Jessica, Brody and baby return home. Viki has the nursery all decorated. They introduce Bree to the baby and Jessica asks her what she thinks. She says, "Well, he doesn't look like Brody."
Roxy has John's apartment all decorated for Natalie, John and baby's homecoming. Clint sent over documents describing an "irrevocable trust" for Baby McBain. Roxy looks over the papers and says, "holy moly, that is certainly a lot of zeroes." John has mixed emotions about the Trust Fund.
Bo shows up and tells John he needs his help. John and Bo go into the hallway to talk. Bo tells John, he barely got the search warrant and now he needs something more solid. Bo is tossing out ideas, like maybe Inez could testify or Price might find something at the house to link Clint to the gun. John asks, "Do your think he's that sloppy?" "No—we've got to find something else—something we haven't thought of."
John: "So, this money, is this normal for Clint?"
Bo: "All the grandkids get trust funds. It takes a little getting used to."
John: "Yeah, I don't like it, but that's not what I'm thinking about. What kind of walking around money does Clint have? What's his idea of petty cash?"
Bo: "I don't know."
"How about $50,000?"
"Ah yes, the 50 grand"
"The Ford kids said they gave Eddie 50 grand to leave town."
"And where would those boys get cash like that?"
"And if somebody wanted Eddie gone too, what do you think? Would that be something Clint would just have lying around?"
"No, even for Clint, that's some transaction."
"Traceable, maybe even serial numbers. If we find that cash, maybe we can link it to Clint." "James saw the money in Eddie's room. By the time Nate found him dead, that money was gone. The way I see it, if we find the cash and we can link that money to Clint, that's conspiracy, at the minimum; but my guess is, whoever has the cash, is also the killer."
"Yeah, we've gotta find that money. We'll get a warrant for Clint's bank account. Since he knew what he was going to use it for, it will be harder to trace."
Joey and Aubrey drop by Cutter's room. Joey wants to tell Cutter he may be able to get him a job at BE, working for his dad. He explains, however, that it is not a done deal, but he is on his way to talk to him now. After Joey leaves, Cutter expresses excitement over the possibly of access "inside the mother lode." Aubrey tells him to shower, get dressed and presentable, and meet her downstairs for breakfast. She leaves; but a minute later, there is a knock at the door. It's Kelly.
Vimal and his wife Rama are at The Palace restaurant "acting rich." When Aubrey enters the dining room, Rama jumps up and shouts out, "Aubrey, Aubrey." It turns out they are old friends. Aubrey is very surprised. Rama introduces Vimal, and tells Aubrey he works for Clint Buchanan. Aubrey acts impressed with his important security position. Vimal says, no, that it isn't anything like that; then excuses himself and steps out. The girls sit down for a chat and Rama reveals that Mr. Buchanan asked Vimal to do something that wasn't very nice; and now he is having second thoughts about what he did.
Naturally, Aubrey wants the details. Rama says, it was a crime against Clint's family. Aubrey tells Rama she really needs to know what it was because her fiance is Clint's son. Rama says, "No, then I definitely can't tell you." Aubrey pressures Rama by saying, "You know you can trust me. Who always had your back?" "You did. But, you cannot tell anyone in the world that I told you this. Do you promise?" "I promise. Tell me what Clint did." Roma tells Aubrey the secret and she is quite surprised. Aubrey says Vimal should milk it for all it's worth.
Bo drops in on Clint at BE with a search warrant for the Buchanan mansion covering "anything and everything that might have to do with Eddie Ford's murder." He tells Clint he is going to pay for what he has done. Clint says Bo is not going to find ANYTHING. Bo says, he'll find something, and when he does, Clint is going down. Just as he is saying that, Joey enters the office behind Bo.
"Uncle Bo, what's wrong?" "Your dad and I are having a disagreement." "Dad, what's wrong?" Clint tells Joey it's nothing and Bo leaves. Clint changes the subject and moves on to the reason for Joey's visit. Joey mentions Aubrey and Clint says he has something for them both to sign (a pre-nup) and then, he won't fight him on the marriage anymore. Joey asks why would he need a pre-nup and Clint explains it is standard procedure for "families in our position."
"Oh, really. So are you asking Brody and Jessica to sign a pre-nup?" Clint says he is sure they would if he asked them. Joey is like—"ah-ha." He says he doesn't want to insult Aubrey by asking her to plan for their divorce before they are even married, blah, blah, blah.
Clint's attitude is "whatever," but tells Joey emphatically, IF there is a wedding and they have not signed the pre-nup, there will be consequences.
"What kind of consequences?"
"I won't expose this family to unnecessary risk. This is bigger than you. I have to think of your brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces. I have to think about everybody.
"Dad, what kind of consequences?"
"You will lose your shares in BE, your seat on the Board and your inheritance. Joey, I'll have to cut you off. Are you willing to give up all of that for a woman?"
Joey returns to The Palace from BE, looking rather glum. He is introduced to Rama, and Aubrey asks him, "What's wrong?" "It's my dad." The girls look at each other.
Aubrey: "So your dad didn't want to give Cutter a job."
"We didn't even get around to that. He had a pre-nuptial agreement drawn up for us." Joey tells Aubrey his father has disowned him. She tries to smooth things over by saying that everything is going to be fine, then suddenly remembers she has "an appointment with the caterer," and has to run. She calls Cutter to cancel breakfast and says she will explain later.
Clint contacts Dean McKenzie at LU and asks her to fire Robert Ford from the faculty and pull James' scholarship funding. They both find out the bad news, shortly thereafter. The dean approaches Robert and Langston in the lounge and tells him about her decision. She asks for his office keys and says she will have his personal items sent to his home. She hands James a bill for his tuition.
Ford goes to Clint's office and confronts him about his faculty position and James scholarship. Clint explains that he did the favors in the first place, because he wanted to be nice to their mother, "but those days are over." Ford stares in disbelief. After he leaves, Clint calls the Dean again. Ford calls McBain and says he has some information about Clint Buchanan.
Aubrey goes to Clint's office and tells him, she knows what he did and she isn't afraid to use the information.
Joey drops in on Cutter and finds Kelly in his room!
Both Natalie and Jessica are thinking about naming their babies "Asa."
Bo meets Ford on campus in regard to the phone call he made to John about Clint. The Dean arrives at just that moment and shows Ford what she found in his office—The $50,000!!
Dun, dun, da....
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