On Day One of the much-ballyhooed “Seventh on Sixth,” the best thing that would happen to Brad Van Arsdale would be no one falling off any scaffoldings.

An urgent call from Randall did not foreshadow happy news.

He had surrendered the keys to the kingdom to Josie, about whom he knew nothing.

But the worst fiasco on tap was Emerald. She ignored his calls. Her sister knew his real identity; she was too close to Emerald to sit on that for ...