Episode Report Card Kelsea Stahler: B- | 33 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Beware of Rolling Blackouts
By Kelsea Stahler | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.09.2014
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Revenge is back and in its first episode in months, the gang hits the ground running.
First up is Emily, whose says she's got slight swelling and Em assumes that's what caused all her blackouts last episode – like the one that led to her waking up in Conrad's bed. Her doctor's not so sure and neither is Nolan, but Emily insists that when her brain's swelling subsides, so will the episodes. The problem is that they're getting worse and fast.
With Nolan's help, she figures out that she didn't sleep with Conrad. He was actually helping her because she told him that she was afraid of Daniel after he manhandled her at the end of the last episode. She's not sure about the rest of their deal-making, which is a problem because Daniel is desperate to figure her out.
At some point in her scheming, she called Conrad's ex-wife and big-time lawyer, Stevie Grayson, to come help her with her divorce proceedings because apparently there are no other lawyers anywhere between the Hamptons and Los Angeles. While blacked out, Emily tells Stevie that she loves someone else, that Daniel is cheating on her, and that she wants a divorce, but when she comes to, she says that she's going to work it out with Daniel. But upon that lie, she blacks out again and visits Aidan, begging him to take her back. He won't and runs out to his car, where Niko finds him and drugs him.
Naturally, Emily has to come to the rescue and Niko leaves her a hint to draw her out to Takaeda's old house where Aidan is held captive. We find that in one of her previous blackouts, Emily hid the katana under Aidan's bed, which led to him almost being killed. When she saves him, he keeps her from killing Niko and then has a chat with her: He doesn't believe her blackouts are real (probably because they sound like a rather ridiculous excuse), but even after she convinces him that they are, he says that she needs to get help. Sadly, it looks like there's no reconciliation for these two in the near future – even if Aidan does end the chat by saying he doesn't care if she can't have kids, he only wanted (past tense, ouch) her.
By episode's end, Emily and Nolan come to an uncomfortable conclusion: Em's mom had the same blackout problem and no therapy worked for her. She's panicked because the alternate personality that comes out when she blacks out is hurting the wrong people. First she's barren and now she's a loaded gun. What more does this woman need to deal with?
The rest of the Hamptons set has their own issues while Emily's head is all foggy. Jack and Margaux are buying a house together, but she's preoccupied with Conrad, who's trying to use Voulez to cozy up to her father. Charlotte wants a job at Voulez, which her father gets for her while Daniel throws her a giant birthday party because that's apparently all he knows how to do.
Meanwhile, things are rather terrible for Victoria. Patrick burned down the gallery and brought Brennan into repair it so that he'd have a chance to kill his rapist father. Patrick changes his mind when Brennan talks about regretting never getting to know his estranged son or be with the boy's mother so Patrick decides not to electrocute him (and the talk wasn't even that great), but winds up killing him later when he and Victoria get into a tussle at the gallery. And if Patrick being wracked with guilt isn't bad enough, Stevie also shows up with the deed to the land for Grayson Manor and according to her divorce agreement with Conrad, it actually belongs to her. Victoria is officially homeless.
And in one final twist, Stevie piles on the truth bombs: she wants to know all about how Conrad wronged Jack because she says that she's his mother. Man. There isn't a single woman who can be with Conrad and not stray. Sucks to be that guy.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!From the first moments of Revenge's long-awaited return to the small screen, we know something is terribly wrong, because Emily is doing that shifty eye thing she does when things are getting hopeless. We open on Emily getting an MRI and she learns that her brain is recovering well, but the blackouts are still a very real thing. Emily hopes that the swelling is the reason for said blackouts, but even when the best neurosurgeon money can buy tells her they don't seem to be related, Emily believes she's above the laws of nature. Good luck with that, lady friend.
At that moment, Jack and Margaux are house hunting and while he's thrilled to pick out the modest house he can afford. And while he should be kissing the ground when Margaux -- heir to a media empire -- says she's happy to live anywhere with him, he's worried about her not being able to handle whatever Conrad's end game is. But he forgets that Margaux is more cunning than he gives her credit for.
Down on the beach, Charlotte is busy asking her big brother for a job at Voulez -- ah, the unrelentingly easy life of the East Coast elite offspring. Daniel informs her that he can't because he was fired, but he'd love to throw her a killer party because that's all he knows how to do anymore.
After showing off her new throne and establishing for the audience that her marriage with Conrad is coming to a legal end, Victoria runs to the burned down gallery where Patrick has betrayed her and hired his father, Brennan, as the new contractor. Cue Victoria's horror face. She wants Patrick to fire Brennan, but that's not going to happen.
Emily's practicing a similar look when she visits Nolan and sees Aidan's bags all packed and ready to go. She's upset, but she's more concerned about her memory gaps than her broken heart (for now). Nolan grabbed the security footage from the South Fork Inn and thankfully, it appears that she didn't in fact sleep with Conrad. But there may a bigger problem; she did speak to Conrad in the bar and make a phone call in his presence. Because Emily apparently doesn't know that cell phones have this handy call log feature, she says she can't figure out who she called from watching the video. Dear God. Luckily, we're onto the real issue: she is confident that these blackouts are just a temporary, accident-related issue… which means they definitely aren't.
Immediately after her heart-to-heart with Nolan, she gets an L.A.-based call from the person she phoned in Conrad's presence: it's Mrs. Grayson, who's now a divorce lawyer and apparently there is a dearth of such professionals in any town between South Hampton and Los Angeles.