The 100 Season 6 Episode 4: 'The Face Behind The Glass' Review
[SPOILER ALERT! Watch out for spoilers from the episode!]
It's Naming Day! A day of amendment and unburdening. And what does that mean to our heroes from Earth? Well, not much. They are just glad to have a safe place to sleep, food to eat, and no enemies to speak off.
Things that are all about to change.
The episode begins in an aura of celebration. Everyone is happy. Jordan and his new girlfriend Delilah, object of this year's naming day, are together. Clarke is regarded by all as a hero for saving their young prime. And the rest of the crew from Elygius 4 are having the time of their lives as well. The young doctor who checks on Delilah and Clarke hits it off with our hero immediately, though advising her to keep her wound covered up so her black blood wouldn't be found out. Madi is euphoric and wants to go to school, but Clarke disagrees and send her off to train with Gaia instead.
The celebration begins. The opening ceremony is one of 'amendment'. Everyone seeks to unburden theirselves by confessing and asking for forgiveness from those they have wronged. Clarke seeks out Raven, but the latter, who didn't even bother attending, is unreceptive. Instead, she stalks out in search of the 'workshop' where she can find some motorcycles. Clarke however, continues in the spirit of the celebration, including tying her'sins' to a floating lantern and making amends with Bellamy for leaving him to the fighting pits last season. Bellamy, of course, holds nothing against her, but the act is touching and brings the two even closer.
The party goes on into the night. Clarke keeps enjoying every minute of it, even dancing without care and hooking up with the doctor, Cillian (there goes our hopes for Bellarke this season!). Bellamy, however, can't bring himself to really enjoy anything, ending up in a quarrel with Echo when she tries to make him feel better. At the workshop, Raven meets with Ryker, another one who skipped out of the celebrations. Partying is not his scene, he claims. And of course, the two hit it off. Or so it seems until it is revealed that he actually is one of the Primes when he emerges in a full suit. He can miss the celebrations, but has to be there for the actual naming.
Only Jordan attends the naming that night, hand in hand with his girlfriend, Delilah. It's a solemn ceremony and seems to be going alright... until Delilah, just before going into the holy temple with the other primes, runs back to Jordan, kisses him, and begs him not to let her become 'a face behind the glass', an allusion to the story he told her about not being there for his parents by going into cryo on the Elygius ship. Before he can figure out what she means though, she runs back and goes into the temple. Meanwhile, back at the doctor's, Clarke discovers something troubling: a drawing of her and her team, with her face circled and two others canceled. Through that and a few things he says, she realises quickly that the doctor is working with the children of Gabriel to take down the primes within Sanctum. Before she can escape though, he shoots her with a paralysing dart. Down at the naming, Delilah, now Priya the 6th, comes back out of the temple. But something is wrong. She doesn't seem to recognise or know Jordan, or anyone else except the Primes, and the guards won't even let him near. Instead, she hugs Ryker, calling him her 'beautiful baby boy'. Up in his room, Cillian prepares to prep himself to escape Sanctum with the paralysed Clarke, assuring her that he shouldn't be the one she should be afraid of. But then the door bursts open and guard troop in, having been investigating the leak from inside the city. When he hears them, he tries to kill Clarke so the primes won't have another host, but the guards stop him and attempt to arrest him. To make sure he doesn't reveal any secrets, he slits his own throat.
Meanwhile, outside the shields of Sanctum, things have been going on. Octavia and Rose, the girl who was kidnapped by the children of Gabriel manage to escape while their captors debate whether to kill Rose or not. Diyoza is approached with an offer by the Shuni, leader of the Prime guards: if she can get Rose back, her child, but not her, would be given a place in Sanctum. Diyoza agrees and finds Octavia, but they are too late, at the same instant the children of Gabriel find them and in the shooting, Rose is killed. Octavia reveals that they spoke of an old man as their leader, so while Shuni takes Rose back, the two others set out in pursuit of the one child of Gabriel who escaped them.
And now Clarke, still paralysed, is carried into the temple. Russel and his wife discuss quickly--after Delilah, there are no more Prime hosts and the next will not be ready for 56 years, and therefore, it would take that long before they can bring their daughter back. Now, they could do it that very night... all they had to do was kill Clarke. His wife Simone agrees...
A few minutes later, Clarke wakes up... but she is no longer Clarke. Clarke Griffin is dead. This is Josephine Lightborn.
What an episode! I simply cannot believe they've killed off Clarke. Just not possible... is it? I'm already thinking up ways she can return. Maybe the cleansing of the host's mind doesn't work completely with her, remembering what happened with the flame on Earth? Or maybe they re-upload her mind from Madi's flame. Clarke can't be dea, not now! Also, it seems even the children of Gabriel don't know if he's alive (though his cause certainly is). If he is, he would be in something called the Anomaly. What that is, we don't know. But the plot has thickened... who really, is the enemy?
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