Killjoys 2.1 “Dutch and the Real Girl”

I’ve been suspecting for a few episodes that Khlyen might be Dutch’s biological father.

This episode starts with a dream sequence but it is, fortunately, rather obvious so it doesn’t trigger my profound hatred of “it was all a dream” and all variants thereof.

They head to Arkyn to rescue Dutch, accompanied by an involuntary cyborg named Clara. D’avin turns out to be immune to the level 6 combat drug, treatment, or whatever it is. Does this mean Johnny is too?

Who is Dutch anyway? Maybe we’ll start to find out. There’s a lot going on here, although at least the finale was resolved in the first episode.

And, of course, who is Khlyen?

I still think he’s her dad. He reacts so badly to D’avin’s “daddy issues” comment that it almost proves it.

Killjoys 2.2 “Wild, Wild Westerley”

So. D’avin is back on the team, and they’re going to Old Town. Except it’s quarantined and the only way in is to take the only available warrant.

This turns out to be to recapture some “dangerous political prisoners” for the asshole managing the quarantine, one Liam Jelco. Somebody in the writer’s room had an ex named Liam. I mean, joking, but…wow…yeah. This guy.

The improbable SF element here is a trope: The gas that drains all the water out of your body and kills you.

High body count, and then they get abducted.

Lucy needs better firewalls. How many times has she been hacked now? Seriously? Cybersecurity, people?

The plot thickens.

What is the real meaning of level 6?

Killjoys 2.3 “Shaft”

And once more we side step into classic space horror as our “heroes” find themselves investigating the disappearance of a team…who turn out to have been taken over by space centipedes.

This might be the original dominant lifeform of Westerley, and while they don’t appear to be sapient…they could be. The centipedes also make Dutch hallucinate her worst nightmare – being turned into a Level 6.

(It appears to be that their blood is part of the serum used to make Level 6s.

Pawter is being held hostage by Jelco, but she proves pretty self rescuing, because of course…

Dutch is now pissed.

She’s so pissed she might turn green, if you know what I mean. And she’s very much in charge.

(The way the scarbacks are handled does remind me a bit of the shepherds in Firefly. Just a bit. Except creepier).

Daredevil 2.12 “The Dark at the End of the Tunnel”

Parallel stories here. Karen is trying to save Frank and Matt is trying to save Elektra. Frank is presumed dead, but Karen is talked into writing a feature on him to show that he’s more nuanced, and she goes to speak to his former CO.

Who turns out to also be a psycho killer. Oops. The parallel is her trying to talk Frank out of killing him (he deserves it) and Matt trying to talk Elektra out of killing Stick (he deserves it). We find out Elektra is Black Sky, or part of Black Sky.

Matt succeeds. Karen fails. (I still hold that the guy deserved it,..he was directly provoking Frank.

Foggy is walking away. There doesn’t seem to be any hope for Foggy and Murdoch, but I think there is. He’s going to regret the big law firm thing very quickly when he’s told what cases he’s allowed to take.

One more episode in season two…

Daredevil 2.13 “A Cold Day in Hell’s Kitchen”

You know when the hero confesses his love to the heroine, she’s dead. And buried, but I don’t buy it.

We already know the Hand can bring people back, after all.

But the finale closes out a lot of threads while starting a few new ones, as it should. Nobu is defeated. Stick and Matt have an uneasy truce.

Foggy has given in to the lure of the corner office and even closed out his tab at Josie’s because he won’t be back. He will. When he finds out who he’s now going to be defending? He will.

And Matt finally comes out to Karen. She even seems surprised…come on, woman, you’re an investigative journalist now, you should know.

Is Nelson & Murdock really over? I don’t buy that one either.

It feels like a bit of a shift, but it’s a comic book…no shifts, at least none that stick. They were clearly going for “Decent ending if we’re canceled, lots to work with if we aren’t.”