Ryn tells Hope, “she (Tia) wanted to make the world a better place, protect the oceans for our kind. Helen expresses relief that Tia’s dead which prompts Hope to ask Ryn whether Tia was bad. Hope hugs Maddie tightly, mirroring her mother’s emotional connection to her. Maddie and Robb are leaving to travel overseas for the launch of his ocean cleaner-upper. Weeks later, everything is mostly back to normal but Ben is still missing. The fighting stops, and all the mermaids bow to Ryn, who may now be the Alpha of all mer-kind. Ryn gets the upper hand on Tia, and spears her in the chest, killing her. A mermaid melee ensues, and all of the CG budget is spent on high-speed jabs, and floating limbs, in what is a surprisingly well-rendered underwater fight sequence. Their small clan is outnumbered by Tia’s forces by a factor of at least five-to-one, and just when it starts to look like an assured victory for Tia, Robb’s clan arrives in support of Ryn. In the water, Ryn’s clan meets up with their leader as she comes face to face with her nemesis. Through Helen, we learn about mermaid’s spirituality and their connection with their dead, and this scene pays off on all the time we spend with Helen, on her spiritual journey. We don’t know what happens to him.ĭonna, who is dead, appears to Camille, and the rest of Ryn’s clan, to tell them Ryn needs them a moment that is meaningful and well-earned because the show takes time to establish the idea of an afterlife. They share a really tender moment, then Ben creates a diversion, which gives Hope cover to escape.
Ben is able to brute force open a cell door, and free Hope. This is an iffy plan considering Ben stopped the treatments and could possibly lose his ability to breathe underwater for that long or withstand that much pressure, but it works. The entire season has been building up to a conflict and Ryn has been preparing for a rematch with Tia.īen and Ryn boat out to the location, and they make a plan for her to lure Tia away while he, who is still experiencing changes from his self-administered stem cell treatments, rescues Hope. It is an obvious trap, which Ben reminds Ryn, but she’s undeterred. When they get there, everyone’s gone except Hunter, who is tied up and left to deliver a message. Once the military discerns Tia’s location, Ben and Ryn go after her. This is poorly plotted and throws away an entire season of character work. It apparently clicks for him that some mermaids are bad and some are good. Then two things happen he sees Ben and Ryn and the hybrids trying to help… again, and he recognizes Tia in the manifesto as the mermaid who almost attacked him. Even when Helen asks for use of his facilities, he hesitates. Not much later, he was chastising Ryn for daring to exist and for, as he tells it, ruining Ben’s life. Less than 24 hours prior, Ted was fuming at Helen for bringing Eliza to help Xander. There’s nothing wrong with the attitude change, in theory, though it is a waste of perfectly good buildup for Ted’s villain turn.
Helen and the hybrids volunteer to help the deputies canvas the town for injured folks, and bring them in for treatment. While Maddie and Robb distribute the cure, and Ryn and Ben hunt Tia down, Xander searches for Sheriff Bishop, who is still missing. Helen informs Ryn that Hunter abducted Hope, for Tia, so Ryn and Ben set out to find them, and take Tia down once and for all. Robb arrives with a recording of his people’s echo chamber, which he and Maddie use to revive Xander from the coma he fell into as a result of Tia’s attack. They are completely unnecessary in this episode and the entire season, and at this point, I have to wonder if there’s a clause somewhere that mandates the military be included, even when their presence adds absolutely nothing to the story.Ĭarrying on. She sends video manifestos to news stations in the affected regions, implicating other nations, presumably hoping countries would turn on each other and finish her work for her, bringing her villainy to its cartoonish peak.Ĭommander Anderson and Lieutenant Maeda arrive in Bristol Cove with military aid, where they do nothing useful, except find Tia moderately faster than Ben and Ryn would have on their own. Now, her sonic attack has spread to the entire Pacific Northwest and parts of Asia, making it a global attack. In the previous episode, Tia unleashed her weaponized song on the unsuspecting citizens of Bristol Cove, sending the small coastal town and surrounding county into a panic.
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