I'm digging a psychopath out of his grave… what could go wrong?
Kind of makes you wonder why Rachel was ever a prisoner of Monroe's, let alone for 12 years. Monroe wakes up the next morning with Miles as his nurse, who really is unwilling to help Monroe find his son. They tell him to rest up at an old abandoned house, hopefully not the same hiding place as before.
What, no cable?
A blast in Willoughby kills three people, throws Aaron and Wifey to the ground, and freaks the crap out of Dr. Dad. In a huff, he storms into Ed Truman's office to declare that he already sees past whatever bullshit the Patriots will tell the town about the blast, and that Ed has finally gone too far.
Must… conveigh… emotion….
Ed is pissy himself, telling Dr. Dad to hush up if he doesn't want to be in real trouble. We segue into Team Rachel listening patiently as Ed tells the town it was the remnants of the War Clan Gang. Team Rachel is obviously not buying a word of it, especially after they see the gates to town are closed, and there will be soldiers everywhere from now on. Rachel is greeted by
I'm a nice guy, really!
one of the most evil-looking trolls I have seen on this show, and I remember Randall. Dr. Horn apparently worked in the same building as Rachel in the DOD, and is so disappointed that the head cheerleader doesn't remember the captain of the chess team. He wants to "chat" with Rachel. "Chat" means show Rachel a photo of the two dead soldiers Aaron toasted to save Miles, wax on poetically about the potential of nano tech to do even more, and then ask Rachel how she toasted the soldiers and can Rachel please help evil Dr. Troll develop the nano tech for other uses? Rachel is stoic. Come on, Dr. Troll, Rachel stonewalled Monroe for 12 years. She stonewalls guys like you for breakfast.
Later, Rachel, Miles, Charlie and Aaron discuss Dr. Troll. Rachel insists that Aaron must leave Willoughby now before Dr. Troll takes his brain apart. Aaron reluctantly agrees, but only if Wifey can come too, so the Patriots don't kidnap and torture her. We move up through one of those old-fashioned warm air grilles and see Dr. Dad listening.
And it's late at night 9 years ago, with Dr. Dad standing over a mass grave, burning bodies. Turns out, they've died of cholera and included Dr. Dad's wife. Dr. Dad trudges home to find a stranger on his doorstep offering him a cholera vaccine, and more on top of his free sample. Dr. Dad, to his credit, wants to know up front what he'll owe the stranger, named Shaw. We find out later that Dr. Dad's duty will be to resuscitate water boarding victims when they drown (which can definitely happen, and one of the reasons water boarding is a no-no interrogation technique). He has pangs of conscience about it, but he always gets his wagon full of meds, and that's worth one life he didn't even know, right?
Turns out that Dr. Dad's pangs have gotten pretty bad, so he offers to smuggle Aaron and Wifey out in his medical wagon, assuring Team Rachel that the Patriots won't search his wagon. Well why not, wonders Miles. Dr. Dad will take Aaron and Wifey to Monroe's cabin out in the woods.
Meanwhile, Dr. Troll is getting pretty pissed that no one will take him seriously. Like Dr. Horrible without the Sing-Along Blog. So now he's throwing out threats at Dr. Dad, who breaks and tells Dr. Troll and Ed Truman that it's Aaron who controls the nano tech, not Rachel, and he leads them to his rendezvous with Aaron, only Aaron and Wifey don't show, but Rachel and Miles are seeing the whole thing, and Rachel is less than pleased that Dr. Dad is the one undermining her at every turn. No wonder he wanted her to stop trying to save anyone. He must have known that eventually, he'd have to rat her out to the Patriots if she didn't stop.
Meanwhile, back East, Boy Band awakes handcuffed, and Neville spots additional cadets on the training grounds shooting in the distance. Neville decides to risk moving during day to get out of the area, and almost mucks it all up. Boy Band saves the day by pretending to surrender and return to his fellow cadets, only to knife them both. Neville is ecstatic, thinking his son is back. Allenford is even more so. Boy Band is annoying again! Her son could be deprogrammed too! It will be awesome, she just has to get to Ohio. But she suddenly passes out. Turns out, even though the deal was that she would be free once Neville got his kid back, Neville wants her because she's married to a member of the Patriots' High Command. She immediately shuts down, but I suppose Neville has his ways, ways learned from Monroe's Militia.
The team meets up at some abandoned sewage pumping station with an old sewer manhole cover. They all struggle to lift it together, as the Patriots figure out Plan B and storm the door.
It's really a prop made out of styrofoam. Yet more of Billy Burke's acting genius
The Patriots get in after Aaron and Wifey are already in and traveling on, but Team Rachel is still hiding in town. Charlie wants to find another hiding spot, as the Patriots are now scouring Willoughby looking for them, probably to pin the blast the day before on. But Rachel needs a minute. The stress of finding out she can no longer trust Dr. Dad is getting to her now that the mission is accomplished. And Charlie, Goddess help her, decides to hold her mom's hand. Charlie, how many times will you get your heart broken by this woman?
Meanwhile, Aaron and Wifey make it out of the sewer line, only to be captured by Patriots. Monroe saves the day, but passes out just as more soldiers are coming. As they rough-house with Wifey, Aaron freaks out and scorches them both with nano tech. And there you have it. The first known, intentional use of nano tech torching by Aaron. It's official. He's a firebug. As two more Patriots appear, Monroe suddenly comes too and slices them up. Leading them off into the woods, Monroe asks Aaron for dating advice. Aaron tries to comfort Wifey, but she's more frightened of Aaron than the known war criminal. Time for couples therapy?
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