“Has it not occurred to anyone in this room that while we’re observing her, she’s observing us?”
Last week’s episode introduced the idea that the abbies were learning behavior from the humans. The “Time Will Tell” episode further focused on it, as Dr. Yedlin tried to teach “Margaret,” the lone female abbie in the Wayward Pines leaders’ captivity, to comprehend English.
Most of the episode saw Dr. Yedlin presenting Margaret with flash cards that symbolized ideas such as leader and friend. Not only was he schooling Margaret on communication, but also his Wayward Pines cohorts on the notion that Margaret has a control over the other abbies.
Last night’s episode also delved into the end of the world and rise of the abbies backstory, with CJ, a new character for season 2, at the helm of it.
CJ went in and out of stasis every 20 years between years 2014 to 4014, to take care of the members of the group. He was chosen by Wayward Pines creator, David Pilcher, to do this.
Because CJ was waking up every 20 years, he was able to see the fall of humanity, and he was seemingly lonely during this time. So lonely that he was interacting with hallucinations of his dead wife, who bit the dust centuries ago.
CJ also interacted and spent the day with a man who was desperate to go with CJ back to his safe haven. CJ noticed that he had claws, and was turning into what would be an abbie in 4014. So he made the decision to kill him, an action that clearly haunts him.
The year 4014 came around and CJ has released Pilcher and a few of the others from their sleep chambers to see exactly what humanity looks like. Pilcher is surprised to see full on abbies roaming around and he decides its time to build Wayward Pines.
Meanwhile in present day, to prove his Margaret control theory, Dr. Yedlin proceeded to enter a cage with one of the male abbies being held captive, to much disapproval from the others. As the terrifying abbie proceeded to snatch Yedlin’s arm off its socket, he ceased the torture once Margaret interceded with a disapproving yell. And this proved Yedlin’s Margaret control theory.
The attack to Dr. Yedlin from the abbie did not sit well with Wayward Pines leader, Jason, as he made the conscious decision to kill all of the captive abbies being held for experimentation. Margaret was the sole abbie that survived a gunshot to the head as Jason was convinced by girlfriend Kerry to cease his firing. However, a comprehensive Margaret just witnessed the murders of her kin and is visibly upset.
Dr. Yedlin decided it was time to call it a night and get some rest after a stress filled day, Megan, the resident abbie experimenter and Wayward Pines season 1 veteran, decided she would stay and work late.
In the last few moments of the episode we learn that Margaret had been observing Yedlin exit and watched as he put in the door key code, the same key code that is used to unlock the abbies’ cages. So yes, this proves that the abbies can learn human behavior.
Switch to Megan and it appears that she is feeling light-headed. She looks down only to discover a copious amount of blood beneath her. As she rolls her wheel chair out to search for the source of the blood, she finds Margaret looking over her with a razor. And in this moment, Megan realizes that she was the origin of the blood as Margaret had sliced her paralyzed legs.
And we said goodbye to one of the only alive characters remaining on the show since its inception last summer.