Claire took her questions to the only audience she knew might be able to give her answers on The Whispers. Well, she definitely got some answers, but she also got more questions.
’The Whispers’ season 1, episode 6 recap
Drill is up to the same old, same old, and he has Minx call her father to try and find out where he went. She tries to goad the location out of him, but when Wes basically refuses to divulge his whereabouts, she gives up and apologizes to Drill for not being able to snow him.
In Africa, Wes has an expert in to look at the fulgram, and his boss has a series of questions that he wants answered as fast as possible. “Is it a weapon?” “Where did it come from?” and “How did it get here?” are just a few of the questions.
Claire goes to visit Sean where he is being held, and she is desperate for a lead for information. She is hoping that his tattoos might be a way for her to group up the children that Drill has had interaction with, and therefore get a better understanding of who he is, what he wants, and how to stop him.
When she leaves Sean, she goes to meet Wes in a parking garage. Wes is excited about getting answers from his expert and maybe from Claire, too, but she is keeping her thoughts close to the vest. Wes is also reluctant to share, but as his is a top secret government investigation into a hunk of meteorite in the desert, it’s a little more easily understood. Claire is concerned that Wes is being lead down a dangerous road by Drill, but Wes insists that he is just finally getting to the bottom of things.
Claire goes to her boss to see if she can get back on the case and have a talk with the kids. He’s reluctant to let her due to her personal connections to the case (eh hem son and husband both involved eh hem), but he relents and Claire makes her calls to get the kids in one room after insisting that she is not acting as Wes’ puppet.
When we see Claire and her cohorts next, they have the children in a kid-friendly observation room and are just about to get started when Wes’ minions stomp in with thermal cameras and soldiers in uniform which, understandably, startles the kids.
The parents of those kids are not happy, but Claire takes the time to calm them by admitting that her child is in that room too. She promises that she won’t let anything happen to the kids, which just seems like some obvious foreshadowing.
Minx is up in her room as her mother outright refused to let her participate in Claire’s little pow-wow, and Lena hears her talking to Drill. She is instantly alarmed.
Claire sits in with the kids, and the majority opinion is that Drill is kind to them and is trying to help. They also make it clear that Drill is not present now, nor had any of them told him where they were going. Claire singles out a few of the kids to try and get more details, and then Harper chimes in to say that Drill misses his family as much as she misses her mommy.
Moments later, as the kids are just starting to explain further, the lights flicker down the hall and into the room. They flicker violently until they go out and all the doors (which are electronically locked) lock. The adults bat the door in and get to their terrified children. The thermal camera set up in the room captures an entity floating around the heads of the kids as Drill “talks” to them. SUPER CREEPY.
When Wes enters the room, he tells Claire that he saw Drill. He then lets Claire check out the thermal camera footage, and she bursts into tears of worry for Henry.
We then skip to Africa, where the expert believes that the fulgram is vessel, and that it is communicating, sending a signal. The big question is: To whom?
While they surround the fulgram, Sean, still in his cell, pounds his hands bloody on his door. Sean tells Wes, who comes to find out what he wants, that something is calling him, and that he can get them some answers if he takes him to the fulgram.
Lena brushes her daughter’s hair and asks Minx if she can talk to Drill. When Lena suggests talking through a door, Minx gets really excited and says that Drill says yes. Minx stands outside the bathroom door, and Lena asks some preliminary questions about how many fingers she’s holding up, and other factual questions. When Minx gets both right, the terror on Lena’s face is indescribable.
The episode ends with Sean touching the fulgram and he turns around, muttering that he remembers. He remembers everything. Sean officially has recovered from his crazy John Doe episode.