This week, responsible Clarke has stepped aside as teenage angst has taken over. Clarke has all the motives in the world to be upset with her mother after she betrayed her family and basically caused her father’s death. No big deal.
So, in the typical teenage move, Clarke takes off her tracker bracelet in order to hurt her mother by making her think she’s died on Earth. It worked. Dr. Griffin is devastated on the ark and has begun rushing her trip to earth with Raven, the ark mechanic and Finn’s (current/ex?) girlfriend. She’s hoping she will find her daughter alive.
Meanwhile on Earth, Monty is using Clarke’s tracker bracelet to try to communicate with the ark.
I must say The 100 didn’t waste any time this week to start with the drama and action.
Octavia and Jasper find Wells’ fingers and Murphy’s blade in the forest, realizing that it wasn’t a grounder who killed Wells.
Clarke goes ballistic as soon as she finds out and publicly accuses Murphy. Poor Murphy gets blamed for a crime he actually didn’t commit. Even though he was guilty, all the bad karma he accumulated by treating the rest of the campers harshly caused them to team up against him. They got Murphy tied up to a tree ready to hang him, and in that moment even with Clarke’s screaming pleas, Bellamy didn’t do a thing to stop it. Did he not stop his second in command’s death because he secretly is annoyed by Murphy as well?
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Luckily for Murphy, Charlotte screams out and confesses that she’s the one who murdered Wells. Clarke cuts down Murphy from the tree and saves him from his death just in time. Now, Murphy and some of the 100 want to hang her too! So here lies the great dilemma of this episode: Where there are no rules, should the same punishments apply to everyone equally? The 100 is giving us some really tough ethical and moral issues to think about here. Props to you for giving us a show that is thought provoking, mentally stimulating and entertaining all at once!
Bellamy, Clarke and Finn grab a hold of Charlotte to protect her, but outside Murphy is building up a riot to crucify Charlotte. Things are getting pretty insane. This episode had me so torn!
Murphy was about to die for a murder he didn’t commit, yet when a little girl is the actual culprit, she’s let off the hook for her age. I would be angry if I was Murphy too. Then again, we have Charlotte who I’m still mad at for what she did. It’s hard to hate a traumatized girl who saw her parents get killed though. However, I’m not as mad as Clarke. She’s repulsed by Charlotte when she tries to hold her hand as they’re escaping from Murphy through the woods.
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Charlotte knows that she’s endangering the lives of Finn, Clarke and anyone else who tries to protect her. So, she escapes the hideout as she decides to turn herself in to Murphy. As she’s doing this, she runs into Bellamy who tries to protect her. We see he really has this protective instinct over Charlotte, almost like she was a small version of Octavia. He also feels extremely guilty that his advice to slay her demons caused this chaos in her young mind. Granted though, the girl had issues before Bellamy said a word to her.
Here is where I must give The 100 huge props for pushing this episode to a place I didn’t expect. As Murphy and his crew meet up with Clarke, Finn, Bellamy and Charlotte, things get out of hand. Murphy grabs Clarke and threatens to slash her throat if he can’t get to Charlotte.
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She offers to turn herself in as she doesn’t want to see anyone else suffer on her account. In that moment, the sincerity in this lost girl’s eyes was true, and I began to feel bad for her all over again. I’m telling you, this episode had me on a moral roller coaster.
Bellamy and Clarke refuse to let that happen and try to stop her. However, Charlotte throws herself off the cliff, plummeting to her death. The 100 writers— you guys are intense! They just killed off this little girl. It’s only the fourth episode, guys!
Even Murphy looked shocked and shaken up by Charlotte’s sudden suicide. It’s no easy task to see a small girl choose death before your very eyes. Bellamy and Clarke come to the conclusion that in order to survive they need rules, and they don’t get to decide who lives or dies. Clarke realizes that the people don’t need to know the truth about everything; it stirs up strife and chaos.
In that special moment, Bellamy and Clarke decide to unite forces and create rules and boundaries for the 100. How long will Bellamy and Clare stay on the same page? I doubt it will be for very long. They jointly decide that Murphy’s punishment is to be banished from camp.
Meanwhile, quite a lot is occurring on the ark. Most of it was dragged on throughout the episode. So here’s a quick recap:
Raven and Dr. Griffin are continuing their mission to launch the pod to Earth to find out how the 100 are doing. However, they’re missing materials for Raven to finish the repair. Dr. Griffin has to make some illegal trades to get the missing part and is ratted out. This is exactly what Kane wanted; he’s been keeping tabs on Dr. Griffin’s every move.
As Kane is approaching to arrest Dr. Griffin, she and Raven realize that only one of them can complete the mission. It must be Raven, how predictable. As Kane begins to arrest Dr. Griffin (who is supposed to get floated for this crime), Raven takes off on her flight to Earth.
Just as this is occurring, Monty’s attempt to communicate with the ark through the tracker bracelets has failed; all the connections were fried, which means that the ark will believe that all of the 100 have died. Finn storms out of the camp devastated as he has people he cares about on the ark. Clarke follows behind to try to comfort him, reminding him that he’s not alone. He quickly forgets about who he has up in the ark (Raven) as he and Clarke give into all of their emotions and the tension that had sparked since the start.
It will be interesting to see what happens as Raven lands next week on Earth. Raven, who has endangered her life just to find out if the boy she loves, Finn, is alive. Don’t worry Raven, I think he’s doing just fine now.
Besides all the moral and ethical conflicts, the 100 has now inserted the carefully calculated love triangle. Genius. This show has not been a let down whatsoever.
8/10.
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