Cloak and Dagger, “B Sides”, Review!

The episode opens with someone looking through the records of Tandy Bowen’s life ending with “The Perfect Life”, the record is played and we get the young Tandy next to the young Tyrone on the beach.  We saw the record store in the Cloak dimension.  Tandy’s father, Nathan (Andy Dylan), and Ty’s brother run up to them.  Then, we get Tandy giving a cheer to Tyrone as a police officer(!) next to Evita with his family there.  Then, Connors enters and everyone is happy he arrived.  Otis thanks Connors for being Tyrone’s mentor.  Chantelle gives Ty a protective root.  The strange dream seems almost like a perfect world, but it screams out even if normal that there is something wrong.  What is wrong and evil is still out there.  Tandy along pours herself another glass of champagne.  Her parents tell her about dancing for the New York City Ballet.  Melissa asks Duane (Dalon J. Holland) to dance.  Her father reaches out to touch his wife and this disturbs Tandy.  Everyone stares at her.  Tandy’s memory is still there in this fantasy.  Tyrone walks over to speak with Tandy later in the porch.  He is amazed that she would fly out from New York to see his graduation.  They walk to get ice and they go over their first meeting.  They reach a store and he explains that because of Tandy Connors didn’t arrest his brother and himself.  They get the ice and a punk kid tries to hit on her and not ahappy at hanging around with Tyrone.  The paranoid store owner pulls a gun on them.  Tyrone has handed his badge to Tandy.  She drops the ice, the owner fires, and Tandy touches Ty sending off the Dagger light.  Tyrone falls into boxes and the Cloak darkness spreads from him.  She is surprised she has a Light Dagger.  

CLOAK AND DAGGER -- “B Sides” -- OLIVIA HOLT -- Alfronso Bresciani/Freeform.

This moves to the kitchen where Melissa is making lunch and Tandy in a Roxxon shirt looks over to see a Roxxon hard hat.  Another record is played, “Fractured Family.”  Tandy is confused as her mother explains that she is going on a helicopter to check on Roxxon.  She hears sirens which gives her a headache.  She gets a call from Mr. Scarborogh. Melissa mentions that she earned her job not just from her father.  The helicopter heads over to the oil rig.  The workers are busy so Tandy sees a worker who looks like Tyrone and Billy. Mina is angry that Scarborogh sent someone to check on her.  She calls her “Structural Engineering Barbie.”  A worker comes out of an ambulance door.  We know that Tandy is trapped in an ambulance in the real world.  Tyrone takes Tandy to a control room.  Tandy is working for Roxxon in this world because of her mother.  Oil workers Tyrone and Tandy are fine and we get back to Roxxon, but reality is intruding.  Tandy notices the pressure build-up.  Dr. Hess is still angry at Tandy.  Tyrone and Tandy try to warn her.  She sees a figure and then the alarms go off.  I think something or someone is trying to keep Tandy from the real world.  Steam vents, workers run, and Tandy activates the Dagger power.  Tyrone tries to help Tandy up.  Mina is trapped and Tyrone tries to help her.  Tandy finds she has the Light Dagger and swings it at the pipe blocking Mina.  

Strapped in the ambulance, Tandy’s arm has a needle inserted by Lia, her Light Dagger disappears.   The record is stopped and flipped over to the B Side, “All Alone.”  So this is Tandy’s mind trying to wake up?  Tandy is an activist on the New Orleans streets trying to get a petition to save the shorebirds.  She calls out to a man, Liam (Carl Lundstedt), who she thinks dropped a paper.  This was her old boyfriend.  His girlfriend, Mikayla, joins them and Tandy makes her spiel.  She stumbles and Liam catches her, then signs the petition.  Tandy sees something is wrong, the picture distorts, and then she has to run with Liam’s wallet.  She sees Tyrone enter a car.  He is trying to carjack it with a screwdriver when Tandy enters the car.  Tandy takes out a knife to threaten him and they leave behind a police officer.  Tyrone says his brother went to prison and became a drug addict.  Tandy gets a flash of the ambulance.  She starts to panic.  They drive in the night.  She mentions Mikayla and then feels the pain of the needle.  They hear police sirens and Tyrone speeds.  Tandy sees an ambulace in the mirror.  She sees someone on the road, Tyrone swerves, and she has her Light Dagger as the car turns.  In the ambulance, Tandy is still unconscious, but says, “It’s not real!”  Lia is worried that Tandy is waking up and Andre checks on her.  

CLOAK AND DAGGER -- “B Sides” -- AUBREY JOSEPH, OLIVIA HOLT -- Alfronso Bresciani/Freeform.

Another record is going to be played by someone who looks like Andre.  It is a record called “Jam Session.”  It is back on the street with Tandy and her petition.  Tandy grabs Liam’s arm and tells Mikayla her scam.  Tandy sees a person again on the street and Mikayla notices Tandy has Liam’s wallet.  Mikayla calls for the police when Tandy has her Light Dagger.  Tandy runs and is surrounded by the police.  She breaks into a room that is the oil rig with alarms.  Mina is there trying to warn her.  I think Tandy needs to unleash her full Dagger power and explode with light.  Mina says in the second reality that it is Tandy’s fault.  Tandy tells her to shut up and the reality distorts.  Dream Tandy sees the figures in the reality trying to attack her vulnerabilities.  She runs and finds herself in Tyrone’s house in the first reality.  Tandy wants to know what is happening to Adina and Evita.  She has on the Roxxon shirt, one reality in another, and her mother tries to calm her.   Her father takes hold of her.  Tandy is trying to fight the reality and sees the man in the crowd, it looks like Andre or someone like him.  Nathan is angry at Tandy and she tells him to shut up before snapping into another reality.  It is the record store.  She sees the record playing and sees Andre, she throws her Light Dagger and is strikes Antoine.  He is the supernatural villain, D'Spayre, created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne in Marvel Team-Up #68 (1978).  Though he hasn't shown any powers besides possibly entering Tandy's mind.  He explains that he was suffering from headaches and was going to jump from a building before the rig explosion.

Tandy takes out a record with her screaming as a girl with the title, “Daddy’s Little Girl.”  Andre says he helps most people except the hopeless.  She takes her Light Dagger to his neck.  Tandy stabs the record, Andre screams out, and she wakes in the ambulance with two Light Daggers!  She gets free of the ambulance and a car speeds off.   Tyrone is talking to O’Reilly trying to find Tandy.  He is in the church and then hears footsteps.  It is Tandy and they hug.  She tells him she knows who is taking the missing girls.  O’Reilly wants to know why they would return to the scene of the crime.  Other police have arrived.  Tyrone has to leave and Tandy takes his hand so they can Cloak to Andre’s office where he is trying to take the money.  Lia has a knife to Mikayla’s throat.  Tandy throws her Light Dagger making Lia duck.  Antoine pulls a gun on Tandy.  Tyrone says it’s over.  Andre says he was in Tandy’s head and thinks she has nothing.  There is always the pairing, Cloak and Dagger!  Andre shoots Tyrone several times!  Tandy holds her friend.  He closes his eyes and blood pools around him.  In the record store, they are there, Andre, tells her he is dead.  He says everyone she knows she hurts and takes away her Light Dagger.  Hope.  Tandy is alone in the darkness we move to the light of the ambulance and Antoine says, “She’s ready” to Lia.  Tandy is taken away on a gurney.  We see in reflection the Viking Motel.  I can see the playing of realities.  Tandy should have known if she was in the real world.  The surrealism of waking in the ambulance with no one around should have warned her.  A very strong episode! 

Five Light Daggers out of Five! 

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