Cade awakens to a world where the Gua have invaded and are in control, using his image as a figurehead to control the human race. Remembering nothing of this, Cade determines to find Eddie and rebuild a Resistance against the Gua.
After Rubicon, these Gua tricks are starting to become commonplace. We all know Cade isn’t really in this future world, or he’d remember it. He also hasn’t aged a day, apparently, which is another big clue. The thing is, where Rubicon did the whole thing knowingly, this episode isn’t as clever, and the revelation of what’s going on has to come earlier because of it.
It seems that once again the Gua are after the Nostradamus book of prophecies, so they’re invading Cade’s mind to get it. What they’re failing to appreciate is that if Cade is dead, there is no Twice-Blessed Man of the prophecies and the Gua needn’t worry about them anymore. Why not kill him?
It’s interesting to see what a Gua future would look like. The effects of a shattered Washington are good if fairly basic, and the series looks like it could just about cope with the start of the second wave. The older Eddie is just as clever as the one we know, and there are some great ideas, burying the trailer in his garden being a particularly good one.
Victoria Pratt from Cleopatra 2525 does her best with a part that mainly requires her to take her clothes off and get hot ‘n’ heavy with Joshua, with her scientist persona making a nice contrast to her concubine one. Still, either way, nice ass. Roger R Cross seems to be getting into playing someone wholly evil since Cain was transferred into Joshua’s husk, and this episode allows Cade to discover what has happened. The double-crossing at the end is well done, but you’re left feeling that if most of the episode was in virtual reality and therefore didn’t happen, why bother watching it, as it certainly doesn’t add anything to the story, and the plot of it is very thin.
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