Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: A- | 70 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Pieces of Me
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.27.2013
But Victoria has no idea this engagement might not her help heading for rocky waters after all. When Margaux is asking for details about Emily for the Voulez wedding issue, which features Daniel and Emily because she doesn’t see that as a conflict of interest and there are apparently no other engaged Hamptons couples vain enough to pose for the magazine. Daniel says Emily’s family died in a car accident and that Em doesn’t keep any pictures; ever the journalist (when it serves the plot) Margaux expresses incredulous disappointment that deepens Daniel’s doubt in his fiancé. Watch out, girl; this puppy’s starting to grow up.
After a quick visit with Conrad, we learn that he’s so quick to condemn Jack because he blames the last Porter in East Hampton for losing Charlotte . Jack is the one who told Charlotte about Conrad’s hand in the bombing that killed Declan.
Now, Jack is paying for his own urge to seek revenge on Conrad (and for that part where Emily loves him and it makes Aidan insanely jealous). Aidan visits Jack as Conrad’s henchman and somehow we’re supposed to believe he never saw Aidan with Emily when they were publicly dating last season. Aidan doesn’t attempt to harm Jack (after all, if he did and Em found out, she’d probably kill him). He does, however, try to scare Jack into leaving town forever to avoid trouble. And as we’ll find out later, Aidan’s plan of passion only sort of works. Go figure.
And that’s not Aidan’s only problem. Victoria complicates his stay at Grayson Manor when she asks that Aidan defy Conrad and foster the connection between Jack and Emily -- an impossible task for someone so jealous of Mr. Porter and Emily as it is. When he’s unable to deliver, Victoria does it herself, playing the sweet mother-in-law and "warning" Emily that Conrad is going after Jack and that she might want to stay out of the line of fire. Victoria knows full well that this well send Emily straight to the Stowaway instead of Daniel’s victory party at Voulez, which is where Em should be as a fiancé in danger of losing her man. And it works like a lucky charm because once again, Jack is Emily’s Achilles heel.
Meanwhile, Daniel is all smiles at the Voulez party because he’s so proud of himself for accomplishing something without his family’s help or approval. At the same time, Emily’s with Jack, who tells her about Aidan’s threat and the fact that he sent Carl away until Emily finishes her revenge plot. When it’s done, he’ll join Carl and leave everything behind. To get him to stay, Emily says that Aidan works for her, but Jack has a pretty valid point to throw back at her: if Aidan’s her guy, why didn’t she know that he was threatening Jack? Jack’s got a pretty good reason not to trust Emily or her unpredictable "people" now. (And a great reason to make out with Margaux the next day when she visits him to ask why he missed her party).