The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Ending Explained With Spoilers
Pull a Number 5 and Hit Rewind — We'll Explain The Umbrella Academy's Wild Season 2 Finale
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We meet Lila as another resident of the asylum Diego is initially trapped in, but as we quickly learn, she's actually undercover. The adoptive daughter of the Handler, Lila was sent by her mother to watch over Diego and track the Hargreeves. Unbeknownst to her, her mother also hires three Swedish brothers to hunt down Five to bring him to her and kill Diego for sleeping with Lila. Though Lila suspects her mother isn't telling her everything, she follows along with the plan until Diego gets suspicious of her and demands she stay away.
When her mother becomes the new leader of Commission (after getting Five to murder the entire board of directors), Lila is appointed the new head of security. She kidnaps Diego and bargains for her mother to let him work at the Commission, calling him her boyfriend. Diego uses the opportunity to figure out that Vanya sets off the nuclear war (again) after being captured by the FBI and escapes to help his siblings. When Lila realises he's gone, her mother uses her vulnerability to turn her against Diego and Five by lying that Five is the one who murdered her birth parents at the order of the former head of Commission.
It isn't until Lila has joined her mother at ambushing the Umbrella Academy at Sissy's farm that she learns the Handler was the one who issued the command to kill her birth parents so she could take Lila as her own because of her unique power. As Diego tells Lila, she's one of the special children born on the same day, just like the Hargreeves. The revelation is too much and when she's able to get away, Lila snatches a time briefcase and disappears.