The Gifted recap: The 5 takeaways from teMpted

This week on The Gifted, the Mutant Underground discovers Reeva’s terrifying plans for taking down the government. Here are the five takeaways from this week’s episode!

Last week on The Gifted, Andy and the Frost sisters decided to lure Lauren Strucker to the Inner Circle by ambushing her in the dream realm. The team was also ambushed before they had a chance to meet with Evangeline–who I suspect may have faked her death in the attack. This sparked a confrontation between John and Erg which led Clarice to leave the group and join the Morlocks. It wasn’t the strongest episode of the season but it set up some promising payoffs for the upcoming finale.

This week Lorna discovers the secret mission Reeva is planning and it’s huge. We also spent some time with the Morlocks after something goes disastrously wrong that forces Erg to work with humans. What most people will be expecting is to see whether the Frost sisters were able to mind control Lauren in her dreams.

All this and so much more is explained on this week’s episode, so, let’s get right into it. Here are the five takeaways from the latest episode of The Gifted!

1. Reeva’s master plan

On this episode, Lorna continued her journey into switching sides against the Inner Circle by trying to dig for information about Reeva’s true intentions. During training, she fakes an accident to make it appear as if she cut herself so she could slip away and check Max’s room for anything specific. Once she does, she finds what she is looking for and it’s far worse than she originally imagined. We also learn right before this that Max has the ability to make a building infrastructure fall apart by touching its surface,

The next scene Lorna and Marcos are together meeting together secretly in a car to discuss what she found. She explains that Reeva is planning to destroy the White House, Pentagon, and many other government structures. This provokes the Mutant Underground to seek support alliances but unfortunately, no one wants to help.

The weird part is how Reeva has kept this all a secret from Lorna and Andy. Does she not trust them?

2. The Frost sisters fail

Last week ended on a cliffhanger, which seemed to suggest that the Frost sisters were about to control Lauren’s mind in the dream realm between her and Andy. Well, this week we discovered this is not so easy.

In the episode, Lauren can sense someone is probing her mind in her dreams with Andy so she forces herself to stay awake throughout the episode. Once she can’t fight it, she meets Andy in her dreams again and the Frost sisters attempt to manipulate her instead of control her mind, which also fails miserably. In summary, Lauren might actually be more powerful than the Frost girls.

The episode also saw the conflict between Lauren and Reed finally come to a bursting point. The last few episodes, Lauren has felt the darkness inside her grow stronger due to that music box. The music box plays a tune called “The Erlking,” which is said to lure children to darkness while the parents are unaware. Reed warns her that she needs to ignore the music as well as their past and she becomes resentful of her father, mainly because she does not believe he understands her struggle.

This causes Lauren to run away from home. John later forces Reed to acknowledge this by comparing his need to suppress his powers because the feeling of it scares him. Once he finds Lauren, Reed explains to his daughter that he does understand her struggle and how the darkness inside him scares him–because he likes it. After working out their differences, Reed helps Lauren by giving her the same medicine he uses to suppress his powers so that she can sleep peacefully without Andy or the Frost sisters interfering.

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3. Marcos and Glow are getting dangerously close

Does anyone else smell trouble brewing here? Towards the beginning of the episode, the Morlocks went above ground to get supplies for their people. During the mission, cops showed up and sabotaged everything, which forced them to vacate quickly through Clarice’s portal.

Before they could escape though, Glow took a bullet to the abdomen, thus critically wounding her. This forces Clarice/Blink to seek help from the Inner Circle because Erg doesn’t want to take a fugitive to a hospital.

Here is where things get complicated. Marcos and Glow have the same type of illuminated blood, which enables Marcos to donate blood to her so she does not die. In the scene though, they both share a moment once again and you can tell there is some romantic tension lingering between them.

There’s no way this subplot isn’t being shown for a reason, which should concern fans who are rooting for Lorna and Marcos. That said, a relationship between Glow and Eclipse would be lit (pun intended).