Jul 1, 2026 · 43 min · 12 segments
!https://sqpn.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/STV015-post-150x150.pngNo character is safe in \*Monarch* S2E5 "Furusato." A character's death reshapes the Randa family. Dom Bettinelli and Jeff…
So the episode opens in Tokyo, 1990. with Hiroshi calling a young Kate back in San Francisco from a hospital waiting room, singing her the Japanese lullaby for Asato to help her fall asleep.
The flashback reveals Hiroshi is there because Kentaro is being born, a neat encapsulation of the divided family life that haunts him in the present.
In the present, Hiroshi is reeling from learning that his father Bill left after discovering Keiko's letter to Lee, a betrayal that upends his understanding of his own childhood.
Now, Apex, led by Brenda, arrives at Santa Soledad ahead of everyone else accompanied by May and sets up a plan to fire a neural control implant into Titan X via drone.
What could possibly go wrong? The random group sneaks through the apex camp, discovers monarchs abandoned outpost 27 and finds a childhood drawing left behind by Hiroshi, left behind decades earlier by Bill.
Tim aboard Outpost 18 refuses Apex's misdirection and confirms that Titan X is heading directly for Santa Soledad.
And so Titan X arrives at the island while the scarabs once again burst from the ground like cicadas on a 15 year cycle, I guess, and stampede toward the shore.
Lee is injured in the Scarab Stampede and fails to sabotage the Apex drone before it fires the neural implant into Titan X.
The implant causes Titan X immense pain, pain that Kate feels, too, through their mysterious link, and fails to control the creature, which destroys Apex's camp while the Scarabs sever the tentacle holding the device.
Hiroshi mortally wounded while trying to reach Kate dies in her arms and Keiko's as the three of them sing for Sato together.
So the episode opens in Tokyo, 1990. with Hiroshi calling a young Kate back in San Francisco from a hospital waiting room, singing her the Japanese lullaby for Asato to help her fall asleep.
The flashback reveals Hiroshi is there because Kentaro is being born, a neat encapsulation of the divided family life that haunts him in the present.
In the present, Hiroshi is reeling from learning that his father Bill left after discovering Keiko's letter to Lee, a betrayal that upends his understanding of his own childhood.
Now, Apex, led by Brenda, arrives at Santa Soledad ahead of everyone else accompanied by May and sets up a plan to fire a neural control implant into Titan X via drone.
What could possibly go wrong? The random group sneaks through the apex camp, discovers monarchs abandoned outpost 27 and finds a childhood drawing left behind by Hiroshi, left behind decades earlier by Bill.
Tim aboard Outpost 18 refuses Apex's misdirection and confirms that Titan X is heading directly for Santa Soledad.
And so Titan X arrives at the island while the scarabs once again burst from the ground like cicadas on a 15 year cycle, I guess, and stampede toward the shore.
Lee is injured in the Scarab Stampede and fails to sabotage the Apex drone before it fires the neural implant into Titan X.
The implant causes Titan X immense pain, pain that Kate feels, too, through their mysterious link, and fails to control the creature, which destroys Apex's camp while the Scarabs sever the tentacle holding the device.
Hiroshi mortally wounded while trying to reach Kate dies in her arms and Keiko's as the three of them sing for Sato together.
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