“Exit Wounds” is episode six of season five of The 100.
In the previous episode, “Shifting Sands”, Shaw revealed to Murphy and Raven that he was the one who stopped the missiles from being fired into the Second Dawn bunker in “Pandora’s Box”. Raven made a deal with him, to pretend that she was the one to do so, in exchange for which Murphy was released. However, Murphy couldn’t get far because of the shock collar on his neck, which could also be tracked.
Diyoza had launched another attack on Wonkru, and saw them sheltering Octavia in a sand (and glass) storm. She knew that none of her people would do the same for her, so took Kane up on his offer to tell her about Octavia. Octavia herself had seen that Echo was close to Bellamy, and she did not look happy.
Clarke is treating Octavia for the wound she received from the sand worm infection. Octavia asks Madi how she survived, and Clarke says that she took Madi to the lab and gave her synthetic Nightblood using Clarke’s bone marrow. Which is not true; Madi is a true Nightbleeder. The last of them, and she could be Commander. Clarke is lying to keep Madi safe, and some of the Grounders would like to replace Octavia with Madi.
Outside the bunker, Octavia is concerned by how the others are treating her. Cooper says that they have heard of the defeat in the wasteland, that Diyoza’s firepower has crippled them and that the soil is dead and won’t grow crops. With the bunker’s farm already struggling, Cooper says that what Octavia is seeing are signs of rebellion. When Octavia sees Echo, she announces to all in sight that she banished Echo six years ago, and that banishment stands. So Echo has 24 hours to leave or she will fight in the arena.
The drop ship arrives at this point, and everyone takes cover, but all that happens is that a number of containers are dropped by parachute. These contain food, and are broadcasting a message from Diyoza. Diyoza offers peace and says that anyone who abandons their weapons and goes to meet the ship when it returns will be given a place in the valley. Diyoza is recruiting.
Octavia destroys the food, though, and it seems Diyoza is acting on Kane’s advice. McCreary would prefer to use violence, but Diyoza tells him that their people have no farmers. Or engineers. McCreary says that Kane is actually dividing their own forces, rather than Octavia’s.
Monty has an idea. He thinks he can use a lasercom to access to mothership and remove Diyoza’s eye in the sky. Murphy and Emori are hiding in a cave and trying to remove his collar. Neither Clarke nor Bellamy recognise the person that Octavia has become and there is another hint that bad things happened in the bunker. Things so bad that no-one is willing to talk about them. Yet. Cannibalism seems like quite a high probability.