'Between' Recap: 'Get Out of Town'

Written by Scott Edwards

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After last season, I did not know why they would bring back Between, I mean, the town of minors is doomed, right?  Well they are, but that is not going to stop the story from moving forward and I am actually pretty happy that it is back as I have watched the opening to season two and it has captured my attention once again. With several characters returning, the chemistry seems to be better than it was in the first season, so now I am excited to see where they go from here.

Now a month later, Pretty Lake is suffering a food shortage and everyone knows that it is becoming a problem. While Gord has enlisted his little sister Francis to help him, she is starting to get a wandering eye. While making their daily delivery to the orphanage, pleas are coming from Samantha to bring more food since the kids are still hungry. Knowing that this could cause problems, Gord tries all he can to take care of the kids, but when he arrives at his stash house to find it empty, he has no other alternative than to kill the last cow on the farm. Even though Francis does not agree with this and believes that they should be taking care of themselves first, there is no changing her brother’s mind, especially when it comes to helping others.

While grieving over his brother’s grave, Ronnie is greeted by a new face that he has never seen around town. Renee is a sight for sore eyes and when taking her back to his place, Ronnie thinks that times are about to change for him, but then his sister comes home. With the moment gone, Ronnie sees that Renee has taken his gun and now wants to find her for more than one reason. The younger kids around Pretty Lake are really starting to test their boundaries, while some are making their ways to the fence to antagonize the guards, others are stealing anything that they can get their hands on. While walking by the bar, Mark sees a kid trying to steal his booze and when confronted, the kid lashes out and tries to stab his elder with a knife. Missing and hitting himself in the chest, the kid is dead before Mark can even call for help, but Stacey witnessed the death and now Mark has to come clean about what happened on his watch.

Harrison and his friends have created a fight club for the younger kids and are having them beat the crap out of each other for money. When seeing this, Chuck wants to know what the point is since money really has no value inside of the fence, but the boys have a plan of their own. Bribing the guards for food, Harrison and his friends have made a contact at one of the gates that is more than willing to take their money. Wanting to exploit this, Chuck loads the boys up with money and sends them to distract the guard while he is ready to make a run for freedom. While the town is falling apart, still, Adam has a plan of escape of his own and will not leave Wiley in Pretty Lake to starve to death. Knowing that the tunnel he traveled with his father would lead beyond the fence, the two are ready to make their trek to a farmhouse that does not lie too far away. Being greeted by Sandra, the two are taken in and bear witness to the kindness of others. Finding out that the two kids and their child are from Pretty Lake, Sandra takes pity on them and tells them about what the world is being told on the news. With nothing being true and the kids basically being left alone in the town to die, the two want to understand why the lies are occurring. But before they can start their second day in the farmhouse, Wiley finds Sandra dead on the floor and at least one of the reports is correct about the virus that has hit the town, it is contagious after all.

Not a bad start to the second season, I will have to watch it all now. With so much happening in the town, the need for food has outweighed every other problem. With only a few of the older kids trying to take responsibility, it is amazing that the entire town has not burned down in a month's time, but hey, it is still early yet. The interactions between the characters do not seem as forced as they did last year, I think that the cast is better acquainted with each other and the writers have found the correct amount of seriousness and joking to keep the viewers coming back. Now I need to see what happens in the second episode, because for some unknown reason, I want another animal attack in town, but I don’t know if that can happen since there is no food…only kids bodies.

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