by Verushka Byrow
This week’s episode picks up with Felix, Sarah and Kira on the run, Alison caught up in her play and Delphine introducing Cosima to Jennifer (via videos), the first clone who died from the same symptoms that Cosima now has.
This week’s episode picks up with Felix, Sarah and Kira on the run, Alison caught up in her play and Delphine introducing Cosima to Jennifer (via videos), the first clone who died from the same symptoms that Cosima now has.
A couple of significant things happen across the board, even though it feels like much of the episode is devoted to our three musketeers. But let’s start with them. Sarah unintentionally on purpose takes Felix and Kira to a cabin, where they meet Cal, Kira’s father. He reminded me of Gawaine (Eoin Macken) from Merlin, but he’s definitely not. Cal is a former tech guru, who left his company behind when the army started using his tech during the war. He was Sarah’s mark eight years ago, and he’s a wee bit pissed at her for stealing 10 grand from him. She admits she could have cleaned him out, but didn’t. Kira slowly but surely wins him over, but to be honest, he’s probably never got over Sarah. I don’t know about you, but he’s a breath of fresh air after Paul.
While this happy family is reunited, Felix leaves Sarah – which was heartbreaking. After the Mrs S bombshell last week, Sarah is slowly losing everyone that is important to her – Felix is pissed that she lied to him that she didn’t know who Kira’s Dad was, and choose to return home, in time for Alison’s play. Sarah can’t argue her way out of this, and lets him go, effectively losing another important relationship this week, like she did Mrs S last week. Her happy family with Cal doesn’t last long because Daniel comes calling, almost capturing both her and Kira, but eventually Sarah sacrifices herself to ensure Kira’s safety. Daniel kidnaps her and Kira is left in Cal’s hands.
While this happy family is reunited, Felix leaves Sarah – which was heartbreaking. After the Mrs S bombshell last week, Sarah is slowly losing everyone that is important to her – Felix is pissed that she lied to him that she didn’t know who Kira’s Dad was, and choose to return home, in time for Alison’s play. Sarah can’t argue her way out of this, and lets him go, effectively losing another important relationship this week, like she did Mrs S last week. Her happy family with Cal doesn’t last long because Daniel comes calling, almost capturing both her and Kira, but eventually Sarah sacrifices herself to ensure Kira’s safety. Daniel kidnaps her and Kira is left in Cal’s hands.
Meanwhile, Angie seems to be getting more to do than Art. He is on leave and trying to convince her to leave their case with Sarah and Alison alone, but she doesn’t. She pretends to run into Alison at the community centre, uses her phone… and I still don’t know what she got out of it. All that seemed to do was arouse Alison’s suspicions enough for her to think Angie is another monitor, but later on, Angie unintentionally sets her straight. So out of all that, Alison realises the cops are around. What did Angie get out of it? Still puzzling that out.
Art, somehow, finds his way to the Prolethan farm and sees Hank and his family, and that’s about it. Cosima sees Jennifer’s video diary and is confronted with her future, which is hard to watch. She and Delphine perform an autopsy on Jennifer, and find that the clones’ health and infertility issues begin in their uterus. It’s progress, but very little.
Possibly the most worrying thing about this episode is the desire to fit Angie into the overall Clone Club storyline and Cal’s addition to the show as well – in this particular set-up for a show it doesn’t make sense for Angie to be around and not know the secret when absolutely everyone else does. There’s no need for that “lets hide everything from someone” schtick because there are so many other avenues for conflict. She’s increasingly superfluous and the length to which the show is trying to fit her into the storyline is worrying – the show had enough trouble fitting Art in, and still doesn’t have a handle on what to do with him. Cal, I hope, was simply introduced to get Kira out of the way of the story – she’s a fine reason for Sarah to want to figure out what’s going on with her Clone Club, but really having to stop to ensure she’s got a babysitter, is safe and fed etc. etc. can just slow the story down.
Art, somehow, finds his way to the Prolethan farm and sees Hank and his family, and that’s about it. Cosima sees Jennifer’s video diary and is confronted with her future, which is hard to watch. She and Delphine perform an autopsy on Jennifer, and find that the clones’ health and infertility issues begin in their uterus. It’s progress, but very little.
Possibly the most worrying thing about this episode is the desire to fit Angie into the overall Clone Club storyline and Cal’s addition to the show as well – in this particular set-up for a show it doesn’t make sense for Angie to be around and not know the secret when absolutely everyone else does. There’s no need for that “lets hide everything from someone” schtick because there are so many other avenues for conflict. She’s increasingly superfluous and the length to which the show is trying to fit her into the storyline is worrying – the show had enough trouble fitting Art in, and still doesn’t have a handle on what to do with him. Cal, I hope, was simply introduced to get Kira out of the way of the story – she’s a fine reason for Sarah to want to figure out what’s going on with her Clone Club, but really having to stop to ensure she’s got a babysitter, is safe and fed etc. etc. can just slow the story down.
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