Netflix binges: The Umbrella Academy season 1 recap

The Umbrella Academy season 1, episode 4: “Man on the Moon”

“Man on the Moon” kicks off with Luther at the house seven years prior. He’s not the same man he is now and it’s clear that he stuck around longer than anyone else. His father sends him on a mission that goes wrong and it’s why he’s in his current state. The Umbrella Academy didn’t drop all of the information about the siblings on us at once. Instead, it’s giving it to us bit by bit in a variety of flashbacks.

Allison finds that Grace has been shut off and thinks that Cha-Cha and Hazel did it. She tells Luther about it and tries to get him to open up about what happened to him. He’s vague about it and gives her the bare minimum.

Vanya wakes up on Leonard’s couch and constantly apologizes. He walks her to a rehearsal at the Icarus Theater. Their relationship is budding and it’s the one positive thing in her life right now.

Diego pays Detective Patch a visit to tell her that his mother died and it’s because of the man and the woman in the masks. Meanwhile, Allison goes to Vanya’s place to find Leonard inside. His excuse is that she left her keys at his place and he came in to use the bathroom, but something seems fishy about it.

Five figures out that Lance has been up to something with the eyeballs that his company makes. Pogo, Luther and Diego are all trying to look for Five. Luther and Diego can’t even agree on how to do that, though. There’s a big power struggle between these two brothers because they both think they’re the one fit enough to get things done.

Cha-Cha and Hazel have themselves a good time with the drug-infused chocolate they get off of Klaus. This leads to some blurry motion, split screens and the all-around destruction of the company that Lance works at. Cha-Cha comes to the realization that they aren’t going after Five because of a broken contract, but because he’s trying to stop the end of the world from happening.

Diego tells Luther that he left because that’s what people do when they grow up. He also points out that Luther never made any choices of his own. It’s a harsh reality, but one that he needs to hear. Allison and Vanya have their own chat, mostly about the men in their lives.

Klaus is now bait for Number Five at the motel. Cha-Cha and Hazel have no idea that Five is with his other brothers, drunk out of his mind. Ben tries to walk Klaus through talking to the people he’s seeing. He’s able to get in Hazel and Cha-Cha’s heads by bringing up the people who they’ve killed. While they talk it over, Klaus gets the attention of Detective Patch, who Cha-Cha then shoots.

Luther and Diego take Five to the gym and they realize that Klaus was taken. He walks in to find Detective Patch dead. In that moment, you can feel just how much pain Diego has been through the last few days. He might not have cared as much about his father’s death but needed to shut off his mother and losing the detective have done a number on him.

Even though we have a good idea of what all of the siblings are capable of (or not, in Vanya’s case), It’s clear we don’t know everything. Ben walks Klaus through focusing on the people he’s seeing and communicating with them in a way we hadn’t seen prior to this episode. We also haven’t seen Allison use her powers at all, which I imagine will happen before the season ends.