He stares at the screen for a long time, the blue light reflecting in his eyes. Then, he deletes it. He tosses the phone into a bucket of wet cement he’s using for a DIY patio project.
The boy scurries away, but Jax stays frozen. He realizes the hardest part of the "The New Name" isn't convincing the world he’s someone else—it’s convincing himself. [S2E1] The New Name
How did that feel for a season opener? Should we lean more into the of his past catching up, or keep focusing on the psychological struggle of his new identity? He stares at the screen for a long
"Arthur Pendergast?" Jax looks up, a ghost of a smirk playing on his lips. "You guys really have a sense of humor at the Bureau." The boy scurries away, but Jax stays frozen
"It's okay," Jax says, his voice sounding thin and foreign to his own ears. "I'm... I'm Arthur. Mistakes happen."
Jax opens the envelope. He stares at a driver's license. The face is his—haggard, eyes a little more sunken than last season—but the name printed next to it feels like a bad joke.
The Season 2 premiere doesn't start with a bang, but with the suffocating quiet of a witness protection safehouse in suburban Ohio. Jax—formerly known to the underground world as 'The Ghost'—is sitting at a laminate kitchen table that smells like lemon bleach.