In the real world, no one has a problem with attacking people called terrorists in their homes and killing their children and wives. In fact, families have been deliberately targeted. Teenage boys are automatically classed as combatants. Nothing with Jace is ever very plausible, but this may be the worst yet. It was good to see Officer Ted go but the notion all the villains deserve to die when they diss the heroes is morally obtuse. Jace is even worse than Officer Ted but he's admired by the show. By the way, Reed should have said to Officer Ted, "Where's your car?" So, yeah, Officer Ted was a righteous kill for mouthing off.
Reed's miraculous recovery from uncontrollable agony leading to uncontrollable destruction as he writhes is miraculously convenient. A close second is Lauren's miraculous recovery in time to avoid the consequences of refusing to split up. I have a sneaking admiration for Rooty-tooty's refusal to admit that surrendering would mean prison. Lauren's refusal to notice they were shot at doesn't show Rooty-tooty was being ruthless, it shows the effort to make Lauren a perfect paragon, pacifist in this case, has devolved into making her stupid. The gate which was locked so anyone could go through it comes third? It is good when the script parts the Red Sea for the heroes.
John can track, but since Clarice is everywhere and nowhere, he can't finish tracking her, which keeps him from moving on to the next target. She's not dead. As to his feelings? It has been a common notion since at least the days of Sense & Sensibility that being uncontrolled doesn't authenticate your feelings (or being controlled means not feeling.) That was a couple centuries ago.
It's still true that the Purifiers don't want separation (especially if it means giving up anything, much less land,) but dead mutants. That's why Nazis and Revisionist Zionists couldn't get very far cooperating, despite some efforts. Same here. The real mutant separatists are the Morlocks, and the massacre of the Morlocks shows how wrong Lorna was when she said the Purifiers and Reeva wanted the same thing. It is still entirely unclear what Ryan gets, incidentally.
The Mutant Underground has been wanting to kill the Inner Circle for quite some time now. It is not clear why Reeva isn't even allowed to oppose this. The Morlocks are a big secret, not competition. So Lorna was entirely wrong about that too.
And in her trifecta of wrong, Lorna seems to think mind-control to get humans to cede territory is a Bad Thing. Mind control over mutants to make them accept a homeland is not even a thing, Bad or Good.
Fortunately, Lorna's real argument against Reeva is Benedict Ryan. Her magnificent indifference to Andy almost led her out the door without even trying. She must not be a vain woman, though, as she never noticed how Andy idolized her, even to the point of wearing black like her. Lorna is supposed to be retroactively guilty about misleading Andy into the Inner Circle. Better yet, Andy's real fury and guilt is about murdering Rebecca. It was a bit funny that Lorna never noticed that Andy saved her life, or that she got both Max and Sage murdered. Killing is only bad when the Bad People do it, in Hollywood at least. For once the political backwardness didn't matter. The scenes with Andy were powerful.
Andy was absolutely correct when he said she saved them all by taking down the plane. Andy was also correct when he talked about being a monster, who didn't belong with the rest. The script had even Andy falsify the incident at the lake, making him say Kyle tried to shoot Lauren. Kyle tried to kill Lauren, and actually succeeded in shooting her. Like Jace shooting John, the only thing is the bullet wasn't enough. The intensity of their rejection at the lake was an expression of their underlying hatred and contempt. And yes, that includes Caitlin. She's like Marcos, her love will not permit any disobedience. Andy comes home to do what she says, or else there's no relationship. It's true this is the same family that murdered Risman Garber (indirectly, thanks to the script.) But Andy is Carrie. You might feel sorry for Carrie, but the satisfying ending is when Carrie dies, a scapegoat for our nasty thoughts. Reed was rather shaken up, enough so he could fake caring about Andy. So Andy comes home. Now, the real problems, about Fenris, start. Andy staying separate from Lauren was the best thing he was doing. Coming home to her is deeply sinister. Her only salvation from the monster is to kill him. It should be this season, but apparently the name of the game in serialized TV is The Art of the Stall. The scenes with Andy were truly excellent. It is kind of sad when writers get themselves so constricted by their political agenda they end up inadvertently giving the best scenes to a minor character, played by a juvenile, no less.
It is a crying shame Andy didn't at least hang around long enough to take down Sentinel Services. That would have been a true feel good moment. The Morlocks' determination to protect Sentinel Services was as detestable as the Mutant Underground's determination to kill mutants upsetting the domestic tranquility.
Reeva, like Pulse, has the ability to interfere with mutant powers. Thus, a Strucker, like Otto Strucker versus Pulse, should be able to resist Reeva's influence. Stephen Moyer is the star. Logically, the MU would want to use Fenris to destroy Innner Circle HQ. Andy's nothing, no matter what Lorna thinks, just as Reeva said. But it's pretty much impossible to figure out what Lauren wants, much less what she might do.
PS When did the show disappear all those humans the Inner Circle worked with everyday? About the same time money stopped being a problem for the Mutant Underground?
