You Hold It With Your Fingers
Lykke begins her new life in the past with her mother, Emma. Lykke granted the name of Lykke and with papers in hand, she heads off to make a new life for herself.
Emma learns that a spaceship is linked to a small orb. In order to uncover more of the truth, she drives Lukas up to the sawmill. He wants to get a look at whatever is being hidden there, but when they arrive the barn is completely empty.
It seems that the mysterious men and women who moved everything in the lab have also destroyed the orb, which was used to track them down. Lukas decides to go after them alone, knowing that this extraterrestrial threat needs to be contained before it causes more damage. ..
Emma heads back to base and picks up a couple of drinks. It’s worth watching the bottles on the table, as the continuity of these shots is terrible. The two bottles sporadically move about and Emma’s drink (along with Mads laptop) just disappear or reappear. ..
Emma spills a drink over Mads, distracting him. She then takes his laptop, which is full of incriminating information about Astraeus, away from him. Elvis is busy with Mads and doesn’t notice Emma taking the laptop. ..
Emma runs into Marie in the hallway on her way out of the building. Emma claims that they have something together and wants to start over. However, when Frederik shows up, it throws that idea straight out the window. ..
Emma heads back to see Lukas, handing him Mads’ hard drive. One of the men Mads has been watching is a guy called John Dinckler, who just so happens to be the man she noticed at the warehouse.
Mads is convinced that Emma is working with Astraeus and heads to the shipping dock to confront Thomas. It turns out he’s hiding… nothing, as it seems. The locked warehouse room is just another dead end, unless everything has been moved of course. Mads is upset, and livid that his whole operation has been destroyed. In his rage, he pushes all of his friends away and tells them to leave.
Meanwhile, Emma and Lukas head off together to find John. They do manage to uncover his camper van, where the pair lie and claim they’re family members. With this info, they’re given access and begin looking around. Emma does manage to find a prescription but beyond that, there’s not much more to go on. ..
John Dinckler walks into the diner and sees that both Lukas and the other man are unconscious. He goes over to them and starts CPR on Lukas, but it seems like he’s not going to make it. Marie comes in and sees that John is helping Lukas, but she’s distracted by Emma. Emma slips outside and sees John with Lukas, so she runs over to them.
Lukas and the other man had been fighting earlier in the night, and when they left to take a break, Marie was gone. Lukas searched the area but couldn’t find her. He then went outside to look for her, only to find her gone. He assumes she ran off into the night and hasn’t returned since.
Emma brings Lukas home and uses bright lights to try and help restore his energy. He’s in a rough state and while Emma leaves him in her room, she takes a bath to mull things over, cradling a bottle of pills. Now, it turns out the pills she’s taking have a link to John’s prescriptions, bringing her back to Susan again.
Thomas finally reaches out to Mads again and brings him back to the shipping docks, where he reveals all. Astraeus are a company founded to look for extraterrestrial life. They want to be the link between space and earth.
Thomas is impressed with the amount of work he’s uncovered on Astraeus’ research. However, this means he needs his work to be able to be used by Astraeus. This then brings him after Emma, who he believes may have information that could help him. ..
Ringing Marie too let her know his intentions, Mads remains determined to get at Emma. Only, she doesn’t have it – Marie does! She opens her bag to reveal she’s taken it from her.
As the episode comes to a close, Marie checks through the hard drive and eventually decides to throw it away. She heads out to the dock and launches it into the lake. There’s no way of using it now. Unless she made a back-up copy of course!
Emma breaks into the clinic and finds several vials of blood inside the fridge. She takes a few for herself, then stages a break-in to steal the samples. The blood seems to be from people who have died recently, and it seems to be of high quality.
Susan returns to the clinic and immediately drives to the supermarket. Lukas and Emma decide to tail her. Together, they watch her head to the supermarket and seemingly conspire with her mother. Is she one of them?
The Episode Review
The penultimate episode of Chosen revealed that Susan is one of the ringleaders of this whole affair. It would appear that the strange orb thing is the parasite we’ve heard about and responsible for potentially controlling different people. Lukas is presumably out to stop that threat, which explains why he killed Hans, but it’s also unknown how everything fits together right now. ..
The characters in this show are poorly written and there is nothing to Emma’s character or persona to make her a likable protagonist. She even jokes about how boring it is not to lie, knowing full well that she’s lying to her friends.
The weak love triangle between her, Frederik and Marie just doesn’t work and ironically, Marie is the most compelling character out the bunch. It’s a shame she wasn’t made the main character instead here.
Netflix has been known for giving viewers cliffhangers in their shows, but given how much we still don’t know about the show’s future, I wouldn’t be surprised if this ends on a dreaded Netflix cliffhanger.
