'Orphan Black' premiere welcomes a new clone with a blast from the past
Marty and Doc aren't the only ones who can time travel.
On the Orphan Black Season 4 premiere, the action jumped back in time to when Beth was still alive and Sarah was just a LEDA clone on the loose.
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In an almost-entirely-flashbacks episode, we learned how much Beth really knew -- including some intel from a new clone, MK -- and how deep she got into the Neolutionist rabbit hole.
Some ghosts from the past popped up (R.I.P., Hot Paul), too as Beth’s tangled web was weaved, but the most shocking moment came when the show jumped back to the future and showed Sarah’s latest threat.
Let Keeping Up with the Klones begin.
Beth and MK
In the woods, new clone MK wears a creepy lamb mask and discovers two paramedics burying a body. Crazy-haired MK is Beth’s informant for Neolution-related matters, and she tells the detective that her boyfriend (a.k.a Hot Paul) is a spy and someone in the station is also one.
It’s tough to pinpoint this new clone's accent, but she tends to disguise her voice and face since she faked her own death. Beth finds that the dead body in the woods partied too hard with Neolution -- his cheek is carved out and below the belt, he has a double dick. Yeah, things are weird.
Beth is not stable. She does drugs -- which she gets from Alison, but more on that later -- and is visibly “shaky” to Angie and Art. She sets up surveillance gear from hot IT guy Raj (remember him?) to try to catch Paul in a lie, but ends up trying to seduce Paul. Sadly, she gets rejected, cries, almost breaks up with him, and then almost shoots him in the back of the head. But she changes her mind last minute. #Clonemotions.
Things start getting twisted when Beth starts poking around a Neolution club and ends up in front of Dr. Leekie at a book signing. To make matters worse, she’s taken off the creepy body-in-the-woods case. In her sad, rejected state, she goes over to Art’s and sleeps with him.
Then the shit hits the fan.
Beth gets a call from concerned Neolutionist girlfriend Trina from the club, who tells her that her boyfriend Aaron is caught up with some “hardcore Neos.” (Anyone else thinking of Neopets right now?)
When Beth goes to find them, a detective from her station is pulling some sort of worm out of Aaron’s dead face. Startled, Beth knocks over something loud and has to go running. In her frightened, drug-fueled moment, she accidentally shoots Maggie Chen, and Art comes to her rescue to plant a phone in her hand so it looks like Maggie was reaching for a gun. Oh, the things you do for… love?
Cosima
We only get a glimpse at Flashback Cosima, but she’s homeless, just broke up with her girlfriend, and is struggling to find money for tuition and airfare to fly to be with the other clones. She demands answers from Beth and money from Alison, who is apparently bankrolling the whole operation.
Alison
Alison is having fun with Beth’s guns, wanting to “blast something.” Foreshadowing, much? Ramon is her delivery boy, and he brings Beth pills and a bottle of Alison’s daughter’s pee to pass a drug test. Such a great mother.
Sarah
Oh, hi, Sarah. In the final scene, Art calls Sarah and reveals he has someone interesting for her to speak to. “Sarah Manning. My name is MK. I need Beth. Neolution knows where you are,” she reveals.
"They’re coming for Kendall Malone. Listen to me Sarah, you need to run. Right now."
And we’re off!
What did you think of the episode, Clone Club?
Sandra Gonzalez was a Senior Television Reporter at Mashable. A Texas native, she spent almost four years in New York City before leaving the land of superstorms for Los Angeles, where she was introduced to these terrifying things called "rolling earthquakes."Previously, she was with Entertainment Weekly, where she wrote about every show that could fit into her perfectly crafted TV schedule and anything ever touched by Shonda Rhimes.You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter @theSandraG
