On last night’s episode of #Revenge we saw Amanda continue to deal with the aftermath of revealing her true identity and yet another major character (seemingly) met her demise. Let’s dig in.
The episode started with a new A-team in town—or at least an attempt at one. Victoria, Margot..and to her disappointment, Louise are ready to join forces and take Amanda down. The only problem? Margot and Louise disagree on how to actually do that. Margot has experience with Amanda and thinks Victoria should stay indoors. Louise on the other hand, thinks it will be a good idea for her to go out. Truth be told, she’s kinda right because Victoria is losing it. Seriously, lady is paranoid: and it turns out, it’s for good reason. When Victoria finally does decide to leave her apartment, she’s waiting for her car and when it’s not there, Louise goes to check on it. Rookie mistake. It’s in this moment that she’s attacked by a woman in a black hoodie who matches Amanda’s description. After this attack, Louise can’t figure out why Vic won’t just use the evidence that holds the truth, but she doesn’t know that this is how Amanda operates.
Elsewhere in the Hamptons, Jack is making big moves. Literally. The first of which is replacing the tombstone that used to read Amanda Clarke with its true identity: Emily Thorne. He’s joined by the real Amanda who drops off some flowers and swears that once she gets the evidence back from Victoria, she is officially done for good. Jack however, still isn’t buying it. But more on that in a minute.
After that pitstop at the cemetery, Amanda heads to Nolan’s and the two finally hash it out. She still can’t figure out why he would keep all those files, but he reminds her that he only did it because doing all of that with her was the best part of his life: it was his infinity box. This seems to strike a chord in Amanda and she reassures him that even though he messed up, they’re still a team. To prove it on her end, she approves of him getting closer with Tony, the social worker. To prove it on his end, Nolan gives her some sort of thermal scanner. The timing of that couldn’t be more perfect since Victoria and Margot are officially ready to hand the USB drive of evidence over to the feds.
As if that wasn’t enough for Emily to worry about, her world is about to get rocked again. The girl finally gets her dad, and let’s face it life back, but she may end up losing him again. David just found out he was diagnosed with cancer. He’s not ready to tell Amanda yet, but he and Stevie have formed a nice little friendship. She recommends a great oncologist and a shoulder to lean on. Now if only their kids could just get it together, they could be the world’s cutest in-laws.
We’ll just segue into Jack’s next move here then. He’s ready to leave the drama, and let’s face it, all the heartbreak, behind. He’s moving to L.A. He tells Nolan he’s leaving and once again, Nolan tries to encourage him to give Amanda another chance, but Jack is all out of chances. He proves this when he’s standing on the tarmac and gets a call from Amanda. Nolan finally convinced her that she needs to let him in and just let him know that she loves him. But instead of answering, he powers his phone off and boards the plane anyway, seemingly leaving Amanda and the Hamptons in his rearview. For those of you keeping score, and because this is Revenge, Ben overheard Nolan’s little heart-to-heart with Amanda and her potential feelings for Jack. So he is not happy, and will likely not be sticking around.
Somebody else who is making an exit? Victoria. And lady went out with a bang, or well, boom. Yup, Hamptons biggest villain is officially dead. How? Well, shockingly enough, it ended up being no her own terms. You see when Victoria and Margot were finally handing over the evidence to the feds, there was a fire alarm. Victoria knew right away who orchestrated the whole thing, but the fed told her not to worry. Homeboy should have listened because when they finally get downstairs they realize that the USB drive with the evidence is gone, and everyone knows who took it. This was apparently enough to officially make Victoria take matters into her own hands. Her first move? Buying back the white chair (aka her throne) that was her seat of choice back in the day in Grayson Manor. Her second move? Heading back to those old stomping grounds, turning the valve to a gas pipe, flicking a lighter, and setting both herself and Grayson Manor ablaze. So with that, Victoria Grayson has officially left the building Hamptons.
The episode ended with something else blowing up in Emily’s face. Not only did she possibly just lose Jack forever, while standing heartbroken on the tarmac she got a visit from an old, but familiar face: Mr. Mason Treadwell. You know the same writer she banished from the Hamptons with the promise of letting him write “The Amanda Clarke Tell All.” The only problem? Amanda already told that story to the world, so you can bet Mason is going to be wreaking some havoc in return.
Some leftovers: do you think Jack is really gone for good? Are you gonna miss (at least looking at) Ben? Can you believe Victoria died? What do you think Mason is going to do next?