Gen V – Welcome to the Monster Club

By: Gladys Luna

After the events that took place on a prior episode where Sam (Asa Germann) almost gets Dr. Cardosa’s (Marco Pigossi) family killed, the young supes wake up realizing they don’t have a clear recollection of the past days. Andre (Chance Perdomo) awakens next to Cate (Maddie Phillips) while drops of what seems to be a gooey substance falls from the ceiling and straight to his face. The young couple decides to get out of bed and figure out where they are and, most importantly, how is it they ended up there without remembering a thing about it. While they are searching for a clue, they realize they’re not alone given that there are other people around having fun and doing all sort of crazy things. They go opening door by door until they reach a room where they find Marie (Jaz Sinclair) and Jordan (London Thor) / (Derek Luh) naked and sleeping next to each other. The noise startles the two girls making the whole situation uncomfortable when they see Andre and Cate standing by the door. The pair leaves immediately giving the girls some privacy but it is too late to change the awkwardness that has already settled in the room. Marie decides to go in search of her friend Emma (Lizze Broadway) and finds her still in her giant form lying inside of the house pool. In the meantime, Andre, Cate and Jordan are still trying to figure out what happened and then they see some videos that Justine (Maia Jae Bastidas) has uploaded where they can see themselves among other students having a wild party. Now that Emma has managed to go back to her regular size, she focuses her attention on Marie and her confusion about what appears to be her growing feelings for Jordan. Right in the middle of their conversation Sam shows up feeling relieved for having found them but is taken aback by the horrified way in which they are looking at him. He tries to apologize for having snapped at them before but the girls still don’t seem to have any idea of who he is and what he is referring to, a fact that makes him understand what has truly happened so he leaves promising that he’ll find a solution for all of this. Later on, Emma decides to go back to her room to clean herself while Marie is left with Andre, Cate and Jordan to discuss about the memory gap of the past few days that they all strangely have in common now. Marie takes the opportunity to tell them about the weird encounter they had with Sam, but then Cate sees a video of the party they were part of and is surprised to discover that Rufus (Alexander Calvert) was there too. Given his reputation the current situation has his name written all over it but still, they cannot seem to understand why he would do something like this to them. This is where Marie takes the opportunity to make her confession about the disgusting encounter she had with him. Surprisingly for all of them, she is not the only one who has been a victim of his tricks since Cate ends up confessing the horrific experience they had shared as well. Hearing this makes Andre bolt the place in rage, seeking for vengeance against the psychic.

Meanwhile, things don’t seem to be any easier for Dean Shetty (Shelley Conn) since she is now having a heated conversation with Dr. Cardosa who is angry about the unpleasant situation he was in with Sam. The man is not willing to invest more time in Sam and prefers to focus his attention on improving the virus that will finally help them to have full control on the supes, but that’s not all he is seeking. His interest has now moved from Sam to Marie whom he considers it could be a great asset for his experiments but Dean Shetty makes clear that she is supported by a very powerful sponsor so that possibility is completely out of the question.

In the middle of the chaos that has been happening Marie finds a moment to talk to Jordan who is quick to diminish the encounter they had saying that it was just the spur of the moment and nothing else so they release her from any responsibility. Far from the relief this might mean for anyone else, for Marie it just does not sit well. Before the awkwardness begins to raise between them again they spot Rufus talking with Dean Shetty so they go after him but he unfortunately escapes. Rufus runs straight to his room attempting to hide from the other supes but Andre is already there waiting for him and very much prepared to get his vengeance. Andre tries strangle Rufus but Rufus finds a way to use his power changing the scenery and sending Andre straight to a fast-food restaurant instead. Marie returns to her dorm where she finds out that Emma has moved to a better place on the supes ranking – something that has her very excited. Once again, the conversation focuses completely on Marie’s feelings for Jordan and her friend encourages to tell them what she really feels. The two girls continue talking until Emma makes evident that her friend has been scratching her neck often since she got there so Marie looks for the cause of it. Opening her skin she gets a small artifact out of it that appears to be a tracker.  She goes to see Cate and tell her all about it and that is here when the story takes a whole different turn. Marie is not the only one who has been overthinking about her feelings for Jordan; they have been doing their part themselves and now we can see them talking openly about it with Maverick (Nicholas Hamilton), a supe who has the invisibility power and who seems to be quite good when giving advice. Sometime later Jordan has been left alone and then they see Marie coming out of Cate’s room. They approach her and notice the wound on her neck but also realize that Marie’s memories of the recent events have been wiped again so they are determined to go find Rufus. Before they do Marie notices something on Jordan’s neck and tries to take it out. Filled with blame and remorse for what she has done to her “friends,” Cate pays a visit to Dean Shetty who, as always, finds a way to disguise the horrible things they do into an act of kindness. She manages to convince Cate that eventhough it feels wrong, she is actually helping their friends to keep them save.

In the meantime, Sam has found a place to hide again at the theater while looking for a solution that would help Emma remember him. Unfortunately, his hallucinations do not allow him to be on the right mindset to do that which leads him to imagining that a talking puppet of Emma blames him for not knowing how to keep her safe. While still in the middle of his delusions, he is attacked by a group of uniformed men that before Sam’s eyes have turned now into a bunch of puppets, himself included, and he begins to slay them one by one until there’s no one left. Later that day Emma goes to the Stardust drive-in cinema that Sam had mentioned when he saw her earlier to have a conversation about how Cate contributed to help Luke (Patrick Schwarzenegger) forget about him too.

Cate visits Andre searching for a moment of peace and it appears that she is about to come clean with him but then, he receives a text from Jordan saying they have found Rufus. Immediately afterwards we can see how Marie and Jordan have been busy making sure that Rufus doesn’t escape from them again while questioning him about the reason why he erased their memories but he swears he had nothing to do with it. Emma calls Marie and tells her the truth she has learned from Sam so she asks Jordan to stop torturing Rufus. Unlucky for him, Andre comes in and he has no time to play more games so he sends the guy flying across the room throwing all sort of tools towards him. Just when he is about to end him, Marie confesses that the one responsible for the whole situation is Cate. He does not believe it at first, but she finally admits what she did with the intention to protect him and then she proceeds to give him back his memories. The guy cannot handle the truth and leaves the place while calling her a monster.