Fox’s The Gifted recap: The band is getting back together!

On the latest episode of Fox’s The Gifted, the Mutant Underground and the Inner Circle put their differences aside in order to save a fellow mutant. The concern, now, is how long can this alliance last when nobody’s on the same side?

Atlanta, GA. Three years ago. John Proudstar (Blair Redford), Marcos Diaz (Sean Teale), and Lorna Dane (Emma Dumont) are playing pool and having a fun evening. John teases Marcos and Lorna about their secret relationship but he’s happy that they’re together. However, he tells them that working with the Mutant Underground will put their lives at risk, so they can’t afford to keep secrets in the future. That doesn’t work out quite as planned, as we have seen on Fox’s The Gifted, currently streaming on Hulu.

Present day, Andy Strucker (Percy Hynes White) has tracked down his family… at least in his shared dream with his sister, Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind). The conversation doesn’t go well — Lauren is still furious with Andy for attacking her and abandoning their family for the Inner Circle. She can see how sad and lost Andy is, even though he insists he is fine. Andy doesn’t mention Rebecca.

When Lauren wakes, the Strucker parents, Reed (Stephen Moyer) and Kate (Amy Acker), are glad to know Andy’s at least reached out. They are still foolishly hopeful that he may return and ask Lauren to be strong for her brother so that she can lead him out of his darkness. How much more is she going to do for Andy?

Marcos and Clarice Fong (Jamie Chung), have been asking around about John after he was captured by the Purifiers in the mid-season finale of The Gifted, but nobody knows anything. However, the Underground did capture Fade (Jeff Daniel Phillips), and plan to use him to get information out of the Inner Circle. The Struckers don’t agree, but Marcos believes that Lorna might help. She was as close to John as Marcos is. Clarice goes along with the plan but makes it known that the thought of asking Lorna for help makes her “skin crawl”.

Purifier and televangelist Benedict Ryan (Peter Gallagher) is on his show again, proselytizing against the mutants who were freed by the Inner Circle. His words upset Andy much more than Lorna, who believes that their work can’t be undone by Ryan. Their conversation is interrupted by a call from Fade, actually Marcos, who asks to meet Lorna. They meet and after some debate, Lorna agrees to help the Underground.

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Meanwhile, John is defiant against Jace Turner (Coby Bell) and the Purifiers. The two of them have a verbal match when Officer Wilson (Tom O’Keefe) hits John — he doesn’t make a scratch. They have other ways to torture John, though — they know about his super-hearing, so they put on loud, painful music through headphones. Poor John.

Andy and Lorna go to meet the Underground. It’s the same place from Andy’s dream and for a minute he is hopeful. But Lorna tells him that their ideologies are different from the Underground’s and as much as they love the people there, that’s not about to change.

Kate opens the door and sees her son, who she hasn’t seen for over six months. All ideological differences fade away as mother and son hold each other. Reed impatiently waits his turn before clutching Andy to him, but Lauren stays away.

Lorna and Andy have come alone and they have John’s location. They agree to team-up because that’s the only way to save John.

The Purifiers are blaming the Underground for the Creed Financial Bank deaths. They don’t even believe John when he tells Jace about the Inner Circle. Jace knows that Lorna and Andy were there at the Bank. Did they defect to the Inner Circle? This realization answers a lot of Jace’s queries about the mutants’ actions of late.

The Struckers are thrilled to have Andy with them. They keep looking at him adoringly but when Kate makes another plea to Andy to leave the Inner Circle, the illusion fades.

The Underground reaches John’s location but the compound is well-fortified, better than initially apparent. The team splits up with the Strucker siblings going with Clarice to find John. They’re still not able to communicate properly. But when Andy tells Lauren about how Rebecca’s parents turned her over to Sentinel Services and how that experience broke her — leading to her ‘accidentally’ killing the people in the bank, Lauren softens — even more so when Andy tells her that Rebecca is dead.

It is so great to see Lorna and Marcos working together again. They wreak havoc at the compound, paving the way for Clarice and the Strucker siblings to enter the compound and find John.

#Eclaris working together again. 💪 #TheGifted @seanjteale @EmmaDumont pic.twitter.com/bCA9uKnokT
— The Gifted (@TheGifted_TV) January 2, 2019

However, when Jace sees Lorna and Marcos together, he believes that John lied to him again and then proceeds to completely lose it. He repeatedly shoots John with a shotgun, almost killing him. Wilson gets Jace out of the way and gets knocked out by the Underground.

As they get John out, a Purifier shoots at them. Andy suddenly gets very angry. The man was shooting at his sister when her back was turned and Andy will not stand for it. He uses his powers to break the man’s limbs and has to be physically pulled away by Lauren. The Struckers are horrified by what their son is doing.

Jace finds Wilson and gets the casualty report — a couple of people dead and a fair few injured. There’s going to be a major retaliation against the mutants.

The Struckers are trying to have a heart-to-heart but Andy shows just how deeply indoctrinated the Inner Circle’s beliefs have become. He wants to wipe out all humans – his words are full of hate-speech similar to that of the Purifiers. Kate and Lauren know that the only way to get Andy back is to destroy the Inner Circle.

Lorna and Marcos can’t deny their affection for each other and share a kiss before parting ways. “This doesn’t change anything between us,” Lorna says. Doesn’t it?

Back in the Underground HQ, Kate uncovers a gun. What has she planned? John is healing, slowly. Lauren and Andy, in their respective training grounds, practice. Is that a hint of Fenris we suspect?

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