![]() Amalia finally relents to Penance's plan but makes it clear that while Penance saves Maladie, she's going for the Galanthie. Amalia tries to talk Penance out of it, but Penance won't be swayed. She now wants to pursue that objective instead of going for the Galanthie as she and Amalia previously agreed. The next morning, Penance admits she's spent the night figuring out how to save Maladie. As Amalia tries to comfort her, there's a knock on the door and the women open it to find nooses strung up throughout the courtyard. With that, Massen finally reveals what he really wants: the Beggar King's people to cause just enough chaos to ensure London decides it wants to be free from the chaos caused by the Touched.Īt the orphanage, Penance laments the violence her inventions could cause to Amalia. The Beggar King is more flexible, however, believing he can adapt regardless of what happens with the Touched. So Massen tries to convince him that the Touched are a threat to them both. Massen starts the conversation by arguing that the Touched are against the natural order, but the Beggar King counters that he doesn't believe order is so natural. He's informed that Lord Massen has come to see him and has him escorted into another part of his warehouse. He will use his turn to control birds to distract anyone who happens to be around while they drill into the city.Īt the same time, the Beggar King is preparing for the execution by supervising the children in his warehouses as they create souvenirs of hanged dolls to commemorate the occasion. ![]() Though he told his sister he'll be out of town during the execution the next day, in truth he's been enlisted to help find the Galanthie. ET/PT on HBO.At the orphanage, Augie Bidlow comes to meet with Penance and Amalia. And the fact that many of the things she's done, from publishing a final "interview" with Maladie to the very public murder of dozens of bystanders, have only further eroded perceptions of the Touched, it could be that she's working to bring them down just as fervently as Lord Massen is.Ĭreated by Joss Whedon, The Nevers stars Laura Donnelly, Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Ann Skelly, Ben Chaplin, Pip Torrens, Zackary Momoh, Amy Manson, Nick Frost, Rochelle Neil, Eleanor Tomlinson and Denis O’Hare. While it seems like a convenient plot contrivance that Maladie's been in custody for weeks and no one's caught on to the fact that she isn't the genuine article, in the world of The Nevers, the revelation that Maladie's able to carry out such sophisticated plans makes her even more dangerous than she originally seemed. Given how effectively Maladie has played the role of Effie, should we assume Maladie is a role she's playing as well? Whether Maladie came up with her plan to have Clara impersonate her when she murdered Effie is unclear, but regardless of when it happened, Maladie has proven she's much more of a mastermind than anyone realized. Effie's death was a means to an end, a way to give Maladie access to Mundi and other parts of society she couldn't have as herself, and a way to publish articles defending the Touched. However, she didn't treat the body in the same way she normally treated her victims. ![]() While Clara was masquerading as Maladie, Maladie was impersonating Effie Boyle, who she'd killed weeks earlier. It's this conclusion that causes everything to come together in Mundi's mind. While it didn't work, Clara apparently agreed to impersonate Maladie and get herself captured by the police, a choice that led her to sacrifice her life. In The Nevers' second episode, we learned that Clara, a member of Maladie's gang who isn't Touched, had cut off her toes as a sacrifice in the hopes it would bring on a turn. One of her shoes falls off, revealing a foot missing several toes, and Mundi realizes the body in front of him isn't Maladie's at all. After the crowd has cleared out, the authorities lift Maladie's body out of the gallows as Mundi watches.
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