“The
Mitigation of Competition”
(Spoilers)
Rachel
and Ira are in a hotel room. She is
having more visions of a group of armed people in a camp in the woods. The old man she saw before is with them. She believes they are on the island. Ira shows her the news which is interviewing
Evie leading up to her big press conference later that day.
Sarah
and Felix show up. Rachel explains that
the new maggotbots will be sold as gene therapy, but they will also alter the
patients DNA – as well as their children’s – without any consent. There’s probably something about it buried in
the tons of legalese, but nobody will find it.
Rachel
and Ira learned that two carriers from BrightBorn had escaped. But Sarah and Felix don’t want to really work
with them, so they take the information and leave Rachel and Ira at the hotel.
One
of the escapees has video of one of the BrightBorn doctor’s euthanizing a
deformed baby. They sent it to Evie to
leave them be, or the video will go public.
Her right-hand man sends the two fake EMTs out on jobs.
Art
gets a lead on the women at a shelter.
He and Sarah go, but there are cops there. She stays in the car and gets a call from
Helena, who has a camp in the woods where she fishes and hunts deer with a
bow. She’s also wearing some skins. Sarah doesn’t tell her all of what is going
on, but Helena knows something is going on.
One
of the women is dead from a “suicide,” a hanging. Trina was friends with them and had gotten a
call and had showed up to meet. After
she leaves, Sarah spots her and talks to her as Beth. Trina says that the other woman – Kendra, who
has a son – knew of an empty house.
Art
talks to the detective on the scene – who is the one going after Donnie – and
after Art leaves the detective calls Evie to let her know Sarah is searching
for Kendra.
Donnie
gets out of jail and is really happy to see Alison. They meet with Adele but a few things slip
that there is more stuff going on than they are telling her. This is only further expanded when Adele and
Felix go back to his place, and the “triplet” Helena shows up. She and Adele snap at each other, and Felix
tells Helena to go and they’ll talk later.
Adele then leaves because she can’t handle all the secrets Felix is
keeping from her.
Evie
has the latest version of the maggotbot implanted.
Art
and Sarah go searching for the empty house.
At one point, Ira calls her with information about Kendra’s son. But it was all so he can trace her phone to know
where they are. Rachel sends him after
them as a contingency plan.
Cosima
and Susan fertilize an egg. Susan then
gives Cosima Westmorland’s book. As she
reads, Charlotte shows up and they talk about being sick. Cosima doesn’t like Westmoreland that
much. She talks with Susan and they
argue about the ethics of all this.
Susan says that she was under pressure to continue Leda when she made
Charlotte.
Rachel
has more visions of the people in the camp beheading a swan.
Alison
and Donnie are worried that everything is going wrong, so they decide to leave
the country. They’re packing things when
Alison goes downstairs and finds the one EMT guy has him tied up.
He
wants to know where Duko is, and will implant one of the early maggotbots –
that’s really glitchy – into Alison. But
she won’t talk and just before he can implant it, Helena shows up with her bow
and kills the guy.
Art
and Sarah find the house and break in.
They find the baby – who is blind – and Kendra, who points a gun at
them. She finally believes them that
they are going after BrightBorn. She
shows them the video of the doctor she shot in BrightBorn. She wants to just give them the video, but
they point out that they need her to collaborate it.
Sarah
calls Rachel who suggests a more devious way to get Kendra to go with
them. Sarah won’t do that and hangs
up. Rachel calls Ira and has him get
ready.
The
one EMT lady – and another goon – show up at the house. While Art is arresting them, Rachel calls
Kendra on the land line, and tells her to get in Ira’s car or something will
happen to her other son.
Rachel
walks in to Evie’s press conference, before it begins. She gives Evie Kendra’s phone with the video,
and tells her where Kendra is. In return,
she wants a seat at the table. Evie
agrees. Rachel then asks, why Evie
killed the babies, and Evie says that euthanizing them was the only humane
thing to do. She then starts her press
conference.
Sarah
and Art show up at the hotel room and are ready to kick Ira’s butt. But he points out that Rachel is wearing a
hidden camera. During Evie’s press
conference, all the reporters get the doctor video as well as Evie’s confession. They start asking questions and ruin her
shining moment.
Rachel
has more visions, and realizes that someone is trying to tell her
something. We then see the inside of a cabin
at the camp, and we see Delphine.
#
What’s
Latin for “Helena at the door,” as the new deus ex machina?
How
long have Sarah and her people been fighting Evie? Rachel takes her down in an afternoon. I’m not ready to jump on the reformed Rachel
train just yet. She too often has
schemes within schemes, so I’m just waiting to see what she really does. Of course, I guess at the end of Season Two I
had predicted that an injured Rachel may be the way towards turning her around,
like an injured Helena. It’s just taking
a lot longer.
I
was a little surprised that Evie was basically defeated this episode. I expected that to be more of a season
ender. It was great nonetheless, just
surprising. Although, I guess her story
isn’t completely over, but I doubt there will be much of a resurgence for her.
Now,
the stuff with Delphine. After last
season I suspected that she was dead.
And then there were reports that the creators said she was dead. So I expected a scene early this season of
Cosima standing at her grave. But when
this season started, and Delphine had just disappeared, the odds were turning
that she was alive, somewhere. But I
didn’t expect to see her until next season.
I guess, how I feel about her being back will depend on what she’s been
doing.
Now,
who are the people on the island? My
theory is that they are the Bird Watchers.
What if Westmorland – perhaps in his later years – became worried about
what his secret society might do, so he started a second, secret society to
keep tabs on the first one? It would be
run in cells, so not everybody would know what is all going on. But I think Mrs. S. is not the leader, but
high up. She’s always seemed to know
more than she lets on. For example, at
the beginning of the second season when Mrs. S. takes Kira to her people and
then Sarah shows up only to find that group had sold them out to the
Proleathens, when the lady ask Mrs. S. who Sarah and Kira were, she replied
that they were Leda. The lady didn’t
know what that was, and Mrs. S. said good, then shot her. I can’t remember if it was explained, but how
did Mrs. S. know about Leda? All she had
seen was the photo of the Duncan’s Sarah and Helena’s birth mother had. Was Mrs. S. fishing for information, or did
she know what Leda was?
In
my theory, it was Mrs. S. who picked up the injured Delphine. She was at the Bubbles party, but that was
before Delphine was shot. This would add
weight to the scene early this season where Cosima was distraught and Mrs. S.
was talking to her and Cosima asked Mrs. S. to tell her that Delphine was
alive. I believe Mrs. S. response was,
“I can’t do that.” Hmm.
Of
course, if this is true and Orphan Black
continues its policy of people who we don’t actually see die are just faking
their deaths, then could the old man in Rachel’s visions be Mr. S., the one
Kendall went to prison for killing? That
would be too big of a coincidence. Yes,
it would tie a whole bunch of plot threads together, but it would be a tangled
mess, not the smooth elegance we expect from Orphan Black.
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