Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: B+ | 24 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT After the Love is Gone
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.23.2014
Back to Stevie, who says she's proud of Jack and wishes she could have been in his life sooner. She thinks that she perhaps "things" (like the photo of his dead wife) would have turned out differently (like his dead wife not being dead). Then -- because it's strange this hasn't come up sooner -- Stevie mentions that she visited "Amanda's father" in prison and that she thought he was an innocent man. She asks if Amanda thought so, and he says that she did, but that he thinks that everyone who followed that path wound up hurt because of Conrad. (He's right.) Stevie doesn't push him, but she does realize that Amanda seemed to be best buds with the most recent Grayson convert, Emily.
At that moment, Emily is called into the study at Grayson Manor so that Daniel can show off his pretty pictures of her kissing Aidan. They tell her she's going to get a pretty settlement to leave and never come back, but she pulls a dramatic preview of her could-be tearful testimony should they take her to court and notes that she could tell a judge Daniel forced her to blame Lydia for shooting her. With that, Emily waltzes out and Daniel -- like an aggressive guard dog -- launches after her and growls "I want her out" as mommy dearest holds him back.
When Emily comes home, Nolan is confused. He thought she wanted a divorce, and she says she'll get one when the time is right. They kill time talking about Daniel tracking her until Stevie shows up and asks Emily to tell her who she really is. She finds it odd that Emily was Amanda's maid of honor, and says that Em was either double-crossing the Graysons or double-crossing Amanda. She says that Emily called her into town under false pretenses, so she doesn't believe anything she says, but when Emily gets teary and says Amanda was family, Stevie is all ears. Stevie admits that she thought David Clarke was innocent and that when she tried to help David, she was pulled over and got a DUI. She says the Breathalyzer was rigged (by Conrad) and she was disbarred. (Cool, but that's not how Breathalyzers work; they're pretty scientific, woman in AA.) Stevie is touching on conspiracy theory territory, but Emily says she promised to let this go for Jack and shuts the conversation down.
Nolan gets home and his friend Javier from prison is bumming around his house. He says that Nolan told him he could crash with him if he had nowhere else to stay and, well, he has nowhere else to stay. Nolan was his mentor and Javier wants in on Nolan's next big thing, but like an older brother to a younger pest, Nolan only gives him a day to get it together.