Soaker Aria

Aria heads out to street stall and drinks a bunch of beer. As she staggers home, she’s spotted by Charlie when she stumbles and falls. He’s been replaying in his mind his last conversation with Emma. He tells Luca to stop the car. They back up and Charlie gets out of the car. After making sure that it does, indeed, look to be Emma, he asks what she’s doing and what’s up with her clothes. He noticed her clothes. That's an unusual man. She asks if he knows her. He sighs and says that it’s not very well.

Charlie notices that Aria’s knee is bleeding. He asks how much she had to drink. Aria asks him why it matters to someone she doesn't know? He nods, remembering the contract terms. Right, they decided not to worry about each other. He straightens his tie and asks her about ending up in the paper. She laughs and smiles up at him. Is he flirting with her right now? Charlie is understandably puzzled by that question. And a little disturbed.

Aria lays down on the sidewalk and tells Charlie to do whatever he wants, however he wants. Wow. He squats next to her and asks if she’s being like this because of ‘that person,’ the one she said she loved. Aria laughs. Love? That's luxury. It's hard just to survive, what love?! Luca asks Charlie what they should do. Charlie says to leave her. Luca points out that Charlie shouldn't do anything that will get him criticized. Charlie asks why *this* is something that people would disapprove of. It's something he’ll give disapproval to.

As Charlie starts to walk away, he imagines all the people around him talking about what he’s doing:

...#Omo, darling, is that guy leaving his drunk lover there and just going?...

...#No way, he wouldn't....

...#Do you think he'll just leave her?...

...#No matter how much they may have fought, leaving such pretty little lady like that on the ground?...

If he does that, he'll get hit by lightning. (And the dog the woman’s walking barks it's disapproval, too.)

A whole crowd of people are eagerly reading about how SJ's son left a girl on the streets. When they notice him, they give him disapproving looks. Charlie looks away – and we see that no one’s actually at the newsstand. He starts to pant from the stress. Wow, this boy is tightly wound.

Switch to hotel room. Charlie is helping Aria stagger in. He tells her that They’ve already agreed on two percent of the company's shares. She can't say something else later. I had to think about this one for a minute. He’s referring to the skin ship clause in their marriage contract. Which didn’t say anything about *her* getting drunk and touching *his* body. She slurs that she’ll do 5%. Why is he so petty?

They stumble and fall into a chair so that she’s sitting on his lap. She starts to squirm. He asks what's the matter. She starts to gag. As she throws up on him, he screams and shoves her off him. Heh! I'm not a germophobe and I would have done that. He runs away, shedding his clothing as he goes. *All* of it. Well, maybe not that. He runs into the shower and frantically scrubs everywhere to get himself clean. Finally he stops to pant.

Aria rouses from her stupor because she’s going to throw up again. She runs into the

bathroom – where Charlie is scrubbing away – but doesn’t even notice him. She hurls in the toilet. Her money roll drops and she can’t find the pockets in her coat – even though they’re right there. She spots a robe hanging on the wall and stuffs the money in its pocket – even though she’s wearing her purse and could have easily put it in there. She closes the lid and falls back asleep leaning on it.

Charlie emerges from the shower and jumps because she’s in the bathroom. He’s wearing a towel, but still feels awkward. He tries to ease his way over to the robe hanging on the wall, but slips on the tiled floor and falls onto a table, knocking everything off of it. He stops to see if Aria’s awakened by the noise. She isn’t. He notices that she’s about to fall over and whack her head on the tile. He dives to catch her and in the process loses his towel. They end up on the floor with him cradling her in his arms. They looks at each other and she mutters ‘thank you’ before passing out. Charlie blinks and wonders what to do now.

Charlie returns to his house, dressed in the robe. He tries to look dignified. Leo wonders if Charlie didn’t like what he was wearing that day (since he's now wearing a robe). Charlie gets dressed again. He flashes back to drunk Emma. Why was she like that?

Next day, Emma is at the department store. She’s flipping through a magazine and comes across a spread about doppelgangers. The first one who sees the other dies. Attendant arrives and says that they increased the size of her ring to 10. Wow, fat fingers. Maybe sizes are different in Korea, but my ring size is 5¾s. Emma wonders how someone can not know their fiancée’s ring size. As she starts to look at the ring, she spots a woman wearing her outfit. She rolls her eyes and leaves – partially relieved that it’s not her doppelganger.

Aria wakes up, leaning on the toilet in the hotel bathroom. She’s freaked out because she doesn’t know how she got there. She grabs a razor for protection. When she comes out into the suite, she sees the clothes lying on the floor, right where Charlie shed them. This jogs her memory enough. She notices the time and quickly runs to work. Luckily, she’s not caught by Supervisor, who is currently yelling at another employee. Claire asks why she hasn’t been answering her calls. Her father is in the hospital.

Aria hurries to leave and accidentally runs into a woman. The woman’s broach breaks and Aria apologizes and starts to pick the pieces up. Woman is obnoxious: 'Seriously! She’s going crazy!' Emma is riding the escalator down, trying on her wedding ring. Or, at least trying to try it on. It’s still too small for her finger. When she pulls it off from where it was stuck, she loses hold of it. It falls and rolls over to Aria. And Emma, with her 5-foot heels – seriously, they are basically the length of her entire foot, like she’s walking on tiptoe – spots Aria first. She’s understandably unsettled at seeing her doppelganger. They stare at each other and Aria holds out the ring.