‘Creature Commandos’ S1 Episode 6 “Priyatel Skelet” Breakdown & Recap

As the season draws to a steady end, Creature Commandos is running out of characters to give episodes to. The second episode saw The Bride (Indira Varma) get a solo outing, episode 3 saw G.I. Robot (Sean Gunn), episode 4 Weasel (Sean Gunn), and episode 5 Eric Frankenstein (David Harbour), and now it seems Dr Phosphorus (Alan Tudyk) has his own! Read our Creature Commandos S1 Episode 6 breakdown and recap below. 

Creature Commandos follows a group of black ops agents forced onto the field to enact the will of the US Government. The last episode saw our team return to Pokolistan to assassinate monarch Ilana Rostovic (Maria Bakalova) and are forced to separate following a battle with the country’s defence force. Meanwhile, Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) was bested by Clayface (Alan Tudyk) before being avenged by Eric Frankenstein, leaving Flag in a critical condition. 

This article contains spoilers for the sixth episode of Creature Commandos season 1. 

‘Creature Commandos’ Episode 6 Breakdown

The episode opens with a flashback, in Gotham City, where we see our protagonist, Alex Sartorius, being thrown out of a moving van by a pair of henchmen. He gets up and attempts to flee the henchmen, bleeding before being thrown back into the van at the heels of Rupert Thorne (Benjamin Davis), who berates him. Back in the present, Doctor Phosphorus is in a dumpster, hiding from nearby Amethyst Knights. He gets out and leaves the vicinity.

Back in Ilana’s palace, she talks to her guard Sergei, the new head of the army, following the death of Alexi in the last episode, where she exclaims that the Creature Commandos are no longer friendly, at least according to Rick Flag. Sergei recommends that she must get into the safety bunker but Ilana refuses to hide and orders him to kill the Commandos. In the city, Nina Mazursky (Zoe Chao) hides from the knights and bumps into The Bride. The duo then hide in a brothel, which is run by Madam Gyurov, played by Shohreh Aghdashloo, who was last seen as queenpin Nadia Maroni in The Penguin. The two hide while the Knights burst into the establishment and are swiftly covered for by Gyurov. 

Rick Flag Sr is rushed to the hospital, and it’s revealed to Waller (Viola Davis) and Economos (Steve Agee) that Eric Frankenstein had left him there. Waller orders operatives to scout nearby airports to stop Frankenstein from interfering with the Commandos’ mission, but soon, it’s revealed that Eric is already aboard a private jet after killing its occupants and threatening a pilot.

In the outer regions of Pokolistan, Weasel can be seen running with wolves, living a blissful reality despite his current circumstances. Meanwhile, Doctor Phosphorus finds himself taking refuge in a family’s home, only to see a picture of the family on the wall, sending him into a flashback. In the flashback, Alex Sartorius is playing with his son, throwing him into the air. Another picture shows Alex’s past talking with his wife, Parvin (Parisa Fakhri), who expresses concerns about the people he works with (Rupert Thorne and his criminal empire). Alex rebutted, stating it’s a necessary evil to attain funding for his trials to cure cancer. Soon, Rupert Thorne kills Parvin and forces Alex’s hands into the blood of her corpse, torturing him mentally. He is forced into the back of a van and jumps out. 

In the present, the daughter of the family walks down the stairs and tells Doctor Phosphorus that she is hungry, reminding him of his son. In the brothel, Gyurov tells The Bride and Nina that they should work there, but The Bride claims that they respect their bodies more than that, leading Gyurov to find similarities between killing and sex work. A pair of men, known as Craic brothers, walk into the establishment, wanting to use the services, much to The Bride’s dismay. 

It’s revealed in the past that Alex has been experimenting with nuclear fusion to cure cancer, but he would do so for Thorne so he could share it with “friends overseas” in the fictional country of Bialya, which is governed by a fascist regime. In the comics, Bialya is in the Middle East, north of Iran and Saudi Arabia. So, due to his opposition to hurting people, Alex stopped work and angered Thorne, leading to Thorne throwing him into the fusion chamber and leaving him for dead. Alex then promptly mutates into Doctor Phosphorus. 

In the brothel, one of the staff hits a Craic brother due to being hurt, and he is told to leave. But it is then revealed that the Craic brothers are Metahumans, leading to a fight between The Bride and them, with The Bride brutally murdering them with ease. In the past, Sartorius emerges from his lab by melting through a wall, and he’s angry, looking for revenge against Thorne and his empire. A montage soon plays out, with Sartorius murdering Thorne and his family and taking control of his empire as kingpin. In the montage, several dance sequences take place, with musical numbers and skeleton-dressed dancers. Before the dance is complete, though, our protagonist is interrupted by a scream. The camera pans to the roof, where the sunroof shows the caped crusader himself, Batman, standing above, illuminated by lightning. The scene implies that Batman apprehended Phosphorus and sent him to Belle Reve, in a similar sense to how he sent Deadshot (Will Smith) and Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) to the same prison in Suicide Squad.

 In the present, the parents of the girl wake up to her screaming and run outside only to find Phosphorus playing with her. He leaves and travels back to complete his mission. Weasel does the same. Back in America, Waller is at Flag’s bedside and proposes some questions about his predicament while Eric Frankenstein arrives in Pokolistan. Sergei assembles the Pokolistan legions, and the Commandos reunite, ready to carry out the deed.

Up Next On ‘Creature Commandos’

In the next episode, we can expect the backstory for yet another character, Nina Mazursky, who gives some much-needed background to another monstrous member of the Creature Commandos task force. But we can also expect the show to wrap up, given that it is also the finale. 

Creature Commandos episode 7 will debut seven days after the release of the sixth episode, on January 9, 2025, at 12 AM PST. It will be titled “A Very Funny Monster,” written by James Gunn, and will have a runtime of 28 minutes.

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