- Rayna continues to pull out all stops in self-promotion, this time by agreeing to do a televised Christmas special from her home for charity, with Luke and the children. But when she invites Deacon to join in, things get awkward fast. Her magazine cover story has reverberations for her personal life.
- "Nashville" - "Two Sides to Every Story" - Dec. 3, 2014
A Rolling Stone is hitting the fan for Rayna, Luke, and Deacon, Juliette is going loco with confusion, Terry is losing his voice while Scarlett is finding hers, Zoey's leaving on a jet plane, Will is reeling, and Layla has Jeff Fordham on his knees. Welcome back to Nashville!
We'll start with the very pregnant Juliette who is confused by what she and Avery are to each other. When she overhears him making what sounds like a date to meet a "hot" woman, she enlists Emily to help her stalk him. They follow him to the outdoor Winterville Nashfest, which several of the characters are playing, and sees him talking with Sadie Stone and goes ballistic, accidentally ramming the scooter she is riding into one of the booths at the festival and making a spectacle of herself and ruining things for Avery because he wasn't there to meet her for a date, Sadie was asking him about producing her new album. A contrite Juliette asks Sadie to please work with Avery and assures her that it will be good for both of their careers and that Juliette will stay out of it. Later when Avery comes to thank her she explains she knows they are just friends now but there is clearly still something there for both of them.
In the continuing adventures of the Gay Cowboy and His Naive Wife, Will and Layla are weary from doing promo for the reality show which, as it turns out, is a big hit. They both need a break but don't know where they can go where no one knows who they are. Then Will hits on it, East Nashville, home of the hipsters who don't watch crappy reality TV since they're busy with their mustaches and artisanal home brews. They head to a street fair there and split up to do their own thing.
Will's thing is to sit at a bar and get drunk while asking the openly gay bartender-- he kisses his boyfriend-- what it's like to be openly gay. The bartender says it's not that hard other than the occasional sideways glance and he's secure knowing it's the other person's problem not his. Will is impressed by this answer. But later, once he's good and drunk he tries to put the move on the bartender-- who, as previously stated, we and Will knows has a boyfriend-- and he turns Will down. He tells him being gay doesn't have to be about anonymous hook ups. Will says if he knew who he was he'd realize that it has to be. The guy asks who he is but Will just walks away.
Layla's thing is to go to one of the open mic performance tents, grab a guitar and give an impromptu show. She sounds lovely and the audience is very appreciative. One of the people in the audience is Jeff Fordham. He's just looking around when he hears her voice and playing and when he goes up front is shocked to see it is the reviled Layla, whose demo he wouldn't even give a listen in his car on the way over. He sits with her and confesses his surprise. He also talks about his fledgling music career and she asks him to play. He picks up the guitar and acquits himself nicely. (He doesn't sing though.) They bond. So much so that when Will goes into Layla's room the next morning she is not there...because she's in bed with Jeff Fordham.
Zoey is in a funk, moping on Scarlett and Deacon's couch, much to Deacon's dismay. Zoey wishes Scarlett would manage her career like she seems to be doing for Terry. Scarlett says she's just helping out and even though she's heartbroken from breaking up with Gunnar she could still, you know, get a job. Zoey mentions a friend did tell her about a tour she could get on in L.A. but she doesn't know. Meanwhile, Gunnar is co-writing with Sadie Stone-- he recommended Avery as a producer-- and she tells him that she can have her manager Noel Loughlin check out their set at Winterville Nashfest.
So ZAG has a band meeting but Avery is wary about the two ex-es working together. Zoey is all about the big break so she's in and Gunnar says they can make it work. But then when they meet Noel Loughlin he talks about being able to put them on the road as soon as next week. Zoey and Avery are up for it but Gunnar, now that he has Myka, is less eager which causes Zoey to get angry and stalk off.
When she does she runs into Scarlett who is having drama of her own. Scarlett asks for her help but Zoey is all about Zoey tonight and wishes her luck.
Scarlett got Terry a spot at the festival but before the show he does a TV interview and the interviewer asks about his homelessness and his family, rattling him a little. And then even though he goes on stage and does a wonderful, well-received performance he ends up getting further rattled as he hears car crash sounds amid the cheers of the crowd and runs off stage. When Scarlett tracks him down on the edges of the festival he is already drunk and he yells at her for pushing him to do things and calls her a coward, saying he knows she wants what he just had but is too afraid to take it. Scarlett says she's no coward. And to prove it, she goes to Avery and Gunnar and tells them she will sub for Zoey since she knows she's gone. The new trio goes on and slays the crowd, giving a very charismatic performance which gets the thumbs up from Noel Loughlin and Myka, but not the departing Zoey who sees it on the video screens as she gets in her cab.
The next day Loughlin calls Gunnar and again tells him he thinks he can make this trio as big as Lady A but Gunnar begs off because of Myka. We cut to Zoey at the airport, she's headed to L.A. for a new life.
Over in Rayna-Luke-Deacon-ville, the Rolling Stone cover story has come out and no one is happy that Rayna talked extensively about her relationship with Deacon in exchange for the magazine quashing the story about the kiss between Maddie and Cole. To compound the matter the Ruke household is overrun by a TV crew shooting a Christmas special with the couple -- it's too benefit Toys for Tots-- and upending their normal holiday traditions.
Luke is mad that Rayna seems obsessed with the article and talking to Deacon, noting why she's upset but saying it was a good business decision and it's over now so to try to get over it. Deacon is piping mad that the formerly incredibly private Rayna sold them both out. Even when she explains, and he understands, he shakes his head at what the crazy circus her life has become since hooking up with Luke. When the girls start complaining about missing all of their normal Christmas activities-- first because of the special and then because they will be traveling during the holiday to Australia with Luke and Rayna for their "Honeymoon Tour"-- Rayna starts to express doubts about the tour. Luke points out it was her idea, it's already booked, and that his kids have had holidays all over the world and it will be a new tradition for them to start together. But first Rayna tells him she needs to put this thing to bed with Deacon. Luke tells her to do what she has to do. Rayna goes to Deacon and again tries to explain. He says he was mad mostly because much of what Rayna said in the article about him was true, he hasn't moved on from their relationship and he was asking himself why. And he realized it's because he still loves her and always will. Rayna points out that she's getting married in two weeks and it's time for him to move on. Later, as he's stringing his guitar, we seem him rip off an old Rayna Jaymes tour sticker from his guitar case. Let the healing begin!
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