When the dust clears, and miraculously Danny doesn’t have an asthma attack, Neville asks Danny for help. Danny is ready to ditch Neville- finally, the kid has one good thought, when they have the following conversation:
Neville: If you walk up that stairs, it’s as good as killing me.
Danny: I’m supposed to show you mercy?
Neville: What would your father think? (from here on out to be abbreviated as WWBD?)
There is a very real chance of another section of the roof collapsing. They both look up at it. Danny hesitates, but frees Neville just in the nick of time, and the roof collapses right on the spot previously occupied by Neville.
Neville. aka. Houdini
An instant later, Danny the Dumbass is back in handcuffs and Neville says “You are important kid. More important than you know.”
When Miles and Nora come back, Dr. Mom is like “Oh, they took Charlie.” Miles cuts Nate’s ropes and grabs him- they are going to find Jesse Fonda.
I haven’t kicked anyone’s ass since before the last commercial break. Let’s go.
The action cuts over to Jesse Fonda’s house- which is the bottom of a building housing a roller coaster. Bet the rent was cheap when the park was open due to the noise of a roller coaster passing through your bedroom every 30 seconds… Charlie is tied to a chair. Charlie asks Jesse “You live here?… Can you let me go?” (I guess it was worth a shot…) “We won’t hurt you.”
You can’t allow the bus to go slower than 50mph
Jesse laments that “Lila saw the good in everyone.”
Charlie asks “Was LIla your wife?”
Nope, LIla was his daughter. And she’s dead. Jesse says it’s a father’s duty to protect his children. So he stockpiled food and medicine after the B.O. But then the looters came and took everything. Lila stepped on a rusty nail and got tetnus. She died right in front of him. If the looters hadn’t taken all of meds, Lila would be alive. He then rigs up a cross bow, pointed at Charlie, but the tip of the bow is a rusty nail. OH THE HUMANITY. He rigs it to the door. So as soon as someone opens the door- bazinga, Charlie gets a rusty nail through the heart. Charlie reminds him of LIla. He reaches out and strokes Charlie’s hair. She flinches and he snaps.

Charlie hears Miles and Nate coming and she starts to scream for help. He puts “duck tape” over her mouth. How do these freaking people have so much duck tape lying around?!!?
Jesse goes out to see what all of the racket is, and he, Miles and Nate get into a knife fight. Jesse bites it, and Miles and Nate go to the door.
RIP Dude. We never knew your name, but we’ll miss you.
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I am glad someone else feels this way about this show. Wonderful recap. I agree, it would have been a much better twist to kill off Charlie and let Dr. Mom live; Dr. Mom’s story line had potential. Ah well…
Thank you for the Dharma shout out, thought the same thing when I saw Juliet, did I say Juliet, I meant Rachel with the Dharma illustration. Wonder who her constant is in this show? Probably not Miles.
Dr. Mom was my fave character, her an Aaron the only reason why I was still watching this boring crap. She is dead, so I am out.
unfortunately, i think charlie is supposed to be the emotional heart of this story. however, i think she is the least compelling character and one of the weakest actors in the show. i love aaron and miles, and like dr. mom ok. i think this show is beyond silly, but there’s enough interest in the flashbacks for me to stay tuned. and i could watch miles sword fight every episode (at least they’re getting their money’s worth from all those sword fighting lessons!).
thanks for recapping
Chicken Man is the only reason I’m still watching.