Resurrection‘s second season premiere last night started with a very familiar scene. Someone wakes up in a field, with no recollection as to how he got there. In the series premiere, this was how we first met Jacob Langston, an 8 year old boy who had been dead for 30 years. This time around it was J. Martin Bellamy waking up in this predicament. Much of the episode was spent jogging his memory to figure out what happened to him while a few other new storylines were introduced.
The most interesting question raised this episode has to do with the repercussions of the Army involvement with the Returned people from the end of last season. Bellamy experiences flashbacks to when he was stopped and arrested for trying to leave Arcadia with Jacob. He remembers seeing crowds of people being ushered onto buses before he himself was subjected to an interrogation room. He can’t remember specifics of his encounters, but he does know for sure that this was a government agency unlike any he’s ever heard of. This secret agency has taken any “unclaimed” Returned people to an undisclosed location. The whereabouts and the condition of all the Returned will surely be the biggest mystery to solve this season.
Bellamy has his own issues to deal with on top of all that. As viewers, we know that he’s already one of the Returned because his own family was searching for their son with his exact crescent birthmark who died with them decades ago. Given the shocking reveal that Bellamy died (again) when accidentally shot in the interrogation room only a week ago, he’s going to struggle with what this means for him.
Another familiar character is dealing with some startling news. Maggie is giving Rachael an ultrasound when she makes a curious observation that she’s further along than she initially thought. Even though Rachael herself says she’s “technically 12 year and 12 weeks” pregnant, Maggie thinks she’s more like 4 months along. When she advises she goes to an OB GYN for confirmation, Rachael refuses. This probably means we’ll be seeing a baby born much sooner rather than later. I was under the impression that maybe she would just stay pregnant forever but the rapidly progressing pregnancy says otherwise. Apparently life just picks right back up where you left off when you come back to life. It’ll be very interesting to see what this baby is like when he’s born because, yes, Maggie also confirmed that it’s a boy.
Last but not least, another loved one returned to her family. Jacob wandered off in the night to the cemetery where he nonchalantly greets his grandmother, Margaret Langston (guest star Michelle Fairley). His connection to his fellow Returned people seems to be intact, but something about Margaret seems off to me. When Henry is telling her about how Fred called the Army in the first place, her reaction was slightly suspicious. Almost as if she knew that Fred was onto something by not believing that all the Returned people are who they used to be.
Her relationship with Fred was strained even before her death. She recalls Henry was the only one of her sons who would visit her daily in the hospital. Now that she’s back, Fred refuses to go see her at his brother’s house. Instead, Fred is still wallowing in his sorrows for messing up his relationship with his daughter and ex/Returned wife. He’s about to commit suicide in his house when his mom shows up and stops him. No doubt he’s too drunk to fully realize that this is probably (but maybe not actually?) his mother come back to life. The truth will finally start to sink in when he sobers up in the morning, but now I have to wonder if Fred was right all along.
What did you think of the season premiere?
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