Emily: "Love built on lies is an arduous endeavour, for wherever passion and treachery meet, dissolution begins. Still we fight to hold our ground in the emptiness ignoring the fact that every relationship, even the ones we cherish, eventually dies."
Emily (Emily VanCamp) finds herself with Daniel (Josh Bowman) again and wakes to go for a swim, but goes to see Nolan (Gabriel Mann). She finds his place trashed and thinks the worst at she sees Patrick (Justin Hartley) leaving outside, to find Nolan in the tub, but hey he's not dead, obviously for us the viewer, we know he's not! Nolan opens his eyes to get the shock of his life too, but no, that was to come later! He tells her about Patrick and falling for him but this is Revenge and as we know Nolan's plans for love or keeping a kindred spirit never goes to plan. Last season it was Padma, this season was to be Patrick, so the 'P's' have it! Ha. There's friction in the air as Emily tells him about Patrick and he's no good, just when Nolan thought he was making headway, he has to give him up, cos it's what Emily wants, well, decrees. But no way is Nolan taking this anymore. He's decided to come clean to Jack (Nick Wechsler) and no longer listen to her.
He later tells Patrick they should get together regardless of Emily and Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) getting in the way as we get yet more passionate kissing, for these Nolan and Patrick that is, ha. Yet Emily's going to throw a spanner in the works but her plans backfire yet again, is it any wonder, she was getting a little too ahead of herself and a little too cocky. She and Daniel after making up, have breakfast at Grayson Manor where Emily remarks Patrick is very good with a knife, he's had practice. Victoria arrives and needs to see him so sends him off to the gallery, as she sits down to breakfast, hey she didn't get any either. Conrad (Henry Czerny) walking around with another bimbo as Victoria thinks, breaks the news that he's sold the mansion for funds! Victoria being angry as this is her home and he knows what it means to her. Conrad and Victoria get the best lines when she says they can order "pop tarts" for his 'mistress' and calling him a "monster."
Charlotte (Christa B Allen) calls upon Daniel for his help in business as she wants to make the opening of the new Stowaway a success. He reluctantly agrees and what follows turns out to be Charlotte attempting to be be as bad as Victoria and getting her own way. Stopping by for the cake at the bakery cos she knows Daniel's old flame Sarah (Annabelle Stephenson) will be there, you know the one who he injured in the car accident whilst driving DUI. They have words and she blabs about how Daniel robbed her in the settlement. Daniel goes to read said settlement, while Charlotte proceeds to get her fired and then finds she still has feelings for Daniel. All to disrupt wedding plans between the two. She also tells her Emily gave the interview in the magazine.
As the manor has already been bought, Emily needs to find a way to keep the house in the family and offers to buy it but it's too late. So she comes up with a plan with Aiden (Barry Sloane) to ensure they make the house un-saleworthy. All the time admitting she's glad he's back and she needs him now, cos thinking about it, she couldn't have done it without him. She changes the files at the Town hall with one of her own and sets about finding a crack in the foundations of the beach house and having to get it repaired. She tells the agent the beach is getting shorter, beach erosion and so the house will need to be repaired again in the future. Thus agent goes running for the planted file and tells Conrad the deal's off and she'll make sure no other agent touches this property. Which seems to be good news for Victoria as she's decided to make a clean break which includes getting a divorce from Conrad and gives him the mansion, thinking it's worthless!
Obviously getting to the point of cracks in the walls involved Aiden getting a hammer to it whilst he got it on with Emily too! Wonder when they'll get caught together on the beach or on the street, surprisingly no one has seen them together yet. Once Emily's had her revenge they'll be jetting off to the Maldives then as Aiden reads about it when Victoria asks for his help in removing Emily from the equation. Well it's no good reading a guidebook when Victoria's seen where he's heading.
Daniel finds his parents cheated her in the settlement and apologized but she doesn't want to hear it. He hopes she will one day forgive him and he'll try to earn this, er, not with Emily around you won't. Seems like Charlotte got her way, not liking this Charlotte at all, before she was just a spoiled brat always thinking of herself and quelle surprise, she's grown up into a scheming brat following in Victoria's footsteps. Think I preferred her out of the picture. Yes Emily hurry up and deal with your half sister.
Nolan goes for a drink needing a friend in Jack and he comes clean that Emily is Amanda, saying Jack really knew it but didn't want to say anything. Jack warns him against Patrick and realizes Emily's been telling him. Jack asks how long he's known about Emily, "I've never not known" and he promised her father he'd look after her. Both their instinct is to protect her. Nolan was oblivious as to how entire Emily's revenge plan was. They're still friends and hug, aww. Jack having his own plan up his sleeve, in telling Conrad about Patrick being the one who tampered with his brakes and calls a truce between each other. Conrad deals with Patrick by getting him men to take care of him, but he does the silly thing of telling Victoria he knows and she asks if she has to beg him for Patrick's life. Just after Victoria was smug and thought she'd found their millions in gold bars at a warehouse (yeah that's safe) with Aiden's help and thought Conrad was pulling a swifty on her by keeping their assets. She vows not to divorce him which is what Emily wanted for her wedding plans to take fruitition.
Emily revealing to Jack and Nolan that she means to set Victoria up for her murder and Nolan tells her all he wanted from her was friendship. However, she needs to disappear and so reveals her plans for August 8th. As Victoria buys Patrick a ticket to Philly and gives him money to disappear. He was only just getting to know her and she tells him she will see him again one day. She was happy Patrick tried to kill Conrad for her, you know son defending mother's honour and all that, cos only she would be happy at something like this. Just like she got Charlotte to take the blame for cutting the brakes.
Sometimes it feels like the plots of season 3 are becoming too convoluted or diluted since as soon as something happens to make Emily's plans seem more like being fulfilled that things go awry. Okay that's to make the stories last longer, but sometimes the plots feel a little ridiculous as she comes round full circle and never really gets anywhere. She blames Nolan for letting Patrick go since he was part of her plans for Victoria. She's got Nolan who she calls a friend but lets him down at every opportunity. Then has feelings for Aiden, and Jack too and in the meantime she's marrying Daniel for revenge. Sure she hasn't missed anyone in the equation?
Conrad and Jack discussing Patrick, with Conrad telling Jack to "shoot." Yes okay lame joke, we know he already tried to shoot him in the season 2 finale which seems a world away from what is happening now. Finally Nolan stands up for himself against Emily but it's too late since he'll never get Patrick, not as far as we know. Also he wishes he took up Jack's offer to say goodbye to him. Everyone did have Nolan's best interests at heart, but seems he's always the one needing help which by now shouldn't be the case. He used to help Emily after all and was there for her all the time she was in juvvie. Nolan has lost his sparkle and those cool one liners of his. Jack just seems to be a loose cog in the wheel since he wants Emily to get this over with but not to involve her friends and yet he still gets drawn into her crazy web of deceit. Seems like he'll be getting his way when she says she's disappearing after the wedding. Like that'll happen. Maybe someone's going to beat her to the punch and really shoot her.
Conrad and Victoria should just stay together, their one liners will keep them happy in their golden years and us amused too! They truly are an old married couple. Oh and Victoria puts the gallery in Patrick's name, that's how much she trusts him.
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