Oh, now you give us a cold open: The watch cap-wearing Jason A, whom we have all agreed to refer to henceforth as Jason A-2, has found his way to the Dessen home and taken Jason B hostage. Which was presumably not difficult to do after Daniela, having at last discovered that the man sleeping in her bed for the past month was an impostor, bonked Jason B on the head and shoved him down the basement stairs. As Dark Matter ’s finale opens in media res , Jason A-2 is violently interrogating Jason B to find out where not-his-family has fled.
When he finally accepts that Jason B has nothing of value to tell him, A-2 just starts whaling on him with a baton. It’s cathartic, if nothing else. After the title sequence, we’re in the car with the Dessens — that is, with Daniela, Charlie, and the Chosen One among the various Jasons A who was the first to reunite with his family by being clever enough to get himself arrested and then calling Daniela to bail him out.
Daniela and Charlie’s phones are blowing up with texts from the many, many other Jasons A who’ve found their way back to the Chicago from which they all originate. Jason A is at a loss as to how to elude his other selves. He and his family can’t use credit cards without giving away their location; no one takes cash, and any place he could think to lay low would also occur to his innumerable carbon-based copies.
Fortunately, Charlie knows about a mansion belonging to the parents of a friend of his that he’s never m.
