Plot summary
Most of the episode is a flashback to 2006. Victoria's mother, Marion, wants to have Thanksgiving with Victoria, Conrad, Daniel and her soon to be husband. The fiance is insisting on meeting them, and Marion says this is love and her last chance. During Thanksgiving dinner, Victoria tells her childhood story to her mother's rich boyfriend. Marion had her daughter take the fall for a murder she committed. After serving a six month stay in a mental hospital, Victoria returned home, only to be kicked out at age 15 after her mother saw her then-boyfriend sneaking into Victoria's room one night.
It is later revealed that Marion's boyfriend was an actor paid to make Marion think she was about to be set up for life just to have it all come crashing down on her. Now that Marion is crushed with no money or place to go, Victoria kicks her out of the house and finally has her revenge. Meanwhile, Emily meets Aiden while on a mission for Takeda. Aiden was going to kill the man Emily is going after for kidnapping his sister. Emily convinces Takeda to take Aiden on as a student.
In Daniel's first year of Harvard he wants to be a poet. His parents don't want this for him and sabotage that path, steering him to Grayson Global. Nolan's CFO in 2006 is Marco, whom he is also dating. Marco discovers that a bank account of Nolan's is completely empty. Nolan explains the $500 million went to pay off the daughter of his investor ─ Emily. Marco gets upset about this because of David Clarke's conviction. Nolan fires Marco. The current day investors in Jack's bar are revealed to be the sons of a man who tried to strong-arm Jack's father (Carl) into paying "protection" money in 2006. He was doing this to all the business owners. Another business owner shoots and kills the brothers' dad with Carl's gun.
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