History Recap / Sense8S2E02WhoAmI

* SherlockScan: Will and Whispers both do this to work out where the other is even though both sides have taken steps to obscure their true location. Whispers taunts Will and implies he isn't actually in England [[spoiler:but the season finale will reveal that Will was actually correct]]. It also turns out Whispers is wrong about Will's location because Riley has gone to great lengths to fake that they're in Iceland when they're actually in the Netherlands.

* TitleDrop: Lito and Capheus ask this question during their interviews with their respective hostile reporters.

The episode begins with Will in bed with Riley. Will begins visiting Whispers while Whispers is testing a MindControlDevice on a lobotomized sensate. A memory of Angelica blames herself for the neural grafts; a flashback shows her questioning their development with Whispers, who reassured her with a kiss. Will/the lobotomized sensate slit the throat of a [[GasMaskMooks Gas Mask Mook]]. Riley wakes up and comforts Will.

Nomi and Amanita visit an anthropologist professor with Grace under the pretense of Nomi working on a thesis. The anthropologist dismisses Kolovi's theory of ''Homo sensorium'', but notes that she doesn't have a physical record to convince her that it exists.

Lito and Dani pressure Hernando into coming to Lito's film premier, despite his reluctance. While Lito arrives at the premier of his film to harsh questioning over his sexuality, Capheus is confronted by a reporter who accuses him of glorifying violence and adulation of a white man (Van Damme) over his fellow Kenyans. The two visit with each other and the entire cluster to give a speech about how movies inspired them as children and why the interviewer isn't really trying to understand them.

%%->'''Capheus/Lito''': I was just a little kid who loved movies. And the heroes I watched made me feel like I was braver than I was. Funnier. Smarter. They made me feel/believe that I could do things that I didn't think I could do. But that boy who watched TV with his mama and grandma and aunties is not the man who became an actor/a driver. That driver/actor is not the same person you see standing here.
%%->'''Mariana/Zakia''': And who is standing here?
%%->'''Lito/Capheus/Riley/Nomi/Wolfgang/Will: Who am I? Do you mean...where I'm from? What I do? What I've done? Do you mean...what you see? Or what I've seen? What I one day might become? Do you mean who I love? Or what I've lost? Who am I? I guess who I am is exactly the same as who you are. Not better than. Not less than. Because there is no one who has been or will ever be exactly the same as either you or me.

Lito, Hernando, and Dani leave the reporter behind and walk into the premier together. Capheus, meanwhile, has impressed the reporter he was talking to, who introduces herself as Zakia. Lito's film premieres to apathy and ridicule, overshadowed by his forced outing. Zakia asks Capheus if they can get a meal together, and Jela accepts on Capheus' behalf.

Wolfgang and Felix dance at a club, where they are courted by Sebastian Fuchs, the leader of one of the three 'Kingdoms' remaining in Berlin. When Felix says that he likes the club, Fuchs offers Felix the club.

Capheus and Zakia eat together and contrast their worldviews.

Will visits Whispers watching horses with his wife, but is unable to extract any personal information before Whispers takes his blockers. When Will refuses to eat, Riley visits Kala, who examines Will and confesses that they cannot keep drugging him for much longer. When questioned about her progress, Nomi notes that they need something more concrete than what they currently have. While the rest of the cluster questions how much longer Will can continue, Wolfgang tells Riley not to give up on Will.

Kala and Rajan continue to develop their marriage, as Rajan's father prepares to take a renewed role in politics despite his assassination attempt.

Nomi and Amanita visit Professor Kolovi at the University of Chicago, giving a lecture on how HumansAreTheRealMonsters (with regards to the extinction of other hominids). Kolovi speculates that the development of language gave humans the ability to lie. When approached after class, Kolovi evades their questions, but does identify Whispers as someone he knows. Afterwards, Amanita concedes that Kolovi had a point about humans lying, as she can't tell if he's sweet and forgetful or an extremely practiced liar.

Riley feeds Will skyr immediately prior to a visit from Whispers. Will tries to deduce Whispers' location via SherlockScan, but is somewhat put off when Whispers removes the electrical outlet from the wall and claims his outfit and the whole room was an elaborate fake. Whispers turns the tables and tries to deduce Will's location, noting the sound of the sea, Icelandic medication labels, and [[ClueEvidenceAndASmokingGun a specific brand of skyr not exported from Iceland]]. Riley sedates Will and goes outside, revealing that Will and Riley have been in the Netherlands the whole time and that Whispers fell for their Icelandic distractions. Riley visits her father, who has smuggled her Icelandic supplies. Gunnar is concerned for Riley, but trusts her.

Nomi and Amanita visit Sara Patrell's house in Chicago. Sara Patrell's mother confirms that several sensates have visited her house in the past, including Will, Whispers, and Angelica. Will commits to finding and capturing Whispers through Nomi.

Will visits Whispers during a meeting with a senior person at BPO. With the help of Nomi and Riley, the cluster figures out that Whispers is in London meeting with a Yale grad named Richard Wilson Croome. Terrified that he has become a liability, Whispers attempts to flee the room, but is stopped by Will, who threatens
->'''Will''': You think you're hunting us? We're coming for '''you'''.

Will visits Whispers watching horses with his wife, but is unable to extract any personal information before Whispers takes his blockers. When Will refuses to eat, Riley visits Kala, who examines Will and confesses that they cannot keep drugging him for much longer. When questioned about her progress, Nomi confesses that they need something more concrete than what they currently have. While the rest of the cluster questions how much longer Will can continue, Wolfgang tells Riley not to give up on Will.

Will's condition deteriorates as the effects of keeping him sedated nearly constantly start to catch up with him. Nomi and Amanita travel to various areas to keep searching for Whispers via possible academic connections to BPO. Capheus is confronted by a reporter who accuses him of glorifying violence and adulation of a white man (Van Damme) over his fellow Kenyans. Wolfgang is being courted by the three 'Kingdoms' remaining in Berlin, and Felix's loyalty is tested. Kala and Rajan continue to develop their marriage, as Rajan's father prepares to take a renewed role in politics despite his assassination attempt. Lito's film premieres to apathy and ridicule, overshadowed by his forced outing.

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