then we get a brief glimpse of Vanya at her table typing and narrating aloud. there's coffee of course. then a jump to publishers. then we have Vanya at a book reading event with a sizable crowd. but after we see members of the family reading the book during aspects of their lives---including number 5 reading the book in the middle of the cataclysmic future---public interest in the book wanes and eventually the book can't be given away. this was all five years ago (except for the cataclysm). now we see Vanya rushing to her orchestra gig and being summarily dismissed by the conductor. poor Vanya. what has really changed?
anyway we switch to a rather uninspired exchange between a unified team of luther and allison and poor befuddled mom. it's sad when the actress playing a machine has more life in her than the two actors playing humans. oh well. but thankfully soon after is the garbage bin exchange between Klaus searching for the priceless items he tossed in there earlier and Number 5 who while heading out on his personal mission thought that he could avoid human contact. What a hoot they are together!
later after more boring luther and allison vanya shows up at leonard's woodworking shop and they have a nice exchange. but an even better exchange occurs between number 5 luther and Klaus in number 5 surveillance van. number 5 is hysterical. Klaus too. luther not.
much of the rest of the episode centers back at the house. initially we catch a glimpse of the academy members as kids having academy kid member problems while Mom smooths them over. In the present day there's a discussion as to whether Mom should be shut off because oh she may have bumped off hateful Reg. Shut her off? I say pin a medal on her! Anyway Diego is especially upset because Mom was especially kind to him when he was growing up.
The rest of the episode consists of a very entertaining shoot out between the assassination duo of hazel and cha cha and most of the academy (number 5 is still away and Klaus is hallucinating in the tub). a very nice tune during the second half of the gun battle. and a very funny use of Diego's knife curling up the kitchen stairs and catching cha cha in the behind. later cha cha manages to drop the ceiling chandelier on luther which forces luther while wiggling out from under to expose his secret of being a hairy apelike creature under all that thick garb. After the battle, Diego realizes that Mom is so malfunctioning that he shuts Mom down. Vanya meanwhile gets a chewing out by a saddened Diego and goes to Leonard's house. Luther cries upstairs. And Hazel reveals to Cha Cha back at the motel that inspite of things going back there is jelly in the middle of the doughnut. Klaus is bound and gagged in the truck of Hazel's car.
What did you think?
