“Nakara” is episode six of season seven of The 100.
This episode opens as Diyoza was being taken away at the beginning of the previous episode, “Welcome to Bardo”. Attempts to read her mind don’t work. Attempts to torture her through sleep deprivation don’t work. Attempts to beat her down result in her being chained to up and being fed by hand. And she rips out the throat of the one feeding her, steals his keys, uniform and an eyeball to pass the retina scans.
Indra is reassuring Madi about Clarke and the others when one of Trikru comes over. Once Madi is gone, Indra is told someone stole all the weapons they collected from the armoury. Indra sees Russell – who she has recognised as Sheidheda – out of his cell and orders him back in. Only Trikru are now allowed to guard him, and if ‘Russell’ – because she can’t disclose who he really is – speaks, they are authorised to shut him up.
Indra heads into Sheidheda’s cell to talk to him privately. Frankly, he comes out of it better. He knows about the missing guns and thinks they need a Heda. Only three here have born the Flame, Madi, Clarke – and him. He thinks she’s afraid that their people will follow him. If he was Indra, he would be afraid of that too.
Clarke, Raven, Miller, Jordan and Niylah are on the ice world they arrived on at the end of “Hesperides”. They thinks it’s the wrong world. Raven uses the helmet and says the stone is 2 kms away. Clarke has found something buried. A body. Raven says the world’s name is Nakara; she thinks it means place to store the dead. Clarke recognises the symbol on the body and Raven thinks it’s the symbol of the Disciples’ home on the starmap. The body is human. Jordan is disappointed; it would have been cool to see an alien.
The other stone is underground and there’s a narrow tunnel to get to it. Miller hears something behind them. Another sound results in more hearing it. Raven hears something ahead, then something that looks to be all legs and teeth leaps at her head. She’s able to drive it off after it damages her helmet. They end up in an open space. There’s another sound and the tunnel is gone. The rock is coated in acid.
Murphy is drinking when someone whose child he saved comes over to thank him. Murphy invites him for a drink but Indra comes over to speak to Murphy. Murphy says he isn’t going to like this. Indra explains the guns have been stolen. The man who died in the reactor in “False Gods”, what does Murphy know of his thief wife? If she has the guns, they are in trouble.
They speak top Nikki. Murphy just wants to know what she’s heard. She heard that Murphy was never in danger in the reactor. And Raven knew what she was doing when she sent people in to die. Nikki thinks she should die for that. Indra says Nikki didn’t ask the obvious question; what was stolen? Unless she already knew the answer. What does she want? Her husband back. Nikki has a grudge and by the sounds of it guns too. After she goes, Murphy says they thought Diyoza was a problem.
Diyoza is currently leaving the complex and has to take down three guards. She throws a knife at the helmet of another in a group approaching. Fortunately it doesn’t penetrate, as Hope is wearing it. Hope realises who they are with their helmets off. She asks what’s wrong with Echo. Bellamy’s dead.
Nelson has been let in to see Russell. With a knife. He plans to use it on Russell to take revenge for all the lives he’s stolen. Sheidheda isn’t Russell, and easily defeats Nelson, commenting on his poor fighting style. Then offers him a hand up after telling him not to be ashamed.
Sheidheda says that if Russell were here, he has no doubt Nelson would have killed him. But he isn’t Russell. Two minds can’t occupy one body and Sheidheda killed Russell’s mind. He can get Nelson what he wants. Power. Nelson wants justice. Sheidheda tells him you need power to get that.
Sheidheda is doing a power play to get as many people following him as possible. Wonkru is falling apart and Indra doesn’t know what to do about it. Until Murphy gives her a pep talk. Clarke and the others are somewhere that isn’t what they think. Those on Bardo are having problems leaving.