Happy Wednesday TV fans! After watching the CW’s The 100 season 6 episode 5, I learned that happiness may look good on Clarke, but Josephine’s presence is beyond dangerous. Will anyone be able to stop her? Please note spoilers are ahead if you have not gotten a chance to watch the latest episode yet. In last night’s episode, “The Gospel of Josephine,” Josephine adjusts to her new body, Clarke, and tries to keep up appearances, which proves to be more difficult than she initially realized. Meanwhile, Jordan and Gaia look for the truth and Abby desperately tries to find a way to save Marcus. My top 5 moments from The 100 season 6 episode 5 are:
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“How hard can Clarke be?”
Josephine may have experience acting in plays over the years, but being “Clarke” proves to be more difficult than she realized. While Josephine embraces her new body, she realizes that fooling Clarke’s friends and family will not be easy. Josephine quickly learns that they speak in another language and she immediately begins making mistakes when she tells Madi that she can go to school after she was so against it before. Bellamy comments that happiness looks good on her, but what’s lurking beneath Clarke’s body is manipulative and dangerous. Watch out, Bellamy!
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“They worship Nightbloods. I’d like to know why.”
Jordan and Gaia seek out answers after “Priya” doesn’t remember who Jordan is. Jordan refuses to just accept this even though Bellamy and Murphy initially don’t have his back, assuming that it was a one night stand and Jordan is too naive to realize. Later on, Clarke/Josephine, Bellamy, and Murphy join Gaia and Jordan and discover some kind of room celebrating the dead and find the mark of the flame. Gaia initially thinks that the skeletons all belong to past commanders, but we quickly learn that they are something else. But if they aren’t commanders, “what the hell are they?”
A good question for sure, as the group comes across a video showing the murder of a Nightblood host, realizing that “becoming one with the Primes” can lead to immortality. Clarke/Josephine tries to put a positive spin on things, but Gaia unintentionally spills the beans about Madi being a Nightblood and Josephine also learns that Abby was able to synthesize Nightblood, turning Clarke into one with science, which definitely gets her full attention. The secrets are unraveling, but no one seems to realize that Clarke is not Clarke just yet.
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“It’s because he’s good and true and deserves to live.”
Abby finally gets some more screen time in this episode, as she continues to work on finding a way to save Marcus. Clarke/Josephine gives her a few ideas that actually seem quite helpful, but as soon as Josephine realizes that Abby can make a Nightblood, it’s clear that she may be in great danger. Abby has an emotional breakdown at one point and talks about how Marcus deserves to live because he did the right thing when she made so many horrible decisions during the time of Blodreina.
Abby’s guilt is clearly catching up to her now and she has traded one addiction for another. While it’s possible that she may have kicked her drug addiction, she is spending every possible moment trying to save Marcus, but will she be able to without further consequences? We’ll have to stay tuned to find out, but I’m feeling some Marcus withdrawal myself. Bring him back already!
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“I guess you want to live after all.”
Meanwhile, while all of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers drama is going on, Octavia and Diyoza continue to get into trouble together while trying to track down Gabriel. Octavia and Diyoza get stuck in some kind of deadly swamp quick sand and apparently “the harder you fight, the faster you die.” Diyoza stands still, but Octavia continues to stubbornly struggle, which makes her sink that much faster. Another dangerous threat comes their way, as some kind of flash of light appears that could be fatal. Diyoza escapes and Octavia hides underneath the quick sand to protect herself, but comes very close to death.
Luckily, Diyoza comes back for her and gets her out of there and tells her that perhaps she wants to live after all. I’m loving this partnership between these two and I think that they can learn a lot from each other. After all, Diyoza reminded Octavia that “you can always turn it around” while you are still breathing and perhaps these two can be redeemed. Either way, I’m rooting for them!
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“I’m listening…”
Bellamy finally begins to detect that something is wrong with Clarke and approaches her, speaking in the Grounder language to prove his suspicions. He asks Clarke who she is and she introduces herself as Josephine Lightbourne. Let’s hope that Bellamy will be OK and can warn the others before it’s too late. However, Clarke/Josephine is already recruiting for her plan, as she approaches Murphy and asks him if he would like to be immortal, revealing that Clarke is dead. Murphy tells her that he’s listening, but is he just trying to get close to Josephine to help his friends or is Murphy looking out for his own survival?
Murphy has come so far as a character, but we know that he has his share of faults. I’m interested to see this unlikely partnership develop more and I hope there is a way to bring our girl Clarke back, but it doesn’t look like Josephine will leave without a fight. New episodes return June 11th! Stay tuned!
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