Billy goes on a rampage and confronts Madani about the truth, and a contract Pilgrim puts out makes things dangerous for Frank and Amy.
Frank returns to the trailer, cautious upon seeing the bullet holes, and calls out to Amy, who spouts that Madani wants to arrest him.
After taking the shotgun, he says he went for advice from his wife and asks if Madani plans to take him in or she has nowhere to go, which Amy claims is because of him. Frank says in the past he thought he was like anyone else, wanting his family to be safe, and that after their death, something changed. After visiting his wife, however, he has realized he was always like this and Maria loved him as he was; his ability to do what they can't is what makes him the Punisher. Madani says it has to end, but Frank reminds her she and the others can't beat Billy or those chasing Amy, who they won't and can't stop. With no answer for the purpose of Madani's badge, then, he asks that they let him be what he's meant to be. Billy is spending his time getting physical with Dumont and attacking people with his crew, and though she says it can't last forever, she wants to plan for after it's over. While he promises they'll eventually use the money to go away together, he seems happier escaping with his boys as news stations report on their thefts. Dumont tells him not to let Frank define who he is, but he says he has to know why the man wants him dead. At some point after a heist, one man, Moke, gets handsy with a girl until Billy yells at him to stop. Schultz, meanwhile, chats with Pilgrim over golf about misplaced faith, and believes they need to take radical steps to stop Frank. Though Pilgrim doesn't know what Frank has and wants to handle it himself, Schultz tells him to use his old contacts in the city. Pilgrim thinks opening old doors could be bad, but Schultz says he's not who he used to be and with Frank being so open, they have to do something. Schultz says he just wants to get Pilgrim home to his family, who show strength when he's gone and don't need to know what he does for them.
Curtis and Amy track Billy's movements, then they relay the info to Frank, who goes to the latest heist. There, he quickly kills three men, including Moke, who had a picture of the girl from before wearing a shirt marked "Tipsy Tilly's Bar."
Back at the golf course, Schultz is joined by his son David, and negatively hints at his son's homosexuality when talking about sins people accept. Knowing there must be more to the visit than a simple chat, David points out his father only ever wants to talk about his campaign, never asking if he's happy. Schultz scoffs at this, saying they have a chance to improve the country, as people see him as an example to follow and need faith to get through the dark world. He claims his own success is proof the faithful are rewarded. He explains he wants David to come home and do some press and donor events, and his son wonders what could be important enough to necessitate this. Pilgrim meets a contact at a bar and puts out a $5 million hit out on Amy and, to the man's surprise, Frank. They must be brought in alive, as one of them needs to talk. The man agrees and takes a phone to contact Pilgrim, who leaves after being asked where he's from. The man calls someone named Danny and says a "ghost" was there. Restless again, Amy asks Curtis if he would still be in the military if not for his leg; he says he's too old, explaining the young who go in don't realize the military isn't forever. Curtis turns it around that, despite her sarcasm about the trailer, her life was rough before Frank, asking why she isn't learning to drive with her dad. She reveals she wants to do marine salvaging, recalling the sight of the Caribbean sea and the lack of noise while underwater. He points out she'll probably go do this once they're done; she reveals she ironically can't swim and has never seen the ocean. Curtis grows frustrated with Frank's lack of contact, and agreeing when Amy says the Punisher is doing this for himself, not them, decides to go take care of something. Amy asks to go with him, as currently she's just alone, not safe, and could wait anywhere. He claims he can't take take her, then admits he just won't, and leaves. After waiting a moment, she decides to take a bag and some supplies, including a roll of money, and exits the trailer.
Billy somehow gets into Madani's apartment, where he goes through her things and finds his journal in a drawer.
Frank finds the girl from the photo and he convinces her to talk by unlocking Moke's phone with his severed thumb and showing the photo. He tells her he has no issue with her and she explains the group's place is called "Valhalla," the final resting place for warriors in viking belief. She directs him to a guy nearby, Tony, who knows the group, and says the place is somewhere in Queens; he gives Tony the thumb and a group follows him out. Frank somehow gets behind them in an alley and the leader explains the bounty. Frank shoots them all when the leader says they have a numbers advantage, and having shot the leader in the leg, Frank shoots the other and says it's time to "talk." Madani returns to her apartment with an FBI file and sets her gun down before getting a drink, at which point Billy makes himself known, holding the gun. After she comments on his face, he asks what happened, as while his file says she arrested him and he shot her, he doesn't remember it. Billy brings up their relationship and though she claims it was nothing, he points out the length and says he envies her knowing how she felt; he is angered that he can't. He allows her to make drinks, but mockingly reveals he's taken the spare gun in the cabinet she goes too; she snarls that he's the same as he ever was. After admitting he used her but might've liked her, too, he demands answers he knows she has about Frank, becoming infuriated when she pretends to not know him. Emboldened, Madani reveals the truth to him and says Frank put the ugly on the outside so he'd have to live with what he did, and maybe he should kill himself. She says Frank will finish the job, so he counters that he's hard to kill and gets close, asking by her first name if they had good times. Sure they did, he asks who she dreams about like he dreams of Frank, and says she at least always has the memories. Explaining he'll leave her weapons downstairs, he warns that his men will kill her if she follows, and she is left shaking in the kitchen. While Curtis forms his own group to find Billy, Amy's move turns sour and requires Frank, Dumont makes a decision about Billy, and Pilgrim's past returns.
Bringing Pilgrim back into the mix for this episode was definitely a plus after giving Billy the focus he needed.
For a few episodes, the characters were trying to juggle Pilgrim with Billy, and then the action ramped up to make the situation more dangerous by focusing on the latter. Now, the characters are again in a tight situation, as Billy has become comfortable enough with his new gang to go on a crime spree. Finally learning the truth about Frank has given him a purpose, and his gang of vets is exactly what he needs to act on this purpose. It was necessary to show us the bank robbery before so we could see how they worked and bring Frank into the fold, but fortunately this episode gave us a supercut of their further assaults to easily transmit that they're getting more bold. They're also getting rather big heads about their group, having decided to name their base of operations "Valhalla." The little we get of John Pilgrim in this episode tells us more about him as well, and again builds up his past without him having to do anything. [His interaction with the young man in the bar ends with the man calling him a "ghost," much like Frank was at the start of last season. Later on there's a scene in this same bar where we learn some of what happened to Pilgrim in the past and the man he used to be. At the same time that this method effectively builds his character by just word-of-mouth, I would like to see more action from the man himself. At this point while he's impressive and intimidating, the only time we've seen him do much was when he attacked the police station a few episodes ago. The show can tell us all it wants about Pilgrim's past, but it also needs to show us the man he is to be effective. This is the sort of thing we had with both Frank and Billy, switching between telling us about their exploits and showing them in action. At this point, Dumont is beginning to disturb me with her obsession for Billy, and how she seems convinced he's just a poor, innocent victim in all this. She mentioned during their first physical encounter that she finds pleasure in pain, and while this is actually pretty common, she seems to take it to the extreme. She hasn't done too much, but at this point she's breaking the law, hiding evidence from the FBI and housing a wanted criminal, and I suspect she'll do more in time. There was some good tension in this episode with Billy as he confronted Madani in her home and there was no telling what he'd do. While he claims he wouldn't have hurt Curtis, there's no reason for him not to hurt Madani if she doesn't tell him what he wants to know, and he's unstable while asking. The part where Frank attacks the guys from the bar is rather silly to me, as the way it is cut, we see it go from a group of guys right behind him to suddenly having him appear behind them when they walk into an alley. Frank's impressive in many ways, but it doesn't really make sense that he would be able to get behind them in the apparent seconds we see. With Frank and Amy's relationship dangerously tested and Madani and Pilgrim in their own dangerous situations, next episode will likely start in a dangerous way.
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