Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: B- | 45 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Cheaters Never Prosper
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.17.2013
Victoria looks like a prideful hunter except that as Daniel is howling (you guessed it, like a puppy) at his lying wife-to-be as a wealthy, older immigrant named Rohan comes to meet Emily onstage, Victoria’s plan is thwarted. As it turns out, Emily did marry Rohan when she was young, but it was a green card marriage to help him stay in the U.S. so he could be with his boyfriend, who peeks his head out to verify the story. Seeing the lengths Victoria went to break up a relationship, Sarah quits for good, rightfully noting that Victoria has a "psycho obsession" that is hurting Daniel.
At that same moment, Emily is celebrating her victory with Nolan and Rohan, who was also a Takaeda sempai. He has managed to find his happiness after revenge, and this makes Emily giddy for her future. I’ve got news for you, girlie, Rohan is happy because he’s not the main character of a TV show. You, my dear, are screwed.
With Emily blissfully in the dark, Daniel makes a sudden left turn without her. Somehow, the shower display makes Daniel think Emily is just like Victoria. Would Victoria ever marry a friend to keep him in the country unless Patrick asked her to? Probably not. But okay, rationalize all you want, puppy. He gives Sarah the diamond necklace she had on when they got into a car accident (not so romantic, bud) because he kept it ever since (okay, that’s better). Sarah says she’s just visiting him to quit, but Daniel says he can’t marry Emily and they kiss until Sarah stops it. She won’t go any further until Emily knows the truth, because unlike most people on this show, Sarah’s got ridiculously stalwart principles.
Meanwhile, Emily is receiving an avalanche of bad news. Victoria offers her the phone number for Conrad’s not-at-all-secret sex pad and tells her it is part of being a Grayson. Emily is horribly confident that she’s got Daniel back in her pocket, so Victoria dares her to call the number. When Emily gets on the line, the butler informs her that Daniel is just "settling in with his lady friend" as Daniel calls for more ice. Clearly, Emily didn’t pull out big enough guns in her the first two thirds of the episode, but it seems odd that Daniel and Sarah would be settling in at his Manhattan cheater’s nest. Did Sarah really go all the way into Manhattan (on the LIRR, which would surely be full of drunk teenagers at that hour) just to tell Daniel she quit? And if she didn’t want to do anything until Emily got properly dumped, would she really be settling in? Call me crazy, but something is amiss here.