Time for many many bodies being burned and with
appropriate music. Oh Helix I’m
disappointed, I expect better/worse from you. While they burn the bodies, Julia
tries to convince Amy to hand over “mother” the apple tree that causes
infertility. Amy’s price is to be made immortal – Julia agrees
Except, as she reveals to Sergio, it’s impossible.
They’ve never been able to replicate the immortality transfer that worked on
her and Sarah (for reasons). Instead they search, Peter in particular becoming
pretty frantic looking for mother because his big shiny reward from Julia
depends on it. Julia even drops in to drop a load of contempt on him as well.
As he sulks off, Anne drops in for another revelation – Amy doesn’t have
Mother. Only 3 people knew where Mother was: Michael, Anne and her son, Landry
and it was he who probably hid it
Who is currently not looking good at all after what Sarah
injected into him. Amy can’t get him to talk or even wake up so has an epic
temper tantrum with Sarah demanding miracles or else, despite the obvious
impossibility of it. Landry does spring to life again, though – when Sarah is
alone and kidnappable.
Everyone has to kidnap Sarah at least once, it’s a rule.
She’s saved by Anne and Julia’s appearance – Anne chases Landry who manages to
lose him. Landry heads to where he hid the root while Amy decides to run around
breaking stuff for funsies. She picks up a stalker in Sergio and she tries to
flirt with him and he responds with strangling. Amy flirts more and slashes
him, get a blade to the throat and then laps up Sergio’s blood. She’s
definitely trying to hit all the bases of instability
They finally find Landry at the top of the belltower –
the result of which is both Landry and Sergio falling off it.
Alas, we also have to deal with Peter angst because he’s all sadpanda because Julia said mean things to him. Anne, who really needs to get over this fawning after controlling men, tries to assure him what a wonderful person he is. She’s such a liar.
Anne decides things haven’t been nearly creepy enough so
takes Peter to a dark room with big stocks of teeth that he connects to the
gazillion toothless skulls out in the woods. Anne says something cryptic about
the vessel being prepared and turns out the light
Being plunged into darkness in a room with someone
talking about a “vessel” is never a good thing. Honestly the teeth and obvious
murders are just kind of bonus extras after that. In fact, being in a crowded
place in full sunshine with a person talking about a vessel is never a good
thing. The minute a vessel is mentioned bad things are sure to follow.
Spooky questions in the dark lead to Peter saying what he
wants most (respect) and when he actually felt that – when he was a goo zombie
and all the zombies worshipped him as head goo zombie. This pleases Anne
because she’s a scary scary lady
She leads him to the basement to where another of Michael’s atrocities lurks, one Anne runs; a huge room full of captured, mutilated and tortured women who are raped by Michael and give birth to children so he can find his immortal companion. She adds to her lecture that this is all about power, respect and control just in case the atrocity wasn’t bad enough. She gives Peter the choice to help the women or do what Michael would have done – murder the woman who just have birth.
Peter kills her.
Julia herself has caught up with Sarah who has finally
called bullshit on the whole forced mass sterilisation thing – that’s not ok,
it’s not ok to make that decision and, no, being an immortal doesn’t give them
the right to decide this. Of course it’s far more important to talk about
Sarah’s baby and *gasp* ALAN BEING THE FATHER!
They agree to co-operate to make Sarah immortal so they
can get their respective wishes. Time for science and classical music! Julia
also gives Sarah a job offer with Ilaria which Sarah refuses. Either way Julia
has an answer to give Amy immortality and get her Mother root – implant the
foetus into Amy
Sarah is not a fan of this plan
Out in the woods, Winger, Alan and Kyle and the soldiers
still can’t find the red sap tree though they do have Soren (and his immunity
which could be useful) but Kyle isn’t doing great after he decided to infect
himself last week. Apparently no-one thought to ask Soren where the “bleeding
tree” is. They go searching while Kyle hallucinates bad things about Soren and
being randomly violent
Things get more dramatic when they get in touch with
their ship and learn it’s full of Mycotic diseased zombies. Alan gets a moment
to be dramatic and in charge because he loves it. Alas while they’e being
dramatic they decide to leave a kid to guard Kyle which ends up with Kyle
running off, kidnapping Soren and nearly killing him before Alan talks him back
to reason.
Landrey is Anne’s son. Probably by Michael since he seems
to be the all father here. Amy is Anne’s daughter, again by Michael. Helix just had to ratchet up the incest
a little more. This adds on to the whole lot of the horror that this show seems
to be invoking – and how female targeted it is. Rape, incest, mystical endless
pregnancies, womb theft, rape dungeons – these are all very much aimed at women
as a special horror directed at women and I don’t really see how much of it is
integral to the plot or couldn’t have been transferred to a different action.
Like Amy’s coercion of Landry didn’t have to be sexual, the atrocity Anne
managed for Michael didn’t have to be his horrific rape dungeon, Sarah’s
magical foetus didn’t even have to exist at all.
Especially since the other women in the show are all
dubious to some degree. Agnes was capable, driven and abused and murdered. Anne
and Amy have both shown their own competences, especially Amy, but now both of
them have been reduced to ranting semi-coherently; Anne has found another
strong man to latch on to to worship and Amy is reduced to cackling and ranting
and breaking things (see also Olivia who… cackles and rants and breaks things).
Winger apparently has rank but Alan has now assumed his eternal place as the Authoritay
The saving grace is Julia, but even she spent most of
this season being captured by someone. It was almost a running joke that she
spent 3 episodes chained to furniture.
Sergio is dead – and they’d have to pull out some kind of
miracle to make this not the case given he’s not immortal. He barely appeared
at all this season and they kill him off so casually after his role achieves
nothing? Note, this follows hallucination!corpse!Miksa and Hiroshi which means,
barring a very briefly appearing silver-eyed Ilaria woman who cooks an awesome
chicken dinner, the POC have all died in droves leaving a glaringly white cast
(since nearly all new characters – and all new characters of note – this season
are white).
Narratively I feel there’s such a lot going on and I’m
having trouble connecting with any one character – which is a problem because
Julia and Sarah’s story are both very personal stories.
