#Station 11 recap episode 2 series#

It’s improvised, sure, but between people who know the text so well and who have so recently lived its story, it feels choreographed. The two perform a scene from soon after Lonergan recovers Eleven’s body. Inside the airport, they still have mugs from the windowed control tower, they could be on a space station. He asks for a scene, and Kirsten savvily picks up a mug off the desk. “Compounded it with dust, whereto ’tis kin.” See? He’s an actor!Įxcept Clark’s not satisfied. “What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?” Clark asks and waits for Tyler to respond. Even in the absence of governments and borders, people have defined each other into groups and devised rudimentary ID checks. Clark calls on Kirsten and Lonergan, who he doesn’t recognize, to prove they’re actors - an echo of what Tyler’s Undersea asked of Kirsten in episode six. The Travelling Symphony’s limited invitation, it seems, is an experiment in compromise. Elizabeth, on the other hand, pleads with him to welcome the world back in. Even in the winter of his life, he wants the doors to his little fiefdom to stay shut. It would explain why, 20 years after the onset of the flu, he still rules the airport by sowing fear of the unknown. Today’s epiphany is that he’s always felt hated, a suspicion that’s corroborated when he tries to explain a karaoke machine - a treasured artifact from his Museum of Civilization - to a group of middle schoolers who don’t give a shit. They even have support groups, where Clark, now an old man, can spill his feelings. They grow their own fruit trees in Severn City they have bathrooms and surveillance cameras. Lonergan) through the airport terminal to face Clark, revealing something of a paradise along the way. Soon Miles, still providing airport security after all these years, catches them lurking inside the perimeter fences. “First hundred,” she tells him, a period of time that haunts all pre-pans. When Tyler asks her what she dreamed about under the spell of the Red Bandana’s poison dart for three days, Kirsten’s guarded but truthful. Talking to the dead - or the missing, or the invented - is emerging as a powerful motif.īack in the woods, Kirsten and Tyler continue to feel out the peculiar rapport between them, still oblivious to their connection through Arthur. There’s comfort to be found even in the fiction of company, same as Miranda felt with Dr. Maybe the ritual keeps Elizabeth in perennial mourning, or maybe it keeps her son alive enough that she can bear living. She talks to him like Clark talked to Arthur over the radio, like Kirsten talked to Frank from her poison fugue, like Jeevan talked to Siya, like Tyler wanted the kids to talk to their dead sisters and brothers back when Tyler was still a kid himself.

#Station 11 recap episode 2 series#

In this hour, we start to sense a series in search of its ending - a process that begins by getting everyone into position under the same roof.Įlizabeth is sitting by the husk of Gitchegumee Air Flight 452 and communing with the young son she believes she lost to self-immolation. Until now, our characters have mainly bounced off each other, ricocheting into their own storylines and leaving one another behind. This is why “Who’s There?” stands out from the preceding episodes. Station Eleven is about goodbyes in all their varied forms: protracted, painful, overdue, bittersweet, unexpected.