The Benson sisters have done it again with last night’s intense episode of The 100. Clarke must deal with the fallout of stealing the bunker, Raven has even more dangerous hallucinations, and Jasper and Harper are ready to party their lives away. “The Other Side” was written by Shawna and Julie Benson, and directed by The 100‘s very own Henry Ian Cusick.
“I don’t choose pain, I choose life.” | Raven (Lindsey Morgan) is alone in the lab with only hallucinations of Becca (Erica Cerra) to keep her going. She’s almost figured out how she wants to go out in space, but then she hears something just before having her third seizure of the day. What, or more correctly who, she hears is an old friend, Sinclair (Alessandro Juliani). He’s with her as she loses consciousness. When she awakes she notices Becca has been tied up. Sinclair wants Raven to stop listening to Becca and fight for her life, and she agrees. He has the brilliant idea to “reboot” Raven’s brain in order to rid itself of Becca’s code–which is what is killing her. She must submerge herself in ice water for 15 minutes to stop her brain activity, then restart her heart and hope her murmur isn’t a problem. Raven successfully pulls it off, but the murmur does become a problem. Raven drags herself to the defibrillator across the room, while in cardiac arrest, to zap her heart into beating regularly again. If Raven isn’t the definition of a fighter then I don’t know what it! Now she just has to get to the bunker and hope she’s allowed in.
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Goodbye, Old Friend | Back at Arkadia, or Camp DNR, Monty (Christopher Larkin) has made a radiation suit to protect himself from the harmful sickness plaguing everyone else. Riley (Ben Sullivan) overdoses on Jasper’s (Devon Bostick) tea, giving Jasper the idea that they should all go out that way, because at least they get to control it.
Monty tries again to convince Harper (Chelsey Reist) to leave with him for the bunker, but she refuses. He tells her he loves her and won’t leave without her, but she responds by telling him she doesn’t love him back. That she’s not worth dying for. But when she leaves him we see just how much she actually does love Monty, because she doubles over crying over the lie she just told him. She does love him.
Monty finds Jasper after he’s already had his suicide tea, and the two have a very emotional goodbye. Monty is furious at Jasper, but all Jasper wants is for his best friend to tell him he loves him before its too late. But Monty doesn’t say it until the life leaves Jasper’s eyes.
When Monty realizes all the DNR kids have OD’d he immediately worries about Harper. He can’t lose his best friend and girlfriend in one night. Luckily he doesn’t, because Harper didn’t drink the tea. She chose life with Monty over death with her friends.
“They’re not my people anymore.” | Bellamy (Bob Morley), Clarke (Eliza Taylor), and Jaha (Isaiah Washington) are arguing over what Clarke and Jaha did. Abby (Paige Turco) enters the mix when she wants to know what happened to Kane (Henry Ian Cusick). Jaha tells her that Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos) and Kane got locked out when they took the bunker. Clarke allows her mother to say goodbye to Kane over the radio. Octavia also has a radio, which allows her to briefly communicate with Bellamy. The siblings catch each other up on what’s been going on, and O tells her brother she won and she’s decided 100 people from each clan will survive. When they get off the radio Jaha refuses to let Bellamy open the bunker door for his sister or anyone else. Bellamy tells him he’ll have to kill him to stop him from saving his sister, and we know he means it.
Clarke asks Murphy (Richard Harmon) to look after Bellamy once they imprison him–because yes, they tied him up to stop him–because she knows Murphy won’t let Bellamy out. But Bellamy needs medical attention from Abby after cutting his wrists trying to break free. He tells Abby he did that on purpose, because he needs her help. This is where the Clarke/Abby role reversal comes in, because Abby is acting just as S1 Clarke would’ve acted, and Clarke is acting the same way S1 Abby would’ve acted. Abby decides to help Bellamy.
After knocking out Murphy they go to Jaha’s office, where she knocks him out so they can get to the door controls. They need to be opened by two people, one underground at the control and one at the door. Bellamy heads to the door and finally gets to embrace his sister when it opens. Clarke tried to stop him, but can’t kill him so she lets him open the door. All the other clans have arrived, and Octavia tells them they are all one clan now, except Echo (Tasya Teles) who is still banished.
Octavia is finally in charge and lets Skaikru know they have 12 hours to decide on the hundred people that will be surviving. Jaha looks terrified.
Other Thoughts:
- What was the point of Riley’s whole arc if they were just going to have him OD?
- Maybe a mass teen suicide wasn’t the smartest way to go about killing the ones who had given up. It sort of glamorized a terrible terrible situation.
- Octavia betraying Echo was brilliant and heartbreaking. We hope Echo finds a way in!
- Does Octavia winning the conclave make her the new Commander too?
- We need more Clarke and Niylah (Jessica Harmon). When Clarke is with her she shows her humanity, when she’s around Jaha she’s nothing more than a puppet.
Next week they pick the next round of survivors, who’s going to survive The 100? Find out Wednesday at 9pm on The CW!
