Night at the swamp, a car alarm goes off, as Avery throws a flare to make a fire. He takes out a body and then flashes back to a father, Burritt Sunderland (Steve Wilcox) and a growling from an alligator. His boy, Avery (Eli Hannon), doesn’t want to kill it, so the father stabs the gator. Avery kicks the body into the fire. Two men are carrying lanterns into the swamp. One takes a chainsaw cutting into a tree to make a path. The other, Todd (Andrew Yankel) tries tries to stop him, and a body falls from the trees, biting him in the arm! This is the classic zombie plague that spreads through people. They run off to their boat. The lifeless corpse is examined by the Swamp Thing. At the bar, owner Delroy (Al Mitchell) greets Todd, who looks at the cut on his arm. Liz checks on him, he is starting to see things, but it is empty dish water. He reaches into the dishwater and out comes a snake wrapped around his arm. He takes a knife and stabs his ar, then swings at Delroy and Liz. Delroy looks after him and the man rakes his fingernails on his arm! Another infection!
SWAMP THING -- “Darkness on the Edge of Town” -- CRYSTAL REED, DEREK MEARS -- Photo Credit: Fred Norris / 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Abby is on a boat on the swamp calling out for Alec. Vines grasp the boat and hold it fast, then release it. Swamp Thing looks at Abby who asks him for a tissue sample. He extends vines from his arm to give her a piece of him. Swamp Thing warns her and leaves. Abby is looking at the sample in a microscope when Dr. Woodrue enters. He thinks she made a mistake that the sample looks like a plant not an animal. Woodrue looks at the microcope at the green organic matter that looks like a plant, but in the shape of a human. Woodrue says he is more qualified to examine the sample. We are slowly getting to Swamp Thing’s nature and of course this will have consequences for Woodrue. Abby knows he is employed by Avery Sunderland. She wants to keep the results confidential. She finds Daniel Cassidy with balloons who calls himself a blue devil! Abby sits next to Susie is drawing a picture of Swamp Thing. Avery and Maria invited everyone for a crawfish boil at the town hall! Maria sits next to Susie to talk to her. Avery speaks with Abby surprised she didn’t leave with the CDC.
At Delroy’s, Sheriff Cable has Delroy and Liz go over the incident as Todd is taken away on a gurney. Abby enters with Liz suspicious about what may have come from the swamp. Delroy starts to have dark visions. Liz and Abby wonder what is happening to him. Delroy sees his mother bleeding on the floor. He starts to see men in bizarre masks and takes out a shotgun! Abby and Liz shout to Delroy, but he can’t heart them. He fires a shot at one of the nightmare figures and it strikes a window. Several more shots before the sheriff enters with her handgun pointed at him. A man with pig head mocks Delroy, he finds his shotgun has jammed!, and the sheriff tackles him. He scratches her across the neck. Abby takes a tranquilizer needle from her bag and injects Delroy. Sheriff Cable sees blood on her fingers from her wound as she calls for an ambulance. Maria is worrying about Susie losing her father. Avery says the swamp took his father. At the hospital, Delroy wakes and Liz says he didn’t hurt anyone. He says it was a memory of masked men who broke in at the roadhouse. Delroy tells Abby where Todd was in the swamp.
SWAMP THING -- “Darkness on the Edge of Town” -- CRYSTAL REED -- Photo Credit: Fred Norris / 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Abby tells Liz she is going to investigate. She takes her boat to the swamp and uses a flashlight to find her way around the trees. The tree branches part and Abby asks for Alec. She finds the chainsaw and the belt buckle. Then, she stumbles on the corpse and examines its jaw. Abby takes a photo of it before being startled by Swamp Thing who says there is a Darkness. She pieces together the path of the infection and realizes that Lucilia Cable is the next victim! At the Marais Town Hall, Avery starts the party with towns people drinking and dancing to the band. Avery has Susie stay with them. Daniel is met by Xanadu and he asks about his mission. She is having difficulty sensing what is happening and says that “a storm is coming.” What is Daniel’s destiny? Could be as a demonic superhero? Xanadu says he made a bargain eight years ago that keeps him in Marai. Abby picks up Liz in her jeep. She tells Liz about the scratch. Liz has researched a strange event that appeared to spread the infection. Sheriff Cable is at the party and sees her son, he speaks distorted, she sees an argument and then is stabbed in the chest by the man. The sheriff makes the officer down call and uses her jacket to cover his wound. She only has her jacket on the floor.
Lucilia Cable sees the killer and takes out her gun. Abby tries to break the spell and stands in the way her gun! Daniel tackles the sheriff and takes away the gun. Abby struggles with the sheriff and then is scratched! She sees the bloody wounds and heads to the swamp!
Abby is boating back to the lab calling for Alec, Swampy, but he is not there. She starts to fall under the spell of the Darkness. A young Abby (Bianca Berry Tarantino) faces the spirit of her father! We get a glimpse of Abby’s past. He holds her up in a chokehold, but of course it is Swamp Thing holding her! He takes the infection from her, vines writhing form his shoulders. Swamp Thing staggers into the bayou. He touches the loom of the swamp floor. Abby is confused and Swamp Thing says the plants are talking to him, The Green! Avery and Maria are looking at the dining room. He says he is still paying for the services of Jason Woodrue. Later, he gives a check to man outside. Abby says she will stay around to help Alec. She thinks a “faceless monster” would take away her mother when she was a child. Abby calls Alec her friend. This episode dives deep into the past of severa characters brought to the swamps by the Darkness and we have a threat that may be at the center of all of the problems!
Five Vines out of Five!
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