Emily: "When on a mission of revenge, one must maintain control over risks, emotions and one's enemies. The single greatest thread to success is losing control of your allies."
After Emily (Emily VanCamp) finds out Conrad's (Henry Czerny) brakes were cut she wants to find out who did it and Aiden (Barry Sloane) omits the part where he told Conrad it was Jack (Nick Wechsler) who did it just to get him out of the picture. Jack is also invited to Margaux's (Karine Vanasse) magazine launch as he holds baby Carl shirtless, which must have sent female hearts racing. He of course fails to turn up, since he's got more important things to worry about like keeping Carl safe. Especially after Conrad and his 'thugs' would be out for revenge. What can of worms Aiden opened. He told Conrad he could help him get Charlotte (Christa B Allen) back into his good graces by lying about Jack and Conrad fell for it, for someone who wanted the Brit gone and out of his hair, he wasn't too quick in wanting him gone now. Thus Aiden now puts his plan into motion by telling Jack to leave town or Conrad will have him hurt, saying that he's here to warn him and if he had been anyone else he'd be dead by now!
Nolan (Gabriel Mann) warns Emily again about her revenge plans and that she's getting too caught up in them, also telling her he's not that big on Aiden either. Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) also wants Jack alive but only cos she thinks he can get under Emily's skin as she relayed this to a shirtless Aiden! Really that came a bit late. Thus he warned Jack off but again it was all for Emily. Think he's a little too possessive of her at times. Anyway Victoria heads straight to Emily to tell her about Jack and Emily has blinkers on as far as Jack is concerned cos she couldn't see how Victoria was playing her and did she play into her hands, did she ever as she goes running to Jack. Meaning Emily can't be on time for Daniel's (Josh Bowman) big night! Liked Emily's outfit, took me back to Grease and Olivia Newton John as Sandy in those leathers!! Ha.
Margaux makes excuses about her father not turning up cos he's had a skiing accident but later reveals that he doesn't believe in her. Charlotte turns up and is happy to see Emily isn't there for Daniel either. When Emily does arrive, Daniel tells her he no longer wants to marry her. That threw a spanner in the works as Emily needs to do some quick thinking to win him back otherwise her revenge plans will go awry. We knew she was going to mend bridges with him since we saw her in her wedding dress in the season 3 opener.
Emily must approach Nolan for comfort and help and he advises she needs to tell Daniel something personal about herself especially since Daniel's said he hasn't even seen a family photo of Emily and she kind of keeps things impersonal. Emily returns home to find Daniel packing too, so how many packing scenes were we going to have to endure? She finally shares info about herself and a photo of how her parents were killed in a car crash when she was little. Of course said parents were Amanda's family. Whilst Emily was retrieving the photo from Jack's place, she sees him with Margaux as he explains the bar was broken into and he had to take Carl away for safety. Cue kiss which Emily is so jealous of.
Aiden tells her he needed to tell Conrad about Jack cos he'd have to leave otherwise and she wouldn't have an inside man. Also how she played right into Victoria's hands when she ran to save Jack. Aiden tells Victoria that Emily didn't see Jack, also telling her that an access code was used to get into the garage which means it was either Patrick (Justin Hartley) or Charlotte. Obviously it was Patrick but Victoria can't lose him, instead she gets Charlotte to confess it was her who tried to kill Conrad cos he'll forgive her and take her back. Charlotte agreeing to go along to protect Jack.
Patrick confronts Nolan about going to his wife to find out about him being gay and is angry. He walks off but later they get together again. Which all was bound to happen. But Nolan's character has really changed this season in that he no longer has those witty one liners so much and always gets into strife, instead of being on the ball like the past two seasons. Yes it was obvious Patrick cut the brakes and of course Victoria would want him to get away with it. Just like Aiden turned in Jack to Conrad for doing this, I like the reversal to come in the next ep (I reviewed that one before this one, never mind) when Jack does a u-turn here and turns in Patrick.
Emily: "In order to gain control, we must sometimes relinquish it. By doing so we believe we're protecting the ones we love, the ones we cannot live without. But the most dangerous truth of all is that control is merely an illusion."
Emily has lost her way too in that she doesn't see Victoria pulling one over on her, she's got too much to deal with: Aiden, Jack, Daniel and Nolan is otherwise preoccupied to help. Oh and Charlotte too, there's no love lost between them, but what does Charlotte have to be angry about with Emily anyway. Seems like everything Emily narrated here in the opening about losing control and her allies is exactly what was happening to her. Her carefully plotted out revenge was unravelling and it seems by all the men in her life too. She didn't have control over them, just as in the way Victoria used her here.
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