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SPOILERS for Ep 8 -- Just Watched It -- Spoiler Summary


I just watched the new ep. Lots of SPOILERS in this post.

I actually liked it because instead of wrapping the ep in a neat bow, they gave it a major twist at the end.

Jana's group got into a tunnel that they thought would get them out of the cordon. But it turned out to be full of bad gas and two of their group passed out. They had to turn back.

Leo and Lex solved the mystery of the real patient zero. He was the original female doctor's boyfriend from ep one. He infected her, she infected the false patient zero. He was sent the virus, I think they said from the CDC, but the lead doctor at the hospital, Cannerts, created it. I'm pretty sure that's what they said, but I'm tired, so it might not be a hundred percent accurate.

Jake and Katie finally get together, there's a shower scene.

The rat guy, Burt, goes home to tell his wife, there's a cure coming after he hears Thomas's blood can cure the virus, and when they start to celebrate, she falls and injures her leg badly. He goes back to the hospital and Cannerts gives him medical supplies for her.

Everyone thinks the boy, Thomas, is the answer to the cure, they let him out of quarantine. They start to smuggle him out of the cordon because Lommers and her husband want to be in charge of testing Thomas and creating a cure. And then........we find out, he's just a carrier. He's able to infect everyone around him. Katie and Lex, Lommers, and even Jake may have been exposed. Thomas had contact with alot of people.

Lex and Lommers are quarantined together at the end.

I thought it was one of the better eps. I was expecting it to wrap up with a miracle cure and that's not what happened at all. I'm definitely curious as to how they will wrap this up and if any of the major characters will die.

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it was a bit better than other episodes but still LOL a doctor not thinking to check out that scenario is laughable....which is what I did during the champagne celebration with the guy vomiting blood all of a sudden haha this is such a craptastic show but I can't stop watching...it's approaching "Under the Dome" status lol


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It's okay if you don't take the show too seriously. Jake practically professing his undying love to Katie was ridiculous dialogue. He's madly in love with her and they just met 11 days ago. UGH.

I'm just hoping they aren't going with pregnant girl's baby is the real miracle child who saves the day. Too predictable. That's why I liked this ep. The kid wasn't it. I actually thought this ep would have made for a good series finale, almost. I think if they had let Thomas out and then shown he wasn't it, and maybe left Jana's group all passed out in the tunnel, and they implied everyone was going to die in and out of the cordon. Just leaving it like that would have been a good ending for this show.

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agreed! That is a much better ending than what's coming I'm sure lol



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Funny. We both agree you can't take the show too seriously, but for me it's the practical aspects that are ridiculous, not the emotional ones.

People can and do fall madly in love in a short amount of time, and can bond even faster under extreme stress. I don't find that part difficult to believe, and the actors are pretty convincing. I like the cop/teacher romance and find it to be one of the better parts of the show.

It's a CW show. Expect beautiful people, not beautiful plots.

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sucks for those doctors celebrating. the main doc almost got infected, too.

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Have to agree on the problem with the Doctor neglecting to consider the child as asymtomatic given that it was already established in a sequential order of events that lead to his exposure to the virus a few episodes back. First was the worker in the stairwell (I thought that scene was a huge stretch how it played out and their reactions to seeing someone obviously ill) then he's put into isolation where he is removed by his father who later we learn dies from what we assume to be exposure to the virus from his child, then the child's sister shows up at the hospital in the next episode showing symptoms that appear to have also been due to exposure from close proximity to her brother and/or father. Then we have a scene where he hands a bottle of water to a man who is noticeably ill as well. Then he arrives back at the hospital to undergo further observation. What is odd is that when they put him back in isolation how did the doctor heading the research into a cure at that facility fail to consider him to be a carrier given the child's sister was beginning to succumb to the virus under their observation in her own isolation, and knowing too that his father died after taking the child home. Just seems like the writers felt there wasn't a connection of those events which would imply him as a carrier before the assisting doctor in the research started to show symptoms.

its kind of ironic he admitted to making a mistake about the child not being harmful to the general public, although to his credit he did oppose removing the child from the hospital for transport to the cdc but I don't recal his basis being that he feared the child was a carrier of the virus.

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Yeah it's like the doctor never heard of Typhoid Mary. Completely idiotic.

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One question not answered in episode 8 is what was the plan for the expecting mother and her boyfriend since they did not leave with Jana and the others from the office? I realize in her condition she couldn't travel much but given the problems they faced in the prior episode why would they think they were now safe to stay put there in that office which is completely unsecured. Maybe I missed that detail but seemed to be strange that it wasn't discussed or shown what those charachters did since they didn't try to escape the cordon with Jana and the others.

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I thought it was a good episode.

As for the ending, I expect they will pull their punches.

I hope the doctor's stupidity will have more serious repercussions, beyond those infected during the champagne celebration. For example, Katie is infected by the boy since she had taken off her mask whilst talking to him. Maybe the other children too.

Would be nice if the reporter gets infected, after breaking into the apartment. Or Lommers.



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