Helix Recap: Star Trek’s Jeri Ryan Joins In Survivor Zero
Like a Helix prince arriving to wake a cursed girl using only his kisses, Star Trek: Voyager‘s Jeri Ryan and her team of investment-upholding soldiers enter Arctic Biosystems with two goals in mind: make sure a cure is developed and then kill off everyone who knows about the virus in the first place.
It’s a goal that finally gives Helix an actual end-game scenario to look forward to, even though I’m sure we all figured out that anyone getting out of The White Room alive was a long shot. Constance Sutton won’t be taking any shit. She does take some tongue from her sex buddy, Major Ballesteros, though, and it’s as gross as it sounds.
As the resident leader of the Ilaria corporation, Constance wants to make good on her company’s investments and will say anything to anyone to make it look like she’ll do her job lawfully. Alan wants to head down to Level R to get Julia. That’s fine by Constance, who sets up a team to go on the inevitably unsuccessful mission.
But even though the plan fails, mostly because people are not using guns as they should, she still wants Alan to produce the cure, as if just the attempt is worth the same as having Julia’s expertise on hand.
Hatake knows that Constance is a woman with many dubious layers and knows to tiptoe around her, probably when she’s filing her teeth down for whatever reason. (If they reveal that she’s actually a vampire at some point, I might have to re-evaluate my opinion about Helix completely.)
She actually runs her hands across the spines of books on a bookcase, which is a total villain move.
But Constance isn’t the only Helix bump in the road for the base, as Anana and Major make their way back into the base, which is doubly disastrous for Second Banana.
First, it shows that he sucks at leaving people to die out in the snow, and now he is forced to contemplate a past where he was kidnapped and raised by Hatake, never knowing about the twin brother that was left behind. He still puts all of his trust in Hatake, though, so it’s going to take more than Anana’s photographs to get him to change sides. I really wish she would have just left Major to die in the snow. His reappearance isn’t a good thing for anyone.
Julia, meanwhile, isn’t at 100%, despite Hatake’s cure last episode, and she’s experiencing giant headaches that make it hard for her to see; as such, she uses a blindfold for most of the Helix episode, plummeting things to ignorant depths in an episode that largely avoids them.
Trapped in a room with a vector, Julia frightfully hides behind a medical bed, and just when the boogeywoman is about to reach her, someone yells out in the hallways, causing the creature to leave the room. Julia then stands up and pulls her blindfold off in obvious relief.
So why wouldn’t she have immediately taken the blindfold off her head? Was this perhaps a white flag, signifying she didn’t want to witness her own demise, or was it just bad timing? Julia and Alan are reunited in any case before the Helix episode’s end.
The big Helix mystery of the moment is now “What’s up with those greyish-violet eyes, and why is Hatake so sad that Julia has them?” It’s obvious he’s a major part of her past. So what do the eyes have to do with it, and why does Constance also have them?
Helix’s “Survivor Zero” was about as solid an episode as the show is capable of, but it didn’t have nearly enough ironically enjoyable sequences of awfulness. I had such hopes, based on Sarah blaming “Big Pharma” for all their problems.
However, providing slightly more sensible storytelling is hardly something to get mad at. The Helix episode ends with vectors dropping in, ready to make these characters’ lives worse for next episode’s Day 8.
