“From
Dancing Mice to Psychopaths”
(Spoilers)
We
start with a flashback to the end of last season. Krystal is following Delphine and sees her
get shot by Duko. Before he can finish
the job, Krystal’s phone rings and he goes to investigate. But then he hears traffic and leaves. Krystal goes to help Delphine when Evie’s
doctor/right hand Ian Van Lier – who I don’t think was named before – shows up
and sends Krystal away and gets Delphine medical help. She ends up in a cabin with the old guy from
Rachel’s visions.
In
the present, Cosima and Susan have succeeded in making their stem cells and are
well on their way to having a cure. Cosima
calls Sarah to share the news, but then she sees that she is locked out of the
computer and then her connection freezes.
Krystal
is having lunch with a friend and sees a news report on the BrightBorn stuff
and sees Ian announce he is interim CEO.
She calls Felix with news about what happened to Delphine, but wants to
be told everything.
Ira
can’t get in touch with Susan so arranges a helicopter to take them back to the
island. Sarah calls Rachel wondering
what is going on, but Rachel says they are having trouble getting in touch with
Susan as well. Sarah and Rachel start
arguing over Ian and why things are still going on, when Felix hangs up to tell
them that Krystal has info on Ian. They
figure there are two branches of Neolution – clones vs bots – and they need all
the info they can get.
Cosima
is talking with Charlotte when her nose starts bleeding. She then has a dizzy spell.
Ferdinand
shows up at Rachel’s hotel room. He’s
ready to get back to the top of Neolution with her holding his leash. But she says she doesn’t feel anything
now. But he pushes her and she starts
canning him. She talks about neolution
and he seems worried she’s gone over to them, but she kind of forces him to
back her. They’re interrupted when Ira
comes back saying Susan will call.
Evie
is talking to the Neolution Board, saying that this is all just a minor
setback. They want her to sign
everything over so that the technology won’t be tainted by her scandal. She refuses, and Ian activates her maggotbot
and she dies.
Helena,
Alison, and Donnie are hiding out in Helena’s shack.
Krystal
shows up at the Rabbit Hole. Felix tries
to talk her out of knowing everything, but she refuses. He takes her downstairs where she sees Art
and Sarah introduces herself as Krystal’s clone. But Krystal doesn’t buy it, thinking they
look nothing alike. But she tells them
what Ian did.
Cosima
goes looking for Susan and finds her in Rachel’s room talking to Rachel. She says that they can now restart human
cloning. Cosima confronts her, and Susan
locks her in the room so she doesn’t interfere.
Ferdinand
ties Ira up so he and Rachel can go to the board, behind Susan’s back.
Ian
is talking to the press when Krystal shows up asking about Delphine and
neolution. He ditches the press and asks
if she wants to talk, but she says to meet around the corner. He goes and Mrs. S. takes him to a car where
we see it was Sarah, not Krystal. He tells
them about the Board and how Rachel is cutting Susan out of everything.
Rachel
talks to the Board saying Susan is out of touch. She wants to restart human cloning – in
countries where the clones would have no legal rights – and implant them with
the maggotbots to turn them fully into lab rats. So they can do whatever tests they want to
further the technology.
Rachel
then goes back to the island to get the cloning stuff, leaving Ira behind. Sarah talks him into giving her the
helicopter he had planned to use. They
put him with Mrs. S. and Kira.
Cosima
is going around the room and knocks over some paintings Charlotte had
done. One is of the island showing a
boat and a group of huts on the other side.
Charlotte then breaks Cosima out saying Susan told them to leave and go
to the boat. Cosima asks if there are
other people on the island, and Charlotte says they can’t go there. Cosima makes a small detour to the lab.
Rachel
arrives on the island and finds the man from her visions in the house. He tells her not to waver. She goes in to talk to Susan and asks who
that was. Susan called him The
Messenger. They talk and Susan says
she’s disappointed by Rachel who – sees an image of the swan’s head – so she
grabs a knife and stabs Susan.
Sarah
arrives at the island and goes in the house.
She follows the bloodtrail to Susan, bandaging herself in the lab. She puts down her gun to help, but Rachel was
waiting and starts beating on Sarah with her cane. She also takes the knife and stabs Sarah in
the leg. Susan grabs the gun and
threatens to shoot Rachel, but Rachel calls her bluff. But Sarah manages to escape.
Cosima
and Charlotte get lost in the woods.
When night falls, they sit down to rest and fall asleep. They are found by The Messenger, who takes
them to the huts where Cosima is reunited with Delphine.
Rachel
patches Susan up, and ties her to a wheelchair.
Rachel asks about who made her eye and the visions. Susan says it’s the man behind the curtain,
Westmoreland, who is still alive well over a century after writing his
book. Rachel says that’s impossible, but
Susan says not for him. Rachel then
locks her in the room.
Cosima
wakes up hearing Delphine talking with The Messenger. Westmoreland apparently isn’t happy with the
situation and Delphine won’t be allowed to stay with Cosima. But for now she is her patient. After he leaves, Cosima gives her the cell
line she stole from the lab so Delphine could cure her. Delphine tells her not to tell anyone.
Sarah
calls Mrs. S., but Ferdinand is there holding them at gunpoint.
Rachel
talks with Ian who says that Westmoreland will see her now. There is then a ring at the door.
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At
the end of last season we saw Nealon take some worm out of his mouth and try to
force it on Delphine. I was a tad
worried that things were going a little too sci-fantasy for my tastes. But this season they explained the maggotbots
and I no longer have an issue with that.
With that in mind, I’m cautiously optimistic that the “immortal”
Westmoreland or whatever will be satisfactorily explained next season. We’ll just have to wait and see. I’m still concerned about the psychic Kira
and am still waiting for a good explanation of that.
One
question I have is if Ferdinand has gone over to the Neolution side. It looks that way with him holding Mrs. S.
and Kira hostage, but it could also be him just getting their attention as he
explains that he thinks Rachel has gone off the deep end. I guess we’ll have to wait until next season.
My plan is to rewatch
this season, then write up my thoughts on it and any predictions I have for the
fifth season. I should hopefully have
that out by the end of the week.
