Umbrella Academy Recap: 1.07 ‘The Day That Was’

So we said goodbye to the previous episode and episode 7 sees our characters relive the same day, but it differs with Five telling them of the apocalypse and them actually agreeing to do something this time, but there’s still a few hiccups along the way.

In the previous episode, Five began working for The Commission and The Handler, but he had other plans and ended up stealing a time travel briefcase and jumping backwards so we ended up losing a whole day and the episode really. The episode saw Luther and Allison kiss, Klaus recalled his time in Vietnam and attempted to sober up with the help of Diego, and Vanya fell out (again) with her siblings and seemed to cause a little destruction and also found that Leonard has Hargreeves’ notebook.

Meet Harold Jenkins

Three Dog Night’s ‘One’ plays and we begin on the seventh hour of October 1st 1989 as a woman goes into labour. Mr Jenkins meets his son, but his wife dies at the hospital. Now a young boy, Harold plays with Umbrella Academy figurines and it seems he doesn’t have the best upbringing with his father and gets backhanded after not bringing him a beer. Harold fashions his own uniform and mask and heads to the Academy, which is surrounded by adoring fans. The children and Hargreeves (Colm Feore) arrive and enter the Academy, and Harold explains that he was born on the same day and believes he is like them. However, Hargreeves tells him he has no power and never will, and the crowds laugh at him. He returns home and he is further beaten by his father. Angered by this, Harold kills his father with a hammer and ends up in jail for 12 years. After his release, he visits the Academy and sees Klaus (Robert Sheehan) throw the contents of the box into a dumpster and retrieves Hargreeves’ journal, and it’s revealed Leonard (John Magaro) is Harold Jenkins.

Since Five (Aidan Gallagher) essentially rewound the day, he speaks with his siblings about Harold Jenkins, but Leonard is upstairs retrieving the Hargreeves figurine again and overhears this. After they leave, Vanya’s (Ellen Page) destruction to the street still occurs as she already fought with her siblings.

Back in the Academy, Five is trying to convince the others that Harold Jenkins will bring on the apocalypse and somehow he succeeds. Luther (Tom Hopper) still plans on searching through his father’s files while Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman), Diego (David Castañeda), and Five head to the police station to try to see if Harold has a record. Diego speaks with Chuck Beeman (Rainbow Francks) in a back alley near the police station, but he doesn’t want to help as they are looking at Diego for Patch’s murder. Meanwhile, Allison tries calling Vanya and leaves a message apologising when Diego  returns with the file and Allison tells them that Harold is actually Leonard.

Meanwhile, Leonard takes Vanya to his family cabin so they can find out what Vanya is truly capable of. Vanya is hesitant to try as she’s seen it ruin her siblings lives, but he urges her on to move a boat in the middle of the lake. When Vanya begins to laugh at her futile attempts, Leonard starts to get frustrated as she’s not trying hard enough. The pair take a break and have dinner, but when they leave the restaurant, they find a group of men hanging around Leonard’s car. One of them slaps Vanya’s ass and they begin bashing Leonard. Vanya becomes so distraught that it causes a burst of energy to emanate from her causing the men to be flung backwards.

Gunshots and Farewells

The trio go to Leonard’s house where Five blinks into the house, Allison goes around the back, and Diego goes subtlety crashing through the front. Allison heads upstairs and goes straight for the attic that she missed last time and discovers the figurines and posters of them. Five falls to the floor as he’s bleeding out from a gunshot wound so they return to the Academy when Diego sees Grace (Jordan Claire Robbins) for the first time again. Grace takes care of Five while Allison and Diego decide to investigate another address listed, which is the cabin Leonard’s grandmother owns. As they exit the Academy, Diego notices the police are coming his way and they take him into custody.

Hazel (Cameron Britton) and Cha-Cha (Mary J. Blige) still receive their notice about Five’s contract being cancelled and Hazel receiving his notice to terminate Cha-Cha. They go through the motions once again going into the woods, but we see Hazel talking about birds, and Cha-Cha seems to think that perhaps Hazel is talking about a simpler life with her. Hazel goes to see his waitress lover and wants her to leave with him and she agrees. He then returns to the motel and finds Cha-Cha’s message to terminate him and quickly hides when she returns and knocks her out again. Cha-Cha wakes to find herself tied up and Hazel tells her that he wants out. Cha-Cha threatens both Hazel and his waitress, but he can’t do it and leaves.

Time For A Rave

Luther faces the same moment of realising Hargreeves never looked at the information he sent and resorts to drinking, which Klaus is surprised by. Luther wants Klaus to conjure Hargreeves, but he’s not sober enough to do so yet and hasn’t previously answered so the brothers share a little heart to heart before Luther drunkenly storms off to explore the world.

Klaus goes after Luther, but he’s struggling since he’s trying to sober up and Ben urges him to continue. He finds a shirtless Luther at a rave, and it’s not the best place for Klaus to be right now in his current state. Somehow he manages to find the willpower to throw away a pill Luther holds up, but he begins to struggle and sees the pill on the floor nearby. As he crawls across the floor, his memories of Vietnam intermingle.

A group of men decide to go after Luther as he’s dancing with a girl and so Klaus tries to intervene and gets knocked out. He wakes to find himself in black and white, and judging by the conversation he has with a young girl, it appears he’s in heaven. She says “he is waiting for you” and runs towards a cabin only to find himself in a barbershop and it turns out the “he” is Hargreeves. In death, Hargreeves is disappointed he’s only just been conjured and that Klaus only scratched the surface of what he was truly capable of. Klaus mentions how Luther found the unopened letters, and it seems Hargreeves does regret it for a second, but he follows with that he should have burned them all. He continues on about how they were purposely raised that way and in order to bring them together again, it had to be something momentous that would reunite them….and that was his death. Just as Hargreeves is about to tell him something important, he is brought back to reality.

As Radiohead’s ‘Exit Music (For A Film) plays, the end of the episode sees Klaus leaving the rave, Diego in a cell, Luther hooking up with a girl, Allison driving to find Vanya, Five in bed, and Vanya at the hospital recalling how she stopped the men.

Overall Thoughts?

While ‘The Day That Wasn’t’ had some exciting outcomes, this episode made up for the moments our characters lost, especially with Luther going on a bit of a bender and heading a rave. It was great to see some of the siblings work together properly for once, along with Klaus trying to help Luther and also finally being sober enough to talk to his father. But alas, of course their time was cut short, so perhaps he was about to tell him about Vanya? We’ll see!

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