With a skipped week for The 100, a refresher is in order before diving into this week’s episode! The Gospel of Josephine ended with Josephine still masquerading as Clarke with only a recently captured Bellamy knowing the truth. Murphy has been offered a deal he may not be able to refuse, one that deals with immortality, and Dioyza and Octavia are still on the hunt for Xavier. Fans were left with questions and thankfully the latest episode, Memento Mori, answered many of them!
Murphy updates Josephine on all things Clarke so they can fool Abby into believing she is in fact her daughter in hopes that she will reveal how to create a nightblood and she uses Abby’s desperate love for Kane to do it. However, they are abruptly stopped by Madi screaming upstairs. Murphy tells Josephine that dealing with Madi can be her trial run to help her adjust to life as Clarke. It seems the source of her screaming originated from the Dark Commander stored in the flame and according to Madi, he’s growing stronger. Gaia urges Clarke to allow Madi to perform the separation ritual before his power grows too strong. Josephine’s performance was pretty poor here, but somehow she slipped by without Gaia or Madi discovering her secret, however, it was clear that Gaia is now suspicious of Clarke’s strange behaviour.
At the tavern, we see Echo, Raven, and Emori join Murphy and Josephine to have what they call, ‘a family meeting’. They ask about Bellamy and although initially shrugged off, Josephine recovers and answers directly with a story about him going out with a foraging party. Immediately Echo senses something off, finding it strange that he would go out on a mission alone without telling anyone, especially after finding out about the Primes’ secret immortality. Raven calls them murderers and body-snatchers, deciding that they definitely need to leave, but Murphy brings up a pretty good point. Where can they go, on a planet they know nothing about? How will they survive without the Primes’ help?
Raven and Emori leave to see Ryker and see if they can solve the field radiation problem while Echo goes after Bellamy so Josephine tells Jade to follow her, knowing that Echo will discover her secret. Murphy confronts Josephine about Bellamy’s whereabouts with genuine concern. Forcing her hand, she leads him to Bellamy where she then locks him up with one goal. Convince him to change sides. To make him join the Primes and their way of life. Bellamy suggests they just kill them all and take what’s theirs, solving their place to live issue.
Bellamy asks Murphy why he isn’t shackled as well and he replies with a half-hearted response that Bellamy just doesn’t buy so Murphy tells him the truth. Murphy brings up Monty, saying that this is what he would want and this hits a sore spot for these two. Bellamy flares up with anger and tells him that Monty would be ashamed. Things definitely get heated between these two and when Murphy finally saw that there was no changing his mind, he leaves.
Raven and Ryker have a very heated conversation over his immortality and we all know how strongly opinionated and stubborn Raven is. She guilts him about all the bodies he’s taken in order to live as long as he has and he points out that it’s just as hard for him. Claiming that he didn’t ask for it, but he remembers them all and finds ways to honour them.
Meanwhile, Dioyza and Octavia find Xavier where he points out a very damaged and withered hand on Octavia. He claims it was hurt by the solar flare, in the previous episode because it was the only thing that remained above ground when the flare hit the clearing. He leads Dioyza back to where it began to collect something that might help because without it, she will certainly die with only days before time runs out.
As Echo continues her search for a missing Bellamy, she stumbles upon a man entangled in vines and rooted in a tree. He asks her for mercy, over and over again and so she approaches, picking up a rock, ready to end his suffering until Jade comes out and stops her. She tells Echo that he was the guard who let them through the shield that night Rose was abducted and this was his punishment. He asks her to join him and she tells him that she answers to another. Jade and Echo fight and when Echo gets the upperhand and strikes her down, she grabs the rock and finishes him. Jade wakes up, tied to that very tree and Echo questions her. Leading her to discover that it’s not Clarke anymore, Jade tells her that Bellamy is still alive but only until the second moon.
Xavier tells Dioyza that Gabriel is the original Gabriel that came to Sanctum over 200 years ago, the mysterious 13th Prime who fled when the true origins of immortality were revealed. Xavier calls it a moral awakening and he tells Dioyza that her child will become a null, left to clean toilets, unable to bear children, and useless to the primes because she won’t have the blood. They make their way back to Octavia with the sap in hand, hoping they reach her in time.
Madi continues to see the Dark Commander, now making his way into mirrors. Deciding that they can’t wait any longer, Gaia follows through with the separation ritual. She tells her to use a safe memory as an anchor and she chooses the first day she met Clarke. However, when she goes into the flame, she is seated at a table alone with the Dark Commander. He urges her to kill Gaia before she kills her, but she doesn’t like what she’s hearing and wakes up now chained to the wall. She tells Gaia that it didn’t work and Gaia tells her that it’s a ritual that requires repetition and that the chain is there for her protection.
Josephine finally approaches Abby and proposes the idea of turning Kane into a nightblood to save him. After planting that seed, Josephine turns to her mother, Simone, to help her. She asks to erase the Lees from the system to create space for Kane, ultimately saving their immortality issue. Simone is hesitant at first, but decides to go ahead after Josephine reminds her that the Lees betrayed them and the Primes. Just a reminder, the Lees were the ones who stole the ship and boarded the Elgius IV, earlier in the season.
Josephine then goes to finally talk to Bellamy, but Russell and Murphy interrupt. Russell apologises to Bellamy, claiming he never meant for things to get out of control with Clarke and Murphy tells him that he trusts Russell. Josephine cuts Bellamy’s restraints allowing him to choke Russell. After calming down, Bellamy releases him and leaves.Bellamy asks Murphy why he isn’t shackled like him, to the floor. He replies with a half-hearted response that Bellamy just doesn’t buy. SO Murphy tells him the truth. But then Murphy brings up Monty, saying that this is what he would want. And this hit a sore spot for these two. Bellamy flares up with anger and tells him that Monty would be ashamed. Things definitely got heated between these two and when Murphy finally saw that there was no changing his mind, he tapped the door to be let out.
Xavier pours the sap on Octavia’s arm, but it doesn’t have the result Dioyza or Octavia thought it would. He told them that he had something that might help her, but he only bought her a day, maybe two. Octavia tells him to cut it off and Dioyza admires her courage but the idea proves folly, and they don’t do it, doubting that it would work anyways. Instead, he has her draw on a rock, creating what he calls an anomaly, taking the form of a large spiral and it’s calling to her, with a message. Like it did with him. Ominous, am I right?
Madi blames Gaia under the influence of the dark commander and banishes her, to prevent her own death at Gaia’s hands. Gaia leaves and then Madi asks the dark commander to tell her how to kill them all.
After a crazy day, we see Josephine going to bed, completely at ease despite everything that has happened, but when she goes to lie down and sleep, we see into her dream. A dream of Clarke back in her room on the ark, the one with all her art on the walls, which leads us to believe that Clarke is still in there somewhere.
And that’s it. So much has happened here that I can’t help but give this episode a 9/10. Will Clarke be able to reach out and make her way back to Bellamy and the others?
