“Let
the Children & the Childbearers Toil”
(Spoilers)
Susan
wakes up in a hospital bed. Westmoreland
is there saying they treated her with some of their stuff that will heal her
right up. She asks why she isn’t dead,
since he turned Rachel against her.
Westmoreland answers that he needs her.
Charlotte
and Aisha go looking for a missing pig.
They find it injured in the woods, along with some table scraps. Charlotte also finds a tooth. Mud shows up and tells them they shouldn’t be
there and takes them back to the village.
As they go, they hear odd noises behind them.
Sarah
is trying to talk with Kira, but Kira keeps sidestepping things. Then Sarah finds a cut on Kira’s upper
arm. At first she thinks Rachel did it,
but Kira finally admits that she cut herself to see how fast she healed. Mrs. S. tells Felix to take her to school,
and to pick her up and take her to his place for a sleepover. She also says that someone will come
visit. Mrs. S. then takes Sarah to the
comic shop.
Westmoreland
talks to Susan about her greenhouse – where he let everything die – and she
mentions that he never gets his hands dirty, just his mind. She also says that she can never forgive
him. Mud then brings in Ira.
Scott
and Hell Wizard have been searching for Westmoreland, and they come across some
of his old books. He was one of the
original eugenicists. He apparently
disappeared in Borneo in 1894. Hell
Wizard also tells Mrs. S. that he broke into someone’s email, and they have to
move today.
Mrs.
S. takes Sarah to a hotel bar. Sarah
asks who their mark is, and sees a woman on a laptop. Mrs. S. tells her that’s Dr. Elizabeth
Perkins, who has issues with her daughter, and that they need her ID. Sarah starts an argument with Mrs. S., but
that’s a distraction. She splashes Mrs.
S. with her drink, and while Elizabeth is helping her, Sarah grabs her
wallet. Mrs. S. goes to go after her,
but Elizabeth stops her to talk to her about her daughter.
Charlotte
shows Cosima the tooth. Mud told them –
and everyone – that there’s a bear in the woods. But Cosima says it looks human. She goes to talk to Mud about the “bear,” but
Mud who keeps insisting that it’s a bear.
Cosima wonders if there’s some Dr. Moreau thing going on. Mud breaks enough to say it’s not his fault,
but then goes back to her bear story.
Elizabeth
is a psychologist, and she and Mrs. S. talk about mothers and daughters, and
how she’s in town to do a case study for her book on trauma. Sarah returns and slips the wallet back on
the table, and she and Mrs. S. leave.
The real Elizabeth is expected at a psychiatric facility tomorrow, but
Mrs. S. will play her tonight when her “assistant” Sarah screwed up the
appointment. They’re to meet a patient
“Alex Ripley” a high-level neolution defector.
Sarah wonders how Mrs. S. got this info.
Along
the way, they stop at the convent Helena is at.
There was a nun who was kind to Helena in Ukraine, so they cut her
tongue out. She’s helping Helena
now. Helena tells Sarah she’s writing
her memories. They talk about Kira and
the Sestra connection.
Adele
shows back up at Felix’s. Apparently,
Mrs. S. told her the whole clone thing, which Adele is okay with. Turns out, she was disbarred for
embezzlement. She’s good at finding
money, not so good at taking it. Mrs. S.
wants them to go to Switzerland, to see if they can track Westmoreland’s
finances.
Susan
tells Ira that years ago, Westmoreland took another path. He chose a scientist who would do the things
Susan wouldn’t.
Cosima
follows Mud, who is going for a walk.
She overhears the hunter who chased Sarah asking Mud, “Where he hides.”
Mud slips out of the camp, and Cosima follows.
Cosima follows Mud to Westmoreland’s house, where Mud is helping him
with dialysis, or something like that.
She goes downstairs and finds a “dungeon” lab with shackles and blood on
the walls.
Mrs.
S. and Sarah shows up at the facility and talk their way in. They’re given badges, but not allowed to talk
to any of the patients. They find
“Alex,” who turns out to be Virginia, the former head of Castor.
Virginia
wants out of the facility, and then she’ll talk. Mrs. S. and Sarah say talk first. She says that Susan was the one who put her
there, to keep her from Westmoreland.
She tells them that before they found Kendell, they found their first
human subject, a boy with a unique genome.
They did horrifying tests on him, and he grew tumors, had brain damage,
and became deformed. Susan wanted to
stop, but Virginia was made of sterner stuff.
Mud
finds Cosima and tells her she can’t be there, and rushes her out of the
house. Later, Cosima follows Mud as she
takes some coats to the disfigured man in the woods.
The
facility’s head doctor shows up, and Virginia attacks Sarah and grabs her badge
before she’s restrained.
Susan
has apparently told Ira the same story, and about Virginia. She then talks with Westmoreland and his
breakthrough with Kira’s anomaly. She
demands access to all the data, and he gives it to her, with the understanding
that Rachel is still in control.
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So
this kid was experiment on like twenty years ago? Why is there still blood on the walls and
photographs of his wounds? Doesn’t
anyone clean up?
How
did Mud find the guy in the woods, and convince him that she was nice?
I’ve
wondered what is it about Sarah and Helena that makes them different from the
other clones, in that they can have kids and are apparently immune. What role does any of that play in the Kira
anomaly?
The
next episode will be halfway through the final season, and there are a lot of
still unresolved questions. I wonder if
all will be answered, or if there will be a few left unanswered to be answered
in books, comic books, or perhaps even a miniseries or movie. We’ll just have to wait and see.
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