Apples to Apples

Amanda (the McCarrington's adopted daughter), after playing dress-up and dreaming of her wedding one day, decided to research the family history. She was shocked to learn that Krystle's father (the reason Blake, as Amanda thinks, is a spoiled rich guy), a convicted felon that used his organized crime connections to obtain illegal liquor licenses to launch the business that created the $100,000,000 estate that Krystle inherited, had been lured out of his first marriage by a devious home-wrecking hussy, still somewhat known to the family...


as "Grandma" (Krystle's mother).

This, of course, helped her understand those rumors that her father Blake had similarly been stolen from his first wife, by a trollop (named...Krystle!) who Blake, after living with her for the better part of a year, married literally one month after his divorce from Alexis was finalized.

Amanda also learned that both grandparents had two daughters (each had one from previous marriages), but only Krystle was the daughter of them both - and Krystle now goes around claiming to be an only daughter. Does this make Amanda suspicious that Claudia (the McCarrington's only birth daughter) might similarly heartlessly and cruelly cut Amanda herself, Claudia's own (although not "full") sister(!) out of any inheritance?

In the meantime, Steven feels Blake is acting cold and distant because Blake went an entire day without mentioning that he is a former POW. Steven also wonders why, on their trips together, Blake is refusing to come to the back of the bus and hang out. It's to the point that Blake won't really even speak to him at all. At their last interview, Steven even cried out "Do I know you?" when Blake was prickly and cold towards him.

Little does he know that Dex McDexter (McCarrington's campaign mananger) is forcing Blake to restrict his access because he is terrified of Blake's increasing confusion. Some senior party officials are saying that Dex even secretly refers to McCarrington as a doddering old dinosaur.