“Variations
Under Domestication”
(Spoilers)
The
next morning Alison checks her spycam and sees that Donnie got up in the middle
of the night and left. She asks where he
went and he doesn’t answer. They’re
hosting the monthly neighborhood potluck, but nothing is ready and he’s
upset. They fight a bit, and then when
he goes to go out and get ice, she hits him with a golf club. She takes him to the basement and ties him to
a chair. She demands to know where he
went, even dripping some hot glue on his chest.
Paul
explains to Sarah that after he left the military he was a private contractor
in Afghanistan. Something happened, and
they hold that over him. He tells her
that the medical results go to Olivier, beyond that he doesn’t know. Sarah then slips out the back.
Sarah
calls Cosima and Cosima tells her that Delphine may be her monitor. Sarah tells her to stay away from her. Alison calls asking for Sarah’s help. When Sarah arrives, she finds that Alison has
tied Donnie to a chair, blindfolded, and gagged.
Alison
wants to move the potluck, but it’s too late and everyone is showing up,
including Aynsley and her husband Chad.
Alison wants Sarah to impersonate her and interrogate Donnie, while she
is upstairs at the potluck, which doesn’t go so well. Sarah calls Felix in to bartend.
Sarah
questions Donnie and learns that he was watching cricket during the night. He’s upset about not having any privacy.
At
the party, Alison gets drunk and has some happy pills. She goes back downstairs and Sarah tells her
that since she’s known Donnie since high school, and that Paul is ex-military,
Donnie is unlikely to be her monitor.
They figure it has to be one of her neighbors, such as Aynsley. Alison then falls asleep.
Vic
breaks into Felix’s place, and I guess Felix left his computer on as he got a
taxi, or something, so Vic goes to Alison’s.
He sees Felix and calls Sarah, and they meet in the bedroom, away from
the party.
Paul
has been tracking Sarah – either by Beth’s car or phone – and knows she’s at
Alison’s. He grinds up some of Beth’s
pills and adds them to a liquor bottle.
He goes to see Olivier saying Beth is suicidal. He wants to know if he’ll be held accountable
if she does something. Olivier says that
as long as she makes her own choices, nothing bad will happen to Paul.
Cosima
is friendly towards Delphine, who tells her about a lecture being given by a
Dr. Aldous Leekie from the Dyad Institute about neolution, or self-directed
evolution. They go to the lecture, and
later talk with Leekie.
Paul
breaks in and finds Alison asleep on the basement couch. He finds the still tied up Donnie, and sees from
the hidden camera that Sarah and Vic are in the bedroom. He goes up there, saying that Sarah works for
him and Vic is screwing things up. Vic
pulls a gun and wants them all to go to the garage.
The
run into Aynsley who talks to Sarah/Alison about how she thinks Chad is
cheating on her. She doesn’t want to put
that on Alison because she knows that she and Donnie are having issues.
Vic
takes Paul to the garage at gunpoint, but then Paul gets the drop on him. He loads a nail gun, and questions Vic about
Sarah, asking if she has sisters. At one
point Vic tries to leave, but Paul nails his uninjured hand to a chair. They pry him lose and Sarah tells him not to
come back.
Aynsley
sees Sarah/Alison and Paul, and Sarah plays it off as if she and Paul were
having an affair, and Aynsley figures it’s none of her business. Paul then wants to see Sarah back home to
explain everything.
Donnie
tells Alison that he had “cheated” on her in college. He and the woman had exchanged dirty letters,
but then she got sick and he stopped hearing from her. He says that was what he kept in his locked
box.
Sarah
meets with Paul and tells him about the clones.
Paul had been about to give her the drugged liquor, but instead he gets
the normal stuff and they drink.
Delphine
shows up at Leekie’s hotel room.
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Poor
Donnie and Vic. Getting your hand nailed
to a chair couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
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