Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: B- | 33 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Beware of Rolling Blackouts
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.09.2014
Nolan finds Emily sleeping on the swinging bench in front of her house like a vagrant. When she explains her discussion with Stevie, Nolan pieces the easy connection together for us: Blackout Emily tells the truth. Too bad she's living with the enemy and totally unwilling to leave and protect herself. And just like that, she blacks out again and wakes up in full party garb at Charlotte's celebration. She has a requisite icy conversation with Victoria before Charlotte tells her that their exact conversation happened just a half hour before. Whoops.
Next comes Conrad, who tells her he's keeping the suite at the South Fork Inn on reserve in case she ever feels unsafe around Daniel again, but Emily's not so sure that was Blackout Emily's only goal in teaming up with Conrad. If only she knew what that goal actually was.
Daniel has a similar desire and it surpasses his desire to figure out what Conrad is doing with Marguax and Voulez. His former partner confronts him and attempts to apologize for firing him in order to save the entire magazine from folding and he's not having it. She then tries to ask him if he knows why Conrad is after her father, but is too distracted by his obsession with the wife he supposedly hates with the fire of a thousand suns. Later, Daniel enlists Charlotte as a Voulez spy, but that's after Margaux has taken matters into her own hands and booked a ticket to visit her father before Conrad gets ahold of him.
Brennan shows up at Charlotte's party and he's chatting up the birthday girl when Victoria leaps across the party to curb this interaction. He says he came by to get approval on miscellaneous contractor stuff, but then he takes a moment to basically tell Victoria that he knows she wants him, but it's not clear if he knows that she's Vicky Harper or not. Whatever his angle, she was absolutely right about him being a creep who clearly can't read human signals.
At his house, Nolan shows Emily a video of her once she blacked out and to be blunt, she's acting like a crazy person. Nolan wants to lock her up "like a werewolf" in his guest room, but that wouldn't allow her to save Aidan, so we move on to that plot point: She finds Niko's clue about Aidan's abduction and realizes that Blackout Emily must have left the trained killer a clue about her father's death. Mega whoops.
Emily finds Aidan at Takaeda's and immediately fights Niko. Aidan pointlessly releases his restraints as Emily predictably defeats Niko (remember, she's the best at everything as per the rules of this show). Aidan begs Emily not to kill Niko because while Niko deserved to be honor-killed, he hopes she doesn't suffer the same fate as her father. As if we needed proof that Aidan was more humane than Emily.