Revenge

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CRASH! The body of Lydia Davis crushes the roof a cab after falling from the sky above. To find out what led up to this shocking event, we need to jump back two days earlier.

To give Daniel some structure after he fell off the wagon, Conrad orders his son to come work for him. Tyler’s joining the Grayson Global team, too. In other news, security man Frank informs Victoria that her hubby transferred $10 million to ex-friend Lydia’s account in the Caymans. This leads to a heated chat between husband and wife, which Tyler just happens to overhear. He promptly lets Daniel know about his father’s not-so-secret affair.

Victoria wants Charlotte to join her at an upcoming luncheon. That’s not gonna happen. Instead, Charlotte swipes the new car Conrad had delivered for Victoria to go see Declan. As for the luncheon, Emily is there to discuss the upcoming Open Arms charity gala. She convinced Ashley to have the organizers pay tribute to a charity that was created for the families of the victims who died in the plane crash linked to her dad. They’ll be honoring one of the pioneers of the effort: Victoria Grayson.

This news is a bit of shock to the queen, as is the return of her old friend Lydia Davis, who informs Emily that she’s contesting the sale of her home. She’s also there to dig up dirt on the woman who helped turn her life upside down. But Emily’s the one who excels at digging up dirt. She informs Victoria that while Lydia was a patient of Dr. Banks, she wasn’t exposed on the DVD.

Emily ships some things over to Lydia’s home including an item that contains a hidden camera. Nolan can see everything that’s happening as Conrad Grayson pays her an angry visit. Lydia threatens to expose the Grayson family’s involvement in the framing of David Clarke. After Conrad leaves, Lydia catches sight of Emily in disguise as a waitress in an old society function photo. Looks like she found her dirt.

Nolan informs Emily that Lydia is on to her. She wants Nolan to hack into the system of the catering company she worked for to delete her name, which was still Amanda Clarke back then. At the gala, Victoria is seated next to a woman who lost her family in the plane crash. The guilt she feels for all that she’s done is evident on her face. The hits just keep on coming when Victoria learns Lydia will be introducing her at the event.

Daniel makes separate apologizes to both Jack and Emily for his behavior the other night. Both forgive him. Daniel, however, isn’t so forgiving to Tyler when he learns his buddy tried to sabotage his relationship. When Daniel shows up at the gala, Emily must send Nolan to retrieve an incriminating fax from Lydia’s place where Frank the security guy is already there snooping around. He informs Victoria that Lydia is behind everything and she’s going to expose the Graysons during her speech.

Victoria has a little chat with Lydia just before her intro. Whatever she said worked, as Lydia’s speech is an innocuous one. A short time later, Victoria makes it clear just how much she hates her ex-friend. When Lydia arrives home, Frank is waiting for her. The two of them get into a physical fight that ends with Lydia falling off the rooftop. Later, inside Lydia’s place, Nolan switches the faxes, swipes the old photo and snags the hidden camera. When he hears sirens outside, he looks over the balcony to see Lydia’s lifeless body below.

Charlotte gets pulled over by the police while joyriding with Declan. Daniel and Emily head down to the police station to pick up Charlotte while Jack is there to claim Declan. Daniel asks Jack for a bartending job at the Stowaway. Later, Daniel and Emily spend the night together. That’s why she doesn’t get Nolan’s message that he thinks Frank killed Lydia.

Original Air Date: Oct 19, 2011

Guest Cast:
Ashton Holmes: Tyler
Max Martini: Frank Stevens

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Hiroyuki Sanada, who appeared in the final season of Lost, has booked a recurring role on ABC’s Revenge, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Sanada, who portrayed one of the Others, Dogen, will play Kioshi Takeda, a Japanese businessman with ties to Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp). Also known for his starring role inThe Last Samurai opposite Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe, the actor will first appear in Episode 9.

Executive-produced by Mike Kelley, the contemporary take on The Count of Monte Cristo debuted to 10.15 million viewers. Its latest outing on Wednesday drew 7.9 million viewers, prompting ABC to pick up the freshman series for a full season.

Source: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Revenge-ABC-Hiroyuki-Sanada-1038787.aspx

An Other is coming to the Hamptons.

EW has learned exclusively that Hiroyuki Sanada — best known for playing Dogen, a member of the Others on Lost — will recur on ABC’s Revenge this season.

Sanada will play Kioshi Takeda, a Japanese business man with mysterious ties to Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp). He’ll show up in episode 9.

On Lost, Sanada’s character preferred to communicate in Japanese so he required a translator. He was the only one who could keep the Man in Black out of the Temple, but then Sayid drowned him to death, so Titus Welliver’s alter-ego came in as a pillar of smoke and massacred the Others and … but, hey, look at us digressing!

Last week, ABC ordered nine more episodes of Revenge, which brought its total order to 22 for this first season. The show averaged 7.9 million viewers and a 2.7 rating in the adult demographic on Wednesday, just barely edging out CSI to win the 10 p.m. hour.

Source: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/17/revenge-scoop-an-other-from-lost-to-star-exclusive/

ABC’s Revenge has certainly lived up to its title.

Hardened Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) has already taken down three adversaries who were involved in the wrongful conviction of her father. But as the girl once known as Amanda will soon find out, keeping secrets in the Hamptons is no easy feat.

TVGuide.com chatted with VanCamp on the many layers of revenge in the coming episodes, including the show straying from the revenge-of-the-week story line. Plus: How far will Emily go on her quest for, well, revenge?

When will someone start putting together the pieces that all these people being taken down are connected?
Emily VanCamp: I think Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) is already on to Emily. She definitely has a sense that something is not right with this girl. I don’t think she quite knows what that is yet, but she’s certainly on to it. There’s the character of Frank (Max Martini), who starts to follow Emily, which she is aware of, but he’s going to find out some information that could potentially ruin this whole master plan. I also think Jack (Nick Wechsler) feels that something is there, but he doesn’t quite know what.

Will Emily be able to keep this secret if she continues to take someone down each week?
VanCamp: She needs to tread lightly because there’s only so much she can do before it starts to seem suspicious. The first four episodes, there’s a takedown every week and it’s more procedural. But when Episode 5 airs, you’ll see that it turns into much more of a big arc. There are still takedowns, but it’s not always Emily that’s doing all the bad things. Victoria has her own things going on. It’s a very messy group of people that are doing really messy things. You get to explore the other characters more as well.

What will we see for Emily’s love life with both Daniel (Josh Bowman) and Jack?  

VanCamp: The story lines with Jack and Daniel are so much fun to play. Nick and Josh are both such interesting actors and so different that you can really see why she’s so torn between these two men and why she’s so hesitant to reach out to Jack because he could destroy everything. Ultimately, he could make her feel again, which is the scariest thing of all. There’s an undeniable connection with Daniel as well.

What will we see for Daniel’s new roommate Tyler (Ashton Holmes) and his crush on Ashley (Ashley Madekwe)?
VanCamp: He’s incredibly creepy, and Emily is certainly on to him from the get-go. We’re also going to start to see a different side to Ashley. They are much more similar than we would imagine. We haven’t really gotten to see what Ashley can do yet, but she’ll get a lot more stuff coming up with Ashton, who’s so good at playing Tyler, such a complicated and crazy character and he’s just killing it. People will really be interested in the dynamic between those two, as well as between Emily and Tyler, and Daniel and Tyler. He’s going to be one to watch, for sure.

Will Emily’s conscience start getting to her, or is she too far gone?
VanCamp: The character would be one dimensional and uninteresting if she didn’t have the ability to feel. She’s built up this major wall, but deep inside of her, she’s still that little girl who does have the ability to feel. You see how she feels for Jack and how she struggles with this façade that she’s putting on. She’s also somewhat sociopathic in that she feels everything to an extreme and she’s sort of insane on a lot of levels. [Laughs] Whether she can come back from that, I don’t know.

Will she ever take the revenge too far?

VanCamp: I think she takes it too far all the time, which is what I love. She does have somewhat of a moral code. She definitely is not in the business of killing, but I wouldn’t put it past her. She’ll do anything to get back at these people. I don’t think it would be satisfying for her to just kill them. She desperately wants to see them suffer the way that she suffered and feel the pain that she’s felt. That would be an easy way out and she doesn’t want that.

Executive producer Mike Kelley has said that the 13th episode of the season will be the engagement party from the pilot where Daniel is apparently killed. Should we assume he actually died?
VanCamp: It’s safe to say that you should assume nothing with this show. We have no idea who’s dead on that beach, if it’s Daniel or not. It could be anything.

Source: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Revenge-Emily-VanCamp-1038622.aspx

Emily VanCamp has found herself in the middle of a “twisted” love triangle – on TV, that is.

VanCamp’s character on ABC’s Revenge, vengeful vigilante Emily Thorne, may be seeking justice for her late father, but she’s also struggling to choose between Jack (Nick Wechsler), her working-class childhood friend, and Daniel (Joshua Bowman), the privileged son of her nemesis.

“Obviously there is a deep love and connection with Jack that is certainly not part of the plan,” VanCamp, 25, tells E! Online of the love triangle. “I think she’s really trying to keep him at an arm’s length, and he obviously makes her feel something, but I think if she really lets that go to far it could really disrupt her plan [with Daniel]. … it’s really kind of messy.”

She additionally teases: “Episode five is actually even more shocking in that respect with the relationship with Daniel.”

No word on if the new developments have anything to do with Daniel’s visiting college friend, Tyler, a bad seed played by Ashton Holmes. Fans can expect to see Tyler and Emily clash in upcoming episodes, according to VanCamp.

“He’s sort of like the Talented Mr. Ripley character, and Emily doesn’t even really know quite what he’s up to … but she knows something is up,” VanCamp says. “There is something really kind of twisted and scary about this character.”

Source: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20536791,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines

Like many of us here in the EW offices, I’m completely and unashamedly hooked on Revenge. The ABC drama — starring Emily VanCamp as a young woman bent on avenging her father’s ruin — is full of fun twists, fancy rich people doing fun, fancy, rich people things, and, perhaps most importantly, displays the utter awesomeness that is Madeleine Stowe. But! There is a small nagging issue that has been driving me more and more crazy with every viewing: What is the deal with that dog, Sam?

Okay, so, Sam is an adorable yellow Labrador that our avenging angel Amanda/Emily received as a birthday gift as a cherub-faced kid. Things happened: Fathers were framed and men in scary black op outfits stormed the beach house and nabbed young Amanda, beginning the trauma that will lead her to-yes!-revenge. According to the show’s website, this dramatic act took place when Amanda was nine years old and 17 years have since passed. And yet! We’ve been led to believe that the (very healthy) Lab who now lives with the handsome, sure-to-be-a-romantic-entanglement townie, is the very same “Sam.” We know this because the dog recognizes that this Emily Thorne is his former owner, the once young and innocent Amanda Clark, and so tends to just tail-wag himself over to her house at all hours. Now, according to the experts, the average life span for a Labrador is 11-13 years and yet this miraculous dog is not only looking remarkably alive for being at least 17, he’s really pretty spry as he jumps on and off that (rather fancy) sailboat.

So, what should we believe? Is Sam magic? Or is this a reference to Homer’s The Odyssey, when Odysseus’ dog, Argos, recognizes his former master in disguise even after 20 years have passed? (Hey, why not, the show is supposedly a modern take on Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo. Anything is possible.) Or maybe the writers, like me, just hate doing math.

Source: http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/10/12/revenge-mystery-dog/

The Graysons’ quiet anniversary plans go off track and are replaced by an explosive family dinner. Meanwhile, Frank unearths some info on Emily in an attempt to prove his devotion to Victoria.

Original Air Date: Nov 2, 2011

Guest Cast:
Max Martini: Frank Stevens
Jamal Duff: Big Ed
Alicia Coppola: Melissa Andetson
Ashton Holmes: Tyler
CCH Pounder: Warden Stiles
Margarita Levieva: Amanda Clarke

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The Graysons begin to distrust their top security man, who refuses to go away quietly. Meanwhile, the tension between Emily and Tyler can no longer be contained; Daniel runs into problems; and the Porter brothers make daring romantic moves.

Original Air Date: Oct 26, 2011

Guest Cast:
Max Martini: Frank Stevens
Gary Kraus: Teddy
Ashton Holmes: Tyler

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