Riley: That doesn't sound like the same organization we know from Iceland.
Croome: No.
The cluster blackmail Croome for a meeting and rendering Whispers unconscious. Lito loses his role in his upcoming big movie. Men sent by Joong-Ki disguise themselves as prison guards and attempt to murder Sun, but she is saved by Min-jung. The cluster, Amanita, and Bug help them break out. Felix and Wolfgang visit Fuchs' loft. Fuchs wants to use their underworld connections to defuse a gang war that could disturb his money laundering operation. Wolfgang discovers that Fuchs' partner, Lila Facchini, is also sensate. The two engage in sexual mind-games. Lito, Hernando, and Daniela decide to buy an apartment together. The cluster visit Jonas and learn more about him and Angelica. Will meets with Croome at the Rijksmuseum. Croome claims that BPO's mission was once to foster co-operation between sensates and humans, but after 9/11 and the War on Terror, sensates were categorized as threats. He further explains that he belongs to a group that work to revert BPO to its original mission. As a token of good will he provides Will with blockers, right before one of Whispers' lobotomized puppets attacks and kills him. Unable to kill Will as well, Whispers is forced to kill his own puppet.
Tropes present in this episode:
- Always a Bigger Fish: Discussed; Will mentions how they got "someone higher up the food chain" (Croome) to deal with Whispers for the moment. Ultimately subverted, because Whispers manages to get rid of Croome by the end of the episode.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The painter out of focus when Will enters the Rijksmuseum turns up immediately after Will and Croome shake hands to stab Croome in the neck.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Wolfgang, when Lila first uses her sensate abilities with him at Fuchs' place. By the time they eat dinner together, Wolfgang seems to have adjusted.
- Functional Addict: Will seems able to go off of heroin without suffering from withdrawal.
- Happy Flashback: Jonas has a long sequence of these during his meeting with Will, ranging from his sensate birth and first meeting with Angelica to the times when Angelica's first cluster was doing well.
- Internal Reformist: Croome is one of these within BPO, believing that he can change the direction of the organization to something more beneficial towards sensates. Unfortunately, Whispers is quick to take him out.
- Last of His Kind: Jonas reveals that he's the last surviving member of his cluster.
- Never Mess with Granny: Sun's cellmate Min-Jung saves her from Joong-Ki's thungs by stabbing one through the chest with a broken mop handle.
- One Degree of Separation: Angelica's first Cluster included a journalist from Mexico named Raoul. It turns out Lito (one of Angelica's final Cluster) knew Raoul, and the two were briefly lovers before Raoul disappeared.
- Psychic-Assisted Suicide: The painter who kills Croome goes out this way because of Whispers.
- Removing the Rival: Croome is a person ideologically opposed to Whispers with the power to put him out of commission. Naturally, Whispers kills him by the end of the episode.
- Rewatch Bonus: Habib appears again, this time as a happy member of the first cluster Angelica birthed. Recognizing him as the lobotomized sensate from the first scene of the previous episode gives a good sense of what Jonas means by the cluster "disappearing from us."
- Shout-Out: Rembrandt van Rijn's The Night Watch can be seen in the painter's atelier.
- Standard Snippet: Mozart's Dies Irae, used over the credits to emphasize how dramatic the preceding scene was.
- Title Drop: Croome uses the term to describe how Homo sapiens and Homo sensorium affect each other. In other words, they have a symbiotic relationship.
