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Dark Matter Recap: Jason vs. Jason vs. Jason vs. Jason

There are too many Jasons to keep track of.

The franchise that made them immortal began the custom by having 007 himself appear to be killed by Robert Shaw before the title sequence of From Russia With Love, kicking off a tradition of attention-grabbing pre-title set pieces that would remain a hallmark of the series. I don’t know if Blake Crouch, the novelist turned showrunner of Dark Matter, or Alik Sakharov, the director of the series’ penultimate episode, are Bond-o-philes, but they’ve certainly seen network dramas where the cold open has long been standard. The pursuit culminates in our second Jason-v.-Jason mêlée of the episode, this one a men’s room brawl in the tradition of True Lies or Mission: Impossible — Fallout, with the caveat that neither participant is a trained assassin, so it’s all a lot messier.

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