Emily: "When I was a little girl, the delineation between good and evil was as clear as night and day. But as life grows complicated that line blurs and we learn to justify our actions when we believe we've crossed it. If we aren't careful, those choices can fill us with darkness leaving us destined to never see light again."
Amanda (Emily VanCamp) draws the infinity symbol on some sand at the beach house when she's little and David (James Tupper) comes and draws it again, as she looks up at a plane. He asks her if it's cos of the plane she saw in the news. She asks him why people do bad things and he replies "it's our decisions that define who we are..." She should listen with her heart. In jail, Amanda realizes that Ben (Brian Hallisay) is dead. She then decides to plead guilty so that she'll be transferred to maximum security, thus making her escape, as Nolan (Gabriel Mann) tells Jack (Nick Wechsler). Amanda tells the judge of what her father said about no one is born bad and the DA thinks she's just stalling. David asks Amanda why she confessed but the conversations are recorded and she tells him she did it. He won't let her spend time in prison the same way he did and lose all those years. Their conversation is cut short by the guard. She climbs the ceiling and gets out through the vents as the alarm goes of indicating a fire. They take her to Mary's house, where Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) was staying and Nolan thinks she'll be safe there. Jack asks whose body Victoria used and Amanda finds a photo of her and her mother, finding out she burned her own mother's corpse.
Margaux (Karine Vanasse) hugs Victoria as she turns up wearing a wig in disguise but she tells her she can't stay here. She's going to get her out of the country and gives her a fake passport and money for France. Margaux tells her she didn't want that woman to kill Ben, but Victoria tells her it was horrific, it was laughable how they've been going on about no bloodshed for weeks now and yet that's exactly where the two of them end up. Not to mention all this line crossing business as well. She also tells Victoria that Patrick and Charlotte (Crista B Allen) will be at her funeral, but she can't see them until Amanda's behind bars.
Victoria tells Margaux about her mother (Adrienne Barbeau) and how she got a call after Amanda exposed her. She visits her in the hospital and tells her how she was a horrible mother. That she took the blame for her mother killing that man but she still didn't love her and she returned home to find her with that letch of a man. Her mother was shocked to see that Victoria has done the same thing to Amanda and framed her father. Her mother admitting that the lecherous man Victoria seduced into her bed was her father. Then hopes they'll continue the conversation in hell as she dies. Victoria places her ring on her mother's finger in the house and kisses it.
She tells Margaux she's the only family she has left and that Amanda only confessed as she has a plan. Victoria won't let Amanda hurt her children, well why would she, when it's Victoria she wants and Charlotte is her sister, so she wouldn't, but Patrick was nowhere to be seen at the funeral. As Louise (Elena Satine) tells Margaux that neither of them came. Louise goes on about her being the only mother she knew and she was like a daughter to her. Victoria listens, as is obvious she would've turned up.
Jack notices the floor in the house has been cleaned and Amanda uses the corner of the photo to pick up traces of blood showing Ben was killed here and didn't die at home. How could he have had a stabbing accident at home, ridiculous! Victoria tells Margaux she was at the funeral and Louise was upset at her loss. She wants to bring her into the loop and moreover, she wants Margaux's assassin, White Gold (Courtney Love) to find Amanda and drop her in a hole and we get that whole no more bloodshed line from Margaux again.
Amanda tells Jack how she saw him at the park with Sammy and she didn't know if she could carry through her whole revenge plan. She knew everything would be okay and always felt safe around him. He asks her how long since she got some sleep and that she should get some now cos he's here and she'll be safe, but before that they find the time to fall into bed together. When she wakes she finds a note from Jack saying he's gone for food. She then sees Dr Oren's name on the toothbrush and has a flashback to Ben saying the doctor identified Victoria's remains as hers from dental records. Louise is angry that Margaux made her leave the funeral reception and she sees Victoria. Victoria says Louise is a treasured part of her family and she will be leaving and she can't join her yet. She didn't tell her about her plan incase she was implicated. She asks her to keep on the charade and they'll be reunited one day.
Nolan finds Margaux has been channeling money into the Cayman Islands and suspects she's been paying White Gold that way. The FBI haven't been able to find the assassin and they don't know what she looks like. Amanda tells them she has the dental records and Nolan tells her that the assassin is after her. She can't return to the house but Jack is there. So Jack didn't have a phone now for them to call him. Or the house either. David calls the police. She's waiting for Jack and manages to stab him, he'll either die slowly or faster if he tells her where Amanda is. The police finally arrive but she runs away. Nolan sits with Jack at the hospital and Amanda arrives dressed as a nurse. Amanda begs Jack not to leave her and that she's going to kill Victoria, Nolan tells her to do it. Nolan is going after Margaux and they need to know where Victoria is, Louise shows up and says she knows where she is. Nolan saying he was trained for sour years by the best sensi he knows.
Nolan hacks into her laptop and there's a picture of a dead Ben, with words saying, 'you did this... and this...' Nolan walks in with proof she hired the assassin. The one who killed Ben and put Jack in hospital in a critical condition. Once again, she panics since she didn't want anyone to be hurt, no what did she think was going to happen. She was trying to put Amanda back behind bars, that's where she belongs and Nolan asks where she belongs. She lost her father, Daniel and her baby and can't take it back. Nolan reminds her of what Amanda said to him about their decisions defining them. She has a decision to make.
David is with Jack and he says how he brought him and Amanda together when they were little, reminding him of their wedding on the beach, the one with the pipe cleaner rings. Jack wants to ask him for his blessing to marry Amanda and he can't think of anyone better he'd want to leave her with. Louise shows up and tells Victoria she knows she was using her and she's a pawn, but Victoria says she didn't want to hurt her. But Louise says she hurt someone even more and Amanda shows up with a gun, as she points it at Victoria, her hand shakes.
Margaux tells White Gold to make sure Nolan is in danger so that will draw out Amanda and she's already outside the bar. She walks in and stabs him on his hand telling him to call Amanda. Nolan tasers her. Margaux walks in and pulls the knife out of his hand. She wants to help him just like Daniel saved Amanda, she wants her own redemption and will be here when the police arrive. She bandages his arm saying if their decisions define who they are, then this is who she wants to be. Took you long enough.
Victoria has placed cameras at the apartment and says the world will see Amanda as an assassin. Amanda saying she was the one who crossed the line. The people who hurt her father deserved their lives and to live them in turmoil and Victoria needs to die. Victoria tells her she was dead before she was even born and this is just the formality. As Amanda is about to pull the trigger, David shows up and shoots her. He can't let Amanda suffer in the same way. She can't lose him again. Victoria reaches for he gun and shoots Amanda.
Charlotte is at the cemetery with Amanda as she places flowers on David's grave. Flashback to snow and David sits at the beach house with Amanda telling him she was glad the judge gave him compassionate leave and she could spend the time with him. His life is complete and he can die happy. She will miss him and he tells her to remember the infinity symbol and how much he loves her. He takes his last breath. The symbol is what she always turned to anyway.
Amanda: "when embarking upon a path of revenge, Confucius warns that you should dig two graves. Confucius was right. The second of the two graves was meant for me. I was only saved by my father's infinite love . I know now that revenge only brings darkness. I couldn't see the light until I considered my father's advice to try and forgive. It's not easy but my father once said that nothing worth doing ever is. Well, with one exception."
She looks at the Grayson graves, Conrad, Daniel and Victoria. Then she feels the scar on her chest as she's getting ready for her wedding. He recalls their first night at the beach house when he wanted to help her but she said he wasn't a part of this. She gave him purpose and he wonders if there's life after revenge for him. He tells her to get ready since Jack's been waiting long enough. He walks her down the aisle. Charlotte is also there and so is Stevie (Gail O'Grady). Jack gives a speech at the reception in remembrance of those they have lost, his brother Declan, his father, Emily Thorn who gave him his beautiful son, Aiden, Ben and David who they lost earlier in the year. He bought them together when younger and now. That his legacy will see them onto their new life. They're leaving on the boat he restored. Amanda gives him a gift and Nolan brings in a puppy like Sammy.
After the shooting Amanda is back in the hospital and Charlotte tells the doctor she must never know, who the heart belonged to. Amanda wakes and tells Jack the dream is real but he calls it a nightmare.
Amanda: "I consider myself lucky, most morality tales don't have a happy ending. For some reason karma saw fit to spare me, but not without leaving deeply etched wounds. ...when everything you love has been stolen from you, consider my story as you embark on your own journey of revenge and always remember, what goes around comes around."
This show likes to do things in twos, full circle with David dying all over again like he did in prison, everyone practically ended up in hospital in the entire four years. Not to mention deja vu when Amanda conked Victoria when she was digging that grave last season and she ended up in the institution. Now Amanda loses David all over again. What was the point of getting him out if he couldn't be with her and have the life they were deprived of for so long. Don't get me started on Victoria and that dream Amanda had of getting her heart and that she was a match. I mean Victoria her mother would be the ultimate curse and poor ending! Really, especially since Amanda was with Daniel and married him too, I mean her half brother, noooo! That'd been more fodder for another series! Or a spin off! ha. But that's too much to bare, especially since they now leave us with that silly cliffhanger as to whether Victoria could've been her mother. It'd have been so much easier if David had poisoned her and threw her off the lighthouse as he was going to do, when he didn't, cos he ended up killing her anyway!
Jack and Amanda sailing into the sunset and she'll always have those nightmares and not put it behind her and when Nolan wonders what he'll do, she makes sure he'll still help others who are worthy of it. "Well played Ems," he says. Well that's a whole other spin off on its own and he could Louise to help, ha. Though she still got away with that whole electrocution fiasco and no one will try and convince me otherwise! She did it, shame it wasn't properly mentioned.
Agh, Victoria's heart, and at the beginning David tells Amanda she should always listen with her heart, was that meant to be a clue, ironic or just a passing comment. Though not sure he would've been told if Victoria was her mother, but what about Amanda's own mother then? Is that why she was locked up and tried to drown her in the sea. It kinda all makes sense now if you look back! Thanks for leaving us with so many questions still, talk about karma, what did we do to deserve this?? Ha.
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