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| Name | Actor/Actress | Starring Seasons | Recurring/Guest Seasons | Appearances | Status |
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| Victoria Grayson | Madeleine Stowe Grace Fulton (child) | 1, 2, 3, 4 | — | 89 | Deceased |
 Victoria Grayson is the wealthy and powerful matriarch of the Grayson family, wife of Conrad Grayson, mother of Patrick, Daniel and Charlotte. After having an affair with David Clarke, Victoria reluctantly agreed to help Conrad and Frank frame him to cover up their crimes. Victoria and Conrad's marriage deteriorates steadily, and the couple begin divorce proceedings. Despite not knowing Emily's true identity, Victoria never entirely trusts her and attempts to sabotage Daniel and Emily's relationship. During difficult times for her family, Victoria occasionally asks Emily for assistance, severing contact when Emily has fulfilled her usefulness. | |||||
| Amanda Clarke/Emily Thorne | Emily VanCamp Emily Alyn Lind (child) Alyvia Alyn Lind (child) | 1, 2, 3, 4 | — | 89 | Alive |
 Amanda Clarke is the daughter of David Clarke and Kara Clarke. Amanda returns to the Hamptons under a new identity, Emily Thorne, a wealthy socialite dedicated to charity work, to exact revenge on the people responsible for her father's death and wrongful conviction for terrorism. As a youth, she spent time in a juvenile detention center, unaware of her father's innocence until her release when Nolan Ross approaches her. He tells her that her father was framed and presents her with her father's share of NolCorp, 49% of the closely held stock, a result of her father's funding the company's start-up. After realizing that Nolan is telling the truth, she decides to clear her father's name. She undergoes training with Takeda, during which time she meets and has a relationship with Aiden Mathis. Their relationship ends when he abandons her after agreeing to take her with him. She makes preparations for her return to the Hamptons – trading identities with her former cellmate in juvenile detention, as well as taking notes on Daniel Grayson. After arriving in the Hamptons, Emily buys her father's former house next door to the Graysons and becomes romantically involved with Daniel in order to get closer to his family. She accepts his marriage proposal, but their relationship falters as Daniel grows more like his relatives. They break off the engagement after she kisses Jack. After learning that Charlotte is her half-sister, Emily chooses to protect her from her revenge against the Graysons, although she does use her to take Conrad down. | |||||
| Nolan Ross | Gabriel Mann | 1, 2, 3, 4 | — | 89 | Alive |
 Nolan Ross is a computer genius and Emily's wealthy ally with a cocky attitude and poor social skills. After dropping out of college, Nolan co-founded Nolcorp, a software company, with David Clarke. Nolcorp became a great success, making Nolan the sixth youngest billionaire on Forbes list and a well-known celebrity. Grateful to David, Nolan offers to help his daughter. Emily is initially reluctant to trust him and tries to repulse him through intimidation or use of force. Over time, however, she accepts his involvement in her activities. Nolan is Emily's first port of call when she needs a computer or cell phone hacked, an anonymous email sent, something decrypted, or something doctored. Their relationship develops to the point that in Season 3, Emily buys Nolan a new house and Nolan walks Emily down the aisle at her wedding. They repeatedly talk about trusting each other and discuss the morality of their actions. Nolan is also very generous towards the Porter family, helping them financially and otherwise. In season one, he helped Porters keep their bar during a period of financial troubles, paid Declan's tuition and even offered to help them keep their house. His efforts in matchmaking between Jack Porter and Emily often trigger Emily's wrath. Nolan is bisexual; [1] although he often hits on women at Grayson parties (much to Ashley Davenport's chagrin), he had a relationship with Nolcorp's former CFO, Marco Romero, for many years until 2006. He had a brief relationship with Tyler Barrol in the first season, with his new CFO, Padma Lahari, in the second season, and with Patrick Osbourne, Victoria's illegitimate son, in the third season. Although Ashley has made it a priority to get closer to rich men and women, she and Nolan cannot tolerate each other; she sums up her opinion of him as a "perennial pain in the arse" while he calls her "fun police". Nolan is a target of physical aggression more than anybody else in the series. In season one, he is attacked by Emily (twice), Frank Stevens, Tyler Barrol, Jack Porter and Gordon Murphy. In "Two Graves", he is stabbed in the hand by White Gold but manages to stun her with a taser before she can kill him. In the season 2 finale, Nolan – like David Clarke – is framed by the Initiative (a terrorist organization) for terrorist attacks and is arrested. In season 3, however, it is revealed that Nolan installed a failsafe in the program that led to his arrest, enabling the FBI to (off-screen) shut down the Initiative. In the series final episode, "Two Graves", after helping Amanda/Emily get her revenge, Nolan is approached by another person looking for revenge. | |||||
| Conrad Grayson | Henry Czerny | 1, 2, 3 | 4 | 67 | Deceased |
 Conrad Grayson is the current CEO of Grayson Global, as well as David Clarke's former boss. He is Victoria's husband and father of Daniel and Charlotte. Conrad was involved in laundering money for the Americon Initiative, which used the money in a terrorist attack that brought down a plane. After the disaster, Conrad worked with Frank and a reluctant Victoria to frame her lover, David Clarke. His affair with Victoria's best friend, Lydia, further damages the couple's strained relationship and leads to divorce proceedings. Initially close to his daughter, Conrad is devastated when a DNA test reveals she is not his biological child. He exposes Victoria's past extramarital affair with David Clarke at a family dinner and blackmails her current lover, Dominik, into leaving her. In the first season finale, Conrad warns Victoria not to get on a plane, but she appears to disregard him. After the plane is destroyed, he believes Victoria has died but she eventually calls him to ask for help with Murphy. Conrad helps Victoria with a scheme to make it appear she was kidnapped and held hostage by Murphy. He eventually asks Victoria to remarry him, explaining that it will prevent them from having to testify against each other. At their second wedding, Conrad is arrested, wrongly, for the murder of Gordon Murphy. Helen, a member of the Initiative, arranges his release on bail. However, after Daniel takes Conrad's place as CEO of Grayson Global, the Initiative destroys all ties with Conrad, and focus on Daniel. Conrad is also revealed to have had a tryst with Ashley Davenport. | |||||
| Charlotte Grayson | Christa B. Allen | 1, 2, 3, 4 | — | 70 | Alive |
| Charlotte Grayson is the youngest child of David Clarke and only daughter of Victoria Grayson. Named by Victoria after David Clarke's aunt, she is the younger half-sister to Patrick Osbourne, Daniel Grayson, and Amanda Clarke. She has a perfect academic record (though is often truant). Believing Conrad to be her father, Charlotte is shocked when he reveals that she is in fact the result of an affair between Victoria and David. Charlotte is the only person to whom Victoria reveals her status after her plane explodes. Charlotte bonds with Emily, unaware that she is her half-sister and instead believing Amanda is while unknowingly helping Emily in her revenge. Charlotte also develops romantic relationships with Adam Connor and Declan Porter. Following the turbulent end of her relationship with Declan in season one, they gradually become friends and lovers again. Throughout the second season, Charlotte attempts to destroy ties with her family and live with the Porters, though she still (reluctantly) attends some Grayson parties. Despite Victoria's constant belittling of Amanda, Declan and Emily, Charlotte believes they offer love that she does not find in her family. At the end of the second season, Charlotte discovers she is pregnant with Declan's baby, though her future intentions following Declan's death are unclear. She has indicated sadness at the idea of her baby being born into the Graysons. By season 3, it is revealed that Charlotte suffered a miscarriage and lost the baby. Charlotte begins to take a dislike to Emily, believing that she is becoming more like a Grayson. She forms a bond with Jack, helping him with the bar. She later discovers that Conrad was responsible for Declan's death, making her leave him. Charlotte tries to break Daniel and Emily apart by secretly arranging for Daniel to get back together with his former girlfriend, Sara. In season 4, Charlotte met her biological father, David Clarke for the first time and also found out that Emily is the real Amanda Clarke. After finding out that Victoria killed Aiden Mathis she leaves to go to rehab but tells Daniel that Emily is Amanda Clarke before she leaves. Christa B. Allen has stated on Twitter that Charlotte is "gone for good". However, in late March 2015, Allen posted on Instagram a photo of a Revenge script, indicating her return later in the season. Charlotte returns in the final two episodes. She reconciles with Emily and attends Emily and Jack's wedding. | |||||
| Jack Porter | Nick Wechsler Nicholas Stargel (child) | 1, 2, 3, 4 | — | 89 | Alive |
 Jack Porter is Amanda's childhood friend, and the half-brother and legal guardian of Declan Porter following their father's sudden death. He becomes the boyfriend and later husband of Amanda Clarke. He takes over The Stowaway, which had been owned by his father Carl, following Carl's death. Jack is one of the three men for whom Emily has feelings (the others being Daniel and Aiden), and Jack holds feelings for Emily in return. These feelings culminate in them kissing after watching Sammy, the dog owned by both of them at different points in time, die. However, they are unable to get closure from the kiss because of Amanda's return. In Season 2, Jack becomes a father when Amanda gives birth to their son, whom they name Carl David Porter, after Carl, Jack's father, and David Clarke, Amanda's "father". On their honeymoon, they are held hostage by Nate Ryan; though Jack escapes, Amanda is killed on their boat by Nate despite Emily's attempt to save her. Amanda's death causes Jack to seek revenge on Conrad for ordering her murder, and he grows distant from Emily and Nolan when he believes they are lying, and when Emily becomes re-engaged to Daniel. To this end, he works together with Ashley Davenport to destroy Conrad's gubernatorial campaign, though Conrad soon learns of their deceit and attempts to kill Jack by leading him to Grayson Global, where The Initiative's bomb plot is being set in motion, although Jack escapes before the bombing. Declan, who was in the building when it exploded, dies, devastating Jack and pushing him to attempt to assassinate Conrad at the election. Before he can shoot, Emily stops him by revealing her true identity. In season 3, Jack returns to the Hamptons, six months after learning the truth about Emily, and gives Emily an ultimatum: end her plotting by the end of summer, or he will expose her secret. Charlotte and Jack form a friendship during the season. Jack later meets and begins a relationship with Margaux LeMarchal. He also learns that his father kept his mother's identity a secret from him. In Season 4 Jack joins the Suffolk County Police Department, and dates Katherine Black (daughter of Malcolm Black), but was forced to kill her when she tried to kill Emily. Soon after, Jack quit the police force and confessed his feelings to Emily, but she was already with Ben, Jack's police partner. Jack and Emily get together in the series finale, and get married. | |||||
| Daniel Edward Grayson | Josh Bowman | 1, 2, 3, 4 | — | 78 | Deceased |
 Daniel Edward Grayson is the eldest son of Conrad and Victoria Grayson, half-brother to Charlotte and Patrick. Daniel is a student at Harvard, and later business partner of Conrad. He returns home for the summer to see his family and later meets and falls in love with Emily Thorne. After dating for a while, he proposes to her and the two become engaged. At their engagement party, he is attacked by a former friend, Tyler Barrol, and is forced to shoot him before being knocked out (later revealed to be Satoshi Takeda, who finishes off Tyler). Daniel is framed and charged with the murder of Tyler Barrol but is exonerated, due to Conrad arranging a cover-up. After Conrad tells Daniel the real story of David Clarke, Daniel chooses to stand by his father and take over the company, rather than expose the truth. During season 1, Daniel is thrice led to accuse Emily of cheating on him with Jack Porter (despite not being true). On the third occasion, which occurs at the season finale, Emily – who is disgusted by Daniel's choice of standing by his father – terminates the engagement. In Season 2, Daniel is in a relationship with Ashley Davenport and is slowly distancing himself from his father. He succeeds in taking Conrad's position at Grayson Global, unaware of the existence of the Initiative or the threat it presents. Upon discovering Ashley in a hotel room with an investor, he breaks up with her, threatening the businessman with blackmail. He gradually falls for Emily again and resents Aiden's close relationship with the socialite. Daniel fires Aiden when it is revealed that his father put the bomb on flight 197. Daniel is the only one Charlotte confides in about her pregnancy. After the bombing of the Grayson Global building in New York, Daniel learns that Conrad knew about the bombing and that it was part of the Initiative's plan, which angers him as he leaves the company and steps down as CEO. By season 3, Daniel goes into business with a woman named Margaux and continues his romance with Emily and plans their wedding. However, problems arise, including the untimely arrival of Sara, the girl who he had paralyzed in a car accident. Daniel and Emily marry in episode 10 of season 3. However, during the honeymoon trip, he overhears Emily and Victoria talking about how Emily faked her pregnancy; angered, he shoots Emily, although she survives. Daniel revives his relationship with Sara and has an affair with her. However, the relationship ends after Emily manages to use Sara's mother to make her leave Daniel once more. After Emily's secret about faking the pregnancy is exposed to the public (intentionally done by Emily), Daniel manages to divorce her. Throughout the rest of Season 3, both Daniel and Emily are openly cold and hostile towards each other. By the end of the season, Daniel is framed for the murder of a young woman by Gideon, Margaux's brother, who wants to it as leverage to make Daniel give up his position to him. In Season 4, Daniel has hit rock bottom due to Conrad's crimes being exposed, and him now being the son of the most "hated man in America", along with being forced out of his job position by Gideon. Margaux finds out about what Gideon did and helps Daniel get revenge against him, while also eliminating the leverage at the same time. The two start a relationship afterwards. Wanting to rebuild himself, Daniel begins working for Louise Ellis, but ends up having a one-night stand with her, which causes Margaux to leave him. Daniel later learns that Margaux is pregnant with his child, forcing him to realize and acknowledge the wrongs of his family and his life, allowing him to come to terms with everything that has happened and vowing to change his life. Daniel manages to win back Margaux, after some help from Victoria. In episode 10, Daniel was killed by Kate Taylor (Malcolm Black's daughter) after trying to save Emily from getting shot. Daniel's death is turned into a cover-up in order to keep Malcolm Black from taking revenge on the death of his daughter, who was killed by Jack Porter during the incident. The media believes that Daniel tried to attack Emily in a drunken-rage (although the police never found alcohol involved) and Emily was forced to shoot him in self-defense. After Malcolm Black is killed, Emily clears Daniel's name in the episode "Clarity", changing the story that it was Malcolm who attacked her and that Daniel was killed while trying to protect her from being killed, reasoning that she covered it up to make sure everyone else she loved was safe. | |||||
| Ashley Davenport | Ashley Madekwe | 1, 2 | 3 | 44 | Alive |
 Ashley Davenport is the Grayson family employee and one of Emily's closest friends. Through season one, Ashley becomes jealous of Emily, who had won over the heart of Daniel Grayson and later got engaged to, even attempting to gain the trust of Victoria Grayson by betraying her, but is unsuccessful. Initially working as Victoria's party planner and assistant, Ashley becomes the Grayson family spokesperson during Daniel's murder trial. After Daniel's exoneration, Ashley is employed by Conrad to work at Grayson Global and also serves as Emily and Daniel's wedding planner. After seeing Emily and Jack Porter kissing, Ashley uses the information to her advantage and tells Daniel, who breaks off the engagement with Emily, resulting in the two beginning a relationship. In Season 2, Ashley and Daniel continue their romance, against Conrad Grayson's wishes. Ashley's backstory is revealed as once having been an escort, who was almost forced into the sex trafficking business, only to be saved by Emily Thorne, though she does not know it was Emily who saved her. When Ashley becomes a problem for Emily, Emily sends a scandalous video to Victoria of Ashley's tryst with Conrad, which Victoria uses to force Ashley to seduce Salvador Grobet for his vote to Conrad, which in turn leads to Daniel learning of Ashley's double-crossing and the ending of their relationship. She then forces herself back into the Grayson family by blackmailing Conrad in order to work for him during his gubernatorial campaign. Ashley later takes part in helping Jack with his revenge plan against Conrad near the end of the season, but that plan ultimately fails. In the season 3 premiere, Ashley has been fired by Conrad, who knew of her involvement with Jack's failed revenge plans. Ashley tries to blackmail Emily into helping her stay in the Hamptons by introducing her to rich men. Emily, seeing Ashley as a threat, frames her for reporting false claims against Victoria, which results in Emily and Victoria teaming up to force Ashley to leave the Hamptons for good. | |||||
| Declan Foster Porter | Connor Paolo | 1, 2 | — | 43 | Deceased |
 Declan Foster Porter is Jack Porter's younger half-brother. During the engagement party, he and Charlotte—with whom Declan is romantically involved—witness a blue-hooded man on the beach, whom they believe to be involved in the murder. Declan is shocked when he learns the man's identity—his brother. When the prosecution subpoenas Declan to Daniel's trial, Charlotte tries to seduce him into telling the truth, but Declan reveals that Charlotte was on painkillers and alcohol the night of Tyler Barrol's murder and says there was no hooded man, effectively ending their relationship. After he befriends a girl named Jamie, Charlotte targets her for revenge against Declan, further estranging the former couple. In Season 2, Declan takes on greater responsibility at the bar and becomes friends again with Charlotte. Declan is the father of Charlotte's unborn baby and dies at the end of Season 2 when his artery ruptures during surgery to repair the injury he sustained from an explosion. | |||||
| Aiden Mathis | Barry Sloane | 2, [2] 3 | — | 43 | Deceased |
| Aiden trained alongside Emily under Takeda. They met when their missions conflicted in their search for a Russian gangster. Aiden believed the man to be responsible for the disappearance of his sister while Emily was under orders from Takeda to apprehend him. After shooting the gangster, Aiden returned to Takeda's training with Emily. Eventually the two became involved in a romantic relationship. Despite promising to take Emily with him, he left without her to find his sister. When Gordon Murphy attempted to kill Emily, Aiden killed him. Emily rejected Aiden's attempts to reconcile, but at the end of "Penance" he came to check on her and they rekindled the spark. Since then, they have shared many tender moments. Daniel, unaware of the plots in which the two conspire, has been working with Aiden to replace his father as CEO of Grayson Global. He also views Aiden as a competitor for Emily's attention. Later, Daniel finds out that Aiden's father, Trevor Mathis, was a baggage handler suspected of putting a bomb on "Flight 197". Daniel fires Aiden and then they become enemies competing for Emily's heart. This leads to a fight between the two of them in the season finale resulting in what appears to be Aiden's murder. Aiden later returns in season 3, revealing that he survived a gunshot wound from Daniel. He continues to work alongside Emily in her revenge against the Graysons, even pretending to help Victoria for her. In the season 3 finale, Victoria suffocated him with a pillow until he died. | |||||
| Margaux LeMarchal | Karine Vanasse | 4 | 3 | 42 | Alive |
| The only daughter of French Media Mogul Pascal LeMarchal, Margaux LeMarchal is introduced in the third season as being a childhood friend of Daniel Grayson. Despite being the eldest LeMarchal child, Pascal often passed Margaux in favor of her younger half-brother, Gideon. Margaux has struggled her whole life to earn her father's respect, so she moves to the Hamptons to escape his disapproval and establish her own magazine, "Voulez." She hires childhood friend and ex-flame Daniel as her business partner and agrees, at his request, to keep the magazine's headquarters in the Hamptons. Margaux meets Jack Porter through Charlotte and they soon started dating, but the relationship falls apart through Daniel's manipulations and attempts to sabotage Jack's friends. When Pascal arrives in the Hamptons, Margaux fears that he will undermine all of her hard work and resorts to blackmail to keep her father from taking control of her magazine. Despite this, Margaux and Pascal reconcile, and he names her as the successor of his multibillion-dollar media empire shortly before his mysterious death. In Season 4, Margaux is pregnant with Daniel's child, and now wants revenge on Emily, whom she blames for Daniel's death, succeeding Malcolm Black as the main antagonist of Season 4. Emily tries to make peace with Margaux, but Margaux does not accept Emily's attempt and instead is hit by a taxi, killing Daniel's child and leading to the reignition of the feud between Emily and Victoria. Margaux later works with Victoria and the assassin White Gold, but decides to allow herself to be sent to prison for her crimes rather than have the evidence destroyed of her actions. | |||||
| David H Clarke | James Tupper | 4 | 1, 2, 3 | 42 | Deceased |
| David H Clarke is the presumed deceased father of Emily Thorne (birth name Amanda) and Charlotte. A successful Grayson Global hedge fund executive and devoted father to Amanda, he has a relationship with the married Victoria Grayson after his marriage with Kara Wallace falls apart. After a terrorist attack brings down a plane, David is framed for the crime by Conrad, Frank, and Victoria, as well as other friends and colleagues he trusted. He is arrested and imprisoned for life on charges of terrorist conspiracy and mass murder. Clarke becomes the most hated man in America—a viewpoint Emily is determined to change. He only met Charlotte once when she was a baby and suspected that she is his child because Victoria named her after David's aunt. Gordon Murphy, an operative of the Americon Initiative, stabs and presumably kills Clarke during a prison riot. Until the season 3 finale, David appears only in flashbacks or video recordings. In the season 3 finale, however, David is shown to be alive and stabs Conrad and leaves him for dead. In Season 4, David returns to the Hamptons and kidnaps Victoria. He takes her to an underground cell and asks Victoria if she betrayed him. Victoria admits she did, but only because Conrad threatened her. David says Amanda is dead and he wants to get to know Charlotte. He also admits he killed Conrad to protect Victoria and Charlotte. Victoria turns David on Emily by blaming her for her misery and not telling David that Emily is the real Amanda Clarke. Emily eventually tells David the truth just as Malcolm Black, the man who held David captive for all those years, closes in on them. David wants to handle the situation himself and asks Emily to stay out of it, but Victoria gets her involved. The result is the deaths of both Daniel and Kate, Malcolm's daughter. David convinces Victoria to hide Kate's death and make the official story that Emily shot Daniel in self-defense. David tried to set a trap for Malcolm, but fails; and Malcolm comes to the Hamptons to find out what happened to Kate. In the end, David ends up killing Malcolm by shooting him until he falls into an incinerator. David later learns he has terminal cancer and kills Victoria to spare Amanda having to do it. While he is charged with the murder, he is granted compassionate release due to his terminal diagnosis and dies at home with Amanda by his side. | |||||
| Benjamin Hunter | Brian Hallisay | 4 | — | 21 | Deceased |
| Benjamin Hunter is Jack's partner on the police force, Ben greatly covets the investigation of Conrad's murder, hoping to get a promotion if he solves it, and resents Jack when he and Kate Taylor solve the case together. He is interested in Emily Thorne, and they go on a date. Chief Alvarez agrees to give Ben a promotion, but is murdered by Malcolm Black that night. Ben takes Margaux to the hospital, when she collapses and overhears Victoria telling Margaux that Emily is really Amanda Clarke. Emily and Ben get closer when she helps him protect his ex-wife, April, from a dangerous man. They break up After Emily reveals the truth behind Daniel's death to the world because she didn't think of how her confession would impact Ben's career since he investigated Daniel's death. When Emily is framed for Victoria's murder, Ben has a hard time trusting Emily due to her past lies. When Louise brings evidence that Emily could be telling the truth, Ben decides to investigate Emily's theory. Ben finds Victoria alive, but he is murdered by White Gold before he can report it. | |||||
| Louise Virginia Ellis [3] | Elena Satine | 4 | — | 21 | Alive |
| Louise Virginia Ellis is a young woman who was committed to a mental institution by her mother. She befriends Victoria and develops an unhealthy obsession with her. Louise hires Daniel to "protect her interests", and has a one-night stand with him. After hallucinating about her mother, Louise tries to kill Margaux by locking her in the steam room. Louise tries to have another tryst with Daniel, hoping to get pregnant, so she can get closer to Victoria. While drowning her sorrows, Louise meets Nolan and they become friends. Louise is horrified when Emily and Nolan reveal that her family has been drugging her. Penelope, Louise's mother, comes to the Hamptons and threatens to cut Louise off if she crosses her. As a result, Nolan, who found a loophole in Penelope's control over Louise's trust fund, decides to marry Louise. Penelope tells Louise that if she steps out of line she will tell everyone that Louise killed her father, but that turned out to a lie as it was Penelope who killed Louise's father and then had the truth buried and pinning the murder on Louise. Nolan and Emily helped Louise discover that the police report on Louise's father's death was faked and procure the real, buried police report written by the officer reporting to the scene the night the murder was committed. Armed with this knowledge, Louise stood up to her mother and kicked her and her brother, whom was in on it in order to secure Louise's trust fund for his own selfish uses, out of her life. Louise's brother is hired by Margaux to get information on Emily, but he falls to his death during a struggle with Louise. Nolan and Louise's marriage crumbles due to his interest in a guy, and they divorce. After Emily reveals that she is Amanda Clarke, Louise joins forces with Margaux to help Victoria take Amanda down, but is the odd woman out when Victoria and Margaux plot to frame Amanda for Victoria's murder. Louise is left to mourn for Victoria, and is devastated when she learns the full extent of Victoria's plan. She leads Amanda to Victoria, and later is seen at Amanda and Jack's wedding. | |||||
