‘The Terror: Infamy’ Recap: ‘Come and Get Me’

Written by John Edward Betancourt 

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If there’s one thing I love about AMC’s The Terror: Infamy, it’s that the series refuses to abide by any of the ‘rules’ that the horror genre normally follows. It simply wants to tell a powerful and unconventional scary story and this refusal to follow traditional structures and tropes has paid off in spades time and time again. Because just when it seems this series is headed into predictable territory, it wows us all with stunning moments that seemingly come out of left field. And this is on my mind today, simply due to the fact that once again, the series found a way to surprise and stun this viewer by offering up another quality episode that was filled to the brim with unexpected surprises.  
 
Case and point, the fact that ‘Come and Get Me’ opened up with a grand farewell to the Internment Camp that has been a source of sorrow for so many characters, and I found this to be surprising simply because, I truly expected this place to play a bigger role in the final episodes of the season. After all, it’s a big deal that Amy put down the Major, and Yuko made quite the point to spend as much time here as possible in earlier episodes. But instead, this was it, the courts had deemed these places illegal and everyone was allowed to return to home at last, and there were no repercussions for Amy’s actions or tears to be shed in saying goodbye to the crude shanties that people here called home for a brief time, they got just the hell out of dodge.
 
But while it seemed for a brief moment that this would in turn result in a happy ending since everyone was able to go home and start over fresh in life, there was still sorrow to be found for Chester’s family and friends. For a return to Terminal Island revealed that everyone’s houses and property had been seized and destroyed by the U.S. Government, a final insult for certain, and that meant that everyone had to relocate and start anew for a brief time it seemed as though this particular story was headed toward an impromptu epilogue for the people of Terminal Island. That way we could see how everyone got along now that the camps were behind them, allowing for us to focus upon a final showdown between mother and son in the finale. But a simple phone call, helped to divert the story from that particular path. 

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​For Chester reached out to his mother and father, letting them know that he was alive and well and married and that he was about to become a father again, and also that he needed their help and that brought about a tense family reunion in New Mexico. Wherein Chester and his father were able to finally hash out some of the bad blood they harbored before dealing with the bigger problem at hand. Because Chester made it clear that it was only a matter of time before Yuko found her way to the house in order to claim the baby and that he needed his parents to help him execute a daring plan to escape her clutches and well, thank heavens he reached out. For Yuko did indeed do everything within her vast power to get near the family and thanks to Chester’s foresight, he and his bride and his family were able to work together and flee Yuko’s grasp.
 
But deep down, Chester knew it was only a matter of time before she found someone near them that she could use as a vessel to get to the baby, and that brought this tiny group to a military bunker in the middle of nowhere. That way, Luz could have the child safely and Chester could execute a plan to end his own life, all so that Yuko could finally have her Taizo. But as is often the case with plans designed to stop Yuko; things went terribly wrong. Because Yuko managed to jump into the body of the baby so that she could easily find a different host to inhabit, once he was born, and it wasn’t long before she brought chaos into the bunker. And despite the grand effort that was made to stop her, Yuko was able to seize control of Luz and take the child at last, leaving the baby’s fate up in the air.
 
If anything, I really dug how this episode played out for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, it really did fool me, and I genuinely thought we were going to spend a solid hour with Henry and his friends as they put their lives back together. But that was clearly a trick, one designed to make us comfortable and secure and that made the back half of this tale chilling and unsettling. Because you didn’t have a clue when Yuko was going to show up, or how she was going to get close to the baby and really in the end, all of these twists and turns made this episode, as brilliant as they come. For this one took us on an emotional rollercoaster ride, and it properly set the stage for that all-important final showdown and honestly, I haven’t a clue how Chester is going to keep his child safe since Yuko seems unstoppable and it should be interesting to see how this wild and harrowing saga wraps up in next week’s season two finale. Until then. 

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