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Monday 12 May 2014

Revenge 3.19 "Allegiance" Review

                                                 
Emily: "Victory can never be achieved alone.  Alliances must be forged to overcome superior forces.  Some born from a shared goal, others out of desperate need, but for a union to succeed, one must determine if an ally is truly a friend or merely an enemy in disguise."

Emily (Emily VanCamp) meets with Pascal (Olivier Martinez) at the horse race, pretty boring one at that, ha. Where she spoke about their partnership and how they could side together against Conrad (Henry Czerny). But she realized he was siding with Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) and told Aiden (Barry Sloane) that Victoria was with Pascal and he's trying to find the whereabouts of Oscar Chapman (John Prosky) too.  Nolan (Gabriel Mann) wanted to talk to Javier (Henri Esteve) about their partnership deal but he was too busy and that's cos he was in bed with Charlotte (Christa B Allen) how boring!  Another chance for Charlotte to jump in with the first man she meets, ha.  She tries to convince him to side with Daniel (Josh Bowman) she'll help him but he's still feeling loyal towards Nolan.  That and his monitor stops him from being really free.

So Margaux (Karine Vanasse) and Daniel at the races too, were looking very pleased with themselves as Daniel showed her the new app where her avatar would tell her what she wanted, turns out a new pair of shoes, is that all, no mention of Daniel then.  Anyway with their new tech Daniel can get on side with her father when he has something to offer him.  Victoria sees Luke Gilliam (Tim DeKay) there and Emily spots them together too, as she listens to them talk about how Conrad tried to get him involved in the bombing of the plane, and he was meant to take the fall but left, so David was made the scapegoat instead, but that he has something on Conrad too.  Aiden using Nolan's fingerprint technology breaks into Pascal's stable to see if he can find anything on Oscar.

Victoria confronts Conrad about this revelation, but he tells her to ask Pascal what his role was in David's downfall, hoping he'll put a spanner in the works of their relationship.  Jack (Nick Wechsler) is having problems of his own with Margaux to which I say he should give her the old heave ho!  He was away for a week dealing with his mother and her problems and she didn't even call him once, even if she was preoccupied with Voulez.  She tells him about Pascal wanting her to run the entire empire and has no time for Jack but has plenty for Daniel it seems.

Nolan tried to show Javier the new contract but he was more interested in taking the darker road and siding with Daniel and Margaux.  Nolan tries to warn him but just like Margaux, refuses to listen.  At their meeting he's offered a McLaren cos Daniel looked it up on his avatar and they unveil a magazine cover with him on it. Oh and Daniel also used his favours to get his monitor removed.  Even Margaux refusing to listen to Jack about Nolan and he won't stand by and see his friend being treated in that way.  Nolan later showing his own display as he blows up some lights at Grayson manor in an attempt to warn Daniel and Charlotte that they're at war now.  Well not like they weren't before as far as Ems is concerned, but now it's personal for Nolan too, much more personal.

Nolan and Aiden find a Brenda who knows Oscar and Nolan even beings along food for their their stake out but Aiden throws it out.  They confront  Brenda, who looked like a man and find that she is actually Oscar. He has to wear the disguise when he goes out otherwise he's at risk from Pascal and others.  He tells Aiden about his father and he was innocent.  He thought he was taking diamonds onto the plane, not a bomb.  He was going to face his crime but he was murdered by Pascal.  Knew that already.  Oscar took the story to Pascal and realized it was a mistake.  Nolan tells Aiden he knows what it's like to be upset about his father and offers him a big hug whilst they're being photographed, by Conrad's men no doubt.

Victoria confronted Pascal about David and involving him but he's not willing to talk about that.  Victoria lets rip by hitting him and Pascal admits he was only involved to protect her.  Yeah more like himself and his empire he built up.  Cos if Conrad had gone down then she'd go with him and Pascal was only ever in love with Victoria and she doesn't realize this gives him ample motive to have had the other man, his rival, removed, i.e. David.  Pascal playing  part of the conversation they had years ago to Conrad who realizes what Pascal has over him and there was Conrad thinking that he had broken up with Victoria.

Emily tries to get  her revenge on Luke by wanting a job in his company.  She will be able to help him with the environmentalists who protest about his clean water company.  She asks Jack to help and he plays a disgruntled man whose family has been affected by the use of his chemicals in the water.  Luke drinks a sample of the so called chemicals he uses in the water whilst Emily takes one to analyze.  Luke was in awe of Emily's handling of Jack that he invited her to his award ceremony.  The sample contains saline and gelatin and Emily gave Jack a memory stick with his downfall plotted on there already.  "His undoing."  At the ceremony to which Victoria invites herself to suss out Emily's real intentions;  Luke drinks a sample of the water and on the screen with the help of the memory stick, it says he's just drunk his chemicals.  He's taken to hospital and Emily uses a disguise to manipulate him into giving up what he has on Conrad.

Pascal knew he had to take care of Oscar and so shoots him dead in cold blood, Victoria had better watch her back.  Conrad shows Aiden the photo of Oscar's DB and wants his help in taking down Pascal.  He has the recording and Aiden can help him get it but he refuses.  Also warning Aiden that he'd be the next target. Well that was obvious since both Pascal and Conrad can just do what they want  and take down anyone they want.

Emily was pleased with herself and Jack warned her to be careful.  She congratulated him on the move with Margaux but he told her it's not going ahead.  That's cos he and Emily are destined to be together.   Emily gets to use her red sharpie and crosses Luke from the list.  Victoria does the same but with a black one and realizes that Emily's not after her family but she's taking out revenge on those people closes to David.  Ooh mystery will soon be revealed. ha.  But she only knows Emily is out for revenge not that Emily is really Amanda.  Though Emily has said in the past that she and Amanda were friends and that she's probably carrying on the vendetta for her.  Think it'd be too easy if she figured out that Emily is Amanda and that'd be the plot of the entire series up in smoke.  Leaving not so much for season 4.  

Emily: "Alliances can reunite old friends in the most unexpected  of ways, by testing the bonds that are the strongest of all.  They can lead to the greatest victories or your ultimate defeat."

This ep was a bit all over the place in terms of plot, with each person having their own agenda, Emily with taking down Luke and getting the goods on Conrad and Conrad getting what Pascal has on him.  Pascal taking down Oscar.  Margaux and Daniel in bed together and convincing Javier to join them in his venture. But it just looked like it was being dragged this way and that just for the sake of it.

It's clear there's more killing to come, Conrad needs to take car of Pascal and Aiden has also been warned by Conrad too, so it seems the entire Mathis family will be brought down, barring Aiden's mother.  Emily looking fetching in her '40's style hat!




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