“A Little Sacrifice” is episode ten of season seven of The 100.
In the previous episode, “The Flock”, Sheidheda slaughtered or injured all the Faithful. This episode opens with the others dealing with the aftermath. Indra asks where Sheidheda is. Gone. Through the secret passage. Indra wants to get him before he gets to Wonkru. They suddenly realise there is an alternative to Sheidheda. Madi.
Sheidheda enters the tavern and everyone but Madi bolts. He greets her and she realises who it is. Sheidheda accuses Madi of betraying him. He offered her the world, but she chose weakness and love. Sheidheda would like to see her bleed. But Indra’s reign has changed things. Killing Madi prevents her from claiming the throne. But it makes his Indra problem worse. Kneel right now or he will slice open the chest of everyone she loves and feed their hearts to Madi’s dog. She kneels.
Murphy finds Madi panicking and calms her down. Then Sheidheda starts broadcasting from the palace, telling everyone there still is a Commander. Indra tells her guards to go get him. They hesitate. Sheidheda is already having an effect.
On Bardo, Clarke and the others have seen Diyoza, Echo and Octavia remove their helmets. She tells Bill to let them go. Bill says they aren’t his prisoners. Clarke will use the Key to help, but only after he lets all her people return to Sanctum. Bill tells them they’re free to go. They decline. They have a war to fight. Clarke wants to talk to her friends alone. If they want her help, they have to earn it. Everyone but Bill, out.
Once everyone else has gone, and Bill is at the other end of the stone room, Clarke asks why the y think she has the Flame. That was one day, a hundred years ago. Gabriel explains memory capture; they saw Octavia’s memory of Clarke getting the Flame. Jordan says if the Disciples still think the Flame is in Clarke, then the other three never told the Disciples it’s not. And they know it isn’t. Which means they’re faking it. Clarke says they need to find out what the three most dangerous women on this or any planet are up to.
Hope is in a cell and Echo and another guard come to escort her. Hope attacks and is being choked out by the guard when Echo stabs the guard in the back of the head. Hope didn’t really think Echo fell for this garbage, did she? Echo said she was declaring she was ready for war. She never actually said on whom. Hope has a plan, but there’s a complication. All their people are here. Hope has an hour to get everyone they care about off the planet, or they will die along with everyone else. Echo won’t say what’s she’s doing, or they’ll get it from Hope and try to stop her.
Niylah, Jordan and Gabriel have remained behind. Niylah speaks in Grounder; Bill says his daughter must have been important for her language to survive. Gabriel says Bill seems different; how did he survive? Cryogenics. Anders said Gabriel was like him. Gabriel differs; he never thought he was a god. Bill says they all are, on a journey of transcendence. They have logs from the Bardoans, they translated them over centuries. There’s a bit about how when the orb becomes like a star, the Last War will begin. An end to violence. Bill says he’s hungry and heads to have lunch. Gabriel follows.
Diyoza is fretting to Octavia about Hope when Raven, Miller and Clarke arrive. Then Hope arrives; she knows who they are and Diyoza introduces her daughter. Hope says they have to get to the stone room and get out in the next 45 minutes. She doesn’t know what Echo is going to do. But she wants her to do it anyway.
When everyone realises what Echo is planning, most panic. Jordan thinks the Disciples may have made a mistake in their translation. And Sheidheda’s plans are coming together.