We Are Grounders (Part 2)

“We Are Grounders (Part 2)” is the thirteenth and final episode of the first season of The 100. It aired on June 11th, 2014. It attracted 1.68 million viewers on the original airing. Dean White directed the episode written by Jason Rothenberg.

Synopsis
THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT - Clarke pleads with Bellamy to do the right thing as conflict on the ground comes to a head. Bellamy forces Octavia to make a difficult decision. Raven and Jasper work against time and Finn makes a bold move. Meanwhile, the situation on the Ark comes to a stunning conclusion.

Plot
At the Delinquents’ camp, Clarke cauterizes Raven’s gunshot wound (brought on by Murphy in the previous episode); the Delinquents pack up their stuff and leave the camp to flee from the approaching assault from the Grounders. After a short walk, Drew is killed by a thrown blade from the trees. The Delinquents panic and rush back to the camp. Clarke realizes that they are doing exactly what the Grounders want them to do: return to the camp so they are back in place for the assault. The group looks to Clarke to make the decision to try leaving again or to stand and fight. With the Grounder scouts outside, Clarke realizes it’s not safe for them to try and leave camp again. Much to her dismay, she decides to stay and fight.

Bellamy sets up defenses and prepares for the oncoming battle. Bellamy tells Clarke and Finn that the main entrance road has been booby-trapped with landmines and that Raven has built a couple of grenades. Bellamy plans to keep the Grounders at bay using: guns, grenades, and the landmines to hold the gate. Raven notes that if the Grounders get through the gate, they will have to hide inside the dropship and close the door. Clarke suggests using the remaining rocket fuel from the dropship, to fire its rockets once the Grounders have surrounded the dropship, which would burn the Grounders alive.

On the Ark, Sinclair informs Jaha, Kane and the other inhabitants of the Ark about the workings and possible consequences of bringing the Ark to Earth, explaining that some parts of the Ark will be destroyed when entering the atmosphere alongside the people inside. Jaha tells the shocked inhabitants that they have no other choice if they don’t want them all to die.

Back on Earth, Clarke and Finn are looking for the dropship’s ignition system, when Raven reveals that she can’t feel her legs anymore. Clarke discovers that the bullet is in Raven’s spine, and that she is bleeding internally. Finn asks Clarke if they could slow the bleeding if it would help. Clarke replys of course. it would. Finn suggests Lincoln may have a coagulant in his cave to slow the bleeding. Finn leaves camp heading to Lincoln’s cave.

On the Ark, everyone is strapped into different Ark’s stations. Once strapped in, they get ready to start their journey back to Earth. Sinclair tries to remotely separate the Ark’s stations from the Earth Monitoring Station with explosives so that they can use the Ark’s thrusters to blast them towards Earth, but the remote detonation fails. Sinclair informs Jaha that someone will have to manually detonate the bombs and stay behind. Kane volunteers and is ready to leave. Abby ask’s how much air Kane will have. Sinclair tells her that Kane will have one week, two weeks at most. When all of a sudden, the bombs explode shaking the Ark. Jaha has gone to the Earth Monitoring Station to manually detonate the bombs. The Ark’s stations separate from the Earth Monitoring Station and head for Earth as the thrusters activate.

On the outsides of the camp, Grounders start to appear. The gunners, in fox holes, start shooting at them. Meanwhile, Clarke searches for an orange wire that is the dropships ignition. When Clarke finds the wire she discovers it to be broken. Raven asks Clarke if she knows how to splice a wire. Over the walkie-talkie Jasper informs Raven and Clarke that the landmines work. Raven realizes Jasper can splice a wire. Clarke calls for Jasper to get to the dropship. Outside, in the west fox hole, Jasper realizes the Grounders are drawing their fire to deplete their ammunition, he tells the gunners to stop firing. Bellamy orders the gunners to not shoot unless the Grounders are directly attacking.

In the woods, the Grounder troops, lead by Tristan and Anya have one of the walkie-talkies and hears Bellamy’s commands, while they have Murphy tied to a tree. The Grounder general, Tristan, stabs Murphy in the leg for not telling him about the mine field, and decides to go in for the attack. When the Grounders finally attack, Monroe flees, Miller is hit in the shoulder with a spear, and Bellamy is knocked down. The Grounder who knocked Bellamy down, tries to choke him, but Octavia returns and kills the Grounder with her sword. However, Octavia is hit in the thigh with an arrow quickly after. Bellamy decides to retreat and carries her with him.

Finn gets to Lincoln’s cave and looks for the coagulate. Lincoln appears and gives him the coagulate and decides to go with Finn to the camp. Finn sees one of Lincoln’s sketches of a Reaper and comes up with a self-proclaimed “really bad” idea.

In the dropship, Clarke and Jasper are below. Clarke asks Raven to repeat the direction but receives no response. When Clarke goes to check on her, she sees Raven has succumbed to her injury and lost consciousness. One of the gunners announces through the walkie-talkie that the Grounders have broken through, Clarke tells Jasper to finish the wiring of the ignition system while she goes outside to check out the situation. She tells the gunners to stay at their posts and hold off the Grounders while the others get inside the dropship, when a bright light suddenly lights up the night sky, distracting everyone on the ground. Clarke realizes that it is the Ark, entering the atmosphere. One of the Ark stations explodes, killing everyone inside.

Finn and Lincoln then arrive back at the camp, having lead the Reapers to the Grounders outside the camp. The Reapers and Grounders engage in a violent battle. Finn returns to the camp through the tunnel entrance.

Lincoln comes across Octavia and Bellamy, and says he can help her but they must leave now. Bellamy says an emotional goodbye, telling her that his life didn’t end when Octavia was born, but that it had started when she was born. Bellamy tells Lincoln to take care of Octavia. Lincoln carries a crying Octavia away, while Bellamy hides behind a tree near the battling Grounders. Anya’s clan, along with Tritan and his own warriors, succeed in killing the Reapers, and they head for the camp.

Clarke injects Raven with the coagulate. Finn takes care of a still unconscious Raven alongside Clarke, when Miller comes in and informs them that the Grounders are taking down the gate. Jasper announces that he is ready with the ignition system. The Grounders breach the gate and Clarke yells at the people outside to get inside the dropship. Bellamy then returns through the secret entrance, but is attacked by one of the Grounders. When Clarke, and Finn realize Bellamy won’t make it to the dropship, Finn aids Bellamy in fighting off Tristan, but the two of them are left outside while Clarke reluctantly goes inside the dropship and closes the door as the Grounders breach the camp. Anya, however, quickly jumps over the door and is locked inside with the Delinquents.

Anya stands ready to fight the Delinquents with two blades, but is held under gunpoint by them and surrounded. Clarke tells Jasper to activate the rockets, but his remote device fails. Anya tries to attack but is knocked out and disarmed by Miller. Some of the Delinquents start kicking her, but Clarke stops them, declaring that they are “not Grounders” (in contrast to Bellamy in the previous episode). The Grounders start banging on the dropship and climbing it, but Jasper manually hot-wires the ignition system and activates the rockets, incinerating the Grounders outside.

On the Earth Monitoring Station, that is still orbiting the Earth, Jaha attempts to contact any surviving stations, and is able to contact Abby (who was with Kane, Sinclair and numerous other inhabitants of the Ark), who tells him that they landed successfully. Abby goes outside and describes her experience of the Earth to an emotional Jaha. Kane goes outside as well, and spots smoke in the distance in of the mountains. Abby thinks it may be one of the other stations, and Jaha advises her to go check it out. Jaha then goes out to the air lock and watches Earth as he uncorks a bottle of liquor named “The Baton”, (with the subtitle “To be opened on Earth”, and opens it up, saying “this’ll have to do”. Jaha, alone on the Ark and having only one week left or two weeks to live, toasts to the survivors of the Ark, saying “may we meet again”.

The Delinquents and a bound Anya leave the dropship to find the ashes and skeletons that were a result of the rockets’ ignition. All of a sudden, several red smoke grenades are thrown over the camp’s walls, and Anya exclaims “Mountain Men” as the red smoke knocks out the Delinquents and Anya, but not before Clarke sees a Mountain pointing his gun and laser at her. Several men in gas masks and military outfits with laser-sighted rifles enter the camp and take the Delinquents with them.

Clarke awakens in a completely white room furnished with a bed, a toilet, a couch and several other furnishings, which is kept under camera surveillance. She is wearing a white tank top, white pants (at first glance it appears to be a white dress), no shoes, and has an IV stuck inside her, which she pulls out. On the wall, Clarke notices Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” and we see a video feed labelled “C. Griffin” and a timer counting down in 60ths of a second and thus likely includes days:hours:mins:secs:frames, though Clarke cannot see this. She then goes to the (locked) door to see Monty banging on the door of a similar room across the hall, but his door is also locked. A plaque on Monty’s side of the hall says “Mount Weather Quarantine Ward”. The scene ends with a panicked look on Clarke’s face.

Main Cast

 * Eliza Taylor as Clarke Griffin
 * Bob Morley as Bellamy Blake
 * Marie Avgeropoulos as Octavia Blake
 * Thomas McDonell as Finn Collins
 * Christopher Larkin as Monty Green
 * Devon Bostick as Jasper Jordan
 * Paige Turco as Dr. Abigail Griffin
 * Henry Ian Cusick as Councilor Marcus Kane
 * Isaiah Washington as Chancellor Thelonious Jaha

Recurring Cast

 * Lindsey Morgan as Raven Reyes
 * Richard Harmon as John Murphy
 * Alessandro Juliani as Sinclair

Guest Stars

 * Dichen Lachman as Anya

Quotes
Bellamy (To Clarke and Finn): “Can’t run away fast enough, uh? Very brave.”

Clarke (To Bellamy): “We can’t do this without you, Bellamy.”

Octavia (To Bellamy): “No, I’m not. Like you said, I’m a grounder.”

Thelonious (To people in the Ark):“No one said that this would be easy, ladies and gentleman. It’s just that if we don’t try it, we all die.”

Miller (To Bellamy): “She (Octavia) left five minutes ago, didn’t said where to. She thinks she is a damn samurai.”

Abby (To Thelonious): “It’s... everything I dreamed. So much green. There’s trees everywhere. And water. And the air. The air... smells sweet. It’s so beautiful. Thelonious, you should be here.”

Trivia

 * On screen graphics identify Alpha, Arrow, Factory, Hydra, Mecha, Tesla, and Go Sci stations as major parts of the Ark.
 * Intercom voices identified: Hydra, Mecha, Factory, Arrow, & Power Stations. “Power Station” may be an alternate name for Tesla Station.
 * The related Closed Captions read: Mecha, Orchid, Flint, Hydro, & Aero. While it is not certain if “Hydro” = Hydra, and “Aero” = Arrow; having seperate stations with names so similar, would defy most logic.


 * On screen graphics show “Projected Landing: 37.5020° N 79.000° W" A rural location southwest of Amherst, Va. (between Earley Lake and the James River), around 160 miles south of Mount Weather.
 * 37.5020° N 79.000° W @ Google Maps


 * There is a Brazilian flag painted near of a door hatch on Mecha Station where Abby and Marcus went outside.


 * The Mount Weather Quarantine Ward, “ CAM 62 ”, observing “ C. Griffin ”, counted down from days ?:hours ?:minutes:seconds:ˣ⁄₆₀ sec. to days ?:hours ?:minutes:seconds:ˣ⁄₆₀ sec.
 * “ C. Griffin ” in the camera feed, means the Mountain Men know who Clarke is.
 * The smallest timer unit is 60ths of a second, implying a 60 frames per second High Frame Rate camera.
 * The second largest unit would thus usually be hours, but reads 27.


 * The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh—from Museum of Modern Art, New York City—is hanging on the wall of Clarke’s room in the Quarantine Ward. One of the real world functions of Mount Whether is to save the most important fine art, in the event of a nuclear war.


 * If you look closely at the last scene, you can see the head of a person walking outside Clarke’s Quarantine room. This may also be Monty’s head, since the head has black hair and lines up with Monty’s quarantine room window.

Production Notes

 * TBA

Music

 * “The Other Side” – Woodkid
 * “Exit Music (For a Film)” – Radiohead

Video
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