The must-watch episode of the season has finally arrived! While the rest of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City deal with wrestling over whether Jen Shah is being hunted by the law or naively hoping she's being protected by it, Jennie Nguyen starts going through Jen's road snacks. Lisa Barlow throws around the idea that someone tipped the feds off to Jen's location. Lisa also tells the other women she never believed Coach Shah had internal bleeding. Jennie throws out the idea that they had a warrant for Jen, and that's why they showed up at the parking lot. Heather Gay is still trying to text Jen. Whitney Rose brings up the idea that Jen has always lived well above her visible means, and none of the other women can explain what Jen's business is. Whitney whispers to Heather that she thinks Lisa knows something because she has called all (six) of her attorneys before their first rest stop.
Whitney is the first to get the article on her phone announcing that Jen Shah is being indicted for fraud. Lisa breaks into tears and reads aloud that Jen's First Assistant Stuart is also being charged. Jennie shadily brings up that no one (Whitney) sent her the article. Whitney thought Jen had a sugar daddy to fund her lifestyle. (Whitney reveals she had a sugar daddy at one point.) Whitney explains, in great detail, how the business worked, and how the fraud would have been committed to Jennie--who points out that Whitney's knowledge is a little suspect. In short, Jen's company would buy data pertaining to vulnerable sub-groups (i.e. working class elderly people who live alone) and then sell the data to fraudsters, or sell fraudulent services to them. Most likely, subscription services that would hit their credit cards monthly and not provide them with anything in return. Jennie bets they're raiding Jen's house and we cut to the police rolling up on the Shah-let 2.0. The police lead Jen's nephew and her youngest son out of the house.
Lisa facetimes Meredith and breaks the news. Meredith claims to have suspected all along and her lack of shock is odd to Lisa.
Jen is released from jail.
The ladies begin to speculate how the money was washed and Whitney hypothesizes that Jen's many businesses were how she hid the capital in in her many start-ups. In her confessional, Lisa points out Whitney's knowledge on how to do shady business is a little much.
Mary arrives at the Vail rental. She walks in to find Meredith in a bath. Mary is disgusted at the lack of what she calls proper etiquette--a host greeting guests without clothes and some food to greet guests. Meredith sports a bubble beard while she explains to Mary about what happened to the women and Jen at the Beauty Lab parking lot. Meredith asks Mary if she had any idea and Mary said she had none. Mary is surprised to find out that Meredith has suspected for a long time, and didn't want to say anything unless she had facts to back her up.
The women enter the house with Heather yelling, "It's the Feds!" Meredith is still in the bath, and tells Heather that she is currently in Heather's room. Mary is jumping on beds, testing them out.
The women sit down for dinner and begin their highly anticipated conversation. Whitney reveals that Jen was arrested on the side of the road, bursting Heather's bubble that Jen had left the parking lot and turned herself in. Mary claims she never saw any good in Jen and was scared of her because "a man reap what he sows". Meredith reveals a couple months ago Jen called her 8 times because she was trying to get into Meredith's store. The store manager let Jen and her team in and when they left, the manager noticed one of Jen's employees had stolen a snake clutch. When the store manager reached out to Jen, they said they'd bring the clutch back the next day. Meredith says she knew Jen couldn't be a real friend if she would employ someone who would steal from their boss's friend and not let that employee go. Meredith then shares gossips she's heard that Jen had been red flagged at Louis Vuitton for paying in cash. Mary is appalled. Lisa says, "Being red-flagged at Louis Vuitton would be far worse than the feds knocking on my door." Heather shares that she got Jen an uber from her house to Jen's house and Jen stopped it mid-way thru the route, close to midnight, and got out at a random intersection. Lisa then alludes that she might have been meeting with someone (not Coach Shah) that night. And the episode ends.
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