Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: C+ | 47 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT His Heart Will Go On
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.08.2013
Unlike Victoria, Conrad tends not question anything as he should. When he heads to a Manhattan hotel under the guise of being interviewed by Time Magazine, it turns out it was Lydia faking the whole thing. Dressed in one of Victoria’s dresses, she tries to incite a confession from him as he does everything in his power to convey his desire to get hot and sweaty with her, just like old times. Realizing that she’s not going to get what she needs from him, she sends him away and stares at her useless audio recorder wistfully.
At that exact moment, Aidan calls Margaux pretending to be someone from the hotel and notifies her that Conrad Grayson visited Lydia. Just like that, Lydia is dropped from Margaux’s story because she clearly can’t be trusted and Lydia seems downright despondent. Then again, the woman is back from "the dead," so she’ll figure something out… something like hopping right back into Conrad’s comfortable, money-lined bed so she can have a vantage point on whatever trouble she manages to cook up. Cheap, but smart, little ghost woman.
While two of the worst people on this show do the nasty, Daniel is busy breaking Sarah’s heart. She’s furious that he didn’t tell her Emily was pregnant, but he explains that his feelings came back when he saw her in the bakery but that they both know what it’s like to raise a baby in a broken home. She can’t make a plea, because she really does get it and she doesn’t want to condemn Daniel’s child to the same fate. And so, rather bluntly, Sarah cries a few tears, hands him the necklace he gave her and drops it into the ocean like the old lady at the end of Titanic. Because while he’ll marry Emily, his heart will forever be singing a Celine Dion ballad from 1997 for Sarah.
Little does he know that Emily’s heart has gone on (and on until the break of dawn) for Aidan this whole time, which basically makes her a pretty terrible person. What has really done to deserve this aside from being born – unwillingly -- to two terrible parents? Still, we’re meant to coo like merry little pigeons when Aidan turns their battle ritual into a candlelit marriage proposal which Emily readily accepts with a kiss in front of giant windows that (again) no one manages to walk in on. As they lay in post-coital bliss afterward, they giggle over Nolan giving Emily the surname Ross so he could visit her without suspicion before putting great emphasis on this being their one final night before total bliss. And all that emphasis only emphasizes the fact that this is all going to go terribly wrong.