WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for Naomi Season 1, Episode 8, “Fellowship of the Disc,” which aired Tuesday, March 22 on The CW.
Naomi has been lucky enough to have a rock-solid group supporting her throughout the show’s first season. Her parents Greg and Jennifer have gone above and beyond, even deceiving the military and endangering Greg’s job to keep her secret. Her best friend Annabelle has also kept the rest of their school from learning about her alien heritage. The support of her family and friends has provided Naomi with much-needed emotional stability as she continues to look into her past… which has only gotten more dangerous.
Though Zumbado seemed like her main enemy at first, he recently revealed he was actually an ally who worked with her biological parents. He also revealed that Brutus — the sinister tyrant from Earth-29 — would be sending more bounty hunters (her actual worst enemy). That information spurred Naomi on, giving her a new friend similar to Cisco Ramon on The Flash. However, her friend’s help made a huge and immediate impact — by revealing that a deadly threat was likely in Naomi’s own home.
In “Fellowship of the Disc,” Naomi encountered Annabelle’s geeky boyfriend Jacob at the ruins of STAR Labs. He was conducting his own research because he suspected the lab chief Dr. Bell of running projects involving aliens. After she caught a giant pillar that almost crushed Jacob, Naomi didn’t have much choice but to reveal her true nature to him and swear him to secrecy. The reveal wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, though, because he had the potential to be a valuable resource for her because of his scientific knowledge.
Naomi quickly put that potential into action, with Jacob able to decipher a drive they found and work out schematics to the energy tracker Bell was working on. The scientist had used the tracker to identity aliens like Naomi, and that was why she was baited Naomi and Zumbado there earlier in the season, in a failed attempt to capture and experiment on them. Jacob immediately began to whip up a prototype of the tracker right in Naomi’s room, similar to how Cisco often did in episodes of The Flash.
While Annabelle was originally upset when she saw the two working together, “Fellowship of the Disc” eventually had her realize she was being selfish and that Naomi needed Jacob’s help, paving the way for Jacob to become a bigger part of Naomi’s inner circle. That’s a huge plus, because the episode culminated in the newly assembled tracker identifying an alien right in Naomi’s house — and it obviously wasn’t her.
That created a cliffhanger that could potentially be life or death for Naomi, her parents, and the guests at their anniversary party that was happening at the end of the episode. Zumbado warned Naomi that some bounty hunters would look like humans to infiltrate society, so Naomi will now have to investigate her parents’ party to see if the alien is a foe or another potential friend. Given her luck, it’ll more than likely be an assassin, forcing her to quickly take the enemy down without revealing her secret to someone else. But at least Jacob gave her the ability to find the threat at all, or Naomi would have been in a much worse situation.
Naomi airs on The CW on Tuesdays at 9 pm ET/PT.
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