, and she's also getting a bodyguard since internet trolls been writing her nasty letters. So life's pretty busy. Her bodyguard is being played by Henry Simmons and he's quite serious about his job. You could do a lot worse, Dom.
Alexis tells Adam that several Alexam products have been yanked from the market due to complaints of side effects. Adam tries to brush off her concerns, then goes to Blake for help. Blake flips out when he realizes the injectibles "could kill people". Dex is concerned that a government agency is investigating, but Alexis foolishly says she trusts Adam when he says he did nothing wrong. Alexis should be happy she finally has someone to protect her from her blind devotion to Adam. He wants some of the injectibles tested by an independent lab, which causes a big argument between Dex and Alexis. He's doing this because he loves her, but she thinks he's being condescending.
Liam spills his guts to Sam about plagiarizing the professor's book, but unless I misunderstood (a definite possibility), he has the book in his possession but has not submitted it yet. They have not said what the book is about, so I have to wonder if perhaps the subject matter is so different from Liam's style that people will know he did not write it. Liam is just kind of moping around consumed with guilt. There's nothing worse than a hot blond on the skids.
Dom and Cristal are determined to attend the auction, but her bodyguard says it's too dangerous. She fakes being sick and shoos him away....after which Cristal leaps out from behind the bed (in full fundraiser garb) to join Dom in escaping to the party. The opening dance number is just as gloriously cheesy as one would expect (Right Said Fred was played), but instead of hooting and hollering, the crowd falls silent. It appears that Fallon has NOT read the room very well, since no one's having a good time. But Fallon soon realizes Mandy is coordinating it for people not to bid on the bachelors, prompting Fallon to call her
a horse's ass from onstage. Mandy is intent on keeping Heroic Hooves a traditional charity, but Fallon thinks they need to modernize.
Blake and Adam head into the lab to steal back the Alexam vials that the FDA has taken; Dex and Alexis kiss and make up, and she agrees to have the injectibles tested by his independent lab. Maybe I'm over-thinking it
(whaaaaat?) but it felt as if Alexis switched her allegiance from Adam to Dex in that scene, as if she finally came to her senses about that wacky son of hers. We later see Blake tell Adam that tests showed the injectibles were not dangerous, which makes Adam think he is in the clear.
The bodyguard shows up at the auction and tells Dom some (but not all) of the emails came from one of the losers of the NordicStar contest. They leave together, but Dom returns to find her loft has been ransacked and chases someone out. She's now taking the threats seriously.
Jeff shows up to the auction (after initially refusing to attend) at the last minute to commandeer the microphone and offer a fabulous "date package" that makes several women ante-up to help Fallon beat the fundraiser record. Well, and Fallon donates $1 million to buy half-drunk Liam before he makes a fool of himself.
Back at home, Fallon confesses she read the first few chapters of "Liam's book" and loved it. Liam turns the manuscript in, and Sam is disappointed in his friend.
While Adam and Blake are basking in a father-son bonding moment in Blake's office, Alexis barges in to announce that she discovered (via Dex's testing) that the injectibles had a drug in them imported illegally by Adam. So she called the DEA on him. Two guys come in and take Adam into custody. Blake is shocked but likely not surprised; the best he can sputter is that he'll "help [Adam] any way he can".
LET HIM ROT, Blake!!
