"Chapter 22" is the third episode in the third season of Legion, and twenty-second episode overall.[1]
Synopsis[]
A family history.
Plot[]
The episode begins with a distinctly flashback-like sequence. A wife, Gabrielle, seperates from her husband, Charles, as he leaves towards a taxi, leaving her holding a baby David. Time passes and she's (Gabrielle) left wondering how long it's been since he left. We get a flashback in a flashback as she recollects when her husband and her first talked about his leaving. He tells her he's leaving to Morroco, but assures her that he is coming back.
Later, we see her wake up into some sort of surreal dream and she comes across a door in the middle of her garden. After this, it abruptly cuts away from this strange door to a scene of her reading to David while he's in his crib. As she's reading, the scene cuts to her husband, experimenting with a helmet device with metal conduits protruding from it. He switches it on and he's at once thrown into a cacophony of voices, one of which is Farouk. The next scene is him in front of a psychologist, and he's no longer emotive and just sits looking pensive. The Doctor gives up, and has him committed to a psych ward. We assume that when he used the device it must have played havoc on his psyche.
Here he finds a woman seated by a window, looking equally pensive and out of sorts. He joins her and tries to quickly read her mind, but encounters and interesting jumble of visions and sounds. Breaking his silence, he inquiries about her from a nurse. She explains she's a survivor of the Jewish holocaust camps, explaining all the horrifying noises he heard while he was in her head.
This time it's he who wakes up into a surreal dreamscape. He finds a wood grotto in the ground and suddenly the scene shifts into a World War trench where he’s attacked by a German officer. As they struggle fighting each other, he tells the officer to kill himself. Promptly the German officer, stiffens, pulls his luger out, and shoots himself in the head.
Time clearly isn't playing out linearly here as our next scene is them back together in bed. At this point we realize that this sequence of events may be happening in David's own mind. His parents, during these recollections keep hearing a very modern, disco like beat playing. The same party music in which David's safe house plays obnoxiously.
We see David in various stages of his life (all younger) with his mother wondering what will become of him.
There's some voiceover chatter between David and Switch watching the events occur. We see Gabrielle and Charles in the Psych Ward. He moves closer to her and opens a box that she's been holding since he's seen her. We see inside is a doll of The World's Angriest Boy. He's taken aback as now she's glaring at him intently. He ventures to read her thoughts again, and sees that inside her calm, serene exterior, her head if a flame with voices and anger. Later she confronts him about him being in her mind. Again he's a bit surprised she was able to know this. They enjoy each others company and she opens up to him.
Later, he's sleeping and having dreams of Farouk and David, and is woken up by Gabrielle. He gives her an illusion of what life together would be like if they left and that is exactly what they do, they left the psych ward. Once in their new house, David is now born and Charles worries what if he passes his telepathic ability onto David.
We then go back into the future and we see Gabrielle writing a letter to Charles, explaining the noises, voices that she's hearing in the house and how she fears it may be haunted. She laments that he's left her alone and that something or someone is clearly messing with her as she's seemingly losing her grip on reality more and more and phenomena keep flaring up around the house.
She gets a phone call from Charles and he's gone to Morroco because he seems to have found Farouk and met with him. He says that he's a monster and regrets even going. Gabrielle unfortunately is on the brink of a complete collapse. She's nearly broken in mind, and she seems to be trapped by the house itself in a very nightmarish fever dream. Gabrielle runs to protect baby David in the next room, only to find him faceless. A sort of ghastly visage appears next to the crib and at this moment, Charles storms in and sends a psyhic ripple out that causes the “ghost” to be tossed out, this is revealed to be adult David. It's revealed that David and Switch went back and were trying to prevent himself from being taken over by Farouk.
Unfortunately the time travel attempt was too much for Switch and she's now exhausted and immediately falls asleep. Meanwhile, Gabrielle dies in Charles’ arms, who is so distracted by this, doesn't see that Farouk has used this moment of blindness from Charles to infest baby David, hence kicking off the events that lead to Season 1, leaving us with the last scene in the episode of Farouk playing with baby David in his mind.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Dan Stevens as David Haller
- Rachel Keller as Sydney Barrett (credit only)
- Aubrey Plaza as Lenny Busker (credit only)
- Bill Irwin as Cary Loudermilk (credit only)
- Navid Negahban as Amahl Farouk
- Jeremie Harris as Ptonomy Wallace (credit only)
- Amber Midthunder as Kerry Loudermilk (credit only)
- Lauren Tsai as Jia-Yi/Switch
- Hamish Linklater as Clark Debussy (credit only)
Guest Starring[]
Co-Starring[]
- Kyle Dondlinger as Unteroffizier Ernst
- Time Winters as Dr. Monahan
- Pete Pano as Mr. Hopper
- Faye Jackson as Staff Nurse Clark
- Stefani Estes as Clinical Nurse Williams
- Dirk Rogers as Skinny Devil
- Lee Way Lan as Young Xiu
- Nicholas Tuttle as Sobbing Man
- Lucas Bartley Durham as Catatonic Patient
Trivia[]
- A callback from "Chapter 1" included The Rolling Stones' "She's Like a Rainbow" playing in the montage of David and Syd together. In this episode, the song appeared in the montage of Charles and Gabrielle.
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