![]() ![]() Wade plays ignorant until Laurie leans back in her chair in self-satisfaction noting she bugged his cactus on his desk and overheard his conversation with Angela. Just before Wade leaves her office she strikes the final blow. Laurie is reveling in her power, ordering the cops to look for the church in the Seventh Kavalry video, prodding the detectives to work outside their typical structure. She asks him basic questions about his life, lulling him into some comfort - until she notes how his mask his made of Reflectatine, which protects people from psychic blasts like the one he experienced on in Hoboken. She needles him, referring to him as “Mirror Guy” instead of Looking Glass to get under his skin. Angela is putting pressure on him to find out about her grandfather’s pills, as the split diopter shot with Wade and his desk cactus foreshadows what comes next. There’s a prickly scene early in the episode with Wade at work. The camera tracks through the fair over the darkened city until we see the source of the destruction in New York City’s Time Square: a huge squid monster, its tentacles draping buildings, that Adrian Veidt created and unleashed on the world in order to create peace. Roxy’s dead body wears a face of absolute horror as blood pools around her head like a halo. Director Steph Green and cinematographer Xavier Grobet frame it with a close-up of him looking directly at the camera as he spits, “You’re a filthy, dumb sinner and now you get what you deserve.” Before he can go any further with the self-flagellation, a piercing noise rips through the atmosphere and the mirrors crack all around him in chaos. This isn’t a gentle coming-of-age story, but a moment of sexual humiliation, as she runs off with his clothes, her words, “Fuck you, Bible Boy,” leaving a sting in the air. “You don’t want to get nuked before you get fucked,” she says matter-of-factly. ![]() She slowly starts to undress him despite his feeble protestations. Their reflections bounce around each other as if displaying an endless array of possibilities, with George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” filling the air. It could have gotten worse if it weren’t for the woman in the group, Roxy (Julia Vasi), taking his hand and leading him into a fun house. A group of goth punks tease his earnest bravado, flinging his pamphlets in the air. Wade is undeniably in over his head entering this world so far from the order he knew in Tulsa. When he pours out of a school bus with his fellow missionaries, he’s intent on spreading the word of God to the “sinners” at a Hoboken fair full of folks reading comics, making out, eating greasy foods, and just trying to capture joy where they can in a world drenched in anxiety and poised on the brink of destruction, with the nuclear armament of the United States and Russia pointed at each other. ![]() Then, Wade was a gangly young man with eyes so wide it was as if he was soaking in the world for the first time. For Wade Tillman, most often referred to as his alias Looking Glass, such a moment came in 1985 Hoboken. Leaving us irrevocably changed in ways we’re still cataloguing years later. ![]() Cleaving life into a unique before and after. There are moments that split our lives in two. Who will Wade become in the face of the devastating truth he’s learned? ![]()
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