Author: TJ Provost

You know when you have a good dad.

If you did this, I hope you get stuck in a small space while it slowly fills up with water.

You Suck.

 

Episode  4 – The Devil in the Dark

Summary:

The episode starts with Nolan taking down some gun runners who work for Datak Tarr, not realizing that the town council (but not the mayor) had been in on the deal. This puts  Mayor Amanda Rosewater in a tough spot, as she is forced to act like she A.- Knew about it and B.- that she supported it.

While on her way to go find Nolan Amanda gets confronted by an angry towns woman and has a flashback to when her and Kenya “lost” their mother years before.

Kenya and one of her girls end up being taken b a synthetic drug manufacturer, forcing Nolan and Amanda to hunt them down for a rescue.

Meanwhile in the McCawley mines Quentin fights with his father over the old man shutting down the shaft his older brother was working on. What’s hidden in that mine shaft that the Ex Mayor and henchman are willing to kill for.

Nolan and Amanda end up a Datak Tarr’s, knowing that the only bioman in town works for Datak after a witness tells them that Kenya was taken by the big guy. This kicks off a series of events that ends with Stahma blackmailing Amanda, telling her that if they want Kenya back, they better appoint Datak to the town council.

In the drug camp Kenya and her girl are hooked up to be milked to make the blue devil and being forced to feel panic to help the milking process. Kenya realizes that she is not awake and pulls her milking plug, escaping just in time to be half rescue by Nolan and Amanda.

At the McCawley house the old man and Quentin have a heart to heart, and the old man shows Quentin what his brother was hiding, what he found in the L7 shaft.

After the rescue Kenya realizes that Amanda wasn’t telling her the whole truth about their mother and forces her sister to tell her what really happened.

Things I loved about this episode…

• The wife complaining to Amanda about her husband sleeping with Kenya. The woman calls Kenya a slut and Amanda slaps her. Way to stand up for your family Amanda.
• Kenya telling Nolan that she doesn’t want his money. She wants their “meetings” to be about fun. When a working girl tells you that she doesn’t want money I think that is love.
• When Datak and Nolan are at the

Things that I didn’t like about this episode…

• Poor Amanda, having to see Nolan in her sisters room. I think she likes Nolan too.

These kids will be survivors.

Corporate tax rates are at an all time low.  The stock market are at an all time high. Working man’s wages are at an all time low.  And they take more and more away from the people least able to protect themselves.

Episode  3 – Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go

Summary:

The episode starts with a man in a red shirt going for a run that ends with the fellow getting drug into the grass and killed. When Nolan and Irisa go to investigate she starts to get visions.

Back in town Kenya is “working” with a client when things rapidly go bad. Her client gets ripped in two by a Hell Bug. As Irisa looks at the tattoo on what’s left on the dead man’s arm she gets another flashback.

The doctor meanwhile discovers some attack pheronomes on each of the bodies, leading Nolan and team to believe someone is targeting the victims. After the attack at Datak Tarr’s place Nolan and the Doctor find everyone at McCawley’s house and discovers Christie’s clothes are covered in the attack pheronome.

As Nolan and team look through documents at McCawley’s, looking for a reason for the attacks, Irisa gets another vision before running off. Nolan finds her at a burn down homesteader’s shack where she’s seeing what happened years before. She struggles as images of a family being slaughtered flash through her mind.

Nolan is convinced Irisa is having seizures but Irisa is sure the visions are real. She confronts Sukar, and then we get an awesome shot of a sweaty Irisa going through a sweat lodge therapy so she can find Rynn, the girl she’s been seeing in her visions. The girl who has been targeting the Hell Bugs to get her revenge.

With Sukar’s help Irisa is able to see where Rynn has gone, leading everyone to the mines. But in the process Irisa get’s mad at Nolan because he’s framed her visions as PTSD, never realizing that his adopted daughter was actually seeing actual events from the past.

Once at the bottom of the mine Rynn gets the drop on the team, but Irisa talks her down, telling her what she saw, reminding Rynn that her parents were good people, they would not want her to continue down the path she’s chosen.

There’s a brief scuffle, some explosives, and then Nolan and team are escaping as some Hell Bugs are turned into mush.

Overall a good episode, but there wasn’t quite enough action. Still, Irisa makes up for a lot. And the closing credits had a touching song with a lot of parent/child emotional moments in it.

Things I loved about this episode…

• Keeping true to the Star Trek mythology, the guy in the red shirt dies.  Am I the only one who noticed this?
• Irisa is the cutest girl on TV at the moment.
• When they are picking up the boy parts they aren’t sure if its a boy or a girl, and Irisa confirms the gender, then puts something in a bag. Sick, but made me smile.
• Datak Tarr coming out of the house after killing some Hell Bugs and saying “Maybe we should eat out.”

Things that I didn’t like about this episode…

• The killing of the family was a little brutal. I like to watch the show with my eleven year old.
• Nolan seems just a bit too willing to rub Hell Bug poop into his hair.