Instead, he uses his own superpowers to leap through time, arriving at Hargreeves’s funeral (as seen in the premiere), and discovering - to his surprise and horror - that the leap has reverted his 58-year-old body into the body of an adolescent boy.Īs it turns out, Hazel and Cha-Cha also work for the Commission, and they’ve been tasked with tracking down the rogue Five. But he balks when the Commission assigns him to assassinate JFK. After a five-year service, they’ll give him a pile of money and a ticket to settle anywhere in time he chooses.įive accepts, rising through the Commission’s ranks by hopping through time, murdering people, and vanishing again before anyone can catch him. The Handler wants Five to become one of their killers. All this time, Five has been watched by the Commission, an agency that has appointed itself the guardian of the time continuum via “manipulations and removals.” Or, to put it more bluntly: They travel through time killing people. There, Five works on complicated calculations in an effort to get back to the past, rambles to his mannequin lover, and chugs bottle after bottle from a massive wine cellar he discovers under a destroyed mansion.Īnd maybe that’s where Five would die, if not for a mysterious woman - known only as the Handler - who appears with an intriguing job offer. By the end of it, he’s a half-crazed old man, secure in the belief - presumably correct - that he’s the only living person in the world.įive eventually makes his home in the bombed-out husk of the Argyle Library (which explains his affinity for the building in Umbrella Academy’s main timeline). We watch as he wanders the wasteland for years, dragging Dolores in a wagon behind him, as the seasons change and his beard gets longer.
The scene digs into the several decades Five spent alone, exploring the post-apocalypse, after fleeing to the future as a boy.
So I was delighted to see “Number Five” begin, appropriately enough, with a lengthy montage featuring Five. His ability to time-travel opens up virtually unlimited storytelling possibilities, and his quest to prevent the looming apocalypse, which only he knows about, is easily the strongest of Umbrella Academy’s many storylines. There are plenty of fascinating characters in Umbrella Academy, but there’s a part of me that wishes this show would just spend a whole episode on Five.
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