This episode finally gives season three some real direction, and its all because of Bernard, well and Sims who was a bit suspicious already last episode with all the memory stuff he was talking about his kid. Before this, the season had plenty going on but none of it connected, Juliette losing her memory, Camille taking orders from the algo, Sims wandering around without much purpose, different groups hiding from the raiders. Bernard turning up alive near the digger void pulls all of that together because he is not just some guy who survived, he is someone who knows more about the Silo than almost anyone, and him being alive means the story everyone was told about his death was a lie but most importantly the algo has no idea of this even with all the cameras and mics around the Silo, somebody hid him and treated his burns for close to three months without Camille knowing, though its not confirmed how much of that Sims arranged himself. I liked that the episode does not rush to explain the whole plan the second Juliette finds him, he just greets her and thats enough, because the real point is that someone close to power helped bury the truth about him. I also love the double agent traps every where because you got to admin there were multiple times where the nurse couldnt be trusted and then when she say go to room 76 who shows up?! fkn Sims I was like wait a minute who is lying and who wants Jules dead?. That makes Sims way more interesting since he was the one who told everyone Bernard was dead and clearly knows more than he has told his own wife. It also gives Juliette someone who might help her figure out those missing months, since shes already getting pieces of George and the digger void back, so Bernard turning up there feels like it actually means something. First time all season the Silo plot has somewhere real to go.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14688458/
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Sims is a lot harder to read this episode, which is good since his scenes finally connect to something bigger than backing up Camille. Camille decides Juliette has to die in medical and Sims offers to handle it himself, which could have played as another cold move, until Amy changes the plan and makes his offer feel suspicious in a much more interesting way. Amy sedates Emerson, gets Juliette out, and admits someone already asked her to swap the memory drugs before Juliette started refusing them, the most awesome part of all this is how things starts to unfold from Amy to Sims to someone even higher. Then Sims is just waiting in pump room 76 telling her she needs to listen, so obviously Jules just got out from Medical when she though Amy was going to kill her and the got into Pump Room 76 where Sims shows up and she thinks he also wants to kill her, ends up been the total opposite. Juliette has every reason to run from him considering she got no memory, by all means even from Shirley but there is something about her, but the episode gives us enough to think Sim might have been trying to help her all this time, specially trying to pospone Vitam D+ not only for his son. Im not ready to say Sims is one of good guy, he could be protecting his family, protecting himself, using Bernard for information or trying to stop Camille from wiping everyone out through the water, there is something of interest for him, nothing is because of his good heart, and what works here is that none of those options let him off the hook so he still a suspect and cant trust him. If Sims hid Bernard, that was still a calculated and dangerous call. Amy matters more now than before, at first she was just a simple nurse following orders, her choice explains why Juliette has been getting her memory back, and her getting caught make Juliette have more skin the game because knowing her, she would want to save Amy. I kind of wish Juliette had listened to Sims for a few seconds, but her distrust still makes sense and now Bernard gives him another shot at proving what he was actually trying to do.
Billings finally gets a break that makes the Orla investigation feel like it matters and we needed that because this part had been crawling like he was getting nowhere and had no real purpose on this season, I got a big hunch he is going to get on Juliette side soon or latter. Orla did not die from the poison in the mines like everyone assumed, she was hit in the back of the head somewhere else and moved into the tunnel so her body would stay hidden, somebody made sure she stayed lost. Billings still does not know what she found, but everyone around Supply gives him reasons to keep digging, her sister was the one who first called Mike her boyfriend and Mike does not seem bothered shes gone, that was such a killer question "it doesnt bother you..??", Billings was trying to get any kind of emotions out of him but show none so he knows something is going on. Glenda shows back up acting ready to take the shadow position and Carla has apparently been missing for months, none of that proves who killed Orla, and the episode is smarter for leaving it open instead of rushing an answer, I like that because its keeping some of the good stuff for latter, but what really matters is that Orla was looking into missing critical supplies and now she is dead and some evidence can disappear, that could connect to Bernard, the water plan, the mines or something else entirely, since Bernard would need food, medicine and clean dressings to stay hidden, so diverted supplies is one guess, but nothing here confirms Orla found him or that her death came from the people protecting him, probably Orla over reacted when discover the entire operation and someone fat figer killing her. I like that the series is having Billings follow the evidence instead of grabbing the easy explanation.
My biggest complaint is still the Before Times stuff, it moves way slower and with way less danger than everything happening inside the Silo, its like the Silo situation sets the bar so high the side line cant keep up. Helen and Daniel know Steve is gone, his work area got destroyed and the recording tied to Charlotte disappeared with it, they know they might be watched which is why they are staying at Palmers place instead of home and it should make every move like they getting closer to the danger zone as they get closer to the truth of what went down in Iran, but too much of this part is still people slowly talking through clues. The chess game at least gives them something, and just something because its a hunge and nothing really concrete since Steve may have been sending messages through his moves and Daniel asks Sam to figure out who was playing against him, who at first came up with some sht show like he was panicing. Then shows up this older goverment guy who makes the threat clear when he offers Helen a newspaper job and reminds Daniel that Charlottes care is being paid for by the same powerful group they are investigating so they can pull the plug anytime, thats not a friendly offer, its a warning that they can be controlled without anyone needing to arrest them, sometimes giving others what they want says more than taking form them because its a clearn sign of who is in control. My issue is they react way too calm after learning how easily Steve and the recording got erased, their reasons for hesitating make sense but arguing about it just takes too much time and gets them nowhere. Sam calling back gets things moving again but the episode keeps what he says hidden so we are still at the same place, the only thing that change was that they got an offer to shut the hell up and I get they want to hold things but this part needs more than another lead followed by another meeting. The Silo plot has a murder, memory loss, a planned killing and Bernard hiding underneath everyone, Before Times cannot keep crawling at half that speed, they have to spice it up quick.
So far I would say this is the strongest episode of the season because it turns a bunch of separate problems into one bigger conflict. Juliette is getting pieces of herself back, Shirley helps her escape, Lucas tells Kennedy the outside is still dangerous and Bernard shows up in the one place that unlocks some of what Juliette lost because she had some strong feelings from the times she spend with George here, we got all of this characters holding different pieces of the truth and none of them trusting each other. Juliette needs Bernard but has every reason to hate him, Lucas knows things about the Silo but Kennedy will not accept his belief about the outside is wrong, and Sims might actually be helping but nobody should trust him without proof. I like that the episode does not pretend these people can sit down together and sort everything out, the lies are too personal and too many of them have already hurt each other in the past or hurt someone related to them, all this going on and Juliette still dont remember her father, they guy who bomb himself for the cause, so wait until that sink in. Bernard changes things because he can explain part of the missing three months and might know why Sims kept him alive, this season needed that kind of real progress. Bernard gives her a way back to the truth and gives the plot someone who can push back on Camille, but the ending alone is not enough, next episode has to actually use him, explain who helped him, show what Sims wants, and get Before Times to stop circling the same danger, but knowing tv series, they just wont, they know they got us hooked so it wouldnt surprise me if we get a filler episode next. This episode finally feels focused and the season needs to hold onto that instead of turning Bernard into one more secret it refuses to explain.
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Rating: 80/100
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