Freud Season 1, Episode 7 recap: Revenge at all costs
By Mads Lennon
The Szápárys finally prepare to seek revenge after years of planning. Freud makes a breakthrough with Fleur while they hide in his apartment.
We’ve reached the penultimate episode of Freud‘s first season, and it has been quite the ride. Not much on this show adds up, but I suppose we’ll see where things stand after the finale. Regardless of all the nonsensical storylines, I’ve enjoyed the heck out of this show and would love to see it get renewed.
The seventh episode, titled “Catharsis,” is mostly contained in Freud’s apartment as he does a deep-dive into his psyche and Fleur’s. For the most part, it is a mellow episode, at least in comparison to the past few. It expertly sets up the main story threads for a climactic confrontation in the eighth and final episode.
Fleur’s catharsis
Kiss and Poschacher wait for Reidl to arrive at the meeting to become the witness, but he’s late, and Kiss is suspicious, for a good reason, it turns out. Reidl marches straight into Janecek’s office and plops down a fat juicy bribe on his desk. It doesn’t matter that his head is clearly bandaged — proving everything Kiss and Poschacher said true. Janecek gets his greedy hands on that Colonel promotion and betrays Kiss in an instant.
Luckily, Lenore saves the day yet again. She shows up to ask for Kiss’s help in saving Freud from himself. Her perfect timing gives Kiss a chance to fake a hostage situation and escape the building after Reidl turns the tables on him. He, Poschacher, and Lenore ride off in a carriage back to Freud’s. Poschacher has grown on me; his unwavering loyalty to Kiss is endearing.
Once Meynert realizes that Fleur is missing, the first place he goes to find her is Freud’s apartment. He and Dr. Breuer search the area, and Freud is so lucky that Lenore has his back. While they look around his place, Freud and Fleur hide in Szpilman’s abandoned apartment.
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Fleur has a vision of the ghostly piano man. He raves about the fire started and something about the Emperor.
After Meynert and his crew leave, Lenore visits Freud and tells him to get his s–t together, but Freud is unwilling to leave Fleur since he believes she is sick. He explains that he needs to find a way to make her two conscious states flow together as one again by using confrontation or catharsis. That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Eventually, Kiss and Poschacher arrive at Freud’s apartment. It doesn’t take long for things to get freaky, as things tend to do on this show. Fleur slowly awakens and begins singing a song that puts everyone to sleep straightaway.
In his sleep state, Kiss attacks a version of himself that turns out to be Izom in real life. It appears that he killed him.
Elsewhere, Freud follows a ghostly trail deep inside of his unconscious mind, and we get a gross and blatant reference to the real Freud’s infamous Oedipal complex because this show is not exactly good at subtlety. Then, Freud manages to have a breakthrough with Fleur/Táltos.
He learns that Táltos believes they are protecting Fleur and that she needs him, but Freud tries to coax her into letting Táltos go, as she doesn’t need him any longer. We get a few more flashbacks to her time as a child when she first became possessed and forced a soldier to kill the other soldiers—táltos talks about submitting to Viktor and Sophia’s will.
Finally, Fleur has a vision of the future where a red-haired Sophia stabs the Empire through the heart in the middle of the Peoples’ Ball. She falls against Freud’s chest, warning him that something terrible is going to happen.