2x23 The Time Is Now
Millennium (1996)
2x23 The Time Is Now, written by Glen Morgan, James Wong and Michael R. Perry, directed by Thomas J. Wright.
We arrive at the end of the second season, which was supposed to be the end of the series, in which Morgan and Wong put the end of the world.
We come full circle in some ways. The Blacks visit the old yellow house and agree they will have to find another one: the death of Bletcher and the Old Man have tainted this one.
Later Lara has a vision of a meteor falling into the sun, completing Frank's vision from the season opening, after he killed Catherine's kidnapper:
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Perhaps smothered by its own dust, the dark, soulless body continues eternally through space and time.
It may disintegrate and crumble into inconsequential rubble. Or it may be lost forever, crashing, burning, into the yellow sun.
And as I look into the sky and it looks back on me, I want to know, which am I? I need to know. Is this the beginning of a journey – or the end.
It is the end. Apart from fragmentary visions there is nothing demonic about this apocalypse, although pestilence is part of Revelation.
Frank has convinced Peter that the Group is all about control. When reports of the virus spreading worldwide come in, they decide it is time to run: head for the cabin in the woods Frank's father left him.
Peter needs to rescue Lara Means first, and that's when the Group gets him.
Lara is having a breakdown, set to Patti Smith's "Land", a nightmarish music video where the montage has been selected to match the lyrics.
She finally sees her angel (?) clearly: it carries a scroll and has seven bright eyes. When it starts to bleed it breaks her.
The Blacks arrive at the mountain cabin and the radio reports are grim. Frank tells Catherine to shoot strangers and they discuss how they are going to die.
He then reveals that he was inoculated by the Group and can't get the plague. Lara Means left him her dose. They know it must go to Jordan.
Catherine wakes in the night with symptoms. She walks off into the woods. The next morning Frank's hair is white.
This is dark. I don't remember a series ending like it.
Notes:
Again we have "In the Year 2525".
We see a Morely cigarette butt on the floor of a Group vault. Has the Cigarette Smoking Man been there?
Glenn Morshower returns but will not be seen again. I don't think we hear about the "Trust" again.
Kristen Cloke's final episode.
Jordan's dreams from the previous episode come true: the last people in the world, the cabin in the woods, Catherine walking away.
The show's rating were only fair, and Fox did not seem much interested, but unexpectedly they wanted another season.
What do you do then?
