Vicious

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, child abuse, and bullying.

Trent retrieves Vicious at the airport and scolds him for his callousness about his father’s death. Trent, who doesn’t know the truth about Vicious’s abuse, is shocked by his friend’s sudden change of attitude regarding Baron Sr. He further reprimands Vicious for hiring Emilia, given her history with Dean, which frustrates Vicious.

At the Spencer mansion, Vicious thinks smugly of his plan to demolish the building and construct a library in his mother’s honor. He eagerly anticipates the reading of his father’s will, several days hence, though he is shocked to discover that he wants to see Emilia more than he wants to financially ruin Jo. He grows angry when Emilia refuses to return his phone calls.

He invites Georgia, a casual sexual partner from high school, over to his hotel room to pass the time but ends up quizzing her about her harassment of Emilia in high school. He abruptly sends Georgia away, uninterested in having sex with anyone but Emilia. Dean arrives, and the two argue over Emilia, with each claiming that she “belongs” to him. They fistfight, and Vicious admits that he blackmailed Emilia into breaking up with Dean when they were in high school.