Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for Gen V Season 2, Episode 7, now available on Amazon Prime Video.
It turns out there was a good reason Marie (Jaz Sinclair) initially thought Dean Cipher (Hamish Linklater) didn’t have powers.
Towards the end of this week’s “Generation V” episode, Marie, her sister Annabeth (Keiyah King), Kate (Maddie Phillips), and Emma (Lize Broadway) discover and stare in horror at the elderly burn victim they correctly assumed was Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater) controlling Cipher all along. It was Thomas Godolkin, not Cipher, who had the power to control others. Godolkin then controlled a man known as Cipher (who had no powers at all) from a hyperbaric chamber, entering and exiting other people’s bodies while on life support.
That was until Marie brought the 100-year-old super back into combat on this week’s “Generation V” in hopes that Thomas Godolkin would help her stop Cypher. But unfortunately, he’s a cypher! Now, in addition to trying to repair their fragile brotherhood, Marie and Annabeth must deal with Godolkin’s pending genocide plans. Annabeth confesses that she knew Marie would accidentally kill her parents before it happened, and it has haunted her ever since.
Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau and Keiyah King as Annabeth Moreau in Gen V
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“She’s completely separated from Super and lives with Aunt Pam, but she thinks Super is a monster. She doesn’t fully understand her powers, and she doesn’t really understand,” King told Variety about playing Marie’s Precog sister.
And in confusion about what happened to them and their parents, Annabeth’s pain and shame turned to resentment towards Marie after their deaths. Annabeth chose to blame her sister for something that Annabeth knew wasn’t Marie’s fault.
The development of the sisters’ story raises the stakes not only for Marie and Annabeth, but also for Kate, Emma, Jordan (Derek Lew/London Thor), Sam (Asa German), and Polarity (Sean Patrick Thomas) heading into next week’s Generation V Season 2 finale. The film shifts perspective from what viewers saw in the opening scene of season 1 (the death of Marie and Annabeth’s parents), and reveals that Marie is not solely responsible for their parents’ deaths. Annabeth could have said something to stop it.
Hamish Linklater as Dean Cipher in Gen V
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“I watched the show and I thought, ‘Well, Annabeth thinks Marie killed her parents,'” Dr. King said. “And when I sat down with Michelle, the showrunner, she really explained the path that the writers had mapped out for Annabeth, which is that she actually had these visions and held onto them for a very long time.
“As an actor, it’s like you’re also blaming your sister, weaving together little moments of pain and regret for not acting on that vision,” she continued. “Because sometimes when she’s angry with herself, she wonders, ‘Where’s the hurt?’ So sometimes she takes it to her sister Marie.”
