LEGION: David Haller Is Tested In The New Promo For Season 2, Episode 4: "Chapter 12"

LEGION: David Haller Is Tested In The New Promo For Season 2, Episode 4: "Chapter 12"

After another mind-bending hour that took us back to one of the most iconic duels in the Shadow King's history, next week will see David Haller undergo a series of tests. Come check out the new promo now!

By RohanPatel - Apr 17, 2018 09:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Legion
Source: FX Networks
Tonight's episode introduced us to the real Amahl Farouk (Navid Negahban) as David Haller (Dan Stevens) finally came to face-to-face with his lifelong tormentor and in the process, learned his side of the story, including details on that duel between him and Charles Xavier. Their encounter also helped David realize that Farouk may not be his biggest threat of the season as it was actually the monk who was infecting people.

Next week, David heads into Syd's (Rachel Keller) maze where he'll do everything he can to save her while also reliving some of her life's greatest hits. 

Watch the new promo for "Chapter 12" below:



Chapter 12

204 4/24/2018 10 PM ET/PT

David is tested. And tested. And tested. Written by Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern; directed by Ellen Kuras


Legion, based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, is the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens) – a troubled young man who may be more than human.

Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a child, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. Now in his early 30s and institutionalized once again, David loses himself in the rhythm of the structured regimen of life in the hospital: breakfast, lunch, dinner, therapy, medications, sleep. David spends the rest of his time in companionable silence alongside his chatterbox friend Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), a fellow patient whose life-long drug and alcohol addiction has done nothing to quell her boundless optimism that her luck is about to change. The pleasant numbness of David’s routine is completely upended with the arrival of a beautiful and troubled new patient named Syd (Rachel Keller). Inexplicably drawn to one another, David and Syd share a startling encounter, after which he must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees are the result of him being a mutant.

A haunted man, David escapes from the hospital and seeks shelter with his sister Amy (Katie Aselton). But Amy’s concern for her brother is trumped by her desire to protect the picture perfect suburban life she’s built for herself. Eventually, Syd guides David to Melanie Bird (Jean Smart), a nurturing but demanding therapist with a sharp mind and unconventional methods. She and her team of specialists – Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris), Kerry (Amber Midthunder) and Cary (Bill Irwin) – open David’s eyes to an extraordinary new world of possibilities.
 
Legion features:
Dan Stevens as David Haller
Rachel Keller as Sydney "Syd" Barrett
Aubrey Plaza as Lenny Busker
Jean Smart as Melanie Bird
Bill Irwin as Cary Loudermilk
Jeremie Harris as Ptonomy Wallace
Amber Midthunder as Kerry Loudermilk
Katie Aselton as Amy Haller
Jean Smart as Melanie Bird
Jemaine Clement as Oliver Bird
Jon Hamm as the Narrator
Navid Negahban as Amahl Farouk/Shadow King


Legion returns with an all-new episode on April 24

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scapegoatjones
scapegoatjones - 4/17/2018, 9:32 PM
twas a good one
Repian
Repian - 4/17/2018, 9:37 PM
Jon Hamm, who plays the "narrator" this season, could play a great Charles Xavier on the TV show.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 4/18/2018, 12:28 AM
@Repian - Maybe that will happen as a reveal.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 4/18/2018, 12:28 AM
That was a very weird hour, more than usual but I liked that David worked with the others in trying to figure out things unlike the last two episodes.

Pretty sure that the opening scene was straighout from the comics when Xavier defeated/killed the Shadow King.



But it is hard to tell from whom the memory was from: Farouk reliving that or The Monk's when they delivered his body to the Migo cult. Probably just a good ol' flashback. But throughout the episode they showed Farouk tried to escape.

I am starting to wonder if each of Jon Hamm's narrations of how the idea of an ilness can become an actual ilness and much reality is a fabrication of the mind could actually be low key foreshadows of what is killing people faster in the future and that is deadlier than Farouk. The spasms and how they spread.

I take it David was talking with his mind to Syd as she made her way through D3 in the cat looking for The Monk.

I thought Kerry was just shy, self-conscious or nervous in how much it took for her to have dinner with Cary, they must not do it often since they have more trouble merging with the other now but nope, she's barely outside besides fighting that she was just figuring out body functions too. These Loudermilk siblings.

If anything this episode ended up teaching me in the end was that Fukyama is not that powerful if The Monk was able to make his way to the Admiral that easily, made quick work of the Vermillion as well.

Lenny really seemed desperate here. David probably doesn't care not due to being cold but due to not being aware yet she's not just a mere fake personality. Writing that "exit" and trying to find a way to put herself out of her mysery keeps her busy in the astral plane. He cares just about Farouk himself now.

Farouk might not think he's a supervillian but the way he was justfying himself was supervillain-esque so David had none of it. Only good piece of info that came out was that he claime it wasn't him the source of the Catalyst but The Monk, and he was right.

That egg with the rotten bird crawling inside Ptonomy, that was how he got infected with the Catalyst. Which comes from The Monk, it appears. That is how the infection works.

I think I get what "the maze" is: a sympton from the Catalyst that traps the infected in their brains and just replays it over and over. So everyone had their own maze: Ptonomy's was a garden and Melanie was a more literal because it had a minotaur, which was the same thing we saw in the start of the Season as she was getting high in her depression. It was part of her mind.

The thing David wrote to make her snap out of it hit home with feels, her love for Oliver's and also shed light on her current state.

The cows felt like checkpoints in videogames tbh everytime David cleared one of his friends frpm the Catalyst.

Cary is gonna have to man up in being physically brave next time, knowing already how vulnerable and behind her sister is he now must be the one to go and fight. Funny how at the end when he found her infected only then they could merge again. Melanie should handle them next week.

I bet Fukyama never told the others that they were trying to use David as weapon to destroy the Shadow King's body seeing how The Monk made the Vermillion spit it out. I wonder if Clark was aware of that who btw wasn't seen at all after he checked inside where the infected were. Figures.

So yeah, there are secrets. Which reminded me that Syd and David are keeping between them the real reason why he's after Farouk's body and the others are beginning to notice every flash David gets from future!Syd. Better spill all the beans.

Well R.I.P. Monk. He had a very deep voice and he didn't trust David one bit in what he would try to do once he found Farouk's body which will be to keep current Syd alive so that future!Syd lives and maybe doesn't become an amputee. But it seems he showed him enough of where the body is, in the area surrounding the monastery he lived in before the rest of his friends also got infected.

Into Syd's cold, igloo designed maze next week.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 4/21/2018, 11:27 AM
What f*cking crazy ass episode, i LOVED the first scene especially cause i...well, i had a panic attack recently (for the first time in my life) and i actually experienced this whole concept of "placebo effect and nocebo effect".
The first scene was probably meant to instill some doubts in the viewer, but it was actually really helpful in my case! :P
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/21/2018, 2:55 PM
Excellent show,its so mind f*cky I love it.
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