The Culling Fields - Revolution - Season 2, Episode 12

Grace, the one character who probably could have told the other characters what's really going on and what should be done about it, has disappeared in the night.  Which leaves pretty much where we were at the beginning of the season, with Aaron seeing dead wifey the next morning telling him to go to Lubbock, Texas.  So Spring City was just a side trip to hang with Grace?  Why couldn't the nano reunite him with wife #1 in Lubbock?  And why didn't we get to see the world's second-largest ball of twine?  I call shenanigans.

Connor, his crazy psychopath dad, "Uncle" Miles, and Rachel arrive back to Willoughby's general vicinity just in time to see Dr. Rachel's Dad and Charlie working with the Patriots.  So, Rachel literally walks out from behind a plant and worms her way into a group of new plague victims.  Literally.  None of the other people walking there from the town bother to ask her anything.  The guards just let her walk in.

Rachel Matheson, Master of Disguise

At last Ed Truman recognizes her, and lets her work with Dr. Dad and Charlie, but not before telling her she'll have to eventually tell him where Miles and Aaron are.  Ed Truman might have the worst job in the U.S. right now.  Herding cats in a small town in Texas while watching the Mathesons and Aaron slip in and out of town.  And don't get me started on Truman's look of utter defeat when he sees that Monroe is still alive.

No electricity, but somehow there's still bronzer?

Rachel, a master of sussing out other people's plots and then totally failing at preventing them, does some magic with beakers and bunsen burners, and comes back to tell her dad she can totally tell the disease came from a lab.  Later, she tells her dad that all the plague victims all happened to have some horrible mental problem, and that the Patriots are culling the weak and unfit from Willoughby.  Dr. Dad, after finding out the nefarious scheme, conveniently falls sick himself.  This is convenient, despite the discomforts of typhus, because now the Mathesons and Monroes will get off their butts and cure the disease somehow.  Miles is clever enough to kidnap Truman, inject him with the engineered typhus, and send him off to Willoughby to bring back enough of the cure for Dr. Dad.  However, neither Miles nor Monroe can actually escort Truman by gunpoint, as they are not nearly as crafty as Rachel with a bandana to cover her face.  So, they decide to send Connor in.  

Connor, rightly, thinks this whole thing is a waste of his time.  He's right, so Monroe has to sidebar with him and give him a long, convoluted reason to go.  In a nutshell:  if we help Miles get rid of these Patriots, then he'll help us reclaim the Monroe Republic.  What's wrong with this show is that the writers will find a way of actually making that happen.  Connor makes it into Truman's office, and even finds vials of the typhus cure, but Truman's guards bust in and hold him at gunpoint. 

Back in a very mossy, overgrown and kind of rusty Washington, D.C., Tom and Julia meet totally innocently on a park bench in a deserted area.

Not suspicious at all

Worst conspirators ever.  They have decided to bust Boy Band out of whatever prison he's in, cut their losses, and get out.  Revenge against the Patriots is cancelled so their son can survive.  Set against flashbacks of their first successful scheme to survive, Julia acts weak and stupid so she can worm Boy Band's location from her hubby.  As Julia tells Tom in their flashback that he's not especially strong or fast, but clever, she tells him in the present day that they will have to scheme their way into that prison to rescue Boy Band.  

Their first scheme to save their son at others' expense goes off swimmingly, with Julia using her wiles to distract one redneck while Tom silently knifes the other.  Then, Tom enjoys killing the redneck with Julia a little too much.  Julia just shrugs the whole thing off.  There's a camp to scavenge for food and supplies.  So, of course, Tom and Jules think they've got this covered.  

Tom gets into the house hunky dory, after sneaking in Mission Impossible style.  But hubby is ready for him, with a room full of soldiers pointing guns at Tom while hubby has one pointed at Julia.  Julia has no game face in this scene.  She and Tom are dragged off for interrogation.  

Aaron and his reluctant ex-wife are headed back to Texas, supposedly for answers that Aaron is demanding of his and Priscilla's creation.  Tom and Julia are in for a rougher time than even Boy Band is having now.  And the Matheson/Monroe partnership hasn't produced one tangible benefit for the people of Willoughby.  Is it too late to root for the Patriots?