Time for the gang to go to the next step on their world
tour – Paris – where we have some bears running amok.
In Paris we get to meet Chloe’s boss who is not amused by
a major major issue – Jamie killed an FBI agent, maybe a dirty one, but still
an FBI agent and likely to cause all kinds of issues and problems not least of
which is exposing their investigation.
Can we again question why this investigation has to be so
hush hush? Or why everyone is worried about gathering enough evidence about the
Mother Cell to convince the America government rather than relying on the fact
they’re working with sharing all the information WITH the French government
(presumably) and they should have a whole lot more official clout and
resources. Really, why are they so clandestine? And why do they need to bring
Mitch across the ocean to France to investigate the blood work of the
hibernating bears when they could use the actual authority and power of the
government without having to sneak around? It makes no sense! Stop this cloak
and dagger nonsense!
Anyway to France, where there’s something weird going on
with the bears hibernating in summer. They don’t have a defiant pupil but there’s
something weird happening with them. Mitch basically has the theory that the
animals are becoming X-men with super powers caused by rapid evolution aided by
the Mother Cell – and, good news, her can maybe cure that.
But first we have Jamie’s issue – Chloe’s boss wants her
to dump Jamie as the liability she is. But Abraham wants to save her because
she’s family and she protects family
And he has an awesome, excellently acted moment where he
describes his childhood, being forced to fight for a rebel army, his dead
brothers and his amazing goodness, courage and self-sacrifice and powerful
morality. Abraham is an awesome man. Abraham is an excellent character. Abraham
deserves better than to have his devastating, powerful, amazingly-well acted
emotional past being used not so much to develop him to explain why he’s going
to go to bat for Jamie.
So the plan – no, that’s wrong. Plans are better than
this. This isn’t a plan. This is utter bullshit glued together with hefty
amounts of narrative shenanigans. They plan to clear Jamie’s name by proving
the guy she killed was working for Reiden (because that is a legal
justification for murder… apparently?)
So they’re going to break into the Reiden office in
Paris. Because this company a) keeps nice detailed accounting of the corrupt
cops they pay for and b) shares those accounts over the internet for the entire
global company to examine. Hey, your Paris CEO may need to look up the price for
bribing an FBI agent, right? This plan also requires an extensive hard drive,
so much so that Mitch will have to use the lab computers (to involve him). In
my house right now I have 50 TB of storage space (at a guess)… exactly what is
on these files that he needs more storage space than they can get - and do they
have the several days it will take to transmit this information?
Anyway, after a few close calls and more shenanigans, it
works and they get the files with the convenient FBI bribing accounting.
The bear also wakes up, but doesn’t eat Mitch. But it’s
hard to bring down as these bears have evolved super tough skin. Yep animals
with super powers are the new menace. Despite this they do bring down all three
bears after a bit of an adventure in the woods and tunnels around Paris. Joined
by Chloe’s ex-fiance
He and Chloe obviously have issues and they poke at them
through the episode but, by the end, they do manage to find a new level –
certainly not reconciled but there’s a small sense of forgiveness. Of course
while this is all nice, there’s also the weird part where they take a civil
engineer around with them for some time.
At the end, Chloe decides that no, she is keeping her
team. Including Jamie.
But there’s another twist – Mitch is selling them out to
Reiden, willing to give up the Mother Cell if they will give him the cure for
his daughter’s terminal illness. Now there’s a morally painful sell out – I
mean yes technically a traitor and all that – but his daughter is dying…
