Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: B+ | 130 USERS: C- YOU GRADE IT White Fanged
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.03.2013
Over on the beach, Emily's fake foundation problems work wonders on the entirely gullible Morgan. Emily spins a yarn about the shifting sands on "this side of the island" and says she's just going to keep fixing the foundation of her house until she runs out of money (speaking of which, is she ever going to run out of money? Did she get a money tree in that care package from her papa?). This agent is apparently stupid enough to believe Em, and she runs straight to the County Clerk's office to get Emily's phony papers for Grayson Manor.
Now, Nolan is wallowing even more because a truth that should have bonded him to Jack actually made his buddy throw him out of his bar. But Nolan left his phone, so Jack's forced to come by the Nolan Estate. Nolan confesses that he's known about Emily and the plan since before David Clarke died and Jack loses it. He can't understand why they're both so connected to Emily -- oh, just perhaps the fact that she was once a sweet, little girl who lost her father to a pack of lies and the liars who spun them. No biggie. But because Jack isn't fully crazy, they agree to stay friends. And friends tell friends that Patrick is crazy and might kill again, so friend-Jack tells friend-Nolan he'll "take care of it" so Nolan won't have to break up with his potentially murderous boyfriend. And what's Jack's grand plan? He tells Conrad the truth about Patrick under the condition that they declare a ceasefire and that Conrad doesn't kill Patrick.
Victoria is temporarily distracted from her formerly estranged son when she starts to suspect that Conrad is keeping the profits from the sale of Grayson Manor. Lucky for her, Morgan comes in with the fake documents planted by Emily; Ms. Thorne made it look as if the shore has reduced by 30 feet in the last 20 years. Morgan drops the sale and she says she's putting Grayson Manor on a real estate black list. And Conrad loses again when Victoria decides she's moving out and away from him. This is a problem for Emily because the reason she needed Grayson Manor unsold is because she needed Victoria in it.
Unfortunately, Charlotte's got another problem for Emily brewing at the Stowaway, where she's relaunched the bar with miraculous success. (We know she "grew up" in Europe, but did she suddenly turn 30 and earn a degree in business, too?) Charlotte hired Sarah after getting her fired, and the jilted ex is adorably baking like a sad Cinderella while Charlotte turns Daniel's head in her direction and whispers in his ear about how the Graysons screwed her out of the money she needed for rehab, etc. Finally, Charlotte has Victoria-ed her way to a solution for her Emily problem (who she supposedly didn't hate last week, but teenagers are known to be fickle… and not run restaurants and create actual business plans, so who knows what's going on here).