On Sunday’s episode of Revenge, the reunion we’ve all be waiting for finally happened. David Clarke came face-to-face with his daughter. So what happened? Let’s dig in!
In the beginning of the episode, Jack gets a visit from David where he apologizes for how he spoke of Amanda’s life on his interview. He just wanted to prove a point to Nolan, but didn’t mean for it to seem like Jack didn’t provide her with a good and happy life. Jack accepts the apology, but says he’s not the one he needs to apologize to, Nolan is. David isn’t budging even though Jack assures him that Nolan was a great friend. However, Jack does get him to go talk to another one of Amanda Clarke’s friends, someone who goes by the name of Emily Thorne.
Cut to Emily opening the door – literally to her past -and seeing her father standing there. The two have a conversation in which Emily tells David about the incident with Amanda falling over the balcony—and how there are a bunch of witnesses who can prove that it happened due to Victoria. David takes this information and chooses to go investigate it for himself in the from of asking a stripper who formerly worked with Amanda. Unfortunatley for David, Victoria got to her first and paid her to tell him that she did everything in her power to help Amanda, but Amanda would never accept it for help. Well played, Vicky, well played.
Understandably, after her conversation with David, Emily is beyond upset. She finally had some time with him face-to-face and he didn’t even recognize who she was. I, as a viewer, was just as upset. How are you able to recognize Jack all grown up, but not your own flesh and blood? I was about ready to yell at David “Wake the hell up,” but luckily for us, and Emily, all we had to do was wait until the end of the episode to finally see that happen.
Over at the tennis club, things are getting heated, literally, between Margot and Louise. After their match, they’re relaxing in the sauna and after Margot confirmed that she sees a future between herself and Daniel, Louise walked out. Then she hallucinated her mother, not because of the heat, but because she really is crazy, and locked Margot in the steam room. Luckily for Margot she got out, unfortunately for Margot she figured out Daniel and Louise slept together. Okay, so maybe there isn’t a future there.
Back over at Emily’s, she shares with Nolan that she uncovered a knife hidden in the same spot she used to hide her infinity box( great minds!). She believes it’s the same knife that she was used to kill Conrad, proving once again that David is lying. Emily is still in full-blown protect David mode—even thought she knows he is hiding more than just that knife, so she has Nolan hide it. Where? With the body of the man Charlotte killed last episode. It’s a great idea and the plan works out perfectly, except for the fact that Jack realizes that this break in the Conrad’s murder investigation is just too good to be true. Mainly, because, well, it is. So he gives his good friend Emily a call.
Speaking of too good to be true, Nolan has devised a plan to get Emily into David’s safety deposit box at a bank in Manhattan. The only catch? She has about a six minute window to do it. So as Emily struts her way into the elevator, the doors begin to close but are opened by..Daniel. After Charlotte dropped that little truth bomb on him about who his ex-wife really is, he’s ready for some answers. He also made it clear to Victoria that not telling David who she is, is a mistake, but he’s gonna let her do this her way..as long as he gets to stay out of it. Cut to him telling Emily just that. He tells her that all he wants is a promise that when this all blows up, which it will, he won’t be harmed. Emily is ready to make that deal. Naturally, the two end up getting stuck in the elevator so Daniel uses this moment as an opportunity to ask another question: was any of it real? Emily says maybe it was, but the moment he decided with Conrad he sealed his fate. Then she uses him as a stepping stool and escapes through the vent in the elevator, and as we later learn, was in fact able to get what the key accessed.
So what was he keeping protected and hidden away all this time? Photos of Amanda. From her wedding day, with Jack on a boat, Everywhere. While this might not seem like damning evidence, it proved that David knew where Amanda was the entire time, but more importantly: that he chose not to go find her. This is all it takes for Emily to finally put her fears aside and barge into the beach house screaming at David asking why he never came for Amanda. If he was alive that whole time, he could have just came for Amanda. He could have just come for…her. The episode ends with David trying to process that his daughter is not only alive and standing in front of him. Unfortunately, the moment is ruined when a big lightning bolt strikes outside, electrocuting Victoria and knocking her unconscious to the ground.
Some leftovers: were you shocked David didn’t immediately recognize her? What do you think the future holds for Daniel and Margot? What do you think is going to happen to Victoria? Were you glad Emily finally came clean?