Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: A- | 94 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT For Richer or Poorer, In Sickness and Attempted Murder
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.19.2014
Later, Nolan visits Emily -- and her perfect dress makes me start to suspect that hot poker nonsense was just so she could start wearing fabulous outfits again -- in order to ask her if he can kick Aidan and Niko out of his house. He doesn't trust them and he's tired of hearing them have sex, and of course all Emily is more concerned with is the fact that her grand love didn't even wait a week before he shacked up with his old flame. Rather than dealing with Nolan's question, she shuts down and goes for a swim -- bullet wounds be damned -- and passes out in the pool, only to wake up fully dressed at Nolan's house. It seems that she must have gotten herself there, though she has no recollection of this and her condition makes Aidan, who's the only person at home when she arrives, very concerned.
He tries to get her to stay and says that she can't just abandon him. He attempts to give her a romantic ultimatum and she calls his bluff, telling him to give up on her. He clearly isn't actually through with her, but she leaves immediately, giving him no chance to make good on that feeling.
Shortly thereafter, Nolan tries to kick Niko out of his house without Emily's help, but as she peels troves of mangos, he sees that she's looking over Takaeda's case file. She comes right out with it: she's trying to avenge her father's death and "practicing separating skin from flesh." Nolan decides right now might not be a good time to kick her out.
Voulez, however, is much more reckless when it comes to cutting folks loose. Conrad sues Voulez for the story he planted -- which claims Conrad handed Lydia the gun on the honeymoon cruise -- and his only conditions are that he takes Daniel's job but doesn't actually do it. Margaux takes the deal because Daniel is a little shit and she's filled with self-preservation instincts, but that doesn't make the news any easier for Daniel.
When Daniel gets home from his father's first strike of sabotage, Sarah has made an entire perfect meal from scratch and set it up proudly on the terrace like a perfect little housewife, who just so happens to be the seedy mistress. He decides they're going to go to Italy together; he doesn't care about keeping up appearances for his marriage to Emily anymore. (Does he also not care about going to jail? Because that was the purpose for all these "appearances.")
A little outside of town, Patrick clearly has something in common with his half-brother, because he can't seem to understand the tone Victoria was trying to convey when she told him to stay away from Brennan. He's followed Brennan to a bar and Victoria finds him so she can tell him who his father is -- that thing that she's had plenty of chances to do throughout this season -- but before she can, she drops her purse and Brennan picks it up as she shakes uncontrollable and he tells her, "Relax, honey." At this, Victoria loses it and finally has to tell Patrick what's wrong with his father: He raped Victoria after being something of an older brother to her. His phrase of choice during the act was, of course, "Relax, honey."