Heavy Lies the Crown

Heavy Lies the Crown is the second episode of the fourth season of The 100. It is the forty-seventh episode of the series overall.

The burden of leading weighs heavily upon Clarke and Bellamy when different challenges force them to determine who will live and die.

Plot
Ilian, a grounder who was under ALIE's influence, kills his family to convince his mother to take the chip. Soon after when his mother dies, she tells him to avenge her. In Polis, Ambassador Raphael and Ilian plan to challenge Roan. Roan prepares for battle despite being too weak from his injury. Kane and Octavia attempt to deter Raphael, but he refuses, Octavia later assassinates him. At Arkadia, Raven, Clarke, Bellamy, Monty, Harper, Bryan, and Miller devise a plan to restore Alpha Station to survive the radiation and acquire a hydro-generator for water from Farm Station which is in the Ice Nation. Grounders meet them there and eventually agree to give them the generator. However, they find many of their own as slaves and vote amongst them to use the generator to make an explosion to free them. Everyone returns to Arkadia but with no way of supplying water for everyone. Clarke tells the people of the radiation crisis and they all agree to work together. Kane and Abby sleep together in Polis.

Starring

 * Eliza Taylor as Clarke Griffin
 * Paige Turco as Abigail Griffin
 * Bob Morley as Bellamy Blake
 * Marie Avgeropoulos as Octavia Blake
 * Devon Bostick as Jasper Jordan
 * Christopher Larkin as Monty Green


 * Lindsey Morgan as Raven Reyes
 * Richard Harmon as John Murphy (credit only)
 * Zach McGowan as Roan
 * Isaiah Washington as Thelonious Jaha
 * Henry Ian Cusick as Marcus Kane

Guest Starring

 * Erica Cerra as A.L.I.E.
 * Jarod Joseph as Nathan Miller
 * Chelsey Reist as Harper McIntyre
 * Tasya Teles as Echo
 * Jonathan Whitesell as Bryan
 * Chai Hansen as Ilian


 * Jana Mitsoula as Willa (Ilian's mother)
 * Kyle Toy as Ilian's brother
 * Darcy Laurie as Tybe (Azgeda chief)
 * Jennifer Cheon as Dakiva (Azgeda warrior)
 * Jason Beaudoin as Rafel (Trishanakru ambassador)
 * Ben Sullivan as Riley

Quotes

 * Monty: "Alpha Station survived for 97 years in space through elevated radiation levels and extreme temperature fluctuations. Sound familiar? All we have to do is patch up the ship. We're standing in our viable solution."


 * Miller: "Why are you defending him? Pike was a dictator."
 * Bryan: "He was an elected chancellor, and if you don't care about that, he kept me alive for 3 months."
 * Miller: "Then why did you help us turn him over to the Grounders?"
 * Bryan: "To save you, Nate."


 * Jasper (to Monty): "If you want to cheer me up, while you're at Farm Station, get that weed we stashed behind the wall of your old bedroom."


 * Jaha (to Clarke): "Heavy lies the crown. I know the burden of keeping a secret you think is going to destroy your people."


 * Jaha (to Clarke): "The decisions you face just whittle you down piece."


 * Jaha (to Clarke): "We make the best decisions that we can with the information that we have, then hope that there's a forgiving God."


 * Ilian: "You're gonna kill me, too?"
 * Octavia: "I don't know what you're talking about."

Notes and Trivia

 * Clarke is shown looking at list of locations with population numbers:
 * Bryan says that Tybe killed Monty's father. Instead of taking the kill himself, Monty frees the slaves, allowing them to kill Tybe.

Body Count

 * Wilia, and Ilian's brother and father - tortured by a chipped Ilian (flashback).
 * Rafel, the Trishanakru ambassador – assassinated by Octavia.
 * Several Azgeda slavers at Farm Station – killed in the explosion of the hydro-generator done by Bellamy, Monty, Bryan, Harper and Nathan.
 * Dakiva, a warrior
 * Tybe, the Azgeda slavers' chief – beaten to death by the slaves, including Riley.

Behind the Scenes

 * The opening scene with Ilian was originally supposed to be for "Echoes" but for timing reasons, they moved it to "Heavy Lies the Crown".
 * Bob Morley joked that he wished Bellamy said his opinion first when the group was debating on whether to free the slaves or not, so he wouldn't have the pressure of breaking the tie.
 * The episode title is a common misquote of the line "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown", from Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 2. It was picked because it sound better.

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