Marvel's Runaways

Previously on Marvel's Runaways...

- Will you help me? - I already have.

When the ship blew up, the Magistrate's family took new bodies.

You think that the aliens are inside our parents?

Daughter is right about your arm.

You have three specimens downstairs. You should pick one and eat.

The Magistrate's family is ruthless.

- That looks wonderful, don't you think? - I'm in the Algorithm.

- Did you just say I'm in a tube? - None of this is real.

I'm gonna give you the biggest can of pepper spray

a girl could ever dream of.

Holy shit! I'm driving Old Lace!

We need to acquire The Magistrate's own weapon.

Kill or be killed.

Xavin!

- It's me, Molly. - Oh, my God.

- What do I do? - We can only leave through a door

that needs to be opened from the outside with a code.

It's in the Abstract.

Alex? How are you there and here?

- It's complicated. - I'll come back for you.

Over here!

Something's not right here.

Mom!

Chase, please! Where are you? We need you!

No, you really don't.

They're trying to get Gert!

Spoiler alert: they catch her.

Chase, I'm so scared!

Please, I need you to protect me! Without you, I'm so lost!

The outcome of the battle is predetermined,

so it doesn't matter what I do now.

Watch. This is when Alex comes crashing in.

Right...

- here. - See? We need you!

Chase, you're a hero. Heroes fight!

- Heroes fight... - Gert, you're not real.

I'd know that even without this weird thing happening to you,

because you haven't talked about patriarchy or gender bias

or microaggression once since I got here.

I need you to save me!

See, that's exactly how I know you're not real.

Real Gert never needed saving.

Chase, I am so scared!

I need you to protect me!

- Without you, I am lost! - Where are you, Chase? Save us!

Everyone just leave me alone!

Chase...

Chase!

Honey, are you there?

Mom?

Thank God you're okay!

"Okay" may be overstating it, but I'm alive.

- Wait, are you hurt? - No. I'm fine.

There was a whole battle thing going on, but none of it's real.

Okay.

The glitching's getting worse.

If these virtual worlds collapse while we're inside of them--

We die in the real one?

Our bodies do.

I don't know if our consciousness can survive in here.

It's actually a fascinating scientific question.

Except for the dying part.

I'm looking for a way to save us. Have you seen any sign of Karolina?

Janet, you're being foolish.

Come sit down.

Mom, I have an idea.

Everything we're seeing is just electrical impulses in our brains.

The Algorithm is just mining our thoughts for details.

What if we just stopped thinking?

Something real Gert accused me of on more than one occasion.

But if you can clear your mind, well then maybe you can get rid of Dad.

Like when you realize you're dreaming.

You have the power to change it.

Stop listening to that nonsense and come eat your crepes.

Victor...

I don't want any more goddamn crepes!

It worked.

Which means...

Janet. Honey...

We got off to a bad start.

- But there's still so much love in here. - Is there?

Remember when we fell in love?

Before Pride and Jonah?

It was just the two of us.

And then Chase came.

That's so messed up.

That you'd weaponize the few good memories I have about my marriage.

Victor, or whatever the hell you are, get out!

- Chase, you're a genius. - Thanks, Mom.

Hey, don't get cocky. You get it from me.

I think I know what we need to do now.

No sign of Xavin's friends.

Why was she leading us away from the house?

Maybe the primitive security system stopped them from entering.

What I want to know is where is your mother?

Why is she not responding to my calls?

You think she's up to something.

I was so excited to have my family reunited,

I don't think I realized how much we've all changed.

She's so...

different.

She thinks you're different.

Far too human.

Well, I...

I've had a thousand other lives she wasn't a part of, so...

perhaps I am.

Maybe she's reacting to the level of human sentiment

you feel for your daughter.

Not me. Your other daughter.

Blondie.

The hybrid in the tube.

How did you find out?

From Mom.

You should've just told her.

You know how much she hates secrets.

I know how much you love them.

Wait. What are you keeping from me?

- What can you offer me in exchange? - Information first, then we bargain.

She's not gonna wait for you to build a ship.

She already hailed the extraction team

and got me started on the rendezvous platform.

Is she planning on me coming too?

It'll take all four of us to power it up, so yes.

What if those four were you, me, your brother, and...

your new half-sister?

You'd really leave mother behind?

She's forcing me to choose.

- And what do I get for my loyalty? - What do you want?

My brother stripped of his power.

I'm tired of living in his shadow.

He should get what he deserves.

Nothing.

And I take over when you step down.

Something your mother would never agree to.

I think you will.

That's my girl.

Go to Wizard and finish the platform. Your host runs the entire place.

You won't be denied anything.

Sweetie, can you come inside for a second? I've got something to give you.

Don't worry, Lacey. It's just for your safety on the road.

I really don't need any more bootleg Phish tapes for the road, Dale.

Oh, come on! You love Phish! Some "Bouncing Around the Room"?

Used to play that for you when you were...

Listen, this was supposed to be our road trip cash.

I want you to take it.

Find Molly. Make sure she's safe.

Unless you change your mind

- about me coming with you. Okay. - No, I got this.

Thanks to you, I am leveled up with Old Lace

and up for anything that comes my way.

Which is mostly just gonna be like...

freeway traffic gridlock and convenient store burritos.

Don't eat those.

- You gonna be okay? - Me? Yeah!

I'm just gonna commit to some full-time homesteading.

You know, grow my own food, home brew kombucha.

Love the 'buch.

Oh, I did pick up some Guangxi Horned Goat powder.

You know, it's for digestion. I'll get you some.

- I don't need that. - Gert, IBS is genetic.

And stress makes it worse. So, I will get the goat powder.

Gert!

Mom? How did you find us?

I knew he would bring you and Old Lace here where we created her.

Gert, run. She'll attack.

No, that wasn't me. That was the alien inside me.

She's really dangerous, and she could come back at any moment.

Okay, I'm sorry. What? That's so much worse!

I gotta agree with Dale on this one.

Okay. Listen. The aliens are gonna be extracted through a portal.

They wanna leave but then something else is gonna come through and clean up.

And when I say clean up, I mean kill everybody that knows that they were here.

And that's only after they've sucked the life

out of Chase, Karolina, and Janet.

Because the one inside Victor Stein?

He's flaking really badly. it's so gross,

Where's my tranq gun?

No! You don't need your tranq gun.

I stole it in case you tried to do something stupid

like mind-wipe me before I left.

- What? - That actually does

- sound like you, Honeybee. - I'm so offended

- you think I could do that! - Maybe you guys should be

writing some of this down, because I don't know how much longer

I can hold her back. She's really strong. But you guys need to know one thing--

The only way to defeat them is to--

What's happening?

These are so uncomfortable.

They really pinch that little space between the optical organs.

Hello. It's nice to formally meet you.

Prepare to die.

Runaways

Gert. Tranq her!

Oh, God!

I forgot. I hid the cartridges in case you stole it!

- Now would be a good time to get them! - All right.

What the...?

The old rules no longer apply.

- Seriously? - I'm sorry.