Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: C- | 34 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Same Old Story, Same Old Song and Dance
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.16.2014
Nolan seems to be king of the ladies who lunch in the Hamptons now that he's running the Hamptons Art Walk. Victoria stays behind after they leave and she tells him that his plan to destroy her relationship with Patrick didn't work, because it only destroyed Patrick. He learned about his father, the rapist, and now he thinks he's unworthy of love. This all piles on Nolan's guilt-logged shoulders and he thinks he ruined the man he loves.
At that moment, Jack visits Stevie because he found out that she changed the minds of the homeowners with an email and he can now buy his dream house. He asks why she never helped when she knew he and his father were on hard times before. She doesn't answer, but insists that she keep helping him. He's a little distracted by the fact that she left him for 30 years, so he calls her heartless like the Graysons. She swears she isn't, but he's unmoved because Jack loves to think everyone's out to get him.
Nolan visits Patrick, who's inexplicably sweaty and working out even though he just got beat up and should be near death's door. Nolan says he knows that Patrick killed Jimmy Brennan and he says that he didn't kill anyone before he moved here. He says that Stefano Leone (the most made-up sounding famous artist ever) is coming to the Art Walk because he set it up when he was dating Patrick and he just wants good things for him. Patrick broods and is clearly about to change his mind.
Emily wants Aidan to stop so she's babbling on about him being an enemy, but he says that her enemies are the Graysons, yet her blackouts are harming her allies -- Aidan and Nolan -- so she's probably most angry with herself. Sounds like someone took Psychology 101 at Takaeda Academy. She tells him to go to hell and he holds her under water again, where she sees a vision of her father running in the rain. She says her father is to blame for everything. Always blaming everyone else, Miss Emily, aren't we?
At the Art Walk, Victoria introduces Stevie to the chairman of the South Hampton historical landmarks committee. Stevie wants to turn Grayson Manor into a halfway house -- which is probably the worst thing Victoria could have ever heard coming out of Stevie's mouth -- but the chairman says they're trying to get the home protected by historical landmark laws because it's an "architectural treasure." Having a great architect and living in a home that's famous being the place where a thousand trashy press conferences have been held aren't exactly grounds for landmark status, yet the chairman insists this is going to court. (To be laughed right out of those picturesque double doors.)