Revenge- Small Screen Review

Revenge- Small Screen Review

Cast:

Emily VanCamp (Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke), Gabriel Mann (Nolan Ross), Madeleine Stowe (Victoria Grayson), Nick Wechsler (Jack Porter), Joshua Bowman (Daniel Grayson), Christa B. Allen (Charlotte Grayson), Connor Paolo (Declan Porter), Henry Czerny (Conrad Grayson)

Episode One- "Pilot"


The series starts out with Daniel falling lifelessly onto the beach while a party in going on in the background. Two more shots were fire into his back but no one at the party can hear shots fired because of the fireworks are being lit at the party. Emily is seen in an elegant red dress and wiping the sand off her hand. She informs the party planner who is her friend that Daniel is walking the beach because they had a "thing," presumably an argument. Victoria makes a passionate speech about Emily and her engagement to Daniel. She then tells demands quietly the whereabouts of her son. Declan and Charlotte (Daniel's sister) find Daniel dead on the beach and Charlotte cries for her mother. As everyone and Emily rushes to Daniel's body, the scene flashbacks to five months ago.

Emily has come back to the Hamptons and is renting out the beach house she once shared with her father (David Clarke). Emily's realtor says that the beach house now belongs to Lydia and Michael Davis who are currently is in a divorce because Michael left Lydia for a woman half Lydia's age. As Emily 's moving in, Victoria's son Daniel comes home from college at Harvard and his sister Charlotte strikes up a relationship with Jack Porter's brother Declan.


Nolan Ross meets up with Jack Porter and offers to buy his boat named Amanda for a large sum. Jack refuses because he is sailing to Haiti in a week to help with the quake. The bank comes by the tavern that Jack and Declan's father owns and states that they will take over the tavern if the debt on the loan is not paid off but the end of the month.

Emily has flashbacks and watches a video of a trial in 1995 that show Lydia (her father's administrator) testified falsely against her father and it is reveal that David was falsely accused of being responsible for the crash of Flight 197. Emily remembers when she was younger that her father was captured by the FBI agents and she was forcefully removed from her father's care.

Back to the present day, Emily then secretly takes pictures and Lydia having an affair with Victoria's husband. She then goes to the South Fork Inn where Conrad and Lydia have secretly choose to meet and they have a sexual affair. After sleeping with Lydia, Conrad has painful stomach pains and is in need of medical attention. As he is rush to the hospital, Emily asks Lydia if Conrad is her husband and offers her a ride to the hospital. Lydia declines and flees the scene. Emily then runs into Jack Porter and his dog Sammy. She recognizes him and is not pleased to see him and leaves in a rush.

Emily attends the charity party hosted by Victoria and her friend introduces Emily to Victoria. Emily mentions her meeting with Conrad and Lydia at the South Fork Inn the previous day in front of Victoria. Victoria realizes that Lydia is sleeping with her husband, Conrad. Victoria than makes a beautiful speech and lets the crowd know that Lydia has won the art auction. However, Victoria sends Lydia home with the Van Gogh as a reminder of the friendship they shared.
Emily strikes up a romance with Daniel and flirts with him throughout the rest of the party.


Nolan Ross, who was at the charity party recording the entire event, recognizes Emily Thorne as Amanda Clarke. He goes to her house and offers to help her seek vengeance on the people who destroyed her and her father's life. She refuses his help and states that Amanda Clarke no longer exists. Emily then flashbacks to her 18th birthday when Nolan came to pick her up from a detention center. Nolan reveals to Amanda that her father has died, and that he was falsely accused and did not have anything to do with the crash of Flight 197. Nolan also said that her father was the only person who invested in his company in its early stages, and now that she is 18 years old she is officially 49% owner of his company. Nolan hands her a box that her father left for her and a series of diaries he wrote.

Emily's father, in his letters and diaries, asks her to forgive those who wronged her and live a life full of happiness. However, she refuses and chooses to take revenge on those who destroyed her family. Victoria confronts Conrad about the affair and he reveals that once he gave up everything to show how much he cared about her. Victoria watches Emily from her balcony and asks her husband's head of security to find out everything he can about Emily Thorne. It is revealed that earlier Emily posed as a maid at the South Fork Inn and poured a small amount of an unknown clear liquid into Conrad's soup, causing him to end up in the hospital