Pluribus episode 6 principle reveals Carol is extra hazard than the opposite survivors

Pluribus episode 6 is a wild one. Carol (Rhea Seehorn) is so deeply disturbed by what she discovers the hivemind is consuming that she doesn’t belief them to ship the knowledge to her fellow survivors and decides to share her revelation in particular person — and winds up studying much more concerning the Others. “HDP” supplies extra perspective on the restrictions the hivemind is beneath in terms of becoming a member of with Carol and the opposite survivors. This initially makes Carol really feel relieved, however I believe she’s truly in additional hazard of being modified than ever earlier than.

[Ed. note: Spoilers ahead for Pluribus episode 6.]

When Carol travels to Las Vegas to inform Koumba Diabaté (Samba Schutte) that the Others are consuming individuals, she’s shocked to study that he already is aware of. In a video recorded for Carol, John Cena delivers a compelling protection of their consumption of “human derived protein,” or HDP, as a option to keep away from losing the 886 million corpses created by the preliminary becoming a member of, and everybody who has died since. As Zosia (Karolina Wydra) mentions in episode 2, the hivemind “prefers to eat vegetarian,” however their restrictions towards hurting different residing creatures are so nice they received’t even harvest vegetation. Even with HDP, a lot of the world’s inhabitants will starve to loss of life inside the subsequent decade.

When Carol presses Koumba about how he could be so calm is within the face of this data — mentioning he’ll starve alongside the remainder of the hivemind as soon as they work out a option to make the survivors be part of — he reveals simply how a lot he’s realized by spending time speaking with the Others as an alternative of driving them away. The becoming a member of was attributable to a virus that the 12 survivors are proof against. With the intention to infect them, the Others would wish to create a customized model of the virus that requires harvesting stem cells, which is a extremely invasive process that they received’t do with out consent.

Carol is elated by the information, instantly calling the Others to substantiate Koumba’s report. She explicitly lets them know that she doesn’t consent and so they acknowledge “We hear you, Carol. You don’t consent. No stem cells will likely be collected out of your physique. Your needs will likely be revered.” She’s visibly relieved and returns dwelling to Albuquerque.

Nonetheless, Carol has a giant drawback that was revealed through a joke in episode 3’s flashback scene when she visited an ice lodge together with her associate Helen (Miriam Shor). Helen was excited concerning the expertise, however the perpetually grouchy Carol quipped, “I may have saved $100K and frozen my eggs proper right here.” These eggs would additionally include Carol’s stem cells. Whereas the Others would wish to surgically extract Koumba stem cells from his bone marrow, they wouldn’t want to the touch Carol to get the genetic materials they should concoct a customized virus for her DNA.

The Others can’t lie, however they are often evasive of their responses. When requested in the event that they had been vegetarians, they stated they would favor to be. It’s a solution that happy the survivors with out revealing the disturbing reality of what they had been truly consuming. When Carol stated she didn’t consent to stem cell extraction, they stated “no stem cells will likely be collected out of your physique.” However that also leaves open the opportunity of extracting them from outdoors her physique. The Others have Helen’s reminiscences, so they might know concerning the eggs and precisely the place to seek out them.

After working across the clock to determine how one can carry the survivors into the hivemend, the Others simply found how one can make a tailor-made virus yesterday. They’re not pleased about how the tactic clashes with their incapacity to do hurt, however they’ve a straightforward out with Carol — the one who has brought about them probably the most ache. You could be positive they’re speeding to tailor a virus to her, respecting solely the letter of her needs reasonably than her true needs as a part of their organic crucial to make her pleased.