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full-of-light · 4 years

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Klaroline in Legacies so far.

This is for all my comrades who refuse to watch Legacies (for good reasons) and want to know about the Caroline and Klaus mentions in Legacies. This post naturally contains TVD, TO and Legacies spoilers so read at your own risk! Inspired by @bossyblondebabe‘s post asking about Klaus and Caroline in Legacies.

Caroline:

• It’s mentioned that she is in Europe taking care of Salvatore School-related business, but it is later revealed she's actually looking for a way to stop the twins from having to merge.

• As for direct interactions with other characters, her kids sometimes stay with her in Europe for a while (off-screen) and in one of the latest episodes her daughter Josie calls her for advice because she wants to make the right decision (but you can't hear Caroline's voice during the phone call).

It's later revealed that Caroline said that people deserve to know the truth and make their own choices.

• Caroline is just mentioned as a good mom and her advice in general is also mentioned. For example: “You know how Mom always says that things work out in the end the way they're supposed to? She's right”. Other characters just mention how Caroline, although she’s not their biological mom, did a great job raising Lizzie and Josie.

• It’s said that Lizzie takes more after Caroline and Josie takes more after Josette. (In my opinion they are both very different from Caroline, but Lizzie is a bit more similar to Caroline than Josie).

• Alaric has also been on the phone with her multiple times. They mostly just talk about how Caroline is busy following leads on stopping the merge.

• Other than that she has a pretty good relationship with her daughters and her daughters really want her to come home.

• Caroline didn't want to tell the twins about the merge until her and Alaric exhausted all options to stop it from happening, but eventually did tell her kids that the weird device they had was an Ascendant and that Josie and Lizzie made it with Aunt Bonnie when they were five, but she didn't tell them if it had anything to do with the merge.

• Caroline searched for and picked the new headmaster of the Salvatore School (Alaric's replacement) herself but it turns out she didn’t do a great job which I refuse to believe because... she’s Caroline Forbes?!

So basically she's just busy off-screen 24/7.

Klaus:

• He is mostly mentioned as "the big bad wolf" or “Klaus Mikaelson: The Great Evil” (literally printed in a book at the Salvatore School lmao) by anyone other than Hope. It’s mentioned that he was one of the earth’s Original Vampires and that he wasn’t very popular around Mystic Falls.

• Hope usually just mentions him as her dad and randomly makes remarks about him like:

“Turns out even immortal beings can find a way to die eventually.” “The people I care about have a tendency to die on me.” “I try not to get close to people anymore.” “I've spent years torturing myself, asking myself why my father sacrificed himself for me, to get to this point where, I mean, I totally understand it.”

It is implied that she has abandonment issues because of his death.

• In one episode The Necromancer talks to Hope about her dad. He says that Hope wants to know how her dad is or WHERE he is. She denies this but The Necromancer doesn’t believe her. He says she wants to know if he's at peace or if he's suffering, regretting his sacrifice because he did die to save Hope's life after all. Hope keeps saying he’s wrong and won’t admit that she wants to know. She says she’s at peace with her dad and that he did die because of her, but that it was his choice and that she’s come to terms with it. She says The Necromancer is wrong about her and that she doesn’t need to know anything blah blah blah.

Later in the episode however she finally admits she wants to know about her dad. She says her family said that he must have died with love in his heart and that he should’ve found peace but she doesn’t know if that’s actually true. She says she really needs to know that he’s not alone because she can’t live with herself if Klaus is alone because no one should ever have to be.

The Necromancer screws her over later in the episode but before he leaves he does mention her father again. He says that Klaus watches over Hope every day and that he did die with love in his heart and doesn’t regret his choice, but he won’t find peace until Hope does. Later in the episode, Hope writes a letter to her dad:

“I was told today that you would never find peace until I found it in myself. I hope that was a lie told to punish me. God knows I deserved that. But if it's true, I'm gonna do better. Today I saw a glimpse of what true loneliness feels like. Of what lies in store for me if I don't find my own peace. So I'm gonna get to work on that. I'm glad to know you're with me, but I look forward to the day when you're not. I love you. - Hope. ”

• He can be seen in family photos in Hope's room (Hayley has been removed from photos but she has been mentioned as Hope’s mom). Hope is mentioned to have lost half of her stuff in a fire a few years ago including the only painting she made with her dad. It’s later revealed that Josie was the person who accidentally set Hope’s whole room on fire instead of just one particular thing she was aiming for, which meant Hope lost an important keepsake because of Josie.

• Freya was also in one episode for like two scenes but Klaus wasn’t really mentioned and she basically had no dialogue with Hope except for calling each others names and hugging. Freya did mention to Josie that her kid was called Nik (presumably after Niklaus, because who else?).

So basically he’s just Hope’s dad who was evil (but not in everyone’s eyes), and Hope misses him 24/7.

Klaroline:

There are two #KlarolineConfirmed episodes, both in season one.

S01E10

This episode is the most confusing when it comes to the Klaroline mentions because they don’t make sense. In this episode Lizzie ends up in alternate realities by wishing Hope doesn’t exist/was never born (don’t remember) in which it’s mentioned that Klaus gave money to Caroline for the Salvatore School in their own world, but that this didn’t happen in the reality they were currently in which is why the school looks awful.

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However the reasoning Lizzie gives (“Hope's dad wrote my mom a big check to fund the school when it opened, so no Hope, no funding, no fun.”) makes no sense, because Klaus didn’t give Caroline the money just because Hope went there and he met Caroline and was in love with her before Hope existed. I’m also pretty sure Klaus gave her the money before they convinced the Mikaelsons to enroll Hope in their school and by then the school already looked nice. On top of that Caroline is a vampire and the Salvatores were pretty rich too so I just don’t really understand this but i’M nOt A wRiTeR so whatever.

In the same episode Lizzie ends up in another alternate reality/universe where Klaus can be seen on a poster as a wanted man. Later you can see sketches of Caroline and Klaus next to each other in a newspaper article where they are mentioned as husband and wife and enemies of the state. Alaric tells Lizzie Klaus turned off his humanity years ago and started a war and ended up exposing the supernatural world and now they’re being hunted. You can watch those scenes in this video (from 1:24):

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Although it's a nod to the Klaroline fans, not a lot about it makes sense. Why does one line say “Klaus Michelson and Caroline Forbes” and the next “Klaus Mikaelson and his wife Caroline Mikaelson?” Why did Klaus turn off his humanity? Is that even possible after being a vampire for so many years? Why would Caroline go along with it? Why would the smart and powerful Niklaus Mikaelson be that stupid and expose the supernatural world even with his humanity off and not have common sense like no-humanity Caroline? It makes zero sense.

I’ve seen theories about them “losing it” because of them losing family members and friends and not having children but to me that still doesn’t make sense. They’ve lost family members before and Klaus has lost so many acquaintances over the centuries... I could maybe see them being sad in the next century when Caroline has lost all her friends and realises she’ll make new friends and experience this over and over again for the rest of her life but that doesn’t explain why they would both be like that and expose the entire supernatural community. Klaus has lived for centuries, he could’ve easily exposed the supernatural world by now but never went that far even when he killed his own parents, lost his home, when his siblings were murdered, when he desperately wanted to create an entire hybrid army, when he tried to reclaim New Orleans... I just don’t see how this could actually happen.

In TVD S04E04 Klaus and Rebekah tell the story of the hunter Alexander and Klaus said that they (The Originals) were traveling and feeding on people and turning people into vampires as they went. “With bloodshed came exposure”. So Elijah makes a remark that Klaus and Kol haven’t been discreet. Klaus replies to this statement by making a quick joke about welcoming such infamy, but immediately mentions that he isn’t the one Elijah should worry about, but Rebekah. This implies that even though he feeds and turns people and makes jokes about it, he has no intention of exposing himself completely to the general public. He even gets really pissed when Rebekah exposes all of them and they all get daggered by the hunters so this is not something Klaus would ever do.

But yeah... so... What am I supposed to gather from this? That Klaus and Caroline are soulmates in every possible universe? That even when things are totally different and literally nothing else make sense, they still do? I guess I’ll take it.

We could’ve had it aaaaaaaalllllll. ♫

S01E14:

In this episode Lizzie gives Hope the blue TVD S03E14 Mikaelson Ball Klaroline dress to wear to the Miss Mystic Falls Pageant. Then this scene happened:

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Apparently Josie knew the dress was a gift from Klaus to their mom that he picked out himself, but Lizzie didn’t know it was from Klaus specifically but just that it was a gift from a guy who used to crush on their mom. Also: yes, Caroline Elizabeth Forbes kept The Dress™ all these years.

Other random stuff you might want to know:

• In the season 1 finale Hope says she thought she was a cosmic mistake that was never meant to be born, but she now thinks that the only reason she and the stupid hybrid baby plot exists because nature needed to find a loophole to be able to destroy Malivore: a tribrid (because Malivore was created by the blood of a werewolf, a witch and a vampire).

• Some characters from The Originals like Jackson, Davina, Cami, Keelin and Kol can be seen in a few photos in New Orleans in the Freya cameo episode.

• Family members can be seen in family photos in Hope’s room.

• Damon and Elena apparently have kids and one of them is called Stefanie (the audacity lol) but that’s in an alternate universe??? Or in the real one too??? Idk.

• Kai Parker will also return in 2020 but I’m not sure if I’m happy about that. He’ll probably make his episode(s) worth the torture that is Legacies but Julie will probably just kill him again (and probably in a lame way).

• Jeremy and Matt have shown their faces once or twice for a completely useless guest star appearance.

• Matt was the sheriff who was mentioned to be running for mayor, later it was revealed he actually became the mayor of Mystic Falls.

• Something I noticed is that although the twins call Bonnie “Aunt Bonnie”, they call Elena and Damon just Elena and Damon Salvatore. In a recent episode Lizzie was driving the blue Camaro and she told Sebastian her “dad’s friend” (Damon) gave it to her and Josie for their sixteenth birthday.

• There is this new character called Sebastian who is shipped with Lizzie and they are blatantly copying Klaroline scenes and roughly “the concept” (old vampire with European accent, blonde girl, sex in the open, the car ride camera shots, even the dialogue had a copy-paste “I fancy you” in there). Although I expected to like the Lizzie/Sebastian relationship when it was teased because I like the stereotypical bad guy and good girl dynamic it turns out to be not nice at all imo. People are calling it the new Klaroline and although their scenes and lines are a ripoff (which is not something to be proud of, I’d rather see fresh material) their dynamic is completely different. It reminds me more of Damon/Caroline to be honest. “Old handsome but cocky vampire stranger comes into town and flirts with me and I’m way too into it.” There is almost no feeling of push and pull although they like to portray it like it’s there by having them bicker for 1 minute. They met a few episodes ago and she’s already obsessed with him, then hates him, then sleeps with him and he’s just way too annoying for me. Not my taste. He comes off as a completely arrogant prick and I don’t know what Lizzie sees in him tbh. He also doesn’t come off as genuine to me, I feel like there’s 0 feelings and just purely lust and plotting? It seems like the writers thought that giving Caroline’s blonde daughter a love interest (with a cleaner slate) with similar dialogue and scenes to Klaroline would make fans happy but the characters are not that similar to Klaus and Caroline. The dynamic is just completely different. Also Sebastian grabbed her by the throat in and it wasn’t really hot or slightly funny like I’m sorry but Klaroline did it way better.

I also want to make it clear that you can ship whoever you want to ship and I’m not trying to drag S!zzie. I expected to like them together but the more scenes I watched the less I liked them and I’m a bit disappointed. I don’t puke everytime they have a scene together but I’m not into it either. So once again: I don’t hate S!zzie or S!zzie shippers but I’m just not that into it and I think the parallels are kind of shitty and not a good thing for both fandoms. Have a great day and have fun shipping your ship and please don’t attack me bye.

• Relationship dynamics are really weird in this show. Alaric seems to be more of a father to Hope than to Lizzie and Josie and he keeps dragging Hope’s dad.

• This show has a new Elena and if you thought it was Hope (because Julie Plec likes to call her the better Elena) then you’re wrong. It’s actually Landon Kirby. He’s bland and he’s just kind of there, having a love triangle. Although it’s true that Hope also has the I’m-Special-And-Everyone-Is-Magically-In-Love-With-Me-For-No-Reason-Syndrome. I get that Danielle is pretty, I have eyes, but we don’t all fall in love with every pretty person that walks by and she’s portrayed as “the loner” so it doesn’t make sense to me but hey.

• The show is pretty bad, 90% of the episodes have the same plot and there’s a ton of cringy dialogue. There’s only one or two compelling characters and only a few decent actors. Some characters have even less of a storyline than Matt Donovan or April Young from TVD. The monster of the week thing destroys the well-constructed mythology the parent shows have built over the years and it’s really repetitive and predictable.

• The storyline doesn’t seem to be moving towards something like in TVD or TO. Every episode is the same stuff over and over again. I could excuse this if this meant that there was more of a focus on developing characters and relationships but that doesn’t happen either.

• The complete shitstorm of ships in this show is absolutely ridiculous. Before I watched the show I heard about Hos!e, Pos!e, H@ndon, H@fael and whatnot. Especially the first two are mentioned a lot. Then I watched the show and I just don’t get the hype for even a single ship, but I get why there are so many ships. Nothing is a crackship in this show except for the two twins and it’s because the writers push everyone to be with everyone and don’t have a clear direction in mind for the romantic storylines of their characters. If someone is dating someone they also need to have “cute” scenes with someone else, and another one has to have a crush on them, and it needs to be mentioned that that character also had a crush on someone 5 years ago, and then the writers bring in another character or two to have a crush on the same character for no reason... and they have been dragging this out since episode 1! Whereas in TVD characters would usually move on (like Caroline and Elena would move on from their romantic storylines with Matt for example. Caroline gets with Damon, that goes wrong and she moves on to Matt, but then Tyler comes into the picture. Caroline gets with Tyler, eventually Klaroline comes along but by then M@ttoline (?) and D@roline (?) were already ditched a few miles back...). With Legacies you have these vague mentions and possibilities for romantic storylines but none are even really explored on their own or even in a love triangle (if the writers really have to do it that way) by having the characters going through stuff together. Instead they choose to keep every romantic option in the picture as mentions or relationships that don’t go much deeper than “I love you””I love you too” (nobody knows why but ok) which means some characters have like 7 ships that all have a decent fanbase and it’s wild.

• The awkward fact that Danielle Rose Russell (Hope) has more chemistry with Nick Fink (Ryan Clarke) than Aria Shahghasemi (Landon Kirby) makes me question things.

I’m still watching because I’m waiting for some TVD characters to appear and I like to hear old characters being mentioned but tbh I wouldn’t recommend it when there are so many other great shows out there. Just watch the Klaroline mentions online. I mean there are some decent scenes in there but 90% of the show makes me question my sanity. In the latest episode the writers decided Santa was real and they made him fight a monster by punching him in the face and at one point Santa is flying through the air and hitting a christmas tree while a rock version of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” is playing in the background and I wish I was joking. And that was the last episode before the hiatus. And they just left me there like that. After seeing that. In the TVD universe. I just imagine Klaus’s ghost hanging around and seeing that and I can’t hold my laughter. Or JoMo watching that stuff at home like....

And people still wonder why he doesn’t want to come back hahaha.

#klaroline #klaus mikaelson #caroline forbes #kc #tvd #legacies #series #mine

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more--than--anything · 5 years

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Episode Review: "I'm a little bit worried about my favorite FBI power couple." [S04E04]

Our show spent another week trapped in the lab, but this time with a deadly disease on the loose. And a deadly Remi, although she narrowly managed to avoid actually killing anyone this week. How creeped out were we by this episode?

Y: What is it about dolls, no matter in what context, that makes them so creepy? But creepy dolls aside, you know I’m gonna absolutely love a bottle episode with a biological attack and a government conspiracy. And on top of that we had Remi manipulating, Patterson sciencing, Boston painting, Kurt losing his mind, Reade bottling his feelings, Allie being awesome, Tasha digging herself deeper into the Dark Side, a periodic table song, and Rich being Rich—what’s not to love? And a rare sighting of Briana? Come on!

L: I’m just over here singing, “These are a few of my favorite things...” It’s almost like they know exactly what we love, so they cooked up an episode that had it all. Well, except for a sighting of Bethany (or Avery, our other missing offspring). But even without Bethany, it was still a solid episode on all fronts. I’m torn—were the pathogen-infested dolls creepier than Remi’s smile or was it the other way around?

This week’s case started out with curdled cream, moved on to creepy dolls, and ended up with a hazmat team and body bags in Patterson’s lab. What happened on that wild ride?

L: Rich solves this week’s tattoo case... by breaking into the Wellers’ apartment and cooking a really gross dinner. Um, thanks? (Also, how did he get to this age without knowing that lemons curdle milk products?!) After not shooting Rich for breaking in, Kurt figures out that the recipe is for Brunswick stew, which shouldn’t include cream. Rich uses that to break the code and solve the tattoo, which yields the address of an abandoned psychiatric hospital that was shut down in the 1950s for “inhumane practices.” Sounds delightful! And also “obviously haunted,” as Rich points out. (Perfect timing, running this episode 48 hours after Halloween. Too bad the show doesn’t air on Wednesday nights anymore.)

Remi, Reade, and Weller head off to check out the address, where they find an oddly new-looking door in the basement of the building, interrupting the graffiti. Remi notices a security camera pointed at them just as someone begins shooting at them through the wall. They return fire, killing the shooter, and break through the wall to discover the dead shooter and the world’s creepiest doll collection. I loved Reade’s deadpan, “Either I’m missing something or this guy was very protective of his doll collection.”

Patterson digs into the identity of the dead shooter and discovers that he is known as “The Carpathian,” a smuggler for Serbian rebels who moved on to smuggling drugs and weapons after the war. They assume the dolls must contain drugs, so they bring in this week’s red shirt, Laurel Chadwick, from the DEA’s Chemical Analysis Division, who commences a doll autopsy to figure out what they are made of. Patterson finds images of the dolls in social media posts from volunteers with Doctors Without Borders in areas hit with outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever, just as Rich discovers that in-depth imaging of the dolls shows that the “skin” is hollow and filled with an ultra-fine layer of particulate matter. Unfortunately, he’s not in time to warn Laurel, who breaks through the doll’s skin, spraying a fine layer of dust into the air.

Patterson hits the alarm, and the FBI goes on full biohazard lockdown. The team in the lab rushes to try to contain the powder, with Rich trying to calm Laurel (in what might be my favorite Rich moment so far), and the US Army Biological and Chemical Response Unit, headed up by Colonel Beck, arrives on site and takes charge of the situation. They put Laurel in isolation, and Rich continues to try to distract her (and his summary of Friends, “With the beautiful twenty-something New Yorkers with huge apartments who don’t know any people of color?” is now one of my all-time favorite bits of dialogue from this show). Beck injects Laurel with a “reaction serum” which will supposedly slow down her symptoms.

Meanwhile Remi is on lockdown in the bullpen, where she is trying to get to the servers so she can plug in the device that Boston gave her. She shows off her impressive skills in manipulation as she works her way from one FBI employee to another, ostensibly reassuring people but planting carefully constructed seeds of doubt such as, “They said there’s minimal chance for infection and they’re just holding us here as a precautionary measure. If they were lying, that would mean they would be shutting us in here to die to protect themselves. Do you really think the government would do that?” (No, I’m sure no one would ever think that. Unless they’ve ever seen an episode of The X-Files or any of the other myriad shows centering around government conspiracies... like, you know, this one.)

Patterson figures out that the doll can’t be carrying hemorrhagic fever, because that would require a live host to transmit the disease. Dust spores like the ones in the doll could be used to transmit something like anthrax, but then it wouldn’t be communicable from person to person, as whatever Laurel is infected with appears to be. And there are no known pathogens that spread through both spores and hosts... unless whatever Laurel is infected with something man-made, engineered to be the perfect bio-weapon. The team worries about how fast Laurel’s symptoms are progressing, but it’s already too late for her. Rest in peace, Laurel, we hardly knew ya.

Beck’s team removes Laurel’s body but leaves Patterson, Rich, and Reade trapped in the lab. Sitting and waiting around for someone else to do the science isn’t at all Patterson’s style, so she continues her investigation, despite being warned off by Beck. “He told me to leave it to the professionals, and I’m a professional,” she tells Reade. There are many things I love about this show, but at the top of the list is its celebration of nerds. How many times has Patterson saved the day for our team with her knowledge of math and science? And today is no exception. She collects a discarded tissue holding a sample of Laurel’s blood and sets to work.

The lab team contacts Weller and Allie, who are stuck in the building’s lobby, with their findings. Weller relays their concerns to Beck, who acts sympathetic while subtly finding out how much the team has figured out. Patterson discovers that Laurel died from a viral infection, which would be impossible from being infected by bacterial spores... unless she was exposed to a different pathogen later. You know, like the serum Beck gave her. Peachy!

Meanwhile in the bullpen, Remi continues to go from person to person, inspiring panic, until the group stages a breakout. (I loved that we are seeing the subtle genius of Remi’s manipulative abilities—the most believable lies are the ones closest to the truth, after all—as well as her deeply ingrained mistrust of the government.) She quickly moves to plug in the cable, but is seen by Briana, so fakes being ill to get rid of her and complete her mission. Rich’s quick work keeps the group trapped and out of range of Beck and his nine-millimeter solution to “quarantine syndrome.” Weller notices a sprig of rosemary, one of the ingredients in the recipe Rich was following, on the BCRU emblem, which Rich uses to solve the rest of the tattoo to spell out “BECKBCRU,” identifying Beck’s unit at the source of the bio-weapon. Weller heads for Beck but is too late to prevent him from injecting Remi with the same serum he used to kill Laurel. Weller immediately goes on attack mode and heads off to the bullpen, where Beck is “treating” Remi. He gets Patterson to open up the door so he can tackle Beck while Remi takes out Beck’s henchman. Weller injects Beck with the same serum he used on Remi, forcing Beck to hand over the antidote.

So our team saves the day and prevents anyone else from being infected. Remi apparently suffers no ill effects from the serum (although with the ZIP poisoning continuing to mess with her mind, how would we tell?). The Pentagon, of course, denies all knowledge of Beck’s operation, so presumably the bio-weapon is still out there, waiting to be used. So I’m not sure that this really counts as a win? But it was a fun case that illustrated once again how all the members of our team contribute a little something different to the mix—which makes them quite a formidable opponent to anyone who crosses them.

Y: And it’s been a while since we’ve had the “threat that turns out to be a new advanced weapon conspiracy created by the government and used on its own people.” Now there’s a trope I’m a fan of! Nothing like learning of the very many ways in which governments are secretly planning on killing off mankind—such a nice comforting cozy feeling that gives me. It’s episodes like these that make me grateful that I live in a third world country that does not have the funding or the resources to do any of this. We just rely on good old fashioned ways—Wile E. Coyote style. But I digress.

The fact that solving this week’s tattoo depended entirely on the combined efforts of Kurt’s proficiency in the kitchen and Rich’s complete incompetence tells you just how awesome this season has been. And I also loved how through it all, Patterson was still on top of her game, science-ing her way to the truth because that’s the only way to go. Bill Nye must be so proud of his girl. And once again, the balance in the lab between Patterson and Rich is on point. They work together and complete each other in such a fun and balanced way and they sort of tag each other—one takes on the case solving while the other reaches out to someone emotionally and then they reverse their roles. This dynamic in the lab is as fun as the dynamic the team share out in the field, and I am glad Patterson doesn’t have to spend the lab time on her own anymore.

And one more thing, Rob Brown has the best deadpan deliveries ever. He’s so subtle and subdued about it but he blows me away every time.

There’s no question that our team would much rather be fighting bad guys out in the field than battling deadly invisible germs in their own lab. But even in the midst of all that chaos, they still manage to make time for a few character truths. What did we learn about our team this week?

L: I just love this team and the way they all work together to solve tattoo cases and defeat the bad guys. And I love even more the way they look out for each other while they’re saving the world.

Rich is the MVP in that regard this week. He butts into everyone’s business this week. (Further proof that he really does love these people and identifies as a member of this team.) He’s worried about Jane but even more so about Weller, who clearly isn’t handling the news about Jane’s ZIP poisoning well. He is also worried about Reade and Zapata (whose name, it turns out, he actually does remember—Rich, you big old softie, we’re on to you!). And if I didn’t already love Rich, I would after watching him go to such lengths to try to comfort Laurel, someone he barely knew. Those scenes revealed a kindness and compassion that we would never have expected when we first met him. And I know we go on and on about Rich, but I really love the way the writers have taken this over-the-top character (who could easily have been more caricature than character) and have added layer after layer of depth to him. He’s become one of the most interesting and fully-developed characters on the show. (And huge kudos to Ennis Esmer, who manages to whip out one hysterical one-liner after another while simultaneously showing us Rich’s kinder, gentler side.) Like Reade, I really want to know who it was that Rich comforted in the past. I hope we will learn more about Rich’s life before he became a criminal mastermind.

Y: This is exactly what I’ve been thinking about since the episode. The writers have done such an incredible job at transforming Rich and justifying his promotion to a regular by subtly adding layers and infusing depth and doing so in a very seamless and organic way. Seriously, this character should be taught to anyone who’s interested in writing because he is an excellent case study. And I agree, Ennis Esmer’s performance is very much the reason why Rich’s character is so universally adored and works so well.

I think we’re done wondering whether he truly cares about this team and there’s no way he can ever deny it anymore. He still does things in a quintessentially Rich way—like breaking into Kurt and Jane’s apartment—but his intentions and his actions ultimately speak of someone who genuinely cares and worries about his new-found family. And while he rocks the MVP vote this week in the way he takes care of everyone around him and worries about them, what I am now most curious about is who in his life he’d had to be a caregiver for because Reade is right, he has done this before. And watching him with Laurel and then Reade’s comment, it really put into light what he had said to Weller earlier about no one asking how the caregiver is doing. I really want to know what happened and who Rich had to care for at some point.

But yes, the ultimate takeaway from all this? Rich is a big softie!

L: Just like both Rich and Allie want to talk to Kurt about Jane, both Rich and Patterson try to talk to Reade about Zapata. I loved how Rich deflects Reade’s questions about his caregiving experiences by redirecting the conversation to tell Reade that he’s going about the Zapata situation all wrong. Rich thinks that Reade needs to let this case be personal. And he’s not wrong. After all, Reade knows Zapata. He knows what drives her and what’s she capable of. And frankly, it’s high time that he realizes what the home audience already has, that Tasha isn’t doing whatever she’s doing because she wants to be doing it. But Reade is putting in a very competitive showing in the “strong, silent type” category. Even when Patterson assures him that Tasha loved him, he still can’t bring himself to believe that. And honestly, I’m not sure how much comfort that knowledge should bring him. Tasha didn’t love him enough to stick around or to reach out and tell him what was going on with her. (And given that they’ve covered up a murder together, I think it’s safe to say that Tasha knows she can trust him.) And feelings aside, he still doesn’t have much choice professionally but to follow what the “fact pattern says,” as Weitz put it. Cold comfort indeed.

And that’s without even getting into how this episode ended. Yikes!

Patterson is pretty busy saving the world this week, but she had one moment that I want to focus on. When Reade confesses to her that he wonders if he was just some mark to Tasha, Patterson doesn’t give that even one second of consideration before insisting, “Whatever she has or hasn’t done, before that she was still Tasha. Our Tasha.” And that’s actually kind of huge, for two reasons. First, because it means that Patterson has truly forgiven Tasha for concealing the truth about Borden. And second, because it shows how much progress Patterson has made getting over her own hang-ups. She could easily wonder if Tasha had played Reade the same way Borden had played her; it would be an easy parallel to draw. But she doesn’t seem to consider that for an instant. Instead of doubting the truthfulness of everyone around her, Patterson is finally trusting her own instincts again. And those instincts tell her that Tasha is still the same person she knows and loves, whatever else is going on with her right now.

Y: I absolutely loved that line from Patterson because like you said, she has forgiven Tasha and just as importantly, unlike Reade, she is not distancing herself from the case and she is keeping it personal. Tasha is going to need someone who still believes in her and willing to accept her back if and when she comes back and who better than Patterson. With two members of their family ultimately coming out as “traitors” this season, it is going to be a huge test for all of them in understanding and forgiveness. Patterson has always been the one less likely to hold a grudge and the one to be the most understanding and forgiving, and so it makes sense that she’s still standing in that corner.

And at the end, this team is a family and like Reade once said, “Families fight. Sometimes, they lose hope. But what they damn sure don’t do is give up.” They may not always be strong all the time, but they lean on one another, they support each other, and they fiercely stand their ground when one of them is lost or misguided.

I don’t know if I have said this before, but I love this family so damn much, okay?

L: SAME.

I want to include Boston here in the “team” section, because honestly, he is part of the team, right? Even if he’s not actually working for the FBI right now. I know he’s a felon with questionable morals, but hey, so is Rich, and we still love him, right?

I am seriously worried about Boston. Remi uses her considerable talents for manipulation to convince him to help her—without actually confirming that he’s working for the FBI instead of 100% violating the terms of his parole and putting him on the fast track back to high security prison. Boston is being very careful about heeding the terms of his release, so he’s got a hacking device disguised as an ethernet cable “hidden” in a cigar box on his shelf. Oh, sweetie, it’s like you want to go to supermax. All Remi has to do is plug the cable into a server at the FBI, and she will have access to the information she needs. (Assuming that the CIA still hasn’t figured out that their black site information has been leaked and moved all the prisoners.) Now not only do we have to worry about Remi getting caught (which admittedly might not be such a bad thing), we have to worry about what’s going to happen to Boston when she does. Although frankly, we probably ought to worry about anyone working with Remi, since they don’t tend to have a very long lifespan. Let’s not re-enact the Dobby scene for real, okay?

Y: I am so worried about Boston! This poor adorable narwhal-loving idiot! He’s really been a model prisoner, only to be used and manipulated now by Remi. He does not deserve this! Can the team officially adopt him and protect him forever?

I cannot believe that Boston Arliss Crab has been added to my list of reasons why I stress eat my weight in chocolate on a weekly basis. This is not what I signed up for!

What the hell has Tasha gotten herself into? Things just keep getting worse for our favorite former FBI, possibly former CIA agent. Is there any way out of her latest predicament??

L: This week, Mad Madeline is after personnel records from Bradley Dynamics, the company where Jeffrey Kantor worked and which manufactured the missile guidance chip that Shepherd stole. And all of this is very very very not good, as Patterson would say. We don’t know exactly what Madeline is after at Bradley Dynamics, but it’s safe to assume that anything missile-related probably isn’t something we want under her control.

When Tasha fails to retrieve the data she needs, Madeline calls in another fixer, a woman named Claudia with impressive height and an equally impressive lack of squeamishness about how she gets the job done. “Everyone has a line they can’t cross. Except me,” she tells Tasha. (And I kind of love the fact that they found such a tall and physically imposing woman to play opposite petite Audrey Esparza. The height disparity was a great way to subtly emphasize the differences between the two characters and the disadvantage at which Tasha finds herself.)

Madeline wants Claudia to “leverage” someone at the FBI to get the results of the FBI background checks on the executives at Bradley Dynamics. And by “leverage,” she means she wants Claudia to torture Reade, which seems like exactly the unsubtle and unnecessarily violent approach we’ve come to expect from Madeline. I can’t help but think that Remi would be quite disdainful of the lack of subtlety and ingenuity Madeline’s plans seems to involve. I’m kind of hoping to see the two of them go head to head at some point, because I think Remi is far more Machiavellian than Madeline could ever hope to be.

Tasha quickly comes up with a counter approach: Break into Reade’s apartment and use his secure line to the FBI to get the information they require. “It’s less fun, but being invisible does have its advantages,” Madeline concedes. Her little smile and nod every time Tasha does something she approves of is creepier than the dolls the team found. I still have no idea why she’s decided to take Tasha under her wing or what she thinks she’s grooming her to become, but whatever it is chills me to the bone and makes we want to grab Tasha and run. And as much as I love Tasha being sassy and insisting that she can do whatever Madeline needs, it also feels pretty clear me that this act she’s putting on can only go so far. Which is even scarier, because Madeline isn’t the type to send Tasha on her way with a severance package and a good reference if this job isn’t quite the right fit for her.

Unfortunately the lockdown at the FBI throws an insurmountable wrench in Tasha’s plan, and they have to go with Plan A after all. I’m not entirely sure what torturing Reade is going to accomplish. It’s doubtful he has the information Claudia is after memorized, and if the FBI is still on digital lockdown, even torturing him to get his access PIN won’t get them the access they need. But I guess torture isn’t all that quick, so the system might be back online by the time he’s willing to talk.

The much bigger problem with this plan is that one they are done, there is absolutely no way that Madeline is going to let the assistant director of the FBI walk away knowing exactly what she was after. Following Madeline’s customary two-step process for intelligence gathering, step one is to torture Reade and obtain the intel they need, and step two is to kill him. (Never mind that the murder of an AD of the FBI will also launch an investigation of epic proportions. I guess she’ll just kill anyone who might connect her to the case?) How are you going to get out of this one, Tasha? If she kills Claudia, her cover is probably blown with Madeline. (And who knows who else Madeline has called in to make sure the job gets done.) But I’m doubtful that Tasha will be willing to let Claudia kill Reade in order to maintain her cover. Right? Right??

Tasha, baby, I’m really, really, really worried about you!!

Y: Hey, Tasha? I don’t think the Dark Side really has cookies. You can come back to us now. I’m sure Kurt will gladly bake you a batch of the yummiest cookies you can imagine. Just please please come back to us.

Every week I tell myself, this is the week when the truth will be revealed and we will find out what Tasha is really doing. And I tell myself that there is no way she can go deeper into the Dark Side, and every week I am left heartbroken and screaming for Tasha to STOP! This week was not good for our Tasha. Not good at all. Not only is she now targeting Reade, but from the looks of it and based on the fact that Madeline has hired a new fixer to do her dirty work, it looks like Madeline has her doubts about Tasha. It looks like she doesn’t trust her fully, and if I was not worried enough about Tasha before, I am now petrified. We saw how Madeline Burke deals with people she deems unworthy, and it’s not a happy place.

I really need some sign from Tasha at this point that we have not completely lost her and that she can handle herself against Madeline and Claudia. She’s quickly losing support of her family at the FBI, and we’ve seen no sign from Keaton that he has her back, whether she really is deep undercover or has lost her way. She looks more and more to be completely on her own and breaking into Reade’s apartment to steal FBI intel is not a good sign. I mean, it was slightly a good sign when she proposed it as opposed to Claudia torturing him, but I am still terribly terribly worried for her, and I do realize that’s all I’ve been saying for weeks, but honestly, look at the state we are in at the moment!

Also we still do not know why the f Madeline is doing any of this? This is getting a little too frustrating!

Kurt is stressed out to the breaking point right now. Even Rich is worried about him. But fortunately, he’s got a friend in his corner, helping him to put things into perspective. How does our favorite Special Agent fare?

Y: Kurt Weller’s tearing at the seams, literally on the edge of a breakdown, and he was lucky enough this episode to have one his closest and best friends by his side.

I’ve often talked about how much I love how this show portrays friendships between its characters. In whatever combination you throw at it, this show manages to give you an awesome and unique relationship. I mean, this episode alone gave us Patterson and Reade and oddly enough Kurt and Rich, and of course my favorite combo of Kurt and Allie. But if that wasn’t enough, Blindspot has found a way to perfectly portray this beautiful, blended family that involves exes who are mature and don’t suffer from any of the typical TV drama tropes of exes, no unnecessary hatred or jealousy or grudges. It’s just a bunch of adults who genuinely care about each other who have found this amazing foundation for a family that includes a young child, and they’re all adult enough to realize that this child is the most important part of their existence, and they genuinely love and care about each other. You know, like mature adults and not just plot devices to create exaggerated drama.

But this section is about Kurt, so let’s talk about him. But also a little bit about Allie. Because I really really love Allie, probably more than Kurt ever did.

We left off last week with Kurt Weller finally acting on his suspicions that something is off with his wife and following her to find out she’s meeting with a mysterious woman. He then immediately made a call to someone saying that they needed to talk about Jane. It turns out that this someone is none other than Allison Knight, the world’s best ex-girlfriend. One of my favorite things about these two is that they had established long ago that even before dating, Kurt and Allie had been friends, and even after dating and realizing they were not a good match romantically, they chose to hang on to that friendship and not let their failed relationship ruin something they both valued and they both needed in their life. Good friends, those who support you and will travel halfway across the country after one phone call because they are worried about you and who are willing to eat vegan for you are hard to come by and must be held on to no matter what. And Allie is just that to Kurt. She cares about him deeply, supports him and more important than all that, she knows how to ground him and keep him focused and puts him in his place without a second thought when he gets all up in his head and starts doing stupid shit—which is quite often.

Honestly I had expected that Kurt would call Patterson or Reade, but it makes sense that he called Allie, and I am glad he did. Allie, first of all, is their family. Yes, the team are a family, but what they share with Allie and Bethany and Connor is something more. And whatever is happening with Jane or to Jane affects Allie and will affect her and Bethany just as much. And I love that they once again showed us that this family is making their weird situation work, that they all genuinely love each other and know each other so intimately. But it also makes sense that he calls her and not the team because they are, after all, his coworkers and invested in this situation at a work level and he wouldn’t want to alert them to any suspicious behavior that would affect their perspective on the case and look at Jane differently. In many ways he was still protecting his wife, putting her welfare above everything else and thinking of her while being worried and suspicious.

And Allie was the perfect partner for Kurt to have on this case while the team was quarantined and Jane in danger, because she helped him balance his husband vs. agent situation and also helped keep him grounded. She was the calm and sane voice he needed to not absolutely lose it emotionally, but at the same time she remained observant and cautious because while on the one hand she doesn’t want Kurt to go down the rabbit hole, she does trust him as an agent and knows that if he has picked up on something wrong then there must be something. So while she was trying to calm him down the whole episode and dissuade him from spying on his wife, she did keep her eyes open and managed to ultimately pick up on Jane’s odd behavior in this specific episode, the odd behavior that Kurt was too overwhelmed and worried to pick up on in this case.

So what’s next for Kurt? I think he’s going to keep a close eye on his wife and look into the mysterious woman she’s meeting, but I think he’s just barely hanging on at the moment and the worse her situation gets, the harder he will find it to be suspicious. But he’ll get there. I think he’s smart enough to get to some conclusion about her deception. I’m just glad he has Allie in his corner right now. The poor boy needs a friend to talk to.

L: If there was ever a guy who needed a friend, it’s Kurt.

I loved how both Rich and Allie go out of their way to check in with Kurt and make sure he’s okay. Because Rich is right: The caregiver suffers as much (and in some ways more) than the patient. Remi doesn’t really know yet what she’s lost, and even though she may recognize the severity of her condition, she’s spent her whole life being programmed to believe that she is expendable. So knowing that she’s likely to die in the course of this mission really isn’t anything new to her. But Kurt? Kurt knows exactly what he faces losing. As Jane told him last season, he is the other half of herself. He’s about to lose half of himself and 100% of the future he planned to have. And that isn’t an easy burden for anyone to face, let alone carry.

So it’s good that Allie shows up to help him shoulder it. And I wholly agree with everything Yas said about Allie, because she really is the best friend/ex-girlfriend/co-parent ever (with the possible exception of her inexplicable decision to move Kurt’s child to the opposite side of the continent from him). I love Allie. I have always thought she was one of the best characters on the show. She’s always been much more concerned about Kurt’s happiness and well-being than with harboring any jealousy toward Jane, and as you pointed out, it is so refreshing to see Kurt and Allie and Jane (and Connor, in absentia) form a seamless parenting team, united in doing the best for the child they all love, without getting mired down in interpersonal drama.

I did kind of wonder why Allie didn’t bring Bethany with her, if she was willing to fly across the country to see Kurt, but okay. Children are not to be seen or heard on this show, we get it. (Sorry, Avery.) And on the one hand, I absolutely love that Allie is willing to follow Kurt to the quarantine area to get to Jane. But on the other hand, as a parent, it bugged me (and my husband as well) that neither of them hesitated and considered the fact that if they both get infected, there’s a good chance that they leave Bethany an orphan. It seemed a little out of character for both of them.

Allie really cares about both Kurt and Jane, and her first efforts are to try to calm Kurt down and give Jane the benefit of the doubt. But Kurt is still the world’s leading expert on Jane Doe, so as he tells Allie, “the whole thing feels wrong.” And I love that Allie reassured him but still kept an open mind and observed Jane for herself. Because of course Kurt isn’t wrong about Jane. And Allie knows Kurt well enough to trust him on that, so she looks into the mystery woman Weller took pictures of (although I’m not sure why she’s better at finding information about a potential suspect than all the FBI resources at Kurt’s fingertips?) and finds nothing, which puts neither of them at ease.

Ultimately, it’s Allie who indirectly saves Jane in this episode. Kurt is already freaking out about Jane’s condition and her strange behavior, and things only get worse when Jane is quarantined after possible exposure to a pathogen. By the time Beck injects Jane with the serum, Kurt is about half a nanosecond away from completely losing his mind. He is ready to try to take out Beck’s unit with his bare hands when Allie stops him and points out that “BCRU wouldn’t be here risking exposure to their own bio-weapon if they didn’t have a counter-agent.” That knowledge guides Kurt to inject Beck with his own serum, knowing that Beck will have to obtain the counter-agent for himself, thus obtaining it for Jane as well. Yes, Kurt might have reached that conclusion on his own, but it’s just as likely that he would have gotten himself killed, dooming Jane in the process.

But even saving Jane from Beck’s serum is only a temporary victory for Kurt. Because the clock is still ticking, and now even Allie agrees that there is something off with Jane. I’m really looking forward to watching Kurt try to stay one step ahead of Remi as he tries to figure out what’s going on.

And I’ll admit, I’m a bit worried too. We know there is pretty much nothing Kurt wouldn’t do for his wife, so it’s going to be very interesting to see exactly how far he is willing to go to protect “Jane” from herself.

The Roman voice in Remi’s head is making some pretty rash and harder-to-ignore suggestions. So far she’s gone along with his plans, but is there a limit to Remi’s willingness to let “Roman” call the shots?

L: This week we start to see the schism in Remi’s brain widen, the conflict between her own instincts and Roman’s voice telling her what she should be doing. Roman goes from nagging her to install the cable and running through the weaknesses in her plan to campaigning for her to kill FBI agents. “Imagine. Killing someone right in the building. One last parting gift for the FBI before we leave to break out Shepherd.” Remi quickly scrambles to find solutions that avoid violence—and that also keep her from crossing an unforgiveable line. Even though Remi has been working on her own agenda and breaking any number of FBI rules and regulations, she’s thus far shied away from killing Kurt or seriously harming any other FBI agent—actions from which there would be no hope of return. And we have to wonder if there is some small piece of Jane inside of her that can’t let her completely cross that line and abandon Jane’s life completely.

When Roman tells her that they need to get everyone out of the bullpen, Remi’s immediate response is to worry that they could all be exposed to a deadly pathogen—clear evidence of the natural compassion that even Oscar said she possessed, but a weakness in Roman’s eyes. She quickly rallies and insists, “No one who chooses to work here is a victim. Especially Weller.” Roman doesn’t buy it, pointing out that Weller should already be dead. When Remi argues that it would be “too soon,” Roman asks, “For him or for you?” But even with this hint of internal conflict, there is absolutely no doubt that Remi is still a formidable opponent. The skill with which she manipulated the agents in the bullpen was chilling—as is her evil smile when her marks succumb to her scheme. And her ability to plan and quickly adapt that plan in the place of an unforeseen obstacle makes her nearly unbeatable.

In the end, it isn’t Roman’s voice or even Remi’s own ingenuity that saves her. It’s the team she makes with Weller that saves her. It’s her ability to trust him when he tells her that Beck injected her with a serum that will kill her, when he gives her the tiny nod that tells her that he’s coming in, deadly pathogen or not. And it’s her trust that he will come through for her that enables her to turn her back on Beck and tackle the soldier with the gun, knowing that Weller will take care of Beck. And for someone who is completely alone in the world, being half of a team like that must be more appealing that trying to tackle the world on her own.

We can tell that Weller’s actions have made an impression on Remi by the way she flings herself into his arms and thanks him for taking such a risk for her. It could be, as Roman suggests, simply another effort to distract Weller from any suspicions he might harbor. But something about it feels less scripted than that. If the situation were reversed, would Remi have sacrificed herself and her mission in order to save Weller? Her training—that the mission is more important than any individual life—probably wouldn’t have let her, even if she might have regretted it later. (And as Allie points out, Remi indeed makes no effort to stop Weller from entering the quarantine area.) But Weller put her first, ahead of his own safety, risking not only being shot by Beck or his henchman as well as infection by whatever pathogen he would be exposed to. And Weller didn’t hesitate, didn’t weigh the odds or try to find some alternate plan as Remi might have done. He just acted on pure instinct. And so I think Remi’s gratitude is genuine when she hugs him. Just as we saw last week, she seems to lose herself in the hug. When Roman looks disapprovingly on, she averts her eyes—but this time, she doesn’t let go of Weller.

I loved Remi’s conversation about narwhals with Boston, especially the point about “the biggest threat to their survival isn’t predators, it’s their isolation.” Because that is Remi right now. Even if she wins, even if she succeeds in her plan to break out Shepherd, she will still be alone. Shepherd viewed her as a tool—incredibly useful, but expendable. Shepherd would sacrifice Remi in an instant if she had to for the sake of her mission. Everyone Remi has ever known—Orion, even Roman and Oscar—has been willing to trade her life for their goals. The only person who has ever been willing to sacrifice himself for her is Weller.

And that seems to have made an impression on Remi. For the first time, we see her reject Roman’s presence in her head. “Stop bothering me, stop following me! Just get out of my head!” And when she looks around, Roman is gone. I’m really hoping that this isn’t the last we’re going to see of Roman. (And not just because I will miss seeing Luke Mitchell every week.) For one thing, since his presence was a hallucination caused by worsening ZIP poisoning, it doesn’t really make sense that just wishing him away would alleviate her symptoms. But more importantly, someone who has had such a significant role in Remi’s life should get a much more poignant farewell scene. Roman was the other half of Remi’s whole, and letting go of him—and the life they shared—is a much more difficult and significant decision than a rash argument like this one.

But saying goodbye to Roman is necessary, because there is no way that Remi can continue as she’s been, trying to stay on both Roman’s team and on Weller’s. She is rapidly approaching the point where she will have to decide whether to cross that final line or turn her back on everything she was before.

Y: This episode was by far Remi-est that we’ve seen Remi so far. And it is terrifying because she’s so determined and so desperate and that is never ever a good combination. Among the things she did this week, she manipulated a room full of FBI agents. Used Boston and lied to him and made him break the rules of his house arrest without his knowing. Hacked into the FBI mainframe. Took down the military dude. Stole classified information. Banished her little brother from her brain. And she bonded emotionally with a narwhal.

But we also got to see another crack in that armor. It seems like the more she dives into the deep end, the more we will see her crack as a result of things she did not expect to find or experience in Jane’s world—this week, someone risking their life for her, willing to kill another person for her, and that indescribable bond, this unspoken understanding and deep connection with that same someone. I agree with L that her hugging Kurt was more a genuine display of appreciation than a form of manipulation or a distraction especially because of the way Roman reacts and how she tries to ignore him and look away and pretend he’s not there.

Remi kept pretty busy again this week, working so many angles and putting all her skills to use, and managed to obtain that one piece of information she’d been trying to get her hands on. But the problem remains that beyond breaking Shepherd out of the black site, she really has no other end game. Yes, she wants to kill Weller, sure we all believe that. But really, what does Remi want? We don’t know. And I think Remi doesn’t know either. I think realizing that Sandstorm had been defeated and their plans thwarted and that no one was left behind really threw her off. And I think it goes to show once again that all that had been Shepherd’s plan and everyone else had only been a soldier or a pawn in her plan. Remi feels lost without Shepherd’s guidance and her ideologies really depend on what Shepherd wants. So as manipulative and as smart and as strong as Remi is, she still remains just another soldier under Shepherd, and in my opinion cannot see herself planning anything beyond freeing the real brains of the operation and putting herself back in a follower position behind Shepherd’s leadership.

And this I think could be another reason why Remi might switch sides or flip eventually because with every week, she is seeing how as Jane she is more than just a pawn or a soldier, she is seeing her value as a person and as a leader and as something more than just someone who follows another person’s plans and visions and falls in line with whatever ideology they believe in.

We talked before the season on how we’d like things to unravel when it comes to Remi replacing Jane and Jane returning and all that, and we both agreed we would rather see Remi grow into this better version of herself, to learn and develop and see the light herself rather than have some sort of switch flip in her brain and magically turn her back into Jane. And I think this is maybe what’s happening. Granted she’s still 100% Remi right now, but there have been glimpses of her being slightly more compassionate or at least thoughtful enough to not kill FBI agents in the bullpen, and we’ve seen her start to warm up to Kurt, at least trust him and show signs of appreciation for the things in Jane’s life. The transformation may be very slow, but I’m enjoying it so far. And I think every time she makes a small step in that direction, she is going to fight harder against it and try to fall back harder on being Shepherd’s Remi, but at some point she is going to have to make a choice.

And speaking of Jane, now that Remi has kicked Roman out of her brain—and like L said, she can’t argue a symptom away—the hallucinations need to find a way to come back and I am very much hoping the next form of hallucination can be Jane especially now that Remi is more in touch with her than she had been before.

Either way, what I’m trying to say is that even though her motivations and endgame seem unclear or a bit unsatisfying, I am very much enjoying Remi’s emotional journey and conflict so far. And once again, Jaimie Alexander, I applaud you.

Things seem... grim for our favorite ship right now. But there are still a few moments that remind us of how things used to be. Is there any chance that we’ll get back there again??

Y: While Remi may have demonstrated her most Remi-ness behavior this week, it was oddly also the most Jeller-inclined she’s been as well. And trust me, I know how ridiculous that sentence sounds. But after three episodes of seeing Kurt being the one doing all the work, there is suddenly a glimmer of hope from Remi’s corner. And true, she is plotting his murder, but when has a little homicide come in the way of this ship sailing on strong? Please.

And it’s good that Remi gave us something to hold on to, because poor Kurt is falling apart. I know Roman said that the only reason Remi hugged Kurt in SIOC after he saved her life was to use it as a distraction, but I thought it was rather genuine. She’d been scared after Beck had injected her and whether she is ready to admit it or not, she was grateful to Kurt for saving her life and that hug was real. And I believe so more because after Roman gave her that disapproving look, she didn’t pull back like she’d done before, she looked away and held on to Kurt just a little bit longer.

I know it’s always one step forward ten thousand steps back, but we never expected Remi to break easily. In fact, I expected it to take much longer before we saw tiny glimpses like this. So, I’ll take it. Grated next week’s promo was more like fifty thousand steps backward, but again, I’ll take whatever they give us at this point. And honestly, that hug was adorable.

But that isn’t all they gave us. Kurt spending the entire episode being the worried husband who is at the same time struggling to understand what is going on with his wife and wanting nothing more but to reach out to her was as precious as things can get. And honestly, husband!Kurt is sometimes just a little too precious to handle. But my favorite part was when Kurt arrives at SIOC and through the door, he and Remi/Jane have that silent confrontation that leads up to them taking down Becker and his guy. That moment had all the season one feels, and essentially all the quintessential Jeller feels, with the unbreakable, mysterious bond that these two share shining through so clearly. No matter who she is, whether Jane or Remi, she shares that connection with Kurt, that understanding that is unbreakable. There is just something about that entire sequence that is so beautiful and so important and once again proves that what links those two and what bonds them is indestructible and at a level that no one can understand or logically make sense of and it’s just so strong and unavoidable.

Even if it means it involves Kurt running in without a hazmat suit and risking his life and then injecting another man with something that will most definitely kill him just to save his wife. I mean, if that’s not love I don’t know what is.

L: Hey, jewelry and flowers is so cliché. The Wellers are an unconventional couple, so it makes sense that they show their love in unconventional ways.

And yes, I really loved scene in the bullpen too, especially its callback to 1.04, when Jane burst into the quarantined area to save Weller from a doctor intent on creating a massive outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever. This parallel scene illustrates what we already know: These two have been instinctively willing to risk their own safety in order to protect each other from the moment they first met. Lack of memory didn’t hinder their connection in the beginning, and Remi’s lack of Jane’s memories doesn’t stop it now. It’s why she hasn’t been able to bring herself to kill Weller, even with Roman’s voice in her head egging her on. And it’s why she and Kurt can look at each other through a sealed door, know what the other one is going to do, and work as a seamless unit to make sure that they both emerge unharmed in the end. Just like in the scene with the Russian agent in 4.02, the Wellers are able to communicate through a single look what most of us need words, hand signals, and possibly a whiteboard to explain, and they have complete faith that the other person will deliver on that unspoken promise.

And I think this connection is simultaneously seductive and frightening to Remi. It’s almost irresistible to be half of an invincible team like this. But it’s also terrifying because heeding this connection will derail everything she’s doing and betray everything that she believes she is. So to me, the question isn’t whether or not their connection still exists. We know that it does. It’s how long Remi will struggle against it and pretend that it’s something she can walk away from. And whether or not she will do something unforgivable in the process.

But for what it’s worth, my money will always be on these two finding their way back to each other.

That’s all from us! Now let’s go back to freaking out about the promo for next week, shall we? Are you as petrified as we are? Come talk to us about it!

—Laura & Yas

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