| Introduction | p. ix |
| Plotting Revenge | p. 1 |
| Revenge Rewind: Must-See TV | p. 10 |
| The Origin Story | p. 13 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo Cheat Sheet | p. 15 |
| The Revenger | p. 23 |
| The Prodigal Daughter Returns: Emily Thorne | p. 23 |
| Revenginators: Emily Thome's Predecessors | p. 26 |
| Emily VanCamp as Emily Thorne | p. 30 |
| The Targets | p. 33 |
| The Queen of the Hamptons: Victoria Grayson | p. 33 |
| Madeleine Stowe as Victoria Grayson | p. 36 |
| The Bad Guy Boss: Conrad Grayson | p. 39 |
| Henry Czerny as Conrad Grayson | p. 41 |
| The Collateral Damage | p. 44 |
| The Princely Puppet: Daniel Grayson | p. 44 |
| Josh Bowman as Daniel Grayson 46 | |
| The Poor Little Rich Girl: Charlotte Grayson | p. 48 |
| Christa B. Allen as Charlotte Grayson | p. 51 |
| The Allies | p. 53 |
| The Sidekick: Nolan Ross | p. 53 |
| A Billionaires Backstory: Nolan Ross | p. 55 |
| Gabriel Mann as Nolan Ross | p. 58 |
| The Sensei: Satoshi Takeda | p. 59 |
| Sensei-tional Influences: Satoshi Takeda's Predecessors | p. 60 |
| Hiroyuki Sanada as Satoshi Takeda | p. 64 |
| The Innocent | p. 65 |
| The Childhood Sweetheart: Jack Porter | p. 65 |
| Nick Wechsler as Jack Porter | p. 67 |
| The Kid Brother: Declan Porter | p. 69 |
| The Real Deal: Montauk | p. 70 |
| Connor Paolo as Declan Porter | p. 72 |
| The Problems | p. 73 |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much: Frank Stevens | p. 73 |
| Max Martini as Frank Stevens | p. 75 |
| The Backstabbing Bestie: Ashley Davenport | p. 76 |
| The Real Deal: Croydon | p. 77 |
| Ashley Madekwe as Ashley Davenport | p. 77 |
| The Talented Mr. Hamptons: Tyler Barrol | p. 79 |
| Ashton Holmes as Tyler Barrol | p. 82 |
| The Single White Female: "Amanda Clarke" | p. 82 |
| Margarita Levieva as "Amanda Clarke" | p. 85 |
| Episode Guide | p. 87 |
| Pilot | p. 88 |
| Revenge Reading: Homer's Odyssey | p. 93 |
| Trust | p. 95 |
| On Location: Filming Revenge | p. 100 |
| Betrayal | p. 105 |
| Music on Revenge | p. 108 |
| Duplicity | p. 111 |
| Guilt | p. 116 |
| Revenge Reading: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick | p. 119 |
| Revenge Reading: Stieg Larsson's: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | p. 121 |
| Intrigue | p. 123 |
| Charade | p. 127 |
| Revenge Reading: William Shakespeare's Hamlet | p. 130 |
| Treachery | p. 132 |
| Revenge Reading: Patricia Highsmith's: The Talented Mr. Ripley | p. 135 |
| Suspicion | p. 137 |
| Revenge Reading: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | p. 141 |
| Loyalty | p. 143 |
| Revenge Reading: Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" | p. 146 |
| Duress | p. 147 |
| Revenge Reading: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | p. 151 |
| Infamy | p. 152 |
| Revenge Reading: John Milton's Paradise Lost | p. 155 |
| Commitment | p. 157 |
| Fashion on Revenge | p. 160 |
| Perception | p. 163 |
| Revenge Reading: William Blake's: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | p. 167 |
| Chaos | p. 169 |
| What's in a Name? | p. 171 |
| Scandal | p. 174 |
| Revenge Reading: F. Scott Fitzgerald's: The Great Gatsby | p. 178 |
| Doubt | p. 180 |
| Alfred Hitchcock and Revenge | p. 184 |
| Justice | p. 188 |
| Revenge Reading: Euripides 'Medea | p. 193 |
| Absolution | p. 194 |
| Revenge Reading: Edward Albee's: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? | p. 197 |
| Legacy | p. 199 |
| Revenge Reading: Agatha Christie's: And Then There Were None | p. 203 |
| Grief | p. 205 |
| Revenge Reading: George Orwell's 1984 | p. 209 |
| The Symbols of Revenge | p. 210 |
| Reckoning | p. 212 |
| Revenge Reading: Frank Miller's: Batman: Year One | p. 218 |
| Revenge Reading: Thomas Harris's: The Silence of the Lambs | p. 219 |
| The Timeline | p. 223 |
| Sources | p. 225 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 233 |
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