Previously on Orphan Black, Helena was bound to Henrik, head of the Proletheans; Mrs. S killed a bunch of birdwatchers to save Sarah and Kira; Cosima found out about Jennifer Fitzsimmons, a clone who died from the same disease from which she suffers; Sarah reunited with Kira’s father, Cal; and Alison downward spiraled right off the stage on opening night. And that was all just last week!
We left off with Sarah, in a car (against her will) with Daniel, getting T-boned. When she wakes up, she is disoriented and bleeding, and Daniel is unconscious. Cal comes to the window and apologizes-crashing into the sedan she was in with his gigantic truck was the only thing he could think of to save her. Sarah goes to take Daniel’s pulse, but can’t bring herself to touch him. She’s seen too much death already. She grabs his phone and his gun and gets out. Cal suggests calling the police, but Sarah knows that’s not the answer. But it might be too late, because sirens begin to approach. Sarah startles Cal by taking a defensive stance, gun in plain sight. Luckily, the police whiz by without giving the bloody girl with a gun a second look. In a move that would have made the Liars proud, she tells Cal to help her hide Daniel’s crashed car under some branches.
Cal promises Kira is “safe” but doesn’t provide further detail. He wants to know what is going on, exactly, but Sarah says the less he knows, the better. Cal points out that he just watched his friend get killed-he’s in it. My question is, how “in it” is he, really?
Over on the Prolethean compound, Gracie is still having NONE of her new step-mother. She approaches her father and says, “It’s awake.” He tries to get Gracie to call Helena a “she” and reminds her that she’s part of the family now, but Gracie looks like she’d rather be adopted by one of the horses than acknowledge that Helena belongs with them.
Helena wakes up to see Henrik’s other wife by her bed, and asks why her head hurts. She says it’s because of the sedative they gave her, and tries to get her to drink some water so she’ll feel better. She tries to ask what happened, she has vague memories of people standing around her bed, but her sister-wife tells her that she just needs time to heal. Helena rolls away from her and notices a ring on her finger.
Alison also wakes up in a bed, feeling groggy, and looking even worse than Helena. She stumbles into the bathroom and throws up, noticing that her arm is in a sling. She also then realizes she has no idea where she is. A woman comes into her room and Alison is indignant, demanding to see Dr. Leekie, saying she can’t be held in the DYAD against her will. The woman has no idea what she’s talking about. She’s not at the DYAD institute, she’s in rehab. Cal takes Sarah to a sketchy, abandoned location where he had left Kira literally on her own and had told her to hide before going off and driving his vehicle directly into her mother’s vehicle. If things had turned out a little differently, poor Kira might have been hiding there forever. Luckily, she’s fine, and happy to see her mum again. Cal has a camper they can take on the run for now that isn’t in his name, so it isn’t as traceable as his truck.
Cal asks Sarah again what exactly is going on, or at least who the guy was that just tried to kidnap her. She tells him that Daniel belongs to “a very serious bitch” and sees that said bitch texted Daniel for an update. Sarah texts her back to buy them some time to figure out what the heck they’re going to do next.
Art is back at the Prolethean compound taking pictures like paparazzi. Henrik and his wife know that he’s out there, but Henrik isn’t worried about it. Henrik’s wife is second-guessing bringing Helena to their home, but Henrik assures her they made the right decision.
Grace is tasked with bringing Helena a pillow and blanket, but when she lays eyes on the sleeping intruder she so disapproves of, she smothers her with a pillow until Helena stops struggling. Grace tells her to go back to Hell and starts to leave, terrifyingly calm for having just attempted murder. I say attempted because before she can leave the room, Helena gets up and puts Gracie in the sleeper hold, knocking her out and making her great escape.
Still a little groggy, Helena stumbles through the hallways, hiding when she hears voices. The room she ducked into has murder-plastic hanging from the ceiling, and she pushes through it to a room full of medical equipment. This triggers a flashback-her on the table, someone opening her legs, a long tool not unlike the one Henrik used to inseminate a cow… Henrik’s wife finds Grace passed out in Helena’s room and screams for Henrik. Helena spreads her wings and flies as fast as she can, out of the compound, right past a very confused Art. Art stalls the cowboys chasing her for a minute, but they haul after her anyway.
At the DYAD, Cosima is watching more videos of a very sick Jennifer talking about how people treat her when they find out she’s ill. She’s interrupted by Sarah skyping in to give her an update. She asks Cosima where she is and Cosima tells her that she’s in her very own lab that Sarah scored for her. Sarah likes it, but thinks Cosima could use a little sun.
Outside the camper, Cal and Kira are listening to a police scanner on the radio, and Kira says her mum is talking to “Aunt Cosima” and suddenly I need to see Cosima babysitting Kira. To distract Kira from what’s going on, Cal makes a little origami for Kira, who calls it an angel.
Sarah shows Cosima the Project LEDA photo and Cosima tells her about the mythology of Leda and the twins that were half god and half human. She also says it sounds like a military operation, which might explain the man with the rifle in the background of the photo. All throughout the conversation, Cosima has been clearing her throat with little coughs, and as someone who has asthma, chronic bronchitis, and is prone to pneumonia, I knew those coughs well, and feared what was coming next. Sure enough, as soon as she tells Sarah she would find out what she could about LEDA and hangs up, she breaks into a coughing fit.
Across town, Mrs. S surprises Creepy Benjamin by sliding into the backseat of his car unannounced. He’s pleasantly surprised to see her alive, since he heard the birdwatchers were dead. The look on her face tells him that she is intimately familiar with this fact. Mrs. S asks Creepy Benjamin for new papers so she can go look for someone in London, but Creepy Benjamin knows who she’s looking for, and she doesn’t have to go anywhere to find him. Carlton is here.
At the New Path Wellness Centre, Felix visits Alison. Felix is weirded out by the sober atmosphere, and Alison is traumatized because she’s being forced to cohabitate with addicts who shave their armpits where other people can see. But considering she doesn’t even remember the show, Felix things maybe a week in this joint will do her good. And besides, at least it will be a week away from Donnie. She agrees to wait out the week.
Sarah tells Kira that she’s going to have to stay with Cal for a little while, because she has to go find Mrs. S and Felix, but promises she’ll be back. Cal asks one more time for information, and Sarah gives him the name of the DYAD. Though I scrutinize his face, I can’t tell if this name rings familiar with him at all. Especially because next he says, “You must have really gotten under their skin.” Meaning maybe he knows that in order for them to be actively hunting her, she must have pissed them off. Or maybe he was just speaking in general. Either way, Sarah hilariously retorts, “They got under mine first.”
Meanwhile, out from under branches and broken glass, Daniel arises like a zombie from the grave. Sarah should have sucked it up and checked for a pulse after all.
Across town, Mrs. S struts into a bar. She heads downstairs to check the men’s bathroom for Carlton, but he grabs her from behind instead. She gets the better of him, though and he says he missed her and her spark. She asks about the orphan he brought her 20 years ago, says she knows who she is. Carlton says that’s more than he knows, more than he’d care to. Then Mrs. S, definitely no longer the sweet, motherly woman we met in season one, seduces Carlton right there outside the bar bathroom.
While Mrs. S is out shagging people in public places, Sarah is raiding her house. She gets the crap scared out of her by Felix, who hadn’t been returning her texts but showed up to tell her she was a “shite burglar” anyway. Sarah asks where Cosima is and he says she’s with Delphine at the DYAD in a “transgressive lesbian geek spiral bound to end in tears” which is the most accurate description of that relationship I’ve ever heard.
They dig around for information and find the picture of Carlton that Mrs. S had shown Sarah. Underneath the picture, they find a news clipping that says he was arrested for human smuggling. They then find an article about Susan and Ethan Duncan…as in Rachel Duncan’s parents. Which means Mrs. S knew a lot more a lot longer than she let on. Sarah knows where Rachel’s apartment is, so she sends Felix off to give this information to Cosima while she tracks down more info there. As they leave, we see that someone had been eavesdropping from the basement.
Over at the rehab center, poor Alison is having a hard time adjusting to the new rules she has to live by, especially having company every time she “tinkles”. When she sees Donnie in her room, she tries to tell the nurse that he’s an enabler, but the nurse rolls her eyes and leaves poor Alison alone with him. He tells her that she agreed to this, and that it’s the best thing for both of them. Oh, and that if she doesn’t stick out the program, he’s filing for sole custody of the kids.
In a fancy schmancy apartment building, Sarah impersonates Rachel on the phone to make some demands so that she can follow the concierge into the room and hide until he leaves.
She calls Cosima and they chat about the Duncans, very established British scientists with lots of published papers. They were Rachel’s adoptive parents, and Rachel must have come along after Amelia put Sarah and Helena into hiding. While Sarah is listening, she sees a VCR with a tape labeled “Cambridge 1991” queued up, so she pops it in. While Cosima is telling her that Rachel was raised self-aware, brought up with the purpose of making her a cold-hearted corporate leader, and that her parents were probably aloof and unloving, Sarah watches a video of a little British version of herself as a child, rolling in the leaves with her parents, smiling and laughing and exchanging “I love yous.” (Which, can we talk about this for one second? Rachel not only has these videos in her apartment, but also had to specifically make sure she had a VCR set up to play them, and this one in particular was already in the player. When Sarah pushed it in, it was right in the middle of this happy moment, as if “heartless” Rachel Duncan had been watching this video of her and her parents, who died in a lab explosion, and it got to be too much, so she hit eject and walked away. It seems to me she’s not cold and cruel because she never knew love, but because she did know love, and it was ripped away from her.) Before Sarah can explain why she thinks Cosima’s theory is wrong, Daniel comes home, chatting on the phone with Leekie, promising he won’t hurt Sarah when he finds her again. Unfortunately, Sarah’s hiding luck ran out with Tony the Concierge and Daniel catches her, gun out. She knows he’s not allowed to shoot her, she heard him on the phone just now, but he IS allowed to punch her in the face, and that’s just what he does.
In the camper, Cal is playing guitar for Kira, who knows that her mum isn’t coming home tonight. He says he’s late, but that they’ll talk to her tomorrow. He tells her not to worry, and Kira says she knows Sarah will be safe because she has a “guardian angel.” Cal thinks it’s the paper toy he made her that she gave to Sarah before she left, but we know better.
When Sarah comes to, she’s zip-tied to the shower. He asks her what she knows about LEDA but she responds by spitting in his face. He says she’s not the smartest clone and she’s probably thinking “duh have you met Cosima?” but instead she watches carefully as he sharpens a shaving blade. She tries to appeal to the “Rachel’s boytoy” aspect of her, reminds him that she looks just like her, but that seems to backfire a little. Next she tries to call his bluff, saying he wouldn’t hurt her, and he says it’s Leekie who wouldn’t. He says Rachel might, which is interesting. But he definitely would. And he does. He leans real close and digs the blade into the skin right behind her ear. You know, right where Beth’s scar was.
Daniel hears music start playing out in the room so he goes to see what’s going on, leaving Sarah bleeding and helpless. Suddenly Daniel stumbles back into view, blood pouring from his throat. What Sarah sees next causes her to make this face. What she sees is Helena, still in her wedding gown, bloody, stumbling, and carrying a knife. Sarah, understandably, doesn’t know what to make of this. She shot Helena, she killed her. Helena says shot her, yes. Killed her, no. Helena followed her from “mother’s house” (not “your mother”, mind you). Sarah doesn’t know what Helena is going to do, she assumes she’s going to get her back for shooting her, but Helena doesn’t want revenge, she wants her seeeestra. She doesn’t want to go back to the Proletheans, they took something from her. She goes up to Sarah and embraces her, resting her head on her chest, finding comfort in her sister’s heartbeat. Sarah cries. At first from fear, but once she realizes Helena doesn’t want to hurt her, probably from relief. Relief she’s not about to die, relief she’ll get to see Kira again, relief she didn’t kill her twin.
At the Prolethean compound Henrik’s wife tells Henrik that Grace is sleeping and Mark tells Henrik that Helena is lost. Henrik isn’t so worried, though, because they already have what they needed from Helena…and they have made a test tube baby from the egg they stole. Here I thought when Helena said they took something from her that she just didn’t understand. And while this is better than raping or impregnating her, it’s still so, so messed up.
What did you think of “Governed As It Were By Chance”?
Here are some of our favorite #clonesbians tweets from this week:
I really hope Sarah can hide shit better than the Liars…looks like not… #OrphanBlack #CloneClub #clonesbians #BooRadleyVanCullen
– Nic (@njnic23) May 11, 2014
Run seestra RUN. #CloneClub #OrphanBlack #clonesbians – t rex (@bandyabout7) May 11, 2014 Art, you get maybe a C- for effort in stopping Helena. #OrphanBlack #clonesbians – Jenna Lykes (@jennalykes) May 11, 2014 My sexuality is best described as “Cosima explaining mythology” #OrphanBlack #clonesbians
– Lady VanDerShart (@LadyVanderShart) May 11, 2014
I demand Facebook create a “transgressive lesbian geek spiral” relationship status. #clonesbians #OrphanBlack
– Lady VanDerShart (@LadyVanderShart) May 11, 2014
Surprised Sarah didn’t just throw her hood up to hide #clonesbians #CloneClub #OrphanBlack – Catherine (@CMeushaw) May 11, 2014 Sarah just developed new understanding for Fe’s problem with minimalist furniture. #clonesbians #OrphanBlack – Ker Rinify (@Kerrinify) May 11, 2014 Let’s make up a new award show called Clone Club. And we’ll make 84545 identical statues and give them all to Tatiana Maslany. #clonesbians
– Jenn (@editorjenn) May 11, 2014
I think everyone needs mimosas and brunch after that episode. #CloneClub #Clonesbians #OrphanBlack
– Emmy Rivera (@EmmyUnwritten) May 11, 2014
Do NOT kill Cosima, @OrphanBlack. Hell hath no fury like angry #clonesbians. – Elizabeth Eastwood (@BethEastwood) May 11, 2014 In my head all I can hear is “na na na na na na Seeeeestra” sung like the “Batman” theme song. #OrphanBlack #CloneClub #clonesbians – anh62950 (@anh62950) May 11, 2014 Jordan Gavaris even joined in the fun with the best idea ever: Can we get “transgressive lesbian geek spiral” plastered in t-shirts please? And can I have one? #Feeisms #clonesbians #OrphanBlack
– Jordan Gavaris (@JordanGavaris) May 11, 2014
