Earth Skills

Earth Skills is the second episode of the first season of The 100. It is the second episode of the series overall. It first aired on March 26, 2014. It was written by show creator Jason Rothenberg and directed by Dean White.

Summary
Having discovered that Jasper may still be alive, Clarke, Bellamy, Wells, Murphy, and Finn set out on a mission to locate him and are shocked at what they find.

Meanwhile, on the Ark, Abigail is determined to get to Earth so she enlists Raven to repair a broken 130-year-old Russian escape pod from Mir-3.

Starring

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

Guest Starring

 * Lindsey Morgan as Raven Reyes
 * Alessandro Juliani as Sinclair
 * Rhys Ward as Atom
 * Richard Harmon as John Murphy
 * Sachin Sahel as Jackson

Quotes

 * Finn Collins: (to the 100) "It turns out, when the last man from the ground died on the Ark, he wasn't the last Grounder."


 * Clarke: (to the 100) "Everything we thought we knew about the ground is wrong."


 * Clarke: (to the 100) "You idiots. Life support on the Ark is failing. That's why they brought us down here. They need to know the ground is survivable again, and we need their help against whoever is out there. If you take off your wristbands, you're not just killing them. You're killing us!"


 * Bellamy Blake: (to Wells) "What’s wrong with a little chaos?"


 * Thelonious Jaha: (to Kane) "You rushed to execute the woman who saved my life and if I were dead, you would be Chancellor now and Abby wouldn't be here to oppose you."


 * Clarke: (to Bellamy) "Because you want them to follow you and right now they’re thinking only one of us is scared."


 * Bellamy Blake: (to Clarke) "Brave princess."
 * Finn Collins: "Hey, why don't you find your own nickname?"


 * Octavia Blake: (to Atom) "You’re too hot to be my brother’s bitch."


 * Bellamy: (to Murphy) "We don’t. Spacewalker thinks he is a tracker."


 * Abigail Griffin: "I looked up your file. You’re the youngest zero-g mechanic on the Ark in 50 years."
 * Raven: "52, but so what?"


 * Monty: "You sure about this? Your brother won't approve of you helping us contact the Ark."
 * Octavia: "He's not my keeper."

Notes and Trivia

 * The disfigured skull Clarke picks is the only disfigured skull shown in season one.
 * It is also part of the first skeleton shown in season one.
 * At some point Wells found or made a shovel between this episode and the last.
 * In camp, a few members of the 100 are playing tribal music with buckets and sticks.
 * The blue shirt Bellamy wears in this episode came from one of the delinquents who died in Pilot.
 * He takes the shirt from Wells and puts it on. Clarke however, has an actual backpack.
 * Bellamy gives Wells the nickname "Prince".
 * Raven's helmet has a raven on the side of it.
 * Both Bellamy and Wells came to Earth to protect someone they love.
 * Bellamy came down to protect Octavia.
 * Wells came down to protect Clarke.
 * The bioluminescent butterflies Octavia discovered may be a byproduct of the nuclear war.
 * A nuclear winter would block out the sun, forcing the butterflies to evolve.
 * The bioluminescent butterflies are the first bioluminescent animal shown on the show.
 * Bellamy hesitated to pull Clarke up from a Grounder pit because he needed the Ark to think she was dead. If she fell she would have died.
 * On the Ark, the council consisted of seven members, including Chancellor Jaha.
 * The only named members of the Council are: Abigail Griffin, Marcus Kane, and Thelonious Jaha.
 * Clarke's watch is shown to be on her left wrist, opposite of her wristband.
 * In Pilot Clarke wore it on her right wrist.
 * Bellamy ties Atom to a tree using seat belts from the Dropship.
 * The Grounder who spies over camp may very well be Lincoln. However, this has never been confirmed.
 * The outfit this Grounder wears bears a striking resemblance to the one Lincoln wears when he finds Octavia in Twilight's Last Gleaming.
 * Other evidence that suggests Lincoln has been watching over the camp: the drawing of the 100 camp and the tally he has in his sketchbook.
 * The facial structure, skin tone, and eyes also match that of Lincoln.

Body Count

 * There are no deaths in this episode.

Behind the Scenes

 * Bioluminescent butterflies in this series are different from fluorescence butterflies in the real world. Fluorescent butterflies have fluorescent markings on their wings and do not glow in complete darkness like bioluminescent butterflies would.

Production Notes

 * This episode premiered on March 26, 2014.
 * Earth Skills was watched by 2.27 million viewers and had a ratings/share of 0.7/2 in the key 18-49 demographic.
 * This episode was filmed along with the next episode Earth Kills.