By Juan Markos
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 09/23/2025
The episode opens with Arthur’s dead body on the beach; he appears blue and frozen, his eyes open and staring up at the sun. It seems that a few days have passed; Sylvia is at the children’s gravesite when she encounters the Alien. Prodigy security is scared off, and Eimes is briefing the boy genius about the current situation. He seems distracted, preoccupied with old videos of Wendy or Marcy. Eimes suggests evacuating, but he resists the advice.
The Lost Boys are now in a cell, and Nibs seems to be intact or healed, so I assume it has been a few days. They are beginning to realize the true nature of their predicament: they are the property of someone. Wendy explains to them about Peter Pan, revealing that they are all in a cell because they cannot become adults. Curly says she is their favorite, to which Wendy responds that she was his favorite. However, Wendy eventually grows up, and Peter Pan kidnaps her daughter. They are forever children and, therefore, merely ghosts. What do ghosts do? They haunt.
Wendy begins to interfere with the computer systems, causing the surveillance to go down, which cuts Kavalier’s conversation with Kirsh abruptly short. Joe Hermit is in a cell with Morrow. Did they want Morrow to kill Joe? Why would they both be placed in the same cell? Wendy starts haunting everyone. Sylvia is tormented by the footage of the children before they died, which plays and replays, causing her distress. She freaks out, breaking the monitor. I think she feels remorse about her actions with the Lost Boys program.
Morrow and Joe escape with Wendy’s help. Joe goes to find Wendy, while Morrow searches for Kirsh, leading to a confrontation. Kirsh seems to be at his end when he retaliates, but Morrow gets distracted by the Alien, allowing Kirsh to knock him out cold. Then Boy Kavalier pays a visit to the children, who remain in the cage despite being capable of escaping. He tells them a story about his father when he was younger, sharing how he built a synth at the age of six. His father came home one day to find the synth on the couch, and that was the end of his father. Kavalier built a figurehead to represent him, only as a child. It’s an odd story, but it sheds light on this supervillain.
Boy Kavalier runs and hides after Nibs kills his security guard, and the kids split up to find the rest of them—Sylvia, Eimes, Kirsh, and Joe. Looking for his sister, Joe goes into her room, where he finds Eimes waiting for him. Eimes says Kavalier has an offer for him, and I start to think that he is not just Kavalier’s business partner but actually the distinguished synth Kavalier built, his first creation.
Eimes leads Joe into his office, where he discovers that the sheep has been set free. As always, I suspected Kavalier wanted to use him as a host for that parasite. Joe comes close to being taken out by it when Wendy arrives and saves him. The squid creature escapes, and she freezes Eimes, who, after all, is a synth. Slightly and Smee find Kirsh and Morrow, tying Kirsh up, whose back is broken.
Now, Kavalier, Kirsh, Eimes, Sylvia, and Morrow all find themselves in a cage. Wendy, the Lost Boys, and Joe hold the keys and confront them. They tell Kavalier he’s a monster, that he’s not Peter Pan, and that he was never a boy. Sylvia is labeled a killer, while everyone else is just a jester in a circus.
As we see Yutani approach the island, Arthur’s body suddenly reanimates. With Wendy in control of the aliens, she declares, “Now we rule.” What a sick and twisted ending! I didn’t see any of this coming; I began to notice the kids malfunctioning but had no idea they, along with the aliens, would leave the facility. What will happen next? Will Yutani take control? Is Arthur now a zombie? Will we finally witness the aliens attack Earth? Who knows! But that’s a wrap for me. I will now cancel my Hulu account and continue to boycott the now fascist ABC, and I encourage you all to do the same.
