Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: A- | 58 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Death Becomes Her
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.15.2013
At Nolan’s, Patrick finds a few enlightening objects of his own. First, Nolan admits that he only brought up the brake-cutting incident because he wants Patrick to know that he’s willing to protect the people he loves -- and Patrick is one of those people. They reconcile and Nolan trusts him so much that he leaves him alone long enough for Pat to happen upon the Infinity box’s hiding spot: behind his mother’s painting. Well, that can’t be good for romance.
But onto the important event: the boat plot. Right on cue, Emily spills champagne during the slideshow and sends Victoria to her state room. At that moment, a drunk Daniel gets a call from Sarah’s roommate and is informed that Sarah tried to kill herself. While he’s reeling, Lydia follows Victoria downstairs to trade the photo of Emily for Conrad’s affections.
Aidan can’t bar the door since Lydia’s in the room, so Victoria heads upstairs where Emily is setting up the murder scene. Victoria confronts her with the photo and says that she’s been targeting the Graysons for years, but most importantly, she says that Emily isn’t really pregnant. Em doesn’t deny it, but notes that Victoria did the same thing to snag Conrad. As a dramatic demonstration of how desperate Emily is, Victoria throws her evidence-riddled bracelet into the water and tells Em to dive after it. The plot is officially in shambles.
It gets worse when Daniel turns the corner and says he heard everything about the fake pregnancy. Fueled by the fact that Sarah just tried to kill herself, he shoots Emily, watches her fall, throws the gun into the ocean, runs downstairs and starts to act "normal." Apparently no one downstairs heard the gunshot. (How loud is that slideshow?) The crew heard and is sounding the alarm and screaming "Man overboard!” On deck, everyone sees the blood and pieces of Emily’s gown and because Aidan chloroformed Victoria while she was yelling at Emily, the queen bee is missing -- which means Emily might just be able to pin this on her after all.
On the beach, Aidan and Jack are looking for Emily. Her bloody dress washes up on shore and there’s no sign of her, but we know she’s not dead. This episode would be a great shocker of an open ending, but we know the show can’t go on with Ghost Emily and we can see from the preview for Jan. 5 that she ends up in the hospital with amnesia -- you know, that thing soap writers give the main character when they’re out of ideas. There had better be a better twist waiting for us in 2014, Revenge writers.