SPOILER ALERT! (stop reading if you don’t want to know what happens in this episode
So many freaking secrets… like so many. The irony in Olivia’s letters is so real. Let’s just get into this week’s recap shall we?
We finally meet Jelena’s mother Vanessa (Lynn Whitfield) and we find out that they haven’t spoken in two years. Meanwhile, Kyle is tries to convince German that he needs to start seeing other people to get over Ahsha but he doesn’t agree telling her that he’s doesn’t need to get over anyone.
Jude stops by Derek’s house before the grand opening of Derek’s new club but he tells him to wait. While he’s waiting, Jude notices a piece of the red envelope that Derek threw in the fire last episode.
Sloane confronts Lionel about her real intentions for sticking around the Devils arena telling her that Ahsha won’t be apart of any plans she may have in trying to get Pete back.
Kyle finds out who her secret admirer is, Jake Von who’s come back because he knows information about Olivia’s death including papers that connect her to Benny and some illegal activities. He makes her have dinner with him for the information. Raquel tells Terrence that Jelena’s mom is in town and that she may need his support. He doesn’t agree telling her that she has someone else who can help her now.
A random groupie brings Ahsha a “gift” for Derek while she’s out shopping for something to wear to Derek’s opening night– her underwear signed with her number on it. Ahsha confronts Derek about it and he tells her she’s just a groupie and he’s only concerned about what she’s wearing.
At Kyle’s blackmail dinner she tells him that Olivia blackmailed her with the papers to help her cause some trouble over getting fired. She tells him that she would do anything to get the papers back. Jake asks her how she knew how many papers there were. She tells him that he said it but he tells her he didn’t. He puts two and two together and tells her that if she knew the number of papers then she had to have been in the mansion before Olivia died.
She tells him that she broke in the day before the groundbreaking, placing her in the house the day she died. Kyle freaks out on him, telling him that she doesn’t appreciate being accused of murder before crying and leaving the room.
Jude confronts Derek at his opening about the envelope asking him if he’d been to her house the day she was murdered. Derek in return asks him what Olivia had over him since he knew about the envelope to begin with. He then tells him that she knew about the cocaine and Jude tells him that she knew that he’d gotten the cocaine for him and his career would be ruined anyone had found out about him distributing drugs. Jude tells him that he has to know what’s going on because their in this together.
Terrence pays Vanessa a visit and we find out that she had been beaten and Jelena witnessed it throughout her childhood. Vanessa tells him that her life is none of his business and if Jelena wants to talk to her she can talk to her herself.
Raquel successfully gets the files from Oscar’s office and she and Sloane goes over them not finding anything useful. Once that start talking about Pete, Raquel gets agitated and takes the files claiming that she has to put them back in his office before he notices they’re missing.
The Devil girls do an impromptu dance and then Ahsha confronts Derek, telling him that she knows he’s hiding something from her. She tells him that she needs to tell him because without trust they don’t have anything.
Pete goes to pick up Raquel and she finds out that he was at a bar. She goes ape shit and tells him that she can’t be with him anymore because there are too many red flags and he was with Sloane right after their first kiss and a whole lot of other stuff that all sounded the same.
After the opening, Jelena returns to Vanessa’s hotel room to find her packing up to leave. Jelena tells her how she really felt about watching her get beat and that she’s disgusted with her mother because she let him beat her and she stayed. She then tells her she abhors weak women. Vanessa tells her that she took those beatings to protect her and keep her father from beating her. Jelena tells her she shouldn’t have and asks her to sign the papers releasing her 10 percent stake in the Devils. Vanessa refuses telling her it’s the one thing that got her to call her after two years and it’ll be what makes her call again. She then leaves telling her that their conversation isn’t over.
Raquel tells Sloane that she returned the files and that she’s no longer with Pete. She then tells her that she wants to help her with her case on Oscar since Mia was her friend. Not wanting to get her involved, Sloane reluctantly agrees to let her help.
Derek welcomes Ahsha home with candles to tell her some truth. He tells her about all the women that he’s slept with but that he’s only concerned about her now and Ahsha accepts his truth.
Derek talks to Jelena outside the hotel after her talk with her mom. He tells her that she deserves to be happy but she needs to open up. Jelena stays closed up telling him that she’s not his problem and they never should’ve been together in the first place. Of course he leaves after that.
Pete stops by Derek’s place to tell him about the new plays that he’ll be running and that he won’t be getting the ball as much as usual. Derek asks him how he came to this decision and he tells him that he watched the footage and got the plays from an assistant coach. Derek puts two and two together realizing that he got the idea from German.
Jake shows up at Kyle’s place to tell her that he erased all of her information to give her a fresh start. She thanks him but there’s something in her eyes that make it seem like she’s more involved than she originally insinuated.
Jelena returns home and goes completely mental breaking everything in her apartment. We end with Raquel at the Playground with a file she didn’t return to Oscar’s office. She then places a red envelope in it with her name on it, the same stationary as the other cards everyone else received from Olivia.
Some takeaways…
– I’m over Raquel and her distrust. She has flip flopped so much that I hope she stays single… or at least away from Pete. Don’t get me wrong, I like Raquel but right now she’s really strumming on my last nerve.
– I want Vanessa to stick around for awhile. Finally meeting someone from Jelena’s family tells us a lot about what her deal is. I mean, you can’t just bring Lynn Whitfield in and not has her stay for awhile. Excited to see how this story plays out.
– So many red cards! Olivia was not playing when she went out seeking revenge. When you have too many suspects it makes narrowing down the true culprit very hard. I’m still going to stick to my original prediction. Whoever wanted Olivia dead had to have a very good reason and out of the ones who got cards I think Jelena and Jude had the most to lose… although Kyle did look a little suspect this episode.
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