'Beyond' Recap: 'F.G.B.'

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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​With season two of Beyond coming to a close, I knew it was only a matter of time before this series in essence unleashed its fury and brought forth all kinds of surprises and twists and turns to its epic storyline and wouldn’t you know it, last night’s episode, ‘F.G.B.’, opened the proverbial floodgates, by delivering on every single element that I made mention of a moment ago, all while maintaining this season’s rich tradition of giving us quality character growth by putting Holden in the position to make one incredible, life changing, decision.
 
But, before we get too deep into Holden’s journey, let’s take a moment and talk about some of those surprises since this episode wasted no time in revealing the fact that Agent Borden, is not who she seems. She’s definitely not an FBI Agent, since Luke and Willa came to discover the real Agent Borden is in fact, a man. But whomever she is, she wants in on the Afterlife and she’s willing to go to great lengths to get there since she kidnapped Arthur and swiped his machine and killed Daniel as well before making her way to Hollow Sky. Which means that Willa and Luke are going to have to be allies of Hollow Sky for the time being to try and stop her because Holden’s hands will be full after what we went through in this story.
 
Which brings us to that big decision he had to make, one that was quite unexpected to say the least, and it all came about by way of our long awaited return to the Realm since Holden was able to make use of Edgar’s freezer after all, and with Edgar as his guide, he was able to navigate the Realm and bring another one of his visions to a surprising conclusion. Because, if you remember, one of the many wild images Holden saw early on in this season was a room filled with stars and a mystery person sitting in a chair, whose face we were never able to see…until now that is, since waiting in this place, was Frost himself and he let Holden know that there was only way to make all of this right, he had to bond with the Realm permanently.
 
In order for that to happen, the Realm needed a sacrifice of sorts, which meant that Holden had to in essence, choose a path. He could either leave this place and enjoy a normal life, for a limited time of course since Diego and his lackeys would eventually bring about the end of the world or…embrace his powers and be a hero and leave any notion of a normal life behind. This of course created great conflict within Holden, but the prospect of everyone he loves suffering from a selfish choice allowed for Holden to finally embrace his heroic destiny, which in turn sealed the rift between life and death shortly before Holden returned home to prepare for one finale battle with Diego…
 
If anything, this episode turned out to be wonderfully intense and I love the other surprises that came about over the course of the hour. Like the fact that mom and dad now know what their son is capable of, and that Charlie did indeed have a disturbing vision of Holden dying when she touched the Freezer and also that Edgar refused to join on the fight. Because Holden is going to need all the help that he can get and hopefully Edgar changes his mind and Willa and Luke, and heck, maybe even Yellow Jacket will join in on the fray. If anything, I’m expecting next week’s season two finale to be downright explosive and I really am hoping that Charlie’s vision is incorrect, and that Holden will indeed survive this upcoming battle to see another day. Until next time. 

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