BBC’s Orphan Black started its third season, and it’s even more twisted and complicated than before.
The season premiere wasn’t very science-heavy, mostly just a lot of clones trying to figure out how not to get killed and a lot more insight behind the cloning operation as a whole. But there are some significant plot developments that will be essential for the rest of the season.
(If you haven’t seen the show, obviously none of this will make any sense. But if you’ve seen Season 1 but just aren’t caught up with Season 2, here’s a good, illustrated recap.)
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The premiere, “The Weight of This Combination,” began with a reminder that Helena is being held captive in a sealed wooden box after Siobhan sold her out to Paul and the Castor division. She has justifiably started to go a little insane, even having conversations with an imaginary scorpion. And Rachel, who is partnered up with the Dyad Institute and is out to terminate the others, is still in the hospital after Sarah stabbed her in the eye with a pencil. We actually see a doctor pull the pencil out of her eye…
Nice way to start things off this season.
The most important plot shift this season is the addition of the creepy male Castor clones who were soldiers, one of which is being held by Topside (the one we saw at the end of Season 2). The others are out to eliminate the female clones.
So basically everyone seems to be in danger in one way or another, nothing new.
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We don’t know much about the Castor clones quite yet. But Rudy, the one who is captured, seems to know an awful lot about the Leda clones and apparently already took out one of them who we didn’t know existed previously. The fact that we don’t know how many clones there are total gives the plot plenty of opportunity for unexpected twists and turns. As Rudy terrifyingly tells Sarah when she comes to see him in confinement in an attempt to get some answers, “Count your sisters.”
Because Rachel is out of commission with her missing eyeball, Delphine has taken over her role at Dyad, but she still seems (at least partially) to have the clones’ best interest in mind. For that reason, when a man named Ferdinand from Topside comes to inspect what’s going on at Dyad, Delphine insists that Sarah impersonate Rachel to cover their tracks. And when he wants to question Sarah, who’s supposed to be in custody, Allison steps up for the part.
So actress Tatiana Maslany is now playing the role of certain characters impersonating other characters, which she’s done in previous seasons but in this episode it was particularly impressive. For example Alison as Sarah doesn’t quite get her accent right.
We also learn that Dyad once terminated a group of clones in Helsinki and that seems to be the current mission in Toronto as well, with Rachel being the exception.
We see a much darker side of Delphine when she sees Rachel in the hospital. In an attempt to get more details about Helsinki and what’s really going on with Dyad, she presses her thumb into her bandaged, now eye-less socket. Gruesome.
Later Sarah (as Rachel) is able to get more information out of Ferdinand by engaging in an aggressive sexual encounter. He confirms the plan to kill all of the Leda clones is official, but they plan to spare Sarah’s daughter Kira, who Rachel apparently wants for herself. In fact, it was already underway, as a man was just then approaching Allison’s house. But just in time, the order is called off thanks to Delphine’s intervention.
Also in the episode:
Delphine breaks up with Cosima because it will interfere her role as “the new Rachel” at Dyad. Allison has decided to run for school trustee in her kids’ district against a woman she hates, which will inevitably lead to drama in suburbia. We see Helena get freed from her box, but she’s still in custody of the Castor military. Sarah and the sisters are all on a mission to rescue her. The second Castor clone that we’ve seen when he beat up Siobhan to get information ends up freeing Rudy. And Cosima shares the secret book full of Ethan Duncan’s genetic information on the clones with her research partner Scott. She plans to keep it a secret from everyone else for the time being.
Looks like this season will be just as action-packed as the previous two. Despite many lives being in danger, it’s touching that the Leda sisters have gotten even closer and even say “I love you” now. And Maslany continues to impress.
