Umbrella Academy season 2 ending explained

To the surprise of few The Umbrella Academy resets again in Season 3.

For the past two seasons, the time-travelling tale of misfit superhero siblings has jumped around quite a bit: The first season was 2019, when the siblings got together after their father’s death (and to stop the apocalypse). In Season 2, they were transported back in time (where they also had to stop the apocalypse).

If that’s about the limit of your memory Umbrella Academy Season 2, give or take a musical number, we’re here to remind you of the big things that happened to each character – including things that might come in handy for certain Season 3 plot points.

The situation:

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If Season 1 was the introduction to the Hargreeves siblings — their trauma and the secrets that kept them from truly bonding — then Season 2 seemed more direct: the Dallas 1963 season!

After the random apocalypse caused by Viktor’s powers was stopped, the siblings used Five’s powers to leap through time. The result left them all in 1960s Texas, but achieved various points. Once they got there, things got complicated in true Umbrella Academy fashion.

Season 2 Journeys:

Five Almost immediately sets out to prevent the next doomsday scenario, arriving in 1963 in the thick of it – “there” are nuclear missiles in the sky, which Five suspects are a result of JFK Not to be killed.

Slowly rallying his siblings to the cause, he attempts to work with the 1963 version of their father Reginald and the Handler, who hires him to kill the Commission’s board of directors in exchange for sending the Academy back to 2019. Although Five scores the hit, he and his family miss the proverbial boat. Classic Hargreeves.

allison, who lost her voice at the end of the first season, ends up in 1961 quite defenseless – and among the most vulnerable, as a black woman in 1960s Texas. Her voice eventually heals and she joins the civil rights movement and marries an activist named Ray. When she uses her powers to stop a cop from hitting Ray, she reveals her full story to him.

Though the two briefly flirt with the idea that he might come with her to 2019, he ultimately remains in the past and she writes him a letter, telling him she will always love him. And while that’s certainly a bittersweet note, she’s looking forward to returning to her own time, if only to see her daughter.

Luther Hargreeves was the third to appear in the past, landing in 1962. By the time Five finds him, he’s already been through a lot, including grieving his inability to find Allison (whom, in case you’ve forgotten, he’s in love with) and getting turned down by 1960s Reginald. He is further disappointed to find out that Allison is married. But he does must stand against his father when Reginald refuses to help with their mission. Not for nothing, but the best The Umbrella Academy What Luther did in Season 2 was acknowledge his main contribution to the team: being the dumb muscle.

Klaus and ben (who is a ghost only Klaus can see) first land in the past, all the way back to 1960. With his head start, Klaus started a cult called “Destiny’s Children” on a farm outside of town. He makes an attempt to stop Dave – the man he met, served with, fell in love with and lost while briefly traveling to Vietnam in Season 1 – from coming forward . When he cannot prevent this, Klaus starts drinking and returns to his cult.

But during the season, Ben realizes that Klaus can do more than just see dead people; he can also become obsessed with them and possibly more. Ben is also the only sibling who gets through to Viktor as he is about to go nuclear again, ultimately helping him calm down and avert the apocalyptic scenario Five witnessed. The action costs Ben his afterlife and his spirit eventually passes away.

Diego lands just a few months before the Kennedy assassination and is promptly institutionalized. At the asylum, he meets Lila, with whom he eventually escapes. She continues to hang around and saves him after he had a fight with Reginald, and eventually their relationship becomes romantic. Unfortunately, Lila also happens to work for the Commission and is the Handler’s adopted daughter, who eventually all come out and see Lila excommunicated from the group.

Eventually, the Handler manipulates Lila into believing that Diego was involved in her parents’ deaths. (The hit was actually organized by the Handler because Lila is — surprise! — one of the 43 super-powered kids, along with the rest of the academy. It was performed by Old-Five during his commission years, but only because he did it. I don’t know that the handler wanted the parents dead so she could have Lila for herself.)

Victor Hargreeves arrives in October 1963, still looking cool in his white suit, and is hit by a car. Although the accident leaves Viktor with amnesia, the driver was a housewife named Sissy, who takes him in and lets him stay with her family while he recovers. Viktor also looks after Sissy’s son Harlan, who bonds very closely with him; At one point, Harlan almost drowns and Viktor uses his powers to save him, accidentally imprinting some of his powers on Harlan.

Viktor also finds a deep romantic bond with Sissy, which ultimately gets them both in trouble with her husband Carl. As they attempt to take Harlan and leave, Carl turns Viktor over to the authorities, who torture him and begin to trigger his powers. Despite Ben berating him, Viktor’s connection to Harlan causes the boy to experience his distress and unleash his own powers.

The conclusion of the second season of Umbrella Academy

The Handler leads the Commission in an attack on Five, which they left behind to take the fall for taking out the board. This all happens, of course, when the academy has come together at Sissy’s farm to save Harlan and stop him from hurting anyone.

Thanks to Five’s ability to jump through time (within reason), the Hargreeves ultimately come out on top, with the Handler getting shot by an assassin. Although Lila confronts her mother in the original timeline, she never gets the chance to ever have jumped back in time to Five. She grabs the Handler’s briefcase and hops through time, still quite hurt by her mother’s betrayal (and the fact that she kidnapped Diego and he didn’t want to go on the commission with her). Viktor is able to regain what little power he shared with Harlan, helping him avoid destroying himself. Sissy chooses to stay in his 60’s and allow Harlan to have a normal life, leaving Viktor to join his siblings in the future.

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Luckily, the siblings managed to get a spare suitcase for a time travel back to the future. But when they arrive at the Hargreeves house, they find that things look different – not only is their father alive, but there are seven new children in their place, all united under the name “Sparrow Academy”. Then Ben comes out and says, “Dad, who are these assholes?”

Oh, and when JFK is killed, Reginald goes to his shadowy group and denounces their involvement in the assassination. The group urges him to calm down and remember his “interests on the dark side of the moon,” then threaten to reveal to the world who he “really” is. Reginald then calmly removes his mask and reveals himself to be an alien before slaughtering them all.