History NightmareFuel / TheLastShip

* It can't be denied that it's a KarmicDeath and he deserved it, but Niels' expression as he's dying of the Red Flu is still pretty terrifying.]]

** [[spoiler:Granderson's faction is choosing who gets to survive the Red Flu, under the belief that since the Black Death prolonged the Dark Ages she should ensure that only those she considers to be intellectually acceptable survives the new plague, thus ensuring the United States has an intelligentsia and a [[StateSec loyal police force]] that can rebuild the country once the plague has run its course.]]
** [[spoiler:The research team working at the pharmaceutical company's building were actually working on a fake treatment that would kill the sick, whom Granderson deemed unworthy.]]
** [[spoiler:The radio broadcasts heard for Olympia in the previous episode were a way to attract the sick to a single location, where those who weren't too far gone already would be given the fake treatment, and the dead would be trucked to a nearby power plant as fuel so that Granderson's faction can have electricity.]]
** And just in case you thought Mrs. Granderson wasn't that bad, [[spoiler:she off-handedly mentions that she had her daughter's girlfriend sent off to a plague zone.]]

* [[spoiler:After Granderson's goons find out that Kara's pregnant, they send her off so that Hamada can harvest the unborn child for stem cells to make a new vaccine.]]

* It can't be denied that it's a KarmicDeath and he deserved it, [[spoiler:but Niels' expression as he's dying of the red flu is still pretty terrifying.]]

* Sean Ramsey's ultimate fate. [[spoiler:He is still alive, but the ''Achilles'' sits on the ocean floor and is badly damaged. In addition, he appears to be the only surviving member of the crew. Will he slowly run out of air? Will the ship's reactor meltdown first? Or will he steal a weapon and blow his brains out?]] One thing is for certain: None of those endings will be pleasant.

* After a mostly lighthearted episode where the crew gets a hero's welcome in St. Louis and the contagious cure is spread around, the last scene of the season has [[spoiler:Dr. Scott getting shot by a holdout from the Immunes]].

* The mercenaries are shown [[spoiler:drawing all the blood from a captive before he dies.]]

* [[spoiler:It turns out that the entire plot of this season, beginning with the nightclub attack in Vietnam, was an elaborate plot by Allison Shaw and the US regional leaders to lure Chandler away from the homeland and potentially have him and the crew of the ''Nathan James'' killed, just so they could discredit and assassinate Mitchener and seize power for themselves.]]

* It turns out that the regional leaders are using control over food [[spoiler:to create a mass force of slave laborers to work in factories and power plants, and to fill gaps in the workforce people are being transported on trains like cattle.]]

* Dr. Vellek's plan is finally revealed, and it is horrifying - [[spoiler:He plans to deliberately infect the world's new food supply with a drug that chemically lobotomizes people.]] The trial run for his new drug is deeply unsettling.
** [[spoiler:Demetrios]], though a JerkAss who had previously described himself to Fletcher as [[BadassBoast “Everything bad that ever happened to you, in the flesh,”]] is completely stripped not only of his aggression, but of his free will. He complies with any command from anyone, and when slapped in the face can only meekly ask the assailant to please not do it anymore. Asshole or not, seeing him reduced to such a hollow shell of a man, coupled with the fact that [[AndIMustScream he’s completely aware of what’s happened to him and can’t even muster the anger he knows he should feel]], is horrible.

* As Kara and Danny mourn [[spoiler:Alisha's]] death, Kara darkly mentions that [[spoiler:Kelsi]] babysat their son several times. In short, [[spoiler:the woman who murdered her best friend had access to her son]]...

* The ''USS Nathan James'' has spent several months in the arctic under radio silence. The first bit of news they receive from home after this time is that there is currently a global pandemic of a virus that has no cure and has infected 80% of the human population.

** [[spoiler: Demetrios]], though a JerkAss who had previously described himself to Fletcher as [[BadassBoast “Everything bad that ever happened to you, in the flesh,”]] is completely stripped not only of his aggression, but of his free will. He complies with any command from anyone, and when slapped in the face can only meekly ask the assailant to please not do it anymore. Asshole or not, seeing him reduced to such a hollow shell of a man, coupled with the fact that [[AndIMustScream he’s completely aware of what’s happened to him and can’t even muster the anger he knows he should feel]], is horrible.

* “All hands, seal the ship! Rig for imminent nuclear detonation! This is not a drill!”

* Dr. Vellek's plan is finally revealed, and it is horrifying - [[spoiler:He plans to deliberately infect the world's new food supply with a drug that chemically lobotomizes people.]] The trial run for his new drug is deeply unsettling.

* It turns out that the regional leaders are using control over food [[spoiler:to create a mass force of slave laborers to work in factories and power plants, and to fill gaps in the workforce people are being transported on trains like cattle.]]

* It turns out that at least Castillo (if not all the regional leaders) is using control over food [[spoiler:to create a mass force of slave laborers to work in his factories. He even has them transported by train when needed.]]

* [[spoiler:It turns out that the entire plot of this season, beginning with the nightclub attack in Vietnam, was an elaborate plot by Allison Shaw and the US regional leaders to lure Chandler away from the homeland and potentially have him and the crew of the ''Nathan James'' killed, just so they could discredit and assassinate Mitchener and seize power for themselves.]]

* The mercenaries are shown [[spoiler:drawing all the blood from a captive before he dies.]]

* After a mostly lighthearted episode where the crew gets a hero's welcome in St. Louis and the contagious cure is spread around, the last scene of the season has [[spoiler:Dr. Scott getting shot by a holdout from the Immunes]].

** [[spoiler:Granderson's faction is choosing who gets to survive the Red Flu, under the belief that since the Black Death prolonged the Dark Ages she should ensure that only those she considers to be intellectually acceptable survives the new plague, thus ensuring the United States has an intelligentsia and a loyal police force that can rebuild the country once the plague has run its course.]]

* Niels's notion of hiding the virus inside harmless-looking children's toys to "experiment" on people who have not had direct contact with him.

* It can't be denied that it's a KarmicDeath and he deserved it, [[spoiler: but Niel's expression as he's dying of the red flu is still pretty terrifying.]]

* Sean Ramsey's ultimate fate. [[spoiler:He is still alive, but the ''Achilles'' sits on the ocean floor and is badly damaged. In addition, he appears to be the only surviving member of the crew. Will he slowly run out of air? Will the ship's reactor meltdown first? Or will he steal a weapon and blow his brains out?]] One thing is for certain: None of those endings will be pleasant.

* It can't be denied that it's a KarmicDeath and he deserved it, [[spoiler: but Niel's expression as he's dying of the red flu is still pretty terrifying.]]

* Niels's notion of hiding the virus inside harmless-looking children's toys to "experiment" on people who have not had direct contact with him.

[AC: S02 E07]]

* Sean Ramsey's idea that the Red Flu outbreak is not caused by nature, but by some kind of accident. Turns out that he may be onto it.

* [[spoiler:After Granderson's goons find out that Kara's pregnant, they send her off so that Hamada can harvest the unborn child for stem cells to make a new vaccine.]]

** [[spoiler: Granderson's faction is choosing who gets to survive the Red Flu, under the belief that since the Black Death prolonged the Dark Ages she should ensure that only those she considers to be intellectually acceptable survives the new plague, thus ensuring the United States has an intelligentsia and a loyal police force that can rebuild the country once the plague has run its course.]]
** [[spoiler: The research team working at the pharmaceutical company's building were actually working on a fake treatment that would kill the sick, whom Granderson deemed unworthy.]]
** [[spoiler: The radio broadcasts heard for Olympia in the previous episode were a way to attract the sick to a single location, where those who weren't too far gone already would be given the fake treatment, and the dead would be trucked to a nearby power plant as fuel so that Granderson's faction can have electricity.]]

* The ''Nathan James'' comes across an Italian cruise ship. When they board it, they discover that the passengers and crew were all infected and died. The ballroom was converted into a makeshift hospital, but only one man is still barely alive and all Dr. Scott can do is [[MercyKill give him morphine]]. The earlier deaths were stored in the ship's freezers, probably both to try and isolate the virus and so that the dead could receive a proper burial later, but has the freezers filled up and more and more people got sick, bodies were left where they fell.

** [[spoiler: Granderson's faction is choosing who gets to survive the Red Flu, under the belief that since the Black Death prolonged the Dark Ages so she should ensure that only those she considers to be intellectually acceptable survives the new plague, thus ensuring the United States has an intelligentsia and a loyal police force that can rebuild the country once the plague has run its course.]]

** [[Spoiler: Granderson's faction is choosing who gets to survive the Red Flu, under the belief that since the Black Death prolonged the Dark Ages so she should ensure that only those she considers to be intellectually acceptable survives the new plague, thus ensuring the United States has an intelligentsia and a loyal police force that can rebuild the country once the plague has run its course.]]
** [[Spoiler: The research team working at the pharmaceutical company's building were actually working on a fake treatment that would kill the sick, whom Granderson deemed unworthy.]]
** [[Spoiler: The radio broadcasts heard for Olympia in the previous episode were a way to attract the sick to a single location, where those who weren't too far gone already would be given the fake treatment, and the dead would be trucked to a nearby power plant as fuel so that Granderson's faction can have electricity.]]