Tyler loses his meds and his mind.
But what would Daniel’s birthday party be without a little gunplay?
This was a real nice clambake,
Were mighty mad we came.
Credit: Colleen Hayes/ABC
The villains we thought
Were tough, were not
The company was insane.
Our hearts are cold, our bellies are churned,
And were not feeling prime.
And we all had a real bad time.
Actually, they probably would have worked better than Lissies episode-capping emo-pop cover of Metallicas Nothing Else Matters too.
For weeks, ABCs commercials forRevenges January return touted gunplay.
As it turns out, no.
That will have to wait.
But that doesnt mean Tyler wasnt armed and dangerous nonetheless.
But first, introductions are in order.
Okay, theCommunityrecapsmostly involvedme bitching at NBC for pulling the funniest show on TV.
And what an episode for me to make my debut!
Duress opened with Emily being held at gunpoint at Daniels birthday party.
Before you could say J.J. Abrams it jumped back in time to two days earlier.
as a Grayson legal counsel did.
Victoria was looking for a way to render Conrads pre-nup null and void so she could tap his fortune.
I assume this is setting up some inevitable Out damned spot, out!
Victoriawasntpregnant at the time.
She only said she was to get Conrad to marry her, then conveniently miscarried.
Her team would have to find a doctor willing to lie under oath to that effect.
I know what you were all thinking: Amanda was about to get Stowed.
Well, it turns out, not really.
Victoria was more interested in a wait-and-see approach regarding the daughter of her former lover.
She wanted to look in Amandas eyes, then report back to Conrad.
And she did just that.Victoria Bitchism Vol.
But neutralizing Fake Amanda wasnt Emilys prime objective in Duress.
And to do that she had to take back Nolans hidden whale camera with blackmail-worthy footage of Tylers peccadilloes.
But while she rifled through his backpack, she also discovered a bottle of powerful antipsychotic drugs.
(Though I suppose Tyler has elevated scheming and toadying to something akin to a profession.)
Indeed, in Shonda Rhimes universe, surgeons are too busy bed-hopping to travel to expensive vacation destinations.
As Alex hopped the red-eye, Tyler confronted Daniel about being cast out of the Graysons lives.
Specifically, howcouldhe be cast out when he knows so much about their family?
When Daniel asked if he was being threatened, Tyler replied, I dont know.
Do I need to?
That would require crashing Daniels clambake, gun in hand.
Not that the party had been so great before that.
(Victoria Bitchism Vol.
2: And you did it all without any waitstaff!
So Tylers gun-packing entrance hardly disrupted an idyllic scene.
Definitely a bit of an anticlimax, to be sure.
And yet I cant think exactly what elseRevengecould have done with this character, can you?
