“From
Instinct to Rational Control”
(Spoilers)
The
episode starts with MK brushing her teeth, digging through Dyad files for
information on the members of Topside (apparently, Marion is dead), and
building a bomb. She talks to a photo of
Nikki, who we later learn was her only friend and a fellow clone. MK is on the search for Ferdinand.
Mrs.
S., Sarah, and Benjamin take Ferdinand to an alternate safe house. He starts cooking and they discuss
business. If they can find Susan, she
should be the one who knows how to take the maggotbot out of Sarah. But to find her, they’ll need to track the
message Rachel sent, which he has on a USB drive. Ferdinand figures whoever tipped Sarah off in
Iceland should be able to do that. He
wants to meet, but Sarah says no.
Ferdinand also says that he’s saved up some money and wants to live
peacefully with Rachel, until it’s time to take back control.
Alison
sends Cosima and Scott Leekie’s head.
They dig out the tumor and find the maggotbot within, still
wiggling. They start doing tests.
Felix
shows up at the alternate safe house, and Benjamin takes Ferdinand to another
room so they can have a family meeting.
They explain everything, and Felix says he would have helped if she had
told him she had a maggotbot, and they tell him that Adele has to be kept from
all of this.
Alison
and Sara Stubbs are having coffee talking about doing a musical review. After Sara leaves, Trina approaches telling
“Beth” to leave things alone. Trina
believes Beth checked out Club Neolution and the Lifespring fertility clinic. Trina told Beth, in confidence, that she was
a “carrier.” Alison grabs a picture of Trina and calls Sarah.
Sarah
gets testy with Alison for “not pulling her weight.” But Alison agrees to check
out Lifespring with Felix and Donnie.
Donnie
talks to Helena about how he and Alison struggled to get pregnant, and Helena
realizes that seeing her would be tough on them. So later she buries her tank of babies – she
never put more liquid nitrogen on them – and leaves.
Sarah
goes to Dizzy’s, who has set up a meeting with MK because of Sarah’s
maggotbot. Dizzy leaves and Sarah talks
to MK on a computer. Sarah tells her
about Susan being alive. MK agrees to
trace the message and meet Sarah at Beth’s.
Alison
takes Felix and Donnie to Lifespring.
Since Beth had already been there, she can’t go in. So she sends Felix and Donnie with fake
identities as a married couple looking to have a child. They each give a sperm sample to determine
who would be the father.
Donnie
catches a glimpse of a woman he and Alison met when they had been trying to get
pregnant. Apparently, she and her
husband had given up on IVF before, but now she’s pregnant. So Alison goes off to “bump” into her and get
the story. She tells Alison about Doctor
Bosch and the BrightBorn Treatments.
Felix and Donnie meet with Doctor Bosch, and they ask about the
BrightBorn Treatment and he gives them a packet of information.
Rachel
discusses Charlotte’s condition with Ira and later Susan. Rachel finally says that the illness should
be allowed to progress for the information they will get, which could help her
and Ira.
MK
traces the message, but also finds out it was sent to Ferdinand. Sarah shows up at Beth’s, but MK isn’t
there. She calls Sarah and says she
won’t work with Ferdinand and that she can’t trust Sarah now.
Sarah
goes back to Dizzy wanting help. Before
he’ll commit, he asks for something because he has people involved to. Sarah tells him that they’re clones. Dizzy says the three times he met MK, her car
had different plates, all from junkers.
She had said she worked as a night watchman, so they go to the junkyard
nearest to Beth’s.
They
find MK’s trailer, but she isn’t there.
Sarah breaks the window to get in, but Dizzy spots the bomb on the first
step. They get in and Sarah looks around
while Dizzy hacks into MK’s computer.
Sarah
finds a box of old newspaper clippings and photos of a younger MK with
Nikki. We find that “MK” is 3MK29A. Dizzy gets in and finds that MK had been
tracking Sarah, getting her phone and everything.
Mrs.
S. gets a text from “Sarah” saying to have Ferdinand meet her at Beth’s.
Scott
discovers that the tumor glows in the dark.
They figure that the bioluminescence was used to track new genes. They figure the maggotbots are a gene therapy
delivery system.
Ferdinand
shows up at Beth’s, but meets MK on a computer.
He sits down, activating a bomb.
MK then comes in and shows him the right side of her face – which she
has always covered with her hair – and the big scars there. She’s Veera, the Helsinki clone. Ferdinand had always thought that one had
escaped. MK lights a bunch of candles
and pours out some gas. She wants
revenge on Ferdinand for killing Nikki, her only friend, along with several of
her sisters and a bunch of other people.
Sarah
calls Mrs. S. needing Ferdinand to be safe, and she learns that he’s at Beth’s
with “Sarah.” Sarah takes Dizzy’s car and rushes over, getting a call from
Cosima about the maggotbots.
Sarah
shows up at Beth’s and tries to talk MK out of killing Ferdinand. She says that she needs all the help she can
get to get rid of the maggotbot.
Ferdinand points out that he has money, and MK knows about his $3.7
million. She has him log into his
account and she transfers all of it. She
then leaves.
Mrs.
S. shows up and defuses the bomb.
Rachel
had tried to pass another message through Charlotte, but Susan catches it,
saying they allowed the first message through.
Cosima
and Felix take a look at the BrightBorn info.
The video has Evie Choe talking about how they can make healthier,
better, babies.
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Where
did Helena go? Back to Jesse?
What
sort of gene therapy are they giving to Sarah?
Is it possible that it was her maggotbot – probably implanted at the end
of season two when she was a captive at Dyad – kept her safe from Rudy’s blood
when she was transfused in season three?
Or was that all because of whatever it is that lets her have kids?
MK
has become one of my favorite clones, and I do hope she comes back. But I’m hoping to see her for three or four
episodes. Let her try to enjoy Ferdinand’s
money, only to realize she needs to help her sisters. Or, is she already planning something? We’ll have to see.
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