Before LRF kicks off Season 17 (!), we will use the hiatus to debut the season finale episodes of four LRTV series ("She-Hulk", "Miami Vice", "L.A. Noire" and "Rolling Stone") that had their seasons interrupted due to unforeseen circumstances.
If you feel you need a refresher before viewing the finale episodes, here are the links to all previous episodes of "She-Hulk":
Season 1:
Issue #1
Issue #2
Issue #3
Issue #4
Issue #5
Issue #6
Issue #7
Issue #8
Issue #9
Issue #10
Season 2:
Issue #11
Issue #12
Issue #13
Issue #14
Issue #15
Issue #16
Issue #17
Issue #18
Issue #19
and now for the Season 2 finale of "She-Hulk"...
She-Hulk - Issue #20
Genre: Superhero / Comedy / Legal
Executive Producer: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Writer: Chad Taylor
Based on the Marvel Comics characters
Cast: Jenny Slate, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Michael Richards, Scott Porter, Eric Dane, Reid Scott, Michiel Huisman, F. Murray Abraham, Kate Walsh, Fiona Shaw, Mike White, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kyle Mooney (v.o.)
Previously on SHE-HULK: After a visit with The Living Tribunal, Jen has
convinced Kallark that she must defend his brother (and her former
mentor) Starfox on Earth and not on Chandilar. However, she is still not
sure if she herself wasn't a victim of Starfox's accused mind
manipulation. On Earth, she was shocked to find the Stu's lifeless body -
unbeknownst to her at the hands of Mary after a botched burglary
attempt.
“So do you finally want to go on that date we’ve talked about before?”
Ears
are ringing as Jen (Jenny Slate) sits alone in her apartment, isolated
from the rest of the world. She can’t even bring herself to go to Stu’s
funeral. She feels like she is at least partially to blame for not being
on Earth to be there for him. She misses multiple phone calls from
people trying to reach her.
Why was I the one cursed with
these powers? It seems like ever since I have become She-Hulk, the
people around me get hurt. I’m not sure how much longer I can do this.
In
the lair of the Hood (Michiel Huisman), Mary (Phoebe Waller-Bridge)
makes a request. She asks if she can be transferred to London to lay
groundwork for the syndicate’s work there as she feels at risk in NYC.
The Hood likes that she is forward-thinking and accepts the request. He
says that the time is right to expand internationally.
After
packing her belongings, she sits down to write a letter. It is addressed
to “The She-Hulk”. It praises the work that she has done for NYC and
how she has become an idol to many young girls, J. Jonah Jameson be
damned. She says that evil will likely never stop existing and thus
people like She-Hulk must never stop existing either. She addresses it
from “A Fan”. She sends it in the mail and then leaves for the airport.
At
the trial, Jen reveals that she has brought in an expert witness for
the case. Robert Reynolds (Scott Porter) enters the courtroom. Jen says
that Robert will use his powers to perform a mind probe on Starfox (Reid
Scott) to the events occurred the way he claimed. As Robert prepares,
Jen is very nervous herself as she has a personal stake in this. If
Starfox is lying to her about this, then he is probably lying to her
about their own encounter as well. The courtroom sits in baited breath
as Robert does his thing. He gets the results and reports back: Starfox
did not use his powers for sexual persuasion. Jen lets out a sigh of
relief while Starfox takes her hand and says that he told her so.
Gladiator (Eric Dane) sits in the back and nods acceptingly.
However,
only moments after, Robert’s eyes start to turn black. Jen flashes back
to when she and Stu learned about Robert’s power. “Now that The Sentry
is activated, it opens the door for its dark side as well...The Void.”
The same Void that killed hundreds of people and necessitated Robert
having his memory erased. Robert starts screaming in agony, asking what
is going on. Tentacles with claws at the end start to emerge from his
back as his skin turns red. He starts swiping at the judge and jury as
people begin to flee the courtroom.
The court’s bailiff pulls
out his gun at the Void but Jen begs him not to shoot, as she is afraid
it will hurt Robert underneath. Meanwhile, Starfox and Gladiator stay
behind - ready to fight. Jen wants to join them but can’t get herself to
turn into She-Hulk. She hasn’t since Stu’s death and is finding it hard
to summon the emotion to do so. Gladiator is one of the most powerful
beings in the galaxy but is finding the Void to be a formidable foe. The
Void breaks out onto the streets and starts attacking innocent
civilians. Jen joins in the fight to stop him, even though she is in
human form. It starts to go on a rampage through the Manhattan streets
as Starfox and Gladiator attempt to stop it.
The Void reaches the
Brooklyn Bridge, where it starts throwing cars off of the bridge (which
Starfox and Gladiator fly to catch before they hit the water). Jen,
feeling guilty for awakening the entity in the first place on top of the
other mistakes she feels she has made, stands in the middle of the road
and offers herself. The Void grabs her and climbs to one of the top of
the bridge’s towers. He holds her in both of his hands and she closes
her eyes.
Jen is in a hospital room, sitting next to her comatose
mother Sheila (Fiona Shaw). She is holding her hand and leaning her
head against Sheila’s. A tear runs down her cheek as she tells her
mother to “find the strength.”
Find the strength…
Back
on the bridge, green veins begin to protrude from Jen’s skin. Her teeth
are clenched. As the She-Hulk emerges, she leaps from the Void’s hands
and into the air - letting out a primal scream like she did upon finding
Stu’s body. She comes back down and punches The Void. They fight as
Gladiator and Starfox clean up the debris and prevent it from hitting
any harmless citizens. Jen grabs one of the steel suspension cables and
rips it from the bridge. She instructs Gladiator and Starfox to hold him
down as she uses her strength to wrap the steel cables around the
Void’s body. Starfox says that they can throw it in the ocean but Jen
says that Robert is her friend and that she will not be doing that. She
instructs Gladiator that he must take the Void into space so that it
poses no more threat to humans, until it transforms back to Robert.
Gladiator nods his head and follows the orders. As she and Starfox stand
exhausted, the people on the bridge begin to clap and thank them for
saving them. She gets goosebumps from this moment.
In a white
room, we see Paul Jenkins (Mike White) overseeing the erasure of Robert
Reynolds’s memory. This is inactivating the Void but also the Sentry.
Jen
enters the offices of GLKH and resumes work as a full-time super
attorney. Holden (F. Murray Abraham) and Mallory (Kate Walsh) welcome
her back with open arms. She assists Awesome Andy (v.o. Kyle Mooney)
with clean-up efforts in The Basement. They put up a plaque
commemorating the library in honor of Stu. As they go through the
missing files, she realizes that they all pertain to the Hood. Jen
promises to herself that she will get the bottom of his murder and
ensure that justice is served. When she goes to her office, she finds
that she has mail. Fan-mail to be exact. She sits down and reads the
anonymous letter, which puts a smile to her face.
Jen goes to the
cemetery on the anniversary of her mother’s death. Her father Morris
(Michael Richards) is there waiting and they share a long hug. He tells
her how proud her mother would be of her. She lays a new batch of
flowers next to the headstone. Morris tells her that he’s been trying to
get ahold of her for a few weeks. She says she was obviously busy and
apologizes. He says that it has to do with her powers. Through his
months of research, he has found that the military conducted a series of
gamma radiation experiments and the blood transfusion she received must
have been from someone from that team. Not only is this what they need
to sue John Jameson but...it also means that there might be more out
there like her.
Jen gives him a lengthy stare before saying that
she doesn’t think they need to sue Jameson. She views She-Hulk as a
blessing and not a curse and that she is committed to making a change in
the world using her powers. While looking a bit defeated, he tells her
he understands. She then tells him he is starting to sound like a
conspiracy theorist and says that it might be time to cancel his
subscription to the Bugle. He tells her he did that months ago and she
gives him a “uh-huh, sure” look. They hug and say goodbye.
You
know what’s kind of weird to think about? This is the birthplace of
She-Hulk. A cemetery. Morbid? Cool? I don’t know, just a thought.
We
finish on a slow-motion shot of She-Hulk walking down a New York City
street, proudly in uniform. Paparazzi take pictures and children ask for
autographs. She looks into the camera and cracks a smile.
The End.
But
after the credits...Walter Hardy (Lou Diamond Phillips) sits in police
custody, looking distraught. He asks if he can get his one phone call.
When the officer asks who he’d like to call, he tells them his daughter.
The officer asks for her first name and Walter tells him "Felicia".
