“The
Few Who Dare”
(Spoilers)
How
things ended last season.
Alison
and Donnie are in hiding with Helena in the woods.
Cosima
and Charlotte have been taken to the village that Rachel had been seeing in her
eye “visions.” Cosima was reunited with Delphine.
Sarah
– after being clubbed and stabbed by Rachel – is off in the woods. She calls Mrs. S., who – along with Kira –
are being held at gunpoint by Ferdinand.
And
Rachel – after patching up Susan – is set to meet with Westmoreland, the
founder of Neolution.
Now
the new stuff.
Sarah
calls Felix – who is watching over Ira – to tell him about Mrs. S. and
Kira. Sarah asks Ira where the boat is –
Susan had told her that’s where she sent Cosima and Charlotte – and Ira tells
her. He also mentions a village, but her
phone dies before he could further explain.
Sarah
starts a fire – burning a photo of Kira to get it going – and mends herself the
best she can. She’s sleeping but
“dreams” of Kira telling her to wake up.
She wakes up and is attacked by, some, man thing, but she hits it with a
rock and it runs off.
Sarah
makes a spear and finds the boathouse, but there are a couple of guys hunting
her. She overhears that they bringing
dogs and that they can’t go back until she’s in Revival with the other one.
Cosima
wakes up in the village in a locked room and finds a note from Delphine saying
to follow her lead. A girl – named Mud –
comes in to show her around Revival, the name of the village. The people in Revival come from all around
the world. They are part of a decades
old experiment on life extension which will be part of the genetic improvement
of humanity. Cosima asks if Mud knows
Rachel, and she says that Rachel is talking with “the Founder,” and that all in
Revival are his “children.” Cosima asks who the Founder is, and Mud tells her
it is 170 year old Westmoreland.
Cosima
comes across Charlotte at the Revival school.
Charlotte asks about Susan, and Mud says that she’ll pull through, and
that she and Westmoreland go back a long time.
Felix
goes to the safe house, and finds that Mrs. S. must have stabbed Ferdinand with
a corkscrew, but nobody is there. He
hears someone coming in, but it’s Art.
Art says he’s being watched because of Duko, but he’ll do what he can.
At
the station, Art gets a new partner, Maddy.
She drives him out to the middle of nowhere, and lets him know that
she’s a Neolutionist and that they are looking for the Hendrixes to find
Helena.
Felix
calls Alison and Donnie, and tells them to sit tight. But Alison wants to help, so she and Donnie
pack to leave. Before they can leave
though, Alison is captured by some guys, and Donnie runs off.
Delphine
is in the Revival clinic seeing a girl from Afghanistan. She and her mother are looking for “The
Fountain.” Once they leave, Delphine hides Cosima’s cure and some paperwork. The Messenger arrives and tells her that
Westmoreland wants to see her.
At
the comic shop, they are looking at satellite images of the island, only
they’re blurred. They decide to contact
MK, so Felix goes back to the safe house to get Kira’s laptop and leaves Ira
with Scott and Hell Wizard.
Felix
arrives at the safe house, but there is a guy waiting for him, Mr. Frontenac. He explains that there’s “only one faction
now.” He also says that Rachel has taken a special interest in his family. Felix leaves with him.
The
guys who took Alison show up to where Art and Maddy are. Art tells her that they want everyone to come
in for a truce. Maddy says that she’s
not allowed to hurt any clones, so she punches Art and puts a gun to his
head. She wants to know where Helena is,
but Alison doesn’t know. Maddy agrees
and says she’ll take Alison home.
Delphine
returns to Cosima, only to tell her that Westmoreland is sending her,
immediately, to Sardinia. But she asks
for a few minutes where she tells Cosima where the cure is and gives her a key
to the clinic. She also tells her to
“follow the crazy science.”
Sarah
is going through the woods and comes across furs hung up on a weather tower, or
something. She then hears dogs barking
and runs. She slips and falls right next
to a wolf that was killed with a spear.
She hides and the men find the wolf.
The one with the dogs asks who did that, and the original men hunting
her say, “a bear.” But the guy with the dogs doesn’t buy a bear hanging furs
and spearing a wolf, but the first guys repeat that it’s a bear. They then head back to Revival.
Cosima
is eating dinner and Mud comes to talk.
Then there’s music over the loudspeakers, and everyone gathers at the
bottom of the steps leading up to Westmoreland’s house. Rachel has come to tell them what
Westmoreland has said.
Rachel
seems rather happy on learning how Westmoreland has shaped her entire
life. She says that they are near the
end of nearly two hundred years of Neolution science, and that they would drink
from the Fountain first. Sarah followed
the hunters and sees Rachel.
Donnie
goes to a camouflaged car, only one of the guys after them is there. But Helena shows up and knocks the guy out,
but during the fight she’s stabbed in the stomach by a branch. So Donnie is going to take her to the
hospital.
That
night, Cosima sneaks out of her room – past a sleeping Mud – and goes to the
clinic where she finds her cure. Sarah
then comes in and tells her about the boat and that something attacked her in
the woods. She wants Cosima to come with
her to the boat, but Cosima says she is staying to figure out what is going
on. She also wants Sarah to inject her
with the cure.
The
Messenger finds Mud sleeping, and the alarm is raised for Cosima. Sarah takes a flashlight and leaves. Cosima is about to inject herself, when the
Messenger and Rachel come in. Rachel
sends him out, and talks to Cosima saying Westmoreland wants her to be part of
this. She then injects Cosima with the
cure.
Sarah
goes back to the boat and is set to leave when one of the hunters comes in and
shoots her with a tranquilizer. Then
Rachel comes in. Then there’s another
“dream” where Kira tells her to wake up.
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So,
what flavor of Kool-Aid does Westmoreland make?
In the previous episode – two days ago – Rachel is ranting about
treating clones as lab rats to experiment on as they please, but now she’s
being gentle and caring for Cosima. Is
it an act? It’s hard to say.
Did
Cosima tell Rachel where Sarah was going?
I doubt it, but it does kind of seem that way.
The second
time I watched this, I was struck by the seeming importance they gave to
Sardinia. And then I thought, Didn’t
Marion say something about Sardinia once?
If we don’t see what’s on Sardinia, it may be something I’ll look out
for when I rewatch the series.
I’m
buying the 170 year old guy a bit more than the psychic Kira. We’ll have to see how that plays out.
Is
Westmoreland really 170 years old, or have there been a couple Westmorelands?
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