- Juliette and Dante are still in bed when Rayna knocks on the door to say she has to go back to Nashville for a family emergency, and may have to cancel that night. Later Avery is searching for equipment, sees Dante in bed with Juliette, and Dante fires him. Deacon gives Stacy a key to his place and plans to quit the road, then hears about Lamar. Deacon challenges Juliette about Dante and she storms off. Deacon confronts Dante and says until he hears from Juliette, Dante can't fire Avery. Jolene accuses Juliette of stealing Dante from her and realizes they're sleeping together. At the hospital, Rayna and her sister see Lamar who is less than appreciative. Watty comes to the hospital, Lamar has a fit and ends up in surgery. Rayna realizes Watty is the musician her mother was seeing, and hears her mother was leaving Lamar the night she died. Tandy finds the connection between Lamar and Peggy. Scarlett tells Gunnar he's still having nightmares. She wants Gunnar to write with her, but he says he can't. Will gets closer to Scarlett and Gunnar; he and Gunnar play chicken with a train.—A. Farley
- "Nashville" - "My Heart Would Know" - April 10, 2013[b/]
Lamar's heart attack and Juliette's libido throw the tour into a tizzy.
The gang is all still in New York when they get the news.
Rayna bows out of the final night of the NYC stand and borrows Juliette's plane and high tails it home with Tandy and the girls, which forces Teddy to kick Peggy Kenter out of his bed. (She later calls to say she loves him and he returns the affection.)
Rayna and Tandy head to the hospital where Tandy is button-holed by Lamar's business partner. Rayna goes in to see him and the reunion does not go well. He is terse with her and she can't summon the courage to break through that.
Watty White shows up to support Rayna and Lamar freaks out when he sees him screaming at him to leave the hospital and working himself up. Watty pulls Rayna aside and confesses that he was the musician with which her mother had an affair and the night her car crashed, she had her bags packed and was on her way to be with Watty.
Later when she and Tandy are chatting Lamar has another heart attack and has to go into surgery. Rayna leaves a plaintive message for Deacon who, on a travel day, comes to sit with her and comfort her which she appreciates. When it's time for him to leave she sweetly but heartbreakingly tells him to tell Stacy she said hi.
Tandy goes over all of Lamar's papers to be prepared for the worst and she finds something interesting. She discovers the Peggy situation and marches over to Teddy's office and hand him a file proving that it was Peggy Kenter who leaked the news of his divorce to the tabloids. He is gobsmacked.
After Lamar gets out of surgery Rayna takes his hand and talks to him as he sleeps saying she had no idea he had been hurt so badly by her mother and that she just felt like he was mad at her all the time and that they missed a whole chunk of their life together. He wakes up and smiles at her.
Meanwhile, Juliette and Dante decide that even though it's probably not the best course of action they are going to continue sleeping together and keep it from her mother. Her mother, feeling bereft, now that Dante is spending all his time as Juliette's de facto manager and ignoring their therapy sessions decides she wants to go home after almost drinking a bottle of vodka from the honor bar.
They put her off in the short term and try to scramble to figure out what to do about the show now that Rayna has cancelled. Instead of just finding a local opener, Juliette decides to expand her set by a whopping ten songs which, understandably, doesn't sit well with the band who have to learn them in a just a few hours. Deacon tries to talk some sense into her but they get into a shouting match.
Avery, who has been hired as a roadie for the tour, is busy trying to carry out the orders of the stage manager and find Juliette's in-ear monitors. He goes on her bus to find them and catches Juliette and Dante in flagrante de licto and Dante sees him and later fires him. Deacon goes to him and tells him off and rehires Avery. Again, after the show, in which he is chilly to her onstage, he goes to Juliette to ask why she is putting so much faith in her mother's sober companion. Juliette says he's the only one supporting him. He says that isn't true and that she shouldn't have done the show anyway since their was a family emergency. Juliette points out that Rayna isn't her family and no matter what Deacon thinks she isn't his either. He disagrees and this is when he heads back to Nashville to Rayna.
After the show Jolene goes to Dante and says again she wants to go home and worries that he's stopped caring about her. He says he does and she asks him to prove it and starts kissing him, just as Juliette enters the room. Juliette explodes and calls her disgusting. The argument spills into the hallway in front of the band. Dante grabs Juliette's hand and says they all need to calm down and Jolene realizes they're sleeping together and says Juliette is the disgusting one. The next day Juliette sends Jolene home with Emily, who is charged with getting her a new,female, sober companion and she informs Jolene that Dante is now her manager.
Back in Nashville, Scarlett signs her contract and Gunnar decides this is cause for celebration which ends up in a night out drinking with their new neighbor Will. After Will and Scarlett perform an impromptu duet at the bar, she confides in him that Gunnar hasn't written any new music since his brother died. After she goes to sleep, Will takes Gunnar out to shake him up. They dangerously race a train and although Gunnar is upset at first it does in fact make him feel alive! The next day he heads back to the publishing company and begins working on a new song. Meanwhile, Juliette heads over to Edgehill with Bucky-- Rayna couldn't make it because of Lamar-- and she is toasted by Marshall and the whole Edgehill staff and they congratulate her on being the first signing to Rayna's label.
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