Legion Recap: Chapter 10

Season 2 / Episode 2 / FX A diversion “Chapter 10” of Legion opens once more with Lenny and Oliver in a subconscious plane of reality, this time chatting with David on a carousel, that appears to be spinning on a giant lollipop. It’s fitting given the themes of this season, a maze of the mind, the cycles of sanity. David is continuing to carry out orders from Future Syd, helping Amahl Farouk reunite with his body. Farouk as Oliver tells David that they need to create “a diversion.” When David asks why, Oliver says it’s so they can break-in to Division Three. It’s not yet clear why they want to get inside Division 3, but David is willing to help per Syd’s request with one caveat: “Let me be ultra-clear…nobody gets hurt.” *Kendrick Voice* “It’s Levels to it” We dive right into the diversion, David, Ptonomy and (present) Syd are accompanying three Vermillion to a desert, where presumably David has told them Farouk might be. David is still weirded out by the Vermillion and asks Ptonomy what they are. Ptonomy explains that they are not human: “Androids I think…synthetic…artificial.” Ptonomy states that they have no memories for him to see, “just data.” He finds them soothing. David tells Ptonomy that Fukyama’s plan is to kill Oliver once they find him, and Ptonomy says they’ll just have to find him first, presumably so that they can save Oliver for Melanie’s sake. They get to the desert but there is no evidence of Farouk, only a child’s music box that Syd recognizes from her child…