Beth Childs' backstory gets filled in with the help of a new clone

Welcome back, Clone Clubbers!

The title of this episode is The Collapse of Nature.

ranking them), but for tonight I want to focus mainly on Beth.

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Shes the real star of this episode, and almost everything that happens is seen through her eyes.

Beth

Oh, Beth.

Poor, poor Beth.

Based on the circumstances in which we met her, it was obvious she was struggling.

But now were seeing just how much.

Because Im a diligent journalist with access to Google, bifurcated means divided into two branches or forks.

Ill leave you here to think about what that looks like.

Art knows Beth is struggling, but she wont tell him why.

He knows about the pills, and that the department is keeping a close eye on her.

Nowhere seems to be safe.

At home, Beth uses borrowed surveillance equipment to wire up hidden cameras.

When Paul gets home, shes dressed up, high, and drinking.

I filled you in with hunches.

All I know for sure is you wont protect me.

She kisses him, and they have sex.

gave of the EMS workers who dumped Capras body.

The EMTs are there, as is a man we saw earlier in the police station.

Both he and Beth watch as they cut out Aarons cheek and remove some sort of bug.

Horrified, she backs away, making a noise loud enough to startle everyone inside the makeshift operating room.

was right about them infiltrating the police force.

NEXT: What the other clones are up to…

M.K.

And by the episodes end, shes not.

tries to reassure her, but Beth is despondent.

Im screwed, Beth laments.

Who do I trust now?

No wonder you live like this.

Is this my life now?

I cant even think anymore, Beth tells her.

Ill think now, her sister clone responds.

I usually think all night.

She takes hold of Beths arm, giving her a bit of comfort as she falls asleep.

Alison

Note to Alison: Dont mix wine and firearms.

Drinking and playing with guns is a bad idea.

At least she has illegal substances delivered with handwritten cards and very nice bouquets?

Though shes only here briefly, Cosima illustrates that Beth knew more than she was sharing with her sisters.

I want answers, Beth.

I know theres a sload youre not telling us.

He says theres someone she needs to talk to and hands the phone over to M.K.

Neolution knows where you are.

Theyre coming for Kendall Malone, she warns.

you gotta run.