S1E17
Crisscross
⚠ Spoiler alert This recap gives away what happens in this episode.
Episode Summary & Review
Summary
M.E.C.H. and Airachnid team up to kidnap Jack’s mom, and Arcee has to offer herself as ransom. M.E.C.H. is after the Transformer technology, while the sadistic Airachnid simply wants to kill everyone involved.
Our Take
A solid villain team-up hour that gives June Darby more to do than the show usually bothers with. Airachnid remains genuinely creepy, and her cold-blooded partnership with Silas makes for good tension, though the M.E.C.H. subplot mostly retreads ground we’ve already covered. The kidnapping premise is standard stuff, but the pacing keeps it moving. Worth a watch if you like the show’s darker villains.