Time for some more
shenanigans. And yes, of course we have shenanigans
We have a bunch of
Talkers at a scrap yard digging up things under the watchful eye of humans in
haz mat suits and guns treating the Talkers as disposable animals. Until one of
those Talkers bites a battery, there’s a puff of white smoke and he comes to his
senses. Rallying and feeding more batteries to his fellow Talkers he leads a
rebellion
There’s a big
dramatic speech about freedom which kind of falls flat. It sounds like an epic
anti-slavery rant from an oppressed group who has spent years under the boot of
their oppressors - but Talkers haven’t even existed for years. And these words
coming from a Black man is just… yeah… we see what you’re doing there Z
Nation and think this is an issue.
The man then charges
into the mine and is beheaded. There’s something scary down there
This is when Warren,
George, 10k and Doc arrive looking for the secret ingredient in Biscuits (yes I
know about the daft spelling, no I’m not spelling it that way.) They see the
mining and enslaved Talkers and George realises Altura is behind it. They also
see the “Hazardous materials” signs but Warren points out that, hey, it’s the
apocalypse.
They split up with
George pretending to be a Talker, Doc and 10k stalking around and Warren
getting stuck in the tunnels
With many shenanigans,
they realise that the Altura troops are gathering Lithium, crating it up to
take to Altura. They find a semi-coherent Talker who explains lithium takes the
edge off and grants clarity but it doesn’t last wrong. They realise this is the
secret ingredient for Biscuits - and that Altura is trying to control that
because if Estes controls the biscuits they control the Talkers. They can’t
have that
There’s more
shenanigans with Doc and 10k sneaking around watching the lithium being packed
and playing with a crane. Because why wouldn’t you play with a crane? And
managing to pass themselves off as Altura operatives by stealing haz mat suits.
They all find evidence of people dying in horribly violent and ominous fashion.
While Warren explores
the tunnels and discovers the scary force that is mincing people: a giant
cyborg Talker. With a buzz saw as a hand. Oh and metal plates that stop him
being head-shot and mercied.
Of course we do.
They focus on lithium
and arrange various shenanigans to steal the rest of the Lithium and get the
rest of talkers to Limbo. Easy enough
Shenanigans ensue,
This involves a fight that doesn’t exactly go there way, the convenient
appearance of slashy cyborg Talker and the gang all gathered around this giant
invulnerable Talker smacking it until they wear it’s battery down. To which
Warren reaches out to it as a person so it decides to commit suicide
Which…. Ok?
I mean it seems like
I’m glossing over a lot here but most of it is just shenanigans - and this
giant cyborg did just decide to commit suicide because Warren asked him what he
wanted. He didn’t even really depend on Warren’s help here, he did something he
was perfectly capable of doing himself.
And how did he turn
into a cyborg zombie? The best anyone can manage is he overdosed on lithium.
Which causes you to graft saws to your body apparently. Ok, whatever let’s
gloss quickly over this clumsy hot mess. At least the cyborg zombie killed all
the Altura people so George and Warren didn’t have to make a morally
questionable choices on what to do with them
So next step is to
hit Altura - but to do that they need to get past this “high tech security”.
Luckily George knows some hackers
What?
It’s the
post-apocalypse world, how is anyone still a hacker? And when the biggest
threat you face are literally mindless why do you need high tech security that
a hacker can break? You need a wall. A big thick wall. What is this high tech
security?
I think this episode
was pretty much thrown together clumsily - but at least it was good to see
Warren in charge again
