Revenge season 4, episode 12, “Madness,” aired last night with a huge turn of events! What is Malcolm Black planning?

‘Revenge’ recap

On last night’s episode of Revenge, Emily was planning on spending the week closing ties so that she and David can leave town and catch up on lost time.

Nolan wanted Emily’s aid in one final take down before she headed out. He was unaware if Louise’s brother Lyman was an honest figure or not. They came to the conclusion that he and his family has been poisoning Louise with drugs that cause hallucinations.

Margaux has high blood pressure and collapsed in Officer Ben’s arms. When Victoria greets Margaux at the hospital she decides to inform her of EVERYTHING that’s going on. Starting with Emily Thorne’s true identity… and Ben was outside listening the entire time.

David was planning on tricking Malcolm into thinking his daughter is alive and killing him. Jack intervened and distributed David’s flash drive that has tons of evidence of Malcolm’s wrong-doings to the police. David was highly upset and told Jack that he has no idea what he just did.

We later find out that Malcolm was released on “lack of evidence.”

Emily discovers that Victoria sent Kate to rid of Emily and they met at the lighthouse. After taking a few verbal jabs at each other they are shot with sedative darts by Malcolm and his men.

‘Revenge’ analysis

Let’s start with Ben. Now that he is privy to, we assume, everything, what does he plan to do with the information? Since we didn’t hear Victoria’s conversation with Margaux in its entirety we are unsure if Jack’s name was mentioned, and if it were we’re sure Ben will confront Jack on the information given.

We don’t believe anyone knows that Malcolm killed Chief Alvarez but Ben has been waiting to hear from his Chief about his promised promotion. He’ll definitley want to investigate his disappearance further.

But what about Emily? Since he knows that she’s really Amanda Clarke he now realizes that when she saw him in the lineup it may have been her first time seeing him since she was a young girl, and that may have been why she was a bit emotional.

Ben is a true cop’s cop and he may just try and get more information from everyone without letting it be known that he’s privy to everyone’s secrets. Whatever he decides to do, we look forward to seeing what ensues.

On to Malcolm Black. After overhearing Emily and Victoria go at it back and forth he overheard that Emily is actually Amanda Clarke. Exactly what David didn’t want to happen just happened.

Does the way he caressed Emily’s face creep anyone else out? He was also creepy with the fake Amanda when he stalked her at the strip club and threw it in David’s face.

Now where does Malcolm go from here?

We assume he thinks that David turned him in to the police, which was a dumb move regardless. Also, we’re unsure if he thinks his daughter is alive or not. From the promo for next week’s episode below we see that he has Emily and Victoria holed up in a warehouse of sorts and caged up. Emily looks to finally be using those ninja skills she’s been hiding for a few episodes. Victoria is sure to be the damsel in distress and Emily may have to save her life.

Malcolm will most likely send threats to David and inform him that he has his two loves and he’ll have to choose one or the other.

If that’s the case it may be an easy choice as David was planning on killing Victoria anyway. Although, David has surprised us in the past and may have a few tricks up his sleeve.

Tune into Revenge season 4, episode 13, “Abduction,” this Sunday at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.