Alexis gives Fallon some family-heirloom earrings over lunch, then asks for help getting Adam to talk to her. As they chat, a young, pretty blond is watching them.
Fallon tricks Adam into making a house call to a "sick friend," not knowing it's to Alexis's enormous penthouse. He berates her about bringing Oliver into their lives and nearly getting Kirby killed (well....) and says he will never trust her again. My my, hypocrisy on display. She later visits the hospital to give Adam another "Morell family heirloom," which he takes but doesn't warm to her. As she walks away upset, the blond woman is seen watching them, too.
Blake has to get a ton of signatures to get his name on the ballot, and he enlists Cristal to help.
Dominique has signed a deal to flog her clothing line on a rival shopping network, so Fallon decides she needs to play dirty....since Dom is family, and that's how they do things in that family. Liam does not approve, but shrugs it off since she won't listen anyway. Fallon does a video chat with NeNe Leakes (a reality star?) and makes her think that other channel is replacing her (Leakes) with Dom. Leakes pushes for a new, more expensive deal with the other channel which leaves Dom out in the cold. When Fallon suggests Dom come on board her channel, Dom turns her down flat, which gives Liam a bit of a chuckle. Fallon then angrily says she will develop her own line instead. To beat Dom to the punch on announcing her line, Fallon flakes out on an award ceremony that Liam really wanted her to attend with him, since he's up for an award. Eva, Fallon's assistant, shows up at the awards ceremony and Liam asks her to sit with him. (Uh-oh....)
Sam is still kind of weirded out by what happened with Leo, but Culhane seems to be moving right along with his life. Anders's ghost is lingering around offering advice that they seem to be ignoring. Sam thinks he needs to go to "the woods" to wait for a sign that he did the right thing. The "three" of them end up camping it up (so to speak) but Culhane opts to ditch the arrangement because he doesn't want to listen to the advice Anders is giving him about "dealing with his regrets about Leo". On the ride back, Anders is in Culhane's back seat (I guess he left Sam to the bugs and bears?) telling him he should let go of the guilt for good.
Adam returns to the penthouse and says he will lighten up, but Alexis must never, never lie to him. Because yeah, that's always been her strong suit. Case in point: the young woman shows up and Alexis warmly greets Amanda. She apologizes for not attending Amanda's mother's funeral, but Amanda flatly tells Alexis she knows everything....that Alexis is not her cousin, but is in fact her mother. Someone named Gabriel Jurgens is her father (according to her birth certificate). So Alexis tells her the story of the yoga instructor, how her cousin couldn't have children, etc. Adam shows up and Alexis immediately introduces Amanda as "his cousin". After Adam leaves, Amanda says she will set everyone straight on just who she really is, since she's missed out on an entire life.
Cristal seems to have gone out and gotten all the signatures Blake needs to get on the ballot. Too bad she shows up a few seconds late to drop off the signatures. "Do you know who I am?" she asks. No, he doesn't. Good, because she picks up the stacks of various candidate signatures, tosses them everywhere, then adds Blake's pages to the pile. Now they are all going to be counted, because the guy has no way of knowing who was turned in before 5 and who was at 5:01. Or something. Is this how Biden won Georgia in 2020?
So Amanda shows up to Blake's press event at the manor to introduce herself but Fallon is her usual frantic, dismissive, and sarcastic self. Adam shows up and tells Fallon she's their cousin from London, but Fallon insists they don't have a cousin from London, then walks away from them to get into a back-and-forth with Dominique. They eventually make up and Fallon apologizes for being so overly-driven. Blake is about to formally announce his candidacy for Senator when Alexis shows up, desperate to get Amanda to keep her mouth shut for the time being. Alexis sees Fallon, Adam, and Amanda all chatting in the corner and assumes the worst. As Blake is the center of attention, Alexis is loudly heard telling the kids Amanda is their sister. "We have a secret sister?!?" is the sound-bite of the day. Adam is amazed that Alexis broke the "don't lie to me" thing in record time, as if he never met Alexis.
Afterwards, Blake and Cristal have a poorly-edited* scene by the fireplace, where Cristal says she will support Blake all she can in his campaign, but she also wants to have her own life. He understands, what with the recent brush with death and all.
Alexis tells Amanda she was lucky not to have her as a mother, if today is an indication. Not having Alexis in her life made Amanda's life better, and Alexis wanted her to have the best life possible. Will Amanda stay at the penthouse with her? Sure.
* I say "poorly edited" because the scene (of them in bed) cuts back and forth between the two, and Blake is sitting higher in the bed when he talks, then lower in the bed when she talks. I'm not usually a stickler for such things, but it distracted me from what they were saying with Blake going up and down in the bed (and not in a good way).