‘The Gifted’ Season 2, Episode 9 ‘gaMe changer’ Recap: Love

As the chaos causes The Gifted to move their loved ones away, the Mutant Underground continues to try to counter the Inner Circle. However, their quest becomes a wild goose chase. Meanwhile, the Struckers weigh their options as they find out that the cure can eliminate the X-Gene from everyone. Elsewhere, the Inner Circle sparks the beginning of the Mutant Uprising.

In this week’s episode of The Gifted, Eclipse/Marcos Diaz (Sean Teale), Thunderbird/John Proudstar (Blair Redford), and Blink/Clarice Fong (Jamie Chung) kidnap a man who works for Regimen, the Inner Circle’s next target. Meanwhile, the Strucker Family figures out what to with Dr. Madeline Risman’s (Kate Burton) research, intended on purging the X-Gene from everyone.

A Curse

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When Lauren Strucker (Natalie Alyn Lind) learns about Dr. Risman’s plan to use the cure to remove the X-Gene from everyone, she tells her parents, Reed (Stephen Moyer) and Caitlin Strucker (Amy Acker). Realizing the truth in what Lauren says, the trio makes a plan to get rid of Dr. Risman’s research, as well as Lauren’s DNA. However, Dr. Risman catches them just as they prepared to destroy everything, but Noah (Ken Kirby), Dr. Risman’s assistant, has a change of heart and covers them as he shatters all of Dr. Risman’s work.

What I Did For Love

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After the bank heist which killed thirty-seven people, the Inner Circle locks Twist/Rebecca (Anjelica Bette Fellini) in a power dampener. Focusing on his feelings, Andy Strucker (Percy Hynes White) releases her but later faces a defining choice. Instead of running away, Rebecca decides to kill the Inner Circle, but Andy strikes her just in time to stop her, unintentionally killing her instead. Consumed by his grief, Andy works together with Polaris/Lorna Dane (Emma Dumont) and the Inner Circle as they destroy Regimen’s Mutant Collar Control Facility in the hopes of making a better world for mutants, like Rebecca.

Captured

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The Mutant Underground’s poor, desperate decisions finally got to them. In an attempt to prevent the Inner Circle’s attack on Regimen, a company that manufactures and controls the mutant collar, Thunderbird, Blink, and Eclipse kidnap one of the company’s software developers. Once they strike, chaos erupts. They were able to capture the developer, but they alerted the authorities because of their encounter with the guards. Shortly after this, Blink leaves to try to rescue captured mutants because of the alert. Their plan fails as Fade (Jeff Daniel Phillips) kills the developer then shortly after this, The Purifiers, led by Jace Turner (Coby Bell) capture Thunderbird, covering for Eclipse and Fade’s exit.

‘The Gifted’ Season 2, Episode 9 ‘Game Changer’ Final Verdict

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Everyone in the series made their final choice. Allegiances strengthen as some lose faith in others. Family ties get severed. The Dawn of the Mutant Age is at hand, and now that loyalty ties are final, there are no more questions. All they have to do is fight.

The Gifted continues on Tuesday, January 1st with ‘Enemy of My Enemy’ at 8/9c on Fox.