Twisted Metal Season 1 Episode 10 Recap

SHNGRLA – The Twisted Metal finale picks up in the middle of the ultimate faceoff. In the destruction derby-inspired area, the Agents are on one side, and John Doe (Anthony Mackie) and his crew are on the other. It doesn’t take long before the battle gets underway and heated. Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz) makes an exceptionally cool kill with her hatchet-throwing skills. The two end up swapping seats at one point when the passenger-side machine gun gets jammed. After getting it unjammed and narrowly escaping a close encounter, the two are joined by Sweet Tooth (Joe Seanoa aka Samoa Joe). The clown knew the two would work things out and the car looks great as well. John, in turn, offers some kind words about Sweet Tooth’s flaming head.  As the battle rages on, Stu (Mike Mitchell) shoots them the middle finger from the rear of the ice cream truck. Separating, John and Quiet find themselves on a Formula-1-inspired race track and right behind Agent Stone (Thomas Haden Church) when he launches a homing missile at their vehicle. Lucky for them, Miranda Watts (Jamie Neumann) is there in her super sleek, super-fast Formula-1 racer to intercept and lead the missile back around the track to Agent Stone.

He makes an impressively narrow escape himself at the expense of the brother/sister team Jamie (Chelle Ramos) and Carl Roberts (Michael Carollo) as their purple hearse is blown sky high. With the Convoy impeding Stone’s every advance, he orders the team to focus their efforts there and that doesn’t end well for Amber (Diany Rodriguez), who ends up with a stray bullet in the throat. Things only get worse for the herbal scientist and her riding mate Tinker (Angel Giuffria). The attack nearly throws Stu from the rear of the ice cream truck. If Mike (Tahj Vaughans) didn’t grab him in the nick of time, he would have been a goner. Realizing that Sweet Tooth has just blown the convoy to pieces incites both Mike and Stu, but it is Mike that attempts to reprimand the situation. As Sweet Tooth grabs Mike by the throat and orders Stu put his new doggy down, Stu has flashbacks of his failures to kill. This inspires him to shoot Sweet Tooth, what looks like in the head, yet he manages to live.

The psychotic clown does, however, lose his hold on Mike and he quickly takes advantage by leaping from the rear opening of the ice cream truck, taking his buddy with him. They take a rough fall and Stu might have skinned his penis, but they appear unharmed otherwise. Either way, they are lucky that Sweet Tooth’s focus is soon interceding by the attacking Agent Stone. Approaching Sweet from behind and firing mini machine guns on him forces the clown to leap from the rear of his truck and bash in Stone’s windshield. This is only after handing the wheel over to Harold, of course. Continue to bash in the windshield of Stone’s SUV, the agent is left with no choice but to draw his sidearm and shoot Sweet. Doing so launches him from the front of the vehicle where he is seconds later t-boned by the fleeing Stu and Mike in their newly acquired vehicle.

Quiet, still at the wheel of Roadkill, and John discuss their chances of making it out of this fiasco alive. Just as they think they are home free, they come under fire from the rear of Agent Stone. Telling John to hang on, Quiet spins the car around, and now they are in a game of vehicular chicken. Stone makes the mistake of launching everything he has prematurely, while Quiet and John take a more tactical route. Hitting a button in Roadkill drops the vehicle’s hood to the road and creates a ramp of sorts that Stone inadvertently races up and wrecks. As the wreckage clears, it is Quiet that is the first to stir. Unfortunately, she is pulled from the vehicle by Stone before she gets a chance to wake John. Stone makes the classic villain mistake of wasting precious minutes boasting about his cause. He talks about how he used to be spit on while patrolling the world before it went to crap.

When the world did go to crap, it was those salvia producers that came to him for help because they wanted to be kept in line. Quiet can’t but help find the entire debacle funny and point out that Stone just wants control. Finally ready to draw down on her, Quiet has one last thing to say, knock, knock. It is John who answers with, who’s there and launches a hatchet. His one success manages to stick Stone right in the face and save Quiet’s life. Falling to his knees and losing his sidearm in the process, Quiet gets it, arms it, and takes aim. She essentially gets her payback as she lays the gun at his feet and gives him the same option that he gave her and Loud (Richard Cabral) in the premiere episode. As John and Quiet race off, a gunshot rings out, but Stone’s fate is not revealed.

Elsewhere on the track, Watts and Amber have a happy reunion, but the Convoy certainly isn’t without losses. The duo can’t help but notice the charred and burnt corpse of Tinker (Angel Giuffria).

New San Francisco – At the wheel and hood back in place, John races to New San Fran. Arriving at the gate, he immediately addresses Bill (Matthew Rimmer), who just happened to get promoted and is nowhere to be found. It is a female guard (Eden Lee) who now heads the ranks. She lets John know immediately that he doesn’t have authorization to be there. Arriving with just a minute left, it is Quiet who convinces the guard by dropping Raven’s (Neve Campbell) and revealing the package. As Raven arrives with the newly promoted Bill, Quiet can’t help but notice how attractive she is. She also can’t help but sense a double cross, which John chalks up to paranoia. That changes when Bill is no longer the amicable guard that he used to be. Drawing down on the conquering couple, he orders them to hand over the package. John does and Raven removes it from the backpack but doesn’t bother looking inside the metal box.

Congratulating John and welcoming him to New San Fran, she makes her way back inside the gates. However, it turns out that Quiet is not welcome. If she can’t go in, John isn’t going in either. Quiet can’t have that. She not only draws John’s own 6-shooter on him, but she wings him so that the will be taken in and get medical attention. The new female guard stops Quiet as she gets ready to jump behind the driver’s seat and declare her the new milkman. She even has a package that needs to be delivered. Although she willingly accepts the package, she throws it to the spectators watching the scene unfold. The guard tells Quiet that the package was for New San Diego, and Quiet’s response is to screw New San Diego.

Safely inside, Bill reveals the good news to Raven about John’s stability. She still hasn’t revealed the contents of the metal box, although she is spinning it on the table. Bill questions why Raven wouldn’t let the girl come in, and she chalks it up to her complicating things. Seconds later, she can’t help but find it funny that John went through all the trouble to deliver a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Rocky Road Ice Cream. Bill isn’t amused and neither is Raven when she bites into the marsh mellow goodness, she had originally ordered Pistachio. As the two continue to debate, it is revealed that John is meant for a higher position within New San Fran. However, Raven wants to give him time to acclimate to the good life before this news is revealed to the man.

One Month Later – A month later, John awakens in his new, posh digs in a racecar bed with a newly acquired scar on his left shoulder. Otherwise, the man appears happy. His day starts with two Toaster Strudels before hilariously attempting to learn to ride a bicycle. Another day reveals much of the same, except for the bike fiasco. This time John is greeted and admired by several of the younger, more attractive female residents (Ginger Cressman). He enjoys it but doesn’t wake as quietly gleeful the day. Although he appears glum over his regular breakfast Strudels, he is gregariously the life of the party at the local pub. He spins tales to his new mates about the weirdest things he’s eaten out there in the world. A bad case of midnight munchies would put Owl at the top of his list. His new mates can’t help but point out what a bad*ss the man is. Things get a bit awkward, however, when the men want to know more about the people he’s killed. It only gets even more awkward when the clown is thrown into the mix. While discussing his exploits John shares a slight recognition nod with Raven, who happens to be at the bar after a long day.

Even later that evening John arrives at Diane’s (Eden Lee) apartment for his first blind date. Apparently, another male guard by the name of Chester has arranged the meeting. John immediately recognizes the lady when he reveals that she is Bill’s replacement. As Diane heads off to deal with the refreshments, John handles the pizza delivery. John awkwardly treats the delivery like a milkman delivery. The pizza inspires a flashback of Quiet.

On The Road – A milkman (Barry Hanley) sits on the trunk of his ride, enjoying a chicken leg when he is taken from behind and robbed by Quiet. During the process, their exchange reveals that Quiet is only relieving the man of half of his delivery. She’s, however, built quite a reputation for herself as it’s also revealed that she’s spent the last month racing up and down the coast robbing every milkman she encounters. As she did in New San Fran, she delivers the package to pedestrians and drops it off, expecting nothing in return.

New San Francisco – As Raven works on a sewing project, she meets with the town’s residents in the bar. It turns out to be a intel sharing meeting and she’s inquiring about John’s progress. Everything from his friends at the bar to the blind date with Diane appears to have been staged. Not only that but the residents are frightened to deliver news that Raven won’t approve of. Raven lets a bit of her vile side out when she receives word that John is a few blocks away and approaching. As John arrives in the pub, it appears to be just an ordinary day, except for the fact that John has shown up with a backpack and doesn’t appear to be his cheery self. A nearby Raven overhears him telling his new friends that he’s leaving.

Joining Raven alone at her regular table with her regular whiskey in hand, she debates with John about his plans. John admits that it is Quiet why he is leaving. Raven attempts to thwart this by asking about Diane, poking fun that he’s only known her for 10 days, and adding to the fact that John doesn’t even know her real name. Oh, and then there’s the fact that she shot him. Raven doesn’t see them having a healthy relationship. Despite the revelations, John is still steadfast in her departure and Raven offers to escort him to the gate. She just needs to make one stop first.

On The Road – Broken down on the side of the road, Quiet has adopted John’s lingo with his vehicle. Quiet’s conversations with Roadkill, however, are a bit more one-sided and crass, but she is nonetheless treating the inanimate object like a living, breathing thing. At one point she even apologized for admonishing and kicking the vehicle. Even with the newly adopted lingo, she still doesn’t have the mechanical aptitude that John does. Despite that, she gets lucky when he jiggles a spark plug wire connected to the distributor cap and gets the car to fire.

New San Francisco – John and Raven, escorted by their armed guards, have arrived at Raven’s proposed one-stop. It is an immensely impressive brick house, which Raven is gifting to John. John can help but point out that a residential upgrade isn’t going to sway him from leaving. When Raven tells him that this is his, he doesn’t understand that she is introducing him to his childhood home. Pulling out his burnt picture, he tries to make a comparison, but it’s far too garbled to make an accurate assessment. Telling him that he’s got mail, he checks the mailbox while she spins her yarn. Hearing about a milkman by the name of John Doe inspired her to do more research, which led to her uncovering his roots. Now looking at the mail, they are revealed to be photos of John and his family. More answers will come should he choose to stay. Rolling through the pictures does spark some memories, suggesting that Raven might be offering some semblance of the truth.

Raven promised to bring John home and this is what she meant. She, however, is shocked and left with no other option but to react negatively when John points out that this is no longer his life. It was a life that belonged to the young man in the photo. John’s life is out there on the road with Quiet. Stunned, Raven orders two of her guards to take John hostage. As they do, she tells him that she has a job she needs him to do. He has the wrong idea though when she laughs at his vows that he will not be her milkman. No, she doesn’t want him to be her milkman. In fact, that part of his life is over as far as she is concerned. He, however, is still a driver. One of the best, and that’s what she needs him to do. As she explains the rules and tournament to him, a lone unidentified figure is shown placing contestants in different brackets. With the winner getting granted one wish of their heart’s desire, Raven needs the best.

On The Road – Although she’s back on the road, it doesn’t last long. Quiet takes her eyes off the road for merely seconds to get directions from Granny Dread’s (Peg O’Keef) gifted journal and runs over an expertly placed spike strip. Realizing what’s happened Quiet looks up to be greeted by a lone female figure in a creepy white doll mask (Tara Darby). Reacting on instinct, Quiet goes to the glove compartment for the hatchet when she realizes how useless the act is now that she is surrounded by similar-looking figures. The original lone figure, tells her that she’s been dying to meet. She’s heard through the grapevine that Quiet knows her brother, John.

 

Twisted Metal Finale Review

What an incredible way to tie up the season and leave viewers wanting more. As far as season finales go, I would have to give this one a 6.3. There honestly isn’t much to say, other than the fact that this was definitely written with a season 2 in mind. Let’s just hope that comes to pass.

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