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Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Revenge 3.4 "Mercy" Review

                                             
As Emily (Emily VanCamp) arrives at the hospital and she finds Father Paul (James LeGros) critical and he eventually dies.  Conrad (Henry Czerny) however survives like a cockroach, ha, and she suspects he may have had something to do with his death.  She vows to bring him down and prove he was driving even if Daniel (Josh Bowman) wants to do everything he can to ensure he isn't blamed for the car crash.  Emily says she didn't give him the full dosage of the drug and Nolan (Gabriel Mann) tells her again he warned her about doing this.  Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) turns up at the hospital if not just to gloat and tells Daniel how Conrad was going to confess about the past and David.  Emily finds Patrick (Justin Hartley) outside and he returns home after he's not allowed to enter the hospital room.  Emily telling him that's how the Grayson's do things.

Charlotte (Christa B Allen) doesn't pick up Victoria's call and she's doing her bridesmaid duties by sending out wedding invitations and encourages Jack (Nick Wechsler) to come.  He's not going though.  Victoria gets a job at the gallery as she's trying to make a clean break from Conrad, easier said than done and her so called friend, Sheila (Kathleen York) has heard about her financial troubles and uses it as an excuse to bring in the punters.  Seems Victoria is getting the short end of the stick this season as everyone's deserting her, especially her children. Not that they didn't before but seems like she only has Patrick left for emotional support and he doesn't look like he's going anywhere.  Although we still don't know anything about him, seems he is there for his mother as he shows by putting the spanner in the works for Sheila at the gallery.  He offers her a painting to sell and she declares she can't without the paperwork, then blackmails her into buying it since he knows she's done that in the past.

Emily decides she has to gloat too at Victoria's misfortune of having to join the dregs of ordinary workers but it's not as though her job isn't glamorous enough for her.  Charlotte also turns up to lend support to her since she's doing something to get away from Conrad.  Aiden (Barry Sloane) is invited to stay in the pool house by Victoria since he can give her the lowdown on Emily and get between her and Daniel.  Conrad not being too happy about this since he is the one who took their fortune.  Emily also gives Aiden Conrad's pills to change. Took his time about doing that, but he does find out where the wreck of the car is for her.

Emily can't stay away from Jack and tells him about Conrad and how she knows he was driving.  She wants him to not get involved so why bother him to begin with.  Obviously he can't stay out of it cos he hasn't got his revenge on Conrad for Amanda and Declan.  Emily wonders why the police haven't questioned her since she was first at the scene and stops by at the magazine to discover Daniel's already talked to the police on her behalf and given her statement to them, er thought this couldn't be done.  Whilst also writing out a cheque for their charity.  Bribes hey.  Emily gets her revenge on him when she tells the magazine about his DUI. He's staying at the Southfork Inn when Emily finds him at the beach house, they have an argument over the article and how he's defending Conrad, she tells him to turn the alarm on before he leaves.

Nolan is intent on finding the dirt on Patrick and he steals his wallet from the club, really Nolan it was just to see Patrick shirtless! and going back to using his hacking skills, finds he has an ex wife in Miami so he flies down there, flashes some money around, which really isn't his and gets the dirt on him.  Well it wasn't really dirt since we discover Patrick really is not into the opposite sex.  Cue passionate kiss between the two of them for those who anticipated this, of course it was obvious these two had a thing for each other as soon as they met.

Victoria tells Sheila she found out about her painting being sold from her friend Jordan and blackmails her into giving her the gallery.  So guess can't fell sorry for her anymore, as she and Patrick were in on the scam from the outset.  Of course they were and look she got a gallery for nothing.  Emily took her sweet time getting down to the scrapyard since Jack has beaten her to the punch.  He's taken photos of the wreck and the airbag is missing from the driver's side so this means Conrad was driving as his injuries prove this.  The car is taken away to be wrecked.

Conrad realizes he's not suffering from Huntington's after all and he's celebrating.  Emily tells Daniel he must be relived but he's still not going to come back to her.  Conrad also thanks Daniel for covering for him but he admits he did it for himself.  He's got his own reputation to think about and wants to make his own name. Charlotte didn't even come to see Conrad, ha.  Emily also tells Aiden about Jack and how she revealed who she was to him to stop him from shooting Conrad and see the temperature rise there as Aiden sees red.  He's so envious of him that he tells Victoria he knows who sabotaged the car: Jack! Argh, that's his agenda revealed, he wants shot of Jack now.  Jack shows Emily the video of the engine which shows the car was infact sabotaged so Conrad wasn't responsible for killing Father Paul after all.

This ep didn't have a closing or opening narration from Emily.  Daniel actually having his own motives for clearing Conrad was a bit of a revelation, usually he doesn't have that much to do character wise, aside from being used by Emily to further her revenge plans and worm her way into the Grayson clan even further. Daniel listening to Conrad when he says he shouldn't go running back to Emily since it shows weakness and Daniel actually rejecting her even when she wants him to come home.

Victoria sat on her chair again, that chair, need to get my hands on it! Ha.  It's been missing of late and surprisingly it showed up this ep when Victoria was being fiendish with the help of Patrick.  Funny scene when she told Conrad to go away, she's working. Aiden thinking he can shoot two birds with one stone since he can get Jack out of the way and away from Emily whilst still being able to stay on at the pool house. I don't know, seems like whoever stays there, or visits, comes to a bit of a grizzly end.

As for the brakeline cutting fiasco could it be Patrick, of course we know he was a round when Victoria told Conrad not to drive and he could have heard their argument afterwards too, but presumably the brakelines had already been cut by then.  He did show some of his true colours when he helped Victoria with the gallery, does his shortcomings include murder.  If so was he behind Emily's shooting.  Okay getting my thoughts down now, ha.  Irrespective of all this, it does appear Nolan appears to be heading for another fall as far his love interests are concerned.

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