Horrified after learning the truth, Billy's world crumbles, and Frank starts to lose his cool on those around him while Mahoney confronts Madani.
Breaking down after learning Frank is the one he fears, Billy demands to be let out of the car, taking up a machine gun as Curtis knocks out the sniper and takes his rifle.
Forcing Frank to crash, Billy repeatedly demands the truth, and Frank readily admits to scarring him; as police arrive, a rage-fueled Billy peppers his car. As Billy tries to deal with him and police, Mahoney notices and chases an escaping Frank, and Billy is forced into another getaway car. Mahoney corners Frank in an alley and forces him to his knees, but Curtis arrives and saves his friend with a warning shot, allowing Frank to take Mahoney's gun. Mahoney states he'll follow, so Frank apologizes and hits him upside the head. Back at the hideout, Billy is thinking of Frank as his cohorts rant about what happened; we learn the bank teller was in on it. Bobby repeatedly insults and blames him, so Billy shoots both him and the teller and leaves with the money. With Curtis worried the cops will easily come after him, Frank calms things with a joke. Frank brings up his order to stay in the car and Curtis says he couldn't sit by, because even if Frank disagrees, the sniper could've easily killed him. Frank explains he saw hurt in Billy's face, along with his own family, and he is now certain Billy doesn't remember what he did. They both admit to freezing when they had kill-shots, and decide to head out after hearing Mahoney on a police scanner. Billy returns to Dumont's and begs to be let in, explaining the things he thought were real weren't. She says he can't just come and go, and he claims he has nowhere else. She finally lets him in and he breaks down, confused why his friend hurt him and saying he knows the truth now in his head, but not his heart. Falling to his knees, he claims he isn't sure what to do, but knows she's the only one who can help him.
Amy is growing restless waiting for Frank, and Curtis is upset finding out his girlfriend Delia knows he lied about his rodent problem.
Frank watches Mahoney's group investigate Billy's recent murders; news of the "hostage's" death upsets Curtis, who laments that he had a shot on Billy. Frank reminds him stuff happens, but Curtis feels this is different and they're not in the military anymore, wondering what they'e doing and how to deal with Delia. Frank simply repeats that they need to get off the road, so they return to the trailer, where, knowing it's him, Amy tries to use what he taught her to take his gun. Enraged, Frank yells that she's going to get herself killed, firing his gun at a wall; she sobs as Curtis tells him to calm down, reminding him she was dragged into a crazy situation. Frank snarls that people die if they make mistakes, like they did that day. After Curtis calms Amy, Frank demands the keys so he can go after Jake. Curtis refuses to let him go alone, but both tell Amy to stay behind, and she is left crying. An angry Mahoney visits Madani and explains the inside job: along with the teller, Bobby used to be part of the company that delivers the money. Mahoney has figured out she doesn't want this coming out at Homeland, but she counters that he obviously isn't coming at her officially yet. Wondering why she tipped him about the robbery and if she knew about Frank, he shares what happened to his head; she assures him Frank wouldn't kill a cop. Disgusted hearing about Frank's code, he calls the man a maniac and says her badge should be gone. She explains if he digs deeper, he'll end up on traffic duty. Mahoney is annoyed that feds are always hiding things, and says that they aren't even colleagues with a good relationship; he is sure Frank was at the carousel. Madani explains she used to be like him but has realized people like Frank are sometimes the only solution. Lucky for her, all he is looking for is his gun and Curtis. When she says nothing, he demands Frank and Billy, as he knows she can get Frank on the phone, otherwise he'll arrest her.
Billy continues questioning Frank's motive. Dumont says Frank could be different than he thought, but he thinks it could be because of what he doesn't remember.
She says people with his injuries are normally bedridden forever, so Frank obviously wanted him to suffer; he claims it was better when he didn't know the truth. Dumont counters that now he has the pieces to the puzzle and can be reborn. She relates her own achievement over struggle to his, and they share a kiss. While she says it's the best day of his life, he simply wonders why she'd let a crazy man in, and she says they skipped an awkward beginning and started things in the middle. Meanwhile, Curtis has to step in when Frank brutalizes Jake, and comparing him to Billy causes Frank to flash back to when he and Billy broke in the military. As Curtis cares for Jake, the shocked Frank takes off in the rain, remembering happy times as well as Billy saying they're the same at their final encounter in season one. Billy confronts Dumont, certain she knew about Frank and hid the truth from him, but she claims she's here for him; he says people have let him in but didn't let him in. Feeling he can't trust anyone, he begins to rage, so Dumont tries her counting method, but Billy explodes and begins destroying things. He then forces her to the window and asks how it feels to be forced to experience what you fear the most. After he shares angry beliefs about betrayal, she claims she has love for him and would never lie to or hurt him. She continues that he has reached a point where he has to choose who he'll be, and that she knows it's not easy to do. While Billy decides who he wants to be, Frank visits his family and Madani visits Curtis and Amy while they talk about Frank.
This episode is effective at showing use the rapidly deteriorating mental state of Billy as well as comparing him with Frank.
From Billy's point of view, Frank has betrayed his trust out of nowhere when he thought they were close enough to die for one another. It makes sense that he'd think this, and is an interesting role reversal from last season, when Frank was the one actually being betrayed. Compared to Frank, who tends to be more stoic about his issues unless prodded, Bilyl explodes after learning about his "brother's" actions. He uses this rage as a way of getting back at Dumont when he forces her to the window, making her feel the way he did every time she made him relive his dream. While last season Frank handled his anger with Billy simply by going after him, here he is struggling with the feeling that they're similar like the latter claimed. When he tortures Jake, his base intention is to go after Billy, but really he's looking for a release from his pain, and going overboard is what causes Curtis to point out he's behaving just like their former friend. We finally saw more with Amy this episode, with fitting music in her first scene about how bored she is and how it's just her and Frank. She made a terrible mistake trying to show Frank what she's learned, but his reaction to her move is, as expected considering his anger about the Billy situation, explosively dramatic and it felt awful seeing her break down as he yelled at her. There were a few odd moments in this episode from a technical aspect that occasionally show up in the Marvel shows and tend to be jarring for me. The first was when Billy is ranting about Frank at the start of the episode: there are numerous cuts from close-ups and wider shots to show what he's doing, but they often don't show Billy in similar positions, preventing proper flow. When he starts to say he doesn't understand why Frank did this to him, there's even a moment where the sound has a strange splicing to it. Later there is another moment when Mahoney talks to Madani, and as he says Billy killed the two men to cover his tracks, we cut to a shot of both of them in the room. While the audio for Mahoney finishing his sentence bridges the cuts, he has already stopped talking in the following shot, so apparently he's working on his ventriloquism. I liked what this episode did with Madani, as Mahoney's claim that feds always have secrets show she's become the kind of person she despised in season one. On the other hand, Dumont puzzles me, as she seems to have developed a sort of Harley Quinn-esque obsession with Billy, her Joker. Despite his crimes and treatment of her, she throughout the episode treats him as though he's in the right in the Frank situation. Her claim at the end that she has some kind of love for him, and he can be redeemed, felt rather sudden considering how little we've seen them together, but I suppose she for some reason fell for him while they were in the hospital. Even if we haven't seen them together much, she's been working with him for months, so it's possible she developed a strange "love" in that time. With two episodes having focused solely on Billy, I'm hopeful that soon we'll get more about John Pilgrim as well, but for now I'll have to wonder what comes next.
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