Revenge - Disclosure - Review: "I chose Revenge"

Revenge was reborn through “Renaissance” and the second episode of the fourth season continued in the same direction, amazingly, might I add. “Disclosure” managed to steer most of the revenging away from the core character, and, contrary to what I thought I’d be saying, I liked it. There were takedowns and there was tension. It was still Revenge, but a new kind of Revenge, where everyone chooses to embrace it. It was family drama, sibling rivalry. And with that new breath, flies away Nolan’s revenge-less summer. (Very, very far away.)

“All I could hear was the sound of my revenge-free summer being strangled to death by a web of thorns.” - Nolan

Nolan says he hates all of it, the revenge of it, acts like he doesn’t enjoy seeing them pay just as much as we do, but he loves it. Nolan loves it, he loves spying on Emily, or with her. He loves being useful, being on top of things, on the attack. He wanted this as much as Emily did, to clear her father’s name. We know he did, but he still needs to be Emily’s moral anchor (I like him in that role, much more than I did Jack), and she needs that, as much as she needs him as a partner in crime, because what would an Emily Thorne with a free-pass look like? She’d be darn scary. Victoria being a worthy adversary, an overall a despicable person and a manipulative woman she is brings Emily back to her revenging ways (though, to be fair, she was never really gone) as the hunt for Victoria begins, again.

With “Disclosure” marked the return of Shamu (or however you write that), Nolan’s co-conspirer, inspiring scotch taped whale cameras place the Emily’s new mansion. Can I just repeat how awesome the redecorating is! I have to wonder if Emily asked him to do this or if this is his way of keeping her safe? Nolan, I love him with all my heart, but that new hair, not sure, the outfits are still awesome though.

I loved all the storylines in this episode, but I still don’t get the David Clarke one. He doesn’t intrigue me, he makes me mad. He’s the same David Clarke that wrote the journals Emily keeps in her infinity box, the same journals that fueled her need for Revenge, gave her the information she needed. He’s the one that mainly pieced everything together, yet he still loves Victoria, still believes her. How is it possible they can to such different conclusions, with basically the same information? No wonder they managed to frame him.

Last week, I thought David Clarke could be one of two things, good, or bad. Now, I add a third option, he’s just an idiot. And that’s the position I’m taking right now. Hopefully I’m wrong, and he’s really the one playing her in the end. He’s been alive, out of jail for 20 years, how is it possible this is where he brings her? Is that really where he’s been living, hiding, waiting for someone else to do the dirty work? He needs to explain what he’s been up to, fast.

“Emily Thorne, I’m coming for you,” but she’s not, not really, because she’d clearly be outmatched now that she’s alone, that she’s penny-less. One thing she’s still got though is herself, and her conniving ways and she’s found herself a lapdog, a lost puppy still mooning over her. It almost seems too easy. He loves her, but Victoria, she’s playing him, masterfully, just like she plays with everyone else around her, slowly putting him against his own daughter, playing him like the boneless, uncooked chicken breast he appears to be.

“It’s not evil inside us, Daniel. It’s justice. That’s where our power comes from, if we ignore it, we loose it. I think it’s time we embrace that power and stop fighting our impulses.” - Margaux

I enjoyed the takedown orchestrated by Margaux and Daniel à la Emily Thorne, no blood no fire, just revenge, just righting wrongs. For once, Daniel isn’t the clueless plot device he usually is and Margaux isn’t boring the hell out of me. They played Gideon like a violin, and it was more than time for him to go. (Was it explained why Margaux and Gideon have such different accents? It bugs me.) Gideon deserved to go to jail mainly because of how stupid he was for believing what his sister was telling him, come on, it was so obvious. Also, it’s in “Disclosure” that Daniel and Margaux finally resolved that sexual tension that’s been building up for a while now, and all I can hope is that the writers find a way to keep me interested in their story.

There wasn’t much of Jack in this episode, he was mostly only there as a prop beside his hot shirtless friend (did we get a name?), who inquired about Emily. Is that a little jealousy I detect there? One of the downsides of Jack being a cop is that his partner asks a lot of questions, and everywhere Jack goes, he goes. He’s going to step on something soon enough.

“She’s even more pathetic than I thought.” –Random Girl

Random Girl speaks the truth, I was rolling my eyes at pour Charlotte’s meltdown, not much is going to be able to save her character now. Feeling really sorry for herself, she stands on the edge of the hotel, and we could hear the sound of the fans screaming, “Jump!” because really, I'm pretty sure everyone’s had enough of her. I’m not sure if it’s the acting, the writing or the combination of the two, but something’s simply off with her.

Emily ends up being the one to try and talk her down, and realising how much pain Charlotte is really in (Ugh…) she makes the bold decision of telling her everything, who she is, what she’s done, and why she’s done it, but the family reunion doesn’t quite go as planned. Charlotte’s angry, and she has the right to be (to an extent), it makes sense. I just don’t understand why Emily doesn’t tell her she didn’t know she was her sister way back then, it’s not an excuse, but it’s an explanation.

The one best thing that came from “Disclosure”, Charlotte finally has the possibility of an interesting storyline, because she doesn’t jump, and she doesn’t embrace Emily as her sister, instead she goes bat sh*t crazy. Emily chose revenge over her, so she was choosing attempted murder over family. Makes sense. Given her DNA, it probably does though. At this point, Emily Jack and Nolan (add to that Margaux) are the only characters that haven’t murdered or attempted to murder someone. I guess I can finally call them the good guys without feeling bad about it. I really can't wait to find out how Emily's going to react to her sister trying to kill her.

“Goodbye, sis.” –Charlotte

How do you guys think Emily's going to react?

Who's playing who? Victoria or David?