Our new animal of the week – a Lizard which causes ice.
Of course
And some kind of stealth device that lets evil Davies and
his squad of men sneak up on a jet while in flight without anyone noticing
until they managed to take all the power off without affecting any of the
instruments.
So Davies and his squad attacks and quickly subdues the
crew despite Jackson’s super rage strength. Thankfully Mitch has the master
plan of releasing the Earthquake-causing sloth. In a plane. In mid-flight
Shockingly this doesn’t kill them all (or even seem to
cause irreparable or even severe damage to the plane) but does allow the gang
to quickly overwhelm their captors. (Oh and release the ice lizard which Mitch
now has to save because the cure can only be extracted from living animals. Oh
and can we have an aside – they’re piecing together all of the animals the need
based on the bones they dug up last episode – yes they were buried for no
reason but moving on – but they’ve already found one animal that doesn’t have a
skeleton. Was the jellyfish the only creature that was x-rayed with the woo-woo
machine that didn’t have bones?)
So with Mitch duly distracted, the rest of the team can
address various other terrible plot lines
Firstly, Logan is revealed as a traitor and Jamie outright
murders him. Wow, that was a super abrupt end to this very abrupt storyline and
totally pointful. But let’s return to this whole murdering thing – Logan is
trying to jump out the plane never to be seen again – there is no benefit at
all to killing this man beyond vengeance. This is new edgy Jamie who I’m just
so tired of that (she also has a little tantrum with Mitch which serves the
purpose of establishing her as REALLY annoying).
This may be examined in how her character is turning to
the dark side but, alas, that will mean focusing more on her character. Alas.
While Abraham has captured Davies and decides to question
him about where Robert Oz is – and by question I mean torture. All this torture
reveals is that Robert Oz is behind everything (are we shocked?) and that apparently
Abe knew him before he knew Jackson and their meeting was not a coincidence
Also we learn that ants can be used as defibrillators
But can we look at this character assassination? What has
Abe’s role being? Beyond shoulder for everyone to lean on, Abe has been the
conscience. Even when acting as a guard for people crossing the city he only
used tranqs to fend off the animals. Even when surrounded by gun wielding gang
members in South America, he responded with minimum violence. Abe is good. Abe
is the golden shining light in this episode. Mitch, Jackson, the
not-even-lamented Chloe? These characters I can see torturing people. But not
Abe. This is not Abe
And to reveal this huge epic friendship he has for Jackson is now built on deceit? It’s a clusterfuck of character assassination here. Abe deserves better than this.
But part of the reason why they’re keeping Davies is it
turns out Elizabeth, Jackson’s mother, has disappeared in Botswana and Jackson
has decided to threaten to kill Davies unless Allison convinces the US military
to try and rescue her
She warns him that this act of terrorism will look like
terrorism and be totally awful for PR. Of course Jackson isn’t listening to sense
and she goes along with it. Thankfully Allison uses the threat of investigating
the general for his illegal use of impossible stealth technology to raid
passenger planes to convince him to not pursue any consequences for the whole
torture thing.
So actual plot line development of all this? Robert Oz is
alive (we knew this) is terrible (we knew this) and knew Abe before (oh Abe you
poor character) and Logan has been quickly dumped from the equation
Oh at least one writer is fully aware of the bullshit he’s
writing – because they have Mitch announce that the plane will be magically
cleaned up despite it having zero staff. Oooh love that snark.
Anyway in Botswana many many people are dead – and it
seems Elizabeth is the one doing the killing. Yes, Jackson’s mother has also
embraced her inner mutant (and killed lots of Black people but the focus is
Elizabeth of course)
