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Moonhaven Season 1 Episode 4 Recap “Mada”

Don’t miss Celebrity Myxer’s recap of Moonhaven Season 1 Episode 4 “Mada.” On the brink of The Bridge, Paul prepares for some difficult goodbyes. Here’s what you missed!

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Previously on Moonhaven Season 1 Episode 3, Indira tries to get The Bridge back on track while Bella helps Paul uncover a conspiracy.

Warning… Spoilers below!

On Moonhaven Season 1 Episode 4, as Tomm begins to wake, the renegade mooners attack, and Arlo, Bella, Paul, and Blu fight to protect Tomm and the Envoy. A fire starts in the house, and the Envoy runs away during the scuffle while a masked mooner manages to grab Tomm and inject him with something.

Sharp Awakening

Bella goes after Indira while Paul and Arlo haul an injured Blu out of the burning house, leaving Tomm behind. She finds Indira fighting off a rabbit-masked attacker who’s trying to inject her with the same substance. Bella is ready to fight him, but he disappears in a cloud of yellow dust.

Bella, Paul, Indira, and Arlo watch the Moonhaven fire crew put out the fire with IO technology. Once they get inside, Tomm is gone. Paul and Bella speculate about doubt ruining the first wave celebration that’s happening tomorrow.

At the celebration, the first wavers hear a speech about the dangers and importance of their mission on Earth. As they’re assigned their bridge placements, a first waver starts shouting about the bridge being a trap and claims that the earthers will kill them all when they land.

Do You Believe

At the Envoy’s quarters, Indira is shocked that many mooners want a separatist moon and IO for themselves. She opens up to Bella about Council Maite refusing to let the first wave of ships land. Then she pulls out Tomm’s gun and calmly asks Bella to shoot her.

She tells Bella she has to believe in something and pulls the trigger using Bella’s hands while the gun points at her stomach. Bella is horrified until the bullet is stopped by IO, proving Indira’s point about how crucial the bridge is. Bella pledges to help her in her cause.

At home, Paul, Lone, and the children discuss Wish’s landing place in the Sahara desert. Fritz claims that Paul is naive and that they know earthers better than they know themselves. Paul is upset that Fritz has infected Wish with his renegade ideas and is angry at Lone.

Fritz aggressively preaches that it’s earthers who have attacked the moon and bring nothing but trouble, and Wish storms out as Paul tells his family that mooners are removing their marks and causing chaos. He goes after Wish, who tells him he’s a fool before taking off.

Goodbye

Bella heads to Council Maite’s and asks her about the ships. Maite claims that Bella came when she came when called. As she opens her office door, there’s a painting of a flower identical to the one Chill was holding when she died hanging above her desk.

When Maite says she wants to know what trouble IO saw before the ships land, Bella tells her she is the trouble. Talking to Sonda, Maite promises that Bella is the sign she’s been waiting on. She seems excited by the mooner’s doubt and claims that something bigger is coming.

At Pauls’s, Lone tells Bella that Paul is at his birth-mothers last rites since she’s dying. When Lone asks about the fire, Bella tells her the truth. They squabble over the differences between their cultures, and Lone asks Bella what more she wants her to give than her child.

At the Palmi for his mother, Paul speaks to her for the first time and tells her his name. She asks him about his life, and he admits his confusion over Wish’s journey in the first wave. His mother reassures him that all children leave and that this isn’t the first time Truelune has had a test.

The New Moon

Later, Blu brings Sonda to the Envoy’s chamber. Sonda apologizes and admits that she begged Maite to let the ships land. Indira infers that if Maite won’t act right, Sonda should. On her walk home, Tomm approaches Sonda, and they make love in the forest. Tomm now has one blue eye.

At the mooner police station, Bella shows Arlo the synthetic flower petal she found at Chill’s murder scene. Arlo had someone make him a giant magnifying glass, and they see that the flower petal would once have had a base. Tomm and Sonda scheme over removing Maite.

Sonda is eager to know what Tomm’s experience under the Singer was like, and he explains about the monsters he saw and the monsters who saw him. Sonda tells him he’ll recover, but he claims the Singer was a gift, and their destiny is to rule together on the New Moon.

At the police station, Arlo rewatches the footage of Chill’s murder and spots the flower, which he didn’t see before. When Paul arrives, they watch Chill use the flower like a compass and wonder where it could lead. Arlo also shows Paul the missing flower petal.

Blood is Thicker Than Water

Together, they deduce that Strego Nall hid the flower somewhere on Bella’s ship. Arlo figures out that Strego let Tomm kill him, and he was trying to tell Bella where he had hidden the flower. He heads for the ship, while Paul heads to Wish’s honoring ceremony.

Alone, Bella heads back to Council Maite’s chambers and is startled to find her there waiting. She asks Maite why she wanted her to see the flower painting, and accuses her of working with the rebels. Maite reveals that the painting was made by Bella and Chill’s mother Loa.

Maite also reveals that she and Loa were lovers and partners before she died. Until Chill died, Bella wasn’t tagged as blood by IO and Maite couldn’t find her. Maite has no idea how Loa knew Chill was her daughter, but she was a seeker and sought the places others feared to go.

At the first wave celebrations, Elna narrates a play put on by the children about Moonhaven’s history and the rebellion caused by blood ties, and Wish admits to Paul that he’s scared. Bella pleads with Maite to let the ships land, but Maite tells her others have found another way to go.

Others

Bella sarcastically asks if there are aliens on the moon using IO, and Maite confirms it. Loa, Bella’s mom was the first to contact them, and she hasn’t returned since. As a giant symbol made of fire is burned in the space in front of the Earth, Bella goes to the window.

When Bella turns back around, Maite has disappeared. Arlo, who’s been exploring Bella’s ship, finds the flower hidden away and prepares to take it back to Moonhaven. Tomm, who’s been hiding on the ship and waiting for someone to find it, thanks him.

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Air Date: July 21, 2022

Moonhaven Cast

  • Emma McDonald as Bella Sway
  • Dominic Monaghan as Paul Serno
  • Joe Manganiello as Tomm Schultz
  • Ayelet Zurer as Maite Voss
  • Kadeem Hardison as Arlo Noon
  • Amara Karan as Indira Mare

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Moonhaven Season 1 Episode Guide

Season Episode Title Air Date
1 6 The Seeker” Moonhaven Season Finale August 4, 2022
1 5 Dreadfeel July 28, 2022
1 4 Mada July 21, 2022
1 3 The Envoy July 4, 2022
1 2 The Detective July 7, 2022
1 1 The Pilot” Moonhaven Season 1 Premiere July 7, 2022

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