Revenge- Duress

"Black Mail Isn't Just for Breakfast Anymore"

The wait is over and Revenge was finally back on the air last night. Although to my disappointment the episode was not as intriguing as the past ones.

Tyler was a lunatic. Do you all think we saw the last of him cause I'm not sure? It actually shocks me that Mrs. Grayson the one that had her security guard around all the time and had him do background checks on basically everybody, let some stranger into her house because he was a friend of Daniels. As we all know Daniel does not have the best taste in people, that should have been a warning label. But Tyler needless to say was not as dumb as he looked, even picking up on the GPS that was implanted in his cellphone and fooling Nolan Ross (who could have definitely taken Tyler on). Come on that knife wasn't even that big... If Nolan would stop being scared of everything this could have been resolved in a completely different way... Where was his security guard anyways?

My next question lies with Amanda Clark aka Emily Thorne. Did the real Amanda not inform Emily that her father was framed and he really wasn't behind the terrorist plot that blew up the flight? It seemed to me that during dinner when Tyler was threatening to shoot everybody and exposed pieces of the truth about Conrad, Amanda (Emily) was actually shocked. Then as she was heading home with Jack she seemed to be intrigued by what he said and wanted to dig deeper for the "real answers". So my assumption is that the real Amanda just informed her that her father was a terrorist and wanted her to live with that so she could come and get revenge on all these people low key?

The reason Mrs. Grayson is so infatuated with Emily is because she feels a connection to her. It was interesting to see when she met eye to eye with Amanda for the first time that she had a feeling it wasn't really Amanda. I'm interested to see how this is going to play out between the two ladies. And what's Emily's plot for Amanda? She mentioned her to the Grayson's and brought her to dinner to see their reactions and torture them sure, but does she believe that Mrs. Grayson is going to run Amanda out of the Hampton's or what? I don't think that the fake Amanda has enough knowledge on the case to prove herself though.... Jack is just kind of oblivious, and definitely still smitten on Emily, which he should be cause she is the real Amanda.... 

The relationship between the Graysons is one of interest to say the least. A couple so "in love" has turned to hate and manipulation, but Victoria has to hate Conrad much more as she is willing to forge papers that say she was really pregnant to void their pre-nup otherwise she knows she wont get anything. All is fair in love and war I assume, and as Conrad himself mentioned it, Victoria was once a nobody but it only takes a couple of minutes to learn how to function in their world. Also her scrap booking move, taking the idea from Emily and using it, very rico-suave Victoria. As Emily put it "how 
." But whats best about Emily is that she could say so much and put so many people on the spot and she doesn't. It most definitely is one of her best traits. 

Lastly, the real Amanda is pretty kick-ass. How she knows everything that she knows is beyond me, but its what draws me in every week. She probably has video camera's set up everywhere so that she knew Tyler was at Nolan's or she just has amazing animal instincts, either way she's not dumb enough to leave a handgun loaded. She was expecting Nolan. She knew he would turn on her and she knew there would be no bullets. She's ahead of the game, she's 2 steps ahead of everybody else- if not more. I honestly believe that revenge never gets old and if any of you guys wants to get some revenge on someone, you should use some of Amanda Clark's tactics. 

Memorable Quotes

• Mrs. Grayson: Well like so many things it hasn't aged well. 
• Tyler: It does appear that you despicable people are starting to rub off on me.
  
• Nolan: We sure know how to pick em huh?
• Emily: Duress impacts relationships in one of two ways; it either tears people apart. It strengthens their connection binding them tightly in a common objective. 
• Emily: When duress is applied to the emotionally unstable the result can be as violent as it is unpredictable
  
  

Here's the ending song of the episode, a cover of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" by Lissie. Its pretty dope, for a cover!!! Enjoy my lovelies <