Reven8e - Let's be Frank for a minute

The episode the other night made one thing clear, if you don't have a secret life going on, then get off the train. It's almost like how a character on Lost was safe until they made amends to their past, then as soon as that happened, they were dead. Enter Frank, Frank for the last 20 years had been living the lie of always having a thing for Victoria, and then last night he pretty much went all out saying, "I'm going to redeem myself to your, or die trying." Instantly you knew what was going to happened next, he was dead meat. I'm sorry but you don't get to be completely honest on this show.

I've decided that rather than rehash plot details, let's just dive into the insanity that is going on behind the plot, it's a lot more fun. Starting with the talented Mr. Tyler, the former rich boy now turned poor boy. Tyler confesses to Nolan that he was not whom he pretended to be and that the Greyson's were his ticket back to the other side of the tracks. I don't buy it. Oh I believe that Tyler is poor and that he is trying to get to the other side of the tracks, but I don't believe the story that he gave to Nolan. Why? The story that he told Emily during the dinner about flying to that private island, Tyler got the details wrong and Emily caught him on it. The thing is, if he had ever been rich, he'd have still gotten those details right in the story. Even if it was a purely fabricated tale, he would have known a thing or two about private jets if the poverty happened only a couple years before. My real thought is that he got some dirt on his former gay lover (Nolan? Really?) and used that to pay for his ticket to Harvard. Tyler has no morals and will do anything to get ahead, this seems more plausible than just reveling himself to Nolan 100%. Besides Nolan isn't socially smart enough to know that he's being played.

Which leads us to Ashley, Tyler's new sister in crime. If Tyler is the sith apprentice than that makes Ashley the jedi padawan. Ashley is trying just as hard to move her way up the social food chain, but as of now she is trying to it the "honest" way. But just like everyone else she has a double life running as well, not so sweet and innocent anymore. Ok maybe she's more like a sith than a jedi, but so far she hasn't been a tool to anyone, just a tool for Emily.

Speaking of Emily's tools, how about Emily's work with that crowbar!

Oh you thought I was going to talk about the other Emily (this is all getting very confusing), well she was kind of pedestrian in this episode if you ask me, sure she was in a lot of it, but everything seemed to be going on around her. So instead let's talk about her mom, Victoria.

Much like Tyler I get the feeling that the Hamptons are a lot like Shrek and onions, you have to keep peeling back layers to get to the truth. Victoria is just screaming that there is more depth than we are getting. I can't remember the exact moment, but there was a moment when Jen and I looked at each other and said, "Daniel and Emily are brother and sister." Look we already had a woman fall off a 5 story building and survive, along with a bunch of other crazy stuff, would it be that hard to believe? While there is one major hang up in this potential plot turn, like how does Emily not know that Victoria is her mom, there are a lot of reasons that it can be inferred.

1) Emily's mom has not been talked about, if anything I think that she was supposed to be dead.

2) Victoria and Emily's dad had some sort of relationship going on in the past, but as Frank said, "You made your choice." Might that choice have been to abandon her daughter for a life of comfort with Conrad? Might Daniel be a love child between Conrad and Victoria, or maybe Emily's dad is also Daniel's dad.

3) Victoria is very protective of Daniel almost like she needs him to be perfect to validate her decision to be with Conrad. Daniel seems to be the only one that she really loves.

4) Charlotte is an after thought to Victoria, she sees her as part of the charade.

What if Daniel was not Conrad's child, but Charlotte was? Victoria sees the man that she really loved in her son, but not in Charlotte, whom she sees Conrad. Let's go one further... Victoria spoils Daniel to no end, as stated in the interview by Charlotte, yet her dad spoils her to no end. Sure this could simply be mom's boy, daddy's girl, but is anything on this show that simple?

5) Victoria always has that strange look that she gives Emily, like she knows something, but just can't put her finger on it. Like maybe the child that you abandoned??? Might that be an extra reason that Victoria saw to it that Emily never got out of juvie? Don't want to risk that wild card kid showing up and blowing her whole plot of security with Conrad?

6) Daniel even asks Victoria why she doesn't like Emily, something we have all asked at one time. The show is basically screaming to you that Victoria's dislike of Emily isn't natural, there is a deeper reason that she doesn't want her son with her.

So is that kind of gross, yep, would it be an awesome plot twist, oh heck yes! The best part is that if it's real it wouldn't have been a cheap plot twist, they would have been setting it up since the beginning.

Anyway I've spent too much time already spinning crazy tales, need to get going.