Imagine if you will....
FC's Jacqueline gets killed and everyone gathers for the will-reading. Angela (and 3/4 of the town) is puzzled when Jacqueline leaves Angela a hand-crafted snow globe. Inside is a miniaturized version of the mansion and tiny vineyards--it's actually rather attractive. Angela, of course wants nothing to do with it---why the heck would that old battle ax leave Angela anything, given their enormous feud? It sits in its box in Angela's office and becomes an object of derision that Angela casts an occasional gaze toward as they discuss Julia's case, but Richard seems to be more preoccupied with it as "a piece of his mother" he wants for himself.
He visits the mansion weeks later and sees that Angela has put the snow globe box on a high shelf out of the line of sight, claiming she wanted to throw it out but Emma said she liked the mini-mansion motif and thought it might become a family heirloom. Angela suggests Richard takes the box down and take it home with him...or she would get Chao-Li to throw it out. Secretly delighted, he pulls it down as Angela walks out of the room rolling her eyes. Richard takes it out of the box and gives it a shake---only to have it come apart at the base, liquid gushing out over Richard's hands and falling to the floor. As the liquid splashes onto the rug, it instantly burns holes in the fabric, and Richard is soon howling in pain as his hands are burned by some type of acid. Angela calls 911 and after Richard is wheeled out of the mansion unconscious, she realizes this was Jacqueline's "going-away present" to her. Richard has a lot of third-degree burns and takes several episodes to recover. Angela and Richard feel mutual regret for how things happened. She'd been the original target, but Richard had "taken the hit" for her. Richard felt bad that his mother had tried to hurt/kill Angela. And of course Chao-Li was infuriated that Jacqueline's evil plan had ruined that $400k Oriental rug in the office.