Previously on Orphan Black, Alison tortured her husband, Leekie found out Beth wasn’t Beth, Helena went crazy, and Cosima kissed Delphine.
Apparently Sarah and Paul’s kiss from the last episode was a good one, because they wake up together in Felix’s loft and they are not clothed. Sarah seemed to have enjoyed sleeping with him as Sarah and not as Beth, but Paul starts talking about clone matters and kills the mood. Felix comes back, mildly horrified, and is the perfect amount of sassy about the two of them shacking up, in his bed no less.
Meanwhile in the suburbs, Alison is back early from her couples retreat because her and Donnie are getting a divorce. While she was on the phone with Sarah saying that she needs to take a break from Clone Club, she watches as Aynesley just strolls in and starts snooping through the mail before noticing Alison was standing there.
Back at the loft, Sarah and Felix are fighting with Cosima on the phone. They think Neolution is bullshit and that Cosima must have gotten her science wrong if Dr. Leekie could figure out from the secret tests that Sarah wasn’t Beth. Which seems like an aggressive conclusion to come to since Paul figured it out from the lack of scar on her neck, and he couldn’t science his way out of a paper bag. Felix makes Sarah hang up on Cosima and Sarah is afraid they’ve lost her, that she’s drunk the kool-aid and might blow their whole operation.
In suburbia, Alison is confronting Aynesley on her super-snoopy nature and, not dissimilar to how she started to get extra-defensive when she suspected Donnie of being her monitor, she starts to lose her mind a little. She demands that Aynesley returns her extra key and turns her out.
Near the grad school campus, Delphine sneakily gets into Leekie’s car and their conversation goes something like this:
Delphine: Cosima made a pass at me.
Leekie: Duh. Anyway, I need you to get the intel ASAP, by any means necessary.
Delphine: But you told me not to disclose –
Leekie: I’m not telling you to disclose. I’m telling you to diss clothes. Got it?
She gets it and gets out of the car, looking a little wary.
While everyone else is doing all this relatively normal stuff, Helena is on an abandoned boat, downing little packets of something and mumbling things to herself. She finds a letter Kira had sent to Sarah in her jacket and starts reciting it out loud while she hallucinates.
At Felix’s loft, Sarah is poking Felix with her feet and annoying the living hell out of him, as a good sister should, when Mrs. S storms in and demands answers, because the po-po had just stopped by her flat to tell her that Sarah had died two weeks ago. She says she almost dug up the remains of the Jane Doe and fed it to them both on toast. Which is yet another reason I love Mrs. S.
Sarah puts on Beth’s personality again and heads to the precinct, where they ask her if she knows a Sarah Manning and show her the pictures of Beth’s post-trained body. She plays dumb quite convincingly and accuses them of messing with her. When she leaves, the two detectives theorize over whether it was triplets, two of whom got themselves good and dead, and they take the picture they had handed to Sarah-as-Beth to run her prints.
Alison, trying to keep some normalcy in her life, heads to her daughter’s figure skating rehearsal, which she usually heads. She wades through annoying questions about her divorce to find Aynesley trying to take over the rehearsal. Furious, she storms out to her van, and finds Aynesley’s husband Chad smoking up in his car. He starts to get defensive but before he can ask her not to narc on her, she joins right in.
Then, after the dorkiest, most awkward seduction I’ve ever witnessed, Alison and Chad get it on in the backseat like a couple of teenagers. Unfortunately, they were still in the parking lot of figure skating practice, so one of the Nosy Neighbors that populate suburbia caught a peek as she scurried her children to safety.
Delphine goes to visit Cosima and her still fabulous apartment, and Cosima starts to apologize for the kiss. She says, “I want to make crazy science with you.” Delphine then science-flirts with Cosima, saying that even though she never really thought about it as applied to herself, she knows that sexuality it a spectrum – Cosima finds this attitude encouraging and says so, right before Delphine kisses her. And immediately begins disrobing her.
I love science.
In suburbia, Alison drives home, jammin’ out to Bitch by Meredith Brooks, when Aynesley walks out in front of her car, standing in the pouring rain, screaming that she knows what Alison did. Aynesley screams that she has no idea who she’s messing with, and Alison accuses her of being a sneaky spy freak. Aynsley then drags Alison out of the car and they catfight like there’s no tomorrow.
Since Art and LadyCop figured out that the train girl looks the same as Sarah and Beth, they go to the morgue to find out who identified the body. Unfortunately, the morgue attendant couldn’t hide that information, but since he had a certain connection to Felix, he calls Fe up and warns him that the cops are on their way.
In an excellent display of bad timing, Alison arrives at Felix’s just as Sarah was about to scoot. She’s a mess – disheveled, distraught, possibly still high. Sarah takes her away and tells Alison that she hopes she kicked her ass, and in her adorably sad voice, Alison squeaks, “I did.”
In the hospital, Olivier is looking as well as one could after a crazy clone cuts off your tail. When he wakes up, Paul is right there waiting for him. He found out that Olivier’s real name is Kevin and he’s got a record that he would definitely not want to be made public knowledge. Paul transitions beautifully from his blackmail speech to non-suspicious behavior as Dr. Leekie strolls in. In a carefully constructed lie based on Paul’s instructions, surely, Olivier tells Leekie that the clone dropped the Beth act and had a Ukrainian accent, that it was only Helena that was there in the club that night, as supported by the tampered-with security footage. Remember when I said Paul couldn’t science his way out of a paper bag? I think this proves it. If Leekie knew that Beth wasn’t Beth, don’t you think he would have known that Beth wasn’t Helena also?
After a…science session, Delphine is crying while lying next to Cosima in bed.
She claims she always cries after sex, but I have a feeling it’s a little something more than that. She tells Cosima she’s starving and Cosima offers to go get them eskimo pies because she is the cutest.
Cosima is barely out the door before Delphine starts snooping. She finds information on some of the clones, on the DYAD institute, on all nine clones, on Kira. Cosima is thorough in her research and has detailed notes on everything she has learned so far. Delphine calls up Leekie to report her findings, but before she says a word, she makes him promise that Cosima will be safe. He assures her that he’s doing all this for her protection, so she tells him that Cosima has biology information on herself and 8 other clones, some of which are dead. Cosima had written that Sarah Manning had a daughter named Kira, age seven, but Delphine gracefully leaves her out of this conversation.
Sarah and Alison have decided it was time to stop lying to the people closest to them in their lives, and head to Mrs. S’s house. Sarah introduces Alison and explains the whole clone situation to the best of her ability. Alison is trying to keep her good manners in tact, but she is now drunk as a skunk and is falling apart. She tells Sarah that she’s the best clone because she can say “eff it.” She says she tried to say “eff it” too but messed everything up. Alison is a hot damn mess and Sarah is trying really hard not to laugh.
The detectives visit Felix, who plays the part of grieving foster brother. Unable to find anything suspicious, the detectives thank him for his time , but before they turn the corner, Art calls the number that rang him to talk about Beth Child a few nights before, and sure enough, they hear Felix answer through the door.
At the hospital, Olivier is now alone and resting, and a doctor comes in, jabs a needle in his heel, and cheerfully tells Olivier that Dr. Leekie sends his regards. Olivier begins to foam at the mouth, dying a very uncomfortable-looking death.
Mrs. S takes all this clone business rather well for someone just entering the fray. She says that the undocumented children she had told Sarah about before – the children in the black – had been rumored to be subjects of medical experiments, but they never knew what kind.
While the grown-ups are talking, Kira sneaks down the stairs to the door and sees Helena creeping around outside in the darkness. Without so much as mouthing any words, Helena convinces Kira to grab the jacket Sarah had used to escape the club and come outside with her.
Sarah hears the door open and immediately notices the jacket is missing and starts chasing the evil clone and her kidnapped daughter.
Helena stops in an alleyway with Kira and tells her that her mum isn’t real. Their whole conversation is eerie and makes me wonder if they’ve met before, or if Helena just has some sort of connection to children. Kira asks Helena what happened to her and hugs her, while Helena cries.
In a creepy moment of potential foreshadowing, Helena calls Kira “Angel” and asks Kira if she knows the way home. Kira says, “Of course” before walking towards the sound of her mother’s voice. She says, “Mommy!” and I say “KIRA NO” and she steps off the curb AND GETS HIT BY A CAR. Ahh!
Besides the obvious emotional trauma we all faced from that last scene, what did you think of Entangled Bank? Have any new theories?
Here are some of our favorite #clonesbians tweets from this week:
sarah, cosima, and allison kinda have an id, ego, superego thing going on that i really dig. #clonesbians
– Elaine Atwell (@ElaineAtwell) May 18, 2013
LOL Alison and her effs and Sarah trying not to laugh <3 #Clonesbians
– Ruth (@ruthbinns) May 19, 2013
I want to love this but my poor Cosima’s heart is going to be crushed. #OrphanBlack #clonesbians
– NicS (@njnic23) May 19, 2013
ALISON THAT IS YOUR PERFECT REBEL MUSIC YOU PERFECT SUBURBAN ANGEL ILU #Clonesbians
– Ruth (@ruthbinns) May 19, 2013
Delphine you’re a RAT. But also hot. So hot. This is very confusing for me #OrphanBlack #clonesbians
– Elizabeth Joy (@politicaljunk92) May 19, 2013
We know one thing the clones have in common… They all really like pot! #clonesbians #cloneclub #orphanblack
– Ráichéal (@alessonin) May 19, 2013
Spybang! #clonesbians
– Lidia Pino (@CoyoteDunham) May 19, 2013
