‘Defiance’ recap- “A Well Respected Man”

In this episode entitled “A Well Respected Man”, Kenya is kidnapped. Rafe learns that Luke was involved in some mysterious things at the mines and orders Quentin to get to the bottom of it.

The episode begins with Nolan, Irisa, and Tommy stopping a Castithan car in town. These two Castithans were hiding weapons in the trunk and seat of a very old car. Nolan was still upset about Datak Tarr killing a Castithan and leaving him in front of the jail. So he wants to ruin anything associated with Datak Tarr.

Then we see Amanda and the town council being interrupted by Datak Tarr. He comes into the mayor’s office to tell Amanda that Nolan has halted the illegal gun trade the council had approved. However, Amanda did not know that. Rafe tells her that she needs to play along if she wants to be elected Mayor. So she goes to talk to Nolan who is at the Need/Want with Kenya.
On the way to the bar and brothel, a woman comes up to her and tells Amanda that she does not like Kenya because she is a whore who is taking her husband away. Amanda slaps her and keeps going.

She enters the Need/Want and sees Nolan with Kenya. They are getting dressed after a little “fun”. Amanda is upset about the life Kenya leads but she is really upset that Nolan is sleeping with Kenya. Then a sex worker comes down to talk to Kenya about some stolen money. The worker points to a girl on a couch. Kenya calls for her and chases after her into the streets. They wove through a shanty town. The girl, Tirra, was buying drugs from a bio-man. She was also offering sex to get the drugs. Kenya drags her back to the Need/Want but the two sees the human cargo the bio-man was keeping in an ice cream truck. So the bio-man takes them and adds them to the truckload.

Nolan gets info that Kenya is missing from the barkeep. Nolan and Amanda decide to go to Datak Tarr’s house because they knew he had a bio-man. Nolan drags him out of the house and roughs him up a little. Nolan has fallen for Kenya. However, this is the least significant thing here. Amanda and Stahma talk after all of this, alone. The two talk about Kenya pleasing Datak. Stahma offers to tell Amanda where Kenya is if Amanda gives Datak the vacant council seat. The Tarrs are tired of being treated like dogs on short leashes and only spoken to when others need them. With some thought, Amanda agrees to this in the end.

We see that Kenya and Tirra are in a lab of sorts. They are used for their adrenaline in order to make a drug that will enhance abilities. In order to get the adrenaline, they have to scare them first. We see Kenya and Tirra running from a monstrous alien. They hide in a vent shaft. Kenya flashes back to the time of when she was young. Amanda gave her a necklace of a saint that was to protect her. Then she realized she lost the necklace before getting on the ice cream truck. That was a dream and a flashback all-in-one. So she wakes up and knocks out their captor. Then she gets Tirra. Then the bio-man comes in angry. Luckily, Nolan and crew come in to shoot him down.

The episode wraps up with Nolan figuring out that Stahma is the dangerous one. In the minor plot, we see Rafe telling Quentin that he loves him the way that he is and that he had to close a mine shaft to find out what Luke was up to. Then we see that Kenya learns that her mother abandons her and Amanda raised Kenya on her own.

This episode was fantastic and the best of the season so far. It had a decent pace and it was refreshing. Here is a trailer for the next episode:

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