The 100 Season 4 Episode 2 “Heavy Lies The Crown” Recap

The 100 returned this week with “Heavy Lies The Crown” and a lot of decisions were made that’ll impact where season 4 is going.

“Heavy Lies The Crown”  was yet another episode that was a callback to previous plot lines. Similar to “Echoes,” this week we were reintroduced to stories and characters that we may have forgotten about in the past. Things like the culling and the oxygen issue on the ark. People like Jake, Pike, Lexa, Maya, and Sinclair.

It’s clear that the characters are evolving this season but their past still sits heavy on their morals. They all feel guilty about something that’s happened in the past and it dictates what they do now. This episode revolves a lot around Clarke’s decision to either tell everyone about the world ending or keep it a secret. At the end, she decides what she feels is best.

Okay, now let’s recap the episode.

We start off this week with Ilian, the newest character to The 100 bunch. It’s a flashback to him killing his family to try and get his mom to take the chip. Alie is just about to make him put the knife to his own throat when she looks off into the distance and yells, “Clarke” before disappearing. Ilian wakes up and realizes what he has done.

Cut back to present day in Polis. Kane and Abby are casually getting it on in one of the rooms (finally). Outside, Ilian is listening to the ambassador of Trishanakru complain about the relationship between Roan and skaikru. The ambassador wants to challenge the king but surprise, assassin Octavia is listening in on this conversation and tells Kane. They tell Roan, who says he’ll be the one to fight the ambassador (very Lexa-esque). Non na throu daun gon ai.

Echo desperately wants to fight for him and tries to talk him out of it. He refuses, even though he’s way too weak. She doesn’t understand why he’s willing to risk his life to keep skaikru in the coalition. He finally tells her what Clarke told him about the nuclear radiation and the praimfaya that’s coming. Echo thinks it’s a lie so Roan tells her to go to Arkadia and find out for herself.

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Kane tries to talk to Raphael, the embassador challenging Roan, but it doesn’t go as planned. Illian laughs when Kane says, “Skaikru is not your enemy.” Illian tells them how he had to murder his family and obviously blames Skaikru for it. “The time of Skaikru is over,” Raphael warns.

Octavia decides to take it upon herself to fix the problem. She goes to see him one night while he’s in his quarters and asks to challenge her instead of Roan. He calls her a little girl and says she’s not worth his blade. Well, Octavia doesn’t take too well to that so she shows him what a little girl can do with her own blade. She stabs it right in his ear, killing him instantly. She removes the blade and wipes up the blood, removing any trace that she killed him.

The ambassadors figure out that Raphael is dead but Illian sees right through Octavia’s smirk.

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Back over at Arkadia, things are kind of a mess too. Monty’s solution to surviving another nuclear apocalypse is to patch up the Ark and all hide out in there for a little bit. Clarke is struggling with the decision to tell her people the truth but is constantly reminded that her dad died because he wanted to tell the truth. Raven sets out to restore Alpha station but is missing one small thing- a hydro-generator.

Conveniently, there’s a hydro-generator in farm station! So Bellamy and his squad set off to get it, but they encounter a small problem once they’re there- Ice Nation is holding slaves where they’re keeping the hydro-generator, and it turns out that some of those slaves are from the Ark. Enter Riley, another new character who everyone seems to know. As they’re getting the hydro-generator ready to transport back to Alpha Station, they also realize that they can use it as a bomb to save their friends and the rest of the slaves.

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Bellamy breaks the tie and decides that they’re going to blow up the joint and get their people back. There goes their only source of water for five years.

Back at Arkadia, Clarke finally spills the “end of the world news” to Jaha, who gives her the same advice he gave Abby after the culling, “We make the best decisions that we can with the information that we have. Then hope that there’s a forgiving god.”

When Bellamy returns wih a truck full of people instead of a hydro-generator, Clarke realizes they need a lot more people to be working on this Alpha station remodel. She tells them all about the nuclear reactors melting down and promises that they’ll each get a spot in the Ark if they agree to help. Like Clarke says, “sometimes hope is more important than the truth.”

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Catch the next episode of The 100 on Wednesday, February 8 at 9/8c on The CW.