What’s the point of Mace Malone when Xanatos is the show’s most prominent member of the Illuminati? Beats me, but I reckon the rest of the secret society probably don’t see much use in the living fossil either, which is why he must be out of the loop regarding the study of Gargoyles, and felt he had to trick an outsider into luring one for study. Should she have told him just because he’s her partner? Should she tell every assigned partner then? Continued below As long as I was the only human they confided in, it made me feel – special.” Oh come on, he had given her no reason to trust him. I guess – I just didn’t want to share them. I think the line that bothers me most is at the end of the episode, when Elisa tells Bluestone, “It’s not that I didn’t trust you. The twist – that Bluestone is actually good, handing Goliath the key to avoid Malone’s death traps offscreen – was pretty predictable, and made me wonder whether the production team felt they had to cram in Bluestone’s turn from antagonist to ally in one episode, or if they just weren’t that bothered. The episode didn’t do much to dispel my dislike of Bluestone, who, on learning from Malone about Elisa’s involvement in the Gargoyle conspiracy, threatens to run her off the road unless she admits to her secret – gosh, you can just smell the entitlement, can’t you? Then after being introduced to Goliath and co., he immediately demands he come with him to meet Malone. As incongruous as MacBeth working with Xanatos again would be, you are kept in suspense as to what’s going on until the end reveal, given the mercenary’s apparent survival from a fiery demise is consistent with what we learned from “ City of Stone.” There’s no gross out sequence of him reconstituting himself, but we get a pretty awe-inducing and terrifying moment regardless when Goliath believes “Hudson” has been killed, and punches a hole through Robo-MacBeth’s chest. In “The Price,” Xanatos sends robotic duplicates of MacBeth to prevent the clan from returning home before sunrise, allowing him to kidnap Hudson, and replace him with a real statue to fool the others into thinking he’s been trapped in that form.
Together with the previous episode, “ Outfoxed,” they form a running theme of episodes where the clan’s leaders keep getting themselves captured. This week’s Gargoyles retrospective looks at “The Price” (airdate: October 12, 1995) and “Revelations” (October 26, 1995).
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