We're going to explain exactly what happened in last night's Revenge. Only read this if you've seen the first episode, as it is spoiler-tastic!
We start off at a very expensive, very posh engagement party. A pretty lady called Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) is getting married to a pretty boy called Daniel (Josh Bowman). Only problem is, Daniel's on the beach and he's just been shot dead. Just as we're getting our head around things, the action flashes back to five months beforehand, the beginning of summer.
Emily moves into a big house in the Hamptons – she used to live in it with her dad – David Clarke - when she was younger – she also used to be called Amanda Clarke. Her landlords are about to divorce- Lydia's husband has left her for a woman half her age. Lydia's still in town though, and doesn't she tells best friend, matriarch Victoria Grayson that she doesn't want her husband to sell the house.Victoria's Daniel's mum - and Emily/Amanda's future mother-in-law. Keeping up?
Emily has photos of Lydia and Conrad (that's Victoria's husband) kissing (we don't know how she got them - TV magic?) and follows them to the South Fork Inn, where they're meeting for a lunchtime bunk-up. He has a stomach problem and is rushed to hospital - strangely, Emily bumps into them as Conrad's being carted away by paramedics.
Victoria rushes to see Conrad (Henry Czerny) at hospital but her worries disappear when she realises that he was having an affair. She tells him to never do it again. Later, at Victoria's charity fundraising boat party – Emily's been invited by best friend, Croydonite Ashley (Ashley Madekwe) – Emily mentions seeing Lydia at the South Fork Inn, and Victoria realises her best friend has been sleeping with her husband!
Victoria maintains her icy-cool composure, and takes the stage to start the charity art auction. In fine style, she announces that she's returning a priceless Van Gogh painting to Lydia as a "constant reminder of the friendship we shared" and says that not only is Lydia's house for sale, but she is leaving the Hamptons for good. She then has her escorted from the boat. What a humiliating send-off!
At the end, we discover that Lydia was Emily's dad's secretary and testified against him when he was taken to court (he was accused of murder). That's why Emily sneaked some poison into Conrad's lobster bisque (we told you this lot were posh) at the South Fork Inn so that he'd have to go to hospital. She was the one who made sure Victoria knew that Lydia and Conrad had been sleeping together!
Other stuff that happened
- Because his dad's bar is in debt, fittie Jack (Nick Wechsler) sells his boat to billionaire Nolan Ross (Gabriel Mann), meaning he won't go to Haiti. Meaning we get to see more of him!
- Jack's dog, Sandy, recognised Emily. In the flashbacks we discovered that Sandy used to be Emily's dog when she was called Amanda.
- Jack's boat is called 'Amanda'! His brother is called Declan (Connor Paolo), and fancies Daniel's sister Charlotte (Christa B. Allen)
- Conrad and Victoria fight and they talk about destroying a man – this is Emily's dad, we think. Especially seeing as Victoria was with the police who arrested David
- Nolan got Emily/Amanda out of prison (when she dressed like Kristen Stewart) and told her that her dad wasn't a murderer.
- Emily's dad, who is now dead, left her a 49% stake in Nolan's company, that's how she can afford to rent such a massive house!
- Suspicious of her new neighbour, Victoria sets a private investigator on Emily.
- Some amazing one-liners: "Mom, you're too young and too pretty to be this senile" and "I might as well move back to Croydon"
What we want to know
- The person who carried Daniel's body looks a lot like Jack. But is he the one who fired the shots?
- During the engagement party, Emily wipes some sand off of her hand. Where did it come from?
- Where did Emily find the photos of Lydia and Conrad kissing?
- Why was Emily in prison? Why did she have such a bad wig?
ALSO - the song Emily listens to when she's putting her feet in the sand is Hold On by Angus and Julia Stone. Nice, isn't it?
Long update this week - there's a lot to take in, though!
You can watch Revenge every Monday on E4 at 9pm. To catch up with old episodes, go to Channel4.com/4od
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