Dark Matter
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Its cathartic, if nothing else.
Jason A is at a loss as to how to elude his other selves.
He even knows the code to disarm the security system here at stately Contrivance Manor.
To wit: Are they really all my dad?
Charlie asks the one of his dads who happens to be on the premises.
Yes … and no, Jason A answers.
One of them, anyway.
Daniela, too, is struggling with the quantum-grade madness of their predicament.
I want it to be as simple as youre home, she says.
But we get what he means.
None of you have been through what Ive been through, says one of them in a video message.
You havent earned it.
Several Jasons send private messages to our Jason suggesting an alliance where they team up to eliminate the others.
Jason steps outside to take the night air, but theres no relaxing in this scenario.
He arms himself with a poker from the fireplace before drifting off in an easy chair.
He wakes to find a note from Daniela: Coffee is made; Im at the beach.
Contrivance Manor has a beach, too!
There was also the blonde Daniela whom Jason A asked out, unsuccessfully, in her gallery inepisode six.
No jury in the world would blame him for streamlining this insane story.
She asked the same about you, he says.
Danielas knee-jerk response is that whichever Jason suggested the lottery … just lost it.
(Lost thelottery,she means, not lost his mind.
Theyve all lost their minds already.)
But that might actually be the most humane and just solution!
Back at the Dessen home, Jason A-2 is keeping Jason B restrained.
In Jason A-2s experience, Amanda was pinioned by a flying tree!
Its a tender family scene.
Im not sure why Jason A has put on a camo-print jersey here.
Did he find it in one of the guest-room wardrobes here at stately Contrivance Manor?
That would be alarming enough, but then she turns to see his watch-capped double, Jason A-2.
I know this seemsverystrange, he understates.
Are there any worlds where you were tempted to stay?
Daniela is overwhelmed that he resisted all temptation to fight his way back to her.
Just like all the other Jasons A on their trail.
I wish wed been shown the text of her message!
Later, Jason A catches a glimpse of movement in the darkness beyond the kitchen window.
Venturing outside to investigate, he finds another Jason, who has been wounded and is quickly bleeding out.
He sees still another Jason felled by a gunshot as he runs inside to collect his family.
ButanotherJason has made it inside already, andthatJasons shotgun beats our Jasons fireplace poker.
Shotgun Jason tells our Jason to give him his clothes, aclassicTerminatormove.
And hes shrewd enough to ask if he and Daniela have established a safe word.
Somehow, Jason A knocks the shotgun from his hand.
Theres a struggle on the floor before thatotherJason A is shot in the head by … Jason B!
Im the one responsible for all this mess, he begins.
Charlie socks him in the jaw, interrupting his apology.
He even gives Jason A his wedding band back.
Gunshots echo from inside the house; its every Jason for himself in there.
Jason A even has to run down a(nother?)
Jason A-2 hes dressed like the one Blair pepper-sprayed back at the Dessen home, but who knows?
who tries to shoot him through the windshield of the Honda.
And theyve shaped you into an even more perfect puzzle that can only fit one another.
So its once more into the Box, dear friends, for the Dessen clan.
(Based on what weve just witnessed, wont that just create more duplicate Dessens?Shhhh.
Daddys watching his show.)
Arriving at the Box, they find that Jason B was not the only one who had this idea.
Theres an entire assembly of Jasons milling around the Box.
Its one thing for a hundred dudes to declare I am Spartacus!
Its something else for every one of them tobeSpartacus equally.
We came to say good-bye, one of them says.
Another tries to protest, but the others insist he allow them through.
Various other Jasons whisper the names Daniela and Charlie as their former wife and former son walk past.
That is not a question that shall be answered this day.
(He told Leighton he had dosed Lavender Fairy and gone daytripping more than one hundred times.)
That question, too, shall remain unposed.
Do you know me?
No, he answers.
But Ive been looking for you.
Lets give it up here for Jimi Simpson, the MVP of this unhinged series.
Who ever suffered a breakup as cruel as this?
At least theyre all surrounded by guys who understand their problems.
