“Governed
by Sound Reason and True Religion”
(Spoilers)
A
cop is at the hospital getting information about this strange woman who was
shot and walked in (Helena). She has no
ID and he takes a picture of her.
Art
is now in the Clone Club, and has done some work on the Proletheans, who have a
farm. Felix shows up with new, green,
clone phones. Kira calls Felix, and Art
traces it to a motel.
At
Aynsley’s funeral, Alison’s neighbors aren’t too happy that she is there. The exception is Sarah Stubbs, one of her
friends from the musical. While Donnie
is taking care of the kids, she reads some of his texts which make her suspect
that he is her real monitor. This gets
her to drinking again.
At
the Prolethean farm – run by Henrik Johanssen and his wife Bonnie – Henrik and
Mark are trying to figure out how to get Helena. The reason is they figure that since Sarah
could have kids, Helena as her twin may also be able to have kids.
Cosima
takes the job at Dyad. Leekie, who
doesn’t fully buy that Sarah acted alone, warns her that Rachel takes things
personally. Cosima and Delphine check
out their new lab, and start making a list of new equipment. Rachel comes in and gives Cosima what
information they have on Katja. She also
asks Cosima to look over what little they have on Sarah to see why only she
could have kids. Cosima asks to study
the original genome, but Rachel says the problems are not from the genes but the
cloning process.
Art
and Sarah arrive at the motel, but Benjamin and Kira are gone. As they look around, they see Daniel coming
in. Art goes to talk to him. We don’t see all of what happens, but Art is
later suspended.
Sarah
notices some of Kira’s clothes, and follows them to a car. Benjamin forces her to get into the
trunk. When they stop, she attacks him
before being pulled off by Mrs. S. Apparently,
she took Kira and made the place look like someone had taken them because she
knew people were watching the house.
Felix
shows up at rehearsal to give Alison her new clone phone. She tells him what happened to Aynsley and
that she thinks Donnie is her monitor.
Felix knows that Dyad is keen on Sarah, so they set a trap. At home, Alison talks on the phone with Felix
that she can’t meet with Sarah. She then
– conspiratorially – sets up a meeting.
Donnie overhears all of it and follows Alison to Aynsley’s grave. He calls Leekie, saying she is meeting with a
Sarah. But it turns out to be Stubbs. Leekie hangs up, and Alison spots Donnie, who
makes up something and leaves.
Clone
Sarah follows Mrs. S. to the “Birdwatchers,” the freedom
fighting/smuggling/whatever group she worked with after leaving England. Sarah remembers some of it. She is reunited with Kira.
Angie
visits Art. He doesn’t really talk about
what’s going on. She shows him the photo
of Helena. Art tells her to drop it. But Angie goes to the hospital anyway, only
Mark has taken Helena away.
Back
at the farm, Gracie – Henrik and Bonnie’s daughter – doesn’t like Helena,
thinking she’s an abomination. Henrik
tells her she’s part of the family now.
Tomas is there, watching over Helena.
Henrik explains that the reason Helena survived being shot in the chest,
is that her organs are mirror-reversed, something that can happen with
twins. Tomas thinks it a sign of
abomination, but Henrik is more science oriented.
Mrs.
S’s plan is to take Kira back to London, where this all started. Once things settle down, Sarah and Felix
could follow. But Sarah doesn’t like
that idea. Sarah shows her the “Project
Leda” photo Amelia gave her, but Mrs. S. says she doesn’t know anything about
it.
Later,
Sarah goes to put Kira down for a nap before the flight, and Kira tells her how
she saw Mrs. S. snooping in Amelia’s stuff and found the photo. So Sarah decides to sneak out with Kira. One of the Birdwatchers tries to stop her,
and Mrs. S. finds out that there is something funky going on. She kills the one so that Sarah and Kira can
leave, and then goes back to talk to the other one. Mrs. S. learns that they sold them out to the
Proletheans, but they don’t know anything about Project Leda. Mrs. S. says good, then kills them.
Sarah
picks up Felix to run off somewhere.
Alison calls him about Donnie, but he can’t help her.
At
the farm, Tomas and Henrik talk, while Mark gets behind Tomas and kills him.
#
Mrs.
S. is a badass.
When
I first saw this, I wasn’t sure where it was going. Now I can’t believe they went so far.
At
some point, I had heard about this show Sense8,
where these eight people around the world become connected and can see and feel
what everyone else is doing. And there
are bad guys wanting to kill them all. I
bring this up, because about two weeks ago I decided to finally check it
out. The first season is … okay. I found it somewhat dull because most of the
season is just backstories on all eight characters, of how childhood events
made them who they are and stuff like that.
There is very little stuff of the “now” going on, if that makes
sense. Since I was also doing this Orphan Black rewatch, I couldn’t help
but compare the shows. The events of
this episode – if written in the Sense8
style – would probably take up two or even three episodes. There would be a lengthy bit of young Sarah
and Felix running around the birdwatchers.
Which would be interesting to get another layer to the characters, but
at the same time you’d have to wait another episode for something to
happen. I’m not saying one style of show
is better than the other, but I do prefer the Orphan Black style.
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