Cloak & Dagger: Season 2 Finale

Hand in Hand at the End


Well, the moment has arrived. Ty and Tandy must face more than just a unique formidable foe in Andre but they must also battle their own personal demons. We’ve reached the end of Season 2 of Cloak & Dagger and as we reflect on the season as a whole, you could sense that the entire episode was more about interpersonal battles and dynamics. This past season was also more about the growing bond that was developing between Tandy and Tyrone. It was done in a more stealthy manner punctuated by certain dialogue between our two main characters. Whatever personal demons that they faced, they never lost focus on the fact that it was and is about them being and becoming more than just the divine pairing. They themselves may not be fully aware of what they are becoming.

Right now, it is about defeating a foe who exist on a whole different plain of reality and what they could do to retrieve the souls that he has captured. With Evita’s assistance, Tandy and Tyrone enter into his dark cloud and into the existential world of Andre. His body was killed in the previous episode but his spirit now resides in this dark world where he has mastered the role of soul stealing. Aided by his instrument, Andre wales on his trumpet that enables him to gather souls up with relative ease. He no longer needs to be in close proximity to them as evidence when he took Mina Hess out of her lab when she was examining Bridget/Mayhem and when he took the cop and the bank robber.

Unlike other opponents Ty and Tandy have faced in the past where brute force and weapons were the choices of combat form, Andre was psychological. He got into your head. When he confronts Ty and Tandy, he sends them off to battle their own personal demons. With Tandy, she is confronted with the one person that she loved and looked up to, her father. Her whole world was shattered by the truth that he was an abusive husband. How does she confront this as we see the reducing of the admiration of a man in the eyes of his daughter? She must find the strength to remove this man from the pedestal she had placed him on as a child and held him there even after when the truth was discovered while looking into the subconscious of her mother.

Tyrone must face himself in his own reflection. Tyrone’s worst enemy is himself as he had placed everything on his shoulders in trying to live up to unrealistic expectations. He’s dealing with survivor’s guilt. He’s still with being a perfect son. He’s dealing with being a perfect student. His own world is suffocating him to the point of a mental collapse. He’s on the losing in as he fights himself.

But it is this bond between Tyrone and Tandy that becomes more and more evident for us as the viewer but perhaps not so obvious for them. They come back to each other after hearing one another but Andre is also there as he brings back their personal demons. But Tyrone figures out that they must face the other one’s personal demon in order to conquer them.

In the meantime, Evita is guarding the candle and is trying to keep it lit as this is the gateway key for Tandy and Tyrone. Bridget/Mayhem is with her as she battles Andre’s helmeted minions who are battling to put out the candle that will trap Tandy and Tyrone. One of the minions battling Bridget/Mayhem is her murdered boyfriend cop. Even on the earthy plain, Andre is tapped into everyone’s subconscious.

Back in the underworld, Tyrone tells Tandy that she carries the hope in her light. Tandy, at one point, seems to falter some but it is Tyrone that helps her get through to build back her confidence. Tandy defeats Tyrone’s alter ego and Tyrone defeats Tandy’s father. With their new found self-assurance and confidence, the confront Andre one final time. Andre’s power resided in him playing his trumpet. Tyrone gains control over in and he and Tandy both touch Andre and enters his world. There they discover Andre’s demon. They find his life-album and Tandy plays it. She takes her dagger and scratches it causing it to skip in perpetuity and locking Andre’s state on consciousness in his own prison.

Tandy and Tyrone leave the underworld as victors. Evita blows out the candle and does not say a word. She gathered her things and quietly walks away as Tyrone just watch as she walks away. Somewhere in Evita’s realm, she knows that she and Tyrone were never meant to be and that the divine pairing holds more adventures as a couple in more ways than one. Watching this unfold in silence spoke volumes on its own.

We see Tyrone’s mom, Adina, at home with her husband as they watch the news. The report she gave to the father has been released and the people involved in the cover-up of her son’s murder and the framing of Tyrone for murder is out. Tyrone looks through a window seeing his parents are back together. The falling cop, Connors, is hanging by a rope inside the police station very bloody.

Tandy is at home packing her things. She is on a bus heading away from her hometown. Tyrone pops in and claims for an aisle seat. Tandy moves over and he sits next to her. For their own reasons, they’ve decided to move off from New Orleans. We have no idea where they are heading. We do see, however, their bond being more solidified. Tyrone holds out his hand and Tandy laces her fingers between his. Not combustible effects are seen unlike the first season when they tried to touch. This time, there is reciprocation as they close the curtain on another season. Can we wait a full year for the Season 3?