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“Orphan Black” recap (4.05): Oh, Baby

The next stop on Sarah’s Mother/Daughter Fun Tour is Uncle Felix’s since he hasn’t seen his little monkey since she got back. (Because I think it’s been less than a week since the first episode of the season, even though the stress of this season has aged ME at least a year already.) Sarah tells Felix that Gene Connection is run by Neolution, but he’s pretty sure she’s just jealous and grasping at straws. To make matters worse, Adele struts in, losing a potential client on the phone with a smidge of cocaine on her nose. Felix introduces her to Kira, who probably wishes she had been sent to boarding school.

Outside Bright Born, Cosima makes Donnie change out of a suit because people with money don’t wear suits, people who want people to think they have money wear suits. Donnie explains his character development with Douglas to Cosima, thinking he nailed Felix’s advice when he tells her that Douglas is “not TOO gay” and tells her to not “play the lesbian angle” and Cosima knows she doesn’t have enough time or booze to explain to him why everything he said was wrong, so she just pulls an Elsa and decides to let it go.

So the unlikely duo heads into Bright Born with their new identities and you know it’s going to be good when Donnie tries to put his hand on Cosima’s back and she basically body rolls away from him. They sign in, and the receptionist tells them to get excited because Evie Cho is here in person today. And even though the scientist in Cosima is, indeed, excited, the Leda clone in her is decidedly not.

“Wrangling Donnie was going to be work enough, great.”

All alone down the Rabbit Hole without Cosima to ground him, Scott is susceptible to persuasion, so when Sarah calls, it’s not long before he agrees to run a sibling DNA test for Felix and Adele if Sarah gets him samples, and tells Sarah that Cosima is undercover at Bright Born.

Now, I want to take a minute to talk about the music. The music on this show has always been very purposeful and meaningful, people having their own themes (like Helena’s tell-tale screechy music), etc. Throughout this episode, there is a string of music that is loudest during scenes when Sarah is talking to or about Adele, and it’s not the tone itself that’s interesting to me, but the way it warbles like an old, out-of-tune record player. It’s as though Sarah’s life was spinning and spinning like vinyl, often too fast, dizzying if you looked too hard at it, the needle sometimes being pushed the wrong way, making a horrible screech, or making a scratch that made the record skip. But always, always, always, her family kept it spinning, a steady hum beneath the noise, something to count on even when the music was unpredictable. It was Mrs. S, it was Kira, it was her sestras. But first, it was Felix. Always it was Felix. And then Adele came along, and she’s dragging down the vinyl. Pulling Felix away, making the music of Sarah’s life warble, slightly out of tune. The screeches and the scratches, they hurt Sarah’s ears, sure. But at least it was just a disruption in the music she knew so well, music she’s known her whole life. The warbling? The warbling means something is wrong. Adele is changing the pitch of Sarah’s life, and Sarah’s fighting like hell to keep it from happening.

Hello from the outside…

(I know little to nothing about record players, so forgive me if some of my terminology is wrong, but my point still stands. Adele is ruining the music, which is a sentence I never thought I’d type.)

Anyway. At Bright Born, Cosima keeps her head down while Evie Cho gives her presentation, telling the prospective parents that she was born with a disorder that rendered her unable to leave a plastic bubble. But her parents were fighters and with research and resources; they healed her. And now she has dedicated her life to solving potential illness like this before children are born. Evie also has an x-shaped scar on her cheek that wasn’t there in the Bright Born video that is very striking but also probably important.

After finishing up by saying they enhance embryos using technology, Dr. Boshe shows up and splits up the group, which Cosima uses as a cover to slip away to do some snooping.

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