Emily: "We spend our lives struggling to hold onto the things we value most. To the people and things we believe we could never exist without. But our memories are often an illusion protecting a far more destructive truth."
Jack (Nick Wechsler) hasn't returned any of mother (Gail O'Grady) dearest calls after the shock revelation and he doesn't want anything to do with her. She left as soon as Jack was born but now wants to make things up to him by making it possible;e for Jack to get his dream home and set up house with Margaux. Patrick (Justin Hartley) attends the wake for his dearly departed father, Brennan, but soon gets into turmoil when he tells his friends that he wasn't the perfect man they make him out to be. On the contrary, he's a rapist. Cue brawl. But Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) was there to rescue him as per usual. Strange how the two of them just keep sticking up for one another over and over. They really do seem to go over and beyond the call of mother/son.
Emily (Emily VanCamp) is still suffering those blackouts and this time she brings out the knife and destroys the infinity symbol her father (James Tupper) carved on the porch of the beach house. Seems if she can't dig the knife in deeper to her friends, there' always the pieces of wood, furniture. She ran to Nolan (Gabriel Mann) who wanted to leave town with her, but she instead decides she wants to kill all the Grayson's. Fitting revenge indeed, or should that be end. Daniel (Josh Bowman) meanwhile hires a PI to follow Emily so he can dig up dirt on her and finally get a divorce and her out of his life. Or maybe to use for other purposes against her. He's gotten his own PI cos he doesn't want the relics used by his parents.
Nolan asks Aiden (Barry Sloane) for help but he's not too eager to oblige. Now for someone who claimed to love her forever, he should have jumped at the chance of helping her out. I'm sure she's helped him many times in his past and with finding out about his sister too. Aiden says she's out of control and tried to kill him too, at least have him killed, but Nolan adds if she goes through with her plan to kill the Grayson's, she won't snap out of it. To this end, Emily headed for the Southfork Inn and to kill Conrad (Henry Czerny) but she's interrupted by someone. Of course from the shoes, it was obviously Aiden, ha. He kidnaps her and ties her to a chair, using the method Takeda would use on her if he was still alive. ironically it was Aiden who killed him. She must confront her demons and find out why she's going after her friends, instead of going after the people she wanted her real revenge against.
This he does by wanting her to reach her subconscious and by dunking her head in cold water. Probably a good idea since her mother tried to drown her when she was little and also Takeda used to do the same for her, when he tied her underwater, probably more of the reason why Aiden did that. She has flashes to her father and how she found him and Victoria together. She ran away and he came after her. He's the reason she's losing the plot. Emily tells him Victoria hates her and he shouldn't trust her but he refuses to give up the woman he loves. Emily gets better and thanks Aiden for helping since he was the only one who could get through to her. They kiss and obviously you know Daniel's PI is hiding around somewhere. So this time they finally get caught on camera and Daniel has his pics to move forward with his own plans now. Emily knows she has to clear her father's name.
Victoria attends Nolan's meeting where he plans to set up an Artwalk for artists to display their work and she wants to do something for Patrick. But she blames Nolan for being the one who sent Patrick on the path to find his father and on the path of self destruction too. Maybe Victoria is to blame for that too, she's got a knack for attracting the wrong men in her life. Prompting Nolan to visit Patrick who is shirtless yet again! He tells him how he's changed being here and he's truly sorry for what he did. If he knew the gory details, he wouldn't have said anything to him. Nolan tells him there's a place for him at the Artwalk which will be attended by a famous painter. Sure enough he turns up and is impressed with his work, offering Patrick an internship in Tuscany. Later we find out that Nolan paid him off to take Patrick on as he and Victoria share a drink together. Victoria: "What no snappy rejoinder?"
Nolan: "None needed, you let me help break your heart."
Jack comes to Emily for advice and she tells him to get to know his mother, Stevie. He takes Emily's hand to thank her. Wonder what went through Emily's mind then as far as Jack was concerned. She tells him how she was a drunk and had to leave him so he'd be looked after her. She couldn't look after him until she could look after herself. She only found out she was pregnant when she was in rehab. It took her so long cos she's only now gathered the strength to face Victoria and Conrad, who are triggers to her. Victoria also shows up with a council leader who tell Stevie she'll have a fight on her hands if she levels the mansion as it's a historic site.
Nolan brings Emily a new infinity box, one that can only be opened with her fingerprint. Inside she looks at the journals and recalls how Jack said his mother was an alcoholic and how her father mentioned Stevie who wanted to take on his case, but she had been disbarred. Leaving Emily with another dilemma, can she take revenge on Stevie too, she being Jack's mother, or will she pump her for info.
Charlotte (Christa B Allen) finds out Margaux's father is coming to town and Margaux did exactly what Conrad knew she would do. He invites her to sit in on the meeting which is what she also wanted since now she can run off and tell Daniel everything.
Revenge says goodbye to Patrick but he wasn't the character he could have been. He was mostly just used by Victoria in her struggles against everyone after her and all the bad decisions she'd made. We didn't get to know much about him or his past and whether he was always so dark and had been in trouble before he came to the Hampton's. As Nolan tells him his troubles started when he arrived here, but that's just his view. There was nothing to cement Patrick as a character except for being Victoria's son and always wanting to help her out, even if this involved murderous intentions. He got close to her though he didn't know her that well himself. So she hatches the plot to get him to leave otherwise he would forever be helping her out of her troubles. Could have done so much more with him.
This was more of an ep for tying up loose ends than anything major and opening up new plots with Stevie and Conrad and Pascal when he arrives.
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