You had the American Dream and you forced yourself awake.
The Lake
Valerie wakes up in Jack's bed, they're very sweet together and he asks her what she wants to do, he tells her to think big. So she remembers a comercial she saw as a kid for High Trail Lake, so he tells her to cancel her appointments and they'll make a day out of it.
Valerie: My patience canceled her morning session.
Jack: A gift from the gods.
Valerie: She's agoraphobic and she locked herself in a bedroom.
Jack: Perfect. She won't come looking for you. How many appointments do you have?
Valerie: I have one.
Jack: Is it a suicidal situation?
Valerie: Well, I'd kill myself if I were her.
So Valerie goes to the house to change and finds that Alex is trying, with the help of Leon, to understand a lawsuit for negligence and violating the company's morality clause. She says her I-told-you-sos and says she'l stay to help but Alex convinces her to go and enjoy her day.
Alex: We'll take care of it.
Valerie: Who? You and Leon?
Alex: Yeah. Me and Leon.
Valerie: He's a sound tech.
Leon: Composer.
But she finally decides to go and Leon invites a friend who says that morality clauses are almost imposible to hold up and that if Paul is on his side there is no problem. So Alex goes to the office to talk to Paul and convinces him to stick to his loyalty and they go to face Jordan together but he offers to buy Paul out with 2.5 million dollars in cash. Once he's out of the way he offers to buy Alex out for a year's salary from his personal assistant which is a significantly smaller amount, Alex doesn't want to give up but Jordan says he'll torture his employees until he caves so he signs.
Jordan: All you had to do was nothing. Sit back and collect a paycheck. You had the American Dream and you forced yourself awake.
Things between Laura and Aubrey are awkward since Laura wants her to figure out on her own that things are not gonna work out. She asks her out and Laura proposes to visit Spencer instead and goes as soon as she can so she's at the hospital early.
Nurse: Sweet of you to keep him company.
Laura: Oh, I'm just waiting for you to leave so I can look for the pain pills.
Nurse: I don't like her.
Spencer: Me neither.
Nurse: Call me if she gets out of hand.
When Aubrey arrives and sees them so comfortable together she realizes what's going on and calls her on it right there but Laura says they just saw things differently.
Aubrey: Jesus Christ, just f*king feel something. Are you afraid to admit you like a girl? Are you worried that this identity might stick?
Laura says she just likes Spencer better and Aubrey storms off but Laura follows her. She tells her that she just wants them to be friends, that the other stuff was fun at first and then it just wasn't.
Aubrey: Good luck with Spencer. Hope he dies before you get bored with him too.
That was pretty harsh but I think Laura needs someone to shake her out of her bullsh*t like that, even if it's not working for now.
Valerie spends all her road trip talking about Alex and his problems, Jack tells her maybe she just needs to let him make his own mistakes which doesn't sit very well with her. He tries to be fun and charming to distract her but it doesn't work, so he confiscates her phone and tells her to stop with the whining, which she finally does but when they get to the lake, they find out the drought dried it up, so she starts freaking out but Jack grounds her once again. I really like them together.
After losing his company Alex comes home to a very relaxed Sarah who has filled his house with furniture from her store. That moment is when Alex finally freaks out and calls Valerie for help, right t the one moment when she's worried about herself very naked in the middle of the lake.
Reunion
The next morning Jack and Valerie are having breakfast in their hotel and they ran into a couple that's there for a reunion and Jack tells them they're there for their honeymoon. Valerie follows his lead and later they even ask for the honeymoon suite. Later they sneak into the reunion party where they bum into the couple again, they dance, drink and talk with them and they have a very sweet moment where the couple asks them when they knew they were with he right person. Jack says it was when he asked her about her happiest minute and instead of going obvious she told him something horrible and turned it into a life-affirming moment, and it was then he knew he wanted to experience everything with her.
Spencer is having a relationship with his mother through the phone and spending most of his time with Laura but she's still hiding behind her pragmatism and Spencer sees right through her, he tells her he likes the being in love part, not just the sex, but the feeling that you get someone and they get you, and for a second I had a feeling she was thinking about Aubrey.
Alex is freaked about Sarah's invasion in his home, she's having mil delivered to his house and even in the bathroom he sees all of her stuff, then Sarah comes after a run and starts talking to him while she pees and even wants to caress his face after which he really not comfortable with, apparently she has no boundaries whatsoever. She seems sweet but way too comfortable, even though she's worried about the fact that Alex is encouraging her to get her own place. Clearly the spell has worn off after he realized what his actions meant to his company. He keeps trying to get a hold on Valerie but he finally calls Leon to vent, he says it's too much too fast for him, that he just wanted to get her out of a toxic relationship, not have her move in.
Alex: I mean, did the Iraqis move in when we toppled Saddam? No, we freed them, and let them rebuild so they could make their own way.
Leon: That's not what happened.
He asks Leon to go looking for Valerie but e refuses so he goes to her office but get no information so he spills his guts out to Jennifer, he says he doesn't like Jack and the fact that he lives in a hotel room and she tells him Jack can be very persuasive. So when he goes home he texts her "I need you" from Laura's phone, which is very low and selfish, but it gets him the results he was looking for since Valerie comes rushing back. When she realices what happened she yells at him and he tells her he should with him and not Jack who did the same rooftop routine with Jennifer before. Valerie is taken aback but she says he has being ruining her life for thirty years, and she let him because she though is was a sibling duty or something like that. Alex appalled says he's the one who's being helping her, that he let her into his home and she slept with his girlfriend. He says he loved Emmy and she took that away from him, and that is when Sarah comes into the scene asking who is Emmy. So Valerie leaves and Alex finally tells Sarah the truth, she says he's like a little boy who wants what he can't have and that as long as he doesn't take risks he will never get anything, and after that she leaves.
Valerie goes back to Jack but nothing is the same, the next morning he says he'll be away for a couple of weeks and he'll text her when he's back, she says ok but it feel a lot like a goodbye.
So what did you think about these episodes? I would love to read your thoughts.
Note: English is not my first language so I apologize for any mistakes.
