Man, “The Book of Blood: Chapter Two” was a strange episode. I’m not really sure how else to put it. Concepts are either being introduced too quickly for us to understand them, or plot twists are being swept aside before we can even process why we should care, or both at once.
For instance, remember when I bothered to dedicate words last week to the question of whether Gambi was dead or not? This episode wastes no time in showing us that Freeland’s most reliable tailor is alive and well, with hardly a scratch on him. In fact, when we see him for the first time, he’s torturing one of his would-be assassins in the guy’s own kitchen. This poor sucker has just enough time to seriously and unironically explain that he was paid for the hit job in Bitcoin before Gambi shoots him to death in front of his own dogs.
In flashback, we see how Gambi survived: Apparently his car had a secret trapdoor, accessible only through biometric security. Gambi managed to jump through it just as his car took a tumble, with no one apparently being the wiser. Rather than demonstrate his survival to the Pierce family, though, Gambi is lying low for the moment while he figures out exactly why someone was paying cryptocurrency for him to be killed. There’s a fun shoutout to DC Comics continuity while he’s hiding out in a safe house, though: We hear a radio report in the background about a civil war currently underway in Markovia. That fictional Eastern European nation is the homeland of Geo-Force, who often fights alongside Black Lightning in the comic book superhero team known as the Outsiders, and his sister Terra. One reason I caught it is that Markovia and the royal siblings are set to feature heavily in the upcoming season of Young Justice.
So Gambi’s immediate return from ambiguous death is one plot twist that got sped over quickly. Then there’s the death of 14 pod kids, which we saw last week when Dr. Jace tampered with their medical technology without properly informing Lynn of the consequences. This week, Lynn has to break the news to the pod kids’ parents, and it does not go over well. Everyone acts hysterically, and I have to say, it’s hard to properly process since the pod kids aren’t actually characters. We haven’t met any of them, so their departure doesn’t really mean anything to us, and suddenly characters are crying and screaming about it. This is not helped by the frantic shifting back and forth between plotlines necessitated by this episode’s introduction of South Freeland.
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