‘The 100’ Season 6 Recap

In preparation for the seventh and final season of The 100, let’s take a look back at the events of Season 6.

EPISODE 1: SANCTUM

The premiere opens right where season 5 ended, with Clarke and Bellamy staring out at a new planet. Monty and Harper’s son, Jordan, fill them in on what happened after they went to sleep and how his parents never did. He shows them the video Monty made which tells them that he found the original planet that Eligius III was sent to excavate and explore. He warns them that it may or may not be safe, seeing as he couldn’t find many files on it. But it was their best shot at surviving so he took it, knowing that he and Harper wouldn’t be around to see it. Clarke and Bellamy lead an exploration team to see if this planet is indeed survivable.

Raven and Abby remain tense over Abby’s drug addiction and they fight over Monty’s gift of algae and how it may be the key to save Marcus. Their attempts don’t work and it leaves him worse off than before. He’s once again put into cryosleep. Meanwhile, Nylah wakes up Octavia.

As they explore Planet Alpha, they are attacked by aggressive bugs and are forced right into a radiation field killing Shaw. The next morning they find the compound, abandoned and full of A.L.I.E. shrines. Bellamy apologises to Clarke for never responding to her all those years after Praimfaya and Clarke finds a children’s book that leads Bellamy to quickly realise its true purpose, it’s a warning. It depicts the people of Planet Alpha fleeing voluntarily because of an eclipse.

The episode ends with Emori stabbing Jon as their ship is stolen. Clarke realises that Emori’s behaviour was transmitted through the air and that they’ve all been exposed since landing.

EPISODE 2: RED SUN RISING

The true origins of Planet Alpha and Eligius III are revealed. 236 years ago, the inhabitants of Eligius III settle on the planet, including Josephine and her family. Something happens to her father and he becomes mad with anger, which he quenches by murdering the camp, including Josephine.

In the present, Jackson patches up a superficially wounded Murphy and chains Emori up as a precaution. They take another look at the children’s book for any hints or clues to this sudden change in behaviour and discover its pollutants in the air.

On Eligius VI, an unknown ship docks and takes it over, gathering everyone together except for Raven, who wakes Dioyza and they hatch a plan to steal back the ship. Octavia antagonises her own people while in captivity and they respond with violence until Abby intervenes. They decide it’s about time to meet the others on the ground. Gaia, Madi, and Dioyza stay back as Raven, Octavia, Jordan, and Abby embark to find the others. Along the way they discover Shaw’s grave.

Murphy and Bellamy fight as Clarke tries to subdue Bellamy, having succumbed to the disease. Murphy is pushed under the water and he doesn’t wake, but he does have a pulse and strange black veins running all down his chest. The episode ends with a flood of children rushing back into the compound asking Clarke if they were here to take them home in which she responds with, ‘Isn’t this your home?’.

EPISODE 3: THE CHILDREN OF GABRIEL

Prime Russell Lightbourne insists on helping Murphy and they use a snake to remove the poison. The Children of Gabriel are also introduced and they seem to be the Prime’s enemy with a goal to end the Founding Primes and their families. They attack Dioyza, Gaia, and Madi and later kidnap Deliah, the tavern owner’s daughter because of her royal blood. Clarke foils their plans and proves herself to Russell, but discovers why the Children of Gabriel were interested in Deliah: she possesses natblida blood, along with all the Primes. Russell discovers Clarke’s blood and it baffles him because she is not a descendant.

Jordan becomes close to Deliah, while Bellamy and Octavia’s relationship is still very much strained and their opposing opinions on peace just propel them further apart.  Octavia and Rose are kidnapped by the Children of Gabriel and Dioyza.

EPISODE 4: THE FACE BEHIND THE GLASS

Deliah’s Naming Day comes with a lot of amends being made as is tradition. Clarke is among the many trying to make things right and she has a lot to apologise for. First stop is Raven but it doesn’t go well as Clarke needs to do things differently, not promise the same things over and over. Next she goes to Bellamy and that goes much better.

Raven meets a member of the founding families, Ryker. Dioyza finds Octavia and Rose but Rose dies in the crossfire leaving only their leader, Xavier, unaccounted for so they pursue him. Deliah enters the palace for the ritual and she re-emerges to embrace Ryker who proceeds to call her mom. She no longer recognises Jordan and she is not Deliah but Priya.

Clarke discovers the primes motive through Cillian, the man who saved Murphy with the snake earlier. The Primes want to know who has natblida blood but she gets hit by a paralytic dart before she can tell the others. She’s stuck unable to move as guards come in and kill Cillian. She’s escorted to a room full of skeletons by Russell and Simone. She wakes up in a lab but now she’s calling them Mom and Dad.

EPISODE 5: THE GOSPEL OF JOSEPHINE

Clarke is now Russell and Simone’s daughter, Josephine, but no one knows it. She uses this to her advantage and tries to fool her friends into exposing those with different blood.

Abby and Jackson argue over how to save Marcus. Jordan is determined to save Deliah, but no one believes him so he’s going solo. Meanwhile, Bellamy and the others try to figure out other alternatives to living at the compound. As they plot, they stumble into the palace and then into the skeleton room. Gaia sees the mark of the flame on the back of their skulls and they realise the sooner they leave, the better. Bellamy confronts Clarke using grounder dialect and when she can’t hold up her side of the conversation, he sees through Josephine’s ruse. But before he can do anything else, she sticks him with a syringe, paralysing him and locking him away.

Xavier traps Dioyza and Octavia in quicksand and starts to question them about blood alterations. Then there’s a solar flare and Octavia goes under. Murphy explains Clarke’s synthetic natblida blood, which poses as a revolutionary solution for the Primes inability to find enough hosts. But when ‘Clarke’ calls Murphy, Jon he knows something is off. But unlike with Bellamy, she tries to recruit him to her side with immortality.

EPISODE 6: MEMENTO MORI

Murphy briefs Jo on all things Clarke and work together to fool Abby into telling them how to create the black blood. Gaia urges Clarke to allow Madi to go through the separation ritual before the dark commander corrupts her further but her decision only makes Gaia suspicious of her. They note Bellamy’s absence but Josephine fires back a lame story about him scouting the area which only angers Echo, wondering why he would do that without her or anyone else. Raven and Emori seek a solution to the field radiation problem, seeking Ryker.

Dioyza and Octavia find Xavier but with Octavia’s withered arm from the solar flare, they decide to work together because if it goes untreated, she dies. They seek the sap from the area Octavia sunk to during the flare.

Murphy finds Bellamy and tries to trick him but he’s too smart and discovers his plan, disgusted him with his betrayal. Russell comes in and apologises for Clarke and his role in it. He is released and breaks the news to Abby about her daughter. Jo proposes the idea of turning Kane into a nightblood to save him. The episode ends with a foreshadow of Clarke back on the Ark leading us to believe she might still be alive but unable to reach out to them.

EPISODE 7: NEVERMIND

Clarke and Josephine fight over control in their collective mindscape and only one can make it out alive or they both die. Jo tells Clarke that she can die a hundred times and not die for real, but Clarke will be gone for good if she dies in her mind. Insight into Jo’s past is revealed making her more complicated than first thought. Along the way, Clarke has an encounter with Monty and he helps her to send a message to Bellamy and the others through Morse code, telling them that she’s still alive. Jo still thinks she beat her and is unaware of Bellamy’s plan to get Clarke back.

EPISODE 8: THE OLD MAN AND THE ANOMALY

Xavier leads Dioyza and Octavia on a mission to save Octavia’s withered arm or else she will die. Along the way he explains part of Sanctum’s history including the Anomaly, the Verge, and the infamous leader, Gabriel. Abby and Raven debate ways to save Marcus, using a willing host to bring him back in someone else’s body. Russell discovers Clarke is alive and urges his daughter to transfer hosts to right his wrong but she refuses. She enlists Jon and Emori to help rid Clarke once and for all with the lure of immortality for them both but their plans go awry and they change their minds. Jo holds Jon hostage long enough to slip away from the others and Bellamy pursues her while the others split up. Dioyza runs into the Verge and Octavia goes after her despite Xavier’s warning and only Octavia comes back out. But according to him, she would be the first. Russell calls for a manhunt of all the earth visitors and declares a trial to hold them accountable for their actions.

EPISODE 9: WHAT YOU TAKE WITH YOU

Gabriel is convinced Octavia was exposed to vital information from the other side and tries to find ways for her to remember. Marcus wakes up in his hosts’ body where he confronts Abby about what she’s done. Bellamy and Jo are captured by the Children of Gabriel and he tells them that they’ve found a way to make willing hosts but he won’t tell anyone but Gabriel himself. Jo reveals her relationship with Gabriel and they’re complicated past. He tells Abby that he understands what she did but that’s not how they get their humanity back. Raven and Marcus wake up Indra who floats the natblida serum (the answer to creating willing hosts) and Marcus. Clarke wakes up and escapes leaving Bellamy behind. She radios Gabriel to meet.

EPISODE 10: MATRYOSHKA

Clarke seizes again. Her brain can’t handle both minds in one body so they work together to survive. Abby, Raven, and Simone return without the serum and Russell updates them on everything, including the trial. Ryker tells the loved ones of the hosts the truth about the Primes, while Gaia and Echo overhear as they hide in the tavern. Simone is killed by one of her own, sending Russell into a deep depression. Clarke is found by Gabriel and Octavia before she suffocates but now it’s Jo in charge. Jo betrays Gabriel and Octavia until Bellamy intervenes and leverages Jo for his people. Sheidheda tightens his hold on Madi as the others try to save her but are interrupted by the guards and are led to the pyres. Echo plans to take out Russell but Ryker knocks her out, proclaiming it’s for his family. Murphy barters for their lives saying they can use bone marrow to create hosts, buying them 24 hours. Clarke fights for control once again and beats Jo by distracting her. Clarke wakes up to Bellamy.

EPISODE 11: ASHES TO ASHES

Clarke devises a plan to go back to the compound as Jo but Bellamy refuses offering another plan to use the Red Sun as a weapon instead. Echo becomes Ryker’s test subject with Murphy’s bone marrow theory as more of her past is revealed. Gabriel’s own people turn on him until Bellamy suggests using their Red Sun theory as a weapon but they won’t do it until Jo is killed. Miller and Gaia escape and rescue Echo who proceeds to kill Ryker. Murphy and Jade meet up with Bellamy at Gabriel’s tent to negotiate. Having no other choice, Clarke volunteers to go back with them as Jo. Murphy returns with ‘Jo’ and Russell tells him that he’s earned his place and runs to see Emori. Clarke walks with Russell to the lab while discussing their next move and she sees Madi as his latest test subject.

EPISODE 12: THE ADJUSTMENT PROTOCOL

Abby is called in to subdue Madi and sets her eyes on ‘Jo’. He tells her that he wants six doses of the serum because he plans to resurrect six primes that night. The others wait outside the shield waiting for Clarke to disarm it. Bellamy leaves to help her as Jon and Emori revel on their newfound roles at the compound as they await their promised immortality, but then Emori has second thoughts and they try to save their friends. Raven continues to work on removing Sheidheda from Madi but is struggling to get past the AI and is convinced the answer is in Becca’s notebook. To come up with the last 2 doses, Abby injects herself to spare Madi (or it would kill her). Clarke reveals herself to them and they work together. Russell decides to use Abby as his wife’s host. Gabriel has doubts and is imprisoned, just as the red sun warning alarm sounds. Bellamy uses Priya as a shield to try and negotiate to no end. Russell, ‘Jo’ and Simone (in Abby’s body) take Madi as a hostage to make Raven fly them to Eligius leaving the others with a disgruntled mob on the ground.

EPISODE 13: THE BLOOD OF SANCTUM

Russell tells everyone that they will depart to Planet Beta, a 20-year journey. He gives them one hour to decide whether they accept cryo sleep for the travel or their execution. The Primes deem Madi a problem as they try to discuss their plans of survival. The mob of believers corner the others on the ground and force them to partake in the ritual of Sanctum, but Jon and Emori use their new status to break up the ritual and save the others. Clarke confronts Russell about Abby’s neural conditions affecting Simone’s control (hoping that her mother was still there) but he reassures her that Abby was truly gone before implanting his wife’s mind in her body.

To save Madi, they destroy the flame, but Madi doesn’t wake. Raven suggests removing it and when they do, it works and she wakes. Gabriel sees a strange mark on Octavia’s back leading him to believe she needs to go back through the Verge and he thinks it’s what causes the radios to not work and they try something with the device but it goes wrong. A young woman runs in from the entrance and Octavia appears to know her. She says it’s Hope, Dioyza’s daughter. She tells Octavia that he has her mother and stabs her with a knife. They share a few words making it sound like this was planned and then she disappears from Bellamy’s arms.

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