"Maybe it's because I hate you. But don't worry. I'll be dead soon, and then we'll both be happy!" At the end, her eyes flash red, just because that's your basic scary. Not because of Cylons, because Amanda is not psychic. If she were, that whole thing with her brother would have been even stupider. Not to mention the fact that her weird Crucible outfit in this dream -- Peter Pan sleeves, weird bib -- would never have happened.
Waking up after her nightmare -- and staring strangely into the camera when she does so -- Amanda goes crutching into the kitchen for some water, and overhears Clarice having a weird conversation on the holoband. Which is usually a toy, although we've seen more and more adults wearing them in the past few months. Can't make out a lot of what she's saying, but all Amanda needs to hear is Clarice saying the name "Zoë."
"... Yes, that's what I'm trying to tell you. The secret to Apotheosis lies in Zoë's code. It's imperative..." at some point, we go into her confessional, where the mysterious confessor is telling her all the news that's fit to cult. (Mysterious People #1: Confessor. I'm making a list, you can play along.) Clarice can't believe that Pan and Hippolyta have joined up with Barnabus because that's totally rude, considering everybody knows that Clarice and Barnabus are in a dick-measuring contest for just the two of them about who is going to run the STO.
"They're my kids. They wouldn't betray me, they just wouldn't. Who's told you this?" (Mysterious People #2: Highly placed GDD official, who is apparently involved with this #1, whom I guess slightly prefers Apotheism to Barnabism and operates independently of but is linked with the Conclave.) The #1 person is like, "So, the Barnabites are going to just keep trying to kill you, and now four of your students are involved -- including the main one, who is not only somebody you personally indoctrinated but is also key to Apotheosis itself -- and you're shacked up in the rain not doing anything about it? Maybe I backed the wrong crazy."
Clarice whips off her holoband and has a panic attack in bed -- "Am I the wrong crazy? Should I get crazier?" -- in the murderer cabin in the middle of nowhere, where she sleeps with all the lights on, while Amanda roams around the house dragging her leg along the floorboards and taking showers and they take turns staring at the other one when she's sleeping. It's like they're having a Creepiness Bee, competitive, that last throughout this episode and into the next at least. Whoever wins that one, I can't wait to see.













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