“Human
Raw Material”
(Spoilers)
We
open with Krystal – the clone Rudy and Seth tried to abduct, and who Nealon did
abduct so he could pass her off as the comatose Rachel so he could sneak Rachel
to Susan – training in self-defense. She
also says she’s been doing research into Dyad.
Sarah
is trying to just have a day with Kira.
But while looking up Evie Choe – who was at Dyad – Sarah sees that she
also works for the genetic company that matched Felix and Adele.
BrightBorn
is having an orientation meeting, and Alison wanted Sarah to sneak in, but
Cosima points out that only she would understand what was talked about. So Donnie will take Cosima as his and Felix’s
surrogate.
Sarah
and Kira show up at Felix’s to visit and invite him to dinner, only to find
Adele there. Sarah calls Scott asking
for a DNA test, so she steals a brush of Felix’s and grabs a glass Adele had
drank from.
At
the orientation, Cosima hides behind Donnie because Evie is there to introduce
everything. She tells the story of how
she was sick as a child and her parents worked to find a genetic cure, and
that’s why she’s so gung-ho for BrightBorn.
The
parents and surrogates have separate meetings, so they split up for that after
Evie leaves. But as she’s going out,
Evie spots Krystal who has shown up as part of her investigations. Evie goes to her office and finds Susan and
Ira there. Turns out, the dental
assistant Ferdinand killed two episodes ago was part of Evie’s group. Evie tells them that Sarah is there. Susan goes out to meet her.
Susan
sits down with Cosima – who apparently doesn’t recognize her – and they
talk. Cosima talks about gene therapy
and what happens to the unused embryos, and Susan is impressed. At one point, Cosima drops her papers and
manages to steal Susan’s keycard. Susan
tells Evie that that wasn’t Sarah, but Cosima.
Ira points out that Cosima has gone rather far, and Susan figures that
she needs to go. They send one of the
fake EMT “cheek choppers” out for her.
Donnie
sees Krystal and almost freaks out. He
finds Cosima and tells her, and Cosima tells him to keep an eye on her.
Art
is visited by Duko at the police station who asks if he knows Alison. Art says no, and Duko says how she looks like
Beth. He tells her that other cops are
closing in on Pouchy’s murder as well as the drug distribution that Alison and
Donnie ran. Art has let the clones get
away with a lot, but is really upset with the drug thing. He calls Sarah and tells her that he won’t be
any part of that.
Sarah
calls Alison to ask about the drugs, and Alison tells her that Helena has left. The two get a bit snippy with each other.
Sarah
and Kira return to the safe house for dinner, and Felix has brought Adele. Dinner is rather tense. But then Scott calls and says that Felix and
Adele are related. Sarah is rather
discombobulated by that, and Kira takes her to her room.
Donnie
sees Krystal stealing supplies from the BrightBorn spa area – she’s in the
business and curious – and he pretends to be a masseur. He starts giving Krystal a massage, and she
tells him about how she’s investigating genetic things like a woman who grew
teeth in her eyelids that she read about in a tabloid. At one point she mentions being kidnapped and
a “French, blonde doctor” that saved her.
Donnie asks if she meant Delphine.
Krystal asks how he knows that name, and he tries saying that he’s
trying to help her. He uses her real
name, and she asks how she knows that.
She then punches him and runs out.
The fake
EMT looking for Cosima finds Krystal, and takes her to a room. But Susan points out that isn’t Cosima, and
they let her go. On her way out, she
spots Ira and starts freaking out.
With
Susan’s keycard, Cosima has gone into the depths of BrighBorn. She sees a bunch of pregnant women almost
being held against their will. She’s
mistaken for a nurse and asked to help with a delivery, and she sees a baby born
with a bunch of deformities. As the baby
is being taken away, Susan shows up and uses Cosima’s name. Cosima then figures out who Susan is.
The
two talk and Susan says that the clones were to be a baseline for studying
human genetics. But when they lost the
cloning ability, they had to go to more barbaric systems like the maggotbots
and BrightBorn. If they could get
Kendall’s DNA, they could go back to more “civilized” experiments, as well as
cure all the clones. Susan leaves the
decision up to Cosima.
Kira
tells Sarah that she can feel what the Leda clones are feeling; Cosima’s
sadness, Helena’s loneliness, Rachel’s anger.
At
the end, we learn that Susan and Ira are lovers.
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As I
understand it, what is going on is BrightBorn is taking the donated embryos,
doing some random gene mutation thing to them, and implanting them into
carriers like Trina to see what happens to the babies. I’m guessing there’s a wing at BrightBorn of
deformed babies and kids. Along the way,
they luck into some way to cure some disease.
I
think it’s usually at this point in the seasons where I become more interested
in what is going to happen and it becomes harder for me to write up my
thoughts. That’s true here. I’m just curious what happens. The one issue I do have, is Kira. Modified babies and maggotbots I’m okay with
– in the storytelling sense – but psychic abilities, that’s okay in Star Trek or The Flash, shows that are more fantasy. But Orphan
Black has always been more grounded.
I really hope there’s a more technological explanation for what’s
happening with Kira. We’ll have to wait
and see.
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