"Between" Recap: "Who's the Boss?"

Written by Scotty

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Five days have passed and the death toll in Pretty Lake has surpassed six thousand people.  With all of the tenured adults gone, the youth of the town is taking over and trying to hold things together.  But with no adult supervision, the children are trying to do things that their parents did, such as driving cars.  With not authorities left in the town, the current elders are trying to step up, but with so many children running around without anyone watching them, it is next to impossible to keep a lid on it.

Chuck, the oldest of his rich family that owns most of the town is trying to take control and after receiving word from the outside world that once they burn the bodies of the deceased, the fences will be removed and they will be able to receive help once again, is ready to take action.  But he is not the only one that sees what is happening in his town as Gord has broken into his family’s supermarket and stolen food. Gord is trying to take care of the orphans that are hungry that are staying at the church, but Chuck is not ready to admit that this is the right thing to do just yet. When driving back to the church, Gord sees Ronnie walking out of a neighbor’s house with a bag full of stolen goods.  When trying to confront the delinquent, Ronnie pulls a gun on Gord and offers to pull the trigger for no other reason than he can.  When trying to talk some sense into the young man, Gord is backed up by Chuck and his friends, but there is something brewing between the young men that cannot be stopped.  After seeing what happened to the neighbor’s wife’s finger to remove a ring, Chuck takes his battle to Ronnie’s home, but is stopped from doing anything that could cost him his life by the promise of the quarantine being lifted.

Adam is scouring chatrooms, trying to find out what the outside world is really saying about his town’s situation.  When hacking into the government files again, he finds that there is a man that has no ties to Pretty Lake, but has taken up residence within the past three months.  Thinking that this man might hold the answers to what has happened to the town, Adam starts his search but finds that the man is dead and ready to be cremated in the largest bonfire that the town has ever seen. Wiley is slowly losing it and is starting to give up on life.  Not wanting to even name her son, her sister Melissa is stepping into the role.  While doing everything that she can at the church to keep the kids in check, when she finds out that one of the children she has claimed responsibility for has been killed outside of the virus, she blames herself.  Getting more help from the older kids, there is a weight being put on her shoulders that no one her age should have to carry. 

Things are heating up in the town of Pretty Lake and not just because of the bonfire burning the bodies of the infected, but the attitudes of those in charge is starting to come to light.  Although it appears that Gord does not want the responsibility, he is the most down to earth person and knows what needs to be done, but Chuck is not willing to give up on his family’s legacy in the town just yet.  But Chuck is starting to see that his hands are full with his younger sister Amanda who is trying to get their sister to come home by cooking her burgers and fries.  But there is something else happening in the town as Chuck finds that his other sister Lana is dead in the woods, an apparent suicide, but Adam seems to think that she has been murdered. 

A pending power struggle, a murder, and a delinquent that is not trying to make any friends and willing to go to the end with what he knows is right.  Someone is going to die in the next episode, which is what I am feeling anyway since there are more weapons in the hands of the kids in Pretty Lake than ever intended.  I am sucked in now and need to know what happens next.  I hate to say I will need to binge watch this series, but it is looking like I just might need to.

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