Raise your glasses, it’s time for another episode of Containment!
So Alex and Sabine are released from quarantine to find a
lot of angry protestors upset that the National Guardsmen who went into the
Quaratine zone are all being hidden from them. Sabine takes over, is very
gracious to Captain DamnFool ad very honest with the press, showing them the
guardsmen are infected
Wow, awesome, Sabine is actually acting competent! I’m
shocked shocked!
Of course, to Alex and Leo this is just further proof of
her evil evilness. See, a CDC official who knows how to dispel panic during a
crisis is just evilly manipulating the press! Evil!
Alex has a highly improbably memory of what looked like a
corporate logo on some blurry papers in a corner of the photograph of Leo’s
dead friends. CONSPIRACY. They send in Jake (who totally has nothing better to
do being the only cop in the cordon and pursuing the dullest of romances with
Kate) who finds all “evidence” destroyed. CONSPIRACY (or looting). This leads
to a rapid chain of presumptive leaps in which the side I’m supposed to be
rooting for decides that officer Meese who fell in the Cordon is totally evil
and so is the Chief. Everyone is evil who actually focuses on curing the
plague!
So Alex confronts the chief with next to know evidence
and because it’s Containment, it works – and the Chief is basically a good guy
who was bamboozled by evil evil Sabine. With all this “evidence” Alex confronts
Sabine and forces her to resign. Because that’s definitely what the team need
Inside the fence Kate is being quarantined and all mopey
but takes time out to attack Vincent for being super evil and daring to talk
SCIENCE in the face of a plague. How very dare he! And he totally didn’t pause
all his efforts to cure the disease to answer her inane and ignorant questions
(and using more SCIENCE!) Why, he made her feel like an annoying girl asking
stupid questions!
In anyone else, that could have been a moment of
self-awareness on her part.
In the closing scene she coughs blood. I’m supposed to be
sad. This is my sad face. Honest. Yes it looks a lot like my bored face.
To characters I don’t want to strangle – we have Jenna
and Suzy being awesome. Teresa is having her baby, Suzy thinks she’s pregnant,
Dennis, the father who ran out on them, comes back all diseased and through it
all Suzy and Jenna are awesome with excellent character moments, great pep
talks and generally just being all awesome. They’re the reason to watch this
show.
And for some reason Jake is clumsily inserted into this scene to delivery a baby which is a hidden skill he apparently has.
