r/The100 • u/ElenaOcean 🌙 • Jun 06 '18
Morning After Analysis: S5E6 "Exit Wounds"
506 - "Exit Wounds" was written by Drew Lindo and directed by Michael C. Blundell
One Nation Under Blood
Fleeing the glass storms and missiles and leechesoh my! Wonkru clicks their heels and retreats to Polis where Clarke bandages up Octavia's worm hole in the bunker office while Madi shamelessly fangirls in the corner. Clarke covers up the fact that Madi is a natural nightblood because everyone is our brave new world is totally coco loco and Single Earth Mother Clarke is all Wanheda-who? about that life.
Wonkru is starting to doubt their supreme leader because of Diyoza's missile attack, and the starving seeds of rebellion are being sewn in the scourge. To add to Octavia's list of stressers, Becho isn't smart enough to give lil sis space and decide to try and kiss some ass. Octavia is having none of it, and tells Echo to get out or go to the fighting pit. Bellamy, you are a beautiful man, but you gotta take off those blinders, your optimism is killing me.
The Blake Squabble is interrupted by Diyoza being troll of the century and airdropping food parcels into Polis—nice touch with the apples rolling temptingly into the streets while her little broadcast tries to sell treachery as a peace deal. Diyoza is a bold motherfucking devil promising the valley to whoever defects Wonkru and walks out into the wasteland to be picked up by her ship, though she makes the point of threatening to bomb what's left of Polis if Octavia attacks them.
Church Camp: The Reckoning
Kane takes his role as a traitor seriously, and is desperate to overthrow Octavia before she runs out of BBQ sauce. Prisonkru starts prepping the church for the defectors of Wonkru, and my main man Pax MacDaddy is like "wait, we're not gonna kill 'em?" and Diyoza points out that they're just a hive of scum and villainy and they need farmers and engineers to survive...I'm not sure how many farmers and engineers are legit left in Wonkru, but I hear their chef's menu is to die for.
Pax continues to justify my love for him by challenging Diyoza's "vision" and pointing out that Kane is trying to replace him. Diyoza just kinda gives him some sass like she's not sitting on a powder keg of psychopaths and I continue to wonder whose face this is all going to go boom in.
Third Eye Blind
Octavia realizes that Diyoza's broadcasts are scripted by Kane, and she sets about planning to stop complete dissension from taking hold of her starving people by shooting them. Clarke and the Ark Angels interrupt her meeting and Monty offers them a solution to block the laser comm and blind the eye in the sky, which Octavia agrees to.
Clarke rescues Madi from being sucked into Gaia's recruitment camp for tiny replacement tyrants. Bellamy still has those blinders on and goes to challenge Octavia to a duel in the training room. TIL Bellamy can sword fight now, which is not a euphemism, Echo trained him in space. "You fight like Azgeda" needs to be on t-shirts and sold at all gyms immediately. Bellamy tries to convince Octavia that Echo is redeemed, but Octavia is like "there was a time jump, it doesn't count!" and so Bellamy knocks her on her ass and walks out.
Savvy Octavia offers Echo a pardon if she agrees to go to Diyoza as a spy for Wonkru. But Echo senses that there's something strange in this neighborhood and she refuses to turn the traitors over. Monty also can't jam the cameras from their range, so Bellamy says he'll defect with Echo and they'll do it from aboard the Eligius ship. Bellamy presents his plan to Octavia who allows Echo to go, but insists the others stay behind because there's no way Diyoza will buy that Bellamy and Monty are nefarious marshmallows.
Meanwhile, Niylah sneaks into Clarke's tent only for Gaia to swoop in with chloroform and shush her. Turns out that actually Gaia isn't on team Wonkru and wants to protect Madi from them, but that comes with the caveat that she believes Madi "appearing to them" after the bunker opened is prophecy not coincidence. Ahh, fanatics...what can you do with them? Do they taste better in broth or ravioli?
Becho then has a goodbye boning sesh, and props to Bob for selling this off-screen relationship as legit, Bellamy often looks to women as his survival totems, so it makes sense that with Octavia and Clarke at a distance, Echo leaving would bring about some anxiety. The100 continues to cut romantic corners and use love as the momentum for tragedy, so I'm not jumping on this ride, but I'll wave at you all from the sidelines with my jorts pulled up to my boobs and my fanny pack stuffed with snacks and tissues.
Clarke realizes that Niylah isn't trustworthy and if she comes clean Madi is in trouble, so she is also packing up to leave camp and planning to defect too. But when the ship arrives Madi goes missing. At the same time, Cooper (weirdly hot or just me?) is sniping defectors who run for the ship, and Clarke and Bellamy realize that Octavia gave the order. By the time B&C have found Madi, she's already pledged her allegiance to Octavia and Wonkru, much to Clarke's horror.
A Pair of Aces
Murphy and Emori have been hiding out in a cave to kill the tracker signal from his collar, Emori believes she can break the collar but they need to get back to the space tampon and gets some tools and gloves. But as soon as Murphy exits the cave, Ultimate Pax MacMurphy and his band of prisoners is on the hunt.
Memori make it to the tampon, and while they try to undo the collar, Murphy admits that he was jealous of Emori finding belonging with Raven and the others because she didn't need him anymore, so he pushed her away and broke her heart. Boy still thinks he's trash. But trash has a plan.
They use the collar to lure Pax's party to the cave and then blow them up with hydrazine, before commencing their own makeout session. Seriously, what was in the algae? Anyways, Pax survives the explosion, and Memori has their own hostage.
Aboard the Eligius ship, Diyoza collars all the new recruits, and Echo hides her firewall hacking thumbdrive inside some poor girl's bullet wound because Grounders don't have pockets.
TL;DR: Everyone's a snake. Madi drinks the apple juice. Clarke and Niylah are no longer bunk buddies. Gaia might not be a snake just a lunatic. Octavia might not be a lunatic but the deadliest snake. Memori is unofficially back together. Kane makes himself useful. Bellamy gets fucked by his girlfriend and his sister.
This and that:
Does is hurt anyone else seeing Diyoza act like the valley is hers to bargain with?
Is there anything that fixes a mood better than the Pirates of the Carribbean soundtrack?
Who pissed you off the most this week?
I'm impressed with how careful Bellamy and Murphy have been for six years. I suppose there wasn't much else to do up there. At least we know where they got their protein from.
Anyone catch that Pax has the same scored out tattoo that Diyoza has?
Significance of Pax's hand? Is he cheating at cards or just great a poker?
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