Thankfully after the
utter nonsense of last week it’s time to get back on track
So everyone is
following Warren and has been for some time to catch up with her visions.
Murphy is starting to get whiny about it as well. As they walk 10K and Liley
talk a little about their goals, history and attitudes (and how Liley still
considers herself a marine and 10K is still holding out hope for Red - and how
he has a whole lot of faith in Warren)
They eventually reach
their destination: Mercy Labs.
A place with powerful
history with them. This is where 10K met Red and 5k. This is where Dr. Tiller
looked for a way to cure zombies with his experiments. It’s where they
desperately fought the Man to stop him taking the now dead Dr. Tiller to Zona.
It’s a place with a lot of emotion - and definitely hits 10K hard.
Warren walks through
the corridors in full on vision, finding a sealed hidden lab, opening the
keypads, aided by her vision. She finds an ominous white room with a big metal
block sealed by multiple padlocks - which she opens, her visions providing her
the codes. She does have a moment when she and 10k are attacked by a zombie.
Warren doesn’t even notice in her dream mode until she’s knocked over. And has
to get back to dream world to finish opening it - making 10k punch her to get
her back into the zone (and he so gets squeamish about this).
Inside is a cannister - similar the cannister she already got from Dr. Caligari’s lab. Still a mystery what they’re for.
The rest of the gang
has found gooey zombies, utterly horrible experiments left behind by Dr.
Tiller. And Dr. Tiller’s son, preserved in amber with an apparent mercy-hole in
his forehead. Obviously dead. Except Murphy’s woo-woo power kicks in and says
the boy is alive and being kept that way by life support systems that are still
being powered by solar power.
Which is problematic
because Warren returns at the same time when Kaya and Citizen Z call them on
the radio for a vital update: and they need power to get in touch
To get the power they
need to turn off the life support for the child. Something that really gets
Liley who knows what it is like to be abandoned by her parents to be found and
rescued by someone else. She’s deeply upset by the idea of letting the child
die - of giving him Mercy. Warren has an excellent, powerful speech about how
she’d want mercy in this situation. And how when at war they have to make hard
choices and above all that how the needs of the many outweigh the few. She also
orders Liley to divert the power
I don’t this is
Warren being commanding or pulling rank or forcing Liley. I think this is
Warren taking responsibility of what is happening, taking ownership of it,
making it her decision and her action rather than Liley’s. And when Liley
breaks down and can’t do it, Warren holds her, gently moves her aside and does
it herself.
In Northern light
Simon is being absolutely amazingly adorkable with their son (so immensely
cute) while Kaya is slightly irritated by them and focused on figuring out what
Zona did and what they wanted. Between fighting off the annoying immortal
zombie, Kaya discovers a lot of info about Black Rainbow which they tell Warren
Black Rainbow is a
4th strike weapon. A biological weapon of mass destruction that is meant to
wipe out anyone who survives a nuclear apocalypse. This is Zona’s reset.
Obviously no-one is a
fan of this. But Kaya has a solution
They have to go to DC
to the site of the Black Rainbow. And they have to stop it. With the
president’s finger print. Yes. This is going to be hard
And can I say how
bemused I am that this show will give us utter tripe like last episode and then
bring us scenes like Liley and Warren this episode?
Also Kaya is amazing.
