S02.E05: Birth Of A Tragedy

[AnimeMania]

Lucy confronts the reality of her situation and is forced to make an impossible choice. Boyd is tested to her limits in her pursuit of the truth, and Dhillon comes to a realisation, with catastrophic results.

Premiere Date: October 18, 2024    Prime Video   

[krankydoodle]

I don't understand why Gideon had to shoot Lucy. Couldn't he just kill himself to reset things and allow her to die whenever she was going to? Wouldn't she have been reborn in the next loop regardless with the same knowledge now that she's been woken up?

For a supposedly successful detective in a former life, Lucy made a lot of poor decisions.

It's going to be a long wait for season 3.

[PurpleTentacle]

Well this certainly was something. It seems they knew they would be getting a season 3 before this one was even shot, so that makes this massive cliffhanger make more sense. Otherwise that would have been a bit too ballsy for my taste. There have been too many shows that ended with things being unresolved just like this.

That might also mean that we get the next season next year and not have a two year gap, like last time. One can hope.

I'm wondering who will come back knowing what next season. Seems at least Lucy remembers, with the stinger at the end.

I guess with the revelation that sometimes it's the future, the dog that bit Issac might have been in an upcoming loop, which would make it make more sense that "mommy chased the dog away" and bandaged his leg.

On 10/19/2024 at 8:08 PM, krankydoodle said:

I don't understand why Gideon had to shoot Lucy. Couldn't he just kill himself to reset things and allow her to die whenever she was going to? Wouldn't she have been reborn in the next loop regardless with the same knowledge now that she's been woken up?

In an earlier episode Gideon said that the worse outcome would be that they put them in a psych ward, addle their minds with therapy and medication, make them forget, which would lead to a hard reset.

Which seems fishy. I mean how would Gideon know that that's a possibility in the first place? And that seems very much out of the possibility of something psychiatry can do, if memories are persistent over multiple lifetimes, because then they can't be just brain structures.

But I guess we had to up the stakes somehow and explain why Gideon would kill Lucy.

On 10/19/2024 at 8:08 PM, krankydoodle said:

For a supposedly successful detective in a former life, Lucy made a lot of poor decisions.

Yeah.

- Give a fake name at the hospital.

- Wear an infrared LED necklace so security cameras can't pick you up.

- Put a GPS tracker on the car so you don't have to go to the hospital in the first place

- Wear gloves and a hair net when you break into somewhere.

- Stall Ravi a bit longer. She almost had him completely convinced but then seemingly gave up. How about try it with the truth "Yes she is there, but here is what is really going on. Search your feelings, you know it to be true."

- Keep the door to the room where you have your prisoner locked. Why would you think it would be a good idea to let anybody wander in? You have a bunch of unstable people in your house.

- Make sure the map is fully burned. Just because you hear something go clang is not a sufficient reason to abandon this very important task.

- Probably some things I forgot.

I mean she is supposed to be an amalgamation of her former lifes and this one now, right? She has always been a police officer before and a super calm and collected person. This frantic behaviour just doesn't fit her anymore.

But I have to say, Ravi didn't make the greatest decisions either. He always gets beat up or killed in close combat. Maybe don't get that close to suspects all the time and wear a stab proof west, my dude.

On 10/19/2024 at 8:08 PM, krankydoodle said:

It's going to be a long wait for season 3.

Hopefully not too long.