Firestarter: Rekindled

Episode 3 (1x3)

: 12, 2002

Vincent helps Charlie to escape from the research facility, but he himself is caught and tortured by Rainbird and his kids into telling everything he knows about Charlie. She meets Richardson, a man who knew her parents, a man who now knows everything, including the future, but who is unable to change anything. Charlie, though, can change something and decides to go back in to get Vincent. There are times in this episode when the story makes no sense whatsoever. The kids who were so keen on facing up to Charlie again just stand there and watch her escape. Rainbird's army of men, so prevalent up until now are nowhere to be seen and another survivor of the Lot 6 trials wakes up from being murdered when she has had nothing to do with the main plot up until now. Enter Dennis Hopper as Richardson in one of his more toned down performances (hell he even wears a suit), but his is a character who doesn't seem to do a lot other than to tell Charlie what she's going to do, making it clear to her what she is going to do whether she agrees with him or not. There is action at the beginning, but that fizzles away to nothing towards the end and the big finale moment is the death of someone who we don't even care about.