" Things That Never Done Done " is the ninth episode of the second season, and the nineteenth episode in its entirety, from the Canadian Orphan Black television science fiction series. It was first aired on Canada on Space and United States on BBC America on June 14, 2014. The episode was written by Alex Levine and directed by TJ Scott.
The series focuses on a number of identical human clones, all of which are played by Tatiana Maslany: Sarah Manning, Alison Hendrix, Cosima Niehaus, Rachel Duncan, and Helena. In this episode, Sarah Kira's daughter (Skyler Wexler) undergoes bone marrow extraction to donate to Cosima in an attempt to cure Cosima's disease. Alison and her husband Donnie (Kristian Bruun) attempt to bury Dr. Aldous Leekie, while Helena is trying to escape from the farm of Proletheans, a religious extremist group.
"Things That Have Not Been Done" marks the first appearance on the screen Kathryn Alexandre, who also works on the show as a "double clone" Maslany while recording scenes where many clones interact with each other. This episode was filmed at various locations in Toronto and the title was taken from the work of Francis Bacon Novum Organum . It was watched by 613,000 viewers in the United States and received most of the positive reviews from critics.
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Plot
At the Dyad Institute, Rachel appointed Delphine Cormier (ÃÆ' â € ° velyne Brochu) interim director of the cloning program after Dr. Aldous Leekie. Delphine meets with Sarah to ask if her daughter, Kira, will donate her bone marrow to help cure Cosima's disease, and Kira agrees. Meanwhile, Cosima works with her lab assistant Scott (Josh Vokey) and Rachel's adoptive father, Ethan (Andrew Gillies), a founding scientist of the cloning program, to discover the genetic sequence that has caused her illness. Rachel, who was usually stoic, laughing and sobbing as she watched the video of her childhood home, mourning her own infertility. Posing as Sarah, she made it into a pediatric clinic where Kira was restoring and sedating Sarah's foster brother, Felix (Jordan Gavaris). She kidnaps Kira and takes her to the room of a young girl at the Dyad Institute, telling Kira that she "might even grow like here, just like me".
After confessing that he accidentally killed Dr. Leekie, Donnie Hendrix and his wife Alison decide to dump bodies under their garage floor. They are distracted by Vic (Michael Mando), whom Alison meets in rehab and who acts as an informant for Detective Angie DeAngelis (Inga Cadranel). Donnie threatens to shoot Vic, who claims that Angie is parked nearby, before getting into Angie's car and threatening to destroy her career if she continues to stalk her family, taking a picture of herself with Vic as extortion. After burying Leekie's body and putting back the cement, Alison acknowledged her sudden interest in Donnie and they had sex in the garage.
At the farm inhabited by the Proletheans, religious extremist groups, after its impregnation, Helena was introduced to a children's room where she was tied to a young girl. Prolethean's leader, Henrik Johanssen (Peter Outerbridge), impregnated his teenage daughter Gracie (ZoÃÆ' © de Grand'Maison) with her embryos and Helena. Sharing their displeasure with what Henrik had done, Helena and Gracie decided to escape from the farm together, but Henrik was arrested as they prepared to leave. Henrik's protà © à © gà © Ã… © and Gracie's lover, Mark (Ari Millen), arrives to defend Gracie. Mark and Gracie escape together as Helena attacks Henrik. Helena tortured Henrik with her own medical equipment before burning the farm and escaping.
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Production
Kathryn Alexandre appeared for the first time in this episode as Alexis, a Prolethean midwife. After working as a script reader during the initial audition, Alexandre began working as a "double clone" Maslany: playing in front of Maslany in every scene when multiple clones interacted and being replaced with Maslany in post production. Fawcett and Manson had planned to portray Alexandre in his own role from the beginning of the second season of the show, and had regarded him as Gracie before deciding that, due to the number of interactions between Gracie and Helena (played by Maslany), "Turns into a mess if we throw him out." They decided to look for a smaller role for Alexandre and eventually settled on Alexis's side.
The scene in the Hendrixes garage was filmed on a set; set of a real garage replicated home in Markham, Ontario that has been used for filming in the show's first season. Set built 4 feet (1.2 m) above the ground so it can be dug with jackhammer on film. Bridgepoint Health Center stands in a clinic where Kira undergoes bone marrow extraction, and is also used for exterior shooting of the Dyad Institute. The scene in Cosima's lab was filmed in Don Jail, now an administrative facility connected to Bridgepoint. Montage Rachel drank a martini and watched home video from her childhood initially not included in the episode script, nor was it filmed with the rest of the episode. According to Fawcett, when he and Manson saw the last piece of the episode, they felt something was missing from Rachel's stairs. Manson then wrote a short sequence and Fawcett recorded it for two days during the production of the next episode. Due to time constraints when filming scenes where Helena tortured Henrik, the scene was taken with a handheld camera by episode director, TJ Scott, with Maslany and Outerbridge who improvised the dialogue and use of props. The next shot of the burning arsenal was created by the visual effects company of Intelligent Beings. The titles of the last two episodes, "Things Never Done" and "In an Uncharted Way", are taken from Francis Bacon's quote in his philosophy Novium Organum: "It would be very unpleasant and contrary to oneself to expect that things that have never been done can be done except in a way that has never been tried. "
Reception
The episode aired in the United States on June 14, 2014 at BBC America. It was watched by 613,000 viewers, with a Nielsen rating of 0.27 in adult demographics aged 18-49.
Matt Brennan of Slant Magazine summarized this episode as "among the best hours of television I've seen so far this year" and an example of "unremitting brilliance". He praised the exploration of Rahel's character and especially Maslany's "nothing great" performance in the role, and described the suburban satire presented through Alison and Donnie as "impeccably shriveled". Writing for The A.V. Club, Caroline Framke delivers an A-grade episode and finds it far more focused and with more of an "emotional core" than the previous episode. He highlights the "beautiful" cinematography, the chemistry between Maslany and Bruun as Alison and Donnie, and the "surprising" montage of Rachel's emotional disorder. Eric Goldman of IGN described this episode as an episode of "very busy, very powerful" and one of the best in the season. He praised the "dark funny" storyline involving Alison and Donnie, although he found pacing from several subplots to be rushed.
Mark Sticker critic Mark Rozeman gave episodes of 8.4 out of 10, praising Bruun's performance as Donnie and the fabulous "Koen Brothers-esque" comedy song provided by Alison's subplot. However, he criticized the predictability of the episode and argued that Kira's kidnapping by Rachel feels like a recycling plot point from the first season. Vlada Gelman provides a diverse review episode for TVLine, writing that it was the first episode of the second season of "not quite successful" and "it lacks the momentum and progress you expect from the last hour". Similarly, Adam W. Kepler argued that the episode featured Orphan Black "best quality (strong characterization, dark satire and startling moments) and the worst (strange pacing and ropey plotting) ". He enjoys Alice and Donnie's comedic subpits and praises Maslany's performance as Rachel, but finds conclusions for Helena's storyline with those of Proletheans "confusing" and "haphazard".
References
External links
- "Things Not Done" on BBC America
- "Things Not Done" on IMDb
- "Things Not Done" on TV.com
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