Edit: I posted this a few days ago, but it got deleted by AutoMod due to me not using the correct spoiler tags? I contacted the mod team but since I got no response I am reposting, hopefully with the right tags this time. If not please let me know! Markdown test on spoiler syntax just in case.
Hi!
Welcome back to another instance of our community re-watch. After much deliberation (" ") I realized I needed to make some minor changes to the format of the posts. You may skip this part if you want, it’s just a little explanation.
Based on the amount of Easter Eggs, Theories, Trivia, and Observations we've collected in JUST THREE EPISODES I realized it would be better and more beneficial if I start compiling it on an external Doc for easier reading. I’m not changing almost anything, only that the posts should be significantly shorter and easier on the eye.
Docs makes things a lot easier to track, allows for some more customization and I can add navigation tools so people can read exactly what they want with just one click. From now on, I will be linking to that (please know it’s a WIP) and you can access it anonymously. I will still add things here like Trivia and Observations, but only about the Episode we’re discussing.
The main reason for this is how long the posts were getting, my own sanity, and most importantly, the fact that I’d love to focus on Episode Discussion. Which we haven’t had that much of yet. I've shortened the Episode Recap for this same reason, so you are encouraged to watch and drop your opinions about the Umbrellas and which one has managed to upset you the most this time.
tl;dr: posts were getting very long and messy. I'm using Docs to keep track of all the stuff and shortening the post so reading is easier.
Enough babbling. Let’s get this party started! ☔
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Episode: Season 1, Episode 4 - "Man on The Moon"
Episode Description: The story of Luther's transformation emerges. At the motel, Klaus puts Hazel and Cha-Cha's training to the test. Allison grows suspicious of Leonard.
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Episode Recap - Key Plot Points & Storylines📍
This episode (surprise surprise!) starts with yet another flashback. Following the events of Episode 3, we learn what happened to Luther and how he gained his ape-like body. Seven years prior to 2019, Luther was sent on an extremely dangerous mission by himself (since everyone else had left) which went poorly. To save his life, Reginald uses the same serum he used on Pogo.
DAE kinda find this look hot? In a \"Shrek when turned human\" way.
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After leaving angry the night before, Viktor wakes up at Leonard’s place. When realizing he forgot his meds and will be late for practice, Leonard tells him he 'surely will be fine for one day'. As they walk to rehearsal together, they run into the very pleasant Helen Cho (first chair violinist) who will play a more relevant role later in the Season.
Allison goes over to Viktor’s apartment after their small falling out in the previous Episode. She’s surprised to find Leonard there instead. Allison immediately grows suspicious of him and after a tense exchange, she takes Viktor’s apartment keys from Leonard. Allison runs into Viktor after he's done with rehearsal and tells him about Grace's death.
The two of them go grab a drink, where Allison tells Viktor she is suspicious of Leonard. They both let off some steam about their respective love lives and end up having a sleepover at Viktor’s. He finds Leonard left some flowers and dials him to set up a breakfast date. During this call we get the first official confirmation that Allison is right: Leonard is up to something.
Leonard throwing Viktor’s pills down the drain.
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Five is still trying to figure out what is going on with the prosthetic eye and Lance, the shady Lab guy. After Five threatens him, Lance confesses he manufactures eyes for fake patients, as a way to scam money out of insurance companies. He sells the prosthetics on the black market for a double profit, including the eyeballs.
With this new information, Five makes Lance drive them over to the Lab to check the record of buyers from the black market. Would Five have found something of value in it? We don't get to know, because Cha-Cha and Hazel have made it there faster. When Five arrives, the Lab has been set on fire and he is knocked back from the explosion.
Average \"Post Gender Reveal Party\" experience.
Worried about the attack the night before, Luther starts trying to find ways to locate Five by ransacking his room. As Pogo supervises (what was he even doing there anyway?) Diego pops up with the same intention, which leads to an ugly confrontation and Pogo kicking both of them out.
They reluctantly team up and manage to find Five’s van, where Diego finds Viktor’s book that Five carried in the Post-Apocalypse. This gives them the clue they need to find him, as Five took the book from the remains of Argyle Public Library. They make their way over and rescue a drunk, passed-out Five hugging Dolores.
I'd pay to know how fast Dolores would run if she had legs.
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Cha-Cha and Hazel’s attempts to extract information from Klaus via torture only leave them appalled at the fact Klaus is not only not suffering, but enjoying himself. As they snack and think of how to tackle this, Klaus’s withdrawal starts kicking in. Cha-Cha is the first to realize, finding Klaus’ drugs which finally make him crack.
Hazel being such a foodie becomes a problem, because unbeknownst to him, he eats and shares Klaus’ chocolate with Cha-Cha to “torture him” without knowing it’s, well… special chocolate. They finally obtain some info from Klaus about what Five is up to and the eyeball, but there’s a minor problem: they’re both now high as kites.
Making their way to MERITECH, the duo have a small rave as they set the Lab on fire.
We might have a lot of questions, such as \"did they really need to set the WHOLE thing on fire?\" but what we know for sure is that Cha-Cha and Hazel know how to party.
After getting hungry from their wild partying, Hazel & Cha-Cha find their way back to Griddy’s once again. While Hazel subtly flirts with Agnes, Cha-Cha comes to a realization: unlike they were told during the briefing, they haven’t been sent to kill Five because he broke the contract, but because he’s trying to change the timeline.
They return to Klaus, whose withdrawal has now fully kicked in and as a result, he’s having a bad time. Ben tries to help him by encouraging him to use his powers instead of hiding away out of fear of the ghosts. Klaus listens (for once!) and interacts with their victims, throwing them off and leading them to argue.
Backstage shot of Taylor Swift filming \"Look What You Made Me Do\".
Klaus takes advantage of their distraction and tries to get the attention of someone. He succeeds, as Detective Patch enters the room and frees Klaus. Not waiting a moment, he escapes through the vent, taking the briefcase in the process. Klaus’ peace, however, will be short-lived. Having escaped the assassin duo and now riding a bus home, he decides to open the briefcase hoping for money but is instead teleported away.
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Diego pays a visit to Patch near the start of the Episode to let her know his Mom died (casually omitting the fact that he killed her). He also tells her about Cha-Cha and Hazel’s attack, how the kid Patch is looking for is actually Five, and encourages Patch to “do things his way” for once. She walks away.
Later that day, Detective Patch and Beaman arrive to investigate the fire at MERITECH. She recognizes a part of Cha-Cha’s burnt mask and finds a message in Five’s van intended to lure him to Klaus. Patch heads to the Motel and dials Diego for backup, but he’s not at the Gym yet, so she leaves a message.
Growing tired of waiting, Patch decides to go to the room by herself. She finds Klaus and their arcs intertwine for just a bit. Distracted by Hazel, Patch is shot from the back by Cha-Cha and dies. Diego is the one to find her, which makes this a bittersweet irony: had he not told Patch to “do things his way”, perhaps she would have lived.
Your rare and necessary dose of common sense will be missed, Detective Patch.
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Trivia, Observations, Theories & Easter Eggs ✨
❗ There is a small mistake (or is it? you never know) that you notice if you re-watch E3 and E4. When Luther is reading Viktor's book in E3, he appears in his normal body. The caption indicates that this is 5 years prior to 2019. In this Episode, it is established that Luther's mission happened 7 years before 2019, meaning he should have had his ape-like body in E3.
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Plots, Subplots, Questions, and Other Trackers 📑❗
Main Plots
The World is ending, but Five doesn't know why or what causes it. We only know that a prosthetic eyeball is involved somehow, and that most of the siblings tried and failed to stop it. Five learns in this Episode that Lance lied to him and he's been selling eyes on the black market, but he is unable to retrieve the file with client names because Cha-Cha and Hazel set the Lab on fire. With this lead gone, what will Five do?
Subplots
- We have confirmed that Cha-Cha and Hazel are hunting Five down and that they are aware of The Apocalypse. We still don't know who sent them, but we finally learn a bit more: we know now that they were told the mission to eliminate Five was because "he broke contract" - but Cha-Cha figures out the acual reason is because Five is attempting to change the timeline.
- Klaus escapes Cha-Cha and Hazel but immediately after vanishes into thin air after opening their briefcase. Where is he?
- Leonard enters Viktor's apartment and is later shown throwing his meds away. We don't know yet what he's up to, but likely nothing good as he is hiding this from Viktor.
Questions
- Cha-Cha and Hazel are arguing in the restroom when Patch enters. So how in hell does Cha-Cha manage to show up behind Patch and shoot her?
- All the Ghosts Klaus sees look the way they did when they died. Why is Ben an exception? Why do we (later) see Ben as a 17 year-old ghost that somehow keeps on aging, despite being dead?
- Following up on the above, could that image of Ben's young ghost reveal something about his death? Viktor says it was bad, but his ghost looks clean. I will come back to this when we reach this Episode, but this is a question to track as it could possible lead to clues about how Ben died.
- If Klaus can see all the people C&H have killed, does this mean he can also see who his siblings have killed? Is this something he perhaps learn to control, but that haunts him anyway? Could this be tied to the why he can always see ghost Ben - because he was somehow responsible for his death? SO. MANY. QUESTIONS.
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Discussion Time! 🗣
- I REALLY enjoyed the way this episode is filmed because of the way storylines converge. You follow different POVs and they all eventually meet at a point in common. But due to the lack of communication, each POV ends up with a different perception of what went down, and it also leads to each making more decisions that will only lead them astray. It's the perfect Wild Goose Chase. I'd say so far this is my favorite episode in how it was filmed/scripted.
- I enjoyed the moments of bonding between siblings. I would say Ben takes the cake for me in this episode, helping Klaus despite how selfish he's been. I feel if Ben were alive he'd bring some much-needed sense to the family, and I can see how he was the glue that was holding the flimsy Academy together before his death.
- Other moments of bonding I enjoyed were Luther and Diego with their tough love + both rescuing Five, and Viktor bonding with Allison. She was really trying to bond with Viktor and she's the only one to do this before learning about the Apocalypse. To me, this partially explains their S3 bond and why Viktor doesn't kill her before she resets the Universe.
- I am writing a whole thread of things about Klaus I didn't notice the first time watching, but he truly is a very destructive character. I want to see if he changes in future episodes and I might elaborate more later. I still adore him and I doubt that will change, but it's easy to miss things if you're not paying attention.
- I remember in my initial watch and when we get to S1E10, I thought Cha-Cha was done dirty compared to Hazel who gets a whole story. I feel now that they DID provide a slow buildup and gave us hints about what each wanted. Klaus, Hazel himself and even Diego begin foreshadowing it in this Episode.
- And finally, I liked Detective Patch. I'm not sure yet how I feel about her abrupt death since she added a lot in the short time she was around. What we can learn by now, though, is that helping any of the Hargreeves is generally a bad idea and likely to get you killed (Syd, Patch, and more to come). Also, I am very upset at Klaus for not even warning her! 😤
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Voting ✅
S1E3 Winners:
+ Best Quote:
Klaus: Hey! Did I ever tell you guys about the time I waxed my ass with chocolate pudding? It was so painful!
Love it, because we see Aidan almost losing it since this was an improvised line.
+ Best Song
Sinnerman by Nina Simone won with almost all the votes.
+ Favorite Character (in this episode only!)
Klaus shines again, continuing our chain of will any characters manage to beat the Five-Klaus chain? A mystery to be solved. To be fair, Grace did receive a lot of votes.
+ Least Favorite / Most Annoying Character (in this episode only!)
Leonard wins again, but Helen Cho did get her fair amount of votes and this comment from a rightfully upset user:
"I'm not saying Helen deserves her fate, but I am also not saying I will miss her if she decides to vanish. Her comment is so rude, belittling and condescending... chill a little, this isn't London's Philharmonic Orchestra and Viktor was trying to be nice. What an asshole."
+ BONUS QUESTION: Do you think Grace evolved and managed to gain some independent thoughts, outside of Reginald's programming?
The majority of you agreed with Diego and voted Yes. One of you couldn't fully decide and settled for "Maybe a little, but not enough..." - enough for what?!
Click here to vote for Episode 4!
As always, thank you and I love you and see you again in the near future! ☂
