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Meet Emily. She's beautiful, she's independent and wealthy. She's also a sociopath hell bent on avenging the framing of her father for the crime of treason.
We begin our story with the murder in cold blood of Emily's fiancé Daniel Grayson on the night of their engagement party hosted by Daniel's mother Victoria. Though it's obvious to us Emily orchestrated the murder because she's speaking in hushed voices with a creepy guy, she has a perfect alibi since she is in such prominent attendance at the party when Daniel is gunned down on the beach.
Five months earlier. Emily has just rented a beautiful house on that same beach right to Victoria's home. Through flashback, we see that this house used to be Emily's when she was a child and her and her father shared some great moments together there. The house is now being rented out by Victoria's best friend Lydia Davis and her husband Michael who are having marital problems. You can say that again because Lydia is having an affair with Victoria's husband Conrad. Since Emily is aware of this, she poses as room service at the hotel where Conrad and Lydia are meeting and poisons Conrad so that he'll have symptoms of a heart attack. His trip to the emergency room arouses suspicion from Victoria because he is revealed to have been at a hotel instead of out golfing like he had said. Classic. Victoria finds out that not only is Mr. Grayson cheating, but he's cheating with Lydia when at an art auction she's hosting Emily makes sure to mention in front of her with a feigned obliviousness that she saw Lydia at the same hotel with an ill "husband." Victoria immediately has Lydia removed from the auction and makes sure her house goes up for sale so she will be exiled from the Hamptons. Cold. Meanwhile, Emily deliberately bumps into Daniel at the party and begins attracting him.
It wouldn't make sense for Emily to come home to the Hamptons and not run into some people who might recognize her. The first of these people is Jack, who was a boy Emily played with when she was a kid. Now, he's a too-good-to-be-true guy who is planning to boat to Haiti to help out with the Red Cross. That is, until his father's bar is about to be foreclosed on and he decides to sell his prized boat to make sure that doesn't happen. Jack might have an inkling of a suspicion he may have met Emily before, but he doesn't say anything about it. The aforementioned boat sale is a deal with Nolan Ross, a very wealthy young entrepreneur. Nolan definitely recognizes Emily as Amanda Clarke the daughter of David Clarke who was Nolan's first investor before David was framed for funding a terrorist organization by Victoria, Conrad and Lydia. In flashback, we see that Nolan was there for Emanda when she was released from a detention facility on her 18th birthday. At the time, she thought her father was alive and a murderer, so she wanted nothing to with him, but Nolan gives Emanda a box of evidence her father left behind which clears his name and tells the story of those who framed him. In his last words to her, David implores her to forgive, but Emanda wants no part of that. All she wants is revenge.
See, guys, this is why I've never joined a yacht club.
-- Pablo G. is some guy who lives in San Antonio, Texas. He co-hosts TWoP's original "Trailers Without Pity" with his brother Omar G. Check him out at Unp0ssible and Pablog and follow him @PendejoJoe on Twitter.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!We zoom in past a 3-D rendering of the Revenge logo on a black background. On a black title card: "'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.' Confucius (504 B.C.)" This is serious, guys. We're now looking at the dark waves of the ocean lit only by the full moon. Female voiceover: "When I was a little girl, my understanding of revenge was as simple as the Sunday school proverbs it hid behind. Neat little morality slogans like 'do unto others' and 'two wrongs don't make a right.'" We cut to the waves of the ocean crashing lightly on a moonlit beach as a gun goes off and a man falls to his knees. Angus and Julia Stone's "For You" begins to play. Voiceover continues: "But two wrongs can never make a right. Because two wrongs can never equal each other." What if they're the exact same wrongs? This voiceover's math is sketchy. This is Southampton, New York on Labor Day evening. Fireworks go off in the night, masking the sound of two more gunshots pumped into the man at close range. Up at the beach house, there's an engagement party going on for Daniel and Emily, according to a wedding-style cake. "For the truly wronged, real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places: absolute forgiveness or mortal vindication. This is not a story about forgiveness." Emily Thorne, a beautiful blonde who seems lost in thought (played, appropriately, by Emily VanCamp), is found by the wedding planner who has desperately been searching for her and Daniel, meaning Daniel was the guy who totally just ate lead on the beach. Emily doesn't seem worried at all as she slyly brushes off gun powder from her hand and says Daniel's just on the beach because they're having a fight. When the party planner leaves, Emily sidles off to talk to a suspicious looking man named Nolan. They have one of those sneaky conversations where the two people stand to each other but face opposite directions. They snipe at each other seemingly about having the nerve to be present at their own murder plot.
Back on the beach, a man is dragging the dead body out of the water and up the beachfront in the shadows. This happens as a young couple back at the dance reception is getting frisky and bold. They run down the dock to the beach together right by the bushes where the shadowy figure is crouching beside the body. He hides as the couple undresses down to their underwear and run out to the water.
The party has paused briefly for a speech from Daniel's mother Victoria Grayson (Madeleine Stowe) that is mostly some crap about the theme of the party symbolizing beginnings and endings and the love between a man and a woman, like all party themes seem to do. Emily fake-smiles through this as she pulls out her cell phone and places a call. The phone rings back at the corpse and gives away hoodied shadow man's hiding spot to the young couple. Naturally, they're a little upset that someone's been privy to their rendezvous. Hoodie Man grabs the cell phone, but doesn't answer, and takes off running when the young, half-naked guy starts making his way over to confront him.
Victoria's self-centered theme speech turns into a focus on Emily's engagement to her son and how she approves of Emily. Nitpick: She says, "In a word: I approve." That's two words. The whole party is now watching Victoria and Emily closely but Victoria finishes her speech with a joke that allows her to lean into Emily and growl discretely without anyone noticing, "Where the hell is my son?"
On the beach, the half-naked couple just found out the answer to that question. The girl finds the gun in the sand and the guy inspects the body and realizes it's a dead body. The girl is Daniel's sister and she doesn't have to look at the body to know it's him. She runs back to the party, screaming for her mother with no regard for being in her underwear. Daniel's parents take off running to meet her as Emily and Nolan toss a guiltless glance at each other. Emily takes off running right behind the Graysons but stops dramatically just outside the party while other, less related partygoers actually go down to the beach to see the body. Victoria screams over her son as Emily watches with wide eyes, taking deep panicked breaths and at least feigning distress.
Dissolve into five months earlier. Emily is being shown a house in the Hamptons by a realtor. The house is on the market because the couple who owns it, the Davises, are having marital problems. (He cheated -- men!) Emily steps outside to look around in the back of the house, where there's the longest dock I've ever seen. She stops at a fence post with an etching and runs her hand across it. FLASHBACK: Emily is a little girl running up that insanely long dock. She's spending the summer at this house with her dad, who loves her so much he draws an infinity symbol multiplied by another infinity symbol in the pile of sand she's dumped on the deck. Emily's name is really Amanda. /FLASHBACK. For our purposes and to avoid confusion (or perhaps encourage confusion in a fun way), Emily is now Amanda. The realtor snaps Amanda out of her daydream. She looks on at the neighboring house, which the realtor points out is Grayson Manor. Amanda stares at it with a smile on her face and says she'll take the house.
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Amanda is met at her new home by her friend Ashley, who will be the party planner for the engagement party five months from now. She has a bottle of champagne which serves as a segue since it's not for her pal's housewarming, but instead for Victoria Grayson -- or "Queen Victoria," as she's known in the Hamptons -- whose Memorial Day party Ashley will be planning. Amanda asks how much it costs to get on the guest list. Only $10,000 a ticket. Amanda flippantly says, "Count me in for one," like she's just asking her friend to pick her up a lottery ticket from the store. Ashley leaves and Amanda's face slowly dissolves into an ice-cold stare we'll all get very used to.
As Amanda unpacks her new home, Victoria takes notice and watches her from her literal house upon the hill. She mentions Amanda to her husband who is busy on the phone doing business. He just regards Amanda as lucky to have landed the property from Lydia and Michael Davis. Victoria doesn't believe in luck. The Graysons are interrupted by their daughter Charlotte who teases them a bit provocatively, like supposedly clever older teens are written to do on TV shows these days. She walks off after zinging her mother for not remembering she was told Charlotte would be going out the night before. "Mom, you're too young and too pretty to be this senile." Mr. Grayson tells Victoria to lay off, because Charlotte got straight A's this semester. Victoria: "Nobody's accusing her of being stupid." Not yet, Victoria. Not yet.
We're at the docks in the daytime. Two young guys are loading up a boat and quickly reveal through their banter that they're brothers who work for their dad at a bar. The youngest gets chastised for hording a crate of beer and responds by saying he'll have all the beer he wants when older brother is gone. Older brother sends younger brother to go do some menial labor. That's brotherhood. Older brother's always right. Older brother's name is Jack Porter and he's now being approached by Nolan who is wearing a sea captain's hat. Apparently, he's been working through some things and one of those things is an interest in all things nautical. He starts in on Jack about wanting to buy the boat, which is named "Amanda." That's not a coincidence one should overlook. Jack sternly shoots down Nolan's inquires about maybe purchasing the boat. Finally, Nolan narrowly works up the nerve to call Jack out for never liking him. Jack won't deny it and coldly says it's just one more thing for Nolan to work through.
Grayson Manor. Queen Victoria and all her lady friends have been assembled by Ashley to discuss the Memorial Day party which, according to Ashley, is already at ninety percent capacity and has raised over $50,000 from various causes. But $50,000 isn't enough for Victoria Grayson -- oh no. She has decided she will be auctioning off something from her personal art collection to try and make a bigger splash. We finally meet Lydia Davis who raises her voice to let Victoria know she will just die if she auctions off the Van Gogh that the Davis' gifted the Graysons. There's no chance of that, as that painting is off limits for sentimental reasons, Victoria coos to Lydia. With that settled, one of the other women speaks up to Lydia in front of everyone that she was so sorry to hear about Lydia's marital problems. Lydia slinks off to the side and seems to be more worried when she's consoled by Victoria about a threat from Michael that he'll put up their beach house for sale if she doesn't release her claim on their west side walk-up. She's worried one of the "she-wolves" will snatch it up if that happens. Victoria's advice to prevent this is to not show any weakness.
Amanda walks out to the water of the beach behind her house and lets her feet get washed in the waves. She stares out at the ocean. FLASHBACK: She's little Amanda again, standing in the water with her dad, who teaches her that if she just stands still, each wave will feel warmer. /FLASHBACK. Lydia happens to come down to this part of the beach, too, and comments on Amanda's resistance to the water, which is ice-cold. Amanda: "Only at first. After a while, you can't feel anything." Lydia: "Sounds like my marriage." Gah. Lydia introduces herself as Amanda's landlord, and Amanda feigns astonishment at how quickly word spreads. Lydia: "Like lightning." Gah strikes twice! They make small talk about the memories Lydia has in that house and Amanda's hope of creating new ones. Lydia make a joke about the security deposit, matter-of-factly welcomes Amanda to the Hamptons and walks off. Amanda throws off her robe to reveal a black one-piece swimsuit and runs to the water.
Later, Amanda sits at home with her laptop, watching a news clip that explains Lydia testified against a man named David Clarke who was on trial for treason. She testified on behalf of Conrad Grayson who was David's boss and connected David to channeling funds to a terrorist group which downed a commercial airliner, killing 246 Americans. FLASHBACK: Little Amanda is home one night with her father -- David Clarke. They talk playfully about starfish and whatever when David gets a phone call from Victoria, who sounds distressed. He tells Amanda to go play while he takes that phone call just as the house is raided by the FBI and they take him into custody. One of the FBI agents picks up Amanda and carries her out of the house while she screams and her dad calls out for her. /FLASHBACK. An interview with Lydia is now playing on Amanda's laptop. "David Clarke had everyone fooled, including me. I'm just glad I can help put that monster away," Lydia says. Amanda clicks through a slideshow of spy images showing Lydia having an affair with Conrad. She smiles to herself.
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We're out at the docks by some big yachts. Ashley is delegating and tying up loose ends of the planning for Victoria's Memorial Day auction. Her phone rings and it's Amanda to whom she immediately apologizes for standing her up since she's wrapped up with Queen Victoria's auction. Amanda is sitting alone in a hotel restaurant and coolly snaps a photo of Lydia Davis, who has just walked in, without even removing her phone from her ear. Seriously. Nobody is that cool. She doesn't even miss a beat in the conversation and offers to help Ashley out by picking up her dress for her. They hang up and Amanda studies the photo she snapped of Lydia as Conrad Grayson enters and heads in the same direction Lydia did. A waitress comes up to Amanda to ask if she needs more tea and Amanda's temporarily dumbfounded as she locks in on the waitress' nametag, which reads "Becky." She snaps back from her plotting, smiles and simply says, "Please."
Grayson Manor. Charlotte is complaining to Victoria about how unrevealing her bathing suit is. "Compared to what my friends are wearing, it's practically a burka." Take that, Middle East. Victoria doesn't want Charlotte ending up like her friends who will probably show up on Page Six because they ended up at "one of Diddy's hot tub parties." First world problems. Charlotte starts ignoring her mother because she hears her brother's car. No sister gets anywhere near as excited as this girl gets when she sees her brother's home. She runs downstairs to greet Daniel followed less frantically by the woman who, you know, spawned him from her vagina. Charlotte gets her hug and is just as quickly off to the beach. Victoria and Daniel say their hellos and he asks, "Where's dad?" Victoria: "Golfing. Where else?" Daniel: "Yup. 'Where else?'"
Cut to Conrad Grayson popping out from under the sheets of a hotel bed on top of Lydia Davis. They're totally trysting. This is what a tryst looks like. Big smiles and passionate kisses. Conrad throws on a hotel robe and gets up to get some champagne when he suddenly clutches his chest in pain. He collapses into a chair and blurs as we sharpen focus on an empty bowl of food in the foreground.
We're at a seaside bar. Jack Porter is bartending and teaching little brother Declan how to charge credit cards as a group of high school girls come in and sit at a table. Dec happily volunteers to wait on them when a co-worker balks at the prospect. As he takes off to wait the table, a man in a suit comes into the bar, asking Jack for the owner. Jack's dad intercepts the man, who is from the bank it turns out, and takes him back to his office. Jack seems troubled by this. Meanwhile, Dec greets the girls and they immediately order alcohol. He dutifully asks to see ID and they offer some bullshit excuse about simply leaving their IDs at the beach and offer money instead. Dec declines the bribe, so the girl who's been doing all the talking pulls out her ace in the hole. She offers her phone number. Dec is all doofy smiles.
Conrad is carted out of the hotel on a stretcher and into an ambulance. Lydia is by his side and asking questions of the paramedics that seem more like she needs information to cover her tracks than they're out of concern for Conrad. Just then, Amanda runs up to Lydia and innocently asks if that's her husband and if she needs a ride to the hospital. Lydia doesn't know how to respond for a moment and just says she doesn't need a ride and runs off. Amanda stares into the back of the ambulance with the beginnings of a sideways smirk on her face.
Amanda has left the Southfork Inn and is coming out of a dress boutique. She stops when she spots Jack playing fetch with his dog Sammy. FLASHBACK: Amanda meets Jack on the beach when she was a kid. They introduce themselves as they play fetch with Sammy, but back then Sammy was Amanda's puppy. /FLASHBACK. The dog naturally wanders over to Amanda out of recognition. She utters his name and he jumps up on her, but she hides her emotion of being reunited with her puppy when Jack tries to call his dog off of her. They both crouch down over Sammy. For a brief moment, Amanda's face goes blank when she gets a good look at Jack's adult face for the first time, but he doesn't notice because he's preoccupied with the mess Sammy's caused. Jack offers up a nearby dry cleaners that will give Amanda a discount if she just mentions him and offers to put Amanda on his tavern's official comp list if she'll just give her name, but Amanda's emotions start to catch up with her and she awkwardly bails in response to Jack's complete good guy package. Jack stares at her as she gets in her car and a look of, "Where have I seen that face before?" slowly washes over his face.
Victoria runs into an emergency room, looking for Conrad. It turns out Conrad had a severe case of angina and is fine, but the doctor happens to mention to Victoria that Conrad should stay away from the food at the Southfork Inn. "Thanks, Dr. Dick," cheaters everywhere (including Conrad) say. Victoria is taken aback by the fact her husband was at a hotel when he had said he was going to be golfing. She spots the robe from the hotel and grabs Conrad's head. "Don't do it again," she drills into his face. Conrad's eyes go wide and Queen Victoria just walks away.
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Amanda shows up at the Memorial Day auction, which is being held on a yacht, wearing an immaculate white dress slung over one shoulder. She's immediately met by Ashley who takes her on a tour and offers up tidbits of gossip about the most prominent guests. Amanda spots Daniel and expresses admiration. Ashley gives her the quick 411. Apparently, Daniel was responsible for a drunk driving accident that either killed or badly harmed the girl he was with at the time, and his parents paid off everyone so he wouldn't end up in jail. , they spot Nolan who is snapping photos. Ashley explains he's a tech geek entrepreneur with more money than everyone else at the party combined. In slow motion, Amanda walks by the doorway of the room where Victoria and Conrad and schmoozing. Victoria and Amanda lock eyes briefly. Amanda all but instructs Ashley to introduce them.
Cut to Conrad being asked by a female guest about his health scare yesterday. He deflects the question as Victoria overhears the conversation. She interrupts by calling out to Lydia who is physically on the other side of Conrad's conversation. Victoria starts asking Lydia why she hasn't returned her phone calls when Ashley interrupts to introduce Amanda. Victoria asks a few questions about how she came to know Ashley and ended up at the party until Amanda suddenly turns and calls out to Lydia. Victoria's somewhat surprised that they know each other, so Lydia explains they met briefly on the beach, and Amanda adds, "And at the Southfork Inn yesterday. I hope your husband's feeling better." Let's document this. First "Oh shit" moment. Victoria just turns to Lydia, who can't say anything, and tries to fake a smile. Queen Victoria just walks away as Lydia stares daggers at Amanda, who just meets her stare and raises her eyebrows with fake obliviousness. Lydia tries to follow after Victoria, but the Queen suddenly turns to face her and gives her a warm smile that says, "I've got control of my facade again and it's too late for you." She turns back around and walks off without saying a word. Lydia's left just standing there by herself.
Jack's Family Tavern. Jack's dad Carl is toasting him in front of a big group of patrons, who Carl dramatic ironically teases for not being around his bar all winter, and explains Jack is setting sail tomorrow for Haiti where he'll be helping out with the Red Cross. The man from the bank enters the bar as Carl's finishing up his toast and Carl's eyes go wide. They go back into Carl's office and Jack overhears that the bank is not going to approve any further extensions on foreclosure.
Stark economical contrast as we cut to the party on the yacht. Daniel is complaining with a friend about this whole yacht party thing being same old shit, different day. It's so boring to have money, so Daniel's friend pulls out some coke. Before they can "bump it up," Amanda literally bumps into Daniel on purpose and spills her drink all over the shoulder of his suit jacket. Daniel is all smiles and immediately offers to go get Amanda a new drink.
Back at the merchant district of the docks, Jack is walking briskly to keep up with the bank guy as he leaves. It takes some persistence, but Jack finally gets the guy to reveal the bank's going to foreclose on Carl's bar at the end of month unless full payment is made. The bank guy walks off and leaves Jack standing face-to-face with Amanda the Boat.
Back on the yacht, Queen Victoria's giving a speech. Again, she starts off with talking about her party's theme, which is: "a fresh start for all of us." She wastes no time naming the winner of her art auction because she has made the executive decision of naming Lydia as the winner so she can publicly shame her. Instead of the Manet everyone was expecting to be awarded to the winner, Victoria announces Lydia will be taking home the Van Gogh -- the painting Lydia gifted to Victoria. Queen Victoria whispers to security guards standing behind her to have Lydia escorted off the boat. She then continues her announcement by saying Lydia's house is now up for sale and she will be leaving the Hamptons. Lydia is so devastated she stands up to leave, but Victoria calls out to her to say she hopes the painting will remind her, wherever she goes, of the friendship they shared. Nolan films Lydia's ungraceful exit at the hands of security on his Flip camcorder and Amanda watches with a blank look on her face the joy Queen Victoria derives from it. FLASHBACK: The night of the FBI raid on Amanda's house again. The FBI agent carries Amanda out the front door of the house right in front of Victoria and Conrad Grayson. Why would they even be there? /FLASHBACK. Daniel snaps Amanda out of her flashback to hand her the drink it took him forever to get and to say, "She's really something -- my mother." Amanda agrees and they toast to Daniel's "To chance meetings" and Amanda's "To an unforgettable summer." They clink glasses.
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The party has died down. Daniel and Amanda sit at a table alone. He tells bad jokes; she drinks. Typical first encounter/date. Amanda teases that she's just tipsy enough to find the last joke funny and Daniel admits he hasn't been drinking because he used to drink "epically." Daniel: "I gotta admit, it's nice meeting someone who didn't know the old me." Amanda: "Yeah, I know the feeling." Victoria and Conrad walk up on the beginnings of this romance to tell Daniel they're leaving. Victoria is cordial to Amanda and sternly lets Daniel know she expects him home shortly. The Graysons leave, and Amanda parts ways with Daniel.
Back at Grayson Manor, Queen Victoria is fuming through the house and up the stairs with Conrad following, saying Victoria shouldn't have been so cruel to Lydia and trying to explain himself. Victoria isn't hearing it because out of all the women he could've had he chose her closest friend. They close themselves in a bed room, and for no other reason than to give us some backstory it seems, turn the fight into an argument about who was more responsible for the destruction of David Clarke. Conrad seems to win that argument with the final word that Victoria gained the most from it.
Nolan sits alone outside at a table that might be outside his mansion (there are weird statues of dolphins behind him), watching video of the party on his iPad. He somehow managed to catch Daniel and his friend about to do coke before Amanda bumped into Daniel, complete with audio. Nolan's interrupted by a phone call from Jack about selling his boat. They hang up after coming to an agreement and Jack is left sad with only Sammy to give him comfort. Nolan, meanwhile, notices Amanda in the video, pauses it and stretch zooms his iPad on her face. He smirks to himself.
Amanda comes home to a dark, drafty home -- the kind of place that has either been broken into or is about to be host to an unwelcome guest. On cue, Nolan appears behind Amanda and greets her as "Amanda." In a patronizing tone he tells Amanda he almost didn't recognize her. She responds by kneeing him and slamming him up against a wooden column. "Do you know how easy it would be for me crush your windpipe?" Nolan gets her to back off by invoking her father's memory and asking how he can help. Nolan: "No one wants this imperious cadre of toxic phonies to eat it more than yours truly." He witnessed first-hand what the Graysons did to Amanda's father and thinks they're too hard-core for Amanda to take on alone. She says she can handle it just fine and will take him down if he gets in her way. He reminds her he just wants to help, and also reminds her he can be just as powerful an enemy as any of them. Before he leaves, he cements his spineless lackey role by bringing up the fact Jack still carries a torch for little Amanda Clarke. Amanda: "Amanda Clarke no longer exists."
FLASHBACK: A teenage Amanda is emancipated from incarceration on her birthday at a juvenile facility for girls. She has long, black, "Emily The Strange" hair and wears a black hoodie out the front barbed wire gate of the compound where she's met by a black Escalade. A younger Nolan gets out and greets her with a gift from her father. Amanda doesn't care much for that since she hasn't seen her father in ten years. Nolan's face goes blank when he realizes Amanda doesn't know her father passed away six weeks ago. Even so, Amanda believes her father was a murderer and a liar. Nolan insists she should see what's inside the gift -- it's a large wooden box with the infinity X infinity symbol carved on the top -- because there was more to the story than she knows. As she opens the box and sees evidence everything she's known might be wrong, Nolan explains Amanda's father was the first to believe in him and invest in his company. Since Amanda is now 18, she's officially forty-nine percent owner of his company. Nolan jokes that she doesn't have to come to the board meetings held every other week. She ignores him and reads a letter from her father that was a provision that anticipated she wouldn't be reading it unless she was free and he was dead. The voice-over of the letter carries us out of the /FLASHBACK and brings us back to Memorial Day evening. Amanda is going through the items in the box -- letters and journals from over the years exonerating her father and explaining who was responsible for his downfall. David letter voice-over: "All I ask is that you promise to do the one thing that's been so hard for me to do: forgive." Amanda's not down with that. Amanda voice-over: "When deception cuts this deep, someone has to pay. My father's chance to bring justice to the truly guilty was stolen from him. His only option was to forgive. I have others." She marks a red "X" on Lydia's face in a Grayson Corporation company photo.
FLASHBACK: Conrad opening his and Lydia's hotel room to Amanda who is dressed as room service with a black wig and the Becky nametag she was eyeing. She has a cart of food that Conrad instructs her to set up near the balcony where he is hanging out with Lydia. Amanda voice-over: "They say vengeance is a dish best served cold, but sometimes it's as warm as a bowl of soup." She drops a vial of poison into Conrad's soup and quickly leaves. /FLASHBACK.
On the dock behind her house at night, Amanda stares out at the water. VO: "My father died an innocent man. Betrayed by the woman he loved." She clutches a gold watch with the inscription on the back : "David 'Until Forever' Victoria." Continued Amanda VO: "When everything you love has been stolen from you, sometimes all you have left is revenge. Like I said, this is not a story about forgiveness." Queen Victoria watches Amanda from her second-story window and places a phone call to a mystery man. "I want you to find out everything you can about Emily Thorne." Amanda continues to stare out coldly at the ocean from the dock.
-- Pablo G. is some guy who lives in San Antonio, Texas. He co-hosts TWoP's original "Trailers Without Pity" with his brother Omar G. Check him out at Unp0ssible and Pablog and follow him @PendejoJoe on Twitter.
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