Tag: Kacey Rohl

Wayward Pines finishes on “Bedtime Story” with a season finale that follows though with  the Oedipus Rex storyline introduced last week.  Although in essence it could be called Oedipus “wrecks” since Jason is instrumental in the town’s downfall. To be fair, Pilchard’s chosen one was  a culmination of the town father’s misconceptions and disastrous beliefs, who did as he was taught.   The byproduct of incest was also Pilcher’s  fault full stop.

As Jason goes under Theo’s knife, the town prepares for evacuation to the pods. The residents still do not know that more than half of them will not be “leaving” Wayward Pines.  The boy leader dies and Yedlin tells those gathered outside the hospital that Jason is dead.

The doctor  delivers a speech about dictators and moving forward. Theo’s sycophant; Oscar,  realizes that Yedlin  murdered Jason.  He questions his hero and Theo lies. Arlene approaches Theo and puts in her bid to be Rebecca’s replacement.

Ocar later points out that the dead leader’s blood type matches that of Kerry Campbell.  Theo says nothing.  CJ passes over Jason’s choices for who will be “sent forward” and who will die.  People who are important to the Pines’ survival,  nuclear families and the children will all be saved.

Yedlin talks to Mitchel about Jason and  the horticulturalist cuts him short.   Theo goes to  see Kerry. She stands up for Jason and says there have been enough lies.  The doctor then trots out all the clues Kerry needs to realize that she was her son’s lover. The Oedipus connection is made, after a few moments and Kerry vomits in a waste bin.

The good doctor seemingly could not wait to pass on the incestuous information to Campbell.  No matter how hard this show attempts to show Yedlin as a up-front savior of the town, his actions prove otherwise.

At one point, while the town dissolves into riots and full scale panic,  Yedlin records his plans. He will give himself injections of the three most viral diseases. After  the incubation period Theo plans to allow the Abbies to eat him. His plan will help to eradicate the true inheritors of this new Earth. In the end, Yedlin is no better than Pilcher or Higgins.

Despite this projected  act of  self sacrifice, Yedlin pounces the moment Kerry stands up for Higgins. His thinly veiled hints allow Campbell to realize she was her son’s lover.

It destroy’s Kerry.

(One could argue that it also pushed Jason over the edge.  Jason, however, reacted very differently to his mother.   Higgins pulled his gun, twice, and the second time attempted to shoot Kerry. Jason was a damaged product who struck out against everyone and anyone  when his reality or will was threatened.)

The rest of the season finale of Wayward Pines consisted of certain people being put in pods and everyone else being left to face the increasing horde of Abbies’ outside the fence.  Those left behind resort to mindless violence and some, like Frank and Xander;  Rebecca’s husband,  are given last minute reprieves.

Arlene, who was initially to be left behind is given a pod by Theo. Although it is doubtful that she got one that worked properly.  No matter how you slice it, Yedlin is not a “Mr. Humanitarian” sort of guy.  In the end the medico cares only for himself.

Kerry finds Yedlin’s  recording and gives herself the viral  injections.  Theo decides to grab a pod for himself and Campbell goes outside the fence to infect the Abby community.

The series ended rather  ambiguously.  Throughout the episode the Abby build up is shown in intercut sequences. Margaret and one of her entourage screaming at the creatures and occasional glimpses of the growing army of destruction are shown with no pay off.

(Somewhat annoyingly, what with  all the emphasis on procreation and the need for more children, there  are loads of “under 18s.”  A lot more than one would expect, but the show’s makers obviously felt this would be more dramatic…)

A fraction of the Wayward Pines population is sent back to sleep.  Mitchel comes close to not joining his fellow denizens but changes his mind.  The final message, relayed to CJ earlier in the episode,  is that Pilcher got everything wrong.

It will be interesting to see if the show comes back for another season.  Originally slated to be a “one off” the show was brought back because of good viewing figures.  This second season was a let down from the first. Patric is not Matt Dillion, the hero of season one, and it hurt the show.

Wayward Pines should really have stopped while it was ahead.  This meandering re-vist to the verse was nowhere near as addictive as the first season.  Hopefully FOX will now let the residents of the town sleep in peace.

CAST:

• Jason Patric  –  Dr. Theo Yedlin
• Djimon Hounsou  –  CJ MItchum
• Toby Jones  –  Pilcher
• Tom Stevens  –  Jason Higgins
• Nimrat Kaur  –  Rebecca Yedlin
• Rochelle Okoye  –  Margaret
• Kacey Rohl  –  Kerry Campbell

Wayward Pines will reach its season finale next week and this penultimate episode throws up a shocker of a storyline. Last week saw the Abby population building up around the town as the wounded Margaret made her escape. “Walcott Prep” reveals more about Pilcher’s planning of his future leader and his mother.

As the Abby invasion appears immanent,  the backstory of Jason Higgins is brought to the fore.  It turns out the leader of Wayward Pines was second choice. The first Jason, the unborn son of a privileged single mother, died.  The creator of the ark then rushes to find  a replacement with a little urging from CJ.

The second “baby donor” is Kerry Campbell.  Pilcher buys her baby and meets Kerry. Apparently, he is quite taken with the young lady and decides to make her part of the Wayward Pines project.  Kerry wins Pilcher over when she tell him she is a survivor.  Campbell is, in essence, the Mother Mary figure in this nativity scenario.

The Abby population outside the fence is getting bigger and at one point it looks like Margaret may die from her gunshot wound. With little food and  shortages of medication, Jason decides retreat is the best option.

He tells the town’s population, of just over 1000, that they are heading back to the pods. The news is not taken well.  Many have never been in a pod and CJ works to ease everyone’s fears.

Before Jason’s speech, Dr. Yedlin  ensures that Xander (Josh Helman) will not be a problem when he takes over.  Theo clearly plans to remove Pilcher’s puppet as leader and place himself in charge. 

CJ informs Jason that there are not enough pods to rescue all the people in the town.  After initially blaming CJ, Jason asks how many can be saved and Mitchum tells him 571. The leader must now start a vetting process to see who will make it through the Abby invasion.

Higgins orders Theo to begin screening members of the community to see who is fit enough to go into a pod. The doctor immediately knows that there must be a  problem. Jason confirms that only half of the population can be saved.

Theo senses a chance to take over and he wastes no time. He immediately goes on the attack verbally and brings up Kerry’s inability to have children. He then  lies to Jason’s partner and tells her that since she is defective, Higgins will leave her behind to die.

Yedlin has finally made his move to take control of the Pines and he  even, at one point, urges Kerry to kill her partner.  She refuses and goes to see Jason. Meanwhile the leader of Wayward Pines is going through the files and beginning his selection process.

He pulls Kerry’s file and discovers another secret one on his partner as well. Reading both he makes the shocking discovery that the young woman he chose as a mate is his mother.  It is revealed that Jason picked Kerry while she was still in her cryogenic pod to be his partner. Obviously the pod kept Campbell from aging normally while  Jason grew up.

At the end of the episode, after Jason figures out that he has been sleeping with his mother, he pulls his gun. Earlier in the episode Kerry tells Pilcher that she is a survivor. In her desperate struggle with Jason over the gun, she proves she is also a fighter.

After the gun goes off, the two lie side-by-side, Kerry unaware of who Jason really is, and her  dying son whispers “Walcott Prep…They taught you well.” Outside the town’s walls Margaret recovers from her wound and roars at her followers, it appears the attack is on.

This was an interesting episode.  The storyline brings up Orwell’s Animal Farm, which the microcosm society of Wayward Pines has resembled from the very start, and shows that underneath his despotic tendencies, Higgins is ultimately like his fellow citizens in the town.

For the current population of Wayward Pines, the end is nigh.  It seems that Pilcher’s propensity for hubris caused him to make deadly mistakes  ensuring  his ark’s downfall.  His assumption about the Abbies was clearly wrong, this “aberration” was, in fact, a natural state of evolution. His ark was the anomaly full populated with relics from the past who were ill equipped to live in this new environment.

Apart from the shocking element of Jason sleeping with his “momma” the outlook for all those unwilling denizens of the town are doubly doomed.  If they make it to the pods and go back to sleep, when they awaken Pilcher’s people will still be the anomaly.

The Abby population will continue to grow and presumably they will take over the town. As they are intelligent and can learn, this new version of mankind should  flourish and continue to populate this new world.  When the survivors do wake back up, if they are not slaughtered, they could  well end up in an Abby zoo.

Living artifacts of a time gone by.

The season finale of Wayward Pines airs next week on FOX.  Stop by and see who will actually make it into a pod and whether Yedlin’s  coup was successful. Chances are that Rebecca could step up and take over.

CAST:

• Jason Patric  –  Dr. Theo Yedlin
• Djimon Hounsou  –  CJ MItchum
• Toby Jones  –  Pilcher
• Tom Stevens  –  Jason Higgins
• Nimrat Kaur  –  Rebecca Yedlin
• Rochelle Okoye  –  Margaret
• Kacey Rohl  –  Kerry Campbell