City on Fire Season 1 Episode 1 We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us
Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel City on Fire. The premiere introduces viewers to a complex new crime mystery, which features your typical drug-addled rock band, the wealthy elite, and per the title, plenty of arson.
City on Fire Season 1 Episode 1 Recap
“We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us” opens with the show’s central crime, college student Samantha Yeung is found in the park with a gunshot wound to the head. The opening episode then reverts to a few weeks earlier to walk us through the events that led up to this heinous act.
Why is Charlie in therapy?
The series focuses on awkward teenager Charlie, who is receiving therapy after his father’s death during the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City. The sessions allow Charlie a chance to explore the city, and he soon meets an old high school acquaintance called Samantha.
The teens quickly become the best of friends, with Samantha deciding to take Charlie on as her protege, hoping to transform this unsociable outcast into a more confident, cool kid. See, Samantha is your standard cool teen, obsessed with rock music, photography, and art. She’s even written her own zine about the rock band Ex Post Facto.
The friendship stumbles when Charlie is grounded after an eventful New Year’s Eve party, where he is banned from seeing Samantha ever again. She contacts Charlie out of the blue to tell him that Ex Post Facto is reuniting for a one-off gig.
Samantha hangs up and hitches a ride with her gang of misfits, who seem to consist of band members and vigilante types. They’ve just set a church on fire and quickly flee the scene of the crime.
Next, we’re introduced to the other main storyline, set in the affluent uptown, focusing on a wealthy real estate family. Regan discovers that her husband Keith has been cheating on her when she is sent a mysterious letter in the post. She decides to end the marriage after his confession.
Regan is also concerned about her distant brother William. His boyfriend Mercer reaches out to Regan, but she is unsure how to respond.
William is an artist and an addict. He refuses to open a letter from Regan and won’t talk with Mercer about his family or his past either. On Mercer’s birthday, William ditches his boyfriend to get high. He then bumps into an old bandmate, Sol, a friend of Samantha’s.
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