John and Sun-Hee
John is distraught as he watches Sun-He die in front of him. He doesn’t know what to do, or how to tell Sun-He’s family. He’s scared that they won’t believe him, or that they’ll be too sad to take her away with them.
John keeps up pretenses at work, given that he is a cleaner at Vought. He takes out a taser and knocks out one of the guards, subsequently taking their ID badge and breaking into the lab and taking a vial of Compound V.
John desperately wants to keep his wife around for longer, so he injects her with a serum that gives her powers. Unfortunately, soldiers burst into the room and surround the pair. However, Sun-Hee has powers now, stemming from blue electricity coursing through her body. This manifests itself into a strange sentient being, which wards off Vought soldiers, killing them all and leaving the place a bloody mess. ..
John and Sun-Hee are running from the carnage, but they are quickly forced to turn around as a large, mutated creature charges at them. John believes that this creature is her cancer, but despite the open road ahead of them, Sun-Hee convinces him not to leave and to confront what’s happening head-on.
Sun-Hee and John return to the woods where Sun-Hee manages to stop the creature. She says her goodbyes to John just prior to this though, encouraging him to go as she flies up to fight this creature head-on. ..
The Episode Review
In the penultimate chapter of his book, “The Book Thief,” Markus Zusak tells the story of a young girl who is forced to leave her home and family behind to move to Berlin in order to live with a man she has never met. She is determined not to let them die, but as she begins her new life, she realizes that she may not be able to save them all.
The show has managed to weave different themes throughout but doing so in a consistent and thought provoking way.
The show’s pacing has been inconsistent recently, with some episodes feeling much longer than others. It would have been nice to see the pair together for longer, and really feel the weight of their relationship. Despite that though, this is still another solid episode. ..
