The Terror 109 – The C, the C, the Open C
*Warning: Review contains spoilers.
There are spoilers right ahead so if you have not seen last week’s episode please stop reading and go watch it.
At the end of the last episode of The Terror we witnessed the truth behind why Mr. Hickey murdered the Eskimo. He was trying to instill panic and fear within the crew as he stabbed the victim 26 times with a boat knife. Mr. Hickey was caught in his lie and sentenced to hang by the neck until dead. His last words were that every man lies and he revealed another recent deception. He lets it be known that Captain Francis Crozier made a plan to get himself out without the rest of his crew by abandoning his ship and men. However, before he is hanged the creature came out of the shadows and attacked! Madness and chaos followed as people were scattered all over.
The C, the C, the Open C starts out with a reading by Charles Dickens as Sir John’s wife pleads with the crowd to organize a rescue party for the two ships that have gone missing. With a smile she asks the crowd who here will take up the mission? We cut to the aftermath of the attack at the camp and there are at least 32 people dead and another 23 people who are unaccounted for. Captain Francis Crozier addresses the rest of the men trying to get them to continue on and make it home so that their loved ones could know of their fates. He then announces that they are ready to travel south and with that he orders them to burn the bodies. He also talks to James Fitzjames and tells him to put the supplies in a tiny pile as an offering.
We then see that one of the survivors from Captain Francis Crozier’s camp has run into Cornelius Hickey’s group. They take him under their wing and they tell him that the rest of the camp has moved on. As the crew moves on Captain James Fitzjames passes out not just because of the heat but because of an injury that he sustained around six years ago. He is put in one of the boats and carried away with the rest of the supplies.
What will happen to this expedition and what is Hickey planning for these men? For more information about this show head over to http://www.amc.com/shows/the-terror and get ready to head south.
