“The
Weight of This Combination”
(Spoilers)
This
season starts with Helena dreaming about all her sestras having a suburban,
backyard party. But then she wakes up in
a box with an imaginary scorpion she calls Pupok – Ukrainian for bellybutton – who
talks to her about being tested again. At
the end of the episode, one of the Castor clones unlocks her from the box after
an older woman – who we later learn is Dr. Virginia Coady – tells him to.
Sarah
is talking with Felix about her meeting with Marion and the Castor clones. But Marion has gone off to Europe to smooth
things over. Marion sends Delphine back
to take over for Rachel. However,
Topside is sending a “cleaner” named Ferdinand to check everything over to make
sure the clones aren’t a threat to Topside.
He can’t know that Rachel has been injured. Delphine wants Sarah to impersonate her, but
she doesn’t want to.
Delphine
shows Sarah security camera footage of Rudy and his brother Seth – neither
named in this episode – trying to abduct another Leda clone, Krystal Goderitch. They were able to save Krystal, but Seth
escaped and Rudy killed a couple of guards.
Now he’ll only talk to Sarah. She
goes into his cell and they talk a bit and he says that they have all sorts of
information on her sisters and her family.
Sarah doesn’t take that well. As
she leaves, he tells her to “count her sisters.” She calls and Alison is fine
and Cosima is looking better. But
there’s no sign of Helena.
Mrs.
S. returns home and is jumped by Seth. She
tells him that she and Paul had a deal, but he tells her he’s not working for
Paul. He’s looking for Ethan, and isn’t
happy to hear that he’s dead. He then
wants to know about his research, but Mrs. S. figures that’s at Dyad. Seth seems to be having some issues. He leaves before Sarah and Felix show up, and
Mrs. S. tells them about her deal with Paul, which really upsets Sarah.
Amongst
all this, Alison decides to run for school board. The incumbent Marci Coats is apparently
planning on changing the district boundaries making Alison’s kids have to go to
another school. Alison’s plans on
running are complicated when Donnie tells off his boss and is fired. He suggests she go work for her mom at her
store Bubbles, but Alison really does not like that idea.
Dr.
Nealon removed the pencil from Rachel’s eye.
He later tells Delphine that there was some damage. Part of why Marion sent Delphine back was to
avoid a Helsinki situation, and she’ll need Nealon’s help. Later, once Rachel wakes up, Delphine
tortures her to find out what she and Ferdinand are up to and learns that she
knows about Helsinki, even though she isn’t supposed to.
Sarah
will impersonate Rachel for Delphine as long as Delphine promises to help look
for Helena. They think that all she
needs to do is say hi to Ferdinand and then let Delphine handle matters, but
Ferdinand wants to talk to them both, and then go see “Sarah.” He sees Alison
impersonating Sarah, and then wants to discuss matters privately with “Rachel.”
Ferdinand
goes over to Rachel’s apartment, and we learn that he and Rachel have some sort
of relationship. We also learn that
Helsinki refers to a time when Topside killed a group of clones who were
aware. Another Helsinki is in
progress. The plan is that after they
take Sarah’s ovary, they’ll just kill her, they’ll stop treating Cosima and
she’ll die, and Ferdinand’s goon is on his way to kill Alison and her family
with a fire. Sarah tries to call Alison,
but only leaves a message.
She
ends up spanking, and then choking Ferdinand with his own belt – which he likes
– before Delphine comes in. She points
out that Topside would blame him for the Helsinki – they wouldn’t blame Rachel
– so they blackmail him into calling off his goon and telling Topside that
everything is fine at Dyad.
Seth
then manages to kill the guards around Rudy and freeing him.
Some
other things happen as well. Delphine –
having to take over for Rachel and loving all the Leda clones – breaks up with
Cosima. Scott is ready to quit because
of military clones, but then Cosima shows him Ethan’s Island of Dr. Moreau with all the notes, so he’s ready to stay. Until they crack it, they won’t tell anyone
about it. Kira has Helena’s container of
frozen embryos. Also, Cosima is a bit
confused about how Kira “saved” her last season.
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When
I first saw this episode, I wasn’t sure about it, it seemed to shake everything
up and I wasn’t sure it would all work.
Then I remembered that was how I felt about the first episode of the
Second Season, and the Second Season worked out pretty good. And the Third Season worked out great.
Since
Virginia wasn’t named this episode, I also wondered if she might be Susan
Duncan, Rachel’s mother that Leekie reportedly killed. But it turns out she’s just a Castor Doc.
Delphine
torturing Rachel made me wonder if they were trying to get the audience to feel
sorry for her. Well, that probably was
the idea, but I wondered if it was to set up Rachel’s turn to the good side
like Helena being shot. I guess that
still remains to be seen.
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