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Monday 19 May 2014

Revenge 3.20 "Revolution" Review

Emily: "A revolution begins when the desires of many are addressed by the actions of one.  It's a ripple of change that starts when the first stone is cast at those in power and only ends when one side lies defeated or if two sides become one."

Conrad (Henry Czerny) cornered Aiden (Barry Sloane) in the car park when he's searching for a deserted building and reminds him of what Pascal (Olivier Martinez) did to Oscar and that if he doesn't get him what Pascal has on him, then he'll alert Pascal to Aiden's whereabouts.  This means Emily (Emily VanCamp) must find another building, as she and Nolan (Gabriel Mann) ponder what names he should give her now.  Of course this is all a rouse for Emily to get her hands on Pascal and make him turn in Conrad and Victoria (Madeleine Stowe).  Pascal meanwhile asks Victoria to marry him and then they'll leave the country.  She thinks they should get married in Corsica as they break the news to Daniel (Josh Bowman) and Margaux (Karine Vanasse).  Pascal also congratulating Daniel on his coup with the new software App which will mean the LaMarchal name can now branch out into new social media.

Aiden and Emily kidnap Pascal and she pretends to be Agent Rebecca Stone of Homeland Security.  She was undercover for three years digging up the dirt on the Grayson's.  She wants what he has on Conrad or she threatens him with prison but he's not talking.  She then asks for his phone and reads out a section of the Patriot Act which states he can't ask for a lawyer.  On the phone all Nolan can find is a message about Daniel and Gideon and Prince Rainier not being happy, but Conrad thinks it's more than that.  Pascal was bluffing.  Emily then shows him notes from her file about his timeline and the note he wrote about Aiden's father.  She wants him to wear a wire to the opening of the Myclone launch party and to get Conrad and Victoria to confess.  But he won't give up Victoria.  Emily lets him have her, so she'll find out how he was playing her.  Victoria realizing Emily planned the entire wedding and the shooting on the boat to get her. Pascal can help her with Emily but she doesn't want him involved.

Conrad tries to warn Victoria about Pascal too and he admits he has a pain inside which she hopes is his appendix bursting.  He loved her once and she tells him Pascal loves her now.  He wants her to know that he's using her and once they're married she can't testify against him.  As well as making her corroborate Pascal's story against Conrad's claims.  When Pascal returns he wants to leave the country immediately and Victoria tries to find out where he's been and if he was with the same people he met the other day, since Conrad also told her about Oscar and that Pascal had killed him.  He heads for a shower and she finds the card in his pocket, which she calls and gets a voicemail about reaching Homeland Security.

Victoria tells Daniel about this who tells her it must have been cos of his rouse with Interpol.  He had a friend who owed him a favour and so he must have been aware of Pascal's cooking the books.  Victoria thinks it's all Daniel's fault that Homeland Security has surfaced but he tells her he's not the bad guy here.  Daniel runs straight to Conrad warning him of the agent and they wanted to protect themselves against Pascal.  Conrad adding that he hasn't been implicated yet since he's still here.  Daniel also warned Margaux that Pascal is leaving the country and wants to take Victoria to different countries, meaning once he's back in Paris she'll no longer be running the empire.  She talks to Pascal about this and he agrees to giving her the position of CEO in writing as she tells him Gideon still thinks he'll be CEO.  Sneaky Daniel, thinking he's being clever working everyone and playing them against each other.  

Charlotte (Christa B Allen) receives a letter which appears to be from David and she tells Victoria about this who thinks it's just someone playing a sick joke.  Victoria in her Special K red dress, ha.  She takes the letter so Charlotte doesn't have it and later she shows it to Jack (Nick Wechsler) as she found another two letters in her vanity.  So either Victoria thinks they're really from David or she was trying to protect Charlotte.  She wanted Jack to show her his journal since Amanda showed them to her and she thinks the writing is the same.  Jack doesn't have them but he knows of a way to help.  He asks Nolan to examine the postmark and as it's digital, he find sit leads to a cabin and a Kurt Renner (Linc Hand).  Jack wants to help her so at east he's got one woman in his life.  But Jack doesn't tell Emily this, who better to also recognize David's writing than Emily or didn't he think she had the right to know.

At the cabin they find lots of info on David, clearly someone had been researching him and as Jack tells Charlotte if David really wrote the letters then why would he need info about himself.  Jack takes a ring from the table which has the initials 'DC' on it and as they leave a mysterious man returns, knowing they've been there.  Jack tells her the police can't do anything about the letters but she wants to walk home by herself.  As the man watches Jack through the Stowaway window.  Charlotte is kidnapped bya masked man on the beach.

At the opening Nolan isn't invited but he gets in after showing the man that his name is on the hardware which gives him an automatic invite.  Victoria is there and she tells Pascal they should leave right now.  Margaux and Daniel introduce the software and Pascal announces Margaux is the new CEO.  Javier (Henri Esteve) asks some questions to Charlotte's App clone like what she wants to do for her birthday and she replies get high and have a party, at which the audience laughs.  He then asks a woman in the audience where she'd like to go and they'll send her there.  Her APP picks Sarajevo and she's angry cos her family were massacred there.  Margaux saves the day by telling them there will be glitches as it's in the early stages and Daniel gets the chance to fire Javier cos the APP is there's now.  As they say, serves you right Javier.  Nolan admits to Emily that he got into everyone's profiles and changed them.

Pascal is seen with Conrad and they head for the roof.  Emily runs up the stairs and Victoria follows them too.  On the roof Conrad asks if he wants to go back to the Hampton's with him so they can talk, yeah or get thrown from the helicopter, but it was obvious what was coming next.  Emily arrives just in time to see Conrad push Pascal into the helicopter blades.  Victoria is shocked when she arrives and knows Conrad did it on purpose but the police believe it was an accident since the pilot shares the same story of the events. That came after Pascal said he wanted to move on but Conrad wanted to ensure his neck wouldn't be on the line in the future.

Emily realizes that Conrad needs to be stopped at all costs and she has a plan for this.  Daniel is sorry for Victoria and tells her if the Feds were in on this then where are they now.  She calls the number to find it's been disconnected.  Giving her the notion that maybe it was Emily behind it since she was after Victoria all along.  Does this mean she'll go after Aiden now seeing as he's the man Emily loves and exact her own revenge, or will it be Conrad who does this.  I mean it's obvious that's what's going to happen.  See that smirk on Daniel's face when he was trying to comfort Victoria saying he wasn't the one behind this.  No Daniel you weren't.  Especially since he blatantly lies and tells her he didn't tell Conrad about the Feds.  He has that same look in his eyes when he comforts Margaux.  Now she's CEO and the world's his oyster since all he has to do is to get close to her again and now's as good a time as any since she's vulnerable.

Seems like the mysterious stalker is someone who knows David, a relative, another son, or someone who knows about him.  Surely if David was alive he would have let Emily/Amanda know this a long time ago instead of making her suffer.  If David is really alive that kind of turns the entire three seasons of Revenge on their head since the story should never have been about Emily's revenge to begin with.  Maybe Javier could have got someone to kidnap Charlotte since she was the one who made him deal with Daniel, he would have such connections being inside and everything.  Never trust a con Charlotte.

Emily: "To succeed a revolution requires absolute dedication against overwhelming odds.  At a moment's notice the tide can turn and every casualty stokes the fire to win at any cost. Because the only guarantee in a revolution is that the innocent are the first to fall."

But Charlotte isn't really so innocent, especially taking sides with Daniel and spying on Conrad to name but a few instances of deceit in her boring life.  That means Victoria is after Conrad too now, but doesn't look like she and Emily will be friends though.

Another of Nolan's jackets and he was shocked to see Javier copying his exclusive style too!  Obviously Emily didn't wear a long dress or she wouldn't have been able to run up the stairs and boy there were plenty of stairs.  Victoria hasn't been sitting on her throne, er, chair lately, seems plenty of things go wrong when she doesn't sit in it.  Too much time in the bedroom and balcony.  Seems like the only one she has left to trust is Patrick since son number 2 is obviously just like dad!

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