Outside the town of Harmony Falls, Oregon, in 1958, two pairs of
teenagers prepare to drag race: Tommy Fuller and his girlfriend Betty
Seaver, and Davis and Billy. They take off and the tire of Billy's car
blows out. The car crashes, and Betty is knocked unconscious. Tommy sees
a glowing blue rock nearby and figures that it's a comet. Vandal steps
out and says that he was drawn to it as well. He admits that the
teenagers' presence was unexpected, but figures that it was destiny.
Waverider lands in1958
and Rip warns that the effects of time travel increase with the length
of the jaunt. They wonder why Vandal is in the small town, and Rip finds
a newspaper article about a serial killer. He figures that Vandal is
responsible, but they figure it's small-time for Vandal. Kendra wonders
how Rip plans to find him, and Rip says that there must be a common link
between the victims.
Ray and Kendra go to the home of the
piano teacher that was first clear. The realtor shows Kendra and Ray the
home, and they pose as husband and wife. The realtor is shocked to
learn that they're married, and suggests that she has a home in another
more accepting town for them. Kendra assures her that they're fine with
Harmony Falls.
The second victim, Dr. Matt Miller, was killed
at the town's asylum. Martin applies for Miler's job with Sara as his
nurse/assistant. The head doctor, Hannah, assures Martin that she looks
like she'll fit right in.
Rip has Jax look into the
disappearance of three teenagers a week before the murders began. As for
Len, he and Rip go to the police station and meet with Bud Ellison,
posing as FBI agents. Bud insists that there are some unexplained
accidents, and Len demands to see the case files. The sheriff quickly
caves and once he leaves, Len insists that Rip isn’t his partner. He
points out that Mick was the only person he trusted, and they all know
how that turned out.
Martin, Jax, and Sara go to the local
diner and Martin revels in the town's idyllic feel. Jax and Sara point
out that it was only perfect for straight white men. They notice Betty
sitting by herself. According to the newspaper article, she was with the
three missing teenagers before they disappeared. Martin and Sara head
back to the asylum and Jax approaches Betty. The other teenagers stare
at them, and Jax offers Betty a French fry in a shake. Two jocks come
over and tell Betty that she doesn't hang out with a loser, and Jax
invites them to fight. The counterman shakes his head, and the jocks
warn Jax that it isn't over before leaving. Betty asks Jax if he wants
to hang out the next night, and he agrees.
Kendra and Ray
finish moving in and Ray invites Kendra to dance. As they do, Ray
reminds her that they're pretending to be married, and suggests that
they have fun while they can.
At the asylum, Sara complains
that they're wasting time. Martin asks Sara to get him the files on
violent patience, and she reluctantly agrees. Hannah starts flirting
with another nurse, Lindsay Carlisle, and Sara rams a drawer into his
back. He goes to clean up, and Lindsay thanks Sara for her help. She
says that most of the doctors are looking for a good time and the nurses
agree because they want to get married. Sara asks for a tour and
Lindsay agrees. As they go, Sara gives Martin the files and tells him to
get her coffee.
Lindsay shows Sara around and points out Hall
H, the restricted ward for Knox's violent patients. There's a photo of
Knox on the wall, and Sara realizes that it's vandal.
Kendra
answers the door and finds a couple there to welcome them. It's Gail
Knox... and her husband Curtis Knox. Kendra realizes that it's Vandal.
A man has a flat and is changing it when his hat blows off. A feather
falls out of the sky, and a feathered creature flies down and tears the
man to shreds, and then flies off.
Vandal wonders if he and
Kendra have met before, and she hastily says that she hasn't. Ray comes
over and also stares at Vandal, and Vandal invites them to their party.
Once the couple leaves, Ray and Kendra return to Waverider.
Kendra figures that since Vandal thinks she doesn't remember him, he
won't try to kill her to take her powers. Rip and Len have reviewed the
files but found nothing. Jax points out that Len made Mick disappear,
and then asks if they're all going to forget their teammate. Sara says
that they need to stay focused on the mission, and Rip tells Kendra and
Ray to attend the party and keep an eye on Vandal. Meanwhile, Martin and
Sara will find out what Vandal is up to in Hall H.
Later at
the hospital, Sara is going through Vandal's the files when Lindsay
comes in. She assumes that Sara is looking for alcohol and offers to
show her where Hannah keeps his.
Kendra and Ray arrive at the
party and one of the guests assumes that Kendra is a maid. The couple
quickly corrects her, and Vandal comes over to greet them. Once he goes
to make drinks, Kendra tells Ray to check the back rooms. Ray worries
about leaving Kendra with Vandal, and she figures that she'll be fine.
Sara and Lindsay drink, and Sara talks about some of her traveling
experiences. She finally asks Lindsay if she has a girlfriend, and
Lindsay refuses to discuss it. Sara assures her that she's good at
keeping secrets, and Lindsay admits that she did kiss a girl once. She
warns that "lesbian" is not a good word around Harmony Falls, and Sara
points out that she's not from around there. Martin comes in to get
Sara, and once they're alone she says that she was liberating Lindsay.
He points out that Lindsay will be stuck in the 1950s after they leave,
but Sara isn't convinced. An alarm goes off and guards run by.
Vandal approaches Kendra and says that Ray doesn't seem like her type.
He says that he feels like he knows Kendra, and asks her if she believes
in past lives.
Ray checks the back rooms and finds a locked metal door.
Vandal asks if Kendra believes in fate. As they discuss free will, the
phone rings and Vandal answers it. He says that he's on his way and
tells Kendra that one of his patients need attention. He goes to the
hospital and talks to the patient, Tommy. Vandal points out that he's
let Tommy and his cohorts the occasional freedom to run free and feed
their thirst. Tommy and the other two teenagers--all turned into bird
creatures--snarl at him as Vandal kneels to check the orderly that they
killed.
Ray and Kendra return to Waverider and tell Rip that they plan to break into Vandal's locked basement room. Jax comes upfshake
, dressed for his date, and explains what he's doing. Rip warns that
Betty is a white girl in an unenlightened town, and Jax agrees to be
careful.
Back at home, Kendra watches Vandal's home through
binoculars. Atom breaks in using his shrinking powers, and checks the
room. He finds a wooden case and examines it, just as Vandal pulls up
outside. Kendra spots him and warns Atom, who has found the Amon Dagger
in the case. Vandal enters the room just as Atom shrinks out of sight.
At the asylum, Sara talks with Lindsay about being alone in an insane
asylum. Lindsay admits that she gets lonely, and says that Hall H does
scare her. She tries not to think about what is going on there, and Sara
asks what she does think about. Lindsay kisses Sara, who after a moment
backs away and says that she has to get to work.
Jax and Betty
park on a road, and she abruptly kisses him. She backs away and Jax
says that he thought girls from 1958 moved a little bit slower. Betty
picks up on his comment, and Jax suggests that they get to know each
other a little better. He asks about what the boys said about Tommy
going AWOL, and Betty explains about how Tommy's car crashed. The two
jocks arrive and drag Jax and Betty out, and one of them starts beating
Jax. As he fights back, the transformed Tommy sweeps down and attacks
the boy holding Betty. Jax tries to start the car, and Tommy calls
Betty's name. He flies up to the roof and rips through the top,
scratching Betty's throat. Jax brakes, knocking Tommy off, and then
drives for Waverider.
A police car pulls up behind
them and Jax reluctantly pulls over. He gets out and tells Bud that he
needs to get Betty to a hospital. Bud sees the bleeding Betty and orders
Jax to put his hands on the car, and knocks him out when he refuses.
The sheriff then rags Jax back to his car.
A few minutes later, Len and Rip have Gideon trace Jax's bio signal and find Betty. They take her to Waverider and
have Gideon work on her. Martin arrives and confirms that the wounds
aren't consistent with a knife. Gideon suggests that talons were used,
and Betty mutters that Tommy attacked her and is a bird monster. The AI
checks Betty's blood and finds traces of silicate minerals, and Rip asks
Betty if tommy came into contact with a meteor. She tells Rip about the
car crash, and they realize that the meteor was made of Nth metal. It
mutated Tommy and his friends.
When Ray and Kendra arrive at
the timeship, Martin explains that the same type of meteorite that gave
her, Carter, and Vandal their powers 4,000 years ago also mutated Tommy.
Len wonders if there's a way to reverse the process, and Martin admits
that he might be able to create such a process. Rip sends him to work
out the cure, and Ray shows them the Amon Dagger. The Time Master says
that they have to both find Jax and attack Vandal. Kendra says that
Vandal has always wanted her, so she can use that to get close to him.
Ray worries that Vandal will kill her, and Kendra says that she can take
care of herself.
Sara checks on Martin, who is analyzing Betty
for traces of the Nth metal to create a cure. He figures that when they
go back to the asylum, Sara will see Lindsay again. Martin warns that
rushing Lindsay into the freewheeling sexual mores of that time is a bad
idea, and Sara admits that she freaked out. She hasn't had much in the
way of feelings since she came back to life, and was terrified when
Lindsay kissed her.
Bud wakes Jax up, and Jax realizes that
he's strapped to a chair at the asylum. Vandal comes in and prepares a
syringe. He extracts some of the Nth metal from the meteorite and
injects it into Jax. He writhes in agony as his eyes turn black.
Later, Vandal chains Jax up after Jax mutates into a bird creature. As
the immortal admires his work, Bud comes in and says that there's a
visitor. Kendra is waiting in his office and has the Amon Dagger hidden
in her purse. He sets her purse aside and offers to take her coat.
Ray is in the lobby posing as a patient, and listening to Kendra over
her radio. Sara is there and advises him to trust Kendra a little bit
more, and has Rip--disguised as an orderly--take Ray to his room. Once
they go, Sara looks over at Lindsay and hastily looks away when Lindsay
looks back at her.
Len and Martin break into the asylum basement, and Martin warns that he's lost his psychic connection with Jax.
Kendra talks about psychoanalysis and Vandal offers to interpret her
dreams. She says that she's dreamed of the two of them together, and she
tries to remove the Dagger from her purse. Vandal kisses her, and then
puts the Dagger to her throat. He's well aware of what she was up to.
Rip and Ray make their way through the halls, and Bud finds them. He draws his gun and prepares to take them in.
Vandal doesn't believe Kendra when she says that she came alone, and releases his test subjects.
Tommy and his friends attack Len and Martin, and Len freezes them.
Kendra hears the bird creatures screeching, and Vandal explains that he
set out to build an army as powerful as Kendra. She breaks free and
attacks Vandal.
The transformed Jax approaches Martin, who
tries to get through to him. He advances on the professor, and Len aims
his gun and tells Jax not to make him shoot. Jax slashes Len, and he
shoots a pipe and escapes in the confusion.
One of the bird
creatures attacks Bud in the hallway, and Rip stuns it with his gun. He
sends Ray to fid Kendra while he deals with the creatures.
The
hospital staff panics as one of the creatures goes on a rampage. It
advances on Lindsay, and Sara beats it unconscious. She tells Lindsay
that shell explain later and runs off.
Vandal knocks down Kendra and prepares to go her, and Ray runs in and shoots Vandal, knocking him back out the window.
Jax finds Len and Martin again. Sara knocks him out and says that it's time to go. Len and Martin take Jax to Waverider and
Martin injects Jax with the antidote that Gideon has created. When
Martin thanks Len, Len dismisses his appreciation. The professor says
that what he did was heroic no matter what Len claims. Jax reverts to
normal as they watch.
Sara finds Lindsay, who confirms that
Martin's antidote is working on Tommy and the others. The nurse admits
that she may never get back to normal, and Sara kisses her. Lindsay
realizes that Sara has to go, and Sara says that one day she might be
back.
Jax brings Betty a new car and she wishes he didn't have
to go. He says that neither one of them belong in Harmony Falls, and
asks her to promise that she'll leave. Tommy arrives and Betty hugs him.
Jax says that the world is changing fast and leaves.
Kendra
approaches Ray as he packs up. She apologizes for thinking she could
kill Vandal by herself, and Ray says that he forgot why they were there.
He assures Kendra that she'll kill Vandal one day, and figures that she
needs a partner rather than a husband. Kendra agrees and then kisses
him.
Jax goes to Waverider's bridge and finds Len
alone. He apologizes to Len, saying that he knows that he's no monster.
Len doesn't want to hear it, but Jax says that he understands that Len
was protecting them against Mick... and that makes him a part of the
team. Martin and Rip arrive, and Len points out that they're still
waiting for Sara, Ray, and Kendra. Chronos opens fire on the ship, and
breaches the hull. He comes in and opens fire, and Rip and Len return
fire. Jax wants to merge with Martin, but Martin warns that the
transformation could destroy the ship. Rip orders a retreat to the jump
ship.
Ray, Sara, and Kendra approach Waverider... and watch as it lifts off without them.
Written by Gadfly on Jun 23, 2019