Emily Thorne

Emily Rebecca Grayson (born Amanda Clarke, prior Thorne) was the daughter of the Clarke family, living in the Hamptons in 1992. Because her father was framed for a crime he didn't commit, she is on a quest for revenge against the Graysons, the actual criminals in the case.

Biography

Early Life

In this section, "Emily Thorne" will be referred to as Amanda Clarke, her real name

Childhood

Amanda Clarke was born some time in Summer of 1986 to the late David Clarke and Kara Wallace. For most of her remembered childhood, she was led to believe that her mother had died in 1989, when she was 5 years old, in a car crash and she had been raised by her father since. It turns out, though, that Kara had tried to drown with Amanda in the ocean one time, prompting David to finally send Kara away and into the Angel of Mercy Hospital.

One summer, her father decided to get a beach house at the Hamptonsfor their summer vacations. The Hamptons is where their life began changing. Here, David Clarke meets his boss Conrad Grayson's wife Victoria Grayson, who Amanda had seen more than once come and go from their house as her father's secret lover. She also becomes close with Bill Harmon, a friend of her father.

One fateful night, Amanda was about to play with her dog, Sammy, when FBI agents came busting into their house and arrested her father for money-laundering for the terrorist organization, American Initiative. She sees one last glimpse of the Grayson couple who had him arrested before they took her away from her father. She was then 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.

She then went into foster care, where she met Eli James, Nathan Anderson and Christina Miller. Under their abusive foster mother, Meredith Hayward, Amanda and Eli became close foster siblings, protecting and sticking with each other. During her time there, Amanda developed the habit of playing with matches. At one point, Amanda was chosen by a family for adoption. Not wanting to be separated from her, Eli burned their house down with one of Amanda's matches. Blamed for starting the fire, Amanda was sent to juvenile detention for five years.

Juvie Days

By age sixteen she was in Allenwood, a maximum security juvenile facility run by Warden Sharon Stiles. Here, she meets Emily Thorne, her roommate. At first, the two are very hostile towards one another but, upon Warden Stiles' advice, eventually Amanda decides to befriend Emily into confiding in and trusting her.

Before leaving, Amanda had given Emily a necklace, and she promised she'd be back for her. Emily gave Amanda a hug, and said "I love you", showing she truly loved her cell mate and saw her more like a sister.

While in Allenwood, Warden Stiles had looked after and taught Amanda. A few years later, when she is released from the center, Amanda promises Emily that she will come back for her. Also, Warden Stiles gives her a note with Satoshi Takeda's number, saying that although she is giving her this information, she hopes she does not go through that path.

Path to Revenge

Upon being released on her eighteenth birthday, Nolan Ross, a friend of her father's, met Amanda and tried to let her see the truth: that her father was innocent. He gave her the infinity box that her father had left for her. At first, Amanda was insistent on not believing and used the money she got from her inherited partial ownership of Nolan's company, NolCorp, for her own, personal, useless gains but, eventually, went back to the Hamptons to stay at their old summer home, currently decommissioned and under Conrad Grayson's ownership. There, she began reading her father's journals and began realizing the truth. After waitressing for a 2002 New Year's Eve party of the Graysons at their mansion, she became more aware of the evils of the family and their involvement in the framing of her father when she finds the dead body of Roger Halsted, a friend of her father's that she approached at the party and who planned to aid her. At that point, all the hurt and anger built up in her came out and awakening the desire for revenge against those who betrayed her father.

However, she knew that she could not get close enough to her goals as Amanda Clarke. Her relationship with Emily later proved very useful when Amanda came back for her and offered her  money along with a change of identity. They exchanged names and lives: Emily became the new Amanda Clarke, and Amanda became Emily Thorne. ("Suspicion") Under the guidance of her sensei, Satoshi Takeda (who himself had a secret grudge against the Graysons), she learned the ways of revenge on an island in Japan.

Rise for Reputation

Work in progress. Has to do with her school activities and charity work before going to the Hamptons. Includes her meeting Ashley.

One night around Thanksgiving of 2006, on a mission to bring down Dmitri Lvovsky, Emily met Aiden Mathis, who ended up killing Dmitri after he taunted him about his vanished sister. Realizing that he needed revenge just as much as she does, she convinced Takeda to take him in, threatening to leave if he didn't accept him. During the mission, Emily had a brief encounter with Ashley Davenport, who at the time had just moved to New York and was about to resort to prostitution to pay the bills. Neither apparently saw each other's faces clearly enough to get a lasting impression. Speaking to her through a door, Emily gave her a bundle of dollar bills in exchange for a information about when Dmitri was arriving.

While in training together Emily and Aiden developed a relationship that was interrupted when Aiden left to pursue a lead to his sister.

Revenge School

There still is a lot about Emily's years spent training under Takeda that remains unknown, but it is revealed during "Trust" that she created a fake history on top of her assumed identity of "Emily Thorne" which stated that she was the daughter of a wealthy American expatriot who left behind a sizable inheritance which she used to travel the world and get academic degrees.

In the upcoming novel named, "Schooled in Revenge", It Is revealed they were several other students training on the Island. So far, it is said Emily will bond with a Girl named Ava Winters, described as a 'beautiful young heiress', who has just joined her training school. Other students include Jon West, a 'handsome but guarded man', also new to training, Reena Fuller and Cruz, 'a feisty young woman and the guy who will do anything to protect her' and also another student yet to be revealed, 'a girl who has no memory or idea of who she is or why she's on Rebun.'