Meanwhile, Cosima and Charlotte are starting to fall asleep in the woods when some flashlights find them.
The Messenger brings them back to camp, a little dazed, way too cold, and out of one of the yurts, bathed in light on this dark night, comes an angel. Delphine. Cosima can hardly believe her eyes as the music swells and her soulmate comes toward her and presses their foreheads together.
Cosima collapses into Delphine’s arms and I breathe for the first time since last June.
Delphine has people help her get Cosima back to her yurt and out of her wet clothes and take her vitals. Cosima is hypothermic and probably pretty sure she’s hallucinating. She’s almost died once before and she saw this same vision of curls and magic above her. But this time instead of just being a glowing face in the light at the end of the tunnel, Delphine kicks everyone out of the room, strips down to her skivvies, and climbs into bed with Cosima to keep her warm. Cosima expresses her concern out loud: “I think I’m dying.” But Delphine promises her that she won’t let that happen. Cosima says she finished their homework and smiles into Delphine’s kiss.
And Delphine holds her science girlfriend as she starts to shake.
In the Neolution House, Rachel patches her mother up and says that even though she makes her own choices, she’s been having visions that lead her to these actions. Susan laughs and knows that the person who made her eye is growing impatient in his old age. She says it’s P.T. Westmoreland, which Rachel points out is impossible, age-wise, but Susan assures her it is not. Because science.
As Cosima starts to come to, she overhears the Messenger and Delphine talking. A mysterious “he” isn’t happy that they saved Cosima, and Delphine blames that on him being an evolutionist who doesn’t understand altruism. The Messenger said that He saved Delphine, but Delphine says it wasn’t altruism that saved her. He tells Delphine she won’t be able to stay with Cosima, and she knows this, but for now she’s her patient so if he could kindly GTFO.
Delphine goes to Cosima’s side and warns her that they can’t trust anyone in this yurt town. Delphine holds up a box that Cosima had on her and asks if this was the homework she was talking about, and indeed it is. It’s the cure. SHE stole it, not Rachel. Cosima puts her hand on Delphine’s face like she can’t believe she’s really there.
And Delphine is ecstatic to be able to be the one to administer the cure. The one thing she’s been working toward since before 324B21 was the love of her life. Since before she would defy tropes and scheduling conflicts just to be there for Cosima. Finally, finally, she can stop worrying that every cough might be the last, never again will she have to coax her girlfriend back from the brink of death.
