“A Sort of Homecoming” is episode fourteen of season seven of The 100.
In the previous episode, “Blood Giant”, Clarke shot Bellamy in a failed attempt to prevent the Disciples to get Madi’s sketchbook. She arrives with the others, crying, in the Second Dawn bunker. On Earth. Bill tells them this is a perfect place for them, swallows what he calls a nanotracking program and vanishes. Then Gaia welcomes them.
Gaia explains that she landed there with a Disciple, when the bridge closed; the Disciple told her the bridge defaults to the planetary origin of their DNA. Then attacked her. He didn’t win. Gaia was there for a few days before the others arrived that morning.
Outside the bunker there’s a forest. Earth has obviously recovered. They find the others and Octavia and Echo are looking for Bellamy. Clarke blurts out that he’s dead. She killed him. She had to. Madi’s sketchbook showed she still had the memories of the Commander and Madi would never be safe. Clarke begged at him to stop, she tried everything. Octavia looks like she’s going to attack Clarke. But hugs her instead. Octavia understands. And so would the old Bellamy. Clarke understands if Echo hates her. But Echo says she lost Bellamy long ago. He needed all this chaos to make sense; the violence, the people killed. Bellamy couldn’t accept it was meaningless. Cadogan gave him meaning, and that meaning killed Bellamy. She hugs Clarke too.
Back inside the bunker, Murphy says that they should leave once he finds out there’s no power. Jordan says they looked; there’s no stone. Gabriel says there has to be. Niylah says they lived there for six years; you’d think they would have found it. Raven puts her helmet on, and find the stone, 100′ down; the others were given trash helmets so they couldn’t jump out. Clarke wants the helmet. And smashed it. Earth is their home, everyone is from here and everyone they care about is there. She doesn’t want to lose anyone else.
Bill is looking through Madi’s sketchbook. Sheidheda is strapped into the memory probing device. And healed. Sheidheda knows who did the drawings. Rather than dig through Sheidheda’s memories, Bill asks him what he wants. Sanctum. And for the stone to be destroyed and Bill’s people to never come back. The stone is indestructible, but Sheidheda is welcome to have Sanctum. Sheidheda knows about the war and wants no part of it; one planet is fine. Bill explains that if they win, they transcend. And so will all the human family. They lose, and they do. And so will all the human family.
Sheidheda says Clarke won’t give up Madi. Bill had no plans to ask. Sheidheda says a strike team will be fought, and Madi may be killed. And Bill will have nothing. Send Sheidheda instead. Now that he knows what’s at stake. He knows Madi better than she knows herself. If Sheidheda brings her back, the deal stands.
The others are making themselves at home in the bunker. Niylah takes Echo, Gabriel, Jordan and Hope to her rec room. And finds some booze she’d hidden in a vent. Jordan asks if it’s safe. It never was. Jordan tries it and says it’s awful. Niylah says it’s his father’s recipe. Echo says she’s tired and leaves.
Madi is unhappy with Clarke deciding for her again. Clarke says she decided for everyone; it’s what she does. Madi never asked her to kill Bellamy, and now Clarke has to live with that. Madi doesn’t want that for her. Madi has her own friends on Sanctum, but Clarke is ruining her life just like Clarke ruined her own. She starts storming out and Clarke tells her she can’t wander around in the dark. Just as Raven gets the lights back on.
Octavia is struggling with her demons from her time as Blodreina. Not everyone agrees with Clarke, rightfully as well; they have too few people to survive. And, more importantly, them not being able to leave doesn’t stop others from being able to arrive. It just makes it harder to avoid them. And Sheidheda is coming.