WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy Season 2, streaming now on Netflix.
In The Umbrella Academy Season 2, Five goes out of his way to save the Hargreeves siblings and prevent two apocalypses, in 1963 and 2019. This time he's not as obstinate and actually comes off as a team player, although he admittedly has moments where he loses his cool as his family just can't get on the same wavelength.
However, his tireless journey does have some high points as he performs his biggest kill yet. What makes it even sweeter is the slaughter is actually his most important one ever as it fixes the sinister Time Commission and gives his crew a sense of reassurance.
Five has had problems with the Commission since he joined up and became an assassin for decades. He grew old making important hits, especially political ones, which is why the Handler is obsessed with his talents. It's also why the likes of Hazel and Cha-Cha admire him so much, which brings us to the older Five, who is here to kill JFK.
But young Five doesn't want that to happen as he knows saving JFK could stop a nuclear war with the Soviets in '63 and save the world from Vanya from 56 years later. It's why he keeps running different scenarios to get home, eventually brokering another deal with the Handler. She reveals she'll give Five's family a suitcase to head home as his temporal jumps are unstable, but in exchange, he has to murder the board of directors at the Commission for demoting her following her failures.
A.J. Carmichael took over her job but she opted to then work a secret plan with her adoptive daughter, Lila. Five realizes she wants power back but as long as she fulfills her vow and keeps his family safe, he's in. So, Five arrives at a retreat in Wisconsin and takes an ax to the board. While fans don't see him actually butchering people, the way he's jumping in and out portals and killing the crew actually adds to the escapist feel of the series. The icing on the cake comes when he smashes Carmichael's head and brings the fish back to the Handler.
However, while she keeps Carmichael prisoner, gloating and then hijacking the Commission, she's placed Five in a bind, setting up the siblings like a chess game. They don't make it to the rendezvous point on time and Five throws the briefcase away because he can't leave without them. It does seem like a defeat but in time, he turns the Handler's plans against her. She wants Lila to hunt the siblings down and then enact a massacre that'll give her access to Harlan (a kid Vanya imbued with her godlike powers). However, Five eventually reverses time which leads to the Handler dying at the hands of the Swedish leader once and for all. And with Lila disappearing, it seems the Commission has been scrubbed of the baggage.
Now, the coast is clear, allowing Herb and Dot to officially take over the Commission. They don't even have to do a purge using Human Resources because the Handler summoned all the violent agents to the farm in the finale, only for Vanya and Co. to kill them. In other words, Five's decommissioning of the selfish and cruel board knocked over many dominoes and freed him from the constraints of the job. Not to mention it inadvertently put the Handler on the chopping block and paved the way for Herb's takeover. As a reward, Herb lets the siblings pick one of the thousands of briefcases to head home, meaning the conflict is over. The Umbrella Academy finally has a good relationship with the Commission, giving Five peace, at least for now.
Streaming now on Netflix, The Umbrella Academy Season 2 stars Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher and Justin H. Min, with Ritu Arya, Yusuf Gatewood, Marin Ireland, Jordan Claire Robbins, Kate Walsh and Colm Feore.
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