Now that David is with Melanie and the rest of the Summerland mutants, they’re trying to stabilize David a bit by showing him that he’s never really been mentally ill, it was always his powers.
Knowing what comic books fans know about this character, good fecking luck with that.
She teaches him how to screen out the voices (people’s thoughts), and they take a little stroll through his memories, courtesy of mutant Ptonomy Wallace.
One particularly odd and creepy memory they visit is David’s father reading him a book as a child called The Angriest Boy in the World–which features a line about the creepy cartoon boy chopping his mother’s head off. This is obviously an important and uncomfortable memory, as the adult David frequently appears in the bed instead of the child David.
He tells them his father was an astronomer. I wonder how that will play out, what kind of strange memory that is, since we all know who David’s father is. Unless, of course, the showrunners aren’t following that bit of the character’s background. There’s something about talking stars that he says he can’t talk about? Was this a part of some early form of training?
We also see other parts of his past, including running around with his sister as a kid, and him getting high on some weird blue vapor with Lenny outside the hospital.
I still wonder about her. We know she was real in some capacity, as Syd killed her by fusing her into the wall, but these memories still have an air of unreality.
Between that memory and a memory of a therapy session, the group sees glitches in David’s memory where the Demon with Yellow Eyes shows up briefly, and Ptonomy finds he can’t rewind and isolate anything with the Demon in it. David won’t let him.
The group ends up sending David for an MRI (fMRI?) since they can’t manipulate his memories, and we meet Carey. There’s some discussion that hints at Carey’s nature when David catches Carey talking to himself. Later, as the camera pans out, we see his sister, Kerry.
During his MRI, it seems David’s powers are triggered, and he sees his sister. She’s looking for him at the hospital (where they deny he was ever a patient), and gets abducted by The Eye (the creepy mutant that was sitting in on his interrogation in the previous episode). Of course, David begins to panic. He ends up transporting the MRI machine outside.
They manage to convince David to not go running off after his sister (as she’s obviously bait) until he’s a bit more in control.
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