If theres anyone worse than Bill Cadogan taking the test/fighting the last war to determine humanity, its Sheidheda.
And its starting to feel like thats a very real possibility.
Dont you love it when a season has two Big Bads and they finally meet?
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Im getting ahead of myself.
Well, I guess they do: kneel or die.
Emori and Murphy kneel so they can live to see another day.
The convicts from Eligius IV have no allegiances, so of course, they kneel as well.
I wont kneel tonight or ever, he tells the Dark Commander.
He gives him one last chance to kneel.
Death is life, Satchin says moments before hes shot in the head.
2, Knight, comes in and says everyone has kneeled, but Sheidheda knows thats not true.
Madi and a few others are missing, including Gaia and Clarke.
She whispers for him to play dead and drags his body out with the others.
Indra takes Luca to the garage, where Murphy and Emori are staying.
Sheidheda spared their lives so that they could care for the nuclear reactor there.
Murphy opens the door and immediately gets a gun in his face.
Nikki forces him to enter the code for the reactor room.
Their secret is safe.
But it doesnt last long.
A moments rest would be too much to ask for!
Thats how they know shes gone missing at the garage.
Sheidheda shows up there with his army.
Murphy locks Emori and everyone else in the reactor room.
Sheidheda is trying to make Murphy bring up the doors down there when Emori radios from down below.
She tells him that if anything happens to John, theyll blow the reactor.
Knight thinks its a bluff, but as Murphy puts it: Theyre dead either way.
Sheidheda loves chess so much, he knows a stalemate when he sees it.
Bill says very plainly that Bellamys friends will have to pay for their crimes.
Bellamy goes to Echo and Ravens room first to tell them the good news.
They are not pleased.
Bellamy tells the guards to take her to the M-Cap to find out.
So much for family, she spits at him as she leaves the room.
Echo is less angry and more… completely distraught.
(Okay, maybe thats me and not Echo.)
In the next room over, Jordan asks Hope if she wants to talk about whats happened.
She says theyre not friends, so no.
She vowed to never let that happen again, but then she wound up killing her own mom.
(Oof, sometimes I forget how totallydarkthis show can be!)
She didnt do it to secure your life, Hope, Jordan says.
She did it to keep your soul.
The last room of prisoners contains Clarke and Octavia.
But the girl time ends when Bellamy busts in with two guards.
Hes clearly drawn the line in the sand and theyre not going to his side.
If it wounds Bellamy, it doesnt show.
He just keeps pushing to learn where the Flame is.
Go float yourself, Clarke says right before Bellamy has the guards take her to M-Cap.
Never one to give up easy, Clarke is fighting the M-Cap with all her might.
They cant get the neural link to engage and shes close to hemorrhaging.
Cadogan says to stop it and instead hell send everyone to Penance.
Then he turns off the machine with Gabriel and Raven still there.
See, he doesnt trust Clarke.
He didnt actually send her friends back to Sanctum.
Once Clarke gives him the key, hell free them.
(Or so he says.)
And before you know it, the Anomaly Stone on Sanctum newly relocated to the palace opens up.
What the hell happened here?
Gee, where to begin… Murphy replies.
Sheidheda vs. Bill Cadogan is the matchup Ive been waiting for all season.
Who will win and determine the fate of humanity??
Hopefully neither of them!
See you all back here in a couple of weeks!
