‘Nashville’ Recap: “I Feel Sorry For Me” Reveals Sadie’s Label Decision, Deacon’s New Love Interest

This week's episode of Nashville is all about tricks, music and some serious drama. In "I Feel Sorry For Me," Rayna gets ready to battle Jeff for another artist as Juliette tries to cope with her pregnancy.

The episode begins with Rayna deciding that she wants a meeting with Sadie Stone. Since Juliette will be busy with the movie this year (aka she is pregnant), Rayna wants to add another artist to her Highway 65 label. When Rayna meets with Sadie, it takes an interesting turn. Sadie is beyond excited to even be talking to Rayna, but she needs to think about the offer.

Before they part ways, Rayna invites Sadie to her wedding dress fitting in Nashville and they begin to bond. They are actually really fun together and bond over the insanity of the paparazzi.  In order to escape the photographers, they jump in Sadie's car and quickly become a part of a crazy car chase.

In a switch to Juliette, she is finally coming clean about her pregnancy to her team. They are so happy for her, but she stops them and tells them she is giving the baby up for adoption and she doesn't want to hear anything more about it. With her new role as Patsy Cline, she will hide the pregnancy by saying she put on weight for the role and then once they are done filming she will disappear for a while to have the baby.

Meanwhile, Deacon wakes up after sleeping with Pam and he quietly sneaks out of the room. She later finds him in his AA meeting and pretends to be a part of the group. When he sees her taking shots and cracking jokes at his addiction he gets pissed and tells her off. They have a weirdly intriguing attraction to one another and Pam is clearly filling the void that Rayna has left in Deacon's heart and mind.

In Avery's world, everything is falling apart. He won't stop drinking, especially when he hears anyone say Juliette's name or hears news about her on the radio. Gunnar eventually comes over and tries to help him, but Avery can't stop loving and hating her at the same time.

Back in town, Jeff bid on a golf game with Teddy so he could talk business with him. He knows that Rayna hates him so the only way he could talk to Teddy would be on the golf course. Jeff proposes adding recording studios in every school in Nashville to help the music program and at the same time clean up his image. Teddy likes the idea and actually starts to get along with Jeff, which is bad. After their game Jeff invites Teddy and his girls (who he notes are great singers) to Sadie's concert, where she is supposedly going to announce her deal with Edgehill.

At the Bluebird, Zoey walks in on Scarlett and Gunnar talking suspiciously in the closet and she freaks out. She is still really jealous of Scarlett and can't help but be pissed about the entire situation. She confronts Scarlett about her secret calls with Gunnar and their songs together, but Scarlett tells her that nothing is happening at all between them.

Back to Juliette, she has a talk with Glen about the baby and he tells her that in Tennessee, she can't give the baby up for adoption unless she also has the signature of the father. Plus, she is so famous he doesn't think there will be a safe place to hide and have the baby. Glen then reveals that he just wants her to be happy and he thinks the baby will make her happy.

In an attempt to help, Glen goes to Avery's place and tells him that he needs to talk to Juliette. Glen admits that Juliette is like his daughter and he cannot give up on her and neither should Avery. He tells him that he can't talk to her after all she has done. Meanwhile, Juliette is looking at adoption profiles and then gets a sharp pain. She calls Rayna for help and Rayna starts to talk her through it, leaving Sadie's rehearsal, where she was planning to try and convince her to not sign with Edgehill.

Juliette gets to the hospital and discovers that the baby is fine. With Rayna by her side she admits that she wants to give the baby up for adoption because she always messes up the things she loves and she wants her baby to be happy, which is so sweet. Juliette later goes to Glen's house and admits that she is scared and needs his help. They really are like father and daughter. 

Back to Deacon, Pam is kind of stalking him as she comes onto his bus and ends up singing a song with him that basically tells him to move on. Deacon finally gives into her again at the rest stop and they end up missing his bus. They then do something crazy and buy a motorcycle to catch up to the bus. Their romance is clearly heating up, but what does this mean for Deacon and Rayna? We are not happy about this new relationship, that's for sure.

At the Bluebird, Zoey's temper is getting worse and worse and then she turns the corner and sees that Gunnar and Scarlett threw her a going away party. She is about to leave on Juliette's tour and they had been working together to surprise her. Zoey obviously feels terrible about accusing Scarlett of having feelings for Gunnar and she finally apologizes for being such a bad friend. She tries to make it up to her by asking her to sing with her and Scarlett panics. She is still not over her last performance so she cannot sing to an audience.

During the party, Avery and Gunnar get into a fight when Avery tries to drive drunk. Avery then turns on Zoey and Scarlett and storms off. He ends up getting arrested for sleeping in his car that is parked on someone else's lawn. The only number he knows is Juliette's phone number so she comes to pick him up at the jail. Despite our hopes of them talking it out, Avery yells at her and tells her he needs to not feel anything for her in order to move on. He tells her he wishes he never met her, which is another dagger to the heart for Juliette.

In the final scene, Rayna shows up at Sadie's concert to try one last time to persuade her to switch to Highway 65. When Sadie takes the stage she reveals that she has signed with Highway 65 and Jeff is stunned. Rayna and Sadie then do a duet and it is awesome.

After the show, Jeff tells Rayna that it is on. There are no more rules when it comes to signing an artist. Rayna just walks away, but Jeff has a terrible idea that will rock Rayna to the core. Jeff makes a call to the label and asks them to figure out how they can sign two children to the label with only one parent's consent. Jeff is going to try and sign Maddie and Daphne behind Rayna's back!

Tune in next week to see what happens when Juliette tells Avery about the baby and to see what Rayna does when she discovers Jeff's shady plan. 

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