'Baptiste' Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: The Desire To Understand

Just when you thought the time jumps were over, Baptiste's penultimate episode opens with a flashback. It's finally time for the one death the show hasn't covered: Laura's. Considering how traumatic her passing was, leaving her brother mute, one might expect a horrific explosion of some type. But no, it was a simple home invasion. She was stabbed by an intruder, an immigrant, an act Will witnessed. It is, as will become evident, the turning point that radicalized both brothers. Will's rage at losing her turned him to ring wing forums; when Alex found out, instead of stopping his brother, he joined in.

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It is not the only flashback this week. The series also returns to 14 months ago to help tie up the last loose end: that video of their father's death. Among other things, that video featured Alex, off-camera, screaming in horror, and what sounded like a kidnapping. It was then followed by Will calling his mother, desperately clicking at her for rescue. These things don't square with Emma's oldest son being a horrific terrorist who took part in the violent massacre in Józsefváros that left dozens dead and his mother paralyzed.

The two didn't mean for their dad to die. Having gotten into the right-wing forums Will introduced him to, Alex arranged a 5 a.m. meeting in the woods with someone calling themselves "Gomorrah," and Will insisted on coming. Their father following was an accident. He woke up early to bird watch, discovered them missing and Will's phone in the bed, same as Emma would do later, and assumed the worst. When Juszt saw Alex arrive with an extra person, he pulled a gun on them, thinking this was a setup. Why else would the sons of the British ambassador arrange to meet him? At their father's arrival, Juszt panicked and shot the man, leaving him little choice but to kidnap the kids.