An angry Kong beats his chest and roars at the helicopters while they flee the island as Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season two, episode two opens. Lee Shaw (Kurt Russell) is reeling from the effects of being in Axis Mundi and isn’t happy to learn they’re heading to Monarch Outpost 18. He reminds Keiko (Mari Yamamoto) they’ve seen this Titan before.
When the helicopter lands on the ship’s deck, no one onboard realizes a creature (known as a Scarab) hitched a ride. It scurries away, unnoticed.
Monarch tracks Titan X’s movements as it heads to the South China Sea. Tim (Joe Tippett) is now in charge since Verdugo is dead, but he doesn’t want the responsibility. Unfortunately, all the comms are down so he’s stuck being the guy making all the decisions. He’s shocked to learn no one has been told about Titan X. Tim’s day gets worse when Lee Shaw arrives in the control room, demanding to know why they’re not going after Titan X. There’s no time to wait for input from Washington; they’re heading into another G-Day if they don’t stop Titan X.
Tim and Lee yell at each other while work comes to a standstill. Finally, Tim decides to follow Titan X from a distance, ordering the team to keep working on getting comms up and running.
Kentaro (Ren Watabe) and Hiroshi (Takehiro Hira) are also at each other’s throats, arguing over their actions that lead to unleashing Titan X. Cate (Anna Sawai) overhears and runs off, and Hiroshi gives chase. He claims he doesn’t blame her and they need to move on. Hiroshi thinks he’s to blame for putting Cate into this situation in the first place.
A Monarch employee hears chittering in the medical bay. He looks up just as the Scarab launches itself at his face.
Comms are reestablished and Tim’s told by Director Barris to maintain contact with the new Titan. Tim confesses he doesn’t believe he’s the right man to lead, but Lee doesn’t agree. Tim reads another message from Barris ordering him to place Lee under arrest. Fortunately for Lee, that’s an order Tim has decided to disobey.
A short while later, Titan X speeds up, and Monarch can’t match its speed. Tim says if they try, they risk overheating the engines. The radar lights up and they realize they’ve entered the Strait of Malacca, a busy shipping channel. Keiko is confused about Monarch’s mission, and Tim recites their mission statement: “Discovery and defense in a time of monsters.” She realizes those are Bill’s words and that defense didn’t work at Bikini Atoll. They moved on to discover what they could about monsters after that and committed to never stop chasing the truth.
Tim gives the order to increase their speed, thanks to Keiko.
Lee asks if they have any weapons, and the only thing they have on board is a drone. The specs show it has sonar for mapping and Keiko suggests that since they’ve seen this Titan before, they learned it responds to subsonic sounds below the range of human hearing. They could use the drone to emit a signal to distract it. Hiroshi thinks he can alter it to mimic the Titan’s frequency.
However, they’ve only got 20 minutes before it hits the ships.
Keiko and Hiroshi have a real mother-son bonding moment as they work on reconfiguring the drone. They complete the alterations and launch the drone, hoping it does what they intend it to.
Cate’s alone and blaming herself for Titan X when the Scarab scurries by. The quick movement catches her attention, and she sees a trail of blood all over the walls and ceiling. She spots it on the ceiling down the hall and tries to run but can’t open the door. Cate grabs a fire extinguisher and prepares for a fight.
The drone approaches Titan X as the Titan is just four minutes out from the shipping channel. Lee’s too impatient and orders the guy steering the drone to take it closer to the water’s surface. When he doesn’t, Lee grabs the controls. Titan X wipes out the drone with a tentacle.
Cate can’t get the fire extinguisher to work so she’s lucky that Kentaro and May (Kiersey Clemons) show up just as the creature’s about to attack. Kentaro shoots it twice with a flare gun and it screams out, sending sound waves throughout the ship and into the water. Titan X hears it and turns around, heading straight for Monarch’s ship.
Kentaro calls the control room and informs them of the Scarab, which is stunned, not dead. Cate describes it as the bug-thing from the rift on Skull Island. The control room pulls up footage from the hallway and Keiko and Lee realize Titan X is coming for the creature, not them.
Lee wants to turn the ship around and try to put distance between them and Titan X long enough to grab the Scarab and get it to the hatch. Lee gets it onto a boat and drives the creature away from the ship just as the ship’s engines finally reach their breaking point.
Titan X approaches and Keiko and Hiroshi watch from the deck as Lee lures it away from the ship. The massive Titan rears up out of the water and Lee tosses the Scarab overboard. Titan X doesn’t pursue Lee as he drives away. The Scarab swims up to Titan X as Monarch staff breathe a sigh of relief.
Lee and Keiko’s First Encounter with Titan X
Santa Soledad 1957 – Bill (Anders Holm) is fascinated with the cave drawings, while Keiko and Lee (Wyatt Russell) try to figure out why the waters surrounding the island are so rich in fish. Bill finally leaves the caves and insists it’s time to leave the island. He claims the drawings on the cave were a migratory map of the sea monster. It’s moved on already, but the map indicates it goes all over the world. Bill wants to return to Santiago and look through the archives for M.U.T.O. (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism) encounters near its path.
Keiko doesn’t want to leave because she’s busy collecting data, and Bill insists she can stay and keep working. Lee, on the other hand, thinks they all need to stick together. He’s outvoted and Bill takes off to track the sea monster.
Lucia’s told by the leader of the island that Lee and Keiko’s fates are sealed since they didn’t leave with Bill.
Lee and Keiko return to the cave and while discussing her relationship with Bill, she feels a vibration. Lucia and the leader join them, and Lucia explains that the villagers think with outsiders on the island, the fish will stay away. The leader invites them to their festival that evening and Keiko accepts. (Lee wants to leave.)
The festival gets underway and it’s in honor of the great god of the sea. As the drinking and dancing get underway, Lee realizes Cate seems off—like she’s been drugged. The islanders pull her into the dance, and Lee’s also grabbed as he begins to feel the effects.
They wind up standing in front of each other, aware there’s something strange going on but not sure what. The villagers chant as a massive fish is strung up by its tail. They begin stomping their feet but stop when the leader stabs the fish. He bloodies his hands and then places blood on Lucia’s face.
Lucia tells Lee and Keiko that the villagers’ secret “will remain a secret.” She warned them to leave but they didn’t. Keiko continues to feel the vibration and finally Lee does too. Thousands of Scarabs emerge from below ground and Keiko and Lee are forced to make a run for it.
They run toward the dock, but the creatures are heading the same way. Suddenly, Titan X appears and the Scarabs scurry toward it. Episode two ends with Titan X roaring and knocking Lee and Keiko down.
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