The Clock Of The Time Locust

By Jacob Clifton

Hank has a nightmare on the plane back to the magazine that involves a mysterious "he" and a bunch of cruddy locusts, while in real time Jacinda repairs a clock that leads White Vincent to a new location. After she leaves several clues -- each explained with barfy romantic scenarios that don't pass the sniff test -- Hank and Beck catch up to them in Princeton, NJ.

Okay like, this is a clue: Jacinda points to her tongue on a CCTV camera, which reminds Hank about how he used to leave gum under tables, so they look under some tables, which leads them to a nonstandard phone number that Hank's dad (because his parents show up to act sketchy and for no other reason) happens to know leads to a dead phone in Einstein's old office. So of course, they figure Einstein is probably an Apostle. But if so, where is his clock? If you were thinking the most obvious answer is, "HIS MIND," then you are probably a character on this show. Their first hypothesis is that he put the clock in his mind.

After some very unnecessary codebreaking and chalkboard-sciencing, the clock is discovered under a big monument in the center of town where Einstein used to have picnics. Inside the clock is the piece of paper he wrote his dying thoughts on, previously lost to the ages. So what happened was, Einstein realized he was going to die, so he buried this clock and then on his deathbed he wrote this note about the clock, and then -- whilst in the midst of dying -- he dug it back up, slapped that bitch on in there, and had at it.

The note is like, "Sorry I made up the atom bomb, but if you're finding this clock, I guess we also figured out a way to nuke God. So, my bad. Times two."

Meanwhile, Goose is led by another cute romance trap into a private meeting with White Vincent, who mostly acts bonkers. It seems he expected Goose to also have fake irises covering up his Nazi eyeballs and keeps calling him "brother" as not a metaphor, but in fact, he is neither Vincent's brother nor a Nazi Apocalypse baby clock, but merely the secret clone of a Nazi saint.

Among people revealed to be part of the vast conspiracy with these clocks are: Goose's parents, who may be Nazis; FBI Lady's husband, who was the target of that plane blowing up and not just collateral damage; Jacinda, who met Goose at the unveiling of a famous locust clock years ago, because why would you think it wouldn't be clock-related like every other goddamn thing that has ever happened; and most likely, a new whiz-kid FBI chick who is every bit as personality-free as the other two.

Ken Leung shows up at a priest poker game to tell Charles S. Dutton that the Rosicrucians that are trying to kill Hank are called the Shepherds and that the Nazi guys White Vincent is apparently reporting to are known as the Great Pirates. They are run by Amy Irving, who has locusts as pets and also a creepy little boy who writes in backwards cuneiform whenever White Vincent reports to her about how many clocks.

week: As the apocalyptic signs accumulate, Hank must ask himself who is this Jacinda really and why is she so all about clocks? And why is he having psychic locust dreams? Are his parents as boring as they and everyone else on this show, seems to be? Why is everything about him? What is up with FBI Lady's insufferable husband, is he alive? Is he a Nazi? If you can have a Hindu lady-Apostle, you could probably have a black Nazi no problem. Or wait… is he a clock? week: FBI Lady's husband is revealed to be a locust with tattoos in various languages that lives in a clock. As in the tales of mythology.

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