In Spring City Oklahoma, Grace is a little surprised to
find Aaron because she’s moved there to be completely alone and forget
everything about the
Tower and what happened there; and then the Nanites send Aaron to find her.
And he’s just the second surprise visitor – a woman always walked into town
before collapsing from heat stroke. Priscilla.
Aaron’s first wife
Damn, Grace, who thought being a hermit would be so hard?
Apparently Priscilla has been lead to Oklahoma by
hallucinations of her dead father. And fireflies. Yay, hallucination buddies!
Well Priscilla’s relieved, she thought she was losing her mind (eerr… Aaron
ALSO losing his mind doesn’t mean you’re not losing yours).. They update
everyone then ask Grace what’s going on. Apparently Grace thought the Nanites
could wake up – after all, if a brain is a lot of neurones talking to each
other then a cloud of Nanites talking to each other is pretty analogous;
especially since there are a cagillion gazillion Nanites that, when networked
form a (in Aaron’s words) big ass brain.
Why Aaron and Priscilla? Because the code Aaron invented was the one Grace, Rachel, Warren and the other Nanite inventors used to create the Nanites. And Priscilla helped him with the code creation. Awww they’re Mummy and Daddy nanite! Though apparently someone called Peter also helped and he’s absent. With them reeling, Grace decides to hit them with another whammy – a powerful, omnipresence force with its own mind sounds a lot like God to her.
Alone, Aaron and Priscilla update each other on their respective love lives (Priscilla’s new husband couldn’t handle Priscilla apparently losing her mind so left her and took the kids with him).
In Mexico, Connor has heard his dad’s offer of a new
fascist state just as soon as the pair of them wrest it off the Patriots and
has decided that it’s not all that tempting and takes him, bound into a
compound with lots of partying and a hanging body as a warning. Outside, Rachel
and Miles watch and Rachel repeats my thoughts about them actually choosing to
RESCUE Monroe.
Inside the compound they go to the boss man’s office and
he’s very very paternal towards Connor – a definite father/son relationship
going on there. But the boss man, Luis Nuñez, is pretty welcoming to Mornoe –
at least on the surface (Monroe is pouty) and Nuñez stakes his position – he found
Connor on the streets, he took Connor in and he raised him. And to prove the
point – he asks Connor what he wants to do with Miles and Connor suggests
selling him – someone’s going to want Monroe.
Which means Monroe gets to be locked up – but he still tries to warn Connor that Nuñez is dangerous and he should avoid him – yeah, have you not picked up the adopted father dynamic yet, Monroe? Monroe runs with “he’s not your blood” which doesn’t impress – and then Miles, having infiltrated the compound, knocks Connor out. But Monroe won’t run because then his escape will be Connor’s fault. The end result of which is that Miles is imprisoned as well.
Tell me again why rescuing Monroe was a good idea. Miles
is not impressed by claims of fatherly bonds to a man Monroe has only known for
5 damn minutes.
Don’t worry Rachel is still out there! (Wow, and when you’re falling back on Rachel you know you’re pretty damn desperate). She gets herself invited to the party; while inside Nuñez is curious as to exactly how Connor stopped Monroe escaping and suggests punishing Monroe for trying to escape. When Connor advises against, Nuñez leaps on it as suspicious – of Connor being sympathetic to Monroe.
Monroe is taken out to a balcony in front of a screaming crowd and strung up by his wrists and Nuñez hands a whip to Connor and Connor whips Monroe. He continues to whip him until he stops and asks Nuñez if he wants to sell Monroe, or bury him and Nuñez has him cut down – still looking suspiciously at Connor.
Rachel starts to enter the main house – and Connor
catches her and gives her a key to free Miles and Monroe. Rescue time – they escape
but are stopped by Nuñez and one of his goons holding a knife to Connor’s
throat. Nuñez is pretty wounded at Connor choosing Monroe over him and leaves
after saying goodbye. Fight scene time (Monroe distracted by pointing out to
Miles what a good fighter his son is). Everyone’s massacred and the four of
them escape
That night Monroe and Connor talk – Connor has regrets
but Monroe is confident he can get his little fascist police state back with
his son by his side.
Back in Texas, Charlie and Gene are spying on the
Patriots building something and Gene’s good friend Mike is on the scene. I
think Charlie and Gene may be just bored. Gene wants to launch a rescue attempt
and Charlie reality checks him that an old man with no warrior training is not
going to infiltrate an armed camp, no matter how big his guilt complex is.
Good gods gene, Charlie is the voice of reason. Charlie.
If you keep this up, Rachel will start being the sensible one in comparison to
you and then there’s no hope at all.
Despite this common sense, Gene infiltrates the camp anyway and finds his friend, Mike’s body (disposable POC again on Revolution) and then he has to be rescued by Charlie; which gets them both captured.
Chief Patriot unchains them and takes them to… a plague tent. A Typhus epidemic is striking and they’re preparing a quarantine camp. He wants Gene’s help to fight the plague, before they lose Willoughby entirely
On the east coast, Neville and Julia continue their
charade, with Neville pushing to be part of her husband, Victor’s security
detail; there is definitely ongoing tension between Neville and Julia. Back in the
military camp Jason shows Neville the papers he stole
last episode – the Patriots are creating far more re-education camps like
the one he was in, and Victor is in charge of them. And he expects Neville to
do something about it
Neville goes to confront Julia but she’s not helping at
all, she has no wish to change her plan – nor, in Neville’s eyes, any real wish
to advance it either. He accuses her of being happy where she is, married to
Victor and we get some jealousy flaring up. She warns him not to go through her
husband’s files
Cut to someone having broken into her husband’s office
and gone through all his files. Julia goes to pay Neville a visit to accuse him
and he denies all knowledge (“don’t give me that poker face” “this poker face
is my face.” Snerk – so very very true. Line of the night). But Neville denies
all knowledge – it wasn’t him. It was Jason and he found more out – the reprogramming
is stage one, genocide, wiping people out is stage 2. Which is when several
troops arrive to arrest Jason
I still hate what’s happening with Julia and Neville. It’s
destroyed their relationship and how it was before. No longer does it look like
two people, in love and united in cunning and guile and ruthlessness against
the world; instead it looks like Julia sticking to Neville for comfort – and then
jumping ship to a better offer when the time came, without any real care who
that man was. It feels less like their mutual ambition together and more like
Julia’s ambition – with Neville just a tool to get there.
Which means their storyline doesn’t fascinate me. Monroe, Connor and daddy issues? Not interesting to me. And even if they do return north and fight the patriots – fight them for what? The restoration of the Monroe republic? Hey, this is Season 1 calling – can we have a NO on that one?
Gene and Charlie doing whatever it is they’re doing? Yeah…
not fascinating either. It could be – being a mission with an actual goal,
sabotaging the Patriots, but it’s too minor next to Monroe’s family drama to
really progress and add coherence to the story. Which leaves Aaron which I can’t
say is incredible but I’m watching in a kind of curious, Mad-libs kind of way.
It’s not exactly enthralling, I’m just curious about what random thing is going
to pop up next
So Connor never knew Monroe, complete stranger to him.
Never even knew who his father was. On the streets he was taken in by Nuñez,
taken into his home, raised him, treated like a son. They have a strong bond
and they act like father and son together. And then BIOPARENT arrives and
shatters it all by his mere presence? Loyalties changed, suspicion instantly
flaring up, parental bond destroyed… The power of DNA trumps any actual
parenthood!
