umbrella academy season 1 episode 1 recap

Ben tells Klaus his rival is bluffing but unfortunately when the hands are revealed the guy has a full house.Īs Klaus rushes away, he’s eventually captured on the road by the police who take him to the station. Instead, he’s invited across to play a game of poker with a bunch of men. Klaus eventually stumbles upon a bar, looking for a trip back to Dallas but learns he’s got a full day to wait before getting there. Only, given Ben is an apparition it looks like Klaus is fighting with himself. Only, that car breaks down and subsequently results in him and Ben fighting by the side of the road. Klaus fully embraces this lifestyle, complete with a beard and a car. Klaus and Ben find themselves alone and stuck in Dallas, Texas 1960 – certainly not the 80’s. A mugshot of Diego on the front of a newspaper looks back at him grimly. Five realizes his family are alive and is handed a newspaper article confirming as much. As we soon find out from him, a weird anomaly occurred 3 years prior and he’s been photographing all of this over the years. Hiding from the goons, Five stumbles upon Elliot’s house. Hazel however, is not so lucky and receives a chest full of bullets for his trouble. With Hazel no longer part of The Commission, three assassins (whom we later come to know as The Swedes) arrive and spray bullets at the duo.įive manages to grab the briefcase and hide behind a car. Hazel drops Five back to a much calmer Texas and fulfills a promise to Agnes, who happens to have died from cancer. Thankfully, an older Hazel arrives and takes him back through time. While they fight, nukes drop down and consume the family.

As a tank roars past, Vanya suddenly shows along with the rest of the Academy.

Five – November 25th 1963 (The End Of The World)įive stumbles out the alleyway and finds himself in an alternate history where Soviets have attacked US soil. With all of our characters separated and in different timelines, to de-tangle this knot the events in this recap occur in a slightly different order to that of the show for ease of reading. With numerous characters scattered across Dallas, this twisty-turny drama gets off to a great start. The Umbrella Academy is back and episode 1 wastes little time propelling us head-first through the portal into the 1960’s.

Umbrella academy season 1 episode 1 recap