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Sense8 S01E12 "I Can't Leave Her" Recap


A flashback of Will shows how he was seeing a young girl (another sensate that was captured by Whispers) but these visions were dismissed by a therapist as him projecting a need to save others due to the instability of having an alcoholic father.

Riley is being transported to the BPO facility in Iceland and re-experiences the car crash that killed her husband Magnus. She immediately went into labour in the overturned car and after giving birth to her daughter she felt no choice but to go out into the freezing Icelandic winter to try to find help but her daughter ended up freezing to death.

Will visits Riley and assures he he is coming for her. Nomi is visiting with Will and helping to talk him through breaking into BPO. She sets him up with a car using Metzger's credit cards for him to drive out from the airport and loads the car's GPS with directions to the facility.

When Riley arrives at the facility Yrsa visits Riley and advises her to kill herself in order to ensure the safety of the rest of her cluster. She manages to grab a gun off one of the guards and has a vision of Angelica at the house she killed herself at and puts the gun in her mouth. Will sense her danger and visits her, pleading with her not to give up and assuring her that he is coming for her. Riley tearfully relents and is restrained and sedated.

Wolfgang is brought to his uncle and patted down but manages to pull a gun out from his coat pocket after revealing that he killed Steiner and begins to kill the guards. He also shoots his uncle in the chest but Will warns him that the sound was that of a bullet hitting kevlar which means he's still alive. His uncle sits up and begins to shoot at Wolfgang along with many other guards emerging, forcing Wolfgang to run upstairs and hide in the kitchen. He topples over a large cabinet to barricade the door. He and Kala visit one another and she begins searching through the kitchen's supplies and helps him to build a bomb, insisting that she's not ready to say goodbye to him. He kisses her once more time before lighting the ignition of the bomb and throwing it outside the door to take out the guards attempting to break in. Upon emerging he confronts his uncle once more, admitting that he killed his own abusive father as a child, and finally kills his uncle in a brutal display of violence. Kala watches the exchange tearfully and Wolfgang tells her this is why she needs to marry Rajan.

Nomi and Amanita advise Will to sabotage the luxury car given so as to distract the guards so he can get through the front door. She then gives him a false name and story of being a medical waste worker. The access code doesn't work initially so they tell him to turn up the brightness and he's able to get let in. Whispers has arrived at the facility and is trying to look Riley in the eyes but she has been heavily sedated because of her earlier incident with the gun. Nomi can't find Riely's location in the building because she hasn't been entered in the computer system so Lito arrives to help. He puts on a cover story and charms a nurse with a bit of flirting, gossiping, and acting of course. Through this, the sensates are able to get the room number but Whispers is watching Will on the surveillance system. Jonas informs Nomi and Will that there's an ambulance leaving in twelve minutes because someone on their side if pretending to have a heart attack. Whispers orders extra security to be placed around Riley's room. Sun arrives to fight off the guards in a brilliant display of skills, precision, and aggression.

Upon entering the room, Will sees Riley just as she wakes from her sedated state. He carries her out of the room and she's still half-unconscious. Nomi guides Will to hide out in a room full of medical supplies and Kala arrives to find and administer the correct chemical combination to safely wake Riley, though it'll be a bit violent. Now that she's more fully awake, she sadly warns Will that he shouldn't have come since everyone around her dies. Whispers determines they are trying to escape in the ambulance and orders no guns be used since he wants them to be captured alive. As Will is descending down the elevator, he and Whispers make eye contact which gives him access to all that Will sees and experiences. They reach the ambulance and Will can't find the keys. Capheus arrives and helps Will hotwire it into starting. Whispers taunts Will as he's fleeing, now that he can get in his head.

There's only one long road that Will is driving on and Amanita tells Will to take a left down a road that will take him into a section of land that will have fog and prevent the helicopter Whispers is chasing him in from being able to see and continue following him. The helicopter tries to stay hovering and block Will in the road from reaching the fog but Wolfgang takes over driving and his ability to handle the most dangerous situations is all the bluff they need to force the helicopter to pull up. Riley becomes hysterical and distraught as she begins reliving the car accident and birth/death of her child since it is the same area they are now driving in. They both share a vision of Angelica and Will is forced to pull over. Riley jumps out and begins running up a mountain and Will gets out to follow her. Will tries to comfort Riley while Jonas warns him that Whispers is getting into a car and will find them soon if they don't continue their escape.

There's a moment where it appears as if Will is considering killing himself to save the cluster but instead he drops his gun and runs back to the ambulance to get some medicine from the back. He finds enough sedatives that he'll be able to render himself unconscious. He sits in the passenger's side seat and injects himself before looking out at Riley on the mountain. He visits her and tells her their only chance to get away is if she comes back to the ambulance and drives them away, since Whispers has gotten into his head. She cries that she can't do it but Will holds her close and tells her he loves her, pleading with her to not give up. He kisses her once more before succumbing to the sedatives.

The scene cuts to Riley and Will on a boat on which she injects Will again to keep him drugged enough to not reveal their location. Dazed, he tells her she's saved them. Riley looks up and sees the other members of the cluster sitting on the boat with them.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E11 "Just Turn the Wheel and the Future Changes" Recap


Riley wakes in a hospital feeling cold. She briefly has a vision of her husband Magnus who asks her to come with him. He disappears and Yrsa appears in his place, calling her stupid for not heeding the warning. Yrsa warns her again that now that she's been hospitalised, BPO will find her and kill her.

Nomi shoots up awake, having had a dream of Riley's predicament. She knows that something needs to be done to save her and talks with Will about what to do. Nomi can hack into the hospital but doesn't have any of her equipment. She can visit Will to use his police codes to access their equipment but he's been suspended. Their conversation is interrupted by Bug, who has arrived just in time to offer up the equipment Nomi will need to perform the hack. He was alerted to her need for equipment because he had hacked the database where the FBI logs all their confiscated equipment and recognised several of the items that he had sold her before. Nomi doesn't have any money to pay him but Bug is more than happy to give her the equipment for free because he would be in prison if it weren't for her help.

Capheus has Amondi and asks his friend Jela to look after her while he will go to confront the bandits himself. He will not put Amondi in danger, despite their threats and demands. Jela is concerned for his friend's well-being but agrees to help.

Kala tells Rajan the truth about how he had asked her to end the engagement right before he was attacked. Rajan tells her he already knew his father disapproved of the match but still wants to marry her as he loves and trusts her.

Joong-Ki vists Sun in prison and says that their father was drinking heavily and despondent about his life. After he left, his father killed himself by poisoning himself using the exhaust of his car. But Sun immediately deduces that Joong-Ki is lying and actually killed their father because he was going to tell the truth about Sun's innocence and Joong-Ki's guilt. When Joong-Ki tries to leave, Sun jumps over the table and badly beats him until guards come in. As she's being dragged away she promises that he will pay for what he's done.

When Capheus arrives, the bandits are seemingly angry at first that he didn't bring Amondi but then seem to be fine with it and usher him deeper into their lair. They have kidnapped Kabaka and order Capheus to kill him with a machete. He's being held at gunpoint and told that their debt will be settled once he kills Kabaka, who begs Capheus to do it quickly. Sun is being kept in solitary confinement and angrily punching the walls. She channels her rage to help Capheus fight off the bandits, killing several, after which he leaves in his van with Kabaka. The leader is still alive and orders another batch of men to find him.

Wolfgang heads to the hospital and smuggles Felix out so he can't be harmed while Wolfgang seeks revenge. He leaves him at a secure facility where he will be cared for while he continues to heal.

Kala visits her local temple and is horrified when other people lead by the religious Guru Yash are thankful to her for seemingly bringing Rajan's father there so he could be attacked. When Yash gets too close, Will visits and strong-arms him into leaving her alone and never coming back. This is the first time Will and Kala have met and he tells her how he is in Chicago but his thoughts are in Iceland with Riley. They visit her together and Kala joins him in being concerned for her well-being.

As Capheus is driving away, Kabaka thanks him for saving him and not bringing Amondi to them. Capheus admits that saving Kabaka hadn't been part of his plan when going to confront the bandits but the conversation is interrupted by their being stopped in traffic, which allows the bandits to get out of their vehicle and approach the van. Capheus is concerned about the lack of weapons but Will arrives and helps him to disarm one of the bandits and use that weapons to fight back. Capheus then uses his van to drive over to the opposite side of the road and uses his strong driving skills to deal with the chaos of driving on a road with a stream of cars driving towards him until he can turn onto another road to be headed in the correct direction of traffic. He is pursued by the bandit leader who shoots at him while riding a motorbike. The two eventually face off against one another and Capheus is able to knock the bandit off his motorbike leaving him likely badly injured but not necessarily dead. He then brings Kabaka back to reunite with his daughter.

Riley is being treated by hospital workers and has flashbacks of the car accident that resulted in the death of her husband and newborn baby. She nearly froze to death too if Yrsa hadn't sensed she was in danger and called for help. Jonas visits Will and Nomi to warn them that Whispers knows about Riley and is on his way to go after her next. Whispers is using Jonas a tool to provoke Will into going to Iceland.

Wolfgang arrives at his uncle's house, intent on killing him. While sitting outside, Kala visits him and admits her feelings for him while expressing concern that he is risking his life by going after him. Wolfgang says as long as his uncle is alive, no one he cares about will be safe. The two kiss for the first time and Wolfgang heads inside. Sun and Kala visit, with Sun advising her that crying won't help Wolfgang and that these painful emotions are part of life and to stop feeling them is death. Kala asks what she should do and Sun says that she channels her emotions into her fists and fights for it.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E10 "What Is Human?" Recap


Wolfgang visits the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe to ponder what to do next. The other sensates in his cluster also appear briefly as he walks through the corridors. Wolfgang speaks with Will for a moment before walking off. Will then visits with Jonas who is still in captivity. Jonas tells him about the origins of sensates and how they have existed since the beginning of humankind and that the genetic differences are very subtle compared to other humans that aren't sensates. Jonas also warns Will that Whispers will try to use him as a tool to hunt down Will's cluster, saying he needs to never look Whispers in the eye.

Sun is visited by a lawyer sent by her father with some forms for her to sign that are part of the process for her to be freed. She does so, though not without pondering what it will mean for her brother. The lawyer tells her that if all goes well, he will have her out in about a week.

Steiner confronts Wolfgang at the hospital next to Felix's still sleeping body. Steiner tells Wolfgang he will have Felix killed if Wolfgang does not return the stolen diamonds.

Kala admits to her father that Rajan's father wanted her to end the engagement and now she feels even more guilty considering he was nearly killed. She doesn't admit to her father that she has felt so conflicted about marrying Rajan. Now she doesn't know whether to tell Rajan about why her father visited her. Her father talks her through the pros and cons of both decisions and assures her that he'll support her no matter what she decides. She later visits Capheus and he tells her about the importance of television as a means of escapism for those living in poor conditions.

Wolfgang retrieves the diamonds and drives out to the agreed upon location where Stein and his men arrive at. They pat Wolfgang down twice to check for weapons and find nothing. Stein gets the diamonds back and becomes angry when questioning Wolfgang on how he got into the safe, to which Wolfgang replies that he cracked it.  Stein begins to beat on Wolfgang and holds a gun to his head, threatening to kill him. He has hidden a gun underneath his car but now he needs to come up with a story that will allow him to move forward enough to retrieve it. Lito visits Wolfgang and helps him come up with a cover story that will give Wolfgang the space he needs to get the gun back. Wolfgang isn't able to lie to him in the moment because Stein reminds him of his father. Once Stein backs up and gives his gun back to one of his men, Wolfgang retrieves the gun and begins to shoot at Stein's men. He takes a few out and hides behind the car to continue shooting at the men. Stein and the remaining men begin to drive away in but Wolfgang retrieves a bazooka from the boot of his car and takes them out. Lito rejoices in Wolfgang's success and Wolfgang thanks Lito for his help. Wolfgang advises Lito that after making a large mistake, he has the choice to either live with it or fix it. Lito then calls Hernando one more time and assures him that he will fix the terrible mistake he has made.

Will is preparing for the fourth of July and Riley is going to see her father play in concert. They visit one another and will tells her about the the visit from Jonas. Jonas said it was dangerous for Riley to be in Iceland. Riley says that Yrsa said the same thing, and also warned that Jonas had worked with BPO. Riley thanks Will for his help in getting her back to Iceland to reunite with her father and the two kiss.

Lito stops at a bar and apologises to a gay bartender he had once been homophobic towards in an outburst meant to cover his own closeted status. He then heads to Joaquin's house in order to get Daniela back. Joaquin attacks Lito when his blackmail is no longer effective. Lito is roughed up, as he's not a skilled fighter. Daniela hits Joaquin with a shovel but he hits her too, knocking her to the ground. When Lito sees Joaquin dragging Daniela by her hair, Wolfgang arrives to help Lito fight Joaquin. Wolfgang knocks Joaquin unconscious and Lito is able to leave safely with Daniela.

Will spends the fourth of July watching the fireworks with his father. Capheus and Sun visit to watch the fireworks too. Nomi and Amanita make love at home.

Lito arrives at Hernando's home with his beaten face. When he reveals how he fought to get Daniela back, and reveals that Daniela is with him Hernando is overjoyed and gets back together with Lito.

Riley attends the concert and watches her father play Beethoven's "Emperor Concerto" while accompanied with a symphony. The other sensates also appear and enjoy the music. As the music plays, each of the sensates begins to relive the memories of their births. As the song ends, Riley passes out with blood pouring from her nose down her face.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E09 "Death Doesn't Let You Say Goodbye" Recap


Riley visits a cave she used to go in as a child. She encounters the woman who has been the voice she always heard as a child. The woman's name is Yrsa and she is also a sensate but not from the same cluster. The reason why Yrsa warned her is because BPO have a facility in Iceland and wanted to warn her away before she would get caught. Riley is angry that she made her believe she was responsible for her mother's death as a child. Yrsa apologises but assures her she was only trying to protect her just like she tries to protect any and all sensates she finds. Yrsa never had children herself as she always feared they would end up like her and have to live their lives being hunted. They recall a time Riley almost froze to death in the mountains, a particularly traumatic memory of hers, and Yrsa was able to sense her and called the authorities to rescue her. Riley says that she wanted to die up there with "him." Yrsa says that now she must go on the run too. Since Riley returned, if they find her then it's only a matter of time before Yrsa is taken too. The technology to find sensates has advanced over the years through science research and developments in technology.

Lito is still heartbroken after Hernando broke up with him. A male bartender hits on him and Lito lashes out at him when some people walk by, still fearful of being exposed.

Will has a nightmare of being pursued by Whispers. When he wakes, a weakened Jonas visits him. Jonas is currently imprisoned at a BPO facility. Jonas explains that if he wants to communicate to Will without being heard by the cameras recording his body he needs to visit Will so he is only taking on the form of a voice in Will's head. If Will is visiting him, then Jonas will be speaking out loud to communicate with him. Jonas doesn't know where he's currently located and says he won't be killed currently since he still has value to BPO. Will has a visit with Riley while she's still with Yrsa. Will says he's talking to Jonas. Jonas can tell Will likes Riley, though he can't see her, just as Yrsa can tell she likes Will back. Yrsa says love inside a cluster is pathological while Jonas says Angelica, whom he loved, believed sensates experience love in its purest form. Yrsa tells Riley to ask when Will's birthday is and learns that they share a birthday. Jonas explains that all members of a cluster are born at the same time, as they take their first breath as one. Yrsa is shocked to learn that Jonas is the one speaking to Will and warns Riley to leave the conversation. Jonas advises Will to not let Riley stay in Iceland since BPO has a large facility there and many sensates have disappeared there. Yrsa tells Riley that Angelica Turring was the one to birth her cluster and says to never be in touch with Jonas again. Yrsa doesn't like them, saying that Angelica and Jonas worked together with BPO to birth clusters to find more clusters. Riley says that Jonas tried to help them but Yrsa says that if Will is connected to Jonas then it's only a matter of time before Whispers finds them.

Wolfgang's uncle comes to visit him and Felix in the hospital. He warns Wolfgang not to try to get revenge on Steiner on Felix's behalf, saying if he is forced to between the two then he won't be siding with Wolfgang.

Kala and Rajan sit together while she answers questions from police about the attack on Rajan's father. Rajan defends Kala from what he feels is an overly aggressive approach and says if they have any further questions that they will have to contact their family lawyer. Kala asks Rajan if he blames her for what happened to his father and he responds that with how many death threats he had received for speaking out against religion to the press, he should've known better than to go into a temple.

Lito sits in a museum and reflects on the first date he had with Hernando and the instant connection he felt to him. Nomi visits Lito and through their first moments speaking, they find that they were both experiencing moments of sadness and longing for the life they once had with their loved ones. Lito wants to be back with Hernando and Nomi wants her happy life with Amanita again in which they aren't being hunted by BPO. This museum was where Hernando took him for their first date. Lito listened to him talk about art for hours until he couldn't take it anymore and pulled him into the bathroom where they had their first kiss and Lito gave him a blowjob in the bathroom. Lito acknowledges that he is the reason things have gone wrong because he was afraid of losing everything. Nomi can relate to the feeling. She opens up about the struggles she felt being trans as a young child. Her father hated that she would play with dolls and forced her to join the local swim club. Nomi wasn't comfortable with her body but was required to shower before getting in the pool. She would always shower with a shirt and swim trunks on and one day some bullies cornered her, removed her shirt, and forcibly held her under some scalding hot water that gave her second-degree burns. Lito is horrified by the cruelty. Nomi says that it was a seminal moment for her because she quit the swim club and also stopped trying to pretend to be who she wasn't. She realised that the true violence was what people do to themselves when they're too afraid to be who they really are.

Sun is summoned by a guard that tells her she has a visitor. When she goes to the holding room, she is shocked to find it is her father. He says he hasn't slept since she came to prison and she says she's never slept better. He continues by saying that he isn't a good person but was a better one when Sun's mother was still alive. He tells Sun that his company, wealth, and reputation is meaningless without his daughter. He wants to tells the truth and free her from prison.

Rajan brings Kala to the hospital to visit his father. Rajan's mother asks Kala to pray with her, saying she was religious before she got married but her husband wouldn't allow her to visit the temple after they got married. Still she believes her husband is a good man and Kala agrees to pray for him with her.

Nomi returns to her old apartment to hide out and Amanita arrives a bit later on and the two have an emotional reunion. Nomi admits she used Will's badge number to put a false sighting of her into the system, claiming she was last seen on a plane to Australia. They ponder where they'll hide out at next.

Riley visits the graves of her husband infant daughter that died up in the mountains. She reminisces sadly about being courted by her husband. Riley and Capheus have a visit. He climbs back in his bus to sit near her. She admits that she couldn't go to the funeral because she was too overcome to be able to say goodbye. Capheus shares a personal story about how his mother had given birth to a younger sister of his but they were unable to continue to properly care for due to their limited resources, namely food or breast milk, so they eventually gave her up for adoption to save her life. Capheus loved her and saying goodbye was the hardest thing he had ever had to do. He never saw her again and cried as if she had died.

Lito cries in agony at his apartment, while eating Ben and Jerry's and missing one of his socks. He repeatedly calls Hernando and leaves sad voicemails pleading for him to come back. Lito eventually acknowledges that he has let both him and Daniela down and tells him again that he misses him.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E08 "We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of Our Hearts" Recap


Kala visits Wolfgang while he sits by Felix's bedside in the hospital. He blames himself for Felix's injury, thinking his own need to prove himself led to this. Kala asks how they met and Wolfgang shares the story of them meeting in detention when they were kids at school. They would cut school to watch movies together. Wolfgang was frequently in trouble for fighting with other kids, as they hated him. One day when a group of kids attacked Wolfgang, Felix came back with a pipe and beat them off. Wolfgang says that this sort of schoolyard violence was nothing compared to the abuse of his own father.

Daniela calls Lito late at night to say that she got the phone back and that everything is fixed now. Lito and Hernando are concerned that Daniela is whispering during the call and hasn't returned to them.

Capheus visits Jela and brings him some beer to apologise for ending their working relationship. Jela has been fighting more with his girlfriend because of how much he's been home. Capheus admits he wants to end his working relationship with Kabaka and return to the matatu business.

Sun continues to be helped in learning to sew by Soo-Jin, who is always having her items stolen by a fellow prisoner that likes to bully her. Sun trips the bully on her way to steal Soo-Jin's clothing so the guard in charge orders the woman back to her table. Sun later meets Soo-Jin out in the yard. Soo-Jin has been painting on a mural, and Sun admits she doesn't miss her family but she does miss her dog. The bully comes over and splashes paint on a new work of art Sun had created of herself as a young girl with her mother. The bully tries to attack Sun but given Sun's extensive training, she easily gets the upper hand. The bully's crew also tries to attack Sun but she beats all of them. The bully comes at her with a shiv and injures her on the abdomen but Sun still beats and overpowers her before guards come over and break up the fight. Sun is sent to solitary confinement as punishment.

Riley visits Will, who was worried about her. She shows him her childhood home in Iceland. She shares stories about how her father is a famous pianist. She is still sad about her dead mother. Riley's father comes in and gives her some coffee and says he'll see her tonight. Will is amazed that he takes his coffee the same way as Riley does. Will and Riley talk about visiting one another in person at their respective locations. They grow closer and share a kiss.

Min-Jung, one of the older inmates, visits Sun in solitary confinement and brings her some food as a thank you gift from herself and the rest of their group for helping Soo-Jin.

Kala, Rajan, and his father meet with the wedding planners to begin preparations for a new ceremony.

The bandits Capheus beat before come into his and his mother's home. The leader threatens to kill Capheus' mother unless he brings him Kabaka's daughter Amondi. The man used to work for Capheus but when they fell out, Kabaka killed the man's sister. Now he wants revenge on Kabaka.

Lito and Hernando go to meet with Daniela and Joaquin at an agreed upon location in public. They get the phone back but Daniela has returned to her relationship with Joaquin and all the abuse that comes with it. She even has a new black eye to show for it. Hernando is horrified that Daniela agreed to marry Joaquin if he will leave them alone. Daniela leaves again with Joaquin.

Will shows some surveillance footage of Nyle Bolger to Diego. He had left the nursing home he lived in with a gun. There is also information Will has been looking at on Dr. Metzger and Nomi, who has a BOLO out for her arrest. Bolger shouldn't have been able to leave since he was a vegetable but did so after he received a package. Will shares how Bolger killed Metzger, the same doctor that operated on him, before killing himself. This is connected to Nomi since Metzger was supposed to perform the same operation on her. Will accessed all of this information by using his father's old Captain clearance codes. The company that paid for these surgeries and the cost of living care for Bolger also paid to rent the white van that took Jonas. The company is known as the "Biologic Preservation Organisation" (BPO).

Nomi researches BPO and Will visits to ask her how she's finding information on their financial records. Nomi realises that this is the man who helped her get out of the hospital. Amanita is fascinated by the interaction as it's happening while she's still in the room. Will learns how Nomi was at the shooting the previous night and together they realise that BPO is even more dangerous if they're willing to kill their own people. Nomi finds that BPO has been paying a ton of money for a very particular man to fly around the world and lobotomise people. This has been going on since he was a medical student at the University of Chicago. Nomi recognises him when Bolger killed himself and a different reflection appeared in the mirror just before.

Their conversation is interrupted by Dr. Friedmann ("Whispers") himself arriving at the front door with police officers. Will recognises the voice and warns Nomi not to look directly at him since Jonas warned him that this is how Whispers hunts. Nomi and Amanita escape upstairs where Amanita instructs Nomi on how to sneak out of the house and promises to find her later. Amanita helps to stall the guards pursuing her by pretending she is on her period and throwing a faked bloody tampon at a guard when he bursts through the bathroom door.

Nomi gets cornered in an alley and she pleads for Will to help but he's busy getting reprimanded by his captain so Sun arrives first. Will shows up moments later and helps Sun fight the men off and encourages Nomi to steal a bike which she uses to flee faster. She continues to turns down different streets while cop cars chase her. She manages to steal a car at a gas station and Capheus visits to help next, since Nomi doesn't know how to drive.

Will is suspended from work for disobeying orders. Lito is on set filming but is visited by Hernando between takes. Hernando breaks up with him for not standing up for Daniela. Raja's father visits Kala at the temple she prays at. He is a pragmatic man and not at all religious, now believing that she should call off the wedding and that perhaps she is not the right match for his son. A group of religious fundamentalists emerge and stab Rajan's father repeatedly, leaving Kala horrified and crying out for help.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E07 "W. W. N. Double D?" Recap


Nomi arranges a meet with an old hacking acquaintance called Bug. Amanita accompanies her to the meet and learns how Nomi took the fall for one of Bug's crimes because Nomi was a minor with rich parents that would get let off easier. Bug initially doesn't recognise her, having not remembered that she was trans but still accepts her. He provides her with a decent supply of hacking equipment to help her in her investigation of Dr. Metzger.

Sun is transferred to prison where she quickly makes friends with the other women in her cell. The other women there were convicted of killing abusive men in their lives.

Daniela treats Lito and Hernando to a night out at a restaurant. Hernando is posing as Lito's bodyguard but Lito is still nervous about being exposed. Lito wants to leave early but he and Daniela are happy and proud when Hernando successfully berates some photographers into leaving them alone.

Riley flies home to Iceland and is visited by Capheus while on the plane. He is excited, having never flown before. He shares how he wishes he could see his father again but is happy to still have his mother. Riley is worried that something terrible will happen because of her returning home but he tells her something wonderful could also happen. Riley's father Gunnar picks her up at the airport, greeting her with a song.

Lito, Hernando, and Daniela return home to find Joaquin has broken in to threaten them. Hernando continues to play the role of bodyguard. Joaquin demands to know what he's done wrong and Daniela points out that Lito has never hit her. Joaquin demands that Lito and Daniela have sex in front of him so he can "learn from the best." Hernando drags Joaquin out of the apartment and locks the door behind them.

Deshawn helps Will and Diego out by getting them access to some of the local criminals that can help with their investigation into Angelica's death. One of the young members of the crew shows Will some photos he took from the church the night of Angelica's death. Men in hazmat suits carried a body bag out of the building, and all took orders from a mysterious older man wearing glasses. This was the same man that appeared to Angelica in the moments leading up to her death that Jonas warned her about. Will zooms in and gets a good look at the face of the man that seems to be behind this threat to their well-being. They also trace the van that was rented to transport the body and when Will opens the back he has a brief vision of Angelica's body lying in it.

Nomi begins her hacking into Dr. Metzger and discovers that he has performed the same operation on other individuals in the Bay Area that he tried to perform on Nomi and two of them died. Another patient named Nyles Bolger survived the procedure and now lives in a nursing home. Despite Nyles still being alive, he has been lobotomised and is in a near-vegetative state. Nomi is overcome with emotion, knowing that she could've ended up like Nyles. She pleads with Amanita to make sure she doesn't end up like that too.

Kala visits a temple and prays to a statue of Ganesha, seeking answers to her dilemma about marrying Rajan without loving him and the visions of this new man. Wolfgang appears behind her and they begin to have another visit. Wolfgang is sitting out in the rain in front of a Berlin coffee shop. She goes to sit with him and Wolfgang notes that the weather is much nicer in Mumbai. Kala says that praying to her gods worked since her wedding was stopped. Wolfgang asks if their connection is some sort of a miracle and she considers the description to be particularly appropriate. Kala opens up to him about how her life in Mumbai, how she grew up hating moments of being alone, and recalls playing as a child at a festival for Ganesha. He is skeptical of her religious beliefs, not being religious himself, and the two have a discussion about science and faith before almost kissing. The moment is interrupted by Felix who has news that Abraham wants to buy the rest of the diamonds. Wolfgang shares how he wants to takes a trip to India.

Riley enjoys reconnecting with her father. He makes her pancakes and tells her he is proud of her DJ work, having seen videos of it online. He has to head out to a rehearsal but the next-door neighbour Sven can drive her anywhere she may need to go. After he leaves, she hears a woman's voice telling her she should not have come back.

In prison, Sun is taught to sew to be part of the labour training the prisoners take part in. Another prisoner steals some finished garments from the woman training Sun and gets to leave early as a result. Sun asks if this happens often and the woman responds, "Only when the sun is out."

Lito wakes Hernando with breakfast in bed but the moment is interrupted by a text from Daniela's phone showing photos of Lito and Hernando having sex. Daniela is distraught to learn that Joaquin stole her phone and promises that she will fix it, running off to meet Joaquin herself.

Nomi and Amanita wait for Metzger at his favourite coffee shop and use the hacking tools to hack his phone and clone it. While Metzger is waiting for his order, he gets a call from someone that frightens him into leaving without picking up his order. Nomi wants to call the contact, a Dr. Matheson, who seems to know that she is the one that called him and says he's looking forward to meeting her. She hangs up and decides that they will break into Metzger's home, as he is leaving that night on a flight to Chicago.

Kabaka brings Amondi and Capheus to a surprise birthday party for her. Kabaka brings Capheus away from the party and shows him a captive man that he was grooming to be his number one runner but watered down the drugs to make double the money. Kabaka wants Capheus to know what happens to those that betray him and cuts the man's hands off with a machete.

Nomi and Amanita successfully break into Metzger's apartment and Nomi begins to hack into his personal computer. She only needs a few more minutes and she'll have copied his entire hard drive. Wolfgang meets with Felix at the lock store and Felix is concerned that Abraham didn't come to the meet. Felix is lured to the locked front door by a woman saying she needs help but when Felix approaches, the woman backs away and a black car drives up. The side door opens and Steiner shoots Felix through the glass of the front door and he's knocked unconscious. Wolfgang rushes to help his injured friend.

Metzger returns home and Nomi has nowhere to escape to so she chooses to confront him. He offers to call an ambulance to finally help her but Amanita threatens him into putting his phone down. Nomi demands answers, asking if Matheson was the one who cancelled his trip. Metzger panics when he learns Nomi has spoken to him. Jonas appears and warns Nomi that she needs to get out of there and that Whispers is coming. Metzger says that she has killed them all. Nyles pops out and he and Metzger begin fighting. Nomi and Amanita retrieve the jump drive of Metzger's hard drive and run off. Metzger is cornered by Nyles who prepares to shoot himself. Before pulling the trigger Nomi sees the reflection of Whispers in the mirror instead of Nyles.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E06 "Demons" Recap


Will and Riley think about one another and another visit between them begins. They're both out at pubs, him in Chicago and her still in London. They get to know a bit about one another, including what they do for a living. Will decides that they can make the experience of visiting less weird and prove that what's happening between them is real by having them speak to each other on the phone. She asks if he's had any other visitors and he tells her about Jonah and how there are apparently eight of them in their cluster. He asks her about her visit to the church and how she seemed scared, wanting to know if she's okay. She merely says she has complicated friends.

Sun addresses the press and says she has acted alone in embezzling money from the company and is detained by the police. At her first court appearance before a judge she is denied bail due to her status, wealth, and consequent risks of being able to flee from the charges.

Nomi and Amanita pick up what's left from their raided apartment. Her laptop, journals, and many other precious belongings have been taken. They consider that they'll never be left alone unless they do something about it. They go to stay with Amanita's highly supportive mother whom they tell about everything Nomi has been through.

Riley returns to Shugs' place and finds Nyx waiting for her with hired muscle. Shugs apologises to her for selling her out before leaving her to be questioned. Nyx demands to know where the money and drugs are and she truthfully tells him that she gave it away. Nyx continues to threaten her, not believing her story. Nyx has one of his hired men hold her while he suffocates her as a means of torture. Will is alerted to Riley's danger when he also begins to struggle to breath. He helps her by using his self-defense skills to break free from her captors and fight them off so she can run away.

Kala wakes after passing out the night before at her wedding and finds her entire family sitting and watching over her. She thanks them for their concern but says she is fine. After they leave her room, she and Wolfgang have another visit. He is still in his bedroom in Berlin, having just woken up still naked in his sheets. Kala scolds him for interrupting and ruining her wedding and he says he only said what she was thinking. She wonders if she's going crazy or if one of the gods has sent a naked pervert demon to torment her. He teases her for having looked at him and then more seriously informs her that he's wanted her since he first saw her and somehow feels that she wants him too. Later, Kala goes to see Rajan who tells her he still wants to marry her and isn't discouraged by her fainting spell at their wedding ceremony.

Daniela accompanies Lito and Hernando to a professional wrestling match.

Capheus visits Kabaka, who informs him that he wants to hire him to be the personal driver and bodyguard for his young daughter Amondi. She is around ten years old and is sick with leukemia but keeps in good spirits. She doesn't know about the power or dangerous things Kabaka gets involved in. He thinks it will be safer for Capheus to be the one to drive her to and from treatment because no one would suspect her of being in his van and won't try to come after her to get back at Kabaka. Capheus then has to inform Jela that he is getting out of the matatu business and will now be working for Kabaka to afford access to the medicine his mother needs. He later drives Amondi to one of her treatments and watches a Van Damme film while he sits and waits for her.

Sun and Lito visit one another when she is being questioned by a prison doctor performing an invasive pelvic exam and Lito is in the middle of an interview. He answers a question about how to be a great lover, all the while thinking about the passion he feels towards Hernando.

Nomi begins to hook up with Amanita while Will is working out at the gym with his partner Diego. Hernando and Lito are also training with each other out on their balcony. Wolfgang is sitting naked in a hot-tub and observes an attractive woman passing by. Lito and Hernando begin to make out and grind while Daniela snaps photos of them before touching herself. Nomi, Lito, Wolfgang, and Will all begin to visit one another and experience a shared sexual gratification with one another. Afterward, Lito notes that it was one of the best orgasms of his life.

Sun is escorted to a cell and told that she'll be transferred to prison the next day.

Nomi sits with Amanita and her mother, and discusses what these new experiences mean for her brain and general sense of identity, hoping that these things will not be an actual detriment to either.

Sun and Riley visit one another. Sun says she'd kill for a cigarette but Riley only has hash, offering her the opportunity to experience some through their connection. Sun notes how she can taste it but the experience also feels a bit more like a memory. Sun then wonders if she has made the biggest mistake of her life by going to prison. They are both in trouble because of someone else's crime. Riley knew Jacks was no good just as Sun did about Joong-Ki. Riley opens up about how as a child, she heard a voice that began to sing a song her mother used to sing. She heard the voice several times over the years and it warned her she was born with a hex and bad things would happen to her and the people she loved if she stayed in Iceland. Then Riley's mother died and she blamed herself for it. Sun shares how her mother also died when she was young. Despite not hearing any voices, Sun also blamed herself. Riley wants to go home to Iceland and see her father but is afraid. Sun encourages her to go and not be afraid. When Sun admits she is afraid to go to prison, Riley echoes her own advice back to her. Sun later has a vision of her mother, who tells her she will always love her and to remember to be careful of those that are afraid of her and will hurt her if she finds out what she can do. The advice and vision switches to being from Sun's mother to Angelica who tells Sun she is the future.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E05 "Art Is Like Religion" Recap


Sun is on her period and the consequent aches and bad feelings begin to effect Lito at work on set. They begin to visit each other, confused by seeing other in their trailer/apartment.

Will is formally reprimanded for going after Jonas on his own without following proper protocol.

Wolfgang visits his uncle, from whom he stole the diamonds. His uncle implies some threats towards Wolfgang, as he is suspicious of him being the one that cracked the uncrackable safe. Wolfgang stays calm and denies any involvement.

Capheus and Riley visit each other briefly but then some bandits show up and steal the package that Capheus was guarding for Kabaka. Capheus pleads with the "spirit" of the "Korean Van Damme lady" (Sun) to consider that nothing is more important for him than this. He then takes off to find the bandits and get the package back.

Lito becomes emotional during filming due to Sun's hormonal issues. He is just a upset when driving home and being stuck in traffic. He briefly visits with Sun again while he is still stuck in traffic and she is outside training. Lito ends up in a fender bender but no one is injured.

Kala asks her mother about she felt about Kala's father before they were married. They had an arranged marriage and her mother says that Kala will be the first in the family to marry for love. Kala looks sad and pensive over her circumstances.

Capheus catches up to the hideout of the bandits and steals the package back before taking off running with it. He returns the package to the address given to him and finds that Kabaka is waiting for him. The package was merely a test to his abilities and commitment to how far he would go to protect it. Kabaka gifts him with more medicine for Capheus' mother and the promise that he'll be in touch.

Will and Nomi visit one another while Will is calling Nomi's mother to try to update her on the search and find more information on her. Will defends Nomi when her mother misgenders her. Nomi opens up to Amanita about the visions she's been having of other people and Amanita believes her entirely. They discuss how if Dr. Metzger lied to her, there has to be a reason for it and they need to find out what it is.

Wolfgang goes out with Felix and while in the bathroom, he and Kala hear each other and exchange words without seeing one another. Kala recognises his voice as the man that was singing to her in her dreams.

Will and his partner Diego pursue a lead from the CCTV footage of what happened in the church the night of the suicide Will saw. There was a local kid named Clete that may have been a witness. He is being protected by a local gang. While on the way and upon arriving at the gang home, Will and Lito visit each other. Lito is in the middle of shooting a big action scene while Will is in an actual police pursuit with Diego to try to catch Clete.

Sun and Capheus are walking through their respective cities when they begin to visit one another. They inform one another of where they are and ponder how it is they're able to understand one another even though they don't know each other's languages. Capheus realises that Sun is the 'spirit of Van Damme' that helped him when he was in need. Sun wants to be alone but Capheus doesn't know how to leave their visit. Sun opens up about having to decide between letting her brother go to prison and let the company be ruined, as revenge for how cruel they've been to her throughout her entire life, or to be the bigger person and go to prison to save them. Capheus is also in a dilemma about putting himself in danger but wanting to help his mother. They both have a lot of love for their mothers and ponder whether it is up to themselves to make difficult choices, or if it's these choices that make them. Sun later visits her martial arts teacher and gives him her dog to take care of while she is away, having finalised her decision to go to prison.

Nomi and Amanita's apartment is raided. They seek help from some friends in the LGBT+ community who meet with them discretely to give them resources to stay hidden and safe.

Kala prepares for her wedding and is surprised by how heavy the formal wedding attire is. She arrives at the wedding where an enormous party is underway. Back in Berlin, Wolfgang swims naked at a pool. Kala and Rajan continue through their wedding ceremony. Kala still appears hesitant about what she is doing. Will and Riley briefly visit one another, seemingly drawn together by the words of love. Lito is spending a night in with Hernando and Daniela, while Capheus has dinner with his mother. Sun tearfully says goodbye to her dog. Wolfgang emerges from the pool, still naked, and appears to Kala just as she is about to complete the wedding ceremony. She is shocked to see a naked man in from on her. Wolfgang asks her what she's doing and why she's marrying a man she's not in love with. It all proves too much form Kala, who faints.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E04 "What's Going On?" Recap


In Berlin, Wolfgang and Felix meet with a buyer to sell some of their newly stolen diamonds. In Mumbai, Kala and Rajan meet with some of the wedding planners. Raman wants to use wedding rings which isn't common in India for Hindu ceremonies but he wants to have a display of his commitment. Kala later goes to Ganesha's temple and finds that people are praying for the death of Rajan's father because he is a prominent atheist politician and fear he will religiously persecute them.

In Seoul, Sun puts some cover-up on her bruises from her kickboxing match. She remembers being a young girl with her sick mother who asked her to look after her younger brother Joong-Ki despite her father favouring him instead of her. This was her mother's dying wish. She later confronts her father about how Joong-Ki has been embezzling from the company and the auditors know. Someone will go to jail for it. Sun leaves and goes to a local sex club to retrieve her brother Joong-Ki, needing to beat up the guard first when he refuses to let her in.

In Nairobi, Capheus is hailed as a hero for fighting off the bandits and as a result he has many customers waiting to be driven on his Van Damn bus. Some armed men pull the bus over and demand that Capheus comes with them. He is led to a black car in the woods where a high-ranking gangster named Kabaka is waiting for him. Kabaka offers him some AIDS medication that is guaranteed to be authentic if he agrees to protect a bag and deliver it to a particular address by midnight.

Nomi is told by the doctor that her condition is worsening and that whomever set the fire that interrupted her surgery is not doing her any favours. She tells the doctor that he isn't helping her and he responds by bumping up the surgery to that night.

Will has a brief visit with Sun when she is walking through the club to help her disarm the armed guard that was sneaking up behind her. She pulls Joong-Ki out of the room he is partying in and drags him back to the company. Their father berates Joong-Ki for his criminal activity and that he was only ever supposed to bend the rules, not break them. He is ashamed when Joong-Ki breaks down crying, worrying only about himself and not anyone else. Sun volunteers to go to prison for her brother, as she believes it's the only way to save the company and honour her mother's dying wish. Since her father rarely ever publicly acknowledges that he has a daughter, the company should be able to survive the scandal. Joong-Ki breaks down crying and begs her to save him.

Will tries to call in a favour to be able to see Jonas, who is still in custody, but fails to gain access. However, Jonas visits him through their connection and explains that all sensates can visit one another once they've made eye contact but the members within a cluster can do it instinctively. While visiting is possible between any sensates, sharing is something that can only happen within one's own cluster. This entails being able to access and use one another's knowledge, language(s), skills, etc. Jonas tells Will's cluster is comprised of eight members in total, including Nomi who needs Will's help to be saved. Jonas is moved and Will is left more scared and confused than ever.

Nomi is prepped for surgery and begs the people treating her to not do anything. Naomi pleads for help and Will hears her crying out. Will is able to visit San Francisco and sees Nomi being carted towards the operating room. Naomi is shown to be sitting in his car and asks him again to help.

Sun remembers being a young girl crying at her mother's funeral. Her father came over and shares a moment of being emotionally open in their shared grief.

Riley listens to a voicemail from her father who tells her he's been invited back to play with the symphony. He invites her back home to see him play and tells her he loves her.

Wolfgang goes out partying with Felix and Kala is woken by the sound of love-making that Riley hears from Shugs and his girlfriend as she's still staying at their apartment. Riley puts on the song "What's Up?" and Wolfgang begins to sing the song at a karaoke bar. All members of the cluster hear the song and sing along. Wolfgang is taken aback when he and Kala begin to visit one another and sing to each other while smiling flirtatiously at one another.

Will visits Nomi and uses his skills to pull out the IV of their arm and pick the locks to get out of the handcuffs. Will further helps Nomi get up out of the bed and begins waling through the hospital hallway before he sits up in his own room and is amazed by his successful visit. Nomi steals a coat and begins walking through the hospital trying to get away. She is momentarily questioned by a receptionist but Amanita pops up with a wheelchair and wheels her out. They are again questioned by a security guard but are able to rush outside and catch a taxi that's just pulled up and get away. Naomi is comforted by Amanita and begins to sing "What's Up?" to herself while also visiting Riley in London where the two sit and sing together.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E03 "Smart Money Is on the Skinny Bitch" Recap


Will has a vision of himself as a child being warned by a young girl not to look at "him" since that's how he got her. Will wakes in the hospital after the car crash and learns that Homeland has captured Jonas. The nurse doesn't want him to leave but Will is determined to head out and get back to work on the case.

Riley is walking through the tube station and sees a piano-playing busker that reminds her of her father. She puts all the money from the drug deal in his case and throws out the drugs in a nearby rubbish bin. She goes to stay with Shugs, an old friends of her, and his girlfriend Bambie. Her cover-story is that Jacks kicked her out.

Lito is uncomfortable with Daniela presuming that she can move in as his resident beard. Daniela admits that the other reason she didn't want to go home the previous night is that she has an abusive gangster ex-boyfriend that wanted to get back at her for sleeping with his best friend.

Sun is having problems with the finances of the company. Angry clients are calling and Sun has not been able to reach her father, the CEO, despite repeated attempts to do so. In an angry outburst, she punches a desk and leaves a significant crack in it. She is revealed to fight in an underground kickboxing ring as a way to vent her rage. Her opponent in the ring is sexist and underestimates her skill.

Will begins to investigate the disappearance of Sara Patrell, who was 10 years old when she disappeared and Will had began having visions of her. The most horrific vision was of her being lobotomised by a mysterious man (the same one that Angelica and Jonas were frightened of) and she was asking for Will to help her.

Lito is working on set when he's visited by Daniela's ex-boyfriend, Joaquin, who used his connection to the film's producer to get invited on. He throws his weight around to try to intimidate Lito into leaving Daniela alone.

Nomi is about to be operated on but Amanita starts a fire in the hospital that forces an evacuation of the building and saves Nomi for the time being. When Nomi wakes groggy from the anesthesia, she recalls how Amanita had promised to burn the building down before letting anyone harm Nomi's brain and is overjoyed to have someone looking out for her.

Capheus goes with his business partner Jela to a local drug dealer to buy some expensive AIDS medicine for Capheus' mother. When driving home, bandits rob the matatu and take the drugs and rob an elderly passenger of her ring. Capheus is devastated by the loss but has a surge of bravery and decides to go after the bandits. Jela reluctantly comes with him, as does the elderly woman whose ring was stolen, as she says it was gift from her husband and is important to her. When he catches up to the bandits, he attacks them with a pipe and manages to disarm one. Will visits him and helps him understand how to shoot efficiently. Capheus appears to Sun while she's in the boxing ring and begs her to help him, as he's being beaten by the bandits. Sun helps Capheus fight the bandits while also fighting and beating her boxing opponent. The leader of the bandits drives off, determined to get revenge on Capheus another day and all the locals that witness Capheus revere him as a hero.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E02 "I Am Also a We" Recap


Nomi is revealed to be a hacktivist. She goes out for coffee with Amanita and talks about the visions she's been having of Angelica.

Will waits for Deshawn at the hospital, checking in on him after he was shot. Will shares how Deshawn sharing about his father being shot and killed reminded him of his own father being shot and the consequent injuries ended his career. Will shares how as a young boy his father would have to come pick him up for petty crimes such as shoplifting. A flashback of one case of this shows Will as a child in the back of his father's squad car picking the lock to his handcuffs with a paperclip and running off. Deshawn tells Will he doesn't owe him for saving his life but won't ever forget it.

Nomi records a video diary speaking about how her parents are religious and didn't accept her when she came out as trans. She wanted to go to Pride so badly as a youth and now she intends to go and march at Pride for all the others that are too afraid to live freely and honestly. Nomi and Amanita head to Pride and Capheus has a brief vision of the festivities. Nomi is riding behind Amanita on a motorcycle at the Pride parade when she spots Jonas, Angelica's lover, on the street and faints as a result. When she wakes she is at the hospital with her sister and transphobic mother at her bedside. Her mother refuses to call her "Nomi," instead referring to her as "Michael," the name she was given at birth. Amanita isn't able to see her because she isn't legally considered "family". Nomi wants her mother to leave. Her sister is the one that is accepting of her as trans but can't control their mother's bigotry. Nomi's mother pushes her to wait and listen to what Dr. Metzger has to say and then she can decide if she wants her to leave.

Will and his partner Diego look over the surveillance footage outside the building Angelica died in, as Will is determined to find the truth about her suicide. They find the footage is missing of when she died.

Dr. Metzger tells Nomi she is sick and requires a brain operation to cut away the growth. Without the surgery, she will be dead in approximately six months. Nomi's mother claims that with the cost of the surgery, she will need to use their family insurance. Nomi orders everyone to leave the room, feeling devastated by the news and utterly alone.

Lito attends a film premiere with a fellow film star, Daniela, who is his date. The media and fans love him and are all curious about this apparent budding romance. After the premiere, Lito walks Daniela back to her apartment building where she makes a pass at him. He politely declines, saying he has an early call tomorrow. Lito returns home where he wakes his boyfriend Hernando. Lito is sad that he isn't the one that gets to come out and be Lito's arm candy but Lito stays closeted for professional reasons, not wanting the backlash of homophobia in the entertainment industry to interfere with his ability to book jobs. Lito and Hernando are woken up later by Daniela who is ringing his buzzer, slightly drunk and demanding to come up. There are photographers that have followed her and are photographing her outside. Lito feels there is no choice but to let her upstairs. He tries to send her away when she's at the door but is forced to let her in. She barges in and runs upstairs. She takes her top off and tries again to convince Lito to have sex with her. She takes her pants off, left only in her bra and underwear. She runs to the upper level where she discovers Hernando in bed and realises Lito is gay. She is not upset or offended, but excited instead. She is eager and more than happy to be Lito's beard. She gives them glasses to toast to this new arrangement.

Kala attends an engagement party for herself and Rajan, with all their family members in attendance. Rajan surprises her by dancing an elaborately choreographed Bollywood number with several other dancers that is from a movie she loves and they saw on an early date together. Kala and the other women join in on the routine. Back in Berlin, Wolfgang has a one-night stand. Kala begins to perspire at the party, as her body temperature has risen considerably. Wolfgang tells the woman in his bed that he's hungry and craving Indian food. Kala appears to still have reservations about the engagement due to her not loving Rajan. Wolfgang and his hook-up go out for Indian food. She asks to see him again but he tells her he's not looking for a relationship. She asks what he's looking for and he gets distracted by seeing Kala walking by him and also seeing himself watching her in India. Wolfgang's hook-up asks if there's someone else and he says no. Raman asks Kala about the hesitation he senses from her about their engagement. He assures her that regardless of the differences they have in upbringings, he wants to be with her. He kisses her goodnight and Kala appears more conflicted than ever once he walks away. She stares momentarily at the spot where Wolfgang had telepathically appeared.

Riley returns home and prepares to shower following the deal gone wrong with Nyx, Jacks, and all the other now-dead men. Will is shaving at his own apartment and the pair momentarily see other's faces reflected back at them in the mirror. Will heads into work where he and the other officers are briefed by Homeland Security about a man that is wanted for murder. That man is Jonas.

Nomi tries to check out of the hospital but is being kept there against her will. Dr. Metzger is the only one that can release her. She is told by a nurse to take her designated pills. Jonas visits Nomi telepathically in the hospital. He warns her that Metzger's operation is designed to lobotomise her and that she has sensed this from the beginning. She ponders that she needs to find a way to escape but is also torn by Metzger's claims that she would begin to hallucinate. She is frightened by the sound of knocking at the door but it's the sound of Riley's door being knocked on. Riley slips out of her apartment to get away from whomever is knocking, later shown to be an armed criminal. They are after her purse which she finds is full of Nyx's money and drugs.

Will becomes suspicious that the ongoings related to Angelica's suicide are related to something that happened in his youth with a girl named Sara Patrell. Will's father advises him to stop talking about such things and let it go.

Amanita uses the connection she has with a friend that works at the hospital to call into Nomi's room and promises her that she will help her to escape, not caring about the claims that Metzger has made. Nomi tells her about how she had a vision of a man at the parade and doesn't know if what she's seeing is real or not. Amanita tells her pictures from the parade show that she's really there and promises to get her out.

Will is out to buy sleeping pills when he is approached in person by Jonas. Will is alarmed that Jonas is there in person and already seems to know him. Jonas explains that he has been reborn as a "sensate" and the migraine he's had since Angelica birthed them will go away after a while. Jonas doesn't have much time as he needs to catch a plane. He tells Will there is a woman in San Francisco named Nomi that needs help, just like Sara Patrell did. Will tries to apprehend Jonas but is unable to stop him from leaving. Will pursues him in his car and Jonas visits him telepathically while also driving in the other car. Will manages to telepathically visit Jonas in his car but nearly crashes as a result. The episodes ends with Will crashing into Jonas' car.

Sense8 is available for streaming on Netflix.

Sense8 S01E01 "Limbic Resonance" Recap


A woman named Angelica is lying on a dirty mattress in an abandoned building. She is psychically visited by her lover Jonas who comforts her as she struggles with tremendous pain. He coaches her through 'birthing' the psychic connection between a cluster of eight people around the world. She appears to them momentarily, startling all who don't understand why they'd have visions of a random woman staring knowingly at them. Angelica pleads with Jonas to protect them and he warns her that 'they' are here. She is visited by a mysterious man who also visits her psychically. Jonas advises her to tell him nothing and she tells him to leave. The man can't see Jonas and vice versa, as only Angelica can see them both, but says he is looking forward to meeting him. Jonas leaves and Angelica shoots herself in the head to prevent being physically captured by the man who had just walked in with an armed team. He is unsuccessful in stopping her suicide.

Will Gorski is a police officer in Chicago. He has a bad dream of being a child running through the woods hearing the sound of a little girl calling for him. He also has a vision of Angelica shooting herself in the head before he jolts awake. Will hears loud rave music so he knocks on the door of the apartment next to his to try to get the people to quiet down. When he gets inside, he finds it empty.

The music Will was hearing is coming from a rave that Icelandic DJ Riley Blue is spinning at in London. Her boyfriend Jacks and her are no strangers to partying hard and taking illegal drugs. They meet a powerful drug dealer named Nyx.

Spanish actor Lito Rodriguez is filming as the lead of an action film in Mexico City, where he is based professionally. He struggles with his lines after feeling discombobulated by having a vision of Angelica. Lito heads to his dressing room to try to get re-focused so he can effectively film his scenes. His female costar comes to check on him and makes a sexual advance which he politely declines, saying that his heart already belongs to someone else.

Sun Bak is a business woman working at her father's corporate company in Seoul. A male client refuses to close a big deal with her due to his sexist attitude and will only take the meeting when her brother Joong-Ki arrives.

Kala Dandekar is an Indian woman in Mumbai and overhears rain but it's not from her own location, but at a funeral in Berlin, where Wolfgang Bogdanow is attending the funeral of a crime lord. The deceased's grandson promises to do great things with taking over the family business. Wolfgang doesn't react much as he walks along with best friend Felix. Wolfgang's mother encourages him to visit his father's grave. Wolfgang does but when he gets there, he urinates on it.

In Nairobi, Capheus tends to his sick mother while running a matatu business. The matatu is a large bus he drives locals around in. His bus is decorated in homage to Jean-Claude Van Damme, with it being called "Van Damn". He and his friend struggle to get enough customers, as many prefer to ride on the rivaling Batman-themed bus. They finally get a customer but they pay with a chicken instead of cash. Sun is startled by a brief vision of the chicken on her office desk.

In San Francisco, trans woman Nomi Marks has sex with her girlfriend Amanita. It's Pride Week.

Jacks pressures Riley to come with him back to a get-together Nyx is having, as he wants to get involved in the drug business. She has a momentary vision of herself at Pride where Nomie and Amanita are enjoying the festivities at Pride. Some strangers offer them some pot brownies, which is similar to their first Pride. Nomie reflects on how when Amanita first introduced her to some friends, one of them was transphobic to her and Amanita stood up for her. It was a seminal moment in their relationship, as Nomie realised she would always love Amanita.

Kala visits a temple to pray, wanting answers about her upcoming nuptials to a man named Rajan Rasal. He is nice but the marriage has been arranged and Kala does not love him. She is undecided on whether she is making the right decision to go through with it. Rajan's father owns the pharmaceutical company where Kala works. She knows the marriage will make her parents happy and she knows Rajan is handsome, well-off, well-mannered, and by everyone's standards would make a good husband.

Wolfgang and Felix work as locksmiths as their legitimate job but Wolfgang is also a skilled safecracker when being part of organised crime heists. They head out to do a job and the clicking from the safe Wolfgang is trying to crack is overheard by Riley, who then hears sirens from Will's cop car. He and his partner pull over in a rough neighborhood when they hear some shots fired. Will discovers a young boy who's been shot. The boy momentarily pulls a gun of his own on Will but he immediately lets it go and asks Will to help him. The boy's name is Deshawn and when Will's partner says that calling an ambulance to this neighborhood means they won't arrive in time to help, Will picks up Deshawn and heads out to drive him to the nearest hospital. On the drive there, Will tells Deshawn how he used to be in the back of cop cars quite often because his father was also a police officer and Will had his fair share of teenage rebellion. When Will gets Deshawn to the hospital, the woman working there tries to deny Deshawn access because he's from the rougher neighborhood but Will convinces her to treat him.

Wolfgang takes a break from trying to crack the safe at a heist to turn on a nearby TV and watch a singing competition show, telling Felix it relaxes him. Wolfgang recalls being a child at a talent show and suffering from strange fright. His father observes this from the audience and laughs cruelly at Wolfgang's vulnerability. Wolfgang resumes work on cracking the safe but Felix warns him that Steiner, the grandson of the recently deceased crime lord, has pulled up outside. Steiner wants to rob the safe with his own team. Wolfgang finally cracks the safe and finds a supply of diamonds hidden inside. Felix commends him on being able to crack a safe that was supposed to be uncrackable and they snatch the diamond, close the safe, and run out.

Riley sits quietly, listening to music through her headphones while Jacks tests some product with Nyx and some other men. Nyx comes over to speak with her and Riley is revealed to have scars on her wrist, either from self-harming, a suicide attempt, or both. Nyx compliments her and says she is too good to be hanging around such lowly men. He relates to her reclusive nature and how despite the safety it can bring, it goes hand in hand with loneliness. He offers her a sample of the drug and it effects her quickly. She has a vision of herself psychically visiting Will in Chicago and then remembers being a little girl in Iceland.

Will orders his partner to stop the car in front of a run-down building. Riley also sees the building and they both realise that this is where Angelica killer herself. Will rushes out to go inside and his partner Diego follows after him. They find the open area and the mattress where she killed herself. Will finds the drugs nearby that belonged to Angelica but Diego tells him there's nothing for them to do unless he can prove actual evidence of a crime. Diego heads back to the car and Will stays behind to touch the mattress. He turns and sees Riley standing there. She realises that Angelica died and doesn't know her but says she saw it. Will asks where she lives and Riley tells him London. Will asks why she's there and she says she doesn't know why or where she is. He tells her they're in Chicago and Riley tells him she's never been to America. Riley panics and is pulled back to London where Jacks and his partners in crime are attempting to rob Nyx. Will also has a brief vision of the robbery in London. Riley tries to leave while the robbery is underway but Jacks implores her to stay, saying this is the break they've been waiting for. Nyx pulls out a knife and stabs Jacks' partner and one of Nyx's men shoots Jacks. Through a series of gunshots, all of the men in the room end up dead while Riley stands petrified with blood spattered on her face.

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