Season 2 Ep 1: And Then She Will Come To You
Since we last
saw the Johnson clan things haven’t exactly gone swimmingly with the Quest to
find the Goddess Frigg.His marriage
having fallen apart, Mike has taken over Gaia’s old room at Axl and Zeb’s
place, but rather than turn his hunting powers to the search he seems way more
intent on making up for lost time in terms of loose, hedonistic behaviour.Ty, meanwhile, is way too preoccupied with
his distinctly dysfunctional and messed up marriage to Eva. And Anders, for his
part, is being all weird and elusive, culminating in his departure for Norway,
on some kind of top secret business mission.At least Axl has the trusty Zeb to aid him – even if, between them, they
have absolutely no idea how to proceed.
See photos from this episode here.
At least, after being
harangued by Axl, Mike does give the Quest a shot, but his God-like hunting
powers lead them only to a bar, where all they find is Olaf and Ingrid, just
returned from Bali.Thus it is that the
clan is restored to (almost) full strength as it heads off to the house-warming
party for the new abode Colin has most graciously bestowed on the newly-weds,
Ty and Eva.
It is at this
very affair that four things of note occur. First, Colin offers to help Axl in
the Frigg quest – and is offended when Axl can’t help but laugh at the
absurdity of the idea of the Johnsons working hand-in-hand with Loki. Second,
Agnetha brings Ty a present, purchased by Dawn – which Eva later smashes upon
the discovery that, third, Colin has hooked up with Michele. And fourth, and of
far more immediate significance, is that the party is where Agnetha chooses to
reveal to the rest of the family that she is, in fact, the latest incarnation
of Elisabet, the mother who turned herself into a tree.
To convince
Mike, her eldest son, that she is telling the truth, Agnetha tells the story of
her missing years – leaving him on his 21st to look after the
family; then taking the body of a newly-murdered woman to return to mortal
form.The reason she’s doing this now is
that she is proposing they forget all about the Quest and live, as a family,
under her aegis as Freyja, Goddess of Prosperity.Needless to say the Johnson boys (well, the
ones who aren’t Anders) have some major problems with this idea - to Axl,
Agnetha is much less his Mum and much more the woman who ordered him killed on
his 21st.
Out of Agnetha’s
‘offer’, however, Mike becomes fired up about the Quest and leads Axl and Olaf
on a hunt through the city, which leads them...back to the bar they ended up at
last time he took Axl hunting.But as
Axl starts to give Mike a bollocking a shambling, drunken figure emerges from
the toilets.This, it turns out, is
Kvasir, the wisest of all the Gods – and enemy of Olaf.After giving chase, and cornering Kvasir, Axl
is given the opportunity to ask Kvasir (who must answer any question a God puts
him) how to find Frigg.Kvasir’s cryptic
answer is that Axl needs to turn himself into a man, and then she will come to
him.
And so, in this
way Axl’s Quest is reconfigured: to become the God, he must first become the
Man.Yep, Axl reckons he can work with
this.
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