The episode started with flashbacks of Victor Stein; when he met Janet in college, when Chase was born and when he threw all that away and started neglecting his son and literally hitting him in the face when he spoke back. A real nasty piece of work. Given a new lease on life thanks to Jonah’s magic healing serum, Victor was all sunshine and hugs, promising to make good with his family and set things on the right path. This is why it was doubly ominous that Victor received a message via his time machine from a future Chase - “Don’t pick up the Fistigons.” Despite all this, Victor told no one, said nothing and carried on with his day as if he hadn’t received a message from his son in the future on a machine of his own design. From there on out the whole episode was pretty much built around us waiting to find out why that would be a bad idea.
The bulk of this week's episode took place at an open day at the Kids school, with parents having hushed conversations over the secrets and scandals that threatened their families. All very Gossip Girl, I assume. I never watched it. Poor Robert Minoru had been left believing that he and Janet could finally be together, except she wasn't willing to leave Victor especially when he was on an extended ‘up’ despite the circle of abuse she was obviously trapped in. For whatever reason, it was very important to Jonah that Pride stick together, so after tasking Leslie with making sure of it, she has a word with the parties involved and everyone seemed to be back on page. Tina even seemed willing to take Robert back, so I'm not sure what exactly all this was for, other than to show the cracks within Pride.
To make Frank feel more like a part of the Church, Jonah gifted him some magic healing gloves – no really - perhaps laced with something of the healing property that Jonah's serum possessed and Frank set about “faith healing” people in the name of the Church of Gibborim. So much for his personal growth and finding his own path. But when Frank dove into the stored artefacts of the church's history, he found the smoking gun that finally allowed him to confront Leslie as to who Jonah is. A picture of Jonah with Leslie as a girl, Jonah not looking a day older than he does in 2017. As if it wasn’t creepy enough that we were led to believe Leslie might be bedding her own father, now instead it looks as though she’s been groomed since she was a child. But rather than be worried about all this Frank, forgoing any real personal development, was instead enraptured by the idea that Jonah is one of the beings of light that Church of Gibborim talks about.
Whilst examining Jonah’s serum, trying to understand its healing powers, Dale was exposed to the tiniest drop of it, which he absorbed through his skin and changed. Feeling like a million bucks, it was all the more comical to see him crash later on at his kid’s school. But it was all a set up for the episode's pay off. If such a tiny amount could cause Dale to crash from withdrawal, what would happen to Victor after such a huge dose was injected directly into him. We didn't have to wait long, as Victor was back to threatening Chase’s lacrosse coach to put him back on the team – seriously, that's something that happened – and threatening Robert for daring to have an affair with his wife, albeit veiled in a mask of friendship. The headaches weren't back but the vicious old Victor was.
The Wilder's and the Yorkes stressed over what to do over the fact Molly may have seen their ritual, but thankfully they seemed to be more concerned with protecting her then harming her. But when the Yorkes suggested Molly go stay with her cousin Gabriella, someone who literally didn't exist up until then, Molly was faced with her worst fear, abandonment. The poor girl was broken but Gert was there for her with the somewhat dubious advice of telling her to stay strong, suck it up, no matter where they were actually sending her. And for God sake not to use her powers!
Back at the Stein's Victor was truly back to his old self, catching Chase off guard in his workshop, something Chase thought okay since his dad’s miraculous change of heart. Admonishing Chase, belittling his accomplishments, things quickly turned violent with Chase standing up to his dad and hitting him back. This caused Victor to reel into the workbench with the Fistigons and out of anger Victor donned one of them and reflexively blasted Chase. Just as I was thinking it would have been better idea for future Chase to send a message to himself to keep away from his dad, Victor, stood over his son about to blast him a second time, was taken down with a shot to the chest from none other than his own wife, with the revolver Robert had given her for protection from Victor no less. Circle of abuse indeed. Seems after everything Victor had done, Chase was still trying to save his Father's life.
Written by Nick Whitney, RUNAWAYS Beat Writer
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