It is an obvious trap, which Ben reminds Ryn, but she’s undeterred. When they get there, everyone’s gone except Hunter, who is tied up and left to deliver a message. Once the military discerns Tia’s location, Ben and Ryn go after her. This is poorly plotted and throws away an entire season of character work. It apparently clicks for him that some mermaids are bad and some are good.
Then two things happen he sees Ben and Ryn and the hybrids trying to help… again, and he recognizes Tia in the manifesto as the mermaid who almost attacked him. Even when Helen asks for use of his facilities, he hesitates. Not much later, he was chastising Ryn for daring to exist and for, as he tells it, ruining Ben’s life. Less than 24 hours prior, Ted was fuming at Helen for bringing Eliza to help Xander. There’s nothing wrong with the attitude change, in theory, though it is a waste of perfectly good buildup for Ted’s villain turn. Helen and the hybrids volunteer to help the deputies canvas the town for injured folks, and bring them in for treatment. While Maddie and Robb distribute the cure, and Ryn and Ben hunt Tia down, Xander searches for Sheriff Bishop, who is still missing.
Helen informs Ryn that Hunter abducted Hope, for Tia, so Ryn and Ben set out to find them, and take Tia down once and for all. Robb arrives with a recording of his people’s echo chamber, which he and Maddie use to revive Xander from the coma he fell into as a result of Tia’s attack. They are completely unnecessary in this episode and the entire season, and at this point, I have to wonder if there’s a clause somewhere that mandates the military be included, even when their presence adds absolutely nothing to the story.Ĭarrying on. She sends video manifestos to news stations in the affected regions, implicating other nations, presumably hoping countries would turn on each other and finish her work for her, bringing her villainy to its cartoonish peak.Ĭommander Anderson and Lieutenant Maeda arrive in Bristol Cove with military aid, where they do nothing useful, except find Tia moderately faster than Ben and Ryn would have on their own. Now, her sonic attack has spread to the entire Pacific Northwest and parts of Asia, making it a global attack. In the previous episode, Tia unleashed her weaponized song on the unsuspecting citizens of Bristol Cove, sending the small coastal town and surrounding county into a panic.