<P> The second season of the American cable television series Legion is based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller / Legion, a mutant diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age . The season is connected to the X-Men film series, and is produced by FX Productions in association with Marvel Television . Noah Hawley serves as showrunner . </P> <P> Dan Stevens stars as Haller, with Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Bill Irwin, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder and Jean Smart also returning from the first season to star . They are joined by Jemaine Clement and Hamish Linklater, promoted from guest roles in the first season, and Navid Negahban . A second season of Legion was ordered by FX in March 2017, with filming for the season relocating from Vancouver to California, to take advantage of tax incentives . Production began in September 2017, with practical effects again a priority for the series' crew . The season features the parasitic villain Amahl Farouk / Shadow King, portrayed by Negahban, searching for his original body after being forced out of Haller's mind at the end of the first season . </P> <P> The season premiered in Los Angeles on April 2, 2018, before its FX debut on April 3 . It will run for 11 episodes . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> U.S. viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 9 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Chapter 9" </Td> <Td> Tim Mielants </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern </Td> <Td> April 3, 2018 (2018 - 04 - 03) </Td> <Td> XLN02001 </Td> <Td> 0.67 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> <P> A year after Amahl Farouk / Shadow King escaped in the body of Oliver Bird and David Haller was kidnapped by a strange orb, the mutants of Summerland and the government agency Division 3 race against Farouk to find his original body, which would allow him to unleash his full power . Farouk is also infecting people with a mental "virus", the Catalyst, that freezes their bodies but causes their teeth to continuously chatter . David appears in a nightclub, claiming that only hours have passed since his kidnapping . He tries to find Farouk telepathically, using a device created by scientist Cary Loudermilk to increase the range of his abilities, but instead relives a memory from the nightclub of a strange monk and a dance battle with Oliver and Lenny Busker . David gives his girlfriend Syd Barrett a compass that will always lead her to him, and promises not to keep secrets from her, but does not tell her of the future version of her that sent the orb and told him to help Farouk find his body . That night, David's mind meets with Lenny and Oliver in the "nightclub". </P> The Narrator explains how ideas lead to madness and delusions, and recounts the story of Zhuang Zhou . He compares ideas to eggs--a rational idea hatches as a healthy chick and a delusion is a dark creature that feeds on it--and gives the example of Albert A, a man who cannot ignore the idea that his own leg is not his, to the point that he saws it off . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 10 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Chapter 10" </Td> <Td> Ana Lily Amirpour </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern </Td> <Td> April 10, 2018 (2018 - 04 - 10) </Td> <Td> XLN02002 </Td> <Td> 0.44 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> <P> David agrees to work with Farouk, and causes a distraction by taking many of the others to the desert while Farouk takes Oliver's body to Division 3, where he believes the last surviving monk of the Migo Order may be hiding--the Migo monks had played a role in hiding Farouk's body . Farouk does not find the monk, but does kill several soldiers and traps Cary within the body of Kerry . Members of Division 3 begin to suspect David is working against them . He regrets helping Farouk now that it caused loss of life, and convinces the Loudermilks to further enhance his abilities to try and contact Syd in the future . There she explains that David will kill Farouk within a week, but then a plague will kill all the humans on the planet and Farouk could have helped them stop it . Returning to the present, David confronts Farouk who agrees to no longer kill people in exchange for David's continued cooperation . David tells Syd what he is doing, and she agrees that they should do as her future self says . </P> The Narrator discusses umwelt, one creature's perception of the world . He explains that humans are the only creatures that apply meaning to the world, and so are the only creatures who go mad . For instance, a boy taught that the color red is called "green" and that "green means go" may attempt to cross a road when shown a red light . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 11 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Chapter 11" </Td> <Td> Sarah Adina Smith </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern </Td> <Td> April 17, 2018 (2018 - 04 - 17) </Td> <Td> XLN02003 </Td> <Td> 0.38 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> <P> David and those at Division 3 realize that the Monk was in a room with victims of the Catalyst, and has now escaped . David confers with Farouk, who explains that the Monk is the actual source of the Catalyst, as an asymptomatic carrier . Meanwhile, the Monk has infected everyone else except for Cary . David and Cary enter the minds of Ptonomy Wallace and Melanie Bird, finding them trapped in mazes based on their deepest desires; David is able to free them . He is captured by the Monk, who shares memories of Farouk's body being buried beneath the Migo monastery and slowly driving the other Monks mad, until they committed suicide or were infected by the Catalyst . The Monk incapacitates Admiral Fukyama, Division 3's leader, and reveals that he is searching for a weapon to defeat Farouk . Melanie believes this is David, who the Monk almost reveals has been working with Farouk . David teleports the Monk to the roof of the building and attempts to explain himself, but the Monk jumps from the building, choosing suicide over helping Farouk . </P> The Narrator introduces the nocebo effect, calling it a conversion disorder where the body responds to the idea of an illness as a real illness . He further describes how this issue can be contagious, linking it to mass hysteria and citing the dancing plague of 1518, the Tanganyika laughter epidemic, and the Hindu milk miracle as examples . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 12 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Chapter 12" </Td> <Td> Ellen Kuras </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern </Td> <Td> April 24, 2018 (2018 - 04 - 24) </Td> <Td> XLN02004 </Td> <Td> 0.43 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> David enters Syd's mind as the Catalyst disappears following the death of the monk . Believing he is in another maze, David explores Syd's mind, following her life's story from birth through adolescence: even as a baby Syd did not like to be touched, and she was bullied for this growing up, leading to self - harm . She first gained her abilities as a teenager when a boy insisted on kissing her, and used this first experience of body - swapping to attack bullies . Syd eventually took her mother's body and had sex with her mother's boyfriend, but accidentally changed back to her teenage body before they finished, leading to his arrest . After living through Syd's life, David explains to her what he believes was her one true desire, but each time she says that he is wrong and makes him start watching again . He eventually realizes that this is not a Catalyst maze, and that Syd is testing him herself . When David is unable to guess her meaning, Syd explains that she believes love will not save them but pain can give them the strength to fight for love, and allows them to wake up . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 13 </Th> <Td> 5 </Td> <Td> "Chapter 13" </Td> <Td> Tim Mielants </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern </Td> <Td> May 1, 2018 (2018 - 05 - 01) </Td> <Td> XLN02005 </Td> <Td> 0.46 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> <P> After pleading with Farouk to release her, Lenny appears at Division 3 with an apparent physical body . She surrenders herself, and is interrogated about whether she is still being controlled by Farouk (she denies this) and how she came to have a body again after hers died (she refuses to explain this). Ptonomy attempts to look through her memories but finds them disturbed, and is forced to face a strange delusion within his own mind involving Admiral Fukyama . When David looks into Lenny's mind, he realizes that she has indeed been sent by Farouk, but manages to block out that influence so the two can talk openly . Lenny states that she is unsure how she can have a body again, but together they piece together the memories in her head: Farouk directed Oliver to dig up Lenny's original body and take a tissue sample from it, and then they found David's sister Amy where Division 3 was hiding her . Oliver used a device that he stole from Division 3 to infuse Amy's body with Lenny's DNA . Farouk then planted Lenny's consciousness in this body . </P> The Narrator discusses examples of the phenomenon pareidolia, and highlights the power of human perception and pattern recognition--- in a further example, he contrasts an optimist and a pessimist responding to a situation . He states that it is this that causes humans to conflate coincidence with conspiracy . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 14 </Th> <Td> 6 </Td> <Td> "Chapter 14" </Td> <Td> John Cameron </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley </Td> <Td> May 8, 2018 (2018 - 05 - 08) </Td> <Td> XLN02007 </Td> <Td> 0.35 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> David's mind explores possible lives where he made different choices . In one life he is homeless and attacked by a group of men . This unlocks David's abilities and he is hunted by Division 3; Kerry kills him . In another life, David takes medication to suppress his abilities and lives a docile life with Amy, until a vision of the Devil with Yellow Eyes and a confrontation with police officers leads to David being shot and killed . One life sees David working for a businesswoman until he uses his mind reading ability to gain her favor . This version remains under the control of Farouk and eventually becomes the richest man in the world, with the businesswoman now working for him . In other lives a drug - addicted version of David discusses the multiverse theory, an elderly David is cared for by Amy, and a happy David lives a pleasant suburban life . Remembering when Amy first took him to Clockworks Psychiatric Hospital and accepted that they had to live with the life they got, David returns to his life and accepts the version of events that led to her death . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 15 </Th> <Td> 7 </Td> <Td> "Chapter 15" </Td> <Td> Charlie McDowell </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern </Td> <Td> May 15, 2018 (2018 - 05 - 15) </Td> <Td> XLN02006 </Td> <Td> 0.45 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> <P> David vows revenge against Farouk for Amy's death . Trying to understand why David had helped him in the first place, Farouk sends his mind forward in time to meet with the future Syd and ask her why she had tasked David with helping him . She explains that David will cause her apocalyptic future, and she hopes that Farouk can help prevent this from happening . David also visits future Syd, claiming that he is now unable to help Farouk due to Amy's death despite what future Syd says . Ptonomy's mind continues to be haunted by the delusion, seemingly planted by Farouk as a distraction, that Admiral Fukyama is secretly working against them . Ptonomy plants this fear in the minds of Syd, the Loudermilks, and Division 3 agent Clark Debussy, and they attack the android Vermillion who serve Fukyama . Clark almost murders the Admiral before David stops them and removes the delusions from their minds . This process is possibly fatal for Ptonomy, but the Vermillion manage to save his mind by adding it to the "mainframe" that makes up Fukyama's mind . </P> The Narrator talks about moral panic in relation to the events of the episode, and recaps all of his lessons so far by noting how his discussions of delusions and mass hysteria play out onscreen . The delusions that take hold of the character's minds in the episode are depicted as the dark creature the Narrator introduced in the first episode of the season . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 16 </Th> <Td> 8 </Td> <Td> "Chapter 16" </Td> <Td> Jeremy Webb </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley & Jordan Crair </Td> <Td> May 22, 2018 (2018 - 05 - 22) </Td> <Td> XLN02008 </Td> <Td> 0.41 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 17 </Th> <Td> 9 </Td> <Td> "Chapter 17" </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern </Td> <Td> May 29, 2018 (2018 - 05 - 29) </Td> <Td> XLN02011 </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 18 </Th> <Td> 10 </Td> <Td> "Chapter 18" </Td> <Td> Dana Gonzales </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern </Td> <Td> June 5, 2018 (2018 - 06 - 05) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 19 </Th> <Td> 11 </Td> <Td> "Chapter 19" </Td> <Td> Keith Gordon </Td> <Td> Noah Hawley </Td> <Td> June 12, 2018 (2018 - 06 - 12) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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