Day 11
Are there actually any scientists left on this base now? We
never seem to see them, and no-one cares what the goo-zombies are doing so I
just assume while everyone is squabbling the zombies are in the background
chewing on scientists.
To add evidence to my theory – Goo-Zombie-King Peter has
just lured one of the remaining, starving scientists into a trap using a rat in
a microwave. As you do quite randomly
Hiroshi, meanwhile, is busy moping and feeling sorry for himself
when Constance’s phone rings – she’s gone too long without checking in so a “retrieval
team” is being sent and will arrive in 6 hours. That’s probably not a good
thing. He responds by grabbing a suitcase full of bombs. Yes, definitely not a
good thing. He moseys round the base planting the bombs everywhere, smacking
any goo-zombies out of his way
Sarah has received her transfusion of Julia’s spinal
fluid and it is magically curing her tumour. Yay. I guess. Julia’s conflicted
about having a miracle cure in her back but wants to help everyone – except that
will kill her, so better to derive a cure rather than just run around with a
big plunger giving spinal fluid to everyone (hey, it’s Helix, it could happen).
Alan is also told that people
are disappearing which probably prompted a whole “you mean some of you guys are
still alive? Wow, who knew!?” He and Dr. Philippe are also surprised that the
goo-zombies are back, because they’ve got so many places to go, right guys? I
love the way they lampshade that there hasn’t been an attack in 2 days –
because the zombies have conveniently kept quiet while the plot got on with
other things! We have a brief science-breaking conversation about intelligent,
trap-setting viruses explained by EVOLUTION (which is roughly equivalent of
yelling “SCIENCE!”)
Hiroshi and Alan share notes on Ilaria (sending and army)
and Zombies (soon to attack en mass), pausing to bicker about whether Hiroshi
is immortal or not when Miksa gives us an update on how many people are still
alive and uninfected: 20 scientists, 5 security personnel. That was some damn
fast attrition in the background.
Hiroshi has a plan – lure everyone
in and blow it all up. People are concerned with that plan – but it’s ok, there’s
a bunker under the base (how many hidden sublevels does this place have? I
think this one is the cabon) where all the survivors can gather (it has an
escape tunnel so, no, they won’t be buried alive) and then Ilaria and
goo-zombies blow up (Alan still wants to cure the goo-zombies. Alan doesn’t deal
well with reality).
While Alan is trying to calm and secure the rapidly
dwindling survivors, Hiroshi and Miksa have another awkward conversation –
Miksa again annoyed that he wasn’t trusted by Hiroshi enough to even know about
the bunker and Hiroshi trying to win back Miksa’s loyalty and reassert himself
as his dad. He shows Miksa the cabin designed to make his daughter feel at
home; Miksa isn’t impressed that Hiroshi lied to her as well. Miksa learns that
that daughter is Julia and that all these deaths and infections are somehow
Hiroshi’s twisted attempt at a family reunion - Miksa isn’t impressed
The goo-zombies do something unclear and ominous. And
Julia does SCIENCE on the virus she’s hidden and she discovers a way to cure
the virus – this also involves Alan having a tantrum because she’d pretended to
destroy the virus when she hadn’t really and will no-one respect his
authoritay? Sarah, now fully recovered from cancer (SCIENCE!) adds her own
ideas to the miracle cure.
The goo zombies add their contagious goo to the sprinkler
system which they then turn on over the gathered survivors who are all locked
in. Crafty little goo-zombies.
There is now just the gang and 4 techs who are
uninfected. This will not go down in the annals of CDC victories. Everyone
marvels at how intelligent the goo-zombies are. Hiroshi and Miksa are in favour
of running to the bunker and blowing everything up. Alan wants to use their new
possible cure on the goo-zombies – Hiroshi and Alan squabble until Julia breaks
it up, not wanting daddy and her ex to fight.
They explain the cure to Hiroshi (SCIENCE!). What they
need is to freeze all the goo zombies so they can cure them 1 by 1 – without turning
off the power again and shutting down the alarms. They need a super chemical
sprayer – which Miksa just happened to piece together for random scrap for
funsies. Because you never know when a chemical sprayer will be handy, right?
Julia and Hiroshi are the ones to go deliver the freezy
liquid (since they’re so scary to the goo-zombies) and they run into Peter the
Goo-Zombie-King. They freeze and inject him. He collapses and the others attack
– seeing their own in danger apparently overwhelms fear of the Silver-Eyed.
Lots more freezing and curing follows. Zombies flee into the ducts.
They prepare everyone to go down to the bunker – and Peter
becomes human again. Alan is worried about Sarah’s headaches – and the alarm
goes off. Ilaria’s here.
Alan, Miksa, Hiroshi and Extras go to delay Ilaria to
give everyone chance to get to the bunker. They go into the snow and follow
Miksa’s leadership – only to find Ilaria can use explosives as well in a decoy
attack with drones. Hiroshi is injured protecting Miksa from the blast while
the real attack paradrops into the base.
Everyone staggers into the bunker including Hiroshi and
he wants to detonate early – because the head of Ilaria’s team is the awesomely
melodramaticly named Scythe – a super-duper assassin and the “worst” of all the
silver-eyed immortals.
Scythe merrily slaughters Philippe and the remaining survivors heading to the bunker in one of the lifts (yes, he kills with mini scythes. Yes it’s impractical but it’s cool). Honestly Philippe, you thought the ominous, silent, black-clad helmeted guy was a good thing?!
Scythe merrily slaughters Philippe and the remaining survivors heading to the bunker in one of the lifts (yes, he kills with mini scythes. Yes it’s impractical but it’s cool). Honestly Philippe, you thought the ominous, silent, black-clad helmeted guy was a good thing?!
And Sarah’s headaches? She’s becoming a silver-eyed one as well – from the spinal fluid (SCIENCE!) Stuck with Sarah for all eternity? Damn, the immortals are definitely going to kill you now.
Miksa activates the explosives – and they don’t work (one
of Scythe’s minions snorts about “amateurs” while removing one.) But they don’t
find the Narvik so Scythe orders his minions to kill everyone and find Hiroshi.
Also, Scythe is about 14 years old.
Oh Helix, bring on the SCIENCE, I’ll run with it.
Miksa and Hiroshi are interesting together, not just Hiroshi trying to seek forgiveness and re-acceptance but there’s a lot of evidence that he didn’t pay all that much attention to him before anyway – especially in light of his fawning devotion to Julia, Miksa was definitely the forgotten child
Alan and Sarah are still so very very very very boring
Now they’ve worked on the cure, surely they destroyed the
virus, there would be absolutely no reason for them to take it down with them
to the bunker, right?
Right?
