Recap
Tom’s idea is to go to the moon, which as you can imagine has everyone scratching their heads. You know it’s on the moon Tom, right? Tom decides to play the whole JFK speech about the moon, in a somewhat out-of-place light moment after just coming off some pretty serious events.
In order to make that happen Weaver, Tom, Anne, Matt and Cochise go on a mission to a hidden Volm weapons cache to get some concussion bombs to free the beamer.
Maggie is having a hard time adjusting to her new abilities, much like other harnessed kids did, and the only one around to help her figure it all out is Ben (granted Denny is around but it had to be Ben right?).
Upon reaching the cache, they all have to put on masks due to a leak of chlorine gas (very nasty stuff by the way). Just before getting to the hold, Matt’s ‘girlfriend’ appears from the woods and collapses from the toxic fumes. Tom isn’t too sure she can be trusted, having to happen upon their location of all places. He decides his best course of action is to keep her tied up, much to Matt’s protest.
Dingaan and Shaq continue to play around inside the beamer trying to learn which tentacles control different functions of the beamer. These two make a great pair actually.
Maggie is very unsure of herself and cannot tune out all the noise (reminds me of a moment from the most recent superman movie). Ben helps her focus and gets her to jump off the roof while holding his hand.
Matt visits his ‘girlfriend’ again to see how she is doing and give her water and she comments the binding is hurting her hands. At first he is reluctant to undo them but eventually does. Then the one thing we ALL saw coming happens, she pulls a whistle out of her shoe and blows it alerting the beamers and team leaders to their location.
Just as Cochise is about to get the weapons they came for, beamers are seen coming overhead and they all run for cover, while grabbing the girl (why are we keeping a traitor with us?).
After waking up from the bombs, team leaders come from the forest shooting as Tom and the others fight back. Matt drags Mira away from the fight only to find himself caught in a trap and shot with a tranquilizer dart. As they prepare to take Matt away, Weaver uses a diversion to knock out most of the leaders with an energy weapon Cochise pulled out of the cache.
Tom ends up caught inside a container with team leader Kent shooting outside. He lights fuel on fire trapping Tom inside. In a last-ditch effort, Anne runs into the line of fire to distract Kent, but Tom jumps out and shoots Kent. As he lie dying he seems to snap out of it a bit and tells Tom he gave up his mother.
Maggie does some target practice with Ben to hone her new abilities when it finally happens, they kiss. Their spikes were lit up but still. And of course leave it to Hal to walk in on his brother and girlfriend making out. Tom tries to make Matt feel better about his puppy love, but Matt is a bit stubborn to listen right now.
Hal decks Ben right in the face, because of what he saw him and Maggie doing. To be fair, it was deserved but I don’t think Hal has the whole picture just yet.
Tom and Anne decide to get married but the ‘ritual’ is interrupted when Shaq has important information for them about the whistle Tom brought back. Leave it to Shaq to interrupt a mating ritual. Turns out the whistle has the ability to call on just about any beamer in the area. They use it to bring this one out of the rubble and into working order.
Review
Hearing Cochise swear was fun and interesting. While it was no ‘Frack’ or ‘Frell’, I think we all got the picture of what he was expressing. I will admit at first I thought he sneezed.
We find out the power core is on the moon, I mean i guess it wasn’t a forgone conclusion considering how much they put into the moon and its importance all season long.
The love triangle finally hits a peak moment when Ben and Maggie kiss. But in all fairness Maggie kissed Ben, there is no other way to put it. You can hate the relationship all you want but she went in for it and after that Ben told her no and walked away. That being said, their spikes were lit up and Ben has been crushing on Maggie for some time. How much of it the spikes influenced we don’t yet know. I also find the double standard within the fandom very annoying. Maggie goes in for the kiss, not Ben and Ben walks away when she wants to kiss him again and everyone hates him? But when Hal tells Ben that Maggie belongs to him, nobody is going to hate on Hal for treating Maggie like property?
Pope and Sara are not on great terms when Pope jumps to the conclusion that she is back on pills. For the first time, I think we see Pope in love and actually caring about someone other than himself. While subtle the interactions between both of them are great.
The stand out this episode was Matt (Maxim Knight). Such a great story line for him, and a great learning lesson about who to trust and who not to trust. Ben had to learn that lesson the hard way once before (actually a few dozen times, he must be thick-headed. No actually he is a Mason 🙂 ).
Between Shaq and Cochise, we finally get more depth to the Volm and I am loving every minute of it. Anger, dry humor and a sense of cultural misunderstanding make it uniquely alien and yet human all at the same time.
The only question left is, who is going to the moon?
