*Warning: This review contains spoilers!
Warning if you have not seen last weeks episode of The Terror please stop reading now as there are major spoilers from that episode.
On last week’s episode of The Terror we know what is out there on the ice. The dreaded beast known by the locals only as the Tuunbaq had made its way onto the Terror. As the crew battled back with everything that they could muster they took one of the light cannons and turned it on the creature. The round struck the creature off the ship but there wasn’t a body to recover.
A Mercy starts out with a meeting between the ships as they are taking stock of their provisions. Some of the food is already spoiled as the sodder was not right on the tinned meat. They are trying to figure out how to squeeze the most out of their food stores and not used the tinned meat as it is poisoned by the sodder used upon it. After the meeting is adjourned there was a private meeting between Thomas Blanky and Captain James Fitzjames. The Captain asks how he survived during a previous expedition and Blanky relays how he survived revealing things that would shake a man to his core. They turned on each other with the enlisted folk turning on the higher ranking men. He tells the Captain to give something to the men to keep them occupied and from them turning on each other. As the Captain goes into the hold he spots a trunk with costumes and masks as he thinks that might do the trick.
We cut to the next scene where the doctor is tending to Captain Francis Crozier. Doctor Henry Goodsir tells a story about an accident that happened to his mother around ten years ago at a circus. She bent down to get a shoe that her brother had lost and the structure they were on collapsed and did significant damage to her. So much to the point that she had become a shell of her former self.
What is in store for both the crews of the Terror and the Erebus? Will anyone make it out of this prison of cold and ice? And what of the creature that was spied from last week? Is that creature going to come back or is it gone for good? Tune in for the latest episode to find out and for more information on this and other episodes in the series head over to http://www.amc.com/shows/the-terror/ and get ready to survive the frozen wasteland.
