The Client List' Season 2 Finale Recap -
'What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am / Wild Nights are Calling'
(Courtesy Lifetime)
The season two finale of The Client List
Tonight's two-hour season two The Client List season finale brings a string of storylines to
a neat and tidy end... or does it? Here's what happened—tell us what you think
of the last season two episode, below.
Who has the client list? At the end of last week's
episode, Riley realizes that her carefully hidden little black book—the client
list that includes names and detailed notes of all the powerful men who visit
The Rub looking for a little something extra—has been taken. The season finale
opens with Riley freaking out that bad guy Greg Carlisle has the list—and she
works on getting her finances in order just in case something happens—she puts
her house in Kyle's name and she gives Lacey a giant pouch full of cash to take
care of Kyle and the kids.
When Riley tells Georgia the client list is missing, and that Carlisle might
have it, Georgia flips out. "You only get one chance to kill a
snake," she tells Riley, "you have got to cut its head off and crush
it."
While Riley is searching for the client list, she finds out that the judge—Mr.
Louboutin—has recently started receiving threatening emails from someone
demanding that the prostitution task force be called off within two days, or
the client list will be unveiled to the public.
Lynette's off the show? Riley's mom Lynette summons
both Riley and Lacey to the rehab center where she's been staying for the past
two months. She tells them she's moving to Austin after getting out of
rehab.
Evan's undercover prostitution sting: Since Evan was made a Texas
Ranger last week—and was put on a special prostitution and human trafficking
task force—his girlfriend Shelby has been promoted to a detective in internal
affairs, and has been assigned to spy on Evan. She tells him that the guy who
broke into Riley's house worked for Carlisle, and from now on, she won't be
able to protect Evan's family secrets anymore.
As for the sting, the police force are full-on watching Greg Carlisle. They've
put surveillance cameras in one of his massage parlors and in Wild Nights, his
strip club. And they've shot photos of one of Riley's girls, Nikki, canoodling
with Carlisle on a street corner.
Riley
goes bananas on Nikki: Back at The Rub, Riley is laying into Nikki—as in, totally
beating her up. Nikki swears up and down that she didn't give the client list
to Carlisle, and tells Riley it's in the trunk of her car. When they go to look
for it, all they find is a note from Carlisle. He has it!
Will
Lacey and Dale ever get a baby? This episode, Lacey and Dale have passed their home inspection
and adopt a baby boy from a teen mom.
Kyle
finally gets a job: The
former football star gets a call from the high school coach—but it turns out
that he hasn't landed Kyle a coaching position. Instead, Kyle gets a job
working maintenance. He swallows his pride and takes the job.
Derek
and Selena march on! At the beginning
of the episode, Selena and Derek are having their endless push-and-pull over
Derek's desire to commit and Selena's resistance. Derek somehow convinces
Selena to take a copy of his home key—and he wants her to start spending more
and more time at his place. She completely freaks out—she has some serious
trust issues and was cheated on by her ex-husband—and gives him back the key.
Nikki
tries to redeem herself: The judge tells Riley that they have a search warrant for
Carlisle's Wild Nights strip club on his desk. But, instead, Riley convinces
Nikki to try to redeem herself by going to the cops with information about how
Carlisle traffics girls in from Eastern Europe to work at his massage
parlors.
Riley's plan: to get Carlisle out of the strip club during Wild Nights' amateur
night. She gets Nikki to summon him to her apartment. Riley is heading to club
in disguise to audition—Georgia phones in a phony INS warning to the club—and
Riley breaks into Carlisle's office safe, where Nikki is sure he keeps the
client list.
Everything goes according to plan—except that Riley doesn't know that the club
is under video surveillance—and turns out Evan is on video duty that night. He
sees everything that goes down.
Carlisle gets a call from the club saying that someone stole the client list
and his gun from the office safe. He chokes Nikki.
The
Season Finale: At home, Kyle is
serving dinner to the kids when Evan calls up and tells him Riley's in serious
trouble and he's following her to The Rub. Kyle calls Dale and Lacey to come
over and watch the kids. Evan and Kyle head to The Rub in different cars.
Riley's already there and about to BURN THE RUB DOWN (allcaps totally necessary
there). She pours a bottle of liquor all over her desk, all over the client
list. She—smart!—shoots things in the office with Carlisle's gun.
At that precise moment, Carlisle shows up and kicks in her glass door. He
throws down with her and she pistol-whips him with his own gun and sets her
desk on fire.
As she's running outside, The Rub blows up behind her. It's like scene out of
Indiana Jones—or, at least, the Angela Bassett driveway scene in Waiting to
Exhale.
Riley runs outside, wearing only her lingerie, a wig, stilettos, and a trench
coat—blood all over her face. Evan's there and Kyle pulls up. The last words we
hear this season are: "I can explain."
End scene.
