Yet again we see that Milan is the worst man ever – and pretty
much the demon that haunts everyone. Think
absolutely everyone in his town has been hurt by him at some point
This time we see the new mystery guy who has been hanging
around with Camille. His name is Virgil and his parents handed him over to Milan
to stop his pesky thieving. Milan does this by brutally and torturously
murdering him (and further traumatising Serge so we can properly force the
serial killer redemption. There’s
this weird unwritten rule that the more tragedy you dump on a bad guy the more
you make him a good person).
Milan also has a nasty habit of dropping people into a
basement
Which is exactly where Serge dumps him for his inevitable
resurrection. Every time he wakes up Serge shoots him again. I approve
Lucy has a more long term solution – she arrives and
takes Milan off Serge’s hands. After “forgiving” him while he talks about how
he “saved her” she clonks him on the head, chains him to something heavy and
drops him in the lake. I don’t think that will hold him, sadly. Though it’s
reaching a level of almost comedy that Milan is really this much of a bad guy –
he needs a moustache to twirl.
Simon opts out of this whole Milan slaughter thing or
even Lucy’s increasing cultyness. He’s more focused on his baby – which he has
just kidnapped from Adele at Lucy’s ordering. Lucy then launches a time travel
based soap opera by giving the baby to Simon’s own dead and returned parents to
raise (they think the baby is Simon) to leave Simon all kinds of conflicted – especially
since he hallucinates his father killing his mother and his parents saying all
kinds of creepy culty things. Honestly it’s like they read an ominous cult hand
book
This is causing Adele some problems with the authorities
because no-one (except Alcide) believes her baby has been kidnapped by her
undead lover. And given her odd behaviour, her desire to get rid of her child
and her general unwillingness to name him or tolerate his presence she’s prime
suspect in having done something nefarious.
Simon decides to bring the baby back to Adele and tell
her to head for the hells because there’s a limit the creepiness he will tolerate,
apparently. Hallucination murder zombie cult parents are across the line. He
also helps Audrey back across the lake since Lena has told her that her parents
are back looking for her – and believe in the Returned.
Another less than thrilling family reunion is happening
with Lena, Claire and Camille. Claire is super happy to have Lena back, gets
her medicines (and meets her mysterious helpful neighbours with his many zombie
room-mates) and is all happy to be back together. Camille isn’t, being kind of
bitter and nasty – she lashes out at Audrey and spends more time with Virgil.
At least this helps her discover her woo-woo.
Yes, the undead have woo-woo. They can touch people and
learn things for woo-woo reasons. I could live in hope that some of these
woo-woo could be explained but it seems so very very very unlikely. We
get random woo-woo but never ever do we get explanations, it’s a rule.
Virgil also champions the idea of kicking out all the
living and staying well away from family – partly because of Lucy’s doctrine
but also because his elderly parents committed suicide when he returned and
went back to them.
And onwards to Julie who is always kind of outside the
rest of the plot lines, like an extra hastily thrown in. She’s managed to
survive her little dip, apparently swimming the lake. But looking through
Victor’s ominous drawings she decides to go hunt down his missing elderly dad –
she doesn’t find him but she does find a random elderly neighbour through
random house breaking and is randomly invited to stay and randomly told some
more of Milan’s life story.
Why all this would randomly happen is somewhat
unexplained. Hence, random. I assume this happens because the script says so
This lady is actually the one person in the entire wold
who quite liked Milan because after the big flood 35 years ago he acted as the
police and authorities so kept order (by throwing people in basements and
brutally murdering them). After the flood everyone wanted someone to blame so they
decided it was Victor/Louis’s fault because he’s a creepy kid and apparently
1970s France is now the middle ages and we blame dams breaking on small
children who draw creepy pictures. Apparently.
Pierre and Jerome, after a series of odd connections,
also go to Louis/Victor’s old house to find his creepy drawings. Drawings that
must have been 35 years old – yet seem to show a lot of what has happened to
date.
Creepy Pierre also tried to keep Toni captive and torment
him until he told them where the rest of the Returned people are (something he
has no way of knowing anyway – short of unexplained woo-woo. So really on this
show he has every chance of knowing). Serge arrives to free him – without murdering
anyone at Ton’s insistence.
