In fact, they kidnapped her father when she was just a little girl. There is a group of people collecting those with teleportation powers like Henry. If we're lucky enough to get Impulse Season 2, we're likely to see the family put to the test.īecause unbeknownst to this new family, they're all in grave danger. Now that Cleo realizes what she's done to Henry over the years, she can focus on being there for Henry and putting her needs first.Ĭleo, Tom, Jenna, and Henry make an adorable little family. No, Cleo hasn't made the best choices for Henry, but she's human. It takes her friends, Lucas, and an old, dying woman she meets while teleporting named Dippy for Henry realize the benefits of having a good mother like Cleo. We haven't even seen Townes' mother, only his sister, but going by the theme of the show, we can only assume she's not the greatest. We've got Clay and his older brother, Lucas, whose mother is as cold as a chunk of ice, and Jenna whose mother is dead.
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Related: Enjoy UNLIMITED access to thousands of Movies and TV shows with Amazon Prime Video. In fact, Cleo becomes the quintessential mom to everyone in town, and Lord knows they all need one. She has no choice but to start accepting the friends and the family around her.Īnd even though Henry holds resentment toward her mother, she also comes to realize that Cleo isn't all that bad, and being part of a family and having friends is a good thing. Not only does she teleport without knowing what the hell was happening to her body, but she also comes to realize she can't deal with life utterly alone anymore. When it occurs, Henry is completely lost. When she finally relents and goes out with Clay, it all goes south.Ĭlay sexually assaults her in his truck, bringing forth her ability to teleport, and changing both of their lives forever. You can tell he's used to getting any girl he wants, but Henrietta Coles isn't just any girl. The most popular boy in the school and son to the most powerful man in Reston, Clay Boone, hits on Henry from the moment she arrives.
In the interest of fitting in, Henry begins talking with some of the people at her school. During this seizure, Townes observes the strange happenings to items in her environment and is fascinated. The teacher fights back, though, and sends Henry into one of her seizures. When she sees a wrong, Henry does her best to make it right, and that's when she meets her first real friend in Reston, Townes.īeing on the autistic spectrum, Townes is an outsider too, so when Henry witnesses him being abused by their teacher in class, she has no problem putting that teacher right in his place. Henry's a strong person who isn't afraid to speak her mind to anyone, anywhere. She knows from experience that this place is just a temporary stop-over to the next, so she doesn't take the time to settle in. The Boone name doesn't mean shit anymore. I'm gonna fucking tell everyone what you did to me. In the beginning, Henry mainly keeps to herself, sneaking out at night to spraypaint her tag through the town.Ĭlay: I'm gonna tell everyone. When Henry and her mom, Cleo, move to small-town Reston, Henry is forced to adjust to her new surroundings and the new people she now has to live with, her mother's boyfriend Tom and his daughter, Jenna. She sits on the outskirts of society, but like any other teenage girl, there's a part of her who wants to fit in.