Sarah fights to locate a disappeared Helena, and must repel a lethal investigator from the mysterious shadow corporation Topside, who threatens the Leda sisters’ lives. Meanwhile, Cosima appears to be rebounding from her illness, while Alison and Donnie face newfound financial woes. When the menace of Castor rears its head once more, Sarah and her entire family must come together to survive.
This episode contains examples of:
- Big Sister Instinct: Sarah is very concerned about the missing Helena.
- Blackmail: Delphine blackmails Ferdinand into declaring Dyad secure with the knowledge that he's been having clones killed.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Seth kills Rudy's guard.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Delphine presses Rachel's eye hole through her bandages to make her cooperate.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Ferdinand thinks he's about to have kinky sex with Rachel, but then Sarah takes the chance to try to strangle him with his belt.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Delphine straightens her hair.
- Female Gaze: Rudy working out naked.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Look closely during the scene where Kira and Cosima are playing in Kira's blanket fort. There's a snapshot on a nearby cabinet of Sarah miming cunnilingus.
- Happy Place: The episode starts with Helena having a dream about her sestras, Kira, and Felix throwing her a baby shower. Then it cuts to her being held prisoner in a tiny box.
- Heroic BSoD: Delphine being forced into Rachel’s job right when such a role will require considerable maneuvering to keep the people she loves alive clearly breaks her. When she returns from Germany she avoids Cosima as long as possible, and when she finally does see her she’s stammering, quiet, and sounds near tears even when asking simple questions. And then she has to break herself even further by ending her relationship with Cosima and putting up a Jerkass Façade.
- Honey Trap: How the Castor clones came close to capturing Krystal, a Leda clone first introduced in this episode.
- Hyper-Awareness: Ferdinand.
- Kick the Dog: Literally. Seth kicks over Mrs. S's chair while she's tied to it because she didn't give him the answer he wanted.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Ferdinand gropes Alison disguised as Sarah.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Delphine and Sarah (disguised as Rachel) have this when Ferdinand states he wants to interview Sarah Manning.
- When Ferdinand tells Sarah about his killing of clones and his plan to have Alison and her family assassinated.
- 10-Minute Retirement:
- Delphine comes back from Germany at the start of the episode.
- Justified, since she was only in Germany due to Rachel’s cruelty, and Rachel is no longer in charge.
- Ten second retirement in Scott's case. He tells Cosima he wants out, but after just a glimpse at Dr. Duncan's book, he's back working with her.
- Delphine comes back from Germany at the start of the episode.
- The Reveal: Rachel had been working with Ferdinand to eliminate the other clones and the two of them were lovers.
- Talking Animal: The scorpion, a figment of Helena's imagination.
- Time Skip: This episode starts a few weeks after the last episode.
- Translated Cover Version: Helena's baby-shower dream is set to The Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice" - sung in Ukrainian.
- Twin Switch: Sarah impersonates Rachel, while Alison impersonates Sarah, for the meeting with Ferdinand.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Sarah is furious when she learns that Mrs. S sold Helena to Paul.
- The Worf Effect: In his first appearance Seth manages to get the drop on Mrs. S and beat her bloody.
