Drill had plenty of plans here for the children, as the action hotted up and right about now, we get to meet Nicholas (Darien Provost) you know the usual child, a loner, bullied by the others and his claim he saw a ghost wasn't even entertained by his aloof father. It's no wonder he was so neglected aside from his mother. His father, Brewster (Jeremy Guilbaut) also busy at work, but again he had a strategic job, so it was easy enough to get Nicholas to do Drill's bidding for him. First we get him being abused by the bullies at the playground and then Drill makes his move. Even later on getting the other boys to see him as a friend and help him.
Wes (Barry Sloane) and Claire (Lily Rabe) think they could maybe draw Drill into a corner as they can detect him on the thermal camera, they can lead him away from the main power supplies and into an isolated location where they can take him out. Of course Frommer (David Andrews) objects and it's up to the president to give the go ahead. This leads them to the abandoned house which was Riverview Asylum again (yay always loved that place) as was also used last ep with the hospital where Wes and Lena (Kristen Connolly) found the Rabbi. Oh and an aside, I would love to see what paranormal photos Milo caught when he filmed here and took pics, but alas he didn't post any on Twitter or anywhere else!)
As they get Drill into he building, Wes says he's got to go in after him and get the boy out, but Claire won't let him do it alone. They have him cornered but can see Drill is in the boy and they don't want to take him out. That was what Frommer told the president, that he's go to be ready to give the order to have that one child destroyed so that Drill too will be finished, only bet he didn't bank on who that child would actually be. Wes and Claire try to talk Drill round, but that's no good, they either let Drill go or he will end Nicholas.
The scenes where Henry (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) and Sean (Milo Ventimiglia) were stuck in the power outage, blackout or whatever you want to call it, were more interesting. As Sean has to take Henry in the car and then drive over the pavement just to beat the traffic, where he gets into an accident and has to get help to pull Henry out of the car. Maybe Drill also wanted Henry hurt like that, I don't know cos he has Claire where he wants her and here Henry may have needed to have been used as some sort of leverage or bargaining power by him. It's so apparent there's no easy or simple answer or clue as to Drill's actions or 'thoughts.' This is where the show came into its own and really heated up after such a slow start, but alas it was a little too late, as you can already tell the show's days were numbered.
This of course was after Sean took Henry to hospital cos he was getting sick and as we will learn, he's not the only one, most of the children visited by Drill are developing some sort of mystery illness. Either cos of Drill being into their brains, or some other reason. Either way this was yet another of Drill's plans/manipulations, to get its way. Though I think Lena thinking taking Minx (Kylie Rogers) on a cruise would help get her away from Drill, may have looked good on paper, but in practice it was a stupid time to go. She should've taken Wes's advice and gone when he told her to stay withe her mother or something. Cos flights are delayed and then the blackout, she just gives up and decides to come home. Here she meets a man who offers her a ride and it was obvious he wasn't doing it out of the goodness of his heart. Knew he was a reporter (Tom Butler) yes he was that apparent, making notes and everything. Guess what they now needed was this to hit the news so that others would be aware of what was happening, but again that came too late and would've only sparked more panic as we'll come to see.
Oh what a mistake, whereas some thought Lena would be killed by the mysterious do-gooder, it's actually Drill who does the dirty, guess we shouldn't have been so shocked. The way the trail lead to the fridge and uh-oh, bzzzz! Ha. Sorry but that was coming, no one wears shoes, well she didn't in that house and Drill couldn't let her take Minx away. That was his punishment for her trying to do that, she probably also knows too much and he did get what he wanted from her in killing Thomas, or helping to. Some would say it was her karma for the shooting. But she was an adult and collateral damage. Though Minx did look like she was genuinely upset when Wes comes home and finds her and just as things were better between them. Ultimately it was to get back at Wes and for his interference with Nicholas. But it was poignant for Wes to come home and find her like that, which he wasn't expecting and was seriously complacent about, just how much of a threat Drill really is to his family.
Heck Minx, we're meant to suspect she will be the one child Drill wants, but with three eps to go still, that'd be too obvious, she's more likely the red herring. Seems everything is going to go wrong for Wes which is the complete opposite for Claire, as she gets her family back, in that Sean returned to her, was that some sort of karma too for their affair, never did find out why they had one. I know it's ancillary and a minor plot point but I wanted to know how she'd cheat on Sean with Wes! They're not exactly the same and why would anyone cheat on Sean!! Ha. Obviously Drill needed the codes from Nicholas's father which is why he became so interested in using him, again the operative word being 'used.' But Frommer is so despicable as Drill in terms of being a human and even if he has national security at heart he's more interested in what this can do for him and his career.
At least Sean and Henry got some bonding moments in the gridlock, such as the Peter Pan reference, "second star to he right and straight on til morning." Strangely it was such a topical reference looking to the heavens where Drill lurks and thousands or millions of others like him out there. But also one about a boy who never grew up and Drill ironically being able to communicate only with children. Could also be an inadvertent reference to Sean himself, seeing as he was the only human that could communicate with Drill and vice versa. Was it a coincidence that no sooner had Sean said that, then their car is hit?!
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