There was a pause from last week, but we are back to the swamp tonight! Maria is talking on the phone to about Susie. She is stunned looking at the ceiling and Avery notes that she is funding Dr. Woodrue. There is a groaning at the ceiling. Sheriff Cable is in a robe looking at Avery. Maria walks the darkened hall calling for Susie. She is frightened having seen the girl from the pictures, Shawna, Maria's daughter, down stairs. Maria goes to get a blanket and finds Susie missing from the bed. Water runs from the bathroom, Maria sees the dark water in the bathtub, her dead daughter, Shawna, appears from the dark water. Shawna has a zombie-like form and says she is being replaced. Swamp Thing looks at a yellow tag on a tree and flashes back to Alec Holland checking the same tag. He touches the swamp water and finds a body rise from it.
Then, vines entrap his arms, Swampy screams, and then is freed. A stranger (Macon Blair) with a beard moves through the swamp and he asks about the fishing to Swamp Thing. He doesn’t seem too fazed talking to a swamp creature. This is actually the Phantom Stranger, who first appeared in The Phantom Stranger #1 (1952), and he is a supernatural advisor. Daniel is racing in his car, but stops at the Marais town sign. He reaches out and then his right hand ignites in blue flame! In his trunk is a mask of a blue devil with eyes that glow! It looks like we are getting closer to Daniel's superhero identity! Sheriff Cable rolls off of Avery in bed, she gets dressed, he notes that she is still wearing her ring. The murder is like something out of Twin Peaks. Abby is studying a sample of the Swamp Thing. We finally have her return and then we get the arrival of Jason Woodrue. He mentions the regenerative properties of the sample. Next, he brings up Alec Holland. She gets a call from Susie.
SWAMP THING -- “Drive All Night” -- DEREK MEARS - - Photo Credit: Fred Norris / 2020 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Delroy finds Avery cooking turtle soup in his kitchen. Avery brings up his daughter, Liz, investigating too closely in his matters. Liz brings up the banker she was supposed to meet about his business. Avery eliminated that threat. Climbing into Alec’s lab is Jason Woodrue and Remy Dubois (William Mark McCullough), Woodrue uses a flashlight to find some samples of the Swamp Thing. Woodrue is also getting closer to his transformation. In the swamp, the Phantom Stranger mentions The Green, the trees that hold memories. The Green is the concept created by Alan Moore in his run on the comic book. The Phantom Stranger gives a warning to Swampy who touches the tree and has vines twist around him. He sees Abby swimming and screaming out for Shawna. Abby goes to the Sunderland mansion and meets with Maria. Up the stairs they hear some singing. Abby flashes back when Shawna was singing at the bridge when they were younger. She opens the door and finds Susie. Susie seems possessed by the spirit of Shawna.
Abby realizes that Shawna is there, it gets all Poltergeist, she sees Shawna drowning in the window. Zombie Shawna vomits something slimy. Maria sends out Abby. The possessed Susie wants Maria to be together with her. Madame Xanadu warns Abby that Susie needs to be saved. Sheriff Cable drives her jeep over to the woods to meet with Remy. She asks him about his boat since it was the only one out except Holland’s boat. He takes out a rifle. The sheriff shoots Remy when he threatens her son. Abby is driving with Xanadu who says she opened a door. She mentions her mother’s death at eight that she holds Xanadu responsible. The possessed Susie leads Maria out in the swamp. Abby looks at a grave when Susie runs up to her. Then, she goes to help Maria who is dazed walking in the swamp water. Abby tries to apologize and Maria starts to force her to drown in the water!
SWAMP THING - - “Drive All Night” - - DEREK MEARS, VIRGINIA MADSEN - - Photo Credit: Fred Norris / 2020 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Abby gets free and tries to swim away. Maria is taken under and Abby tries to find her. Swamp Thing appears with Maria in his arms. He says he saw her and with a touch shows her the vision at the bridge. A BMW races to the bridge and the young Abby (Melissa Collazo) and Shawna get out with Shawna at the edge. Abby pushes her over the bridge into the river and then dives in to save her. Shawna pops out of the water laughing at her, then is pulled under! Abby snaps out of the vision realizing that Shawna died from something, she is not the cause. Matt Cable calls out for Abby. At the bar, Delroy talks to Liz, and then she asks Daniel about his hand. She leaves and is confronted by men in masks. She can handle herself knocking one down. Daniel is knocked out by the other thug. Avery goes to the hospital to hear about Maria and is met by Jason Woodrue. He says the sample was from a “living creature.” Avery gives him contact information. This episode goes into the dark secret of Abby Arcane, Maria's obsession endangers Susie, and gets closer to the comic book ties!
Five Vines out of Five!
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