How embarrassing! Blair takes a running go at Marty on the docks and heads into the river herself and when Marty tries to give her a hand to pull her out, Blair drags her in, too. The embarrassing part came when they both walked into Rodi’s looking like drowned rats and faced John. If I were John, I would have taken one look at them and said, “Both of you lunatics, get the heck out of my bar and my life.” The thought of two grown women going to that extent (mostly Blair) over a man is so humiliating that they both should have headed home to dry off and wish they’d never experienced the previous hour.

Obviously, Blair is not, nor ever has been, the kind of woman who is mature enough or secure enough to think before acting out of pure, childish jealousy and Marty is just having a good time letting Blair make a fool of herself.

So, Blair explains to John that she thinks of him before she does anything. I’m sure John didn’t appreciate the fact that she was thinking of him when she and Marty had their tussle at the river. Nevertheless, John sees something in Blair that he is drawn to, in spite of the fact that she acts like a wild banshee when someone gets in her way. He decides to get all dressed up in a suit and even abandons the black shirt for a proper white one. Blair is at home in her robe convinced that she’s staying home, until John shows up with flowers and insists that he wants to be with her at the ball. Hey, what girl could resist that?

Wow, has it been a whole year since the last Go Red Ball? I still vividly remember the hysteria surrounding last year’s ball. I remember there being lock boxes all over town where people could write down and deposit their deepest, darkest secrets, not the least of which was Lindsay’s confession that she killed Spencer Truman.

And who could forget Nora, Lindsay and Dorian scrambling on the floor trying to retrieve those secrets when they spilled all over the floor?

Well, this year’s ball was bound to be nothing more than a place for something ridiculous to happen and of course, Dorian was at the center of the trouble. After finally marrying David in a Buddhist ceremony (was that a real, legal marriage?) Dorian gets him back to Llanview and convinces him to go to the ball and hide out until she’s ready to announce that they are married. Of course, she knows that Beaver Calhoun, Asa’s attorney, has been looking for David and lets him know to come forward just when she’s about to present David to the crowd. Viki graciously introduces Dorian after she herself speaks and Dorian proceeds to tell everyone (mostly Buchanans) that she is now Mrs. David Vickeroshi. She calls for David to show himself. David, who still has us thinking that maybe his new lifestyle is for real, joins Dorian at the podium and Beaver proceeds to tell David and the crowd that he is Asa’s heir and now owns Asa’s whole estate.

David doesn’t really get it at first, but when he does understand how he came to be Asa’s heir, it seems like his main concern is that now he has this big extended family. I died laughing when he walked over and threw a big hug around Clint and Bo. He doesn’t seem impressed by the fortune he has just inherited, but once he gets a chance to think about it, all he can do is question Dorian’s sincerity in all of a sudden adopting his Buddhist conversion. David starts remembering things, like the last time Dorian took over Buchanan Enterprises and drugged Charlie so he wouldn’t blow her planned takeover. He also remembers that when she did get her hands on B.E. the last time, she didn’t want anything to do with him. She had no need for David back then. David also questions whether or not Dorian really gave her house to Moe and Noelle. The more he thinks about Dorian’s behavior, the more David is convinced that Dorian has not changed and that she only wanted to marry him to get her hands on B.E. again, not to mention the whole Buchanan fortune. David is unrelenting in questioning Dorian and finally she blows up and tells him that yes, she did hook up with him to get her hands on the Buke fortune. She feels that she got it the last time fair and square and Clint never should have gotten it back.

I have to say that I had my own idea about what I thought David should have done when he realized what was going on. Although I do think the Buchanans should have their money and their company since it is their family legacy, I got a really funny idea when David approached Viki. David was going around the room acknowledging all his new relatives and came to Viki, his best friend. I was thinking that aside from spiting Dorian by giving the whole fortune to charity, David would be really smart to give the whole ball of wax to Viki to take care of however she sees fit. She could give plenty to charity and still keep the family rich and most of all it would burn Dorian beyond belief to see Viki get the best of her yet again. Oh, I would love to see that. It remains to be seen what David will do, but whatever he does, it’s a sure thing that Dorian’s plan to screw the Bukes will fail once again. It always does!

Viki was certainly mad, especially at Clint, when she found out that everyone knew about David being Asa’s son except for her. Viki reminded him that David is their brother, her children’s uncle and Ben’s brother as well. Clint couldn’t care less. He reacted like the jerk I know he is when he responded, “Why should I have told you, so you could go and tell you friend David?” I really can’t stand Clint. I’d like to see the family get the company under control and somehow leave him out in the cold. He’s such an arrogant creep.