Orphan Black continues to be the series you can’t predict with several bombshells dropping in tonight’s episode entitled “Governed As It Were By Chance.”
Cal steps up to the plate and joins the clone club support team
After last week’s cliffhanger, it turns out that it was Cal’s truck that crashed into Sarah. It’s a good thing that it didn’t do more damage because we’d be down a clone. Being the ideal man, Cal builds an instant rapport with Kira making her an origami butterfly/angel, and he supplies an unregistered camper, complete with a police scanner and tech. Is there anything this guy can’t do?
After telling Sara, “Whatever this is I’m in it. Just tell me what you did. At least tell me is anyone else after you?” Sara lets him in to a degree. Before hopping a bus to scope out Rachel’s apartment she reveals to Cal the name “Dyad Institute.” The question is, has he heard this name before.
Meanwhile, back on the farm
Just about the only person who wants Helena on the farm is Hank. Bonnie, his wife isn’t thrilled, but she backs down after he tells her not to worry her pretty little head over it. Despite the friendly demeanor, it’s clear that his wishes are not to be questioned.
Gracie has taken to calling Helena “It”, and despite admonishment from Hank, she’s had enough. She attempts to choke Helena in her bed which goes just about as well as you’d think it would. The only surprise is that Helena doesn’t snap Gracie’s neck as she makes her escape. Before she runs off the property, Helena enters a room where she hazily recalls being medically experimented on with the insemination equipment seen in last week’s episode.
Poor Art, who has been not so discreet taking surveillance photos, doesn’t know what to make of it when Helen runs right by him. He should count himself lucky she didn’t take him out as collateral damage. Still not knowing exactly what is up, he stops the search party from pursuing Helena with firearms.
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said, “No, no, no!”
After last week’s plunge off the stage, Alison wakes up in rehab with a broken arm praying to the porcelain gods. She’s pretty much singing along to Amy Winehouse’s tune not wanting to be there, but there are complications. She doesn’t remember signing in, and Donnie threatens to take her kids away if she leaves early. In the end, Felix convinces her that staying isn’t a bad option because Donnie can’t monitor her while she is inside, that and she needs to get it together.
Cosima struggles to keep it together
Cosima, who has been watching video of our latest clone dying (can we say morbid), struggles to hide her symptoms from Sarah while they talk via Cal’s computer They discuss the Project Leda, and Leda myth where the “children were half human and half gods.” Sarah lets Cosima know that since she has Daniel’s cell phone she can text as Daniel and Rachel will not catch on just yet and come after her.
Blood is thicker than water
Felix and Sarah reunite at Mrs. S’s house and discover clippings that reveal that Rachel Duncan’s likely parents died in a fire at a medical research lab. They quickly connect their clipping photo’s with Sarah’s Project Leda photo. Clearly Mrs. S. knows way more than she is telling. Felix heads off to meet with Cosima to dig more into the information while Sarah heads to Rachel’s apartment.
Mrs. S. reconnects
After the betrayal of the birdwatchers, Mrs. S. wants to go find Carlton in London to get more information about what is happening. It turns out Carlton is actually in town. Before they talk about what Carleton knows, which is next to nothing, they have a passionate reunion. Proving you’re not dead when you’re pushing 50, Mrs. S. chooses to have reunion sex against the wall in an open corridor. The key bits of information that come to life are that: Brenda was compromised, Kasoff was the Ferryman from Leda, and if Sarah doesn’t stop digging “a whole world of shit is going to unravel.”
Unexpected guests
At Rachel’s apartment Sarah finds a video that would seem to prove Rachel is connected to Leda the way they thought. Before she can discover more, Daniel comes in pretty angry from his car accident injuries. Before he discovers Sarah and captures her, she overhears him talking to Dr, Leeky, and realizes he is Rachel’s monitor. Despite being under orders not to hurt clones, Daniel prepares to torture Sarah. To Sarah’s horror Helena, who she thought was dead, breaks into the apartment and kills Daniel. In the final moments, Helena tries to reveal to Sarah what happened in the farmhouse.
Ending shocker
It seems that Henrick extracted cells from Helena. Presumably, she was impregnated, and her harvested, fertilized embryo is now growing in a petri dish. Sarah is not the only fertile clone. Her twin sister is also.
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