The Umbrella Academy: Episode 36

36. End of the Beginning

The call is a song played on the radio that unites all Keepers to barricade the building where Ben and Jennifer are in the process of merging together to bring forth the Cleanse. Despite seven years passing by for Five and Lila, only hours have gone by in the timeline they go back to. Reginald and Viktor try to negotiate with “Gene” and Jean but to no avail. “Gene” then kills Jean with a katana. Viktor breaks into the building but Ben has already been absorbed. The rest of the gang arrive just in time to fight with the Bennifer blob but to no avail. Five teleports back to the subway and finds many other Fives dining in a deli, all of them a different version of himself from a different timeline trying to solve the problem. The only way forward is to destroy all timelines by having all Marigold fuse with the Durango to usher in the reset. Lila and the siblings accept their fate and merge with the blob. All timelines are destroyed, leaving only one where the siblings do not exist but all of their loved ones live safe and happily ever after, without a memory of them. Eight marigold flowers bloom under a tree.

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35. Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days

Allison and Claire find out from Quinn where Klaus is buried, after she literally busts his balls. Klaus is rescued and the three reconcile. Viktor and Reginald go after Ben and Jennifer but are ambushed by the Keepers along the way. They survive and Reginald praises Viktor’s drive. Ben and Jennifer plan to run away to Miami and live together but she gets sick so they stop by an abandoned department store where she lays down to rest. Luther and Diego discover that the CIA office is just a cover and that most of the personnel there are part of the Keepers. Five and Lila get lost in the maze of alternative timeline subway stops and decide to stop for a while and settle down, starting an extra-marital affair. When Five finds a notebook another version of him has written with instructions on how to get back to their own timeline, he keeps it from Lila and she gets mad when she finds out. Sy kills Gene with his alien tentacle and is revealed to be Abigail in disguise. She then dismembers Gene and copies his appearance, telling Jean later on that it’s time for the call.

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34. The Cleanse

October 14, 2006. The siblings except Vanya and Five are sent to Moldova to destroy a weapon in a container, which is revealed to be a girl named Jennifer. Ben rescues the girl, after which he and she are shot dead by Reginald. Abigail Hargreeves (Liisa Repo-Martell) confesses that when she synthesized Marigold, a second particle called Durango was created, which is what Jennifer is made of. Any interaction between her and the Marigold within the siblings will bring about an apocalypse. Five and Lila teleport to the subway but they miss their target reality before being whisked away by an express train to yet another timeline. Reginald wants Ben killed but Viktor intervenes, suggesting he might be able to drain the Marigold out of Ben. Allison runs back home to her daughter after she hears about Klaus abandoning her. Klaus figures out in a shootout at a cemetery and is buried alive by Quinn. Luther and Diego go on a daytrip to the CIA office. Ben and Jennifer decide to hook up, their union immediately obliterating matter in close proximity.

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33. The Squid and the Girl

A TV program features a giant squid and a girl who emerges from it. Klaus splits from the group after a tirade about how he just wants to die. He goes back to his old ways and runs into Quinn to whom he owes money. He is shot in the head but doesn’t die. He then finds himself captive and hanging upside down. Diego, Lila, and Five go back to Jean and Gene’s HQ. Five accidentally teleports himself and Lila to the strange subway station. They ride a train and end up in his apocalyptic future. They go back to their timeline where Diego finds a file named The Jennifer Incident about Ben’s death. The three follow Luther, Allison, and Viktor to Reginald's mansion to confront the old man. They meet his wife who convinces him to help them regain their memory of Ben’s death, because nobody seems to know how he really died. Sparrow Ben is ambushed by Sy Grossman who tells him that Jennifer is special and he must just follow his instincts to find her. He traces her back to Jean and Gene’s compound where he kills their goons and the two escape together.

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32. Jean and Gene

Apparently, Ben spiked everyone’s sake with Marigold so they all wake up the next day vomiting and with their powers back, except Klaus who didn’t actually drink his. They go to Sy Grossman’s (David Cross) laundry shop but he isn’t there. They find a map to a small town in Maine instead so they drive up there with a plan to find Jennifer and save her so they could go back to their own lives. The sleepy town is on Christmas mode and seems normal, until Allison asks an old lady about Jennifer Grossman. Suddenly, every citizen stares at them and threatens them with guns. Ben splits from the group earlier and ends up at a diner where he meets Rosie (Victoria Sawal), the diner owner who turns out to be Jennifer. They all head back to the van but a citizen pretending to be Jennifer beats them to Klaus and shoots him. On the verge of dying, they pour some of the Marigold on his gunshot wound. As they drive out of town with Jennifer in tow, they are rammed by another car, from which Jean and Gene emerge to abduct a semi-unconscious Jennifer who cries out to Ben for help.

The Umbrella Academy: Episode 31

31. The Unbearable Tragedy of Getting What You Want

The Hargreeves settle for powerless existence in a new reality. Allison is a struggling actress and mother but has a now sober and germaphobe Klaus to help her in babysitting her teenager. Luther is a mediocre stripper and picks up Ben from prison after he is released on parole for MLM fraud. Diego and Lila have their hands full with three kids. Viktor runs his own pub in Nova Scotia. Five is working for the CIA investigating a fringe group called Keepers who believe they are living in the wrong timeline. Their founders, couple Gene (Nick Offerman) and Jean (Megan Mullally), collect items from various timelines to show as proof that something is amiss. They are also lecturing about “The Cleanse” which they believe will be a hard reset. Some rando kidnaps Viktor, bringing the gang back together to rescue him. The guy explains how he lost his daughter to the Keepers and hands over a box of alternate timeline items, which includes a container of Marigold. As they agree not to get their powers back, Ben steals the container and drinks some of it without them knowing.

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30. Oblivion

Viktor and Lila kill their guardian as Five, Ben, and Sloane also do theirs, but not without a fight. Klaus and Luther bond in the afterlife, the latter forcing the former to bring them both back to fight with their family. The two materialize at the Hotel Oblivion just in time after Five gets one of his arms chopped off and right before Sloane is about the be decapitated by the last remaining guardian. Ethereal Luther gets rid of the last guardian but disappears as Klaus is weakened. Five finds the signs on the floor where all of them, except Allison, stand in position as their life essence, the alien substance that gave them powers, are sucked as a power source by the universe reset machine at the hotel. Not wanting everyone to die, Allison fatally hits Reginald in the head but pushes the reset button anyway. She ends up with Ray and Claire at her LA home as part of her deal while the rest, sans Sloane but with Luther, emerge from an elevator in a Hargreeves Enterprises-dominated world where his wife Abigail is alive and the kids don’t have their powers anymore.

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29. Seven Bells

Reginald calls a meeting to brief his children about the end of the world. He tells of the story of a portal as well as mythology from various civilizations regarding impending doom and the significance of the number seven: Seven Sleepers for the Norse; Seven Stars for the Blackfoot. He argues that the only way to stop the apocalypse is to face the guardians on the other side, at the Hotel Oblivion. Not everyone is on board with the plan, so they settle the score with a vote. Allison, Lila, Klaus, and Ben agree. Luther, Sloane, Viktor, Diego, and Five say no. Disappointed, they all move on and prepare for their final moments. Luther sees his father alone in the White Buffalo Suite en route back to his room. He goes in and they reconcile, ending in a hug before Reginald fatally stabs Luther with an extra-terrestrial tentacle from his arm. The siblings find him dead as the Kugelblitz engulfs the hotel, believing it was a guardian who killed him. Left without a choice, they enter the portal. Reginald pushes Klaus as he enters, leaving him behind to disintegrate with Luther’s corpse.

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28. Wedding at the End of the World

1918. Reginald Hargreeves discovers a universal portal in the middle of an empty field and builds a hotel to contain it. At present, as the world ends and nobody has a good plan to stop it, the Umbrellas sans Klaus as well as the last two Sparrows standing seek refuge at the Hotel Obsidian, which remains to be the only venue withstanding the humongous ball of fire engulfing everything around it. Luther and Sloane decide to get married and spend their last remaining time on Earth as husband and wife. Reginald and Klaus arrive, the latter attempting to make their father reconcile with his children. An awkward bachelor’s party and wedding reception follows suit where booze flows and almost everybody takes turns singing at the karaoke. Klaus manages to bring Ben into the fold, while Allison is hesitant to forgive Viktor despite him apologizing and trying to make amends. At the end of the evening, a drunk Five sees their father making a deal with someone at the White Buffalo Suite, but he passes out before seeing who it is.

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27. Auf Wiedersehen

1953. Lila watches her murder scene in the hands of The Handler over and over again on the Infinite Switchboard. She makes a deal with Herb to send her to ’89 West Berlin where she picks up her mom’s brief case and meets Stan and his mom, after which she takes him out time traveling to pick on Diego. Reginald takes Klaus on a road trip and kills him over and over again, helping him improve his resurrection turnaround. The remaining Umbrellas and Sparrows meet at the academy to plan the Kugelblitz’s containment, but not without Viktor and Allison having a heated confrontation in front of everyone first after the latter reveals that she killed Harlan. Once the dust settles, they set off to work at the basement where Viktor, Lila, and Sloane use their powers to trap the Kugelblitz inside Christopher. They succeed. Luther proposes to Sloane, and she accepts. Lila reveals to Diego that she is pregnant, for real. Fei breaks ranks with Ben, but Christopher suddenly erupts and the Kugelblitz emerges anew, swallowing her and the cube as the rest flee for their lives.

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26. Marigold

Five plays cat and mouse with Pogo until the latter agrees to entertain him in his trailer home. He looks back to 2014 when Reginald was training the Sparrows for a suicide mission dubbed as Oblivion. Five decides to complete the cycle and have the symbols tattooed on his chest. Klaus sneaks into Reginald’s quarters again, the latter taking down notes about the former’s powers and drawing the same symbols tattooed on Five’s chest on his notebook. Diego and Lila look for a missing Stan and are led to a glass tunnel behind the wall of the White Buffalo Suite. Reaching the other side, they find themselves in a parallel hotel called Hotel Oblivion where Lila admits that Stan is not their kid before two of Diego’s fingers are sliced by an assailant. Ben gives Luther a Sparrow Academy jacket and invites him to join them. Viktor and Harlan complete their transfer of powers successfully with Allison in tow. Weakened, Viktor takes a rest while Harlan admits to Allison that he accidentally killed their moms. Enraged, she takes him, now powerless, back to the academy and surrender him to the Sparrows.

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25. Kindest Cut

Ben and Fei try to discover the secrets of the Kugelblitz through Grace’s android eye but fail. She proposes the idea of working with the Umbrellas to save the world. Diego and Lila reunite and sleep together, resigned to the fact that they might not survive the end of the world this time around. Viktor has to decide whether to keep Harlan safe or surrender him to the Sparrows as his siblings suggest. She chooses the first option. Allison rumors Luther to want her but stops him when he begins to pin her down. Guilty, she runs off and sees Viktor and Harlan sneaking out. She volunteers to take Harlan away in Viktor’s place. Klaus crosses over to the next life again, meets his biological mother, and finds out that all of his 56 near death experiences were actually deaths which he came back from thanks to his powers. Later, he identifies the tattoo, which Five extracted from his old self’s chest, as that of the Mothers of Agony, a gang of bikers. Five locates their HQ and finds Pogo there as a tattoo artist.

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24. Kugelblitz

On 10/01/1989 Harlan, now known as Lester, unleashes a violent energy blast as his mother Sissy succumbs to her illness on a hospital bed. 27 women, the mothers of the Umbrella Academy siblings included, simultaneously suffer a stroke and die before their children are born. Allison goes hardcore on Sloane, who is now a hostage of the Umbrellas. She is later returned along with the bodies of Jayme and Alphonso to Ben and Fei, who further demand that they want Lester surrendered to them as well. Stan is punished by Diego by obliging him to clean several rooms at the hotel. With his Uncle Klaus as his companion, they break into the White Buffalo Suite where the kid plays with a harpoon and accidentally shoots Klaus, the spear impaling him straight to the heart. Lila and Five arrive at a now destroyed Commission. They find the Operations Bunker along with The Commission’s founder who is revealed to be none other than Five (Sean Sullivan) himself: old, lacking an arm, and connected to a respiratory device.

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23. Pocket Full of Lightning

Five is forced to work with Lila since only the two of them have good understanding of the Grandfather Paradox. They team up and pool his space-time travel capabilities to jumpstart the two defective briefcases they have. Klaus sneaks into the academy and ends up bonding with Reginald who, in this reality, is subordinate to the whims of his adoptive children and lacks the power he wielded on their Umbrella counterparts. Ben and Fei discuss using the possibility of not getting Marcus back to their advantage, then discover the Kugelblitz downstairs through Grace. Lester Pocket (Callum Keith Rennie) checks in at the Hotel Obsidian and heads downstairs just as the Sparrows and the Umbrellas sans Klaus and Five face off at the lobby. As the Umbrellas are immobilized by Christopher the Cube, Lester steps in and unleashes an energy blast killing Jayme and Alphonso on the spot, causing Ben, Fei, and Christopher to retreat while Sloane is shielded by Luther. Viktor recognizes Lester and calls him HARLAN.

The Umbrella Academy: Episode 22

22. World's Biggest Ball of Twine

The Sparrows blame Marcus’ disappearance on the Umbrellas, kidnap Luther while he’s jogging, then treats him as a guest at the academy. Diego is forced to deal with his alleged son while Lila’s plan to flee is stalled by her broken briefcase. Using the Sparrows’ powers, she steals Five’s lost briefcase from the academy’s basement. Vanya transitions into Viktor (Elliot Page) and is welcomed with support by his siblings. Allison flies to LA only to discover that her daughter does not exist in this timeline, which triggers a slow downward spiral for her. Klaus takes Five along on a road trip, but the truth is that he wants to find his biological mother in Pennsylvania. He finds her sister instead who informs him that his mother died on 10/01/1989 along with several other women under mysterious circumstances. As the siblings wrestle with the concept of the Grandfather Paradox happening to them, the Sparrows let Luther go. They even give him a tote bag of goodies. Sloane calls him and levitates him secretly to her room, where they share a kiss.

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21. Meet the Family

October 1, 1989. 16 women around the world who hadn’t been pregnant that morning give birth. Eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves vows to find all 16 and gets to adopt seven of them. He raises them as an elite group of superheroes called the Sparrow Academy: Number 1 – super strong Marcus (Justin Cornwell); Number 2 – supernaturally tentacled Ben (Justin H. Min); Number 3 – blind raven master Fei (Britne Oldford); Number 4 – power deflector Alphonso (Jake Epstein); Number 5 – gravity manipulator Sloane (Genesis Rodriguez); Number 6 – illusion spit master Jayme (Cazzie David); and Number 7 – a floating cube named Christopher. As the Umbrella Academy land in this alternate reality, they battle it out with their Sparrow counterparts. The Umbrellas retreat to The Obsidian Hotel as suggested by Klaus while the Sparrows acknowledge the new threats to their world of superhero fandom. Lila drops by to introduce Diego to their son Stan (Javon “Wanna” Walton). Marcus is consumed alive by an emerging fireball at the academy's basement.

The Umbrella Academy: Episode 20

20. The End of Something

Vanya’s psychic link to Harlan prompts her to drive back to the farm to help him. Initially hesitant, her siblings join her. Lila and The Handler arrive with The Commission’s entire army of assassins. Vanya eventually takes them all out with her powers, but Lila and The Handler are saved by a force field similar to hers protecting them. And then Lila attacks and reveals her ability to mimic everybody’s powers, one at a time. After a free-for-all melee, the truth about The Handler, who is now trying to kidnap Harlan, comes to light. Before anyone can react, she open fires on all of them before the last remaining Swede shows up to gun her down himself. Five is left barely breathing and remembers Reginald’s advice. He time travels a few minutes back to disarm The Handler before the Swede shoots her and leaves the siblings alone. Now the acting head of the Commission, Herb surveys the scene and gives them a briefcase to bring them back to 2019. They end up on the second of April, a day after the apocalypse, only to find Reginald there alive as well as Ben who is introduced as a member of the Sparrow Academy.

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19. 743

With the efforts of Diego, Allison, and Klaus in vain to stop Vanya, Ben steps in to pacify his sister. He is successful but her power incinerates him. For good. On the farm, Harlan also suffers a seizure along with Vanya and later exhibits her power involuntarily, killing Karl in the process. Luther plays referee between the two Fives and the events proceed as they should, with Old Man Five ending up in 2019 in his younger body. With the nuclear holocaust averted, JFK is assassinated as Diego tackles a decoy of their dad at the Grassy Knoll. AJ sends a clue to Herb to find the record for Kill Order 743 and give it to Lila. It is revealed that The Handler greenlit the murder of her parents but using AJ’s stamp and with Old Man Five as the hitman. She manipulates her into believing Five is the enemy, and she prepares for the kill. The Handler gets rid of AJ by swallowing him alive. An angry Reginald confronts the Majestic 12 for JFK’s murder. As they blackmail him, he takes his face off and attacks everyone offcam.

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18. The Seven Stages

Five realizes that Older Five (Jim Watson) is also in Dallas in 1963 to make sure that Kennedy gets assassinated before breaking his contract and miscalculating his jump to 2019, where he ends up in his younger body. With Luther’s help, Five meets Older Five and tries to convince him to help them, in the midst of both suffering from the Seven Stages of Paradox Psychosis. The Handler approves training Diego as a new recruit of The Commission, but he immediately betrays them by sneaking into the Infinite Switchboard room where he witnesses JFK’s non-assassination which is replaced by the explosion of the FBI building blamed on the Russians, which in turn triggers the nuclear holocaust. Rebellious analyst Herb (Ken Hall) and a group of The Handler’s non-fans help him get back to 1963 Dallas where he finds Allison and Klaus disposing one of the Swedes’ corpse, tells them about Vanya, and head to the FBI building. Vanya is tortured as a suspected KGB agent and regains all her memories, triggering her powers to go haywire.

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17. Öga for Öga

Five time travels to 1982 and singlehandedly assassinates all board members of The Commission except for AJ, whom he hands over to The Handler. She gives him a time travel briefcase, but with a catch: They only have 90 minutes to use it, and not everyone is ready to go. Allison is attacked by the Swedish duo while bidding her husband goodbye. She manages to rumor one to kill the other. Klaus allows Ben to possess his body but under strict conditions. While digging a grave for Elliott, Diego is drugged by Lila -- now the Head of Security at The Commission after The Handler usurps the top position -- and is taken to her office and introduced to her mom as her boyfriend. Vanya is threatened by Karl via emotional blackmail involving Harlan. She hastily convinces Sissy to run away with her after a staredown with Five, but the two women are intercepted by Karl’s brother from the Texas police force. She initially bests the three men with her powers but one catches her unaware and knocks her out cold. The siblings miss their time window and are left stuck in the 60’s.