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This recap contains spoilers for Legion Season 1,Watch online Swingers (2002) full movie episode 2, titled "Chapter 2." If you're as lost as David Haller, refresh your memory with our recap of episode 1.

Legion’s second episode, “Chapter 2,” presented one fantastic foil for our hero David Haller: Jeremie Harris’s character Ptonomy, who appeared in the premiere but wasn’t properly introduced until now.

Where David has trouble remembering even crucial moments in his life, Ptonomy recalls everything that’s ever happened to him. David has made a cocoon of his past, wrapping himself in the nostalgia of scenes half-remembered. For Ptonomy there can be no nostalgia -- romanticizing your past requires its edges be dulled, impossible when every memory is sharp as a blade.

“I remember everything,” he says. “I remember my birth -- before, even. The womb. You know how loud the heartbeat is? Imagine you can remember being inside your mother’s body, warm and blind and then -- just this intense pressure and suddenly, light.”

Ptonomy works within others’ memories, so he of course knows what memory is like for anyone who’s not him. But he seems surprised (and maybe a little frustrated) by the degree to which David has shielded himself from the harsh realities of his own existence.

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While Legion’s exceptionally good premiere focused on David’s nostalgia, episode 2 attempts to pierce that veil. It doesn’t go well for anyone involved, except maybe David, who begins to tap into his powers despite getting royally freaked out. Has he actually blocked the kitchen incident from his conscious mind, or does he simply not want to revisit it?

Dr. Melanie Bird (the still excellent Jean Smart) wants to help David “rewrite the story of [his] life,” but for someone as dependent on nostalgia as David, that’s not necessarily a good thing.

What kind of place is Summerland, where Dr. Bird engages newly “evolved” humans with “talk work” after Ptonomy’s done with his “memory work?” For now they’re the good guys, the ones who rescued David from his interrogators, who want to coax his powers out of him instead of forcing them to emerge at gunpoint like the Division 3 government spooks.

But like Division 3, the Summerlanders have their own use for David. “She thinks you’re the key,” Ptonomy tells him, to “winning the war -- and other things.”

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It wouldn’t be the first time in TV history the side you thought were the good guys turned out to be bad. Why David trusts them is anyone’s guess; Dr. Bird appears to remind him of his mother, especially when he’s zeroing in on the lone voice in his head.

Much of “Chapter 2” was spent in David’s mind, though whether each scene is a memory or a hallucination is up for interpretation. Dr. Bird insists David isn’t schizophrenic -- that everything he hears and sees is real -- but that isn’t necessarily the case. She’s not all-knowing, after all (probably; you never know with mutants).

David recalls his mother with warmth and light, but he can’t see his father’s face. When he tries, it almost breaks him. There’s something to do with a macabre book called The World’s Angriest Boy in the World, about a boy who kills his own mother -- a boy Dr. Poole, David’s former psychiatrist, says is David.

And Aubrey Plaza’s Lenny Busker, David’s friend from the hospital, is there too; were they friends earlier in David’s life as well, or is she something else? A figment of David’s imagination, or another of his personalities? Is she simply a signal that those scenes he’s recalling never happened at all?

Legion’s second episode didn’t do much to advance the plot. It’s satisfying to watch David come to grips with his powers, especially in a cute conversation with Rachel Keller’s Syd Barrett in which David accidentally eavesdrops on her thoughts. Too bad Keller is criminally underused in this episode, a problem the show will hopefully amend.

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Meanwhile Division 3 is looking for Summerland, and no one whose thoughts on the matter we get to be privy to seems to think the fledgling mutant community is completely safe. For now the spooks are content to wander aimlessly through the woods and dangle David’s sister before his mind’s eye. David learns this through some kind of astral projection, shortly before banishing an entire MRI machine from the womb because he spotted that dastardly yellow-eyed devil once again.

What will Melanie think when she finds out about the demon plaguing David’s mind? Will she still believe everything he sees is real? Is the devil real? Syd saw it too, though she was in David’s body at the time. (Because she’s probably one of his personalities. Just saying.)

If nothing else, Dan Stevens’ increasingly unhinged performance should be enough to convince you that Haller isn’t completely sane, no matter what Dr. Bird says. Her work is “the work that must be done -- to strip ourselves of the fog of life before,” according to David.

But for him, that fog is the glue that keeps his identity from crumbling, and that work is as painful as being ripped from a cocoon must be to a gestating caterpillar. To David, Ptonomy’s memory of the womb -- “warm and blind” -- must sound like paradise.

Legion’s “Chapter 2” didn’t quite live up to the show’s stellar premiere, but there’s still plenty of time for Noah Hawley’s latest creation to emerge from its cocoon.

Legionairs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FX.

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