For someone who has only existed for about a year, Jules (Amanda Fix) seems to be able to access her emergency drive pretty easily. On Orphan Black: Echoes Season 1 Episode 4, “It’s All Coming Back,” she’s running on high alert after her foster parents force her to take antidepressants at the dinner table.
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Understandably upset, she prepares to make a run for it. She only confides in her foster brother, Wes (Liam Diaz). She borrows his clothes and hat as a disguise when she waltzes out their front door with his phone and a go-bag packed with essentials and homecooked focus drugs.
Orphan Black: Echoes’s “It’s All Coming Back”
Outside her building, Tom (Reed Diamond) discusses Mariah Carey and Celine Dion with Myung (Georgia Leva), the agent assigned to Jules’s supervision. Myung spots Jules sneaking out, but Tom chooses to believe the cell phone tracker that shows Wes leaving the building.
While Tom looks up Wes’s stand-up comedy routines on Myung’s recommendation, Jules gets away. Tom and Myung bond over cat jokes. Elsewhere, a couple of truckers discuss the most recent Bachelorette season before towing Lucy’s mobile home away.
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At Tina’s (Eva Everett Irving) house, Lucy (Krysten Ritter) and Jack (Avan Jogia) sit down with Charlie (Zariella Langford-Haughton). Lucy signs an explanation for why a man was sent to kill her. She tells Charlie that she’s a print-out of a person. Once Charlie realizes she’s serious, she finds the concept very cool.
Together Again
Tina interrupts to tell Lucy she has a young visitor at the door. They introduce Jules to Tina as a relative who is not Lucy’s sister, cousin, or niece. Tina leaves for a date, warning them not to trash her house.
Jules takes a moment to assess Lucy’s relationship with Jack and judges it as incredibly “normy” and not her jam. Lucy tells her she’d be lucky to find someone like Jack and asks if she came with the stuff they need. Jules produces the drugs she brought from home.
Jack is in on the plan but concerned about the use of drugs to enhance their memory of the shared dream. Jules doesn’t want to snort the drug either to get the effect they need. She and Jack agree that a nasal spray is the best delivery method.
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With their combined skills and a quick scavenge of Tina’s medicine cabinet, they concoct a concentrated nasal spray of the drug. Both women take a hit and share a delightful high.
Jack finds them enjoying a lie-down on the bathroom floor and hands them Lucy’s sketchbook to help them focus on remembering the dream. Flipping through the sketches, Jules expresses a desire to see the whole bathroom in immersive detail. She thinks of a way to make that happen.
Manifesting the Dream
Back in the living room, Lucy and Jules paint elements of the dream bathroom in as much detail as they can recall on large pieces of craft paper. Once painted, they arrange them into a mural of the setting. It includes the sink, a toilet, a patterned tile floor, the bloody knife, and a window with a spire in the distance.
Standing up to take in the entire image, Jules snaps a picture. Lucy hears a squeaking sound, and Jules can hear it, too, but Jack does not. He tells them they need a break.
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Curled up on the porch couch, Lucy and Jules discuss their existence. They wonder who they are copies of and if the original person had a happy life. Lucy talks about life with Jack and Charlie and hypothesizes their original version had a kid as well. Jules is stunned at the idea of being a mother.
Sacrificing for the Greater Good
At Darros’s (James Hiroyuki Liao) compound, he welcomes guests to a speakers’ symposium featuring a climate researched and ocean robotics expert, Dr. Funada-Espino (Mei Chung) and Kira Manning (Keeley Hawes) of the Additive Foundation. As Dr. Funada-Espino begins speaking, Kira approaches Darros.
She confronts him about his being dishonest about his plans for Lucy. He counters that they share the consequences of the project as they both had a hand in it. Looking to Dr. Funada-Espino, he points out that even the best science has to be flexible. He’s prepared to make sacrifices for the greater good.
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Kira leaves, upset, recalling Lucy’s reaction upon waking up. Reaching the main house, she squats down, taking deep breaths to calm her panic attack. Emily (Tattiawna Jones) finds her and checks in with her. She wants to show Kira something.
Jamaica Plain
It’s morning at Tina’s. Jules and Lucy look closely at the mural and ask about the details they’ve created. Charlie comes in, and Lucy introduces her to Jules. Lucy explains what the mural is for. Tina walks in and looks at the mural, immediately identifying the monument in the window as one from Jamaica Plain, a Boston neighborhood.
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Emily leads Kira to a large hanger on the Darros property. Inside, they find the mobile home Lucy lived in on Jack’s property. Emily comments she grew up in something similar, possibly worse. She invites Kira to take a look through it.
Kira asks why Emily’s helping her. Emily sympathizes with the feeling of looking out for someone else. Kira shares her desire to keep Lucy safe and the responsibility she feels for creating her.
Finding the Murder Bathroom
Jules and Lucy find the real-life monument from their dream in a square in Jamaica Plain. They realize the bathroom must be in one of the neighboring houses.
Kira goes through the mobile home, smiling at a jar of candy bars she finds. Sitting on the bed, she discovers a copy of The Philosophy of Identity. Kira opens the book and finds a sketch of the baby from the picture she gave Lucy on the inside title page. She tears the page out.
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Walking around the neighborhood, Lucy hears the squeaking noise she and Jules heard during their mural hallucination. It’s an old weather vane on top of one of the houses. The house is now a sorority house, and they happen to be hosting an open house.
Crashing the party, Jules plays rosé pong to gain access to the upstairs washroom for her “mom.” They go up together. Jules lifts a loose floor tile and finds the familiar patterned floor underneath it. It’s the bathroom from the dream.
Melissa
After the party, Jules and Lucy approach two sorority sisters and ask if they know who used to live in the house. They share that an elderly woman, Melissa (Kathy Baker), wandered away from her assisted living field trip group and came to the house, thinking she still lived there. They drove her back to Legacy Assisted Living.
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At the Lee’s condo, Neva (Alex Castillo) knocks on Jules’s door, telling her it’s time to get up. Getting no answer, she walks in and finds Jules gone. She asks Wes where Jules is. He tries to make up a story, but Neva’s not buying it. Wes tells her everything. Using her Find Family app, Neva tracks Wes’s phone to find Jules.
Eleanor
At Legacy Assisted Living, Nurse Marty (Catherine McNally) greets Lucy and Jules and takes them to see Melissa. She’s sitting at a table playing solitaire. When they are introduced, she recognizes Jules but addresses her as Eleanor. She scolds her for not doing her hair.
She then looks at Lucy and addresses her as Eleanor as well. Lucy and Jules sit at the table and offer to play cards with her. Nurse Marty leaves and calls Kira, leaving her a message about Melissa’s visitors. Tom is monitoring the incoming calls and hears the message. He springs into action.
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At the card table, Lucy tries to jog Melissa’s memory of the old house. Jules is frustrated and says this is pointless, which catches Melissa’s ire. She complains that Eleanor’s not ready and predicts her father isn’t either. Getting up, she urges them to hurry up as they have to fix Eleanor’s hair so they can get on the road.
Emily’s Hell
Driving out to Legacy Assisted Living, Tom and Myung enthusiastically sing Celine Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now” while Emily suffers in the back seat.
In Melissa’s room, she’s going to town on Jules’s hair, tsking that they’ll be late. Jules and Lucy try to ask questions, only to have Melissa scold them aggressively. She directs Lucy to take a seat.
In her car, Kira listens to Marty’s voicemail and makes a U-turn to head to Legacy.
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Lucy flips a cushion on the chair she’s sitting on and discovers a graduation picture of Melissa with a grad who looks like Jules and herself. She asks Melissa who it is and Melissa identifies the grad as Eleanor. Jules and Lucy realize that Melissa is Eleanor’s mother. Biologically, Melissa is their mom, too.
Melissa comments on how proud she was of Eleanor at her high school graduation. After everything that happened, nothing was going to hold her back. Jules asks what she was like as a kid. Melissa says she was always getting into things and was too smart for her own good.
Lucy presses her on what happened before graduation and in that house. Melissa wanders off, distracted by finding a hair clip. Lucy hears a car door slam and goes to the window. She sees Tom and Myung heading into the building. She tells Jules they have to go immediately.
On the Run (Again)
She pulls the fire alarm and insists the split up. Jules heads for the elevator while Lucy runs for the stairwell, Myung in pursuit. She runs into Emily on the stairwell. Emily instructs her to push her. She takes the fall while Lucy escapes. Myung finds Emily and stops to check her for injury. Lucy runs out of the building and sees Kira pull up.
When the elevator arrives, Neva steps out to greet Jules. Jules accuses her of being one of them. Neva feigns ignorance of whom Jules is referring to. She insists that Jules can trust her and that both have been lied to. When Tom approaches them, Neva pepper sprays him in the eyes. She and Jules get back in the elevator.
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Lucy refuses to get in Kira’s car. Kira holds out the sketch of the baby boy and promises to tell Lucy about him and her real identity. Myung emerges from the building. Lucy gets in the car, and Kira drives off as Myung fires at them.
Made Out of Love
Sitting on a bench under a willow tree, Kira asks if Melissa tried to brush Lucy’s hair. Lucy looks at her guardedly. She sighs and promises to tell her everything. “First, you should know,” she begins, “You were made out of love.”
New episodes of Orphan Black: Echoes air Sundays at 9 pm ET/PT on AMC, AMC+ and BBC America.
