The CW’s The 100 is finally back! The premiere was full of lots of familiar faces, a new environment, and of course, a bit of drama and danger. ‘Sanctum’ was written by Jason Rothenberg and directed by Ed Fraiman.
Waking Up | Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and Bellamy (Bob Morley) have woken up the rest of their core gang (minus Octavia) to show them the messages from Monty and Harper, and to figure out what to do next. Raven (Lindsey Morgan) and Shaw (Jordan Bolger) sneak off for a bit to hook up, and when they get back they all decide on their plan. All of them, minus Abby (Paige Turco), Raven, and Jordan (Shannon Kook), will head to the ground of this new planet and explore it and make sure it’s safe for the rest of their people to live on.
It may be 125 years later, but Raven has not forgiven Abby for torturing her while Abby was looking for drugs, which makes for quite a bit of tension on the ship. Jordan remembers that his dad left some coma algae for Abby to use to perform surgery on Kane (Henry Ian Cusick) to try to save him. She wakes up Niylah (Jessica Harmon) to help her since she knows Raven won’t. Raven and Jordan are using their incredible brains to try to get the radios to work with their buds on the ground when they make a discovery. This planet that Monty’s found and named Alpha for them isn’t really a planet, it’s a moon.
Niylah is still loyal to Blodreina, so she sneaks off to wake Octavia (Maria Avgeropoulos) up after Kane’s surgery. Kane wakes up after a while, and it’s not long before O finds him and they face off with a whirlwind of words for each other. They both blame the other for the deaths of so many of their people. The stress causes Kane’s heart to fail, and as he’s dying Abby is forced to put him back into cryo until she can think of a way to save his life.
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The Ground | Clarke and the others safely land on the ground and exit the ship to a mysterious new world. There are several parallels and callbacks to the pilot episode throughout this whole episode, which is delightful to see. Murphy (Richard Harmon) and Emori (Luisa d’Oliveira) go for a swim, which could have been very dangerous but ended up looking like a lot of fun.
They build a fire and settle in for the night. Jackson (Sachin Sahel) caught a bug and is keeping it in a jar to study. While talking to his boyfriend Miller (Jarod Joseph), Jackson realizes they are the aliens on this planet, not the bugs. By the fire, Bellamy and Echo (Tasya Teles) are having a conversation about Octavia, Echo wants Bellamy to forgive his sister for the things she did, but I’m not sure if he can do that yet. Jackson’s bug begins to freak out, and they are suddenly being attacked by a huge swarm of unknown bugs. They run and see an area that may be safe, and as Shaw runs to it he runs into a radiation fence that zaps him. Clarke is impervious to radiation, so she pulls him across it and he gives her the override code to the fence so she can get everyone behind it and put it back up. After she does this, Shaw dies from his injuries. Poor Raven, she just found happiness with him and immediately loses it.
In the daylight, they discover some sort of city, but no one is around. It’s very well maintained so it can’t be abandoned, yet there are zero people around. As the gang looks around, they notice chains in the homes, which seems odd. Bellamy reads a book called Red Sun Rising, and realizes it’s a children’s book carrying a warning. When the two suns eclipse, something very bad happens. Clarke looks up and notices the eclipse is happening.
Murphy found a music player and was singing to Emori and being super goofy, when she suddenly attacks and stabs him. Whatever the eclipse does, it’s starting.
Catch The 100 Tuesday nights on The CW at 9pm!