Hullen Johnny
continues to cause shenanigans. He and D’avin have abandoned Delle Saya and are
going on a road trip with him being the most annoying little brother there has
ever been. The plan is to find some green goo so Johnny can use his newly
minted Hullen-ness to contact Dutch and save them all.
Of course as they go,
D’avin becomes increasingly disturbed by Johnny’s Hullen skills (especially
since he accuses Johnny of liking his new super powers just a bit too much) and
powerful Hullen mood swings. Even those may not be what it seems - because
Johnny is definitely losing himself to his Hullenness, the occasional Dutch
hallucination is all that’s left of Vintage Johnny and he definitely has his
own nefarious end game.
Johnny does ask
D’avin to kill him if he goes full Hullen but that may be manipulation as well
- especially when they get physical several times and Johnny definitely has the
edge over his brother.
Plans are somewhat
scuppered by Warden Juno managing to send some troops after them, requiring
Johnny to use Hullen skills to rig a bomb to kill them - using his Hullen
healing skills to take the blast and protect D’avin… and D’avin takes the
opportunity to chain Johnny up. Johnny tries to push all of D’avin’s emotional
vulnerable spots (making the point on how emotion is a weakness) but D’avin won’t
bend, especially since he can see Johnny talking to his hallucinations
It isn’t enough
though - when Johnny finds the green pool of Hullen goo he turns on D’avin and
even though D’avin is pointing a gun at his brother Johnny wins, breaks his
chains and shoots D’avin.
Who is thankfully wearing body armour and they fight - him trying to reach Vintage Johnny, resorting to using his anti-goo powers and still losing and getting strangled. Until Dutch rises from the goo pool and shoots Johnny
The pool crystalises
- which is new - and Dutch collapses.
Back at the prison we
have Supreme Queen Before Whom Everyone Should Worship Delle Sayah facing off
against Juno the warden. Bea advises her not to mess with him to which Delle
Sayah says:
No honey, I never
want to mess with men like this, but if you don’t they’ll never leave you
alone.
As Juno establishes
his authority Bea begs Delle Sayah to keep her head down
“Keeping my head down
isn’t my thing, it messes with the crown.”
So she waves her authority
as being head of the Nine but Warden Juno isn’t into that, doesn’t care and
intends to sell her baby (after turning off the cameras - apparently selling
organs for the company is ok. Selling babies for his own profit is not). He
quips about her delicate condition to which Delle Sayah slams several people
into hard surfaces and takes several drugged darts before finally going down
She’s chained down
and Juno intends to induce her pregnancy. This leaves Delle Sayah to recruit
Bea to her side, making it clear that fighting to escape and dying is still
better than staying there and being used to harvest organs.
She also advises
that:
“The world is full of
lesser men with greedy fingers - let me show you how to break them”
She offers Juno a
bribe of how to grow organs super fast - showing off her own impressive Hullen
healing. Very impressive - and he releases her for this exciting new business
opportunity. To which Delle Sayah promptly feeds him to his company for stealing
from them so he can be used as an organ farm himself (he forgot a camera). He
tries to threaten revenge and we get
“Don’t villainsplain
me, honey. I’m the master.”
She also tells Bea to
send her video of the first organ he has extracted. And to make sure it’s the
liver.
From the awesomeness
of Delle Sayah we go to Zeph who is also pretty awesome. Having figured out she
needs to track down Lucy to track down D’Avin and Johnny she sets about trying
to find the Hullen ships which were tracking Lucy using one of their many
frozen Hullen and zapping his brain
It works - but
interestingly while being zapped he points the gun at his own head and fires
(the safety is on) saying “She’s coming she’s coming” which is ominous.
But Zeph does have a
plan - aided by Pip because sex helps Zeph think. There’s an awkward romance
there between Pip and Zeph as (in a complete switch of sexual stereotypes) Pip
clearly wants a greater relationship while Zeph just sees it as casual sex
which helps her think with minimal cuddling. Pip agrees that that’s totally all
he wants even though he clearly wants more. The dynamic will be interesting to
follow but in part based on how visibly uncomfortable Pip becomes and whether
Zeph ignores/confronts that and whether Pip continues on lying about what he
wants. There’s a lot to unpack here and it’ll be interesting to see how they do
this
She also pushes Turin
to deputise Pree and Pip so they can play with laws with Killjoy authority.
Turin tries to get them to recite the oath before giving up when it’s clear how
little either of them care
They do find Lucy but
she’s been reset to hide everything and that leaves the gang to try and guess
the codes. Which mainly involves play acting as John and Dutch which includes
hilarious lines like “be the leather pants” which is mainly an excuse for Pree
to let his sass go (which… doesn’t work because he isn’t bouncing off anyone.
He’s dropping in one liners without any real purpose - he’s just sassing for
the sake and it feels a little forced). Eventually they remember the
appropriate song to unlock it. Which means they can sail in to rescue Delle
Sayah
Who doesn’t need rescuing as she points out
But they do pick
everyone up leaving them with an unconscious Dutch, a psychotic Johnny and
Delle Sayah - whose waters break
Many shows have
protagonists who play the sassy snarky rebel. Many shows and books have
protagonists who try to step into a room and take control. Many shows and books
have protagonists who are always in control and deny any and all authority
And Delle Sayah stand
above them all. I don’t even care if the Hullen win if Delle Sayah is the one
who ends up in control.
I also have to say in
past seasons of Killjoys we’ve had issues with Dutch being the One
Awesome Woman in a sea of men so double kudos for Killjoys raising Zeph
and Delle Sayah to these heights
