REVOLUTION Recap: The Love Boat

REVOLUTION 1.16 The Love Boat

Miles-Nora-Charlie 

Miles executes a member of the Militia (whom he knew personally) when he won’t rat out Monroe. Charlie watches, seemingly nonplussed.  Neville shows up with a letter from the Georgian President, granting him status as an officer in the Federation Army. He tells Miles that if he wants to keep his Georgia soldiers, he’s going to have to work with him. Miles is less than impressed, until Neville tells him that Monroe is weaponizing anthrax and has one scientist that is making it.

Neville tries to mend his bridges with Jason but he’s not having it and so Neville lays on the guilt once again about his mother. Neville and Miles want to capture the scientist for themselves and although Charlie and Nora aren’t happy with the plan, they go along. They stage a raid on the lab, using a steamboat belonging to the Georgian Navy. The lab is right over the Georgian border, and Charlie, Nora, and Miles manage to capture the scientist.

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While they were busy at the lab, Neville “rescued” the man’s wife and daughter, who had been imprisoned by Monroe to ensure the scientist’s cooperation. He stashes them on a nearby boat. Neville and Miles plan on using them in exactly the same way – they want him to make anthrax for them. Neville interrogates the scientist and threatens harm to his family if he doesn’t cooperate.

A Militia patrol boat arrives and searches the fishing boat they are on while Charlie, Neville, and the scientist hide in the hull. While they hide, Charlie and Neville have it out over Neville’s treatment of the prisoner. The boat captain pays off the Militia men and they leave. Charlie and Neville continue their argument carries on past when the Militia leaves and Miles ends up interceding on Charlie’s behalf.

Charlie and Nora  are really ticked at Miles that he’s holding the man’s family hostage. Nora tells him that he hasn’t changed and she wants to transfer units. Charlie confronts him – he’s no different from Monroe. He tells her that he doesn’t have a choice and refuses to let the scientist and his family go, so Charlie locks him in a room in the hull. Meanwhile Jason chloroforms his father and he and Charlie take matters into their own hands. With Nora’s help, they put everyone down in the hull so it looks like the boat is abandoned to lure the other boat with the scientist’s wife and daughter to approach.

When it does, they plan to take him and his family to safety, but Neville escapes and gets to the deck before they can leave. He orders the Georgia navy officers to kill Miles, Nora, and Charlie but then gunfire erupts from outside the boat. It’s Monroe’s men using automatic weapons to strafe the boat. Apparently, the commander recognized Miles when they searched the boat and waited for his opportunity.

Miles, Charlie, Nora, Jason and the family manage to escape, leaving Neville on the larger boat, under heavy fire. Charlie and Nora are grateful to Miles for helping them escape and for helping the scientist and his family safely hide.

Two days later, Neville shows up and confronts Miles, threatening to pull out all the Georgian soldiers, but Miles is confident that the Georgian President cares more about winning than Neville’s pride.

Nora changes her mind about leaving and rewards Miles’ change of heart with some intimacy.

Rachel-Aaron

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Rachel and Aaron have made it to the Tribal Lands but they’ve run out of food. They steal some and one of the locals is about to meter out some western-style justice when Rachel manages to get her gun out first and kills him before he can shoot them. The shot draws the attention of others and they have to run for it. Rachel falls down a ravine and sustains a gruesome tibial fracture. She pleads with Aaron to leave her and go to the tower alone, but he refuses.

Through a bit of planning and mostly dumb luck, they manage to kill the two members of the posse that find their hiding spot in an abandoned truck. Rachel continues to try to convince Aaron that he must go to the tower. To help convince him, she shows him Dr. Warner’s journal – there’s a newspaper clipping about him clipped inside the book.

Grace

Grace manages to get the elevators working in the facility where she is being held and her guard goes to use it to get to level 12. He handcuffs her to her chair while he goes to check it out (Randal forbid them to go to level 12). She frantically attempts to pick her handcuffs while he’s gone but it turns out she has plenty of time as the elevator starts to malfunction, jumping from floor to floor and killing the man in a most gruesome way.

Monroe-Flynn

In Philly, Randal  tries to talk some sense into Monroe, who he thinks is getting too extreme (he is!). Monroe, not surprisingly, doesn’t take the criticism well and starts threatening him.

My Thoughts:

Clearly they were going for irony with the episode title as pretty much everyone spent most of the time on the boat (and the rest of the episode) getting into conflicts with each other.  Just when it seemed like Miles had put most of his past behind him, its definitely come roaring back. Thankfully, this time he has Charlie and Nora to be his conscience. Thinking back to the beginning of the season, Charlie has really lost her innocence, but at least she is still willing to stand up for what she thinks is right, even against Miles.

The Miles-Neville power struggle seems to be nowhere close to abating, regardless of whether they are on the same side of the war or not. My money is on Miles, although I’m not sure which of them has the most humanity left at this point.

Jason is also definitely not willing to forgive and forget when it comes to his father. I suspect that their rift will become wider as he gets more involved with Charlie in the next few episodes.

Not sure where the Rachel-Aaron storyline is going, but I really hope they don’t kill Rachel off. It seems hard to believe that she could recover from such a severe injury out in the middle of nowhere.

I’m also not sure to make of the whole Grace-Randal storyline. Why did the elevator malfunction – was it some sort of fail safe to protect whatever is on level 12?

I can’t wait to see what happens next week!

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