In the Pacific States headquarters, Tagomi and Onada (Tzi Ma) continue to fight over strategy: Onada wants war, while Tagomi knows peace must be maintained. In Berlin, Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank) fights with his father, who claims that Joe’s mother was the one who created the divide between father and son. Of course, we know that Smith (Rufus Sewell) killed him to avoid having to murder his own son. Smith that her husband had a heart attack. He closes his eyes again, and he’s back in the real world.įrom there, the first half of the episode jumps around brief scenes with many of our major players. As he stands in a living room and sees her pull up outside, we can hear his heart racing. He soon discovers he’s reached a plane of existence - or whatever it may be that he’s doing - where his wife is still alive.
Who would’ve guessed that most transitional, slow-paced episode of the season so far would be called “Escalation”? This is a surprisingly sluggish one, despite a pair of noteworthy developments: a terrific sequence in a train station that recalls some of the great noir directors, and the introduction of a new character who will clearly be a major player in season two.Īs the episode opens, Tagomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) is harnessing his Neo-esque powers to meditate his way to an alternate universe.
