Recap: “Kozmo” [The Cape]

David Lyons as The Cape, Keith David as Max Malini in "Kozmo." Photo by: Michael Yarish/NBC ©2011.

Last night, The Cape aired in its regular time slot, following last week’s two-hour premiere. In the third episode, titled “Kozmo,” we finally get some backstory on the cape, carnival leader Max Malini (Keith David) and Orwell (Summer Glau).

The story begins in Russia as a man known a Gregor Molotov (Thomas Kretschmann) is being imprisoned. A prison official pulls a gun and declares that even “Gregor the Great” cannot escape a bullet to the head. Though bound in a straight jacket and thrown into a cell, Gregor seems unconcerned. Soon the prison guards find everyone dead, the prisoner gone, and a single word scrawled on the wall in blood: “KOZMO.”

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