Buckle up for some backstory, folks. Orphan Black: Echoes Season 1 Episode 5, “Do I Know You?” promises to fill us in on everything that led up to Lucy waking up on that couch.
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Now that Lucy (Krysten Ritter) and Jules (Amanda Fix) have learned that they are new versions of Eleanor Miller, it’s time for Kira (Keeley Hawes) to come clean. How did Love drive her to advance Additive Foundation’s tech to where it could print out an entire human being?
Orphan Black Echoes’s “Do I Know You?”
The key to everything is Eleanor Miller (Rya Kihlstedt) and what she means to Kira. Throwing back to the premiere/”Pilot” episode, you’ll recall Kira leaves an emotional voicemail for an unknown woman, stating she really needed to hear her voice. Assuming she called Eleanor, and noting she’s had no personal interactions beyond Uncle Felix (Jordan Garvaris) and Lucas (Jaeden Noel), we can conclude she and Eleanor had a close relationship.
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Furthermore, it’s highly probable that the photo of the baby Kira showed Lucy when she first woke up is one of Lucas. If Kira and Eleanor are Lucas’s parents, maybe they had Lucy in mind as a name if the baby had been a girl? That would explain Kira’s reaction when Darros (James Hiroyuki Liao) mentions that the woman they’re pursuing now calls herself Lucy.
Eleanor Miller
So what’s happened to Eleanor? Did she die by disease, accident, or murder? Is she dead at all? If she is, did Kira keep her voicemail account active just so she could call her number whenever she needed to hear her voice?
Even more intriguing, what happened in that bathroom in the Jamaica Plain house? Did Eleanor live her entire adult life with that traumatic and bloody memory and pass it on to Lucy and Jules with no context? Does Kira know? I suspect Eleanor’s mother, Melissa (Kathy Baker), knows but her dementia will be a challenging obstacle to getting any answers.
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“Do I Know You?” will likely be a Jules-light episode and concerned primarily with Kira and Eleanor. However, the question of whether Kira even knows about Jules needs to be asked. Because if she doesn’t, Darros is clearly making use of her technology for his own purposes. And that’s a whole other thing.
Challenging the Powers That Be
With so many truths out in the open, what will Lucy and Kira do next? Can they leverage their combined knowledge to ensure Jack (Avan Jogia) and Charlie’s (Zariella Langford-Haughton) safety? Will Jules return to live with Neva (Alex Castillo), James (Adam Kenneth Wilson), and Wes (Liam Diaz)? Can Kira move on with her life or will she need to put the print-out genie back in its bottle first?
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While we’re delving into character motivations and plans, what’s the deal with Emily (Tattiawna Jones)? How soon can she shake off Tom (Reed Diamond) and Myung’s (Georgia Leva) two-dimensional cringy villainous freight weight and explain her interest in working for Darros and helping Kira?
New episodes of Orphan Black: Echoes air Sundays at 9 pm ET/PT on AMC, AMC+ and BBC America.
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