The soldiers spot someone wandering in the forest, give chase, and find … a little girl. They’re quite surprised. Probably because she looks just like — JUST LIKE — Newt from the Aliens movie. I mean, it’s uncanny. Did Ridley Scott direct this episode? Will there be a Sigourney Weaver cameo?
The little girl is taken to the hospital. A nurse tries to give her a shot; she hides under a table. Wise. Everyone knows you can’t trust any medical professional who says “This won’t hurt a bit.” Elizabeth comes in, uses her Mommy Skills, gets the girl to come out, examines her, finds out her name: Lea. (Which is almost Leia, as in Princess Leia. We’re really laying it on thick with the sci fi references in this episode.) Taylor brings a tray of food; Lea starts shoveling it down. She’s starving because she usually gets only scraps, which is why she ran away from the Sixers. She’s trying to find the portal so she can go back to present-day earth and live with Grandma. Jim and Elizabeth break the news to her that the portal doesn’t go both ways; Lea’s devastated. Taylor, ever the strategist, wants to gain Lea’s trust and then find out everything she knows about the Sixers. He asks Jim and Elizabeth to take her in for the present.
Out in the forest the next morning, hunting for a bag Lea dropped, Wash and a soldier are attacked by Sixers. Wash kicks some impressive ass but at last is knocked unconscious by Mira after refusing to say where Lea is. Later, the Sixers bumrush TN. Mira displays their two hostages and demands an exchange.
Taylor says Lea’s not going anywhere if she doesn’t want to and first Wash and the soldier must be let go. Mira capitulates. Lea is brought out, and Mira is rather harsh for someone trying to convince a child to come home: “Lea. LOOK AT ME. Tell them you want to come home. SPEAK!” Understandably, lol, Lea chooses to stay in TN. Mira and the Sixers retreat, but not before Taylor tells her that they best not show up at the gates threatening TN again. Ok, Mira gave up waaaaaaaaay too easily. Does Lea know nothing, or is Mira going to tell Tom the Mole to take her out?
Taylor wants to know and wants to know yesterday who the eff is feeding the Sixers intel. He tells Jim to compile a list of everyone who left the gate from the time Lea was brought to TN until now. They interrogate Rob, a scientist who was out during the Mole Window “collecting wax moss samples.” A LIKELY STORY! Adding to the cloud of suspicion is the fact that Rob arrived on the Sixth Pilgrimage, even thought he didn’t become a Sixer. Lol — I wonder if there’s Sixth Pilgrimage racism. “No you will not date Tommy, young lady! His dad came on the Sixth Pilgrimage!” Malcolm arrives in his Chief Science Officer rover, which I’m truly surprised doesn’t have “Property of CSO” painted on it, and takes major umbrage with the fact that Taylor’s accusing Malcolm’s staff of being dirty moles. Taylor tells him to get off his high horse (Omg, HA HA HAAAAAAA!!!! I totally said that exact same thing to Malcolm in last week’s recap! Taylor rules.), but he and Jim leave Mossy Rob alone. For now. I wonder if there’s a Sixth Pilgrimage support group.
- Hot Mark: “Well, as you know, I’ve begun the initial stages of courting Maddy, and I was wondering ...”
Lol. And awwww. Hot Mark is so dorkily adorable. AND JIM IS SEXIST. He threatens Hot Mark for trying to ask Maddy out, but he’s cool with his son spending hours unsupervised with Skye. Later, Hot Mark finds Maddy in the market and says he wants to “declare his intentions for her.” Ok, look. I don’t know why he feels the need to talk like a character in a 17th century novel, and I DON’T CARE. It’s awkwardly endearing. And HE’S EFFING HOT.
Maddy and Elilzabeth drop Lea off at school … and she sneaks away. Suddenly, it clicks. That’s why Mira gave up so easily. She sent Lea to TN to carry out some nefarious, dastardly deed! When Wash and Jim find the house where Mira once lived burgled, they put two and two together, and grab Lea just as she’s about to sneak off into the woods. Everyone’s mad, realizing they’ve been had, but Jim starts to feel sorry for Lea when she says Mira’s holding her brother Sam captive and will hurt him if Lea doesn’t bring her the box stolen from the house. He wants to send someone to check Lea’s story (Huh? How?); Taylor puts the kibosh on that. But when Josh finds an “I’m sorry; I had to” note Lea left at the Shannon house, Jim believes her (I personally would need more evidence.), goes wandering in the forest at night, and gets captured by Sixers. Who are nice enough to save him from a hungry dinosaur first.
He and Mira chat. She’s cryptic; she’ll say only that Taylor has pissed off some very powerful people back in 2149, soon Jim will see what TN’s real purpose is, and that once she does her job, “they” will let her see her daughter again. Well, I don’t know about you guys, but that all made perfect sense to me! (But something that has been bothering me, which is how do Sixers escape constant dino attacks, was resolved: they live above the dinos in treehouses. Cool!) Mira has Jim blindfolded and beaten up, but then lets him go, along with Lea’s little brother Sam. Back at TN, Taylor asks if Mira said anything he should know about; Jim says no — reminding me of when Taylor asked Skye if the kids had gone anywhere near the falls, and she said no. Taylor must have a history of killing the messenger.
Taylor gives the box Lea tried to get for Mira to Malcolm, who locks it in a medical cabinet. That thing is so stolen.
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