Ben Lindbergh

He hauls the ghoul up into his own kind of quasi-crucifixion pose, much like Lucy in the Legion camp a while ago.

Kind of looked like Vecna in the Abyss.

At the end of Stranger Things, season five, just suspended amidst all the meatbags and gore.

And we get a quick healing treatment here from the pearl mutant to his brother in radiation, the ghoul.

And just sticks a glowing piece of uranium straight into his hole in his stomach.

Says, uranium, bad for them, good for you.

Good advertising tagline there.

And that closes up the hole.

And then we get a little bit of a lore dump here from the pearl mutant who says, there's a war coming and we need you healthy.

He expresses some solidarity with his fellow abomination brothers, the ghouls, and says, you know, us and our kind.

And the ghoul initially does not see himself as of a piece with the mutants and says, our kind?

I thought you and me got bit by a different motherfucking bug, my friend.

And Perlman says, ghouls, mutants, we're kin, and we should unite against our common enemy.

They drove us to the point of extinction.

and forget we ever existed.

But we didn't forget them, the people who set this all in motion, the Enclave.

And, you know, we were not the only ones to foresee the Enclave reveal here, but we called that last week that they would be the other player at the table that House referenced, not that there were that many options.

But the ghoul does not want to enlist with whatever movement the super mutant is orchestrating here.

Says, I've been wastelanding for 200 years.

Whatever it is I gotta do, I do it alone.