I’m going to start by ignoring the damn “let’s show the
middle of the episode in the beginning” because it’s a story telling tool I
loathe with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.
So, everyone is now being hunted by the police, they need
to get to Zambia and they need a science thingy (I’m not even going to pretend
to know what it is). Which they need to get in America, apparently because the
whole African continent doesn’t have science or scientific devices. Certainly
not something involved studying the DNA of animals… uh-huh – Abe should have
slapped someone for that.
Leaving the country as wanted felons leaves them with few
options – so they turn to Ray, an old Frenemy of Jackson and terrible animal
right’s activist. Abe loathes him because he repeatedly got Jackson into
trouble Abe had to get him out of – involving Abe having to resort to violence
which, as we’ve seen before and is so excellently portrayed again here. Abe is
not a fan of working with Ray
Mitch isn’t a fan either, finding activist groups like
Ray tend to have a lot of passion but know little about actual animal welfare
(or the conservation work of zoos with endangered species).
Still Jackson thinks they should since he’s the leader and Chloe supports him because of her laughable judge of character and is now increasingly become little more than Jackson’s love interest (yes we’re definitely going there complete with kiss this episode) so everyone’s objections are overcome. To be fair, they don’t have any better ideas
To get Ray’s help – and his plane – they end up signing
up with him and his groups of reckless activists to rescue animals from a zoo.
No-one likes this but they do get the science toy they need. The gang also has
some ideas beyond “charge and hope”.
It still goes wrong and they end up in a firefight in
which Ray gets shot, as does a random Black extra who is left behind for
FBI-Guy-on-a-Mission to torment and torture in his quest to hunt down the
people who killed his apprentice (oh the notable disposable characters again).
They do manage to escape with Mitch playing amateur
surgeon (no Hippocratic oath, funsies!) and go driving with a truck full of
angry infected animals (the Defiant pupil is now contagious) and all kinds of
shenanigans eventually lead with most of the cast in a plane heading for
freedom… except Chloe and Extra Lady being left behind
Yes Chloe, you become a love interest, kissed Jackson and
now you’re heading towards a fridge for the sake of Manpain. Kiss
of death, Chloe, kiss of death. Literally, the former leader of this group
kissed Jackson and then was left behind. Don’t tell me this isn’t being done
for Jackson angst.
