We add a little more
belated angst to James as he remembers in his dreams that Vic, dead cop Vic,
was the one who helped pull him out of a bottle when he succumbed to despair
after Kate died. So he totally owed him and then he murdered him which was super
super sad.
When he wakes up (and
finds Sarah already awake with the baby) she is there to offer support and
point out he clearly is keeping things for her. So he confesses to kill Vic…
ok, I admit that was… surprising how quickly he just admitted to murdering a
colleague… but ok. He talks this through with her and she is… even more
surprisingly ok with this? I mean she’s not cheering but she’s not exactly
shaken either. She decides he “did what he had to”. But he’s worried that Chris
is going to find the truth so Sarah advises telling him as much as possible so
he trusts James more. Which makes sense. Oh and he should exploit Chris’s
desperate wish to keep Kate safe
Because Sarah is also
kind of savagely ruthless… Sarah is slightly worrisome.
He takes this advice
and when Chris confronts him about lying - because Sarah has already told him
there are more Risen out there. Sarah is up to something. James wins Chris over
by revealing that, yes, there are more Risen, Kate is under threat and sadly
Vic was acting totally weird and he’s not saying he killed Vic but nor is he
saying he didn’t either… Vic just vanished. Convenient.
This means Chris also
gets introduced to the other Risen who collectively… don’t really care
See Phil visited them
during the night looking for Elishia - but she’s gone. Something Kate discovers
when she wakes up. She calls James who tells them to wait there for him and
Kate being Kate she promptly stomps out because he can’t tell her what to
do!!!!!! Seriously, this is the only reason she leaves. If he told her not to
hug a shark she’d be heading to the coast right now.
That leaves Kirstie
to recount that Elishia has escaped and be huffy because James is less
interested in her remembering more details about her murder (her best friend
Vicky was there but when the police interviewed her she even denied being her
friend - so she drags her best friend/servant Charlie off to go confront her)
than he is in the fact Kate has sloped off again.
Kate tries to drive
off but ends up running into the Boundary so instead hangs around a bit and
meets Sarah - who rather brutally asks her not to steal James from her now she
has a baby; she firmly believes that James loves Kate and would leave her if
Kate asks. Kate insists that she definitely would never do that (especially
since she’s storming around so much lately hating his every breath) and offers
to help babysit because they’re friends. Sarah says they aren’t. Which is…
probably honest but also harsh. Normally I’d frown at such jealousy and
woman-vs-woman but I think this works as a) woo-woo or b) part of the ongoing
depiction of post natal depression that we’ve seen on Sarah with her
insecurities running overdrive
And I include a
because she meets Phil. So last episode I assumed she’d actually texted Vic and
got Phil because he stole Vic’s phone. Nope, she was actually sending
information to Phil… he wants to know where Elishia is and when she says she
doesn’t know she agrees to both dig up more info - and he does the weird and
super creepy mouth-to-mouth-information drain on her. Which also cures her
persistent headache. Definitely some woo-woo going on. Things are getting damn
confusing.
Phil now has a lead
to Elishia - Nichola Hysen the evil scientist who works with Nogard. Elishia is
also thinking of Nichola. She and William/John Doe are on the run and she’s not
entirely happy that Nichola told William who he was. But they both remember
each other and feel deeply connected. When pressed to explain this weirdness,
Elishia insists she can’t explain it in words becauese that would be too easy.
I bet by the end of this season I can.. But she does reveal she deliberately
brought William back and the others were an accident.
She is concerned
about his butchered hand and wants to take him to the clinic - except of that
pesky boundary nearly kills him. Note again that despite being risen she isn’t
bound by the same rules.
So deciding that they
can’t get medical help they go swimming instead. They worry about whether
William (the Sailor) can swim while I worry about infection. Which Elishia was
worried about five minutes ago and you’d think, as a doctor, she’d decide that
standing pond water is probably not something you want on severed fingers. Also
this is Australia so who even knows what’s in that water waiting to eat them.
She teaches him to
float in a way that really adds to my theory that they’re not human (more on
that later). The way she describes herself is telling as well - she describes
Elishia Mckeller - in the third person - dying and she came back as her.
Implying basically that she isn’t Elishia, not really. Before she was Elishia
she and William were connected and loved each other which is apparently wrong.
She was also worried about him not wanting her but they kiss and everything is
happy
Except that pesky
shrinking Boundary. To deal with that she has to go see Nichola Hysen and try
to make a deal to access her lab so she can try and recreate the effect and fix
this. Which is hard because Hysen kind of holds all the cards: Elishia offers
to share her research but she was already contracted to Norgard. Her research
already belongs to them and she is illegally withholding it. Though I do think
the resulting court case would be… curious.
They come to an
agreement, but when they plan to meet up again, Phil has tracked down Elishia
through Nichola. This leads to a confrontation in which Elishia tries to run.
Then tries to reason and beg - claiming she’s not hurting anyone and that if he
just waits he will have a conscience… (which feeds into my theory). Eventually
she fights but it’s not enough… Elishia is stabbed by Phil and dies
And William looks up
to the sky when it happens
Side points:
Kate and probably
evil Hot Guy kind of make up but still don’t become relevant.
Sarah who is weridly
in thralled to Phil gets a gun. This is worrisome
Paddy continues to
try to reclaim his ancestral property and when the lawyer explains his will is
not that useful. Also booby trapping his home is definitely going to get him
sued. So he focuses on proving he was murdered to prove that his family didn’t
deserve his property since legally you can’t profit from your own crimes
Which is true.. But…
the modern descendents of those murderers are the ones benefiting, the
murderers aren’t. On account of being dead. At best this is going to be a legal
quagmire. At worst it’s going to be laughed off in a general “this was waaaay
too long ago zombieman”.
With Charlie
abandoning him he recruits Beau again. And manages to drop homophobic and racist
slurs within seconds of meeting up with him. Yes historical people and all but
why is Beau tolerating him? Why? We also have flashbacks which is desperately
desperately trying to convince us that Paddy and the slave he was beating last
episode is totally romantic and redeemable.
Ok my theory: Angels.
This kinda works with
demons/spirits as well, but I’m going angels.
My theory is that
some Angel, I’ll call them Bobiel, fell in love with a human (possibly another
angel but I’m leaning human) which is, of course, forbidden (see mythology
around Watchers/Grigori/Nephilim and the general
Christian-and-vaguely-Abrahamic sex is bad etc etc). So Bobiel pouted away
until Elishia died while working on some useful science (I’m going to say the
science is necessary because Elishia wants access to her lab) and possessed her
(hence Elishia’s complete personality change). She then used science and
woo-woo to bring back her (I’m going to say human but possibly another angel)
true love William - and accidentally raised the others (I’m going to say they
are human because unlike Elishia and William they’re pretty much the same
people they were before they died).
The Powers That Be
double down on the whole angels-shouldn’t-bang and sent enforces down to stop
these shenanigans in a big divine cockblocking. First Vic (hence his huge
personality change) and then Phil (again, personality change - also why I think
the others are still human: Phil saw them asleep and didn’t get all stabby).
Of course the
interesting element of that is with Elishia presumably dead it leaves this
whole theory kind of… unnecessary? The doomed love divine intervention thing no
longer really matters so we can focus on the lives and existences of people who
really were completely accidentally restored to life.
