“The
Antisocialism of Sex”
(Spoilers)
We
open with Rachel working on walking. The
door to her room/cell unlocks. She goes
out and goes up a flight of stairs to a nice house and an old book. Susan is there and she explains the secret
history of neolution. Percival
Westmoreland – a Victorian industrialist – started neolution to breed a better
human. Susan built upon his work – and his
home on an island – but now that Kendall is dead and Evie has taken over, there’s
nothing left for her. Rachel is upset
that Susan gives up so easily.
Sarah
is distraught over what has happened.
She and Mrs. S. have an argument and Sarah leaves “for good.”
Scott
tries to tell Cosima it isn’t her fault, but Cosima doesn’t want to
listen. With Hell Wizard, Scott tries to
salvage anything from their computers.
Cosima gets a bit testy with them, but then reveals that she stole Sarah’s
maggotbot, and Scott wonders if they can dig something out of it.
Felix
is talking with Mrs. S. when Kira comes in.
He learns that Sarah had left, but he goes out to find her and bring her
back because she’s “the glue” holding them all together.
Sarah
starts hitting the bars to get drunk. At
times, she catches a glimpse of Beth watching her. Sarah bumps into Dizzy at a bar, but then she
catches the eyes of a couple. They
invite Sarah into a back room for drugs and sex. Felix comes in looking for Sarah, and he and
Dizzy – who don’t know each other – talk for a bit and Dizzy learns Sarah has a
brother and a daughter.
Mrs.
S. talks to Art and they figure Duko killed Kendall, as well as put Beth onto
Susan. Art later tricks Duko into
meeting him, and starts beating the crap out of him. Art says that they can bring Evie and everything
out in the public. Duko counters that
Art has secrets of his own, such as the Maggie Chen shooting and hanging out
with drug dealers. If he tries to take
down Evie, they’ll take him down as well.
Evie
meets with her doctor and we learn that she has shingles, and that the new
maggotbots – which have just won approval for public use – will come out next
week. She’ll get one of the first ones
to finally cure her. Evie and her group
have a call with Susan and Rachel to mark the complete takeover of neolution by
Evie. The monitoring of the clones will
end, and the unaware clones will go their own way. The self-aware clones, however, Evie
considers a threat.
Rachel
tells Charlotte that they are both sick and dying. Charlotte doesn’t seem that concerned.
When
Sarah and the couple come back, a fight starts with Dizzy. She then suggests going back to his
place. They start to fool around, but he
doesn’t seem that interested. He
discovers that her maggotbot is gone. He
asks how she managed that, and that he had a friend who had one who died. This is the buried guy MK tipped Beth off
to. But Sarah doesn’t want to talk about
any of that and ends up leaving.
Alison
is really upset over Kendall. Donnie
proposes to postpone their daughter’s birthday party, but Alison won’t hear of
it. Donnie also invites the reverend
over in case Alison needs to talk to someone.
She doesn’t want to talk. During
the party, cops come in and arrest Donnie for drugs. Then Duko comes in and gives Alison his card
so that they can “stay in touch.”
Kira
gets a vibe that Sarah is “following Beth.” Sarah walks to a bridge over the
train tracks and has a conversation with Beth.
Sarah thinks about jumping.
Cosima
and Scott are talking about Sarah’s maggotbot, and Cosima suggests implanting
it in herself because it was randomly turning off genes and maybe it could cure
her. Scott thinks that’s nuts. They go up to the comic store to eat, but
Cosima says she forgot something and goes back down and locks herself in. She takes the bot, and makes a cut in her
cheek to implant it.
Mrs.
S. calls Felix about Sarah following Beth.
Scott then calls Felix about Cosima.
Felix calls Cosima and tells her that Krystal saw Delphine get shot, but
she also saw someone else pick her up.
Cosima puts down the bot.
Felix
spots Sarah on the bridge and goes to her.
Beth tells her that there’s more than biology between them, and to bring
them together. Beth disappears and Sarah
goes back home with Felix. She and Mrs.
S. start coming back together.
Kira
is playing a video game when she gets a call from MK.
Rachel
trips going down the stairs and sees a swan.
Ira helps her up, and figures she just bumped her head. But the swan – that looks as if it’s just
floating in midair – glitches a bit, so it’s apparently just a projection in
her bionic eye.
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Will
Art – for his love of Beth – fall on his sword for the sisters? Will he accept all the consequences if it
means they take down Evie? Would such an
act just echo, or be repetitive to what Paul did for Sarah last season?
I
saw a review that wondered if Dizzy had a maggotbot and body modifications, and
I was unsure about that. But rewatching
the episode and seeing his apparent disinterest in sex, makes me think there
may be something to that.
Orphan Black has a history of
characters faking their deaths: Ethan, Susan, MK, Sarah. Leekie even “died” of a heart attack while he
was being shot in the head, and Rachel “died” in a plane crash. I bring this up because the only evidence we
have of Marion’s death is MK has a file of it and Susan mentions something
about Charlotte have bad luck with monitors.
I wonder if Marion faked her death to be out of sight of Evie to work on
an anti-Evie group? Is Ferdinand part of
it? Are they the ones who picked up
Delphine?
Speaking
of Delphine, I can’t remember when I first had this idea, but before she was
shot she visited Shay and gave her a card to give to Cosima letting her know
she could trust Shay with everything. I
wonder if there’s a microdot or something on the card giving Cosima access to a
hidden server, or something. I was
expecting Shay to play some role this season, and I’m rather surprised we
haven’t seen her. Yet. I’m sure at some point this loose thread will
be tied off.
The
only evidence we have that Sarah’s bot was switching off genes is Evie, someone
whose word is not to be trusted. I
wondered if she just said that to maybe trick Cosima into implanting it, but
that seems too complex. I did wonder why
Evie hadn’t noticed that Cosima took Sarah’s maggotbot, but did she just switch
it with Leekie’s? I may have to rewatch
that scene.
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