"Guilt" is the fifth episode of the American television series "

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", The episode premiered on

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on October 19, 2011. It was written by Nikki Toscano and directed by

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Plot

The episode starts The guilty always fall" and we literally see Lydia Davis fall from a building onto a taxi. We then come back to the present. Victoria Grayson (

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) finds out through Frank (

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), that Conrad Grayson (

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) has lied about his supposed business trip and instead spent the night in the city at Lydia's. When she confronts him about the secret rendezvous with Lydia Davis (

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), Daniel Grayson's (

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) friend Tyler (

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) overhears and tells Daniel about it. During the conversation, Daniel finally finds his phone. Daniel goes to see Jack to find his credit card and apologises for his behaviour the previous night. Lydia arrives unannounced to Victoria's luncheon at Victoria's house. Daniel comes to see Emily Thorne (

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) and they patch things up, but not before Daniel finding out that Tyler lied to him. Daniel confronts Tyler claims he was looking out for Daniel. Conrad gifts Victoria a peace offering in the form of a $200,000 car, which she ultimately gives to Charlotte Grayson (

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) in an attempt to mend their relationship. Nolan Ross (

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) plants a hidden camera in Emily's house, thus catching Lydia expressing her desire to get the house back from Emily. Emily refuses to give up the house and proceeds to ship Lydia's remaining belongings to her new place, planting "evidence" that makes it seem as if Lydia has been behind the string of downfalls. Nolan's hidden camera goes with the belongings and catches Lydia threatening Conrad about exposing their involvement in framing David Clarke (

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). Nolan also sees Lydia seeming to have found out about Emily's past. He races to tell Emily that she might be in trouble. Frank breaks into Lydia's place and discovers documents suggesting she was the mastermind of the recent falls of influential people in the community, as well as her speech meant to expose the Graysons. At the Open Arms Charity Benefit, Victoria lies to Lydia about renewing their friendship, in order to keep her from exposing their involvement in the terrorism act. Lydia comes home and they get into a scuffle that ends with Frank pushing Lydia from her penthouse balcony before she lands on a taxi below with Frank informing Victoria that Lydia had jumped from her balcony and Nolan having witnessed the attack from his whale cam, believing that Lydia is dead after sneaking into her apartment to remove Emily's name from the employee list and finding her body. In an effort to make up for the trouble at the last event, Victoria's party planner Ashley (

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), spurred by a suggestion from "best friend" Emily, manages to get Victoria and her charity Victims United Outreach honored by Open Arms in the upcoming benefit. As she is forced to once again publicly honor the victims of the ill-fated flight that sent David Clarke to prison, Victoria begins to feel that guilt weigh with renewed intensity upon her conscience.

Production

The episode was written by Nikki Toscano, while being directed by ''

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Reception

Critical reception

Critics expressed delight in getting a dose of reality when the character Emily (

) has finally found herself in a significantly dangerous situation of being exposed. They also praised the character developments of both Victoria (

) as she appears to have a heart and conscience after all, and Nolan (

) as he becomes a bigger part of Emily's life because of his loyalty to her and her father. C. Orlando of TV Fanatic writes, "It's good to be reminded that he vowed to do his best to protect her. He's certainly doing all he can and I like his quirky loyalty more each week." Orlando went on to give the episode 4.5 out of 5 stars, while seemingly more impressed users gave an average of 4.9 out of 5 stars on the site.

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