The seventh episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Lee Shaw goes through the portal at the start of Season 2, which takes place in Axis Mundi in 1962. He crash-lands on the other side and spends days trying to stay alive. He doesn’t realize he’s sending out a blind signal until six days later, when he goes to higher ground to get a better signal. This turns out to be much harder than he thought it would be.
Axis Mundi is a dangerous place, and Shaw has to be on the lookout for its dangerous animals all the time. His radio finally picks up a signal after 15 days. It turns out to be from his future self.
In the present timeline, Suzuki is shocked and tells Shaw that they have picked up a signal from the Hourglass Expedition. Because time in Axis Mundi is strange, it makes sense that transmissions are delayed because things don’t happen in a straight line.
Suzuki tells Shaw to talk to his younger self and tell him what he needs to hear. This makes people wonder about paradoxes, but Shaw goes ahead anyway, promising his younger self that he will find a way to get him out.
In the meantime, Keiko and Cate are still trying to figure out what the Titan X signal means. Keiko thinks that Cate is the key to figuring it out and finally sending Titan X back to Axis Mundi. The two go to a nearby village that might have important information. They think that something new is affecting Titan X’s behavior because it has changed its usual migration path.
Billy’s journal leads them to a “notable” place in the village where local women may know things that could help keep Titan X safe from more harm.
Kentaro goes to Phuket, Thailand, to find his own answers with Isabel.
In Axis Mundi, Shaw talks to his younger self and comes up with a plan: have his younger self put a tracker on Titan X while it sleeps so he can find it. As an electrical storm approaches, Shaw tells his younger self to do something.
The younger Shaw finds proof that Keiko has been in Axis Mundi during this mission, which fits with the timeline. But the older Shaw tells him not to get involved. He tells the truth: he is talking to his future self.
They talk about what they have in common, like how they feel about Keiko. Older Shaw thinks for a moment about whether it would be worth it to change the timeline, since she means so much to him. At one point, the younger Shaw sees her and wants to go to her, but his older self stops him and tells him that this is the time they have to let her go so she can follow the path that will save her life.
His older self helps him avoid threats, find Titan X, and plant the tracker successfully. But this wakes up the Titan, which breaks free from its resting place.
Tim takes Corah to Monarch and confronts her about her experimental device. He thinks that her attempt to connect with Titan X’s brain changed the way it moved in a way that made it much harder to follow. Corah agrees to help because she knows that her code might be the key to fixing the problem.
Cate hears Titan X’s call echoing from a well in the village and decides to look into it. Keiko is unsure because of things that have happened to her in the past, but Cate convinces her to trust her gut.
The Titan’s call gets clearer as Cate goes down. She thinks that the women in the village have been going down to listen, and she says that Titan X isn’t dangerous; it just needs help.
Shaw keeps guiding his younger self, and in the end, he finishes the mission. He then says goodbye to Suzuki, which makes it sound like this might be his last trip and that he might die.
At the end, Monarch’s scanners pick up Titan X again, proving that it has come back to land.
The Review of the Episode
Episode 7 shows time travel mechanics more clearly, but the way it’s done isn’t always good.
The biggest problem is the apparent contradiction. If Shaw’s younger self was able to put the tracker on Titan X in the past, why don’t we see any changes in the present timeline? The show doesn’t explain much, which makes the logic seem off.
The interaction between the two versions of Shaw also makes people wonder. The notion that individuals both recall and fail to recall specific events appears inadequately developed. This plot point could have felt more connected if it had been set up earlier in the season, but instead it comes out of nowhere.
Character development is still a weak point. Like Corah, whose coding skills conveniently move the plot forward, Cate is becoming more and more important to solving big problems. Neither character has enough depth to make their importance feel real. Cate’s belief that Titan X is just misunderstood is the same as how she felt about Godzilla in Season 1, which makes her story feel like it’s going in circles.
Now that Titan X is back in action, the episode sets up the next part, but the pacing and consistency of the story need to get better.