Argh argh argh! I am so glad I’m binge watching this and not watching it live. The last episode ended on a downer, but this one made me want more right away!
Lauren and Andy were captured (while their parents watched) in the last episode. We also saw Esme manipulate Thunderbird (and maybe a few others) into the raid where the Struckers were lost, so we know she is up to something. So now, is she friend or foe? And what will Dr. Campbell do with the Strucker kids, who he’s wanted since day one? (And will Jace even turn them over? Of course he will.)
Reed and Cait struggle with what to do next. They land on a risky idea (ugh, with the help of Esme) to try to convince Jace to keep the kids in jail as criminals, because sadly they have a better chance that way than if Campbell gets a hold of them.
Speaking of which, will Jace hand the kids over? Oh, yeah, with barely a second thought. But like he might feel bad for it later? Ugh, Jace.
Back at home, Jace is confronted by the Strucker parents, and guess what, Struckers, Jace doesn’t care. He can’t be wrong because then he’ll have to question all the other shady stuff he’s being doing. So he’ll defend his decisions, even violently, and attack anyone who sees things differently. After an angry and frustrated conversation, the Struckers leave defeated. But Jace is confronted by his wife. Maybe now he’ll second guess his own infallibility?
The first thing he decides to do is get his prisoners the hell away from Campbell and Trask Industries. (Yah think handing over federal prisoners to private labs…I mean prisons, is bad?) It’s too late for Dreamer, who Campbell outright shoots to “motivate” the Strucker kids into using their powers in a demo for him. (This scene creepily parallels the scene in X-Men: First Class where Sebastian Shaw does the same thing to a child Magneto.)
Then our black horse Esme, aka one of the Stepford Cuckoos (canon characters and proteges of one Miss Emma Frost) steps in and takes over both the escape and the vengeance.
So did Campbell get enough data to really do some damage? (Probably.) Will Dreamer’s death make JAce reconsider, or will the Cuckoo’s attack justify his actions in his head? And how will the delicate trust between the MU and the Struckers recover after Esme’s manipulations and Dreamer’s death?