And while her reasons for trying to save humanity were misguided, her methods were downright evil.
Remember how she would convince people to murder their friends and family for get them to take the key?
Yeah, not cool.
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And thats exactly what Clarke struggles with all throughout Nevermind.
She awakens in the prison on The Ark where we first met her.
Each drawing is a memory.
And her dad is there.
(Oh, hey there, season 1 throwback!)
But when she starts to get upset, it storms outside… and there are heartbeats between the raindrops.
She opens the door and enters the halls of Eligius IV.
On the other end is her prison cell, which she enters.
And someone else is already there: A.L.I.E.
(Got all that?
Me neither, but lets go with it.)
A.L.I.E., ironically, wants to help save Clarke and her memories.
She says that if Josie sees the memory of Raven being EMP-ed (a.k.a.
A.L.I.E.-wiped) then shell know how to remove Clarke from her own brain, too.
So she gives her this important memory as an infinity key and tells her to hide it.
Realizing this dream/mind place should be allhermemoriesand that she doesnt recognize that holiday doorClarke tries to enter it.
Josie walks out instead.
This body isnt big enough for both of us, she says.
Can I just say that despite being a sociopathic bad guy, I kind of love Josie?
Although Josie doesnt knowwhyClarke is there, she says this isnt the first unsuccessful body swap.
In the early days of their technology, they had a few mishaps.
The first was a 6-month-old baby whose brain wasnt fully formed.
The next was a 15-year-old girl with the same issue.
In both cases they had brain hemorrhaging followed by a stroke and death.
Two minds, one brain never ends well, Josie deadpans.
Despite immediately leading Josie to her prison cell of memories, Clarke says she wont go down easy.
And she proves that by literally bashing in Josies head.
But before Clarke can catch her breath, Josie comes out the holiday door as good as new.
She cant die hereonly Clarke can.
And with Clarkes real-life body knocked out on Ambien, they have all night to do this dance.
Its likeGroundhogs DaymeetsInceptionaboard the Galactica.
Fleeing from Josie, Clarke heads to the fighting pit in the bunker.
Blodreina is there to greet her… err, berate her.
She says Clarke is just trying to hide while everyone else fights, which is her go-to move.
As Josie says when she catches up to her, Even your projections hate you, Clarke.
That becomes even clearer in her next memory: Mount Weather.
She enters the room that served as her second prison and sees a body bag on the bed.
Maya is inside, but shes not dead.
Maya says shes no different than the Primes and that she should just give up control.
The word control resonates with Clarke, and she realizes this is her mind; sheisin control.
Clarke takes the Raven memory in her hand and hides it elsewhere.
When Josie comes in, Maya tells her that Clarke hid it in the cavebut it was a trick.
Clarke realized she could create these events with her mind and traps Josie with a shock collar.
When Josie revives this time, she brings Russell with her.
What a murderous walk down memory lane this episode is!
Theres a chest with a lock on it there, but Clarke stops her from opening it.
Tell Madi I love her, Clarke says.
Tell all of them.
Clarke enters the combo so Josie can fire up the chest.
Back at her Shallow Valley house, Clarke settles in for the long goodbye.
Shes drawing Madi on her sketch pad when Monty enters.
You call this doing better?
Giving up isnt better.
Clarke realizes her error but thinks its too late to do anything.
They walk up to the holiday door and enter Josies mind.
Her 230-years worth of memories are categorized in a giant library.
Isaac, a null, was taking the babies to Gabriel instead of letting them die.
When Josie finds out, she kills him.
Clarke is very on board with not letting this person continue her murderous blood purification ways now.
After entering, they find themselves in a diner pre-Earth apocalypse.
Josie is studying at a booth with her friend.
She says shes decided not to go on her family project.
A boy walks in and sits down next to them.
The boy pulls out a gun and shoots himself.
She banishes Clarke back to the Eligius IV hallway, but she didnt see Monty hiding there.
Josie wakes up in Clarkes body and thinks shes won.
In real life, she walks into the negotiation that Russell is having with Bellamy and Miller.
She stands there quietly, but her little finger tapping away on her arm speaks volumes.
Monty/Clarke, stored away in that Earth diner, is sending a Morse code message: alive.
The moment felt a littleNot Pennys Boatin the best way possible.
It was the perfect cliffhanger capper on a thrill ride of an episode.
And it seems the stage is set for an even bigger fight.
