Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season two, episode four not only has some Titan X action, but it also reveals much more about Apex Cybernetics’ goals. The fourth episode, titled “Trespass,” dives deeper into Bill Randa’s missing years and finds Cate continuing to blame herself for Titan X’s release.
(The following is a recap of season two, episode four, and there are spoilers.)
1962: Bill Randa (Anders Holms) packs his journal and clothing into a bag.
1963: He stumbles around at night, walking through the rain.
1964: He spills coffee on a photo of himself, Keiko, and a young Hiroshi, cleans it off, and continues drawing on his maps.
Fast-forward to 1973, and his journal, maps, and the family photo are placed inside a box marked “Monarch Archives, Property of Wm Randa—deceased.”
2015: That box is opened and the journal with Bill’s notes is moved into an Apex Cybernetics secure bag.
Ofu Beach, American Samoa – Two surfers brave the monster alert to hit the waves. They’re the only people on the beach and they joke about Godzilla. The sand moves behind them, but they don’t notice. Seagulls flee and a Monarch patrol boat spots them, ordering them to return to the beach.
The radar shows something large approaching the boat as the Scarabs emerge from under the beach and scurry toward the ocean. They overtake the surfers just as Titan X crushes the boat in its tentacles.
San Francisco – Cate wakes on the beach and discovers her dad’s left numerous messages. She walks into the water while staring at the destroyed Golden Gate Bridge.
Meanwhile, Monarch Outpost 18’s subsonar scans for activity. Tim (Joe Tippett) is informed there’s a sighting off Ofu Beach and that a boat may have been attacked. Apex Cybernetics’ Jason Trissop (Cliff Curtis) isn’t concerned about the boat or its crew; he orders his team to stay focused on Titan X. Readings suggest Titan X is on course to make landfall in San Francisco in 23 hours.
Jason’s excited that Apex’s latest technology was able to track the Titan. He gives Tim the honor of breaking the news to Barris.
Pensacola, Florida – The team, minus Cate, reunite at a motel just down the street from Apex’s facility, where Hiroshi’s device is being stored. May (Kiersey Clemons) gathered all the supplies Lee (Kurt Russell) requested and believes the device is in a subbasement. Lee receives a text from Tim alerting him Titan X is heading to San Francisco.
They realize Cate’s in SF and Hiroshi (Takehiro Hira) leaves her a panicked message. Hiroshi wants to fly there but Lee insists they need to stick with their plan. If it works, they can lure Titan X away from San Francisco. But they have to work together.
San Franciscans are evacuating as Cate (Anna Sawai) walks through the streets. Esther Keene (Kimberley Joseph), the parent of a student who was on Cate’s bus on G-Day, recognizes her and thanks her for saving her son, Michael (Flynn Nowlan). Michael hugs her too, and Esther believes he would be dead without Cate acting so selflessly and heroically.
In Florida, May locates an Apex employee, Kevin Burge (Pierce Gordon), with clearance to the sublevels and they set their plan in motion.
The team heads to a bar and Lee acts like an obnoxious drunk, with Kentaro (Ren Watabe) posing as his nephew who’s trying to convince him to leave. May slides in next to Lee at the bar and Lee hits on her, which leads to a bar patron punching him. Lee pretends to have a heart attack and Kevin Burge volunteers to help, which is exactly what the team had planned. Kentaro steals Kevin’s backpack while he’s distracted.
Kentaro passes it off to Keiko (Mari Yamamoto), who delivers it to Hiroshi in a van. Hiroshi quickly plants a device inside of it and Kentaro returns it to Kevin’s chair. Kentaro fetches Lee and they leave the bar…mission accomplished!
Back at mission control, Tim and Jason argue over the fate of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet if Titan X gets within range of San Francisco. Jason thinks the city’s being evacuated too slowly and accuses Tim of wanting to take Serizawa’s approach to the problem and let the Titans fight it out. Jason confesses Apex is playing the long game, believing coexistence is the only solution. Apex wants to figure out how they think, pointing out that Monarch’s motto is discovery and defense. Jason and Apex believe discovery is mankind’s defense.
Cate returns home while her mom’s packing to evacuate. She wants to return to Monarch, but her mom insists she needs to stay. She’s lost Cate once and doesn’t want to lose her again. But Cate continues to blame herself for Titan X and can’t run from what she’s unleashed.
Her mom cries and they hug, but she can’t convince Cate to stay.
In Florida, the countdown is down to just four hours. May works from inside Monarch to activate the device Hiroshi placed in Kevin’s backpack while Kentaro disables Brenda Holland’s car so she’s late for work. The device tricks the security system into believing there’s a radiation leak and the Monarch facility is evacuated.
May lags behind as Lee, Kentaro, Keiko, and Hiroshi enter the building as part of a radiation crew. They make it to a control room and see dozens of creatures from Skull Island locked up in cages far too small for them. Keiko thinks it’s barbaric and Kentaro identifies some of the creatures as needlewalkers. Neither Lee nor Keiko saw these creatures in Axis Mundi.
Keiko and Hiroshi head out to find the device while Lee and Kentaro remain in security’s control room. May makes it to Brenda Holland’s office, logs into her computer, and accesses security. She’s able to open doors for Keiko and Hiroshi, while Kentaro instructs them where to go.
There are only 96 minutes left until Titan X reaches San Francisco, when Hiroshi is able to tap into the elevator’s controls and head to the subbasement.
On Monarch Outpost 18, Tim’s stunned to watch as Jason and his crew leave the ship. Apex is apparently convinced the navy will blow up Titan X, and Jason and his team need to get there to do analysis after it’s dead. Tim’s certain the navy won’t stop Titan X, and Jason admits he’s taking a huge risk because he believes the reward is worth it.
Which means Tim’s back in charge of the outpost.
Hiroshi and Keiko make it to the last door and May hasn’t been able to get the code yet but is working on it. Unfortunately, Monarch clears the employees to return to work sooner than Lee and the team anticipated. Kentaro spots Brenda riding up on a bike, and Lee lets May know her boss is on the way in.
May does her best to keep Brenda distracted but Hiroshi and Keiko still need that final door open. The situation’s getting desperate as Keiko radios in that people are coming. Kentaro believes they have no choice but to create a diversion by releasing a few creatures.
Brenda takes May into a restricted area and shows her a young creature from Skull Island. Brenda holds the creature and reveals that May’s code allowed them to take away its aggression. However, when May deleted her code, Apex was left with only a limited ability to work with the creatures before they returned to their normal aggressive state.
“Your code is the key to this. Think of what we can achieve,” says Brenda.
Brenda confesses she knows May’s there to retrieve the Suzuki device, which she admits they did steal. They must allow Titan X to approach so Apex can show they are the solution. Brenda invites May to fight on Apex’s side.
Lee and Kentaro release needlewalkers and alarms sound again as Apex employees run for their lives. Brenda leaves and May’s finally able to open the door for Hiroshi and Keiko. But it turns out Apex took the device apart and Hiroshi can’t put it back together in time to stop Titan X’s approach to San Francisco.
Titan X is 26 minutes from the US Pacific Fleet when they launch fighter jets off an aircraft carrier. The fighter jets radio in, reporting they cannot see the target even though they should be over it.
Tim orders the Monarch control room to shut down all the Apex equipment. Monarch’s sonar indicates whatever’s there isn’t big enough to be Titan X. The fighter jets radio in and report they now have a visual…but it’s a whale.
Tim realizes they’ve been conned.
Lee and Kentaro join Hiroshi, who’s frustrated and worried about Cate, and Keiko in the subbasement just as Lee gets a text from Tim confirming it was a false alarm. Hiroshi’s finally able to breathe. Kentaro looks around the room and finds a massive board covered with Bill’s notes, drawings, photos, and old news articles.
Hiroshi picks up the old family photo and has a flashback to the day he told his dad he didn’t want to go to his grandmother’s house. Bill swore he was only leaving because he had a crucial, top-secret mission he needed to go on. He promised he’d return, and Hiroshi reminded his dad that his mom made the same promise.
Lee and Keiko look at Bill’s map and realize he completed it. Hiroshi doesn’t understand, so Keiko explains that Bill started it in 1957 and that it shows the Titan’s migratory route. Since Apex has it, they know the Titan’s next stop will be Santa Soledad – the place Lee and Keiko saw it for the first time.
They grab what they can and head out but May doesn’t meet them where they arranged. She texts Kentaro and says she’s staying with Holland. May thinks they can stop Titan X, and she wishes them luck.
“You guys do your plan. I have to try hers,” writes May.
Episode four ends with Cate waiting for them as they pull into the motel’s parking lot. She apologizes for leaving and believes she can help. Lee grabs her up in a hug as Keiko notices Hiroshi is reading the letter she wrote to Lee all those years ago. It was in with Bill’s belongings that Hiroshi packed up from Apex. They both realize that means Bill read the letter and kept it.
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