WARNING: If you don't want to know what happens in this episode, don't read this photo recap.
Well. This looks interesting. But first, we have to go back 36 hours earlier ...
201206
Flynn gets in a nasty motorcycle accident because he can't stop obsessing over Abby. Abby! Abby! Abby!
201210
Jackson confronts Flynn about his drinking and drugging. He's worried he might start spilling the beans about all this alien stuff to the wrong people whilst under the influence.
201213
Emme has a panic attack about Flynn's motorcycle accident and runs to the garage for a paper clip so she can cut herself. She finds some classified files about Abby and the Hunters. Uh-oh.
201218
Flynn hits rock bottom as he begs Briggs to kill him. Luckily, Jackson shows up and gives him a reason to live ...
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... namely, finding out what the Hunters did to him during his tour of duty in Afghanistan. Oh, and he also needs to be Emme's dad.
201211
Back at the ETU, Finnerman has sent Regan off to find Liana, her mom and Musa's right hand woman in exchange for her dad being released. Finnerman tells Regan's dad that if he doesn't cooperate and help translate Hunter transmissions, she'll harm Regan. She's such a delicate flower.
201207
Regan asks her father Ted about Viktor Karp, who was moving lithium out of the mine he ran with Regan's mother Liana. Ted says he never met him or dealt with him -- that was Liana's job.
201209
Down in Mexico, Regan meets with Viktor Karp, claiming she's quit the ETU and asking to see Liana. Viktor takes a blood sample from her for some unknown reason.
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From her holding cell at Viktor Karp's compound, Regan sees the Hunters preparing to send a giant ass missile (or something that looks a lot like one) to Musa.
201214
Mother-daughter reunion time! At first it's all "I love you" / "I love you too" with Liana and Regan, and then comes the girlfight.
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Regan pulls a gun out of the hole in her back (!) and blasts her mom with it. A new level of fierceness.
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The fight goes from interior to exterior. These two haven't seen each other in ten years ... and Mom's none too happy that Regan is more human than Hunter at this point.
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The daughter-mother fight ends on the road, with Regan jumping on an approaching truck before Liana can shoot her. Whew!
201208
Back to planning for The Purge! Liana threatens to tear off Sterling Martinez's face if he doesn't start figuring out how to revert Hunters to their native forms.
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And figures it out he does! Thanks to the work of Sterling Martinez, a Hunter completely reverts to its native form. It's gorgeous.
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Abby thanks Sterling for his help by breaking his neck. But she feels bad about it. Liana made her! No human loose ends around here.
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Back at the ETU, Ted claims that as long as he's alive, Regan is in danger as the ETU will keep using them against each other. He takes his own life to protect his daughter. Dad!!