"Chapter 20" is the first episode and third season premiere of Legion, and the twentieth episode overall.[1]
Synopsis[]
David gains a following.
Plot[]
Our first scene is a montage depicting a young girl with a narration about time travel and it's application, showing the girl going through her morning routine. She begins to see interesting and cryptic symbols throughout her day, all of them referring to time travel ultimately, and the number 89.1. She tunes to this station on her radio and is met by the voice of Lenny Busker. The girl listens and hears David's voice saying "Follow the yellow bus.” The next day, she sees a red double decker bus with yellow lettering on the back saying “yellow bus” and follows it which leads her to a alley with a door that has a familiar symbol above it.
She's brought to a shifting, fluid "clothing store". She speaks to the clerk and tells her that she's looking for “the pregnant virgin.” When told that’s not specific enough, nearly getting sent out of the “store” she someone named Salmon, taking a wild guess after hearing about a red fish. This then leads into the musical number “Something For Your M.I.N.D.”
After this musical number, she is pointed in the direction of a clear tube that leads from the “store” and into a very smoky, den filled with a very eccentric, hippie, drug-induced group. She looks around and is met by Salmon
We finally see David and he's seeming to be levitating in a very zen like posture. Salmon, tells our main character here about what David's been doing. She inquires about all of the imagery she's seen through her day, and Salmon tells her to focus and be patient.
As she wanders, we learn her name is Jia-yi, but is immediately redubbed as "Switch.” As we get more shots around this odd house, they seem to have an almost deifying vibe towards David. She's eventually led to a room where she is told to wait for "she.” Eventually the door opens and Lenny enters. They begin having a conversation, although Switch demanding she see David.
Lenny relents, and Switch is brought to a small house porch, where David comes out and greets her. David has seemingly embraced and expanded his powers to helping others who are having mental and assumingely, psychic problems. He's able to guide, relax and ease them. He reads Switch's mind and projects her to her bed room. He relates his story of his prior years about the mental hospital, the “monster” the shadow king. He asks her how she is, this upsets her, and she begins to spill her backstory.
She then again asks him, what is this all about, and why she's been contacted through the visions. She see's a quick image of Syd and we begin to see that David is planning something with time travel to return to save Syd and his friends. David speaks of his real father and how he fought with Farouk, which resulted in him inhabiting David’s body.
Meanwhile, outisde Division 3 storms the house. They get the jump on David and Switch and we see Kerry, slice off David's arm. This triggers David to lash out and vaporize the other squad members. All of this comes to an end when Syd enters from the rear and shoots David through the chest.
This causes Switch to induce her time traveling abilities, and “rewind.” She quite literally “walks back” the clock by 1 hour. She's introduced to Lenny again they have their conversation, and meets again with David and she warns him that he's about to be ambushed. They move outside and see the house is under attack, but David strolls through and wrecks shop on the District 3 team, once again vaporizing them and likewise he's shot again by Syd. This causes Switch to go back in time again, this time by 2 hours.
Before she can reconnect with Lenny and David and try again, she is summoned to the Astral Plane where he warns her about David. Despite this, she still helps David as with the limited amount she knows about him, she still sees him as the victim.
We see Farouk rise in anger and frustration and storming through Division 3's new flying battle ship. We get a proper introduction to all of David's (former) teammates, Kerry, Cary, the Vermillion trio, and lastly…a repurposed, robotic version of Ptonomy.
Clark and Farouk meet and he tells Clark about Switch and her time travel abilities, worrying him greatly. They discuss their options and ponder how to beat someone who has the ability to undo whatever is done. They plan another operation to storm the facility and although Farouk tells Syd to remain, but she demands that she attend. Cary outfits the group with some anti-brain wave tech.
We see the same scene play out, this time from the perspective of District 3 and Syd and it plays just as it has the last two times. We see this go round that they drop a bomb of sorts onto the house which seems to remove it from this plane or time.
Cast and characters[]
Main Cast[]
- Dan Stevens as David Haller
- Rachel Keller as Sydney Barrett
- Aubrey Plaza as Lenny Busker
- Bill Irwin as Cary Loudermilk
- Navid Negahban as Amahl Farouk
- Jeremie Harris as Ptonomy Wallace
- Amber Midthunder as Kerry Loudermilk
- Lauren Tsai as Jia-Yi/Switch
- Hamish Linklater as Clark Debussy
Guest Starring[]
- Vanessa Dubasso as Salmon
Co-Starring[]
- Ben Wang as Kenzo
- Wally Rudolph as Squirrel
- Dan Cathcart as Dora
- Margaux Brooke as Eloise
- Keir O'Donnell as Daniel Bohr-Debussy
- Rachele Schank as Vermillion #1
- Marikah Cunningham as Vermillion #2
- Tiffany Feese as Vermillion #3
- Amir Aboulela as Butler
- Bill Chott as Teacher
- Samantha Cormier as Manson Girl #1
- Mary Ann Raemisch as Manson Girl #2
- Megan Hensley as Manson Girl #3
- Ming Lo as Headphone Voice
- Orono Noguchi as Orono
- Harry Young as Band Member #2
- Emily as Band Member #3
- Tucan as Band Member #4
- B Scott as Band Member #5
- Ruby Mitchell as Band Member #6
- Soul as Band Member #7
- Robert Strange as Band Member #8
Trivia[]
- The band Superorganism made a cameo appearance during the episode's musical sequence where they performed their song "Something for Your M.I.N.D.".
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