Nikki comes into Victor’s office with documents for a loan he promised her. She says she’s signed them already and after he signs them, he can give them to her secretary. Victor says he won’t do it. She says he can’t handle an independent woman. He says that she reacted as he suspected, but he’s refusing for business reasons. Nikki doesn’t believe him because the property she’s offering is worth more than the loan.
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Brad and Logan wind up in an elevator together. They introduce themselves and Brad calls her “Dr. Armstrong, the legendary savior of Nick Newman.” Then the elevator gets stuck and the repair guy says he doesn’t know how long the elevator will be down. Logan tells Brad that she’s claustrophobic. It starts getting hot. Brad tells her it’s no time for modesty if she wants to take off some clothes. He offers her a footrub. Logan refuses. He says he’s not hitting on her, but teases that he is willing to hit on her to distract her, since it’s an emergency situation and all — not because she’s beautiful and accomplished and attractive. She gives in so he’ll shut up. Flirting, he rubs her feet only because “it is an emergency situation”. She asks why his marriage to Victoria didn’t work out, and Brad says it’s too personal to talk about his marriage.
“How can it be too personal when you’re rubbing my foot?” Logan points out.
“I didnt’ show enough strength,” Brad admitted.
Logan guesses by his answer that he was unfaithful to Victoria. She says maybe he married the wrong woman.
Brad jokes and says he’s feeling claustrophobic when the doors open and Victor sees them sprawled on the elevator floor together.
They have dinner together. Logan asks Brad about having to testify against Phyllis. She says it’s all over the news. He says that her blackmail hurt his marriage.
Logan says that the town is small and she can’t put the pieces together. Brad says he loses his place all the time. Brad says he’ll never say a good word about Phyllis and doesn’t want to talk about her unless it’s to hire a hitman.
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Amber meets with Cane, and he mentions her website. She acts oblivious. He orders a screwdriver. He calls her on it and she bullshits. She says it was an experiement on psychology.
“The effects of nudity on the male psyche?”
“No… it was to see if men would pay money without showing them sex. I got an A.”
Cane comes by and says she seems nervous. She says Carson and her ran into each other. Carson says he was boring her with war stories.
Carson buys them orange juice since Cane won’t be smashed before throwing around weights.
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nikki tells david that it was odd that victor turned his back on the loan. he says that victor is protesting stuff that happened while he was gone. nikki is worried that other lenders who find out that victor denied her a loan would do the same.
david gives her a gift to celebrate her ownership, it is a personal planner. he tells her to check today’s date. she opens it and says “dinner with david”. she says “sorry, no”. she says she’s been so many years being dominated by victor that she doesn’t have the time or inclination to get involved, but if she did he’d be at the top of the list.
david orders them room service.
“You had a long day!” David explains.
she tells him she had already had a loan in place in case. david says that he thinks that nikki enjoys battling victor.
nikki says she likes not having to answer to anyone. david says that she likes dealing with victor. “as much as you complain and protest, you enjoy taking victor on!”
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At the gym, Victor notices carmen beating a punching bag. Her bare midriff shows off a belly button tattoo! He’s impressed with her workout. she says that she likes martial arts, and boxing is in her blood. Her dad had golden gloves in the navy. He asks if she wants to spar and she takes him on. Carmen calls him on giving Nikki the loan. She says he likes having her as an adversary.
victor stops by nikki’s office. he tells nikki he’s going to give her the loan and points out that their agreement is legally binding, she can’t use the same collateral with her backup loan.
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lindsay the babysitter says hi to nick, he doesn’t remember her. phyllis checks on summer and nick starts to put his things away. “sleeping like a baby, which is appropriate”. he doesn’t know where things goes. phyllis helps him around the place.
they talk about making more room and breaking down walls. she says “what we have now works.” she asks him to make coffee.
she shows him “very important stuff drawer” shoelaces, recordable dvds, useless keys and garage door opener.
Nick says that sharing a home with a beautiful woman can’t be considered a terrible burden. Nick tells her she’s blushing. Phyllis denies it.
nick checks on summer. she thanks him and he says she doesn’t have to thank him. she says it’s early but she’s going to bed. nick says he’s wide awake. nick asked if it was ok if he crashed on the couch. phyllis tells him she doesn’t snore. she says for selfish reasons she minds, but she understands.
phyllis comes downstairs to the couch and watches nick sleep. he wakens. she asks if he minds if she joins him. she takes her robe off and lies on top of him. they kiss. he says it’s like a fantasy and he sees why he married her.
she asks to sleep by him, he says he doesn’t think it’s a good idea.
“are you testing my willpower?” nick asks.
“i’m testing mine.” phyllis replies.
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kevin tells daniel to find new women. daniel says he misses lily. amber comes and tells them about her website. “you might get voted out of the mansion” amber says to find out who he is. she found his room key.
kevin says he will not break into his room. she says that she’ll go with her. daniel caves in and says he’ll go when amber says she’ll go by himself. amber calls cane to make sure he’s still occupied and he is.
Daniel and Amber break into Carson’s room as Kevin goes to the bar and distracts Carson. Amber finds a detailed file of Amber, Kevin, and Daniel, with pictures of Amber with Plum in LA.
kevin tries to distract carson but carson is too tired. “i’m sorry sir but i never leave a man behind.” broken neck, drink to plum.
the three of them share beers. carson smoothly gets a waitresses phone number. he tells her that he can’t find her number anywhere, and she says she never gave it to him. he says that’s easy to fix, give it to me now, and she does. kevin is impressed. kevin tries to buy another round but cane says he has to get home to his wife.
“i didn’t know married means whipped,” kevin teases.
“actually,” cane quips back. “married means every night and most afternoons.”
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Carson and Cane are working out together at the gym. Cane admits he’s curious.
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