20. Engagement

Emily arranges a romantic dinner on a rooftop to accept Daniel's marriage proposal, with two tickets to Paris. Daniel gets excited by the idea and asks Conrad to withdraw his trust fund from the Amanda Clarke Foundation. Conrad tries to make him reconsider but ends up giving it. Meanwhile, Takeda sends Aiden's employee records to Grayson Global and Daniel discovers that Aiden Mathis was the son of the luggage carrier who took the bomb to "Flight 197" and promptly fires him. Ashley and Jack are conspiring to take Conrad's gubernatorial campaign down and decide that Jack should take Conrad's picture with Stoddard's wife to Victoria, saying that he wants to save his campaign and avoid a major scandal for Conrad.

Victoria thanks him and says that Jack was responsible for Emily and Daniel's breakup last summer. Victoria confronts Allison Stoddard about her encounter with Conrad. Allison says that they are meeting because she is sabotaging her husband's campaign, because he has a serious heart condition and may not survive another term as governor. Aiden asks Nolan to help him make Emily forfeit her quest for vengeance, saying that he didn't find "closure"; his quest for his sister's murderer only made him suffer and this vendetta will make Emily suffer too.

He asks Nolan to hack the Amanda Clarke Foundation bank account and withdraw all the money from it while he still has access to it as treasurer of the foundation, thus withdrawing all the Graysons' fortune. Nolan visits "The Falcon" in jail and tries to extract information about Victoria's son, the Carrion fate and the Foundation bank account. She replies with a riddle which Nolan must solve. Later that night, Emily and Daniel give an engagement reception at Emily's house. Victoria confronts Emily about her true intentions with her son and Emily fires back with David Clarke memories and how "the house" is really messing with her head.

Takeda confronts Emily about Aiden's role in her quest and says that nobody should walk that road except for her. He says that Aiden will be removed from her quest, and her life. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Regina are partying around town and, as they are walking out of a nightclub, find Declan looking for Charlotte. Charlotte vomits on a trash can, appearing to be drunk and is arrested in front of Regina and Declan because she is below the legal drinking age. Daniel learns of Charlotte's arrest and leaves the engagement party to help his sister while Declan and Regina search for ATM machines to get money to pay Charlotte's bail.

Aiden confronts Takeda about the whole vengeance plans and insinuates that Takeda has another reason to want Emily to continue with her revenge quest. They battle and Aiden kills Takeda with a katana. Charlotte tells Daniel that she is behaving badly because she doesn't want to take anybody else to her family and reveals to him that she is pregnant. The newspapers reveal Allison and Victoria's conversation about Mark Stoddard, leading Conrad's campaign to almost certain victory. Emily finds out about Aiden and Nolan hacking the Foundation's bank account and tries to convince them to stop the transfer, unsuccessfully. After that, a blackout strikes the entire Manhattan, which Nolan promptly associates with the Initiative misuse of Carrion.