Revenge

In the first-season finale, Emily tackles the final stages of her plan while the Graysons continue to self-destruct, and then an explosive event occurs.

Original Air Date: May 23, 2012

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Emily is determined to hunt down the white-haired man who killed her father. This unnamed killer actually makes an appearance in the offices of Grayson Global. He lets Conrad know that he’s become a bad asset for his employers. Emily plans to create a reason for Whitey surface again. Then she’s going to track him down to make him pay for his crimes.

Emily sends Conrad a video of her and Daniel asleep in her bedroom. She leads him to believe it’s a subtle threat from the white-haired man. Conrad takes the bait. He sets up a meeting in Brooklyn. Emily’s attempts to be at the rendezvous are thwarted by Daniel. He insists that she sit down with Ashley to hear her pitch for their wedding, which has suddenly become more of a PR stunt. Emily has no choice but ask Nolan to pinch hit.

Daniel presents a check for a million bucks to Jack. He insists it’s a chance for him to do some good, but Jack knows this is blood money to keep his mouth shut. He considers starting a charity with the loot. Perhaps it’s something he could do with Emily. It’s obvious he cares about her. So does Nolan. That’s why he does surveillance on the white-haired man as requested. Nolan can’t hear Conrad lay out the threatening contingency plan he has if any harm comes to his family, but he does follow Whitey when the meeting ends.

Emily gets into a big fight with Daniel as the meeting with Ashley ends abruptly. Now she’s free to go after the white-haired man. Nolan knows she intends to kill him. That’s why he sends her to the wrong address. Nolan’s Aunt Carole lets Emily know that he is only trying to protect her. He’s trying to give her options other than murder. Nolan shows up at the white-haired man’s house disguised as a cable guy. He cons his way inside the home filled with hundreds of clocks to install a hidden camera. It’s obvious that the white-haired man doesn’t completely buy what’s happening even though he allows Nolan to leave.

Victoria tries to get the ball rolling again in the stalled SEC investigation of Grayson Global. She pays a visit to Conrad at his Manhattan apartment. Two things catch her attention. The first is the de Kooning painting in the foyer. The second is the presence of her old friend, Lydia, dressed in next to nothing. Later, Victoria takes a knife to the de Kooning, as it’s a forgery. It’s also the place where Conrad is hiding evidence that could destroy him. Victoria assures Lydia that she’ll have the immunity she’s already enjoying as long as she plays ball.

Declan comes home to the Stowaway with Jaime, a pretty prep school classmate who is originally from Yonkers. The two of them are working on an Econ project. The homework assignment gets put on hold when a worried Jack needs help looking for Sammy. The old dog has been sick lately. Jack gets a call from Emily. Sammy used up all of his strength to make his way to her front porch. He’s in bad shape. Jack needs to get over there pronto.

Charlotte’s therapist wants to have a sit-down session with the entire family. Conrad arrives to go off on his wife about her recent theft. Victoria plants the seed that perhaps Lydia is the one betraying him. The entire scene sends Charlotte fleeing from all the drama. She heads over to the Stowaway to the one person who’s always been straight with her. Too bad she gets the wrong idea believing that Declan has already moved on to Jaime. Charlotte is gone before Dec can explain. She’s off to score some drugs from a street dealer.

Jack knows Sammy is dying. He doesn’t have it in him to say goodbye to his best friend in the world. He breaks down sobbing. Emily is also in tears as she recalls happier days when Sammy was just a puppy. It was a time when her dad was still alive. It was a time when a little boy named Jack was best friends with a little girl named Amanda. She never forgot those days. Neither did Sammy. That’s why, even after all these years, he still managed to find his way home.

It’s a heartbreaking scene as Sammy passes away. Jack and Emily console each other with hugs. This leads to a passionate kiss that’s observed by Ashley, who happens to be peaking in through the front window. Later, Jack digs a grave for Sammy on the beach. He asks Emily what the two of them are going to do now. Clearly, she has no idea. Tears stream down her face as she digs more of the grave while Jack heads off to get Sammy.

Daniel threatens to sever all ties with his mother if she goes through with her plans to destroy his father. Victoria later gives the incriminating evidence she has on Conrad to her son. Daniel lets his dad know that his mother took the bait. An eavesdropping Victoria is saddened by the choice he’s made. Emily is also listening in via video camera. When Daniel to comes home, she can’t take her eyes off the briefcase that now holds enough evidence to clear her father’s name and bring down the Graysons.

Before Daniel arrives, Emily has a chat with Nolan on the phone. She thanks him for intervening earlier today. She thanks him for being a good friend. Nolan then checks out his handiwork by dialing up the video stream of the white-haired man in his house. Something’s off. The clocks in the home don’t show the right time. This is a recording. An arm violently wraps around Nolan’s neck. The white-haired man strangles Nolan, who fights to breathe. The attacker is just too strong. Nolan takes one last gasp for air before his body eventually goes limp.

Original Air Date: May 16, 2012

Guest Cast:
Marcus Giamatti: Dr. Ray Clemons
Tess Harper: Carole Miller
James Morrison: White Haired Man
Nicholas Stargel: Young Jack
Roger Bart: Mason Treadwell
Michael Reilly Burke: John McGowen

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Ever wonder how Emily Thorne got so intensely focused on revenge? We jump back to 2002 during the days when she was still known as Amanda (though we’ll still refer to her as Emily here). She was partying hard and getting into trouble. Nolan swings by to pick her up after a bar fight. It’s been six months since he gave her David Clarke’s journals. It’s obvious she’s yet to read them.

Conrad, Victoria and Frank are forced to deal with the fact that someone sent a note threatening to expose the truth about the late David Clarke. They invite all possible suspects to their annual New Year’s Eve party at Grayson Manor. It’s at one of these gala events that Victoria first met David. There was an instant connection. As for the 2002 bash, so many old friends we’ve come to know are on the guest list. Lydia and her husband, Michael, are the first to arrive. They announce that they are trying to buy David Clarke’s old house. Too bad the current owners aren’t entertaining any offers.

Emily stops by the Stowaway for a drink. She asks the pretty lady behind the bar for a vodka tonic, hold the tonic. The woman who serves her just happens to be dating a young Jack Porter. As short time later, Emily finally does read through her father’s journals. She later convinces Jack’s girlfriend to hook her up with a waitress gig at the Grayson family’s New Year’s bash. She intends to find out the truth about her father.

Some of the guests in attendance at the 2002 gala are Mason Treadwell, Bill Harmon, Senator Tom Kingsley and Dr. Michelle Banks. None of these folks had any clue that they would one day become the target of the young lady currently serving drinks. Also present at the party is Roger Halstead, a senior accountant at Grayson Global. According to David Clarke’s journal, this guy was a true friend who knew he was innocent. Halstead was forced to keep quiet against his will.

Conrad reveals to Lydia that he and Victoria are the owners of David Clarke’s house. The two of them chat about how they conspired against an innocent man. This is moments before they begin their extramarital affair. Conrad later announces that the house next door has suddenly become available. He wants Lydia nearby. Victoria is also onboard with the idea, as having a friend live in that house may help her forget about David. A photographer snaps a photo of Lydia and Victoria. It happens to be the shot that catches Emily in the background.

At the Stowaway, Nolan hits on the cute bartender before realizing she’s Jack’s girl. It’s the moment when these two future buds first met. Nolan learns that he’s partially responsible for forcing the Porter family to move out of their family home thanks to one of his real estate deals. He tries to make good with Jack’s dad, but learns that it was all for the best. It’s the only way he could hide the fact that his wife could care less about their two sons. Jack’s opportunistic girlfriend overhears the conversation. She makes a move on Nolan, who gets decked by Jack. This seems fitting since these two have always had an up-and-down friendship.

Emily corners Halstead in the pool house to reveal her true identity. She lets him know that she’s not afraid of the Graysons. Halstead, however, is. That’s why he’s become a drunkard as well as the prime suspect as the possible leak. Frank confronts him inside the pool house. Emily shows up during their uncomfortable chat, as Halstead had vowed to help her. Frank shuffles her out the door. When Emily returns, she finds Halstead dead in the bathtub in what’s made to look like a suicide. As it turns out, Halstead didn’t write the incriminating note. The real author was Treadwell.

Emily now knows that the Graysons will do anything to protect their empire. She reads a note that Halstead slipped her. He intended to tell her everything until they killed him. Emily makes an emotional phone call to Nolan vowing that she’ll do whatever it takes to expose the people who framed her father. Back in present day, Emily rereads Halstead’s note. She’s doing so on the night of the Grayson’s annual New Year’s Eve bash. She’s been to event before, but this time she’ll be attending as a guest. Make that a guest with a plan for revenge.

Original Air Date: May 9, 2012

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Emily wipes away the snow from her father’s grave marker to place a rose atop it. She makes a list of all the prisoners who were in David Clarke’s cell block the day he was stabbed. Charlotte shows Emily a photo of her father she found hidden in her mother’s jewelry box. It’s dated the day he was killed. Emily notices that her dad is holding a journal. It’s one that wasn’t in the Infinity Box. That’s because Nolan kept it from her.

Nolan was trying to protect David Clarke’s legacy, as the journal is filled with seemingly paranoid thoughts. It also contains an entry claiming that “CM” will come with the truth. Emily realizes that the initials stand for Conrad Grayson’s secretary, Carole Miller. An Internet search reveals that the woman died a few days after David Clarke. Emily does a little digging to learn that Carole Miller is actually very much alive. She’s living under the name Carole Thomas in Lancaster, PA. Looks like Emily is taking a road trip.

Emily poses as Homeland Security official to gain access to Carole’s rural farmhouse. She’s caught off guard when she sees a picture of the woman with Nolan. This is moments before Carole points a shotgun at her. Nolan comes barreling down the stairs to tell his Aunt Carole to lower her weapon. You heard us. Nolan is the nephew of Conrad Grayson’s ex-secretary. Carole is the person who introduced him to David Clarke.

Nolan explains that Carole believed David Clarke was innocent, so she started digging around Grayson Global. This search led her to a senior accountant named Roger Halsted, who had discovered enough evidence to hang Conrad Grayson and exonerate David Clarke, who was murdered before anything like that could happen. Nolan faked his aunt’s death to assure her safety. Carole says that Conrad dealt with a scary, white-haired man. However, she can’t provide a name.

Declan knows Charlotte is headed down a bad path. After he catches her sharing pills with Adam on campus, he rats her out to the school’s headmaster. Charlotte vows to have her dad pull Dec’s tuition checks. Fortunately, Nolan offers to pay all school bills. Victoria later brings Charlotte to David Clarke’s grave to help give her some comfort. They see by the fresh rose on the headstone that someone else has recently come to pay their respects. We can tell by the look on Victoria’s face that she’s wondering just who that might be.

Jack wants Emily to make sure she knows what she’s getting by marrying into the Grayson family. He has more to say, but their chat is interrupted by a phone call announcing that Daniel is being released from prison. Emily’s car is vandalized when she arrives to pick him up. Someone spray-painted the word “murderer” across the windshield. Emily suggests Daniel do a TV interview to tell his side of the story.

Jack tells Daniel about the part he played the night Tyler was killed, as well as the role his family may have played in Lee Moran’s death. He says Daniel owes it to Emily to not ignore this. In other news, Victoria meets with SEC man John McGowen to ask for immunity after she provides him with information about her husband. A short time later, Conrad gets word that the feds are seizing information from his offices. This looks to be the beginning of the end for him.

Daniel asks his father to tell him the truth, so Conrad does just that. He now knows that Lee Moran’s suicide note was bogus. He also knows that his father had this man killed. Before Conrad says anymore, he makes Daniel promise to take care of the company and Charlotte after they come for him. He then proceeds to reveal the details about David Clarke. Father and son believe they are chatting in private, but Emily had previously bugged the office. She hears every word.

Daniel tells his story during the TV interview. He talks about the night of the murder as well as how anyone who commits a crime should pay for it no matter who they are. This leads the reporter to her next line of questions involving the SEC investigation at Grayson Global. Emily beams with pride as she believes Daniel is about to come clean. Instead, he claims his father is the victim of a witch hunt. Conrad is grateful for this, Victoria is livid and Emily now knows that Daniel has somehow been turned. He truly is a Grayson.

Now that the charges against Daniel have been dropped, Ashley gives Victoria her notice. She’s been offered a media relations position at the law firm of the Grayson’s lawyer, Benjamin Brooks. The job is gone before it starts thanks to Victoria’s influence. That’s fine. Conrad prefers working with people who like to get their hands dirty. That’s why he offers Ash a job with him, along with the understanding that the two of them are intertwined from this day forward.

Emily knows that Daniel could have ended everything if he’d only told the truth. He didn’t. So she’s still going to marry him. She’s also going to track down the man who murdered her father. Once she finds him, she intends to kill him. Old video footage shows a white-haired man meeting with Conrad Grayson. He’s the same man who was wearing a guard’s uniform in the prison photo. Emily now knows this is the man who murdered her father.

Original Air Date: May 2, 2012

Guest Cast:
Cynthia McFadden: Herself

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Jack is coming up short in his search for Amanda. That’s because Nolan’s been leading him on a wild goose chase to keep him out of the Grayson crosshairs. That’s not going to be easy now that Jack is heading home. He’s worried about Declan, who is scheduled to testify for the prosecution in Daniel’s murder case. It’s Day 15 of the trial and things are not looking good for the defense.

Nolan is impressed to learn that Emily has planted a bug in the queen’s castle. Victoria is overheard making plans with her personal pawn, Lee, to intimidate one of the jurors. The menacing thug makes threats on a woman’s young son to assure an acquittal or hung jury. Victoria also recruits her daughter to help their case. Charlotte pops some pills before seductively assuring Declan that they can be together again if he just tells the truth in court.

Jack has been holding onto the hoodie with the blood stains in case the prosecution goes after Amanda for Tyler’s murder. He visits Emily after he returns to town. This has Daniel wondering what the two of them are doing behind closed doors. As for Emily, she has Nolan convince Declan that he needs to do whatever it takes to keep the Graysons from going after his brother. To protect Jack, Declan commits perjury by saying there was no one else on the beach. Anything Charlotte may say to the contrary can be chalked up to her being high.

Emily has Nolan shuffle Jack away from the Stowaway so she can swipe the blood-stained hoodie. In other news, Daniel is coming unraveled thanks to his growing distrust of Emily. He finds solace in a bottle of liquor. His repeatedly ignored phone calls only fuel his suspicion, not to mention his drinking. He’s utterly hammered as he waits for Emily. A furious Daniel violently shoves the woman he loves moments before the police storm Emily’s place to take him back to Rikers.

Charlotte’s ex-boyfriend, Adam, provides her with more pills for her addiction. She’s spiraling further out of control. Adam is taking full advantage of this as he and Charlotte roll around on her bed. Speaking of rolling around in bed, Victoria is still sleeping with Dominik in his loft. She reveals how she fell in love with David Clarke during her marriage of convenience. Conrad lets Dominik know that he’s savvy to the past art forgery scams he perpetrated with a young Vicky Harper. It’s his way of running the guy out of town.

Jack is understandably freaked when he realizes his hoodie has been stolen. It’s found a short time later by the police in the front seat of Lee’s car. The thug is promptly arrested and sent to Rikers. Lee knows he’s on the hook for murder. He places a call to Victoria warning her that if he goes down he’ll take the Graysons with him. Conrad assures his wife that he’ll clean up this mess just like he did with Dominik. Victoria is heartbroken when she sees that the only thing remaining in her lover’s loft is the unfinished portrait of her.

Daniel pens an apology letter to Emily from jail. He assures her that he’s going to put an end to the mess he’s created. A pair of feet is later seen dangling inside a prison cell. It’s not Daniel. It’s Lee. A suicide note is found near the body that contains a confession to Tyler’s murder. It looks like all charges against Daniel Grayson will now be dropped.

Emily plays a recording for Nolan. Conrad is speaking to someone, a person whose voice we’ve never heard before. The discussion is about another David Clarke-style situation. Conrad requests that an inside job be performed on an inmate named Lee. Suddenly things have become clear. Lee didn’t commit suicide and David Clarke wasn’t killed in a random knife fight. Emily now knows that the Graysons murdered her father.

Original Air Date: Apr 25, 2012

Guest Cast:
Veronica Cartwright: Judge Elizabeth Hawthorne
James Purefoy: Dominik Wright
Courtney B. Vance: Benjamin Brooks

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Rikers Island will be Daniel Grayson’s home for the foreseeable future barring a life-threatening condition. We can see Victoria’s wheels turning. She places a call to Lee, the guy who beat up Jack in “Commitment.” Victoria wants to send a message to her son. A short time later, Daniel is severely beaten in the showers. Message received. This “life-threatening” situation convinces the judge to send Daniel home on house arrest.

Victoria tries to convince Charlotte that the hooded person she saw on the beach the night Tyler was killed could have been a woman. It’s all part of her plan to set up Amanda as a suspect. Of course, she’ll settle for fingering Jack as her accomplice. Guess that’s why the sketch artist that’s been hired by the Graysons creates a pretty convincing likeness of our favorite lovesick bar owner.

Emily suggests that going after Montauk’s favorite son may not be a smart move. They need a spin doctor who can help shape public opinion in their favor before the trial. Emily suggests Mason Treadwell. The guy’s been a shell of his former self ever since that fire that destroyed his beloved cabin, his typewriter and the lone copy of his memoir. Mason dusts off his snappy bow tie to accept an online blogging job for a website suitably named “The Treadwell Report.” An office is set up for him at Grayson Manor.

Mason shows Jack the sketch that bears his likeness before getting tossed out of the Stowaway. Declan has vowed to look out for his big brother. That’s why he tells Mason that there was no hooded man on the beach that night. Any contradictory claims Charlotte may make are unreliable since she was mixing pills with alcohol. Declan isn’t the only one trying to protect Jack. Emily has Nolan convince him that Amanda is hiding out in Canada. It’s a way of getting him away from the Graysons for a spell.

Victoria meets with Lee at a Manhattan dive bar to pay him for the beatdown he arranged for her son. Emily covertly snaps pictures of the transaction. She then follows Lee out the door. Moments later, Victoria engages in an unexpected rendezvous with another patron at the bar. His name is Dominik Wright. He’s a man from her past—from a time when she was known as Vicky Harper.

The two past lovers feed a rekindled passion at Dominik’s loft which is filled with his unfinished artwork. His most impressive painting is that of a young Victoria. There’s something completely raw about the passion these two share. Victoria must eventually leave Dominik, though it’s obvious she desperately wants to stay. That’s probably why she returns later after another war of words with Conrad.

As Emily breaks into Victoria’s safe at Grayson Manor, Mason Treadwell confronts Charlotte about her pill-popping the night of Tyler’s murder. He later gets an instant message while typing up his latest report. It appears to be from Amanda, who places the blame on Victoria for torching his house. Proof of this can be found in his desk drawer where his David Clarke interview tapes are found. Emily planted them there. She’s also the person on the other end of the instant message.

Charlotte is furious when she learns that Declan sold her out. She breaks up with him over the phone before popping more pills. News of the latest Treadwell Report reaches the other inhabitants of Grayson Manor. Benjamin Brooks says, “Our hooded man theory has been shredded, and with it, Daniel’s entire defense.”

Victoria is furious with her daughter who she now knows is on drugs. She’s also livid with Mason Treadwell, who baffles her when he mentions the tapes that were supposed to be locked in her safe. Victoria later suggests to her son that his fiancée could be the second shooter at the beach. Daniel promises his mother that if she tries to drag Emily down, he’ll confess to the entire thing.

Emily dons a mild disguise to meet up with Lee in his hangout bar. She quickly gains his trust in order to record all the dirt he has on the Graysons. Emily lures Lee out to an alley. The guy thinks he’s about to get lucky. He’s not. The beating Daniel received in prison is nothing compared to the one Emily puts on Lee. Most of her fury is for what this guy did to Jack, though a few violent kicks are for Daniel. Emily makes an imprint of Lee’s car key in some putty. She then tosses the original set of keys back to her unconscious victim. As usual, it appears as though Emily Thorne has a plan.

Original Air Date: Apr 18, 2012

Guest Cast:
James Purefoy: Dominik Wright
Courtney B. Vance: Benjamin Brooks
Roger Bart: Mason Treadwell

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Police comb the beach area that’s become a crime scene thanks to Tyler’s murder. Many are questioned, but only one appears to be a prime suspect. Daniel tells the police he doesn’t remember anything about what happened with Tyler. That’s not exactly true. Daniel is clear about how Tyler showed him the picture of Emily’s targets—a photo that was found under the floorboards of her home.

After Daniel is released from police custody, he searches beneath the floorboards at Emily’s house. He finds various fishing and sailor items in the spot where the Infinity Box used to reside. A short time later, the police arrive with a warrant for Daniel’s arrest. He’s taken away in cuffs as Emily watches helplessly.

Benjamin Brooks (guest star Courtney B. Vance) is the no-nonsense attorney hired to defend Daniel, who finally reveals the details of the beach scene. There was a struggle. Daniel managed to wrestle the gun away before shooting Tyler. He only fired once, but the victim was shot a total of three times—with two bullet wounds in the back. Brooks says that the hematoma on the back of Daniel’s head suggests that a third person may have knocked him out to set him up. Amanda Clarke’s name pops up as a possibility.

Emily went back to the house when everyone else was down at the police station with Daniel. Victoria seems to be satisfied with her answer that she stopped to get a change of clothes for her son. She does, however, question Emily’s loyalty when she spills the details of how the Grayson influence got Daniel off after his DUI. This move convinces Victoria to promise full disclosure from here on out. She also tells Brooks that Amanda dated Jack.

Jack tells Declan that engine trouble prevented him from sailing away to Haiti, but his little brother isn’t really buying the story. He pops by Emily’s place to pick up Sammy and ask about Amanda. Obviously he hasn’t heard from her since that night on the beach. Nolan’s surveillance footage lets Emily know that Amanda showed up at his boat. The engine trouble story was a lie.

Jack finds the receipt for a $5 million wire transfer in Amanda’s jacket pocket. He seeks answers from Nolan, who suggests he ditch the receipt and forget about Amanda. That’s not going to happen. Nolan lets Emily know that Jack found the wire transfer receipt. She knows Jack is now in this thing even deeper than he was before.

When Emily learns that the security cameras at Grayson Manor were altered, she realizes that Nolan has been on Satoshi Takeda’s payroll. He was only working for the guy in order to protect her. Speaking of protecting people, Declan vows to do so for his brother once he finds Jack’s blood-soaked hoodie. Jack may need all the help he can get after Benjamin Brooks starts asking him questions at the Stowaway.

Someone from the party snapped pictures of Daniel at the crime scene. It’s all over the Internet. Conrad and Victoria want the family to appear as a united front to help Daniel’s case. They even seem to be getting along better. Charlotte is still staying with Declan, who doesn’t quite know how to handle his girlfriend’s pill-popping. Charlotte wants answers about David Clarke from her mom. Flashbacks show us that Victoria was unwilling to go back to a life that she once lived—not even for love.

Ashley has become the spokesperson for the Graysons with the media. She’s flourishing in this role. Benjamin Brooks believes she could parlay Daniel’s trial into a whole new career. Of course, he’s pretty sure Ashley is already well aware of this. Nolan is, too. He lets Ash know that he knows she’s the one who leaked the crime scene photos of Daniel to the press. What he intends to do with this information is to be determined.

The judge assigned to Daniel’s case assures everyone that money and power will have no influence in her court. That’s why she denies bail. Daniel Grayson is to be remanded to the maximum security correctional facility on Rikers Island until his trial. Everyone is stunned. This includes Emily, who we learn had a run in with Takada just 48 hours earlier.

Flashbacks show Emily furiously lashing out at Takeda at her beach house. Her mentor shows her the picture Tyler was going to use to expose her. Another flashback shows the struggle Daniel had with Tyler before he shot him. Takeda used a rock to knock Daniel unconscious. Tyler was still alive, so he shot him twice in the back.

Takeda says that Amanda and Jack showed up shortly after all this went down before he exits the house. The Infinity Box rests on a nearby table. Emily trashes it. She’s more out of control than we’ve ever seen her. This doesn’t last long. A look of steely determination takes over Emily’s face. Her voiceover lets us know that she’s ready to do battle once again. Emily says, “When you stare ahead and darkness is all you see, only reason and determination can pull you back from the abyss.”

Original Air Date: Feb 29, 2012

Guest Cast: 
Courtney B. Vance: Benjamin Brooks

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It’s Labor Day weekend. A gunshot rings out on the beach. A body slumps to the sand. A gloved hand reaches down to pull away a photo sheet that rests beside it. More shots are fired. What just happened? We jump back 24 hours to find out.

The Infinity Box that Emily hid under her floorboards is gone, but she doesn’t believe Amanda is the one who stole it. A phone call from the true culprit proves her right. Tyler is back in the picture. He’s been perusing David Clarke’s journal while making plans for vindication. Oh, and he’s also holding Amanda hostage. Tyler lets her sift through Emily’s box of secrets to prove that she’s not as virtuous as she’s led everyone to believe.

Tyler wants a bunch of cash in exchange for the Infinity Box and Amanda. Emily surprises him at gunpoint in the parking lot where they had set up a meeting. She binds him to a fence, but didn’t plan on him having an ally. Amanda steps up behind Emily with a gun pointed at her head. She and Tyler head off with the Infinity Box and the electronic funds transfer info Emily brought for the payoff.

Grandpa Grayson wants Daniel to meet with Satoshi Takeda. He wants him to assure the big money investor that Conrad’s marriage woes and a possible SEC investigation are no reason to bail on Grayson Global. Daniel shows up for the meeting, but doesn’t stay. He reveals that he has plans to ask his fiancée to run away with him, so someone else will have address Satoshi’s concerns about his father’s company.

After Charlotte sleeps off lots of liquor, she swipes Jack’s prescription bottle of pain meds. Declan gives her the name of a therapist she should call to help her deal with recent events. Grandpa Grayson doesn’t think that’s a wise move. He persuades Charlotte to remain mum about their family’s issues. In exchange for her loyalty, he’ll make a call to the dean of the prep school. It’s the only way Dec will get in since he flunked the entrance exam.

Jack gets a call from a priest in Haiti. He’s offered a chance to head a project to raise a school. Jack believes this is an opportunity to get his life back on track. He asks Emily if she would watch after Sammy while he’s gone. After all, his loyal dog lights up whenever she’s around her. Nolan tells Emily she should sail away with Jack. She can’t do that. Emily does, however, want Nolan to make sure that Jack gets away safely.

Tyler dons a swell white suit to crash his old Harvard buddy’s engagement party. He plans to frame Emily for Daniel’s murder. It’s payback for the frame job she did on him regarding Frank Stevens. Tyler wants Amanda to join him at the bash, but she belts him in the face to escape his clutches. She also snags the electronic funds info before making her way to Jack’s boat. She convinces him to take her along on his journey.

ack says that Emily is the only person who told him not to give up on Amanda. This is a somewhat sobering newsflash. Amanda heads off to pay her cab fare, but ends up speeding away. Jack chases after her once he realizes there’s blood on his hand that must have come from Amanda.

Conrad offers Victoria the deed to Grayson Manor as part of their divorce settlement. After signing on the dotted line, Victoria pulls out the business card of a field director at the Securities and Exchange Commission. She later tries to make amends with her son. It doesn’t go well. Daniel reveals his plans to ask Emily to run away to France. Victoria warns him to be prepared for an unenthusiastic response.

Satoshi Takeda has a gift for Emily at the engagement party. It’s the Infinity Box. He wants Emily to bury her father’s secrets in the sand. When she returns, any questions she has will be answered. Daniel finds Emily on the beach. He asks her to run away to Paris with him. Her response is pretty much what Victoria had predicted. Daniel heads off to be alone on the beach.

A gun-wielding Tyler shows up to give Daniel a group photo with an X-mark next to the name of the targets Emily has taken down. He grabs Daniel’s cell phone to text a message. He wants Emily to come to the beach. Declan and a pill-popping Charlotte are already headed that way.

BANG! Jack hears a gunshot as he races toward the beach. He finds Amanda hovering over a body bearing a bloody gunshot wound to the back. Jack tells her take off in his car as he drags the body behind some brush. Daniel’s cell phone rings when Emily calls. Charlotte and Declan hear the noise. This sends Jack running off. Charlotte’s screams interrupt the speech her mother is giving at the party. Everyone heads to the beach.

When Jack’s truck breaks down on the side of the road, Amanda accepts a ride from a stranger. We can’t really see the driver’s silhouetted face, but his voice sounds a lot like Satoshi Takeda. Back on the beach, Victoria rushes to the body. She fears her son is dead, but turns the body to reveal that it’s actually Tyler.

A somewhat disoriented Daniel steps up to the scene. Victoria hugs her son until she sees the blood covering the front of his tux. She shifts into protective mode as she places her lips close to Daniel’s ear. Victoria whispers, “Don’t say a word.” We have just arrived at the end of the evening when we were first introduced to Emily Thorne.

Original Air Date: Feb 15, 2012

Guest Cast:
Hiroyuki Sanada: Satoshi Takeda
William Devane: Grandpa Grayson
Jamal Duff: Big Ed

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Cordial invitations to the Fire and Ice Ball go out to announce the engagement of Mr. Daniel Grayson to Miss Emily Thorne. That’s not the only thing that may be heading out in the daily mail. Emily makes a DVD copy of the interview tape that she secretly plans to deliver to her newfound little sis, Charlotte.

During a family photo shoot at Grayson Manor, Emily recalls the first time she met Daniel. It wasn’t on the yacht. Flashbacks reveal that our favorite revenge-loving lady first crossed paths with an intoxicated Danny boy in a bar. He was going on and on about wanting freedom from the world’s perception of what it means to be a Grayson. She knew then-and-there that he was the one for her.

Grandpa Grayson (guest star William Devane) is in town. Conrad’s larger-than-life dad comes to do damage control regarding his son’s impending divorce. Grandpa has always had a soft spot in his heart for Victoria. He wants her to promise that the divorce won’t get ugly. It may already be too late for that. Grandpa G will likely learn this once the entire family is together for an upcoming dinner party.

Conrad warns the opportunistic Ashley that she’s hitched her wagon to the wrong Grayson. He also apologizes to Charlotte for taking out his frustrations with Victoria on her. Conrad wants to make sure that his little girl can handle any instability that may come her way. Charlotte says she can deal with anything as long as she has him. Emily overhears their conversation. It makes her reconsider her plan to deliver the DVD revealing that her dad was Charlotte’s father, too.

Jack has been desperately trying to get hold of Amanda. Nolan tries to ease his bud’s heartache by having a big screen TV delivered to the Stowaway. It’s a nice gesture, but no high-def program is going to give Jack the answers he seeks. Perhaps the videotape he finds under his bed will. If only he knew a tech geek who could show him how to play it. Oh, wait. He does.

Emily needs to get that tape back from Jack. She has Amanda set up a meeting with him at a hotel. It doesn’t go well. Jack wants answers. When he doesn’t get them, he opts to keep the tape. Emily’s next course of action is to have Nolan erase the video before Jack sees what’s on it. That never happens. Nolan hates what all this secrecy is doing to his friend. Jack views the video which shows a young Amanda revealing the identity of the dark-haired lady who was in love with her dad. Her name: Victoria.

Jack tries to get Amanda to talk to him. He speeds off when she won’t answer her door. Amanda tells Emily she’s through listening to her. She races after Jack, but he’s already gone. His next stop is Grayson Manor where he crashes Grandpa’s big welcome dinner. He spills the beans about Victoria’s relationship with David Clarke. If the queen doesn’t stop telling lies about Amanda, Jack promises to start telling the truth about her.

Speaking of telling the truth, Conrad helps fill in some blanks after Jack storms off. He lets Charlotte know that David Clarke is her biological father. Conrad also dispels the story that Victoria was attacked. David Clarke was her lover in an ongoing affair. Grandpa Grayson now knows that the possibility of a friendly divorce is history. He suggests that Conrad step down as CEO of Grayson Global so that Daniel can take over. Victoria overhears their entire conversation.

Declan tries to console Charlotte at the Stowaway, but her only comfort comes from a bottle behind the bar. Emily is also feeling down. She knows that Jack is back on Victoria’s radar. She comes home to an even bigger problem. The secret compartment in her living room floor is open. Inside rests an invitation response card to the Fire and Ice Ball. The guest has indicated that she will attend. The handwritten name on the card reads “Miss Emily Thorne.”

Original Air Date: Feb 8, 2012

Guest Cast:
William Devane: “Grandpa” Grayson

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The news of the moment is that David Clarke is Charlotte Grayson’s biological father. Emily formulates a plan to use this information in the best possible way. The fact that she just learned she has a half-sister isn’t slowing her down one bit. Of course, she needs proof that she and Charlotte are related. She also needs a way to get rid of Amanda. Mason Treadwell’s interview tapes of David Clarke should help accomplish both objectives.

With Charlotte by his side, Conrad informs Declan that he’ll be paying for his tuition to attend prep school with his daughter. Moments later, a video flash drive is delivered. Conrad is instructed to open it in private. He later plays the recording at a mediation session with Victoria and their attorneys. The video reveals the details of Victoria’s affair as well as the fact that Charlotte is not Conrad’s daughter.

Victoria believes Amanda Clarke is the one who set the fire at Mason Treadwell’s place to cover the theft of the interview tapes. Speaking of the tapes, Emily plants them inside Amanda’s bag as part of a frame job for the fire. She pockets a note with Amanda’s handwriting she finds while rifling through her things.

Conrad swipes Charlotte’s hairbrush for DNA testing. Victoria also wants to use DNA to prove that the girl who claims to be Amanda Clarke is the real deal. That’s why she invites her over for tea. Victoria has Ryan Huntley use a spoon that Amanda licked to use for a sample. Huntley says the preliminary results from Charlotte’s DNA test indicate that Conrad is not her father.

Conrad dismisses the lawyers to have a private chat with his soon-to-be-ex-wife. He lets Victoria know that she should take whatever her offers her. If they go to trial, it’ll be public knowledge that she had a child after a torrid love affair with the most hated man in America. This puts the queen in a precarious spot. It also has an eavesdropping Ashley wondering why she invested herself in a family that appears ready to implode.

Daniel plans an intimate, romantic dinner on the boat where he first met Emily. A mobile orchestra plays in the background until the rains come. A little bad weather isn’t going stop Daniel from his objective of the evening. He gets down on one knee, pulls out a ring and asks a breathless Emily to marry him. Her answer is yes. The two of them kiss, embrace and laugh in the middle of the downpour. Of course, things are just as stormy inside once the happy couple breaks the news to Victoria.

Charlotte is crushed when Conrad informs her that she needs to move back with her mother. What’s even more jarring is the way in which he seems to look upon her. Charlotte is, however, thrilled to learn that Daniel proposed to Emily. She says she’s always wanted a sister. What Charlotte still doesn’t know is that she’s always had one.

Jack walks in on a thug Victoria hired to swipe the David Clarke interview tapes. The two men get into a brutal brawl, with Jack being left beaten and bloody. Elsewhere, Ryan Huntley informs the queen that Amanda is, indeed, Charlotte’s half-sister. Victoria then promptly fires her attorney. Later, Huntley informs Emily that there was nothing he could have done to stop Jack from getting hurt. As it turns out, Huntley had always believed David Clarke was innocent. That’s why he’s been in cahoots with Emily all along.

David Clarke didn’t want Huntley to pursue justice for him because he was afraid that a new trial would sic the conspiracy wolves on his daughter. Huntley switched the samples for the DNA test on Amanda to keep Emily’s plans from being derailed. He advises her to reassess what she’s doing before more innocent people get hurt.

Emily gives Amanda the scoop about how Conrad and Victoria framed her father to take the fall for their terrorist ties. She convinces her to leave town, but Amanda can’t say goodbye to Jack. Emily promises to do it for her. Jack is devastated when he reads the handwritten breakup note declaring Amanda’s departure.

Jack has no idea that one of the David Clarke interview tapes was accidentally left behind under his bed. As for the rest of the tapes, Victoria locks them away in a safe. Flashbacks show her seducing Conrad the night David Clarke was arrested. This was just moments after she realized she was pregnant with another man’s baby.

Emily realizes she needs to minimize the collateral damage. She intends to give Daniel back his ring in order to take some time to regroup. In other news, Victoria leads Daniel to believe that she became pregnant with Charlotte because David Clarke forced himself on her. When Emily gets wind of this bogus rape story, her plans to take a revenge-break disappear. She suggests a June wedding to Daniel as she stares over at Victoria with daggers in her eyes.

Original Air Date: Jan 18, 2012

Guest Cast:
James McCaffrey: Ryan Huntley

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