Alternate for Emily Thorne
Birth Name:	Amanda Clarke
Alias:	Emily Thorne

Emily Thorne (born Amanda Clarke) is portrayed by Emily VanCamp and Emily Alyn Lind.

Contents 1 Early Life 2 Season 1 3 Relationships 3.1 Daniel Grayson 3.2 Nolan Ross 3.3 Charlotte Grayson 4 Memorable Quotes 5 Trivia 6 Gallery 7 Comments

Early LifeEdit

Emily Thorne is daughter of the late David Clarke and Kara Wilkins. Emily's mother died when she was a child presumably in a car crash and she was raised by her father.

She had seen her father with his lover, Victoria Grayson.

One night while they were together, Amanda was about to play with her dog, Sammy, when FBI agents came busting in the house and arrested her father for murder and she was placed in institutional care by order of Michelle Banks, her psychiatrist, who had been bribed by Victoria to make sure Amanda never saw her father again. By age sixteen she was in Allenwood maximum security juvenile facility run by Warden Stiles. This where she met Emily Thorne, her roommate, who had been sent there for attacking her molesting foster father.

Season 1Edit

We learn through flashbacks that Nolan Ross met Amanda immediately after she was released from the Allenwood and told her the truth: Her father was framed by his lover, her husband and their friends.

After learning this, she planned to exact revenge on all those who had a hand in destroying her father. To do this, she changed her name from Amanda Clarke to Emily Thorne (Emily Thorne was her old cell mate who agreed to the nameswitch and is one of her only allies) and eventually (as the series starts) moved back to her old home in the Hamptons where she was raised, among other currently unknown plans. She wants to gain access into Grayson Global in order to find proof of her father's innocence and get revenge on every person responsible for his downfall, especially the Graysons. She has begun a relationship with the Graysons' son Daniel and still has a secret past with Jack Porter, who's still in love with Amanda, which is seen through the naming of The Amanda (despite not knowing she is Amanda) and raising her dog, Sammy.

RelationshipsEdit

Daniel GraysonEdit

Emily is Daniel's fiancée. It's uncertain whether or not she is in a relationship with him out of genuine affection or just as part of her plan to get revenge on his parents or if the truth is somewhere inbetween. Daniel chose to keep the secret of what his family did to David Clarke instead of revealing it to the reporter who was conducting his interview. Emily therefore, claims that she will not hold back on Daniel if he gets in her way.

Nolan RossEdit

Nolan aids Emily in her quest for revenge more or less loyally since he still feels indebted to her father. At first he helps her actively, but after a close encounter with the Graysons' bodyguard Frank, he became a "consultant" instead. She acknowledges that he is helpful, though she is sometimes annoyed by his quirkiness in the early episodes.

Charlotte GraysonEdit

Charlotte is Emily's younger half-sister. This was a big revelation to Emily who had no idea. Emily chose to ultimately protect Charlotte from her revenge scheme on all the Graysons. Charlotte is the only Grayson who never did anything horrible for Emily to go after her. Charlotte is also the only Grayson who doesnt know what really happened to her father, David Clarke.

After Emily finds out Charlotte is her sister, she tries to avoid all possible plans that would hurt Charlotte. Emily wishes to protect Charlotte and be there for her, without revealing her true identity and her revenge scheme. Charlotte had a hard time dealing with all the lies and betrayal in her family and began drinking as well as stealing anti-depressants.

Emily notices Charlotte taking pills at her engagment party and looks saddened/disappointed that Charlotte would resort to such measures. However, Emily wasn't able to speak to her before Victoria showed up, and Charlotte not wanting to deal with Victoria, walked away.("Chaos")

Charlotte goes over to Emily's house and they talk about Charlotte's real father. Emily attempts to console Charlotte on the swing by telling Charlotte a story Emily remembers from her childhood about David building it, trying to convince Charlotte David Clarke may not have been all bad, but still hides her true identity and says Amanda told her that story when she came over one time. They end their conversation with Emily cuddling with Charlotte on the swing that their father built.("Scandal")

Emily told Nolan she was worried about Charlotte, when she went to Charlotte's room, Emily sees that Charlotte has many articles, newspapers, pictures, and records of David Clarke spread all over her bed. Emily asks what all of it is, Charlotte says " This is my version of father - daughter time." Charlotte unwittingly gave Emily evidence of the person who murdered their father, with a picture Victoria had hidden in the lining of her jewlerey box. Without this picture Emily would have never of found out who murdered their father or figured out that David Clarke has another journal, that Nolan had possession of, which she eventually recovered.

Memorable QuotesEdit

• Amanda Clarke no longer exists
• When everything you love has been stolen from you, sometimes all you have left is revenge.

• [To Nolan] My father has not seen me in over 8 years. I have changed

• [Closing Voice-over of the episode] When deception cuts this deep someone has to pay. My father's chance to bring justice to the truly guilty was stolen from him. His only option was to forgive. I have others. They say vengence is a dish best served cold but, sometimes it's as warm as a bowl of soup. My father died an innocent man, betrayed by the woman he loved. When everything you love has been stolen from you. Sometimes all you have left is revenge. Like I said, this is not a story about forgiveness.

• When I was a little girl my understanding of revenge was as simple as the Sunday school proverbs it hid behind. Neat little morality slogans like, do un to others and two wrongs don't make a right. But two wrongs can never make a right because; two wrongs can never equal each other. For the truly wronged real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places, absolute forgiveness or mortal vindication. This is not a story about forgiveness.

TriviaEdit

• Emily is the only character whose net worth is not given at the bios at http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/revenge/bios/ (it says only she knows).
• Emily seems based on Lisbeth Salander from the best selling and popular millennium trilogy as both are vigilantes who seek revenge the ones who ruined-traumatized their childhood and both were declared legally insane and have or Emily's case had black hair (Although both former and latter cases this was not their natural hair color). Also,both have tattoos: Lisbeth has a dragon tattoo which was the name of Stieg Larsson's first novel in the trilogy 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' while Nolan has nicknamed Emily little girl with the double infinity tattoo because of her tattoo.
• Amanda's alias Emily stems from her actress's first name Emily and the last name Thorne stems from the fact she transmuted from an innocent little girl to a cold cynical young lady who's hellbent on getting her long awaited revenge on everyone who wronged her.In Charade the background story behind Emily's name change is explained as she and her former cellmate switched names.
• Ironically Amanda means she who's loved while Emily means rival. This can be coincidence to the fact that Amanda came from a single parent loving household to Emily who's orphan who's Diabolic, but seems innocence in nature while it's scapegoat to get closer to her enemies while pretending to be their friend.
• Both actresses who play Emily (as 9 year old girl and young woman) have the same first name as Emily, but they were both christened with the name unlike Amanda who legally changed her name.

GalleryEdit

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