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This was certainly a jam-packed week, and while everyone was bonding — or trying to un-bond — is it trouble in paradise already for our favorite newlyweds?
Fallon
Since we never know how much time has passed between episodes, it’s always a surprise when Fallon announces a new venture as if it’s something she’s been working on forever … even when we’re just hearing about it for the first time. This week, she’s getting ready to launch her own shopping channel, and she has a particular businesswoman in mind to help her with the launch … all she has to do is meet this woman’s demands. Which means she has little time for her husband, who is trying to get her to read his manuscript before he submits it for publication. It also means she has no time for her mother even though they had a lunch scheduled. While Liam just acts the dutiful husband, Alexis acts out. Knowing the final demand of the woman Fallon is trying to woo is a luxury apartment that you can only get into if someone dies, Alexis makes an offer and outbids Fallon, putting her entire operation in danger. Fallon then one-ups Alexis by having her spa membership revoked, and that embarrassment put the apartment back in Fallon’s court. But the reason this apartment is so in demand for the diva is that it’s a five minute walk to Fallon’s offices … and a five minute walk to the hospital (because the woman gets a lot of work done). Then it dawns on Fallon — Alexis wants the place because she can see both buildings, and it makes her feel closer to the children she fears she’s losing. Plus she’s alienated everyone at La Mirage and doesn’t have anywhere else to go. So Fallon lets her have it, because the other woman was just too demanding, and after a few words of wisdom from her mother, Fallon realizes she can launch this network herself. And she’s ready to go out and celebrate with Liam until Eva, the diva’s now former assistant shows up, ready to accept a job with Fallon. Brushing Liam off to get back to work, he looks not happy when he leaves the office. So Fallon did have a little bonding moment with Alexis, but the glue holding her marriage together is starting to weaken (didn’t Liam learn anything from watching Blake and Cristal?).
Dominique
There was no sign of Jeff this week, so Dom spent her time trying to actually do something nice for Cristal. Knowing she had a public event coming up, and learning that Cristal’s gown hadn’t arrived, Dom offered to put Cristal in one of her own designs. She was truly trying to be nice, but she also knew Cristal would be asked who she was wearing and Dom isn’t going to turn down any publicity. But Cristal says the gown needs sequins and bigger shoulders, so it was a thanks but no thanks. Sulking in the kitchen and reading something on an open laptop — does no one in this family ever close their laptops?! — Liam pops in, knowing that she’s reading his article. She tells him how she feels about not being able to get ahead and he gives her a pep talk about being a fighter and she buys it, staying up all night hand sewing all the sequins on the gown and using the maid as a dress form. And then she discovers the missing gown. It did arrive a week earlier, so what’s up with Cristal? Dom shows her the newly blinged out gown (she must have had an army of mice helping her) but Cristal still turns it down. Dom finally forces her to admit that she just doesn’t want to go because she doesn’t want people treating her like a fragile piece of glass after her operation. Dom tells her she doesn’t have to go out to wear a nice gown and the two form a sort of sisterly bond over champagne and reality shows, with Cristal promising she’ll send the pictures of her in the gown to Hot Tea Atlanta.
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Sam & Michael
The boys have really gotten in too deep with Leo. Hoping to catch Leo doing something illegal on newly installed security cameras, they are informed that Leo is taking over the hotel’s largest suite. Possibly forever since he’ll be setting up his money laundering businesses at the club. So now they need to find a way to keep Leo out of the suite for a couple of days so Culhane can install more cameras there. Sam watching some videos of people being temporarily incapacitated, and Culhane is not up for dropping a brick on anyone’s head. So they go to Adam, of all people, to ‘casually’ ask what kind of workplace accidents does the hospital see on a regular basis. For insurance purposes, of course. Adam rattles off a few, but accidental electrocution is the one that sticks with Sam. Leo has a pattern of coming into the club and plugging in his phone, so Sam rigged the plug to give Leo a little shock (a previous attempt actually exploded a potato). And in comes Leo, setting the plan in motion. But … it’s hot in the room and a hotel employee brings in a fan. Sam has to not very, but very suspiciously direct the guy to another outlet. But even thinking Sam was acting oddly, Leo still plugged in his phone and ZAP, down he goes. They get him to the hospital, and Leo may be down for weeks rather than days. Oh, and he has a pacemaker which the charge shorted out so now that has to be replaced. Adam is at turns horrified and turned on by what Sam did to Leo, but when he learns Leo is bad news all around, Adam seems to have some sympathy. But right before Leo is to go for the pacemaker replacement, he suffers cardiac arrest. Adam is the only person in the room. He fires up the paddles, then thinks about just who Leo is and the discharges the paddles way above Leo’s chest. Arriving at the club, Adam breaks the ‘bad news’ that Leo died … and is quite happy that he’s the one who let him die. Fist bumps all around because … they’re all family, right? Sam begins to panic after Adam leaves but Culhane tries to assure him that this was their only way out because it was either Leo or them, and their chances were not good after Leo told them in the hospital he was suspicious of them and was going to take them for a ride, to talk, once he was out of the hospital. Like Culhane said, that was going to be a ride where three left and one came back. So for now, their problem seems to be solved, and they unwittingly bonded with Adam in the process.
Blake
Blake is still fuming about losing the land he wanted for his airport, and is trying to find any dirt on the senator (the same one Liam accused of murder) to force him to give Blake what he wants. But unable to find anything in Liam’s article that could help him, Anders shows up to have a chat with Blake — and makes it quite clear he’s only saying what Blake is thinking — and he tells Blake to just do his research and follow the paper trail. And Blake does just that, paying a visit to the senator who is adamant Blake is not getting that land, even if he is going to name it after Anders. Blake tells the senator how Anders was almost like a father to him and he should know all about fathers and sons. Well no, the senator has daughters. True. And a son, illegitimately. Blake followed the money from donations to Costa Rica and found a seven year old boy, and his mother who confessed to Blake about the affair. Back at the manor, Blake was surprised to find Cristal at home instead of at her event, and she explained to him why she didn’t go and let him know he doesn’t have to keep treating her like a fragile doll. He promises he won’t but he has something else on his mind that he’s hemming and hawing about telling her. Anders shows up again and gives Blake a verbal kick in the pants so he’ll stop pussyfooting around with Cristal. So he tells her — the senator has resigned. And Blake wants to run for the vacant seat. Cristal is totally on board. Looks like they finally found something to bond over and work together to accomplish.
And where’s Kirby? Oh, she’s off in rehab now. Should we be concerned she’ll be stuck there forver like Steven is in the hospital in France?
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