Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: B+ | 130 USERS: C- YOU GRADE IT White Fanged
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.03.2013
Daniel is rightfully torn up over his run-in with Sarah, because unlike the rest of his family, he's not heartless. He's beating himself up for never trying harder to reach out to her and decides he's going to find the original settlement papers and figure out what's really in them. With that piece in place, Charlotte then calls the bakery and complains about Sarah so she gets fired and Daniel can feel even worse about her situation.
While Charlotte is trying to break up Emily's "relationship," Patrick is trying to keep his intact. He visits Nolan at home and tries to make amends. Patrick calls his attempt to kill Conrad impulsive and stupid, but we know better than to trust him. Then Nolan begins the typical breakup speech: We're great together, if only we met in another time and another place… yadda yadda yadda. And while Nolan wants to listen to Emily, Patrick is looking all romantic and swoony so they kiss instead of breaking up. Sorry, Ems.
Later that night, Daniel is reading the settlement in the city and Emily tells him to stay there because she's having the foundation repaired on their house. He's happy to stay so he can keep reading himself into a pit of despair. And Emily's happy because she likes when her lies work.
As soon as we see Aidan is involved at the house and that he's inexplicably making holes in Em's walls, it becomes clear that perhaps her beach house's "foundation problems" have something to do with the faulty file she switched out for Grayson Manor at the County Clerk's office. It also becomes clear that keeping Daniel away was just an excuse to have sex with Aidan while they bust down walls. Is anyone else wondering how the hell Emily got caught kissing Jack in the dead of winter at that house and somehow no one has noticed that she's literally busting through dry wall and having passionate sex with her supposed enemy now?
At the same moment, Nolan is looking to drown his sorrows with his old friend Jack. When he tells Jack that he's down because he had to break up with Patrick, Jack lets him in on a little "secret." Thanks to a call from Emily, he now knows that Patrick tried to kill Conrad. No longer preoccupied with losing someone he calls "the one" (really Nolan?), Nolan realizes that Jack must be in on Emily's true identity. That means he's not alone on the dark side, but Jack does not take it so well. (Also, it's just a little insulting to both of them that they didn't figure this out earlier.)