We pick up where we left off last week, with Nick getting into Simon Elder"s car. Elder tells Nick that the two of them have similar philosophies as far as philanthropy goes, and invites him to a future dinner. Nick thinks he"s the "C" from Dutch"s calendar, not surprisingly given his license plate, and resolves to use the dinner to find out for sure. Elder unceremoniously cops to it, and says Dutch was kind of a mentor to him. Also, Elder tells him how much Dutch regretted his work for the Darlings, and that he was planning to leave them and come to work for Elder. This inspires Nick to get back on the stick and start giving the Darling money away in earnest.
Freddy wants a bachelor party, and Karen asks Patrick to get Freddy into some exclusive club so they can have it there. When he"s reluctant, she infers that she"ll tell Ellen about Carmelita, and when he realizes she"s quite serious, he caves. But it turns out that the club members are big golf fans, so they would have taken Freddy in a heartbeat anyway. GO FIGURE.
Brian reads a passage about honesty at the dinner table, and this causes Brian Jr. to finally crack and come clean to Mei Ling Hwa. Brian confesses, and Mei Ling Hwa doesn"t kill him, but does demand a divorce. Brian goes to Nick in a right state; at first he wants Nick to crush her, but he then breaks down, causing a thaw between him and Nick. Nick counsels him to go ask her for another chance, which he does, sincerely and openly. Mei Ling Hwa asks for some time, so Brian and Brian Jr. come home to Darling Estates, to Letitia"s (and my) delight.
Nick tries to mediate a dispute between the twins as to whether Natalie can attend their twenty-fifth birthday party; when they can"t resolve it, they decide to have separate parties -- at a million each instead of the budgeted million for the joint party. Also, we learn that they"ll each be inheriting twenty-five million in trust from Letitia"s father on the birthday. Tripp is disgusted by the twins" frivolity, but he and Letitia agree that Nick should handle the situation, as Dutch did with similar scenarios when he was alive. But when the spending goes insane even by this family"s standards, with Jeremy having his party on the Brooklyn Bridge, Tripp asks Nick to draw up a document delaying the twins" access to the trust for five years. Juliet has a Dangerous Liaisons-themed party, to which she invites Ryan Casdale from last week, planning to kiss him, but when she sees him smooching with another girl, she leaves her own party in tears in search of her brother. Meanwhile, Jeremy and Natalie have been planning marriage, and in a meeting with Nick, he enthuses about having a kid, but Juliet overhears. Juliet then has a chat with her friend Astrid, who just so happened to give Natalie tampons only the week before. Nick informs Jeremy of this; his immediate reaction is that Juliet"s lying, but Nick doesn"t think so. Jeremy confronts her, and she confesses that she thought she was, but she isn"t. He gets drunk and distraught, and sings "All By Myself" in his boxers and nothing else. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP, and it is awesome. Tripp, however, doesn"t think so, and gives Jeremy a stern and contemptuous lecture, and Jeremy yells and cries at him, to Nick"s chagrin. Nick stands up to Tripp and tells him he"s handling Jeremy all wrong. The twins reunite, and Juliet makes Jeremy feel better about himself. He in turn goes to Tripp and asks him for a job, and Tripp"s overwhelmed with pride. Can"t wait to see Jeremy"s face when he sees the size of his first paycheck!