Revenge Season 2: Episode 10

Hey guys, I FINALLY have the time to watch Revenge and I am so excited. I had forgotten how much I love, love, love this show! Also, how difficult it is to recap this show as the episodes are so packed.

Well, let's get started!
Aiden and Emily tussle  on the beach and Emily is the victor, in more ways than one since after defeating Aiden she gets to have her way with him.

Meanwhile in New York, Daniel is walking the streets, briefcase in hand, ready to run his fathers company when the Initiative lady, Helen, zooms up and rolls down the window. He hops into the car and she informs him that his father's company is filled with hidden assets. It's a toss up whether Daniel is more excited to make lots of money or just make his father look worse.

Over at Casa Grayson, Conrad is enjoying his new freedom by reading the newspaper and ignoring his phone, much to the chagrin of Victoria  who swoops in to tell him that their friends, a Judge and Supreme Court candidate and his wife are coming to dinner. Oh and his wife happens to have a charity that helps wrongly accused convicts. She feels this should be very important to him since he was once a wrongly convicted convict and needs to rehabilitate his image. Conrad agrees.

Sadly, the hiatus did not do away with the boring subplot. Honestly, they could just stop writing this and no one would care. Anyway, Amanda is worried about Jack, Jack is excited about their upcoming nuptials and then one of the Ryan brothers (honestly, who cares? I can't really keep them straight anyway) swoops in to be a little bitch and tell Jack to clean the bar. I would tell Jack to do that too! Seriously, all this guy ever does is mope around.

Back at Emily's house, her mysterious revenge box has produced a letter, supposedly written by one James Palmer, a juror who was killed three days after David Clark's trial AND the court clerk for the very same Judge Barnes that will be residing next door with the Graysons. Emily, wisely, deduces that this man must have been part of the scheme against her dad and she sees her opportunity for REVENGE.

Victoria invites Emily over for some girl time where the conversation basically goes " hey, want to convince my son you still love him and maybe encourage him not to be a douche?""Sure!" "More lemonade?" " Chin chin!". Victoria invites Emily for dinner with the judge and his wife so both their evil plans can be set into motion. Man, I love these two!

Oh shit, not this subplot again. Charlotte is trying to talk wedding stuff with Declan but he is more interested in spying on his new enemies, the Ryan brothers. Declan gets Charlotte to "stall" (that is, flirt with) Anders from Battlestar Gallactica so that he can root through the mysterious coffee bean bags in the back. Just as Anders explains to Charlotte that he was once " wrongly"  accused of drug selling, Declan discovers....DRUGS. WHO CARES? Of course, Declan makes a huge mess and gives himself away.

Emily and Aiden have a plan, and this plan is my favourite scene in this episode! Aiden heads to Daniel's office but he is out to lunch (both literally AND metaphorically) and politely says that he will catch him later. But this secretary has obviously not seen Mad Men and totally tells Aiden where Daniel is having lunch. He, Aiden that is, and Emily head over there so they can stage their breakup in plain view of Daniel. They were both so dramatic and hilarious in this scene! Emily storms off leaving a 'heartbroken' Aiden and a curious Daniel.

Meanwhile Daniel calls Nolan, (looking as dapper as ever) into to his office to search for the rogue files and to boast that Aiden and Emily are no more. Nolan is more pleased about this then someone in a relationship should be and he heads directly over to Emily's to find out if it's true. Aiden sidles in to kiss Emily and flaunt their relationship status.

Meanwhile, at the subplot, blah blah, Jack is going to have the cops raid the place, booring!

At dinner,  Emily is barely in the house when Daniel foists the information that he and Ashley broke up on her. Emily is pleased her plan is working so well. At dinner, Emily using her masterful skill of subtlety, basically pumps the Barnes for information about Palmer.  Mrs. Barnes looks extremely worried before announcing that she is unwell and scurrying off, followed shortly by Mr. Barnes.
The next day Amanda shows up and finds Emily looking at Mrs. Barnes medical files. What? Where did she get those? Anyway. Mrs. Barnes has a lot of broken bones and this is TVland so that means only one thing... spousal abuse! Ding, ding, ding! She also discovers that Palmer and Patricia Barnes knew each other and deduces that it was indeed Patricia who wrote the letter.

In other news Aiden gets in touch with Helen (this woman must be busy, y'all!) via a video discovered by Nolan and also his convenient knowledge of Latin. Hmmm. Anyway, Helen tells Aiden that his sister his still alive and is going to be used as leverage against him by the initiative. Aiden swears he won't tell anyone of their meeting, to save his sister's life. Does this mean Aiden is compromised? We shall see!

Meanwhile, Marco is trying to make nice with Nolan but Nolan isn't having any of it. He thinks that if Marco thought that he would truly aid a terrorist and keep money from a young girl then, he, Marco is crazy! Marco then produces a flash drive with some uber code on it! He thinks that Nolan should use it against Grayson Global but Nolan is wary.

At the subplot, the police raid the Stowaway but, predictably, find nothing. Later, while Charlotte and Declan are trying to get it on, they raid "The Amanda" and of course find a shitload of drugs and for that extra oomph, a gun. They arrest Declan but Jack says it was him so they haul is ass off to jail! I hope that means we will see less of him in the future...although I doubt it. He calls Amanda to tell her what happened, while baby Carl wails in the background.

Later at the gala for the wrongly convicted convicts or whatever the organization is called, Judge Arsehole Barnes informs Conrad that he will have to introduce himself as Patricia is out for the count with a migraine. Conrad is fast becoming my favourite character. Anyway, Emily knows what's really going on and heads to Patrica's room to give a rousing speech about how she knows that it was Patricia who wrote that letter and how it inspired young Amanda who was in several abusive foster homes. I don't know if Emily is just being manipulative or if that letter really did encourage her and if so...why haven't we heard of it before? In any case we have another dig at the EVIL foster care system...thanks Hollywood! When Patricia stands up to give her speech it is not the speech she had planned  She confesses that she wrote the letter and that the trial against David Clark was, basically, a bunch of crap. Judge Barnes tries to stop her but she plows  on,  for her peice de resistance she takes off her outwear to reveal that she is covered in bruises to the stunned audience. Wow, this show is over the top but this scene was truly amazing.

While Aiden and Emily are at home, plotting further REVENGE, or whatever they do, Daniel shows up saying he wants to change things and that he wants Emily to head up the charitable foundation at Grayson Global. Emily is reluctant but then agrees and her and Daniel kiss. Ruh-roh! I am on Team Aiden but I also love a good love triangle. Who's team are you on? Team Brit or Team America (although Daniel is really British as well so....I guess team Britain it is!)? And what will happen in the next episode? I, for one, can't wait... except to find out about what happen with Jack/Amanda/Declan...I really don't care about them!

Revenge Season 2-Episode 5

Last Time on Revenge: Amanda took a fall and ended up in the hospital. Jack and Declan are dads and uncles, respectively and Kara is a killer!

And now: Revenge has certainly taken a turn this season with Emily seeming less in control and more emotional than ever, but is this a good thing? Some, including myself, miss the more cold and calculating Emily, the one who is going to take down anyone and everyone that is in her way. However,  I feel that, realistically ( should we use that word when talking about soap opera?) even someone bent on Revenge, with a capital 'R' would have moments of weakness and humanity. Anyway. I digress. We open with Emily waking up from a bad dream about her mothers attempt at drowning her and she's cuddling with Aiden! personally I found this more compelling than her dream, if only because I wish it was I cuddling with Aiden. Not one to waste time with pleasantries or general niceness, Emily tells Aiden that this spooning doesn't mean anything, she doesn't want him or need him around and she's getting out of there.

Next we find ourselves at the Graysons where Victoria is pruning her roses, you know, as one does when Kara marches in. Victoria turns several shades of blue at the sight of Kara's weird bangs and even weirder bracelets. Seriously though, what is with those things?

To my surprise, Victoria doesn't stab Kara with the shears, instead they have tea. Kara uses her super (not) skills of digging for information while Victoria gives her a patronizing "bitch please" look. Kara stabs her self with a metaphor  rose and excuses herself to the washroom. Victoria uses this opportunity to call Conrad and speculate as to why Kara is still alive and sitting her poorly dressed behind on their sofa.

Conrad turns several shades of blue too. He is in a meeting with Aiden , who I totally forgot was some kind of proxy. Conrad promises to tell Aiden everything and then sends him to Daniel so he and Victoria can wring their hands over the sudden reappearance of Kara. Look guys, I do not know anything about accounting or running businesses or anything, so suffice to say that Grayson Global is up to no good and Aiden wants to find out what's what While he and Daniel are discussing things I don't know anything about, Ashley storms in and ill advisedly mentions David Clarke, then suggests they get drinks on the corporate card.

Back at the boring subplot, the guy who's trying to con Declan and Jack out of the bar (nope, not going to bother to learn his name) shows u just in time to see Charlotte returning Declan's jacket.  Con man guy comments that Charlotte is a classy bitch so she probably wouldn't go for a groupon and that Declan reminds him so much of himself at that age and I can only assume he means that they were both about as bright as a cloudy night and greedy to boot.  Con man tries to hurry up his take over of the bar and honestly I don't understand why this story exists. Declan and Jack give exactly two shits about the bar  (which is two more than I give about these characters) so the could have just sold the thing, and what does this rich (and evil) guy want with a moldy dive bar anyway?

After stopping by the hospital to discuss baby swaddling with Jack and learning about the existence of Kara, Nolan storms over to Emily's to give her what for and to tell her that his dad died. He notes that just because his dad was a normal (ie: not framed for terrorism)  guy doesn't mean he cares any less. Well,except that he obviously didn't keep in touch with his dad since he (his dad) was dead for 6 months before Nolan even noticed! Anyway, Emily looks sympathetic but can't even muster a hug. They go to visit Amanda in the hospital and she seems to have completely recovered from her dive off the Grayson balcony.  At Casa Grayson, Victoria has invited Kara to stay with them and they all agree since they are all trying to spy on each other. On another balcony Kara and Victoria are discussing how Victoria is a man stealing ho. Is it wrong that I'm on Victoria's side here? I mean, she thought Kara was dead AND Kara tried to kill her own daughter. I think that's fair grounds for divorce, although I guess she is being painted as having a mental illness in which case I think getting medical treatment might have been a better idea than locking her up. Anyway, Charlotte informs them that Amanda has woken up and Kara heads to the hospital to continue being creepy.


While Emily carries baby Carl, Kara exposits that Amanda was such a good baby, so filled with goodness,  such a good person, I mean, really, REALLY good. I think Emily is thinking “ unlike the cold hearted revenge seeking beeyotch she is now!” This tender moment is interrupted by Mason Treadwell who is digging around for information. He spies Amanada’s back in the robe. This shot was a bit weird but it’s going to be important later so don’t forget it. After they rid themselves of Mason, Emily tries to get rid of Kara saying that Amanda needs to rest and Kara can visit them later.  While Emily drives Kara home she comments how horrible it is that her own daughter didn’t recognise her. Emily comments that she doesn’t know how that must feel.

At Casa Emily and Amanda, Amanda says things are going ‘fine’. I would say that if I just took a dive off of a balcony and my baby daddy was an ambivalent whiner I would not be doing ‘fine’ but, to each their own. Kara comes in to tell Amanda that she wasn’t well and that she’s sorry, etc.  Amanda is so moved that she tells her all is forgiven. I know Amanda hasn’t always been a likable character but she certainly is empathetic and puts herself into Emily’s shoes very well. Anyway, Emily listens from outside the door and is moved to tears. Some flashbacks inform us that Kara and David agreed to tell Amanda that she, Kara, had died since it would be easiest for Amanda.  We also learn that it was Padma who raised the red flags about David Clark over at Grayson Global, she was concerned after finding the cheque last episode. She leaves the cheque lying around but Nolan is too distracted by his new found heterosexuality to notice or care and promises his new girlfriend night of naughtiness.  Aiden discovers that Emily has Gordon’s cell phone and gets all cranky pants (what else is new?). He storms off to conspire with his new friend Daniel.

Confession time! After a touching conversation between Emily and Kara and some more exposition from Emily about forgiveness, Emily confesses to Amanda that she lied about Jack not being the baby’s daddy. Rather than slapping a ho as I would have done, Amanda is understanding and they both discuss how much Jack deserves happiness. What? I don’t understand this at all. What redeeming qualities does Jack have?

In other romantic news, Conrad proposes to Victoria so they can have and hold each other and not have to testify against each other. After dropping in to annoy Victoria, who is raiding Kara’s room, Mason heads over to visit Amanda and question her about how she is missing a scar. Mason totally knows what’s going on! I think this is a bit weak since scars fade and can be removed but in any case, he’s onto them and this surely spells trouble.

To surmise: Aiden is a sexy beast, Conrad and Victoria are  thinking ahead, Nolan is a heterosexual and Jack and Declan are getting more and more boring, and and more and more stupid with each passing episode.