Are these messages from another time and\/or universe<\/a>? I\u2019m very sorry that Don has to get wrapped up in all of this, but he does, and the messages drive him to his own psychosis. Don waits outside the nearby hospital to find a girl born on June 6 at 12:01, and when he sees Jane\u2019s mother and baby Jane being wheeled out, he starts screaming at her that this baby is a killer, that she needs to be stopped. It is deeply unsettling. Sure, we\u2019ve already seen that Jane\u2019s mother is most likely suffering from postpartum depression and also seems like a bad person, but this interaction with Don fucks her up real good.<\/p>\nWe meet them again years later and things between mother and daughter (and daughter\u2019s imaginary friend, Climby) are, let\u2019s say, not great. Mom screams at Jane for being too old to have imaginary friends. Climby tells Jane to cook Mom and her boyfriend in the sauna. When Jane frees them from the sauna a few seconds later, Mom throws Jane into the sauna, locks the door on her, and tells her the man at the hospital was right and she is the worst thing to ever happen to her. So, it\u2019s not entirely shocking when we catch up with Jane as an adult training at the CIA Farm and she clearly has mommy issues.<\/p>\n
Jane is struggling a bit in some of the training, especially when it comes to physical exercises with people who are much bigger than she is. One of her instructors, Stacy Thomas (played by Sterling K. Brown\u2019s wife, Ryan Michelle Bathe), takes her under her wing. She thinks Jane is special, and she thinks it\u2019s awful no one has told her that before. I mean, she doesn\u2019t even want to touch Jane\u2019s psychiatric evaluation \u2014 there must be some truly weird shit in there \u2014 but Jane is one of the smartest people in the program. She needs to start fighting that way. Stacy teaches Jane meditation. The practice helps Jane get out of her head (and stop hearing voices, which is concerning that that\u2019s a thing!!) and see situations and problems in different ways. Suddenly, she is kicking ass in her training exercises. It just took a little love and support from a female authority figure. You can see how much Jane lives and dies on Stacy\u2019s approval. She worships this woman. And that\u2019s even before Stacy introduces Jane to Nintendo Wii.<\/p>\n
But because Jane is so attached to Stacy, it means she would do anything for her. Anything. When Stacy gets upset that she was passed over for a promotion that was instead given to Officer Radner, who isn\u2019t at all qualified. When Jane, perhaps even more upset than Stacy, asks how this could happen, Stacy tells the obvious, unfortunate truth: \u201cHe has a dick, Jane.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jane will not stand for her mommy, er, mentor being played like that! So she pays Radner a little visit and \u2026 well, friends, she cuts his dick off. And then brings it over to Stacy in a gift bag \u2014 with tissue paper and everything \u2014 and presents it as if this was a totally normal reaction. Hey, Stacy did say he only got the job because of his dick and Jane took care of that problem for her. She executes for her mommy, er, mentor \u2014 sorry I keep doing that! \u2014 and this time she executed all over Radner\u2019s penis. I bet Stacy wishes she didn\u2019t gloss over those psych evals right about now!<\/p>\n
So why is this relevant? In the present-day bunker, Jane has found a new mommy figure to attach herself to: Samantha. You see, back when she shot Sam and told her she\u2019s no use to her if she\u2019s dead, she didn\u2019t mean it as a threat that she would make Sam her pawn; she meant it as in she is a weapon and she only works when there is someone to wield her. She wants that person to be Samantha. She is in awe of Sam as she slyly takes back control of the billionaire board now that President Baines is dead and makes it look like their idea. She beams every time Sam tells her she did a good job. She is so obsessed that she sits in Sam\u2019s office just to be close to her things. She fixes her hair so it looks like a bob and pretends to be Sam, giving her praise in the mirror. When Sam gives Jane a Nintendo Switch, she might die of happiness, and she gushes to Sam\u2019s daughter Hadley that her mom is just the best and she does it in a way that honestly makes me fear for Hadley\u2019s life. \u201cIt\u2019s cool we both see it, ya know?\u201d is diabolical.<\/p>\n
Jane holds up her end of their relationship, too. Sam sends Jane out to negotiate terms for a meeting with Link and his people (the group has now doubled in size and is heavily armed), and she uses her meditation technique to gain the upper hand. She and Link agree to a meeting with Sam in which Link can only bring five men, none of them can be armed, and also yes, she will bring him a slice of apple pie. But that was an easy task to complete. Where Jane the Weapon really comes in with her unhinged desire to protect Sam at all costs is when she\u2019s confronted by Gabi.<\/p>\n
Gabi, you\u2019ll remember, bugged Sam\u2019s office and is now furiously trying to figure out what or who the hell Alex is. She searches through old therapy recordings and finds one that must be right after Sam hired Billy to kill Henry for Alex, in which she says Alex was necessary, but she doesn\u2019t know who she is anymore and she\u2019s scared of who she\u2019ll have to become. Gabi tracks down Robinson in the under-underground prison to get more intel on Sam, but Robinson, who is truly out of fucks to give at this point, tells her Sam isn\u2019t the one to go after \u2014 she needs to take out Jane, first. When Gabi tracks down Jane, she tells her she knows exactly who she is and isn\u2019t the least bit intimidated \u2014 she knows Samantha is up to something and she\u2019s coming for her. \u201cIf you come for her, you come through me,\u201d Jane tells her. I\u2019m really into Gabi\u2019s level of confidence here, but I\u2019m taking Jane in this fight.<\/p>\n
Gabi isn\u2019t about to be the only thorn in Sam\u2019s side: Jeremy Bradford is moving on with his \u201cblow the fucking doors open\u201d plan from prison. Anders is in \u2014 he seems to feel the need to atone for whatever sins he committed in helping Sam build this bunker. He informs Jeremy that if they cut off the oxygen supply, all the doors will automatically open. To do that, however, they need to get to the emergency control room, which is even deeper in this bunker, by way of some tunnel system. The two almost get caught trying to sneak into said tunnel system, but thanks to Robinson, who simply cannot help herself but wants to protect Cal\u2019s kid even though he keeps yelling at her about being his dad\u2019s side piece, they evade capture and leave the prison through the tunnels.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Presley is up to something, too. She\u2019s frustrated that no one is doing anything about people disappearing or the red flag about Samantha Redmond Xavier raised, and she wants answers. She doesn\u2019t have a ton of connections, but she does have access to Hadley Redmond. One little diner booth conversation about how Hadley has no idea who her mom really is and Hadley is hungry for the truth, too. She wants to help Presley figure this all out. Between Hadley and Presley, Jeremy and Anders, Link and his crew, and Gabi\u2019s one-woman mission to take down Sam, can the bunker hold up under all this pressure?<\/p>\n
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