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Etherea is the eleventh episode of the seventh season of The 100. It is the ninety-fifth episode of the series overall.
BELLAMY – Where in the universe is Bellamy Blake?
Plot[]
A battered Levitt is assigned to run M-Cap on a Disciple experiencing PTSD from the explosion that apparently killed Bellamy Blake. Levitt defends the continued need for Clarke and her friends due to them having the Key and reassures Shoana that he is alright. Going through the Disciple's memory, Levitt suddenly notices something and upon closer examination, realizes that Bellamy was blown back through the Anomaly by the explosion and is still alive.
In a flashback, Bellamy emerges from the Anomaly in a forest on Etherea. Grabbing his dropped knife and looking around in confusion, Bellamy spots the glow of the wormhole on top of a steep peak in the distance. As Bellamy stares at the far-off Anomaly, Conductor Doucette, who was also blasted through the Anomaly with Bellamy, attacks, leading to a brutal fight between the two men. Bellamy eventually breaks Doucette's leg and knocks him out with a rock, but chooses not to kill him.
Grabbing his knife and leaving the unconscious Doucette behind, Bellamy begins making his way towards the Anomaly with the help of a walking stick. However, he reaches a rock wall too steep for him to climb and is forced to turn back after several failed tries. Returning to where he left Doucette, Bellamy finds the man gone and follows a trail of footprints and fresh blood to a nearby cave where Doucette is laying on the ground. As Bellamy approaches to check on the man, Doucette attacks him, forcing Bellamy to hit Doucette in his injured leg to force Doucette to let him go. Doucette begins praying, but Bellamy insists that the Disciples most likely think that they are dead. Bellamy is forced to pin Doucette down when he refuses to relent, stating that while he can leave Doucette there to die of his wounds, but there is a way off of the planet for the both of them. However, it requires Bellamy and Doucette working together to reach. Bellamy releases Doucette who dissolves into a fit of coughing.
Later, Bellamy watches Doucette sleeping when he suddenly wakes up in pain. Examining Doucette's broken leg, Bellamy discovers the bone poking out and prepares to set the bone, giving Doucette instructions on how to help him. Doucette suggests using tree limbs to just make a splint and bind his leg instead, but Bellamy ignores his suggestion. Putting a stick into Doucette's mouth for him to bite down upon, Bellamy painfully resets the broken bone. Sometime later, Bellamy returns with two eggs from a native lifeform on the planet filled with water and begins using tree sap to treat Doucette's leg, commenting that Charles Pike had taught Bellamy that oozing tree sap from pine trees on Earth can be used to create antiseptics, fight infection and heal wounds which Bellamy hopes is also true of the trees on Etherea.
After splinting Doucette's leg, Bellamy works on braiding a rope, talking to the sleeping Doucette about how he is stuck with the man on Etherea while all of his friends and family are still out there somewhere "just out of reach." In order to get back to them, Bellamy has to nurse his enemy back to health and he notes that sometimes irony can be funny but this isn't one of those times. After finishing braiding the rope, Bellamy notices a book that Doucette has on him called The Shepherd's Passage and begins reading through it, particularly the part about the Cave of Ascent.
As Bellamy begins stitching warmer clothing together for the two men to wear, having by the time created a barrier of tree branches over the cave entrance, Doucette wakes up and in response to Bellamy asking if they don't thank people where he comes from, sarcastically thanks Bellamy for caring enough to save himself. Bellamy asks if they are in the Cave of Ascent, surprising Doucette that he knows about that. Bellamy explains that he read the book which helped pass the hours, but is unimpressed with the message which Bellamy feels doesn't add up. Bellamy points out that the Shepherd believes in Transcendence and peace, but the Disciples have to fight a war to get there. Bellamy tells Doucette that his people have fought more wars than the other man can ever imagine and as a result, Bellamy knows that all war brings is "death and pain and if you're lucky enough to survive, another war."
However, Doucette knows who Bellamy is and about his beliefs which the Disciple insists is only about Bellamy's people, Bellamy's sister, the lives he takes to protect them. Doucette calls it Bellamy's selfish view of the universe and states that it makes him sick. Bellamy questions if Doucette means that they shouldn't care about anyone and Doucette replies that the Shepherd teaches them that they are small in comparison to the rest of the universe and that when the time comes, the Shepherd will guide them home. Bellamy reminds the Conductor that he is only alive because of Bellamy and not some higher power, but Doucette is just amused as Bellamy is once again making it all about himself, believing that while Bellamy read the words in the book, he didn't truly understand them. Bellamy interrupts Doucette as he starts praying again so that they can work on getting Doucette's leg stronger.
A week later, Bellamy returns to the cave to find Doucette able to stand on his own, though with some obvious effort. Pleased, Bellamy has both men don the clothes that he has made for them and gather their things to make the climb. Ignoring Doucette's warnings not to go too fast and risk tiring himself out, Bellamy leads the way to the rock wall which Doucette identifies as the Wall of Unanswered Prayers, "the Shepherd's first hurdle." Both men acknowledge that there is no going around it and Bellamy suggests that if he stands on Doucette's shoulders, he can reach a handle in the wall and makes his way up it. However, Doucette rejects the idea, knowing that with his injured leg, he can't bear both of their weights. Instead, Doucette wants Bellamy to boost him up at which point Doucette will help Bellamy up. Reluctantly, Bellamy agrees, but when Doucette reaches the top, he fails to throw down the rope, appearing at first to abandon Bellamy. After a moment, Doucette returns to throw Bellamy down the rope and chides Bellamy for his lack of faith.
Reaching the top of the wall, Bellamy figures that they should be close to the mountain now and comments that it would've been easier if they had some of the climbing gear that the Shepherd brought along with him. Doucette acknowledges that the Shepherd prepared for his pilgrimage to explore the universe, but it was on Etherea that the Shepherd had found what he was seeking: the remnants of a civilization that had achieved Transcendence. Bellamy is annoyed by Doucette talking about such matters again, but Doucette feels that they are on a pilgrimage of their own and the Shepherd guides them both despite Bellamy's insistence that he is only trying to get to the exit. Spotting the mountain close by, the two men continue on their journey.
Sometime later, Bellamy and Doucette climb the mountain through a growing blizzard with Bellamy mocking Doucette's continuing recitation of the story of the Shepherd's pilgrimage on the planet. Doucette warns that the Shepherd speaks of nights of bitter cold and storms that can rage for months while Bellamy thinks that they can climb high enough to outrun the storm. Doucette draws Bellamy's attention to massive storm clouds in the sky and suggests that like the Shepherd, they should seek shelter from the storm. Bellamy argues against it since they are running low on rations and he doesn't want to spend them looking for a windbreak as Bellamy is sure that the snow will stop once they clear the clouds. Doucette warns Bellamy that the trees are getting thinner and the mountain is getting steeper and Bellamy will die if he continues on. Refusing to listen, Bellamy continues on alone, struggling through the worsening blizzard and repeating to himself that he is not afraid. Bellamy eventually passes out, but is found the next morning by Doucette and dragged into a cave.
Waking up, Bellamy asks where they are and Doucette explains that he found another cave, bigger than the first one and went back for Bellamy rather than exploring it. Bellamy decides to call it even for him saving Doucette's life earlier and notices signs of former human habitation around them, confusing Bellamy as to how it all got there. Bellamy spots a picture of a man and his family nearby and he and Doucette are drawn into the cave's back room by a bright light that they discover comes from glowing beings of light. Doucette identifies their location as the Cave of Ascent where the Shepherd saw testament of those who had ascended and knew that his way was not in vain. Doucette reveals that the light is imprints of the energy from the civilization on Etherea that had ascended. Though stunned by what he sees, Bellamy denies that Doucette and the Disciples are right as it doesn't make sense and leaves the inner cave.
Days later, Doucette returns to the cave with firewood to find Bellamy sitting beside the fire and suggests that while there is no food, he can eat the lichen off the walls. As the Shepherd survived in the cave for three months, Doucette believes that they can too, commenting that "from the ashes we will rise." Bellamy recognizes the saying and asks Doucette for the picture that he had found. When Doucette hands it over, Bellamy recognizes the man in it as Bill Cadogan and Doucette confirms that he is in fact the Shepherd. Bellamy tells Doucette that Cadogan was the leader of a cult and that Bellamy had seen a video of him preaching on Earth. Bellamy calls Cadogan a fraud and a con man, but Doucette explains that Cadogan had predicted the destruction of the Earth and had led the Disciples safely across the stars to their new home.
Cadogan had also spoken of the beings in the cave and of their ascension, but Bellamy is insistent in his belief that whatever happened on Etherea, those beings didn't ascend and states that the book tells them that a civilization needs to have know-how to work the Anomaly Stones which Bellamy feels that those beings didn't since they lived in a cave. Doucette calls the beings pure and explains that Transcendence is born at a civilization's core, if they are pure enough and worthy. Doucette urges Bellamy to at least trust the message even if he doesn't trust the message, the beings in the cave and states that they both felt the truth of it. Bellamy continues to refuse as he only believes in what he can prove which Doucette counters by asking Bellamy to prove that he loves his friends and family. Bellamy states that at least they are real and not words in some book, but Doucette points out that there is still something missing inside of Bellamy and that "death and despair hover around you like a shroud, a consequence of your selfish love." Annoyed, Bellamy orders Doucette to tell him again how it's better not to love, but Doucette states that love is not the problem its how Bellamy loves that is the problem as it doesn't fill the hole inside of him. In contrast to Bellamy, Doucette loves everyone, even Bellamy who is a stranger to him and states that it is why he came back for him: Doucette is being tested not to favor the few over the many. Doucette feels that he has a greater purpose for all mankind, but Bellamy is unconvinced and tells Doucette that if he truly believes that, Doucette can go and bunk with the beings in the inner cave while Bellamy stays there on his side.
Over two months later, Bellamy and Doucette are still trapped in the cave by the blizzard with both men having grown longer hair and beards during that time. After eating a scorpion, Bellamy states that he lost track of time after the first two months and asks Doucette, who has continued to pray, how long they've been there, but Doucette dismisses it as being unimportant. Bellamy questions Doucette's uncaring attitude since they are most likely going to die in the cave and he states that Bellamy's obsession with his sister and friends drives the darkness inside of him while Doucette's love for all mankind and his faith in the Shepherd has made Doucette lighter than he's ever been. Becoming interested, Bellamy questions what the Shepherd believes in and Doucette replies that Cadogan believes in the bond that unites them all, that everyone is connected and offers to show it to Bellamy. After a moment's hesitation, Bellamy agrees.
Doucette guides Bellamy through praying to the Shepherd and when he opens his eyes again, Bellamy is dressed in his regular clothes with his hair and beard back to normal, Doucette has disappeared and there are several weapons sticking up out of the ground. Cadogan greets Bellamy and leads him towards the inner cave, but Bellamy states that he has already seen what's in there. Gesturing to the weapons surrounding them, Cadogan states that Bellamy is wrong that they can save him and calls faith "the true weapon." Cadogan tells Bellamy that he has come far and his eyes are opening, but there is still much more for Bellamy to see. Cadogan leads Bellamy into the inner cave where a vision of Aurora Blake appears and Cadogan vanishes. Bellamy tearfully approaches his mother who touches his face before turning Bellamy's attention to the beings of light. Aurora urges Bellamy to go to the light as the light is the way and vanishes. Bellamy reaches out to the light and when it vanishes, he is back with Doucette and the storm is over. Doucette takes it as a sign that they are both worthy since the first time Bellamy prayed, the storm broke.
With the storm finally over, Bellamy and Doucette continue their journey and reach the bottom of the sheer cliff that they must climb in order to reach the Anomaly. Doucette advocates going back as the sun's going down and they won't reach their destination before then, but Bellamy refuses as it took them a long time to reach the cliff from the cave and no matter if they go back to the cave and then return, nothing will change the amount of time it takes. Doucette worries that if they are on the cliff when night falls that they will freeze to death which Bellamy admits is a concern, but he is more worried about the fact that the days are getting shorter and knows that this is their best and only chance. Together, the two climb the cliff, hooked together by the rope, but most of the way up Doucette's injured leg gives just as Bellamy reaches a wide ledge and Doucette falls. With Doucette unable to get a grip on the cliff, the rope fraying and Bellamy struggling, Doucette orders Bellamy to cut him loose so that Bellamy can save himself. Doucette reveals that he wrote the Anomaly Stone codes in his book and slipped into Bellamy's bag so Bellamy can activate the Stone himself. Bellamy refuses to let Doucette die and begins praying as he pulls Doucette up, the other man joining him. Together, they manage to bring Doucette to safety on Bellamy's ledge. Though Doucette points out that Bellamy could've died, Bellamy states that its not the way he was planning on getting off of the planet.
Bellamy and Doucette climb to a higher ledge where they find the Anomaly Stone much to their pleasure and relief. Doucette enters the code for Bardo and the Anomaly descends off of the mountaintop towards Bellamy and Doucette who close their eyes in anticipation of it engulfing them. However, the Anomaly descends past them to somewhere far below. Bellamy is confused by this turn of events, but Doucette tells him that they need to do what they came there to do. Bellamy questions how Doucette can be sure the Anomaly is below them, but Doucette states that it's the path of the Shepherd "and in his light, we will not lose." Doucette allows himself to fall backwards off of the cliff into the Anomaly below. Alone, Bellamy finally admits to himself that he is afraid and leaps off of the mountain and into the Anomaly far below.
Bellamy emerges from the Anomaly in the Stone room on Bardo where he and Doucette hug in relief and Doucette comments on their leap of faith. Bellamy is greeted by Cadogan who Bellamy kneels before and addresses as "my Shepherd." Cadogan puts a towel around Bellamy's shoulders and has him stand and asks to be called Bill. Cadogan is excited by the return of Bellamy and Doucette as pilgrims from Etherea and wants to know everything. However, Cadogan tells Bellamy that his friends are there and they've gotten themselves into some trouble.
Clarke and her friends have been given Cadogan's quarters despite the murder of Anders and their other actions due to their control over the Flame. Sitting at the table with Gabriel, Echo and Octavia, Clarke acknowledges that if the Disciples didn't believe that she has the Flame, they would be in cells. Heading for the door, Clarke states that she is going to wake the others as it's time to go back to Sanctum, but Gabriel reminds her that they are under house arrest. Aware of that fact along with the fact that their leverage will disappear the moment that she's put in front of the Anomaly Stone, Clarke announces that she's going to offer to do it as soon as the rest of her friends are safely back on Sanctum. Octavia points out that the Disciples will kill Clarke once they know the truth and Echo refuses to let Clarke sacrifice herself for them.
The door opens and Cadogan enters escorted by Doucette and armed Disciples. Clarke starts to make her offer to Cadogan, only to have him usher in a still-alive Bellamy, much to the group's shock and pleasure. The Disciples prevent Octavia from approaching Bellamy and Echo questions how it's possible since they saw him die. Octavia comments that "it's hard to keep the Blakes down" and Clarke pulls Bellamy into a hug which Cadogan allows since she has the Key. Under cover of the hug, Clarke whispers into Bellamy's ear that the Key is the Flame and that the Disciples believe that it's still in her head and orders him to say nothing. As Clarke breaks the hug, Cadogan expresses hope that Clarke is now willing to help them, stating that too much blood has already been spilled and each death is a child of Earth who won't transcend. Cadogan begins leaving to give them time to reunite while the Disciples make preparations but, to Clarke, Octavia, Echo and Gabriel's shock, Bellamy, who is now completely loyal to the Disciple cause, reveals that Clarke doesn't have the Flame and that it has been destroyed, negating Clarke's group's leverage over the Disciples.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Eliza Taylor as Clarke Griffin
- Bob Morley as Bellamy Blake
- Marie Avgeropoulos as Octavia Blake
- Lindsey Morgan as Raven Reyes (credit only)
- Richard Harmon as John Murphy (credit only)
- Tasya Teles as Echo
- Shannon Kook as Jordan Green (credit only)
- JR Bourne as Sheidheda (credit only)
- Chuku Modu as Gabriel Santiago
- Shelby Flannery as Hope Diyoza (credit only)
Guest Starring[]
Co-Starring[]
- Monique Ganderton as Aurora Blake
- Sunita Prasad as Shoana
- Tina Grant as Lorenza (credited as Stone Conductor)
- Klarc Wilson as Disciple
Quotes[]
- Doucette: "Have some faith."
- Doucette: "We're on a pilgrimage of our own."
- Bellamy Blake: "You may be, I'm headed for the exit."
- Doucette: "The Shepherd survived three months in this cave, and we can too. From the ashes, we will rise."
- Bellamy Blake: "From the ashes, we will rise? Let me see that picture again. (Doucette gives him the picture of the Cadogan family) This is your Shepherd?"
- Doucette: "Yes. I told you --"
- Bellamy Blake: "This guy was a cult leader. I saw a video of him preaching on Earth. A fraud. A conman."
- Doucette: "He predicted the Earth's end... and brought his people safely across the stars. He spoke of the beings in the cave, of their ascension. You saw it yourself."
- Bellamy Blake: "I don't know what happened here, but those things didn't ascend. That book of yours says that civilization need to have the tech know-how enough to work the Stone. And those beings of light, they lived in a cave."
- Doucette: "They were pure. All we know is that transcendence is born of a civilization's core. Its soul. Are they pure enough? Are they worthy? If you don't trust the messenger, then trust the truth of the message, the beings in the cave. You felt it. I saw it in your eyes."
- Bellamy Blake: "I believe in what I can prove."
- Doucette: "Do you love your family? Your friends"
- Bellamy Blake: "What kind of a question is that? You know I do."
- Doucette: "Prove it."
- Bellamy Blake: "At least they're worth fighting for. Not just words in some book. My people, that is what is real."
- Doucette: "And yet there's still something missing inside you. Death and despair hover around you like a shroud. A consequence of your selfish love."
- Bellamy Blake: "Please tell me again how it's better not to love."
- Doucette: "Love is not the problem. It's how you love that is. It's not filling the whole inside you. I love all people equally. I even love you, a stranger. It's why I came back for you. I'm being tested. Not to preference the few over the many. I have a greater purpose. For all mankind."
- Bellamy Blake: "Well, if those beings of light are what is waiting for you at the end of your rainbow... then go in and bunk with them. But I'm staying here... on my side."
- Bellamy Blake: "I don't understand. What now?"
- Doucette: "Now we do what we came to do."
- Bellamy Blake: "How can you be sure that the Bridge is down there?"
- Doucette: "It's the path of the Shepherd. And in his light... we will not lose."
- Bellamy Blake: "I am afraid."
- Doucette: "Talk about a leap of faith."
- Bill Cadogan: "Welcome back, Bellamy."
- Bellamy Blake: "My Shepherd."
- Bill Cadogan: "Please stand. An call me Bill. Pilgrims returned from Etherea. I wanna know everything. But first, your friends are here. And I'm afraid they've gotten themselves into some trouble."
- Clarke Griffin: "Bellamy?"
- Echo: "How? We saw you die."
- Octavia Blake: "It's hard to keep the Blakes down."
- Bill Cadogan (as Clarke hugs Bellamy): "Hold! She has the Key."
- Clarke Griffin (whispering into Bellamy's ear): "The Key is the Flame. They think it's still in my head. Say nothing."
- Bill Cadogan: "I hope that now you're ready to help us, Clarke. Too much blood has been spilled. Each death is a child of Earth who won't transcend. I'll give you time to reunite while we make preparations."
- Bellamy Blake: "My Shepherd... there's something you should know. Clarke doesn't have the Key. The Flame was destroyed. (Bellamy's friends look shocked and betrayed) I'm sorry."
Notes and Trivia[]
- This episode is named after the planet Etherea.
- It's revealed that when Bellamy was caught in the explosion in "Welcome to Bardo," he and Conductor Doucette were blasted backwards through the Temporal Anomaly to Etherea.
- This also means that Anders only pretended to open the Anomaly to Sanctum as Octavia requested and instead set it for Etherea for some reason, likely to get Bellamy out of the way by sending him somewhere that he couldn't easily return from.
- Bellamy finds a picture of the Cadogan family in a cave on Etherea and takes it with him. It was the same picture that Cadogan took with him when he left Earth in "Anaconda."
- While talking with Doucette, Bellamy mentions seeing the video of Bill Cadogan in "The Four Horsemen" while looking for the Second Dawn Bunker with Clarke and Thelonious Jaha.
- Bellamy mentions Charles Pike and his Earth Skills class. Bellamy is shown using the skills Pike taught him to treat Conductor Doucette's broken leg with tree sap and to weave a rope for climbing.
- This episode contains no deaths at all aside from a scorpion-like bug that Bellamy is seen eating.
- This is the fourth episode to have no deaths, others are “Earth Skills”, “Contents Under Pressure” and “The Tinder Box”.
- For Bellamy and Conductor Doucette, this episode occurs over the course of more than two months. The exact amount of time is unknown as Bellamy states that he stopped counting after two months trapped in the cave by a snowstorm.
- This episode marks the first of two times in the series that Transcended beings are shown. The fact that the beings in the cave are in fact Transcended is confirmed in "The Last War."
Body Count[]
There are no deaths in this episode.
Behind the Scenes[]
- Aurora Blake's speaking lines weren't in the script.
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