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
But Lydia’s not quite done. As she leaves, she tells Emily that she knows her secret (she knows something is up because she’s seen the image of Emily as a cater waiter back in 2003) and then actually pushes Ems down the two steps in the entryway. You know, because slapping is just too dramatic. Emily falls backward onto the marble floor and Daniel rushes to her side. Victoria learns right then and there that Ems is pregnant and naturally thinks this is a lie. (And as far as we know, she’s right.)
Thanks to Lydia, Margaux’s got a deal of her own brewing: she is planning on using her unproven Grayson story to make Voulez turn a profit two years before her father’s version of the magazine did. She’s already secured the backers, which means this story is definitely going to fall apart. What’s more is that Jack is still hoping to stop her from pursuing the story because he fears it will get her killed-- a fear that’s not unfounded.
Charlotte finds herself experiencing something like fear when Sarah quits at the Stowaway because she doesn’t want to break up Daniel’s marriage. Charlotte says she’ll give Daniel the right push and finds him running where he always does when he’s frustrated. Unfortunately, while her chat is meant to inspire a moment of sudden understanding in Daniel, steering him towards his true love Sarah, it turns out that Daniel loves them both and that seeing Sarah again has turned his life into a hell zone. He says that if Sarah had never come back into his life, everything would be perfect. That’s Charlotte’s cue to feel guilt and make amends by giving a phantom apology to Emily along with the hug Emily’s always wanted from her half-sister and a mani-pedi.
Jack clearly doesn’t share Charlotte’s desire to clean up his act, as he asks Nolan to use his tech skills to pull a sneak attack against Margaux to keep her off Conrad’s trail. Nolan suggests that he just tell Margaux the truth (I’m sorry, but the people of Revenge can’t comprehend such ideas), but Jack says she’s a journalist and she’d just use him as a source. I can’t tell if he’s calling her a tough-as-nails journalist or seriously underestimating her ability to feel compassion. Let’s go with the latter.
The scarier media, the paparazzi, somehow find Daniel and Emily at the OB-GYN and they both decry that the tip must have come from Victoria (even though the rest of us are probably thinking it was Emily so she wouldn’t have to prove to a doctor that she was pregnant). Daniel marches right over to see Victoria who unleashes her theory that Emily’s lying about the pregnancy to trap him now that she knows about Sarah. He’s genuinely upset that Victoria’s truth bomb (and her proclivity for calling his relationship a "loveless marriage") has hurt Emily and it’s enough to make him furious, declaring that Victoria has lost and he’s marrying Emily. Two birds (Sarah, and Victoria’s motive for killing Emily), one stone.