Revenge- Victory

"In the art of war, if you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles." 

Oh Revenge. Every episode just reveals siblings that we never knew about.  Eli's presence on the show ended up to be short lived and in a way just there to move the storyline along to much bigger and better things. While Emily is gifted in the art of knowing everything about herself and her enemy, she's able to come out on top in most battles. But it was also revealed that if you don't know just how serious you're enemy is or you underestimate them, you end up loosing in the darkest of ways.

Throughout the episode it seemed like Eli was playing on multiple fronts. He was working with Victoria to include his old foster mother in the charity. Hayword house is where Amanda and Eli grew up and had horrible memories, yet Eli wanted to honor their foster mother. This was all just a lie, so that he could expose who she really was, what she really did to these children and get back the letters from Amanda's father that she hid from her. It was revealed that Eli had actually started the fire in that house and let Emily take the blame for it, letting her go to juvie and basically throwing her life into the whirlwind that it has been. Maybe if she hadn't gone to juvie, she would have been able to save her father. But things happen for a reason and Eli came to make amends for his mistakes. Eli's actions exposed the truth, made Victoria look bad, put the Hayword house under investigation and got Emily an envelope that led her straight to Treadwell. Treadwell is still in jail, a place that only Emily can get him out of, so he has motive to give her the answers she's looking for. Unfortunately, the letters from her father burned down when Emily set his house on fire, but Treadwell slipped up that Victoria had another son, a first born, that she had also put into a foster home. That means there is another Grayson that Victoria has "forgotten" completely about. Or is he a Grayson? Maybe he's a Clarke? Does he know anything? Does he want revenge as well??

Victoria doesn't really need to ruin another child's life. She does that enough with her own son Daniel, whose clearly already loosing it, yet she manages to push him even further. She's obviously aware that Daniel has been telling Emily everything, or she's at least suspicious of it. She also knows that she can manipulate her son into doing whatever she wants as long as he thinks that something might happen to the girl that he loves; Emily. She sends him a picture, anonymously, of him and Emily on their "secret" meeting reserved under Taylor, with two bullets. Daniel freaks out, thinking this is probably the work of the initiative. But how far will Daniel go to protect Emily? How far will Victoria go to push her son or initiate a threat on her neighbor??


While Emily is dealing with her step brother, Nolan and Aiden are dealing with the initiative. They desperately want the program Carion, which is surprising because if they are in fact working with the Falcon, couldn't he just whip up something like Carion? Nolan refers to the Falcon as the only person that's better at this than Nolan. So what does the initiative need out of Carion? Nolan and Aiden attempt to protect Padma when she meets with them to give the program over, but are unsuccessful cause the initiative is always a few steps ahead. Now Padma is missing along with her father. The initiative leads Nolan and Aiden to a location where they find the turtle head with the tracking device that was attached to the usb of the program. They knew all along. Did it not occur to any of them that the initiative could have their offices bugged? They talked so openly about all of this that its no surprise they were onto them. Now, Nolan has to decode the programming where the text messages are coming from, but maybe thats what the initiative wants. They clearly want to go after Nolan and maybe abducting Padma is their only way of getting to him. Either way, the love Nolan has for Padma will be his driving force to find her and free her. I just hope she wasn't playing him all this time.

Jack Porter is making deals with the devil. His manhunt for Kenny allowed him to get some recordings that happen between the other Ryan brother and Conrad Grayson, where Conrad basically tells him to kill Jack. This takes the heat off of Emily and Nolan, but leaves Jack yearning to make Conrad pay for the death of his wife. He knows now the only reason the brother was on the boat and ready to kill is because of Conrad's orders. I'm not really sure what Jack's plan is but he accepted Conrad's proposal to join his campaign team. I'd love to see this guy take down the Grayson's single handedly. They really deserve it. Although Conrad's intentions weren't to kill Amanda, he isn't too sad about it. He got rid of a girl who was blackmailing him with evidence that could corrupt him and his family and he got to make money out of the whole ordeal, while looking like a good samaritan on his campaign. Jack's probably going to get close to him and try to find some evidence of monetary exchange between Grayson and Ryan in order to prove that he is the one that initiated the death of his wife. 

While everything is interesting and setting up for a crazy ride, I'm excited to see how Emily handles the orphan brother. Her smile at the end when she found out the secret was beyond wicked. It was pure evil with a hint of vengeance. Will she shove him down Victoria's throat or blackmail her in style? Obviously, a masquerade ball is the perfect place to reveal this new found son. Victoria just has a bundle of secrets, but this won't be a bundle of joy, it'll be a bundle of unanswered questions. While the writing has been decent on the past few episodes, I think this new revelation will really spice things up and hopefully the end of the initiative is on its way. 

Memorable Quotes

• Emily: In the art of war, if you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you only know yourself and not your enemy, for every victory there will also be defeat.
• Aiden: The only way to save Padma is to let her go.
• Padma: You better be walking down that beach seconds later.
• Nolan: I'll be running.
• Emily: Do you have any idea what lighting that fire did? My whole life could have been different Eli!
• Emily: Victoria? She has another son?
• Treadwell: I imagine you'll exploit this fresh little morsel with your usual flair.
• Emily: You can't even begin to imagine.