Summary<\/p>\n
From moves fast and furiously in \u201cBest Laid Plans\u201d, finally getting all of the Township on the same page just in time to pull the rug from under them.<\/p>\n
A lot of people have been complaining about Season 4 of From<\/a> taking too much time to set things up, and I can kind of see where they\u2019re coming from, even if I don\u2019t necessarily agree. But worry not. Episode 7, \u201cBest Laid Plans\u201d, is one of those clear turning-point outings where a bunch of important truths are revealed, the status quo is rattled, and a bunch of new problems \u2013 or tweaked versions of the usual ones \u2013 begin to emerge. Echoing a sentiment from earlier in the season that knowledge comes at a cost<\/a>, it takes the Township finally getting on the same page to light a fire under the plot.<\/p>\n With the discovery of the hidden door in the basement,<\/a> Boyd has figured out that there is real validity in Jade\u2019s claims about his and Tabitha\u2019s various reincarnations, and the bones of the children being the key to escaping. For now, though, the door remains sealed. A talisman is hung on it for good measure, but the more pressing problem becomes getting everyone on the same page, both to deduce a way of opening it and to ensure that everyone is as prepared as possible when that happens.<\/p>\n Thus, Boyd tells Henry and Victor that Tabitha is the reincarnation of Miranda, and Tabitha and Ethan tell Julie the same, supported by the fact that she remembered how to kill the dolls<\/a> thanks to her prior experiences. Out of everyone, Henry takes this news the worst, but he\u2019s also still very drunk, both on moonshine and, more worryingly, Sophia\u2019s blood. \u201cBest Laid Plans\u201d doesn\u2019t reveal much about how this is actually going to affect Henry going forward, but he does begin having startlingly clear visions of himself in a hospital bed being tended to by a younger Victor.<\/p>\n Victor is a bit more amenable to the idea of Tabitha being his past-life mother. In fact, he visits her almost immediately and requests that she and Ethan accompany him on a scary mission to figure out more about the Man in Yellow, which involves taking a sneaky peek at the dirty brown car he originally drove into the Township in. Alarmingly, Victor finds a pouch of human teeth in the glove box, only further cementing the obvious similarities between this show and Apple TV\u2019s wonderful Widow\u2019s Bay<\/a>, the central mystery of which also seems to revolve pretty heavily around teeth<\/a>.<\/p>\n The discovery of the teeth panics Victor a little, since with the news about Tabitha, he\u2019s beginning to feel like history is repeating itself. Miranda arrived in the Township with a girl and a boy, and only the boy survived after the Man in Yellow appeared. This time, Tabitha came with a boy and a girl, and the Man in Yellow has returned, so Victor wants to \u201cprepare\u201d Ethan for what\u2019s coming by madly shoving the teeth in his face. I think he has the right idea, but his approach needs some work.<\/p>\n From Season 4, Episode 7 marks the point where Boyd and Jade clue the entire Township into what\u2019s going on, or at least what they believe is going on, which gets several characters moving. The theory that the children\u2019s bones are the key to their salvation, and that Jim might have been killed as a warning on account of getting too close to this truth, is as good an explanation as any other, and Boyd believes they\u2019re close to figuring the place out. He tasks Acosta with assembling a team and finding out as much as possible about the Man in Yellow, but his main plan involves testing out Tabitha\u2019s totems on the Creatures.<\/p>\n Of course, Sophia is in the background of most of these scenes, getting a running commentary on how much progress Boyd is making. Naturally, she starts to ask some awkward questions, and when she learns of Boyd\u2019s plan with the totem spears, she makes a brief trip to the shed with an egg to revive Roger, telling him it\u2019s time to play.<\/p>\n \u201cBest Laid Plans\u201d ends, predictably, with everything going wrong. Ellis and Kenny convince Boyd that on account of his tremors it\u2019s too dangerous for him to go out and fight the Creatures, so Kenny volunteers in his stead. He sneaks up behind one and skewers it, but the totem has no effect at all, and the Creatures immediately begin to round on him. Smiley himself arrives and chases him onto the roof of the bus, but Fatima, who can see through Smiley\u2019s eyes, is able to distract him enough that he isn\u2019t able to charge at and eat Kenny. But he\u2019s far from saved.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a newly revived Roger pulls his own sewn-up jaw off and breaks into Colony House, only to be immediately stabbed with a totem spear by Elgin. Sophia is just watching and smirking at the unfolding chaos. Poor Roger can\u2019t catch a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary From moves fast and furiously in \u201cBest Laid Plans\u201d, finally getting all of the Township on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5136,156,410,111,139,69,7687,437],"class_list":["post-465678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-drama","tag-entertainment","tag-horror","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}