Pilot (Revenge)
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Phillip Noyce |
| Written by | Mike Kelley |
| Original air date | September 21, 2011 |
| Running time | 40 minutes |
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"Pilot" is the first episode of the American television series Revenge premiered on ABC on September 21, 2011. The episode was written by Mike Kelley and directed by Phillip Noyce.
In the series premiere, Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) returns to the Hamptons, where she and her father (James Tupper) spent each summer before his arrest. She rents the house she once shared with her late father, now owned by Lydia Davis (Amber Valletta). When Emily begins to put her plan for revenge into action, she gets sidetracked by an old friend, a potential new romance, and an unwanted ally. She soon starts to learn everyone's hidden secrets, and makes it her goal to get revenge on those who destroyed her family.
The series starts with a man being shot, and falling lifelessly onto the beach while a party is going on in the background. The party celebrates Emily's engagement to Daniel Grayson (Joshua Bowman). Two more shots are fired into the man's back, but no one at the party can hear the shots, because fireworks are going off. Emily is seen in an elegant red dress wiping sand off her hand. She informs the party planner, her friend Ashley (Ashley Madekwe), that Daniel is walking the beach because they had an argument. Daniel's mother, Victoria (Madeleine Stowe), makes a passionate speech about Emily and her engagement to Daniel. She then privately demands that Emily tell her of her son's whereabouts. Declan (Connor Paolo) and Charlotte (Christa B. Allen), Daniel's sister, find who they presume to be Daniel, dead on the beach. The scene then flashes back to five months earlier.
Emily has returned to the Hamptons and is renting the beach house she once shared with her father, David Clarke. Emily's realtor says that the beach house now belongs to Lydia and Michael Davis, who are currently in a divorce. Michael left Lydia for a woman half Lydia's age, the realtor adds. Emily looks out at the water and sees a carving in the porch ledge. She recognizes it as double infinity, and flashes back to when she and her father played on the porch with sand. Her father tells her that he loves her "infinity", drawing the infinity symbol in the sand, "times infinity", drawing the symbol again so it interlocks with the first. The realtor also points out that the Graysons live next door, and Emily says she'll take the house. As Emily is moving in, Victoria's son, Daniel, comes home from Harvard Business School, and his sister, Charlotte, strikes up a relationship with Jack Porter's (Nick Wechsler) brother, Declan, at their tavern.
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