While Conrad wastes away in a fatalist stupor and awaits the wrath of the Initiative, his company is about to be wrestled away from his control. An investors' luncheon is still on tap even though Conrad is expecting to be arraigned on murder charges, which leads Emanda to expect the Initiative will contact Conrad there. She gives Aiden 24 hours to get Daniel in position to take over Grayson Global. To do so, Aiden goes directly to Nolan to ask that he ultimately protect Emanda with a sacrifice play by giving up evidence that David Clarke invested in Nolcorp. Nolan nobly puts his entire life's work at risk. It's the type of thing we expect Nolan would do, and that's why it's somewhat boring and something that probably should've happened a few episodes ago.

Speaking of things that have been a long time coming, it turns out Mason hasn't exactly put two and two together about Emanda's true identity. Instead, he believes that Ems is Amily's secret lover and co-conspirator in bringing down the Graysons. That's... sort of on the right track. I guess? Amily loses her patience with Mason's investigation, and is on the verge of bashing him in with a crowbar, when Ems intervenes and lets Mason in on her true identity. She makes him think that he's now part of her crusade, but eventually double crosses him. Can't have nosy writers running around with our secrets, now, can we? Emanda has Nolan rearrange Mason's corkboard of revenge connections and plant the flight recorder from Victoria's plane crash in Mason's home to frame him for the murder of Gordon Murphy and conspiracy against Conrad. Ems ensures that Mason will stay locked up and keep quiet by promising that she will go on record for the book she knows he will write about her entire revenge crusade. Mason accepts the deal, partly out of repentance for failing Little Amanda and for his literary greed.

As for greed, there's some measure of it in Daniel moving forward with his coup at Grayson Global. With the proof of David Clarke's investment via Aiden and Nolan, Dan presents his case to the board at the investors' luncheon, and asks for a vote of no confidence against his father so he can lead the company to profits, profits and more profits. Victoria, Aiden and the Initiative's Helen, who is on the board of investors, are all in on the meeting, which appears to go over well.

While this is happening, Krazy Kara goes AWOL. She was supposed to be headed to Florida, but she never boards her flight. To wrangle her back, Ems has Mason call Kara to promise information about the murder of her husband. When they meet, Mason disobeys Emanda's orders and tells Kara that David Clarke was innocent despite Kara being totally unstable, prompting Kara to head back to Grayson Manor and confront Victoria and Conrad. She holds them at gunpoint in their bedroom, and is just about to pull the trigger when Aiden is able to black out surveillance and sneak up behind her. Conrad and Victoria have no idea Aiden was their savior because they were blindfolded and made to get down on their knees just before they were to be offed. She was going to do them execution style! Aiden and Emanda reunite Kara with her psychosis meds, give her some startup cash and send her on her merry way.

Aiden's heroics "RE: Kara" go a long way toward rebuilding trust with Emanda. Ems comes home and immediately starts sucking on Aiden's face. So, there's that.

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