‘Legion’ Season 2, Episode 8 ‘Chapter 16’ Recap: Race to the Body [SPOILERS]

Tonight in FX’s Legion, the quest to find the Shadow King’s (Navid Negahban) body is almost done. With Ptonomy’s (Jeremie Harris) help, David (Dan Stevens) could get there, but Farouk and Oliver (Jemaine Clement) have resources that could set them a step in front. Syd (Rachel Keller) isn’t too happy about what’s happening, either. Her relationship with David looks like it’s on a rocky road.

Where is the love in “Legion”?

Clark (Hamish Linklater) and Syd have been talking a lot lately. In this episode, she opens up about how different things are with her and David. After she got his note about “killing the monster,” her reservations about him spiked.

He doesn’t tell her anything anymore, and with what she’s saying about him, Clark subtly points out he’s afraid David might do or become something that destroys the world. She talked about how things at the hospital were what she needed, romance. But things changed when they got to the camp. It was gradual but what they are now could use a lot of work to fix.

With the little screen time that Melanie (Jean Smart) had, she heard their whole conversation. In the end, Oliver got a hold of her mind and used it to knock Clark out.

Different help, same destination

Ptonomy’s still in a Vermillion’s mind, but he sees a lot. From implanting a device in a kid (Ian Teves), you can heal quickly to a nurse reading to the kid with wires stuck to his brain. It was Admiral Fukyama’s ascend to who he is. Then he sees Mi-Go the monk’s consciousness clinging to a wall. The moment Ptonomy touches him, he gets a vision of where Farouk’s body could be.

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With the new and helpful information he has, he took control of the android’s body and said in front of David, trying to convince him it was his old friend. After a while, David listened, and Ptonomy told him where the Shadow King’s body was. A place in the desert.

He knew that he couldn’t tell anyone where it was since the Shadow King can and will read their minds. So he implanted thoughts and visions into the brains’ of his colleagues. In time, things will trigger them to pop up in their heads. So, he goes to the desert alone, wandering in the heat and sand.

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Farouk and Oliver, on the other hand, have a different source. They went to an old woman, who was there when they buried the body. She would tell him where she gave him “the endless dream.” When Farouk got the information he needed, he silently killed her, since that was what the woman wanted after all.

The villain had a slight advantage against David when it came to traveling. David was on a mission on foot while Farouk not only had a car but at some point hired a human-drawn carriage.

Sweet escape

One of the people David gave information to was Lenny (Aubrey Plaza) who was still in Division-3. She isn’t doing all too well given she’s been stuck there for who knows how long.

Terrified, Lenny asks David if everything around her was real. She doesn’t want to suddenly wake up and find herself back with the Shadow King.

Towards the end of the episode, Lenny escapes—something she’s been wanting for a while. She gets on a motorbike and drives off toward her freedom.

Saving what needs to be saved

After her talk with Clark, Syd decided to follow David on his mission. She told Clark that “love is what we have to save if we’re gonna save the world.” But Syd isn’t sure that’s what David is doing.

With a parachute, she glided to an area behind and David and immediately starts hitting him for leaving her out of the loop. She yells at him that she is in on his side, no matter what, no matter where, and no matter when.

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From David traveling alone, he gets a companion. When night fell, and it looks like a storm is brewing, they find a tent and get in it. What they found inside was horrifying, even though they didn’t seem that horrified. They found human skeletons. Their skeletons. One was lying on the other’s chest. All they could do was wonder what happened to them.

Legion continues next Tuesday, May 29th, with “Chapter 17” at 10/9c on FX.