"Requiem" is the sixth episode of the second season of the MonsterVerse series, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
Synopsis
Shaw and Suzuki test a "Titan phone" designed to summon Godzilla, triggering an unforeseen event that puts Shaw in the path of his own past.
Plot
2017
In 2017, just before the rescue from Axis Mundi, Kentaro and Hiroshi are living at the Apex station on Skull Island. Hiroshi reveals to Kentaro that when he went to Alaska in 2014, he accidentally traveled through a tunnel to Axis Mundi, and after only one or two days there, he emerged in Africa in 2015.
Hiroshi's funeral is held, with Keiko, Cate, Kentaro, Emiko, and Shaw attending. Kentaro lashes out at Cate for causing Hiroshi's death, while Kosaku Suzuki also attends the funeral and reunites with Shaw and Keiko. Cate, Keiko and Shaw travel to Suzuki's home in Japan, where he explains that Hiroshi helped him rebuild his Titan lure, which had been confiscated after Operation Hourglass's failure. Shaw develops a plan to summon Godzilla using Suzuki's lure, hoping that he can defeat Titan X, while Keiko suspects that Cate is connected to Titan X. May visits Kentaro in Tokyo to reconcile, but he rebuffs her. He meets Isabel Simmons, one of Walter Simmons' daughters, who offers him a job with Apex. After having a nightmare of an attack in Tokyo, Kentaro accepts her offer. Keiko and Cate confirm that Cate is linked to Titan X, and theorize that it may be lost and confused as a result of Apex's neural attack. Shaw and Suzuki test Suzuki's lure at the entrance to the Hollow Earth tunnel Shaw emerged from in 1982. The tunnel briefly opens, and Shaw picks up a distress signal he had sent during his time trapped in Axis Mundi.
1958
Monarch has received additional funding due to Keiko's photographs of Titan X, but Shaw decides to request a transfer due to guilt over his lingering feelings for Keiko. He later reunites with his abrasive father, Col. Leland Shaw II, who interferes with Shaw's transfer in an attempt to get him a higher-level position, but Shaw rejects him and chooses to return to Monarch.
Cast
Starring
- Anna Sawai as Cate Randa
- Kiersey Clemons as May Olowe-Hewitt
- Ren Watabe as Kentaro Randa
- Mari Yamamoto as Keiko Randa
- Anders Holm as Bill Randa
- Wyatt Russell as past Lee Shaw
- Kurt Russell as present-day Lee Shaw
Guest Starring
- Amber Midthunder as Isabel Simmons
- Leo Ashizawa as Kosaku Suzuki
- Qyoko Kudo as Emiko Randa
- Bill Sage as Colonel Leland Lafayette Shaw II
- Takehiro Hira as Hiroshi Randa
Co-Starring
- Teruya Kaji as Buddhist monk
- Emi Yamazaki as Sota's hostess
- Mako Sato as Sota's bartender
- Reagan Mannix as Private Moore
- Lauren Harvey as Alice
- James McGrady as Newscaster
- Sofia Ely as Monarch Researcher 1
- Tahira Appadoo as Monarch Researcher 2
Appearances
Monsters
- Co-Cai (dream)
- Sea Scarab (photograph)
- Godzilla (dream)
- Kong (flashback)
- Needlewalker (flashback)
Organizations
- Monarch (flashbacks)
Vehicles
- Suzuki Device
- HMMWV (flashback)
- Operation Hourglass pod (mentioned indirectly)
Gallery
Trivia
- The fenced off area bares a slight resemblance to the ones from Jurassic Park franchise.