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
Suddenly, Victoria doesn't seem nearly as unnecessarily horrible as she normally does. She gave up Patrick for adoption because after evading Brennan for years, she grew tired, was offered a scholarship in Paris, and left Patrick with nuns and the strict orders not to allow the man who raped her to visit him. She says she kept the truth back because it might cause him more anguish than it's worth and insists that he not allow this harsh truth to color who he is. It's unfortunate that Victoria hasn't learned simply telling someone to feel okay about something isn't really possible. Later, we find him burning down Victoria's gallery, proving that perhaps V should have given him some motherly smothering at a time like this.
While Patrick loses it, Aidan loses Niko and sends her on a false lead dreamed up by Nolan. The target is supposedly her father's murderer, but in reality it's the man who killed Declan. (At least when Niko gets to him, the dude will deserve what's coming to him.) Niko immediately knows that Aidan is staying behind because he loves Emily (it's true, but she doesn't realize it's also because he killed Takaeda). Unfortunately, Niko doesn't actually get very far because her sudden move-in with Aidan also gives her license to search under his bed where's he stupidly stored the katana with which he killed her father. And since Niko looks like she knows how to wield a blade, this certainly won't end well for Tall, Dark and British.
Finally, Emily enacts her last ploy to get Sarah out of her: she calls in mommy dearest. Sarah's mother berates Sarah for being a home-wrecker and begs her to leave Daniel. When Sarah won't, sure that she's found some noble love with the rich kid who almost killed her when they were younger, her mother disowns her and wishes Emily, "sweetheart," well. Sarah is destroyed and it would be easy to feel bad for her if the writers hadn't made her so terrible throughout the episode. And that's why, when Sarah leaves Daniel in a puddle of tears, determined that this situation has turned her into something she's not, we're quick to accept it and move on.
Daniel, however, is a bit more torn up. First, his father ruined his career, and now he's left with a wife he hates. In retaliation, he throws Emily down and threatens her until she explains that yes, dummy, she's enacting a plan of revenge since he took her ability to have children. He gets up and leaves his final blow, saying that sterilizing her was his gift to the world. She doesn't love Daniel, but he hits her one sore spot perfectly and she cries until she blacks out once again.