Cloak and Dagger, “Colony Collapse”, Review!

The finale aired on Thursday. We have come to the end of season one with Tyrone and Tandy in a strange New Orleans finding out about the past and the Roxxon Corporation.  Tyrone is on the run from the police and Tandy is facing an assassin holding her mother hostage.  We have an opening that flashes back to the Native tribe nearly wiped out except two children, this is narrated by Chantelle, Evita’s aunt. They are marked on their shoulders, the girl takes a basket of stones, and walks into the river.  New Orleans is saved by her act. Evita looks at the figures of the Divine Pairs and places black and white figures of Cloak and Dagger on a shelf.  This brings the Divine Pairs that was mentioned by Chantelle into focus.  

The assassin counts down to the time when she will kill Melissa Bowen, Tandy’s mother, when Tandy steps out into the kitchen.  The assassin wants to see the Roxxon file and Tandy reveals the cover up by Peter Scarborough.  Tandy walks forward with her hands out.  The assassin stumbles with her gun, Tandy falls and in the confusion slashes her leg with her Light Dagger, the assassin runs while Melissa draws her gun.  Tandy runs off.  We pick up from last episode cliffhanger and get drawn into the threat of the Roxxon Corporation.   Tyrone is in a parade warehouse.  His father, Otis Johnson, has his brother’s cloak.  He has heard the police is after him and wants him to run away without contacting them.  

Tandy is looking for Mina and is attacked by a crazed man.  She uses the Light Dagger to kill him.  Another man zombified by the Roxxon gas attacks a door with an axe which Mina Hess is hiding behind.  Tandy takes care of him and explains to Mina that he is a Terror identified by her father in the fever dream.  Mina shows Tandy her laptop which shows nine valves around New Orleans which will release the chemical that turns people into Terrors.  Beads are thrown for Mardi Gras.  This really not the time for Laissez les bons temps rouler. Tyrone in his cloak walks amongst the revelers.  A police officer spots him and he shifts away in the crowd until running into Detective O’Reilly who pulls up with her car.  He is surrounded by police officers, but can’t use his powers in front of the crowd and both are arrested.  Cloak and Dagger have worked separately, but need to team up.  

Cloak & Dagger -- Episode: “Colony Collapse” -- Photo Credit: Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani.

Historical flashback, two bands are on the Wilson Brothers as they walk with dueling pistols.  One brother is shot.  The feud is over and the storm breaks.  Chantelle’s words come to Evita as she looks at the figures of the brothers.  Chantelle says Tyrone and Tandy are important as remembering the Divine Pairs from the past. The mix of past and the threat in the present is nice.  Detective O’Reilly and Tyrone are brought to the police station.  The cloak is put in a desk drawer.  Mina drives Tandy in her truck, she is despairing since Tandy took away her hope in a dream.  Tyrone and O’Reilly are in a room, not officially booked, O’Reilly talks to Officer Lafayette (Josh Ventura) watching over them.  Tyrone says he grew up in the Lower Ninth and that he didn’t kill Fuchs.  Officer Lafayette is about to free them, but is told Connors is arriving.  

Scarborough goes to an elevator and sees Tandy and Mina.  He says he is looking for power to compete with the Starks and the Rands, Iron Man and Iron Fist.  Scarborough admits that the core is out of control.  Mina punches him.  He admits the core is in the Annex Building 616, the Earth number of the Marvel Universe.  Tandy touches Scarborough’s face and shows him his hope in a forest of light, she shows him the door, inside is the alarms of the oil platform.  Tyrone tells O’Reilly that she is a good cop.  Connors walks in and tells them they are going for a drive, Tyrone will get loose and kill her, and he will kill Tyrone.  O’Reilly slips out a lock pick for her handcuffs.  Connors says it’s Mardi Gras.  A Terror comes in with an axe and is tazed.  An officer checks on the man and is turned into Terror and more come into the station.  The Terrors are loose now, it's Walking Dead in New Orleans!  

Another historical flashback, the aftermath of the War of 1812, a soldier dies trying to get a message of the cease fire, a woman who strangely looks like O’Reilly finds the message and runs to deliver the message.  Chantelle tells Evita that they have to know their fate, one lives, one dies!  Tandy and Mina walk, but are stopped by gunfire tearing up a car, the assassin reloads.  Terrors are running towards them and attack the assassin.  Tandy uses her Light Dagger to open a parade warehouse, Mina tries to close a window, but a Terror breaks through and grabs her hand.  Tandy is alone.  In the chaos at the police station, Tyrone warns O’Reilly not to touch the Terrors.  He asks Officer Lafayette about his cloak and he is told that it was moved to the weapons locker.  He is attacked by a Terror corrupted officer and Lafayette shoots him.  He stands watch as O’Reilly and Tyrone rush to find the cloak.  

Cloak & Dagger -- Episode: “Colony Collapse” -- Photo Credit: Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani.

Tandy has her Light Dagger as Terror Mina looks for her.  Tyrone is un-cuffed by O’Reilly and takes the cloak.  He teleports to the Terror filled room and gives the Mercy Bullet gun to Officer Lafayette.  Tyrone yells for the Terror to attack him.  The Terrors push Tyrone into a room and they grab for him on a desk and he tells the officer to lock the door.  The Terrors rip at Tyrone’s cloak as Terror Mina runs at Tandy with her two Light Daggers.  Tyrone is suddenly there and fires the taser gun at Mina and she falls.  Mina is saved, sort of, but the Terrors are still out there.  Evita regards the black and white figures as Tyrone and Tandy run.  Connor points his shotgun at Tandy and Tandy slices through his shotgun with her Light Dagger.  Tyrone takes hold of Connors and shifts him to a rooftop.  He throws him down, Connors draws his gun, and Tyrone sends out black threads that pull Connors in, Cloak finally uses his power!  Cloak has his power, but Dagger’s purging dagger is not there. 

The ground shudders and Tyrone says that Evita is right, he has to die.  He appears at the core with the alarms going off, he knows he has to turn the valves.  Tandy cuts threw a door and she’s cut on the arm.  The dark gas begins to flood the room as Tandy holds out her hand with the glow.  Darkness meets light and the gas mixes.  They are on a rooftop, she holds up her dagger and projects the light upwards with Tyrone expelling the darkness.  The duo is on a roof of the Louisiana Superdome holding hands.  We hear Olivia Holt’s rendition of Styx’s “Come Sail Away.”  Evita holds the figures as news reports come in about the acts of aggression that went away with a strange burst of light.  A maintenance worker enters an elevator with a Peter Scarborough who is comatose without hope.  

Otis Johnson looks out his window as the police officers are in his house along with Father Delgado and his wife, Adina.  She hears a noise and walks up stairs.  She enters Tyrone’s room to see only his jacket.  Melissa sees her daughter holding up the headline, “Roxxon Responsible.”  Tyrone drops his bag into the church and places a photo of his family on a table.  He unrolls his bedroll and Tandy arrives with a box, a care package, she is learning to care.  The church is where the comics characters take as a base.   Out of a swamp, a changed O’Reilly crawls out, Mayhem! In the comics, she is poisoned by a gas, it looks like the Terror here, and the duo try to revive her, but she turns into a killer who can send out a poisonous gas that paralyzes people or use her fingernails to claw the poison into victims!  

Five Light Daggers out of Five!  

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