Revenge Recap: Don’t Tell Mom the White Haired Man is Dead

Revenge

By Foggywood | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | 4:57 pm | 15 Comments
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Can we somehow find these people a place on the show?

So formerly institutionalized Mom has been quietly running the local Motel No-tell all these years while the Graysons have been up to all kinds of mischief a stone’s throw away? Wonder how that worked out. Amnesia? Full on crazy? How amazing would it have been if they had gone full Grey Gardens with Mom, while having her run a Hamptons version of the Bates Motel. Jennifer Jason Leigh would have acted the hell out of that scenario.  

“Confidence” opens in Japan 4 years ago with Emily (then Amanda) and Aiden (he has a name!) running through a Potter-esque/Shining-like maze while being chased by two dogs that look as though they just want a nice belly rub. Aiden goes down, claiming to have a hurt ankle, but PSYCH!, he’s faking and wins the Takeda sponsored contest. Emily is told to “lose your compassion.” Yeah, don’t think you need to worry about that.

Back in the Hamptons, summer 2012 (right?), Victoria has reclaimed her post on the balcony, watching Emily’s house and plotting her demise (just guessing). Daniel joins her, while helicopters circle. Just another night at the Graysons!

Flashback to the White Haired Man calling Victoria on the plane, telling her about the explosives. Daniel listens to the story, but is still suspicious of his loving mother and her involvement in her “kidnapping”.


A bomb would definitely NOT go with that outfit

At Emily’s, she and Aiden are rifling through Whitey’s pockets. His name is Gordon Murphy and he’s carrying a cell phone with a bullet hole, a pocket watch, Vic’s fake passport, and a motel key. Emily grabs the watch, Aiden grabs the key.


“Told you those Hamptons boys were wussies!”

Victoria calls Emily and tells her they need to formulate a game plan for the reporters, then Emily knocks Aiden out with a wine bottle. Just another night at Ems’s!

At this same moment, Declan and his new “friend” Trey Chandler have decided to break into someone’s home and rob it. ??? WTF? What happened to holding a bracelet and getting $500? Sigh. The owners catch them pocketing a signed Babe Ruth baseball and they flee. Nice work, guys. You’ve got a real future in petty theft.

At the bar, Amanda is opening and smelling the liquor bottles. Haha, she misses those good old days dancing on the bar.  She drinks her glass of milk instead and is sad. She and Jack discuss the baby’s room and she tells him Charlotte sent them a $5000 gift certificate for the baby. Proud Jack tells her to return the certificate. He’s going to re-do Declan’s room for the baby.  Well, Declan should be in jail by then, so that won’t be a problem, will it?

Aiden wakes up in a dumpster with a plane ticket back to Japan. Nice work, Emily.


Don’t worry, the ticket’s in business class!

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15 Comments

  1. 1
    ellemenop
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    no, no, declan CAN’T be the sunken body, because fauxmanda needs to be!!! and if not her, then ashley. declan is more useless than annoying.

    as much as i do still like the show and don’t plan on not watching anytime soon, i’m thinking the first season was better. it’s getting a bit too weird right now, and not in a good way.

  2. 2
    ellemenop
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    and this is because it didn’t subscribe me last time — and, damn it, i will be subscribed now that it’s finally sending e-mail notifications out again!

  3. 3
    Laura Gill Laura Gill
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    All flight recorders/black boxes are actually orange. Makes them easier to find in the wreckage.

  4. 4
    LovingRevenge
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 7:20 am

    I don’t get all the hate for Fauxmanda?? I like her, and I like her with Jack because I HATE Emily with Jack. They have very little chemistry. Jack is actually very boring,and I can’t see what Emily finds so fascinating about him. Especially now HOT Aiden is in the picture.

  5. 5
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 7:21 am

    I thought the sunken body had a manly arm and watch, but I WISH it was Ashley. She’s still the worst.

  6. 6
    April
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 8:24 am

    I think it might be that guy that Declan is robbing things with…… It was a manly looking arm but it could be fauxmanda’s. I don’t think that arm looked like Ashley’s though. Not her skin color and too big. Her arms are super slender. Now Fauxmanda has manly arms.

  7. 7
    ellemenop
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 9:52 am

    @lovingrevenge — i don’t know about others, but i personally dislike fauxmanda because she is so desperate to be liked/have something in her life that it’s pathetic.

  8. 8
    LovingRevenge
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 10:36 am

    @elle most people want to be like. I don’t think that makes her pathetic at all, it makes her vulnerable. And frankly makes Emily comes off mean for using her for it.

  9. 9
    ellemenop
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 11:34 am

    @lovingrevenge — i don’t disagree that most people want to be liked, but she still comes across as pathetic, like she’s trying too hard.

    i don’t know if that’s why other people find her annoying, but that’s why i do.

    it’s also why i find ashley annoying — she tries too hard to be something she’s not, and she also comes across as pathetic as a result. she’ll always be the former assistant, even if she cons daniel into marrying her (even though i doubt the writers will do that). no one is going to respect her as having any power or being a true part of hamptoms society, and that happens all the time in reality with former assistants.

  10. 10
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 11:43 am

    I also find Fauxmanda annoying…not as bad as Ashley, but annoying none the less.

    I want Jack and Emily to get together so bad. I want him to know that Emily is actually the real Amanda and they can adopt a dog and call him “Sammy Dos” and then they can sail off into the sunset.

  11. 11
    April
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 1:36 pm

    I don’t like Fauxmanda. She is willing to pass off a baby on Jack that is not his and that alone makes her horrible. Or at least she thinks it is not his.

    I really like Charlotte and Declan when both of them are not being stupid. I also want Jack and Emily together.

  12. 12
    KaseyOwe
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    Am I the only person who still has hope for Emily and Daniel? Or at least liked entertaining the thought he would turn out to be the sweet guy who was trying to seperate himself from his crazy family? Maybe that’s just wishful thinking.

    Not a big fan of Fauxmanda either but I agree that she’s just really sad and vulnerable. She is, after all, totally living her life based off of what Emily tells her.

  13. 13
    mcweanis
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    theres no way declan ACTUALLY left his ID while robbing the place. the revenge writers are not that lazy.
    two possibilities:
    1. his co-thief planted the ID there to blame declan for all past/future crimes
    2. his co-thief planted the ID there and the guy who came by with it is also in on the crime spree. it was just a test to see if declan would rat on his partner. and he passed, so maybe they’ll bring him in on some bigger stuff.

    regardless of all that, i didn’t like the looks of that guy or the way he was looking at jack’s bar.

  14. 14
    Katy
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 9:16 pm

    Fauxmanda was quick to push Emily around when Emily was the only one with anything to lose. Paybacks are tough.

  15. 15
    Stan Low
    Posted October 21, 2012 at 11:01 am

    Loved this show last year. This year its starting to remind me of Prison Break… Once the premise is exhausted in year one, the writers start scrambling and coming up with more and more absurd twists and reversals

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