Orphan Black Recap: Helena Strikes Back

There are many deja vu-y moments here on Orphan Black this week, but new approaches make old occurences better than ever. First off, we catch up with Alison and Donnie, who are Bonnie and Clyde-ing it up in their garage, trying to figure out what to do with Leekie's body. Or rather, Alison is both Bonnie and Clyde while Donnie threatens to throw up a lot. They finally settle on hiding Leekie's body in the freezer, all while managing a surprisingly level of teamwork for these two.

Helena's back this week, and from the get-go her life is still definitely messed up beyond repair. Back in the Prolethian gyno-barn, she lets Henrik inseminate her with Henrik-fertilized embryos. Special guest alert: Kathryn Alexandre appears as a sweet, calming Prolethian midwife. Fun fact: Kathryn's been in every damn episode of this show, but as Tatiana's much raved-about body double, so it's lovely to see her face (however impendingly disturbing her character might be). See your body again in a sec, Kathryn!

Rachel and Delphine sit down for a heart-to-heart about Cosima's deteriorating condition. Rachel insists she is upset about being lied to as well, and that they need to convince Sarah that there is no alterior motive for bringing Kira in now that Leekie is gone. Speaking of Leekie, they'll need a replacement for director of the program, and Rachel believes Delphine is just the hot, queer, French woman for the job. Delphine's apprehensive that Rachel may be using her, and visits Sarah to share the news. Delphine is determined to do what is best for Cosima and Kira, although that definitely means they'll need some of Kira's bone marrow. It's Cosima's only chance, and, well, hopefully Rachel's not being a manipulative villain! Can we just please do whatever it takes to save poor, adorable Cosima, please?

Sarah, Cosima, and Alison all meet up for a catch-up/Cosima's looking worse Skype date, where Sarah informs Cosima they just can't use Kira's stem cells. Alison sneaks in a couple undercover questions about Leekie's death, and the girls all agree it definitely wasn't from a heart attack on a jet plane. Before anyone can suspect they're responsible, Donnie and Alison attempt to riddle out what to do with the body. Alison keeps shooting down Donnie's  suggestions, ("Have you ever seen Dexter?" might be the line of the night), and eventually they settle on potentially the worst idea - jackhammering a hole into their garage, dumping the body in, and sealing it up. However this works out, I think we can all agree Alison committing crimes is reason alone to watch this show.

Henrik and Marc sit down to talk vaguely about Marc's past as an AWOL American soldier, and more importantly Marc's thing for Grace. Henrik's cool with the love connection, but also informs Marc it's time for Gracie to have children, so they'll need to dive right into this relationship and get married. But enough about that, it's time for some good, old-fashioned Prolethian bonding! Kathryn and Henrik attempt to make Helena feel more at home by showing her a nursery of adorable young children, telling her she's "part of our family now." Helena immediately bonds with the kiddos, and Henrik tells her that one day, that room will be filled with her children. How comforting. But when Alexis the Midwife gets violent with one of the kids, Helena has had it bonding and threatens to gut Alexis should she harm a child again. 

It's clearly starting to look like Cosima will die without Kira's bone marrow, and Sarah finally gives and talks to Kira about the procedure. Kira, who once ripped out her own tooth to help Cosima, heroically agrees to help out. Mrs. S has got hook ups at a private pediatric clinic, so there's minimal opporunity for Rachel to mess it up. Mrs. S's henchman Benjamin arrives with Delphine, and the atmosphere turns chilly upon her arrival. They do let her in on the procedure though, and she insists to a weeping Sarah that this is the right thing to do. Delphine, we are so not ready for you to be a backstabber again. You better mean will this time, dammit. Let the bone-marrow-ing begin!

Alison and Donnie continue their desperately messy quest to hide Leekie's body, a process which only gets super-worse when a) their children burst in as they're digging up the garage to inform them a man has come to visit and b) that man is Vic. Vic seems to just want to talk as a part of the recovery process, but Alison's not having it. She throws Vic out, but he's resilient and spies in on their garage renovation/oil change (as Alison and Donnie both respectively declared when asked). Donnie catches Vic at gunpoint and forcibly interrogates him. Donnie's killed someone once after all, he'll do it again! As Donnie threatens him, Vic ends up spilling that Angie the Detective is waiting right nearby. Vic leads Donnie to the car, where he corners Angie and tells her he will bury her if she ever tries to come near his family again with this definitely illegal mission. He snaps a photo of her to top it all off, then leaps out of the car and into the arms of Alison, who has never been more turned on in her entire marriage. Mission accomplished, you two! Who knew hiding dead bodies also makes for such great marraige counseling?

So it turns out, big surprise, there's really nothing great about being a Prolethian, which Gracie learns the hard way after her own father inseminates her with his and Helena's eggs. Gracie informs Helena of this, and suddenly the comfy life of pregnancy isn't so awesome after all. See, not only is Helena pregnant with her children, and not only is Gracie pregnant with her children, but there are a lot to be a whole lot more Prolethians impregnanted with Helena's babies. Helena's not incredibly thrilled about that, and she and Gracie both try to escape (been there, done that, doing that again).

However, Henrik gets there first and captures Gracie, locking her up (again). Marc finds her in her cell and confronts Henrik. He too is pissed that Henrik inseminated his girlfriend with his own child, and he sets her free while Helena attacks Henrik. Marc and Gracie escape while Helena confronts Henrik, this time to tie him down and do a little gruesome insemination process of her own. After she's finished, she also escapes, but first stops to watch the Prolethian farm burn to the ground. Well done, Helena. Glad that whole bone-chilling storlyine is now in ashes.

Rachel meets back up with Mysterious Marion, but we're still not really sure what's going on with her. Their conversation is really vague; they discuss how Rachel's just getting started, Sarah's biology, and how they intend to get Sarah under control. After their convo, Rachel disappears into a movie-screening room to weep, laugh, drink martinis, and watch the same video from her hotel room of her playing with her loving parents. 

She descends into insanity, hitting herself  repeatedly while declaring her emotions 'stupid,' then studying a photo of Sarah and Kira. It's been fun watching Rachel's deteroration, but there's no way this is going to end well.

It doesn't take too long for things to go terribly amiss. While snooping around Rachel's office, Delphine discovers Rachel has actually been working with Mrs. S's confidante Benjamin. As Kira sleeps, Sarah storms into the hospital, informing her team that they're not safe and need to escape. But wait - that was never Sarah at all! Turns out Rachel has fantastic wig-maker connections, and she drugs Felix to sleep before grabbing Kira and escaping into the night. Just as she's gone, the real Sarah enters and is faced with the horrifying fact that she has lost her daughter once again. As for Rachel, she's made up a rather lovely room for Kira, who she apparently intends to raise as her own little Rachel 2.0. Well, at least you've got really nice accomodations during this season's kidnapping, Kira!

That's certainly an upgrade from last time. Don't miss the season finale next week where Sarah turns herself in and Rachel presumably grows even more insane! Has it really been an entire season already? Time flies when Tatiana Maslany is being a total badass.