My Review of "The Gifted" S2 Ep. 7 "No Mercy"
7My Review of "The Gifted" S2 Ep. 7 "No Mercy"
No one ever said the revolution would be bloodless.
Well, maybe some of them hoped it would be. Reeva certainly seems like she genuinely wanted to carry out her master plan with a minimum amount of bloodshed, even though she probably knew deep down it was unavoidable. After all, this week’s cold open flashback saw a younger Reeva watch her best friend get knifed by humans outside of a mutant activist meeting.
In the present day, Reeva has an orderly plan for the long-awaited bank heist on Creed Financial. Lorna will disable communications while Reeva and the Cuckoos use their powers to keep the bank employees under their control. Rebecca will then open the vault, with Andy alongside her for protection. The key piece of the plan, though, depends on human connection — specifically, Reeva’s relationship with a Creed banker named Quinn. After months of seduction, Reeva invites Quinn to a fancy dinner, where he talks about how she’s made him (and by extension, his sons) happier than he’s been since losing his wife. The moment they get to the parking lot, though, the Cuckoos arrive, and Reeva springs her trap. She tells Quinn that he needs to insert a drive into Creed’s servers that will disable their mutant-detecting security system. He needs to obey for the sake of his sons, though Reeva doesn’t seem very interested in hurting them or him unless she absolutely needs to.
So Quinn follows along. He walks into Creed just like any other day but then inserts the drive into the computer system. Once they get the all-clear, Reeva and her team walk right in through the front doors of the bank. They look so cool standing there in their black jackets that it’s hard not to root for them. When security guards try firing on the intruders, Polaris stops all their bullets mid-air, Matrix style. Then Reeva unleashes her scream, making everyone extra pliable to the Cuckoos’ manipulation. Everyone’s escorted to a conference room, where the Cuckoos make the lead banker give another on-camera confession (just like they did with the asylum doctors) about how Creed’s fortunes were built on the back of mutant oppression and exploitation.