In Orphan Black‘s second episode of Season 3, “Transitory Sacrifices of Crisis,” the Castor clones are definitely becoming a primary part of the plot. There is a clear juxtaposition – the Leda clones are relatively harmless despite trying to save each other and their families, while the Castor clones are demented, military trained and thoroughly enjoy creeping people out.
But they have something in common. They all want to find out their genome sequence. And the Castor clones, specifically Rudy and Seth, are hellbent on figuring out who the original source was. Apparently the originals for both the female and male clones are “missing.”
Both Rudy and Seth end up assaulting a woman at the beginning of the episode after Rudy brings her back to a hotel room, and we learn later that they took her I.D. and a sample of her hair. She reports it to the police, specifically Art (Sarah’s confidant). This might imply that the woman could be connected to their original genetic source. Surely we’ll find out more about that in the future.
We learn that Paul, who was monitoring Beth Childs for Dyad, was actually keeping an eye on Dyad for Castor. In the episode he runs through neurological tests with Rudy and Seth, apparently measuring their ability to understand basic logic proofs. Seth has some trouble, which indicates his cognitive abilities could be faulty. We also later see that he is clearly sick in someway. It could be the same defect that Cosima has struggled with, though she seems to be doing better after getting stem cells from Sarah’s daughter, Kira.
No one besides Scott knows that Cosima has the genome sequence in Ethan Duncan’s copy of “The Island of Dr. Moureau.” But they both play dumb when meeting Dr. Nealon at Dyad.
Rudy ends up breaking into Felix’s loft in search of any material Sarah might have on their genomes. When Sarah and Kira enter the loft, he’s waiting, with X’s over his eyes, mimicking the painting Felix made at the time of Sarah’s (Beth’s) memorial. And while holding a gun to Kira’s head, he demands answers, specifically tissue samples, which she doesn’t have.
Seth was guarding the entrance and is confronted by Cal. When Rudy hears Seth screaming, writhing in pain from his “illness,” he ends up shooting him in the chest, essentially putting him out of his misery. Now Rudy is the main Castor clone we need to worry about.
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Other updates: Castor “mom” Dr. Coady puts a stop to the waterboarding torture being done to Helena because they discover she’s pregnant, and she tries to convince her the Leda twins want her out, an attempt to gain her trust and essentially convert her. Sarah is still furious with Siobhan’s for turning in Helena.
Paul confronts Cal about his dirty secret, namely that he is wealthy after working with the military. Alison has decided to take up drug dealing in the suburbs in order to fund her run for school board of trustee, plus she and Donnie are already broke. (Alison and Donnie are a hilarious side story, and you really can’t help but love them.)
Sarah sends Kira to Iceland with Cal in order to keep her safe. Also, Grace, who is pregnant with Helena’s baby after leaving the cult compound, is with Mark, the other Castor clone who apparently wants no affiliation as he is seen burning off the two-headed horse tattoo that they all have. Grace doesn’t know he’s a clone.
Not surprisingly, the plot is getting more and more complex and equally entertaining.
Orphan Black airs on Saturdays at 9 PM on BBC America.
