Nine months later... Datak (Tony Curran), who was elected as the new mayor of Defiance at the end of Season One, is now imprisoned in Earth Republic's Camp Reverie after murdering Colonel Marsh.
Stahma (Jaime Murray) visits Datak in the prison camp, and he asks her to get him out sooner than the ten years to which he was sentenced, fearing that otherwise his business empire will collapse.
When Stahma leaves, Doc Yewll (Trenna Keating) who's also imprisoned, approaches Datak and asks for his help to a plan she has on how to escape.
Back in Defiance, Amanda (Julie Benz) has taken over the Need/Want, her sister's business, after Kenya's (Mia Kirshner) disappearance.
His distraught sons, Josef (Ryan Kennedy) and Hyatt (Sam Earle), are caught vandalizing an E-Rep poster and are arrested.
Driving them to prison, Churchill lets the two boys escape, and they run into Hellbug territory where Hyatt is killed.
Amanda realizes their escape was arranged so as to make examples of the boys, and confronts Niles in his office demanding to know what happened.
She regrets having turned down Niles' offer to make her his chief of staff months earlier, speculating that if she hadn't, Hyatt might still be alive, and agrees to take the job "for now."
Nolan tracks down Daigo (Ben Cotton), the man who tortured Irisa when she was a little girl, interrogating and killing him.
Club gave the episode a B rating saying that he was surprised that the show fast forwarded nine months instead continue from the cliffhangers of the previous season.
Granted, it doesn’t have the same amount of action that we became accustomed to, but it does an excellent job of taking a series of events and somewhat foreshadowing the future of the show.
"'The Opposite of Hallelujah' benefits greatly from the additions to the cast, as Mayor Pottinger and Viceroy Mercado help break up the tenuous peace that defined the town of Defiance all last season, by drawing a clear line in the sand between the oppressors and the oppressed.
That offers a different kind of dynamic than has been seen, and it opens the door for even more interesting and unlikely pairings"[7] Ricky Riley from The Celebrity Cafe also gave a good review to the episode, saying that the season started with a bang.
"[8] Jesse Schedeen from IGN rated the episode with 7.8/10 saying that the nine months time-jump might be "a comfortable way to ease back into the series, though it's not the most exciting way to kick off a new season."