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"Revenge signalled that it was on its way back to its best last week, when Emily focused in on the Graysons again. And this episode continued that path, finally saying goodbye to Kara and turning Emily&amp;#039;s attention back where it belongs. Of course, that sounds much more simple than the episode actually was. Before that, we had not one but two murder attempts, a bit of chloroform and a certain revelation that could have completely changed the game... if Emily wasn&amp;#039;t quite so assured about things.  Putting aside Daniel&amp;#039;s snoozesome attempts to take over Grayson Global at his father&amp;#039;s investment meeting - buoyed now that he has the cheque proving that David Clarke invested in NolCorp - the instalment was pretty thrilling throughout. Even this boring storyline was enhanced greatly by the fact that it included Nolan; he&amp;#039;s willing to sacrifice his company for Emily, and it&amp;#039;s totally heartwarming. (I don&amp;#039;t care at all about his relationship with Padma, but his friendship with Emily is truly something else, and how nice to see a male-female relationship with no sexual tension on television.) But more importantly, Mason&amp;#039;s shocking discovery that Amanda and Emily were at juvie together has thrown things into a bit of a pickle... even if Mason is hilariously off base when he believes that they were actually lovers (sorry, &amp;quot;felonious sapphic blondes&amp;quot;). I suppose you can&amp;#039;t help but admire the writerly hope in him. (This was actually a great episode for Mason; even his voicemail message is amazing, inviting callers to leave their &amp;quot;bon mots&amp;quot; after the beep.) Emily manages to palm him off - and besides, she has enough to worry about, with Conrad holding an investment meeting attended by an envoy from the Initiative (Aiden is duly dispatched to keep an eye on things). One thing she doesn&amp;#039;t have to concern herself with is Kara, who&amp;#039;s decided that now&amp;#039;s a good time to head out of town. Oh, Emily. Have you learned nothing? No-one in this show leaves when they say they will.  Anyway, Mason isn&amp;#039;t so convinced by Emily&amp;#039;s explanation of her relationship with Amanda, so he decides to speak with her and sets up a lunch meeting. This obviously gives her time to confer with Emily (I mean, why does no-one just show up uninvited any more?). But the two former jailbirds disagree massively on the best course of action - Emily promises that she has a plan to take down Mason, while Amanda wants to get a bit stabby. Still, she eventually agrees with Emily and calls Mason to cancel the meeting - and threaten him with a restraining order. Or does she? Mason eventually turns up uninvited (like he should have done in the first place) and Amanda offers to tell him the whole truth - Emily is a &amp;quot;sociopathic socialite&amp;quot; who&amp;#039;s obsessed with her and, therefore, wants to bring down the Graysons. But Amanda wants to go somewhere private to discuss the matter - what&amp;#039;s she playing at? Well, it turns out that her murderous rage hasn&amp;#039;t quite subsided, and she&amp;#039;s going to get a bit beaty-over-the-head-with-a-candlestick. You have to admire the old school weapons in Revenge. Luckily, Jack calls Emily just in time explaining that he can&amp;#039;t get in touch with Amanda, who&amp;#039;s gone out with Mason. So Emily turns up at the Treadwell residence just in time to stop a murder from taking place. Sending Amanda back to the &amp;quot;family&amp;quot; she keeps going on about, Emily decides to drop a bombshell on Mason (and on us, in a way): she reveals that she is the real Amanda. And smiles, wonderfully. It&amp;#039;s amazing.  It seems like Emily is taking a huge risk here - especially when she slams a clearly nervous Mason about his role in her father&amp;#039;s demise - but of course she has a plan. Discovering from Nolan that Kara has not fled the Hamptons at all, she begins to put the pieces together and uses Mason to help things along. He arranges to meet Kara, and then tells her that Gordon would have wanted her to get as far away as possible (he hands over Gordon&amp;#039;s pocket watch to give himself a bit more verisimilitude). But as so often, Emily discovers that she can&amp;#039;t trust people to do her bidding; Mason goes massively off script and tells Kara the truth, that David Clarke was framed by the Graysons. Emily can only listen in horror as her mother - who is off her medication - is told such shocking news and instantly wheels round to take down Victoria and Conrad. Now, that wasn&amp;#039;t part of the plan. Emily can only sit back - Kara&amp;#039;s disabled the Grayson security cameras, so that&amp;#039;s no help, and Aiden is conveniently not answering his phone. Over at Grayson manor, Victoria discovers that Daniel is planning a coup against Conrad, and - in a new spirit of marital unity, forged on the beach after they agreed to take down the Initiative together - she goes to warn her husband. Unfortunately for her, Kara&amp;#039;s there... and she&amp;#039;s armed. She wants a confession, but though Conrad insists that they weren&amp;#039;t responsible and the duo reveal that her beloved Gordon murdered her beloved David, she soon gets them kneeling and blindfolded. Luckily, Emily finally gets through to Aiden, who can burst in with some chloroform and drag Kara out - all unseen by the Graysons. Seriously, Emily is putting people&amp;#039;s fires out all over the place this week.  So yes, this is all ridiculous, but it&amp;#039;s bloody good fun, too - there&amp;#039;s a real sense of tension about the scene, and some nice little touches, too, as Conrad takes Victoria&amp;#039;s hand to comfort her. I&amp;#039;ll be interested to see where their relationship goes from here, as they do seem on the path to reconciliation - perhaps when you&amp;#039;re both fighting against an evil organisation, it can really bring you together. It also provides a suitable exit for Kara, who&amp;#039;s sent away by Aiden (whom she believes to be an FBI agent) and Emily (an innocent bystander, according to her). It&amp;#039;s an emotional moment for Emily, but no doubt Kara won&amp;#039;t be gone forever. But, of course, Mason still needs to be dealt with, and Emily&amp;#039;s enlisted Nolan to help. (This is wonderful, because Nolan&amp;#039;s seemed a little left out this season so far; it&amp;#039;s a joy that he&amp;#039;s involved again, and it seems he&amp;#039;s happy too, describing it as &amp;quot;old times&amp;quot;.) While Mason&amp;#039;s off causing no end of problems with Kara, Nolan sneaks into his apartment to do a bit of framing - he mixes up Mason&amp;#039;s corkboard and drops off that tricksy flight recorder. So when the police turn up, it&amp;#039;s not long before they&amp;#039;re arresting him for the murder of Gordon and a conspiracy to frame Conrad. Nice.  Still, Emily&amp;#039;s not done - after all, Mason knows her true identity, and that ain&amp;#039;t something that he&amp;#039;s likely to keep quiet if it&amp;#039;ll save him. So she goes to visit him in prison (because I assume she has the guards in her pocket, too?) to strike a deal. Admittedly, telling him that he&amp;#039;s going to give a full confession to avoid a trial and go to prison for an undetermined period of time doesn&amp;#039;t sound like a brilliant offer. But Emily knows her audience, and she knows Mason&amp;#039;s ego. So she promises him that when the time is right - when she has exacted her revenge on the Graysons, the way she wants to do it - she will free Mason with a full confession and give him every detail of her life for the book he is &amp;quot;destined&amp;quot; to write. Pandering to Mason&amp;#039;s inflated sense of self is a genius move that pays off, as Mason agrees to her proposal and prepares for his orange jumpsuit. This, then, was Revenge back to its best (even if we did have a tedious extension of the bar storyline, as Kenny&amp;#039;s dodgy brother shows up and hints that the duo are looking for their own form of revenge against Jack and Declan&amp;#039;s father). We had twists, ridiculous soapiness and - at the very end of the episode - a kiss between Emily and Aiden that can only be described as voracious. With the show back on track, who knows what could be coming next? What did you think of the episode? Let us know below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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