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A Better Yesterday: Season 2, Episode 5
1 of 20WARNING: If you don't want to know what happened in this episode, don't read this photo recap!
In an inverted retelling of the Oedipus myth, Seg breaks out of the brain-scrambling chamber, confronts Zod, beats him around a bit with the butt of his gun, and gets him to the ground.
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6 of 20Jax is still miffed that Val pulled the plug on her whole blow-up-everyone-with-a-codex-bomb plot. But he tells her that if he can get Seg to talk to Lyta, maybe she'll come to her senses, and then expose Zod for what he really is: a terrible person.
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8 of 20Lyta makes an offer to the rebels: unconditional surrender, and they won't all be eliminated wholesale. Val is surprised when he learns that Seg already contacted Lyta, and that his charms couldn't penetrate her brainwashed noggin. That's all he's got. But Jax has another plan.
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10 of 20Jax transmits a hologram to Zod of her holding Lyta hostage. When Seg sees this, he loses his wits, giving Zod the opportunity to take the gun and turn it on him. Jax gives Zod one hour to make a decision: either he recalls his troops from Wegthor, or Lyta dies.
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20 of 20In a turn of events, Jax finds out that rather than retreating, Zod amassed his forces in an underground mine and sent disguised rebels up into the freight elevator as a decoy. That's the last straw, and she slits Lyta's throat on camera for all of Kandor to see.