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 6

Hola readers, I have been busy settling into my new place but here are recaps of the last two episodes! At last!

You know, one of my favourite moments of the last season was when Conrad confessed that he used to love Victoria. The relationship between these two, however troubled, has always been, to me, the most touching. Anyway, Conrad and Victoria are being fitted for their wedding attire what Daniel sulks around. Sure, he's taken Emily's advice about being less obvious but he is doing a shitty-ass job of it, in my opinion. Next door at Emily's house, Emily tutors Amanda about her scar removal, so Amanda can relay that information to Mason. I like Mason a lot, despite the fact that he is quite the villain himself. Then again, who isn't on this show?

Meanwhile, Kara is perfecting her super creeper mode and is spying on Victoria who is preparing for her wedding day by looking at a picture of her former lover, David, and Kara's former lover and murder extraordinaire  Gordon Murphy. A flashback reminds us that Kara and Gordon were in love, with a capital L, also that they liked to stroke each other with sunflowers. If we've learned one thing so far, it's that Kara makes really regrettable life choices. In another flashback Emily remembers drawing alongside her mother, and then Emily and Kara discuss the Graysons. Kara proclaims that they will get what's coming to them. You know, Daniel should really be Kara's child instead of Emily because they both have the same level of subtlety. 

Emily, who actually has a decent revenge plan, unlike those two halfwits, goes to collect Gordon Murphy out of the freezer she has been keeping his body in. Whaaa? And also....what else is in there?! Amanda tells Mason about her scar removal and how important her family is and, amazingly, Mason seems to believe all this. He must be hanging out with Daniel too much. After she calls Emily to tell her that she's done with this crap and she's going to handle things her way, ie: with a crowbar. At Chez Grayson, Victoria and Charlotte have a tender moment before Charlotte tells her that she will be in the boring subplot for the remainder of this episode. Conrad wonders where his cuff links are.  Speaking of the boring subplot, evil and badly named Kenny, apparently has his own idea about how much booze should cost and their alcohol provider storms out muttering about how Jack and Declan's father wouldn't be too proud of them. Bitch please, Jack is a whiny and useless drunk and Declan is an idiotic thief, I don't think where they buy their booze would even register on their dad's proudness o-meter. 

Emily goes to visit Nolan and tells him not to attend the Grayson wedding but he's going, if not to show off his new, heterosexual relationship, then to find out for himself what she's up to. Mason interrupts asking for Nolan to trace 'Gordon Murphy's cell', ie: the piece of evidence Emily planted via Amanda and that will surely lead to someone's demise. The information from Nolan leads Mason to a trailer where he finds Gordon's body  and Conrad's missing cuff link. He calls up the police who raid Casa Grayson while they are at the wedding.

Victoria is wearing a grey wedding dress, which I have to say, I loved, when Conrad shows up and gives a impassioned speech about how they were meant to be together and gives Victoria a bedazzled gun in case he can't protect her. Aww! She receives a call from Mason, and then heads out to be remarried to Conrad. Everyone dances with everyone at the reception. Daniel still loves Emily, Aiden also loves Emily, Ashley is jealous and Padma isn't up to no good. Just then the cops burst in, having conveniently found the same gun that was used to kill Gordon and arrest Conrad. 

Back at subplot bar Jack thanks his customers and toasts the new bar. Kara bitches about how horrible her life is, how she just can't win. I think a unanimous cry of  'shut the fuck up, Kara" just went around the bar, although who is really paying attention to this plot anyway?

Padma apologizes to Nolan and he gives a kind of creepy speech questioning how far she will go to right her wrongs.  Victoria goes to visit Conrad in jail, of course, he thinks she's behind this but she insists she isn't. After she leaves, the initiative rolls in to bust Conrad out, at a price of course. Unfortunately, as he later tells Victoria in their room, they won't know what that price is until it's too late. 

Kara confronts Victoria , having seen the news of Gordon's demise on the news and Victoria implies what everyone within a 10 mile radius has already figured out, that they were lovers. Kara storms off, clearly on the edge of a mental breakdown. 

Aiden and Emily nearly kiss, after some discussion about how much Ashley knows. Um, I think they must have come in short because there were a few scenes that felt unnecessary. This was one and the other one as a montage of Emily setting up the fake crime scene. I mean, zero percent of people watching this show were wondering how Gordon's body got set up in the trailer. It was pretty straightforward. Anyway,  Mason is pondering things when he makes the connection between Amanda and Emily being together in jail. Unfortunately, as we will see in the next episode, this means absolutely nothing, since he wasn't smart enough to figure out what it actually meant that they knew each other before. Still, it was a great episode and I can't wait to see what happens next between Conrad and Victoria. 


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