Alison heads to rehearsal for her musical review and drops everything in her arms and – get this – swears. Not religious word + food item. “Shit.” Right out loud. Unfortunately, the priest overhears her, and makes her sit with him for a soul-searching chat. Alison asks him what she should do if she’s being asked to choose between a person she loves and a person she cares about, and he mistakenly thinks the person he loves she refers to is Donnie, and says she vowed to protect him when she married him. Alison doesn’t look entirely sold, especially when he stops offering her advice and tells her to pray about it.
Mrs. S and Sarah want Felix to talk to Alison to find out why she was meeting with Duko, but he doesn’t want to play double agent. Alas, he has no choice when Alison calls him and asks where Sarah is. He plays it cool, and when she asks him to come to rehearsal, he is a good brother-sestra and agrees to go.
Susan, Cosima and Scott talk science, the duo impressing Professor Duncan with their gorgeous brains and their ability to work with such limited resources. Cosima explains that the reason they can’t just hook Kira up to a bone marrow machine until Cosima is cured is that Cal’s DNA waters down the genome. Saying this out loud gives Cosima an idea…they just need to create an embryo using Castor sperm and Leda eggs.
Mika calls Sarah and says she found an account Duko has in the Caribbean and thanks Sarah for letting her be part of the team again. After she hangs up, Sarah and Mrs. S wonder why Mika decided to rejoin the Clone Club, and when we pan back to her trailer, we see that it’s because she has started to cough up blood herself.
Rachel is practicing walking without her crutches when she sees the swan again. This time, in addition to the bird, she sees a creepy man looking at her like her eye is hacking a video feed. It’s terrifying, and I know Rachel isn’t always on the right side of things, but I feel really bad for her.
The musical review, a classically Orphan Black move, is background hilarity while Very Serious Things go on in the foreground. The first VST that happens is that Alison finds a tiny bottle of booze stowed away in her makeup case. She gets as far as unscrewing it when Felix shows up. Felix and Alison dance around the main issue at hand but Alison brushes off all of his concerns.
Felix promises Alison that her sestras are there for her, but she takes off her cape and goes to meet Duko again. But this time he has Donnie on the phone with a shank a little too close to his eye for comfort. So Alison tells Duko that Sarah will be at a comic book store called the Rabbit Hole tonight. So Donnie is safe for now, and will continue to be if the info pans out.
Forced to go back to business as usual, Alison and Sarah Stubbs start their musical review, singing, “Who are you, what have you sacrificed?” while Donnie gets beaten up and Duko follows Sarah into the Rabbit Hole. It’s fucking genius.
Duko gets suspicious when he goes in the store and no one is in there, especially when the cashier says he’s been the only customer today. As soon as Duko smashes his head into the counter, though, Art and Mrs. S slink out of the shadows, and Sarah comes up from the secret lab.
Mrs. S forces Duko to call off his men just in time to save Donnie from a homemade lobotomy, and Sarah smirks at Duko, telling him that genetics are thicker than water. And, arguably, vodka.
