Chekhovs Mentos and Diet Coke, for example, or Chekhovs rabid cat holding a switchblade in its paws.

Basically, dont even introduce these things if they wont pay off later.

In this weeksContainment, it was the latter that finally exploded onstage.

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(Not literally.)

A Time to Be Born… was a remarkably on-the-nose title for this weeks episode.

It was finally time!

If Jake and Jana decided to open a midwifery business, I would probably watch a show about it.

After last weeks long-promised riot, this was the weekContainmentwas supposed to move in new and unexpected directions.

NEXT: A foreboding cough

Do any of us truly think Dr. Sabine will resign?

Is Dr. Sabine truly this ruthless?

So no, she will not be resigning; if anything, Lex better start packing up his desk.

(Pun never intended.)

zombie-ism, societal downfall, apocalypse), butContainmenthas staked its claim in this first stage only.

Now that Teresas going to be able to walk upright again, whats left to look forward to?

An ending, one hopes, and a satisfying one.

Containmentairs at 9 p.m. Tuesdays on The CW.