Episode 7 is all about Clarke’s fight to survive. She’s pitted against Josephine in her mindscape, that strange dream-like state we saw at the end of last week’s episode. Clarke has to race to keep her important, turning point memories from reaching Josephine or she will discover how to rid Clarke from her body entirely.
Nevermind opens with Clarke in her room on the Ark, hearing her loved one’s voices, being surrounded by them on every available surface of the room, in the form of her art. She goes through a door leading to her home in the valley and there she sees her dad. They embrace and it reminds her that she never got to say goodbye to him or her friends back on Sanctum. She tells him that she hears a heartbeat. Her own heartbeat, which is telling her that she’s still alive. But she has her doubts, knowing what she felt in the lab. She thought she was truly gone, killed by Russell, so at first she denies the possibility but then her dad quickly urges her that she needs to believe. He assures her that he will always be there for her and tells her that she needs to go. Still unsure of what this all means, she listens to him and walks out.
Now she’s on Eligius IV. She walks into a room that quickly turns into her room on the Ark once again, but this time she’s not alone. Ali is there. She gives her a memory of Raven in Mount Weather and tells her to save it.
Then she meets Josephine, in her original body, back in the hallway of the ship. She tells her that it’s been awhile since a mind wipe hasn’t worked. She informs her that the body isn’t made for two people and Clarke’s presence is slowly causing her brain to deteriorate, and it will keep doing that until only one of them remains. It all started when Clarke left her dad and opened the door to memory lane. Clarke tells her that she won’t go down without a fight. So now its Clarke and Josephine sharing Clarke’s mindscape.
They fight over Clarke’s hidden memory and Clarke wins, but then a collision alert sounds and Josephine’s body disappears. But not for long. Josephine comes back and tells Clarke that she can’t die in another person’s mindscape. But Clarke can and since Josephine took something to pass out, she has all night to end her.
Clarke runs, right into the fighting pit and Blodreina. She guilts Clarke for all her choices and for her decision to leave Bellamy. Blodreina tells her that she’s afraid to find him in here because of what he might say and feel about Clarke. This angry reunion ends quickly however when Josephine catches up to her and instead of standing alongside Clarke she tells her to have at it and walks away.
Clarke runs out and is thrust into a room much like the one she woke up in in Mount Weather. A very burnt Mya lies in the bed and she asks her why she’s fighting so hard to live. Clarke apologises to her but she responds with asking about Jasper. Does she feel bad about that? Mya slaps her with some cold hard truths, including how she’s killed more than she’s saved. She tells her to just give up control, which leads Clarke to realise that she’s the one in charge. Not Josephine. This sparks an idea and she uses Mya to help her. They lead Josephine to the cave and collar her with the shock collar from last season. Instead she chooses, having no way out, to grab it knowing it would shock her until death. She comes back but this time and her dad is with her. Now it’s Russell and Josephine against Clarke and the clock is ticking.
Clarke is back on the ship and she avoids her dad, now a memory of the day he was floated and Josephine notices and pursues. There she finds a locked box in a forest but lacks the combination. Clarke confronts her. As they talk, Finn’s death flashes across the screen. Josephine tells her that Bellamy has struck a deal of Peace with her dad with a school for Madi, but Clarke doesn’t believe her until she’s shown the memory of the deal being struck between Bellamy and Russell. Clarke unlocks the box filled with her memories and then we see a flash of Raven’s torment in Mount Weather and the bone marrow surgery and finally giving in to Josephine.
Now Clarke’s back in the valley, but this time Monty is the one waiting for her. He tells her that saving my people is just an excuse and one that she needs to stop using. He asks her if she wants to leave Madi and she says its what’s best, but he tells her the ends don’t justify the means and she should know that. She says it’s too late except Monty says ‘we’ll see’ and they join hands.
He leads them to Josephine’s mindscape. There they see thousands of books, all recording the 200 plus years on Sanctum. There’s a rumble, which Monty assures Clarke that that’s a sign that Josephine knows they’re there. They look for something to use and Clarke’s transported to a memory, one where Josephine is in another, older body. She’s speaking with someone and then she starts to feel off, something is wrong with her Jo juice. Then her friend pushes her out the window, killing her. The abrupt end throws Clarke right into another memory, in the same body speaking to a man in a forest with a crying baby on the ground. They’re arguing over the baby’s future. He defends the baby saying it’s done nothing wrong except for being born without the blood. It’s life shouldn’t be useless and she disagrees and kills him.
Then they make it into a diner decked out in Christmas décor, the final pit stop. They find a newspaper on the counter with a mugshot of Dioyza saying, “GOT HER”. They see Josephine with her friends and then a guy who seems to know Jo sits down. She keeps blowing him off, like she’s ashamed or above him. He sees that and calls her out on it, saying that she still thinks that she’s too good for him. He pulls a gun and calls her a stuck up bitch. He says ‘well at least you can see this’ and shoots himself in the head.
Clarke tells Monty to hide just before Josephine runs in angry, saying she shouldn’t see this. She chokes her and then wakes up. Josephine has a bloody nose, but she thinks she has won. She walks into Bellamy’s meeting with her dad.
Something catches Bellamy’s eye. He looks over at Josephine and notices a tapping on her arm. He scribbles what appears to be morse code, transmitted from Monty using Christmas lights in the diner. Bellamy leaves with Miller and he finally translates the code. It says, ‘ALIVE’ and Miller asks what does that mean? Bellamy tells him that it means they’re going to get her back.
And that’s it. I was initially worried with how last week’s episode ended, fearing that they might hint like they did about Clarke and then start the next episode with something else, leaving Clarke in the dark. But they didn’t! So bravo. Fans did not have to wait to find out what is going on and they did such a great job showing it! I give this episode a 9/10! Stay tuned for next week’s episode!
