Run Boy Run

Run Boy Run
Season	1
Episode	2
Writer	Created for Television By: Steve Blackman Based on the Dark Horse Comic By: Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá Teleplay By: Steve Blackman
Director	Andrew Bernstein
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"Run Boy Run" is the second episode of the first season of The Umbrella Academy. It aired on Netflix on February 15, 2019.

Synopsis

After sharing the story of his time travel with Vanya, Five hunts for the owner of a fake eye. But two mysterious assassins are hot on his trail.

Plot

Sixteen years ago, the Hargreeves family sit down for dinner while a recorded lecture plays in the background. Number Five interrupts the meal, telling Sir Reginald Hargreeves that he is ready to attempt time travel after practicing his spatial jumps. Sir Reginald tells him that he is not ready and explains the fundamental difference between spatial jumps and time travel. When Number Five admits to not understanding, Sir Reginald tells him that is the reason that he should not try it. Believing he knows better, Number Five runs from the Academy and begins time travelling as he runs down the street. In a matter of seconds, he goes through several time periods until he finally arrives in the future devastated by the apocalypse. Returning to the site of the Academy to find it in ruins, Number Five tries to time travel home, only to find that he cannot.

Back in the present, Number Five explains how he survived in the future to Vanya. Vanya is concerned that the time travel is messing with his mind like their father warned him could happen. Number Five tries to leave the apartment because he doesn't think that Vanya can understand or comprehend what he is going through. Vanya doesn't want to lose him so soon after his return and tells him to stay the night and that they'll try talking again in the morning. After Vanya goes into her room, Five leaves her apartment without a word.

Hazel and Cha Cha arrive at a motel. They are annoyed by only one room being booked for the pair of them, and retrieve a package from the front desk. As they discuss the upcoming job, Cha Cha opens the package to reveal weapons and equipment. Hazel hides a large briefcase in room's vent. Cha Cha admonishes him for the breach in protocol since they were required to have the case with them at all times.

Detectives Eudora Patch and Chuck Beeman investigate the crime scene at Griddy's Doughnuts. Patch interviews the only witness, waitress Agnes Rofa. Agnes tells Patch all she knows but mentions that she already told her story to the other detective. Patch catches Diego leave Griddy's through the back entrance and tasers him. Cuffing him, she confiscates his police radio and forged police badge. Patch angrily tells him that Diego is not police and should not be investigating crime scenes. Diego tells her that she needs his help, but Patch refuses.

At the Academy, Luther struggles to adapt to a routine on Earth after being on the moon for four years. He talks with Allison who tells him that she told her daughter Claire all about her superhero uncle who lives on the moon. Klaus begins to sober up and converses with the spirit of Ben Hargreeves when Pogo arrives. He asks Klaus if he knows where several items taken from Sir Reginald's study are, indicating that if they are returned then there would be no blame or consequences. Klaus denies knowing anything but remembers taking the item, throwing away anything that he was not able to sell, and then selling the rest for drug money.

Number Five is in possession of a glass eye, taken from the future. He heads to the company that manufactured the eye to try and find the owner in the present, believing that it is connected to the apocalypse. A member of the company's staff refuses to give out the information as patient records are classified. Number Five threatens him, but security is called to remove him.

At the police station, Detective Beeman informs Patch that the victims at Griddy's were all criminals. However, one piece of evidence that did not seem right was the fingerprints on a knife matched those from a decades old cold case. Patch lets Diego go but threatens him with jail time if he interferes in one of her investigations again.

Vanya goes looking for Number Five after finding him gone in the morning from her apartment. She is relieved to find him at the Academy and apologizes for being dismissive. Five agrees that maybe she was right to be dismissive and that time travel is affecting his mind. As she leaves, Klaus comes out of hiding, having been recruited into Five's plan to get information from the prosthetics company.

At Ismhael's Towing, Hazel and Cha Cha take Syd hostage, and begin torturing him for information. They initially believe that he is Number Five, but as they get information out of him, they come to realize that Number Five was the kid in doughnut shop.

Allison talks with Patrick on the phone and conversation becomes heated. Vanya tries to comfort her sister but says the wrong thing, inferring that the best place for her is away from her daughter. Allison gets angry with Vanya and tells her that she cannot blame all her problems on their father now she is an adult.

At the prosthetics company, Klaus poses as Five's dad in an effort to get the information. Lance still refuse to divulge it, so Klaus causes a scene in the office that makes it look like Lance assaulted both him and Five. Lance gets the information they request, only to find that the particular serial number on the eye hasn't been sold or manufactured yet. Outside, Five tells Klaus about some of his relationship with Delores before teleporting away.

At her apartment, Vanya receives a new student, Leonard Peabody. He is older than her normal students who are children. Leonard shows an obvious interest in Vanya, and while she picks up on it, she is reluctant to pursue it quickly. Luther visits Diego at his home, the boiler room of a local gym that he uses in exchange for mopping floors. While there, he discovers that Diego could not have killed their father since he was fighting on the night in question. Luther asks him why Diego did not just tell him that; Diego retorts that he shouldn't have had to prove his innocence to the family.

Pogo seeks out Allison to make sure she is alright, having been alerted when Vanya called to check up on her. Allison admits she said some rude things to Vanya. Pogo shows her some old security footage of when they were children, admitting that he spends a lot of time in there. He gives Allison the keys so she can watch the videos by herself. Choosing one on the shelf, Allison watches it and finds something unexpected on the tape.

At a department store, Five breaks in to find Delores, a mannequin that he had a relationship with in the future. Hazel and Cha Cha track him to the store and begin trying to kill him Five fights back, rescuing Delores in the process and holds out long enough for the two assassins to be distracted by the arrival of the police. Five escapes, and Hazel and Cha Cha flee the store as well.

At the gym, Diego hears about the shooting in the department store and heads off to investigate despite Patch's warnings. At the Academy, Allison tries to show Luther the security footage by they are interrupted by the arrival of Five who is still recovering from his fight with Hazel and Cha Cha. They ask him what they can do to help, but he tells them that there is nothing anyone can do.

In the future, Five finds the fake eye clutched in Luther's dead hand. Five looks around at the bodies of his siblings and recognizes them when he sees the umbrella tattoo on Klaus' wrist.

Cast

Starring

• Ellen Page as Vanya Hargreeves
• Tom Hopper as Luther Hargreeves
• David Castañeda as Diego Hargreeves
• Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison Hargreeves
• Robert Sheehan as Klaus Hargreeves
• Aidan Gallagher as Number Five
• Mary J. Blige as Cha Cha
• Cameron Britton as Hazel
• John Magaro as Leonard Peabody
• Adam Godley as Pogo

AND

• Colm Feore as Sir Reginald Hargreeves

Guest Starring

• Ashley Madekwe as Detective Eudora Patch
• Sheila McCarthy as Agnes Rofa
• Justin H. Min as Ben Hargreeves
• Jordan Claire Robbins as Grace
• Rainbow Sun Francks as Chuck Beeman
• Eric Peterson as Al

Co-Starring

• TJ McGibbon as Young Vanya
• Cameron Brodeur as Young Luther
• Blake Talabis as Young Diego
• Dante Albidone as Young Klaus
• Eden Cupid as Young Allison
• Ethan Hwang as Young Ben
• Murray Furrow as Syd
• Karl Campbell as Goon Leader
• Zachary Bennett as Lance Biggs
• Tom Henry as Motel Clerk
• Moni Ogunsuyi as Secretary

Trivia

• The episode title comes from the song played at the beginning of the episode, "Run Boy Run" by Woodkid. It is also thematically appropriate as it features Number Five – also known as The Boy in the comics – running away from the Academy.

Changes from the Comic

To be added

Soundtrack

• Run Boy Run by Woodkid
• Goody Two Shoes by Adam Ant
• Don't Stop Me Now by Queen
• Never Tear Us Apart by INXS, performed by Paloma Faith