This week’s episode of Killjoys is by far the best episode of the season, and quite possibly even the series. We finally find out how Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) and Aneela (Hannah John-Kamen) are connected, all while D’avin (Luke Macfarlane) deals with a sneaky Turin(Patrick Garrow). ‘The Wolf You Feed’ was written by Nikolijne Troubetzkoy and directed by Stefan Pleszczynski.
Get Zeph’d | Johnny (Aaron Ashmore) and D’avin are frustrated and saddened when some of their best pilots crash the Hullen ships they’re attempting to fly. Dutch and Zeph (Kelly McCormick) are missing, and Johnny can’t get ahold of them because Zeph out-nerds Johnny and locks him out of Lucy (Tamsen McDonough)–though she does install a fail-safe for Johnny to crack. Dutch wants to know what those memories from Aneela’s brain contain, so she has Zeph sneak her out and into a secret lab where she can put them into her own brain to view. The first memory Dutch sees is the one where Khlyen (Rob Stewart) is removing her memories so a mysterious “she” can’t see what Aneela’s done. The next one is from Aneela’s childhood with Khlyen (Rob Stewart), where we learn he is originally from Qresh. At this point Zeph warns Dutch that staying in Aneela’s memories too long could be dangerous, but Dutch pushes forward.
Through the next few sets of memories we learn that Aneela was different from other Hullen, she could still feel things, and she thought that made her broken. She has spent all this time working on experiments that could fix her, but they turn deadly so Khlyen has to lock her away in one of those safehouse boxes Dutch can access. But Aneela was locked inside, left with only her memories as entertainment. She began draining her own plasma spinal fluid into a tub and bathing in it to relive her old memories, and eventually brings something back out of them: Dutch.
Zeph must reassure Dutch that Aneela is not her mother, then lets Dutch continue discovering her past. She does find out something that upsets her though, she finds out that Khlyen is her father, and that info causes her to have a seizure. While seizing she’s reliving one of her own memories, and though Zeph is able to revive her, Dutch is still trapped in that memory and tries to kill Zeph. Luckily Johnny is a master nerd and cracked Zeph’s code in time to come help her and break Dutch from her waking dream.
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Here is where you may need to get a giant box of tissues, because Dutch goes back into Aneela’s memories one more time to get the answers about her past that she deserves. In the memories, she sees Aneela tell Khlyen about Dutch, she is his daughter, plucked from her memories before they had been tainted by Arkyn and the Hullen. She’s hoping to give him the child he always wanted, and that maybe now he can forgive her for not being good enough. Khlyen wants to kill little Dutch to protect Aneela from whoever this “Lady” is, but can’t do it once he looks at her face. Instead he decides he needs to protect, train and hide this little Yalena Yardeen.
War Criminal | While Dutch is missing, D’avin has to deal with everything war related, which includes dealing with angry Ferran. They need pilots who know how to fly Hullen ships, and who better to ask about that than Fancy (Sean Baek)? He finds Fancy and gets him to reluctantly answer a few questions about the ships. Basically, only someone who has been Hullen can fly the ships, so they’ll need some Cleansed volunteers. But the Cleansed don’t like how they’re being treated by their fellow killjoys and mainly stick together. Fancy says he’ll try to get the 34 pilots D’avin needs, but only if D’avin has their backs because they’ve faced a lot of persecution lately.
Next, D’avin has to appease the Ferran rep to keep him from bailing on them. They need the support of the Ferran for this war. While D’avin is discussing war plans with the Ferran, Fancy comes in and punches him in the face. Turin’s men just raided a Cleansed hideout and he thinks it was a trap.
Back at the RAC, D’avin finds Turin to find out what’s going on. Turin doesn’t trust the Cleansed so he’s taken it upon himself to round them up. It’s a good thing not everyone thinks like Turin, because D’avin gets the support he needs to free the Cleansed and arrests Turin. After, he finds and checks on Fancy, who does a very un-Fancy thing and actually opens up to D’avin. He tells him that he might not be Cleansed, but only in remission. But D’avin doesn’t care, instead he shares some of his own war horror stories to bond with his friend.
When everyone is finally back on Lucy, D’avin confronts Dutch about being MIA. Dutch realizes in this moment that she’s not fit to lead an army into war, and passes on leadership to D’avin.
Finally, we know where Dutch came from! But who would have predicted THAT as her origin story? What’s going to happen to Dutch now that she knows her story and has stepped down as leader?
Killjoys airs Fridays at 8pm on Syfy!