Welcome back! See what an optimist I am? I'm approaching this recaplet as if the handful of you who were still watching before the break have not only returned, but also still care enough to read about the show. Oh dear, I've already gotten pessimistic peanut butter on my optimistic chocolate -- probably because I've seen the episode.

Actually, "The Citadel" is entertaining enough. Nameless Tomorrow People stage a rebellion at the lair, and decide they want Cara as their new leader. Are we all quite clear now that they're part of a suicide cult? See, while John is able to kill them, Cara has been getting them killed on the regular for ten episodes, now. Sister knows how to get the job done.

The voting scene is perhaps the most amusing thing I've seen in ten episodes of the show, for all values of amusing, which equal ridiculous. Cara and John stand behind a table. At its center is a group of lit candles. Each of the voting members (Stephen is disenfranchised because he isn't a lair liver) takes a turn standing before the table, tele-talks (TT) his vote and then TKs a lit candle from the center group, until it is in front of his chosen candidate. What even is that? Why could they not just have a show of hands? With the stepping forward and the TTing, it's not like the candles serve as a secret ballot.

Stephen -- fresh off his death and trip to Limbo -- wants to find his father's body, and a guy named Simon Plame (because Limbo Roger told him to). When Stephen informs the SUPES, John supports him. Cara doesn't. Then they get word that a SUPE has escaped from Ultra's prison/experimentation center. His name is Errol, but I can't call him that, because he's played by Supernatural's Ty Olsson, so he's Benny to me. I know it can be annoying when recappers insist on doing that, but dears, please let me have some fun.

Benny is soon caught by Stephen and his latest Ultra partner, but then John and Cara ambush them (Stephen is in on it) and rescue Benny. To make it look good, John shoots Stephen in the shoulder. Later, Cara convinces her new followers that they have to break into the Citadel and rescue the other inmates/lab rats. John says it's too risky, so Cara orders him to stay behind and monitor the situation with TIM. Of course, in the end, John has to teleport into the Citadel to save Cara's life. Too bad, he didn't get there in time to save Benny.

Meanwhile, Mama Marla has a new boyfriend. His name is Peter. Peter seems to be a very powerful SUPE (much like Benny). Between Stephen's insistence on finding Simon Plame and this guy being named Peter, I keep going to a biblical place, and wondering if we're really only talking about one guy with two names. Peter doesn't look anything like Ultra's pictures of Simon Plame, but as John points out even Jedikiah's lies have lies, so I'm sticking with this speculation for as long as it suits my fancy.

I'll be back tomorrow with the full weecap. In the meantime, please grade the episode at the top of the page, and then come on over to the show thread where we we're staging a recall election, right after I run out to Yankee Candle.