Theo tries to communicate with Margaret and CJ’s lonely past is revealed
CJwakes in the year 2034.
He sets a 24-hour timer, he opens some windows, he works out.
He dusts, he records the year, he checks the survivors statuses.
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He places a token into a glass bowl.
He listens to the radio and watches the news.
The feeds report on North Korean refugees, on the outbreak of the H1R3 virus, and on war.
He goes back to sleep.
CJ wakes in the year 2514.
He sets a 24-hour timer, he opens some windows, he works out.
He dusts, he records the year, he checks the survivors statuses.
He places a token into a glass bowl.
He listens to the radio and watches the news.
There are fewer feeds still online; one screen shows nuclear war.
He imagines conversations with survivors, includingBeverlyandHarold.
He heads outside, he encounters a mutated man namedGriffin, he lies.
He catches a fish, he builds a fire, he leaves Griffin behind.
He kills Griffin when Griffin tries to join him.
CJ wakes in the year 3234.
He sets a 24-hour timer, he opens some windows, he works out.
He dusts, he records the year, he checks the survivors statuses.
He looks tired, a womans voice tells him.
He imagines a conversation with her, the woman he left behind.
He misses her, he misses the smell of summer.
He places a token into a glass bowl.
CJ wakes in the year 4014.
He doesnt set a timer.
He places a final token into a glass bowl.
He sits at the control panel, wakes the men and women he was told to wake.
He reports to Pilcher the soil and air levels have returned to normal.
Pilcher says their towns ready for Group A to awaken.
He doesnt go back to sleep.
Still, why is so much of the episode dedicated to CJ?
Of the characters still alive, only CJ thinks about whats really occurred outside the towns fence.
Megan begrudgingly helps, but grumbles her way through every step.
Too bad Margaret doesnt oblige for hours but continues to show how much she understands.
When Theo offers her food, she mutely makes him offer it to the other Abbies.
When Jason andKerryarrive and the other Abbies growl, Margaret doesnt make a peep.
Jason, though, doesnt even bother to consider the possibility that Abbies are more human than they think.
Hypothesis confirmed, doc!
Too bad Jasons unhappy to see himself proved wrong.
Back at the lab, Adam also vanishes, having accomplished, well, nothing to help out Margaret.
Left on their own again, Theo and Megan argue about what theyve learned from the days bloody events.
We are not the lesser species here, she says.
They are not our replacement.
I wont surrender to those kinds of thoughts.
Shes going to have to.
She says Margarets name before appearing to lose consciousness and Margaret, freed, ventures out of the lab.
