"A Light Supper" is the sixth episode of The Umbrella Academy's second season.
Flashbacks reveal Allison's past. After arriving in the sixties, she was chased by three racist white men before winding up at Odessa's salon, where she wound up working. She caught Raymond's eye, and he asked her out at Christmastime just as her voice was returning. In the present, she proves her powers to him by taking him shopping, and then by forcing the manager who spilled coffee on her during the sit-in to burn his hand pouring her coffee. Raymond questions if she has ever used her powers on him.
The Handler tries to broker a deal with Five — if he helps her take over the Commission, she'll take the Hargreeveses out of this timeline and into a 2019 where the apocalypse doesn't happen. Later, she admits to Lila that she's buttering Five up, and that she has bigger plans for her daughter. She visits the Swedes and tells them Diego's location.
Klaus tries to tell his cult the truth, but it goes sideways. Dave visits the cult and tells Klaus that he's enlisted.
The siblings arrive for the "light supper". Despite their proof of their superpowers Reginald dismisses their claims of the upcoming doomsday, as well as any implication of his involvement in the JFK assassination. Outside, Diego shows Grace the photograph of Hargreeves at the grassy knoll, while Sissy meets with Vanya and is convinced to run away with her. Hargreeves has a talk with Five in private.
Meanwhile, Elliot is tortured to death by the Swedes. Five agrees to the Handler's deal.
Tropes for this episode include:
- Ankle Drag: Luther pulls a somewhat incapacitated Klaus out of the elevator in this fashion, while Klaus moans to just leave him there.
- Breaking Speech: Reginald scathingly accuses Diego of being an insignificant man in over his head. It's so breaking that Diego reverts to his childhood stammer.Reginald: Well...I suppose you've solved it. You've single-handedly unearthed my nefarious plot. Is that what you want to hear? You fancy yourself a do-gooder? The last good man who will save us. from our descent into corruption and conspiracy? This is a fantastic delusion. The sad reality is that you're a desperate man, tragically unaware of his own insignificance, desperately clinging to his own ineffectual reasoning. More succinctly, a man in over his head.
- Cassandra Truth: Raymond can buy his wife being from the future and incredible superpowers. But a black man becoming President of the United States he insists has to be fiction.
- Censor Steam: The Handler visits the Swedes in a sauna, where the steam covers all the naughty bits.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: The Swedes brutally torture Elliot trying to find where Diego is, and end up killing him.
- Costume-Test Montage: After Allison Rumors the staff of a clothing store into letting Raymond try on whatever he wants, he tries on a bunch of different outfits in a montage, and exits wearing a snazzy blue suit.
- Games of the Elderly: The Handler and Lila are seen playing bingo at a retiree home.
- God Test:
- When Ray demands proof of Allison's Rumor power, she takes him to town to showcase her ability.
- This gets repeated when Reginald demands proof of the team's powers. Diego, Five, Allison, and Vanya show off what they can do.
- Groin Attack: The Handler grabs one of the Swedes by his penis when he approaches her menacingly.
- Hypocrite: When it's pointed out that something the Umbrella Academy did could have messed up the timeline, there's an awkward pause before they all start hurling (accurate) accusations at each other.
- I Am Spartacus: Played for Laughs. Klaus tries to admit to his cult that he's a fraud, but the members interpret this as admitting his own humility, and all of them stand up declaring they, too, are frauds.
- In Love with the Mark: The Handler accuses Lila of the cliche of falling for the mark.
- Ironic Echo: When three racist white men set their eyes on Allison when she first ends up in the 1960s, they mention that she "appears to be lost" before chasing her in an attempt to rape her. When she finds shelter in Odessa's salon, Odessa tells the three white men they "appear to be lost" as she and the other hairdressers brandish scissors and razor blades to force them to back off and leave Allison alone.
- Loving Details: To convince Dave that he's a prophet in a last-ditch effort to save his life, Klaus rats off a bunch of personal facts about him, like his favorite food, his favorite song, his favorite book and his troubled relationship with his family. Unfortunately, it fails.
- Make an Example of Them: Diego and Luther find Elliot gruesomely mutilated and killed at his place.
- Moral Myopia: The Swedes murder targets designated by The Committee. While doing so they callously kill anyone who gets in their way (like guards) or are unhelpful (like catladies who only have one room to rent). Yet when one of theirs is taken out their reaction is a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- Only Sane Man: Hargreeves believes Five to be this, which is why he asks to talk to Five in private.
- Reed Richards Is Useless: Alluded to. If Allison can force anyone to do anything, Ray questions why she doesn't use it to further the Civil Rights Movement. Then he sees that it's very easy for Allison to get Drunk On Power with her abilities.
- Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: The siblings all pile into an elevator, and the ride to the high floor is made worse because Luther farts.
- You Remind Me of X: Klaus says Ben's nitpicking reminds him of Sir Reginald, to which Ben takes offense.
