Cloak & Dagger, “Ghost Stories”, Review!

Young Tandy watches cartoons on the tv practicing ballet while young Tyrone has a thumb war with Billy.  Tandy’s father says there will always be distractions.  Billy says that Tyrone will be better than him.  It runs up to the first episode with the car accident and Connors shooting Billy.  Officer Fuchs (Lane Miller) makes pancakes for O’Reilly.  They are going to get Connors.  Tandy brings flowers to Ivan Hess at his hospital room, he can’t remember the explosion, except that they were digging at something ancient.  He knows of a memo placed in a safe deposit box under the name Bernoli, a safe word.  Tandy returns home and compliments her mother Melissa.  Tandy brings up the safe deposit box.  Tyrone’s father, Otis, asks him about his day at the breakfast table.  His mother, Adina, goes through a box and finds the key. The parallel narratives has Tandy ready to work out Roxxon’s secrets while Tyrone is about to take on Connors.  

Adina puts away the dishes, uncomfortable silence, Otis wants to bring over the Red Hots to the house.  A knock and Tyrone sees it’s Tandy.  He introduces her to his parents.  She explains her father died the same day as Billy.  Tandy walks out with Adina’s Roxxon i.d.  Flashback, little Tandy walks the streets in her ballet outfit.  She takes a cellphone from a woman’s purse.  Tandy tries to call home.  O’Reilly is at her desk, she is called over by Connors to i.d. a suspect.  The police sketch is Tyrone.  The Red Hots have come to visit Otis Johnson.  Roland Duplanter (Luray Cooper) checks on Tyrone.  He tells Tyrone about the difference about the cloak and a cape, “a cape hugs you.”  Otis tearfully holds the bundle of his son’s cloak.  The drive for both characters is delicately handled throughout the season, it is not a just a simple jumping off point to them becoming heroes.  

MARVEL'S CLOAK & DAGGER - "Ghost Stories" - (Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani).

Tyrone gets a text from Detective O’Reilly and sees her outside of the house.  She tells him Connors is looking for him.  Young Tyrone walks over to a woman guide explaining about Jack Rogers and blood transfusions.  He runs off and in the closet Tyrone sees Billy’s cloak.  Tandy is getting ready taking out fingerprints of Nathan Bowen.  Tyrone prepares Billy’s cloak and smears blood-like paint in a pattern on his sweater.  Tyrone brings the cloak to tell O’Reilly and Fuchs to pose as Billy to haunt Connors.  He puts on the cloak and closes his eyes.  A bloody foot, it’s young Tandy trying to return home, she takes a key from under the mat.  She finds her mother unconscious on the couch and makes a call.  Tyrone’s plan to trick Connors is an improvement over his earlier path of vengeance.   

At Roxxon, Tandy is sneaking in.  Connors is about to get to his car, Tyrone in his cloak reaches for his gun.  Tandy uses her Light Dagger to slice into the walls of Roxxon.  Connor’s gun is gone.  Tandy throws the Light Dagger at a circuit box.  Tyrone touches Connor’s neck, he flashes to seeing himself killing Billy, Tyrone whispers, “You killed me.”  Tandy holds the Light Dagger to Peter Scarborough’s (Wayne Pere) throat, the executive behind her father’s disgrace.  Connors goes to see O’Reilly who has identified the suspect from the police sketch at the docks.  He says he can see someone, but O’Reilly tells them there is no one.  Tyrone runs and Connors follows with his gun.  He fires and Tyrone appears and disappears as he shoots.  Tyrone says he tried to kill him and says his name is Billy Johnson. “I shot you”, Connors admits.  Fuchs has him on video and O’Reilly puts him in handcuffs arresting the killer.  This seems like justice is finally done.  

Peter Scarborough wakes up taped to a chair.  Tandy tells him that the fear drove the workers crazy.  She says that he got Greg, her mother’s boyfriend, killed.  Tandy holds the Light Dagger to his throat.  He tries to bargain for the evidence.  She leaves him.  O’Reilly tells Fuchs that she’s seen things in New York and kisses him.  Connors looks at them.  Night as the waves roll in, Tandy is there and Tyrone joins him, she admits she didn’t get a confession.  Her mother walks up and Tandy explains about him.  Tandy has a lantern, they quietly hold hands, in the Cloak and Dagger World, the duo finds her old front door, opening it, there is a theater.  Her mother is sitting and watches home movies on the theater.  Her mother smiles in the audience.  The film stops and flickers.  Tandy has her Light Dagger and stabs the screen, a black and white home movie with the music slowed, distorted.  She spills coffee on his papers.  He hits her.  Tandy looks at her mother.   It is interesting to see this layer to Melissa’s character.  The nightmare with Connors is not over, it is just beginning with a shocking revelation at the end! 

Four Light Daggers out of Five! 

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