Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: B- | 33 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Beware of Rolling Blackouts
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.09.2014
In a scene that feels completely unnecessary (until we learn why it definitely isn't a few scenes later), Stevie stops at the Stowaway for old time's sake because she knew Jack's father. She introduces herself as the ex-Mrs. Grayson, which prompts Jack to say that she made the right call because Conrad is basically a horrible person. She seems to accept that for what it is, but when she sees baby Carl she smiles, cancels her flight and asks her assistant for Conrad's number that she somehow didn't already have.
Naturally, Victoria is furious that Brennan is still working on the gallery and comes by to tell Patrick just how pissed she is, only she didn't take into account the part where she's on a soap opera and when you talk about someone, they're almost guaranteed to creep in and hear you. Brennan slinks into the gallery and says he heard it all and that he didn't rape Victoria, she wanted it. She denies his explanation and the situation almost immediately devolves into a physical fight where Patrick slams Brennan's head on a table. As Brennan's blood pools from his head, Victoria takes Patrick's phone so he can't call an ambulance. Instead, she leans over Brennan while he dies (and leaves a horrible blood stain on her gallery floor) while she whispers "Relax, honey," as he once did to her. Later, Patrick isn't sure he can move past actually murdering someone, but Victoria assures him everything is just peachy now that Brennan is dead because her take on reality is seriously flawed.
Back at Takaeda's, Aidan naturally has some questions about why Emily framed him and apparently, so does she. She tries to tell him that it wasn't her and that she's been having blackouts, but Aidan thinks she's full of it (probably because this rolling blackout plot sounds like complete malarkey). Still, she says that she didn't want him dead and that she doesn't remember pushing herself on him earlier this episode, he believes her. Still, there's no reconciliation on the horizon for these two. She says that she can't give him a family and he says he didn't need that, he just wanted (past tense, folks) her. Then he insists she gets help before she hurts someone and it appears he's not willing to let that someone be him any longer.
But it's hard to hold too many grudges against Emily, because in the next scene Nolan finally rips the band aid off and tells her the truth: He thinks that she inherited her mother's mental problems which -- surprise, surprise -- included these rolling blackout symptoms. What short memories we have. The worst part is that Mama Emily couldn't fix her blackouts, so our Ems probably won't be able to either, so get ready for this obnoxious plot to continue, dear viewers.