RECAP - DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 6.14: "There Will Be Brood"
The penultimate episode of this season's DC's Legends of Tomorrow left us with some questions--and some worry--as we head into the season finale. Bishop is carefully maneuvering around the chessboard, and he seems to have stumped the team, as he tries to stay one step ahead of them. And he's brought John in tow, as John's darker half seems to have taken root for the time being. And what of Mick's eggs? What will the little buggers look like when they hatch? All this and more, as we gear up for the end of Season 6...
John's dark side took control this episode, and completely blew off Zari, who thought he wanted to start a new life without magic, but we all knew THAT wasn't going to be. The team burst into his house, and wanted to know what Bishop was up to, and John said that Bishop promised him a way to obtain the magic from the Fountain of Imperium. And, of course, they got tricked, because John was astral projecting, as he and Bishop were on the ship, taking off to a place in time to where the fountain could be found easily. Meanwhile, Astra and Spooner are on the ship, and Astra uses her own magic to hide them from John and Bishop, until they hear of the plan. They have to trail John and Bishop to find out how to stop them. Meanwhile, the team is stuck at John's, having to figure out a way to catch up to Bishop and Constantine before all hell breaks loose. It's then that Gary says that there IS a way to get to Bishop---but that means communicating with Kayla, because she has a ship fast enough to catch up to the Waverider. So, Gary uses some alien looking disc to send a message to Kayla, using Mick as the messenger. Mick tells her about the eggs, and that they need her help...and that he loves her.
While they put THAT plan into work, Astra and Spooner have arrived in 1925 Texas, to an oil drilling operation. They see a man get hurt on a rig, and a middle aged woman named Gloria comes to assist him. But Spooner believes her to be her mother. Despite Astra's misgivings, Spooner accompanies her mother to her house, especially after being faced by the boss of the oil operation, who's been buying up everyone's land, and Gloria is the only holdout. They quiz Gloria about the Fountain, but she knows nothing about it. Meanwhile, John and Bishop come across a plethora of mushrooms in the woods, and John isn't happy that the fountain isn't there. But, Bishop says that the mushrooms are actually aliens, and that they hold the key to be able to raise the fountain, and get John his magic back. But John has to be deemed worthy. As he strolls the woods, he comes across a young girl collecting the mushrooms for herbs named Esperanza. This interests John, as he asks her about the fountain, but she knows nothing about it. As she gives him a flower, he gets a rush of memories, and realizes who the little girl is. He heads back to her cabin, where they meet her mother---and Astra and Spooner.
Gary manages to get ahold of Kayla, and she arrives, pissed off that she had to return to Earth. Mick tells her he had the eggs, and she wonders how he's still alive. Sara tells her that Bishop acted as a midwife and delivered them. But they're aboard the ship, and the ship is gone with Bishop. She agrees to take them along, especially when Mick says that he never stopped thinking about her. She just wants to get her babies.
John knocks out everyone in the room, except Spooner, and shows her the truth about what really happened to her. Her mother was killed by the oil baron for her land, and she fled into the woods, where her blood activated the mushrooms, and they took her away to the future. As it turns out, John manages to get some of Spooner's blood, and she has a chance to save her mom. Astra tells her that she can't do that---because she'd be changing history, and throw the universe out of whack...and Astra would lose her friend. Spooner can't bear the thought of being without her mother, and confesses to Gloria as to who she is. She says she will not lose her again, but her mother tells her that she is proud of who she has become, and that destiny brought them back. She needs to let history play out. Spooner wants to shoot the men who kill her mother, but she won't allow any violence. Spooner orders Astra to take her younger self out to the forest where the fountain is. Once there, Astra tells the younger Esperanza that everything will be okay, and that they'll meet again. She also holds Esperanza back a bit to protect her from John and Bishop.
Speaking of those two, Bishop had concocted a serum for John with Spooner's blood in it, so that he would be deemed pure, and be able to harness the power of the fountain. They end up watching Esperanza be taken by the mushrooms, and she's deemed safe. John grabs the serum from Bishop and takes it....however, Bishop planned for the double cross by putting a poison in it. John is now dying, and it was by design. Bishop wanted the fountain to be exposed and destroyed, because it protected Earth from alien attack. Bishop wanted to find the fountain to shut it down, so that he can let the alien attack begin. He tried saving the Earth twice, but he was pushed back every time...now, there will be not stopping the invasion. He takes off to leave John to die. Astra catches up to him, as does Zari...and he apologizes to them both, as his body has a cocoon form around him, and he dies...disappearing into nothing.
While in the ship, Bishop also put in a contingency plan for when the team caught the ship. He set a bomb to go off in less than a minute once the doors to the lab opened, only giving the team so much time to save as many as the babies as they can. The team works feverishly, but seem to get all of them. But Gary notices an egg on the floor, and Mick goes back to grab it....but at that time, the bomb goes off....taking Mick with it.
And while all this is happening, Spooner and her mother confront the oil baron and his men. As they're about ready to kill them both, Spooner's powers activate, and she uses them to make the men feel her pain. They end up taking off in fear of her, but then, as John dies, and the lab explodes, Spooner collapses , and her mother tries to revive her.
Well...what more can be said about this episode that I didn't squeeze into this recap? We NOW finally have the truth as to what REALLY happened to Spooner as a child: she's ORIGINALLY from 1925, and SHE was the one taken into the future by aliens----or rather---alien mushrooms. Turns out, mushrooms pack more of a punch than we thought---and Bishop, of all people, KNEW that. And, once again, he's been a step or two ahead of The Legends. And he made sure he played EVERYONE...and that included John. John was just the latest victim of Bishops deviousness, and he is the one that pays the price DEARLY for his arrogance and desire to regain his magic, that he ends up playing into Bishop's hands, and he makes the ultimate sacrifice---and now Zari is without her man. On top of that, this team may have just lost Mick Rory, as he tried to save one last egg of his children, only to have Bishop's bomb go off in the lab on the Waverider. And with Spooner? Who knows? She altered history by saving her mother, and with Bishop destroying the fountain, and thus opening up the Earth to alien attack, and invasion is imminent, and the times look VERY bleak for our team. How they get out of it...and still have a wedding for Sara and Ava? We'll find out in a week. But I will say that the last few episodes have been BETTER. And with John dying here, and with Mick supposedly dying in the explosion...is this how they write off these two characters? For JOHN....I can see it....it makes SENSE to me. But for Mick? Nah....I think Rory deserves a better sendoff than this. But that's just me.
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Until the season finale....Time is on our side!
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