Lee radios Tim with news that they found Billy’s rift as Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season two, episode 10 – the finale – begins. All Lee (Kurt Russell) hears is static in response, and both he and Keiko (Mari Yamamoto) realize Bill was right about everything all along. Keiko also realizes Bill continued to work to reunite their family up to the very end.
(The following is recap of season two, episode 10, “Where We Belong,” and there are spoilers.)
Bill’s theory suggested that there was one central rift where the monsters came and went from Axis Mundi. All they need to do now is convince Titan X to go home. But before they can do that, Lee and Keiko discover they’re in the path of dozens of Stampede Caterpillars. It takes them a minute to realize the creatures aren’t interested in them; they were running away from something.
Keiko and Lee follow them into the forest as an enraged Kong roars.
Titan X wakes from the anesthetic agent while Kentaro (Ren Watabe) continues to insist to Cate (Anna Sawai) that he can save their dad. He believes all the Titans are expendable if it means they get Hiroshi back. Cate’s furious with her brother, certain he’s just parroting Isabel’s words. Kentaro calls in their location and guards arrive to haul Cate away. She’s locked in a storage room just as the lights in the building begin flickering.
Keiko and Lee spot the helicopter that transported the egg and realize it’s the source of the Skullcrawler’s call. Judging by its path, the chopper is leading Kong to Titan X.
Meanwhile, Tim (Joe Tippett) and May (Kiersey Clemons) head toward the old Monarch base with the final two remaining security team members. They hear jeeps heading their way and quickly set up an ambush. Tim gets them to confirm they work for Isabel before leaving the occupants in the forest.
Lee tells Keiko that she and Cate are like two peas in a pod. Keiko reveals that Cate can communicate with Titan X. She describes what she heard when Cate was communicating with it and that she recorded Titan X’s call.
And now it’s time for Lee to explain that he spoke with his younger self and instructed him to put a tracker on the slumbering Titan X. Keiko suddenly understands that she and Lee were in Axis Mundi at the same time. She demands to know why he didn’t save her then, and Lee confesses he didn’t want to screw up the future. Keiko is stunned, realizing if Lee saved her, she could have been there for Hiroshi when he was growing up. He might still be alive now if they rescued her back then.
Kong’s only six minutes away from the base when Kentaro questions Isabel’s plan. She’s adamant that Titan X needs to kill Kong for them to change the past and save Hiroshi.
Tim almost runs over Lee and Keiko as they’re emerging from the forest. Tim catches Lee and Keiko up on what they’ve learned and that Cate and Kentaro are with Isabel at an abandoned Monarch base. Plus, they have Titan X.
Lee and Keiko confirm they found a dormant rift and that Titan X will activate it. Keiko believes they can lure Titan X to the rift using the recording she made of it with Cate. Lee’s going to take the recording to the rift while Keiko and the team try and save Cate and Kentaro.
Isabel’s team monitors the situation as Kong’s just one minute away from Titan X. They increase the neural implants in Titan X and she screams as if she’s being tortured.
Cate hasn’t given up on escaping and MacGyvers her way into an overhead crawl space. She kicks out a grate, which opens into a tunnel. From there she’s able to escape the building. Unfortunately, she emerges right at Titan X’s feet. Titan X turns and growls at her as the exit hatch from the building slams shut.
Tim, Keiko, May, and the security guys pull up just as Titan X’s attention is on Cate. They’re parked in the path of Kong as he arrives to confront Titan X. Kong doesn’t step on their jeep, but it’s a close call. They don’t realize Cate is by Titan X until one of the security team catches sight of her.
Kong and Titan X circle each other as Keiko takes the jeep to rescue Cate. The rest of the team head to the base because May thinks she can shut down the synaptic link.
Kong pounds his chest and the Titans scream at each other. Kong makes the first move, and Cate runs for her life. Titan X’s tentacles catch Kong’s fists, and they wrestle, each trying to get the upper hand. Kong repeatedly punches Titan X in the head while Titan X’s tail nearly smashes Cate as she retreats.
Cate’s knocked into a ravine as the battle continues.
Isabel, Kentaro, and the team watch from inside the base, and Kentaro asks Isabel her plan if Kong wins. Basically, there isn’t a Plan B. Titan X has to win for Isabel to access Axis Mundi. Isabel has her team increase the neural implants to their highest acceptable level.
Titan X screams and launches herself at Kong as she reacts to the implants.
Tim’s ID still works on the doors, and Isabel panics realizing that Monarch is going to assume this is Apex’s doing. She knows her dad will throw her under the bus and appears to be on the verge of shutting everything down. Kentaro won’t allow that and grabs the controls, pushing Titan X’s implants past their limits.
Tim has one of the security guys stay behind in the halls to look for Kentaro while he heads to the control room with May and the other guy.
Cate stares up at the Titans as they fight above her location. She hears honking and sees Keiko speeding toward her location.
As Tim enters the control room, he orders everyone to step away from the consoles. May demands to know Kentaro’s and Isabel’s location, just as Isabel disables the guard who was left behind in the hallways.
May can’t shut down the link because it’s glitching again and overloading the system. May realizes Isabel’s team was trying to enrage Titan X and the only way to stop it is to unplug the Titan.
Keiko weaves in and out of the Titans’ feet, trying to get away from Titan X’s tail and tentacles. Just over her head, Kong bites one of the tentacles and Titan X responds by biting Kong’s arm.
The fight rages on as Keiko grabs Cate and races back to the jeep. They’re just steps away from the vehicle when Kong steps on it, flattening it like a pancake. Cate points out a door at the base of the mountain, and they run toward it as Titan X gets her tentacles around Kong’s head and pushes him up against a mountainside. She appears to be strangling Kong as Tim and May open the door and urge Cate and Keiko to hurry.
They make it inside the building, and that door is right in front of Titan X’s egg. Titan X’s attention diverts to her egg, and the neuron implant completely overloads and shuts down. She stops fighting Kong, reaches inside the building, and retrieves her egg.
Titan X is no longer in fighting mode, and Kong sees her holding her egg. He climbs to the top of the mountain, away from Titan X, seemingly giving her room to leave with her egg.
May believes Titan X’s mother instincts caused her to unplug herself. They watch as she leaves, thinking she’s heading home. But Keiko realizes she’s heading the wrong direction. May thinks Titan X’s brain is scrambled from the neuron implants.
A helicopter’s heard overhead just as they wonder how to make her go the right direction. Lee spotted the chopper on his way to the rift, and Keiko, Tim, and May run toward its landing spot. Cate stays behind to find Kentaro.
Kentaro and Isabel are just boarding a different helicopter when Cate asks him to stop. Kentaro refuses to quit trying to bring Hiroshi back, breaking the news that Hiroshi went to Axis Mundi after G-Day when he disappeared for a year. Kentaro believes he can rescue that version of their dad and invites Cate to help him. She refuses. He reminds her that everyone believed saving her was impossible until they accomplished it.
Lee’s helicopter waited for Cate and she returns without Kentaro. They fly toward Titan X, who’s still heading the wrong way and play the tape of her call. May cranks it up and Titan X hears it! She changes course and follows them instead until the amps blow out and the call stops. Cate insists that they get closer to Titan X, while Keiko warns her that she can’t control the Titan. Lee thinks it’s worth a shot.
Lee maneuvers the chopper just ahead of Titan X as Cate stands at the open back hatch. Titan X lashes out at the chopper as Cate moves closer to the edge. Keiko secures her leg and Titan X finally sees Cate. They make eye contact and Titan X calms down and follows the chopper.
Titan X roars but walks slowly in the right direction. Lee heads straight to the rift and lands near it. They approach the rift on foot as Titan X moves toward it. She dips one of her tentacles in the lake where the rift is located and activates the opening. Cate reaches out her hand toward Titan X and it gently moves a tentacle so that she can touch it.
Titan X disappears into the rift with her egg! Cate cries and hugs Keiko and Lee welcomes her to the family business.
Strangely, the rift didn’t close once Titan X went through it. Bright columns of light stream up from it towards the sky, and Lee approaches it, seeing his younger self in the lights. Keiko joins him and stands before the younger Lee, who smiles at her with love in his eyes. Keiko smiles back and says, “Lee!” He replies but she can’t hear him, and older Lee explains that he was saying goodbye.
Keiko and Young Lee stare at each other, and Keiko gently shakes her head yes. Young Lee smiles as Keiko turns toward Older Lee and takes his hand. She takes a deep breath and returns to hug Cate, holding her tight.
Young Lee and Older Lee have another moment together, tilting their heads the same way and saluting each other/themselves. Young Lee fades away as the rift closes.
Kong pounds his chest, satisfied that Skull Island is back to its normal state.
The action moves forward six weeks. Keiko and Cate stand at a memorial at Monarch dedicated to “those who lived by our mission.” Hiroshi is now represented on the wall of those who’ve died. Director Barris points out that the first plaque on the wall is actually in honor of Keiko. He wanted to give her the actual plaque, but Monarch decided it’s best not to publicize that she returned from the dead. If people knew, they’d go to Axis Mundi in search of the Fountain of Youth.
They discuss Lee, who’s apparently disappeared, trying to stay out of Monarch’s “asset management.” Cate demanded this meeting with Director Barris to talk about Isabel and Kentaro. He walks them to a room where Tim and May are arguing over where to place a desk.
Tim and May reveal this is the state of Monarch 2.0, a back-to-basics, more flexible, less accountable version of Monarch. “Science. Discovery. Like the founders intended,” says Tim.
Director Barris asks Cate and Keiko to run “the basement.” He wants this new team to work on the Kentaro and Isabel situation. Keiko looks around the group and declares that they have everything they need.
Meanwhile, Lee meets with an associate named A-Wut and tosses him a wad of cash and holds up a paper. He asks if anyone has come looking for what’s on the paper and is told that a young Japanese man and an American woman have been there. He also confirms he didn’t tell them anything, even though they believed it was the key to everything they want. A-Wut doesn’t believe any man should play god, and those two would burn the world down to get what they want.
Lee asks to be taken to see the “thing,” and A-Wut shows off burn scars covering both of his arms as a result of it. A-Wut and his men take Lee close to it but won’t climb the final mountain to see the “thing.”
What is the “thing?” Rodan, perched on the top of a volcano! Rodan growls and spreads its wings. Season two ends with Lee saying, “I’ll see you soon.”
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