Possible Clues:

• Publicity is cementing genuine comeback
• Not on for jail to be engulfed by serious act of revenge
• Payback of a sort
• Rip's involved in veritable eye for an eye ...
• The French gentleman, person half forgotten, set up to get revenge
• Electoral system is blocking true revenge
• Revenge or retaliation
• "Eye for an eye" act
• Repairs rag doll at the foundation with an eye for an eye
• Rare slip (anag.)