‘Reverie’ Season 1, Episode 4 ‘Blue is the Coldest Color’ Recap: Heist [SPOILERS]

One thing Reverie has accurately and consistently done is portraying different kinds of mental illness. Episode 2 did a fantastic job of giving life to a person dealing with a longtime parental issue while Episode 3 intricately crafted a story about a man suffering from trauma. “Blue is the Coldest Color” is no different as it places the spotlight on obsessive-compulsive disorder. It avoids stereotypes, and it also gives the character a deep backstory. The revelation of a new character provides the narrative an opening to a much-complicated plot.

In this week’s episode of Reverie, Mara Kint (Sarah Shahi) questions some truths about Oniratech’s origins after Oliver Hill (Jon Fletcher) saves her from being lost in her derealization. After Oniratech’s security tightens due to a robbery that happened during the night, Mara and Charlie Ventana (Dennis Haysbert) track down the stolen tech, only to find Glenn (David Clayton Rogers) using the tech for a noble motive.

The Noble Thief

Glenn opens the door, and he finds Quincy (Justin Claiborne), his neighbor, who was handing him an envelope. The envelope contained a baseball trading card. When his mom, Liz (Erica Lutrell) tells him that they had to go to a doctor’s appointment, he became sad. To cheer him up, Glenn let him keep the trading card. After they leave, Glenn activates the VCI he stole from Oniratech.

Charlie alongside Paul Hammond (Sendhil Ramamurthy) gives Mara a lead on the robbery case. The thief was using the stolen tech. Mara enters his Reverie, and she discovers that he was using the tech to stimulate his plan to rob a medical company called Medevac Research Laboratory. She tells Paul about this when Charlie enters the office. He mentions that they found the thief who was selling the tech online in a Dark Reverie website. Mara had no idea what Dark Reveries were, so Paul tells her about them. It was a version of the program without the company’s restriction. However, the tech who found the thief online did not see his name, so Mara had to track the thief in the program once more.

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Charlie and Mara head to the thief’s house. Before they enter, they meet by Liz and Quincy. After heeding their warnings about things that could upset Glenn, they finally knock on his door. Glenn insisted on talking to Mara alone. Mara finds out that he had obsessive-compulsive disorder. As they spoke, he was bothered by Charlie’s actions outside. When he could not take it anymore, he activates the VCI and falls on the floor. They bring Glenn to the hospital ward, and Alexis announces that when he wakes up, she would have him arrested.

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After having her suspicions cleared by a conversation with Paul, Mara realizes what Glenn was doing in the program, so she goes back in. She confronts Glenn and confirms his motives. He was stealing the medication from MRL for Quincy who was suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Mara uses this to come into terms with Glenn. Glenn agreed to return the VCI to Oniratech, but he had some conditions.

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Glenn promised to cooperate with Mara if they helped him steal the medication from MRL, so Mara asked Charlie for help, so Charlie contacts Monica Shaw (Kathryn Morris) and asks her for a favor. Meanwhile, Mara and Glenn go over his plan using the program to stimulate MRL’s environment. The strategy was polished, and now they only needed to execute it the next day.

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The next morning, Mara and Glenn head to the MRL facility. Their plan goes to plan correctly. Glenn bypasses the security in each part of the facility. However, the last part was the hardest part for Glenn. He almost lost focus on getting back to Mara’s car, but his love and compassion for Quincy enabled him to see things through. An unexpected twist happens when he does make it back to the car.

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Monica introduces them to Richard Brewster (George Tovar), the CEO of MRL. She told them that she offered Richard a demonstration of how easy it was to bypass his company’s security and he agreed. He was going to pay Monica for the presentation but instead, she had Quincy enlisted in the persons receiving clinical trials for the medication that Glenn stole as payment.

When Glenn got home, he told Liz the news. Overjoyed, Liz hugged him and told him to wait as she was going to tell Quincy the news. However, Glenn said to her that they should do it together. That day was a good day for Glenn. Not only did he help Quincy; he also battled and conquered his intolerance of sunlight.

Unstable

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Oliver saves Mara from getting ran over by a car as she stood in the middle of the street. They go to a diner to discuss who he was and why he knew her and what his motives are. Oliver is a co-founder of Oniratech. He asks for her help to stop the company from releasing Reverie 2.0. Mara leaves him as he starts to become hysterical, but he still pleads to her.

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After Charlie tells Mara to go back to the program, she questions him about things she found out on her own that should have been briefed with before she started her job. Mara confronts him about Oliver Hill. She tells Charlie about her encounter with Oliver. Their conversation moves to Alexis Barett’s (Jessica Lu) office.

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Alexis points out that Mara was not taking medication to counter the derealization. Charlie says the same thing that Oliver warned Mara about, that he would discredit and label Oliver as insane. Mara continues to dig information about Oliver after their encounter while working on their current robbery case. After their conversation in Alexis’ office, Charlie gains her trust back, although she had yet to know Alexis reasons for hiding the truth about Oliver from her.

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After they bring Glenn to the hospital ward, Mara was upset at what Alexis planned to do once he was awake, so she talks to Paul about it. When Paul realizes that she was reluctant to use the program because of Oliver Hill, he showed her Baseline Neuro Data that belonged to Alexis, himself, and Mara and compared these to Oliver Hill’s data. He was unstable before he began using the program, so what he told Mara about becoming crazy due to the use of the program was wrong. Later that night, Charlie goes to Oliver’s apartment, warning him not to approach him, Mara, or Alexis ever again.

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Eventually, Alexis opens up to Mara no matter how hard it was for her. She knew that Mara deserved the truth and that she could trust Mara. It turns out that Oliver was not only her partner, he was also her lover. However, because of his mentally unstable state, they disagreed on what to do with Reverie 2.0, and Oliver insisted that it was the reason behind his worsening condition. Also, he tried to set Alexis’ house on fire at the night of their argument. Mara was alarmed when she found out about this, and she understood why Alexis was reluctant at telling her.

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Oliver meets Leekly (Gary Kraus), a security guard in Oniratech, in an empty lot. Leekly tells him that it would be hard to smuggle out a VCI because of the tightened security. Oliver then increases his payment fee once he gives him the VCI, so he agrees to do the job.

Reverie continues Wednesday, June 27th, with “Altum Somnum” at 10/9c on NBC.