This week’s The Nevers deals with the fallout of last week’s shocking death in a rather dramatic fashion in “Undertaking.” Amalia struggles with how to carry on after recent events, while Myrtle has a message that she can’t express to the others. Mundi makes a breakthrough and Amalia learns the hard way that no one can be trusted.
Drowning Sorrows | As the Orphans all gather to bury Mary, Amalia (Laura Donnelly) is literally drinking her problems away in a pub and ends up instigating a brawl. When she returns to the orphanage, she immediately suspects that someone in the orphanage informed the shooter of the plan to have Mary sing at the park. Lord Massen (Pip Torrens) oversees a shipment of bombshells coming in from the docks, while Mundi (Ben Chaplin) arrests pink sash wearing purists who insulted Mary’s burial after they were given the funeral’s location on a card with a swan on it.
The Suspects | Amalia, Penance (Ann Skelly), Cousens (Zackary Momoh) and the newly converted Bonfire (Rochelle Neil) make a list of suspects who knew about the park: Augustus (Tom Riley), Lavinia (Olivia Williams), Maladie (Amy Manson) and Massen. Penance, eager to tell off Augustus after the gala, confronts him, but he obviously didn’t do it and apologizes for his behavior and pledges to earn her trust back. Bonfire asks a drifter named Nimble Jack (Vinnie Heaven) about the Beggar King’s whereabouts, but he leaves without telling.
Mundi confronts Swann (James Norton) about his connection to the Purists, but Swann denies anything to do with it. Even so, Mundi breaks off their deal with the Club, as Amalia has a vision of her at Massen’s mansion and heads there to accuse him of killing Mary. He denies killing her, but calls the Touched a plague on society and that they must be dealt with. Mundi gets a visit from Maladie, who insists that she didn’t kill Mary, but when she tries to flee, Mundi catches her, knocks her out and arrests her.
The Betrayal | Lucy (Elizabeth Berrington) tells Amalia that Massen has a stash of weapons in a warehouse, but when they go there to destroy them, the crates are filled with nothing but rocks. It’s here that Amalia figures out that Lucy is a mole for Massen and that he promised her a cure for her destructive powers that caused her to kill her baby.
Amalia pulls a gun on Lucy, but spares her after Lucy points out that Penance will never forgive her if she finishes her off. She sends Lucy off on a boat after getting everything she knows about Massen, while Primrose (Anna Devlin) hires a group of translators to figure out what Myrtle (Viola Prettejohn) is saying. Myrtle heard the meaning of Mary’s last song and the translation says “Find me.” This brings Amalia to tears as everyone wonders who they need to find.
The Nevers airs Sundays on HBO.
