A Cruel Invitation & a Risky Investment Feature in 'Alice & Jack's Third Episode

Suit up, friends, it’s time for the wedding of the century: Alice and… (checks notes) some poor schmo named Danny (Tommy McDonnell). It’s two years later in the world of Alice & Jack, after she declared herself too wounded for love and trounced Jack’s foolish heart. An invitation in the mail announces Alice’s nuptials and Jack is ripped open all over again. Naturally Alice is waiting for Jack’s call, and they meet at a park where Alice insists she’ll hear everything he has to say. (Oh goody, more talking.) Jack is angry that Alice would send a simple invitation and not reach out to him more personally. This is more than tedious — it’s ludicrous that he’s still not over her, and we’re supposed to care. Alice herself points out it’s been two years, and the unspoken implication is Jack should have moved on.

Jack presses to know if Alice fell out of love with him. She answers no; it’s just that her new love is different. Jack seethes and makes Alice declare she’s moved on from him. Alice stops him when he tries to leave, not wanting things to end this way. He painfully wishes her well. Later that day, Alice is waiting when Jack arrives home. He hears her out rather than throwing her out. Amidst the tale of how she met her fiancé, Danny, she asks Jack to give her away at the wedding or to be her “Man of Honor.” (The gall of this woman!) Understandably, Jack declines those positions and says he can’t be there to watch her pledge herself to someone else. “But it won’t be real if you’re not there,” she whinges. Jack doesn’t want it to be real.

Once again, that should be the end of things. But Jack, in his infinite wisdom, chooses the “path of acceptance” instead of anger and agrees to be Alice’s Man of Honor. We jump to the wedding weekend at a countryside manor. Alice visits Jack’s suite to meet his plus-one, who turns out to be a 4-year-old Celia (Emmeline Martin). Danny comes in to collect Alice for wedding photos and suggests Celia should be the flower girl. Danny and Jack step away to size each other up while Alice and Celia take photos. Danny is impressed with Jack for showing up, and grateful; he says Alice’s current happiness is possible due to her experience with Jack. Danny seems to be a genuinely good person. (Probably too good for Alice.)