Season finale. Kong and Titan X face off in a colossal clash that threatens to reshape Skull Island. Shaw embarks on a dangerous journey.

Back in Skull Island, Old Lee is trying to contact Tim. Keiko is thinking. “I actually believed that Billy abandoned Hiroshi.” On all these adventures, do we really see Keiko and Hiroshi? “But he was just trying to put our family back together.”

Old Lee says, “Well, that’s because of who he was.” Now aren’t you wondering if Old Bill Randa is really dead. “And he also may have solved our problems for us. His crazy anthill theory was right all along.” In the last episode, Old Lee called it “Grand Central Station” and Keiko echoes that remark. Their problem now is how to get Krakilla or Titan X Grand Central Station Rift.

The ground starts rumbling, but it’s not Kong. It’s those rolling giant caterpillars, Stampeded Caterpillars. Let’s call them Caterpillarillas. After seeking shelter in a wrecked helicopter, Old Lee determines that these creatures are rolling away from something.

Now we’re back to Kong briefly before the credits roll.

Back at the Old Monarch station, Kentaro has found Cate in the containment vault where the egg is.

Cate asks Kentaro is Isabel promised him that “you can magically go back in time and stop Dad from getting killed?…She’s using you. She just wants to go there to make a profit.”

Kentaro explains this is about what he wants. “And if it meant saving Dad, I thought you’d understand, too.”

“I wish Dad was still alive, too, that I’d done something differently. But you can’t change the past,” Cate responds.

Two guards take Cate away and throw her in an old supply closet.

Isabel wants them to hold steady and not take things to the level that Brenda did. “Don’t exceed where Brenda took it. We need to keep everything stable until Kong shows up.”

Back with Old Lee and Keiko, they see a helicopter that Old Lee identifies as an old Chinook, flying and emitting the sounds. Although they can’t identify the call, they know it will attract Kong. From the bearings off of the Titan tracker, Old Lee realizes it is heading toward Krakilla/Titan X.

Elsewhere, May wonders how Kentaro and Cate are. In a couple of clicks, they’ll be at the abandoned Monarch station. One of the guards asks why Monarch abandoned it. According to Tim, in the 1990s there was an incident involved some Skullcrawler that were attracted to the smell of sunscreen. They hear vehicles coming. A guard asks if Monarch has other personnel on the island. That’s a negative. Instead, they see two jeeps with five twenty-somethings between them. They are rushing back to the base, worried that Kong will stomp on them.

May has an idea. She runs in front of them, pretending to be distressed. They stop and they are forced off of the vehicles. What we know is that one of them is “a geology PhD with a hundred grand in student debt.”  But he says, “Isabel’s not paying me enough to take bullets for her.” They take both jeeps with Tim leading the way.

Back to Old Lee and Keiko, Old Lee tries to contact the rest of the ground team. Old Lee decides it’s time to talk about Cate. “There’s a lot of you in Cate….Known each other for two weeks and you want to charge down the beach toward the Titan. You’re like peas in a pod. I know you’re not suicidal so I have to ask: Did I miss something important?”

Keiko explains that while at Suzuki’s place Cate convinced Keiko that she has a connection with Titan X. “Titan X emits an ultra-long wavelength vocalization, and water acts as a conductor. like whales can communicate over vast distances.” Old Lee understands that it is like sonar. “Cate can hear it. She’s sensitive to it in a way that you and I aren’t, and I don’t know how or why, but I was able to make a recording using Dr. Suzuki’s equipment., of what it actually sounds like to Cate.”

Old Lee perks up when he learns Keiko has the recording. Keiko explains, “Its the first indication that the Titans have a language, that they can communicate.”  Now, Keiko wants to know how the tracker got on Titan X.

So Old Lee explains, “When Suzuki and I were trying to locate Godzilla with his new device, he inadvertently, kind of created this, like, quantum telephone. And it connected me to myself in the past when I was in Axis Mundi.”

We get a brief flashback of Young Lee in Axis Mundi, Keiko thinks a bit and realizes that she and Young Lee were in Axis Mundi at the same time. Now she wants to know if he saw her. He admits he did. Keiko says, “I was waiting for you.” Not she was waiting for Billy. “Why didn’t you come to me? Why? We could have found a way out together.”

“Kei, the only way I kew for sure that you’d survive and get back safely was if I just let things happen the way they already had,” Old Lee explains.

Keiko becomes angry, saying, “It was my choice to make. It was my life, it was my future, and you decided it for me.”

Old Lee asks, “What would you have done?”

Keiko responds, “You had no right. You had no right! All of this time. You don’t know what could have been. I could have been there for Hiroshi. I could have had years with him. He could still be alive.”

Old Lee is saddened, but responds, “A lot of ‘could ofs.'”  He turns away. What about h is life?

At the old Monarch outpost, the techs find that Krakilla is resisting. In five minutes and 26 seconds, Kong will meet Krakilla.

On the way to the abandoned Monarch post, May is trying to keep in contact with Keiko and Old Lee. The connection has dropped. Tim is driving and almost runs into the two. Keiko joins them, after May explains that Cate and Kentaro are with them and Tim explains about Krakilla/Titan X is already under their control.

Old Lee separates, taking Keiko’s recording and driving away in one of the jeeps.

Cate finds a paper clip to unscrew a screen to the heating and cooling system. But she then uses her science knowledge and uses steel wool and an old battery plus some kind of fluid to make a fire. She gets into the air ducts which lead to a tunnel. From there she is able to emerge from a man hole next to Krakilla. She accidentally shuts the manhole and can’t get back in.

At about that time, Tim’s Jeep with Keiko and May arrive at the other side of Krakilla. They notice the arrival of Kong. Kong challenges Krakilla.

Tim assessed the situation. The base is built into the cliffside and Cate and Kentaro is safe. May wonders if they themselves are safe, when one of the Monarch military guys spots a person through his binoculars. May grabs the binoculars and realizes it is Cate. Keiko decides to help Cate, using one of the jeeps.

May says, “If we get to that base, I can shut down the synaptic link.”

As Kong and Krakilla star fighting, Cate runs, trying to stay out of the dust and crush. She’s fallen.

Kentaro is watching and Isabel tells him they can’t get anything done on this island if Kong is alive. Isabel says, “He’s standing between a mother and her child, so I know who I’m betting on.”  Then she wants to know, “How much further can you push it and stay within the limit?”  The tech warns they are almost at the point where Brenda overloaded the system at Santa Soledad. They give another 5 percent.

An enraged Krakilla fights Kong.

Tim uses his a card from the geology PhD to get into the base. That triggers the perimeter sensor. Isabel sees them enter from a closed circuit camera and worries that they’ll assume that this is Apex. She knows her father isn’t going “to take the blame for us.” Instead, “he’s gonna throw you and me under the bus. You don’t know him.”

Kentaro is clear on this: We’re not going around the world looking for another rift. This is it. This is the place.” Then Kentaro amps things up.

Tim tackles one of the grad students that spies them in the hallway. He explains he was the backup punter on his high school football team. May, Tim and one of the military guys take the elevator. The other Monarch guy is sent to look for Kentaro.

Cate wakes up and sees Kong and Krakilla fighting. She gets up as Keiko speeds toward her in  the jeep.

Tim gets up to the command center and demands they step away from the counsoles and, “I need you to shut down the synaptic link to that Titan immediately.” The tech guy asks, “You want us to step away from the consoles, or shut down the link?” Tim tells this Ding Dong to get up and May asks where is Kentaro and Isabel.

The camera cuts to them striding down a corridor. The other guy finds them and correctly identifies Kentaro. Isabel pretends to be glad to see them, but quickly disables him.

At the control center, May is distressed. “It’s happening again….It’s locked in a feedback loop, and it’s overloading the system.”

Tim wants May to just turn it off, but the tech explains, “The Titan’s synaptic link is jammed at the max capacity. It won’t go back down.”  Now May understands that Isabel wasn’t trying to control Krakilla. She wanted to enrage it. May says, they need to unplug the Titan. How?

Keiko is dodging Titan appendages as they tries to save Cat and the Titans fight above her. Keiko gets Cate, but unfortunately, Kong crushes the jeep. Cate and Keiko run to the Monarch base. Tim and May get the door to the containment vault open. Krakilla follows them and take her egg back. Kong seems to understand.

May explains that Krakilla “unplugged” herself.

Yet Keiko realizes that Krakilla is going the wrong way. Just then, there’s a Chinook hovering above them. Old Lee lands it and Tim, Keiko and May run toward it, but Cate goes back to find Kentaro.

She finds Kentaro boarding a helicopter with Isabel. While Cate reminds him that they saw their father die, Kentaro responds, they saw a version of him die. He wants to find a version that might still be alive. He invites her to come with them. Kentaro reminds her that saving her was considered impossible and yet they did it. So Kentaro departs with Isabel. Cate rejoins Old Lee and the rest because they haven’t taken off yet.

They spot Krakilla and play the tape, cranking up as loud as possible. She seems to hear it and begins to follow them, but the amps are blown. Cate is strapped in and hanging out to help communicate with Krakilla. By dipping in one of its larger tentacles in the pool of water, Krakilla opens up the rift. After Krakilla has disappeared into the rift, giving a goodbye  tentacle touch to Cate, something else emerges briefly: Young Lee. Keiko looks at Young Lee, not quite comprehending and not hearing what he’s saying. Old Lee explains, he’s saying goodbye.

Old Lee and Young Lee consider each other as Keiko walks away to embrace Cate. Old Lee and Young Lee salute each other as Young Lee fades back into the rift.

Back at Monarch, six weeks later, a Monarch symbol is set into the wall for Hiroshi. Cate wonders how he would feel because “Dad and Monarch didn’t part on the best terms.” We see on the wall that the symbols are “in honor of those who lived by our mission” which is “Discover & Defend.”  There’s one on the wall for Keiko. It was the first. At one point, the director was going to take it down and give it to her, “but the powers that be thought that you returning from the dead was it were would raise too many questions.”

The director then takes Keiko and Cate to show them something and we learn that Old Lee has “gone dark.” Keiko reminds him that Monarch “locked him away for years.” Cate wonders if she and Keiko will be enrolled in Asset Management, but there’s a surprise. Monarch 2.0 is beginning in the basement. Tim and May are already there.

Elsewhere, Old Lee is somewhere in Asia (Thailand?). He gives up his gun and gives a sizable wad of money to A-Wut.  He learns that Kentaro and Isabel have already been there. And that Kentaro and Isabel are willing to risk burning down the world to get what they want and another Titan is key to that. They want to play God and the head man, A-Wut,  says, “No man should play God.”

Old Lee knows “That hasn’t stopped a lot of them from trying though, has it?”

The man and his men lead Old Lee through a jungle and then refuses to go farther. A-Wut shows scars on his arms.

Proceeding by himself toward smoke in the mountains, Old Lee comes upon an active volcano and a new Titan: Rodan.

Creatures Featured:

Episode 210:

• Leafwing flock
• Stampede Caterpillar – original to Monarch
• Kong
• Titan X – original to Monarch
• Titan X Egg – original to Monarch
• Endopede – original to Monarch
• Rodan