Tomorrowland

	Tomorrowland
	Season 2, Episode 20
Air date	May 7th 2014
Written by	Trey Callaway & Ryan Parrott
Directed by	David Boyd
Production Code	2J77120
	Storyline
	Episode Guide
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Revolution -- Season 2 (Flashbacks in parentheses)

#01 "Born in the U.S.A." (Rachel, Miles, and Charlie)	#09 "Everyone Says I Love You" (Rachel)	#16 "Exposition Boulevard" (Truman)
#02 "There Will Be Blood" (Aaron)	#10 "Three Amigos"	#17 "Why We Fight"
#03 "Love Story"	#11 "Mis Dos Padres"	#18 "Austin City Limits"
#04 "Patriot Games"	#12 "Captain Trips" (Julia)	#19 "Shit Happens" (Charlie and Miles)
#05 "One Riot, One Ranger" (Aaron)	#13 "Happy Endings"	#20 "Tomorrowland" (TBA)
#06 "Dead Man Walking" (Monroe)	#14 "Fear and Loathing"	#21 "Memorial Day" (TBA)
#07 "The Patriot Act" (Gene)	#15 "Dreamcatcher"	#22 "Declaration of Independence" (TBA)
#08 "Come Blow Your Horn" (Dr. Horn)

Tomorrowland is the 20th episode of the second and final season and first aired on May 7th 2014 on NBC.

Synopsis[]

Truman, empowered with new authority from the President, launches a mustard gas attack designed to kill Miles and Monroe. To Rachel's disappointment, Miles agrees to join Monroe in a ruthless plot to beat the Patriots at their own game. As Neville faces his own challenge from the Patriots, Aaron grows increasingly alarmed by the power of the nanotech.

Summary[]

After his meeting with Allenford, President Davis is cleaning blood off his shirt when Truman enters the Oval Office. The President offers a bloody chair, insisting that Truman sit, then pulls out his gun to open a conversation about failure. General Carver should be dead, California and Texas should be at war - but none of it is happening because Miles and Monroe are still alive and outside Willoughby. Rather than sit and wait quietly to be shot, Truman gets angry. The President has sent all manner of people to do Truman's job, so the fault lies with him; Truman has just been following orders. Truman gets a reprieve... for now, with no idea of what his reprieve actually means. Meanwhile, Charlie finds Miles, barely alive, lying in a field.

Five days later, Truman's steam train arrives in Willoughby. Truman's number two, Shaw, brings intel on Miles and Monroe's camp, located by the old chemical plant. Truman orders fellow soldier Lieutenant Vanek to unload the canisters and mobilize his men, then orders Shaw to find Neville, whose services are no longer needed. Back at the chemical plant, Aaron finds Priscilla engrossed in a pre-Blackout womens magazine - why do the people look so happy and shiny? Aaron explains that it is all an act to sell magazines, then demands the nano return the real Priscilla. Uninterested, Priscilla turns back to her magazine while across the camp, Rachel and her father tend to Miles' slowly healing abdominal wound. Miles claims the only reason he made it out of the abandoned house was the Fender guitar pick he found, which also seems to have made him quit drinking. Suddenly, the air fills with the sound of birds and animals fleeing something terrible... Priscilla advises Aaron to run, so he does, just as a cloud of bright yellow gas billows into view. Miles yells for everyone to run for higher ground, but Patriots in gas masks are waiting to pick them off. When Miles spies an overturned tanker trunk, he urges his crew to get inside and weather the attack. Seemingly unaffected, Nano-Priscilla is left outside to inspect the dead and surprise some Patriot soldiers, who cannot understand how she possibly could have survived.

Of course, no one in Willoughby is aware of the gas attack, least of all Truman's girlfriend, Marion. When she catches Truman behaving oddly, she waits until he leaves, then investigates his sock drawer to find a gas mask and a folder full of something shocking. That night, once the Patriots are gone, Miles, Monroe and their people meet in an abandoned convenience store. When Priscilla shows up full of excuses, Rachel can tell that something is not right, but Aaron won't say anything. Furious over the loss of 20 men, Monroe wants to steal some of the Patriots' gas and gas them right back, twice as hard. The only thing that matters is beating the Patriots. Oddly, Miles agrees with no argument, then pulls Rachel outside for her inevitable lecture. Tired of competing with Monroe for Miles' attention, Rachel claims that she is done with them both. Rather than talk about the breakup, Miles heads off with Monroe, asking about his plans for the future. Monroe thinks the country is still his for the taking; better him than the Patriots. After all, Monroe has learned from his mistakes, and he hopes Miles will join him.

Shaw waits for a haggard Neville outside his home. The men seem friendly, but it is clear that Shaw has come to kill him. Neville invites Shaw inside, pours a drink, and lures him towards a booby trap featuring crude, leg-impaling steel spikes. Neville figures that someone in D.C. must be planning to kill Julia... or is she already dead? Shaw's silence says it all, and Neville finally realizes he was wrong and Jason was right. Having descended into darkness once and for all, Neville vows to burn everyone, starting with Shaw. Across town, Porter finds Marion visiting her father's grave. When she refuses to talk, Charlie emerges from the woods, armed. Per Monroe's orders, Connor and Scanlon have a pretty convincing fight by a campfire in order to draw out any Patriots still searching for them. Miles and Monroe flush out and kill five Patriots, taking their gas masks and packs. When Priscilla disappears, Aaron follows her to a decrepit farmhouse, where he finds Patriots in gas masks reading a newspaper. Although the Patriot seems dead, the tear rolling down his cheek indicates he is still alive. Suddenly, all the electricity turns on, and Nano-Priscilla giggles at the macabre tableau she has created. Furthermore, she has reached a conclusion: people are the problem. They are naturally miserable and they won't stop until they burn the world down. But she is going to fix them by altering their limbic systems.

Monroe et al return to the cabin with their purloined gas, unaware that Charlie and Porter have Marion stowed there. Miles lures the guys outside with the promise of whiskey, then Rachel locks them out. She has cooked up a solution of lye and water to neutralize the mustard gas. When Marion spies the yellow cross on the gas tanks, she puts two and two together. Per Truman's files, the Patriot government just shipped 100 tons of something called Yellow Cross to Willoughby. Furious he no longer has gas to fight the Patriots with, Monroe lays into Miles, who explains that they are not killing innocent people anymore. They are the good guys, so they are going to start acting like good guys. Monroe can leave if he wants, but if he stays, this time they are doing things Miles' way. Once Connor and Monroe take off, Rachel asks Miles what happened, so he takes out the guitar pick. He was bleeding to death in the basement of the abandoned house when he found it, and it all came together. No matter what happened in the past, Rachel is still trying to build a better world for Charlie. So how could Miles die without trying to do the same?

Still furious, Monroe leads Connor back to the abandoned chemical plant to dig up a weapons cache. They are going to get what is rightfully Connor's, without Miles. Just then, Neville appears and puts his knife to Connor's throat, and begins to talk about irony. Monroe is willing to die for his son, but Neville doesn't want to kill anybody. They have work to do...

Cast[]

Staring[]

Guest staring[]

Reiko Aylesworth as Marion Reilly
Steven Culp as Edward Truman
Billy Lush as Scanlon
Maureen Sebastian as Priscilla Pittman
Cotter Smith as Jack Davis
Waleed Zuaiter as Martin Shaw
Mat Vairo as Connor Bennett
Jordan Dragonking as Vanek
Brian Thornton as Ike Corbett

Trivia[]

First Appearance of Lieutenant Vanek
First (and Last) Appearance of Ike Corbett
Final Appearance of Martin Shaw