Volume 4: The Tower
- Episode aired Jun 14, 2019
- 1h 3m
Viggo brings Martin under his wing, giving him a chance to prove himself.Viggo brings Martin under his wing, giving him a chance to prove himself.Viggo brings Martin under his wing, giving him a chance to prove himself.
- Theo
- (as Billy Baldwin)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaReference to the movie: Night Tide, starring Dennis Hopper, whilst the character, in the first scene, watches TV, lying on his bed.
- Quotes
Viggo: Once there was just men and nature. Then men came bearing crosses.
Viggo: We used to believe that we were the centre of the universe. That the sun and the stars all revolved around us.
Viggo: And we spent the last 500 years since Copernicus in this slow crawl... to where we are now; to this pinnacle of human achievement.
Viggo: Where we finally bent nature to our will. We split the atom. We broke the fabric of reality. That's how far we've come.
Viggo: Now the lights of our cities stretch further than the stars in the sky.
Viggo: But the more perfect society gets... the more psychotic we become. We evolved through brutality.
Viggo: that's why we had teeth and claws. Self preservation was the highest law.
Viggo: But as time went on... the pack began to provide for us... and we abandoned our violent nature.
Viggo: But it never went away. Laid beside us in our sleep. Waiting. And as it waited... we became slaves to the systems we built.
Viggo: Now it's all falling apart.
Viggo: Soon our cities will be washed away by floods. Buried in sand. Burned to the ground.
Viggo: That's why you found me. Because you're no longer blind to all this.
Viggo: When I was in the bureau... I got shot in the head. I lost my eye. My body deteriorated. And I died for three minutes.
Viggo: But when I came back from the other side, everything was clear to me.
Viggo: It was like I'd been given a gift. As the world fractures...
Viggo: Someone...
Viggo: Someone has to be there to protect innocence.
- ConnectionsFeatures Night Tide (1961)
theres a high sense of irony in Martin setting out to kill people when he himself is sexually active with a girl who is underage. this harkens back to the line in the previous episode about the dichotomy of personality. not only is Martin hiding his assasinations from the police force he works for, but he is now hiding his own sins from this hitman who seeks to drive out sin.
Martin is no hero and his sense of morals is exceedingly warped but it seems he's trying to change or maybe just lie to himself which is why he tracked Viggo in the first place.
i'm sure all my ten star ratings may be obnoxious to some but i genuinely feel this is top of the line television. you may not agree and you're entitled to that but i'm merely expressing my true feelings. if i felt the episode wasnt up to par my rating would reflect that.
anyways it was awesome to see Hideo Kojima show up even if he doesn't do much. it makes me excited to see NWR in Kojima's upcoming Death Stranding. also, John Hawkes continues giving an absolutely riveting performance and i cannot wait to see where his character goes
- sjsufan-4
- Jun 18, 2019
Details
- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
- Color