The mid-point of the episode featured the "Rises" moment everyone would be talking about for years. Shane cornered the Corporate Syndicate in their glass-walled skyscraper. Instead of his usual brute force, he used his new ability: camouflaging into the very light of the office, moving like a ghost through the cubicles.
"He’s back," whispered Miller, the bar’s resident superfan, clutching his limited-edition "Lizard King" coaster. [S5E2] The Shane Lizard Rises
Shane "The Lizard" Lawson hadn’t been seen since the Season 4 finale, where he’d been left for dead in the radioactive swamps of the Delta. The fandom had spent the hiatus mourning, posting "Rip Scale-man" memes, and arguing over whether a human-reptile hybrid could actually survive a tactical meltdown. The mid-point of the episode featured the "Rises"