The Punisher Season 2 – Episodes 9 and 10
Pain, love and loss. That’s what Episode 9: Flustercluck and Episode 10: The Dark Parts of Men explore. We also see Amy come into her own.
Frank Castle
Back to the trailer
Coming back from the graveyard, Frank sees Madani sleeping inside through the window. After swearing he enters.
Entering the trailer the first thing he hears is Amy telling him Madani is there to arrest him.
After taking the gun Amy has pointed at Madani, he sits down and drinks.
As he does Curtis asks him where he’s been.
Frank just casually mentions he was at the graveyard talking to his wife. And through their conversation he learned, that he was always different. And Maria knew it but didn’t care.
After a back and forth with Madani, he asks them all just to accept him for who he is. Which I think is a powerful message, especially since that’s what any of us want
At the Warehouse
With the help of Amy and Curtis, Frank finds out where Billy and his friends are.
When he gets there he gets into a gun fight. And as we all know who won, the only way he could find any information was looking at one of their cell phones, he then used their thumb to open.
Gathering intelligence
Entering a bar he talks to a waitress, that he saw a picture of on the guys phone he took.
After she denies, he uses the cut off thumb to open the phone.
Realizing she really had no choice and voicing that they were all assholes anyway, She said that she went there with her boss, and said it was somewhere in Queens and it was called Valhalla.
Being followed
After dropping the guys thumb in the bosses drink, Frank leaves and is immediately followed by six goons.
They then tell him about the bounty money on him and Amy. And with that he shoots all of them. One is still alive but has to answer to Frank.
No one’s home
Going back to the trailer, he finds it empty of Curtis and Amy. After calling Curtis he finding out she’s not with him, unfairly blaming him for her leaving.
He calls Amy and tells her about the bounty. And tells her to come home. I like how he uses the word home. I think he really sees her as family.
Finding Amy
Getting to the apartment building her former friend lived in, Frank goes up the stairs dropping bodies as he goes.
The guy tells him if he comes any closer she’s dead. So Amy does as she’s taught disarms him and shoots him.
When Frank gets up the stairs she’s shaking, And saying she killed him. But he tells her she just shot him, he killed him. And turns and shoots the guy.
I love all this fatherly attention he’s giving Amy. It’s good for her and is also showing this side of Frank we’ve only seen in memories.
Giving her time to breathe, they go get her stuff, which ends with Amy kicking her friend in the groin before leaving.
Back home
As their walking back to their trailer, Amy mentions she could never shoot someone again.
He acts like he doesn’t care anyway about it, just mentions that she did it when she had to and that’s what matters.
I think he was glad to hear she didn’t like it. Because he doesn’t want her to be like him. And he kind of said that.
He Told her he was going get her a better life when it was all over, and that he wouldn’t die.
And a cute moment follows again as once again Amy won’t swear and says it’s all a “flustercluck” which makes Frank laugh.
And when she goes inside and he sits down, he says “yes it is kid, yes it is”
I love these moments between them, because I think it’s helping both of them move on.
Memories
We get to see another glimpse into Billy and Franks past. This time their being initiated into the navy via a Gauntlet.
Where it would seem you get beat up by the others. First Billy went then Frank. At the end of Franks beating, Russo helps him up and than punches him in the gut.
But it ends with them hugging and me hoping kissing, but alas those dreams were crushed.
On a stakeout
Back in the present Frank is surveying the warehouse with Curtis.
And once again a moment between them. As Curtis tries to get Frank to realize he’s not like Billy and he never was.
Frank also wonders if he could’ve helped Billy like Curtis always helped him, even though he never asked for it.
Frank also joked about Curtis not getting any ideas about turning them in for the cash, to replace his car.
I love these brotherly moments. I love how close these two are.
Billy can also be seen watching them from the distance on a nearby roof, ready to shoot them but decides against it.
During the day Frank spots a back entrance in, and brings Curtis food.
In which he hears him telling his fiancé Linda that he is sick.
And later makes a joke, that not everyone has a Frank Castle and just pays their premiums.
After a little more banter they talk about how many men Billy has in there and how they’re ready to go in.
Infiltrating
That night Frank gets set up by the buses, and kills the guy standing guard near them.
And once Curtis lets him know the girls have left, Frank goes in.
But lucks not on his side. When he enters, he is slowly and methodically sliced up by Billy’s men in the dark.
He is stuck in a trap
Being brought down
As Billy’s people beat Frank down, Billy comes in and mocks him before telling them to break him then finish him.
But as they beat him, he is able to get ahold of a gun and a steal pipe and kills all of Billy’s men that were in there.
Chasing Billy
After he’s done in there he chases Billy through the warehouse, shooting at him. But Billy’s using his men as shields.
Billy than runs through the top floor, Frank shooting at him as he runs.
And when he goes up there he finds three girls laying there dead. And it breaks him.
He has a code and he just broke it, he killed innocents. Or is everything as it seems?
Frank easily gives himself up as Mahoney and his people rush in to arrest him.
Agent Madani
A visit from Billy
Coming home, she finds Billy in her house, demanding answers about what happened, at gunpoint.
Sighing she tells him everything he did, and tells him he got what he deserved.
After her telling him, he leaves thankfully.
A call from Krista Dumont
Later she gets a call from Krista and tells her that she should talk.
Deciding to take the offer, she goes over and basically gives her a guide into Frank Castles mindset. Cause supposedly it helps figure out Billy.
Knowing Krista though she doesn’t have good attentions. And the fact that Billy knew he was coming kind of shows that.
Amy
These two episodes show a new side of Amy in my opinion.
Instead of the girl who seems ok by herself. She gets real upset as Frank leaves.
Even goes so far as to tell Curtis as he leaves that she feels like a dog no one wants.
Visiting an old friend
Deciding she’s sick of being alone. She goes to her friend Shantels apartment. Who says she’ll help Amy find something
But instead sells her out.
The call
After getting a call from Frank Amy tries to escape but is caught in a corner and that is when we see her make that decision to shoot him.
I like how along with not swearing we see this new innocent side of her. That doesn’t want to hurt people. And needs the care of others. Especially Frank.
Billy Russo
Killing spree and parties
Billy and his boys are living the high life as they kill whoever they want. And get all booze and sex they want
Living the good life
Even though they have their fights him and Krista are living the life. She doesn’t even care what he does.
I’ve seen comments about them being like Joker and Harley Quinn but I don’t agree. Because I don’t think she is being used by Billy. I think there’s a mutual respect between the two.
Curtis Hoyle
Difficult decisions
In these two episodes we start to see the toll all of this is taking on Curtis.
From having to lie and be away from his fiancé, And having to kill soldiers during the ambush at the warehouse.
I think he puts the blame on the wrong person though. He blames frank but all in all it’s his decision. And I believe he makes the right one by staying by Franks side.
Because if not for him Frank would be dead.
Pilgrim
Meeting old friends
After being tricked into going to the bar he used to work at.
His old boss tries to kill him but of course Pilgrim comes out on top killing all them.
Falling
Afterwards he decides he wants to get high and very drunk.
He even crashes a party in a nearby room at his motel. In which he has one of the woman give him a blowjob before kicking her out.
He doesn’t even answer his phone that continuously rings.
My final thoughts
I think these two episodes had a lot of action. But on top of that we see different sides to the characters.
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