‘Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: 8 Months Later

Eight months after Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger save New Orleans from another catastrophe, the heroes accept their new destinies. Two completely different lives experience yet another switch-up. While one lives in the solitude of the closed down cathedral, the other starts recovery. The road to a better life may not be an easy one, but both of our heroes choose to go through with it. Still, the sense that they lack something starts to stir them. A feeling that they are not doing enough for the city nor themselves calls out to their hearts.

In the season premiere of Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger, Tyrone Johnson (Aubrey Joseph) adjusts to his new life of Solitude. Meanwhile, Tandy Bowen (Olivia Holt) and her mother, Melissa Bowen (Andrea Roth) now live together, fixing their relationship. On the other hand, Detective Brigid O’Reilly (Emma Lahana) continues with her career as a cop after surviving her encounter with Connors.

Solitude

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Now living in the closed down Cathedral, Tyrone spends his time working on his powers. In eight months, Tyrone managed to learn and control the power to his advantage. Also, Tyrone checks on the people he cares about: Adina Johnson (Gloria Reuben), his mother, Otis Johnson (Miles Mussenden), his father, Evita Fusilier (Noëlle Renée Bercy), his girlfriend, and Tandy. Still, he misses using his powers to help the city. Crime again ran rampant, and the streets are not as safe as it should be. Because of this, Tyrone heads out to try to eliminate the gangs that deal with drugs all across town.

Therapeutic

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Tandy and Melissa’s lives significantly improve after Roxxon admits to the accident that caused both her father, Nathan Bowen’s (Andy Dylan) job and life. Tandy reignited her passion for ballet as she attends a ballet class. Also, the mother and daughter duo go to group therapy to talk about the abuse Melissa experienced from Nathan, and for Tandy to accept the truth about her once idolized father. In the discussions, they meet a lady named Mikayla (Cecilia Leal) who blindly continues to live with her abusive boyfriend despite the things he does to her. Tandy steps in and warns the guy, Jeremy (T.C. Matherne) not to hurt Mikayla again, but this backfires. Jeremy manages to use the situation to his advantage, causing Tandy to lash out.

Unwell

Brigid goes further down the emotional spiral. Losing Fuchs made her feel wrong about the job, and receiving his killer, Connors’ role as the undercover cop made things worse. Her last encounter with Connors also changed her, making her weaker than the detective that she once was. Tyrone’s vigilante escapades only made things worse, and the latest development in her assignment brought her to the edge, unsure of what to do at that point.

Back Together

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Tandy eventually finds out about Tyrone’s missions into gang territory. Finally working past Tyrone’s reasons in not including her, Tandy and Tyrone head out together to a multiple gang meeting, organized to figure out what to do with the incidents of disappearing drugs and drug money. Trying to do things by the book, Tandy and Tyrone stick a recorder under one of the tables to record the meeting. However, things go bad quickly as soon as the meeting starts. Before Tandy and Tyrone could reach the room, everyone inside was dead. Unsure with what to do, Tandy and Tyrone call Brigid to the scene. Disappointed, Brigid orders them to leave the room before reinforcements arrived. Tandy and Tyrone went, taking note of the symbol one of the dead men made before his final breath.

Reconciliation

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Tyrone asks Auntie Chantelle (Angela Davis) to help him identify the symbol he saw in the crime scene. What he saw is a Vevé, a summoning prayer done by voodoo practitioners to ask for a Loa, voodoo’s intermediaries. The particular one that Tyrone saw belongs to one of the Death Loas, Maman Brigitte. Praying for her help only meant two things: guidance from this life to the next or wanting justice for one’s death. Tyrone heads out to try to pray using the vevé but stops when Evita walks into the room. Evita and Tyrone argue about his disappearance, and this argument ends bitterly.

When Tyrone returns to the Cathedral, he tries praying after drawing the vevé which transports him to the back of an ambulance where Mikayla lay strapped to a stretcher. The driver shoots at him, causing his return to the cathedral. Curious as two why he transported himself there, Tyrone tries to make the vevé once more but fails. Luckily, Evita comes around to apologize for not listening to him and to help him finish the vevé as well. After he successfully remakes the vevé, he teleports himself and Evita to Mikayla’s bedside. He needed to find out more about what is happening, so he reaches out to Brigid. For some reason, Brigid was bound inside her apartment with no badge nor service firearm.

Crimes Against Women

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Tandy flips when she finds out that Mikayla is missing. After Tandy scared her off during their last meeting, Mikayla never went home. None of her friends knew where she was, either. Frustrated, Tandy asks for their Counselor, Lia’s (Dilshad Vadsaria) help in finding Mikayla. Lia refers her to Andre Deschaine (Brooklyn McLinn), their administrator. Andre talks to Tandy, letting her get to know him before getting to know her as they stroll in the African American neighborhoods. Tandy suddenly sees her father walk towards her, making her run in confusion.

Andre eventually catches up to Tandy, who was watching a group of African American Women singing for more than a dozen missing girls whose photos appear on a lamp post. With the media neither the police not looking for the girls, their only chance of being found remain within the women who sang for them there. Suddenly, Lia calls Andre, informing him about Mikayla who was found overdosed. While checking on Mikayla, Tandy finds something odd in her head: the ambulance driver drugged Mikayla. When Tandy asks the nurses about the ambulance, they mention that they could not find the driver, either, since it was a private ambulance. Because of this, Tandy tracks the location of the city’s known private ambulance parking lot.

Detective Mode

While Tandy and Tyrone went about their business, Brigid worked on a lead. One of the dead men inside the crime scene was a businessman, obviously out of place. The man had a connection to the gangs, and this is what Brigid tried to figure out. Eventually, the widow tells her that the man owns a scrapyard where one of the someone has him store vehicles; and not just any random car, but private ambulances. Brigid heads too the scrapyard and finds Tandy there, but does not seem bothered by her presence. Instead, she and Tandy team up to corner the ambulance driver, who ran at the sight of them. Tandy flashes an intense light at the driver, causing the ambulance to turn sideways. Tyrone and Brigid arrived, confusing Tandy since she left Brigid to take care of the driver. The other Brigid did take care of the driver— permanently.

‘Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger’ Season 2 Premiere ‘Restless Energy’ & Whitelines’ Final Verdict

The show upped its game with this two-hour season premiere event. Also, it has some significant improvements. Now, the dialogues are less cheesy compared to the previous season. The inclusion of various topics such as voodoo as well as racism brings variety to the plot. The second season began with much intensity and overall, lives up to the fans’ excitement.

Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger continues Thursday, April 11th with ‘Shadow Selves’ at 9/8c on Freeform.