When last we left our omegaverse-ish soap opera, Charlie and Babe were having Problems.

Everyone else is doing great
They’re drunk on Victory and Alcohol, and so happy, I know everything is about to fall apart. Starting with Charlie and Babe. Despite the sex, Charlie pushes Babe away. Again. Babe is Unhappy and Insecure. Charlie chooses this over explaining the Tony situation.
Tony is upset with Willy for “not bringing Charlie back”, whatever that means. We learn that Willy was nearly beaten to death in a street fight when Tony kidnapped him, brought him to the lab, and gave him alpha powers.
As a bonus, Tony added a chip in his body that he’ll blow up if Willy doesn’t do what he wants.
Charlie tells everyone at the garage he’s quitting racing. Alan is not thrilled. Alan needs contracts.
Charlie tells Jeff about overhearing Tony ordering Willy around. Considering Tony’s plans threaten everyone anyway, Charlie’s withholding of information is even worse. Jeff points out that Charlie’s actions won’t stop Tony, but Charlie isn’t listening.

Then Jeff goes home and tells Alan nothing
Alan asks Kim to rejoin the team and gets turned down. Kim suggests he quit rather than become like Kenta. Wait, what? I think Kim has Kenta-on-the-brain. Which is good, because someone needs to think about Kenta, who is running around trying to get killed for Pete. But we’ll get back to that in a minute.
Charlie needs a suitcase from Babe’s place, and to cause Babe more emotional upheaval. He’s infuriatingly calm and sweet while Babe is destroyed.
Charlie, you are a monster. Babe, of course, tries to get him to stay with sex. It doesn’t work.

Kenta and Kim are my current favorites
Pete gives Kenta information on Some Guy, who may have escaped Tony’s experiments, and Kenta has to go find him RIGHT NOW. Kim protects Kenta from being bashed by a stick, and I think Kenta falls in love RIGHT THEN.
Some Guy rants about a demon snake, which tells Kenta where the lab might be.
Meanwhile, without asking him first, Alan makes Dean a part of the racing team. Luckily, Dean is thrilled.
Thankfully, Babe becomes smart and asks Jeff about Charlie. Jeff spills everything, including Charlie’s current address.
Babe decides to be an adult and confronts Charlie about how he decided things for them without a discussion. Then he throws being an adult out in favor of solving things with sex. He’ll support Charlie’s work at the lab, but won’t be pushed out of his life.
He leaves the ring for Charlie to put on, or not.

Jeff’s hallucinations get worse, so he gets in a car
At least he calls Alan before he crashes. When he wakes up in the hospital, he can’t focus on anything around him.
Later, Alan tells Charlie and Babe that he needs surgery, but can’t get it with Jeff in this state. Also, his stupid racing team needs him. Charlie’s solution is to take Jeff’s power.
So now Charlie has all of Jeff’s problems. And he has to restart the experiment at the lab because it changed his… science…
Babe and Alan don’t want to leave Charlie in Jeff’s care, but the racing must go on!

Charlie has visions of Willy, not sexy ones
The “tick tick tick tock” thing from episode one is back, and he sees Willy wandering Babe’s place. Charlie wakes and tells Jeff what happened before passing out.
Now Charlie can’t participate in the experiment at all. Everyone is eager to volunteer to replace him, even though they don’t have powers. Not-Way and I are both irritated by this level of stupid. Pete is the only legitimate candidate because no one exists outside the Pit Babe cast.
Not-Way goes home with Pete so he can snoop around his place. He finds a key card. Pete catches him and uses his powers to confirm Not-Way isn’t working for Tony.
Later, Kenta reveals to Pete that Way-Way gave him a key and told him about Tony having a Secret Organization. That seems important. Like it should have come up sooner.

Sonic and North are going nowhere fast
Much like North’s racing career. Sonic is also deeply suspicious of Dean, so North calls Dean for advice on Sonic. Dean says to go for it.
Kim stops Kenta from running into danger by wrestling him onto a table and kissing him. Kenta agrees to let Kim come with him on his dangerous plan. Kenta is messsssssy, I love him. Good luck, Kim.
Not-Way uses that key card to get into Way’s place/one of Pete’s secret lairs. But Pete is waiting for him there.

Willy can stop time
And he does, stealing a keycard to break into Pete’s lab.
Meanwhile, Kenta and Kim get into Tony’s lab, which is a creepy, horror basement lab. Kim shows an appalling lack of understanding of why they are even there. Thankfully, Kenta also learns that Willy can manipulate time.
Kim keeps Kenta from murdering someone, then reluctantly lets Kenta be a distraction so he can get away.
Not-Way spills that he saw Way on the news once. He couldn’t find any link between him and Way, but found out he was Tony’s son. He wondered if Way wasn’t too.
Pete again confirms he’s not lying. Then he gets a call from Kim, updating him on everything. Pete calls Babe to warn him
Right then, Willy finds Babe and assaults him. Before Babe can get a punch in, Willy stops time.

At least they aren’t looking for “evidence”
Last season, they kept talking about evidence, and I never knew what specifically they were trying to find. At least this season, I’ve been able to follow each step as they work on finding Tony’s lab. Well, Pete and Kenta work on finding Tony’s lab.
Pete and Kenta are the VIPs this episode, and probably the season so far. Not only are they the only ones actively working against Tony, they’re involved in the more interesting love stories.
Kenta has gone from desperately trying to please Tony to desperately trying to please Pete. At least both he and Kim are aware of this bad habit, and Kim is willing to hold him down and kiss him to chill him out. I’m a sucker for a person who needs saving meeting someone who wants to save him. I want Kenta to start desperately trying to please Kim.
Pete and Not-Way are something else. Not-Way is infinitely relatable for being exasperated by the nonsense around him. Pete is the other end of the spectrum, being infinitely patient with the nonsense around them. It makes them an interesting pair.
I’m curious where the story will take Not-Way and his connection with Tony.
Unfortunately, I’m struggling with everyone else. Babe’s emotional transformation is interesting, but Charlie sucks. North and Sonic are boring. Alan needing surgery is not the conflict I want in Pit Babe.
But Willy, his crazy power, and Tony’s control over him are more interesting to me now. I guess it won’t be as simple as having Charlie take his ability from him, so let’s see what happens.
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