I want a new show – Allison body clean up. Yes, she and
Donnie are still dealing with Leekie’s inconvenient corpse and while Donnie is
a bit of a wreck, Allison steps up and gets it done. Because she’s Allison. It’s
what she does. They put Leekie’s plastic wrapped body in a chest freezer (the
greatest invention for body disposal since quick lime and the chain saw.)
At Dyad we learn that Cosima is still alive (she better
be!) but Delphine tells Rachel how terribly Cosima’s doing and how desperate
she is. They need Ethan to come up with a cure – and Kira’s stem cells to help
delay Cosima’s decline before then. Rachel tries to convince Delphine – and,
hopefully, through her Sarah – that Dyad is different and funsies now Leekie’s
dead (uh-huh, because Rachel totally wasn’t behind the attempts to kidnap
Sarah?). Delphine is cautious in quoting the party line, so Rachel throws in
the totally-not-a-bribe-or-ploy offer: Delphine gets Leekie’s old job.
Delphine goes to explain all this to Sarah and Mrs. S and
that they need Kira’s bonemarrow. Lots of suspicion on that one. No-one trusts
Rachel, but Delphine is there for Cosima and thinks that Rachel has an equal
reason to want this cure as any clone.
Skype conference! Allison, Cosima (she lives!) and Sarah
skyping away (with Donny and Mrs. S in the background), these three have been
too separate for too long! After catching up, Allison and Donnie learn that
Leekie’s death has been covered up (Allison isn’t surprised given Dyad) – back to
body disposal and Allison’s not impressed by Donnie’s ideas (she watches
Dexter). Her idea is to bury Leekie under the garage cement floor.
And yes, Allison can use power tools. She’s Allison. And
she’s not impressed with Donnie’s ineptitude. At least she had the good sense
to leave HER dead body where she dropped (actual line, yes, Allison is
awesome). To make things worse, Vic, the least necessary character on the show,
shows up. He snoops around (while Allison is measuring the hole and the body –
actually measuring. She is that meticulous). Donnie catches him and puts a gun
to his head – he and Allison question Vic over the open grave for Leekie, with
Donnie ranting and raving and sounding close to actually killing him… Vic tells
Allison about Angela pushing him and snooping on her.
Donnie reveals the safety’s on the gun – he may actually
be learning after his accidental Leekie murder! Of course, he leaves the option
open to killing Vic on purpose and rather ominously says “this is how we take
care of this family from now on.” He charges into Angela’s van points out that
Beth Childs, the first cop involved is dead, Art is suspended for far less harassment
than Angela has pulled – she doesn’t want to get involved. He warns her off and
takes her picture. My, Donnie, I’m actually impressed. Yes you can look smug
Donnie, you earned it.
They finish their body disposal and do a really good job
of smoothing the concrete afterwards. Donnie draws a heart in the wet cement –
apparently graffiti in shallow graves really does it for Allison and they have
to get it on right there, on the freezer. And in case that didn’t suitably
traumatise you, Allison “wants to be nasty,” (which, in her little world, means
from behind.)
Sarah is torn with what to do – she wants to help Cosima (who
Sarah calls her sister – and was that eyes down moment from Felix as close as
this show ever comes to pointing out how little Sarah treats Felix like a
brother?) but doesn’t trust Dyad; Mrs. S has a doctor friend who can help
without them going into Dyad’s clutches but there’s a risk which Felix rejects.
They all decide its best that Kira makes the decision – because she’s Kira and
she’s smart and insightful and slightly creepy.
After they explain everything to Kira, she agrees to
help, to help Auntie Cosima.
They meet with Mrs. S’s doctor and bring Delphine to them
(Benjamin, one of Mrs. S’s minions) and everyone, especially Mrs. S, makes it
very clear how little Delphine is trusted. Kira goes into surgery with Sarah
holding her hand (and Felix holding Sarah’s) and even Delphine speaks up to
reassure a very doubting Sarah (who is pulling out all the acting chops AGAIN).
At Dyad, Ethan explains everything to Cosima, including
why they engineered the clones the way they did, as his notes are cracked. Now
he can undoing the problem – but first he wants to make sure Dyad isn’t going
to use his research to continue their experimentation (something Cosima seems
to respect, even though it may cost her life).
Rachel and Marion meet to try and out alpha each other.
Lots of subtext and false emotion while Rachel makes it clear she’s in charge
and those “up top” can be sure of her commitment. Marion is very interested in
the super special clone Sarah (with a little dig about Rachel not being super
special despite being aware from the beginning. Oooooh nasty blow there). After
the meeting Rachel goes to her scary, evil, high tech private cinema to watch
her old home movies or herself and her parents. She smiles. She laughs. She
cries. She berates herself. oookay, that’s almost as scary as Allison being,
well, Allison. She cuts to pictures of Sarah with Kira before making ominous
evil phone calls.
Speaking of ominous plots, she “accidentally” leaves an email open on Delphine’s computer that claims that Benjamin is a Dyad agent.
The Proletheans are back – and Helena is with them.
Henrik injects the embryos from Helena’s stolen eggs into Helena’s womb.
Everything seems bright and happy, but Helena looks troubled (and they’ve put
her in a white nightie again. Is this just so she looks ridiculous if she runs
away?). The midwife takes Helena to see the Prolethean pre-school/nursery which
is swarming with kids (I get a vaguely horror movie vibe from the whole thing.
But that could just be me and crowds of children).
Gracie watches with evil “I wanna kill you” eyes before
going to pour liquor for the menfolk who can’t fill their own damn glasses
before shooing her off. Exposition on Mark – he’s AWOL from the military and
may have some PTSD. Then Henrik gets uber creepy – he knows Mark is interested
in his daughter Gracie and he gives his patronising blessing for that – so long
as Mark and Gracie are ready for Gracie “bearing fruit” (which would be creepy
and nasty if this just meant “make me grandbabies!” – but it gets worse...)
The show continues its tradition of very inappropriate books for children with Henrik telling all the nursery kids the story of Frankenstein (albeit heavily edited). Henrik assures Helena that one day the room will be full of her kids (this is meant to be reassuring. Personally I would have caught at the whole “full” thing). Helena likes the kids – she doesn’t like the harsh way they’re treated by the nanny/midwife and grabs the woman by the throat (yes, I’m cheering for Helena), remembering her own harsh upbringing. She threatens to gut the nasty nanny if she lays a finger on the child.
Did Gracie just look slightly impressed by Helena’s championing of the little girl?
Gracie is the next in Henrik’s home-gynaecology lab and
she is also injected with embryos - she doesn’t look happy about it – nor with
being Helena’s fellow-pregnant room-mate. Gracie explains things to Helena –
Henrik is the father of the children and the embryos in Gracie are Helena’s.
When Mark arrives, Helena is not pleased and throws some
quality scorn “you love her life puppy, but you let him make her brood mare.”
Mark asks Gracie to say how wrong Helena is – but she turns her back.
Helena gets up in the night, telling Grace she doesn’t
belong there – she’s going to her sister. She also tells Grace that she’s a
good girl but if she doesn’t want Helena’s babies, she shouldn’t have them.
Grace denies that’s an option – but decides to go with Helena. But as they try
to escape, they run into Henrik with a shotgun – Grace defies him, but he hits
Helena in the head and drags Gracie away by her hair and locks her in a cell,
all she can do is scream her hatred at him. Mark arrives and Henrik tries to
control him – but even Mark has to crack on this one; Henrik putting his own
child in his own daughter is apparently a step too far. He and Henrik argue –
and Helena grabs Henrik from behind (Henrik, Helena has been shot and keeps coming
– a blow to the head won’t even slow her down!)
Mark frees Gracie and they both see Helena choking Henrik – she tells them to run and they do.
Henrik wakes up tied to the gynaecology chair, his feet
in the stirrups and he’s not wearing trousers. Helena is there, with both his
human samples and all the semen he uses as a vet on the farm as well. She also
has a pipe, because, well, Helena. She gets a great big needle and inserts it –
he screams, she laughs.
Helena runs from the Prolethean farm – or what’s left of
it, because she also set it on fire. This is why you do not mess with Helena.
Back at the hospital, Delphine arrives in the dead of
night to warn Sarah about Benjamin. A Sarah goes back in saying vague things
about Rachel making a move to Mrs. S and sending her to the lifts, but her body
language and accent are of… it’s Rachel! Rachel pretending to be Sarah! She
injects a drug into Felix’s neck
When the real Sarah arrives, Mrs. S realises what happened – but it’s too late, Kira has been taken.
At Dyad, Delphine tearfully tells Cosima what she did
Kira wakes up in a bedroom with Rachel who basically
tells her she’s going to grow up just like Rachel did.
Kira being given the choice whether to help Cosima is
interesting – on first glance it seems odd to let a child make such a medical
decision – but it is her life and she has shown and awareness well beyond her
years. But it also contrasts well with one of the ongoing themes of the show,
so shown with Cosima’s “I am the science” rant. With Dyad and the Proletheans
both infringing on every ounce of privacy and body autonomy the clones have, it’s
glaring that a child is actually given greater control than they have. And
understandable that consent and agency would be something in all the characters’
minds.
To drive that home, we have Gracie as well – abused,
brainwashed and treated as a walking incubator by her father. Who in turn is
fathering his own cloney descendants in his terrifying cult. A cult that has
been designed to remove agency and choice from the beginning – the way the
children are controlled, the way Gracie is still abused, even Mark who appears
to be vulnerable in his own way. It’s all power and control from Henrik –
perhaps even indicated by him splitting from the greater Proletheans.
I really hope Helena killed him.
Allison is just… terrifyingly awesome at hiding bodies. I’ve
said it before and I’ll say it again, Allison is the scariest clone.
