Monarch and the team head to Skull Island. Cate tries to reason with Kentaro and stop Isabel. Shaw and Keiko search for Billy’s long-lost rift.
It’s a dark and stormy night as Krakilla/Titan X swims somewhere followed by the dorsal fins of Godzilla and there will be a wedding.
Outpost 18 is following. Tim says, “They’re on a direct course to Skull Island.”
Keiko explains, “She’s followed her egg this far. She’s not gonna stop now.”
May adds, “Man, you gotta give Apex Cybernetic credit. They really know hot to dangle what you want in front of you.”
Tim notes, “Except this isn’t Apex. Apex is denying any part of this.” So who is it?
Old Lee wonders, “Who is it, then? Who has the resources to pull off something like this? Other than Monarch and Apex, who even knows where the hell Skull Island is?”
Tim doesn’t know and he reports, “But we are tracking an unauthorized aircraft in the airspace of Skull Island.” Cate and Kentaro are on that plane.
The question Old Lee asks is: “Did they leave with them or were they taken with them?” Old Lee was hoping that Godzilla would take on Krakilla, but they are just facing off with Krakilla coiled up on a big rock that juts out of the sea. They roar at each other. May suggests that Godzilla is afraid of Kong, but Old Lee says, “Godzilla’s not afraid of anything.”
Keiko deduces that perhaps Krakilla is where it is supposed to be. Godzilla leaves and that’s a disappointment for Old Lee. He’s now worried about what the mysterious new organization wants to do with Krakilla. Old Lee determines their new mission is to recover Cate and Kentaro.
The storm is gone and now the skies are clear and beautiful.
Kentaro, Cate and the villainous Isabel are in a helicopter over Skull Island. Cate wants to know what Isabel plans to do with the egg. We watch the egg being lowered on to Skull Island.
Cate says, “Do you really think that stealing her offspring is going to do anything but enrage her? It’s inhumane.”
Kentaro responds, “Inhumane? You keep forgetting they’re not human.”
Cate wants to know: “Why are you helping these people? Why are you on their side?”
The Monarch people land in boats.Tim advises to get in and out as fast as they can, get Krakilla/Titan X back to Axis Mundi and “try not to die.”
Keiko has a map and says that “Billy thought Titan X’s migratory route ended on Skull Island.” That means there must be “a naturally occurring stable rift somewhere here.” Billy had marked possible rift sites on the map.
As Keiko looks through the notes of Billy’s journals she sees something from 21 October 1958 in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. He writes, “It was an important day.” Flashing back to 1958, Billy and Keiko are in the rain, unprepared because one they have no umbrella or other rain gear. Keiko is using a jacket over her head. Billy has a pack over his. “This is huge, Kei!” Billy exclaims.
Keiko adds, “I know. I still can’t believe it.”
Billy says, “Confirmation of a rift. This means the Titan network might actually exist. Who knows where it could lead to…This changes everything.”
Keiko is knocking at a door, smiling. They are happy and now Billy knocks on the door and demands, “Open up in there.”
Someone opens up and we see in the background flag. The man asks, “What the bloody hell do you want?”
The Territory of Papua and New Guinea was once divided. The northeast quarter was part of Germany, German New Guinea in 1884. The British took the southern coast of New Guinea as a protectorate called British New Guinea in 1884 and then annexed in 1888. Possession was passed to the Commonwealth of Australia in 1902 and became the Australian Territory of Papua under Australian administration from 1906.
After World War I, German New Guinea was given to Australia among with Bismarck Archipelago and Nauru. During World War II, New Guinea was taken over by Japan. Dutch New Guinea was occupied along with other parts of the Territory of New Guinea.
After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Papua and New Guinea were united as the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. The name was changed to Papua New Guinea on 13 December 1971 and Papua New Guinea gained independence in 1975. The flag of Papua New Guinea is black, red, gold and white which is different from the flag used from 1949 to 1971.
Why are Billy and Keiko knocking at the door? Billy says, “We want to get married.” Where is Young Lee? Where is Hiroshi?
The man asks, “So, you got rings?”
Keiko replies, “It’s a bit spur of the moment.” I didn’t think it would be so easy for a Japanese national and a US national to get married in a foreign land last minute.
Instead of staying on track, Billy says, “Probes. We need to send something down the rift, see where it goes. Zook built that Titan tracking device, remember? With multi band radio transmitter?” Billy believes they can adapt it, but Keiko reminds him they are getting married.
Keiko says, “Billy, I never thought that I would find someone who dreams as big as I do. Someone who sees the world the way I do, full of possibility and magic. I promise to always believe in you and your crazy ideas. I love you…I do.”
Billy’s turn is awkward. “It’s not fair. I didn’t prepare anything…I don’t have any words.”
The official says, “Yes, will do mate…Then by the power invested in me by Her Majesty’s government of Australia, I do pronounce you man and doctor wife.”
Back on Skull Island, Isabel leads Cate and Kentaro into an old Monarch bee. “They abandoned it after some early issues with operational security.”
Cate complains, “So Monarch couldn’t keep their people safe, but you think you can?” Cate wonders if Kentaro wants to kill Krakilla out of revenge for killing their father, Hiroshi.
At the end of the cold concrete corridors is a command base filled with computers and we learn that Krakilla is 12 kilometers away. Isabel makes it clear that Kentaro helped them get the egg as bait.
Kentaro claims they don’t want to kill it. They simply need it to open the rift.
Opening a rift is a tricky thing. Cate reminds them, “You don’t know what’ll come out of there or who’s gonna fall into it.”
Isabel explains, “Your grandfather discovered rifts all over the globe.” They know there’s a rift somewhere on the island. “A central hub that could take you anywhere in the Titan network.” Their goal? “What we need is to open a stable rift for an indefinite period of time.”
Isabel defends their plan when Cate asks why. “That’s exactly the reaction people had when NASA proposed going to the moon.”
Cate reminds her, “The astronauts didn’t come home to discover that it was 60 years later and everyone they loved was dead.” Well…not everyone.
Isabel starts her spiel. “What if you had, say, a terminal illness and you could go someplace for a week or a month and come back and there’s a cure. What if you could visit the future?”
Cate replies, “You want to exploit Axis Mundi as your personal Time Machine?”
Cate tries to convince Kentaro that what this group is doing is wrong. She regrets what she did.
Back to Old Lee, Keiko asks how there is a tracking device on Krakilla. There’s something wrong on the ground. The vines and branches are moving. Do you remember that vicious looking thing we saw in “Trepass” at the Apex headquarters in Pensacola? That was a Vinestranglers. They remind me of an oversized mantis but with tentacles that feed things into what seems like its belly. Anyway, this isn’t the kind of jungle that Tarzan would be vine swinging.
In this attack, most of the Monarch military men get killed. Tim has a moment of heroism when he saves May from being dragged off, but Tim and May get separated from Keiko and Old Lee. Due to the special qualities of Skull Island, the communication is dodgy. Keiko and Old Lee look for and find the Central Rift.
May and Tim follow the tracker to find Titan X, but Isabel’s people remove the tracker.
Back with Isabel and her group, Cate argues with Kentaro because while she’s not a physicist, she is a science teacher and she knows “There’s no such thing as a Time Machine.” And, she continues, “…you can’t change the past, no matter how much we want to.” She doesn’t believe their father would want to see them this way and “He wouldn’t want anyone else to get hurt.”
Isabel acknowledges that what they are doing is crazy and risky. She tells Kentaro that he could go home if he wanted to do so. Kentaro wants to stay, but he tells Cate to go and Isabel’s henchmen supposedly take her to the helicopter.
Things are going how they want them so Isabel’s group plays a sounds of a Skullcrawler from a helicopter to distract Kong.
Tim, May and two Monarch military guys hear Kong’s road. Tim asks, “What does the tracker say?” A military guy notes, they have lost half their team and says, “We should consider heading back to the beach.” He wonders if Keiko and Old Lee are still alive. Tim takes this time to straighten out this guy’a attitude. “If they are still alive, which they are, they would stay on mission. And so are we.”
Back to Isabel and Kentaro, Isabel takes Kentaro through a passage way and shows him a scenic view of what she believes will be their Cape Canaveral. Far below, we see Krakilla’s egg place in a clearing.
Isabel explains while she is not as rich as her father, she does have her trust fund and extremely smart people working for her. What does Kentaro bring to the party? Isabel explains, “Do you know why NASA chose Neil Armstrong to be the first one to step on the moon?” When Kentaro guesses it was because Armstrong was the best pilot, Isabel explains, “They were all the best pilots. They knew that whoever they chose to take those first steps would become the most famous person in the world. Maybe the most famous person in history. It was never about choosing the best person. It was about choosing the right person. You are Kentaro Randa, Bill and Keiko Randa’s grandson, Hiroshi Randa’s son. You are the right person. There’s one thing we need to do first. We can’t set up a base here with Kong roaming the island.”
Kentaro thought they were merely going to distract him. Isabel explains they needed Krakilla there to take out Kong AND open the rift. Kentaro doesn’t think it is possible. Fans of Monarch will know we need Kong and Godzilla. Kentaro is angry that he wasn’t told this was part of the plan. Isabel responds with “I know, and I apologize.” When Kentaro asks why she lied, Isabel claims she was scared and she can’t do this all by herself.
Krakilla comes into view.
Then we switch to Cate being forced on to a helicopter.
Then we’re back to Krakilla seeing the egg and then back to Cate who escapes.
Isabel’s people put out some kind of spray that puts Krakilla to sleep.
You’re probably wondering about the rift. Old Lee and Keiko spy a group of people in two jeeps. They know these aren’t Monarch or Apex people. They believe this group is also looking for the rift.
At this point, Keiko wonders if she really knew Billy. After all, he left Hiroshi. When she asks what was different, Old Lee tells her that after she was thought to be dead, “Everything changed.”
Flashing back to Kazakhstan in 1959, Billy is looking over parts of the train station. We hear Keiko’s voice saying, “No, don’t drop me!” That’s in his memory.
Young Lee’s voice cries, “We’re too heavy! Give me your hand!”
Unfortunately, Billy can’t hold on. Young Lee begs Keiko to reach out.
Young Lee interrupts Billy’s thoughts, “Train leaves in ten minutes. We gotta go.”
Billy insists, “I’m not leaving without her.”
Young Lee says, “She’s gone.” Billy insists that he doesn’t know that.
Billy explains, “If the returns from the seismic chargers accurately reflects voids beneath the surface, she could have found a space to shelter in.” Young Lee asks Billy to stop. Billy says, “I couldn’t hold on, Lee. I tried to, but…I let her go.”
Young Lee has his own edge on guilt. “You didn’t listen to me. I told her not to go.”
Back with Tim and May, they get contact from Cate. She has escaped and found a radio transmitter. She tells them Kentaro is working with Isabel and that they are at an old Monarch base that Titan X, Krakilla, is being lured to.
Now Old Lee and Keiko stumble on to what looks like the old elephant burial ground trope: a Bone Graveyard. Something bad happened and it must involve bullets and Billy. Keiko finds Old Bill’s camera.
In the 2017 film, “Kong: Skull Island,” Bill Randa (John Goodman) is eaten alive by a Skullcrawler in what he calls the Valley of the Fallen Gods. The flash of his camera malfunctions and attracts the creature and the flash continues to fire from instead the creature’s stomach.
After Keiko finds the camera, we flash back to a bearded Billy Randa who is a professor and using a chalkboard. Dressed up in a plaid blazer, red vest, white shirt and striped tie, he’s a professor talking to students about points of energy that he calls “rifts” and these are “cross-circuited quantum entanglements” in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1968. “I believe are somehow connected allowing the creatures that exist here to traverse.” A student suggests Bigfoot. Why not Bigfoot.
A stranger enters and we can’t see who it is, but Bill knows. He dismisses his class and chases after him. It’s a younger version of Suzuki. Suzuki says, “Ive made you dozens. Have you retrieved any of them?”
Billy wants to keep trying, but Suzuki insists, “It’s time to admit that the data does not support your theory.”
“You can’t prove something doesn’t exist. We’re only limited by our imagination,” Billy says.
Suzuki asks him to stop. “Perhaps we both should have imagined less. Maybe then Keiko and Lee would still be with us.” Billy, who is still wearing his wedding band, insists on taking the probe.
Suzuki tells Billy, “Go home to your son.”
Billy replies, “I can’t, yet.”
“Don’t ignore the family you have, chasing the one that you lost,” Suzuki advises.
Back to Skull Island and Old Lee and Keiko, they find the spot and Old Lee spots the probes. They know it is Suzuki’s work because of something they saw at his house. They find one from 1966 (Madagascar) and 1971 (New Guinea) and 1968 (Loch Ness and 1972 (Kazakhstan). When they open the probes, they find the same letter.
Keiko,
I didn’t have the words when it mattered, but I hope you hear them now. That you could possibly be in love with me lies beyond all logic. I vow to love you in this world and any other. No matter where this love takes us, I’ll follow you to the ends of the earth and beyond.
Keiko hears his voice as she reads the letter and says, “You found me, Billy. He was looking for me the whole time. That’s why he came her to find a rift, to find me. And he never gave up on me.”
Back with Isabel, her team is watching as Krakilla is waking up. They initiate the implant which makes Krakilla go crazy and also attracts Kong.
Keiko and Old Lee hear Kong.
Cate finds the egg, but Kentaro finds her. Cate asks Kentaro to help put things right by returning the egg to Krakilla. Kentaro tells her he doesn’t care of Kong dies or if Krakilla dies. He wants his father back.
“Dad, he doesn’t have to die. We can save him.”
Creatures Featured
Episode 209:
- Krakilla or Titan X – original to Monarch
- Godzilla
- Titan X Egg – original to Monarch
- Vinestrangler – inspired by unused Skull Island: The Birth of Kong comic art
- Kong