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Season 2 Episode 11

Coup de Grâce

Not quite was Bellamy was planning for.

Clarke: You may be the Chancellor; but I'm in charge.

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has been captured by Mount Weather and is chained up and forced through the decontamination process where he is blasted with boiling water, doused with decontamination powder, inspected, given shots, and painfully scrubbed down and is chained up.Meanwhile, in the Mess Hall of Mount Weather, Maya Vie and Jasper are concerned because both Harper and now Monty have gone missing. Maya tells Jasper he has to make it look like everything is okay and to not do anything stupid. She leaves and Jasper says, "everything is not okay. Time to do something stupid."

In the woods, two Mountain Men are hidden from sight as they watch Clarke riding with Abby and several Grounders on their way from Tondc back to Camp Jaha. One of them has his sniper rifle trained on Clarke just as the group stops. Abby tries to get Clarke to drink some puddle water but Clarke refuses, telling her she needs to get back to the radio to see if Bellamy has contacted them yet. As they're mounting up, Carl Emerson, one of the Mountain Men, tells the other one he has a shot. Just then, the sniper is hit by an arrow and the bullet misses Clarke, hitting a Grounder behind her. Indra and Octavia have found the Mountain Men and Octavia fights Emerson, tearing his radiation suit. Indra tells her to "finish it" just as Clarke rides up and stops her, telling Octavia they want to keep him alive and to check for a patch kit for his suit. Octavia digs through Emerson's bags and finds a picture of Clarke and Lexa on horseback, the intended targets. Indra sends a rider to go warn Lexa of the attempted assassination.

Bellamy wakes up locked in a cage in the Harvest Chamber. He tries to get out when the Grounder in the cage next to him (Echo) tells him in Trigedasleng to be quiet because the Mountain Men take the strongest. Bellamy tells her he can't understand her and she spits on him when she realizes he's a Sky Person. He tells her they're not enemies anymore and he needs to get out of the cage so he can kill everyone in the mountain.

Jasper enters Dante's office and confronts him about Harper and Monty and Dante tells him he doesn't know anything about them being missing. Jasper grabs Dante's decorative sword and holds it to Dante's throat, demanding for him to tell the truth. Dante insists that he doesn't know what happened to Jasper's friends but admits he did lie about Clarke, Maya, and the survivors from The Ark before he turns the tables on Jasper and grabs the sword. He calls in a guard and asks for the whereabouts of Dr. Lorelei Tsing and Cage Wallace. He then takes Jasper with him to find Harper and Monty.

Back at Camp Jaha, Abby is trying to help the Grounder who was shot instead of Clarke. Jackson is helping Clarke with Emerson when Raven says she can hook up scrubbers to the airlock to make it safe to take off Emerson's protective outerwear. The Grounder ends up dying and Indra tells him, Yu gonplei ste odon ("Your fight is over") as she cuts a braid out of his hair. Clarke tells Abby to let her know when Emerson wakes up.

Bellamy is still trying to get out of his cage when Sgt. Lovejoy and another Mountain Man enter the Harvest Chamber looking for their next victim. They start to unlock Echo's cage but Bellamy starts kicking at his cage to get their attention. They pick him instead, shocking him with a stun stick and injecting him with a sedative. He is then strung upside-down and his blood is circulated out.

Maya is in the Medical Ward of Mount Weather looking through patient records as she tries to see any anomalies that might point to Monty's or Harper's whereabouts. Lovejoy enters and asks her if she has seen Thorpe. Maya tells him he just left and as Lovejoy is on his way out the door, a patient's machine beeps, signaling her treatment is done. Lovejoy remarks that the patient finished her treatment an hour early, some kind of record. Maya tells Lovejoy that she thinks she saw Thorpe in the Mess Hall and Lovejoy leaves. Maya then rushes off to the Harvest Chamber where, instead of Monty or Harper, she finds Bellamy hanging upside-down. She injects him with epinephrine to wake him up and asks him if he is from the Ark and if he knows Jasper. Bellamy realizes it is Maya who is helping him and asks for her to get him down. She starts pulling off the electrodes just as Lovejoy walks in and asks what she is doing in there. Maya lies and says she wanted to know what was so special about Bellamy but he is dead. Lovejoy checks the heart monitor without realizing Maya had already detached the wires from Bellamy and starts to get Bellamy down. Once Bellamy's feet are free, Bellamy kicks Lovejoy and Lovejoy pulls a gun on him. Maya stabs Lovejoy in the neck with a scalpel and Bellamy and Lovejoy begin fighting. Maya picks up the gun and tells Lovejoy to stop but Bellamy warns her not to use it because everyone else will hear the gunshot. Lovejoy is gaining the upper hand when Echo reaches out of her cage and grabs hold of his arm to prevent him from stabbing Bellamy with the scalpel that was in his neck. Bellamy then strangles Lovejoy, killing him. He thanks Echo for her help and asks Maya if she is all right. At first, Maya is traumatized but then she resolves herself and tells Bellamy she is fine.

Back at Camp Jaha, Marcus Kane and Abby are standing watch over an unconscious Emerson. They discuss how the Sky People blood heals the Mountain Men. Abby tells him she is worried about Clarke.

In the Harvest Chamber, Bellamy re-enters from the Containment chute wearing Lovejoy's guard uniform. He pushes the button to send Lovejoy's body down into the Reaper tunnels. Bellamy tells Maya she has done enough and should walk away. Maya says, "I'm in," and hands Bellamy Lovejoy's gun and badge. She tells him she can take him to the radio and that Monty and Harper have already gone missing. Bellamy says he wants to see the Delinquents first. Maya explains that everyone knows everyone else as she removes Lovejoy's name-tag and gives Bellamy a hat. As she cuts out Bellamy's tracking device from his arm, she asks him how he knew her name. Bellamy tells her that Clarke told him how Jasper "couldn't stop talking about someone named Maya." She tells him to put the tracking device in his cage. As he does so, he promises Echo that he will be back.

In another chamber in Mount Weather, Dr. Tsing is busy taking more bone marrow from Harper as a caged Monty begs her to stop. Just then, Dante enters and demands them to free Monty and Harper. Jasper helps Monty out of his cage as Dr. Tsing tells Dante that he can't keep them from their birthright: the ground. Dante tells Jasper to go back to the Delinquents and have everyone pack their things because they are going home.

Kane is interrogating Emerson but all Emerson will reply back is with his name and rank. Kane threatens to open the airlock door to get Emerson to talk. Clarke tells Kane that torture does not work. Kane storms off and Abby puts Emerson under 24-hour guard.

Maya leads Bellamy through Mount Weather to an elevator, pointing out cameras and telling him how to get around. As they get on the elevator, another resident gets on with them and chats with Maya. The elevator stops and two more people get on. The elevator stops again and Maya gestures for Bellamy to exit behind the other two people. The man on the elevator notices that there is blood on Bellamy's collar. Maya claims he must have been exposed and steals the man's handkerchief to hold against Bellamy's face as she kicks the other man out of the elevator to "do her job" of tracking down the alleged radiation leak.

Cage Wallace is in the Mount Weather Command Center asking if they have heard from Emerson yet. Dante enters and asks Cage to tell him that Dr. Tsing was working alone. Cage tells Dante they have accomplished great things and that it will get them out of their prison. Dante orders Cage to be taken into custody but the Guards do not respond. Cage apologizes as he tells Dante that the Mountain Men "take their orders from me now" and has Dante arrested instead.

Back at Camp Jaha, Raven and Clarke are listening to the radio when Octavia enters, asking if there is any word from Bellamy and that Lincoln is still missing, too. Clarke tells them that Bellamy will get into Mount Weather. A PA announcement requests Clarke's and Kane's presence at the airlock so Clarke leaves to deal with Emerson. Abby is waiting for Clarke and Kane and tells them that Jackson found genetic anomalies in Emerson's blood that could have only come from a Sky Person. Clarke wants to kill him but Abby tells Clarke she is not in charge.

In Mount Weather, Maya and Bellamy are heading to the dorm when they come across a group of Mount Weather preschoolers. One of them walks up to Bellamy and asks him if he is on a ground unit because his father is training to be an a ground unit. As the boy leaves, his backpack reveals the last name, "Lovejoy." Bellamy finally realizes that the mountain is not just full of Mount Weather Guards but also civilians. Meanwhile, Monty and Jasper are ordering the Delinquents to pack their things because they are no longer safe in Mount Weather. Just as Bellamy and Maya approach the dorm, an alarm is heard and the doors to the dorm close, sealing the Delinquents in. Jasper sees Bellamy and Maya on the other side of the door as Bellamy tells Maya to get him to the radio.

A defeated Clarke comes to tell Raven that Mount Weather has already started bleeding the Delinquents and that it is over. Raven tells Clarke she is not allowed to give up and it is her job to come up with something. Just then, Bellamy's voice rings through on the radio, asking if anyone can hear him. Clarke picks up the radio in relief and Bellamy tells her how the Delinquents have been locked up and that things are going to get ugly. He also tells her they need a plan that doesn't kill everyone because there are kids in there. Clarke tells Bellamy he needs to turn off the Acid Fog and free the imprisoned Grounders. Bellamy asks Clarke to buy him some time so they won't discover him inside the mountain just yet.

Dante is now a prisoner in Clarke's old room in the quarantine ward while Cage is enjoying his new office as the President and all of the Delinquents are trapped in the dorm.

Clarke brings Octavia, Indra, and several other Grounders with her to Emerson's airlock where Clarke makes the guard stand down and tells Emerson to get dressed. They take him outside and bring him to the gates where Kane and Abby try to stop her. Abby tells the Ark Guards to get the prisoner back inside but the Grounders behind Clarke step up threateningly. Clarke tells Abby, "you may be the Chancellor, but I'm in charge," and refuses to back down. Kane tells Abby that it is time they started trusting Clarke. Abby finally gives the order to stand down to the Ark Guards and Clarke makes her way through with Emerson. She tells Emerson to deliver a message to Mount Weather. They have a secret Grounder army that the Acid Fog can't hurt. With the tone generator they got off of Emerson, the Reapers can't hurt them either. Mount Weather has one last chance to let the Delinquents go and the Sky People will let them live. Clarke then releases air from Emerson's oxygen tank and tells him he has to make the eight-hour walk back to Mount Weather in six hours. Octavia asks how this will help Bellamy and Clarke tells her that it will make them look outside for this secret army instead of inside where they might find Bellamy and that Bellamy is the key to everything.

Tropes

• Almost Out of Oxygen: Clarke ensures this will happen by releasing a measured amount of oxygen from Emerson's radiation suit, so that he will be forced to make the 8 hour walk to Mount Weather in 6 hours.
• Badass Bureaucrat: President Wallace shows that he's perfectly capable of using the ceremonial sword on his desk.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Despite having been basically tortured during the decontamination process, and shocked with a cattle prod against his bare chest, Bellamy looks no worse for wear when hung upside down.
• Beneath Notice: Bellamy's disguise as a Mount Weather security officer works incredibly well. No one looks twice at him. One of the resitents even looks directly at him, notices his neck is bleeding, and still doesn't clock that he's an impostor. That said Maya warns him that eventually someone is going to notice since there aren't a lot of people inside Mount Weather thus necessitating Clarke's plan to keep the mountains attention on the outside.
• Blood Is Squicker in Water: The intake process for "Harvest" victims includes getting forcibly hosed-off. The whole thing is incredibly painful, and Bellamy is shown with blood running down his legs and mixing with the water.
• Chekhov's Gun: The sword on President Wallace's desk has been prominently displayed since the beginning of the season. It finally gets used by Jasper, who tries to threaten Wallace with it.
• The Coup: Twice:
  • Cage Wallace usurps the Presidency from Dante when the latter makes it clear he will not allow Dr. Tsing to harvest the 47.
  • Clarke later establishes joint command of the alliance with Lexa, superseding Abby and Kane.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Harvest intake process looks like a cross between a factory-farm-slaughterhouse and radiation clean-up.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Bellamy is horrified when he meets Lovejoy's young son, not long after killing the boys father.
• Faking the Dead: Maya gets Bellamy to play dead to get Lovejoy to lower him from being suspended upside down.
• Hope Spot: President Wallace has released the 47 that were being experimented on and plans to release all of them outside Mount Weather and back to Camp Jaha. Then Cage stages a coup, imprisons Wallace in the quarantine facility, and prepares to have Dr. Tsing harvest all of the 47.
• Indy Ploy: Jasper draws a sword on President Wallace to try and coerce him to release the the members of the imprisoned 47. However, he's too desperate to have thought it through, and Wallace easily disarms him.
• Internal Reveal: Bellamy relates the alliance between the Sky People and the Grounders to Echo, the Grounder in the cage next to him. She is not convinced, at first.
• I Owe You My Life: In action, not words. Echo is clearly astounded when Bellamy convinces the guards to take him instead of her for dialysis. She ends up helping him kill Lovejoy in return.
• Ironic Echo: Abby tries to establish her authority over Clarke by telling her to "trust that (Abby) knows what's right for us." Clarke repeats the line back to her when she stages her coup.
• I Shall Return: Bellamy, after escaping the cages, promises to be back for Echo.
• MacGyvering: Raven manages to turn one of the still working airlocks at Camp Jaha into a makeshift decontamination chamber/radiation shield to save a badly burned Emerson.
• Match Cut: Cage Wallace moves to pick up a cup of coffee. Cut to Harper bringing a cup to her lips.
• Mugged for Disguise: Bellamy, with Echo and Maya's help, kills a guard named Lovejoy, who is overseeing the dialysis process. He did it in self defense, but opts to take Lovejoy's security uniform.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Maya's face screams this as Bellamy strangles Lovejoy. She still lets him die though. Bellamy later has a similar reaction when he meets Lovejoy's son.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Clarke's stoic reaction to nearly getting assassinated by Emerson, and her continually closing off of her emotions rattles Abby, who believes she's losing parts of her humanity.
• This is Something She's Got to Do Herself: As part of her training, Indra gives Octavia permission to take down Emerson by herself. She succeeds.
• Took a Level in Badass: Octavia's training with Indra is starting to yield results, and she is able to defeat Emerson in the field without too much trouble.
• Torture Always Works: Indra thinks so, and is pissed when Abby doesn't let her interrogate Emerson. Kane later comes to agree with Indra, but Clarke responds with Torture Never Works.
• Villainous Rescue: President Wallace, upon discovery of Dr. Tsing's experiments, has her imprisoned and Harper and Monty released back into the 47's dormitory.
• We Need a Distraction: Clarke starts formulating a plan to keep Mount Weather's focus externally on the alliance, so that Bellamy can remain undetected. She ends up releasing Emerson to send a message to the Mountain Men.
  Clarke: We're coming for you.
• Wham Shot: Bellamy, while disguised, has a friendly interaction with a young boy who's father is training for a ground unit. Then he turns to leave and Bellamy sees his last name on his backpack: Lovejoy, the name of the man he just killed and whose uniform he's wearing. Bellamy just killed the boy's father, and the boy is blissfully unaware.