Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: A- | 70 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Pieces of Me
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.27.2013
At the party, Victoria points out Emily’s absence, but Daniel’s not listening to her anymore. He’s not the easily manipulated rubber band he once was. Instead, he asks her to stop talking about his relationship because he wants to deal with his issues with Emily alone. Finally, this little man has grown a pair.
But Emily’s still not heading Daniel’s way or making amends. Instead, she confronts Aidan to command that he back off from Jack. Aidan defends the move, saying it was just to stay in Conrad’s good graces, but she (and everyone watching this show) knows he’s jealous. Aidan accuses her of loving Jack, saying he needs to know because that’s why he came back: to be with her. (Spoiler: the answer is yes, but she needs Aidan to help her). Instead of answering him, she pulls her usual "threatening Emily" card, and suggests she’d drop him if he questions her again, but because she actually cares about this boyfriend’s feelings, she can tell that Aidan seems to be getting fed up.
Nolan’s love life isn’t going so smoothly either. After Patrick finds out Nolan paid Patrick’s ex-wife a lump o’ cash to find out he’s gay, Patrick dumps him. But Nolan won’t give up. Nolan tries to explain that he’s never been good with people (and what a greatly predictable thing for a computer tech tycoon to say) and that he’s been burned so this measure was a defense mechanism. Unlike his bestie, Emily, Nolan comes out and admits he screwed up. And while Patrick simply responds that Nolan freaked him out, his eyes seem to soften as Nolan admits his guilt and offers an open door should Patrick ever feel like forgiving him.
Margaux’s "strong woman" story line gets a little more obnoxiously overwrought this week when Victoria catches her tearing apart her father’s marked up copy of Voulez; he sent her corrections instead of coming to the magazine’s launch party. Victoria says Pascal is a notorious misogynist and that Margaux should spend her life trying to control powerful men instead of succumbing to their power. Are you ready for more preaching from Margaux? Because I’d bet a Susan B. Anthony dollar coin it’s coming.
As Margaux’s busy attending orientation at Victoria’s School of Torturing Old, Powerful Men, Emily finally gets to the party and apologizes profusely to Daniel, but he isn’t buying it. This night is all for her, he says she’d only respect him if he stood on his own, but now he’s the only one fighting for them and that "he’s been playing a role in some story." (Getting warmer, puppy!)