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So, the main character of Revenge was shot and fell off the side of a boat. Now what?
The aftermath of the honeymoon cruise from hell includes Aidan, Nolan, and Jack playing the three musketeers in service of Emily; the police pointing the finger at Victoria; and Margaux handing over all of the photos she obtained from the cruise except for a select few memory cards. Lydia clears her name by having Conrad lie and say she was with the whole family (instead of in the stateroom) when Emily was shot and Victoria refuses to confirm or deny anything to the detective. It's almost a given that Victoria and her bitch face are headed for the big house.
Emily, of course, is still missing but we find her hanging onto the buoy she Little Mermaided her way onto. She's trying to reach the emergency pack that Aidan placed there, but getting shot twice makes your grip a little wonky, so she loses it and turns on her tracker instead. In a few cut scenes, we find her hiding on the back of a fishing boat as Aidan finds her and tries to take her to the hospital. She's delirious and wants to run away with him, so when she passes out he makes noise to alert the fisherman, who take her to the hospital.
The obtuse detective manages to miss all the murderous faces Daniel is making throughout the ordeal and questions him about his mother, which only yields more murderous faces because Daniel knows she's innocent. Then, Daniel is truly tested when he learns that Emily is alive. Somehow the detective doesn't arrest Daniel when he looks like he just got a hernia upon learning the news.
At the hospital, Daniel is the only one visiting with Em (partially because the doc tells him about her faux pregnancy in private and partially because Victoria, as a person of interest, is barred). Emily wakes up and does her whole "I have amnesia and this definitely isn't a lame plot twist" bit and Daniel thinks he's home free.
Nolan is barred from visiting Emily too and Patrick refuses to help him. Patrick shows up later to break up with Nolan and Nolan is forced channel his emotions into Aidan's plan to rescue Emily—who he thinks is faking it—from the hospital. With Nolan's tech help, Aidan swoops in, but Em really has amnesia and she calls for the nurse.
Nolan does some research and figures out that Emily's amnesia is partially psychological and that she needs someone to give her an emotional kick. Jack is the only one who can get in, and after Charlotte tells him that Emily woke up and told her that David Clarke was her father, he agrees to visit.
In the meantime, Daniel confesses to his mother so she doesn't go to jail. To keep him from confessing (because of course he's confessing), Victoria visits Margaux and finds that her secret photos show Lydia was missing from the main room during the shooting. Victoria makes Conrad sacrifice his lover for his son and he does it, but it just angers Daniel, who's upset that his whole life has been a series of sacrifices and lies.
At the same moment, Patrick pledges himself to Victoria. As she has her ruined throne removed (stained from Lydia's power trip earlier that day), Patrick vows to help her take her enemies down and offers her the knowledge of Nolan's infinity box.
In the hospital parking garage, Aidan visits with the nurse who tried to slip something into Emily's IV. Basically, he knows her, she's got the hots for him, she swears she's there to help, and he stupidly seems to believe her.
But Emily's fine for the moment with great thanks to Jack. He apologizes for all the fighting he initiated throughout the summer and kisses her on the forehead. Her memories come rushing back and she tells him that Daniel shot her. Voila.
With that, the god-awful amnesia plot serves its purpose and we move onto a world in which Victoria gets her hands on all of Emily's secrets—or at the least the ones the scenes-from--week saw fit to show us.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!So, the protagonist of Revenge was shot and fell off the side of boat. Now what?
Naturally, every member of the Grayson family and string of extended friends and annoyances are under suspicion, but none more than Victoria, who can’t account for her whereabouts during the shooting thanks to Aidan’s swift move with the chlorophyll hanky. Lydia is removed from suspicion when Conrad lies for her. In her defense, she is innocent. Margaux hands over all the photos that she and her photogs took for Voulez, keeping two suspect cards for herself. Daniel and Charlotte are considered to be grieving, despite the murderous look on Daniel’s face throughout the ordeal. And Victoria, the one famous for feuding with Emily, stands as the only person deemed capable of the attempted murder. If it wasn’t for the other 38 minutes of plot ahead in the episode, Victoria would be days away from being cuffed by the police.
While her new family is dealing with the investigation, Emily is hanging onto the buoy she Little Mermaid-ed her way onto in the last episode. She’s trying to reach the supply box Aidan planted there, but getting shot makes your grips sort of weak, so she drops it and instead turns on the tracking device on her wedding garter. Magically, she swims away from this situation.
Meanwhile, Team Emily is in a panic. Aidan knows her survival skills are on point, but he’s frustrated that her last-minute mission deadline made it difficult to set up a foolproof plan. Jack suddenly realizes that perhaps this whole disaster is his fault -- although, he doesn’t realize part of the issue is the fact that Emily toyed with an emotional wreck’s baby heart, too. He tells Aidan that he’s the one who imposed a deadline on Emily, but Aidan’s too concerned with chasing Emily’s tracker to worry about blame. Once again, Aidan is the bigger man, despite the fact that Jack is supposed to be the one we’re rooting for.
After that back and forth, Aidan finds Emily hiding on a fishing boat, convulsing and bleeding profusely. She refuses to go to the hospital, eager to just start her life with Aidan -- revenge be damned, for once. She needs to go to the hospital, or she’ll die, so when she passes out from exertion and blood loss, Aidan alerts the fishermen so they’ll find her and take her to the hospital and they can keep their ruse afloat.
At Nolan’s, the three musketeers reconvene to set a game plan in place. Nolan finally finds out that Em’s plan didn’t exactly work out as Aidan informs them that he had a fisherman take her to the hospital. Naturally, Jack is furious that Aidan is so committed to their secret mission that he’d leave Em alone, but finally, Nolan acts as the voice of reason: what’s done is done, now they need to focus on Ems. She’s still in danger in the hospital -- the Graysons will either spin the story against her or finish the job, Conrad-style. They devise a plan: Nolan will use his pull at the hospital to keep watch over her and Jack will pump Margaux for information since she was on the cruise. This all happens before the mid-episode mark, so we’re basically just waiting for everything to go awry.
And what our friends aren’t prepared for is that the affects Victoria’s latest status will have on this mission. She’s officially been named a person of interest in the investigation and everyone -- including her lawyer, Conrad -- and Charlotte, think she’s guilty. Her one remaining ally is Patrick, who she fills in on Emily’s fake pregnancy and agenda against her. It seems Victoria still thinks Emily is just obsessed with her instead of putting together the pieces that Emily is David Clarke’s daughter. Once Victoria changes her self-obsessed tune, then she might just be onto something.
In the Graysons’ pool house, the detective is busy missing Daniel’s malicious glances and asking him about Victoria’s feuds with Emily. To be fair, Daniel is partially angry that his mother is being investigated when he’s guilty, but he’s also still furious with Emily. His face contorts even further in anguish when another officer enters the pool house to tell him that Emily is alive and at the hospital. How he’s not grilled by the detective when he looks like he swallowed a lemon is a mystery.
At the hospital, the doctor explains Emily’s injuries and then requests to speak to Daniel alone. She explains that Emily’s blood work shows that she’s not pregnant (somehow, Daniel’s more capable of feigning surprise here than he was when he tried to feign relief that Emily was alive.) He asks the doc to keep this private, fully aware that a bombshell like that could make him look guilty.
While Daniel’s dealing with the bombshell he already knew about, Victoria learns that she’s been barred from visiting Emily due to her involvement in the investigation. It’s a bummer too, since she wore such an amazing leather dress to stand smugly over her daughter-in-law. Oh well.
Since she’s powerless elsewhere, Victoria uses what she has left Victoria tries to stop Nolan from visiting Emily because he doesn’t have a family representative to escort him. Because Patrick is standing there doing his best impression of a retired ventriloquist dummy, Nolan simply asks him to get him into see "his only family." Faced with the decision between his mother and Nolan, Patrick chooses his mommy, but not before she wells up with tears over the knowledge that her son is sleeping with the enemy. She runs away crying like the perfect drama queen she is and Patrick simply white fangs Nolan.
Meanwhile, Daniel is visiting with Emily and she wakes up and frantically asks where she is. He asks her what she remembers, to which she replies "nothing." Ever so conflicted, Daniel still isn’t delighted that Emily has amnesia -- which could save him from being caught --and yet another authority fails to notice the death stare he gives the woman he supposedly loves.
Jack is right on his Three Musketeers duty and visits Margaux at her office just as she’s going over the photos she kept from the police. She says she kept them since they might get her in trouble with Conrad… sure, if Conrad was the one who orchestrated the shooting, but he’s not. Still, Margaux’s journalistic curiosity has gotten the best of her and she’s reviewed the photos and found that, other than Victoria, there’s one other person missing from the photos and thus a second suspect. A little simple math and comprehension tells us that missing person is Lydia.
After having her heart broken by Patrick, Victoria returns home to find Lydia preemptively setting up shop in Grayson Manor, now that everyone believes Victoria was the one who shot Emily. If her swagger wasn’t punishment enough, Lydia pours her glass of red wine all over Victoria’s precious white throne, which is a great point to press pause and observe a moment of silence for the Queen’s precious seat. It’s only a few seconds before Victoria lunges at Lydia with murder in her eyes, increasing the likelihood that she pulled the trigger in Conrad’s eyes.
While Victoria is busy being tortured, Nolan and Aidan assess the situation. Nolan hacks the hospital files to see that Emily is diagnosed with Amnesia. Aidan insists she’s faking it and has Nolan take over the hospital’s cameras so he can sneak in and rescue her. During his trip to the hospital, Patrick visits Nolan and officially breaks up with him. Nolan needs definite endings, or he’d be texting the momma’s boy nonstop. Completely destroyed, Nolan channels his pain into the mission at hand like a good little revenge expert and someone who only has Emily left in his life.
However, when Aidan tries to rescue Emily, she doesn’t recognize him and uses her emergency button until Charlotte comes in to comfort her. Aidan isn’t the know-it-all he purports to be… and with that, the series widens the gap between these lovers.
Aidan’s failure, Nolan’s emotional damage, and Jack’s guilt start to cause the three musketeers to crumble. Still, Nolan is with it enough to research her type of amnesia and finds that it’s partially psychological, because of course it is. What’s even more predictable is that Aidan already wasted his opportunity to be the one to create the emotional connection remedy to pull her out and Nolan has been barred from visitation. That only leaves Jack who can definitely get in with Charlotte’s help. Total non-surprise! Jack is Emily’s connector. Of course, he has to do some soul searching first, as usual, so we wait until later in the episode for our hero to decide to help his dear friend.
Daniel, the anti-Jack, is still stewing over all this new information when Charlotte informs him of two key points: Sarah survived her suicide attempt and everyone, including her, thinks Victoria is guilty. Daniel realizes that, shocker, his refusal to confess to the crime will make someone else the suspect in Emily’s shooting, so he decides to make things right. He tells Victoria that he knows all about the pregnancy and that deception and that in his depressed (over Sarah’s attempted suicide) and drunk stupor, his rage caused him to shoot Emily.
And even when she’s finally won, it’s not enough, so Victoria says that Emily set Daniel up and that she wanted him to shoot her. Yes, Victoria, because every great evil plan entails the plan-maker being shot off the side of a boat and getting hypothermia. Daniel recognizes this as textbook Victoria crazy talk and tells her he’s turning himself in, much to her horror. My son, pay for his crimes? Never.
A desperate Victoria turns to Margaux, who reluctantly feeds her the photo evidence: Lydia was missing from the room despite her statement to the police. Victoria takes the photos straight to Conrad and demands that he sacrifice his lover for his son by revising his statement to the police and driving her out of town. With a remarkably low level of reluctance, he betrays his mistress, tells her she’ll be fine because she’s innocent, and she becomes a suspect almost instantaneously. Unfortunately, this doesn’t do much for his frail relationship with Daniel, who’s furious that he’s involved in more shenanigans. He’s finally seen the light: a life of privilege actually forced him into a box and decisions that cost him the love of his life, Sarah.
At this point, Emily is still lying in bed working the amnesia plot for all it’s worth while Charlotte, reformed Emily hater, tells her about her gorgeous wedding day and delivers and overture about how strong Emily is. After calling Emily her inspiration (since when?), Charlotte says she wonders where she got it from. Making something of an emotional connection with her half-sister (but not the whole connection, that’s reserved for Jack), Emily says she got her strength from her father, David Clarke.)
Brow thoroughly furrowed, Charlotte takes this news to Jack; she's sure that Emily’s just delirious. Jack, of course, knows the truth and finally decides his soul searching is over -- he needs to help Em get her memory back so she doesn’t blow her cover. Finally, Jackie boy sees some reason past his thick layer of rage.
Just as he arrives to do his job, an Australian nurse is attempting to insert a suspicious liquid into Emily’s IV. Charlotte’s arrival stops her, and she leaves work altogether where she runs into Aidan, who apparently knows her. Long story short: she kisses Aidan and implies the creation of a new love triangle because we definitely need another one of those and swears she’s there to help Emily. Despite Aidan’s complete submission, this woman does not seem trustworthy in the least, especially since she’s after Emily’s fiancé, and the dashing Brit is becoming increasingly dispensable.
While we’re seemingly losing Aidan, we’re gaining a dynamic duo in Patrick and Victoria. The mama’s boy chases Victoria to Grayson Manor and pledges his allegiance to her, gifting her the knowledge of Emily and Nolan’s infinity box. Finally, Victoria will have a plan aside from, "Emily looked at me funny, I swear!"
In the final scene of the episode, Jack talks to Emily and tells her about how long they’ve known each other, repeating Charlotte’s narrative about Emily being tough because apparently that’s the only characteristic she exhibits to her friends and family. Finally, he gets to the amnesia-busting goods: he took his anger over Amanda’s death out on her and he’s finally sorry for that now that he sees the real life consequences. He then kisses her on the forehead and asks her to come back to them. Like a light bulb, she turns back on, remembers everything and tells Jack that Daniel shot her. It’s just too bad the scenes-from--week confirm that she can do nothing with that information. On week’s agenda: house arrest with Victoria, and who has found Emily’s box o’ tricks. But hey, at least the "Who am I?" plot is over.