On the latest episode of Revenge: Meteor, Emily Thorne got the shock of a lifetime: she found out her father was alive. So what happened when she came face-to-face with him? Let’s dig in.
The episode began with Victoria returning from the city, back in her fabulous dresses, to learn that David paid Emily a visit the night before. While this obviously worries her because he may have recognized his daughter, she’s seemingly more worried that he didn’t look after Charlotte. This worry that is made even deeper when she sees a bottle of pills on the couch. David also makes sure to let her know that he is done being anyone’s prisoner.
Cut to a Charlotte’s room, when in she walks with another bag prescriptions. Charlotte yells at Victoria for ruining such an important moment in her life, you know the one where she reunited with her dead father, and Victoria basically just tells her to not go back down this dark hole. So she leaves and naturally leaves the pills there. Great parenting. Then it’s on to the next one child. She meets up with Daniel who has taken residence at a hotel pool. While sitting there in a suit, Victoria goes to give him some money, but Daniel knows that she got it from Margot, so he wants nothing to do with it. He couldn’t understand why Margot would make that deal, but Margot made a great point: now Victoria owes her something. What a concept!
While at the pool, Victoria gets a glass of expensive wine from a stranger, but it ends up being from Louise who takes Victoria’s rejection of the glass pretty harshly. Luckily for her, Victoria leaving Daniel’s side is the perfect opportunity for her to take her spot and ask Daniel to rub lotion on her back. Subtle. Later, she goes up to Daniel’s penthouse (which he can now afford due to her services) and gives him a bottle of that exact expensive wine to celebrate their partnership and the fact that they are now neighbors. Daniel realizes how ‘coincidental it is’ while Margot on the other hand, is understandably a little jealous.
Now onto the good stuff: over at Emily’s house, she and Nolan are trying to scour the surveillance tapes to figure out who the mystery man that tried to kill Emily was. Nolan wants her to call the police, but because Emily thinks Charlotte may have had some involvement, doesn’t want that to happen. BUT Nolan being the world’s best BFF, calls the cops anyway and Jack and Ben show up and take Emily’s statement. Ben promises to have her come down to the station if they have any leads, and turns out, they soon do.
After Victoria left the cabin in the woods, her words about David needing to figure out an alibi and a story for where he’s been all these years seem to have stuck with David. So he finds a chain and starts whipping himself across the back. After drawing blood, he wanders into a convenience store in town and after making eye contact with the man behind the register, attempts to shoplift. There also just happens to be some cops in the store and David is arrested and brought down to the station. At the exact moment he walks in, or should I say limps in, Ben sees him and realizes that his leg injury matches up with someone who say, had a 15 foot jump off a balcony. So he calls up Emily and asks her to come down to the station.
Jack has the job of getting the perps lined up and as he’s watching, David raises his head and Jack recognizes him instantly. He runs out of the room just as Emily and Ben are making their way in and Jack tells Ben he needs to talk to Emily. This goes against protocol, so Emily ends up making her way in and that’s when she sees him. Emily Vancamp played this moment so well. The realization of her father being alive, and that everything she’s done was essentially for nothing, was just too much for her to process. David on the other side of the glass is feeling the weight of the moment, too. You can feel the connection even though they’re seperated by glass, but it’s a hell of a lot better than being seperated by death, right? Anyway, Emily tells Ben she doesn’t recognize anyone and runs out of the station, and into Nolan. “My father is alive” she tells him, as Jack eventually makes his way out as well and confirms the unexpected.
Later on, David is able to lawyer up thanks to Victoria, and pitches the detective the most perfect story for where he’s been. It’s a story that is later confirmed to the media as well. It was all Conrad Grayson’s fault. The plane. His death. Everthing. Conrad had held him hostage and torturing him. David even has the welts and scars to prove it. The detective then tells David he has nothing to worry about because Conrad Grayson got murdered. As David breathes a super fake sigh of relief, Victoria has never been prouder of her man. But if you ask me, his intentions are still unclear. Like he said earlier, he is nobody’s prisoner anymore, and clearly has some sort of revengenda of his own. You know what they say: like father, like daughter.
The episode ended with Emily trying to figure out a way to see her dad. So she runs to the press junket just as David is making his statement. During his speech he wants to bring his family out by his side. So out walk Victoria and Charlotte arm in arm and the look of betrayal on Emily’s face when she maskes eye contact with Victoria lets us all know that things are going to be heating up again. “What just happened?” Nolan asks. Emily’s response: “Victoria got to him first.” And with that we have to wait until next week.
Some leftovers: What do you think Louise’s gameplan is? What do you think David Clarke has up his sleeve? Do you think Emily is going to be able to get in contact with him?