Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: C+ | 47 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT His Heart Will Go On
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.08.2013
It becomes apparent that Nolan’s visit to Margaux’s office earlier in the episode was an errand on Jack’s behalf. He told the Voulez editor that Jack knows information about Conrad so that Jack would be forced to deal with his meddling girlfriend the right way instead of Scooby Doo-ing his way to a break up. She stops by the Stowaway and when Jack tells her that Conrad-- the man she’s known since she was a child-- killed his wife and ruined much of his life, she’s taken aback. And when he says that he’s worried about Margaux getting killed for digging, she uses that heart he wasn’t sure she had and drops the story for him. And yeah, shippers, they kissed.
More kisses abound when Daniel prepares to leave Emily’s house for the night before the wedding. He’s concerned that she hasn’t brought up Sarah and her only concern is whether or not he’s ended it. He says he has and tells her, with as much feeling as he can muster after letting Sarah go, that Emily is the only one he wants. This poor guy. Emily lies right back to him and they agree to be there for each other and for the baby… who will never come.
While there will be no bundle of joy, there will be gifts of another sort. In Conrad’s bedroom are troves of family photo albums meant to jog Conrad’s memory for his memoirs (wait, isn’t the point that his life is interesting he already has those memories?). Lydia shoots her hand into the first box she finds and pulls out the correct photo album -- from the 2003 party Emily catered -- and thumbs right to the photo that Nolan once destroyed. She’s got evidence against Ms. Thorne once again. Of course, it’s not certain that Fumbles McGee (that’s Lydia, duh) won’t lose her shot again, but it’s certainly not comforting.
Then comes the grand cliff-hanger finale. Victoria visits Emily’s porch of perpetual bad news to decline the invitation to her wedding. This is our big shocker, even though, honestly it doesn’t seem to be all that much of a problem. Emily already planted a bracelet with gun residue in Victoria’s closet and while Victoria won’t attend, she certainly won’t go far. The prospect of seeing Emily upset is simply too great. So what if she’s not sitting in white chair on a manicured lawn? She’ll be around. Plus, in the previews for next week, it’s clear that Victoria makes it to the wedding, that Emily shoots fake shots in the air, and that, apparently, someone else ends up pulling the trigger when Ems finally takes her blood plunge. It’s hardly a "Where could they possibly go from here?" sort of ending, but I suppose that’s what winter finales are for.