Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season two, episode seven begins in Axis Mundi back in 1962. Lee Shaw (Wyatt Russell) and his Operation Hourglass crew have landed in this strange world, and Lee recalls telling Hiroshi he’d be home soon. It’s obvious he no longer believes that. On day six, he calls mission control and says, “Mission Day, Foxtrot. Transmitting in the blind. Buried Burke today.” He informs them he’s going to look for higher ground, hoping to get a better signal.
(The following is a recap of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season two, episode seven, “String Theory,” and there are spoilers.)
Mission Day: Oscar, Day 15 – His rations are gone and he heads out to catch his dinner. Lee’s alone now and wakes when the radio crackles. He hears two men talking and responds, “Control, do you read me? Over.” He asks who he’s talking to, and the person does the same, asking who he’s speaking with. Young Lee says his full name and reports that his crew is dead. He asks for an extraction.
The older Lee (Kurt Russell) looks at the radio in disbelief. Dr. Suzuki (Leo Ashizawa) explains that the device was sending a signal to bounce off a Titan. Instead, it picked up the Operation Hourglass frequency. Lee doesn’t know how to respond to his younger self, and the younger Lee asks to speak with Bill Randa. Older Lee assures him they’ll get in touch with Bill and they’re working to get him home. He guarantees his younger self that he will come home.
Older Lee asks if he’s seen any MUTO activity. Young Lee reports that one killed his crew, and he’s seen a huge centipede. Older Lee specifically asks if he’s seen Godzilla, and Young Lee hasn’t. Older Lee remembers Godzilla wasn’t there then, but Titan X was. Maybe they can put a tracker on Titan X, and Suzuki remembers there’s a radio in the entry vehicle. He sends his younger self back to the vehicle.
Young Lee is excited to speak with Suzuki, and Suzuki walks him through how to make a tracker. Young Lee understands a Titan has to open a rift for him to go home, but he doesn’t understand why he needs to put a tracker on it. It’s risky. Older Lee reminds him that the whole mission is a risk, and he needs to follow orders.
Young Lee finally asks Older Lee for his name, and Older Lee replies to call him Colonel. He describes himself as part of a team cleaning up this mess. The talk turns personal as they discuss their lives, with Older Lee not mentioning any names. Suddenly, Young Lee sees something and smells an electrical fire. Older Lee screams at him to run!
Young Lee barely avoids being zapped but is okay. He’s shocked when he sees an encampment and Older Lee orders him to stay away from it. Young Lee doesn’t listen and finds equipment belonging to Keiko. He yells her name as Older Lee tells him to slow down.
Older Lee confesses he’s not telling Young Lee the truth, but that doesn’t matter. Older Lee tells him protecting Keiko is the only thing that matters. Young Lee finally realizes who he’s talking to and panics, thinking this is in his head. They discuss their feelings for Keiko, and Older Lee says the scar Keiko left was the most painful.
Young Lee stops paying attention and insists Keiko told him in “another lifetime, in another world” they could be together. This is that opportunity. Older Lee pleads with him to stop but he won’t.
Suzuki warns Older Lee that if he allows his younger self to go to Keiko now, he could be changing everyone’s future. Young Lee asks for one good reason why he shouldn’t go to Keiko who he sees not far away.
Older Lee warns Young Lee that if he goes to her now, he could stop her from being saved later. He assures Young Lee that he will rescue her, but not for a while. Older Lee talks about Hiro’s kids and that bringing Keiko out early might change their lives. They need to let her go to save her. He tells his younger self to do nothing but watch.
Young Lee looks at Keiko longingly but doesn’t go to her. He keeps following his older self’s instructions and sees a land mass that looks like a wasp’s nest from hell. A monster appears overhead and another emerges from the ground. Fortunately, the flying monster is after the ground-dwelling one and not him.
Young Lee makes it to the landmass, and Older Lee tells him to break through the rocks. The Titan will be on the other side. Young Lee begins hammering into the wall, hoping it doesn’t wake up the Titan. He sees the skin and jams the tracking device into it.
When he does, Suzuki’s device activates and they can now track Titan X.
Young Lee runs away as the Titan wakes up. Older Lee tells him to return to the entry vehicle and go to the forked tree there. Bill’s dragon will come for him there. When the rift opens, he needs to ride it out.
Older Lee tells him not to forget he’s a good man.
Suzuki confirms Titan X is heading to Australia and he wants to go with Lee. But Lee insists it’s a one-man job. Suzuki realizes Lee doesn’t think he’ll make it out alive.
Cate Connects with Titan X
Keiko (Mari Yamamoto) and Cate (Anna Sawai) listen to the Titan’s song. Cate’s worried that she’s projecting her feelings onto Titan X, and maybe it’s not indicating that it’s lost. Keiko assures her she’s right; Titan X is lost. Cate might be the key to sending it back to Axis Mundi.
Titan X seems to be moving away, and Keiko recalls an island that Bill thought was cursed. A legend spoke about a woman possessed by a demon, and the drawing looks like Titan X. The possessed woman said the demon’s voice was deep, and Bill believed she was speaking of a Titan. Keiko thinks they need to speak with the islanders. They might be able to get to Titan X before Lee destroys it.
Cate and Keiko visit the island and walk through a graveyard, coming upon the spot where the woman felt the vibrations. Cate finds a well and can hear the Titan’s call. She insists on going down there, despite Keiko’s misgivings.
Keiko is slowly lowering Cate down when the rope snaps and Cate falls. She lands in the water but can stand up. Cate hears the Titan’s song and quickly assures Keiko she’s okay. She sees a tunnel that leads to the ocean and follows it. A series of tunnels leads her back to Keiko. Cate doesn’t think the Titan is lost or dangerous; it just needs their help.
Thailand and Titan X Tracking
May (Kiersey Clemons) shows up at Kentaro’s as he’s packing for a trip to Thailand. It’s awkward between them after Kentaro (Ren Watabe) tried to kiss the previous evening. He won’t say who he’s going with or why and is super rude, insisting he’s tired of being told what to do.
May’s leaving Kentaro’s apartment when two men force her to go with them.
Once Kentaro lands in Thailand, Isabel (Amber Midthunder) shows him around the huge house her father gave her. She claims she’s not involved in her father’s work. She also insists she hates Apex as much as he hates Monarch, and she wants to create a new world with Kentaro’s help.
Kentaro wants to head home early, and Isabel reveals she’s going to use the two-hour car ride to the airport to get him to stay. Monarch, Apex, and the government have failed to keep them safe, and she believes it’s possible to live in a world where there wasn’t a G-Day. Kentaro thinks this is crazy talk, and she won’t tell him more unless he promises to help her.
The action shifts to Outpost 18 in the South Pacific Ocean where May’s been taken. Tim (Joe Tippett) forced her to return, and he insists she has no idea what’s happening right now. Tim’s upset she was actively participating in helping Brenda Holland. He doesn’t want Titan X to kill anyone else, and all they have to go on now is a piece of it with Apex’s tracker embedded. Tim thinks May’s device threw Titan X off its migratory route, and she places the blame firmly on Apex.
Apparently, CEO Walter Simmons claims this operation took place without his knowledge and pledges to fully cooperate with Monarch. And May might be the only one who can help them figure out what happened.
Tim and May suit up and begin diving into the tech.
Later, Outpost 18 picks up a new signal from the first Hourglass entry vehicle to make it to Axis Mundi. The signal is live, which makes no sense to Tim since the pod was destroyed on Skull Island. (He has no idea this is thanks to Lee and Suzuki.) The speed indicates it’s definitely Titan X, but they don’t know what it’s doing.
The scene switches to Titan X as he’s emerging from the ocean onto land.
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