'The Last Man On Earth' Season 1 finale episode 13 recap: 'Screw The Moon' 

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The Last Man On Earth" from last night on Fox, May 3, details the events of episode 13, titled, "Screw The Moon," and may contain spoilers. Phil Miller, played by Will Forte, and Carol Pilbasian, played by Kristen Schaal, were initially the last man and last woman on earth at the start of the series, however the cast has grown to include Melissa Shart, played by January Jones, Todd, played by Mel Rodriguez and in the episode, "The Do-Over," we were introduced to Erica, played by actress Cleopatra Coleman and Gail, played by actress Mary Steenburgen. In the episode titled, "Moved To Tampa," Boris Kodjoe joined the cast as Phil Miller, a former special forces member who just so happens to have the same name as our original protagonist, Phil Tandy Miller.

At the very end of this episode of "The Last Man On Earth," the season finale, we learned of the existence of one more survivor of the virus, but he wasn\'t exactly on earth. We\'ll revisit that situation a bit later. At the start of this episode we encounter Tandy and Todd observing Phil setting up some solar panels and batteries in an effort to bring power to the cul-de-sac and they discuss their plan to kill him. Todd is having second thoughts about their choice, telling Tandy, "This is hard for me. I mean, are we really talking about killing someone?" Tandy assures Todd that it\'s easy and explains, "We\'ll just go over there, ask him if he wants to go for a ride, then we take him out to the desert and just leave him out there."

Todd has an epiphany and says, "Wait a minute, you drove me out to the desert." Tandy is momentarily unsure how to react but recovers and admits to Todd that while he did take him out to the desert, he wasn\'t in his right mind. Tandy assures Todd, "I never would\'ve gone through with it! And I never would have gone through with this one! Deal\'s off, Phil lives! Even though I hate his friggin\' guts!" Todd walks away in disgust and Phil looks at Tandy with a curious nature having most likely heard every word. Phil knows that Tandy is simply up to no good.

Tandy decides next to go check up on Carol, who last episode had loud casual sex with Phil that was heard by everyone living in the cul-de-sac. In her own definition of terms, Carol was definitely skunkin\' around with Phil, and it had an extremely negative effect on Tandy\'s fragile psychological state. Tandy confronts Carol with an empty condom wrapper and when Carol admits to casual sex with Phil, Tandy remarks, "Well, that\'s funny, \'cause I don\'t seem to remember getting an invitation to the wedding." Carol retorts, "Oh, there wasn\'t a wedding, Tandy." Phil, on the edge of a breakdown, replies, "Really, Carol? Really? \'Cause I seem to recall some sacred pledge that was required by you to have sex with you." Carol reminds Tandy, "That\'s because you and I were trying to make a baby."

Meanwhile, Melissa goes to check up on Todd and finds him a mess, drinking beer with chips all over his shirt and perhaps a bit drunk. She asks, "You okay in there? I\'m worried about you." Todd tells her that "I\'m working on another little "situ-ash" right now," and it\'s clear that Todd isn\'t handling the news of his near death experience with Tandy in the desert very well at all. Back at Tandy\'s house, Phil is packing his things and tells Tandy, "I figure I should, um find my own place. I heard you say in the cul de sac that you hate my guts."

Tandy gets in Phil\'s face and admits, "Yeah, \'cause I do. I see what you\'re trying to do here and I don\'t like it. Trying to bring everyone power so they\'ll all bow down at the altar of Phil." Phil remarks, "This isn\'t about the power, is it?" Tandy tells him, "It\'s always about the power, hombre." Phil tells Tandy that he knows it\'s about Carol, but Tandy scoffs at the notion, saying, "Carol? As if." Phil tells Tandy "\'Carol\'s a real special lady," and the only thing Tandy can think of to say back is, "Hey. You\'re a real special lady."

Tandy decides to go to the bar and talk to his sports ball friends, telling them, "I don\'t even know who Carol is anymore. I mean, who is this imposter? Freewheeling around, abandoning all her stupid rules, acting all fun to be around and looking positively radiant? I treated her so well and she rewards me by having sex with this friggin\' ugly model-looking dude right in front of my face? That\'s classless." Phil goes on to ponder, "I mean, how dare her! She\'s she\'s classless and annoying and uptight and stupid and childish and sweet and good-hearted and fun and radiant. I friggin\' beefed it big time. God, I want her back." Phil has an epiphany that he screwed up the only good thing he had going in a world where almost everything that once was alive is now dead and gone.

After a failed attempt to woo Carol with jewelry, Tandy joins the others in the cul-de-sac where Phil shows off that he\'s been able to harness solar power to charge a battery and he displays the potential by powering up a lamp, which Tandy promptly knocks over and breaks, blaming it on the wind. Phil and Tandy almost come to blows over the issue and when Tandy says, "Back me up here, Todd," he is betrayed by him. Todd admits, "I saw Tandy knock over the lamp. And also, he\'s gonna kill you, Phil. He\'s gonna drive you out to the desert and he\'s gonna leave you there. He was gonna do the same thing to me." The entire group is sickened by the admission and when Phil says, "You\'re done here, Tandy. I think it\'s time for you to leave," Tandy runs to his house and locks himself inside.

A few days later Carol goes to check on Tandy, who has not only run out of food, but sunk to a new low and is living in absolute filth and chaos. Tandy tells Carol to go away and insists, "There is no Tandy here. It\'s only Phil. Phil Miller. The original Phil Miller. I may not be a good person. I may have my faults, but I am a good person." Carol invites the original Phil Miller to come out to the cul-de-sac and enjoy the campfire where Gail is playing her accordion. Phil is positive that no one wants to see him, but Carol assures him that, "We all agreed we want to call a truce."

When Phil does eventually come out of his house and joins the others, they are all singing John Denver\'s "Leaving On A Jet Plane," as they sit around a campfire. Phil is nowhere to be seen until he slams Tandy to the ground. Carol shouts, "What are you doing?! We called a truce!" Phil tells Tandy, "Take a good look, Tandy. Because this will be the last time you\'ll be seeing any of this." Phil drives Tandy out to the middle of nowhere and drops him off in the desert, telling him, "Two days of supplies. I\'m going back that way. That direction is you." Phil further instructs Tandy, "Don\'t even think about coming back to Tucson." Phil tells himself, "If I ration this out, it\'ll last about three days. If I walk at a quick pace, I can make it to Nogales. And I get a car, get some supplies, and then I am gone." Within minutes Tandy consumes all his supplies. Meanwhile, Melissa and Todd seem to reconcile their differences and we\'re left to assume they\'ve rekindled their relationship.

Once again, Carol comes to check out Tandy and she tosses Gary at him. She\'s driven out into the desert and found Tandy curled up in the fetal position in the middle of the road. Tandy asks Carol what she\'s doing here and she tells him, "I knew two days\' worth of supplies wouldn\'t be enough, so I just wanted to drop this off." Carol has a tub full of food which looks to be enough for a couple people for a few days. Carol turns to leave, but sighs and asks, "Tandy, did you really write me a song? Can I hear it?" Tandy sings, "They say the moon is to wish on Make you feel all romantic They say it makes the waves That serenade our sadness It\'s for hopers and dreamers And poets who swoon Well, screw the moon What good\'s the moon If Care Bear is not here with me?"

Impressed, Carol then asks, "So where should we go?" Phil, dumbfounded responds, "What? You\'re staying with me?" Carol tells Tandy, "You need me," and he asks her, "Well, what about New Phil?" Carol tells Tandy, "I don\'t want to be with a man that can leave someone in the desert to die. I want to be with the man who doesn\'t have the heart to go through with it. And I don\'t know, call me crazy, but I feel like we belong together." Phil speaks from the heart when he tells her, "I got to be honest, Carol. I feel like you\'re making a big mistake here." Carol agrees but they load up the car with the food and they get inside and take off for a yet unknown destination.

Carol and Tandy agree to start over and they decide to reintroduce themselves. Carol starts and says, "I\'m Carol Andrew Pilbasian. I\'m from Delaware. I\'m a Scorpio. And I\'m an only child. You go." Tandy reclaims his name and states for the record, "I\'m, uh, Phillip Tandy Miller. I\'m from Tucson. I\'m a Gemini. And, uh, I had one brother." Carol questions, "You had a brother? I didn\'t know that." Phil informs her, "Well, there\'s a lot about me you don\'t know." Carol requests, "Tell me everything. We have time."

In the final scene we see an astronaut on the space station and he speaks into a radio linked to earth. The astronaut says, "Houston, do you read? Houston, do you read?" He doesn\'t get the response that he so desperately wants to hear and he marks on the ceiling another day that\'s passed without radio contact with Houston. It looks like he\'s marked off a couple years worth of efforts to contact mission control. The name on the astronaut\'s uniform states that his last name is Miller, and it becomes clear that Phil\'s brother is alive and well and in outer space. We\'ll simply have to turn in next season to see what happens next and until then speculate on the show based on all of the clues that we\'ve pieced together over the last 13 episodes of "The Last Man On Earth."

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