"Revenge" Episode 106: That's Using Your Head!

"It's not the pole I was hoping for tonight, but it'll do."

This week's episode of Reven8e was light on real plot development, perhaps in anticipation of next week's "GAME-CHANGING EPISODE!"

But we do learn that Frank is not to be trifled with, and Tyler has gone from a vague nuisance to classic soap opera crazy.

Nolan barges in on Emily after her night of bliss with Daniel and informs her that Lydia is in a coma after being pushed off her balcony by Frank.

Wait a minute ... Lydia is still alive after taking a five-story plunge off a building and nearly pancaking a taxi? I guess those shock-absorbing ass implants really work.

Emily decides to send the hidden-cam footage to the Graysons, to put all suspicions on Frank. It works, and when Conrad sees the depths that Frank is willing to go, he decides to buy him off and send him on his way. Actually, it's probably just an excuse to get rid of Frank, whose "loyalty" to Victoria is raising suspicions for Conrad.

Frank is not willing to go quietly, especially since he is in love with Victoria, in a special Frank kind of way. He wants to find out where the hidden-cam footage came from, and bribes the clerk at Lydia's apartment building to let him see the security footage. Unfortunately, he witnesses Nolan on the tapes, breaking in to Lydia's apartment.

He pulls a gun on Nolan at the Grayson Fourth of July party and ushers him into the pool house, where he delivers a beatdown trying to get information on who hired him to put the hidden-cam in Lydia's place. Just as Nolan is about to spill the beans, they're interrupted, and Frank takes off. But he later witnesses Nolan having a heated conversation with Emily, and Frank realizes that ... deadly items can come in pretty packages.

The last shot we see is Frank ... watching Emily's house.

Scientists traced the deadly outbreak back to one hicky.

The Jack/Emily/Daniel triangle is still grinding along, with Daniel taking a job bartending at The Stowaway, because ... why not? He has to make his own money since his dad froze his trust fund, and sure, he showed up late his first day, but it's not his fault. He had to deal with a gross flesh-eating disease on his neck.

Jack discovers that Emily and Daniel have taken the next step, and he decides to confess his love for her. Unfortunately, falling for Jack is not part of the plan, and she rebuffs his feelings. Jack is heartbroken, and it should have been an affecting scene, but it was hard for me to get past the distractingly bad CGI fireworks. They might as well have had Godzilla and Mothra fighting it out in the background.

"Isn't the green screen lovely this time of night?"

Meanwhile, Declan (is it just me, or does Connor Paolo's accent seem to be slowly disappearing?) steals some lobsters to make money for his date with Charlotte, but the lobster men find out, and threaten him. I wasn't paying close attention, but I think he died.

Anyway, this episode really belonged to Tyler, who gave us all kinds of soapy goodness this week.

After appearing in a couple of shows as a vague nuisance, Tyler has now joined the Nighttime Soap Whackadoodle Hall Of Fame, along with such honorees as Kimberly from Melrose Place, Dynasty's Claudia, and Knots Landing's Jill.

He once again undermines Daniel in front of Victoria, then on a double date (he's apparently seeing Ashley now) with Daniel and Emily, he tells a lie and gets mercilessly called on it by Emily.

But the best is yet to come. When Daniel is working his first night as bartender, Tyler comes by to offer "support," which means putting a roofie into Daniel's drink. When Daniel almost passes out, Tyler helps him out of the bar, and into Jack's bedroom. Then:

Okay, I admit to sort of laughing my ass off.

Of course, the next step is to show up and make sure Victoria sees what Daniel did to poor Tyler's head. But don't worry, even though Daniel viciously assaulted him in a drunken rage, Tyler won't stop trying to keep Daniel on the straight and narrow, much to Victoria's relief.

Sadly, Victoria didn't really have a chance to go full Victoria this episode, so this week we have:

Nolan-isms

Nolan: "Can't a guy hang with his Broheim?"
Jack: "No, and don't ever call me that."
Nolan: "So what's the haps with you and Ems? Sounds like Danny Boy is starting to pull ahead."
Jack: "There's no haps. I'm just not her type."
Nolan: "You're everyone's type."

"You are now competing for an elite piece of Hampton's tail, and with a Grayson, no less!"

Frank: "Who's idea was it to make the video?"
Nolan: "You mean the double rainbow thing? hell if I know, the guy's a genius."

Nolan: "Frank is here. He knows it was me who made the tape."
Emily: "How?"
Nolan: "Because he's better at this than we are."

What did you think of this week's episode, and what do you think will happen with next week's "GAME CHANGER!?"