Syfy‘s Friday nights are now complete with the addition of Killjoys! The third season premiered Friday, and it was everything a premiere needs and more, with tons of action, plasma, and of course some of the wittiest one-liners you’ll ever hear. “Boondoggie” was written by Michelle Lovretta and directed by Stefan Plesczynski, and here is what happened.
“Do you believe in monsters?” | The premiere kicks off with Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), D’avin (Luke Macfarlane), Pree (Thom Allison), Alvis (Morgan Kelly), and Fancy (Sean Baek) storming into what they think is a Hullen hive, but things don’t go quite as planned. The Hullen were expecting them and all but one left, and he only stayed behind to deliver a message: They know the plasma on Arkyn was destroyed, but not all Hullen came from that plasma, the rest are hiding and waiting for the right time to attack. The Hullen has a bomb strapped to his neck and explodes all over them after delivering his message.
Dutch and D’avin return to the RAC, where we find out Johnny along with 436 other RAC agents are missing and there’s a new person in charge of that investigation, Banyon Grey (Karen LeBlanc). We know Johnny left on his own accord, but what happened to the other agents? Turin (Patrick Garrow) thinks he has an explanation for that: When they destroyed the plasma on Arkyn all the people it controlled woke up, were embarrassed about what they did, and went into hiding. Dutch tells the boys they need help from other RAC’s to poison all the plasma pools Johnny has been mapping out while he’s out adventuring with Clara. Turin has an idea that may help.
Dutch and D’avin go to the Leith-Veluvian Steam Baths to find and kidnap a man named Pippin (Atticus Mitchell), who is a black market dealer that specializes in finding things, and is known as Big Mouth. They need him to track down a beacon for them, they say it’ll be able to chemically draw out the Hullen so they can take them out. Pippin actually pulls through and finds them the dealer with the beacon and arranges a meeting. When they get there their meeting is interrupted by men trying to steal the beacon, lucky for Dutch and D’av, Fancy was with them, he uses his new stun boomerang and it is totally awesome! They grab the beacon and get the hells out of there.
Unfortunately for them, they get caught and sent to Border Control Lockdown, where they’re questioned by Banyon about the beacon. When it comes time to question Dutch, Banyon is ready for answers. Dutch decides to tell her a story about monsters and people not being who you believe they are. Banyon knows Dutch is talking about the Hullen, and reveals that she herself is Hullen. She tells Dutch they’ll have to kill her and her friends, and that’s when Dutch reveals that the monsters in her story weren’t the Hullen, it was her. They fight, and at the same time the rest of the gang snuck in Hullen poison and took out the guards. This was their plan all along, they used the beacon as bait to draw the Hullen out of hiding so they could kill the hive.
Once they’re safe Pippin realizes they used him because they knew he had a big mouth–hence his nickname. Dutch reminds Pippin that wars are won because of good intel, and they could really use him.
Dutch and D’avin give Turin the plasma killer they got from the dead Hullen, and Turin takes this time to point out something unsettling: They’re in a dead zone, but after Arkyn’s plasma died it suddenly filled with 36 cloaked Hullen ships, empty and waiting. When Dutch and Turin aren’t around, D’avin goes up to one of the ships, touches it, and it opens to let him on board.
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“Where the hells is John Jaqobis?” | Johnny (Aaron Ashmore) hasn’t been around since he left at the end of season 2, and when we catch up with him it seems like he might be in a little trouble. He looks like he’s been made into a hackmod, he’s go a mod over one of his eyes and is being chased because of it. He’s looking for Clara, and he thinks he found her when he sees someone wearing Alice come up behind the man and take him out. Only it isn’t Clara, it’s someone Johnny’s never seen before. She removes Johnny’s fake mod and tries to leave when she realizes he’s a Killjoy. But Johnny won’t let her, he’s been looking for Clara for a while, and Alice has been sending him these coordinates, so he’s not leaving without the arm. She tells Johnny her story: she blacked out and woke up in the hackmod factory with the arm on, sending her the same coordinates. John makes it clear he’s not leaving without the arm, so she decides to go with him to try to get some answers.
They decide they need to go to Rat City to meet Yoki (Emily Piggford), one of Clara’s hackmod friends. According to Johnny, Clara wanted to take down the hackmod factory, so maybe that has something to do with her disappearance? When they get to the city they go straight to a mod bar, where the new girl tries to educate Johnny on everything hackmod. They quickly meet with Yoki, who doesn’t give them much, but they think she knows more than she’s telling. It’s discovered that Johnny is a “basic”–non-hackmod– and decide to give him a tiny mod.
Johnny picks the finger banger as his modification, it’s a small neuro linked laser on one of his fingers. He is absolutely in love with it and thinks he’s the coolest person alive. They decide to ask the mod running the bar, Havigan (Prince Amponsah), about Yoki and they discover hack-mods are disappearing, but they’ll put the word out about Clara.
That night Johnny finally learns the girls name, Olli (Tommie-Amber Pirie), and they begin to open up to each other in the cover of darkness.
The next day the two of them set out to meet someone to try to get answers, but it’s a trap. Olli is attacked and threatened to stop asking about Clara. Johnny busts in and shoots the man in the face, but they realize there’s something wrong with it. Upon further investigation Johnny realizes the man has a fake face! He peels it off, revealing plasma that was holding it on and the mans real face. “He’s not a no-face, he’s a two-face.” He realizes Olli is unconscious because of her injuries from fighting the two-faced man.
Other Moments:
- Both Johnny and Dutch are leaving video messages for each other, but Dutch refuses to ask him to come home.
- Dutch and D’avin kick so much ass this episode, and look fabulous doing it, especially in the spa.
- Lucy (Tamsen McDonough) was delightful, as always.
What a killer premiere! We got caught up with everyone we love–minus Clara–and watched them kick lots of ass! What do you think the rest of this season is going to bring?
Killjoys airs Friday nights at 8pm on Syfy.