Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: A | 51 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT So, We're Supposed to Turn on Emily, Right?
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.06.2013
Meanwhile, Daniel is finally looking into getting a job. It’s a freaking miracle. Of course, he wants a job as Voulez Magazine’s publisher, which is the magazine Margaux is running. Margaux’s off to a rocky start again, insulting Emily’s life choices immediately and for a second obnoxious time. Daniel is too much of a puppy to notice and instead launches into his business plan while Emily gives the pair some space and unexpectedly finds Charlotte at the bar.
Charlotte was hoping to surprise Margaux and Daniel (a totally appropriate thing to do during a business meeting ) but stopped when she saw that Emily, Daniel’s attached-at-the-hip fiancé, was there too. Charlotte thinks that Emily shared Charlotte’s claim that Victoria was having an affair with Ashley, and while she’s wrong about the spreading of that information, she’s right about the level of treachery. Charlotte cuts Emily off just like that; she once trusted her and held her dear, but she’s starting to see what a deceitful person Emily is. And I hate to say it, but Charlotte’s not too far off base.
Even Nolan knows that Em’s going a little too dark for his tastes. While baking the most wholesome treat known to man, blueberry muffins (a special prison recipe), Nolan suggests that Father Paul is a good man and perhaps Em should let up. Emily’s childish response is that her father was a better man. (Nanny-nanny-boo-boo, indeed). Yeah, still not a reason to ruin a priest, girl. Nolan says she needs to learn to forgive in order to be forgiven – a piece of advice he later reveals came directly from David Clarke’s journals to Emily. Still, Emily doesn’t care. She’s made up her mind and she’s going full on evil, and possibly without Nolan, who she commands to stay out of her way. First Jack, then Charlotte, now potentially Nolan? Ems is in a bad way, and big time.
If losing Jack once wasn’t enough, Emily tries to chat with him in the park where they first re-met in Season 1. Jack is playing with puppy versions of his deceased dog Sammy and Em tries to make it a bonding moment. Wrong choice. Instead, Jack points out that her lies are leaving Charlotte without the sister she needs and that he doesn’t understand how she grew up to be someone doling out punches instead of helping those in need. Revenge was fun at first, but now it’s hard not to land on Jack’s side of things. Emily’s leaning a little too evil.