At the ominous
military base, the captured siren is now fighting back - and when they’re
trying to take samples from her she manages to escape and pretty much slaughter
everyone.
Having slaughtered
her way through she meets up with Chris who has managed to stagger from his
hospital bed. He’s injured, hurting, has no idea what a mermaid is or that this
woman with legs is one. But together they manage to escape. The mermaid killed
nurse Donna and stole her clothes. Also her keys and her ID badge
Hey this secure
facility doesn’t use photo ID, it seems. I mean I didn’t see the badge but I
can’t think of any other way Chris could mistake this Black mermaid (which
points for because that’s very unusual to see) for the white nurse called
Dionna whose badge she stole.
They escape, Chris
having no idea that “Donna” is a siren and failing to communicate with her as
she’s all lost and confused by the modern world, radios etc. He’s also still
badly injured from being slashed on the boat and not really ready to leave
hospital. Having to occasionally follow Donna through the woods when she
wanders of is not helping
At the facility,
Decker (the guy who was sort of sympathetic to the mermaid - and whose
unwillingness to weaken/hurt her further may have given her the chance to
escape in the first place) arrives to find everyone dead. Reviewing the tape reveals
that mermaids can grow legs for the first time - and also that she’s smart
enough to learn things like needing to steal clothing in order to fit in.
Big bad Admiral guy
turns up and he definitely blames Decker for Donna’s escape and is super worried
at the idea mermaids may be out there masquerading as humans
Meanwhile Xan and Cal
have been somewhat inexpertly trying to stalk the real Donna and calls in Ben
(and Maddison) who has just been interrupted in the shower by Ryn to build up
this very uncomfortable and alien sorta-sexual tension thing brought on by
mermaids not having boundaries and maybe having mind control songs. They’re all
concerned about bringing Ryn with them since she’s getting pretty dry away from
the ocean but she insists.
Helen turns out to
have some medication that will help with that (and may have the same allergic
reaction with more and more hints that Helen is almost certainly a mermaid
herself) though she still thinks Ryn should go back to the ocean. For more
Helen-is-a-mermaid proof we have her telling Ryn how silly it was to go near
the surface chasing good
I suspect, since
Ben’s father runs a fishing company we’re going to have messages about
overfishing here.
Another complicated
element for future development is Ben wanting to put a tracking necklace on Ryn
so they can study her in the wild. Madison is especially leery about treating
Ryn like an animal for study when she’s clearly an intelligent person. We’re
definitely having a whole animal vs person debate here.
Anyway the whole gang
breaks into the real Donna’s house to find suspicious military people doing
suspicious stuff and when they lurk outside the military base (which you’d
think would be a bit more alert than this) they see lots of body bags been
loaded up.
Chris staggering
around eventually finds a phone to call the gang to help and they ride to the
rescue, getting him free. He needs medical attention though and they realise
the military will be looking for him so they need to keep this hidden. No problem,
Ben calls his doctor friend
Who is totally fine
treating people who should be in hospital who instead they decide to get care
for violent wounds at home, off books with no records because this doctor is
the shadiest medical professional ever. I swear by the end of this series we
better learn he works for the mob or something.
They’re right about
needing to be off the radar because Decker is definitely tracking them. At
least Ryn and Donna reunite and head to the ocean, staggering out to sea and
resuming their true forms. And Ben’s little tracking necklace fails.
Through this the
Sheriff, Maddie’s dad, is still trying to find Ryn and is getting suspicious
after Doug (Ben’s brother) described her being at the same party as Ben and
Maddie after Maddie’s denials. She keeps on denying it
In an odd way this
episode feels almost like an end. Ryn wanted to find her sister and go home.
She found her sister… and went home. So what now? I can only assume the hook
now is the military which is definitely not going to give up.
