‘Creature Commandos’ Episode 4 “Chasing Squirrels” Breakdown & Recap

Creature Commandos follows a group of convicted supervillains, who are forced into carrying out tasks at the demands of ARGUS heads Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) and Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo). The first three episodes of the series saw our characters get deployed to Pokolistan to protect Princess Ilana Rostovic (Maria Bakalova) from Circe (Anya Chalotra). Last week’s episode ended with the defeat of Circe, who exclaimed in a cryptic final message that the Creature Commandos had doomed the world. Read our Creature Commandos episode 4 breakdown below.

The show’s synopsis reads as follows: 

Creature Commandos tracks a secret team of incarcerated monsters recruited for missions deemed too dangerous for humans. When all else fails… they’re your last, worst option.

This article contains spoilers for the first four episodes of Creature Commandos.

‘Creature Commandos’ Episode 4 Breakdown

The show’s fourth episode opens with Flag and Rostovic making out as a farewell, with Flag ready to return home from deployment and surrender Circe back to Amanda Waller at Belle Reve. The pair exchange some banter, which I personally found weirdly unfunny, but the pair soon separate and Flag, along with Task Force M, return home. 

Back at Belle Reve, a lawyer named Elizabeth (played by Linda Cardellini) confronts John Economos (Steve Agee) about the whereabouts of her client, Weasel (Sean Gunn). Economos, tightlipped, explains it away and references the Butterfly invasion in Peacemaker season 1 when asked about his bum leg. As the conversation becomes stale, Weasel arrives back with the rest of the team. As The Bride leaves the Osprey, she notices a man with blonde hair and a baseball cap observing from beyond the perimeter of the compound. In the same scene, Eric Frankenstein (David Harbour) spies on The Bride from a helicopter believing that she and Flag may be in a relationship. Eric kills one of the men in the helicopter after feeling insecure.

Elizabeth confronts Flag, trying to find where he took Weasel. While the two talk, Weasel slips into a flashback, where a school is on fire and several police officers are looking for the furry fiend, and take shots at the creature when they see him dragging a child from his teeth. Flag argues that Weasel killed 28 children, while Elizabeth states he was wrongly convicted of killing 8 kids. Meanwhile, Eric kills the helicopter pilot and the vehicle crashlands with Eric planning on tracking down Rick Flag. 

Waller, Economos and Flag begin to interrogate Circe, who is bound with magic-cancelling restraints, and is severely burned from Dr Phosphorus’ (Alan Tudyk) encounter with her in the prior episode. One of the guards that bring her into the cell, to me, looks like Griggs. Griggs was last seen in David Ayer’s 2016 film Suicide Squad where he was played by Ike Barinholtz. This character is uncredited, so it is uncertain if this thread of canon is being carried over from the DC Extended Universe.

As the trio interrogate Circe, she alleges that she is trying to save the lives of everyone from Rostovic by killing her. To prove this information, Circe wants to use her clairvoyance ability to show Waller a vision of the future, one that would go on to shake our understanding of the show and the DC Universe thus far. 

Elsewhere in the prison, Elizabeth is trying to piece together Weasel’s past. Weasel falls into another flashback, where he can be seen playing in the yard behind a school, hiding in a bush watching children silently. The children befriend him and feed him. Back in the present, Weasel eats a polaroid of the children, showing his lack of intelligence and awareness of any situation. The same guard from earlier escorts Weasel back to the general population area of the penitentiary. 

Waller gives Circe the go-ahead and witnesses a vision of the future. The vision is brief and is similar to the visions seen in Zack Snyder’s Justice League in the Knightmare epilogue. Here, Rostovic can be seen laying war on the world and reigning supreme after killing the Justice League as well as several other popular DC characters. Waller snaps out of it, reeling from the horrors she just witnessed. She calls in a Themysciran expert Isla MacPherson (Stephanie Beatriz) to validate the vision of Circe, who does indeed believe the information is true. In the comics, MacPherson is a history teacher at Gotham Academy, being created for the 2014 comic series named after the Academy. 

Waller orders Flag to reassemble the Commandos to go back to Pokolistan and assassinate the Princess, but Flag denies the order due to his love of the princess, and his presumption of her innocence and goes home. In the mess hall, Nina Mazursky (Zoe Chao) is being bullied by comic-book characters Congorilla and Nosferata. Congorilla was sometimes a member of the Justice League of America and the Forgotten Heroes in the comics, whilst Nosferata was a Superboy villain. The Bride kills Congorilla and takes Nosferata’s food, giving it to Nina since they are friends. Shortly after, Economos tells The Bride she will be leading the remaining Creature Commandos on a mission to Pokolistan for the assassination of the Princess.

Meanwhile, Flag is trying to contact the Princess to give her a heads up about the impending black ops mission ordered by Waller but fails to get through to the Pokolistan national. When Flag gets back to his humble abode, Eric shows up and the two engage in a fight. Frankenstein believes Flag is in love with The Bride and Eric’s childlike insecurity will not allow that. The two eventually truce, and Eric agrees to join Flag in his mission, aiming to cross paths with The Bride once again. Their conversation comes off as a bromance, with Eric comparing Flag to Leonardo DiCaprio in James Cameron’s Titanic.

On the flyover back to Pokolistan, Weasel has another flashback where he is playing ball behind the school with the children. One of the kids finds an unlocked door and soon the mischievous kids as well as Weasel enter the building. A local man sees this, and assumes the worst, as it looks like Weasel has cornered these unsuspecting and innocent children. He calls the police, who dispatch a patrol to come and detain the half-man hybrid. Inside the school, the children throw a bottle of alcohol that they found which then gets dropped exploding everywhere. One kid plays with a match at the same time, and the two happenings combine to ignite a fire. The man tries to shoot Weasel and instead misses with the bullet, shooting a gas tank, setting the building on fire and endangering the kids. The police arrive and while Weasel tries to save the children, the police view him as a threat and detain him, leaving the kids left for dead.

Creature Commandos episode four is now streaming on Max. The episode starred Sean Gunn as Weasel, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., David Harbour as Eric Frankenstein, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Anya Chalotra as Circe, Maria Bakalova as Ilana Rostovic, Steve Agee as John Economos, Indira Varma as The Bride, Alan Tudyk as Dr Phosphorus, Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Linda Cardellini as Elizabeth, and Stephanie Beatriz as Isla MacPherson.

Up Next On ‘Creature Commandos’

Next episode we can expect another backstory for yet another character, giving some much-needed background of another monstrous member of the Creature Commandos task force. Who will it be? Find out in the next episode. 

Creature Commandos episode 5 will debut seven days after the release of the third episode, on Boxing Day, Thursday, December 26th at 12AM PST. It will be titled “The Iron Pot”, written by James Gunn, and will have a runtime of 22 minutes.

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