Lexa insists everyone speak English in honor of their skaikru guests, and the Ice Nationer uses it to ask why Wanheda is alive, asking if it’s because she’s weak.
Lexa invites him for a private chat on her balcony and shows him just how weak she is when she kicks him right off the tower. As a message to his queen.
At the Polis city limits, Marcus and Abby are on their way to the summit, and are fighting about Abby’s decision to let Farm Station all but move into Mt. Weather. She knew it was a risky move, but she’ll probably only regret it if it costs them Clarke.
Not going to the summit are some of the younger skaikru, our OG kru. Bellamy is bummed he’s missing out, but his girlfriend Gina is glad they’re together. The two of them, plus Raven and Octavia, go into Mt. Weather to help Sinclair with some tech issues. When they get into the mess hall of Mt. Weather, it looks like a damn party. This isn’t a supply run; it’s people making themselves at home. Octavia hates it and gets the hell up outta there.
Sinclair gives Raven some odd jobs, and they all get to work.
In her high tower, Clarke is looking out her window over Polis like Rapunzel watching the floating lanterns when Roan comes to speak to her. He calls her Wanheda and says he’s there to help her escape. He wants revenge because he was promised his freedom and the Commander went back on her word. He saw Clarke’s face when she first got here and believes she wants it, too. Clarke shrugs and says he can try to kill her if he wants (knowing he’d never beat her), but Roan knows Clarke will be able to get closer. There’s a knife hidden in her bed, and he promises Ice Nation will take her in when the deed is done. Clarke has heard that the Ice Queen is worse than Lexa, but Roan points out that her source for that information IS Lexa.
Roan then thinks he’s playing to her weakness by telling Clarke it’s the best thing for her people.
Outside Mt. Weather, Octavia is sitting above an entrance way, as far from a ground or a floor as she can get, when Bellamy finds her to ask if she’s okay. She hates this mountain, understandably, but Bellamy promises her they’re not like the Mountain Men. Octavia says that once Lincoln is free of his kill order, they’re fleeing; she doesn’t belong here, she doesn’t fit in, with skaikru or trikru. Bellamy promises her she’ll always have a place with him, but that he won’t try to stop her if she wants to go. Which was really very sweet. Season 1 Bellamy would have tied her to a tree and had armed guards on her day and night to protect her. (And kind of did.) Now he knows she can protect herself.
They hear a noise and spring to action, but it’s skaikru guards bringing Echo, Bellamy’s cage neighbor, to them. Bellamy tells them to let her go, and when they do, Echo says that the summit is a trap and that at sundown all of their people will die.
They bring her to Mt. Weather, where they ask her why she’s helping them, and she says she feels bad about the way they were ordered to abandon them at Mt. Weather, despite all they did to save the grounders trapped there. They’re all worried about their friends at the summit, so Pike says they should launch Mt. Weather’s missiles. And Pike, buddy, I know you weren’t here last time one of those missiles went off, but I PROMISE YOU that is the worst idea.
Unfortunately, everyone is so desperate to help; no one stops to consider how terrible this plan is—Ice Nation is going to attack the summit! Let’s turn the summit into a crater!—they all get moving to figure out how to unlock the bombs, including Raven.
