A very powerful paranormal robs a bank – when the police
arrives she teleports their cars away – and teleports the billets out of their
guns, before sending everyone flying with telekinesis and engraving “hi dad” on
the wall.
Teleportation just became 900% cooler.
And Stephen wakes up – apparently a dream (he’s getting
precognition now? Why bother, he doesn’t use the special woo-woo he already
has)
He jumps out of bed – but is grabbed by his mum on the
way out – she’s worried about Astrid’s disappearance and isn’t a big fan of the
“she’ll be home soon, trust me” response.
At Tomorrow People HQ, John rather pathetically fails to clean himself which he should be able to do but it gives Cara an excuse to sponge him down – which she’s quite quite happy to do. Which leads to talking and kissing
Stephen barges his way into Jedikiah’s office, outrages that Ultra would send a kill squad after Astrid (are we going to have the “Ultra is evil” reminder again?). After Jedikiah confirms that, yes, they’re evil and yes, they will kill Astrid, Stephen quits.
…he’s really having a problem with the whole “Ultra are
evil” thing isn’t he?
Astrid, meanwhile, is getting antsy and angry that she can’t call her father who is worried sick; she appeals to Cara the only one who can let her contact the outside world but for both her safety and her dad’s safety, Cara refuses. After Astrid storms off, Stephen arrives to report him quitting Ultra (so can you get my family to safety… no? Ok then still not convinced on the whole Ultra=evil then) and that he dream possessed a new paranormal break out. Which may mean he has a super-Cara-like connection to her (and extra emphasis on the femaleness)
Yes, the love triangle is back on.
At ultra the Jedikiah worries about the new breakout
while the Founder questions why Stephen was even allowed to quit – that whole
evil organisation thing. On to the Founder tracking Stephen down and Stephen
deciding to avoid him by going down a deserted alleyway – because he forgot
about teleportation, I guess? Anyway he has a deal for Stephen: bring in
Cassandra (the new breakout) and Astrid will be totally fine. Apparently
Cassandra is the Founder’s daughter (hence the “hi dad” graffiti)
Someone remind Stephen he’s dealing with an evil
organisation.
At Tomorrow People HQ everyone looks at the footage and
is suitably impressed by Cassandra’s power and John drops in that she’s
probably a Synergist – a paranormal who had 2 paranormal parents and, as such,
is mega powerful. John makes a token “hey this is a really bad idea” but now it’s
lampshaded they can all get on with it.
Jedikiah drops in on family dinner (where Luca is skilfully
balancing a fork in a possibly-telekinetic kind of way) to tell Stephen that
the Founder is a bad bad person. Stephen refuses to deal with Jedikiah which is
sensible and several episodes too late.
Marla asks what’s going on and, of course, realising this
threat is coming home to roost and Luca is breaking out, Stephen tells her
everything so she can be prepared, informed and on side. HAH! NO! Of course
not! Stephen continues to tell blatantly obvious lies and Marla gets more
irritated with him walking down the exact same path as his father before him.
Back at HQ Cassandra evades everything Cara and Tim can
do to track her – but Stephen gets another psychic flash. So time to send Stephen
in – with a vague expectation of him seducing her before they cuff her and hand
her over to Ultra. And yes, Russell does coach him on what to say (Russell’s
not bad – Stephen not so good on the execution). Still he plays nice, buys her
a drink and they talk about her school in England, going to Brown and she vents
about her father. She’s wonderfully confident that helps cover for the rather
inept Stephen
He invites her to the roof ready for cuffing and
teleporting away but when he does she tells him she expected it. And of course Ultra’s
goons show up; Stephen fights and so does Cassandra (who doesn’t need any
powers to kick arse) before he teleports her out.
Back to HQ where he tells Cara she’ll be gone soon before
going to Astrid and assuring her everything will be cool then on to Cassandra and
trying to pretend they’re an Ultra safehouse. Turns out Cassandra wanted to be
caught, she wanted to have her powers stripped. She’s only recently been able
to look into her daddy dearest’s head and see what a monster he is – and he
wants to recruit her to join him. If she loses her powers, forces him to strip
them, she is safe from being recruited.
Cara and John continue their little relationship drama
when Stephen drops all this info on them. Cara suddenly realises that asking
Stephen to capture the most powerful paranormal ever, alone, is kinda
suspicious. Ya think? This rather belated revelation doesn’t work for Stephen
because he’s so sure the Founder will keep his word and protect Astrid –
because he’s so trustworthy like that. Cara lays down the law – until they
figure it out, Cassie is a long term guest
Marla, still being kept in the dark, storms into Jedikiah’s
office to demand some answers. She rips him up one side and down the other and
adds all kinds of threats that she probably can’t back up. And she is noticed
by the Founder
Back at HQ, Tim’s background check on Cassie is
shockingly sparse given her graduation from Brown that apparently never
happened. Cara throws out the cryptic “she isn’t who she thinks she is” before
going to see her. Questioning Cassie, Cassie discovers she can’t remember her
dorm, what she did in Brown or even her thesis- all she remembers is her
professor: Dr. Lerman Cara dips in her head – and finds Cassie being
experimented on by the Founder and his minions.
Cassie passes that on to John and Stephen but Stephen
still wants to give her up for Astrid’s safety; Cara wants him to use his Ultra
access to find out what happened to Cassie. Something Stephen considers holding
Astrid hostage to force him undercover again. John seems to agree because he
jumps in to offer Astrid freedom, after Stephen’s mission.
Stephen goes in – and runs into the Founder in the secret lab and is promptly rendered unconscious and captured.
Back at HQ everyone is panicking about Stephen being
absent for so long and his signal going cold. While Cara has a tactic of waiting to see what happens (which may
include Stephen being tortured until he reveals their location) John decides to
give them Cassie. Cara says no – but John doesn’t listen and teleports her out
At Ultra, the Founder is preparing to plug himself into Stephen’s brain to read all his thoughts
Outside, John arrives with Cassie and she senses her father inside with Dr. Lerman. John drops the bombshell about what really happened to her when she thought she was at Brown. John adds that Stephen is a super important double agent before removing her cuff and giving her the choice of what to do.
Cassandra arrives in Ultra and Stephen is released; and
Astrid is totally free now. Honest. Cassie works on telling her father what he
wants to hear.
Stephen passes on the good news to Astrid who is
extremely happy though she does realise that she’s getting an opportunity none
of the Tomorrow People can have. And she makes a point of thanking John and
saying goodbye which, because this is the CW, probably means we’re getting a
love
And Cara drags John out on the carpet for overriding her
leadership in front of everyone (didn’t
she do exactly the same thing over everyone going out to party when he was
supposedly leader not so long ago? Openly challenged his authority,
undermined him and humiliated him in front of everyone so they could go out
dancing?). She scolds him about respecting her decisions and threatens to kick
him out; he counters “respect or obey?” He tells her he’s going to do what he
thinks is best no matter what – and she kicks him out.
Stephen goes home and Marla asks him how he managed to
get Astrid home. Stephen says he could – but then Marla would be in the same
situation Astrid is now in. He at least reveals that he was in over his head in
a terrible situation so Marla responds with some generic reassurance that would
actually mean something if she actually knew anything.
And Stephen goes to Luca and gently brings up the fact
that he knows Luca has powers – or tries to when it turns out Luca thought he
was talking about his bong.
At Ultra, Cassie is drugged and the Founder sends his clean up unit after Astrid
Oh wow, the evil bad guy cannot be trusted!
HOW SHOCKED ARE WE?! ARE WE SHOCKED!
HOW SHOCKED ARE WE?! ARE WE SHOCKED!
Astrid, her father and Marla are eating at Astrid’s dad’s
café when the gun men arrives – Marla seems to know something is up before hand
and looks to see the kill team arrive. She quickly gets everyone in cover.
Stephen arrives just as the gunmen leave
Stephen rushes to the destroyed shop, calling his mother’s
name and finds her standing, untouched, hands raised holding all the bullets
back with Telekinesis
Aha! C’mon you knew this was coming. The minute we heard
that Synergists were super special woo-woo paranormals, you just knew Stephen
had to be one. She apologises she should have told him sooner
Now, I realise this may be hard to remember because a)
the show is not memorable and b) watching a sufficient number of Tomorrow People episodes does corrode
brain cells but one of the reasons Stephen joined Ultra, beyond his bizarre
plan to infiltrate them, was because Jedikiah threatened his family
So “quitting” should be followed by a rapid filling in
Luca and Marla and going into hiding. Stephen quitting and just… getting on
with things? It’s bizarre, it’s beyond bizarre. How many times does he have to
be shown Ultra is evil before he starts treating them as evil? Before he
realises the tactics they will use? Before he stops making deals with people
who are highly unlikely to have moral qualms about breaking their word?
Also, Stephen being undercover has now repeatedly given Ultra EXTRA paranormals as they hand people over to cover up for Stephen, to make deals or to give Stephen greater status. Kind of makes me question the point of the Tomorrow People
And Marla’s big reveal… seriously? Ok, I want to get her
involved and this would rock – but again, seriously? When Stephen started
having problems due to MIND READING AND TELEPORTING she sent him to a
psychiatrist and put him on unnecessary medication they could barely afford. When
Stephen joined Ultra she smiled and reluctantly went with it. When he started
working with Jedikiah who she had to have known was involved with her husband’s
work, she accepted it with some vague threats.
Are you telling me through all this she had a compelling reason NOT to reveal this to Stephen? Really?
And let’s have another REALLY?! About Cara’s leadership.
Before the election Cara and John acted as co-leaders though apparently John
was leader. She did a lot of the things John was doing now – which are now
considered unacceptable. Cara’s leadership seems to be a lot of dubious
decisions, lots of hanging around and hoping for the best mixed with lots of
angst that she’s a terrible leader occasionally flipped with her ensuring
people respect her authority. It’s toxic and feels like a cautionary tale that
isn’t far removed from
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