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'Invincible' Season 3, Episode 5 “This Was Supposed to Be Easy” Review

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This episode brings back Titan and other villains like Machine Head, Liu, Multi-Paul and Isotope from Season 1!  It begins with Titan, the new mob boss, taking his daughter to school.  He drops her off.  Isotope teleports in to tell Titan there's a problem.  


Meanwhile, Multi-Paul is still in a GDA maximum security prison that suppresses his powers until it didn't.  He duplicated copies of himself that literally forced the door open.  The OG Paul positioned on the cell ceiling, escapes but is stopped by a guard clasping an immovable collar on him.  It suppressed him and his powers. He was knocked unconscious.


Multi-Paul wakes to Multi-Kate, his sister, reprimanding him.  Paul still thinks The Order will break him out someday.  She reminds him of their Dad's Birthday.  A flashback of their origin story shows them with their Dad before he was arrested.GDA took and trained them.  Paul left the training facility as a teen and became an assassin with The Order. He tells her he couldn't leave The Order even if he wanted. She leaves saddened. 


The story continues with Mark and Eve commingling in his room at the Grayson home.  Debbie calls Mark down for breakfast.  Oliver's helping his Mom, and the amount of pancakes show his healthy appetite is still growing.  ‘Someone’ rings their doorbell and Mark answers.  Surprise, it's Eve!  She joins them for breakfast.  Oliver tells everyone about Mark and Eve’s sleepover and which earns him kicks under the table from his brother.  Mark asks his Mom for apartment rental information.  Mark and Eve later decide to move in together.  He suggests she build a cool place for them somewhere in the city, but Eve tells him it's not feasible.  Mark decides to get a job to rent a place instead.  That leads to their joint business venture, Invincible, Inc.  Later, Peyton Penitentiary, a prison with numerous problems, is offered an Invincible Security opportunity by a ‘Ms. Wilson’ with a private firm. 





Titan meets with Liu, The Order Leader, about his deal, breaking his assassin(s),  Multi-Paul, out of prison.  Liu extends the deadline, but threatens Titan’s family as he leaves.  Titan rushes home to ensure his family is safe.  He tells Fiona to stay home with her Mom for a while.  Titan and Isotope brainstorm how to get rid of Liu.  Titan goes to Peyton Pen to see Machine Head, but realizes getting his help is hopeless .


Mark and Eve search for Oliver after Debbie tells Mark he sneaked out.  They find him doing skateboard tricks in the park with normal friends.  Some older kids come up and try to start a fight.  Oliver stops them hilariously.  Mark tells his Mom about Oliver and his new friends, and proudly tells her how Oliver handled himself in a threatening situation now.  He says they should let him be a kid. 


At Guardians New Place, Shrinking Rae gets a knock on her door to find an envelope with a note from Rex inviting her to  a midnight dinner date.  It's cutely comical. She goes and finds him cooking dinner.  He CAN follow instructions.  Rae loves what Rex has done for her.   It’s nice to see Rex growing, too.


Mark gets a text and rushes off to the Peyton Penitentiary just in time to save some guards from Titan’s assault.  Mark and Titan face-off and make tenuous peace.  Titan gives Invincible a tour around the changed neighborhood downtown and asks for his help.  He tells Mark about The Order, and them wanting Multi-Paul back.  Mark refuses.  He discusses how conflicted he is with Eve.  She tells him he did the right thing. Liu revisits Titan at his office, and is upset because Multi-Paul is not free.  Isotope turns against Titan and joins The Order.  Liu transforms into a gargantuan dragon!  Titan tries to fight but is thrown out the window.  The dragon goes to the prison to break out Multi-Paul.  


Mark gets a text from Peyton Pen, and he and Eve go to fight the dragon.  The dragon destroys the prison power dampening systems.  Machine Head and Multi-Paul and other prisoners escape.  Eve fights Multi-Paul, and thinks she restrained him.  The dragon injures Mark as he saves the warden, and Mark discovers the dragon can't be killed.  


Machine Head returns to Titan’s/His Office, and finds Liu’s bodyguard holding his body. He threatens to kill Liu’s body.  Isotope teleports in and takes the bodyguard into the sky and drops him while Machine Head kills Liu’s body, making the dragon disappear.  Titan thanks Invincible for his help.  Isotope teleports Titan and himself away, leaving Mark babbling about taking Titan to jail.  





Mark and Eve later do an after action review of what happened.  Mark's upset that he just helped Titan kill his biggest rival.  Eve cheers him up by telling him they made enough for rent.  Mark and Eve rethink moving out, and Eve’s glad cuz she wants to slow down their relationship. They're keeping their joint venture, Invincible, Inc. Debbie tells Mark she had a good talk with Oliver about his sneaking out, and realizes he should be allowed to just be a kid.  She's glad Mark’s staying, and he and Eve are slowing down their relationship.  Debbie scares Mark off when she tries to give him the sex ed talk.  


Machine Head takes over at The Order, and Titan tells him he’s keeping the city territory and wants out of The Order.  Machine Head lets him out, but threatens him and his family if he double-crosses him again.  At the Guardians' New Place, Multi-Kate finds a gift reminding her of her past.  She knows it's from Multi-Paul.  In a temple, Liu's bodyguard cleans Liu's body, and revives him!  


This episode was Another Good One! They did a great job bringing characters from Season 1 into Mark's current life.  It also had more family and personal issues with a lot less galactic destruction.  Liked the short Multi-Kate and Multi-Paul back story, too.  It was amazing to see the Titan and Isotope deception of Liu.  They outsmarted Mark, and tricked him and Machine Head into ridding them of Liu, so they thought.  A lot going on in this episode, but the best part was seeing Oliver return to being a kid!  Looking forward to seeing the next episode!



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