Runaways –Episode 4: ‘Fifteen’ Review

And this show just keeps getting more and more exciting!

In ‘Fifteen’, the kids continue on their mission of finding out if their parents are guilty of murder or not. Niko and Chase believe that they actually did kill the girl Destiny, and the appearance of her body on the beach only strengthens that belief. Niko, in fact, goes one further and asserts that the Pride not only killed Destiny, but also her sister Amy all those years ago, and decides to take it all to the police. Alex, who doesn’t know what to believe, tries to dissuade her but her mind is made up. Gert and Karoline, on the other hand, cannot believe their parents could do such a thing as murder, and Karoline, accompanied by Gert, is determined to prove this beyond doubt. In the meantime, Chase advises everyone to find ways to protect themselves –he is already working on a glove-type weapon, and Alex, snooping around his father’s study for more clues, finds and pockets a loaded gun.

The six are still far from being a team though –everyone is still keeping his/her secrets close to heart. Niko and Alex make no mention of her mother’s magic staff, Karoline says nothing about the weird lights she emitted, and Gert shushes Chase when he tries to talk about the dinosaur in her basement. Molly, who unlike the rest, wants to tell everything about her super-strength unfortunately cannot get them to listen to her.

Meanwhile, the members of the Pride themselves, the parents, are going through difficulties of their own. The discovery of Destiny’s body means they need another sacrifice at once, but Victor, Chase’s dad is having psychological issues and when he goes out to get a homeless person along with Niko’s dad Robert, they are apprehended by the cops. Gert’s parents, tired of the pride and genuinely scared, try to leave with the kids to somewhere hidden, only for Tina, Niko’s cold-hearted mother to show up and inform them she knows everything about their plan. And Karoline’s mom is worried sick about her secret ward, who presumably, the sacrifices are being made for.

At the end of the episode, though, everything is different. Alex and Niko discover the Pride have the cops in their pockets and escape from the precinct just in time. Karoline and Gert find a file in her mother’s laptop which they send to Alex for decrypting, and find out that their parents have a list of several homeless persons –Runaways –from the Church of Gibborim, and that Karoline’s mother is in charge of selecting who is used for their secret ceremony. Karoline trusts Chase with her secret and takes off her bracelet in his presence, triggering the lights, and Gert confirms the Velociraptor does listen to her just as the entire family comes in on that part of the secret. And then Alex is kidnapped by unknown persons right in front of Niko and after they cracked the list.

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What next? Marvel’s Runaways returns next Tuesday, only on Hulu.
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