Revolution Recap: Season One, Episode Two

When we last left our Revolution crew they were slogging it out sans electricity, dodging attacks from a dictator-led militia and risking their lives for a towheaded asthmatic boy. Next up on NBC's As the Generator Turns…

1. We get a trademark JJ flashback! Episode 2 cuts back and forth from 15 years after the powerdown to 1 week after, when the Mathesons are just starting to migrate out of the newly darkened city. Pint-sized Charlie is threatened by a bad man who wants the family’s wagon of food. Dad refuses to shoot him, so he starts to walk away with their only hope of survival. Oh no he didn’t.

 2. Back to the future: Drunkle Miles, Hottie Heroine, Former Google Guy and Dead Dad’s Squeeze are all on the move looking for Asthma Boy – trailed, naturally, by Ambiguously Evil Crossbow Guy. Miles fights off a pack of militia men with some swashbuckling sword action, takes everyone to a black market to find some chick that’s good at blowing things up and has to rescue Charlie from yet more militia (“It’s one day into this trip and you’re already a pain in the ass.”) Couldn’t agree more, Uncle M!

 3. Meanwhile, Creepy-Ass Government Man still has Asthma Boy hostage. They take a pit stop at a house with a dead deer, and we find out: (a. Guns are only allowed in powered-down America if you’re a sociopath, (b. Asthma Boy has lines in this show.

 4. Miles leaves the black market to continue the search for Some Chick (“I’ll meet up with you guys in two weeks – just magically find me in the middle of Hicktown, Indiana”), Charlie tiptoes away to tail him, using a clever backpack-under-a-blanket-to-look-like-a-sleeping-person-wait-what? technique. She notices Crossbow Boy is still following her so she pretends to twist her ankle, he rushes over to make googoo eyes at her, and she handcuffs him to a pipe. Awesome. She catches up with Miles and begs him again for help finding Danny ("HE GETS THESE ASTHMA ATTACKS!").

 4. Back at the ranch, Squeeze mourns over her dead iPhone and Google Guy does a terrible job of assuring her they haven’t seen the last of Charlie (“We’ll see her again. “How do you know?” “Because… we will.") To cheer her up, he shows her the medieval data necklace Charlie’s dad gave him and they depart to go find the nice lady with the computer.

 5. Miles and Charlie come upon a work camp. Turns out people get put in chains for owning American flags, talking back to the militia and wearing their baseball hats backwards on Tuesdays. Some Chick turns out to be a hot slave with perfectly tweezed eyebrows. M&C launch a daring rescue mission, but it turns out Eyebrows got busted on purpose so she could steal a rifle from the camp foreman and give it to a bunch of rebels who want a re-United States.

She questions Drunkle’s motives in helping Hottie Heroine (“Seriously, what’s your angle?”), then agrees to help for similarly no reason. In a rare fit of usefulness, Charlie offers to enter the camp as bait and shoot the foreman so they can snag the gun and go get her brother. Miles says she’ll choke.

 6. We flash back to the Matheson family and the bad man, who’s about to get away with their booty. Mom grabs the gun from dad and shoots him dead. Totally fierce. Guess it runs in the family, because….

7.  … Charlie DOES shoot the foreman. But then she goes and spoils it by pulling her Yoda face and whining about killing people. Sigh.

8. Then things get really wacky. Computer Lady is trolling some chat rooms when she hears footsteps outside her secret room. She turns around and a guy with a taser (!) and a medieval necklace just like Charlie’s dad’s (!!) is standing behind her. He has a deep voice and knows who she is (“Hello, Grace.”) She frantically types RANDALL IS HERE.

9. But wait, there’s more! We cut back to Unambiguously Evil Dictator, who’s taken time out of his busy torturing schedule to chat with Charlie’s mom, who is apparently still alive and sporting a spotlessly white, pressed blouse. He unsubtly tells her that she no longer has a husband, and that he has her son captive. She tries to stab him with a pen. He cheerfully chokes her and says it’s time they talked about the true source of the power outage. Dun dun dunnn….

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