Core identities lie at the center of this week’s maze.
“This is where your brother used to play.
You used to push him on the swings.
Jay’s behavior has become problematic, and they are after him now too.
Seriously, those Drones are nightmare fuel.
“I’m not your brother.
There’s no point in leaving these messages.
Your dad is gone just like myrealbrother is.”
She’s just a kid, who by the way, saved your life.
They both want to rebuild Maeve (Thandiwe Newton).
Frankie believes the answers to the questions that have kept her up at night are inside Maeve’s head.
But before they can wake her, they’ll need supplies.
Bernard makes his way around with ease, quickly locating a hidden elevator to the lower-level hub.
They make their way through the rundown hub as Bernard overshares his resume.
He used to program the hosts, but assures her he didn’t help Halores spread her parasite.
That was after his time.
Frankie doesn’t appear pleased to learn any of this.
“You gave the puppets strings long enough to strangle the world,” she replies.
Fixing Maeve’s body won’t be an issue, but her mind is a different matter.
Being underground so long will have corrupted her control unit, so they’ll need a new one.
Bernard says that “60% of the time she wakes up amenable to their plan.
Frankie wants to know how “Nostradamus” comes up with these predictions.
An “old habit” he says that comes from years of “running probabilistic algorithms.”
Meanwhile, somewhere deep inside Olympiad Entertainment, Caleb’s peaceful dreams of Frankie are interrupted by Halores.
“Your daughter, your daughter, your daughter, like a broken record.
You’re not the only one whose lost something Caleb,” she spits at him.
She tells him the outliers all started with him.
When he refuses, she lashes out, threatening to make Frankie tell her.
He smiles, realizing this means Frankie is alive and she hasn’t been able to catch her.
She tells him not to celebrate yet: she’s sent a visitor her way.
“Enjoy this knowledge while you might.
I offered you a path out Caleb.
You made your choice, you all did,” she says.
Halores is really coming undone.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she snaps and decides to kill everyone, human and host alike.
The one thing he seems to have that the others didn’t is the knowledge that Frankie is alive.
“This world she made is a lie.
It’s not real.
But what you have is real.
I’m sorry that I failed…You’re my warrior.
I love you.”
They’re not infected, they’re just trying to get away from her.
When Adult Jay (Daniel Wu) and the team arrive, Frankie turns on Bernard.
She shoots him in the chest and reveals that she knows he’s a host.
Stubbs asks if this is true and Bernard says it’s complicated.
Not the best defense, B!
(Which, come on, was kind of obvious considering the cold open was focused on him.)
As they fight, Caleb’s message plays over the radio in her SUV.
Frankie and Maeve have a heart to heart.
“Everything you guys did, that’s why we’re here,” Frankie says.
“Well then, let’s finish what we started,” Maeve replies.
With only two episodes left in the season, their finish line draws near.