Orphan Black S01 EP04 Review

[Disclaimer] No offence is intended here everything is just speculation and opinion, i apologise if you have taken offence somewhere throughout [ Disclaimer]

This episode opens after the crazy ending of the other clone 'angel' sewing herself up and now we find out its in someone else's house and a little boy goes down stairs and sees her and it is the creepiest thing, what did she do to that child, as later the episode he is so terrified that he can barely speak. What happened?

As Sarah is trying to find out as much as she can about this new clone she is stumbling deeper and deeper to the point that the new clone (the blond one) is even impersonating her at work and is messing with her 'new' life with Paul and Art. However this all seems very background in this episode and it seems like it is much more centred around her relationship with her daughter who is being taken care of by Mrs.S (Sarah's foster mother). Mrs.S allows Sarah one  night to come visit her daughter to prove that she is changing but due to the whole murder fiasco Sarah is pre-occupied and cannot go or art will suspect something and find out the whole charade. Although I thought if that happened she could say Mrs.S is looking after her niece or anything really. Seen as though the ridiculous lies she has told so far this seems very casual and feasible in comparison, but ho hey she didn't. So what could she do in a moment like this, she "needs to be in two places at one" so here comes the clone, Alison Hendrix.

Alison takes the challenge after some really funny moments from Felix, he adds some much needed sarcasm in parts. Some how Alison can impersonate Sarah/Beth within a day of training to the point that Mrs.S cant tell that its not her, this is pretty stupid, one day that's all. And her foster mother cant tell that she is acting completely different than she did like two weeks previous, c'mon guys really. But little old Kira can tell, I don't know how she hasn't seen her mother in over a year but ya'know, she must have a sixth sense about clones. It was all very touching the meeting they had, Kira wants her mum so bad you can clearly see and a copy cat wont suffice but Mrs.S drops her ice shield and allows Sarah/Beth/Alison to walk her home from school after Alison/Sarah asks, which would she really after one visit after a year be like, oh yeah just walk her home and don't take off with her. Okay then.

Back to the intense drama action, after the 'angel' bleeds out all over the kids bathroom. The cops show up the next day with Beth alongside, but this is possibly one of the worst scenarios as the kid points at Beth implying that the 'angel' looked like her, then. No one batters an eyelid, what will it take for someone to be suspicious of Beth/Sarah. The child has a fortune paper thing and they take it and analyse it and find that there are addresses on it and go there, but this is where little blond 'Angle' waltz' in acting like Beth, even though she looks like she is on crack but no one really cares. There seems to be alack of attention in the POLICE STATION. And she goes and f****s everything in the boardroom up.

Some random raunchy Paul and Beth scenes.

And Beth goes to find that Maggie Chen and the 'angle' are connected which is such a predictable plot line, I'm sorry but I seen that coming from the minute that we saw that knife, so its like the KKK for clones I'm assuming. So Beth/Sarah arrives at Chen's flat to see the 'angel' pretty much dead and there is some seriously intense dialogue between the two of them and this is where we pretty much find out that Sarah is the original (what are the chances.) but the 'angel' was told she was and that's why she is on this crusade so Sarah pretty much made the 'anglels' life worthless in about 3 minutes. Don't get me wrong it was crazy intense but then it got tied right back up and that was a crappy move by the writers, all to prolong the massive plot climax. Uncool dudes, uncool.

But then holy s**t the 'angle' collapses in an alley and a man comes and collects her only to have a frikin ring with the same logo as the Clone Klux Klan, Hot damn guys, we are getting some context to why the clones have been made and who by. Yey all these loose ends are coming together to make a thread. I'm so exited.

In Conclusion:

The episode was action packed towards the end but was very overshadowed from the outset by the mother daughter relationship drama, this gave the episode strengths and weaknesses. It was one of the best so far and making it climb to my top watch list very fast. All in all good episode cant wait for next week, just please someone figure it out already.

Speculation Time:

Kira and Sarah relationship seems like its going to be seriously tested with the 'camera man'. But most importantly Paul may be working for the clone creators, I think that he is and Beth was with him to find everything out and she did that's why she killed herself, Paul knows that Beth knows something that's why he is always almost bipolar with her. And it almost seems like it was Alison and Sarah were talking and Sarah said "How could you do that to her" either he is referring to Kira or what I'm thinking is Alison has 'disposed' of Cosima which would be a massive loss but okay.

Thanks for reading and tune in for the next episode, bye.