At the trading post, Clarke admits she let Alie get to her, and Jasper spits that the truth must hurt, but Clarke won’t let the anger get the better of her twice in two minutes. So goes right up to Jasper’s face and apologizes to him.
She says she never wanted to hurt Maya, that she truly believed she had no choice. Jasper tells her to shove it, and Clarke cries. Will she ever escape her past?
At the dropship, Monty gets the magnet, but instead of Octavia, his mother is there when he comes back outside. He’s suspicious and tries to test his mother’s memory, which tips him off to the fact that Alie is behind the wheel. Desperate, Alie has Monty’s mother attack him and try to force him to take the chip.
Octavia returns and fights her, and at first Monty begs Octavia not to go full Floorheda on her, but when the lack of pain sensors and Octavia’s restraint combine, they end up with Momty pinning O to the ground. When threats do nothing, Monty shoots his mother twice to save Octavia. Octavia cries out his name; she knows he will never fully recover from this.
At Niylah’s trading post, Sinclair is almost done with the mech, he just needs the magnet Monty and Octavia are getting. Clarke tries to reassure him that everything will be okay, but he asks if she’s sure, she admits she doesn’t even know what being sure feels like anymore.
On the drive back, Monty tells himself that his mother was already gone, that it wasn’t his mother he killed, and he says it over and over, while Octavia studies the chip she snatched from the body, probably wondering how such a little thing could be causing so much trouble. (Something I’m sure people have wondered about her.)
Alie takes Raven up a notch and Raven channels half the fandom, asking Jasper why he isn’t as hard on Bellamy as he is on Clarke when they both pulled the lever that melted his girlfriend’s face off. She mocks Jasper for being the whiniest despite having suffered the least; he literally had his cake and ate it too while Clarke had to murder an ally and friend. Jasper starts to get worked up, and when Bellamy tries to calm him down, Raven turns on him, turning on her flirty voice and reminding him of their time…together.
She asks if it bothers him that no one gives him credit for Mt. Weather, or for the culling on the Ark before it fell, or essentially killing his own mother just so his sister could go to a masquerade. She goes on and on and on until she gets to his most recent slaughter, the 300 sleeping warriors. Niylah overhears this and launches herself into the room. Raven sees her, and Alie knows exactly where they are.
Bellamy is pissed, but Niylah is that quiet, scary kind of angry. He apologizes, but sorry won’t bring her father back.
