We learn that Isaac and Warren, the two infected, have
both disappeared (or been taken as we saw last episode) and the CDC docs aren’t
thrilled by this. Michael blames Annie who he thinks is losing control. All of
this is explained by Landrey who seems to be getting a hand job (no really)
from Annie’s daughter, Amy, who calls her mother’s control “an illusion” which
they’re apparently manipulating. She’s also very firm that there “is no us”
when Landrey refers to Annie finding out about them. She also expects something
terrible to happen to the CDC doctors
She also makes a completely awful comment, given the
circumstances, about taking things into their own hands
Next cast – Miksa (hey,
didn’t he die last season?), Jay (Julia’s mother) and Hiroshi. They hear
someone coming and Hiroshi tells them both to go inside – but he’s talking to
air. Looks like Miksa and Jay are both Hiroshi’s hallucinations.
Day 3
Michael does something rather disturbing with pins and
knives to a root – accidentally cutting himself – when Peter storms in
demanding to know where Soren is. Michael is pretty unconcerned about Soren and
rambles on about botany and mixing in humans so he sounds like a disturbing
serial killer. Peter, becoming more and more like Alan in the first season,
threatens Michael for hiding Soren.
When he’s gone, Michael asks Annie if they are
responsible for Soren’s disappearance and she denies everything and blames the
CDC. He also comments on how they’ve been at odds lately and how he’s not
against outside forces bringing their opinions along with creepy sexual/threatening
shoulder rubs.
Sarah wakes up with her usual morning sickness because of
the eternal pregnancy before getting to work. She and Kyle do Science. But to do
Science they need the samples for the ship (which they had been ignoring for
now because Reasons) and they’re missing. Kyle believes he may have left them
in Layla’s murder shack and Sarah is severely pissed. Peter arrives to stop
Kyle going to get the samples because he thinks it’s far more important that
Kyle flirt with Amy for information rather than add to their numbers going to
Layla’s murder shack or prioritising the important medical samples. Kyle offers
Sarah his gun (since she is going to Layla’s Murder Shack) and after a long
moment, she takes it
Over to Alan who notices big barrels of mysterious
substances but is told, effectively, to mind his own business.
Kyle uses his connection to Amy to question the children,
learning that Soren was scared (even as Amy tries to edit what the child says)
because he broke a rule and didn’t want to “go in the pit.” Pits are never
good. Pits and children are especially bad.
Amy is not having these children speaking out of turn so
she has Landry have them inhale a potion from a plant she has hidden away – one
she describes as once making people slit their own throats.
Newly drugged with weird random eye movement, Lizzie
interrupts Kyle (who has just realised Soren had sky high blood sugar) and
lures him into the woods with talk of sick kids. He is surrounded by the
drugged kids and typical, Helix odd
cheerful music plays as they attack him with rocks.
Peter and Sarah set off and argue again about whether or
not Alan will be an amazing resource of amazingness or whether he’s just evil
out of control and generally bad. Peter cannot forgive the bombing in Paris and
the innocent people Alan killed – even if they were immortals. I have a feeling
we’ll be revisiting this conversation a lot.
They arrive at Layla’s Murder Shack – but Layla’s body has been moved. They also find the samples – when someone charges the door roaring in rage. They run but he catches Peter, yelling “fresh meat.” His face has the marks of the infection and Peter is saved by Sarah shooting the man. He bleeds sunshine yellow which can’t be healthy but is certainly cheerful.
They return to the compound so Peter can yell at Michael
(Peter reminds me so much of Alan). Michael claims complete ignorance of
fungus-zombies running around the island. Michael admits that when people come
to the Abbey who don’t follow their rules they’re kicked out onto the rest of
the island to live or die (he tries to dress it up nicer but it boils down to
the same thing).
Peter assumes the infection came from outside, but Sarah
thinks that with the amount of botanical manipulation happening in the compound
that the infection could have come from inside. They return to their lab to
find Kyle – alive but unconscious and bloody. He wakes up and tells them what
happened including the weird eye movement
They go to check on the children – all of whom are fine
and don’t remember attacking Kyle. Lizzie even hugs him.
Back to the lab, Sarah discovers a fungus behind the
infection and again speaks out for Alan to join them. After a lot of arguing,
Peter insists on speaking to Alan first.
Alan’s doing his own investigating, stealing keys to the
storage locker by tricking the carrier of the keys into putting burning
chemicals in his eyes.
Alan sneaks into the store room, fully of racks of jars
of yellow substance, and opens the barrels. They seem to be empty, but one
contains a human tooth. Michael hits him on the back of the head.
Day 10953 30 years later
To the future and we have Julia wandering around the
woods pursuing her ill defined quest. And Hiroshi spots her – yes he’s in the
future as well (he’s also being stalked by fuzzy camera art-school guy). He
grabs her and holds her at axe blade while she protests things have changed –
Ilaria’s gone and she accepts she was wrong to trust them. She adds that they’re
on the same side, the immortals are scattered and the new plague is destroying
them.
They go back to Hiroshi’s shack where hallucination Miksa disapproves mightily of Julia being around. Hiroshi seems to agree since he drugs her (cleverly drugging his own cup and predicting her paranoia).
She wakes tied up to a chair (again) and drugged by Hiroshi. He assumes she’s lying –and she tells him she’s dying and he sees the marks of the disease on her. But she also reveals, under the drugs, that she still works for Ilaria
The next time she wakes, Hiroshi is arguing with his
hallucinations
She wakes again to find Hiroshi has, creepily, changed
her clothes though she’s still tied up. He takes her to the dinner table with
her family – the bodies of her mother and brother, Jay and Miksa. Miksa died by
his head exploding, it isn’t pretty.
Julia screams. Yes, I think that’s reasonable.
Is it just me, or is Sarah almost frustrated by science
in this season? Season 1 she was a dedicated worker in a lab, churning out
work, results and good ideas. Now she’s frustrated, has no time for safety
procedures and generally annoyed that she can’t snap her fingers and announce “CURE!”
Oh hey, Leyla was murdered. Anyone remember that? Anyone
care? I mean, I get it plague is bad – but so is person who will stab you and
hang you from your ankles from the ceiling. Do they have a vaccine against a
knives? No? Then being this cavalier about a murderer seems dubious. I’m still
grappling with the idea they left her body hanging there for days – remember as
well that Sarah said she could be the source of immunity to the plague
I’m glad to see Hiroshi back and even Miksa – buuuut there’s
no way this can end well and it’s unlikely we will see them become integral
characters given the givens.
In 3 episodes, Julia has been tied to a chair for much of
two of them. She needs to take some escape artists lessons, this is becoming a
habit
I am intrigued for the first time with the new season of Helix but... only somewhat
