Kaia Gerber | Palm Royale | Season 2

"Maxine Drinks Martinis Now"

In the aftermath of the disastrous Beach Ball, Maxine is temporarily institutionalized, believing she is at the Palm Royale. Linda is mistaken for the would-be assassin by Tom and arrested, but Virginia has her institutionalized to protect her, revealing she is an undercover FBI agent. Norma is restored as the grande dame of Palm Beach, and Evelyn reclaims the Rollins mansion with Eddie. With Linda's encouragement, Maxine escapes the facility and finds a comatose Robert at the hospital, hiding when Norma arrives. Realizing that Norma wants her dead, Maxine is returned to the facility but warns Douglas. Discovering Mary hiding in the mansion's bootlegger tunnels, Evelyn promises to protect her, while Linda refuses to help Norma frame Maxine. Still in love with Perry, Dinah finds Axel dead, secretly murdered by Norma to conceal her own past, and Robert reawakens. Pressured by Norma to divorce Maxine and marry Mitzi — allowing their child to unlock the considerable Dellacorte generation-skipping trust — Douglas fails to bring Maxine home. She calls Evelyn instead, becoming unlikely allies against the rest of Palm Beach high society.

"Maxine Serves a Swerve"

To secure her freedom, Linda provides Maxine with blackmail material against powerful officials, and gives her control of the Rollins estate. Learning of the $82 million Dellacorte trust, Maxine spitefully serves Douglas with divorce papers. Dinah has already inherited Axel's estate and reunites with Perry, while Evelyn and Eddie are happily wed. Having given Douglas the blackmail information by mistake, Maxine enlists Ann and Virginia's help, but Douglas gives Perry the documents to look over. Spotting Mary, Maxine chases her into the tunnels connecting to the Palm Royale, and emerges at the Dellacorte mansion, grappling with Douglas's decision to marry Mitzi. Perry gives the damaging documents to the Secret Service, who instruct him to kill Linda. Instead, Dinah and the collective break Linda out, swapping her with Axel's corpse, and Maxine and Linda flee into the tunnels. They encounter Mary, Ann, and Virginia, who help them escape, and Douglas flies Linda to Cuba. Hiding at the Palm Royale's secret apartment for disgraced socialites, Maxine is surprised to find a portrait of Douglas's mother, while Norma has a recovering Robert moved to her mansion.

"Maxine Solves a Murder"

Robert informs "Norma" that he knows she killed Axel to preserve her darkest secret: at boarding school, the real Norma Dellacorte died in an accident and a nun, Sister Lotte, had Norma's diabetic roommate Agnes assume her identity for a better life; Axel was in love with the real Norma before she left for school. Federal agents descend on the Rollins mansion in search of Linda, leaving Mary a free woman, and Douglas asks Maxine to return her engagement ring, which she accidentally swallows. Allowing Evelyn to blame Norma for Linda's escape, Maxine recruits Dinah and Ann to help Evelyn withdraw her assets before they can be seized. Maxine and Evelyn share their suspicions with Virginia that Norma murdered various Dellacortes to secure their fortune for herself. With Douglas and her friends' help, Maxine uses Mitzi's ritual initiation into the Dellacorte family to steal the key to Norma's safety deposit box. Norma has already removed the trophies kept from deceased relatives, but Maxine finds them hidden in the mansion's trophy room. She confronts Norma, who frames Maxine for shooting at her and disappears.

"Maxine Unwrecks a Home"

Promoted to the FBI, Tom accuses Maxine of murdering the missing Norma, but attorney/gynecologist Dr. Dusty Magic comes to her defense. Evelyn offers Sidonius, the Palm Royale's manager, financial rescue in exchange for her and Maxine receiving controlling interest in the club. Desperate to clear her name, Maxine realizes Norma used the tunnels to flee to Europe with Linda's cash. Tom's affair with Robert, who has inherited Norma's estate, strains Maxine and Robert's friendship. Maxine's attempt to compromise Tom by kissing him in front of the press backfires, but she chooses not to reveal his real affair to his wife. To buy out the Palm Royale, Evelyn needs the three founding families' agreement, but Perry and Douglas demand ownership for themselves. Instead, Evelyn secures signatures from the wives: Mary, who holds a séance to ask her late husband; Dinah, whom Evelyn blackmails with her scandalous love letters to Eddie; and Mitzi, who elopes with Douglas but demands a lavish wedding. Hiding from Pinky in the wake of their failed partnership, Douglas is kidnapped. Maxine discovers her engagement ring is engraved with Agnes's name, and reconciles with Robert, who reveals the truth about "Norma".

"Maxine Is Ready to Single Mingle"

Embracing revolutionary life in Cuba with Che Guevara's half-brother, Linda radios Maxine for money to fund her cause. Evelyn and Maxine attempt to buy the club using gold bars, but Sidonius demands cash. Maxine is charmed by Dusty, now her lawyer and romantic prospect, assuring him that her marriage is over. He arranges for her and Evelyn to sell the gold to Marjorie Merriweather Post, who has also acquired Evelyn's impounded possessions. Realizing Maxine has been helping Linda, Evelyn ends their friendship and declares sole ownership of the Palm Royale, while Dusty reveals himself as Linda's courier. Believing Raquel and Pinky have abducted Douglas, Perry attempts to rescue him while Mitzi informs Tom, interrupting his tryst with Robert, who warns Maxine. Per Nixon's instructions, Dinah arranges for Perry to run for mayor as a Democrat to ensure a Republican victory. Maxine and Robert give Pinky the Dellacorte mansion to save Douglas, only to learn he was actually being questioned by the Secret Service about Linda. Finding Maxine in an inadvertently compromising position with Douglas, Dusty departs. Joining Tom at a gay motel, Robert is surprised to see Reginald.

"Maxine Finds Herself"

Journeying to Moscow, Linda takes on a new identity and lover, Rudolf Nureyev's half-cousin. Pinky is working for a Soviet spy, and Virginia recruits Maxine and Douglas to uncover the mole. Maxine is shocked to meet Mirabelle, her long-lost twin sister, while Evelyn takes over as proprietor of the Palm Royale, forced to pay Pinky's protection racket. At her bridal/baby shower, Mitzi learns Douglas has named Raquel and Pinky the baby's godparents, and promised Maxine half of the trust. Raquel realizes Douglas and Maxine know about the mole, but Mirabelle subdues her after a brawl throughout the mansion. Tom leaves Robert, fearing Reginald will expose his secret after the con man is arrested with a copy of Mirabelle's criminal record. Maxine makes amends with Evelyn, convincing her they can prove Raquel and Pinky are guilty of tax evasion, while a vengeful Norma returns to Palm Beach. Seducing Douglas when he mistakes her for her sister, Mirabelle comes clean to Maxine, explaining that Reginald arranged for them to meet. She assures Maxine that Douglas still loves her, giving her Pinky's incriminating ledger. A gunshot soon rings out, and Mirabelle is found dead in the Palm Royale's pool.

"Maxine Plays Dead"

To keep Maxine safe from Norma, Virginia allows Douglas and the public to believe Maxine was killed instead. When Evelyn, Dinah, and Ann recognize that Mirabelle's body is not their friend, they are placed in hiding with Maxine at Robert's motel. While a devastated Robert learns that Tom has been transferred, Maxine befriends fellow guest Bruce, Rock Hudson's lover. Perry and Dinah are terrified by death threats they assume are from the fugitive Norma, who is forcing Mary to shelter her, but they were actually sent by Marjorie; furious with Dinah for interfering with her relationship with Nixon, Marjorie demands Axel's fabergé egg. Desperate to witness her own funeral, Maxine hides in the empty coffin and bursts out to confront Norma, but it is actually Bruce in disguise to see Hudson. At odds with Eddie after the IRS close the Palm Royale until $8 million in back taxes are paid, Evelyn sleeps with her employee, Jed. Spreading Mirabelle's ashes in the motel jacuzzi, Maxine kisses Douglas and agrees to accompany him to Switzerland, where Robert has joined Norma on the run.

"Maxine Hits the Slopes"

The Palm Beach set jets off to Switzerland, with Virginia and Ann hunting for Norma, Dinah and Perry seeking the fabergé egg, and Evelyn and Eddie taking their honeymoon. Though Maxine joins Douglas and Mitzi to sign away her claim to the Dellacorte trust, she and Douglas secretly reconcile. At Norma's former boarding school, now her grand hotel run by Lotte, the travelers are welcomed by Robert, whom Norma has legally adopted as a Dellacorte. Discovering that it is actually Linda who must renounce her claim, Maxine enlists pilots Beullah and Ulla to fetch her. Virginia confides in Ann about the Soviet mole, and they, Maxine, and Douglas find Agnes's grave, realizing the real Norma is buried there and that Lotte is Agnes's mother. Norma arranges for Mitzi to annul her marriage to Douglas and marry Robert instead to unlock the trust. Deducing that Jed is the father of Mitzi's baby, Evelyn confesses her infidelity to Eddie. A mixup results in Robert burning letters proving Norma's true identity, while Maxine discovers letters to Robert from his estranged child, but Douglas collapses after a drink provided by Lotte.

"Maxine Hears a Confession"

A doctor determines that Douglas was not poisoned, but suffers from a congenital heart defect preventing him from fathering children. While Jed tries to seduce Mary into adding him to her will, Mitzi is no longer willing to help him con their way into the Dellacorte trust, and returns home with a heartbroken Eddie. Linda arrives just in time to save the trust from being seized by the Swiss government. Maxine realizes that Douglas's hereditary condition led all the Dellacortes to die young; Norma did not kill them, but outliving them proves she is not a Dellacorte. Never truly accepted by Norma, Robert reconciles with Maxine, who discovers that Norma bribed Evelyn to distract them. Norma reveals to Linda that she is her daughter, the child of her affair with Skeet. A delirious Perry tries to capture the fugitive Linda, who escapes with Norma and Lotte. Maxine denounces Evelyn and everyone returns to Palm Beach, where Robert welcomes his son, Rafael. Mitzi informs Maxine that Jed, in an effort to keep Maxine from taking half of the trust, killed Mirabelle. Jed attempts to kill Evelyn, but is shot by Maxine.

"Maxine Does Something Good"

Maxine and Evelyn attempt to dispose of Jed's body, but when Douglas suggests waiting to reconcile until the baby turns 18, Maxine angrily reveals that he is not the father. Dinah discovers the fabergé egg among Norma's trophies, giving it to Marjorie in exchange for making Perry mayor. Realizing the FBI have blackmailed Tom into assassinating the mole, who has framed Perry, Maxine and her friends trick Tom into shooting Jed's corpse instead. Douglas calls off his wedding to Mitzi, but Maxine refuses his furious demand to return to their old life. Making amends with Norma, Maxine generously marries Robert to help him gain custody of his son; Evelyn informs Eddie that she wants her independence; Dinah chooses to stay with Perry; Mitzi leaves with Eddie; and a grateful Norma disappears. With Rafael legally a Dellacorte born to a "legitimate marriage", Robert and Maxine win the trust and share the wealth with Eddie and Mitzi, who gives birth to her child. Marjorie, the real mole, remains at large, while Rafael may not be who he appears to be, and Evelyn and Maxine reopen the Palm Royale, as Linda and Norma reconnect in Paris.