Wednesday 3 April 2013

Revenge 2.18 Review: Masquerade


After Padma's kidnapping Emily and Aidan try desperately, for Nolan, to track down The Initiative. Aidan uses his position at Grayson Global to ruin the companies finical holdings, which losses him his job but is successful in reuniting Daniel with Emily, Trask informing Daniel that The Initiative will no longer be doing business with Grayson Global. Aidan kidnaps Trask, and he takes him to Padma's body, revealing he killed his sister and father. Aidan snaps his neck, but Nolan is blamed for Padma's death. To me, Emily and Aiden felt cold towards Nolan throughout the episode, not truly understanding his loss. I'm interested to see when The Initiative and the Falcon will return, they obviously still have Carrion and I'm sure they have plenty more nicely dressed employees where Trask came from.

I love that Jack is infiltrating the Grayson's in an attempt to get his own revenge for Amanda, but his attempts to do so beg a different question: what does he actually want to do to make them pay? Emily has less problems in this department. She's after retribution for her father, and just when you think it's Jack's master plan to detour Conrad's election Q&A, Emily uses Nolan tricks to manipulate Conrad into making David Clarke's pardon for his crimes an election promise. This is all well and good for Emily, but it still annoys me that Emily never seems to be out of control, and I'd love to see Jack start spoiling her plans. He seems to know the right person to turn to as well, who else would want to recruit the self-serving Ashley Davenport as their co-conspiritor to bring down the Grayson's? Not a smart move Jack.

Using Mason Treadwell's information that Victoria had a son she put up for adoption when she was sixteen, Emily tortures her throughout her masquerade ball, sending letters and flowers from the abandoned son causing Victoria to faint. It also caused her to return to the nunnery to which she gave up the boy, unwittingly leading Emily there as well. What plans Emily good possibly have involving Victoria's long lost son is beyong me, but let's just hope it's good considering her mistreatment of both Nolan and Aidan to further concentrate on exciting her revenge.

Rating: 3/5

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