DISCLAIMER: This recap of Sweet Tooth Season 3, Episode 1, “The Beginning Is Also the End” contains spoilers. Read at your risk.
At the end of Sweet Tooth Season 2, our intrepid crew defeated General Abbott and the Last Men. Now Gus, Jepperd, Becky and Wendy started out for Alaska to find Gus’s Mom, Birdie. She’s trying to find a cure for the Doomsday virus, also called the Sick.
Dr. Singh’s manic pursuit of the cure had his wife leave him and his lab went up in flames. The warlord, Helen Zhang seems to be the last one standing after the battle at the zoo that defeated the Last Men. She wants her hands on the cure too, and thanks to Dr. Singh’s notes that she was able to retrieve, she now knows she needs Gus.
Sweet Tooth, “The Beginning Is Also the End”
“The Beginning Is Also the End” starts with human footprints in the snow. We hear the narrator say, “All stories end. Ours ends here… Where it all began a long time ago”
A dead caribou lies in the snow in front of the cave that we saw in the journal drawings and in Gus’s dream from Season 1 of Sweet Tooth.
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A Captain and His Crew
In the past, a native woman, Ikiaq, tells the First Mate of the HMS Simpson, Nathaniel Burke, that he must stop the captain. He says he will but Ikiaq must get to church.
Burke goes and confronts Captain Thacker who furiously scribbles notes in his journal. Burke holds up his finger and his pinky shakes like pinkies do in the present when you get the Sick. But Thacker, whose pinky also trembles, is too excited because he has found the cure to end all cures. He wants to set sail for England but Burke says they can’t because they will bring death to the world. He demands to know what Thacker did in that cave.
Thacker grabs a knife and says he did what he had to to survive. They hear coughing because every sailor is sick. Burke asks again about the cave.
In present-day Alaska, Birdie (Amy Seimetz) puts Thacker’s journal in a box. She takes in her wall – her notes, Thacker’s drawings of the cave then her picture of Gus. She sets out on foot.
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We’re Going on an Adventure
Our intrepid crew of heroes: Gus (Christian Convery), Big Man/Jepperd (Nonso Anozie), Wendy (Naledi Murray) and Bear/Becky (Stefania LaVie Owen) drive north on their way to find Birdie. Jepperd teaches Becky how to drive and looks a bit motion-sick from it.
When they make a pit stop, Becky shows Gus and Wendy how far away Alaska is. She also wonders if they’re letting anyone into Canada. Wendy senses something. The others ponder how big the Rockies are and then notice Wendy is gone. They find her looking into a car with a dead family inside, killed by the virus. The purple flowers surround the family.
Jepperd seems stressed and tells the others that their journey will be dangerous for many reasons. There are still bad people out there even with the Last Men gone. Humans are getting desperate because of the new Doomsday strain of the virus. Finally, Winter is coming – days are getting shorter and colder. Gus responds that he knows the cave he saw in his dreams is real. “We’re gonna save the world, together, okay?” The four decide they are up for the quest.
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Okay, Boomer
Now they need food and supplies. They find an abandoned casino hotel where they can stock up. The kids find a pamphlet that shows a place called the Spud Motel in Idaho. They think it’d be fun to stay there.
It seems the place has already been cleaned out. So, Gus shows the others his bottle of maple syrup – they still have that – it’s the last one that he and Pubba made together. But Wendy smells something, food. They find a stock room full of food supplies but get locked in by a group of octogenarians. Once Jepp and the others are considered not a threat, they are let out and meet this group, Ron, Patrice, Bridget and Paul.
Bridget says they used to call themselves the Bingo Bandits. Then they hunkered down at the hotel after the world went south. Then they refuse to extend any hospitality in the way of food, supplies or lodging.
Wendy’s disturbed and she runs off. Gus follows and they have a heart-to-heart about missing their dead parents. And that they have each other now.
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Meanwhile, Becky pleads with the Baby Boomers for supplies but gets no joy. Ron says the Bingo Bandits deserve to enjoy the time they have left to which she replies that some of them have a future. Ron scoffs at their future. Paul cocks his rifle. Then Gus gets the great idea to make a bet. If our heroes win, they get supplies. If the olds win, they get the last bottle of Pubba and Gus’s maple syrup.
They go to the roulette wheel. Our heroes bet on Black 4 since there are four of them. Sadly, they lose. The jerk seniors break open the syrup and pour it into shot glasses. As they leave, Bridget shares with them she heard a rumor that there’s a boat leaving out of Nag’s Reef on the coast headed for Canada. The crew drives off toward the Rockies.
Back at the casino, a seemingly nefarious person enters with black boots but we don’t see who it is.
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Chasing Ghosts
Meanwhile, our downtrodden crew runs out of gas so now they are on foot. Becky hears a wolf howl in the distance. As they walk, Wendy and Gus make a pact that they will be better than the old folks when they grow up. But suddenly, there’s a loud crack – it’s an avalanche. They run but are overtaken.
In Alaska, Birdie is drinking at an outpost. She chats with a fox hybrid girl, Nuka (Ayazhan Dalabayeva), who Birdie, sweetly accuses of trying to pickpocket her. A woman, Siana (Cara Gee), joins her, it’s Nuka’s mom. They obviously know each other. Birdie has a bad feeling but Siana says they are safe where they are in Alaska because the Sick can’t survive long enough to make it up there. Plus she knows that Birdie is hunting for the cure.
Birdie tells Siana about Bear/Becky calling her and finding out that Gus is still alive and looking for her. She then assures Siana she didn’t tell Becky where she was – she’d never put the outpost at risk. Then Birdie pulls out Thacker’s journal and says she knows it started with him. She points out that the first mate’s wife (Ikiaq) survived but vanished. There were rumors that she went to “that church”.
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But now Birdie is frustrated, she’s chasing ghosts. Siana points out that the polar night is five days away and not to get dark on her. She’s doing important work.
Birdie and Gus
Later, Birdie says goodbye to Nuka and Siana. The latter remarks that Birdie is “leaving, leaving.” So Birdie replies if the world is going to end, she wants to be with Gus when it does. Like Siana is with Nuka. Siana tells Birdie to keep the outpost a secret. Nuka gives Birdie a small antlered deer head that she stole. Birdie calls her a “Sneaky little fox,” and then gives her Thacker’s journal because she stole that too. Birdie heads out on a snowmobile.
When Birdie arrives back at her abandoned Army outpost, she’s not alone because a man in a cowboy hat is there. He says, “You should have never answered that phone, Dr. Miller.” He says she’s coming with him but she fights back stabbing him with Nuka’s mini deer head. She flees on her snowmobile. He’s able to shoot a dart into her shoulder though. After creating some distance between the two, she falls off her snowmobile.
Gus suddenly wakes up in the avalanche aftermath because he hears Birdie’s voice say “Help me, Gus.” He finds Wendy and tells her to see if she can smell Jepp and Becky. She can and they dig them out.
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Jepperd loses his temper big time because now the road is buried. This is what he’s been trying to explain to Gus. These mountains don’t mess around. He says they’re going back. Jepp doubts he can make the trip because he’s getting old. Gus loses it and doesn’t want to lose Jepp and Becky like he and Wendy lost Aimee and Pubba. It works. The crew heads out again.
Meanwhile, back in Alaska, Gus’s picture is in the snow next to Birdie’s drugged body. Someone with cloven hooves snarls, grabs her leg and drags her. At the exact same time in the Rockies, the animals that we hear howling pick up the scent of Gus and the gang. They’re hybrids.
We Need to Talk About Alaska
In a new location entirely, there is a video playing in the background. It’s the video of Dr. Singh (Adeel Akhtar) interviewing Gus. It’s Helen Zhang’s (Rosalind Chao) place and the video plays in the background as she makes tea for her pregnant daughter, Ginger. Ginger worries because she had the dream again. Zhang says “I swear on your daddy’s soul it’s going to be human just like you and me.”
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Zhang’s top lieutenant walks in – her daughter Rosie (Kelly Marie Tran). Rosie says, “The boys found him” referring to their Wolf Boys. She also says she will take care of it. Rosie seems to desperately want her mother’s approval. Zhang picks up a wanted poster of Gus. Rosie leaves and passes some others as she leaves their compound. They all have cowboy hats.
Gus, Wendy, Becky and Jepperd arrive at the Spud Motel. Jepp makes a fire and then Gus hears someone outside. The person comes in, it’s Dr. Singh. He says, “Gus, we need to talk about Alaska.”
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Sweet Tooth is currently streaming on Netflix.
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